A Zygerrian Investment

[Narr Noft]

"No, please! No!" a woman screamed as a Zygerrian dragged her daughter away from her while Narr Noft held her back. "Quiet down, silly Twi'lek-" he barked, not knowing what else to say as he couldn't justify the kidnapping of her daughter. They both knew she'd be forced into receiving dancing lessons and then be sold to some sleezy underworld club somewhere in the protectorate. It wasn't a promising future to look towards, but it also wasn't anything her mother could protect her from. They watched the little girl's fruitless efforts to resist the Zygerrian's strong grip while the latter dragged her all the way to the ship, where she was collared like an animal. The mother, understandably, started crying and finally stopped resisting. When Narr finally let go of her she fell to the ground, her spirit broken and devoid of even the will to live. The Shistavanen didn't know what to say, so he said nothing, unholstered his blaster and for a moment considered putting her out of her misery when the loud noise of an electro-whip cracked through the air.

"Let go of her!" another Zygerrian yelled as he cracked the whip again, this time awfully close to the desperate father that was holding his daughter as close to the chest as possible. "You!" Narr's head jerked up and he looked straight into the Zygerrian's eyes, "Get me that girl!"

Sighing, Narr obeyed and walked away from the crying mother to make his way over to a father. "You can't win," the Shistavanen said to the Twi'lek, "Resist too long and I'll have to put a bolt in you." Worst thing about all of this wasn't that it broke his heart, because it didn't, but that the Glitterryll had messed up his mind to such an extent that he could remember having killed people with his blaster, but not how he felt about it. The spice has had a peculiar path through his memories, taking away all that may have hurt him, all that he perhaps found essential to define his character. Now they were gone and Narr worked for the credits that he wanted so he could buy spice, only to fight himself trying not to actually buy the spice he earned the credits for.

The Twi'lek villages was a cacophony of desperate cries and the cracks of the Zygerrian's electro-whips. More were paid to help the slavers take the kids from their parents and protect the good in case the Ryloth security forces finally arrived. This raid wasn't nearly done..

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[Magnus Hammerhand]

Magnus had been to Zygerria a fair few times in his life, but never as an unbonded man. There was something rather satisfying about revisiting a world without chains around his legs, and the smug smile never left his face as he sauntered up to Narr Nofts side, his hammer - oddly - in his hand, the remainder of his equipment about his persons. "What a meek specamin." he look the Slave up and down as it was no-doubt dragged away "Barely fit for sport in these parts." he added, coldly, waiting for further instruction.

 

[Zarya]

Ryloth, home of the Twi'leks considered one of the most beautiful races of the galaxy, well except maybe her own species, zeltrons but unlike the Twi'leks, they had the good fortune of being in the Inner Rim, free from slavers and raiders. the same couldn't be said for the Twi'leks.

Zarya stood atop a hill above the village, she was scanning the area surrounding the village for any security forces with macrobinoculars, "if you wanted sport then this is the wrong profession for you, slaving is a business, it doesn't have time for sport." she spoke into her comm, bring the macrobinoculars down from her face and turning to face a new angle to scan, before even the bring the binoculars to her face she spotted a distant dust cloud, zooming in a clear was given to her, about a mile and half out she spotted a convoy of two speeders and a handful of Blurrg riders, their equipment and gear suggest some sort of local militia from the next village other.

sliding down the side of steep her hill towards the village and her allies, her cybernetic arm controlling her descent to the ground below. Approaching her allies she spoke quick and plain "South-southeast, approaching convoy, Twi'lek militia, two speeders and Blurrg riders, they'll be here in a couple of minutes, what's the plan?"

 

[Narr Noft]

Sure enough another Zygerrian whip cracked and the Twi'lek who had so defiantly defended the child screamed in agony which only intensified when the child was pulled away from his embrace. Narr's heart broke a little when a Zygerrian gave him the nod. Slowly he raised his blaster pistol and with a single shot to the Lekku put the poor father out of his misery..and scarred the child for life, as it saw it all go down through the tears.

For some reason when Zarya came down and gave report everyone looked at Narr, even the slavers, and for a moment the Shistavanen considered suggesting a retreat to prevent more bloodshed. Unfortunately he wouldn't get paid as much if he did that, thus he simply bared his teeth turned to the Zygerrian head slaver. "Ambush them frrom two sides. North and West. Then let Magnus here find someone whose worthy of him." It was emotionless, but no one who had just executed a defenseless father could allow themselves to feel the regret and self-hatred that the act threatened to overwhelm Narr with. "I'll take west," the former Sector Ranger growled as he walked over to that directen and took cover in preparation of the bloodshed to come.



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[Zarya]

It wasn't a bad she had to admit but one that did no favours for her combat style. "I agree but we need someone to signal when to attack, so I'll take that responsibility, the signal will a large bang and the cries of the men dying ".

With that Zarya began spiriting towards the direction of the attackers, she found a no tree not too far out from the village next to a path that the militia would most likely use to approach from, where she would climb it and wait for the militia with concussion grenade in hand.

Minutes went past before she heard the footsteps and the hushed whisper of Twi'leki below her, she pulled the pin of the grenade and dropped it below, it clatter to the ground before exploding. Zarya jumped down while activating her saber, two of militia were caught in an explosion, dazed and confused they were helpless to Zarya attacks she struck them down quickly but with the grenade, she had drawn the attention of the rest of the militia, now it was her partners turn to strike if they didn't she might be in trouble.

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