~At The Dawn of a New Day, Behold as Fresh Blood Spills the Streets...

[Orphen]

Orphen shook her head. The twins were right to be upset, but it was time to move on into clearing their names. The odds had been stacked up against them about as high as it could possibly get, whoever was after them, did not wanting them finding the murderer. At the very least they knew where they were, when they were investigating this area.

No Olive, we're not. If the GA truly believe that these three were honor-roll soldiers, then to a point we've committed treasonous acts against the Gallactic Alliance. We're wanted, and there is a point that over time, even other Jedi may be sent to arrest us. You'd do well to remember that death is a part of life, and to the force, there are no surprises. But, all life is sacred. If you want to avoid killing in the future. You need to take a deep breath, overcome your panic, and act more tactfully.

She moved over to the man with the shattered lower half of his body, leaning over him, reaching out an arm and closing her eyes. His mind was filled with pain, too much pain to resist her psionically peering into his mind, his memories. She saw a dark power, a frightening man, a location, not far from where they were. But far enough to have to avoid interference.

With that, she healed the lower part of his body, refusing his shattered bones, and reconstructing, to a point, his lower body.

 

[Torchgram]

Lois and Olive walked up behind her, hand in hand like when they walked the temple grounds together. Lois's eyes had stopped glowing, finally. She even seemed less present in the force, though she was still able to walk easily enough. "Did you find something master?" Olive asked, she was calmer but there was still a note of urgency in her voice.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen pulled back from healing the wounded soldier, he would be fine now, if not a little tender. She grimaced, for the first time in years, she saw the dark face, and could now feel the dark presence of the individual not too far from here. She had to no longer contact the master, they could trace it back to them. For the moment, they were criminals. But their name was able to be cleared, as long as they found the person truly responsible, and bought them to justice.

Yeah, I found a suspect. But he's going to be hard to find. We need to get moving now, before more people show up, it seems like we're on our own. For now at least. I have some friends which may be able to help, but i don't want to get them in trouble.

Beginning to move out of the alley she sheathed her lightsaber, and began to move quickly into the crowds of the lower city.

The Jedi won't be able to send many people down here, it'll cause too much drama. So, we'll just have to be discreet for a little while, no real problem there. The man we're looking for isn't too tall, he has a blue complexion, he may be a bit taller than me, with red eyes. Though not a chiss. Some other race.

She spoke lightly beginning to walk. It was just one problem after another, were these two girls ready for what was to come? Orphen wondered, but didn't know.

 

[Torchgram]

The twins fell into line behind the Orphen, holding each others hand tightly. Olive scared, and Lois introspective. Why had she chosen such a dangerous way to imobalise the soldiers. Had she chosen better, maybe they wouldn't be on the run, but still investigating openly.

#

Olive held her sisters hand, wondering if they'd be able to make it out of this okay. Elite soldiers! They had gotten lucky before, would they be so a second time? And her sister, she had killed a man, granted by accident, mostly, but how was she coping. Once again olive wished she had the same level of force ability her sister had and could tell if she was ok.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen looked back at them, they were scared, but for good reason, she smiled, a smile that told them that everything was going to be okay, which she honestly believed. they just needed to get to the bottom of this, she broke her transmitter so she couldn't be tracked by the order, only the people she knew and trusted would be able to track her by a particular crystal unique to only her. in her upper pocket.

~small time skip~

It had been hours, hanging arounf the location of an old appartment on level two of the depths of coruscant. It was a little less dirty than the ground floor, but the people here were scum incarnate. The little bit of money they had was spent on drugs, booze and whores. domestic violence, murder, rape, and more was commonplace here. The perfect disguise for a Sith, or a Dark Jedi.

The place we're looking for is just a little further up, stay close, and keep your senses open for anyone trying to sense us and running. She spoke softly as they came to the place they were looking for. An apartment, small, comfy, and run down, slightly moreso than everywhere else, but more isolated.

Fan out, and try and ask some questions about the person who lives here. At least what he looks like.

She spoke, as they would all be able to sense that the tenant was not currently home

 

[Torchgram]

Lois had her senses on full lockdown, she had reached out when they first arrived at this place and nearly vomited. She was now guiding herself only by her ear's and her sisters hand.

"Yes master." Olive gave a nod, leading Lois down a hallway. It was weird and scary to be in darkness again. She had gotten so used to sensing everything, that sensing nothing was incredibly scary.

#

Olive lead her sister down a hallway, trying her best to clear the refuse out of their path before lois could step in it. She lead them into the closest room from the door and began to look around, searching for clues.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen looked around herself, though there were few people around, they did not wish to talk to a Jedi knight about the residents of that particular house. But around the place, if the food were to be looked into, there would be no trace of vegetation, meaning that whoever lived there, rarely ate vegetables. More likely meaning they were either carnivorous or rather sickly. At the uncooked fashion of the eaten meat, Orphen assumed carnivorous. There wasn't very much of it, which she hoped to mean that whatever it was, was also not very large.

Moving out from the general trash area, she clapped her hands together to get rid of the filth. Walking back into the open area, she put her hands on her hips not quite knowing where to go from now, but that's when she saw a cloaked figure in the corner of her eye. From a back alley, someone moved into the house. Orphen sent out a signal to the other two that whomever resided in that house had come home...

Was it time to move? or time to watch.

What do you think you two? What do you think we should do? Observe? Spy? Apprehend and ask after? Or something else?

 

[Torchgram]

"Lets follow him." Olive announce. "We can find where he's running to, maybe nab any associates?"

 

[Orphen]

They followed him to his house which he had just entered. He lay down on his bed, seemingly exhausted. Eating what seemed to be some form of roasted rodent which was served down here as cheap relatively safe meat, depending on what the captured creature had been eating. The man seemed to live a relitively normal life. But as he turned a corner, they saw the lightsaber on his hilt.

Orphen ducked and looked to the other two.

Is that enough for you two? This guy seems to fit the case. He's defiantly not Jedi, he has a lightsaber. And a dark aura which I could feel from two floors down. What do you think you two? Is that enough?

She was not asking them because she did not know, she was testing the two of them on their first mission.

Remember, jumping in on a whim can get you into more than just trouble, it can get you killed. But we dont have anyone to report to now, and no means of getting more information. Confrontation at this point, is inevitable, though, you should take steps to ensure that your point of entry is not trapped.

Sure enough, Orphen could sense the booby traps at each of the doors and windows, they were able to be deactivated by a switch the man kept on his belt which also unlocked his door, like a car lock key. Orphen looked to them, awaiting their analysis, she could feel them, but she did not tell them she could. She wanted to see if they could.

 

[Torchgram]

"Lets get him." Lois growled. "He must pay for what he's done."

"No." Olive held out a hand, placing it on her sisters shoulder. "We still don't know that yet. I say we try a bardic knock. And then based on his reaction, attack him then."

Olive pulled off her outer robe, revealing much more normal clothes underneath. Average in appearance and easy to run in. "If we pretend to be scouts selling cookies, we'll be able to get closer to him." Lois then turned back to her sister. "While I talk to him, you do that mind thing you do. See if he's our guy." She then looked at Orphen. "And if he is, do you have the power to grab him?"

 

[Orphen]

Orphen nodded, and there was a point that a Sith would not be prepared against such a juvenile tactic, she proceeded to hide her force signature, Not yet activating her cloaking device, but moving to the side of the house to be in such a position where she could attack the man from behind. His presence in the force was slight, so he was either repressing it, or her wasn't very powerful. Though the thought echoed through her mind,

If he's a powerful force user, why can i sense, it? A skilled assassin would just not appear on my radar at all. Not have a slight, but tracable trace. This could be a trap.

Orphen then scanned the house for anything which could be detrimental to their health. The first room, to her surprise, was loaded. Using telekinetic force wound, she ripped the cables of the grenades on the door, as well as several tripwires in the main room. Breaking detonation pins with a display of telekinesis which was impressive to say the very least. But the force user sensed her.

Orphen hit the Stygium device as the man ran to the window. She slunk down, the crystal cloaking device could only hide her for twenty seconds, and it took fifteen for the man to finish suspiciously checking the side window for any trace of a togrutan force user.

Though as the girls approached the door, the man did not take any second chances, no-one ever knocked on his door, nor rang his doorbell. With fleetness of a Sith he ran for the window on the other side of the house, without an effort to conceal his escape at all. It would be easy for the girls to hear his attempt at freedom. Orphen leaped through the window she was hiding under, and began to give chase, yelling at the two girls to head him off!

 

[Torchgram]

Lois can you sense all the windows?

Yes?

Seal them. Olive smiled.

And with that she ran for the sound of the commotion. She could feel her sister warming up in the force, like a sun heating her back, and with a clunk all the windows of the house sealed. the durasteel around the plasteel warping so they'd never open again. The owner would have to cut his way free with a lightsaber, something that would take him multiple critical seconds to complete.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen Jumped, leaping through her window seconds before it locked shut with the incredible wave of the sister. Standing in the room with the Sith, Drawing her lightsaber and facing him down. Channeling her advanced power of force light to be able to match anything he would attempt to pull. In his hand, a crimson blade exploded forth. Creating a purplish intermediary between him and orphen. They faced each other down, though he could feel the two outside, and he knew he was trapped.

Sheathing his blade, he dropped it, surrendering his hands, as Orphen called the weapon to herself with Telekinesis, feeling a slight draining effect from within the blade... something she noted, and would look into further later. Her eyes travelled to the Sith, whose force signature was still rather miniscule.

Why, he's no more than an acolyte... Be on your guard, but there's no need to attack him. Orphen spoke to the twins through telepathy. Aiming her lightsaber in the direction of the man, she commanded him to talk, and if he hired the mercinaries, and killed the woman in the ally. Without reservation he began to flap his mouth.

I'm sorry, i told the mercs that there were some Jedi on my trail, but I didn't pay them or help them infiltrate. I also didn't kill any Girl..... The master, it mast have been the master, my master, who's been training me here. I was taken in under the Jedi order, but instead she decided to train me out here, saying that she would grant me special training, and I'd become stronger than the others... He confessed at blade point...

Though at this accusation, Orphen felt a little stunned... She tried to sense his mind, but felt no lies. He was either a perfect spy,

What do you two make of this girls?

Orphen asked cautiosly

 

[Torchgram]

Olive gazed at the man. He was nervous, and fidgeting every now and then. Far from a power house. She tried to sense him in the force, but her powers were so weak he seamed little more than a vanilla citizen. Tainted sure, but she couldn't feel the midiclorians in him.

But everything from his stance to the way his eyes kept darting around. She looked up at her master and gave a small nod of approval.

#

The fight over Lois began to walk towards her master and sister. She could still feel the rush of her midiclorians buzzing around in her body. Her master was lit up like a correscant skyscrapper and even her sister appeared to be some level of bright. She knocked over a trash can on accident half way to her sister.

Shaking her head and blushing she continued forward, finally reaching the other two jedi, she reached out with the force, touching the darker of the three bright presences. She could sense darkness in him, but it was old. There was indeed new feelings there, lighter ones. I believe he is telling the truth master.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen nodded, looking to the Dark Jedi it seemed to have been revealed, though there were implications to what he said, dark ones indeed. Though Orphen and the twins were on the run from the law, their next mission was going to be a difficult one. She walked over to the dark sider, taking cuffs from her belt, and locking them over his hands behind his back. From around her belt she also took a neural dampener, so his force powers would be completely restricted.

Handcuffing him to the corner of the room, he would be safe there for authorities to pick up sometime later... Though there was one more thing to get out of him .

A name, who is your master? Surely with all of the training you have done you would know.

A sinking feeling began to develop in Orphens' gut at the beginning of the Dark Jedi beginning to talk.

My master is a Kaminoan... a consular... her name is Ashra... Master Ashra.

Are you absolutely positive!? Orphen snapped. And the man agreed, profusely.

Orphen looked toward the twins. Unsure of what to say, hoping for once one of them would have an idea, this was a dark day, for both the Jedi and for the Order as a whole. To a point Orphen felt a little ashamed, these acts could cause a lot of damage to the reputation of the Jedi order. Though, there was only one thing to do...

 

[Torchgram]

"Master!" Lois said, her eyes growing wide, a curious expression with her glassy eyes. "We have to tell the council! They have to know there's a traitor in our mix!"

Olive reached out, putting a shoulder on her arm. "I agree master." Her voice more calm than her sisters. "We have gotten way too deep into this, I don't see any other way out than going to the council and seeking asylum until they can get to the bottom of this."

Lois felt the calm steel of her sister on her arm. It felt so cold, so different from the lively girl she had grown up with. What was the order doing to her sister, she would have to meditate on this later. For now her main concern was to keep her legs from shaking.

 

[Orphen]

Orphen thought about that, thoough she prized her voice, Ashara had been a Jedi master for many years, and though if she had turned dark it would not have gone unseen to some extent, her voice in the Jedi council was still probably louder than the three of theirs. No, they needed to make her confess to them. Then use that as proof.

What I suggest is a little more dangerous, seeking asylum from the council is very risky, we put ourselves at their mercy, I would suggest that we cause the kaminoan to snap, record it, and then present the evidence to the council. It's about the only means i can think of. I can hide a device on my person, she wouldn't be able to sence it if i kept it too close to the anterres crystal. Though that just leaves either luring her out, or, stealthing our way back into the Jedi temple, even though we're branded traitors...

She spoke with the corner of heer mouth raised not in a smirk, but rather that this seemed difficult.