[Teth] Knock Knock!

[Vian Windrider]

Chaos was taking over Imperial Hutta. According to the limited reports that were coming out of the region, the slugs were using the attacks from the rebels and the Holonet blackout to push themselves back into control over the Outer Rim. Or rather command their lieutenants to do so from the safety of their stolen fortified hideaways on Teth.

Vian first task to assist in quelling this uprising was to eradicate a slug of his choosing, and their were so many vile fat karkers to choose from. To give the task a little sport he closed his eyes and tapped the sensor screen of his Crux starfighter to bring up a random target. His finger landing on what appeared to be an old monastery.

"Time to see who's home." he said to himself with a smile.

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[The Confessor]

Luck it seemed was just not on her side. Eriana Fox had been on Nar Shaddaa for the start of this crazy event. Her and a crew of technicians had bluffed their way through an Imperial blockade -one only held up by pirates in stolen space craft- and managed to bring a generator back online for the downed holonet. From there, they went to a second target but Eriana didn't know how that mission turned out. She ended up running into someone she never thought she'd have a chance to meet: a Jedi Knight. The shock was so overwhelming the man practically defeated her in battle. She'd managed to escape, but her pride wouldn't have it. Stealing a random shuttle from a hangar bay nearby Eriana fled the system in hope of recovering from her recent battle. Her sights found her on Teth. A place where...she'd meet yet another enemy of the Force.

Erian's shuttle touched down just outside a monastery. Her droid pilot happened to pick a place it new had life readings. It read a Sith signature based on the code of the man's ship and figured that was safe to assume they were allies. Oh you stupid little droid. That was the wrong kind of Sith. But Eriana wouldn't have been watching the droid's moves as she was tucked safely in the common lounge for passengers. And Eriana would be the only person in the verse to stayed buckled in the entirely of the travel from planet to planet. She hated flying. She hated it so much. It gave her so much anxiety it was practically hard to breathe.

It was all in her head though. She'd never been in any sort of accident. There was never any trauma to associate to the fear. She did it all to herself. The reason behind it was because she couldn't see out the window. Eriana had been born blind. Born into darkness is what she'd often remind herself to cheer herself up. Eriana felt that she'd been chosen by the Dark side. That's why she was blind. That's why she could see things differently than her Sith brethren. She understood the Force was not something to be used as some tool. The Force was a gift, and she should celebrate that gift. That's why she prayed every morning, and every night, and several times over on a simple few hour trip from Nar Shaddaa to Teth.

The reason flying bothered her so much was due to her blindness, Eriana saw the world through the Force. She saw things better than most and could point something out without looking in any particular direction. She saw everything around her. But only in a limited range. She couldn't point out a building in the distance, or a distant star in the sky. As such, when inside the ship she could see the entirety of it -depending on the size- but nothing after and beyond that. She had to simply trust that her shuttle wasn't heading straight for an asteroid or another ship gods forbid. It gave her every right to panic. Being trapped in a steel death trap was the only time she felt she never had control over her own safety and that bothered her to no end.

When the ship finally landed, Eriana breathed a sigh of relief. Her heart was still pounding. She'd stand and shake her arms out trying to work out some of the nerves. It would be some time until she was back to full capacity. Her mind was still bothered by that Twi'lek. Who was he? How had he learned the ways of the Jedi when they were supposedly extinct? And the things he said to her....

Eriana shook her head. No. She mustn't doubt herself. She was a true believer in the Dark side of the Force. It chose her. It guided her. She was a loyal servant and she would continue to serve. The droid would then come back to her quarters and ask her what she wanted to do. "Wait here while I figure out where we are," she'd instruct the mindless robot. She then went to the bay doors and lowered the ramp.

In the midst of battle her Sith maurader armor had gotten pretty banged up. And there wasn't much of it to begin with as she tailored her to fit a more powerful appearance. Tight leather suit over her shoulders and arms down to her knee high boots. Covered up only by a tight fitting corset to give her an outglass figure. On her belt she had her two curved lightsabers which emitted red beams signifying her rank as a Sith. Her hair, like the rest of her outfit, was black and came down to her shoulders just over a long black trenchcoat that had now taken several burns from a lightsaber.

Feeling out around her Eriana knew something was very wrong. She could sense several life forms, but only one of them was a Force user. And something felt...off about him. It wasn't at all what she was used to and her gut was telling her something wasn't quite right. She knew to trust her feelings. The Force never lied to her. Fearing for her own safety, she would bring both sabers to her hand and keep her thumbs on the ignition switches. She had a feeling she had left one battle and entered into another one....

 

[Vian Windrider]

Vian's sensors would alarm to a shuttle landing on the tiny pad before the monastery. According to his computer the vessel was one with a Republica designation. He suspected that the other Sith would make a play to regain control over Hutta but didn't think the more militant minded Republic would concern itself with the slugs. The fact that the ship was landing at the facility rather then attacking it, only added to Vian's bewilderment. He did not consider the Sith of the Republica to be the true enemy, but if this Sith was siding with Hutt scum then they could die with them.

The half breed Sith lowered his speed and come in on a bombing vector. His computer sounding the buzz of a target lock as he locked onto the other Sith's shuttle and fired. The missile would launch and explode over the landed shuttle to devastating effect. Rendering the craft useless. Eriana had only a moment to react unless she wanted to join her ship's fate.

 

[The Confessor]

Like her entire world stopped and came to a slow crawl Eriana knew something was wrong. Her skin stood on edge and all the hairs on her arms and neck stood up. Without a second to spare the blind Sith would bolt from the ramp of the stolen shuttle and off the side of the cliff. Just as she did, a rocket came sailing by and crashed into the landing pad blowing just about everything to pieces. Eriana had just barely gripped the edge as she held on while dust, smoke, and fire flew past her overhead. Eriana clenched her jaw shut and her eyes closed tight.

Without much to do in this position she would then vault herself with aid of the Force and bring both feet the top of the platform. Her sabers would snap to her hands and both blades would then ignite. Eriana didn't trust whomever this mysterious pilot was, and she wouldn't lie around for another strike when he came around. Turning to the building she dashed away from the burning shuttle and jumped through a window.

The explosion has caused a stir in the monastery of the Hutt slime lord. Alarms were already reacting and droids were being sent out to partake in the dispersal of the fires. But several onlookers within were also coming to investigate what the sudden commotion was, and they had guns. Eriana broke through the glass and rolled in the hallway; a small handful of the guards jumped in surprise. Eriana would be on her feet before they realized they needed to start firing and would already be upon two of the five. She slashed them up with two quick swings of her blades and then turned and jumped at the others.

By now they had realized what was going on and reached for their guns. Eriana's effective sabers would block two of the blaster bolts as they came for her. She was moving so fast it was near impossible for the men to get a good read on her. And the way she moved, it wasn't like anyone else they'd ever met. How often did someone bring a sword to a gun fight? And how often did this person run straightforward into the danger?

Well Eriana did. And she seemed to predict exactly where their guns were aiming. She ducked at the last second; a bolt sailed over her head. She then jumped to her left and kicked off the wall mid run. She spun and took out the next two of the remaining three. The third and final mobster would start backing up, his hands too shaky to hold the gun. He dropped it and raised his hands hoping Eriana would see this as a sign of surrender.

She did not. The moment she landed from her spin she launched herself at him and ran both blades up to the hilt into his chest. The man twitched as his body burned from the heat of her sabers. She then pulled them back and let his body fall at her feet. She reached out with the Force. No one else in the hallway seemed to have weapons and they were running for their lives. Common junkies and the like that had just been there for a famous Hutt party. She wasn't worried about their filth. They would run and tell the slug boss that ran the place that a Sith had come and broke into their home. What Eriana wanted to know was where was this man who'd shot her ship in pieces? That's what she wanted to know.

Removing her thumbs from the sabers' ignition switches the blades would die out. Eriana let her coat drape over her arms and she hid her sabers behind the cloth fabric. If this man was a Sith...perhaps she could frame him for the kills she'd just committed. For now, she would hide.