The Required Element [open]

[Trace Sha]

:: He found himself entering the HQ’s underground spacecraft hangar, where smaller, personal starfighters and other various ships were kept. Approaching a familiar one, deemed Mors Dominae by its owner Mari Lorica. He walked around the circumference of the ship once, before heading up the ramp-way.

On board the small YT-2000 was only the astromech droid, he had given Mari, R2 D564, plugged into its socket keeping her ship in operational condition, always ready to depart at but a moments notice. Mari had been called away to take care of some matters on the other side of the Universe and had asked that he take care of her ship for her.

Sitting down in the pilot’s chair, he slid the hinged holo-display over his lap and began to press colored areas of its smooth surface, doing his part to make sure that R2 was doing his job correctly.

He was very familiar with this ship, having spent nearly two weeks on it, during an endeavor in which his own spacecraft was destroyed, so familiar in fact that he knew more than its owner did, technical details were not one of her specialties, but Trace had been schooled in various tasks being groomed to be King of Ord Mantell, and piloting just happened to be one he excelled at.

The varying colors of the holo-display reflected in his eyes as he diligently went through the systems checks, one by one. ::

[DarthNuriko]

::Nuriko casted a look over her shoulder.::

"Nachte...."

::Kali looked over at her mother, not uttering a sound. The girl never spoke very much, and no one really questioned why. Nuriko was almost grateful they didn't. She'd rather not explain it was a drawback of her species. She wondered how long she could avoiding talking about... things. She didn't want to think about it anymore. Kali would take longer to speak standard at length than what might be accepted as the norm. Nuriko could already tell.::

"That my dear is a dragon's tooth."

[Nerysm Seraphim]

Alice stepped in front of Tomiko and grinned at the town's folk. "What? What is it? Do you want something?" she asked, in a laid-back voice-- not really caring what they said or did.

Tomiko growled. "I will not waste anymore time." She jumped up and flipped over a portion of the crowd, landing on a small pile of barrels a short distance off. "Alice! Let's go. We know we're on the right track. We'll re-analyze the data on the chip."

Alice walked forward. Some of the people stepped towards her. She pulled out her gun and charged it. "Come on, babies..." she beckoned with a smirk.

[Trace Sha]

:: He pushed the holo-display aside after completing the system checks. He began to strap the harness on and turned his head to look back at R2. ::

“Start pre flight prep.”

:: The blue and gold astromech droid whistled a response, as Trace turned back facing front and began flipping switches and pressing buttons. ::

[DarthNuriko]

::Nuriko lifted her palm into the air just slightly and force-called the dagger from the wall and into her hand. She was delighted at her daughter's fascination of the weapon.::

My mission was a failure. I was suppose to capture it alive. Forge a bond with it... And it became too much.

::Nuriko observed the relic in her hand. The only thing she could take from the dragon. Nothing could penetrate its scales and its head was all but completely blown off in combat. But lying in the ground near her feet had been a long sharp fang. It made for a dagger not as easily concealed or quick as the others in her collection, but incredibly strong and surprisingly easy to wield.

Nuriko held it out for Kali to touch. "When you're of age, you may have it," she said with a smile::

[Trace Sha]

:: Activating the comm., Trace signals the technician to open the overhead door, so that the ship can lift off from this underground hangar and be fully tested. ::

“This is Trace Sha aboard the Mors Dominae, open the hangar doors, I’m going for a ride.”

:: The landing struts and ramp-way rise, folding up into their places in the bottom of the ship. ::

[Edge Solude]

::Tomiko glared back at the crowd.:: "Guh, you think they'd know when to quit."

::She glanced over at Alice, who was just grinning ear to ear:: "If you're going to kill them, hurry up and do it already so we can leave."

[Nerysm Seraphim]

"You aren't terribly sporting, are you?" she yelled over to Tomiko.

The gathering crowd seemed to be pondering where or not to advance on Tomiko as well. She flipped high up into the air and jumped onto a low beam.

"Show off...." Alice muttered with a smile. She lowered her weapon and prepared to simply walk through the crowd. "You don't want to," she said to them, casting a mischevious smirk towards them.

"Don't move!" one of them yelled.

Alice saw them advancing closer. "Idiots." She grabbed her lowered weapon by the front end and to their surprise, snapped it back. Another tip appeared along with a rectangular off-shoot, which she pulled back to c0ck what appeared to be a weapon within a weapon. It all happened in the span of second and she lowered her mask and squeezed the trigger, spitting flames all over the crowd.

They panicked and screeched and ran here and there. Some of them attemped to attack Alice even as they burnt to death, but the power of her weapon fired at close range shot them back, blowing them apart.

EDIT -- Left out a word, fixed some syntax.

[Trace Sha]

:: As the repulsors lift the YT-2000 into the air, a doorway above opens and Trace pilots the ship straight up, exiting into the open air through an opening roof in one of the coity’s buildings. ::

“R2, prepare the hyperdrive. Once we have escaped this planets gravity, we’ll test it out. Where we go doesn’t concern me, just choose a route randomly.”

[Nerysm Seraphim]

"GET OUT OF MY WAY! GET OUT OF MY WAY!!" >=D Alice fired off a stream of flames infront of her and, securing her cloak around her, darted through them as the others in the fire's wake burned. She ran through the panicking crowd and ran towards the direction of the area where she had landed the ship.

Suddenly, half a dozen uniformed troops appeared in front of her path.

"?!"

The troops raised their weapons and aimed at her. "Stop and surrender NOW!!"

She narrowed her eyes at them. "Oh KISS OFF!!" She squeezed the trigger. *CLICK! CLICK!!* She looked at the energy reading on her weapon. The meter was in the red. "@#%$!"

The troops opened fire on Alice. She quickly dove into a nearby inn through the window... a closed window. Glass sprayed everywhere like a shower and she rolled on the floor. She kept down as a spray of bullets whizzed over her head.

[Sierra Sha]

Sierra found herself walking through the Empire's Headquarters without any sense of direction or place to really go. Being that fate had her come to her past to save what was her present, it was already more responsibility then Sierra ever dreamed of having.

Perhaps she wandered around the halls of the Empire because she wasn't sure how to approach anyone here. She really didn't want to form any attachments because the life that she led taught her that loss was a part of life. It was too much a part of her life in reality. The bonds that were forged from family were the most painful to loose and she would make sure that didn't happen. Just like she swore to her father.

She didn't realize that her aimless walk brought her near Nuriko's and Rama's quarters. Her thoughts must have made her come this way and it was a good idea to check in on her sister, Kali. The main purpose as to why she was here was to protect her at all costs. Approaching the door, she could probably enter without knocking but this Rama and Nuriko weren't really her parents and she must act accordingly.

Sierra pressed the chime and waited to be let in.

[DarthNuriko]

Nuriko heard a beeping sound and looked up to a small panel near the entrance of the door. She set her tea cup down and walked over to the panel. A light on the panel gave off a gentle yellow glow.

"Someone is ringing the chime at our quarters...."

Rama had installed a device that alerted her of such things as a council meeting, when the Phoenix (and the Liebe) left and docked, and even of course when there was a presence at their quarters. Nuriko had used this room too much to withdrawl recently and this device helped her become more aware of what occured outside this little isolated world of hers... where even force power seemed to become nil.

At least he had installed it so she could easily disguise it back into the face of the wall-- keeping the aesthetic feel of the room in tact. She was picky about such details.

She opened the door to the small private room and looked out down the hallway towards the door to her and Rama's quarters. "We're over here today," she said to the young woman who had been ringing the chime.

[Sierra Sha]

She heard Nuriko's voice and turned around, seeing that her mother was spending time in her private room. Sierra steadily walked down the hall until she came face to face with Nuriko.

"I was just in the area and wanted to make sure that things were alright."

Curious as to what was in the room, she tried looking past Nuriko as much as she could. She tried to not look obvious but she never had the pleasure of being let into the private quarters yet. Sierra was still quite new to the Empire and it was strange being new to something that it has been a part of your whole life, being forced to start over in a way.

[Kali Sha]

"Yes, well, things are... fine," Nuriko stated, almost unsure of how to speak to Sierra.

Kali peeked out of the doorway, wrapping her arm around one of Nuriko's legs. She looked intently at Sierra, curiousity in her eyes.

Nuriko looked down and smiled at Kali. She looked towards Sierra and took a step back in the room. "Well, do come in."

[Sierra Sha]

Her heart sank as she heard Nuriko's tone but who could blame her. Sierra didn't really know how to act around her family here. Only person that she seemed to be able to connect somehow was Rama when he showed her the Empire's Shipyards.

Looking down, Kali's presence made her smile and she couldn't get over at how it was so odd to see her older sister so tiny. She was about to lean down and say hello to those curious eyes but then Nuriko invited Sierra inside.

"Thank you ..."

She stepped inside, not really knowing what else to say, and the door closed behind her. She looked around the room and what caught her eye immediately was the glass case that held quite a number of sabres.

[DarthNuriko]

Nuriko bit her lip, sensing Sierra's reaction to her. She hadn't got used to facts, as briefly as Rama had gone over them with her... that this girl was a part of her. What was more, her own ill confidence seemed to be inspiring such. She remembered that one must feel as they want those in their presence to feel.

As Sierra entered the room, she looked around at the other items on the wall... the small plagues with various daggers and such, the "Nuriko" case... Nuriko grabbed a cushion and set it down next to Kali's. "Sit down," she said, this time smiling warmly.

Kali sat herself down again and began polishing off her lunch. Sierra looked over to Nuriko and stared for a bit. Nuriko was unsure of why, until she looked down in her hand and noticed the dragon's tooth dagger was still there.

Nuriko walked over and placed the dagger back into the holder on the wall. "Did you want some tea?"

[Nerysm Seraphim]

"ugh..."

Alice lay on the ground. Blood smeared on the floor from various cuts from all...

"...all of this damn glass."

She wanted to get up, but could hear the crunching of dirt and rock under boots. They were advancing towards her position and would be upon her soon.

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[Edge Solude]

Tomiko growled. "Unbelievable. I will not tolerate this." She launched herself off of the barrels and onto a low roof top. She ran over the roof top and jumped down, just behind the troops approaching Alice.

Tomiko immediately lunged and grabbed one of them by the neck. The others were about to fire at her when she pulled him in front of her like a shield.

Alice, meanwhile, could hear the commotion. She picked her head up slightly and then searched herself for another clip. She snapped the weapon back to it's prior mode, reloaded the it and crouching down, aimed for the one of them. "Clear shot.." She squeezed the trigger.

[Nerysm Seraphim]

A gush of blood splattered on his companions as the target went down. Alice flattened herself back to the ground.

Tomiko reached forward and plunged her claw into another's chest, twisting it around in his gut. She grabbed her hostage and tore out his throat, shoving him into his remaining comrades. Alice aimed and and finished the lot off.

[Edge Solude]

"That was refreshing," said Alice.

"You have the oddest sort of fun. Let's get back to Alice Rock already and leave this dirt ball."

"Agreed."