Training and Such III: Return of the King

[MikDaTv]

The Saucy Mare exited hyperspace in orbit over the planet Ilum. Smoke billowed from it's nose where the crew had been forced to evacuate after the battle over Raxis Prime. The unmanned section of the ship had a short which caused a fire in the nose section. When the ship dropped out of hyperspace the ships captain ordered the section sealed and opened to vacuum, venting the oxygen into space and smothering the fire. as a result the smoke billowed from the airlocks.

Jor sat in one of the meditation chambers adjacent to the training room, his eyes closed and the door locked. His family holocron sitting in front of him and the parts to a new lightsaber. He'd salvaged what he could from the one Karite had damaged and reused them. thankfully the duel phase mechanism was still functional and he really only needed a new emitter matrix and casing, both of which he'd gotten from one of the ships damaged Turbolasers.

Recombining the parts was no small task however and he had spent most of the time during the hyperspace trip meditating on it. His lack of telekinetic ability certainly didn't help. The parts dropped to the floor and Jor opened his eyes. Keiran look at him. "Well?"

Jor shook his head. "Need some more time yet. I don't want it failing on me when i need it so it's going to be perfect. I'll continue on later, the ships just exited hyperspace."

Keiran nodded but kept the frown on his face. "Don't shirk your responsibilities Jor, you need a new lightsaber."

Jor waved him off and unlocked the meditation chambers door. "I know grandpa, i'll finish it."

He walked out and closed the door behind him, locking it. He apreached the training room's intercom and hit the button for the bridge. "Bridge, this is Jor. Status please."

The sound of a nervous voice from a lowly petty officer who had gotten the cm watch came back. "We've arrived at Ilum, ships moving into orbit over the coordinates you provided. Sensor sweep shows one other ship in orbit."

Jor smiled. "Good, have the captain prep a couple of Dragoons for surface recon and get a com channel going with that other ship. I'll be on the bridge momentarily."

[Cain]

Kyo had spent much of the last two days on board the Saucy Mare in his own private quarters in silent meditation. He had found an old damaged holocron on the body of the Sith he and the others had defeated earlier. Most of the data on the holocron had been corrupted, the only thing that could really be salvaged from it was a holo image of a young woman who appeared to be in her early twenties with a adolescent boy who appeared to be the Sith. Kyo did not know if it was the Sith's mother or sister... but he felt that it was something important to him.

Kyo's lightsaber sat neatly on the floor next to him as he meditated, the hilt colored deep black due to the ore from the cave on Kashyyyk. During Kyo's recent meditations more and more memories of Ryuu would flood to him. At first Kyo had thought that these were somehow a side effect of the cloning process, but recently he has come to believe that it might have more to do with something else entirely. A bond that he and Ryuu share through the force. For a long time these feelings had been sparse, but now they seemed to be flooding to him through the force. Kyo wasn't sure what this meant... perhaps he would seek Jor's council on the matter.

When the Saucy Mare finally arrived at Ilum Kyo gathered his things and headed out to find the others. The ship was busy with activity and Kyo was curious about what exactly awaited him on this new planet. He encountered Jor on his way to the bridge. Kyo considered asking him about the visions but decided against it for the time being, Jor was probably very busy at the moment. Instead Kyo headed for the ship's hanger to wait for their clearance to head down to the planet's surface.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

It seemed most people had spent their time meditating alone away from everyone the last few days. 'Some unity they have.' Zilfer had spent it off and on talking with Yuki, training in the padded room, meditating. He hardly found room for sleep which wasn't unusual for him, he had long since grown used to his pattern. Yuki seemed to have regained a bit of her memory, though of how much he couldn't be sure, she had managed to dwell a bit into the Elder's Force Forms a bit on their battle on Chinine, but it was far from what he had seen from Jack.

Zilfer mentioned that he was going to the hanger for they would most likely be ready to head to the surface to check for the location that they were going to build the temple. He came across Kyo who seemed to be waiting for something similar to happen.

"You've been quite. That's not like you Ryuu." said Zilfer for he had not been told that Kyo was a clone yet. "I would ask forgiveness, but I've been known to runaway from it."

Zilfer was referring to the time he had tricked Ryuu into thinking that he was Alex and lured him into a trap where Cain had taken over his body. He was curious as to how he had gotten his body back. He lead on with a presumption.

"I suppose Cain got tired of living in a young body eh? Too many people mistaking him for you." said Zilfer as he tapped an wristband brightening the colors in the dull hangerbay, through his mask's display.

[ragnvaldr]

Valdr, though extremely bored most of the time, helped the crew, without Jor knowing anything, clean up the messes in the operation rooms, kitchens (he got to snack A LOT), and also polished his horns (though he did not know why he was doing so, he only knew that they would look better shiny).

When the ship had finally gotten to the planet of Ilum, all he heard was....silence while meditating in a borrowed bedroom.

Sitting on the floor, Valdr examined every inch of his mind from the knowledge of his previous lives to the memories of past histories. One thought kept repeating itself as he rummaged through his head.......

CAIN

As he observed more and more of the information he had on this person, he knew that at one point he would have to face off against this man with the group on this very ship if he or any one of them were to succeed. Heck, we all needed training!

All at once, Valdr opened up the door out of his room and bounded towards the exit of the ship with his huge toung lolled out to the side and slobber smearing the walls (through the errands and stuff he did for the crew he had the place pretty well memorized).

[Cain]

Kyo raised an eyebrow to Zilfer, only realizing the mix up after he called him Ryuu. For someone even as attuned to the force as Zilfer to mistake him for Ryuu meant that either he was becoming stronger or Zilfer was slipping...

"Oh, no... I'm not Ryuu," Kyo answered with a smile, "I guess you could call me his brother... I'm Kyo. Umm... if you don't mind my asking, what exactly happened between you and Ryuu that would require his forgiveness? I'm sorry if the question is a bit forward, I'm just interested in learning what I can about Ryuu. Who better to tell me then someone who knew him in person."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

It didn't come as much of a shock as Zilfer would have anticipated had he known. He hadn't quite gained all his barings back yet however the word brother linked his thoughts to cloning and without a direct telling he assumed Kyo had felt the bond he had to Revan.

"Kyo..... interesting. That might explain a few things around here. Ryuu I'm assuming you know is Alex Drake's son. He sent me to bring his son, under the guise of a doppleganger I disguised myself that I was indeed Alex himself, and lured him to Korriban...." said Zilfer as he half thought to just pull up the video recording stored within his mask however he decided against it. "There the Real Alex was waiting but it wasn't the father he knew and loved....it was Cain. His body was.... twisted. Broken. He needed a new body, and I brought him one."

[MikDaTv]

Jor walked onto the bridge and everyone snapped to attention. Jor raised an eyebrow to the captain who looked startled and quickly yelled "Carry On!" The crew went back to work and Jor continued onto the bridge.

The Captain came up and walked with him. "sorry about that, i'll have a word with them."

Jor nodded. "Thank you. i'm a civilian now, not their CO."

"They just need to get used to it. I had the com officer pipe the channel you requested to my chair." The captain responded.

Jor walked over to the captains chair and sat down, donning the headset that was at the station. "thank you captain." he said before lowering the mic into place and hitting the hold button. "Unidentified ship this is The Saucy Mare, please identify."

The com crackled a little before a familiar voice came over it. "Damn it Jor you know who this is. I've been waiting for a while."

Jor smiled. "i know, i know. Sorry about that but i got hung up on Raxis Prime. Some imperial entanglements."

The voice on the other end all of a sudden sounded worried. "Are you ok."

"Of coarse i'm ok. Did you bring those things you were telling me about?"

The voice chuckled "yes yes, i brought them. i have your Jedi temple in a jar. Where do you want to meet?"

"I'll have the com officer transmit you coordinates. i'm headed to the surface with a gaggle of boys and girls in need of a good home so build them a good one."

"Will do Jor. Six out."

[Moonfire]

Unlike the the others, who seemed to be lost in their intesne meditation, Moonfire had spent the better part of the past two days aboard the Saucy Mare between playing with Genie, Jor's daughter who she'd taken a great liking to, and assisting in the sickbay. Over the past two days, she had learned more there than she had in the time that followed the inner take over of the Jedi Temple.

As the ship came in for a landing, Moonfire had spent the time busily gathering up the meager possessions she had and then going on the hunt for the others. Following familar voices she stumbled upon Kyo and Zilfer, talking.

"There yout wo are, I swear you've both been like ghosts this whole trip. I'd almost been lead to believe we left you back on Raxus Prime." She joked before the topic of the conversation had set in.

Growing quiet she waited for Kyo to explain himself, who he was and such. She already knew why Zilfer was apologizing, she had watched the whole scene back on Korriban when Cain had shown her. "Hes apologizing because he helped, Kyo. He lured Ryuu to Cain." Her voice was soft and slow. "Well, I guess thats not quite fair, you weren't you at the time, Zilfer. Lord Nanashi did that. So, you have nothing to apologize for."

[ragnvaldr]

As his drool and snot was coating the metal walls of the ship, Valdr heard voices to his left and saw Moonfire, Zilfer, and Kyu..........talking and doing nothing.....

Stopping himself by the side of the door frame, Valdr crouched down into a hunting position and peeked around the corner making sure that only his right eye was visible.

Thinking to himself, I wonder what their doing.......I'm so bored.....and I haven't seen ANYONE FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS!!!..........ugh......their just standing there......and talking......i might as well just walk in...

And at that, Valdr walks into the room making sure to close his mouth and stop the stream of drool that had puddled up near the doorway.

"Heya peoples!" he says. Then, looking around at the small dinky ships, Valdr goes into paranoia, shoots towards a corner still wanting to be in the same room as the three people, and huddled there...........*whimper*

[Cain]

"I see..." Kyo responded, an awkward silence followed which Kyo broke, "I'm sure where ever Ryuu is, he'll forgive you. He's a Jedi after all," Kyo said with smile that slowly faded as his next question for Zilfer formulated in his mind. He felt that it was a subject that Zilfer might feel was best left alone, but he had to ask, "And what about Alex... or I mean, Cain. What do you know about him?"

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"He is over 4,000 years old, and his story is for another time. Perhaps I shall tell you a bit about his life, through him and scriptures I know quite a bit of history that most assume is just legend." said Zilfer in responce to Kyo, and then he looked at Valdr for a second raising an eyebrow yet again, and then turned back to Moonfire. "I don't know what ship you've been on, but I've been out and about. Ships tend to be big however..."

Zilfer's gaze returned once more to Kyo, and then he sighed for a moment. "What I can tell you is, he's a third generation Mitsukai Art's user trained by Jack who is one of the most powerful beings this galaxy has ever seen. Anything involving Cain, does not end happily." said Zilfer simply.

[ragnvaldr]

Hearing non-stop jabbering that sounded like stuff that didn't matter to Valdr made him return to reality. Looking over at Zilfer, he says, "What?" and then walks over to the group standing in a half crouch so that he didn't seem so big. "Did you need me or something? I'm bored......No ones been talking to me for two days straight and you give me a look that says 'you are weird.....heck thats not even speaking! Why can't anyone of you acknowledge that I'm even here....besides weird eyebrow grumpy face?" and from there he plopped his butt down and hung his head down in shame, his horns barely missing Z's jugular.

[貪欲]

Not wasting his time like the others seemed to be doing while the wait took place, he took a few weapons from the training room into one of the empty private quarters. Taking all the blades apart he reconstructed a new type of weapon he had plans for since his departure from his old home. Taking the shape of a razored gauntlet he named it Prototype Vibroscar before slipping it over his left hand.

This taking most of his time during the two days he set out to explore the others locations upon the arrival to the new planet. Overhearing the talk for a new Jedi academy he smiled 'Finally my chance to learn my final trial and gain back that which was stolen from me!' smiling to himself as he resumed leaning against one wall.

[Odan Thos]

Elisa was in the training room the majority of the trip. After her wounds were healed by the other Jor, she spent a day in her room trying to understand her own existence. It was something that was inevitable for someone that had came so close to death. It was only after a few hours she came to a simple conclusion. Her existence was not a random experiment but part of a larger picture, a picture no one person could see. She came to the conclusion while her mind was quiet and she was sensing the Force. Once she had her answer however she returned to the training room. She was not happy with her performance against the Sith. She trained in both lightsaber combat and the use of telekinesis.

In space the Romulus exited hyperspace, having followed the Saucy Mare from Raxus Prime. The Warbird quickly cloaked and took up a position near the Saucy Mare. Before they left Raxus Prime, the Romulus picked up a few survivors of the battle. It was originally thought that they would be transfer to a ship heading towards a civilized planet, after having the ships they served on destroyed, survivors desired employment on the Romulus. The XO welcomed the help, the ship was extremely understaffed at this moment and they could use the extra hands. He recorded their names, account numbers, and had them fill out a small form before putting them to work. Even with them the ship was still only at two thirds its normal crew complement, but it was a start.

[MikDaTv]

Confident that things were well in hand up here in orbit, Jor headed off the bridge and headed down to the marine dorms. He knocked on Danny One's room and the clone answered the door. He saw Jor standing there and snapped to attention.

Jor whapped him on the forehead. "Don't do that. i'm a civilian. Suit up and get to the hanger, your coming with me."

Danny nodded. "Aye aye. Give me 10."

"Take 15" jor said and let Danny get to work. Next he walked down to the morgue. The depressing room just off Sickbay was cold and drab but thankfully only had two bodies in it. Hatori, sans robotic arm, and Jor.

Jor walked up to his multi universe counterpart and pulled the sheet off his body and slapped him good a couple times. Mirror Jor took a sharp intake of breath suddenly and shot upright. Color immediately returned to his skin. Jor smiled and put his hands on his hips. "Hey! Your awake. Good, you've slept two days away and it's time to go."

Mirror Jor shot a look at him then looked around the room. "where am i?"

Jor snorted. "the morgue."

"The morgue!!! Why on earth would you put me here?" He shouted in anger.

Jor shrugged. "You were dead... and i'm a prankster."

Mirror jor slid his legs off the side of the table and looked down, realizing his was naked. "I'm going to get you back for this, i hope you know this."

Jor started to walk out. "yeah, sure whatever. Just get dressed and get to the hanger. Bring the dead guy with you."

Jor left before his mirror version could protest and walked down to the training room where he grabbed his Lightsaber parts and holocron and also saw Elisa. "Hi Elisa. Hope your feeling better. We're at Ilum again and i got something i think you'll love to see. we're all meeting down in the hanger."

From there, Jor walked down to the hanger where he saw just about everyone waiting already. "Hi all." he said simply. "Got a few more people coming before we head out. I've got the captain prepping a few dragoons and i'll be flying down in my fighter. Jor will be showing up with the body of Hatori who will be taking his own shuttle down so we don't have to ride with the dead body."

Jor pulled out a slender longsword from behind his back. He'd had the machine shop tech work on it while they were traveling here. He had Hatori's mechanical hand melted down and joined with the rest of the durasteel used in it's forging. It was a simple weapon, not even sharp. It was purely ceremonial. "And i have this which i think we'll need for someones ceremony."