Star Nomad Cast (starnomadnpc) wrote in starnomad, @ 2015-09-08 17:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: jacen solo, character: jovan drark, character: tenel ka djo, date: [61.10], location: myrkr, location: shooting star |
Who: Jacen Solo, Tenel Ka, Jovan Drark & the Voxyn Queen
When: 61.10
Where: Myrkr
What: The Queen must die.
Rating: High
Status: COMPLETE.
Jacen! The warning in the Force came in time for him to leap, pulling on the Force for extra strength and height behind the jump out of the way. He'd landed on a building top and he rolled, with the rush of acid passing behind him, sizzling against the roof. Out of immediate sight of the beast, he reached out once again trying to touch the mind and to convince it that it should calm down - a task easier said than done. In the back of his mind he was suddenly aware of just how important this mission might have been. He and Tenel Ka were prepared and they knew - or they had thought they had known - precisely what they would be up against should they run into a fully created creature. But even with that knowledge there was the question of whether they would be able to fully defeat it in time. The only blessing was that thus far there seemed to be only the one creature which was very likely the only one they had created and there were two of them. But had there been more of them… He found the hungry spot in the creature's mind and tried to push at it, to tell it that it was satisfied and it could go rest. "Whatever you're doing it's not working," Tenel Ka's voice floated through the comm system. "I think you're making it angrier." "I'm going to draw its attention then, keep it focused on me - come in from behind and avoid that tail. We saw Numa go down." "Fact," Tenel Ka's voice had a gritty determination in his ear, and the recognition that the twi'lek girl might not be making it off this planet. Jacen pushed the concern from the back of his mind, along with a number of other concerns and instead he moved - a dance across rooftops, just barely keeping ahead of the Voxyn's movements. The animal was hungry - feral - but influencing it was presenting a challenge. So Jacen prepared to push back towards the voxyn's mind when he found himself stumbling, bent in half, with bile in his throat. It was a moment before he became aware of Tenel Ka's voice in his ear again. "Jacen! Answer me. What happened?" "I don't - a wave- or something," Jacen tried to place himself in relationship to the voxyn and found that he couldn't exactly do that anymore. The animal had moved, and the wave - whatever it had done - had knocked out more than his physical hearing, it had made him lose sense of the animal in the Force. "Kriff," he muttered. "You swear now?" "Not the time, Tenel Ka," he spat back. "Do you see it?" "She headed your direction." "Great, that's perfect. I'm by the tall wall to the south - come cover me." Jacen reached out in the Force once again, cautiously keeping behind a half-wall of a house, knowing that it wouldn't protect him if the animal came up from certain directions and unless he could find him again - that was a very real possibility. He could see Tenel Ka crossing the clearing between them - her eyes and sense alert as she watched for the creature. It was there that he saw too the animal step out between two buildings its eyes on the Jedi woman. Jacen leapt forward from his hiding space with a yell he wasn't fully aware of making. The voxyn turned his direction and spat - causing Jacen to have to try to change direction mid jump. This time he wasn't as fortunate as he had been before, the acid caught his leg, burning through his flightsuit and creating agony up his calf threaded into his legs - enough to take his breath away and the leg crumpled under him as he landed and there was an uncanny clarity that he was vulnerable to further attack right now. The scream that followed was like a blast all over again, but it came from the voxyn, whose scales had been sliced through by Tenel Ka's lightsaber. "Duck!" Jacen pulled the focus back and used the Force to send his lightsaber swirling past Tenel Ka and through the tail which left Tenel Ka to deal with the beast's teeth and claws - neither of which were pretty. As the lightsaber flew back to his grasp he pulled himself to his feet by sheer determination. The voxyn was injured and angrier, and Tenel Ka had been forced to find solace on a roof nearby. Without its tail, the beast was screaming, the waves hitting through the Force like a blow every time it opened its snout. Jacen was no longer aware of hearing anything. The Force was the only real sense he had left, and he was building on it, ignoring the leg that wanted to buckle under him, as he tried to figure out some way to injure this hellbeast. Jacen. The Shooting Star. Jump. He realized that the ship had arrived. The slave circuit had worked. Darius was firing canons at the creature, and Jacen was struggling to breathe. There was plenty of voxyn blood now - and it didn't seem to do a good thing either - even dying, the creature was deadly. He pulled on the Force again, this time working against the agony in his leg to jump to the open landing hatch. Tenel Ka was on it already, and she grasped his hand, her arm firmly wrapped around one of the opening hinges. The sense of the creature behind him was instantaneous. Despite the injuries, and despite the height the thing had jumped and its claws were scratching against the metal, and it was going to spit again. Jacen threw his lightsaber again - this time it went swirling into the beast's mouth at about the time a shot came from the other corner. Jovan Drark's aim at this distance was impeccable. And the blaster bolt had been followed by something else - a grenade maybe? What saliva there was hit the deck as the beast's claws scraped the metal. Jacen reached out in the Force to try to get his lightsaber back, but either it had fallen away, or was caught up with the voxyn - he couldn't find it. "The saliva is acid," Jacen could only see, not hear what Tenel Ka said as Jovan made his way to the edge to look. The creature hit the ground in a burst of orange blame. Jovan's words were the first in moments that had been remotely audible in his commlink although they rang as if from far away: "It's down - get us out of here." |