Chapter Two: Worlds Colliding

[Akirapryde]

Whatever Happened to Ms. Chaanu
Vil’os Meat and Shipping
Outer Rim World of Nal Hutta
Date: 2919 AOK

The thick carbonate slab fell backwards on to the ground with a solid metal thud. Auro's form had been frozen in mid leap. The last-minute attack from Vixen had toppled him in to a large Carbonate Basin. It was this attack that robbed Orchid of her killing strike that would have ended Auro’s life. Now, he was trapped in Carbonate and cut off from the entire universe. His eyes longing for the escape they will never achieve. In his hands locked in a warrior's grip, his Lightsaber.

“You stupid whore,” Orchid said gazing at the slab as well.

Vixen gazed down at the slab in puzzlement as she heard Orchid speaking next to her. She didn’t really care what Orchid was upset over. A smile slowly crawled across her lips as she uttered, “see Jedi, you have been shown the truth.” Somewhere lost in her twisted mind cried out in the voice of that cat burglar whose real name was, Cordelia. Now Vixen stood over the slab, a completely different creature who was only riven by her madness. Her head twitched slightly as her eyes scanned the slab, “I remember when they froze me.” She lowered herself next to the slab and touched Auro’s face. “I remember feeling great fear. Do you think he felt the same thing?’

“You stupid whore!” Cried orchid as she turned and smacked Vixen across the head with her hand. “I was about to kill HIM,” she yelled.

Vixen made no effort to block or dodge the attack. Instead she staggered forward as she braced herself on Auro’s slab. Looking down at Auro’s face, Vixen speak with more than a hint of laughter in her voice, “mother would not have been pleased if he were killed.” She leaned back off from the slab and turned her head towards Orchid, “though watching her electrocute you again would be fun.”

Vixen couldn’t explain why she kicked him in to the carbonate basin. She had planned to disarm him once more and leaving him open for Orchid’s final blow. In hind sight, this worked also. And because of that, she really didn’t care. It was over and now they were to move on to their next objective. Much deeper, Cordelia screamed out for the man she fell in love with.

It took all of Cordelia’s might to fight against the madness to achieve this victory against the madness. During the battle, Cordelia did everything she could to help Auro. But Vixen and the madness was just too much for her. It was when Auro’s live was in danger that Cordelia found the strength to take back control, even if it was in such a limited moment. Despite the effort, she knew that Auro had been saved for the moment. With that thought, Cordelia was forced to retreat deeper in to her own mind.

“Auro has been removed from the board as a threat to mother’s plans,” Vixen said as she slowly rose back to her feet. “Like this, his mother will not be able to detect him through the Force.” Vixen smiled coldly, “His mother will be driven to uncover the fate of her son. Auro is her weakness, and now we have the means to exploit that weakness.”

“Nooooo,” screamed Unna as she leaped down from the high ground. She was wearing her traditional Zeison Sha Warrior garb as she landed atop of Auro’s slab. Her feet evenly spaced on either side of Auro’s frozen form. Unna swung wildly with her disk blade a successful attempt to drive the two attackers from Auro's slab.

Both Vixen and Orchid leaped backwards as they were surprised by Unna’s action. Despite being surprised, Unna’s wild attack was easy for them to dodge as they tumbled out of the way of the attack. As each of them completed their tumbles, they once more found themselves opposite each other with Unna in the middle this time. It was the same murderous situation that Auro found himself in. And the reason to why he was so quickly defeated. Vixen drew out her sword as she spoke with a giggle, “look, it’s another Jedi.”

“Vixen!” Orchid commanded Vixen’s attention. “Finish her,” Orchid yelled as she took a couple of steps back allowing her to disengage the melee combat.

Unna went to speak, but was cut off by Orchid’s command. Sensing the coming attack, shbraced herself for the coming attack, Vixen wasn’t about to disappoint. “Cordelia, please,” Unna said hoping to reach Cordelia, “Its Unna….we are friends…”

While Unna might have sensed conflict within Cordelia, that conflict has long passed. All the strength that Cordelia had, had been spent saving Auro’s life. In Vixen’s mind, it was just another Jedi who needed to be shown the way. Vixen giggled as she swung her blade back, “shown the afterlife!”

Vixen attack was wild and wide allowing Unna an opportunity to easily dodge it. Unna suspected that Vixen’s combat skills were not much different than Cordelia’s. It would be a critical mistake. Unna ducked as the blade passed harmlessly over her head. It allowed Unna to set up for her own attack. She reached out with her weapon arm and lashed out with her disk blade. “I am no Jedi,” Unna scream as she gave up any hope of saving Cordelia. She had to protect Auro!

Vixen watched the disk blade as if it was slow motion. As the disk blade sped its way towards her, Vixen started to bend backwards as she moved her arms out to the side. With her balance secured, Vixen watched the blade pass harmlessly over her face. The tips of Vixen’s hair was scorched by the Unna’s lightsaber Disk Blade as it passed over her. In one motion, Vixen planted her hands on the ground as her back reached the maximum amount of flexibility. Like a great spring that had been placed under tension, Vixen kicked her feet up.

Unna’s mistake now came back and knocked the wind out of her. Vixen’s feet nailed Unna in the gut as a massive burst of air exploded from Unna’s lungs. Unna stumbled back as she heard Vixen laughing, “now you are splitting hairs!” As Unna fought to recover her breath, Vixen stood up and lowered her defensives, “Or is that burning hairs.” She laughed again, “that is just crazy!”

In that moment, Vixen laughed again as she leaped up and over the disk blade as it passed under her. “You will pay for what you did to Auro” Unna spat as she felt anger. It was the first time she had ever really felt anger. Unna had never really cleanse herself of the tainting of the dark side and now that taint was starting to influence her. Unna reached out through the force and commanded her disk blade to make another attack on Vixen. The blade arced up and back towards Vixen.

“Hey,” Vixen said as she leaped to the side and dropped in to a tumble as she avoided the incoming disk blade. “Do you take Republic Credits,” Vixen asked with laughter in her voice.
It was clear that Vixen pushed herself to narrowly avoid the attack.

Even though Vixen appeared to be winded, her joking words only angered Unna more. She leaped up and caught the disk blade while she spun in midair. She landed in a defensive position and for the first time, she noticed the wound in Cordelia’s gut. It was clearly a lightsaber wound and that was all she needed to know. “So Auro realized that you were beyond saving” Unna spat as she leaped up once more and unleashed her disk blade. The blade raced for Vixen with deadly accuracy, “Allow me to finish his job,” Unna added yelling.

Vixen leaped to the side as she parried the incoming attack and laughed. “Don’t finish what you can’t start!”

As the disk blade raced back to Unna, the two women found themselves locked in a deadly gaze. Confusion crossed Unna’s face as she tried to understand what Vixen was getting at. Vixen laughed again, “hey! You’re not really giving me much to work with!” It was if Vixen wasn’t even taking this battle very seriously. And that drove up Unna’s anger at the situation. She was being forced to face her own level of sarcasm. As Vixen spoke, Unna reached out and caught her disk blade.

‘It’s time for a different approach,’ Unna thought. She smiled, “So you are working with Orchid. The girl with mommy issues.”

Vixen nodded, “yeah I know. But it’s better than working with a brother complex!” Vixen started to move to the left forcing Unna to match Vixen’s pace, as she moved to her right.

“I don’t have a brother complex,” Unna spat back.

“Sure, you do,” she said with a grin on her face. “Don’t you think I know why you are here.” The two locked blades as Vixen’s sword caused Unna’s light blade to crackle as if it was hitting another lightsaber. “I can’t imagine you staying behind. No, that is not your character. Did he tell you to stay at the ship,” she half questioned.

Unna spun and kicked Vixen in the leg breaking the blade lock. “I am here now” Unna barked as she unleashed her light blade once more. It zipped at Vixen once more.

Vixen spun to the left and allowed the motion to set her up for another attack. However instead of attacking, Vixen just moved to Unna’s flank. The move forced Unna to move back towards the carbonate basins. “I know why you arrived now. You waited so you could rush in at just the right time to save the man who you raise.” Vixen said as she readied herself for blade which was coming up behind her.

“He is my brother,” Unna said as she felt the anger inside her welling up. She wanted to control it. She fought hard against it. But for the first time in her life, she felt her control over it failing. She reached out with the force and commanded it to do her bidding. Reaching through the force, Unna felt Vixen’s sword in her grip. She pulled with all her power as she controlled the disk blade to make its attack on Vixen’s blind side.

Vixen’s sword leaped from her hand and flew in to Unna’s hand. Vixen didn’t have time to think about the sword as she leaped up and backflipped over the incoming disk blade. “Tell me Jedi….” She said landing on her feet. Vixen continued to read Unna’s emotions as she spoke, “how does it feel to know that the man you once cared for is so much more powerful than you are.”

Unna caught the blade as it raced towards her. Anger continued to well up as Unna spat, “I’ll show you power!” She charged Vixen using her sword and unleashing her diskblade. Blinded by anger that was quickly becoming rage, Unna didn’t realize that Vixen had let go of her sword.

Vixen shifted her weight as she allowed the diskblade to pass to her left. Vixen spun to the right as she deflected Unna’s attack with her own sword. A powerful kick to Unna’s right knee caused her to drop to a knee. “You want to see power,” Vixen said as she placed her hands on either side of Unna’s head. Red lighting shot from her finger and danced over Unna’s head. Vixen let out a laugh that was almost demonic.

As red lighting danced over Unna’s face, Vixen’s face lit up with dancing red shadows. Unna let out a scream as she was unable to move. She felt power pulsating through her. She felt pain on the level that she had never imagined before. Vixen looked up to the ceiling as she continued to laugh out loud. Her face shifted to that of some strange creature who’s face appeared to be half decomposed. Within moments, it was over. The red light stopped and Unna fell to the ground.

Vixen reached down and picked up her sword, “you know, that’s the second time I lost my weapon today.” She turned and walked back towards Orchid who was still waiting by Auro’s slab.

“I thought I told you to finish her,” Orchid said coldly.

Behind Vixen, Unna struggled to get back to her feet. Unlike normal, this simple task took all of Unna's effort. She reached her hand towards her disk blade that had landed some meters away from her. Unna reached her hand out as she attempted to summon the blade back to her hand. She stumbled forward and lost her balance. Landing on her hands and knees, Unna attempted once more to reach out for her disk blade through the Force. It was in that moment that Unna realized what had happened to her.

Vixen smiled, “I did…..”

Despite her condition, Unna made a last ditch effort to stop them. Orchid only force pushed Unna away. For them, Unna wasn't even worth any further effort to engage. Orchid and Vixen escorted Auro’s slab from the factory while Unna was forced to watch helplessly.

As the darksiders ship slowly took off, Unna watched as the rain started to pour down on her. As the rain water washed down over her, Unna own emotions drove her in to depression. The guilt of her inability to protect her brother filled her with a sense of sadness that she had never faced before. It was something that Unna couldn't bear. She looked up at the departing ship and made a promise to save Auro and more importantly bring vengeance to Cordelia.

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(OOC: Admin stuff, This post was created solely because Unna's player has informed me that she is not going to be able to play for the foreseeable future. The character, by her request, has been removed from play and effectively retired until such a time that the player can resume playing. The character will be returned to the game whole once the player is ready to return to the group.)