+Anima Fan Fiction ❯ The Final Song ❯ Dreams? ( Chapter 3 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
We took
off, Petra in the cockpit, and e veryone else seated in the main room. Da si'l was
strapped into
the seat next to& nbsp;me and he was babbling about old feuds a nd rotten food. I had to fight the urge& nbsp;to stare
at him, covert looks would have to do. Even drunk out of his mind, his roguish grin never left his face. His
nose was kinked near the top pr obably broken in some fight. His eyes...  ;I got lost in those for a moment < br> to long. "Eh? wha'choo lookin' at"? 'Shit, shit, shit, shit'.&nb sp;" I-II uh, wel um". The ship pitched to the left
violently and shuddered.&n bsp;"Petra!! What're ya doin' up there! We&nb sp;need to be in one piece to deliver tha
cargo"! 'Thank heavens for that&n bsp;mini bal of hormones. " Shut up ya& nbsp;drunken tail head! I'm tryin' to fly&nbs p;
here"! "Ats captain drunken tail head ta&n bsp;you"! "You shut up or I wil tu rn this starship around land us back
with the mistys. With that, Dasi'l w ent back to mumbling. Petra announced we were clear of the wrench
field, so we& nbsp;could walk about. The captain fumbled with&nb sp;his straps as everyone else walked off to do their
own business. I stayed back to help&n bsp;him out of his seat. "Thanks fer that Thals... could ya help me get ta
my room? Ah' can' walks righ". "Alright, alright, lets get you to bed". We stumbled across the great room
to his door. A moment later, he stumbled in  ;alone, thanked me and closed the door. 'damn it'.
For the first night in the last three, Petra left me alone. Joe ci and her might be an item on the& nbsp;ship, but
Joeci runs out of steam faster than the tiny pilot, and she like s to go til shes done. Tonight however,
Petra was out like a light.
The lights couldn't come back on soon enough. Force user s, more often than not, are plagued by&n bsp;
nightmares that are made worse by the&nb sp;fact that they shouldn't be ignored or&nbs p;forgotten, because once
and awhile they&nb sp;turned out to have a reason.
I was standing, watching my master and the capt ain face off in a misty clearing. Her&nb sp;pink scarf hung
loosely around her neck an d a demonic, smile stretched her face in to a grotesque mask of gleeful rage.
Dasi'l held his blaster  ;in one hand and a vibro-knife in the&nb sp;other.
"Thalia, my dear apprentice, you&n bsp;seem to have found yourself a very handso me man, be it rougedly so. I
think he's a good, but not worth giving up&nb sp;a future in the sith empire for. That IS what you are doing by
the  ;way, throwing away your life".
"Thalia!&nbs p;What in the name of a huts uncle is go in' on, where's my ship and who the heck is that"!
" D-dasi'l, calm down, its j-just a dream. She& nbsp;can't hurt you... can you"?
"I&nbs p;could, but I'm looking forward to meeting h im myself but that's not why I went to&n bsp;the trouble of
commandeering your dreams tonight. since you seem to be preoccupied by your ah, business. Oh and by
the w ay, Dasi'l. Trust your feelings, it won't&nbs p;be hard to get her pants off".
"HEY"!
"Oh Thalia, there's no point  ;beating around the bush, life is to short".& nbsp;
"That's stil no reason for you to t-tel him"!
"Wait? So's that true then"?
"NOT N-NOW DASI'L"!
Lord Tytho stepped forward,"Ok, now lets calm down, I ca l ed you hear to brief you on your& nbsp;first mission,
I do not want you to come to Dromund Kaas. So me of my underlings have planned a coup.  ;They've kil ed
multiple apprentices of mine already. I need you to travel to Feluci a to eliminate their leader".
"I don't&n bsp;know if that wil be p-pp-possible m aster, we're on a direct rout to D-dromu nd Kaas right now".
Dasi'l sheathed his vibroblade and blaster. "We wil be pass ing Felucia on the way, and we need  ;to check
on what ever hit us on the&nbs p;way out from Umbara. Felucia isn't ideal,&n bsp;but we could probably do the
repairs there".
'Shut up Dasi'l...' I sighed, "Fine... w-what can you tel me about my&nb sp;target and what does he, or she or it
know ab-bout me"?
She leaned toward me, that horrible grin stretched her&n bsp;lips over her teeth again. "I'm glad to s ee that
you've come around. He's a Gen'D ai, I doubt you've heard of them, the&nb sp;empire wiped most of their
species out to take control of their home planet,&nbs p;which by no means was an easy task. Their race is
known&nb sp;for being nearly immortal. You'l have&nbs p;to completely destroy every last piece of&n bsp;him and quickly
too, they regenerate&nbs p;entire limbs at a moments notice. As for what he knows of you... besides me and
that boy you kil ed, no one knows that you're alive, by the way,  ;you're next task after this is to find a
replacement for him".
Out of the corner of my eye I could see the shocked expression on Dasi'l's face. 'Cr ap, now I have to deal
with that'.
"Is h-he at least near the spaceport&nb sp;or d-do I have to hunt through the ju ngle for him"?
"Hmm, seems we're out of time, ta ta for now my apprentice".
The& nbsp;dream began to fade out and I woke up to the sound of blaring alarms and a& nbsp;little face with
kaleidoscope eyes, shou ting "Thalia wake up"! We're being boarded"!& nbsp;In a flash I was back in my tattered
old robes and boots half strapped on, tumbling out of&n bsp;the women's quarters.
Dasi'l was standing in his boxers with a blaster in  ;each hand, Farin carried a heavy repeating&n bsp;blaster and
Joeci ran out behind me leveling her scatter gun at my head.
Without thinking, I ducked and saw a hail of plasma fly overhead. I heard Da si'l run over and tackle Joeci
before sh e could shoot again.
"What the heck  ;are ya doin' Joeci? Thalia's on our side"!&n bsp;
"Like hel she is! She probably  ;cal ed those damn Imps on us"!
"No...&n bsp;I don't know how to explain it, but just NO and I dont want to hear anything more about it".
Joeci was about to reply when the holoterminal clicked on with the image of an Imperial officer . "This is
Moff Lazrous of the imperial fleet, your vessel has been selected for a&nb sp;search. Lay down your weapons or
be fired&n bsp;on".
I stepped closer to the terminal and& nbsp;lowered my hood. "Hel o Moff, t-this is Thalia, apprentice and
ambassador of Lord&nbs p;Tytho. I'd like to inquire on whose auth-th ority you would be able to search M-MY < br> ship"! At this, the officer paled, "My&nb sp;apologies ma' am, I was not aware of this, we were under the
impression that  ;this ship belonged to a pirate by the&n bsp;name of Dasi'l the typhoon".
"It does,&nb sp;the ambassador just presumes to much". Dasi'l&n bsp;stood and winked at me from the corn er of his
eye. Stil in his underp ants, he greeted the Moff. "So, ya spent yer time huntin' me down, what do ya
want"?
Moff Lazrous clasped his hands behind his back, "We intend to seek your assistance in neutralizing a... ".
"Another listening station"?
"No, th is time it is more complicated than that.&nbs p;The target is a Republic Fighter Factory&nb sp;in orbit around
Mossak. Imperial forces c an't be seen near it while the treaty&nb sp;stands, that is why we sought you out".&nb sp;
Dasi'l paced the deck, "What kind of& nbsp;pay are we talking"? "For the complete d estruction of the facility,
we are prep ared to pay you ten thousand credits". D asi'l leaned against the wal , rubbing h is temples
with his hands. "Whats the catch"? The Moff grinned at this "You need to&n bsp;board the station and steal any
plans,&nb sp;prototypes or blueprints you can find before they cal&nb sp; for help, then destroy them". Dasi'l  ;stalked
over to the terminal, "This ain't&n bsp;just any old orbital factory is it"? "No,  ;it is the factory that the republic
chose to innovate technology for their new fleet, and the Empire could benefit fro m their works greatly".
“I want double. Plus damages".
"Fifteen thousand, plus damages and the equipment that we are prepare d to outfit your ship with for
this task".
"Let’s see what you got for me then". Dasi'l shut down  ;the terminal, "Thalia, your with me, Farin,& nbsp;go
make sure Petra is wel hidden, Joeci make sure they don't mess up my&n bsp;ship". We went down the loading
bay and Dasi'l punched in the unlock code.
Crisp,& nbsp;cold air flowed into the ship from the imperial hanger, raising goose on Dasi'l' s arms, chest and
legs. We walked down the ramp onto the hanger floor wher e an entire brigade of Imperial troopers  ;
stood at attention as the Moff approached.& nbsp;Seeing him in his uniform and the c aptain in nothing but his
boxers made&n bsp;it hard for me to keep a straight fa ce. A group of engineers followed closely&nbs p;behind the him
pushing carts loaded with odds and ends that I could only guess the purpose& nbsp;for. Dasi'l stuck his blasters
in the elastic cord in his underpants, making him look even more out of& nbsp;place then strode down toward
the carts, inspecting each part. I couldn't real& nbsp;y make out what he said about them, but he seemed
pretty satisfied.
I looked back where the Moff had been, re alizing he had vanished. "Might I ask why&nbs p;someone of your
position would associate&nb sp;with such rabble"? The inquiring voice sta rtled me causing me to jump. 'how
did&nb sp;he get so close to me'?! "N-no you may not Lazrous,&nbs p;that is strictly sith business, now if you& nbsp;would be
so kind as to see y-yourself back to your dealings with the captain, it would be appreciated. The&nbs p;Moff
took a step forward, "You sounded&nbs p;quite unsure of yourself before 'ma' am',&n bsp;so I had one of my
lieutenants check your file. You died on Korriban weeks a go, can you explain this"?
The fact&nbs p;that my face was stil blushed crimson  ;from seeing the captain's trousers, they had  ;Ewoks on
them... so cute by the way, wasn 't helping ease his suspicions. I grabbed the hilt of Laatste lied and
thrust i t out of my robes before releasing the b lade. Stepped towards the Moff so we were&nb sp;face to
face...or face to lower chest . I grabbed his shoulder and pul ed  ;his face down to me, this took a
considerable amount of force. "I am&nb sp;dead, you saw no sith here and you wi l destroy any record of me
being& nbsp;here". I could feel the terror emanating from him and it was mirrored in his eye s. "You are dead, I
saw no sith her e and I wil destroy any record of& nbsp;you being here".
After I extinguished&n bsp;my lightsaber, the Moff quickly walked of f back to a very alert Twi'lek in boxers.&nbs p;Joeci
oversaw the attachment of the new  ;parts and we were off again.
Next stop, Mossak
the seat next to& nbsp;me and he was babbling about old feuds a nd rotten food. I had to fight the urge& nbsp;to stare
at him, covert looks would have to do. Even drunk out of his mind, his roguish grin never left his face. His
nose was kinked near the top pr obably broken in some fight. His eyes...  ;I got lost in those for a moment < br> to long. "Eh? wha'choo lookin' at"? 'Shit, shit, shit, shit'.&nb sp;" I-II uh, wel um". The ship pitched to the left
violently and shuddered.&n bsp;"Petra!! What're ya doin' up there! We&nb sp;need to be in one piece to deliver tha
cargo"! 'Thank heavens for that&n bsp;mini bal of hormones. " Shut up ya& nbsp;drunken tail head! I'm tryin' to fly&nbs p;
here"! "Ats captain drunken tail head ta&n bsp;you"! "You shut up or I wil tu rn this starship around land us back
with the mistys. With that, Dasi'l w ent back to mumbling. Petra announced we were clear of the wrench
field, so we& nbsp;could walk about. The captain fumbled with&nb sp;his straps as everyone else walked off to do their
own business. I stayed back to help&n bsp;him out of his seat. "Thanks fer that Thals... could ya help me get ta
my room? Ah' can' walks righ". "Alright, alright, lets get you to bed". We stumbled across the great room
to his door. A moment later, he stumbled in  ;alone, thanked me and closed the door. 'damn it'.
For the first night in the last three, Petra left me alone. Joe ci and her might be an item on the& nbsp;ship, but
Joeci runs out of steam faster than the tiny pilot, and she like s to go til shes done. Tonight however,
Petra was out like a light.
The lights couldn't come back on soon enough. Force user s, more often than not, are plagued by&n bsp;
nightmares that are made worse by the&nb sp;fact that they shouldn't be ignored or&nbs p;forgotten, because once
and awhile they&nb sp;turned out to have a reason.
I was standing, watching my master and the capt ain face off in a misty clearing. Her&nb sp;pink scarf hung
loosely around her neck an d a demonic, smile stretched her face in to a grotesque mask of gleeful rage.
Dasi'l held his blaster  ;in one hand and a vibro-knife in the&nb sp;other.
"Thalia, my dear apprentice, you&n bsp;seem to have found yourself a very handso me man, be it rougedly so. I
think he's a good, but not worth giving up&nb sp;a future in the sith empire for. That IS what you are doing by
the  ;way, throwing away your life".
"Thalia!&nbs p;What in the name of a huts uncle is go in' on, where's my ship and who the heck is that"!
" D-dasi'l, calm down, its j-just a dream. She& nbsp;can't hurt you... can you"?
"I&nbs p;could, but I'm looking forward to meeting h im myself but that's not why I went to&n bsp;the trouble of
commandeering your dreams tonight. since you seem to be preoccupied by your ah, business. Oh and by
the w ay, Dasi'l. Trust your feelings, it won't&nbs p;be hard to get her pants off".
"HEY"!
"Oh Thalia, there's no point  ;beating around the bush, life is to short".& nbsp;
"That's stil no reason for you to t-tel him"!
"Wait? So's that true then"?
"NOT N-NOW DASI'L"!
Lord Tytho stepped forward,"Ok, now lets calm down, I ca l ed you hear to brief you on your& nbsp;first mission,
I do not want you to come to Dromund Kaas. So me of my underlings have planned a coup.  ;They've kil ed
multiple apprentices of mine already. I need you to travel to Feluci a to eliminate their leader".
"I don't&n bsp;know if that wil be p-pp-possible m aster, we're on a direct rout to D-dromu nd Kaas right now".
Dasi'l sheathed his vibroblade and blaster. "We wil be pass ing Felucia on the way, and we need  ;to check
on what ever hit us on the&nbs p;way out from Umbara. Felucia isn't ideal,&n bsp;but we could probably do the
repairs there".
'Shut up Dasi'l...' I sighed, "Fine... w-what can you tel me about my&nb sp;target and what does he, or she or it
know ab-bout me"?
She leaned toward me, that horrible grin stretched her&n bsp;lips over her teeth again. "I'm glad to s ee that
you've come around. He's a Gen'D ai, I doubt you've heard of them, the&nb sp;empire wiped most of their
species out to take control of their home planet,&nbs p;which by no means was an easy task. Their race is
known&nb sp;for being nearly immortal. You'l have&nbs p;to completely destroy every last piece of&n bsp;him and quickly
too, they regenerate&nbs p;entire limbs at a moments notice. As for what he knows of you... besides me and
that boy you kil ed, no one knows that you're alive, by the way,  ;you're next task after this is to find a
replacement for him".
Out of the corner of my eye I could see the shocked expression on Dasi'l's face. 'Cr ap, now I have to deal
with that'.
"Is h-he at least near the spaceport&nb sp;or d-do I have to hunt through the ju ngle for him"?
"Hmm, seems we're out of time, ta ta for now my apprentice".
The& nbsp;dream began to fade out and I woke up to the sound of blaring alarms and a& nbsp;little face with
kaleidoscope eyes, shou ting "Thalia wake up"! We're being boarded"!& nbsp;In a flash I was back in my tattered
old robes and boots half strapped on, tumbling out of&n bsp;the women's quarters.
Dasi'l was standing in his boxers with a blaster in  ;each hand, Farin carried a heavy repeating&n bsp;blaster and
Joeci ran out behind me leveling her scatter gun at my head.
Without thinking, I ducked and saw a hail of plasma fly overhead. I heard Da si'l run over and tackle Joeci
before sh e could shoot again.
"What the heck  ;are ya doin' Joeci? Thalia's on our side"!&n bsp;
"Like hel she is! She probably  ;cal ed those damn Imps on us"!
"No...&n bsp;I don't know how to explain it, but just NO and I dont want to hear anything more about it".
Joeci was about to reply when the holoterminal clicked on with the image of an Imperial officer . "This is
Moff Lazrous of the imperial fleet, your vessel has been selected for a&nb sp;search. Lay down your weapons or
be fired&n bsp;on".
I stepped closer to the terminal and& nbsp;lowered my hood. "Hel o Moff, t-this is Thalia, apprentice and
ambassador of Lord&nbs p;Tytho. I'd like to inquire on whose auth-th ority you would be able to search M-MY < br> ship"! At this, the officer paled, "My&nb sp;apologies ma' am, I was not aware of this, we were under the
impression that  ;this ship belonged to a pirate by the&n bsp;name of Dasi'l the typhoon".
"It does,&nb sp;the ambassador just presumes to much". Dasi'l&n bsp;stood and winked at me from the corn er of his
eye. Stil in his underp ants, he greeted the Moff. "So, ya spent yer time huntin' me down, what do ya
want"?
Moff Lazrous clasped his hands behind his back, "We intend to seek your assistance in neutralizing a... ".
"Another listening station"?
"No, th is time it is more complicated than that.&nbs p;The target is a Republic Fighter Factory&nb sp;in orbit around
Mossak. Imperial forces c an't be seen near it while the treaty&nb sp;stands, that is why we sought you out".&nb sp;
Dasi'l paced the deck, "What kind of& nbsp;pay are we talking"? "For the complete d estruction of the facility,
we are prep ared to pay you ten thousand credits". D asi'l leaned against the wal , rubbing h is temples
with his hands. "Whats the catch"? The Moff grinned at this "You need to&n bsp;board the station and steal any
plans,&nb sp;prototypes or blueprints you can find before they cal&nb sp; for help, then destroy them". Dasi'l  ;stalked
over to the terminal, "This ain't&n bsp;just any old orbital factory is it"? "No,  ;it is the factory that the republic
chose to innovate technology for their new fleet, and the Empire could benefit fro m their works greatly".
“I want double. Plus damages".
"Fifteen thousand, plus damages and the equipment that we are prepare d to outfit your ship with for
this task".
"Let’s see what you got for me then". Dasi'l shut down  ;the terminal, "Thalia, your with me, Farin,& nbsp;go
make sure Petra is wel hidden, Joeci make sure they don't mess up my&n bsp;ship". We went down the loading
bay and Dasi'l punched in the unlock code.
Crisp,& nbsp;cold air flowed into the ship from the imperial hanger, raising goose on Dasi'l' s arms, chest and
legs. We walked down the ramp onto the hanger floor wher e an entire brigade of Imperial troopers  ;
stood at attention as the Moff approached.& nbsp;Seeing him in his uniform and the c aptain in nothing but his
boxers made&n bsp;it hard for me to keep a straight fa ce. A group of engineers followed closely&nbs p;behind the him
pushing carts loaded with odds and ends that I could only guess the purpose& nbsp;for. Dasi'l stuck his blasters
in the elastic cord in his underpants, making him look even more out of& nbsp;place then strode down toward
the carts, inspecting each part. I couldn't real& nbsp;y make out what he said about them, but he seemed
pretty satisfied.
I looked back where the Moff had been, re alizing he had vanished. "Might I ask why&nbs p;someone of your
position would associate&nb sp;with such rabble"? The inquiring voice sta rtled me causing me to jump. 'how
did&nb sp;he get so close to me'?! "N-no you may not Lazrous,&nbs p;that is strictly sith business, now if you& nbsp;would be
so kind as to see y-yourself back to your dealings with the captain, it would be appreciated. The&nbs p;Moff
took a step forward, "You sounded&nbs p;quite unsure of yourself before 'ma' am',&n bsp;so I had one of my
lieutenants check your file. You died on Korriban weeks a go, can you explain this"?
The fact&nbs p;that my face was stil blushed crimson  ;from seeing the captain's trousers, they had  ;Ewoks on
them... so cute by the way, wasn 't helping ease his suspicions. I grabbed the hilt of Laatste lied and
thrust i t out of my robes before releasing the b lade. Stepped towards the Moff so we were&nb sp;face to
face...or face to lower chest . I grabbed his shoulder and pul ed  ;his face down to me, this took a
considerable amount of force. "I am&nb sp;dead, you saw no sith here and you wi l destroy any record of me
being& nbsp;here". I could feel the terror emanating from him and it was mirrored in his eye s. "You are dead, I
saw no sith her e and I wil destroy any record of& nbsp;you being here".
After I extinguished&n bsp;my lightsaber, the Moff quickly walked of f back to a very alert Twi'lek in boxers.&nbs p;Joeci
oversaw the attachment of the new  ;parts and we were off again.
Next stop, Mossak