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Opposites Attract [Complete]	By : Meleana24 Category: Star Wars (All) > General Views: 9158 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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That days search went about as well as the previous ones. Meleana and Obi-Wan had searched the entire place twice, and still had seen no sign of life. In a place as big as the castle it was easy for one person to avoid being found. Meleana and Obi-Wan were in one of the least traveled stairways in the building. It was covered in dust, there were no recent foot prints that made them think they’d have any luck there, but they had to try something new.

“I don’t think I want to find her,” Meleana said breaking the silence, “I think we should all get out of here on my ship while we still can.”

“Yes, as you’ve said, at least twelve times.”

“Remind me again, why are we doing this?”

“Since I’ve explained this to you at least eleven times, I’ll stick with the simple answer,” Obi-Wan said impatiently. “We’re doing this because Master Windu told us to.”

Meleana opened the door at the next landing. “We’re searching this floor,” she said in a bored tone.

Obi-Wan shrugged and went into the hall first. This hall was grander than any of the others.

“We haven’t been here before,” Obi-Wan said looking at the paintings hanging from the solid black stone walls. The floors in the rest of the castle were wood, but here they were the same black stone as the outside of the palace.

Meleana stepped carefully into the hall, “Well I guess that confirms she’s using the secret passages. We were the first people to come up this way in a very long time.”

The dust on this floor was thick, but it had been recently disturbed. There were only four doors on this floor, and tracks lead into two of them.

“If we search one, and she’s in the other, she’ll get away while we’re distracted,” Obi-Wan’s voice was barely above a whisper.

Meleana nodded and went to the right. They both opened the doors at the same time and left them open so sound would carry easily through the hall.

Meleana looked around the room tentatively. It looked like a bedroom. Not because it looked like any bedroom she’d ever seen before, but because their was a bed in it. The bed was massive, she was willing to bet it was the size of her bedroom on the Jaded Star. The large four poster bed sat in the middle, off to the side was a large vanity, with three huge silver mirrors decorated with jewels. To the left was a floor to ceiling window, and a sitting area. The sofa and chairs were covered in moth eaten black materials.

Hanging above the bed was a portrait of a woman, no less than three meters high. She was clearly a Sith. She dressed in tight black clothes, all made of leather and lace. Her long blonde hair hung down to the middle of her back. She was very thin, but there was nothing small about her. She had wiry features and cold black eyes that seemed to be laughing at her.

Meleana jumped when the door shut behind her. Not hard enough for Obi-Wan to hear, just a soft click. She backed up into the door and tried the handle, it didn’t budge. Part of the wall slid away. Meleana swallowed hard to suppress any obvious reaction to the thing that stepped into the day light. It had been Master Tori at some point, but aside from the fact that she was walking around, she was very obviously dead. Her skin was paler than Meleana had ever seen on any living being. Her veins had turned an eerie blue-black, and her eyes glowed yellow in pools of black ooze. Her blue lips smiled at Meleana revealing dark blue gums, making her teeth seem impossibly white.

“Master Tori,” Meleana said, still with her back pressed to the door. “You look… very alarming.”

“You know better than to call me by that name,” the other woman responded. Her voice had an odd echo to it.

Meleana started to move off to the side. Every step Master Tori took towards her, she took one away.

“Why not call out for the other Jedi?” She asked in a taunting voice.

“You’re holding the door shut with the force,” Meleana backed into the vanity and stopped moving, “Or did you want to let him in?”

“I’d just like him to be close enough to hear you scream.”

“Don’t worry, I’m very loud.”

Try as she might Meleana couldn’t think of a way out of this. The door to the secret passage was still open. She could get out that way, but that was as likely a trap as this room. Meleana gripped her lightsaber tightly. She could fight her way out, but didn’t think killing Maser Tori was possible.

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Master Tori said softly.

“But you want to make me scream? I’m getting very mixed signals from you.”

The Sith stopped a few meters from Meleana. “If you give yourself to me willingly I promise things will be easier on you. There is no sense in resisting. All I need do is touch you and your body will be mine.”

Meleana tensed, this was more dangerous than she’d thought. “I don’t think the dark and veiny look will really work for me.”

The Sith looked at herself in the mirror behind Meleana. She didn’t seem to like her appearance any more than Meleana did.

“Don’t worry, your body will be perfectly preserved as it is now for as long as I live. Which will be a very long time.”

The Sith closed the distance between herself and Meleana. The Jedi reached out to the force and sent her opponent flying just before she could lay a hand on her. As soon as the Sith was away Meleana bolted. She leapt over the bed, and ran into the secret tunnel.

Inside was pitch black. Meleana used the force to guide her as she raced through the tight space.

“You think to out run me in my own home?” The echoing voice taunted.

Meleana kept running, looking for a way out of the tight passage. She reached a fork and paused. She wasn’t getting a good feeling about either of them.

“This way!” A young voice said.

Meleana could hear the Sith gaining on her, she didn’t have anything to lose if she followed the voice. As Meleana jogged down the tunnel the source of the voice became visible. It was a small girl, no more than eight, with tangled brown hair. She started running when the Jedi had almost caught up to her.

“Follow me!” The girls voice sounded excited, Meleana didn’t get the sense she was being mislead.

As she followed the girl she wished she could question her. What was she doing here? Who was she? Why was she helping her? And where were they going.”

The girl stopped and pointed to the wall, “That way.”

Meleana nodded and thanked the girl. She pushed the wall back with the force and stepped out into the brightly lit room. She turned back to question the girl, but she was already gone.

She could feel eyes on her. She spun around to examine her surroundings and breathed a sigh of relief. Sion and Darlean were seated around the table in the sunroom, tea cups and sandwiches were laid out in front of them.

Meleana laughed at the scene. She was running from the most horrific looking thing she’d ever seen, and they were eating tea sandwiches with the crust cut off. They both had dumbfounded expressions on their faces.

“You two need to get out of here,” she said when she was done laughing.

Meleana waltzed over to the rear door, the couples eyes still fixed on her. She tried the door and it didn’t budge. She looked back at them and they shook their heads nervously. Meleana tried again, this time she gave it all she had. Again nothing happened. She tried the force, and found it still wouldn’t budge. She grabbed a chair from the table and smashed it against the glass door, it bounced down to the floor. She motioned for the others to follow her, and together they made their way through every exterior door and window on the ground floor.

Obi-Wan was delayed in his search of the second room. It was the Sith’s private office. He’d tried to be quick, but every time he laid eyes on another part of the room there was something else to investigate. He’d found he couldn’t understand any of the writing in the room, but with the force he could make out what was important. He scanned through holos, which were also in an unfamiliar language. He set the things he thought could prove useful on the desk and went to check on Meleana. She should have been back already. He frowned at the closed door. He turned the handle, the door stuck, but opened with a heavy push. There was no sign of anyone inside, he could tell by the state of the room that something had happened. There wasn’t much to knock around, but a chair was overturned, and the bed’s decrepit linens were out of place.

With a bit of searching he found the secret passage entrance. Meleana must have gone through that way, since he hadn’t heard her run out into the hall. He activated his lightsaber and stepped into the narrow tunnel. He’d never been so glad to see a place so filthy. There were two clear sets of footprints in the grime on the floor. One had a slight limp to it, the other had been running. He knew he was heading for danger, but there was no other way to track Meleana. He’d already learned how difficult a person could be to find in this place.

Meleana and her lightsaber had spent the better part of ten minutes attacking the front door. What had once been a beautifully carved piece of wood now looked like a very large stack of coals, but it was still in place.

Darlean and Sion were staring at her, the worry on their faces had only increased since she first came out of the walls.

“It might be best for you to put the weapon away,” Sion said very gently.

Something crashed into the wall, all three of them jumped. Meleana tightened her grip on he purple blade. She was thinking about sleeping with it. A second crash splintered the wainscoting, and a third sent a body flying into the formal sitting room.

“What are you doing!” Meleana yelled at Obi-Wan as he slid into the sofa and knocked it back.

He winced in pain and glared up at her, “Thought it’d be fun to put myself through a wall.”

Meleana felt the force pull at her. She cursed and grabbed the sofa, which began to slide along with her.

Obi-Wan leapt to his feet and with great effort used the force to propel Meleana back to the other side of the room.

“Now’s not the best time to rearrange the furniture dearest,” he said with a smart-ass grin.

As if in response Meleana flung the cocktail table towards the opening in the wall.

“You two need to run,” Obi-Wan said as he helped Meleana hold the table over the wall with the force.

“We all need to run,” Meleana corrected.

Force lightening licked the edges of the table. It splintered and electricity flooded the room. The Sith stepped out into the room. She held Master Tori’s green blade to her side.

Darlean whipped out a blaster and fired it at the Sith. She blocked and the bolts flew towards the Jedi, they deflected them back to the Sith. Soon the room was filled with bouncing rays of energy.

“Put that damn thing away!” Obi-Wan shouted. The three of them were bouncing the blaster bolts back and forth, and getting nowhere fast.

The bolts stopped coming, but were still ricocheting between the Jedi. The Sith’s blue fingers pointed towards Meleana, force lightening poured out towards her. She blocked, but missed the blaster bolt that was heading back towards her. It hit her in the shoulder and her lightsaber jerked allowing the force lighting to hit her.

Obi-Wan jumped in front of her, his own blade deflecting the blue light, but Meleana was already on the ground conscious, but unable to move.

“Get her out of here,” Obi-Wan said through gritted teeth.

The Sith stopped her force lightening and sent the non-Jedi flying with a wave of her hand. Obi-Wan attacked her in a frenzy. She blocked each one of his swings with ease, her full attention still not on him. He landed a kick to her abdomen while she blocked a swing at her head. She stumbled back and he continued swinging his blade, giving her no time to recover.

That gave the non-Jedi enough time to drag Meleana out of the room, which was all he cared about for the moment. The Sith noticed their absence and went into a rage. She reached out with the force and slammed Obi-Wan into the frame of the door before tossing him to the floor. He broke her force hold and leapt at her. He flipped over her and nearly struck a killing blow. Before he landed, as his lightsaber collided with hers she shot force lightening at him, and hit. He fell to the floor in a heap. His lightsaber was still clutched in his hands, but he couldn’t move while the electricity was flowing through him. When he’d nearly lost consciousness the Sith stopped.

He could feel the vibration on the floor as she stepped towards him. He was paralyzed, and barely able to keep himself awake, what was left of his awareness bracing himself for the worse when the hideous thing that had once been a Jedi leaned over him. The lightsaber was snatched from his hand. He expected to die, but instead he felt a cold hand on his face.

“You’re cute,” the Sith slapped him gently and walked away.

Meleana was aware of what was happening, but unable to intervene in anyway. Sion was carrying her over his shoulder with some difficulty. He kept banging her head into the banister of the stairs as they ran, which wasn’t helping her feel any better.

“Hurry up!” She heard Darlean call in a harsh whisper.

“She’s heavier than she looks!” He responded in the same tone.

Meleana wiggled her fingers. Not that she could beat a Sith by pointing at it, but it was a start at least.

“Put me down,” she said when she could feel her face.

Sion didn’t stop his trek up the stairs until the reached the next floor. Her head was slammed into the frame of the door when he brought her into a room. Meleana cursed as he set her down gently.

“You two need to keep going without me,” she was standing on her own, which at least made it appear that she was healthy enough to fight.

“You can’t beat her alone,” Darlean spoke as though she were actually an effective defense against a Sith lord.

“She’s after me, if you get away she won’t follow you. Keep going, find Master Windu,” Meleana spoke to them in a hard voice. She didn’t want them to think this was up for debate.

“What about you?” Darlean asked with a frown.

“I’ll be fine, I’ll figure something out, just get away from me. Now.”

They did as she asked, though neither looked happy about it. Whether that was because they worried for themselves or her she couldn’t tell. She searched the room for an entrance to the passageways and found one. She’d decided to do the stupidest thing she could think of, go back. The Sith wouldn’t expect her to turn around and walk straight towards her. She’d rather be walking in to danger than waiting for it to come to her, and she was worried about Obi-Wan.

She didn't go back the way they came, she wasn't even sure which way that was. She ambled around, stopping frequently to try to sense anyone around her. When she made it back to the destroyed sitting room unhindered she found herself even more on edge. Why wasn't the Sith looking for her? The thoughts were quickly cleared from her mind when she saw Obi-Wan lying in a heap on the floor.

She dropped down beside him and checked his pulse and breathing. Finding both were adequate she stroked his hair and scanned the room uneasily. He moaned softly and his eyes opened a few millimeters. She smiled and stroked his cheek before his hand shot up and grabbed her wrist, forcing her to yelp in pain when he twisted it nearly to the breaking point. He seemed to realize what he was doing just in time and snatched his hand away.

“I'm sorry,” he said breathlessly. Whatever energy he'd had when he grabbed her seemed to have been used up.

She could tell he wouldn't be able to walk for a few minutes. Though what good would walking do if they couldn't get out? Meleana moved so she was sitting on the floor next to him and pulled him into her arms.

“What are we going to do?” She said quietly.

“We should find Master Windu.”

She paused a moment to think before responding, “Do you really think that's such a good idea? He's the one who brought us here to begin with. He had to have known more than he was telling us about Korriban, and I refuse to believe he didn't know more about Master Tori. Really, did you see any sense in staying after our search turned up nothing? Given everything Sion and Darlean told us?”

“You think Master Windu has gone over to the darkside?” Obi-Wan didn't sound like he was taking her at all seriously.

“I think he's hiding something from us. Most things. A lot of very important things. He didn't bring a Sith holocron along for light reading. We're missing some key pieces of this puzzle.”

Obi-Wan buried his head in her chest, which seemed to be all the movement he was up for.

“I'll say again, we should find Master Windu. Just as soon as I can feel my legs.”
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