Chapter 26: 26. Chapter

Ahsoka was currently in her bed trying to fall asleep, but her deep worry for her missing and possibly injured friend seemed to keep her awake, seemingly against all odds. She was very tired from the intense battle that occurred not even ten standard hours ago... Of course, she managed to sleep here and there a little. Every time she woke because her imagination began to run wild, and created many different horror scenarios that slowly, but surely began to haunt her.

She let out a sigh, as she realized that this was going to be a very long night.

-I can only hope, that she will be all right...

With that thought on her mind, she turned towards the wall one more time and hoped to gain some effective sleep over the night...

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Meanwhile, a certain gray twi'lek girl a few light years away, was having the time of her life with a bunch of pirates in their ship's cantina. They were playing battle chess, for who knows how long. It started as a simple game, then turned into a fierce local championship after they discovered that she even had Mandalorian, space pirate and smuggler skins to use... Of course, the championship never really stopped the ongoing party in the background.

Not long ago a table broke in two since one of the drunken pirates jumped on top of it to dance with the weequay girl already dancing on it. She didn't really like his advances and pushed him away, that resulted in him slipping on some food in his drunken state, falling on the desk that broke in two immediately. By the way, he caught onto the girl's arm while he fell, pulling her with him, ending up as a pile of limbs on the ground between a bunch of plates, and leftover food and drinks splashed on their heads. It also elicited a big laughter from the others witnessing everything. Since then there was a small scale bar fight going on a few tables from the ongoing chess battle.

Hondo, was sitting on his pirate throne watching the show, with a satisfied smile on his face, as if being here and watching this organized chaos was the best possible place to be in the entire galaxy... or even universe. He also had Pilf on his shoulder, and I got the other one on top of my head. He was called Pikk Mukmuk. Both of them are Kowakian monkey-lizards, oh, and they are actually members of the crew. I was only allowed to mostly roam free if one of them was with me... They are pretty intelligent, to be honest. I am still surprised at how many words they seem to understand, and since I won our battle chess match against Hondo, he gave me Pikk as a reward. I was very surprised by this gesture. Hondo played very well, but he had no chance against a few thousand years of chess experience. It was one of my inherited powers, that wasn't any weaker because of my current body. I gave my last order to one of my troopers on the board; it executed it flawlessly, and I won another game.

My opponent was actually a red skin-colored twi'lek woman, one of the few members of the crew here, who wasn't a weequay. There was one more twi'lek a man this time, and a few humans too. At least from the ones I saw until now.

The young woman realized her mistake as I cornered her king; then she smiled at me mischievously. She suddenly leaned closer over the board and gave me a light kiss... What the fuck?!

The small crowd around us began to cheer loudly.

-That was your reward, little jedi.

She winked at me, then walked away. I felt as my face turned many shades darker as the blood rushed into my head, along with a few hundred erotic images from the so-called darker and more suppressed places of my mind... Yes, I inherited those kinds of memories too, and to top it all, from both genders... I tried to hastily suppress those kinds of memories, while the others straight out laughed at my reddened face and slightly twitching leks.

Suddenly I saw a half empty wine bottle flying across the whole room, heading towards an unsuspecting weequay. I reached out with the force, to stop the bottle and began to pull it towards me instead, saving the man from a painful surprise. I was actually acting as a proper jedi padawan right now, so I decided to further sacrifice myself for the greater good saving a few weequay from a strong headache. I caught the bottle at last and raised it towards my lips to drink directly from the bottle. I was already sensing the aroma of the strong booze, but my hand was stopped by someone else's arm. I reopened my eyes only to see that Hondo was the one that stopped my arm...

He looked at me with a half smile, falling into a fatherly act as if it was natural to him.

-Now-now... What do we have here, my sweet mother always said, that proper little girls, shouldn't drink alcohol.

While saying this, he also raised his finger in a lecturing manner. Oh, come on, go to hell, idiot! I tried to free my hand, but he had an iron grip on my arm.

-Stop resisting, you wont become drunk on my ship, however laughable that statement may seem in the current place. Anyway, what help could you provide if you got drunk, are you going to deflect those laser beams towards me? Heee?

-Hmmm... Not that bad idea actually...

-Aha, I see what you did there, little hellion. My answer is still no! Give me that bottle, now!

He pulled the bottle from my hand, and drank it in a few big gulps standing in front of me. The others were laughing around me when they saw my horrified expression.

-How could you! ~ I cried out, feeling genuinely betrayed.

-Hahahaha! I am an evil pirate captain; after all. I also have an image to uphold, you know? ~ He waved towards me condescendingly. ~ Now go and amuse yourself with pazaak or something...

-Pazaak? Did you say pazaak?

He was about to walk away, but he looked back at me, hearing my new question. Suddenly, there was a new glint in his eyes.

-Oh, so you know the game? Would you like to play a few rounds then? If you lose you will owe me a favor, if I lose I will give you a full bottle of these... He raised another of those wine bottles from a nearby table.

My childish impulses overruled my logical decisionmaking as I immediately agreed to the game. Revan was a legendary pazaak player of his time. How could I lose with that much experience?

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A few minutes later. In the middle of heavy laughter.

-That wasn't fair! ~ I shouted at Hondo with an even more betrayed expression in the middle of a bunch of laughing pirates.

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-Oh, thanks for the praise. I am a pirate captain; after all, my job is to never be fair. Oh, and you didn't tell me when we made the bet, that I couldn't use my personal deck. You should have used your own instead of complaining.

-It was stolen by that calamity of a droid! To win with a basic deck against a fully equipped one, the chance is about one to fifty!

-Are you trying to deny the validity of our bet?

-Arggh.... ~ I bit into my lower lips as I said. ~ No... It was valid...

-Look at that boys and girls, a Jedi that actually has a backbone!

-I am not really a jedi, I already told you!

-Maybe, but from my perspective, there isn't that much of a difference. So, back to my request, there is this old acquaintance of mine. Let's just say, he has a variety of diplomatic connections and one of these so-called connections wants the help of a trained force sensitive in a so-called serious matter. The only prerequisite, is that the person can't be a jedi. I can see from your face, that you realize how hard it is to find a well-trained force user who is not a jedi. I wish you to take this job after we raided... I mean, get the spice and twi'leks from our current project.

-I see, but what good would that do for you?

-Oh, nothing special, you should just tell him that I sent you to repay a debt I own. His name is Jabba the Hutt. He is a kind-natured fellow, really.

-Guess, that I should expect him to try and chop off my head the moment I appear...

-Ah, such vulgarity, he would never... not personally, I mean...

-I knew it, and what kind of debt do you own to him?

-Nothing special, I maybe took a smaller loan, and didn't pay the whole thing back... But, it will be solved by you doing this job, for free in my name.

-Okay... but what am I expected to do in the first place?

-I don't know for sure, probably some kind of jedi hocus-pocus... Most likely nothing special, or especially hard to do...

-Probably? Wait a minute, can't I have a say in this?

-I won the game, so no.

-Arggh... curse you...

-Ha-ha-ha! Stand in line if you want to curse me, girl. Be wary, the line is quite long...

-But...

-Silence... someone is calling me on my communicator. ~ He pushed a button, then turned away while saying something I was unable to hear...

Damn Hondo, I will be much more careful with any type of bet with him in the future. Next time I will win, I promised myself with clear determination.

Vzzz-vzzz!

There were two blaster shots sent into the roof as a small cloud of smoke began to slowly descend over the people staying in the room. Everyone looked toward the source of it, already grabbing their weapons, but they hadn't pulled it out yet. The pirates became quite tense, as everyone realized that the captain was the one who shot into the roof.

-Thank you, thank you for your undivided attention, my dear fellow pirates. I just got a report, that our spice had just arrived. It would be rude to make them wait for us, wouldn't it?

There was tense silence in the room. Nobody gave an answer to his question. He looked around the room, then suddenly began to shout like a mad man.

-MOVE YOU SPACERATS! I WANT TO SEE YOUR ASSES ON YOUR POSITIONS IN FULL GEAR IMMEDIATELY! ~ He then began to shoot into the roof with his already drawn blaster pistol in sync with his shouts to quickly disperse the crew. ~ GO GO GO MOVE BASTARDS! CLAIR!

-Yes boss?

-Work on the girl, make her look somewhat believable for her act. At least, give her proper clothes, instead of those monk clothes...

-You can count on me, boss.

While I was distracted by the running around pirates. Out of nowhere I felt a cold shiver run over my back... Did I catch a cold or something? Great, that's just what I needed...

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