Return to Tython
by AJ Marks
Part 1
Lexxa slowly became aware of the knocking on her door wondering which of her crew was disturbing her sleep now. She knew how it wasn’t, curled beside her Kira stirred a bit at the knocking and answered before Lexxa could.
“Whoever is knocking better have a good reason for disturbing us,” Kira said causing Lexxa to chuckle at that. Kira could be many things, but patient wasn’t one of them, especially when waking up.
“I’ll go check it out,” Lexxa replied, giving Kira kiss on her forehead before slipping out of bed, wrapping a robe around her body headed to the door.
She heard the engines of the ship humming and assumed there was no problems with some system. Opening the door she spotted Doc standing there looking slightly uncomfortable with something.
“Good, you’re up,” he said, giving her a grin.
“Am now, what’s going on?” she asked, watching as the grin slid off his face but quickly recovered to inform her of why he was knocking.
“Well, hopefully I didn’t wake her,” Doc said, his tone indicating Kira before continuing. “The Jedi Council is asking to speak with you when you’re available.”
“Aren’t we supposed to be on vacation,” Kira said from inside the bedroom.
“The Raven problem was difficult, but they want to talk to our Jedi hero here,” Doc said. “And I already tried stalling as long as possible.”
“Okay, inform them I’ll be right there,” Lexxa said, turning back into the bedroom and closing the door so she could dress.
Kira had already gotten up and was starting to put on her clothes. Lexxa took a moment to watch her lover as she moved around the room.
“You like?’ Kira asked, her movements turning more sexual.
“Of course,” Lexxa replied back with a grin.
“Insatiable.”
“Only with you,” Lexxa replied wrapping an arm around her loving the feel of skin on skin.
“Good,” Kira said, suddenly slipping away from the embrace. “Now, oh great hero, we have a Council who wants to talk to us.”
“Spoil sport,” Lexxa replied back before heading over to her own clothes and put them on.
“Well, we do have Doc stalling,” Kira replied.
“Yeah, no telling what he’s telling Master Satele,” Lexxa replied, stopping to think about that, not knowing if it was a good or bad thing. Doc could be very suave if he had to, and other times almost insulting.
“I almost shudder to think what’s he’s been telling her,” Kira replied back both knowing their relationship was more than padawan master as the Council thought and Lexxa was in no mood to uncover that part of her life to anyone else aside from those she trusted.
Finally finished she paused as Kira stopped her.
“Here,” she said, brushing Lexxa’s hair for a bit. “You have bed hair.”
“Ah, thanks,” Lexxa said waiting patiently.
“There, no go on, I’ll catch up,” Kira said. Her shorter hair was easier to manage than Lexxa’s long red hair as she made her way out of the room and towards the communicator dressed in her familiar white and gold outfit, which matched her lightsabers, more of a gold color than yellow.
She noticed that the others were all in the communications room waiting for her, including a recent addition, an HK unit which had joined up with her, called HK-51. He had been an interesting addition but shown to be very loyal. Activating the communicator she watched as Master Satele appeared.
“Master Satele, I was informed you wished to speak with me?” Lexxa said, as Kira joined them.
“Master Lexxa, sorry for disturbing you, I know we said we wouldn’t but we’ve become aware of a new development here on Tython,” Satele stated making Lexxa wonder what was going on. “It involves the Twi’lek settlement nearby. The Matriarch is asking for you personally to help her out.”
Lexxa had to think about a lifetime ago and her time on Tython as a padawan. She recalled the young Twi’lek, Ranna, and the struggles she had with her people. She had not heard much since leaving, partly due to the fact she had been fighting Sith Lords, the Emperor, been forced to the dark side, the Hutts, and the whole thing with Raven. She had been on Tython recently when everything with Raven erupted and hoped the village had been spared.
“What’s the problem?” Lexxa asked getting to the main problem.
“The Flesh Raiders have organized again and are attacking the village. We have reason to believe that it’s a Sith left over from the invasion, We’ve lost two padawans in attacks as they tried to uncover what was going on,” Satele replied back to her. “The Council is still working to rebuild our own defenses, and cover our losses.”
“I can afford to take some time and check it out,” Lexxa said knowing she couldn’t stand by and allow Ranna to face the trouble alone, not after pledging to be a family to her.
“Good, I’ll feel better knowing you are working on this problem,” Satele replied. “You’ve yet to fail us, and I think this won’t be much of a problem to you after what you’ve faced.”
“I have a great team, I’ll report in when I arrive,” Lexxa replied, as the conversation ended turning to the others.
“Well I’ll set course to Typhon, maybe it’ll be nicer this time, no Sith warships,” Doc said heading towards the other end of the ship where the bridge was to set the course.
“Tython, not where I expected to go next,” Rusk said from where he sat. “I wasn’t aware you had any contacts there outside of the Jedi.”
“There’s a Twi’lek village nearby under the rule of a young Matriarch named Ranna who I helped out a bit,” Lexxa replied back to them. “Helped me out when I was a padawan and my first real mission as a Jedi.”
“The home of the Jedi, they will not welcome me there,” Scourge replied.
“You’re with me, that should be enough,” Lexxa said. “But we’ll need to figure out the problem first.”
“Observation,” HK-51 said. “As long as there are meatbags to target I don’t care.”
“If the Flesh Raiders are attacking again, you’ll have plenty of targets,” Lexxa replied.
“Excited answer, then I can’t wait,” HK replied back causing Lexxa to shake her head at him. He was loyal, but had a single-minded devotion to solving any problem.
“Returning back to Tython, that should bring back memories, and maybe I can see master Kiwiiks and see how she’s recovering,” Kira said even as they heard the engines power up.
Lexxa knew that Kira thought fondly of her first master but it also brought up another problem with her lover. She knew she had to speak with her about a subject otherwise it might result in an argument later on. Looking on she saw Rusk had moved away to probably check on the ammo reserves and Scourge was meditating.
“A word,” Lexxa said to Kira moving out of the room and back to her quarters with Kira following.
Once in the room she noticed Kira seemed to know something was going on.
“All right, what galaxy shattering things are you doing to drop on me this time?” Kira asked, her hands on her hips waiting.
“You’ve heard of the ritual of the Twi’leks, where you become a sister of theirs?” Lexxa asked waiting for the expected reply not disappointed.
“Wait a second, you mean you and the Matrairch are also lovers?” Kira replied back to her. “What is it with you, every woman in the galaxy is at your feet, or is she a former lover?”
Lexxa watched her lover rant a bit and waited for her to run out of steam and face her again before saying anything.
“Done?” Lexxa asked calmly.
“No, I’m just getting started,” Kira replied back, but any further words were interrupted a passionate kiss before breaking apart.
“Now are you done?“ Lexxa asked looking into passion filled eyes.
“Done? With what” Kira replied back causing Lexxa to chuckle before sitting them both down on the bed.
“I had met you twice at the time, once in the Council chamber and the other time after defeating a Flesh Raider which could use the Force,” Lexxa replied.
“Oh, yeah, I remember that, it caught Master Kiwiiks off guard,” Kira said.
“Yeah, and helping out the Matriarch, Ranna, who had lost her mother, she was really lost. We became friends, almost a shared kinship, and we pledged to be sisters, but nothing else happened between us,” Lexxa replied, not saying that Ranna was cute, that would started another argument.
“Well, I guess you weren’t cheating on me,” Kira said.
“Oh, and who wanted a threesome with Lana? Or how about Doctor Lemda?” Lexxa replied back watching s Kira seemed to think about that.
“Well, they were cute, and it was fun,” Kira said finally.
“Yeah, it was, but Ranna isn’t like that,” Lexxa said. “She is more like my sister, and I would do anything for my family.”
“I know,” Kira replied, leaning into Lexxa. “I’ve seen you do it, and you’ve defended me several times, including in front of the Council. She’s not going to try and seduce you?”
“Well, there wasn’t much there last time,” Lexxa replied honestly. “And I think we’re more family than anything else.”
“Well, all right,” Kira said.
“You’ll see you have nothing to worry about,” Lexxa said, but wondered if her lover might try for a threesome. They had yet to involve a Twi’lek and it might prove, interesting. She then headed to the bridge to see if they were on course and when they would arrive on Tython.
*****
Lexxa walked towards the Jedi Council with Kira, Doc and T7. Scourge remained on board saying he would look after the ship, and Rusk volunteered as well as did HK. She knew nothing would happen even to the ship but that Scourge was uncomfortable around so many Jedi.
“They’ve cleaned up the place quite nicely,” Doc said looking around at the building.
“Hard to believe I’m back where I started with you,” Kira said, causing Lexxa to look over at her. They had met for the first time back in the council and she found herself enjoying the outspoken young padawan.
“You haven’t changed much since then, still outspoken and brash, one of the things I love about you,” Lexxa said giving her a playful bump.
“Hey, we’re almost in the Council room,” Kira said, but blushed at the compliment anyways.
“Of all the Jedi, I travel around with I had to get two of the craziest ones,” Doc said.
“Thanks,” Kira replied as they walked into the Council room.
Lexxa glanced around seeing that many of the masters were already there, most she recognized a few she did not.
“Welcome Master Lexxa,” Satele said.
“Master Satele, what’s the situation?” Lexxa asked getting down to business.
“We don’t have much information, but shortly after the attack on Tython the Flesh Raiders started attacking the Twi’lek settlement. We assumed, along with the Matriarch, it was caused by the recent fighting,” Satele stated. “However, that has changed when our two padawans were killed. We have felt a presence on the planet which gathers the dark side, and we feel it is this presence which is influencing the Flesh Raiders.”
“Any idea who it might be, or how powerful?” Lexxa asked hoping it wasn’t a powerful Sith Lord.
“I’m sorry, but we do not have any more information at hand,” Satele replied honestly. “The Matriarch might have some more information, especially about those who have attacked her.”
“Then I guess that’s where we’re going to be headed,” Lexxa replied, hearing T7 chirp his concern about heading back to a place which had betrayed them. “Relax T7, Ranna wasn’t part of that and I trust her.” Lexxa turned back to Satele. “There are still some people on board my ship, please give them some privacy.”
“The Sith Lord Scourge,” Satele replied guessing who was still up there.
“Yes, he is uncomfortable around us still. If I need him I‘ll communicate with him,” Lexxa replied.
“I don’t think we’ll have any problems with him,” Satele said.
“He’s being ‘watched’ by Rusk, a former Republic command, and an HK droid,” Lexxa said.
“I’m almost more concerned with HK doing something than Scourge,” Kira stated.
“He has a one track mind,” Doc replied.
“Well, we better get going, don’t want to bore the Council with my team’s internal problems,” Lexxa said looking at her three companion.
“Lead on oh fearless leader,” Kira stated.
“Ha-ha,” Lexa replied, but gave a respectful bow to the council before heading out and towards the speeders to head to the Twi’lek village.
End part 1