Deiva gets up from the chair and connects up her food replicator, ordering a mug of Naboo's version of Earl Grey tea, she climbs back into the chair, still thinking about her past foolishness..
"At least we recieved good news in the end..."
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The restriction was supposed only be for 12 hours... here it was 3 days later, and she was still under restriction in the Medical Center. Lying in the bed, she sent a mindcall to Katana, who was pacing restlessly outside. The big cat walks in, padding silently across the floor over to where Devia was lying down.. he heaches the strap with his teeth, tugging gently, causing the restraint to fall away... Devia quickly moves to release her other hand. Getting dressed, she slips out of the Med Center and back to her house in Rellig.
As Devia walks in the door, the house's auto lighting comes on. She walks over to the holonet terminal, going through her messages, and notices one in particular. Her contact. They were back at the stronghold, would be there for the night. "Now is the time to act." Devia thought to herself. Looking around for her armor, she spots Akilo's unused padded set standing against the wall. "How fitting. Yes, I'll wear that for this." she thinks. She picks up the Chestplate, bracers, and bicep covers, sliding them on slowly, her wounds still unhealed. Looking around, she is unable to find her Vibro Knucklers. Frowning to herself, she remembers that she left them in Smuggler's Luck. Leaning heavily on Katana for support, she makes her way to the shuttlepad. Boarding Koutai, she makes her way to Lok.
Now fully armed, Devia orders her figher to be prepared for departure once again at Nym's spaceport. She hears someone approach from behind. "Devia? Is that you?" the man said. Devia turns around, and sees Katurnus standing in the doorway. "Hi Kat." She says. "Hiya Dev. Where's your shadow?" He asks with a smile. Devia tries to keep her face from falling, "No longer walking with me, Kat... Have you also heard about Akilo?"He shakes his head no. "I found her dead in her house." Katarnus starts to look uncomfortable, seems to be looking for a way to change the subject. Just then, a wave of fatigue rolls over her, and she leans up against the Starport terminal quite heavily. "Woah, Dev, take it easy there." Says Katarnus, moving to catch her. He notices then that she's armored and armed. "Dev, where are you going?" Kat asks with some concern. Devia tells him the story of how she found Akilo dead, how she felt her terror and pain in the house. And that she has information that the men who did it are at their stronghold on Naboo. "That could have been faked, this smells like a trap, Devia." he tells her. Devia shakes her head violently, "No, I would know the difference. I'm going after them, Kat. They have to pay for what they did to her." Katarnus frowns, "Dev, you are in no shape to be doing anything of the sort." Realizing that he's moving into a position to prevent her from leaving, she bolts on board her ship, closing the airlock behind her. Kat pounds on the hatch, yelling "Dev! Dammit! They'll kill you this time! DEV!!"
Devia goes back to Rellig Steppes, needing to get a few things in order, needing some supplies from the Cantina. As she walks in the door, she notices Katurnus talking to Kisal. "Oh dammit!" Devia thinks to herself. She quickly enters the building, determined to get in, do what she has to, then get the hell out fast. Just as she's about to leave, she hears a familiar voice behind her. "Hello, Devia. What brings you here tonight?" Devia turns slowly, and tries to smile at Kisal. "Hiya Kis. Just picking up a few things to eat." she says, unable to look Kisal in the eye. Kisal smiles at her, "That's some nice padded armor, Devia. It looks good on you... That's Akilo's color, isn't it?" says Kisal, seemingly nonchalantly. "Uh... yeah. It was just gathering dust, and my other set is being repaired... so I figured I would wear it." Kisal nods at her and says, "Well, it looks great on you, want to sit down and have a drink?" Unable to meet Kisal's eyes, Devia shakes her head no. Then, feeling quite guilty, Devia blurts out "Kat told you everything, didn't he??" Kisal nods at Devia, with an odd look on her face.
Devia hands Kisal a datapad with a waypoint on it. "What's this?" Kisal asks, eyebrow raising at Devia. "That... is where the bastards are currently holed up for the night." says Devia, with anger in her eyes. Kisal looks back at Devia, "were you going to try to do this alone again?" Devia nods in embarassment. "I'm sorry, Kisal." Kisal ignores the response and looks at the datapad again. Unbenownst to both of them, Warod, Jani, Salkazza, Marlon, and Mohondo were drawing closer to them, straining to overhear the conversation. Kisal looks back at Devia, "So... you ready to go pay these bastards back?" Devia nods back, feeling her anger rise, adrenaline fueling her body to keep going. Jani walks up to Devia and asks, "How are you feeling, Devia?" Jani continues, "I told you I was not going to stop you from doing what you have to, but I am damn sure not going to let you go there alone." A growl of agreement from Salkazza, standing behind Deva. Nods from Warod, Mohondo, and Marlon echoed Jani's statement. A bit overcome with emotion, Devia looks around at her friends, tears filling her eyes a bit. "I can't ask you to come with me. This will be dangerous, and frankly, I couldn't take it if any of you got hurt because of me." Kisal walks up to Devia and looks her dead in the eye, "You are not going alone. Not this time." Smiling weakly at all of her close friends, Devia says "Then the meeting point is Keren, Naboo. Time to get them back."
The group approaches the stronghold quickly and silently. Devia feels a familiar presence approach, she welcomes him with a quick thought, then focuses back on the situation. She signals Katana, and the men at the first checkpoint are quickly brought down. Devia, filled with a battle lust, a coating of ice forming around her again, drops to one knee, placing her hands on the sides of the dying man's head, and ruthlessly cleans out his mind of any important information. Looking for the one who actually delivered Akilo's deathblow. Looking for the one who might know something about the substance slowly killing her. One by one, the sentries are brought down, one by one she strips their minds bare looking for any information she can.
The surrounding are clear, all that remains is the stronghold itself. Devia charges the gates, swept away on a tide of bloodlust and need for revenge. "YOU BASTARDS!" she screams at them, Katana charging by her side. "DEV! WAIT A MINUTE!" the group yells after her, trying to keep up. The maulers standing outside of the house all dead and searched, Devia still hasn't found what she's looking for... "Salkazza, time to open this door. Knock loudly." Devia says in a low tone. Salkazza picks up a charge, attaches it to the door, then decides to kick in the door instead. Devia goes charging into the house. Rounding the corner, she comes face to face with the leader of the gang. Almost in hysteria, Devia starts to yell, "SO YOU WANTED TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO, HUM?" She's seething, angry beyond any reason, "YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE EXACTLY THAT!!" She charges the leader, knocking him over, tearing him up, making quick work of him in her state of frenzy. As he laid there on the floor of the house, broken and bleeding, she approaches him, her hand clamping down around his temple as she growls through clenched teeth, "How does it feel?? HOW DOES IT FEEL???" She brutally tears the information out of the leader's mind. The poison was bio-engineered for her specifically. She saw a brief image of the one who supplied it to the leader of the gang..... Then she sees something else, something she never expected to see there... the image.. a sweet face, dark hair, blue eyes...
Devia straightens up, and with no emotion in her eyes, and without remorse..... savagely breaks the neck of the mauler leader. Kisal flinches away from Devia, a look of fear in her eyes. Marlon stared at Devia... his jaw hanging open, unable to believe what he just saw Devia do.
Devia stumbles to the wall, all her strength gone... leaning against the wall... room spinning.... no strength left... darkness about to reach up and drag her under... she's barely able to whisper...
"She's alive! Akilo is alive!!!"
She then promptly slumps over, unconscious...
Healing a Kindred Spirit - Part 2
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
posted by Devia at 12:11 PM
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