The Rising

Curosaunt part 2

Kix ducked as a shoot narrowly missed his head, he glanced over to Lil who glaired at his recklessness, he mouthed the words sorry before returning fire to the droids no more than twenty feet from his cover. 

Kix was so focused on the fight in front of him that he did not see Slick sneak up behind him, he only realized something was wrong was when he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. 

Kix grunted in pain as he curled slightly trying to ignore the pain. 

It wasn't until his hand brushed against his leg that he realized there was something warm and sticky there. 

He bent down for cover and looked down at his hand. 

Blood covered his hand. 

More specifically it was his blood that covered his hand and was slowly soaking into his glove. 

His eyes widened at the sight, but it wasn't until he heard a familiar scream that his heart stopped in his chest. 

Lil was fighting a slightly bloddied and furious Slick. 

He had managed to push her to the ground and was trying to drive a vibro blade into her chest, he would have succeeded if she had not been using all of her physical strength she would have had the blade deep into her chest. 

Kix's body moved on its own, completely forgetting his blaster in his hand as he avoided the shots from the droids. 

He was halfway there when he witnessed Slick plunge the blade into her torso. 

It was like the world stopped for a moment. 

His legs still carried him but it was like moving upstream, his mind could not understand why until he saw her out stretched hand pushing him back, away from Slick. 

Lil was trying to keep him from getting hurt. 

Kix pushed harder before his eyes caught sight of Slicks belt, more specifically to the granades that hung on his belt. 

The one that was counting down. 

Lil had activated the grenade in their struggle, that's why she was pushing him back. 

Kix had to watch as she pushed Slick back off of her while keeping the vibro blade as still as possible in her torso. 

Slick tumbled slightly only a couple feet away, causing Lil to let up from holding Kix away from her. 

Kix barely managed to get to Lil when he heard the slight wiring of the granade, glancing behind him he saw Slick trying to rip the granade off his belt but couldn't. 

Slick let out a loud cry of fear as he tried to jump towards Kix and Lil, determined to take them with him. 

But just as Kix prepared himself to tackle Slick away from Lil, slick was thrown by an invisible force just before the grenade went off causing him to be blown to pieces. 

Kix had automatically covered Lil with his own body, acting as a shield from any shrapnel or damage. 

When Kix looked up to see who had pushed Slick away from them he caught sight of the familiar green jedi master who nodded in his direction before resumeing the battle. 

Bly who had been not to far away from Kix to begin with shouted as loud as he could "get her out of here". 

Kix looked around them before yelling back, "we are pinned down we cant". 

Lil whimpered in Kix's arms as the blade shifted slightly, Kix looked back down taking in her pale form as her blood soaked both her clothes and his armor. 

"hey its gonna be ok," kix said as he gently put her on the ground and pulled out his med bag "your gonna be ok". 

Lil whimpered again as he gently began to pull the blade out before throwing it as far away from her as he possibly could. 

The moment the blade came out he put a gauze pad over the open wound, slowing the bleeding. 

Lil's hand wrapped around his that held down the pad, Kix smiled down at her slightly before speaking "come on now I'm supposed to be the doctor now not you". 

Lil giggled or tried to but ended up caughing causing Kix to shush her gently as he pulled out some bacta for the wound and a fresh gauze pad. 

"Now you laugh at my jokes" he asked slightly joking as he quickly tossed the bloodied gauze pad away and applied the bacta quickly, notting the seared skin and tissue. 

Kix couldn't suppress the grimace as he heard her yelps as he applied the cold bacta on the throbbing wound. 

"awww, poor little Jedi youngling, did you get a little cut?" came a scratchy voice from behind Kix. 

Kix could feel his blood running cold remembering the last time he had heard that voice. 

A horrible reminder of just how many brothers he had lost when she had smuggled on board the ship holding the head of the banking clan. 

Even before he turned around he could feel her smirk and feel the heat of the lightsabers. 

The witch herself. 

Asajj Ventress....

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