Star Wars: The Jedi Chronicles:Enter The Shadows (Books 1-4)

Chapter Ten: The Slip-up

Chapter Ten

The Slip-up

It is late afternoon and the twins have just got back with Benjamin. Shain has already healed him, reuniting four of the five brothers. Sarah woke up and is reunited with her little brother Joel. They weren’t able to find Josh Sietsma’s body in time for Shain to heal him; Aria was able to keep his body hidden long enough. However, they did find it eventually and gave him a proper burial on Dantooine.

The group is hurt once again by a death and relations are touchy with the Sith, with the fleet admiral dead and Revan’s sudden disappearance. It could mean the end of their alliance. Josh’s death has forced Shain to step up and take a responsibility that he would rather not have.

The group turns in early because they want to get an early start on getting the rest of the group the next day not to mention being emotionally exhausted. Shain is having an awful time sleeping; tossing and turning in his dreams, his mind burning with the impossible certainty that Aria is going to strike again.

Meanwhile, Aria is in the hanger, short-circuiting Anthony’s, Willie’s, and Shain’s ships. Finally Shain wakes up and quickly gets the group together except for Aria, Jacob, Jordan, Ben, and the padawans.

Shain: I’ve been having premonitions from the Force.

Joel: Premonitions?

Nathan I.: What have these premonitions been telling you?

Shain: I keep having nightmares that Aria is our traitor, not Revan.

Elena: That’s crazy, Shain!

Andrew: Do you have any proof?

Shain: A few months ago, Aria left to fight Censes by herself and came back badly beaten. She’s had two bruises on her left and right arm ever since... they’re still purple. I think Censes may have implanted crystals in her. Also, Josh went to talk to Revan and Aria left soon after. I think some how she was able to control Revan to do that. Or something to the effect of getting Revan to kill Josh. She also was acting weird when she came back—

Sarah: Ok, Shain, I believe you. I wasn’t there for most of it, but Eve and Elena told me.

Paul: Well, man, what are you gonna do about her?

Anthony: Yeah, Aria will pick us all off one by one if we don’t do anything.

Willie: (joking) Hm, I wonder why I wasn’t the first to go?

Michael: Rule number one of betraying your team: never kill off the ones you hate first.

Dudley: (joking) Mike, you know you would kill me first if you got the chance.

Michael: Meh, that’s probably true.

Dudley: Oh, well... thanks, Mike; I love you, too.

Joel: Guys, lets focus!

Eve: Poor Aria is being tortured by Censes’s control as we speak!

Joel: Shain, what’s your plan?

Shain: Well, if we all go after her, she’ll run. And as far as I know, she might already think that I suspect her. Someone with two lightsabers should go after her, ‘cause you are gonna have to cut both her arms off at once…

Carl: Why arms? I thought the shadow crystals usually hung around their neck?

Elena: Yeah. It doesn't make any since to attack the arms when they’re around her neck.

Nathan I.: Keep with the program, people: the crystals are in her arms. The bruises are where Censes implanted the crystals.

Carl: Ooohh…