The Drifter

The Meeting

Now that we're travelling to Coruscant my crew and I have decided that it is time for a break. At the moment the seven of us are holding a game of poker, we've stuck with a smallish budget of 1000 credits per person. This gives the winner a decent budget to spend their winnings on. Throughout the game we all had small talk and made jokes until...

"So, Dom... What was your past like?" Jaesa asks. At this point everything stopped even 2V in the background had paused for this. I felt my hand ball into a fist as my head had hung and my bangs cover my eyes. I hear small murmurs and whispers around me, I can only assume this is the group of girls conversing about my current well being. "If it's that hard you don't have to it's just... You tend to be quite secretive; you go out, get the job done, get another briefing then disappear off on another job... As a team I think it's in our best interest to talk with each other." She follows, her tone getting softer and softer. I sigh and look up, facing the group of young women in front of me. "I suppose you're right... Well considering we're taking a bit of time off we can talk and hang out then. I won't talk about it now as..." I pause as I feel the ship jolt suggesting we've come out of hyperspace. "We've arrived plus I just won." I say throwing down a royal flush and walking off smugly to the sound of Sabine and Bo-Katan whining about their loss. I open up a hail from the Coruscant space port. "Unidentified vessel please state your reason for being here or we will be forced to detain you." I hear a commanding masculine voice on the other end of the com channel. "I'm here upon request of Satele Shan." I respond calmly. I then hear some muffled talking on coming from the officer and his colleagues, he then grants us permission to dock. I gently guide the starship into the dock, I set auto land on and walk towards the exit. As the doors open up and the ramp unfolds I jump out into the cargo bay: Ahsoka, Jaesa and Ashara following closely behind. We quickly make our way towards the jedi council's temple that resides not too far away from the spaceport.

Within 5 or so minutes we had reached the entrance to the temple. However before we can even get close to entering we were surrounded by the republic's version of honour guards, wielding double bladed sabers and some with pikes all pointed in our direction. I audibly sigh and summon my trusty purple saber into my left hand as well as the Malfeasance hand cannon into my right. One of the guards jumps towards me, I instantly raise my right arm and the barrel of the Malfeasance meets the fore head of the guard. Everything feels like it's going in slow motion, as my arm is slowly pushed back from the force of the guards dash and as he swings at me I squeeze the trigger and a loud crack and bang is all that could be heard as I send a round through the guards skull, brain matter, blood and shrapnel of skull flying from the exit wound. As I pull my arm back and turn letting the Malfeasance spin horizontally around my finger as I turn facing the opposite direction to meet another idiotic guard who has decided to charge at my crew. I once again fire a round that collides with his shoulder, I then fire a second third and fourth round into his torso. Upon the fourth rounds entrance to his torso his entire body explodes and a twisted grin appears on my face. The rest of the guards falter and some back off, I hear a slam behind me and Satele Shan exits the temple followed by Kira Carsen, Master Kiwiiks, Shaak Ti, Aayla Secura, and a few others. Most of them gasp as they see the beginning of the carnage I would have caused and the fact that the guards are stepping away. "Maybe you fools will learn not to attack foes who are stronger than you." The snarl in my voice still obvious even when wearing a mask, my finger still twitching over the trigger. "What is going on here?" Satele's voice booms through the courtyard. I turn to face the Jedi council members, I bow with a small wave using the hand holding the Malfeasance. "I'm hurt Satele... You invited me here in the first place, after all." I say as all attention is drawn to her "Oh... No-one knew about the non affiliated force user coming to visit, huh, I suppose that explains the awful attempt at guarding the temple." Satele then dismisses everyone and the bodies are taken away and the courtyard is to be cleaned up. I'm then taken into Satele's private quarters so we can speak. "Why is it that my visit was kept such a secret?" I ask, we're currently knelt down facing each other. "It wouldn't be good if the head of the Jedi council is discovered meeting with Baras's apprentice." She responds fairly sceptical. Oh right... "I'm no longer affiliated with Baras, he plans on taking me out of the equation some time soon as I've overtaken him in power." I answer honestly "The fact that I've taken several Republic affiliated women into my crew and are training the powerful force sensitives under my wing in both ways of the force, makes him nervous." I say turning and smiling at my crew. "From now on we act unaffiliated to any faction, there may be some mercenary-esque work some time in the future or maybe I'll create my own faction... For now my girls and myself plan on taking a holiday, everyone has come from a tough place and haven't caught a break so we're just going to travel the galaxy and relax." I say with a small smile as I hear small and quiet cheers behind me. She seems slightly shocked at the mention of me starting my own faction as it shows the power that I hold. I slowly pull my mask off, which resembles the 'Graviton Forfeit', she then gains an intrigued look. "You're so young for someone who is so powerful." She observes. "The same could be said for you, Master Shan. You lead the republic's Jedi forces and are the head of the council at the prime age of 21." I retort. She tries to come back but finds herself speechless.

All of us sit there talking for a good two hours or so. "I think it's about time we leave, we've occupied enough of your time for now and I'm sure you have duties to attend to." I say going to stand up but Satele grabs my wrist and pulls me back down. "Do you plan on staying on Coruscant?" She asks. I pause for a few seconds trying to think if there was much of a reason to stay. "No I don't believe so... Or at least not unless I'm given a good reason too." I answer. I then summon a spectral blade and spin it, with it floating just above my palm, much like Petra would. Everyone stares in awe at the new power that is being displayed. " I'm bored, I'm heading off to go and find something to do. You girls can stay here or come with me... We'll be here for a bit as I'm waiting on the Fury to be resupplied considering the journey ahead of us." I say before getting up and use my void powers to teleport out of the council.

Upon reaching my hanger in the spaceport I was yet again surrounded by a group of people, however these people weren't guards, they seemed to be hired by someone as they only carried blaster pistols and vibro blades. This makes me growl, unhappy at the fact that someone, most likely Baras, is underestimating my ability. I immediately summon the Malfeasance again as well as the ace of spades. Aiming each hand cannon at two different people and squeezing the trigger, hearing the satisfying snap of the hammer hitting the firing pin and watching the muzzle flash as two people drop dead. There are now eight in total four of which decide to charge at me. Deciding to drop the Ace for my saber. Igniting the purple blade I begin to spin and simultaneously decapitate 3 of them the fourth stops my saber with his blade. I then place the barrel of Malfeasance against his stomach and rapidly pull the trigger and like last time as the fourth round penetrated his abdomen the top half of his body explodes as I'm then covered in blood. I then turn and fire another 4 rounds into another one and go to reload but as I flick the cylinder out someone had shot, it had missed but I wasn't risking another one.

I then dashed at the remaining three and lopped one's head off, stabbed one and sliced the last ones legs off. As his body hits the ground J slam my foot down on his chest. "Who sent you?" I begin to interrogate him. He spits on my boot "Fuck you!" He groans. In response I kick upward, cracking his mandible and in recoil his head hits the floor probably concussing the hired thug. "I'll ask this again who sent you?" He groans in pain but still refuses to respond. I begin to electrocute him in hopes of getting him to talk, I stop and ask him again. He responds with the answer I was expecting him to give. I then fire a round into his head finishing him off. I then proceed to head into my starship to clean up after that mishap. Considering I can't be bothered to do anything else I decide to just lay on the sofa and eventually I just pass out. Bringing an end to this surprisingly eventful day.
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Hey guys and girls, another chapter. Once again I apologise for such a large delay and a very mediocre chapter but I wanted to get something out to you all. I hope you all had a good Christmas, if you don't celebrate Christmas I hope you've had a good holiday. Hopefully I should be able to get another chapter out before the end of Christmas break. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the read. And as always I'll see you all in the next chapter.