My very own glow stick!

[Eithni Vala Stark]

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If Eithni hadn't already been accustomed to hyperspace travel, she might have been freaking out, experiencing the blue spiralling tunnel, but after all her travel in the universe, it didn't ack. Actually, travelling with Drali was great fun, but the best thing about this very time was the fact that Eithni was going to build her glowy sword, or as Drali and everyone else called it, a lightsaber.

But before she was even going to start building the hilt that would contain the wonderous blade, she would first have to find a crystal. Was it kiber crystal? Cyber? Or maybe it was something along the lines of kyber. It was something with crystal, that much she knew. But really, she was way too overexcited about finding her own crystal, so she could build her very own lightsaber.

Their journey led them to Lothal, apparently, it was one of the planets that had caves with these specific crystals. They were headed deep into a mountain canyon, which Eithni did not pay any attention to as she was trying to figure out what type of colour she would want for her lightsaber. Red reminded her too much about Sith, which would remind her about the story of the Sith emperor slaughtered her people. No, she wanted another colour, maybe yellow? Maybe purple! Drali had purple and her lightsabers looked really cool. Then again, green was also a really pretty colour and it it would match the colours of her magick.

Settling on the colour, for now, she finally paying attention to where she actually was going with Drali and stood in front of a cave. She looked up at Drali, "those kyber crystals are in there?" Asked the witch curiously and looked back at the entrance to the very dark hole in the mountainside.

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[Darth Valravus]

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A soft humming noise came from the Deucalian Sith. Her arms swung back and forth as the carefree feeling continued inside Darth Valravus. When Eithni spoke up again for the first time in awhile the Sith Lord looked over at her. "Hmm? Oh...yeah I think so." She was not really sure but was quite confident. The feelings she had received from this place confirmed it along with the reports from the Empire.

"I made my lightsabers back on Korriban a long time ago. This is my first time here..well...here here. I actually led the operation to return Lothal back to the Empire since the Uniting of the Republica and the Old Empire." Technically she had also helped get Lothal for the Old Empire to begin with and was the one that had taken the crown from its king at the time.

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[Eithni Vala Stark]

Looking into the cave and back at Drali, "Cool!" and just entered the cave with not a care in the world for what actually live inside the cave. As they walked deeper and deeper into the cave, it got dark, very dark the further away from the entrance they got so the Nightsister did what she felt was a natural thing to do, light up the darkness. Her eyes lit up with the familiar green glowing mist, which devoured her eyes completely, however, the same green glowing mist ignited around her hand, lighting up the area around them.

Continuing deeper into the cave the green colour around her hand cave the rocky tunnel a light green shade. "Really, you returned this planet to the Empire? Was it fun to do?" Asked Eithni curiously looking back at Drali every now and then, when she asked a question. Some would see Eithni as a monster, a nightmarish creature to kill the innocent and in a way, it worked to her advantage in many situations. However, sometimes she forgets that stranger isn't familiar with her magick and what she can do and she is completely oblivious to people getting scared of her.

With Drali though, it's not like that, in fact, they both scare people, funnily enough, each their own way. Besides, Drali wasn't scared of nobody or anything! So being with Zandrali always made the days fun. Though, the one thing that made Drali one of her favourite people in the galaxy, was because she was just as mischievous as Eithni herself.

Low skittering sounds further ahead, made Eithni ignite her other hand as well, "I hear movements" whispered the witch to Drali and true enough, storming right at them was these large white looking spiders of some sort.

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[Darth Valravus]

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The woman thought back to what she had done to return the planet to the Empire. The first time she did not have much memory of it. There was a big battle, tanks, bodies, all that jazz. But in the newer one that she had actually led she had secured some starfighters to prevent local brigands from using them. By secure, she meant steal some and blow up the rest.

In the north she had defeated a back of loth-wolves and also a pride of saber-cats. They had tried attacking the Imperial construction workers at the time. The end result was Darth Valravus earning a lot of nice pelts for her to wear and share with others. All of this she relayed to Eithni, letting her know to the detail that seemed appropriate while they walked.

Towards the end of her story she heard Eithni give her a warning. The Sith Lord got low and trotted up beside her. Pulling out her lightsaber in one hand and her lullaby blaster pistol in the other she was ready for what might come next. When she saw the spider her face scrunched up into a look of unease an disgust. "ugh, I don't much care for spiders." She whispered as her back shivered thinking about all the spindly legs on the pale spider. They were just not very pretty and kind of creepy.

@Raven_41

 

[Eithni Vala Stark]

Eithni looked at Drali and just gave her a cheering smile, "Come on, we can totally take them. Now let's go hunt some spiders, yay!" Replied the Dathomirian witch with excitement and drew her bow and just started to load the spiders with arrow after arrow of paralysing plasma. Surprisingly, the plasma arrows' plasma didn't have any effect on the spiders, however, the arrows still shocked in form of electrocuting. The shocked seemed to make them pull back a bit, giving Drali and Eithni a chance to move further into the cave.

"I bet I can kill more than yooou!" challenged the witch with a cheer and just went on full sprint towards the seven spiders. Firing one last pink plasma arrow as she threw her bow into the face of the spider, causing it to shriek a bit from the impact as she jumped on top of it. Balancing on the top of it she plunged her vibroblade dagger in it and followed it up with green lightning. The spider shrieked loudly from the pain and it tried to get Eithni off it while having some of the other spiders try and swipe her off but had trouble reaching her.

Four of the spiders charged Drali, one of them even crawled on the ceiling of the cave shrieking hungrily for her by attempting to spit web with acid effect on touch. Eithni had to dodge off the top of the spiders head because some of the other spiders tried to catch her with its web. But instead of being touch by the web, she plunged the dagger into the side and sliced down the backside of the side avoiding the web and mortally wounding the spider from its wounds.

The spider fell over and wasn't moving, making Eithni roll out of the way from a spider attack with its claw leg. Eithni gathered the spirit ichor around her, channelling its force to both her hands, jumping back a bit and released a powerful force push, sending the spiders tumbling back and into the wall behind them. "This is fun, don't you agree?!" Asked Eithni Drali and quickly turned her attention to where Drali was.

@Darasuum

 

[Mid Samekh]

Darth Valravus suddenly dematerialized and in her place spawned the Sith Lord, Darth Kados. It took him a few seconds to register what was going on, but once he figured out he wondered why he came in the first place. Why were there spiders?! He noticed Eithni having a field day, cutting them up and dodging them.

He spotted four coming after him. Not skipping a beat he drew both his Lullaby's and lobbed a round at each spider. The one on the ceiling was knocked down to the ground by the recoil of the shot before getting another bolt through one of its eyes. He fired round after round at the creatures. Normal blasters would probably only bounce off their shells, but the heavy bolts did some decent damage. When they were empty he holstered them and drew his lightsabers before flying through the air and impaling one of the spiders. "Eithni, what the hell have you gotten into?!" he shouted over the screeching and other horrid sounds of the spiders.

After dodging, cutting and hurling around spiders he finally managed to kill off the four that were coming after him. "Of all the places you could have gone to for a crystal, you pick a cave full of spiders." he commented, ejecting the empty cells from his pistols and reloading them.

@Raven_41

 

[Eithni Vala Stark]

The sudden disappearing of Darth Valravus and appearing of Darth Kados made Eithni jump a bit from surprise and amazement. Unfortunately, she wasn't exactly able to flip out and ask Kados a bunch of questions with the remaining two spiders crawling at a fast pace at her. Out of her hand, Eithni materialized a weapon, a brutish looking sword out of her magick and with vibroblade dagger in one hand and magick sword in the other. She dashed forward, slicing deep cuts in both spiders, making them shrink in pain while dodging their attack.

Eithni levitated into the air and plunged both weapons down in the top of one of the two spiders, killing it instantly. By now, the last spider in a way realized it was alone and on its own and decided to retreat back into the hole where they all came out of.

Eithni extinguished her Ichor, making the green glowing disappear, showing Eithni's ruby-coloured eyes again. Darth Kados got overrun by questions as Eithni almost flew in front of him. "How did you do that?! Where's Drali? Whatareyoudoinghere? Didsomethinghappentoher?!" showered Eithni Darth Kados with questions in a rambling. "Oh, hi Mid! How are you?" greeted Eithni realizing this was the first time since the gathering at that big house thingy, they had seen each other. "But caves are fun to explore! You get to meet all kinds of cool animals!" expressed Eithni joyfully with a grin, looking ever so sweetly.

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[Mid Samekh]

Mid watched as Eithni rushed over and showered him with questions. He blinked a few times, trying to look for a space to get an answer in. But before he could do that, Eithni simply dropped all her questions and gave him a friendly greeting. How much energy does this girl have?

She went on to explain why she liked the cave, earning a huff from the Pureblood. "It's also a really easy way to get yourself killed." he commented, holstering his weapons. "But since I'm here now, let's press on. We have a crystal to find." he said then waited for Eithni to start moving again. Soon enough they were walking, with Mid's lightsaber casting a bright crimson light for them to see with. "So you are looking for a crystal. Do you have the parts needed to make a lightsaber?" he asked her as they walked. The silence was killing him.

Ahead Mid could feel the presence of more spiders. However there was something stronger ahead. They were getting close to the crystals. The Force was growing stronger the deeper they ventured in. Mid drew a blaster again and kept it at the ready, in case the spiders tried something again.

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[Eithni Vala Stark]

Eithni lit up like the sun and bounced around and followed Mid deeper into the cave system, skipping along the rocky ground. As they came deeper and deeper into the tunnel that would lead them to the location of the crystals, they would begin to hear the echo of beastial sounds."Nope! Uh, could you show me how to build one?!" Ask the young witch still skipping alongside Mid, but backwards, so she could look at the Pureblood. "Pretty pleeease!" Begged the Nightsister, giving him some big puppy-dog eyes as she effortless continued to move at Kados' speed without watching where she placed her feet.

As they followed the tunnel, which turned to the left, they entered a large circular cave with a natural-formed pillar, made from rocks over millions of years. All around them the cave lighted up like small coloured stars in the night sky. Everything from green, blue, yellow and purple crystals gathered in small bundles all over the cave and being a very overexcited little witch, released Eithni a loud joyful squeal.

"IHHHHH LOOK AT ALL THOSE COLOURS!" Squealed Eithni and dashed with insane speed towards the nearest batch of crystals and dropped down beside them. What Kados, however, would notice, was that the present that very strong thing seemed to scream at him to be on his guards, just one problem, there was nothing to see. The cave with all the crystals was empty, yet every sign of danger rang like an alarm clock.

EIthni was not feeling anything, due to being so excited for finding so many crystals, that she started to continually switch between the colour of the crystal she wanted, but ended up changing her mind.

"Ahh, it's so hard to pick which one I like! The yellow is so pretty~ but so are the blue~ but the green gives such a cool glow... MIIIID I CAN'T DECIDE!" Ended Eithni up saying, yelling for Kados to come and help her, like a child that couldn't choose between which icecream flavour it wanted.

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[Mid Samekh]

Mid watched as Eithni begged him to show her. Luckily for her, Mid's biggest hobby was building lightsaber hilts and customizing them. So this was right up his alley. With a chuckle he ruffled her hair a bit with his hand. "Of course I can." he said simply before continuing on. It didn't take long before they reached an opening that lit up with all kinds of crystals. None of them called to him and he didn't need any more crystals. So he simply took in the beauty of it.

That moment lasted a whole two seconds before it was shattered by the squealing Nightsister. This did open his senses, however, to the feeling that something was off. His lightsaber was in his hand in an instant as he started to look around. Eithni's screaming was lost on him as he started to turn and look around the place. It was empty. Apart from the screaming Nightsister and himself there was nothing else.

"Eithni, get your crystal and let's go." he said sternly. "Hurry up." he continued urgently. He didn't like the feeling at all. She most likely didn't know how to choose in the first place. "Okay, reach out with your hand and close your eyes. Listen through the force." he instructed. "Focus, open your mind and listen. Do you hear something calling to you?" he said, now standing beside Eithni.

@Raven_41

 

[Eithni Vala Stark]

"But hoooow?" Asked Eithni when she was told to just pick one and even hurry. How was she supposed to pick a crystal? She didn't really know much about the whole lightsaber stuff, she was very much a newbie. Unlike Darth Kados, was Eithni way too much into the whole crystal thing, to actually notice anything dangerous around her, she was rather oblivious like that sometimes.

When Darth Kados finally went over to her and explained how she was supposed to pick the crystal and without a second thought, she did it. As she sat in front of all manners of crystals in all shapes and forms, she started to feel something. It was faint at first, "I feel something, a pull" explained Eithni as she got up from her spot and with closed eyes, she started to walk across the large cave and followed the calling. Louder and louder the calling from the force, called out to her until it got so loud, that she knew, she was in front of the right place. In front of her was a green crystal in the colour green, but a green that looked much the same colour as the Ichor within Eithni when she used magick.

"This is the one, I felt its pull on me," said the Nightsister girl and kneeled down by the small crystal. Actually removing the crystal wasn't difficult, surprisingly enough as she got back up, looking at the small thing in her hand. That was when Darth Kados would feel the strong sense of danger, almost drown him, but a voice came over the whole came. "HeheHahahaha" the laughter was loud and had a creepiness to it, "you think you can steal from me thieves? Think again!" Stated the voice and an overwhelming number of the same spiders started to flood the cave with crystals.

"EEP!" yelped Eithni in surprise and took a step back and walked her back into Darth Kados' front. There was no way that she was able to kill so many spiders! It was most definitely time to go, "I think it's time to leave, don't you think?" Asked Eithni and looked up at the towering pureblood right behind her. A spider jumped right at them both but was pushed back violently by Eithni, who was ready to get out of the cave.

@KinkyPrawn

 

[Mid Samekh]

As Eithni went about choosing her crystal Mid was on high alert. As soon as she plucked the crystal from the ground, all hell broke loose. His lightsaber ignited in an instant and he stood ready. A voice spoke to them, coming from all around. It was soon followed with the entire cave filling with spiders.

He gripped his lightsaber with both hands as he looked around them. "Get ready to move." he said simply before extinguishing his lightsaber and clipping it to his belt. He thrusted both arms out and released a powerful force push that hurled all the spiders around them into the walls. "Run!" he shouted then made his way towards the exit. He kept the push up, holding the spiders against the walls. As soon as he was out of the pocket full of crystals he released the spiders and raised his hands towards the opening, bringing it down and sealing the spiders inside. He then ran after Eithni towards the exit, using the force to shove any spiders out of the way for them to get out.

Once they were outside he did the same to the entrance, bringing it down and sealing it off from the outside world. The rumbling died down and left them with the peaceful silence of Lothal's wilderness. He sighed and turned to look at Eithni. "You okay?"

@Raven_41

 

[Eithni Vala Stark]

Eithni looked from the crushed cave entrance to Mid and a grin formed on her lips, "that. was. AWESOME! Did you see how many spiders there were?! And then that voice! 'you think you can steal from me thieves? Think again!' that was so evil-ish!" Squealed the excited Nightsister almost bouncing on the spot. She stopped for a moment, to open her hand and there, in her hand, a tiny green glowing crystal. It made her smile giddily to finally be able to make her own glowy saber, or whatever it was called. Frankly, she was just so excited to finally be able to construct her own blade!

She turned and dashed to Mid and hugged him like there was no tomorrow for them. After the short hug, she looked up at Darth Kados with a sweet smile, "I'm so ready to build my saber stick!" Cheered the little witch and charged away from the cave and where Mid stood, "let gooo!" Yelled Eithni as if it was a battle cry.

She disappeared around a corner by a hill and after a few seconds, her head popped into view again with a slightly confused look and an awkward smile, "I just realized... I have no idea where you parked" admitted she while scratching the back of her head, feeling rather silly for not letting Mid go first.

@KinkyPrawn

 

[Mid Samekh]

Mid laughed at her interpretation of the problem. "I'd prefer to not back in there and see what it is." he commented. He had half an idea Eithni wanted to go back in there...

She suddenly rushed towards him and pulled him into a hug that rather caught him off guard. He stood frozen in place, holding his arms up as she held onto him. She finally let go of him and ran off to go build a "saber stick". He would need to explain to her what the proper name for it was. But he'll do that when they actually reach his ship. He casually followed after the hyperactive Nightsister, wondering how long it will take for her to realize that was not at all the direction of his ship. At least it didn't take too long for her to realize and soon enough she admitted her mistake. "Follow me." he said calmly with a smile then led the way to his ship.

On his ship he explained to her the importance of such a weapon and finally he showed her how to make one. He supplied her with the parts and the knowledge to build it but he stood back for her to put it together herself. Finally when it was done he closed the ship up and flew off to drop her off wherever she wanted to go along the way.

All he could do now was hope she would not injure herself whenever she used it...perhaps teaching her how to wield a lightsaber isn't such a bad idea.

/End Thread

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