Big City Nights -

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Acaleus Thorn"] | [member="Petri"] | [member="Viru Lentus"]

Sasori headed toward the group of beings. Among them, the assassin she met earlier, a guy she'd never met before, and some kind of being that looked like a small mynock. She kept her eyes peeled for an errant shadow indicative of that Defel she encountered. At this point, now out of the docking bay, she could drop the act and be her more twisted and violent self. She stopped a moment and looked around her.

Holstering her now-retracted staff, she looked at the bat-thing with slight curiosity. An attempt at reading her mind would reveal more than the little guy cared to. She had a history of violence, crime, and had spent time in prison. Her current mood: annoyed, edgy, and apprehensive. She might well snap on someone with the right trigger. Her silvery gaze watched the little being a moment as she asked, "What's this?" flatly.

She then added, as an afterthought. "Anyone seen a shadowy figure waltzing about around here?"

 

[Dravis Rosilla]

Petri nodded thoughtfully as [member="Acaleus Thorn"] spoke, letting his little chin bob. He was about to speak again when he saw [member="Sasori Arashi"] walk over. With an energetic flap of his wings, he alighted from his human perch, and began his introduction again.

"Hello! I am Petri! This is a spaceport, with pirates and ships and things that go bang, and robots, and dark scary things!" Quicker than the eye could track, the little Vespert began to circle around the two, his high-pitched voice inquisitive. "Are you a pirate? Or a ship? Or a robot? Do you have a purpose? I have a purpose, I think."

Petri listened as [member="Viru Lentus"] walked off, sad to have annoyed and lost a friend so quickly. He chittered as he went back to his former perch, claws attaching to cloth as he hung off of Acaleus's shoulder.

 

[Viru Lentus]

Viru made his way off into the busy Eshan streets, he knew where to meet the defel to discuss her and her crews failure to deliver the items he requested without being caught. Even if he used a alias it was still to dangerous to let the creature live. The rest of the crew had been killed, it was only fitting that the defel joined her crew in the afterlife. Viru wasn't heavily equipped with nothing but a blaster pistol on his hip, but that's all he needed as it was only for show. He had no true intentions of even using the weapon, he wanted things to be more personal with the defel. For her to know just how deeply her and the crew had disappointed Viru. While Viru knew where to meet the defel other force users would be able to track her through the dark aura she emitted. The defel was indeed a force user and Viru knew it from the beginning, but having a strong force signature did not mean one was trained, many toted such an aura in the galaxy. Viru wasn't one of those beings, he was not some jedi or sith that knew every power, or was exceedingly strong in the force. He simply worked with what he had.

The cafe he was supposed to meet the defel at was the primary place to meet if things went well, with the plan having gone sideways Viru continued past the busy cafe and turned left down a dark alley. Another right in the alley and he was in a dark alley barely any light in the area. Not many would pass by and even if they did all they'd see is Viru. "Go on and come out." Viru called to the shadows. Due to his lack of sense skills in the force he couldn't track the defel like other jedi and sith.

"I am here." A hoarse voice said from behind him. The defel seemed to have appeared from the shadows a blaster pistol in its hand and pointed at the small of Viru's back.

"Is that really necessary?" Viru asked as he raised his hands to both sides of his head not making any sudden movements. He'd rather not get a blasterbolt in his spine.

"Of course it is... You tricked me! You got my crew killed!"

"I did no such thing. Its your failure to smuggle the goods I asked for that led to your failure. I told you this was a test and that if you passed I had a bigger job for you with alot more credits."

"Well it didn't work out like that!" The defel growled it horrid breath rolling down Viru's neck. "What you're going to do is hand over the credits you promised and get me a ride off planet."

[member="Sasori Arashi"] @Petri @Acaleus Thorn

 

[Acaleus Thorn]

Acaleus pet the vespin then raised the eyes to Sasori "Well if you are talking about that Defel that couldnt stop releasing his or her aura, she left into that way" said pointing out an bar just a few streets away. But that track was old and could easily lose that"Dont think on things like that. Your purpose is your own present" talked in respond to Petri speech "So...Sasori right? Wanna come with us and investigate?" asked the pirate smiling. A simple party would be better than trying to go alone against maybe a skilled fighter, although Acaleus didnt wanted to be discovered, and stay hidden is posible. Avoiding the fight but being ready for one, was a thing he learned through the years.

[member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Petri"] [member="Viru Lentus"]

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Acaleus Thorn"] | [member="Viru Lentus"] | [member="Petri"]

Sasori found the little bat creature annoying. Its actions and interrogation were like an attention deficit child. "I am not a droid." she said, wondering if the thing even knew what it was talking about when it asked if she was a ship. "And no. I'm not a pirate, either. I occasionally deal in goods acquired by pirates, but there isn't that much allure in piracy to me." she answered. True enough, she was a gangster, a street thug... of course, in some points of view, the line between them was blurry.

To the assassin, she'd consider what he proposed. "yeah... lets find her." she said. She didn't really know nor much care which pronoun was appropriate, but she DID want the loot and, if possible, a Defel in her gang. The streets on which she stood were indeed not the same as she remembered. Eight centuries passed her by, after all. She needed to get the lay of the land, know who to target to take over that land, and recruit able lieutenants and soldiers to make it happen. The Echani underground was all she really knew and naturally, it is the habitat she would return to. She'd look to Petri and made a gesture with her index finger placed over her lips.

She would depart to follow the direction the assassin pointed her in. They would pass right by Eight Street, which surprisingly wasn't that much different from before. She'd have to take a trip to the nightclub she had mentioned before, since that was once the Dragons' de facto headquarters, operations themselves being handled in the basement. However, for the time being, she moved through the alleyways, doubting either Viru or the Defel would be standing out in the open... especially the latter. "At least the alleys are the same." she commented as she rounded a corner into one of the alleys between buildings. Indeed, an obscure figure wasn't far ahead, which prompted Sasori to arm herself with her blaster. It was at this point, she would stop speaking and was actually thankful she wasn't wearing shoes, since they were hard to walk silently in. It wasn't like she really needed them anyway.

 

[Viru Lentus]

"Alright... Alright you win." Viru said with an exhausted sigh leaving his lips. He was tired of playing this game, if this defel was so desperate to leave the planet he would help her... Though not in the way she expected. Closing his eyes Viru focused and acted as though he was about to turn around so the defel could lead him back to the spaceport. Though slowly his left hand began to ball into a fist and the Defel began struggling to breath as an invisible hand wrapped itself around her throat. "Yes I will help you get off this planet, but it will not be alive. Your corpse will be the only thing leaving this planet." Viru growled tightening his grip on the defels throat. He was already a foot taller than the naturally short defel so as he raised his hands the being began to lift more and more off the ground its feet kicking as it struggled for air.

Looking past the defel Viru could see a slim women with silverish hair. Raising an eyebrow at her he looked back at the defel. "Hmm it seems that we have company." Viru said to the struggling defel. Her blaster pistol had dropped from her grasp and laid on the ground. "Good evening mam. Just how may I help you this evening?" asked Viru as he gave his fist one final squeeze and the sound of the defel's neck snapping filled the alley. "Oops. Guess I need to find a new crew."

[member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Acaleus Thorn"] [member="Petri"]

 

[Acaleus Thorn]

"Wait here ok?" said Acaleus leaving Petri on top of a garbage can. He run into the wall and climbed to the roof, then position himself on top of Viru and the levitating defel, just when Sasori reached the alley. He didnt liked using the force like that, because it makes you slow against incomings attack, as part of your concentration is in strangle someone. The problem now was prevent the dead of the defel, that was half a meter on the air, moving her feets in an attempt to escape.

"Dude please dont be rude" said using the force to lift a garbage can and launching it to the defel, pushing her. The object was crashed when it change position. Acaleus stood on the edge of the roof and waved him

[member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Petri"] [member="Viru Lentus"]

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Acaleus Thorn"] | [member="Viru Lentus"]

Sasori looked up tot he roof at the assassin guy, then back to the levitating Defel. She held her sidearm firmly, but did not yet raise it. After he crushed the Defel's neck, Sasori responded without much of a care for the sickening sound, "Well, there goes a possible stealth specialist." she began. "I was trying to find that Defel you just killed to see about restarting a local organisation here in Eshan City."

She then thought about the valuable loot on the Defel's ship. If there was no owner left for the ship, it crossed her mind to , then, figure out how to seize the cargo herself before the local government men did. She didn't believe she could do it alone. "Our light-distorting friend there had a ship full of shiny cargo probably worth a minor fortune. The fuzz killed most of the crew though. Know anything about that?' she asked.

 

[Dravis Rosilla]

Petri was set down carefully on the garbage can, and decided to wait for his new friend to return. With a slight flutter, the Vespert dug his teeth into the garbage can, and spit on it, letting his acidic saliva melt the metal. With a ravenous squeak, Petri dug into his meal, filling his little belly to his heart's content with the can. Making a sizeable hole, Petri climbed in, and began to gorge himself on the leftovers of city-goers.

"Mmm, mm, mmmm! Food is good, yes it is," the little bat said, sinking his little teeth into a rotten fruit.

[member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Acaleus Thorn"] [member="Viru Lentus"]

 

[Viru Lentus]

The defel was already dead by the time the garbage can hit its corpse and all it did was draw Viru's attention up to the roofs above where he saw the man from earlier waving down at him. "Didn't I tell you to not act like you're an investigator? It's to late, just go on about your business and leave me to mines. This is me asking nicely." Viru said eyeing the man before the women in front of him began speaking and drew his attention away from the assassin.

"I don't think you would want a defel like her, while indeed good at stealth she is a failure..." Viru said looking over to the still warm corpse of the defel, he'd have to be sure to hide it in one of the dumpsters before he left the alley. No one would care for a dead defel besides the proper authorities and even then as long as no one figured out where the corpse was it would be to late. "Hmm... Oh yes, I guess the ship would still be in the spaceport. Those are my goods mam, and it was a simple test, a test that this defel and her crew failed. Though I prefer not to say more as long as we have a guest. How about you accompany me to the ship and we discuss some details along the way? The main one being how you were able to get on the ship... And just how much you saw." Without turning back to the assassin Viru called out to it. "I am warning you, just go about your day."

[member="Petri"] [member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Acaleus Thorn"]

 

[Acaleus Thorn]

Acaleus whistle seeing the dead defel on the floor then raising his eyes to Viru a little angry "Dude you are just boring as hell" said standing and scratching his head meditating for a brief moment, then turning and walking away. He was right, as the assassin wouldnt risk his life just because a whim "Oh and please dont kill Sasori, she is much cooler than you" said going to Petri last location. As he imagined, the vespin was eating something of the garbage can he cough just when he was close "You shouldnt eat that. It could be rotten and your stomach wouldnt be able to digest it, even for your species" said looking around for any small store "Wait here" requested leaving for a moment and coming back with an apple and a bottle of water. He left the fruit on top of a garbage while drinking some water

[member="Sasori Arashi"] [member="Petri"] [member="Viru Lentus"]