Just Another Day in Paradise.

[Lina Ovmar]

Coruscant. The heart of the galaxy, a highly sought after planet by the greater hands and for what? Ok, so it had the traderoutes and the whole symbolism thing, but in the grand scheme of things what was it really but a pretty hole to stick a flag into?

Even pretty was pushing it. When you passed beyond what you saw at first glance, Coruscant was ugly. Dark things lurked in the undercity, things forgotten and things that remembered. Aella wanted to go there she wanted to understand why there had been so much uproar for it falling to the OS, but between there and here, this space station in the back end of the no where sector, there was an exessive fee.

So Aella contented herself to watch. To watch the rich pile onto the transport, followed byt the needy who bartered all they carried on their backs simply to get to this...jewel. She dropped her gaze from the people to the pictures on her datapad. The holonet had a wonderful source of infromartion on Coruscant and everything you thought you knew.

She tucked it away into a pocket that wasn't a pocket. Note to others, pickpocketing a shi'do is not a wise choice. She'd caught wind of some pirates, and slunk towards the bar she'd watched them roll into. They'd been there at least an hour now, long enough to be slightly drunk and distracted by the entertainment. She tugged her hood down as she entered, her hair was brown...or was it black?

The light caught it as she settled for a deep purrple, with eyes to match. Slinking into a booth she watched the group from the shadows. The datapad found its way into her hand again and she flciked through the bounty board.

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

This place, it was strange. There were no forests, trees, stones, nor wild beasts. No, there were beasts, and Ker-Va-Shen was one of them. It might not have been obvious but this station was full of hunters. Some silent and cunning as the kodashi viper, some loud and intimidating as the bull rancor. Ker had hunted and killed many beasts on Dathomir, but this was a new hunting ground, with new challenges and new rewards. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted a band of what appeared to be space raiders heading for the 'bar', an institution he'd learned was where people came and offered currency to poison themselves. Most curious. More curious however was the witch that followed them. He wasn't sure if she was truly a witch or one of the odd magic-less witches the galaxy seemed to have after leaving Dathomir, but the way she carried herself was intriguing. She was silent, observant, and tracking. Keeping just close enough to spot her he followed behind. Whether she knew magic he didn't or was simply a magic-less hunter he would learn how men were hunted in a strange place such as this.

[member="Aella"]

 

[HK-36]

[member="Aella"],


Apparently a very angry droid has just placed a substantial bounty on the group of pirates Aella was tracking. And what would be the offense they were condemned for? Well among the many piracy and slavery attempt charges they had on their heads, what made up for bulk of their bounty was...

Ropo poaching

A crime punishable by flogging in Omega under the new regime of their mechanical overlord

 

[Lina Ovmar]

What person had deemed a ropo's life so valuable that there became such a thing as ropo poaching? She held the question in her mind for a moment, rolling it over, wandering whether such a thing was worth investigating. After a few moments, she conluded not. This of course didn't mean she wouldn't take the bounty, cash was cash. the more she had, the further in her journey she could go, and the more she could learn.

The datapad vanished and in the shadow of her booth, Aella's skin darkened to a deep red, lekku's formed on her haead, on draping about her shoulders and her clothes shrunk drastically. Rising form the booth, a lethan twi'lek approached the pirates, planting itself firmly in one of their laps with a wiggle she'd learnt from a hooker.

Not that Aella had been with a hooker, but one had helped her in a preivious job, taught her how to 'loosen up' as she had phrased it.

No...had the bounty sadi dead or alive? She couldn't quite recall, so while she racked her brain for the answer, she played dumb lethan.

[member="HK-36"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"]

 

[Crucius Sin]

Crucius had no real reason to still be on Coruscant. He'd last been here as a boy, before his egomaniacal sociopathic murderer of an older brother had killed their parents. He could have been anywhere else, including with his nephew on Eplistica, but he had to see the new seat of the Sith Empire. It was at the same time the antithesis of what it had been under the Republic, and almost exactly the same. But this bar seemed to be a hotbed of activity. A familiar prickling at the base of his neck occurred as he felt the presence of... another Shi'ido?

He looked around, suddenly perking up. Another Shi'ido was just the kind of conversation he needed right now. Somebody else as lonely, if not more so than he was. As his gaze turned to the bar, the prickling intensified. He looked straight at a Twi'lek woman sitting on a thuggish-looking guy's lap, and grinned. That was who he was looking for, absolutely. He got up, and walked over, smirking in a way he hadn't outside of a torture room in a decade.

"Hi, there, red... This thug bothering you? Awful cruel of 'im, trying to get into your skirt... Without even a drink, I see."

[member="Aella"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"] [member="HK-36"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Aella"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"] [member="HK-36"]

Lisa was in the corner of the bar, eyeing the crowd. It had only been a few days since she had been on Coruscant and joined her allegiance to the OS. Formerly she had enjoyed a career in killing for the Ravens and stealing very expensive things. The streets of this place were filthy and there were plenty of vermin here.

Just her kind of place. She was here to watch and wait. Every once in a while a scuffle was sure to break out and then she would seize her chance and get a joy kill in. Her attention was called away however and her dark green eyes wandered lazily to the woman whom had just entered the room.

She was a smaller woman, but definitely had some sort of force stench to her. Lisa reached out with her mind, softly touching the surface of the young womans and trying to find a way in....

 

[HK-36]

[member="Aella"], [member="Ker-Va-Shan"],


The bounty called for targets to be delivered alive, she would be able to recall that now most likely. Whoever placed the order for the pirates wanted to deal the punishment on them themselves.



Meanwhile on Fundoor,


The Iron Lord sat on his Iron Throne on top of the Omega Towers where Lady Protector Cira's office used to be, he would watch the recordings of the said poaching event and read the reports, he would call out,

"Damn those poachers!"

He would shake his fist at the monitors,

"Damn them!"

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

Ker watched the pirate's tracker as she became something else, changing from a hooded girl of dark hair into a red skinned girl who seemed to have a pair of worms for hair. The name of the species escaped him, but skinny looking ones such as the shapeshifter seemed to be popular as displays in these sort of establishments, or as women who carried out food. Ker sniffed the air around him, attempting to find her scent but couldn't. This space station had a variety of new odors and smells Ker hadn't felt before, differentiating between them was proving difficult. As she sat upon the laps of one of the space-raiders he gave her an excited if lustful greeting before running his hands up and down the witch's legs. Another man came and asked something in a concerned manner, while Ker-Va-Shen silently casted Ear of the Chiroptix to hear more of what was going on.

The witch had a shapeshifting spell he'd never seen before, and he was going to figure out how it was cast.

[member="Aella"] [member="Crucius Sin"] [member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Alive.

Well that was easy enough. There were only five here, five was enough to collect a bounty. But then of course, some dimwit had to play the hero. Did she look like she neede rescuing? Did he not see here place herself in this position? She smiled at him, here eyes flickered from green to red and back again. Like a poisionous frog warns its predators eating it is not a good idea, she tried to tell him to leave.

"Thug?" she managed innocently, "What thug?" She looked to the pirate whose lap she was sat in and trailed a finger along his jaw. "This is no thug. This is my payday."

That might have worked if not for the tickling in the back of her mind, the kind that said someone was poking around where they shouldn't. She glared up at this intruder, this 'hero' of hers. No, it wasn't him. One of the pirates perhaps? Two of them had gotten up, inflating their chests in an attempt to intimidate the intruder. One was half asleep in the chair, half a bottle of firewhisky in his hand, the other, too absorbed in the twin zeltrons on his lap to notice anything.

None of them.

Paranioa crept up her spine as the captain nuzzled her neck, murmuring disgusting things in her ear. She made a noise of digust, her hand moving to her thighs, her skin unfolding slightly to allow her to pull the stun guns from their holsters. A sharp headbutt to the one whose lap she sat on, two shots in the drunk and lustful. By the time the two macho's resalised what was going on, the bolts had taken them down too. She got to her feet, molding once more back to the form of the hooded girl, slender and sly.

"Im working." she told the intruder.

"You son of a -" she cut the captain off with a bolt to his chest.

She could still feel that tickling.

[member="Ker-Va-Shan"] [member="HK-36"] [member="Lisa Ticon"] [member="Crucius Sin"]

 

[Crucius Sin]

Crucius grinned at the man who was coming up behind the Twi'lek woman, holding out a hand to choke him through the Force. His eyes rolled up into his head, and the Shifting Prince dropped him. With a Force-sped swipe of his other hand, a beer bottle almost seemed to materialize in it. He laughed, and took a deep drink of the cold booze.

"Business and pleasure are best when combined, girl."

His right foot swept out to catch the last man in the knee, and the man's leg folded. Crucius removed his shades to show the rapidly reddening irises of his eyes.

"Especially the bloody kind of business."

[member="Aella"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"] [member="HK-36"] [member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Aella"] [member="Crucius Sin"]

Ah so she was able to shift shapes. Lisa watched with a watchful eye as she began to dispatch the pirates. They went down one by one and she giggled, rising to her feet and unholstering her Silenced sniper from her back. The cross-hairs lined up with the man whom she had head butted and two fifty Cal slugs ripped from the silencers end with puff of smoke. Just as he began to collapse, somehow choked to death the slugs intercepted him on the way to the floor.

Lisa could sense yet another force signature in the room now....

PFFT
PFFT

Brains and skull exploded from the man into the crowd in garish mix. As the crimson ichor splattered the group she laughed wickedly, dropping the rifle to it's sling and drawing in the darkness of the room. Fear ran rampant, so thick she could smell it. The bar exploded at that moment, chaos erupting as patrons rose to their feet and drew weapons.

Some flipped tables and others fired randomly into those they perceived to be foes. Lisa reached out pricking the womans mind again, this time pushing harder than before.

"Kill them, Kill them all!"

Glorious chaos. As the floor became slick with blood and entrails she revelled in the destruction such a simple act had escalated. The beast rose within her and she allowed it enter, taking her very being under it's control. Now fully engulfed in the Darkside she raised her hands, palms open as a purplish glare descended upon her eyes.

Bottles exploded across the bar from her crushing grasp and the pieces drifted towards her , whirling in a small cyclone of death. The shard glinted and sparkled like a thousand diamonds in a slow swirl of doom....

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

[member="Aella"] [member="Crucius Sin"] [member="Lisa Ticon"] @HK-36

Ker listened as the twi'lek temptress managed to shoot down the five space-raiders with swiftness and precision, using those technological marvels he'd seen so much of since leaving Dathomir. They appeared to be much more useful than bows and spears. He heard conversations of thugs, business, pleasure, none of which really meant anything to Ker. He wasn't interested in money. Only the spells, if only he could listen to her change herself.

His ears soon overloaded with noise as a woman screamed to want to kill everyone, blasterfire erupting across the establishment. Not content to poison themselves to a slow death it seemed the space-farers needed accelerate things by fighting while they were there. Fools. A man was knocked to Ker's direction. Looked like an easy meal to him. He put his mouth around the man's head and

 

[Lina Ovmar]

"No!" she yelled as the captain died. Alive. The bounty had said alive. Now what? Now she had to find a new bounty. Angry and upset, she was unphased by the mental nudgings of the padawan. She simply closed her eyes, head bowed as carnage erupted arond her. A sheild had activated around the bar and the bartender cleaned glasses with a grubby cloth, as if nothing was happening.

A reptile of some form began devouring a man cast his way. She moved towards it, dropping into the booth close to him with a sigh. "Don't eat him." she said firmly "You dont know where he has been." It'd only been a few years since she'd left the comfrot of her home to explore. Bounties were easy money, and then some people with no idea came along and ruined things.

Alive. Not Dead. Alive.

She tried to understand, tried to create a thought process that allowed her down this path. Her false hero, was a shi'do, so why interrupt her work, clearly he knew. And the cackling woman? Why all the destruction? All she was doing was wasting money, not saving it. Unessecary carnage. Yes, that was what this was.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Aella"]

That was it. She felt a brief glimpse of sadness then confusion. something serious had been interrupted here. Something very important to her.

Good....She can work very well for this....

Despite only having begun to master he force work on Sith Lightning Lisa was becoming more powerful by the second as the blood of the innocent, and not so innocent was spilled in droves. She released her hold on the glass shards and they stopped briefly floating into a spear tip point and then she growled and clasped both hands together.

The spear of glass shards launched through the nearest Rodian, a Merc by the looks of him. His blood sprayed across the room like a fountain as the glass shards pummelled clear through him and came back around, circling him in tornado. Small nicks and cuts slowly shredded him into a pile of steam y stew.

Lisa knelt down, rubbing her hands in the blood as the chaos raged. And then she smeared it on her face, imbuing even further darkness into her soul. She plucked a bone from the mess and his skull as well, storing them in a pouch on her armor and moved to stand above the young woman she had been probing.

Then she knelt, face covered in the crimson garish warpaint, an evil grin on her face.

"Why so sad? I didn't start this, YOU did. You just went wild, so naturally I went wild."

 

[Crucius Sin]

Crucius sighed as the tiny bit of violence that he and the Twi'lek, who he was now sure was the other Shi'ido, escalated into a small battle. A giant lizard was eating at a corpse, and the man the Prince's fellow shapeshifter had been sitting on was now dead. His head had exploded all over the bar, like shrapnel. He looked at the woman sympathetically, clearly having needed the man alive to capture.

"I'm sorry... The two I knocked out will still be alive if we get them out of here, now. We might, however..."

He nodded to the crazy, murderous, and now bloodstained, woman in the armor. She'd been throwing lightning around, and the Shifting Sin was weary of that. A Sith?

"... have to avoid the crazy queen drinking people's blood. Can you still collect the bounty on those two?"

[member="Aella"] [member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Crucius Sin"]

Lisa turned to view the other man as he spoke. It dawned over her as their eyes locked. This was her other force user. He spoke of bounties and avoiding that, what?

"What was that you said friend?"

The beast roared even louder within, directing her, focusing her. The memory of Kezeroth shocking her to her soul with Force lightning flowed forth from a special place in her mind where she kept it locked away.

Her memory of murdering her fellow orphans on Coruscant as young child came next, then the funeral of her parents, and then the floodgates opened. Savagery began to dawn in epic proportion as the memories drove her mad. Crazy? They had yet to see crazy.

Her hand lifted towards him and she cackled again, as dark matrices began to swirl on her fingertips, dancing with purple, black sparks. The air around them grew hot and the floor creaked a little as it gave way ever so slightly under the weight of the massive evil she had now collected to her. The force swirled with the dead, and the blood of the fallen merc bound his soul in eternal torment to Lisa.

This she gathered as well....

"Don't upset me welp! Don't you know interrupting is rude?"

 

[Jaxton Ravos]

[member="Lisa Ticon"] [member="Aella"] [member="Crucius Sin"]

The Tiss'shar ate verily of the unfortunate bar-goer after he snapped the man's neck. With Ear of the Chiroptix still fueling his hearing Ker could hear the footsteps of someone coming towards him, but the impact of that was lost with the Tiss'shar listening to everything else that was happening in the bar, along with his meal. Until he heard the voice, strong, but still a bit too high to be male tell him that he shouldn't eat the man. Didn't know where he'd been. Ker spat out what parts of the man he had in his mouth. His body leaned down while his head looked up, curious at the woman. His posture was one that he could have easily pounced out of, or ran to the side and flee. The shapeshifting with might not have known it, but her commanding words and tone had frightened the hunter, and that fear kept him waiting for her next words.

 

[Alask Diruno]

[member="Aella"] [member="Lisa Ticon"] [member="Crucius Sin"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"] [member="HK-36"]

Bars are like show-and-tell. One minute your enjoying it and one minute you are on the edge of storming out of the room. Alask enjoyed some booze every now and then but what's there to enjoy when you can't stay alive. He wasn't particularly in any danger but gunfire led to eating someone and that led to arguments. He didn't wear anything special, just a black robe with a grey cloak with a hidden blaster and green light saber. Concealing himself was his number one goal every time he came to places like this. Unfortunately, he always had to show his face whether its through blood or through the hard way. Walking into the bar, he caught glimpses of objects and figures. With no words being said, he sat down in a booth cloaking his force presence.

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Aella blinked slowly, giving the man talking to her a blank stare. She shifted it to the crazy whelp that was so insistent on killing everything that moved. "I don't recall asking for your help." She said looking back at [member="Crucius Sin"], blinking a slow blink, trying to process exactly what had happened in the last five minutes. She pushed herself to her feet again. "In answer to your question, yes I could claim the bounty with those two, but the money wouldn't be worth the trip now the captain is dead."

She was very aware of the reptile watching her every move, and found herself glancing back his way, as her curiosity nagged at her. "Thank you for your concern." she continued, looking back at him. "Now feth off." She moved round him coming to stand in front of [member="Lisa Ticon"]. Her head tilted as she studied her. "What is the point of this?"

It was an honest question. Aella simply wanted to understand the reason behind the sudden explosion of destruction. In understanding, she would be able to better deal with such a situation in the future.

[member="Alask Diruno"] [member="Ker-Va-Shan"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Aella"]

Lisa cackled as she spoke. She could sense the other womans un-ease and it gave her a satisfying feeling deep in her veins. Warmth began to blossom across her face, cheeks shining bright with joy through the blood. Still she held her rage in a ball, ready to tap back into the darkness and unleash devastation should anyone attempt to attack.

Lisa stood to face Aella and flashed her a dangerous grin.

"You're a bounty hunter eh? Do you crave power? If you had but the means to control the situation with an iron grip, none of this might have transpired."

Her left hand still remained pointed at [member="Crucius Sin"].