Kyra's Bizarre Adventure

[Kana Truden]

Wait, that was a familiar name. Kana wrinkled her forehead as she tried to think about where she could have heard it. A big part of her had to say she imagined it was from her days in the Republic, but even so she hardly knew everyone that fell under the Jedi banner from back then. She let it go as she kept from shaking her head. Exercise was always good for clearing your head, but that applied to everyone. The entire point of meditation was not to think on things but to push past what you already knew.

Still, Kana would nod. “Oh.” She said quite simply and watched as Kyra began to prepare herself for trying on the boots she had seen in the window. “Well, that’s good then. Exercise keeps people like me away at the very least. A preferable alternative to… Apples or whatever.”

It was probably clear that Kana didn’t consider exercise to be the same. At the very least she kept it to herself.

“So, you’ve set your sights on a pair of boots?”

 

[Kyra Perl]

Kyra kicked out both her feet, making Kana hold her ice cream as she tied em up.

"Yup." She popped the p, standing up and walking in a small circle. Perfect. She grabbed the old shoes between two fingers, putting them in the box she then closed up. "Lessgo~" She chirped, leading the woman to the register. She wordlessly handed the box and the sock tags over.

The lady opened the box up, crinkling her nose in confusion as she found herself faced with an oil-stained mess. Kyra rocked back and purposely looked down at her feet, the lady following her direction.

Oh.

Kyra smiled at her. The lady looked confused, but went up ringing up the purchase anyway. Kyra hummed to herself, licking up the last of her ice cream and rubbing up her fingers. Credit stick slid over, Kyra happily took her receipt and the box, turning to leave the store altogether.

"And you're wrong you know," she inserted, looking over at Kana as she hip checked her box into the trashcan. "They are totally the same."

 

[Kana Truden]

“Of course.” No it wasn’t. “If it works for you.”

As they stepped out of the shop Kana would look around to re-establish where she was. The afternoon crowds seemed to flock to the street, and with it take up a seat in each and every single café in sight. In the streets the crowd had started to grow even denser than before, and with just the smallest hint of familiarity Kana swore she could have seen a familiar face in the crowd.

“Isn’t that…” She muttered as she squinted. The squint didn’t last very long. “Yep, sure is.”

Two lawyers, set in a very determined stride right for them.

“I think those lawyers are back.” Kana said and began to lead Kyra away from the store. “You wouldn’t happen to have practiced this ‘alternative’ meditation method to speed yourself up, would you?”

“Because I am pretty sure they’re gunning for us both by now.”

 

[Kyra Perl]

"Hoooo boy!" Kyra breathed, turning on a dime and following without any resistance. Could she run? Sure. Would it feel good? She wheezed once in protest, then kicked off.

"Why. Are. They following us?" She grunted, soooooo done with the activity of the day. And her mother was so suing them! Her new boots gave squeaky protests. Kyra wished at once to have bought thicker socks.

Blisters were incoming.

 

[Kana Truden]

A shrill voice called out through the crowds. “Kyra Perl and Romi Jade!”

Kana stopped herself and Kyra to turn around and look at the two lawyers through the crack that separated the people like a spear through meat. She had not given the clinic the name Romi Jade, which must have meant the lawyers had no idea who she actually was. Kana could certainly act with that. Romi had probably had worse things happen to her name, no doubt at her own hand even.

The lawyers closed the gap and came face-to-face with the master.

“We will not fall for that again.” They both said, once more in both basic and huttese at once. At the top of their heads now sat two tinfoil hats that they promptly patted at. “We are equipped with a counter.”

“Mhm.” Said not-at-all Romi Jade. “What do you want?”

Two rigid gazes moved like determined terminators towards Kyra. “A settlement.”

Kana looked at Kyra and then the lawyers. “Mm-yeah, no.”

“Not your choice to make, Miss Jade.”

 

[Kyra Perl]

Kyra took a slow step back. "Uuuuh, actually, I'm a minor, so technically..." It would have been her sister's choice to make. But Kana wasn't her sister, a fact the woman wasn't denying. Weird. But Kyra had been in enough pinches to know when to roll with something.

She didn't challenge it, instead crossing her arms over her chest and jutting out her hip.

"Does this settlement involve you taking off your pants and flapping your arms around like a chicken?" Kyra asked. She gave Kana a small nudge, wordlessly begging for the hand thing again!

Because that would be great to see!

 

[Kana Truden]

There was a comfort in knowing that to a greater extent she could have done whatever she wanted to the lawyers at this point and have someone else take the blame. Kana kept herself propped just ever so slightly before Kyra as if instinct had pushed her to take some sort of shot aimed at her. As the kid mentioned that she was a minor the two lawyers recoiled and turned around to elaborate with each other.

“No, it does not.” They both said in their respective languages before they looked at Kyra. “We are a mostly successful lawyer firm, and we have to the greatest extent kept our dignity intact.”

Now that was the part that Kana hooked on to. Kyra pushed her to do the mind trick thing, and even if the unethical nature of it was nonetheless amusing to consider, she patted her back as if to say ‘maybe later.’

“Mostly successful? Greatest extent?” She said and began to place her hand on her hip, almost as if to taunt them. “I don’t know… Doesn’t sound very impressive to me…”

The two men gasped with an indignant if not outright insulted gasp. “I say!” They both exclaimed. “We won that Bigsby case fair and square!”

“Yes, people only mentioned the slightest hints of bribery involved.” Kana said and grinned. She was practically making things up at this point. “Don’t they?”

The two men scoffed. “You dare?!” The man who had previously spoken huttese exclaimed in anger. “I’ll- You!”

“Steady, brother.” Said his apparent brother. “She is trying to rile you up.”

“No, really?” Kana said and gave them a deadpan stare.

“We will only henceforth talk to the girl.” Said the two brothers once more. This time in two languages, yet again. “Good day, Miss Jade.”

Their stares set on Kyra.

“Fifty thousand credits for the damages that you done did, and for any egos bruised.”

 

[Kyra Perl]

Kyra gave a barking laugh, so sharp it cut off into a wince of pain. She glared at them as if it was their very own doing, clutching her side and raising her chin at them.

"Papers?" She extended her hand for them, much to the shock and then intrepid excitement of one of the lawyers. They reached out and placed it in her hand, opening their mouth to inform her--

"Shut up," she interjected, glancing inside the folder before tucking it into her arms. She was doing her uttermost impression of her mother, her gaze deigning to rise up and land back on the two very breakable men.

"Enjoy these next few weeks of credibility, gentlemen. They will surely be your last." She turned swiftly on her heel and started to march away, doing a good Yula impression with the way she moved her hips-- power. Strength. She tried to embody it.

"You'll hear from my lawyers~" She turned slightly, passing them a devilish grin.

"You know. The ones that won the Remberance case." Oh, only the most famous case in recent history. And untainted by bribery to boot.

They were so toast.

"Tata~"

 

[Kana Truden]

A terrified scoff-mixed gasp passed the two lawyer’s lips as they realized who it was Kyra referred to. The Remembrance case? That was almost the stuff of legend! If the Perl’s had a lawyer that powerful at their back there was just the smallest chance they took the worst sidestep into the biggest pile of manure a lawyer possibly could have stepped into. Their faces met for a second before a pitiful whine parted both their lips and they turned back towards Kyra.

And at that moment, something utterly miraculous happened. They both leapt in front of Kyra and Kana would once more instinctively pull the girl back. Yet as they would have naturally jumped for her throat they would instead slowly begin to undress their pants, as the other began to gawk like a chicken.

“See?” They let on embarrassed chuckles and whines. “Chickens, no pants. We can just… Drop this, like friends, right?”

The man doing the chicken dance gave it his all, save from pecking at the dirt for seeds.

“We can thinks this over, no need to lose- we’re just barely legal as lawyers anyway. We’re not worthy the time of someone like the Jiram & Jiram firms. Look! We’re chickens. Just for you.”

Kana had already lost it, her lips spread wide in laughter as she struggled to breathe.

 

[Kyra Perl]

Kyra busted into laughter, holding at her side. Whew- ah- ahaha- what a turn around for a shitty day. She waved them off as soon as she was able to catch her breath, pained tears falling down her face.

"Alright, alright, boys, that's enough." She managed to straighten, wiping her face dry. "Phew. Heh. That was great. So good I'm feeling a little kind. Deposit 50,000 credits into my account and we can call this forgotten. Consider it collateral. For what you put me through. "

50k and a little chicken dance to save their live's work? The two lawyers would withdraw it from their own accounts if they had to. They lifted back up their pants, their humiliation tinging their cheeks. Thought maybe this would be a lesson against their own egos. It certainly taught Kyra that she had a knack for impersonating her mother. Which was a good thing.

Sometimes.

They gave vague noises of acknowledgement, buttoning up their pants as others gaped at the small scene before then.

"Perfect!" Kyra chirped, turning away. "I look forward to seeing it there." She wrapped her arm through Kana's, the girl surprisingly able to take care of herself. She had appreciated Kana's presence regardless. Perhaps that was where she had drawn strength from to begin with. She did look a surprising amount like Romi.

She lead the woman away, not caring to linger.


"Oh. And that's each!" She called back.

 

[Kana Truden]

There was no doubt that by all accounts the lawyers had been turned into has-beens in an instant, and at the hands of a Jedi nonetheless. Kana let herself be led away from the scene by Kyra as she nodded in a morbid sense of appreciation for how that played out. All things considered it was an extortion attempt that had backfired. One could have argued that they should have just walked away, but public spectacles like these were…

Kana let in a deep breath to stabilize herself and then let it all go.

“See?” She said and smiled as she shook her head at Kyra. “You handled that just fine.”

The master exhaled again with a small laugh.

“And… They seemed to call me Romi Jade?” She said and raised her brow. “Are we really that similar? I'm almost fifty.”

“I mean, that’s almost insulting to Master Jade, isn’t it?”