Queen's Blade (Open)

[Matsu Ike]

• The healing Crystals Part 0
• The Requiem Part 1
• We make our own luck Part 2
• Remember who you are Part 3 [still going]

Matsu had learned many things in her life and with work from the other jedi in the silver order she had begun relearning her connection to the force. With Jeela traveling with her and her companionship throughout the galaxy. She had found artifacts of power, ones the jedi had overlooked and disregarded. Though she suspected they would come after what she had. Vaynai had proven to her she could feel the force once again and use it outwards instead of just turning it inwards.

Now she was breathing in and out deeply while she moved around the combat circle. Finding comfort in the scrolls she had gotten from Sang and her half sister stood across from her. The two of them facing off just like old times in the jedi temple as her grin widened. Moving forward both women jumped high in the air kicking as their feet connected, coming down to the ground and letting fist strike at each other as their heads tilted. Practiced movements and she could feel the energy distort pushing past her ear.

Matsu twisted and turned matching Saia as they both preformed a back spin kick and their legs interlocked. Matsu and Saia both falling down and rolling to kick just out of reach of each others faces as they rolled again to be on their knee's. A slap to the ground as they flipped forwards and come up in a standing position, they both turned with their feet down low bringing a force push as the dirt shot up at each other. "Hiya." A sound for show before Matsu closed her mouth to protect from the grit and dirt, her eyes closing and force senses expanding outwards.

She could see now, feel her sister and that small bond between them was open both ways. They could find each other even with the dirt kicked up and in their eyes. Matsu could feel her off in the distance as they ran at each other and jumped up bicycling their kicks as feet kicked each other. until they were on the ground again. Matsu kipped up pushing forward with her legs as she came to a standing position and she saw Saia do the same. Hands going out as their free hands grabbed at the wrists and twisted flipping each other over.

Matsu backed away bringing her hands up and into a position as she moved. Her body reacted and pushing forward with two strikes that sent a burst of force energy, there was some misconceptions with force powers. Some believed you couldn't attack or couldn't fight but that was wrong it was not using aggression, not using your frustration and finding a sense of inner peace as you fight. Inner serenity and Matsu exuded that letting her body be open to the force and have it flow through her. She trusted it, embraced it, allowed it to mold her actions and in return it preserved her, protected her bound her universe together.

Matsu let her mind drift to Hanna and she was happy to have been led to her, enjoying the fact of it all while she matched her sisters movements step for step, strike for strike in a coordinated dance of force energy coming off the two of them. Now they weren't fully fighting they were having fun, their youthful expressions showing to the growing crowd mostly. Matsu could see her family around them, cousins and children, Katagiri, Junko, Nico, Noriko, Ikki even stood there and the ghostly image of Chora with Orihime and Reiko under her hands. Protected and safe....

That was what mattered in the end and what held her to this world, to this path and allowed her despite every challenge to bathe in the lightside of the force while she saw others compromise their own, she saw jedi's who were willing to give in and give up because they found it hard or suffered, jedi who allowed their own opinions to be colored and teachings forgotten because it was easier then doing the work of forming their own. Laziness among the jedi had proven a dangerous thing. Now it was showing as more and more fell, even disappearing as Vulpesen one she knew and trusted had fallen.

She had heard and read the reports from Teta, he was among the missing but he wasn't dead. He wasn't one to die and he wouldn't leave the order, he had either been captured which was dangerous or he had fallen to the darkside which was a very dangerous possibility, a danger to what could come and happen. Now her smirk was on her face while thinking about what had come of the jedi she knew compared to the jedi they were pretending to be. It amused her all the faux righteousness and holier the thou, now they were facing off against ones who could break through them dogma and attack where it hurt.

Their heart and Matsu struck mirroring Saia as they both struck the center of each other chest causing the air to leave the lungs and both flew back into the walls. Matsu felt herself laughing internally as she slid down and sat there for a moment holding a hand up motioning the others away because she didn't need help this was all part of the plan as it went on. The sisters rising and using each other for the bond between them, to strengthen and to know what the other was going to do. Battle coordination between them on a scale few knew and with Matsu's knowledge of force bonds she was navigating the force to hold herself in a better place.

Now they were moving one after the other and continuing the sequence letting their speed come greater and greater like a game of velocities that padawans played. Fitting as she was going to receive that level of respect and acknowledgement until she had proven herself once again. She would have to work and find the trials of the jedi once again for her own dedication. Flesh, spirit, skill and all the others cause there were more then just the ones some thought. She liked using old and new knowledge as Saia slipped and was on the ground. Matsu stood over her and offered a smile standing with her hands on her hips in a Peter Pan pose. "A small victory maybe."

 

[Matsu Ike]

The small ping of excitement in her face showed while she helped Saia up, brushing her half sister off and allowing the two to stand side by side while she let out a breath with her arms raised in playful victory. "Ahhhh and Matsu wins again, Saia went down hard." She made a face and then was smiling as she and Saia walked off laughing with a friendly push as they continued towards the rooms of temple.

The two continued until they were in the room and Matsu was only glad that she hadn't been set in padawan dormitories, those would have been difficult to keep what she had acquired over the years. With a look upon her sister while she changed her clothing and she heard Saia. "So what is your plan now that you can feel the force again?" Matsu turned to look at her sister as the woman stood there with the two white hair little girls.

"I am going to remain and stay with the silver jedi until they no longer want me. Perhaps then the fools within the Republic will have been handled." It wasn't more then clinical, a fact that Matsu believed one day like all children it would come back around. She had dedicated her life to the force and now was allowing its powers and mysteries to engulf her, strengthen her, mold her next actions. She was at peace while the rest of the galaxy seemed wanting for turmoil.

"So your going to hope they welcome you back?" Turning to look at Saia she had a smile on her face now. "I don't expect them to welcome me back, based on what we have been seeing, I expect them to need me back or at the least need my knowledge. They are like children and each new grandmaster tries to make the order what they think a jedi is. Then it grates on the ones who haven't left or are there until only a few remain. That Kiskla Grayson never asked questions to me shows how much she has to learn. Opinions are fine but a jedi must look at all angles in a problem not just the loudest in the room."

Now she was laughing at that and brought out a holoimage of Hanna and her daughter. She looked upon Saia and smiled offering the bed while she spoke. "Though where I am going few know about, thanks to research and everything we had worked on and found. I know where to go for peace and relaxation, where I can find inner peace and maintain it as I work with some of the techniques I learned and relearned."

She was laughing to herself now and changing into a kimono. There was a lovely ship that she had earned with the right amount of tech upon it, she had her equipment loaded and there were droids to pilot it for her or anyone who needed to join them. She never turned down letting others accompany her on her journey's across the stars. "In the morning I will go about and head off, leave a great deal of space for others to come along and head back into the void. There are mysteries in the companions that few others realize."

 

[Matsu Ike]

The morning came and Matsu was sitting there with a smile on her face now as she got dressed. The twins divided up between her bed and Saia's with a small grin of contentment on her face. Now it was the time as she started dressing in her kimono and letting the duster she had won in the auction. Her hands sliding in and feeling the energies of the skin and she knew it was alchemy, knew it was something dangerous or at least while looking it over something few others understood. A small smile crossing her lips while the solari crystal in her hand glowed with her inner light.

Then came the hat and Matsu let it settle on her head while she slid her hands into the pockets. A small look of enjoyment as she started walking down the hall and slid her hands into her pockets going towards the ship she had gotten from the auction. it had some of the best facilities by far for training and living. THe one who had given this and that beasts hide was strong indeed. Now as she finished loading it all up her hands danced over the control of the cargo bay.

The doors closed while Saia and whoever else from the silver jedi wanted to come and join her. She walked towards the cockpit and sitting down remained there for a few moment while she sat down. The ship taking off as the jungles of Voss had her moving about and her ship remaining there with the pet bull rancor baby near it was parked below. Now that she was fully feeling the force again her body was reacting to everything coming around, her willpower coming and her enjoyment of situations becoming something of an interest.

Matsu focused on her body, on the cells of her skin and she was focusing now. Her force energies rippling as the skin hiardened, the chill of the ship and space. The skills of making your skin into an almost armor were for apprentices and right up her alley while walking as the stars lengthened into lines, the ship jumping to hyperspace and Matsu rising up. Her room on the ship was filled with more of the equipment and she was walking with a grin on her face. The bassinet for the babies was there and space for Saia who was setting up her stuff.

"So first stop is where?" That was the question indeed and Matsu held a smile on her face while thinking about it. "We are going once more into the black and seeing where it takes us. Still a lot of mysteries left that others have not figured out and many things we can stand to find. Never know what will be around in the galaxy after all." Her hands deftly secured the last of it all and her sabers were mounted upon the wall. Sabers and other weapons of different sorts, the templar crossbow was something she was enjoying and the Chai La equipment was a wonderful thing.

She took it all in and raised her eyebrow mostly because she was now really enjoying all of it, the equipment would come in handy now more then ever with the force not holdings away on her. They would come to be useful in defense of the ship and herself in case any jedi bearing grudges came looking she could see them wanting revenge and could see them wanting to punish her for her actions. Another sign of how deeply they were falling with the sight of it all coming to her.

"We are going to train and learn and enjoy ourselves, we are going to live life and not allow the burden of the galaxy to crush us. To the last we shall fight, for their hate we shall live and with my last breath I will rise from these ashes an return to standing tall as I need to. This time refreshed and reformed with new knowledge, new understanding and development within the force that few will have ever truly experienced."

 

[Matsu Ike]

As the ship traveled there was another question though, where to go? What did they need? Matsu held a small smile on her face though to that, she had plnety of credits left from the auction and knew more then enough for jedi accounts. Even some the senate made for secret projects... like the account used to pay for building the Teyan prison. Her project that had money for salary of the guards but no actual guards. An oversight as she didn't know about the decision but the accound still made money as needed. Just another jedi account she could access while checking statements on the datapad.

If they were tagging it or looking for activity they would find simply the funds were transferred into a warchest, to help fight the one sith and the darkside in general. Which is what she was going to do with it everything being bought through Invisible market contacts on Emberlene and Shri-tal were legit in their goal of fighting the darkside. Just a matter of having one of the more notorious and dangerous organizations getting her equipment for her ship and it was in bulk. She had the designs and access to Chai La's weapons and through them some mandalorian tech but not everything. She was maybe a friend maybe to a few but that wasn't important. She had equipment from the templars that Verd had traded her...

Then she had every piece of information stored in the Red Queen AI that was secured away on Teyan over the volcano. A small smile creeping across her lips while reviewing her order and comfirming it, she suspected the senate would be cross but tey had given the money for her to use while condemning her actions. A lovely show of support and dislike, it made her squirm in her seat now using the last vestiments of her jedi life to secure and help her future. The review from Saia got a glance of approval and she sat there as they went off to meet the man who would seel to her all the equipment she might ever need.

Arriving at the ship for the meeting though had Matsu with a little dread, not everyone knew she wasn't a jedi master anymore, not everyone knew she was just relearning to feel the force again but they knew her by what the Republic branded her. They knew her by what was called cursing her name by ones who chose to stay in the core and judge everyone on the outer rim. It annoyed her but she would let their curses pass, let their condemnation slide off of her while she brushed at her duster and walked entering with her hat down, a small smirk on her face.

The Rodian there offering a look of confusion for a moment and then when she presented the credits nodding his head. He checked which didn't insult her, he spoke and a large box was brought in on a sled as she continued to observe it and the others in the room. Her sigil glowing while someone tried to probe her mind and Matsu looked up, the solari crystal in her saber activating with a brilliant flash of white in a snap hiss then the ones there stopped. The mental probe going away as the shield protected her thoughts and apoligies were given an offer of a small discount enough that she didn't take it. She wasn't using her blade to get free things she was going to use it to protect the weak.

Didn't mean as she stood there and took the sled in she was going to turn her back though as Saia opened the top and they checked it all. A mandalorian Spear, Armor Piercing Knife, Witch Staff, Mating Stick, Compressed Gas Knife, Besom Bow, Jackels, Multipurpose Rifle, Net launcher, Thorn of Ryloth, Energy Bow, Dart Shooter, Palm Shot, Magna Bolas, Deactivator Pistol, Sonic pistol, Verpine shatter pistol, Verpine shatter sniper rifle, Quiet snipe, Mouth Gun, Trident, Multi-weapon, Amphistaff, Zenji Needle, Throwing Razor, Parang, Starblade, Sub-machine Gun, WESTAR-35 and Redeye Probe Droids with some Recon Droids thrown in for good measure. She was looking at all the supplies and gave a nod of her head.

Nothing to heavy or dangerous for personal use that would raise suspicions. Just some equipment not easily missed off the transport that fell into their hands. The pair were heading into the black and unknown regions fo the galaxy where dangerous things lurked and Matsu wanted them to be prepared as she walked back into the ship and even threw the rodian some more credits. Her contact information and status being lost in the shuffle while a smile crept across her lips. "Come on lets get this all stowed away and prepare we are heading into the Unknown regions of the galaxy, we will need to make sure we know how to use all of this.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Now that they were setup and ready, Matsu had the equipment laid out on her bed as Saia standing near her and her daughters were there. Reiko and Orihime, her cousins Junko, Nico and Noriko, her sister Katagiri and Saia with her two daughters. Even Ikki had snuck around and onto the ship, she was the smallest of them all and working hard as she set their course towards the companion galaxy and with a vertical jump the ship was off. Her body revealing the course for the direction they needed.

The ship going to hyperspace brought her attention around to the bed as they looked upon the wall with display and hooks. They started assembling the weapons for use on the wall rack and securing them. Matsu taking the time to get use to the feel of each one just in case while there was ammo and power cells stacked in the corner of the room. Taking up one side of the corner and taking a section to frame the bed for use. Her hands running over the equipment and making sure it was loaded properly.

She was grinning now though when they finished and all the sisters stood there, the serpent going around her leg, wrapping around and slithering up as it hissed and her hands touched it. The snake went stiff as a staff then become whip like while wrapping around her arm. The jedi focused on it and the head turned towards her as she touched it and began nuzzling it, being peaceful and caring until it returned the favor with a small tongue coming out. Now they were doing good and she could see the blackness of the void as they made their way past the stars.

That brought Matsu's attention around, to the windows and through to the meditation chamber they can changed up. Making a large meal for the family was easy enough but they still needed a place to meditate for the long trip was a needed thing. It would allow her to concentrate on what she was doing and what was coming for them all. Matsu felt her body relaxing into the currents of the force before she entered the room and looked at the focusing crystals around the room and forming a circle.

Matsu sat down while she reached out expanding her senses and focusing, sensing the ship, the people on board and the crystals. Sensing the emotions and warmth that came from all of her family as they laughed and played, spoke and cooked. It was a sensation she didn't know fully and slowly relaxed into it letting the force wash over her. With the ship here in the great black sailing through hyperspace towards Cresh she found her own sense of quiet. Her own truth and peace that couldn't be broken.

That was what was going on in her head at least while she let all the tension drip from her body, let her mind wonder and feel, let the sound of the hyperdrive tick away and the smell of the food in the galley. She was pushing her senses beyond their normal levels, letting them become ten times stronger to augment her own needs, better hearing, sharper vision, more acute, her touch more sensitive and she could taste on the edge of her tongue the food cooking.

Even her senses in the force seemed stronger as she pushed them more and more towards peak of what a human could have possible. She wanted to enjoy it more now as she slowly rose up from her posistion and brushed herself off, walking out of the chamber and into the galley to eat while the smells of food and sounds of them all around the table paused for a moment seeing her. She was like her sister and older but damn if sitting there the two weren't similar. Taking the time to scoop for everyone the food they needed as Matsu spoke. "To family."

 

[Matsu Ike]

The dinner continued on as the Ike family remained there. Traveling through the void and the black towards a companion galaxy with force guided directions. The jedi's in the room providing stories and what they had been learning from their masters but it was hard to do. Aside from Iella the others had very little training with their masters. Maya and Vulpesen before he left the jedi for the sith, a dangerous thing as it came to a lack of teachings.

The masters weren't bad but they were not able to teach to some and it was a learning experience. Her ecperiences with the different force sects had been coloring her view of things and as she slowly finished eating her smile remained. Returning to her room while a few of the droids went about keeping the ship in order. There was space a plenty for the others but she still had her comfy bed a small comfort needed that couldn't be taken away while she slept and counted to seven.

Allowing her mind to drift to the realm beyond shadows and the force to sustain her. Her sisters there to wake her up after a few hours as Matsu stood in the inky blackness, her hands feeling it as an ocean of shadows until it bled away. The world she stood on was different or maybe it was a different area of it, beyond shadows could be tricky as slowly Matsu started exploring and walking along a dried shore. The last of the water gone from long ago but she could hear a voice, see a white haired woman in the distance.

She couldn't tell who she was at first or who she had been might have been a better question. Stepping upon the shore as she looked up from plants and spoke. "Ah your here, as it should be. Your quite a problem for some and humerous as it were for others. Sad to see the order has degraded to such a point it punishes its members for being good while allowing everyone who is doing terrible things to stay. This never would happened if we hadn't failed."

"Who are you?" The woman spoke and now Matsu was curious now and she knew this woman but her mind wasn't wanting to tell her the information. She had a small grin n her face though going to the plants and looking at them. "I was once Anya Kuro the Dark Lady of the jedi and in charge of handling problem cases like yourself but compared to some I would have gotten to the root of why you fight. Not just listened to others, I would have focused on the situation that caused you to go with killing the many to save the few."

She kept there. "I am also the one who will share knowledge with those worthy as becoming one with the force was a powerful thing no one expected of me." She was laughing now. "You have studied me padawan, you have learned some of my secrets but not all. How to move through objects with the force takes skill and practice. It is a good thing you now have the chance to make it a core skill of who you are same as plants and we're going to make you stronger. Train from the masters, seek them out or at least their spirits and learn."

Matsu understood, or at least she hoped so.... Seeking out masters and learning from their spirits could be a powerful thing if she did it the right way. It could lead to many advantages if she was working to teach others in the galaxy. Her body able to handle the pressures this time and instead of learning them when she had the skill and connection she'd be able to try and build it as a base now. From the beginning of her new life the right way, the jedi way and as she was awoken. Matsu looked at her two sisters and gave a nod of thanks.

 

[Matsu Ike]

The small visit to the realm beyond shadows had proven to her a few things... one that she was in the right place of her life. She hadn't been judged to harshly by one of the more infamous jedi, she wasn't evil she was just different and in charge of problem cases. It gave Matsu more help and encouragement in her task. As they continued to sail through the black the jedi padawan looked out upon the void searching with her eyes while she was listening to the datacrons she had gotten from Ayden Cater and Rave Merrill.

It was informative in the long run if only because her blood for making items stronger would be a powerful thing and she'd have to see about furthering her research into that. The ability to make clones that won't go mad and be abbble to use the force as well as transfer your essence into them could be powerful for livign forever or saving a life. She spared a thought to Noriko in all of that and how it had been done to her with a small grin on her face. She would learn these abilities and she would work hard upon everything she knew.

The first step was finding a place she could practice in peace without fear of dangerous people getting wind of her intentions. That was why going to a companion galaxy was in many ways the thing to do. The family could create a home there, find something for their own and shape it, leave droids and be able to use it as a retreat for their intentions of training together. Some fo the droids and whatever they could make as it went she had a few other ships thanks to people and could transport supplies.

Or with a fully droid operated ship they could bring the parts needed to make a base. The silver jedi were strong and noble compared to petty so some place they could have that was safe and ecured so if worse came to worse they could retreat and be safe. Away from the galaxy to learn, she had the materials needed to build for her own use items, they could produce food and have the supplies. Build a temple compared to the others and she was tapping her fingers to a tune in her head.

THe beat of it while she focused on the force and moved with Katagiri towards the bay for working out as the two faced off. Her hands coming up in a defensive move while she walked around in a circle to mirror her sister, the mane of white hair giving way towards the flow of black. Air rippling and shifting as they built up a small funnel and she was pushing the force energy to shape the air. Her mind shifting to a rooted stance as she dug into the ground and both of them jumped.

Coming down to the floor as they reached deep and some of the rocks around them rose up flying at each other. lightly but enough to impact and smash into dust, their strikes against each other carrying weight and purpose where before they were soft and evasive. A look between the two sisters putting the acknowledgement that they were going through the earth shaping before switching into something fluid while they stood still more and the water around them moved.

Matsu was focusing her force energies now to work the elements while she went about, the line moving and they mirrored each other with their water whips. Shifting the water into a solid form of ice before they flung them at the wall to shatter and go into a collection basin. The final element of shaping was fire and they moved fast, towards each other with rapid strikes and kicks that brought bursts of flame from their hands. There was no rage, no fury but like the true nature of shaping you needed heat and energy. In the breath and lungs, then expanding it outwards with fire.

The two of them stopped and moved as their bursts met in the center of the room and filled it up as they watched the inferno circle around, their bodies reacting to protect from the heat and swirl it around in a tornado of flame and fire. There were other colors as well being shown and Matsu could see it with a small choking up in her throat, she knew it looked beautiful and as the flames died down they stood there panting before embracing and she loved it all the energy and work out had drawn a crowd. Starring at the others in the door while she held her hands. "Who wants some next?"

 

[Matsu Ike]

Matsu looked at Katagiri as her sister stood off to the side and had a grin on her face. The Nico was there and moving forward as Matsu looked to her cousin with a smile on her face. Nico was a former sith a knight in the order before she gave ito her hatred of herself and despair... Now she was a jedi padawan like many others but she still knew how to use some skills. Compared to others Matsu trusted her with the little darkside she controlled or had learned. Nico wasn't about to go back into that hole of self doubt and fear.

"Alright Nico." Bringing her hands up and focusing on the basics of Tutaminis, on the first lessons taight to initiates Matsu was moving and preparing. She knew Nico was liberal in the use against those she trusted of lightning and even some of the crushing abilities. Like shapers, bringing forth a cold fire and raw power that stunned and crackled along the enemy was a power thing. Noriko was just as dangerous but it wasn't about fighting her just yet. No this was about handling Nico and enjoying the process as she heard the crackle, saw the flash of bluish white light.

Matsu hands rose, the spark impacting and bringing her back a little, blue energy pooling in her hands and around them for a moment or two. The lightning pooling into her hands and she was feelign the energy flowing throughout her body, she was feeling stronger now, lighter and more whikle she moved her hands catching the rest of the lightning in her hands and pushing it into a ball for a moment as she turned around absorbing it and sending purple judgement lightning out at Nico.

"Your getting better, training under Iella has worked wonders for you. She is a good techer and has learned her lessons greatly." Nico looked at her and gave a smile on her face, a nod of her head and then the snap hiss of a saber while she was shaking off the purple judgement. Matsu held out her hand and the silver hilt of the imperial knights blade came to her hand from the ground. From her robes and slowly as she activated it the midnight blue blade appeared with a snap hiss as it sharpened becoming easier to see and burning more intense.

Their blades met the midnight blue nd a rainbow blade, Matsu's designon the saber gauntlet and shield while she looked in approval. Using the energy she had absorbed to strengthen her body to make the soft flesh solid and like armor. Tough and unrelenting to the touch an apprentice level technique of a force sect but she was employing it because compared to the others she was still fragile, still weak in some respects. Now she was moving about and preparing to strike while letting djem so work for her.

Her hands tightened on the grip of the saber before pushing off and jumping a little into a counter attack as her blade and Nico reamined locked. The flowing watercut giving way to snake ascending a waterfall and with gravity on her side the falling leaf strik as she finally turned. The blades unlocking and crashing against each other with a strike while Matsu let her energies flow freely into the force, let her body jerk forward and touch the ground sending a force push towards Nico.

The girl was sent into the wall and out of the small areana they had, Matsu saber remaining actived while she spoke. "Your learning and doing good, remember with blades you must use the unorthodox and surprise your opponents. Having techniqe is good but the solid foundation of imagination and creativity makes a swordmen. Gives you more power then others will give credit for....." She laughed alittle giggle. "It also helps to be humble but there is a time for boasting." Matsu helpd up her hand ready for the next and looked at Junko and Noriko.

 

[Matsu Ike]

The shorter and noble woman came forward, her body petite like Matsu's but she held herself taller then the rest. A warrior of Atrisia before it came to join the fringe and she left returning to her family and people. Slowly Junko brought her saber up and to the ready as Matsu held her own blade. The Noriko was joining her as Matsu looked to the larger jedi, her cousin and a body thief who had found an Atrisian body that came from Midvinter. A world of strong and hardy being with her saberstaff activated.

Facing two of them was an interesting concept and Matsu backed away a little, holding her saber and smirking to herself now, preferring to jump the challenge as her midnight blue blade came up going into a shien stance. Balance and focus her key right now when Noriko came at her the strength and speed with her staff causing Matsu to drop down and hug the floor as she rolled to the side.

Junko was standing there for a moment choosing when to attack and bring herself in while Matsu brought the saber to meet Noriko's feeling the strength behind her strikes and it pushed her back. Her body reacting now on instinct and hardening to keep her in place as she pushed back. Matsu's blade locking with the saberstaff overhead. She was looking to the large woman and moved forward her hands leaving the blade for a moment.

THe force sped through her and she was punching lightly into Noriko's stomach for a moment to make her back up as the saber dectivated and she fell over. Matsu bck flipped and pulled her saber to her hands as Junko came in and slashed quickly. She had been being trained by Maya a skilled healer but her beliefs of some things were troubling. It showed in the less formal training Junko had compared to swinging a saber like an Atrisian sword.

That was her large thing and as the saber impacted against the blade it brought Matsu's attention around. Pushing her enjoyment and her smile wider. Locking blades and she jumped up keeping the blade locked together to guide them. Junko looked up surprised from her one eye while the curtain of hair obscured the other, her body moving with the new direction of attack as she pushed up augmenting her own strength to send Matsu higher in the training room.

That was what became helpful once the sabers disengaged and Matsu was coming down, spinning to gain speed and using the gravity to increase her fall once again. She struck Junko and the two were on the floor as the sabers went over the head with a burn to her hand. The two blades clatterign to the floor as Matsu looked down at Junko her face beign exposed and showing raised eyebrows in amusement.

She had gotten the upper hand with that strike and if they had been anything but training level settings. Her hand would have been gone and the battle most likely over but she was still on top of the girl as she rose up and spoke with a smile. "Very good, your learning much from Maya it seems more then I thought at least given her situation." Junko spoke standing there for a moment. "Maya is a good master but her viewpoint is dangerous, she has been infected most likely by sith influence."

 

[Matsu Ike]

That Matsu could agree with, hearing it from her cousin only served to make it settle in as a point. She stood up and listened to her body protest while she stood there stretching. "I know, she is not bad but she is not as strong of will. Her influence and wanting to experience the dangers of the darkside will lead her to self destruction if she is not careful. For now though you all have your assignments and we shall see about doing this properly."

That held her interest and moving about she saw the rest of the crew that was coming around with a small amount of cargo as she took in the sight of all of them. Matsu was enjoying it and as she stood in her room letting the waters wash down her body she felt the warmth and heat seeping into her muscles, the pulse of it was bringing relaxation to her. Slowly she stepped out after a decent hour and straightened her hair wringing it out with the water slopping on the floor of the shower.

She spared another thought for Hanna and what she might be doing as slowly and with some enjoyment she started to get dressed. Seeing her sisters standing there in the room as they helped her get into the equipment and the ship dropped out of hyperspace. Matsu's eyes drifting to the view port in the room so she could look out upon the galaxy and worlds there. Her sense of adventure coming back to her with a smile before walking out of the room.

They were all here and as the world appeared before them the first one the closest she had to admit. Ikki was good at navigating, her own training bringing about her transformation to everything they had been doing. Matsu watched them all standing in combat suits and robes, sabers on their hips or gauntlets, blasters and weapons for protection. She had her own with a pistol and some a hold out blaster. A shatter rifle on her back as it was lighter and they could use it.

"Ready to go?" She asked it was they went down appearing from hyperspace before a larger planet in Companion Cresh. No one as far as she knew had stepped foot here and now they were while the scanners bleeped and showed and oxygen rich environment. Filled with nothing so far, they could stake a claim for the silver jedi and see what was here. Matsu stepped down the ramp first sliding the duster on over her armor and putting a hat on.

This world was beautiful, a lush jungle with moisture in the air and the trees were huge, nearly as large as the ones on Kashyyyk, the jungles of this world felt... raw and new. She could sense small things as slowly her mind expanded and contracted her senses with the breathing. Small huffs and puffs until she was touching a tree and it was firm under her hand. Still young compared to others and in the air was the scent, the sounds of rushing water. That sweet scent from nature and fresh oxygen.

 

[Matsu Ike]

This world was lovely and the more they explored the more they found at least, there were tracks from people or creatures. Near the river there were fish hung drying on racks and that was good enough for them as the group was exploring to see what they could learn. Taking in all the sights of it and scanning the waters. There were microbes that were not something they wanted to get inside of them.

Matsu looked at the trees and how they were carved up while she walked. Listening to the sounds around them and slowly it came to her the drumming and chanting, their party moving forward until it was looking over a valley and Matsu could make out the people. Their tanned skin and long matted hair wrapped around bones as they chanted and danced around a circle. The ritual looking like one for hunting.

The rest of their village was filled with yurts in a line, Matsu crouched lower while looking upon them and bringing out some electrobinoculars to watch it all. She started recording and she saw Junko coming down to a crouch and Katagiri held another recorder to watch. "There is something going on, it looks like they are going off to hunt but I didn't see much prey around."

Matsu nodded her head in agreement, they had seen a few fish but noting big enough for hunting, small things and feeding a village was not something for small creatures. As the warriors moved off into the distance she stood up and slid down the hill going towards the back and one of the large yurts. She touched the soil near it and the material It was some kind of animal skin stretched over wood. Basic and easily moved when needed.

"Come on" She spoke motioning them closer and closer while the people were leaving and going back to their daily lives. Wrapping the force and flooding herself into the current brought her attention to the others going down into the ground. Carved steps from the dirt and fires nearby while she moved closer walking slowly past one of the men and going down the stairs. Matsu felt the air change as it went from hot and humid to wet and chilled.

She kept moving deeper into the small hovel and there were rooms made from it, more then that the walls were clay and firm made into its own small catacombs in the city. She could see carvings and this was history, this was something happening right before her as she moved about and was going through the different rooms. Taking in all the things they had stored, the yurts were for the surface. This was for protection from everything else. Which begged the question what might be on the world?'

She moved slowly about the room taking it all in, her eyes finding the crystals and gemstones they had. Cracked and broken off but it wasn't cut like you would for a saber blade, these were raw and amazing. Matsu took a few and smiled to herself as she did it wit a look around. If they had a few crystals they no doubt had more and searching for crystals was one of the reasons jedi scouted planet. She left though some refined and focused mephite crystals used for sabers while feeling the others. She could feel the force in her hands while looking at them. Only a few thoughts came to her head at that.... Pontite.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Matsu for a moment thought about what she was doing as she stood there, lining her pockets and well she was looking at other things around them. There was more riches or valuables it looked like. Their precious metals here as well but also a bunch of rocks and minerals. There was gold with some silver forming parts of Electrum, she moved some other equipment leaving it behind. Thankfully they didn't have some prime directive that made no sense to adhere to.

She was still moving as the others joined her down below and Matsu kept moving, the roomed they passed by were filled with food and clothing out of the elements for preservation. Which meant they didn't actually move in those tents so they weren't nomadic and hunters, instead they were permanent and that could mean further development. Then many others know. Stopping at carved stairs, Matsu looked out upon a massive structure under the earth.

Hundreds of miles it looked and built into the earth itself as the caves ended and went to large stairs. The massive fortress looked ancient and now Matsu was interested mostly because this far underground and this far down there were more people more animals fighting. She got off the stairs and climbed into a tower to look at it all seeing a number of them now milling around with creatures. Her eyes adjusting while she got to take it all in and started moving forward.

The path forward went over a large bridge and Matsu could see an underground river below them. She could hear it while the carved stone and wood gave a sense of wonder and excitement, her eyes adjusting to the low light from torches to take in the stone exterior with large doors made for other creatures, bigger creatures not human but not the ones who were here now. They looked humanoid and then she saw it. Sticking up on the side engines and debris.

"A ship" There was parts of a ship that had crashed a large hole in the earth above with water falling down in cascading falls while Matsu tried to get to it but they would have to go around. She wanted to learn what had happened here and spoke into her comlink. "Harlequin, there is a crashed ship here, see if there are any records about ships lost exploring the Companion galaxies." There was a chirp as her crew confirmed it and while they were there to search out things she had to agree.

This was getting better and better while entering the city of walls and secrets, one never knew what they might find inside compared to others. The stone work was masterful and seemed beyond the display they had seen above, seemed beyond everything except on some of the oldest ruins in the galaxy. Then she saw it, a grotesque statue and understood, it wasn't a new ship there would be no records most likely not if that was here. From Shri-tal to Abeloth's world all the way to Coruscant and now here, there were these statues ancient and forever looking.

She turned to see her family and touched the statue for a moment thinking to herself more and more. If only she had someone with Psychometry they could see the history find the mysteries of these statues maybe. One never knew after all and Matsu just touched the cold stone while she was walking around and focused her senses attuning them to find what she could. To search for people when the large doors closed and she was having some fun now letting her force energies wrap around herself.

 

[Matsu Ike]

The city she continued to walk through, up twisting stair cases and through halls lined with artwork and carvings of things she couldn't understand. Ancient battles trying to tell a story about ships that came from the sky and creatures from other galaxies. There were so many more mysteries from before the time of the Republic that these ancient titans fought, the incident that shattered the codex no one really understood and there was more then enough theories but few understood that.

"This city is something else." She was looking for the stairs to find the older ship and looking for what they could do while she was moving about. Taking in everything and letting her hands touch the metal and stone carvings, the statues and she was more interested in everything. She was moving about and came to another room that was filled with more things, the remains of a gate and she understood now somewhat more. This world had been with the hypergates and those gates were all destroyed long ago.

That meant this world had once been part of the galaxy at large and long long ago could have been used for some things but not a whole lot. She was looking at and enjoying it now while they went around coming out at the top of a tower. Matsu looked down upon looking at the top of the ship as her eyes went up to see the darkening sky. "Night is falling, we might be having to sleep down here." The others with her gave a nod of their head as she could just make out some of the design on the ship.

"It looks like Imperium, they would search for a place to entech beings." Their methods dangerous and scary as well as everything they used but there was knowledge in their computers usually. Their sense of progress and advancement leading them to search throughout the galaxy. Her eyes falling on a rack of equipment as she looked at the paddle beamers they had with other weapons. Some rifles and swords with the equipment while she looked it over.

The designs were different and from around the galaxy, being a companion she guessed other exploration ships had been around while a small vat of water was there with slithering things. Matsu was going through the equipment on what they could use while her hand went into the water. It was cold and the things went to her with wriggling feelers. She was rather liking the feeling of it as they added some of the equipment to their collection making Matsu feel fine. These people were scavengers and there was many more racks in the room.

Matsu with the equipment now was moving and climbing out of the window to get down there, the extra equipment in her pockets coming into play while she moved about. She wanted to go into that ship and see the navigational data, see what they could learn and find out and then they could return to the ship. This world was not only inhabited but it was also someplace they would be able to have some interest with the silver jedi. She needed to report back to the council and her friends. "Come on move swiftly and we will search the ship and then get out of here."