The Tempest [Silver Jedi Dominion of Rhen-Var]

[Coci Heavenshield]

As she lay on the floor of the vehicle, Coci could sense Thurion through the force, their force bond flickering and cutting off. He is racing to her, her mind not able to understand why as it drifted in and out of consciousness, soon everything went black.

Not sure how long she had been exposed to the toxic fumes, time stops. All she knew now, coming back to her mind, is her lungs hurt and she began to cough violently fighting for fresh air. She could feel a weight on her chest, Coci looked to see Thurion resting on her chest to find the pulse of her heart. She could not speak at this point, by raised her hand to find his shoulder in assurance she is alive.

She rolled on her side, it seemed to help somewhat and her coughing began to lessen as she took in more air. Soot stained her face and the trail of tears an effect of the smoke, etched within the dirt. "I am alright", she found voice enough to say. "Thurion we were ambushed, they are still there, get to cover quickly".

[member="Thurion Heavenshield"]​

 

[Thurion Heavenshield]

It didn't take long for him to find her pulse, and just as he did Coci sprang to life with loud coughing and running eyes from the smoke. He gave her some room to catch her breath and inhale fresh air again before he glanced over his shoulder at the crashed vehicle, now fully evacuated. "They must be more well-armed than we thought if they possess that kind of firepower." As more of their forces appeared to set up a defensive perimeter around the two Jedi Masters, Thurion pluck Coci off the cold ground and held her close as he pressed against the fallen debris for cover. With her in his arms, he placed a hand on her tummy. "The little one...?" he asked her softly.

"Master Heavenshield, sir!" came the voice of one of the Rangers, a lieutenant judging by his stripes. "We have snipers set up to eliminate the rocketgunner. Our vehicles can't risk going in unless we take 'em out." Thurion looked up at the Ranger before sending him a nod, at which point the lieutenant signaled the sniper team to take the shot. Soon after a loud shot echoed from atop one of the buildings. Once the kill was confirmed, the Rangers pressed on in full force with Thurion and Coci still clinging to cover. "I can't let you go on any more missions, Coci. Not until after our son is born", he told her while wiping her face clean of some of the soot and tears. "Promise me. You're too precious to me, doubly so considering the state you're in."

[member="Coci Sinopi"]​

 

[Coci Heavenshield]

His words were firm, direction and she could not meet his gaze. Instead she rested her forehead against his chest and closed her eyes to try and pull back the tears not from the smoke this time. A long sigh forced the last of the smoke from her lungs, she turned her head to look away be remained against his body. "I am sorry", she finally whispered. He is right and he has the right to be angry, not that he is but she hated the idea of letting him down and placing their son in danger.

Finally, she pulled back and met his eyes, "You are right, I can't do this anymore until he is born. I promise you no more missions", and she would keep that promise and request light duties from the Grand Master. The realisation of what could have happened set in and Coci burst into tears. Clinging to Thurion she cried until she could no more, she pulled herself together as they are still in a dangerous situation and need to get out.

But before this they both needed reassurance, and placing a hand over her stomach, even through the armour Coci could sense their son and he is well. In fact the he is protesting with his feet once more. "He is fine", she said "I can feel him, he is kicking me .. hard". She managed a small smile.

[member="Thurion Heavenshield"]​

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth kept trudging through the snow, nearly slipping a few times on ice hidden beneath the powdery snow. Coming to the cavern entrance the redhead sighed as she grabbed her saber from her belt and ignited the green blade with a snap hiss, using it as a lightsource as she started to make her descent into the cave.

The power hit her like a brick wall as she stepped further in. The force amplified by the crystals that no doubt would be found deeper inside. Still it took her a moment to settle into the power she felt, and let it wash through her. Scuffling could be heard as she walked on, a scavenger bolted past her, not even taking the time to take a strike at her.

What's his problem.... She wondered idly as she moved deeper. By the way .. this cave is completely creepy. You say that about every cave. Yes, yes I do. Your point?Just saying that you don't like caves is all... They call it a pattern. I call it smarts because there is no knowing in a cave when the roof might collapse ... and and ... I just ... am creeped out by small spaces.

Stretching out her senses ... she could feel others in the caves and then pain. Note to self: Not alone. And this saber may have to be more than a lightsource as much as I don't like that idea.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


She seemed to be suffering from what appeared to be sensory overload. The power that had engulfed the cave hit her like a brick wall and sent her head spinning. Then came the ear-splitting painful vision that the Force deigned to give her this moment. As it turned out, it was most inopportune, for she was not alone. As it turned out she ended up missing the fact that several scavengers had the same idea and were now converging upon her. Precog shot into action just at the right moment to make her dive for cover and hit the dirt when blaster bolts came raining towards her. Rolling across the ground she crawled, trying to reach cover as she grabbed her bolter, firing into the darkness. BAAAM BAAAM BAAAM two rogues wound up dead, but then the scum began lobbing in grenades.


She just managed to reach cover before an explosion but the blast showered her with shrapnel. Gritting her feeth she felt a strong pain surge through her body. Coat ripped apart, armour badly dented, shoulder felt dislocated and numb from the distant blast. Well, now she was pissed. She did not need the Force to know that the scum were closing in on her, or to know that a blaster rifle was aimed at her head.


As it happened her rage found an outlet when suddenly small balls of fire began manifesting in her hands, intensifying in heat. As a matter of fact, her entire body temperature was becoming dangerously elevated, heartbeat racing, to a point where it felt like she was literally boiling up alive from the inside out as sheer heat surged through her body. For one, the Force was wonky and, moreover, her control at this point was terrible...or rather nonexistent. However, she did not particularly care at this point and so all of a sudden searing streams of flame leapt from her hands and surged towards the scum, engulfing them in flames of boiling, redhead rage.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth could hear whispering now, and footfalls in the passages. She most certainly was not alone. While she expected one to be here, the rest ... not so much. It was then she felt it and spun on her heels, and grab the hand that looked to strike her. In a quick motion she twisted the man's arm and pinned him against the cavern wall. "Didn't your mother tell you? It's not nice to sneak up on people." With a free hand she grabbed the blaster he was reaching for. In a single motion she dumped the power pack, and then toss the weapon into the air, cutting it in half with her saber as she let him go with a push. "Leave, this is your first and final warning. Come back, and you won't like the results." She said boldly with a fire in her voice.

It was then that Coryth felt the pain and agony of those scavengers that were dying in the fires from Elpsis. This day just keeps getting better. Said as she tried to push the pain from her mind, not as able to keep her guards and defenses against such things up with how strange the force behaved. As she took a turn in the passages she saw the light flickering from the fire, and knew this was where the agony had come from. And the familiarity ... She's here. Her heart skiped a beat, almost in shock. Coryth had imagined this day, but not like this. Finally the redhead stepped into the space with Elpsis batting a blaster bolt back to the wall to keep it away from her.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Quenladose"]

"DID I WHAT?" He stood and dusted himself off as he moved towards the direction that he had heard her voice and looked at hr standing there with some blade and turned his head as he looked at the small woman. "Whats the problem, oh and the device is up and running now, thing shocked me when i was getting some of the information off it, so if i die you can blame your superiors for putting me on electronic duty. He looked over to where she was staring, his writer not sure if Solan can see the man or not.

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


Scavengers were quite literally set ablaze as her boiling rage brought forth flames that consumed them. Soon enough several were burning, whilst the others took to flight, especially after having seen the light of Coryth's lightsabre. Elpsis was assaulted by a wave of pain and agony from those scavengers who were dying in her fire. Unfortunately for her, she had inherited her mother's empathic gifts and given how wonky the Force was, it was pretty much impossible to blot it out. Never mind the fact that she was barely trained in the first place and thus much that related to her use of the Force was instinctual. However, at present she simply did not care about their pain. They had attacked her and were now facing the consequences.


With pain surging through her from the wonky fire magic, Elpsis collapsed to the ground, spent for the moment and deeply in pain. It was as she fall that she saw her, just as Coryth had stepped into the space with her, having batted a blaster bolt aside before it could inflict presumably lethal harm upon the little firemane, who ironically was a good deal taller than her mother. Presumably this was not the sort of family reunion either of them had imagined.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

As for family reunions Coryth knew one thing, this sucked. Feeling the much taller firemane's pain she raced to her side putting herself between any of the scavengers and her daughter. Hell and high water they were not touching her. With them on the run, Coryth didn't give chase. No. For a moment she just waited, standing ready and making sure they really were gone.

Once she felt them retreating into the distance, and were away from the both of them .. Only then did she kneel down beside Elpsis. "You'll be okay." Spoken softly as she reached into her bag pulling out a syringe and a vial of pain medication. "Will sting a bit." She said as she reached for the girl's arm to administer the medication. "Will tend to everything else this first." One way or another she would care for the girl's wounds.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


Elpsis was shaking and coughing badly when the woman who could only be her mother caught her. Well, squeezed a syringe into her arms to administer a medication against the pain, whatever, semantics. The scavengers had all scattered to the winds, but right now Elpsis had all but forgotten about them.


Her focus was upon the fact that she was in a hell of a lot of pain and at present facing a very awkward family reunion. Coryth did not need to introduce herself, the young firemane simply knew who she was. "Feth, so now you show up. You're my mother? Figures you had to be a forcie. Thanks but no thanks for the visions and the headaches from hell," Elpsis spoke between coughs, though she failed and only got a pained groan when she tried to get up. "Feth, you look familiar...," Like the angry redhead whose ship Elpsis had once boarded. Darn, this was sort of awkward.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth breathed in deeply trying to keep the tears at bay. This was her kid. Her daughter. The tiny Jedi nodded, "Yes ... I am. I'm Coryth, Coryth Elaris." The one she had let go of so long ago, left with the adoption agency and she had not seen her in eighteen years. "So I was uh .. a little late to the party but I'm here now. Lucky I'm a healer or things might be a little ... more painful than they have to be." A small chuckle escaped her lips, "Yeah I blame my mum for those too. They suck no matter which way you put it." The redhead laid a hand on the girls chest, "Don't get up. You are too injured. Let me at least tend to the wounds a little before we move you, okay? Cause I will pin your ass down if I have to."

Coryth's brow furrowed together. "Familiar? Seen me in visions maybe? Or you recalling something else?" She asked as she pulled some bacta from her bag along with some bandages. It paid to be prepared for anything, and the redheaded Jedi Master was a healer by nature, having such supplies was just expected of her.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Quenladose]

[member="Solan Charr"]

"Did you..." She didn't know what to say while moving towards the room again and speaking while she held the sword. "There was someone in the doorway and for a moment I thought you had... never mind." She didn't know what it was but she felt like she might be going slightly mad while hefting the sword up and presenting it. "Here in case we find nothing you will at least have something." There was a look on her face while she kept moving and allowed her hand to touch the console before she felt that feeling again going off towards a antechamber filled with more containers.

 

[Aithne Charr]

[member="Quenladose"]

"Hmm?" He took the blade in hand and weighted it as he spun it quick and looked back at her. "Hey, what is this thing?" He said looking out at the woman and holding out the blade infront of him, amazed no rust or deterioration of the blade to a heavy degree had occurred on its surface. Cutting through the air again he let his body get used to the way it moved and smiled as he was getting a liking to using physical weapons over sabers. Seeing her run off though he followed her, using his belt as a scabbard for now.

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


This was her. Her mother. Her true one. The one she had never seen before, ever since she had been given up. Conflicting emotions surged up inside Elpsis at the sight. This was...not the way she had expected things to go. For just a moment she wanted to reach out to her...but then her mind hardened and she turned colder, stopping the motion before it had begun and so she tried to withdraw from her touch.


Coryth, or whatever her name was, had given her up and never once tried to look for her. Images flashed through Elpsis' mind, of the torture she had endured at the hands of Xerexes. Though she had beaten him to a bloody pulp in the netherworld, his whispers were not so easily banished, nor the torture forgotten. The fact that Coryth could have been hardly expected to raise a child, that she had probably endured a good deal more, did not enter her mind at this point. Self-centred? Very much so, but perhaps understandably so to a degree. "I boarded your ship once, Mother. I got lots of jewellry out of it. Sold it for a profit," she responded. "So what brings you here? Had a vision? Or do you need a shiny crystal for that overglorified glowstick?"

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth glared at the mention of that. "So you were with them when they boarded my ship." Spoken a little angrily. "The government bribe the Republic was sending must have been nice for you I imagine." Not that she cared, at least she got to keep the medical supplies and the bribe went to people that could use it more than the corrupt politicians on the rim.

"You." Coryth said softly. "I came here for you." The redhead said with a sigh. "While I wouldn't mind a crystal if I happened upon a Solari crystal. However, that is not why I came." A shrug followed as she carefully treated the girls wounds. "Because I had a vision of you, here. Seen a lot of you in visions lately. Also I don't even know your name." They'd never told her and the adoption had been closed. It wasn't her right to go looking, or even have Elpsis' name.

"Go ahead. Ask the question that I know good and well you want to." Knowing the girl probably wondered why Coryth had given her up. The answer was complicated and excruciatingly painful.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]

Coryth's glare seemed to amuse Elpsis...just a bit. "Yeah, those bribes were very useful. Repaired my ship, had a nice couple days. All sorts of fun things without fancy space magic," she replied. She seemed to scrutinise Coryth as the redhead - no, she would not think of her as her mother - spoke. There was a long pause before she finally responded to her question about her name. "Elpsis Kallikora," she said curtly. That was the name her adoptive parents had given her. But then they had given her up as well because they could not cope with her powers.


"Oh, questions and answers time in a sodding cave, that's sweet! Might as well start now then, why did you give me up? And did you kill that monster that spawned me?" she asked or rather demanded. "Yes, I know all about him. Met him twice. Second time I shot him in hell." That implied that their first meeting had taken place in the real world. One could easily infer that it had not been pleasant.

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth shook her head and sighed. "Figured." What else could she really say to that? Nothing.

"Elpsis." The name spoken so quietly as her eyes dropped to the wounds on the girl.

A shrug came as she leaned forward, bacta in hand to try and tend to the young woman's wounds. "Told you I wasn't moving you just yet. Too hurt for that." The tiny Jedi healer said softly. "So might as well get it started." The redhead sighed again, far too painful. "I gave you up .. to protect you. From him, from me." Tears were already welling up in her eyes though she tried to ignore it. "Was so damned angry when you were born. At him ... and you .. Angry at an innocent life that did not ask to be brought into this Universe. That wasn't fair to you. My anger unjustified in every way. I'm sorry."

The redhead breathing in deeply trying to compose herself as she wrapped bandages around Elpsis' wounds. "I couldn't take care of you. I couldn't be a mother then. I couldn't even get out of bed on my own I was still so wounded and sick from the poison in my skin. Took nearly two years before I healed from what he did to me. Sliced me up like a piece of meat, intent to make me ... Unwanted by anyone and poisoned me through those wounds." One more sigh, "He's dead. And while I imagine it was horrible what he did to you, he nearly killed twice over now. Siobhan cut him apart, piece by piece ... Ripped his spine out in the end while I was busy trying not to die. No biggie." Said with a bit of sarcasm at the end.

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


Hearing these words seemed to cause Elpsis to soften...just a bit. She was still terribly pissed about being abandoned, as she saw it, and Coryth's words about being angry at her hurt the girl more than she would like to admit. Still, she understood...to an extent at least. Her own anger at her mother did not completely melt away, but it was difficult to keep up the boiling rage after hearing what she had went through, though they were by no means alright. Not by a long shot, but she felt far less of a desire to be confrontational or difficult for the sake of it.


"Well, he find me in the end, so the protecting me part didn't work out that well. But I...uh...understand. I'm...sorry you had to go through that. Didn't know it had been that bad. He hurt me a lot, said...so many nasty things about you," she said awkwardly, visibly shivering at the memory despite her best efforts to shake it off. With some effort she reached out to gently touch Coryth's hand. "I beat the crap out of him in the underworld, or whatever the hell that place was. Bastard squealed like a pig."


There was a pause before she spoke up again, clearly trying to gather her thoughts. "So you still with the hippies in robes or what? And who's this Siobhan chick? Are you two, like, dating? Guess I should go thank her tearing the arsehole's spine out."

 

[Coryth Elaris]

Coryth stopped, "Then I failed you. Failed to protect you and keep him from you." That had been her greatest fear that she had failed her child. The little girl she gave up so long ago. "I thought that if I gave you up, to a family that ... he'd never find you. That it would have been that much harder to get to you. I'm so sorry. I only wanted to protect you, when I was in no shape to do it myself. I am so sorry." The Jedi blamed herself more than anything else. She should have been there. Should have done something else. At the same time, knew in those years she wasn't capable of being a mother in anyway.

A nod of her head as she reached down and gently laid her hand upon Elpsis'. "I can't say for a second that he didn't deserve what he got in the end. It that makes me a bad Jedi, I really don't karking care." Nope, not at all. She definitely felt the man deserved the end he received. "We should get you out of here. I've done what I can to help but without a medical bay I can't really help you further." With that she slowly rose to her feet, intent to help Elpsis do the same.

The tiny woman gave a shrug, "Not really. I'm on my own for the most part when it comes to Jedi affairs. A wanderer, caring for anyone that needs help where I can help there. If they council was to call, I might answer. But that really depends entirely on what their grand little plans would be." Her thoughts moved on to Sio. "Siobhan if my best friend. I care for her a great deal. As for dating ... I'm not sure it can be called that. It's ... complicated."

[member="Elpsis Kallikora"]

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Coryth Elaris"]


Elpsis did sort of feel bad about causing Coryth pain. To a degree at least. "Hey, chit happens. Arsehole's dead now. Hopefully burning in hell." Assuming the underworld contained a place that was all fire and brimstone. She had never gotten around to finding it.


With some effort and after a degree of hesitation, she slowly got to her feet, though she felt very wobbly on her legs. "Complicated, huh?" she raised an eyebrow at that, seeming almost amused. '"Was a Jedi for a while. Then I ditched them. Bunch of holier than thou, elitist tossers acting like they're higher beings because of fething space magic, if you ask me."


This was true, but not the whole truth. Elpsis left out the fact that she had never reached Padawan. Rather what was supposed to be a routine mission had led to an...unpleasant encounter with Xerexes. She had never been the same afterwards, been assigned to AgriCorps and washed out. Yet she said nothing of this. Perhaps because she did not trust her mother that much yet...or perhaps because she did not want Coryth to think of her as a screw-up. Maybe a bit of both. She shook these thoughts aside as she looked around. "Got to grab a couple crystals before leaving. You can make lots of credits with them!"