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[Porguss]

Location: Remote Tatooine Village
Raarpaa Zerlac

"Good... gooooood."

Porguss looked down onto the street below, surveying the young Jedi padawans who awaited their masters' return, talking and carrying on, completely unaware of the dark ones presence.

Porguss pulled himself slowly from the ledge with a squeaky laugh, "I think ith time for introducthionth." He said, drawing his saber into his wing as he prepared to pounce upon his unsuspecting victims below.

(open to anyone! Be an unsuspecting apprentice, be anything )

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

Raarpaa had sensed...something. As she now watched Porguss leap towards the apprentices, she suddenly understood and was there in an instant, lifting her own saber to block the Sith's strike.

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

Their sabers sizzled with glorious light, pressed together in an ancient tension that transcended time and space. Porguss looked deep inside the eyes of his new enemy through the glow of red and blue light. His little heart jumped momentarily at the sight of the furry one, noting her beautiful, round beady eyes and adorable nose, however the pure evil that he had given himself to quickly squashed the feeling. He glared at the creature.

"Tell me, tiny wookie..." He said in his squeaky voice, "What pothetheth you to to interfere with my breakfatht." He turned slightly, hearing the Padawans running away in what he assumed was complete terror from his presence. He looked down and let out a high-pitched sigh,

"If you are looking for a fight, then let it be tho!" He screeched at her, pushing her back with dark side energy. He waddled towards her slowly, apparently deep in thought...

"I have theen the future. I have theen what comth, and what I mutht become. And you thall not thand in the way of the inevitable, oh adorably thmall wookie!"

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

"What possesses me to stand in the way of harming apprentices? My conscience." Raarpaa replied, looking him in the eye and not bothering to correct him. As Porguss pushed her back, she did a graceful flip and landed on her feet. "I do not wish to fight, but I will if I must." The Ewok said calmly, her saber in a defensive stance.

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

Porguss suddenly paused, looking the wookie up and down.

"...Behold, I have theen you before... in my vithinth..." He mused, apparently in deep thought. "Thouch beauty... thouch grace..." He waived his free wing in the air towards her, "There ith nothing that shall thave you from your fate, my fuzzy friend."

He suddenly jumped up in the air, pointing his saber at her passionately, his whole body shaking...

"YOU... are dethtined to become... my APPRENTITH!" He looked at her, his eye twitching slightly as he held his saber out towards her, relishing the drama of the moment... making sure the devastating impact of his words would sink in and cause her to discover her fate fully.

"Apprentith.... Apprentith...." He said repeatedly, as if to create a dramatic echo for the word.

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

Raarpaa listened as Porguss spoke. "Perhaps I am destined to be your apprentice for a short time, to learn about the Bogan. And perhaps I am also destined to be the apprentice of a Jedi for a short time to learn about the Ashla."

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

Porguss stopped shaking as he stared at her in confusion... surprised at her apparent openness to the idea.

"wait... really?" He said, stretching his neck so as to see if she was being serious. "I mean, thatth cool that you open to it... and I promith I won't thlauter you or anything... I only thlaughter padawans." He said, shrugging at the obvious logic of his argument.

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

Raarpaa deactivated her lightsaber, placing it on her belt as she nodded, folding her furry hands at her waist. "Yes, really. And so long as I can help it, you will not be slaughtering anyone, least of all innocent apprentices."

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

"Oh, my dear apprentith... innothenth ith an illuthion." He said as he deactivated his lightsaber and put it back onto his belt as well.

"I never thlauter the innothent... If you had theen the vithionth that the forth hath given to me, you would know that I am doing a good work." With that he flew over and rested upon the wookies head, nestling into her warm fur with a look of pure delight.

"Thith ith nith... nith indeed. Your fur ith the perfect rethting plath for my weary thoul." With that, he suddenly ignited his saber again and pointed it fervently in the direction of the fleeing padawans.

"Onward, my apprentith!" He squealed.

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

"Perhaps innocence is an illusion, but we will never know." Raarpaa said calmly. "If you had seen the visions the Force has given me, you will understand that these young people will grow to be skilled Je'daii Masters, and will do great things." She rolled her eyes as Porguss flew into her head. When he dramatically told her to go towards the apprentices, she shook her head, not enough to knock him off, and began walking away from the poor children.

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

"Wait, what...?! Where do you think you are going?" Porguss exclaimed as he desperately looked back in the direction of the padawans,

"No... NO!... thtop!" He went to fly away, but her luscious fur beckoned him to stay. He looked back longingly at his prey with sad eyes, unable to bring himself to leave his newly found perch.

"HUMFF." He said, pouting as he put his saber away again and crossing his wings in front of him, angrily looking out at this new direction that she was leading him in against his will.

"...and they are called PADAWANTH. PADAWANTH. Not apprentitheth... Where are we going, honethtly?" He grabbed onto her fur and pulled himself upside down until she could see him on top of her head, their eyes very close to each other.

"You know, thmall wookie... you make a louthy apprentith... just sayin'..."

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

"A Padawan is an apprentice." She said, stopping as Porguss blocked her field of view. "And just so you know, I am an Ewok." Raarpaa said with a smile. "It seems to be a common mistake. I'm Je'daii Journeyer Raarpaa Zerlac, by the way."

 

[Porguss]

Porguss stared at her for a moment, processing what she had said. Finally, he spoke,

"Nith to meet you, Raarpaa Zerlac who ith... not a wookie after all." He pulled himself back up and nestled himself back into her fur, a look of delight crossing his little face again at the softness of her fur.

"You are my firtht ewoke apprentith... thith mutht be a great honor for you to have bethowed upon you." He furrowed his eyes, thinking hard, then spoke,

"But you are wrong... Padawanth are NOT the Thame ath apprentitheth... thith ith impothible. If it were true, then you could be conthidered to be a Padawan... and that would mean... that..." His eyes opened wide as he realized the implications. His whole body shuddered at the thought, "I cannot fathom such fableth. Enough of thith thillineth, my dear apprentith."

He suddenly jumped, pulling her fur a little as he pointed with one wing in the direction that she was leading them in already,

"Onward! Uhh..." He looked around, not actually knowing where they were going...

"Where are you taking me, my non-wookie apprentith?"

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

"I will not take part in meaningless slaughter for the sheer purpose of learning."Raarpaa said to Porguss as she walked. "We're going towards that forest."

 

[Porguss]

Raarpaa Zerlac

Porguss laughed and shook his head,

"Have you learned nothing of what I've taught you, my apprentith? There ith nothing meaningleth in my cauth!" His eyes looked up, as if he was beckoning greater wisdom from above to assist him in his deep explanation of his calling,

"Thoth foul and dithguthting vermin were eating thith kabobth... did you not thee? And here in lyth your netht lethion..."

He breathed in deeply, letting out a slow exhale as he prepared to reveal his deep wisdom to the Ewok.

"Kabobth leadth to barbecue... barbecue leadth to bird meat conthumpthion... bird meat conthumpthion.... leadth to..." His eyes filled with tears, "...the thlaughter of the Porgth!" He ignited his gorgeous red saber again, raising it in the air with deep conviction.

"Theth inothent padawanth are the wortht culpritth I've ever theen of thith horror! They thall pay for their thinth! Their barbecueth thall be no more!"

He suddenly stopped his monologue, a rather impressive feat in and of itself, as he suddenly processed the fact that she was taking him into a forest.

"Uh... do you live in thith foretht? Are their padawanth there that we can thalughter together? You know..." He said as he patted the top of her head with his wing and turned off his light saber, putting it back on his belt, "If you really dethire to learn about the bogan... whatever that ith... thlautering padawanth ith, you know... like... totally a great way to do that. jutht thayin'."

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

Raarpaa laughed. "So they were eating meat. I eat meat as well. And if I remember correctly, porgs eat fish, which is also meat. And no, I don't live in this forest, and no there are no Padawans in there. The Bogan is what you call the Dark Side. The Ashla is the Light. The Bendu is the Balance between the two, and the Je'daii's goal. I believe that by learning from both Jedi and Sith, I can learn more about the side they are closest to, and thus better learn how to maintain balance. And I have no intention of killing simply to learn."

 

[Porguss]

"Oh pleath! Fith are unintelligent thortheth of protein!" Porguss shook his head at her comparison, which seemed completely ridiculous in his mind.

He looked down at Raarpaa Zerlac as they entered the forest, pondering this strange creature with such immaculate and sensational fur.

"Well... perhapth itth time for your firtht lethon, my apprentith..." He hopped down onto her shoulder, down her arm and onto the forrest fauna below, hopping a few feet in front of her before turning around and looking up at her with wide eyes.

"Leth thee how your lightthaber thkillth have developed, thall we?"

With that, he ignited his saber and leapt towards the Ewok with a strange but joyful squeaking sound, not intending to strike her down but instead to see how she would respond in combat.

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

Raarpaa ignited her lightsaber, easily blocking the red blade that came at her. She did not aim to kill, but to disarm. The Ewok was clearly a master of Ataru, and utilized the environment, using it to her advantage as she leapt into a tree and jumped down towards Porguss in Falling Avalanche style.

 

[Porguss]

"Ahh... I thee you have mathtered the tree-jump-slath... a clathic." He said, leaping into the air and striking her blade again with his.

But have you mathtered... The thlath-thlath-tree-jump-thumerthault-thlath?!?!?" He squeaked with a slight sense of pleasure as he jumped into the air, stricking left, then right as he touched the tree gingerly with his adorable bird feet.

"BBKKKKRAAAAAAA!" He cried in his native tongue as he pushed off the tree and did an awe inspiring somersault in the air, coming back down towards her with a final slash of his blade.

 

[Raarpaa Zerlac]

"Indeed I have, but can you do this?" Raarpaa said, imitating the porg's motions and adding another move to the mix, blocking her opponent's blade