Endor

[Blue but beautiful]

"Stop it you crazy bitch do you want to die here?"
Nia Shul growled a low curse of contempt.
That had not been her intention, no, but if it happened she wasn't going to run from it, not like this pitiful excuse for a Jeedai seemed to want to. The rumours had been true then, they clung to life like blorash jelly to any surface it touched.
Something piqued her mind then.
She had brought a small amount of Blorash Jelly with her, the yellowish-green substance that when used correctly could be used to bind a captive or prevent a target's escape. It worked by literally sticking to the surface it touched and manipulating in such a way that if placed on a mobile target, it would render them immobile when in contact with something else such as the ground they stood on.
Could the small amount she had with her be used to immobilize the large creature across from them?

Nia Shul glanced round. No...it would take more than double the amount she had with her. And she should conserve what little in the way of material she had now.
That knowledge did not stop or lessen her efforts to get free. Every so often, the Jeedai would have to get a new hold on her, often jarring her a little and sending her concussed head into a renewed dizzy spell.
As the nausea once again threatened to displace her senses she kicked out hard, again slashing at his back with the coufee. If he hadn't been willing to drop her the first time...

" Put me down!!" She demanded, irritated at having to voice her annoyance...he didn't deserve to hear it.

[Matlalihuitl]

Vix looked up at the jedi and laughed some more.
"Stop an Ewok! HA!" he laughed as he sat up. He seemed to have noticed he wasn't playing around but Vix didn't seem to care if he was or not. He then took notice of the retreating Ewok shaman and then grabbed Logray and held him tightly in his clawed hands.
"This thing, ha! He'll be more better as my snack!" Vix said as he licked his lips and blinked his single eye.

[attomemhuhvoo]

Atto came upon the scene to find Ashen carting Nia away on his shoulder as the jedi attempted to escape the grasp of a giant.

Giant??!!

The thirty- five foot Gruton flashed an impressive grin. Six inch long, dagger like teeth studded it's hungry maw, and it's one eye glittered with malicious glee.

Umwak came to a skidding stop behind Atto, almost running into him as he saw what lay ahead of them. The Gruton appeared to have something contained in one of it's giant hand-paws. An ewok!!

Atto swallowed hard, then dispersed the cloud of fear that threatened to approach. He ignited his blade and rushed forward, intent on rescuing the 'helpless' old ewok from the cyclops' grasp. With a cry, he leapt at the giant, landing on one huge foot. His blade made contact and he could smell the stink of singed fur and the flesh beneath....

[Matlalihuitl]

Umwak stopped and watched as Atto jumped and attacked the Gruton.
"Atto! Don't! He'll kill you!" Umwak yelled as he chased after him. But it was too late, Atto had already made his move and attacked the lumbering gaint.

Vix felt a burning pain on his foot and began screaming and howling in pain. He held on tighter on Logray and looked down at Atto as he began to make a third fall to the ground. With Logray in on paw and nothing in the other, Vix fell to the ground once again. The ground shook as Vix fell to ground and began to scream and kick in pain. Umwak looked over at Atto and grabbed him to hide behind a brush of bushes.
"Stay here, this Gruton is dangerous. He could've killed you!" Umwak yelled. Suddenly Vix threw Logray against a near by bolder and knocked him out as he continued to scream in pain.
"AHHH! OW! I'm in pain!" Vix screamed as he continued his screaming and kicking. Then he looked over at Ashen and Nia and began to slash his claws at them once more.

[wraith]

Nia's constant movements made it a bit difficult to concentrate. He could still feel the darkside around but couldn't focus in on Logray. Unfortunately it seemed the big guy had found him first.

"Stop an Ewok! HA! This thing, ha! He'll be more better as my snack!"
"No! Let him go bef~ agh!!" he shouted before he was cut off as Nia slashed at his back again this time letting her go out of the sharp pain of her living knife like thing.

"You will be the one to become snack. To the scavengers giant." Logray hissed angrily to Vix as thunder rumbled above. His ewok eyes turning to his opponent only moments ago and then the new presence that was coming toward them.

Ashen turned his head in the direction of Atto as he leapt onto the giant's foot

"Atto no!" he shouted but it was too late. The padawan brought his lightsaber down into the Gruton's foot bringing a loud shout of pain from him. Ashen watched as Umwak grabed Atto and made a break for it. Wise decision..but Logray was still alive. Unconscious but alive..but right now he was far from being the greatest danger. Ashen grabbed the back of Nia's hair simply because it was the closest thing in reach and pulled her back sharply. He knew he wasn't hurting the yuuzhan vong underneath..just the false second skin over top of it. He leapt back away from Vix with Nia in tow.

Nice going Atto! he thought out loud not knowing if the young Y-eskii-ill Meyhoothmaa had heard him..but right now this enraged giant was far more a concern. There was no avoiding this he'd have to bring this giant down one way or the other if he couldn't be calmed down.

Obscured by the giant's form Logray started to rise..The only pain he felt was upon his head..and the bird skull he wore..broken into two pieces. He snarled as he stood back on his two legs though in pain his anger gave him the strength to stand..along with the power of the sunstar.

"Accursed beast! Feel my power!" Logray shouted as he rose his hands to the thundering sky and called down a bolt of lightning down toward Vix to shock him and to Logray's hope kill him.

[Blue but beautiful]

Great, just great, the crazed diminutive creature was back. Not only that he seemed twice as angry as before, still shouting it's defiance at the large creature that was now threatening to eat it.

Nia Shul managed to finally land a cut on the accursed Jeedai that refused to let her go, dropping her like a hot plasma bolt as she did so. But she did not have time to regain her footing and stand as the Jeedai then grabbed a fist full of recreated hair - Or Masquer- and yanked her back in the direction of his own retreat.

Completely unprepared for that move - and somewhat still disorientated from the blow to the head- Nia Shul stumbled backward a few paces as her head was pulled sharply backward. Letting out a cry or curse of annoyance, she had been in the process of trying to turn in his grip to slice at the arm he held her with, when the already injured Ooglith Masquer was partly torn free of it's porous holding on her own flesh.
The rest of the creature immediately recoiled, peeling away from it's host in a fast attempt to preserve it's self, revealing ritually tattooed and scarred skin beneath before disappearing beneath the clothes that she wore and reappearing at her feet.

Seething with anger, Nia Shul barely gave the Masquer time to reform at her feet before she launched herself at the Jeedai in a head on attack. She had intended her shoulder to impact on his torso so as to knock him to the ground, from there she could finish him with one deep stab of her coufee...or so she hoped.
She regretted that he had to die out here of all places, but she would still have the apprentice to return with.

[Matlalihuitl]

Vix looked up angrily at Logray as he began to hold the Sunstar in his paws. Then the lighting came down striking Vix on his back and he began to scream as the lighting struck down on his back.
"Curse you Ewok! Damn you as well!" Vix yelled as he slashed at Logray and made him fly against another tree. Vix struggled to get up but tripped again and liad on the ground crying and groaning in pain.

[attomemhuhvoo]

Atto and Umwak were thrown from the giant's foot as the dulok attempted to get the young padawan to safety. Atto flew through the air as easily as a crumpled bit of paper, landing with a bone jarring thud amidst a patch of moist ferns. He rolled back over and purveyed the scene before him. What he saw shocked him. He witnessed Nia's human form go through some sort of metamorphasis. When he saw the blue gray skin covered in ritual tattooing, he immediatly knew what they were up against.

"A Yuuzhan Vong!!"

So, there was something about Nia! But what a something!

The ewok he had been trying to rescue was apparantly an aggressor, and Atto immediatly felt shamed. What was it his master told him about mistaken appearances and first impressions?

The gruton giant howled in pain, not so much for the bit of damage Atto had done, for that wasn't very much. He roared and swung at the ewok. An ewok adept with the force. The dark side of the force.

Atto charged the diminutive furred being, lightsaber alight. A crackling branch of dark electricity danced along the beam's surface, and the y-eskii-ill padawan could feel it's overwhelming power. Again he was knocked down, this time right at the giant's feet.

Spying a sunken boulder, little bigger than the size of his head ,
Atto quickly reached out with the force, ripping it free from its surrounding soil. The heavy projectile hurtled toward the ewok, where it made contact with the crazed little being's head.

The lightening was momentarily stopped. Atto slipped between the giants legs, yelling to him as he did so.

"I'm sorry, big guy!!"

'Nia' was now on Ashen. Atto summoned the force into his tired legs and ran to them. With a primal snarl, he leapt at the Yuuzhan Vong from behind, catching her throat in the bend of his forearm. He pushed her to the ground and waited for assistance, as Nia's kind were not a foe easily put down.

[Blue but beautiful]

Nia Shul had the weapon raised high with the intent to stab down upon Ashen's throat when a bolt from the blue hit her hard, knocking the wind from her own throat and sending her careening across the damp ground.
The padawan.
That was hardly surprising really, but she had hoped that the giant creature would have kept him occupied for a few moments more.
Choking and gasping for air, she found her footing as she did so, this was a minor discomfort and she was determined to end both their lives if she had to before she passed out. Even if that meant ending her own in the process, at least that would be a worthy death.

Rising with a snarl and a choked out curse, she turned on the Jeedai apprentice with a murderous determination blazing in her eyes.
She had only what she carried with her. And she could only hope that was enough. The thud bugs were exhausted, wasted on the small furry infidel that had caused them trouble before. As were the razor bugs. But she did have a small amount of blorash Jelly and that would at least keep the irksome young jeedai where he was until she could finish off the other.

Reaching into her robe she pulled out a handful of the organic matter, just enough to be able to anchor at least one of Atto's feet. That would be all she would need. The Jelly would fix on impact and manipulate it's self in such a way that even if the padawan moved the afflicted foot, that action would be halted in an instant. Keeping her guard up Nia Shul flung the handful of yellowy-green goo as soon as she felt as though the Jeedai would attack. If the Blorash Jelly landed as was planned, she would easily be able to deal with this Jeedai's master without interference.

[wraith]

Ashen's eyebrows shot up a bit in surprise as the second skin pulled itself free of the yuuzhan vong's body and collected itself onto the ground at her feet. There was no way to keep up the charade anymore on her or his part. He wasn't all that surprised to see that it was a female underneath the fake skin. He had fought enough of them wearing their much harder living crab armor.

Upon losing her disguise Nia had turned. Daggerlike creature up as she rushed at him and she might have lost that arm to his lightsaber if Atto had not intervened He was about to move to help as he saw the claws of the giant coming at them. Ashen rose quickly and through the force lifted Atto and in effect Nia with up from the ground and quickly pushed them out of the way of the hand as he leapt back to save his own hide as well. He briefly caught the sight of Nia losing something from her hand apparently intended for Atto which was now under the giant's hand as it hit the ground. As he pulled his claw away he saw what it was. Their damn immobilizing jelly like thing. It almost looked like a large booger on the giant's hand.

From above the black bird he had followed early got into the giant's single eye. Squawking loudly and pecking at it before flying away apparently frightened by something.

Thrown again by the giant Logray was able to stop himself mid flight. The stone around his neck glowing as the boulder the Atto had thrown came his way. Making contact with his head he barked in pain but remained conscious. He snarled and then shouted. The stone shining bright violet as he rose his hands to the sky and bolts of lightning came down from the sky to the ground and over him. An aura of lightning covered around his form. "Puny creatures! You will all die before the power the sunstar has granted me!"

Ashen did not have time to wait he decided he had to bring this ewok down. He leapt up onto the giant's arm through the force as a strong bolt of lightning hit the big guy Ashen leapt off of Vix saber taking a bolt of force lighting as he stabbed the saber into the aura. Bringing Logray and himself. Ashen grit his teeth as the electricity of the aura shot through his form as he and Logray fell to the forest floor. Light saber breaking in his hand from the overflow of energy Ashen reached out through the force at the necklace around Logray's neck and taking the sunstar in his hand trying to pull it away from him. The maddened ewok shaman trying to resist.

"NO NO YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY POWER AWAY!" Logray shouted as this battle of wills took place. The power of stone halfing its power between the two. Power that came as more than a surprise to Ashen. The aura of lighting surrounding them both.

"Your only power comes from the darkside.." Ashen spoke strained with narrowed eyes. "..and it's not yours..You are its!"

[Matlalihuitl]

Vix stood up and slashed at the squaking bird in his face. He then looked down at Atto, seeing how small he is, he only shook his head.
"No worries there." He said as he laid on the ground and grinned. Umwak looked over at the crazy Ewok shaman and growled as he neared toward him.
"Hello Logray. Remember me?" Umwak growled as a bolt of lighting lit the darken sky. As rain dripped off Umwak's face, he pulled out his stone knife and grabbed the Ewok's neck and began to choke him.
"It seems you might remember me..." he growled once more as Umwak's red eyes looked into Logray's dark brown eyes.

[attomemhuhvoo]

Ashen and Umwak were occupied with the crazed ewok whose power seemed to be radiating from a glowing stone of some sort. When the human jedi attempted to wrench it free from the ewoks grasp, the little furry being shrieked in dismay.

Atto still clung to Nia. Her little blorash jelly trick misfired. Instead of hitting him, the blob spattered on Vix's immense hand. The giant seemed to be taking an amused stance on this all. He lay on the ground, swatting at a bird, ignoring the sticky fingers of his other hand.

The Yuuzan Vong fought against him, and she was quite strong. Stronger than Atto would have believed. It shouldn't have been a shock, she was a warrior.

He struggled for a better grip, for the one around her neck had loosened. Her 'real' self now bared to the world, Atto stared in awe at the organic nature of her clothing, and at the ritual scars and tattooing that covered her flesh.

"Stop! Cease this agressive action at once!! " He barked sternly, trying to sound older and more threatening than he actually was. They fell to the ground where they continued to wrestle with one another.

"Why did you kill those passenger...ooff!!"

She twisted beneath him, bringing up one foot to kick him in the face. Atto snarled in pain and reached for his lightsaber once again. Igniting it, he moved the beam over her throat, the orange light flashing in his large gray eyes.

"I shouldn't..but you are leaving me little choice..."

[Blue but beautiful]

The young Jeedai's first attempt at trying to get her to cease her actions failed abysmally. Still that did not stop this fools irritating need to try and reason with her.

"Why did you kill those passenger...ooff!!"

It was a simple enough question she decided, but had no time to answer it in the matter of fact manner anyone in her position would have. When faced with the bare facts, these infidels certainly didn't seem to react too well to it. Something she was certain she could have used to her advantage, if they hadn't tumbled a little way down the hill.

Now it was the padawan who had the advantage. Far less disorientated than herself, and quicker to get to his feet, he was on her in a matter of seconds. Nia Shul twisted and writhed beneath his ever changing grip, once or twice lashing out with taloned hands at the cursed Jeedai's throat. Both attempts he avoided and countered, as was signified by the familiar snap-hiss of a lightsaber sizzling into life.

Nia Shul glared fire at the apprentice as he was quick to draw the lightsaber down within centimeters of her own throat. Now was the time for thinking fast. And fast she was thinking, though not without conflict. Any warrior would have accepted their fate now, be willing to die rather than surrender. Nia Shul had no intention of surrendering, that was not the Yuuzhan Vong way at all, but neither did she intend on losing her life here today.
You can still get out of this, you've done worse... She thought grimly.
Such was the case of many in her domain and caste, though none would have ever admitted to it. That would be as good as laying down at the sacrificial alter.

" You would not dare jeedai!" She sneered up at the strange looking infidel. " That is not your way, that is not what Jeedai do...or so they say."
In truth, they had much to learn about these jeedai, but enough was common knowledge in some circles, that she had ascertained that Jeedai cherished life, clung to it like some sick form of comfort.
Eyes narrowed, she waited to see if she had enough of his attention yet.

[wraith]

Too much power. As Logray fought with his enemy he was caught off guard by the Dulok. His fur became grey and his eyes sunk in faintly.

"Hello Logray. Remember me? It seems you might remember me.."
He did indeed remember.. Who was this dulok again. His power. His power!

"No let me go you filthy creature give me back my power!! Give it back!" the crazed ewok shouted as Umwak's distraction had sent Ashen with the sunstar down the forested hill.

As he kept ahold of it he felt power shaking through every fiber of his being. Power enough to crush all the life from the sith or the Yuuzhan Vong..Yes..so much power.

He closed his eyes to settle his thoughts..to calm his emotions..to find his center within the force. He tossed the stone to the ground rejecting it's promises of power...and he breathed deeply as he stared back up the hill to the shouts of fighting. He had to get back up there. A squawk from the trees caught his attention.

Give it to me. The power..it's finally within my grasp. a woman's voice spoke into his mind.

Did he just hear that? From the bird?! Ashen watched as the bird swooped down toward him; no not him, the stone! He did not second guess his instincts on this. He took the stone and pocketed it quickly into his pocket. The black raven grabbed the ground and flew back up turning toward him and moved to attack.

Give it back! Give it to me! He heard the woman's voice again.
"I knew I sensed something strange about you." He spoke as he moved to avoid the bird. "Who are you?" He had a feeling he knew at least what people this bird belonged too. The Nightsisters of Dathomir could alter their forms into animals through the power of the darkside.

[Elmira Val]

Give it back! Give it to me!

Elmira was perplexed by the squawking bird in the stormy distance. Such creatures were simply unheard of amonst the Yuuzhan Vong.

The patrol of warriors she was part of was practically off duty, and Elmira made a rather fitting excuse. Patrolling.

Having no time to put on a masquer, Elmira was aware of the need to stay unseen. She would not take a bissop hound this time, as there was no apparent need.

From a vantage point above the scene Elmira could make out the furry forms of the natives...