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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 17:27:01 GMT -5
[[ Right-o. ]]
Dom had about had enough of the n00b adding to the contest. Like lightning Dom had twin Red sabers out, and was off the chair in an instant. Pushing Jackie softly but hard into the couch, and kicking Belph to the floor seemingly to strike him down.
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 18:58:16 GMT -5
Jakie had now idea what was going on as she fell onto the couch, and as she saw Belphegor get thrown to the ground. The sound of the twin sabers propelled him to do something that she knew she would regret later, but it had to be done. She rolled off the couch, and onto Belphegor, shielding him from Dom's sabers. M'aiq, who had just realized what was going on, raced over to them with a shocked look on his face. "What's going on!?" He growled, not sure if he should knock the sabers out of Dom's hands or get Jakie off Belphegor. Jakie just focused on shielding Belphegor as much as she could, not because she knew or liked him yet, but because it felt like the right thing to do.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 21:53:01 GMT -5
Dom force-pushed M'aiq into the wall; the wave was unnecissarily harsh, but a decent crushing force was needed to pacify the enourmous Cyran. He gargled once, and then fell to the floor behind the bar, out for the moment. Jackie and Belph were already on the floor; It was then that his true intention became apparent: at that moment, 5 different disruptor beams came through the front window of the tavern. All 5 were expertly deflected with 3 being blasted back at their points of origin. 2 missed and made deep craters, 1 where M'aiq's face would have been, and one where Belph's would have been. 1 of the deflect was aimed at Jackie's, and the last 2 were on him. 2 screams of agony followed a moment after the loud electric zaps the saber made deflecting them; a hollow, wet, and gorey splattering noise followed by the sound of a heavy body hitting the floor told Dom he had just made a headshot, sans ranged weaponary.
A thermal detonator flew through the hole; it was an explode on contact programmed one; this would not be deflected. To Dom's force-enhanced abilities, the thing seemed to move in slow motion though, and with a single outstretched hand, the force pushed it back out the shattered window. More screams of terror followed; they obviously weren't expecting a boomerang grenade either; this time no screaming folllowed the loud blast, and 5 loud, wet splatters could be heard over the din of the explosion; Dom smirked evilly.
People were screaming in the distance; not a good sign. He quickly shut his sabers off, and hoped noone else had heard their tell-tale hum. He looked down at Jackie, splayed defensively over Belphegor, who was equally terrified. "Silly girl. If I meant to have his head, I would have chopped it off long ago." Dom said; it was then apparent that Jackie's tiny form compaired to his only covered his bottom to mid-torso; he could have easily walked right over, and dragged a lazy line with 1 saber across Belph's head, taking it off easily before she could scramble up to further protect him. "I feared that the Crime/Drug lord's assassins pervaded the ranks of the GBHA (Galactic Bounty Hunting Association) as a watch for future attempts; I did not realize they would act this quickly." Dom said calmly. "We are fortunate that noone was killed in the assassination attempt." He said calmly, looking down at her. "I did what I must. You would be dead otherwise." He said; Giant Cyran lion hands were about to close about his neck, and he didn't even need to see behind him to recognise the presence of a very cross M'aiq behind him. Either way, Dom made no offensive move either because he knew that M'aiq didn't have the guts to do it, or knew he wouldn't do it for the sake of friendship.
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 21:59:04 GMT -5
Jakie covered her head with her hands, frightened beyond words. When it was finally over, she considered getting up, but her legs simply wouldn't hold her. She just kept silent, the expression on her face still one of fear. "Th... Thank you, Dom..." She managed to choke out, as she looked up at her proverbial guardian angel. M'aiq, who had been seriously thinking of strangling Dom, finally realized what had happened and simmered down. "That... Was way to close for my tastes." M'aiq growled, looking out the Cantina's door and frowning slightly. "Jakie, Tiger boy, you two OK?" He asked, loosening up a little. "Oh, and Dom... Thanks." He added as an afterthought.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 22:12:36 GMT -5
"Mmm." Dom grunted, honored by how easily he'd slipped from M'aiq's thoughts. Picking up Jackie and then helping Belph up with one hand (something that suprised the Terrified Cyranian completely) before returning to the bar to get continue his drink. "I suspected as much..." He said. "I ph34r this place may well be targeted again by assassins, unless they somehow come to believe I know none of you, and that this was a random coincidence. By now they've probably nabbed several regulars, and found out I'm one as well though, unfortunately." Dom sighed, taking another sip of his drink. "Either way, they won't stop until I'm dead, so I'll have to take my leave of you 3 until I do, or figure out some way out of this." With that, he turned and left. He too would have tripped on the same wire Belphegor did, but his foot hooked it, and tore it off the floor, snapping it. If he even felt the electric current, he didn't show it. "That guy can't be human... He can't be anything!!" Belphegor stammered. "How did he do that!? I've never seen jedi tricks like those!!"
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 22:18:13 GMT -5
M'aiq let out an unimpressed grunt as Dom left, and he walked over to the bar and sat down at a stool. He reached over the bar, grabbed yet another can of soda, chugged it down, then growled and shook his head. "I hate crime lords..." He muttered, looking down at the well-polished counter.
Jakie stood next to Belphegor, shivering slightly. It no longer felt so warm in the Cantina, in fact, it was beginning to feel very cold, though it was actually just a afteraffect of her being scared out of her mind. "I don't know, Belphegor..." She replied quietly, shivering a little more.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 22:24:13 GMT -5
Belphegor resisted the urge to hold and comfort her; he'd just met the poor girl after all. He sighed, and silently thought the same as M'aiq. He shivered as well; his coat wasn't protection from the adrenaline that coursed within him. Still, the human (could IT have really been a human?) possessed mighty fighting qualities. He did dearly wish that he might learn something from that formidable being, before he undoubtably met his doom fighting an entire quadrant's worth of star sytems. The outer rim was an unforgiving place though, as he knew all too well.
[[ Night J-man. Sorry I couldn't stay, but gonna go play some smash bros. brawl. Don't know if you'll be on in 2-3 hrs. or less, but see ya anyway. ]]
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Post by Kye ! on Mar 15, 2008 22:29:03 GMT -5
Shanya listened and watched the whole scene scretly. When the waiter came the first time she said she needed a couple. Who knew that everyhting was going to happen. She listened to everything...stunned by something...bored by some others. As M'aiq sat down a small smile crept across her face. "Your telling me..." came muttering out of her mouth. She sighed and looked around again. She now didnt feel so hungry as she did before. Something just wasnt sitting right in her stomache as of now. She sighed and shrugged. She took another glance at 'aiq and smiled again. Her gaze slowly made its way at her arms that layed crossed on the counter.
((eep! I tried!!))
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 22:30:47 GMT -5
[Naw, I won't be on then. I've got a cold-type thing, so I'm gonna hit the hay here in an hour or so. Night Raf!]
Jakie, who had no idea that Belphegor was standing behind her, backed up and began to turn around, only to walk right into him. "Oh... Sorry..." She laughed sheepishly, looking up at Belphegor and smiling. She began to back up, only for her adrenaline-filled body to betray her, causing Jakie to trip, wobble backwards, then as she over-corrected, pitch forward right into Belphegor's chest. She offered up a very embarressed smile, but she made no attempt to cease leaning on him. "Sorry... Again..."
M'aiq looked over at Shanya, a slightly concerned look on his face. "Hey, you all right?" He asked, giving her a weak smile.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 22:32:09 GMT -5
"Y-yeah..." Belphegor stammered, trying to pass it off as a simple fluke for the sake of dignity; he didn't know who's yet.
[[ And Still M'aiq has nothing to say about this?! ]]
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 22:37:07 GMT -5
[M'aiq is about to notice... And when he does, it's probably not going to be good...]
Jakie finally stood up, lightly grasping both of Belphegor's forearms to brace herself as she stood. She offered up another, even more embarressed look, then glanced back at M'aiq, talking to Shanya. "Uh... Come on, I still haven't looked over your scratch..." She said hastily, releasing him and very gently pushing him towards the couch. "Well? Sit down!" She laughed, finally pulling herself back together.
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Post by Kye ! on Mar 15, 2008 22:42:12 GMT -5
Shanya smiled and nodded. "Perfectly fine...." she said softly. She was fine. She differnet things ran through her head. Different things that she couldnt understand at the moment. She had no clue why they were in her head...or why she would even have to know anything. She shrugged and looked at M'aiq. She then looked at Jackie and Belphegor. She sighed and looked back at M'aiq. "I have a feeling that the question should be...are you alright?" she said softly. She then looked back down at her arms. She had a feeling that now she should keep quiet.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 22:58:14 GMT -5
[[ Back for 1-3 posts. Sis was being a F***-tard, lording over me with the game, so while she's playing, I'ma post. She'll be done in a sec, and then I'll leave again... ]]
Belphegor sat numbly on the couch, his pain forgotten. He could now only focus on the carbon-burn-lined holes in the walls, and window. He didn't even wanna KNOW what was outside the tavern entrance, what the failed ban of assassins looked like, after taking a direct hit with a thermal detonator. Before long, police sirens could be heard. "Geeze... How do we explain it wasn't us that did any of it? Your friend bailed at the worst possible time...." He said, cringing.
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 23:05:38 GMT -5
[Ah, I see!] Jakie didn't really care about the sirens, she was too busy tending to Belphegor's injury. She gently wiped the dried blood from the wound with a damp washcloth, then very carefully applied a liquid bandage to the scratch. "I don't think the cops'll give us TOO much trouble. I mean, none of us are armed as far as I can tell, well, except for the fact that M'aiq has a Five-SeveN pistol, and that wouldn't do the kind of damage a disruptor would." She thought out loud, sitting down on the couch next to him. It was then that she noticed that she was bleeding quite heavily from a wound on her shoulder, that appeared to have been caused by a flying splinter of wood. "Oh, great..." She muttered, glaring at the embedded chunk of wood as if she could vaporize it with a evil look.
M'aiq shrugged and glanced over at Jakie as she tended to Belphegor's wounds. As long as the tiger didn't make any moves on Jakie, M'aiq would be civil with him. "Oh, yeah... I'm fine. Name's M'aiq, by the way. What's your name?"
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 23:14:16 GMT -5
Belphegor honestly didn't think M'aiq was still talking to him by now; the girl had said his name so many times that he'd figured M'aiq picked it up within the last 10 minutes. Consequently, the question went (innocently) ignored, as he moved to inspect the splinter. "The EMS teams should be here in a moment. I suppose they'll be able to take that out soon enough, wincing in sympathy. It DID look painful, though there was nothing he could do with his present lack of medical equipment.
Dom was at once in his room, standing over three more bodies. The fight had been quick and untracable; the corpses were force-tossed out the window, to be allowed to fall wherever they hit. He sighed; thus was the burden of such a notable bounty. He privately wondered if it was the most wise thing he could've done to allow Jackie to pick his next target; no sense in crying over spilled blood now, he was already too far gone to simply withdraw his choice. Still, he wished he'd had some preperation time, and figured it was bad enough that he'd delayed this long. After grabbing a single bag full of things he would need for the road, he was out the window, and surfing the next Freighter to the nearest spaceport.
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Post by Kye ! on Mar 15, 2008 23:16:15 GMT -5
Shanya nodded and looked at the two on the couch. Her orbs then turned and looked into M'aiqs. "My name is Shanya. Nice to meet yah M'aiq." she said smiling softly. she looked at him and then at the counter again. Thats one new persn shes met...it ages. Not bad. For someone who is always quiet..she actualy ade a friend. Surprising.
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 23:21:36 GMT -5
"Pleased to meet you too, Shanya. Sorry you got such a... Warm welcome to the Cantina." M'aiq chuckled, glancing over his shoulder at the smoking crater where the detonator had hit. "Well, this has certainly been an interesting week, I must say..." He muttered, chuckling as a rookie cop started puking his guts out at the sight of one of the mangled bodies.
Jakie rolled her eyes and sighed. "There's a medkit, over there." She said, pointing over to a small white cabinet mounted in a unobtrusive corner of the Cantina. "Would you get it for me? I don't trust Coruscant's medical personnel as far as I can throw them." She asked, giving Belphegor a small, tired smile.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 15, 2008 23:32:48 GMT -5
Belphegor walked across the room, retrieving said kit and handing it to her. All the while, Belph could not ignore that strange being, who for some reason, terrified even him. He did not know what it was that scared him more about that man: The fact that he did everything so easily, or that now all he could see in his mind when he thought of that human was this particular, perpetually leering mask: He shuddered as he looked into that thin black eyepiece in his mind's eye, wondering exactly who that was. Still, he brushed it off (with some difficulty) and tried to replace it with thoughts of the girl once more. Either way for some reason, when his eyes settled on her, he couldn't help but think that.... THING'S haunting gaze was again upon him, that he was again right behind him. [[ Meh. Dom poses as Darth Revan II.... I gotsa go now, J-man. Night d00d. ]]
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Post by Jiang on Mar 15, 2008 23:40:28 GMT -5
[Night Raf. See ya tommorow.]
Jakie sighed and smiled gratefully as she took the medkit from Belphegor's massive hands. She placed it on the couch next to her, opened it up, and removed the proper instruments to heal her injury. First, she needed to use tweezers to remove the splinter. Then she'd need to apply a bacta patch, both of which weren't going to be easy for her to do on her own. "Uh... I hate to ask even more of you, but... Can you help me with this?" She asked, looking up at Belphegor with a warm, unintentially seductive smile.
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Post by ♠Rafiki♠ on Mar 16, 2008 1:38:10 GMT -5
He was quick to remove the offending splinter, and administered the bacta patch as well as could be done, considering the problem area was covered in fur. Disposing of the splinters and wrappings in the incinerator, he handed her back the tweasers as an especially grim police officer walked through the door; he looked like he was wearing red socks from the mess he'd waded through just now.
Dom smashed the 2 assassins that had stowed away on the shuttle easily, quickly realizing that this mob boss would be an easy kill, and 500,000,000,000 easy credits. It occured to him that this mob boss (Miraculously enough being a Gamorrean) did not forsee the possible attack from a weilder of the force in ways that he did. The pig thing would fall easily enough, after some easy mind-manipulation... He almost felt sorry that all those many bounty hunters before him had to die via conventional means of bounty hunting. Still, he really didn't because remorse just wasn't a sith quality. Even for ex-lords, compassion was almost above their understanding. It truely did weaken a warrior, if he held any weakspots. It pained him a little to admit it, but though Jackie and M'aiq had been his "Friends" for the past 7 years, he wouldn't think twice about striking either or both of them down. Thus was the tortured life of a sith, and usually even an ex-sith like him.
He sat back for the flight, wondering how on earth he'd survive extraction of the enslaved gamorrean crimelord, and began making plans for his escape. Eventually, once every possibility in his mind was gone over twice, his thoughts drifted back to his two "Friends", the tall M'aiq, and the (Still large but undeniably attractive) girl Jackie. Naturally, his thoughts drifted toward the unfortunate young soul that he'd left a recurring subconcious fright instinct with. He hadn't donned that mask or suit in over 8 years, (privately, he sometimes missed the influence and power such an unforgettable image left in people) but he figured he was about the same without it. Not wearing the thing meant he could shake Jedi pursuit; even younglings were taught from acceptance to fear and respect that image, the image of a killer. He wondered if at last it was time for the mask to be brought forth again, to wreck havoc upon the galaxy, if for just one more hunt. He unfortunately had to brush those thoughts away; if the infamous sith lord was seen again hunting the crime lord, too many people ran the risk of seeing the connection between his hunt for the swine, and the sudden, breif reappearance of such an old and hated foe.
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