Chapter 7

The cries of the blacked clad beings rang out as their hands were parted from their wrists and dropped to the floor in utter defeat and Thann deactivated his lightsaber and quickly approached one of the members and pulled them to their feet pulling off their mask revealing a zabrak underneath the cowl. " Where is the other Jedi that was here?" Thann began asked in a loud a voice while using the force to coax an answer out of his would be assailant but the zabrak was in to much of shock to answer, but Thann remembered what his master did to shake him out of his shock the first time he saw someone die while he was on a diplomatic mission to one of the mid-rim planets and the person they were sent to guard was assassinated just as they had arrived, Thann saw was the first to see the body sitting there on the slab in the morgue and was so shocked at what he saw that he couldn't even move that his master slapped him hard so that the shock left him and he was able to think clearly again, and so he did the same to his assailant.

The zabraks' mind instantly cleared of shock when Thann slapped him hard against the face and finally heard the question that Thann had asked him and gave him an answer " The other Jedi is being held on our ship." The next thing Thann wanted to confirm was if there was another group waiting at the ship to which the zabrak said no but " There is one other waiting, our master who will stop you dead in your tracks." Thann knew that if their was another waiting for him that was stronger than he might be in trouble but if he could set Quinlan free then the odds might be evened out but he knew that he might die trying so he did what Quinlan had taught him and began to center himself in the force.

After Thann felt himself centered he began to head to the location of where the zabrak had said the ship was docked and once he was close enough he pulled out his binocs and scanned the area to make sure that there were no guards stationed on the outside perimeter to his surprise there was no one and so he began to approach the ship as well as spread out his sense in the force to see if there might be anyone on the ship, what he sensed caused him to take a step back but he knew that he'd have to move forward so he put one foot in front of the other and gathered his courage one more time calling upon the force to stifle the fear that was trying to build up but to no avail he felt as if the fear was welling up, and then he remembered that just because he was afraid didn't mean that he lacked courage at least that was what his master had told him when he was just starting his apprenticeship and so he used that as motivation and his pace quickened as he began to run full speed at the ship.

Just as Thann got near the ship he felt himself flying backwards as he was swatted by an invisible hand with immense power, once he had recovered he quickly got to his feet and pulled his lightsaber from his belt and activated the blue blade and got into a defensive stance as he saw a man clad in black walk down the ramp with his lightsaber activated the red blade reflecting of the metal of the ship, Thann could tell by the way the man was holding the blade that he had some skill with it more so than those he'd fought earlier just how much he'd have to find out and that might throw a wrench in his plan since he wouldn't be able to get to Vos first but still he knew that he this might be the outcome as well so would do what he could.

Thann slowly approached his enemy cautiously with his guard up his opponent did not wait but went on the offensive immediately striking at his blade with skill that he was sure that only a jedi master would have or someone who had fought countless battles with a blade, still he knew that he couldn't give up so easily and waited for the right moment, which soon presented it self when his opponent tired out from his continuous striking and that was when Thann began his offensive hoping that it would turn the tide cutting loose and letting the lightside of the force flow through him and surround him as if he was surrounded by water in the ocean this surprised his opponent as he faced an onslaught of blade work from the much younger jedi surprised that he was seeing another skilled duelist so young but the older man gathered himself and waited for his chance to strike back but that chance never came as he was suddenly attacked from the rear by what was supposed to be his hostage.

Quinlan had been drugged and dragged off to someone's ship and wasn't able to come to till now and what he felt as he awoke shook him out of his stupor as two opposing forces of light and dark clashed outside his ship and here he was stuck on a ship bound and gagged but that wouldn't last as the Jedi Knight used the force to unlock his binders on his wrist and feet from there he pulled the gag out of his mouth and began to search for his belt and weapon which he quickly found and from there he rushed to the ships ramp and saw a sight that had him shocked to his core as he watched a young Thann Oteros keep a much seasoned Dark Jedi on his toes but what even impressed him more was the fact that Thann was connected to the force it felt as if he was it's living embodiment but that soon passed and Quinlan knew that if he didn't step in soon Thann would be in trouble.

Quinlan activated his lightsaber and used the force to leap at the dark jedi clearing the distance bringing his saber up for an overhead strike that would cleave his opponent in two but just as he was about to follow through the dark jedi sensed what was coming and moved out of the way instantly, but was almost caught off guard by his younger opponent who had repositioned himself to strike if his companions strike was to fail but still even that was not enough since their opponent was a master duelist and made his own adjustment and avoided the younger mans stab to his midsection and went for a disarm of his own but it seemed that all three men seemed to be in sync with each other but the dark jedi soon realized that he was tiring out much sooner than he expected and knew that if he did not withdraw he would be at their mercy and for him that could not happen it was time for the back up plan

Both Thann and Quinlan could sense their opponent finally tiring and knew that a chance for subduing him would soon present it self what they didn't know was that their opponent had a back up plan for such a situation as dealing with two jedi and were taken by surprise when the dark jedi force jumped to where the entry to the dock was and hit the bracer on his arm causing the ship that was near them to suddenly explode knocking the jedi on their backs unconscious and giving the dark jedi enough time to make his escape.

Thann woke up and found himself in the medbay of the ambassadors ship and Quinlan was sitting across from him applying bacta patches to where the fire had reached them and caused some minor degrees of burn. " What happened?" Thann asked Quinlan as he sat himself up and Quinlan looked at his ward and new that he had questions to ask about what had happened but he wasn't sure if it was the right time but he could tell that Thann was still waiting for him to answer his question " It seems that dark jedi had a bomb set up on his ship for a just in case situation like the one where he might be captured and trust me had that fight wore on we would have had him but what happened, happened and then I wasn't fully knocked out so I got up and grabbed you and used the force to get out of there but somehow I still got burned." Thann was glad that after checking himself he had not been burned at all which was probably why Vos was and then asked what would be the next step in their investigation since all the people linked to the dark jedi that they had encountered had been killed or had their minds destroyed by what appeared to be a darkside technique.

Quinlan knew that with what had just happened the Council would need to be updated as soon as possible and would most likely send a team of jedi to assist them since they were wanting to capture anymore dark jedi alive for further questioning so instead of waiting around he got up from his bed and went to the holo communicator and got on the right channel to raise the Jedi Temple.