The waking giant {Dani}

[Iota]

Saleucami, a rather unassuming planet with no alliance. A fitting planet to be the incarceration of a sleeping monster. Xavier Libertas, an unforgiving, unrelentless Dark Jedi Master lay shackled in a stasis pod after receiving the crushing blow of the jedi master Vreem.

Xavier's location was known by none, except by his minions who placed him there, as that were their orders incase a potentially mortal wound was struck. Time for him to heal his wounds unconsciously, yet slowly. Unfortunately, his minions never returned, or have yet to return.. it has been a fair while since Xavier's incarceration. He is incapacitated until an ally or an unsuspecting fool pushes the right button.

The stasis pod in question lay in a some what ancient and dilapidated underground bunker, the hall ways are dark and dank, with the whispers of evil intent echoing down the long, narrow, never ending corridors, the echoes evidentally leading back to the room where the dark jedi master lay in a deep sleep.

Inside the mind of the mute force wielder, the never ending sceams of the souls Xavier devoured in the wake of his carnage of rampages over the years. Whilst not actual souls, of course, Just evidence enough that Xavier's mind is re-awakening and the time is nigh for his ressurection. With this rising brain activity, unconsciously, His mind is calling out to any of those who follow a similar path, hoping that one day some one may heed the calling.

[Regnier]

It was like a voice in the back of her head, crawling under her skin, whispering to her from the shadows...

Wake me...

Whatever it was, and whatever it wanted, it was annoying the hell out of the Cathar. Seriously. Ever since she'd set foot on this humid, sweaty rock three days prior, something had been eating at her. And she'd had enough. Whatever malevolent spirit had decided to try and bug the Assassin was about to get its wish. And after she found it, she was going to toy with it, kill it, crush it, destroy it, and murder it. Or have all that done to her. Either way.

It didn't take terribly long to find what Dani was pretty certain was housing...well, whatever it was. Obviously, nobody had used this bunker in quite some time. The landlord was most definitely slacking off. Taking a few swipes out of the underbrush covering the entrance, she eventually made her way to the door. Pressing the control switch beside it, she sighed slowly as nothing happened.

Well, that's about right...

Gripping the hilt of her blade firmly, she rammed the cyan shaft through the door, cutting herself a circular hole she could fit through. As the plate finally came loose, she gave it a hefty kick, sending it inside with a loud clang. Immediately, she was almost overtaken with the wave of rank, old, stuffy air that washed through the hole. Wheezing, she moved off to the side for a few minutes, contemplating whether it would be worse with or without a helmet. Even fully sealed, the inside of her suit was suitably damp from sweat, but inside that bunker would be more than just hot. It was going to undoubtedly be hot. Cold, she loved. Heat, not so much.

Sighing, she finally pulled her faceless black helmet on, locking it into place, and stepped through the hole.

This place...there was definitely something malicious here. The darkness was...too dark. Even without a connection to the Force, she could feel it. Hear it. But...here was where she was at home. In the darkest shadows. She did not simply adapt to the dark...she became it, moving through shadow as if she was a part of it. It almost made her feel comfortable.

Almost.

"Can you hear me, I wonder? Can you feel me? No, perhaps not...you're no spirit, are you?"

Eventually, she came to a sort of central room, and immediately, everything became clear. Dead center was a stasis pod, still active.

"Found you. You're not so dead as I first thought. Shall I open you? Hmm...why, I think I shall, actually."

Moving to the side of the pod, the Cathar studied it for several moments, discerning how to turn it off and open it. Finally, she keyed a few commands, doing just that, and instantly as the pod began powering down its stasis systems, the Assassin vanished into more than just a shadow. All semblance of her, body and soul, became a black hole in a shadow. To be able to turn oneself invisible in the literal sense, that was a useful skill, no doubt, but the ability to make herself invisible through even the Force itself...now that was a true gift, one she had learned the value of long ago.

[Iota]

The lid to the coffin like stasis pod burst open with a cloud of smoke coming from the mix of the hydrolic discharge and the cold air seeping from the pod. The once faint beckoning screams seemingly charging closer, the voices louder and louder until an almost deafening scream drowned out everything and anything. Just as quick as the screams escalated, they vanished, as they vanished, Xavier opened his eyes and inhaled deeply.

Xavier was naturally gifted in telepathy due to being born a mute, so this gift came quite easily to him. It was fairly obvious some one had awakened him, Xavier knew this, but he was willing to play along for the time being.

Xavier slowly looked around the room, it was poorly lit, flashing lights of bulbs thats life expectancy was coiming to a close, circuitry sparking as the electrical infrastructure was old and uncared for and the sound of small rodents scuttling along in the shadows gave the atmosphere of a disused abandonned bunker, which, thankfully for Xavier, was on a distant barren wasteland of a planet.

Xavier smiled softly to himself before looking aslowly around the room once again before reaching out with the force to talk to the person who set him free.

"I know you are here... hiding in the shadows.. the never ending darkness... hidden, using the force... yes.. sticking to the shadows as if they were your ally, your weapon.. interesting.." Xavier stood up, he adjusted his armour before placing his spiked gladatorial-esque helmet back on. ""I have been incarcerated for too long.. now.. now, i am free.. for this i almost owe you a debt of gratitude.. shadow stalker.." Xavier smiled in an almost menacing manner. "I am Xavier... and you, assassin? you can hide all you want, young one.. but i am no fool."

[Regnier]

Stalking ever so softly down the length of one of the walls, Dani ran a hand gently over a metal outcropping as she slowly passed it. That had been...painful. A Cathar's ears were sensitive instruments in their own right, but these screams...they came from no mouth, and did not need ears to hear them, else her helmet would have blocked it out. She was, however, very much accustomed to pain, and had learned to recover very swiftly. Still, she'd already had a headache from this planet coming into this place, and that was certainly only going to make it worse.

"The darkness is no ally of mine...they are a part of me, as I them...I am the dark's weapon...can you fault me for allowing it to protect me so? I have awoken things in the darkness before, and not always to pleasant ends."

A soft hiss followed by a click sounded not far from Xavier. In an instant, a suit of pitch-black armor appeared not five feet to his side, a pair of simple lightsabers dangling from the left hip. Her main hand rested gently on her belt, while her left idly played tricks with a combat knife. The faceless black helmet cocked itself ever so slightly to the side, as if in contemplation. As the knife disappeared back into its hole, the figure turned her gaze away from the man before her and began slowly pacing to the opposite end of the room.

"I have many names; none of them are truly mine. But you may call me by the one I was given: I am Dani, the free slave. Sith, and Sith no longer. And you..." She hummed softly, almost to herself. Truth be told, her voice was the only thing that even marked her as female, thanks to her armor's design, though not many could identify the Cathar accent, thick as it was. Most, honestly, had simply never encountered her kind in person. A gift the Fett had left her people. "I would be willing to wager, from what I know of your species, that I may very well even be older than you. But it is not age that concerns me...you have power, likely more than I, of that I do not doubt, but neither have I any interest in harming you. Not without reason. No, I felt your call, and...I was curious. A natural part of my people, some might say. Instinct has kept me alive thus-far, however."

"And instinct is telling me that I know your face. You came from the Order, didn't you? Yes, as I did. Unfortunate for them, to have lost one such as you, but they can't keep the truth from everyone."

[Iota]

Xavier tilted his head ever so slightly as the figure emerged from the shadows, he noted the appearanceand heard the voice, obviously female, species unknown.. but that was of no real concern to Xavier.

"Dani, for some one who would of held such prestige as a sith..the titled name of Dani is some what unpretentious.. not very fitting and perhaps some what of an oxy moron.. intrigueing." Xavier paused for a moment as he dusted off some of the sand from his attire from his fight back on Korriban many moons ago. "I was part of the Jedi Order, indeed.. but their teachings flawed, their knowledge restricted.. i follow the path destined for me and my kine.." Xavier took a moment to take in his surroundings, or there lack of.

"So, Dani.. enlighten me.. what do you kow of the fate of the Jedi Master Known as Vreem Took?.. we have some unfinished business." Xavier adjusted his armour slightly on his wrist with a slight raised eyebrow. "He was the reason as to why i am here.." a small snarl curls up in the corner of his mouth "My deart sister, Cassandra.. what ill fate confronted you, i wonder?" Xavier spoke out loud to himself some what using the force..

Xavier started to walk towards what seemed to be the exit of the room, heading towards the bunkers entrance. "No time like the present, my dear... let us traverse the galaxy and see who we can twist to our will.."

[Regnier]

"Mmm...a Sith name I had, when I was called one, but no longer do I claim that title, and so I have let that name go. Perhaps someday I will return to it. Perhaps not."

Folding her arms behind her back as she slowly walked along the wall, Dani eventually stopped by a seemingly mundane portion and began studying the section just above her head with idle interest. There, she stood silently for some time, only loosely holding her wrist. To do otherwise would, after all, hamper her ability to react quickly, and that was just something she could not do. "Ah, the Jedi...they have their uses, but you are quite correct in your views of them. They have killed many with their teachings, and their crime is worse than murder, for they do not see the blood on their hands."

She turned her head slightly at the mention of Took, silently raising an eyebrow beneath her helm. "The Epicanthix? Master Took still sits with the High Council, the last I knew of him. It would seem we both wish something of someone from the Council, though I can only imagine that our reasons are quite..."

She paused briefly, her voice almost fading into a whisper. "Different."

As Xavier turned to leave, Dani couldn't help but feel as though this man could be increasingly useful. Their goals, or at least one of them, seemed very similar. And so, her boots whispered softly as they pivoted against the hard floor, and the Assassin started after the Dark Jedi.

"I don't suppose you have your own ship here, do you? Mine does not accommodate passengers."

[Iota]

Xavier looked into the near distance, he nodded to a bundle of assembled rocks, which is another entrance to a cargo bay built underground along side the bunker.

"Before we even attempt to confront any jedi of of the high council, we must gather cannon fodder." nods to himself softly "we have a different agenda, but leading to the same goal.. what a coincidence... or perhaps the force drew you here." Xavier extended his index finger on his right hand and softly run it across the outline of his jaw before walking towards the rock pile.

"I stumbled across this dilapidated bunker many years ago, my minions followed my orders it seems, atleast they were good for something." He lifted his head slightly as he started to pick up pace. "under these rocks is a cargo bay, which should house my Dynamic class ship.. we'll fire it up and hunt down potential minions for our joint cause." Xavier looks back to Dani for a moment "if your ship is small enough, place it in my ships cargo bay, if not, strap it to the hull fixings."

After a few moments, they arrive to the rocks, Xavier rubs his hands together slowly before raising his hands directly in front of him and continued to make a parting gesture, to which the rocks part, opening a small cargho bay under neath where his ship is silently waiting.

[Regnier]

"I'll agree to that. The one I seek is...considerably more powerful than I. I do not admit lightly that she would crush me with a thought were we to come into conflict one on one. Especially as I have no intention of killing her." Oh no, her task would have been difficult enough if it was simply to kill the woman, but Dani couldn't do the easy way, could she now? No, she needed this done right, her way, and it was probably going to get her killed. "Indeed. The Force can sometimes work great marvels of plans. Sometimes very simple...sometimes very, very complex, and rarely ending in what was originally imagined."

Dani remained silent for awhile as she followed Xavier, watching her surroundings as much as she listened to them, while simultaneously keeping track of what the Dark Jedi was saying. "Followers who will actually listen to your commands, even while you're not there to oversee them, can be particularly useful. I have found the easiest to control to be young males, but I suppose that would be because I have...assets better suited to persuading them without much aide of the Force."

Folding her arms as the freighter finally came into view, she nodded. Small enough to be crewed by one or two, fast, and not likely to draw attention. It would do well enough. "Mine will fit inside well enough. It's only a Cutlass, and therefore very small. My modifications have not increased its bulk in any way. It's at the nearest spaceport, very well concealed in plain sight. Especially since no one can actually see it."

[Iota]

Xavier started to descend a stair case leading from the entrance down ito the hanger bay, following suit of the bunk, the stair cae and hanger itself was dilapidated too, with over sized cob webs engulfing the corners. Moss covering the corners and small parts of the walls had developed over the years due to neglect, who ever built the bunker originally had vacated the premesis a long long time ago.

Xavier turned to look at his ship, "The Dark Descent".. a some what of a fitting name in some respects,The primary colour of the hull wasa midnight black, the secondary colour a dark grey. With a wave of his hand, the ramp burst into life, the internal mechanics of the ship stirring up and stuttering before exploding on to scene with a life of it's own, for it hadn't been used in awhile, it almost seemed as if it was desperate to be flown once again.

As Xavier strode up the ramp, into the main interior, he looked at what used to be his sisters compartment. he looked to Dani for a moment then back to his compartment "Cassandra, born blind, a weak and frail seer.. she is very very useful at pin pointing the where abouts of certain people.. if we are to succeed efficiently.. we will need to find her." Xavier contionued into the cockpit area of the ship before sitting in the pilots chair, he fiddled with some of the controls "we'll fly to the starport, there we will fetch your ship and be on our way."

[Regnier]

Halfway down the stairs, Dani slowed, before levering herself over the side of the staircase, hooking her fingers on the edge last-second and letting her lower body straighten out, before simply letting go and dropping the rest of the distance. Landing with a dull whumpf, her relatively soft impact created a dust cloud that came up to her knees. Standing again from her crouched stance from absorbing the landing, she turned back towards the ship and took a few steps forward. Honestly, she wasn't a show-off, she just had never really seen the point in taking every single step to the bottom when she didn't have to. For her, the fast way down was neither dangerous nor any more difficult than the safe way. She believed in being efficient, not necessarily 'safe'. Silently, she followed him into the ship.

"This...Cassandra...a seer, you say? And a good one? Yes, she would be useful...for the one I seek is also a seer, one not to be taken lightly. Yes, it would be wise to find this seer of yours."

Stopping at the entrance to the cockpit, Dani placed a hand against either side of the doorway, leaning forward into her shoulders. "Just dock at pad seventeen. My ship is on the next one over, the one under construction. I'll collect it once we land there and bring it into the hold."

Pushing herself off of the wall, she stepped inside and turned to the navmap, studying it without touching it for several seconds. She had heard reports that her quarry had simply...up and vanished, although Dani was not particularly perturbed by the news. The Sage Master had done it more than once already. Where are you this time, I wonder...? What trouble did you find?

"So, do you have any thoughts on where we may begin our search for this Cassandra woman?"

[Iota]

Xavierlooke at the control panels for a moment before starting the engines up, he did the usual routine sequence of button pressing and diagnostics, not always needed, but old habbits die hard.

"Cassandra" he paused for a moment as he rekindled the memory of his parents screaming in agony as he used the force to tear them to pieces before stumbled onto his sister in a dark room, filled with paintings and prophecies. "She has predicted everything thus far, it all has come to fruition.. The assasination of the high chancellor by my hands, the tornado of souls on Korriban.. my incarceration on this planet by the Jedi Master Vreem Took." Xavier looked up for a moemnt before flipping a few switches "A frail young one, the strenght of her mind is as comparable to a mandalorian warrior, do not let her physical failings fool you." Xavier programmes in the course to the local starport, dock seventeen.

The ship eventually rises from the under ground hanger bay, as the ship clears the ground, the entrance automatically closes, making the hanger bay, a secret once more. "She will most likely hide in the dark corners of the galaxy, she isn't very confrontational, rather, spending her time painting the prophecies that call out to her... So, any planet drenched in the dark side and perhaps scum planets.. Tatooine, the place to go to get lost.. or so they say." The ship eventually darts off into the distance towards the spaceport.

[Regnier]

"I never...oh, what is that human expression? 'Judge a book by it's cover'? When dealing with the Force, one must look beyond the physical vessel channeling it. There are those to whom it gives much."

Again drawing a small blade from her belt, she toyed with the sharp object as the Dark Jedi checked over the ship's systems and powered the system. It was not actually an indicator of boredom, but rather simply an old habit. It was also a way of channeling some of her concentration into something meaningless, making her thoughts and emotions all that much more difficult to decipher than they already were. Which was also an old habit that she did subconsciously, much as she never sat with her back to a door. It was just...reflex.

"Tatooine? A useful tool in making oneself disappear, yes, that much is true. Also useful in finding someone. I...dislike Tatooine. But going there may prove fruitful, so go we shall."

As the ship eventually reached the spaceport and set down, Dani silently slipped from the ship, saying only that she would be quick. And quick she was. Not even five minutes after her departure, the signature whine of the Jedi Order's Cutlass' engine coming to life could be heard if one listened closely enough. The faint whine sharpened, gaining some volume, indicating that, wherever it was, it was on the move; slowly. And approaching Xavier's ship. As the source of the sound neared the freighter, a dark-skinned Cutlass seemingly willed itself into existence, appearing where nothing had been before not ten feet from the freighter, hovering a few feet off the ground. Gently, the Assassin guided the small craft inside the hold and set it down, securing the mag-locks on the struts before powering the Requiem down. Dani pulled herself from the cockpit and sought out Xavier within his ship.

"I have all I need. We may leave, if you wish."

[Iota]

Xavier flipped a switch to close the loading ramp, as leaving it open would seem rather, suicidal. Xavier had sense a certain mental block from Dani, but that didn't bother him, she was a force user after all and most of them try to hide themselves deep inside, it was only natural.

"course set, auto pilot engaged." Xavier commanded "we shouldn't run into any trouble for awhile, this sector of space is relatively dead" Xavier gave a single slight nod before pushing a lever forward for the ship to go to full throttle. "Cassandra.. i'll find you sooner or later.." he thought to himself.

Xavvier remained silent for most of the trip, keeping to himself, he wasn't much of a people person, he was a Dark Jedi Master afterall.