Captured (Again)

By Wu-Man's Gurl

"They can wait 'cause I want my *sleep*!" Taise retorted. Just then, Ariel walked into Taise's room.

"Your *boyfriend* is here Taise!" she shouted as she always did when she was nervous.

"I'll be back," Cresent said as she walked into the bathroom.

"What's she going to do Tai?" Ariel asked when she started to wake-up.

"Why's the water running?" Taise asked. "Doesn't Cress have her own shower in her room, Ariel?"

"I think so, but…" Ariel didn't have time to finish as Cresent walked out of the bathroom carrying a bucket.

"*HELP*!" Taise and Ariel screamed, but they forgot of Taise's door was open, carrying their shrieks into the hall as a cold rush of hit Ariel and a blistering hot rush of water hit Taise who was trying (key word: trying) to make her bed.

(At that same moment…)

A young, athletic looking boy had just walked into the Jedi temple when Ariel was running to the lift. She caught a glimps of him and knew instantly who it was: Taise's boyfriend, Grag, whom they called anything else but his 'real' name. Taise hadn't seen him since the fight with Centauri on Earth, when Taise 'accidently' hit him with three plasma balls, knocking him into a coma for four months. From that day forward, she always made sure he was far, far away from her.

Hawke, seeing him, wondered why he was wearing a black leather coat with red flames and a golden dragon embroidered on the back. It didn't strike him that the boy was a Jabrican, after all, the Jabrican Warriors were deadly and usually looked it as well; this boy looked harmless. Hawke cleared his throat and sauntered up to him.

"Hello, my name is Hawke Jinjia, may I help you in some way?" he asked.

"That would be helpful, but only one *girl* can help me," the boy replied.

"Who? And where is she?"

"Moravia Rah, and her last letter to me came from here," he replied.

"I don't think there is anyone here by that name, but I can check in the main computer." Hawke reassured him.

"Thanks," Grag started for the stairs.

"Wait. What's your name, so I know where to find you," Hawke attempted, but it was too late. The boy had all ready disappeared up the first flight, headed for the third floor.

/I wonder how I might find her,/ Grag pondered to himself. Seeing a lift tube, he waited for it as the doors opened. Using his training as a Jabrican, Grag disappeared into the shadows.

"That was *uncalled* for, Cress!" Ariel yelled at Cresent.

"Stop your yelping you two!" Taise shouted angrily at Ariel and Cresent.

"Tai, what's wrong? You're not fighting with us," Cresent commented. "I'm *trying* to think about what Ariel said earlier to me," Taise replied, looking at the werewolf.

"Oh? And what was that?"

"I don't know, I'm asking you!" Taise retorted. They all began to laugh as the elevator stopped and they stepped onto the third floor. They continued to laugh as they walked down the hall towards the stairs, when they saw the wall move.

"Is that wall supposed to do that?" Taise asked.

"Cress, stop it right now!" Ariel scolded at Cresent, as the demoness *always* played pranks on them.

"It ain't me!" Cresent yelled.

"Never mind the wall, what does the council want now? The location of our stashed valuables?" Taise asked Cresent as she wasn't paying attention when the other girl was telling her that morning.

"They want to see me, you, Ariel, Shaou, Jheremi, Taylor and Janelle. Weren't you listening when I told you this morning?!" Cresent demanded angrily, scowling. Taise's eyes went wide.

"I forgot something important!" she shouted. "My crystal didn't get put away!"

"*I'm* not going back up there for a damn *crystal*!" Cresent shouted. "We're *already* two hours late!"

"Fine, fine! I'll meet you two up at the Council chamber, okay?"

"Fine. Don't get lost in your room, though, okay?" Ariel teased her.

"Good riddance!" Cresent smirked evilly, sarcasm lacing her voice.

"Thanks for your concerns, you two, but *my* room doesn't eat people. It just eats their objects."

As soon as Cresent and Ariel were out of sight, Taise walked back to the wall and took a closer look at it. "I know you moved, wall. I'm not hallucinating," Taise said to it, but there was no answer. While Taise was busy talking to the wall, Grag ran to the ligt and hid from sight. "Okay then, be that way. Good bye wall. Don't move, I'll bne right back." Taise walked into the lift.

Seeing her face for the first time that day, he knew who she was. Taise pressed the number twelve. As soon as they started up, Taise felt a hand on her shoulder. She let out a scream that the Jedi *council* could hear, and turned around, peering into sapphire blue eyes that belonged to the boy her master had been trying to help downstairs.