Now it wasn't that she didn't want to and fight a group of bloody pirates; it was the fact that her twin brother was their leader. She and her brother were nearly complete opposites and she did not look forward to another confrontation with him. She sighed and continued to lean against the wall as she watched several Jedi walk by through the Temple.

She shook herself awake as she passed a Jedi lounging against the wall. Tol had promised to show her a few things, and she needed to be on her toes.

Magus stepped out of the closet that he had hid in to take his master's message, and walked over to a girl that was leaning on a wall. "Excuse me miss, do you happen to know a girl, about 11 years old, who's name is Luna Ryoko? She was a dear friend of mine, and I just got back from a long mission, so I just heard about her death. From what I've heard, it appears she was dueling a girl around your age. You wouldn't happen to know who she was dueling when she died?" Magus asked Tierva Faerlain.

(I forgot to mention this, but Magus is a little crazy. SwimAngel, do you think you could have your character the one who accidently killed his sister? It's ok if you don't want your character to be the one who killed her.)

"I hope you're ready for our training session, but afterwards we need to leave. We were just given a new mission and have to leave for Tatooine by the end of the day, apparently someone wasn't too happy with the Senate's decision." He pulled out his datapad and handed it to her, the details of their mission already on the screen. "I am not looking forward to visiting that hot planet and I don't even want to think about all the sand we will need to get out of our fur when we're done, but it might be interesting."

She searched out Tierva Faerlain. It took her a while to find the Jedi that she'd come to respect over the past few months. Elisabeth hoped that she could consider Tierva a friend.

Leaning against a wall stood Tierva. Through the Force, Elisabeth could sense that she was troubled; almost wondering if she should disturb her. However, the assertive, driven nature embodied in Elisabeth took over and she approached the Jedi. "What's this I hear about you all going to confront the pirates on Tatooine?" she asked boldly.

The report had come across her desk at the Senate earlier and she was surprised that she hadn't heard of it before now. As one of the leaders on the committee appointed to work on the new bill in the Senate, maybe it could be expected. "Well, it doesn't matter," Elisabeth began, "because, no matter what you say, I'm going with you." She put her hands on her hips and continued, "I'm going to hear whatever these nerf-herders have to say straight from their mouths, and not from some, though I respect them, over-fed Senator who doesn't care about the people! Well, I give a care; I care a lot. That's why I'm going with you to Tatooine. Just tell me when you're leaving."

Tol began to stretch as he started explain why they were doing that training. "The reason for unarmed combat is because there is always the possibility that we will be captured and have our weapons taken. The saber combat is in case we run into Sith, it is possible that more exist even if the last two known Sith died ten years ago. The last one is simply because most of our enemies us blasters and this will increase your chance of surviving." With that said he began to get ready to show her some fighting techniques that relied on more than just strenght.

(rimera you can say something about them beginning and ending if you want, I don't think we really need details on the training)

Tierva blinked twice and looked back and forth between the strange man and Elizabeth. Both said some pretty unexpected things; well maybe not Elizabeth. She should have expected that. "Wait a moment," she said to Elizabeth, sensing that the man's concern was of more importance at the time. "Yes, I knew her," she answered the man. "She was a friend of mine as well," she finished evasively. There was no need to divulge that she was the one who accidentally killed Stellar during a practice lightsaber duel; she never was very good with one of those. Needless to say, that event still haunted her and she did not wish to relive it.

Right now she was testing her patience against the Traffic Coordinator System, the automated controller of all traffic on Coruscant. The planet was one giant city, and the sheer amount of space traffic to and from the planet was such that every ship had to plan a route off the planet with the TCS before being allowed to come or go. Tol tended to let her handle this mundane, if frustrating step of space travel... Lo often wondered if it was because he didn't want to, or because he was trying to snuff out her recent interest in politics by letting her handle the beuracracy.

With a frustrated howl, she banged her fists on the desk as she tried for another time window. Nope, it was to teach her patience, all right... she was sure of it.

"You know, you look relatively busy, so, I'll... I'll either be practicing or you can come see me at my residence," Elisabeth quickly told Tierva. She turned to walk away, but was surprisingly cpativated by the progress of the conversation and stayed.

She really hoped that when she spoke with Tierva, the bill that her committee was in charge of would not come up.

The Horansi was sitting alone in the hanger of the Jedi temple with a game chip in his datepad and a small mischievous grin on his face. "Maybe I should have told her the old hanger was made operational last week and we have a direct link to the TCS office from here. If she can get out of there without breaking something or someone I'll be amazed, though small things like that can be useful." He remember his own patience training from when he was still a cub on Trian. It was his first solo hunt and he had spent four days tracking the animal when it should have taken one. Then he had to in the same crouching position for fifteen hours waiting for the creature to let its guard down. After that incident there were few time he complained about things taking too long and started to relax more. "Well I suppose I can call it punishment for staying up too late instead of recording the debate or waiting for the morning replay like I said."

Later that night he stared at the sleeping form of Mon Mothma in her bed. He had managed to evade security and had snuck into her room. He had also managed to disable all the security cameras in her room. Magus ignited his saber and stabbed Mon Mothma in the chest, killing her instatly. He smiled at his completed mission and ran out of the building so he could go back to the Temple to steal the Holocrons and possibly kill the Jedi who killed his sister.

(Don't forget this takes place during the night.)

(Don't forget, I said that Magus made up his own Force powers.)

"You killed Mon Mothma?" she inquired, blocking his lightning again. "That's an interesting bit of information." She eyed that ball of energy warily, not liking the look of it one bit.

"Yes, it is. But you won't live to tell anyone!!!!" he shouted and hurled the ball of energy at her. She managed to doge. The ball of energy kept going until it hit a wall. Half of the wall was immeadiatly disintegrated.

Tol soon came to the source of the disturbance and barely dodged an attack the came from the hallway. He saw two human with lightsabers as clear as day in the darkness, his species were well known for their great eye sight and nightvision. He stood up as he recognized Tierva because he sometimes helped her with her saber combat since he excelled in that, but he did not know the person wielding the double bladed saber. He pulled his sabers from his belt and a pair of blue beams appeared in each hand, he knew who he had to help.

The woman cried in fear and said: "Take anything you want, just don't kill me!!!!" Magus smiled and and ignited his saber and beheaded her. "Don't mind if I do." he said and took all the credits the woman had on her. A few minutes later Magus decided to return to the hotel he was staying at. "Good thing I put that tracking devise on that murder," he said to himself and started to walk to his hotel.

(I forgot to mention that Magus has a temper and gets real anger when things don't go his way.)

Tol knew that he would have to call Luke or one of the few Masters to tell them to put the temple on alert after that incident. "We will delay our departure for a few hours, but if you're not able to leave by then we you will leave you Taviera." He remembered that she was one of the others that was going to be sent on the mission too and his orders stated that the three of them were to use the same ship, but things may have to change and there were more than one ship in the hanger.

Lo pulled her master aside for a moment. /I heard one of the healers saying that Mon Mothma was murdered. Is that true?/ she asked, concerned. Mon Mothma was as old as politics itself, some said, and she had been instrumental in building the New Republic. She was a great hero to the galaxy, and her death would do more than upset the balance in the Senate... there would be riots in many places, and some planets may drop out of the New Republic and join the Imperial Remnant just out of fear of the Sith. She knew that was a worst-case scenario, but Mon Mothma's death would mean big trouble for the New Republic in any case.

Tol shrugged as he looked at the young Wookiee. "I'm not sure Lo, I think that I heard Tierva and that guy she fought yelling about it before I got there. He may have admitted to doing it." He sighed as he thought about it and began to lead her to the security room of the temple. "Things might be worse than we know. I heard the same thing and a rumor that she was killed with a lightsaber. Being that only Jedi are known to use them I think he was trying to set up the Order. Lucky for us we have security cameras and records throughout the halls of the temple, if he confessed it will be there and it should help us." They we lucky that the records were always on and that would be the proof that a Jedi didn't do it. With their mission delayed a couple of hours Tol was considering going to the Mon Mothma's home and investigating himself. He wasn't an assassin, but he was a expert on stealth and he might be some help.

There were so many things that were said during the fight. She didn't really pay all that much attention to what Tierva was saying, but at what the anonymous man was yelling at her. He called her friend a liar, a murderess, and above all, he said that Mon Mothma was dead. Her breath caught in her chest. It couldn't be true.

Mon Mothma hadn't picked out a successor yet. There were rumors as to who it could be, including herself and her cousin, Leia.

The fight ended, and Elisabeth ran to see if Tierva was dreadfully hurt. "Don't worry, we'll find him," Elisabeth whispered. She helped put pressure on the cut. "I am glad that it's only your leg and not something else. And yes, I'm going with you. End of story." She stayed there for a few mintutes until she was sure that Lo could care for her. "I've... I've got to go... I have to see if Mon Mothma is alright. Lo, take good care of her, and I'll see you all later...Um..." she said to Tierva, her mind somewhere else.

Scared for her mentor, and mother-figure, Elisabeth got up ran off towards Mon Mothma's residence, fearful of what she might find.

Lo sighed. Her problems earlier in the TCS office seemed so petty in comparison to what had happened. Why would anyone want to kill Mon Mothma? She knew Elisabeth must be taking it hard... she was as close to Mon Mothma as Lo was to Tol. If anything ever happened to him...

With a shudder, Lo forced her mind away from the subject. She would deal with that if and when the time came. For now she needed to stay focused and wait for Tierva to wake up. Not only was Tierva important to their upcoming mission, but hopefully she could give insight as to the identity of Mon Mothma's killer.

Magus screamed in rage. "You Jedi will pay for this dearly......" he muttered to himself.

At the moment Toleen was walking silently down the hall of the Jedi Temple and carrying Elisabeth's unconscious body, she was emotionally spent from seeing Mon Mothma and just didn't have the energy to stay awake on the ride back to the temple. He could only hope she didn't do something drastic, he didn't want the order to lose a promising Jedi to the Dark side. Anyway he decided to bring her to rest in the infirmary since he didn't know if she even lived in the temple. When he enter the room he saw Lo mediating and smiled at her as she laid Elisabeth on the bed near Tierva.

(Sorry for taking control like that, but there is a two hour gap to explain what Elisabeth did there and she can wake up at anytime after getting in the temple)

Tol glanced down at the sleeping women and turned to Lo. "I think we can delay our departure until they wake, so if you want you can get some rest too."

Lo stood, stretching, knowing she'd better take her master's advice this time. /I'll go grab a nap on the ship, after I make sure everything's ready for departure, if you don't mind,/ she growled, feeling almost exhausted as Elisabeth obviously was.

As she was about to leave the room, she paused in the doorway, and turned back to Tol. /Tol... about earlier... I'm sorry I disobeyed you, and was late for training. I realize that my impatience gets the best of me sometimes, and I'll do my best to control my temper on this mission,/ she growled softly, rubbing her face with her paw subconciously.

Magus ignited his saber and attacked the feline creature.

(I'm not sure if that one word is spelt right.)

As Lo started down the hall toward the hangar, she heard commotion coming from the room she had just left, and turned to see a strange man walk in, muttering about murder. Feeling a tremor in the Force, she ran back to the room, igniting her lightsaber, and joining her master in the battle against this madman.

Toleen smiled at Logargh, his own fangs showing. "Don't worry about it Lo, it was something important and it concerns our new mission. I was only looking out for you, not to mention you are less patient and more easily irritated when you don't get enough sleep. I was up last night watching the debate too, but I can do that because I'm partially nocturnal and I need less sleep since my species had lived on a planet with fewer hours for a day than others." He shook his head as he thought about the Horansi races. His species have many advantages and sometimes they seem unfair, well that was his opinion since he disagree with many rule and going home might mean his death.

"I'm not upset that you didn't listen or that you were late. I had only planned on training with you and then help you relax after the debate, I knew that it was a sensitve subject with you. Beside I had a habit of not listening to often when I was a cub and I know how it is. Now go rest, I'll see you in the morning." He watched as the Wookie left.

(This part is after Magus arrived)

It was barely ten minutes after Lo left that he heard the door open again. He was about to ask if she forgot something, but a familiar scent entered his nose and he quickly grabbed one of his light sabers and blocked the attack. "Well how nice to see you again, but visiting hours are over. You will have to leave the temple and come back in the morning." Tol he grinned as he used he grabbed his other saber and had a second blue beam to fight with.

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