I am not being original, these characters do not belong to me.  I am not 
making any money off of this, ect...  The only things that ARE mine is the 
planet of Larpenop and its inhabitants.
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All stories have some kind of a fairytale mixed in somewhere.  I'm making 
this one obvious.  Jaina gives up her freedom to save her friends from the 
selfish prince Jeo Ket.  Jeo Ket seeks Jaina's hand in marriage.  Zekk is 
tested on his love for Jaina.  Will their love shine through? (Tenel Ka and 
Jacen have a little romance in here too dont worry i didnt leave them out...)
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The sun that both heated and lighted the small moon known as Yavin IV was far 
from shining on the Jedi Academy.  All of the non-nocturnal creatures that 
had made homes on this side of the moon had long since closed their eyes and 
were lost in their own, mysterious dream worlds.  That is, all except two 
teenagers that attended the Jedi master Luke Skywalker's academy.
Jaina Solo looked up at the young man that had his arm around her, his touch 
was warm and comforting.  She tried to look into his eyes but they had been 
closed for nearly an hour.  Jaina couldn't blame him: Zekk had been awake for 
the past two weeks, trying to comfort Jaina.  He needed sleep just as much as 
she did, but Jaina couldn't seem to close her eyes for more then 2 minutes 
without seeing pictures of her friend Lusa dancing through the dark emptiness 
beneath her eyelids.
Jaina carefully broke away from Zekk's grasp; she didn't want to wake him up. 
'I wonder how Raynar is doing.' she thought.  Jaina knew that her 
Alderaanian friend would be suffering from the same insomnia that she was.  
Raynar loved Lusa with all of his heart; as Jaina loved Zekk (but she had not 
yet admitted these feelings to anyone).
Lusa had been missing for a total of 2 standard weeks, 4 standard days, 17 
standard hours, and 3 standard minutes.  No one knew why she was gone or 
where she could be.  All they could do was wait for something to happen.  The 
problem was that no one knew what that something would be or when it would 
arrive.
Jaina reached Raynar's room.  He was, not surprisingly, awake and was in his 
usual position: standing at his window, arms crossed, and staring off into 
the vast sky with infinite possibilities for where his "true love" could be.  
Jaina sighed and gently rubbed his shoulders trying to push his tenseness 
away.
Raynar placed his hand on hers as silent tears started to roll down his 
cheek.  The tears soon came out in greater quantities and he began to sob.  
Jaina held him in a comforting embrace.  This small gesture reassured him 
that she felt the same as he did at the lost of one of her oldest and dearest 
friends.  Jaina soon mimicked Raynars actions and began to cry herself.  The 
two friend just stood there trying to comfort each other for a long while
"Have we received any word?" Jaina asked, her voice shaky.
"Not since the last time I checked" Raynar looked at his chronometer, "about 
30 minutes ago.  I know I need to get some sleep and stop haunting the Comm. 
Center; this isn't healthy, but I'm afraid that if I do then she would call 
and be in trouble.  No one would even know …and…and…"
"I know." Jaina interrupted, before he stated the fact that they both didn't 
want to admit. "I know… but what can we do?"  
Then an idea hit Jaina harder then a collision with a run-away bantha.  She 
grabbed hold of Raynar's wrist and dragged him toward the door.  Her facial 
expression had changed from one of solemnity to one of childish enthusiasm.  
The door swooshed open, revealing the drooping figure of an extremely tired 
Zekk.  Slightly startled, Jaina jumped back, but then continued to head 
toward her prior destination.
"You should be sleeping Zekk.  This doesn't concern you."  She said, calmly 
walking past him.
She was quickly stopped as Zekk grabbed her arm and spun her around to face 
him once again.  Pity was obvious in his emerald green eyes as he looked down 
at the girl.  She was the only daughter of the Chief of State and the General 
of the New Republic military fleets.  She was the niece of the famous Jedi 
Master, Luke Skywalker, and friends with both: the princess of Hapes, Tenel 
Ka Djo, and heir to the Bornan fleet, Raynar Thul.  There was no wondering 
why she was one of the most sought-after brides in the galaxy.  Zekk smiled 
trying to figure out how an orphaned boy of Ennth had got mixed up with a 
girl like Jaina.
"Anything that concerns you, concerns me" he answered simply.
Jaina sighed, then gestured for Zekk to join her and Raynar.  He quickly 
accepted and followed the two into the repoulser lifts.
"Where are we going anyway?" Raynar asked 
"To the Comm. Center."  Jaina replied with out hesitation.
"Why?" 
"Because I want to set up an alarm that will go off whenever a message come 
through to Yavin 4." She explained "If Lusa tries to contact us, we'll know."
Raynar shrugged "If it helps me get some sleep, I'll join you."
Jaina, Raynar, and Zekk worked through most of the night.  Time lost all 
meaning to the Jedi trainees as they focused on their task.

Dawn flooded the horizon.  It's light swept through the dense jungles and 
caressed the temple with its warm beauty.  Tenel Ka woke up and was prepared 
to start her morning exercises. 
As she walked down the long corridor she heard her name being shouted from 
behind her.  She turned to find her friend, Jacen Solo, trying to catch up 
with her.  She waited patiently for the young man.  Her eyes drifted toward 
the closed door of Raynar's room that stood before her.  Knowing of his 
feeling of emptiness, she felt sorry for the young man, and her friend Jaina 
Solo who was suffering from the same ordeal.  
"Tenel Ka, I just checked Jaina's room and she wasn't there." Jacen's voice 
was full of concern for his twin sister.
Tenel Ka pondered what she could do and then offered her suggestion.   "Let's 
see if Raynar is in his room… if not then we shall see if the Shadow Chaser, 
Rock Dragon or Lightening Rod are in the docking bay.
Jacen agreed and opened Raynar's door.  He silently looked in and saw that 
Raynar was sleeping in his bed.  Across the room Zekk was also asleep in 
Raynar's self-forming chair.  Then Jacen saw that his sister was curled up in 
Zekk's lap, also sleeping.  Under normal circumstances, Jacen would have 
woken Jaina up and dragged her back to her room and away from Zekk (his 
normal "Protective brother" routine) but they hadn't gotten any sleep in 
weeks, so Jacen didn't want to disturb it.  Besides, Jacen was relieved that 
they were still on the planet, although he could sense if Jaina had left.
"C'mon.  Let's leave them alone and go for a walk." He whispered to Tenel Ka.
Tenel Ka was waiting for the right moment to make her move.  She wasn't 
nervous of course; she had been through much more frightening and dangerous 
situations then this.  She just wanted to have the least amount of trouble 
fulfilling her task.
The two young Jedi descended the exterior staircase of the great temple from 
the second floor to the ground.  Upon placing her feet onto the soil, Tenel 
Ka broke out into a sprint heading toward the dense thicket of trees in front 
of her.
"Tenel Ka!"  Jacen yelled to the warrior girl from Dathomir.   She stopped 
and turned around to look at Jacen.  
"What is it friend Jacen?" she asked.
"I said 'a walk', you know moving at a pace slower then light-speed?" Jacen 
said sarcastically. 
"I can assure you, friend Jacen, that I was running much slower then light 
speed."  Tenel Ka replied matter-of-factly.
Jacen shook his head and tried not to laugh, though he wasn't doing a very 
good job.  "I know…I know…How about we walk at my pace and take in our 
surroundings a bit?" he said, walking up to her and placing his arm on her 
shoulder.
"If that is what you want friend Jacen." She replied, sliding her one good 
arm around his waist.

Jaina, Raynar, and Zekk were all aroused by the loud, shrieking sound that 
was produced by Jaina's alarm.
Zekk was flabbergasted by the sudden outcry from the alarm.  He stood up, 
momentarily forgetting that Jaina was still in his lap.  Gravity pulled the 
young woman down hard and she winced in pain as her knee connected with the 
stone floor.  Jaina looked at her chronometer and was surprised to discover 
that she had been asleep for nearly 6 standard hours straight; a new record 
for her. 
Zekk apologized and lifted her off the floor while Raynar turned off the 
alarm.  The sudden silence was almost deafening, but the high pitched sound 
still rang in their ears.   Raynar raced out of the room in the direction of 
to the Comm. Center.  Zekk picked up Jaina and followed Raynar.
"Zekk, I can walk you know.  I just scraped my knee; I've done it millions of 
times before." Jaina tried unsuccessfully to convince Zekk to put her down.
Jaina squirmed out of his grasp and ran toward the Comm. Center with high 
hopes that her friend was contacting them.  She ran down the halls letting 
the Force guide her step and push her forward.  She passed Raynar and entered 
the doorway and typed in her access code rapidly.  Raynar entered the room 
with Zekk on his heels just in time to see the Holo-vid. of Lusa.  All three 
cried out in excitement as they saw their friend after so long.  
"Listen, I don't have much time.  I am being held captive on the planet of 
Larpenop." She started and was interrupted with a torment of questions from 
her friends.
"Well I…" suddenly she was grabbed by a long greenish-blue tentacle that came 
from off the screen.  "Jaina…" she screamed "help me!" soon her mouth was 
muffled by a second tentacle; she was being pulled out of range of the 
communication computer.  "Raynar…" she said, after she bit the tentacle. "I 
love you.."  the screen was filled with static as they were disconnected.
"We have to save her!" Raynar and Jaina said in almost perfect unison.
"We are going to need a ship.  Mine, the Shadow Chaser, has a problem with 
the hyperdrive and in order to use the Rock Dragon we would have to find 
Tenel Ka.  We don't have time for either one."  Jaina said.  
A few months ago Jaina's uncle had given the Shadow Chaser to her as a 
present.  She had helped to apprehend and keep the ship away from the Empire. 
She wanted a ship more then anything else, but her mother refused to let her 
have one, so Luke gave it to her.  Leia was angry at first but soon calmed 
down, and the ship had quantum armor, which  pleased both Han and Leia.
They hurried into the Docking Bay and spotted Zekk's ship being held there 
for safe keeping between his missions.
"We could take the Lightning Rod!" Jaina exclaimed, then widened her brandy 
brown eyes and looked at Zekk pleadingly.
"Only if I go with you." Zekk said with a stern expression.
"But.." 
"But nothing it's MY ship!"  Zekk interrupted, happy to have a reason to stay 
with Jaina. 
"Please!" Jaina said with sweetness in her voice.  She tugged at his shirt 
and looked up at him, but Zekk didn't back down.
"We don't have time to argue." Raynar said. " Just let him come!" 
Raynar ran up the open ramp.  Zekk started following Raynar up while Jaina 
ran to the weaponry cases that her mother had insisted be installed here.  
She grabbed a blaster and made sure it was on 'stun'.  Zekk felt the danger 
through the force and turned around to face Jaina.   Before he could react to 
the situation, Jaina shot at him.  Soon blue ripples surrounded the boy and 
he fell to the ground unconscious. 
"Sorry Zekk." She said as she threw the blaster back to the area she got it 
from.  She dragged the boy's limp body off the ramp and to a safe place in 
the corner of the docking bay "but I don't want you to get hurt trying to 
save my friend.  This doesn't concern you."  
Jaina joined Raynar in the cockpit of the ship.  He was already fastened in 
his crash webbing.  She quickly sat in the pilot's seat and did a few 
pre-flight checks.
"Where's Zekk?" Raynar asked 
"He's not coming." Jaina said without a pause.
"Well, well, well… you convinced him to stay behind? How?" 
"I simply explained to him that I didn't want him getting hurt in a matter 
that didn't concern him." It wasn't a total lie. "Well, what are we waiting 
for?" She said changing the subject. "Let's save Lusa."  

Jacen Solo had a strange connection with wildlife.  He loved to watch and 
discover new things about every creature he encountered.  He even had a small 
menagerie in his quarters.  His twin sister, Jaina, had made the cages for 
him; she had a strange connection with machines, similar to the one Jacen had 
with animals.
Suddenly Jacen felt a twinge in the force.  He looked around and found a 
small, lost, baby bird-like creature.  He picked up the creature carefully 
and looked around for its mother.  He felt a small disturbance in the force 
again, this one of worry and emptiness.  He knew that it was the emotions of 
the bird-like creature's mother.  Concentrating, he lifted the bird in the 
air in the direction of his mother.  As soon as he settled the baby into the 
safety of its nest Jacen was wrapped in a fiber cord.  He yelped in surprise 
and lost his balance. 
Jacen winced as his head hit the ground hard.  He closed his eyes and pushed 
his pain away using the force.  He opened his eye slowly and saw that his 
attacker was Tenel Ka.
"Tenel Ka, what are you…." Jacen started, but was hushed by Tenel Ka's 
dragger pressed against his lips.
"I believe Jacen, that you have been captured," Tenel Ka informed him- Jacen 
noted that she didn't use the word 'friend' in front of his name. "And 
according to Dathmirian law, you shall be my husband."
"You mean marry you?" Jacen was astonished.  Tenel Ka released the cord and 
Jacen broke free.  He picked up Tenel Ka and spun her around, laughing.  
"Do you accept my offer then?" Tenel Ka asked.
"Oh Tenel Ka I would be honored to be your husband!" Jacen said, with tears 
forming in his eyes.  
Jacen and Tenel Ka leaned toward each other.  "I love you Tenel Ka." Jacen 
whispered "With all my heart."
"As do I Jacen."  The two drew closer until their lips almost connected.  The 
moment was interrupted by the sound of a ship soaring through the skies.  
They both looked up to see the Lightning Rod flying over their heads.  Jacen 
knew that his sister was on that ship and he glared at it for a moment.
"You want to follow her." Tenel Ka said.  It wasn't a question. 
"Yep, but if I go after her she'll only get angry and say that I don't think 
that she is capable of taking care of herself, but I DO think she is capable 
of taking care of herself!  I just don't show it all the time. " There was a 
long silence, and Tenel Ka could sense that Jacen was talking to his sister 
with their unique connection through the force. A smile occupied his face and 
he looked back at Tenel Ka with a mischievous gleam in his eyes. "Now where 
were we, soon to be Mrs. Solo!"

Zekk groaned and rolled over onto his back, he wasn't sure what had happened 
but he was paying for it severely.  He then realized that he was on the floor 
of the docking bay with a small blaster, set on stun, lying close to him.  
Suddenly the memory of the whole event came back to him.  
Zekk got up and a dizzy spell washed over him.  He headed out toward the 
jungles of Yavin IV.  He wasn't sure what he was going to do, but what ever 
it was, he was going to need Jacen's help to do it.

For the second time that day Jaina awoken from a pleasant sleep because of a 
blaring alarm.  She groggily stepped off of the small cot that served as 
Zekk's bed while he was a bounty hunter.  She walked into the cockpit and 
found Raynar sleeping soundly through the computer's announcement that it was 
almost time to leave hyper-space.  Somehow he had curled up into an unusual 
position in the navigator's chair with his crash webbing still on. 
Jaina laughed and sat back down in the pilot's seat.  She started to count 
down the seconds out loud with the computer but realized that there was no 
point. The only person that was aboard the ship with her was Raynar, and he 
wouldn't care about it even if he were awake.  She longed to discuss the 
different cores of negative powered hypo thrusters with someone, but she 
couldn't.  Lowie was probably modifying his T-23 skyhopper with MTD, her 
father was on Corascant performing the tedious tasks of that came with the 
title of the General of the New Republic's military, and she had left Zekk 
unconscious back on Yavin IV.
The streaks of light turned back to stars as Jaina approached the rather 
large planet of Larpenop.  Larpenop was a green world filled with many wild 
and plant life.  Jaina remembered the name from many exhibits in the 
Holographic Zoo back on Coruscant, Threepio took her and her brothers there 
all the time to get them out of the way.   
"Jacen would love this place!" Jaina said out loud to no one in particular.
"What?" Raynar asked as he opened his eyes.
"Look how beautiful this place is!" she told him
"Ship please identify yourself and state your business" a voice interrupted.
"Yea, umm… this is Raynar Thul of the Bornan fleet.  I am here to drop off 
some shipment for my mother, in the Lightning Rod."  Raynar said.
Several moments of silence passed before the voice spoke once again. "You 
have clearance to enter Mr. Thul, you may land on docking bay 32.  Enjoy your 
stay on Larpenop."
When their connection ended Raynar stated. "I thought it would be easier to 
say it was for the fleet.  Larpenop is a neutral planet and the Chief of 
State's daughter would probably be less welcome."
"Don't worry Raynar, it's perfectly understandable.  This was the easy part, 
the hard part is getting out of here with Lusa."  Jaina answered.

When they landed the two Jedi trainees hunted for clues on where Lusa could 
be held.  Many people knew about a prison that held many creatures for no 
reason.  Those who go there never come back to tell their tale.  This secret 
prison was located under the castle that housed the king of Larpenop, King 
Makorion.
Raynar and Jaina kept low profiles as they made their way into the castle.  
King Makorion loved his subjects so it was extremely easy to make their way 
to the throne room to see him.  The Throne room was a large extravagant room 
filled with many spiral staircases.  Everything were the colors of white and 
gold even the royal family's garments.  The king sat in a large throne that 
had two smaller ones on either side of it.  Two human boys occupied the 
smaller thrones, one that looked not much older then Jaina, and the other one 
that looked about the age of 3 or 4 years old.
"Your highness, My name is Jaina Solo." Jaina said making a slight bow.
"Yes, Yes, come in child!" the king said happily.  "What is it that you want 
of me and my kingdom?"
Jaina cleared her throat "About two standard weeks ago, a friend of ours had 
been found missing.  A few days ago, she sent us a message that she was 
kidnapped and is being held captive here on Larpenop."
"Kidnapped?" King Makorion asked confused. "I can assure you young lady that 
we do not kidnap people."         
"I feel her presence here" Raynar whispered to Jaina.  Jaina nodded, she had 
felt it too.
"Sir, we checked where the message was sent from.  It was here." Jaina said 
with calmness in her voice.
"Impossible!" the older boy said standing from his throne.  A suave smile 
crossed his face as he approached Jaina.
"Are you calling me a liar?" Jaina asked keeping her calm tone.
"Of course not M'Lady," he took her hand and pressed it against his lips. 
"you were just misinformed." 
Before the boy could finish his sentence, a door swooshed open and a 
beautiful, centaur girl walked through the doorway.  Raynar looked at the 
source of the noise and found that it was Lusa.
"Lusa!" he yelled and ran over to her.  They threw their arms around each 
other and stayed in that position for a few moments.
"Misinformed huh?"  Jaina said yanking her hand away from the boy.  She 
turned back toward King Makorion "Sir, this is the friend that I was telling 
you about."
The boy became angry and turned toward the king. "Father. This "he looked at 
Lusa in disgust "Lusa…girl owes a large dept to our kingdom.  She had broken 
many of our laws." 
"My son, Jeo Ket, correct." The king said.  "I sentenced her to work here in 
the palace myself."
Jeo Ket, satisfied with his father's response, turned around to face Jaina 
once again.  His short, curly, brown hair was a neater version of Jacen's, 
and his dark blue eyes was unlike any Jaina had ever seen before.  
"I'll take her place." Raynar offered.  He still held Lusa close to him.
Both Jaina and Jeo Ket looked at Raynar.  "Raynar, you can't do that.  It 
will just keep you apart from each other."
"Although there is nothing wrong with taking on the responsibility for 
other's actions here."  Jeo Ket looked at his father for approval, finding it 
he turned back to Jaina. "You could replace her."
Jeo Ket tucked a loose strand of Jaina's hair behind her ear.  Jaina flinched 
slightly at this action.  He smiled down at her like Zekk always did, but he 
wasn't Zekk, he was far from it.
"So what do you say?"  Jeo Ket almost whispered. "You agree and both of your 
friends can go."
Jaina stood tall and clenched her fists at her sides.  She tried to hold back 
the tears but they started to roll down her cheeks.  "I shall take her 
place." She said her voice and emotion solid.
Raynar and Lusa cried out as they were taken from the throne room.   Jaina 
fell to her knees and buried her head in her palms.  Her freedom was gone.  
Jeo Ket placed his hand on her head, but it wasn't comforting.  He lifted her 
to her feet and led her towards the door Lusa had exited from.
"And now young Jaina," Jeo Ket whispered in her ear "you belong to me!" they 
walked through the long corridors hat served as a detention hall.  He pressed 
in his access code and a door opened to a small cell. Jaina walked in 
hesitantly "I would get comfortable if I were you.  You may be staying here 
for awhile!"