Promise of Deception 
by Anakina Kyp-Jade 



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Jaina clutched her stomach as a wave of dizziness passed over 
her. 
Then a terrible headache started joined with nausea. She tried to 
use the force to dim the pain long enough to figure out what was going 
on, but nothing happened. Concentrate, she told herself, still nothing. 
She decided to go to the medical bay, although she couldn't figure out 
could possibly be wrong with her. 
She passed her brothers room and paused, wondering if she should 
talk to 
him first. Then she heard a crash, from one of the cages in his 
room 
and a feeling of wrong in the air. She knocked once then managed to 
push the door open. Her twin brother, Jacen, lay shaking on the floor. 
"What's going on?" He groaned. Apparently she wasn't the only one 
affected by the strange wave of pains. 
"I don't know." She breathed, "I have a terrible headache and I'm 
dizzy." She helped him up. 
"Me too." He slowly followed her to the door. They both used the 
wall 
for support. When the made it out into the corridor they were met by 
many more Jedi staggering toward the grand audience chamber. With the 
flock was Tenel Ka and Lowbacca. The warrior girl stood up straight but 
her face was white and pained. The Wookie drooped like a dying plant. Not 
far behind them came Raynar and Lusa. 
"Do you know what is going on?" Jacen asked them in a labored 
voice. 
Raynar just looked on pale and dazed. The centauriform girl 
stamped 
her hoof feebly. Tenel Ka shook her head slowly. Lowie barked a 
quiet 
"no". Zekk came up to Jaina and the group waiting beside Jacen's 
room. 
"Master Skywalker called a meeting." He was as solemn as ever but 
his forehead was covered he sweat and his naturally pale face was whiter 
than the snow covered world of Hoth. 
The young Jedi knights followed him up the stairs and took their 
seats. 
Anakin and Tahiri found their friend Sannah and sat in a row in 
front
of the older Jedi. For once, Tahiri was completely silent. The 
orphan 
girl from Tatooine had been raised by the Sand People and had no 
one her 
own age to talk to for many years. Now she had Anakin and Sannah. 
Sannah was a Melodie from Yavin 8 and her time on Yavin 4 was almost 
over. When Melodies turn 12 they must change into adults and they must 
be 
in the waters to transform. 
Master Skywalker did not have to raise his hands to quiet the 
chatter 
as usual. All his students where quiet but not calm. He could 
feel 
the sickening waves too, but he also felt their pain and fear. 
"I do not know exactly what is causing this...illness, or what it 
is. I have contacted the New Republic and apparently not everyone is 
affected." He tried to keep his voice steady, calm, strong. "Only those 
especially sensitive to force seem to be affected. There is no medical 
basis for this, so the medical droids and bacta tanks can't help." He 
again had to compose his voice. "Until we know what is happening, nothing 
can be done. All classes will be canceled. You are free to stay in your 
rooms or if it distracts you from the pain, you can wonder about outside 
but stay with in sight of the great temple. The Force is with us, we will 
overcome this." The Jedi Master stepped away. 
"Ah. Aha." Tenel Ka managed to say. "We must solve this mystery." 
"I'm all for that." Jacen said. "But right now I think I need to 
rest." 
Jaina just nodded. She was far away...she was on a desert planet. 
She was walking, there was something strange in the distance it was a... 
"Jaina? Jaina! Are you ok?" Zekk asked. He seemed the least 
afflicted 
by the strange sickness. 
"Jaina..." Jacen struggled to say. 
"I'm fine...I guess I was dreaming. I think I'll rest too." 
"Yes, we can all rest then meet here in...two standard hours?" Lusa 
suggested. She also seemed less affected. They were all to weary to think 
of a better plan. 



Anakin and Sannah helped Tahiri struggle to Master Skywalker's chambers. 
"I'll...be...ok...now." Tahiri said. They let go and knocked softly. Luke 
appeared at the door. Anakin, who barely had a headache, spoke up first. 
"Sannah needs to go home, it's almost her time to change. I know it's 
dangerous, but we helped Lyric all that time ago. So can we go too?" I 
sounded like Tahiri, he thought. 
"Will you be strong enough?" Master Skywalker asked. Yavin 8 was 
dangerous 
place for the healthy. 
"I barely even feel it. And we're both older now, plus we are not looking 
for the key to the golden globe this time." He smiled. The last time he 
and Tahiri went to Yavin 8 they had been on two missions. One, to help 
protect their friend Lyric during her change and two, to find out what 
the writing in the Palace of the Woolamanders meant. They had to free the 
sprits of the Massasi children trapped in the golden globe. 
"Ok." Luke gave in. "It just so happens, Peckhum is making a 
delivery 
in about two hours, is that soon enough?" he asked Sannah. 
"Oh, yes." She answered with a sad look in her eyes, she was hoping 
for a bit longer to say good-bye to everyone. 
Once outside Master Skywalker's room, Tahiri collapsed. Anakin and Sannah 
picked her up and shook her awake. Anakin knew she wasn't strong enough 
to make this journey, but he also knew she wouldn't stay behind. 
"Tahiri, I know you won't hear it but-" 
"Oh no, Anakin Solo, you are not leaving me here! I'll be fine." As if to 
disagree with her, her legs went out from underneath her. Sannah barely 
caught her. Anakin didn't feel like arguing, besides he knew it would go 
no where. 



"I'll stay awhile, if that's ok with you." Zekk said. 
"You should rest too, but I'd like the company. Although, I'm not sure 
I'm feeling very talkative..." Speech was hard for her. It hurt in 
several different places. 
This any better? 
Y-Yes, this doesn't hurt. I wonder why you and Lusa seem less affected? 
Anakin too, he seemed fine. 
I don't know, I can't think of anything I have in common with your 
brother that I don't have with you. 
How about Lusa? I don't think she and Anakin have anything in common. 
Nope, I can't find a connection. What were you dreaming earlier? Zekk 
asked. She looked up at the ceiling. 
I'm not sure. Suddenly I wasn't in the Grand Audience Chamber anymore; I 
was in a desert...walking. I saw something on the horizon but I don't 
know what. It's the key to whatever is going on, I know it is. She turned 
and faced him. Too weird? He leaned forward and kissed her forehead. 
How about I let you sleep so you can finish the dream and solve 
this whole mess? 
Ok, but puzzles are Anakin's department. 


Zekk walked outside by the river thinking. He knew he should be 
thinking 
about the current crisis but his mind wandering to the question 
Master 
Skywalker had asked him, "What next?" It was a familiar question; 
he had asked himself that a million times. He felt like going somewhere, 
getting out and exploring. He had already tried that though, it led him 
here. 
There were lots of ways to serve the New Republic, some went out 
and 
patrolled borders, or became ambassadors. With the Empire reduced to 
a few ships scattered around where the core worlds would let them hide, 
there was no one to fight. His mind wandered to Jaina. She was 16 now, 
the same age he was when he went to the dark side. He wasn't much older, 
so what were they going to do? 

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Jaina was walking on the same planet as before, but this time she 
was with Jacen. She felt small in the huge deserted place; old ruins were 
everywhere. Jacen must have felt the same way because he took her hand. 
She couldn't see the warrior girl or their Wookie friend but she sensed 
that they were there. She looked toward the setting sun, and there it 
was. A huge pillar, they were far from it bust she could tell it was 
huge. Then, suddenly they were right next to it and she saw four strange 
markings and then she woke up. All of her symptoms had stopped, except 
the headache. She check the chronometer, she had a half an hour until she 
had to meet the others. 
She stepped into the refresher unit and quickly showered. Then 
she 
picked out a clean brown flightsuit. She had just brushed her brown 
hair off her shoulders when she heard a soft knock at her. It was her 
brother, her little brother. 
Come in. She didn't feel like testing her voice just yet. The 
door 
slide open and Anakin walker in. He was more like her than Jacen was 
but both twins had to admit: Anakin was the weird one, he was also the 
genius. What's on your mind little brother? 
"You can talk regularly now, everyone is better. Only the 
headache 
is left." He said quietly. He walked up and gave her a hug. This 
surprised 
her; he haden't hugged her in a long time. 
"I'm leaving. It's time for Sannah's changing. Write down the 
marks so 
I can see them." 
"Huh?" What was he talking about? Jaina wondered. 
"The marks, on the pillar. When Tahiri and I were trying to break 
the curse of the golden globe, it helped when we wrote them down." 
"Oh...how did you- ok." Better not to ask, she thought. She wrote 
down the marks carefully, using a Jedi method of recall. "There." 




"Umm hmm." He said. "Use the computer search of them. You might 
find 
something." He paused. "Maybe it will be like the golden globe. 
Anyway, 
good-bye. I'll see you when you get back, Jaya." He hadn't used 
that name
for her in so long it seemed like forever. 
"Anakin, you're the one who's leaving, silly. I'm not going 
anywhere." 
She said puzzled, he was definitely the weird one. 
"Oh, that's right, but yes you will. Give it some time." And he 
was gone. 
She paced around her room for a moment, then decided to head to 
the Grand 
Audience Chamber. She didn't have to walk slowly or hold the 
wall, 
but her head was a nagging reminder that something wasn't right. 
When she entered the large room, she spotted Zekk and Tenel Ka waiting. 
"Hi." She said smiling. 
"Greetings." Tenel Ka nodded, backing away casually. A smile 
tugged 
at her lips. She knew Zekk and Jaina would want to talk...alone. 
"You seem better." Zekk said with a smile. Just then Lusa trotted 
up with Raynar beside her. 
"I'm glad this thing seems to have passed," Raynar said as 
brightly 
as his rainbow robes. "Except for the headache." He added 
rubbing 
his temples. 
"Where is Jacen?" Lusa asked. "And Lowie? This is the time we 
agreed on." 
Tenel Ka rejoined the group. 
Zekk shrugged, "Maybe they over slept." 
"Or are catching a loose pet." Tenel Ka suggested. Raynar and 
Jaina 
remembered the crystal snake incidents. 
"Or saying good bye..." Jaina murmured. "Well Jacen could be 
saying 
by to Anakin. He came to tell me it's Sannah's time." 
"Ah, the shut down sequence was restful. Even though I suffered 
none of 
your mysterious ill effects." Em Teedee chattered bobbing along 
with his 
microjets. Lowie growled a greeting. Jacen came up behind his 
sister 
and surprised her with a poke in the back. Em TeeDee had 
distracted her. 
"Feeling better?" She asked. 
"Yeah, Anakin hugged me and called me Jasa." Jacen whispered 
making a 
funny face of surprise. She nodded but didn't have time to 
answer. 
"Anyone have any ideas?" Lusa asked. 
"Jaina the mystic, did you finish your dream?" Zekk asked 
playfully. 
"I think so, Jasa- uh, Jacen, did you have any dreams?" She 
hadn't 
meant to call him that. 
"Yeah I did Jaya." He thought she had been teasing him. Tenel Ka 
raised 
an eyebrow at the nicknames. "We were walking where there was a 
lot of 
sand and a big pillar. It was just you and me, but I could feel 
Tenel Ka and Lowie were near by." 
"I had the same one. Anakin said to write down these-" She handed 
the them to Lusa and they were passed around the small circle of friends. 
"-He also said to check the computers for something about them." 
"I saw a totally different set." Jacen said. He quickly jotted 
them 
down next to Jaina's. 
"And what are all my finest young Jedi doing?" 
"Uncle Luke!" The twins exclaimed. 
"Ah. Aha." Tenel Ka said. "And who is accompanying you?" 
"This is Liya. She's a new addition. One of my former students, 
Kyp, 
discovered she had great talent with the force. She has already 
learned 
very much." The girl nodded her head in greeting. She looked 
about Jaina's age. 
"We're going to solve the mystery of that weird wave a of pain." 
Jacen said. 
"And lasting headaches." Raynar put in still rubbing his temples. 
Raynar and Jacen could be quite the comedy team occasionally. Luke 
nodded. He had every confidence that they would. It was just the sort of 
thing he used to do with Leia, Han, Chewie, and Lando. 


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Raabashyyk had decided it was now or never. If she still carried 
the 
plague now, she would always. If only there was some way to test it 
without killing. She decided to go to Coruscant and tell the New Republic 
exactly who she was and what danger she posed. They could do tests or 
find someway to make sure that no one else died. She dreamt that Lowbacca 
would be on a sandy outer-rim planet soon and she intended to be there, 
if she could. 



After the young Jedi knights had showed the new girl around and 
left 
her in her quarters, they went back to the subject of a plan. 
"Master Lowbacca and I ran the checks you requested Mistress 
Jaina. 
We discovered that they are an ancient form of writing called 
Ilonigs. 
They were used by the beings some scientists believe all 
sentient 
races are descended from from. The only places Ilonigs are still 
readable 
are the desert planet of Ilog and the ice planet of Ilokis. 
These planets are located at the very most outer edge of the rim of known 
space. No archeological team has ever returned from either place. Oh my! 
Apparently it is rumored that a hostile alien race from beyond the rim 
monitors the planets and attacks anyone entering the vicinity." 
"Nothing out of the usual there, when do we leave?" Jacen asked. 
"We can't just charge off not knowing what to expect." Jaina 
countered. 
"Why not?" Tenel Ka asked. "Is that not what we always do?" 
"She's right, you know." Zekk said. 
"Yes, I know." Jaina agreed. "But maybe this time we should be a 
little 
more careful. We could have been killed so many times." 
"Alright who says we through her in the river-" Jacen started. 
"And depart immediately." Raynar and Lusa finished together, 
laughing. 
"And this time you are not leaving me behind." Lusa smiled. 
"Of course you really are right Jaina." Jacen said. "So lets make 
a plan." 
"Alright two planets, two ships. And between the all of us, two 
crews." 
Zekk said. "I got the Lightning Rod." Lowie and Tenel Ka claimed 
the Rock Dragon. 
"Hey, Jaina, uh, would you mind coming with us? It will be just 
like 
old times." Jacen said. "Besides we're together in the dream." 
"You sound like Anakin. But I guess-" She looked at Zekk who 
shrugged "
-sure." 
"Alright, Raynar Lusa, you're with me." Zekk said. 
"What is your intended destination?" Liya, the new arrival asked. 
She seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. 
"Uh, Ilog and IIokis." Jacen said unsure on what to do. What as 
she 
doing here? 
"Ah hmm. Are you seeking the ancient ruins?" 
"I guess so." Jaina answered. 
"Need any help? Since the classes have been canceled there is not 
much to do here. I have heard much about the ruins, and the strange force 
guarding them." 
"Uh, no offense but you're not fully trained yet-" Zekk started. 
"But then neither were we when we starting our crazy adventures. Sure. 
There's room on the Lightning Rod for one more." She bowed her head in 
thanks. 

"So Liya, where are you from?" Jaina asked. "Lets go pack." she 
and 
the new student walked away. 
"If Jaina hadn't just left, she say, 'What are we waiting for'. 
So 
what are we waiting for?" Jacen asked and walked Tenel Ka to her room. 
The others went to their rooms. They didn't know how long they were going 
to be gone so they packed enough to keep them awhile. 



"Actually, my clan is nomadic. We go everywhere." Liya replied. 
"Clan?" Jaina asked rummaging around her room. 
"Yes, I am of the clan Caaliin. Our people are called the 
Travelers 
and that is what we do. I spent time of Darthomir and even with 
the 
Singing Mountain Clan, the same clan as the Princess. I've been to 
Coruscant, Tatooine, and Hapes. As well as many other places." 
"Have you ever been to Ilog or Ilokis?" 
"No, we do not go there. We have seen the Power, the ones 
protecting 
them. I do not know why but they do. They will try to destroy 
us, 
and the are usually successful." 
"But they've never come up against us before, we seem to pull off 
some amazing things." 
"I have heard. That is why I asked to come with you, I believe 
you 
have a chance. But this whole thing is still ill advised." They 
talked 
awhile more. Liya had never unpacked so there was nothing to pack. 
Jaina discovered that she had a strange accent. She said all "j" 's, like 
"y" 's, so "Jedi" became "Yedi" and "just" became "yust" and so on. 



"Alright, we leave in 15 standard minutes." Zekk said to his 
crew. 
He walked off to find Jaina. He found her finishing up pre-flight 
checks on the Rock Dragon. 
"Hey, need any help?" He asked. She looked up and smiled. 
"No, all done." She tossed her hair back, of her shoulders. It 
was 
a little longer than shoulder length now. 
"So whose turn is it to pull off the amazing rescue this time?" 
He asked. 
"Mmm, I don't know, mine I think. But we never really take 
turns." 
Jaina said. 
"Yeah, I guess not." He paused. "Well, may the force be with you, 
with all of us." He hugged her and returned to the Lightning Rod. 

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"What do our spies have to report, Celtan?" a young man asked 
from 
his command chair. 
"The Force seems to have recovered from our initial poisoning. It 
mostly healed itself." The young woman answered. "Koty, it did weaken the 
Jedi though, if we do it again and attack immediately, the New Republic 
would fall." 
"We know they are going to fall, we just want to minimize our 
losses." 
He said. "Celtan, this is it, we really can do it. Prepare to 
send 
the team down again, this time with much more toxins. We want to 
wipe 
out the Jedi threat for as long as possible. Use it all." He 
gripped 
the armrests tightly. "This it." He repeated. 
Celtan relayed his orders to Galain, had of the science team that 
developed and delivered the poison that stole the Jedi's power. 




"All systems check," Raynar informed Zekk. "Let's go." He sat 
happily 
in the co-pilot seat. 
"Rock Dragon, We are ready to depart. See you at the rendezvous 
point." 
Lusa said. They took off and proceeded out of the atmosphere. 
Then, 
they made the jump into hyperspace. Liya entertained the group with 
her stories of places she'd been and the stories her Clan recorded about 
Ilog and Ilokis. All they knew is that no one was allowed to land on the 
planets. Her Clan believed all human life started on Ilog and that Ilokis 
was their first colony. Then they spread out among the stars and forgot 
their past. 
When they dropped out of hyperspace, they met the Rock Dragon. 
"Ok, we'll check out Ilokis and meet you here in three days." 
Lusa 
confirmed. "May the force be with you." 
"And you." Jacen replied. The two ships split up. 
"I'm picking up patrol ships on long rage sensors. They must be 
Univi, 
the guardians. We can hide in the planets shadow and hope they 
their 
scanners don't pick us up, or try and reason with them." Liya said. 
"Sneak in, I don't like listening to rumors but I can't ignore 
them." 
Zekk said and he piloted them toward the dark side of the planet. 
"Have they picked us up?" 
"I don't think so...not yet anyway." Liya replied. 
"Alright, here we go." He flew into the atmosphere and found 
nothing 
but dark, flat, ice land. He landed as near the only structure as 
he could. They put on thermal suits to keep warm and took out potable 
light