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Evolution Lost	By : Xeo123 Category: +M through R > Parasite Eve Views: 1387 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The street was quite with only a few sounds of the wind blowing out of the alley ways. Trashcans tipped over the sidewalks as they rolled into the streets without anyone to clean up after. Different color tones of buildings with no life in them were left unchecked as signs of break-ins and vandalism showed with doors, windows, and gates on a few other buildings smashed. Newspapers with yesterdays morning edition flying around the emptiness of the road while the wind forced them to have a waltz in the air. The waltz of the wind and newspaper could be said for Xeo and Aya as they were exchanging words back to each other as they’re way to the food import store passed the time away.

“I thought that would of made you laugh…but I can tell from your expression that you are trying to be nice,” said Xeo while trying to make Aya less tense at the moment; because, the Jedi could feel conflicts of her own being felt within her emotions. Only emotions she was feeling was fear, from which she was experiencing in the last couple days about who she is and what her unknown powers will bring her. Xeo tried to used his Jedi talents on Aya but he wasn’t trying very hard as his own personally was doing all the work.

“So…you’re trying your magic on me?” she said to Xeo while trying to give him a serious look.

“Don’t get me wrong about how I can use The Force, like on Daniel,” he said while moving his upper body back from Aya. “That…magic if you call it was only used on him because of his problems and struggles to do the right thing. He was applying an emotion in his line of work and it was consuming him and those all around.”

“It make is sound like Daniel’s anger problems were like an illness…and you gave him a cure with that power of yours,” Aya said while Xeo nodded. She then spoke of something else to do with The Force. “…And yet…you have that power to do all that destruction back at the zoo…” Aya paused to recall her time in Central Park last night when she didn’t expect Xeo to be following her. “…So how far behind were you following me?” Xeo looked at Aya and gave him his point of view of last night in the park.

“Once you left Daniel and he started to pull me out of the car for questioning. After my…well…personal one-on-one with him…” he said while shifting his eyes away from Aya for a moment as he remembers his duel with Daniel. “…I took off and was being held behind by Eve’s creations or twisted images of her own. Those…I guess mitochondria creatures…no…I could think Neo-Mitochondria Creatures would be a better name for them at this point. Anyways those things kept popping up in different random times that I had to deal with. You were far ahead of me that I wasn’t even close enough to find Eve after…what she did…” he said while Aya looked at him to give Xeo info about her whereabouts.

“I was…there when it happened. Everyone turn into that orange mass of blob…I couldn’t do anything to save them. Their minds were set on Eve’s power as she…she…” Aya said while still having trouble of not doing anything. Xeo could feel her self-doubt surfacing with her other emotions being mixed.

“…I doubt that anyone would have done the same thing to save them and still been powerless against Eve’s might. Like how I felt every time I lost a friend in the middle of a battlefield before I came to Earth.” Xeo said while Aya was curious about Xeo’s own life while hers couldn’t be that interesting to someone who was from another world altogether.

“You have seen…much?” Aya said as Xeo didn’t tried to figure out the question that she posed to him.

“Much of…battle?”

“You mention about your people…The Jedi against The Dark Jedi. How much have you been through?” Xeo then took a moment to gather all he could remember of his pass conflicts while trying to be straight forward with Aya and not to confuse her.

“Oh…that’s a bit of telling. As far as I can look back…I never thought I would become a soldier…let alone a Jedi into battles to lead battalions against others. It’s hard to tell about this without leading off on different moments in my life.” He said while Aya looked down the block to check on their walk length and looked back at him.

“I think we have more than enough,” she said.

“Well then…” Xeo said as he was about to start his long speech. “Back before I was even considered for Jedi training I was already been touched by The Force from my conception. My mother and father were Jedi,” Xeo pauses for a moment to recollected his thoughts. “Force-sensitive to be correct. They weren’t even Jedi before they met each other. It was sometime after the galaxy I came from was, as Luke would say, ‘The Dark Times’ that they met each other. Strong in The Force they were known for what they would become; however, that all changed when my father an old artifact that reacted to him and my mother’s presence. A holocron it was called, a recording device that had a Jedi Master’s knowledge and it told them about how they are able to be Jedi. Knowing the power from within they both learned a lot from the holocron over time. Still during the ‘Dark Times’ in the galaxy both my father Hicktorale, and my mother, Cintreila had been trained in the ways of The Force and how to be Jedi…but not completely; however, since they were using The Force enemies towards the Jedi would come after them. So they traveled until they came to Corellia and made their new home somewhere far away from Coronet, a major city on that planet. My mother felt that the need to be Jedi was one of hardship and being secretly since being a Jedi has rules and they were breaking them…”

“Breaking what rules?” Aya said while interrupting Xeo.

“Its part of Jedi life. There is The Jedi Code we all must follow. If any Jedi breaks one of those rules it will be a step towards falling towards The Dark Side. ‘There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no death, there is the Force,’ ” Xeo said as he recited The Jedi Code flawlessly. “Luke’s version of The Jedi Code is much different but this is what my parents told me when I was young. Apparently the rule, ‘There is no passion, there is serenity,’ was the rule they went against; even though, strict as the holocron kept telling them, through The Force Hicktorale could sense something a mists. After which, my mother cut off all ties to The Force to keep herself safe as Hicktorale started his own living as a simple Corenet officer, much like the NYPD. A man to serve and protect,” he said while Aya began to take interest into Xeo’s past.

“Was he a detective like Daniel, without the anger problems?” Aya said while Xeo cracked a smile.

“If he was a Jedi with anger in his heart then he wouldn’t be. Heh,” Xeo laughed while he talked more about his past. “Over time his ‘abilities’ stated to make him go places around Coronet and then all around Corellia. In time he was able to be a PI and go all over the galaxy to bring criminals to justice…if there ever was during those times. He loved his work and Cintreila was able to see him from time to time without being far away, which, even if he was, she could tell by using only a little of The Force to keep tabs on him. Any lover would…until one day she wasn’t able to find him even thought The Force. My father at the time was working on a case that lead him to a Force-Adapt being that made him bring out his inner powers again. Although not armed with a lightsaber, he was able to take him down but by giving into his powers. By doing this he was giving his own presence away to any bounty hunter or hunter killers of Jedi. He had to be invisible to most commercial ship lines traveling in the galaxy while he had to keep his Force Powers at bay. Even so…it also meant that his feelings towards my mother to be cut off completely if anyone who was a Force-Adapt to us it against him."

“That’s…terrible of him. Your father choosing his survival over your mother’s love,”Aya said while Xeo answered her like many other people who has hear of his story before.

“It was the only thing he can do unless he was a true Jedi…which he wasn’t. My mother was upset by this and kept refusing to even reach out with her own abilities in The Force to find Hicktorale, even over love. While my mother was still hopping for any signs of my father’s return the galaxy was falling more and more towards darkness. Ever since The Empire was formed…” he looked towards Aya for a moment while speaking. “…which was the main government of imperialism at that time for making the ‘Dark Times’ to happen and wanted all Jedi to be eliminated. My father had a lot to lose but more so if he ever kept his Force Powers unchecked for any agents working for The Empire to find him. Cintreila’s life too was in danger of being found out by The Empire if she did anything with The Force. It was then that my father’s jumping from ship to ship got him onto a research vessel, which was under controlled by The Empire. He passed himself off as a professor without giving into The Force, from what my mother told me. Looking for the next ship that he could sneak on to that would lead him back to Coreilla, he was able to ‘mingle’ with the staff crew about what they were researching.”

“What were they doing?” Aya said while Xeo looked at her with an unmoved expression.

“…Well…they had two staff teams all headed up by one main professor. He never got a name form him but just had a presence of being…weird at times. The half of the crew was studying something to do with hyperspace travel using a new kind of mathematical theories. My father thought it was all a bunch of nonsense but seeing holograms projections of VR tests proved to be possible…making hyperspace faster. The 2nd staff was looking into what made Hicktorale feel the need to dislike The Empire: genetics. Of those times he was on board that ship he kept seeing how the head professor wanted to give Clonetroopers or Stromtroopers an edge over any enemy The Empire would come across. My father would never agree to any tempering with Jedi…even at the genetic level,” Xeo said as he signs to catch his breath. “Soon he was able to find a ship that wasn’t imperial and came back to Coreilla. He was able to get back to Cintreila, who was nearly heartbroken for leaving so long without feeling his presences.”

“Any woman would…” Aya said softly while Xeo agrees by nodding his head slowly.

“Yes…and that is when…well…to put it bluntly…I was conceived. Not just me but…my brother too,” he said while his voice fell deeper to which only he knows. Aya could tell, by his change in tone, that something troubled him.

“It sounds like that’s a bad thing the way you are saying it?” she said. Xeo tried very hard to hold back his feelings at Dreazin but knew he would have to explain his part in Xeo’s dilemma to save him.

“…It’s not like he was a bully to me when we were young. Although, we didn’t get to see our father for some time until we were able to speak and walk on our own. Cintreila could feel us growing inside as her affinity to The Force was heightened. Months after she was with us, my father left once again on duty only this time he was with a splinter group that was against The Empire. A small but effect group called ‘The Rebel Alliance’. Because of my father’s PI skills and how he was able to only use little of The Force to get around imperial space he was considered to be part of a stealth ops. Cintreila thought to be in there best interest that he didn’t join up but after a long talk…he left to fight against The Empire. Years went by as we couldn’t keep in contact with our father; however, we…Dreazin and I thought he was alive still. Cintreila wanted to keep her mind of anything to do with Hicktorale and the Civil War breaking out. Reports of numerous battles and deaths from the rebel’s side made my mother think of terrible thoughts of our father being slain by The Empire…and we were young then not knowing how much The Empire was like. Cintreila knew already, through The Force, that we were both Force-Sensitive and could pose trouble if any of The Empire’s agents found out. Without even thinking…but feeling instead, Cintreila instructed us to become Jedi ourselves…for a time.” Xeo looked up into the sky for a moment of getting his thoughts inline in his mind. Soon he looked back at Aya’s face while keeping up with his talking. “During our Jedi training my mother felt an unusual shift in The Force. She went to check any news that The Force was telling her about and sure enough it was the news she was waiting for. The Empire had a terrible lost at Endor and The Rebel Alliance came through. After hearing that news Cintreila was waiting for the day Hicktorale to come back, which he did. So long that his fight that we never get to see him happy before…we all were. He told us about the battles he took part in. How dark the times were for the Rebellion. He even met Luke before he became my official master on Yavin 4. We thought this moment wouldn’t end…until my father found out about how Dreazin and I were being trained behind his back. Cintreila was taking a risk by doing that and my father wasn’t happy at all and couldn’t help but notice how The Force flowed through us.”

“What happen after that?” she said while trying to help the Jedi out.

“My father kept his distance away from us so we wouldn’t be influenced by him. He just got back from a long time of war and war doesn’t make a Jedi great. He could feel something different in us…Dreazin and I.”

“Dreazin…you’re brother’s name?” Aya said as Xeo nodded.

“Yes…anyways…our paraents knew about the holocron’s teaching of unique powers given to Jedi that is easily mastered within a year. Cintreila knew his to be true when Dreazin was able to read her memories without a problem. This made my father stay away from him so that the times of war wasn’t seen to Dreazin. As time went on The Rebel Alliance became The New Republic and in the time Luke was able to build his Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Hicktorale though it was a good time to send us off to have real training; however, we didn’t get his say so before.”

“Why…?” Aya spoke to Xeo as he slowed down his steps while Aya kept walking at her pace.

“…Old ties…” Xeo said.

“With who? Luke?” Aya saying while using her detective skills.

“You’re really are something else…heh,” Xeo said as they were able to spot the food icons that he saw in his mind. Aya knew right away where they were.

“Here it is…I hope there’s something to eat in this place seeing how it’s been vandalize,” she said as soon as she starts to draw out her Beretta. Xeo would of sense the place out but his hunger pains were strong enough to lose his concentration in his Jedi powers. He would have to rely on Aya’s abilities. “Well…can you tell if…anything is in side?” she said while looking back at Xeo.

“Trusting in my talents now? I wish I could help but…the hunger isn’t helping…” he said. With that said, Aya could only trust her instinct as she entered the food import store. The place was all but wrecked with only a few non tampered shelves of products that they don’t required at the moment. The cash register was taken as boxes of tobacco products were all gone or destroyed in the process of stealing. Most of the liquor and perishable foods were taken or spoiled due to no one tending the store. Aya slowly walks pass the broken glass at the front of the store while Xeo moves behind her. Unknown to Aya, Xeo couldn’t use his powers to help but was able to look at the way Aya was moving about. Seeing that Aya was able to fend for herself and Xeo seen a lot of combat in his years in the New Republic’s army he was able to notice things about Aya. Her reflexes were sharp as her stands was on par with her aim. The way she walked without losing her focus of anything that could be lurking around the corner as she kept checking her sector of fire. Xeo eyes were able to look at her body to see it working in harmony and can tell her muscles have been tempered with training; however, he was also able to see not just a person with a gun but feelings being expressed. He could tell that a lot has happen to her and not just two nights ago with Eve but her pass life too. With the loss of life from both events, Xeo could feel that she has the tendency to help those who are indeed of saving and to stop those that are bring turmoil towards others. The Jedi didn’t feel like he we looking at a soldier in the making but something…more. He wasn’t able to think about why his eyes were still on her and the way she moved when Aya turned around.

“It’s clear, Xeo.” Aya said while his eyes went back up to her face.

“Uh…right. Even being in this close I can sense no one…” he said as Aya puts her gun away in her jacket. Xeo sat down near a wall on the opposite side of the store’s destroyed door while Aya put the safety back on the gun within her jacket’s pocket.

“Stay here,” Aya said as Xeo nodded while putting his hand on his stomach. “…I’ll go look for some food. I know there has to be some here…somewhere.” She began looking up and down the store for anything eatable but came up with nothing. It didn’t take her long to notice the back of the store’s door was left opened as she enters it and found an stain alone fridge. She was able to find some food products that were inside and kept well. “Hmm…this looks good enough. Even filling,” Aya said with food in her hands. She closes the fridge and makes where way back to Xeo while picking up chopsticks along. She sat down across from him in a position that her back was against a shelf and her legs sticking towards him while Xeo was in the same position. Holding the sealed up containers Aya gives him one with chopstick on the top of it. He looks at it to see what was visible to him as food while opening the plastic seal and removing the top. They both unwrap the chopstick wrapping incasing them as the chopstick came as two instead of being whole, which needed to be snapped off to be useable. Aya looked at Xeo while he was looking and even poking at the oriental food that was in front of him. He could smell it to determine that it was not of land origin but of the sea.

“Fish…?” Xeo said to her while she nodded.

“You can tell. Ever had Sushi or Sashimi back where you live?” Xeo thought back to his early years on Corellia with his mom’s cooking.

“…As in this type of food or style of the food being prepared?” he said to Aya.

“Doesn’t matter…” she said while already having one piece of sushi.

“Corellia does have lakes…I haven’t seen the rest of Earth but so far…it does remind me of Coronet, for the moment. Cintreila had to cook for us while my brother and I were growing up. We had something like this number of times before, cooked and uncooked,” he said while using his chopsticks and takes a piece of sashimi with thin layer of wasabi hidden from his eyes. Aya was impressed by his skills of using chopsticks for the first time in front of him while also seeing Xeo’s face beginning to accept the food with a positive feeling.

“So you’re used to this kind of style of food?” Aya said with a curious look. Xeo, feeling good about the food he just had wasn’t aware that the wasabi already taking its effect on his tongue. His face started to turn into a shade of red as he said with a tense change in his voice to Aya.

“…Not of this kind,” Xeo said as he cough a bit and tries to take in the cold air to cool his tongue off but it wasn’t enough. Aya then looked at Xeo’s reaction and put her food down and move towards him.

“What did you have in this…?” she said while checking the label. “Must be the wasabi…” Aya spoke as she looked at Xeo seeing he wasn’t agree with the spicy add on to the food. Aya got up and treaded towards the drinking section of the store to find bottled water. She came back to the Jedi and gave him the water as he started drinking it in huge gulps. Over time he was able to talk again without any problems with his mouth being on fire.

“…I’m ready for more. Heh,” the brave Jedi said to Aya while for a moment didn’t show any expression of any kind but then rolled her eyes and sat back down to continue on her food.

“That's wasabi you just had…I thought you had stuff like this before.” Aya said while having another piece of sushi. Xeo nodded to his previous statement.

“But I have…I wasn’t used to wasabi. I had other spices before with my brother and mother at times. This was just sudden…” he said while Aya, thinking that he was strong in his powers, was able to smile to know that he was still human.

“Your first taste of wasabi and you didn’t die…at least you have your limits.” Aya said while Xeo took this into account. He was able to notice the expression of her smile while trying another piece of his food and getting use to the wasabi.

“You think I am all powerful as I was explaining before. I have my limits. I just don’t glorify it in front of others. It’s not in my way, as a Jedi anyways. I learn to control those kinds of emotions.” Xeo said as he swallowed his piece off food and begins to get another into his mouth. Aya thought this was a good time to ask him about how he was able to control his powers from what she now knows about Xeo and his ways in The Force.

“Control your emotions…you’re saying that you can’t have fun if you’re a Jedi?”

“That’s not true,” Xeo said as Aya takes another piece from her food container. “Jedi can have fun but most of the time we have to be serious about everything in life. The Jedi ways are meant to help others and to rid out evil. Fun doesn’t come without sacrifice to learn in the ways of The Force. It can be an experience through trial and error but at times…it can be fun if it presents itself to be. For example…” he said while putting out his hand towards Aya. Feeling the power of The Force through his fingertips he is able to flit up her food and pull the layers of sushi in front of her. He then manipulates the different layers of fish, rice, seaweed, and wasabi to take on a whole layering. Again he does it while taking the sushi to form a person out of the food and shows Aya a little animated fish person walking around until he puts it all back the way it was. Aya was amazed still by his powers and smiled even more to show that he could have fun with his skills as a Jedi; however, he didn’t smile back.“Fun as it is…The Force isn’t something to abuse with for self gaining…that leads to The Dark Side, but in this case I did it because I know you wanted to prove a point, which I did,” he said as her smile went away but not soon enough as she ask Xeo another question.

“So…you could make sure not to abuse your powers for this…Dark Side and still be who you are?” Aya spoke in a questionable fashion.

“It is what every Jedi must struggle through…” he said while being serious and taking another piece of fish to eat. As Aya ate another bit of sushi she ponders about Xeo’s parents and the rules they were breaking while taking in the fact about his powers not taking control of him as she feared for her own talents.

“Like your parents…they could feel for each other’s emotions of love even with The Force. They understood each other and the risk they were taking against your order’s rules…can that happen for someone who isn’t a Jedi? The struggle you just said…if one is to be in love without The Force being there for one?” she said while looking at Xeo.

“The Jedi Order isn’t too fond of that emotion. It was known that love is a misguiding and dangerous emotion if not trained, which happened for Anakin and his wife. It is forbidden to be with someone that is not trained in the way of The Force for it can have complications on many different social and mental levels. My parents could deal with it for they know what they were getting into while someone else…couldn’t understand if they can’t feel The Force,” he said as Aya looked back down at her food while counting how many pieces of sushi was left in her head.

“I see…I would think that…well…” Aya said while Xeo looked at her without any idea of what Aya was talking about?

“Huh?” Xeo spoke back to Aya very fast. Not able to think of the right words to say, Aya thought really fast to relate her question about his family.

“I mean…you lived with your family. You have a brother and you get along well with everyone from what I can tell. You helped out Daniel and talked to Maeda without getting annoyed by his questions,” she said while Xeo stopped eating and put his chopsticks down while understanding what Aya was speaking of.

“Even if I could find love…it wouldn’t matter. Not what I am going through,” he said while Aya looked at him and could tell she said something wrong.

“I’m…sorry if I…” she said to apologies very quickly as Xeo shook his head.

“It’s not your fault. I haven’t even told you the rest,” he said while Aya nodded and kept eating what’s left of her sushi. “Hicktorale, now away from being with any ties to The New Republic had a message from Luke. My father was told to go to Yavin 4 and met up with him for a moment. A week went by as he came back with a Republic uniform on saying ‘science division’ on his ID card. Apparently Luke and his Jedi were able to seek out the long forgotten science ship that my father went on. After some talking with the head professor, from Luke himself, the professor defected to The New Republic and would help out. Luke wanted to make sure that he didn’t have any ties or programming of The Empire’s influence still in his mind. With that, Luke send some of his Jedi including my father to be part of the researcher crew and enforcing the law on the ship. Dreazin and I never got to go to the temple just yet. My mother would have but never wanted to let Hicktorale down again after training us to be somewhat Jedi. My father and the Jedi with him were sent on the ship. Months went by as we knew it would be a long time for his return. Once my father came back my mother could tell something happened to him as he can’t remember what made him feel…different. As we, me and my brother, Dreazin we both started to grow up and my mother was able to tell that we had learn all that we could from her and the holocron. She thought, through her eyes, that it was time to go to Luke’s academy of Jedi and finish our training. Hicktorale didn’t want us to get involved in Jedi training but couldn’t deny the connection that we had to The Force, even for Dreazin. They broke their promise to not use The Force in any matters again…but they did for our benefits. Years went by as we started to become just as Jedi as they were now. Through the eyes of our parents we trained and live like Jedi…talk like Jedi…combated like Jedi until we were old enough to make our own lightsabers. By then our father knew it was time of our initiation to The Jedi Order. With the little training we had to harness the power of The Force our parents told us to go to Yavin 4 and be introduced to Luke and his masters. We took off at a very young age. I was 18 then and Dreazin too…almost twins, him and I. Once we got to the academy we were greeted like brothers to the order as Luke could tell already from our connection to The Force that we would make a great addition to the Jedi ranks. We were trained even harder and more of an understanding with The Force as a friend, Luke said once before. By the time we were 22 our powers were strong enough for us to be, in the Jedi ranks, the titled knight.”

“So technically…you’re a knight?” Aya said as she understands more about Xeo.

“Yes…Jedi Knight…” he said while Aya still smiles back at him from the idea of what Maeda said before.

“Not a samurai? I mean…samurais and knights sound a lot in common. They both live by a code and have a way of fighting their enemies with honor and duty. By the way you’re telling me of your Jedi code and how Jedi are meant to help those that are in need of aiding…it does sound like you are a samurai,” she said while Xeo couldn’t take a hint that, on Earth’s history, samurai and Jedi were in common as he just went with that answer.

“Okay, Aya…I’m a samurai in your eyes…sheesh I won’t argue any more about it.” Rolling his eyes and signing that he couldn’t win in argument against Aya. “Anyways…once we were Jedi Knights we could go as we please. We did our best to stop conflicts with star systems and negotiated to put peace with troubled governments…but that all ended soon. On the holonets and then by Luke Skywalker himself announced a new enemy came from The Unknown Regions that started assaulting New Republic forces. Once diplomats begin transmitting peace speeches to our new enemy they only answered back as everyone being infidels to their gods. They were called The Yuuzhan Vong and they left most of our outlining worlds in ruins. Many of the New Republic forces started to take loses…heavy losses as they were pushing more and more into worlds we couldn’t give to them. Soon, The Jedi Order was being called to aid the New Republic as the death toll was increasing dramatically. Although, Luke didn’t felt the need for the Jedi to become soldiers in another war but it was unavoidable able as he knew more Jedi had to be trained for the upcoming bloodshed. The Vong were heading more into deeper territories as more New Republic forces were being pushed back. During this time we had little to do with peace negotiations with any other non-allied forces to combat against the Vong. Battles were being fought as we had no other choice but to meet them head on.”

“Such a young age for you…both of you,” Aya said while slowing her eating down. She could only imagine little of what Xeo and Dreazin could have gone through with only limited information. “I wonder what was going through your mind.”

“It wasn’t easy. Nothing was during those times against the Vong…Dreazin and I lead platoons of Republic soldiers across many worlds and star systems. The chaos all around us was extreme to the point that even one miss tell of an enemies reaction from any of our soldiers would end the conflict in the Vong’s favor…which happened a lot. Across the Mid Rim and Out Rim sectors, our battles lead to many short lived victory as we kept moving to help out on all fronts. All the fighting…destruction…the so-called victories we could get in a small break were taking its toll on our forces. We, Dreazin and I, couldn’t show our ground troops that we weren’t powerful to hold back against the Vong advance…but they were. Even for our affinity with The Force as our ally…it only made them more aggressive and soon…unable to hold against without more training. Which…” Xeo’s eye then moved away from Aya’s own eyes as he begin to feel his own emotions beginning to bubble up inside. Aya wasn’t aware about this but knew something was wrong from the way he looked away from her.

“…What? Did something happen that was…traumatic?” Aya said while could only think of a reason. She then felt that if it was the case of a traumatic moment then she would be no better than herself and her moment about her family’s death; however, Xeo just spoke without looking at her.

“…Traumatic?...Something like that did…happen…” he said while getting his point of view back on Aya. “After the last conflict that I had with my brother at my side…the Vong took out about 80 percent of our own task force…including two trained Jedi Knights. In an instance…they were slain without even trying to defend our gunners and commandos. They too were taken down easily. Still remember how my brother was calling back while I had no say in the matter. We didn’t stand a chance even in our current status…and we left a world that was a key planet for the New Republic to keep refuges. Once we gone into hyperspace, Dreazin stormed to the leader of the task force and demanded that we could get a sneak attack mission going. We had the equipment but it would have been suicide from the data our crew was able to gather from the aftermath of that battle. That’s when I started to notice…Dreazin wasn’t keeping faith into his Jedi ways,” he said while pausing to recollect himself on what was about to be said next. Aya didn’t bother to eat another bite of her sushi as she could tell that Xeo was having a hard time explaining his story at this point. “…We came back to our parents with the scars of war etched within us, through The Force. Our mother understood about how Jedi and war doesn’t make one great from within…just hardness them to be better at what they do best, struggle and overcome. Hicktorale, on the other hand, knew that only conflict would breed more from his taste of war with The Empire…and he wasn’t far from the truth. Dreazin and Hicktorale argued about the ways of The Force in which my brother wanted to know other…ways of beating the Vong. Our father could tell that Dreazin was poisoned by war and had the urge to give into his emotions. Hicktorale told him about the dangers of The Dark Side and that he is only feeling the lost of the troopers on that battlefield…but no…Dreazin had another idea why he felt this way but never explained it to anyone. And then one night…I heard another fight between them. Cintreila thought it would be another moment of Dreazin having an outburst at my father but something happen that even I felt though The Force. For some unknown reason…Dreazin was able to read our father’s thoughts. Everything he knew…and didn’t knew…including why he was different. When the whole ordeal was over and I step into the room Dreazin just stopped yelling and backed off while saying, “He isn’t our father anymore. Not after what I know.” He left that night….never came back. We thought he was going back to that world to single handily free everyone from the Vong’s grip. I wanted to go after him…to save him from his fate but my parents thought it was better that he would work things out for the best. Months went by without any word of his status of being either alive or dead. Then one day a Jedi from Luke’s academy came with some disturbing and hard to believe evidence. Dreazin was alive…but he wasn’t himself anymore. From some scout reports of the world that he travel to my brother was able to rid of the Vong from that world…but in doing so…everyone else too,” he said while Aya’s eyes widen from the words coming out of Xeo’s mouth.

“You…you don’t mean your brother…?” she said while now understanding why Xeo was having a hard time talking about his past. Xeo could sense Aya was caring about his feelings about the story of his past as she was one with a past of her own to be explored.

“…Dead? I thought that’s what happened but in some holorecordings…we saw him killing Vong…and Republic people. We didn’t have to understand why he would do this but we, our family, knew one thing…he had fallen to The Dark Side of The Force. When that happen…I had no other choice. I left to go after him to…save him!” Xeo said while Aya couldn’t move while some of story started to affect her emotionally.

“You went…out of your way to save him? Did you?” she said while Xeo didn’t nod or gave a simple answer.

“…I went after him. I left without knowing what I was about to get into. The other Jedi that came to my house told me that I had to go back to Luke to confirm about Dreazin’s fall. When I got there I told Skywalker about what happened to Dreazin, but before I left to go after him Luke also wanted to know why my father wasn’t himself as the other Jedi could feel it too. He felt a change emotionally within me about my father. I wasn’t even noticing anything different form him. Before I even said anything the Jedi that was at my house told Luke that his…midi-chlorians weren’t the same the last time he was in Luke’s Academy. Luke, thinking about what should be done, thought that I was a danger to my own family as I had no signs of…changes about me; however, from my family’s pass experience with Luke he thought it was the best course of action that…once Dreazin was saved…or not…that I come back and be severed from The Force. Not to take a chance with my family’s bloodline anymore is what I thought as I was leaving. That was not the case but Luke made his choice in the matter for my fate. I left Yavin 4 to find Dreazin but he wasn’t on that world. After which I started looking into local star systems that would have heard anything about the massacre on that planet. I was only meant with empty answers until a New Republic soldier had a tip for me. I sat down and talked with him until he gave me clues to Dreazin’s location. Apparently, my brother and the soldier I was talking to, named Cire, was trafficking him as he posed as a Jedi and ordered him to take him to Vong infested systems. After I explained who Dreazin was, he agreed to help me find my brother and bring him back to The Light Side. Months came and went after trying to get back to Dreazin when we met on Melickpor VII…and it was there that I tried to save him…as a whole war column of Vong warriors came after him first then me. He tried as hard as we could to fight them off while I was reasoning him about what he did; however, all that was for nothing while he continued to ignore me and then drew his lightsaber against me. My brother wanted me dead…but it only lasted for a few moments until an impact shot from one of the Vong’s heavy artillery nearly crippled us both. If it wasn’t for our Jedi training…no…even with our training that wasn’t possible but, that day we should of died…,” he said as Aya couldn’t believe the detail of how his brother turned against Xeo.

“That…that’s horrible. He turned on you because of what you were trying to do…”Aya said while Xeo nodded.

“Although I never could get an answer why he turned or why he murdered those people but with the Vong closing in on us we couldn’t do much against them. I was moving Dreazin along the ground with whatever I had left in my legs to pull. Even Dreazin was trying to let go of him while saying, ‘I’m not weak…I can take them on…even in my current state. Xeo please…I want this…I want to become one with new power of The Force that Skywalker and his masters never taught us before!’ I didn’t listen to my brother’s plead for bloodlust. We both got into my ship and I set it for auto pilot to home. It passed the Vong’s forces in space as we head towards hyperspace but something happened…I don’t know what but I think one of my hyperdrive engines failed to come on and…well…the last I could remember was going into hyperspace and then leaving it. All I could see was lights in my cockpit moving towards us…and…I felt like I was being taken away. Out of my ship into a lab of some sort,” he said as he begins to piece in a part of his memories that was shattered from his impact crash on Earth. “I was able to see…doctors…around us and checking lab papers…”

“Huh…doctors?” Aya said that Xeo started to show signs of struggling with himself.

“…No…professor type lab coats…they were speaking stuff about… Force-Sensitive microorganisms cell’s DNA. A fighting chance against the Yuuzhan Vong if all goes well…and as Dreazin was next to me on another table he awoke to them…unleashed his power of The Dark Side that he knew little about and said, ‘The Force doesn’t lie to me. Your thoughts are betraying you,’ He said. Something he knew that I didn’t know about and…’Project J’. I have no idea what any of this means but All I know was after that he…left me to live. As if he wanted me for…something else,” he said. Aya, now not caring about her food, kept listening to how Xeo’s story had one turn after another.

“…Maybe he thought…deep within his heart that your still family to him?” Aya said while Xeo thought that question would make him upset but he held it in and told Aya more.

“Family…it’s something to this day that I need Dreazin to ask for. For what he did…on that day,” The Jedi said as Aya could feel something terrible about to happen. “…Once my brother destroyed everything in his path and killed all life in the lab areas…he grabbed the nearest starship and left. I did the same since he overloaded the computer’s reactor for self destruction knowing well that I was still onboard. Thought, The Force I was able to feel out my brother through his jump to hyperspace, which…wasn’t possible for me but I was able to. With that much power of sensing I already plotted out where he was going…home,” he said as he paused for the part of his past that he could never get over. Aya could tell by his hands being on his arms were being gripped tightly. “He got to Coreilla before I was able to land…and I could already tell that my home was engulfing with fire. I ran as fast as I could…even with the power of The Force being stronger that before I got there only to see…my father dueling my brother. I could only look on for a second until his lightsaber was locked in a way that Dreazin had control over my father. He just looked at me…with those eyes that were filled with much hate and anger…and then…then…” he kept trying to talk but it was much pain that Xeo was feeling. “…he killed him as I watched his lightsaber…and his body fall to the ground. Dreazin just looked at me and went off into the flames…by that time other New Republic forces took notice to the smoke and came over with an emergency crew but was only there to see me…crying over the death of my father; however, my mother was still alive long enough to convene me her last words in life. ‘Dreazin… Hicktorale…you…not natural…not…Je…Je…Jedi…cells…’ she said then passed away right in my arms. I still held up to my Jedi code to not bring about vengeance to him but I couldn’t let his go without notice…my duty as a Jedi and my trust with the New Republic had a charge now. I was charged to find my brother and save him by any means…”

“Save him?” Aya said while trying to understand by what he was saying. “…After what he did to your parents…save him!?” Xeo than nodded as he explained why.

“To save someone is part of my creed as a Jedi…even if it means someone of my brother’s nature. I could save him if you mean…take him back to The Light Side but…it could also mean…” he said while thought of the only answer Aya could think about was the most conniving one.

“…Death?”

“…If it means saving him…” Xeo said while not even thinking about that as an answer.“...But so far…after he left Republic space he wasn’t heard from sometime until reports from Cire, now a commando leader of my task force for to find Dreazin, was able to find his ships near the Unknown Regions near Vong space. We hit his forces hard as he kept conveying a message about how a new Empire was needed to beat the Vong and that he was the key to it all. That’s when my task force and Cire try to recapture an experimental ship with new hyperdrive engine technology. ‘The Light of Hope’ it was called. I remember as we were fighting our own troops that have been corrupted by Dreazin’s dark ways in The Force. Cire and I kept doing our best to make us save any misguide forces that belong to Dreazin as I kept making my way to the bridge and…and…” he kept saying while Aya started to have a blank stare and then looked back at Xeo.

“…A man in a dark hooded? Calling you out as you’re…” she kept saying as Xeo follower her thoughts and spoke right after.

“Brother…on the command deck?” Xeo said while Aya nodded.

“So that…planet you saw…it was Earth. Which means…what I was looking up that night before I went to Carnegie Hall…was…” Aya said as Xeo finished her sentence.

“…My ship!” Xeo looked puzzled as Aya was trying to think of a way to tell him how she knew about the mental images. “How…how could you even knew about this? I thought I was the only one who could see into other sentient beings…through The Force. How?” he said.

“I…I don’t know. I was having a vision…in my sleep of a place that looked like a hospital,” she said while Xeo’s reaction was met with a shocking expression of a surprised look.

“…You…had that…not me?” Xeo said while Aya wasn’t even understanding what the Jedi was trying to ask her.

“It wasn’t from you…wait. It could be…that…know that place?” she said as Xeo agreed with her from the way the building’s layout and technology wouldn’t come close to what he knows.

“That was your vision…and you came into mine. Without the aid of The Force nor having any midi-chlorians in your cells to even use The Force. Unless…” he paused for a moment while thinking back to his ideas of The Force with Skywalker and his parents. He thought of possible answers but couldn’t come around for a solid one in the position of Aya to be Force-Sensitive; however, he thought of another theory.“…Unless The Force guided me to your thoughts and mind while I was unconscious next to you. But this wasn’t the first time…” Xeo said while, for the moment, wasn’t caring about anything else he would explain to Aya but felt he was about to tell her about what he was doing yesterday.

“What do you mean?” Aya said while looking at him. Xeo could only give her the best possible answer without hurting her feelings too badly.

“When I was in the car when you and Daniel were going to meet with Klamp…I wasn’t asleep,” he said as Aya felt a truth about to be expressed from Xeo. “…I was trying to see about how you, as in everyone on this world, didn’t have midi-chlorians. So I used my powers to see into the conversation with him. Even before that…I was seeing if I could have a look at you. I didn’t get a good look at your face from afar on that night at Carnegie Hall but somehow…you were…like Eve. I mean what I felt was…” he kept saying but Aya felt that she was violated by his powers while now feeling about herself and her own personal doubts of being normal. She looked away from Xeo while only showing an expression of distrusted and hate.

“…Why would…No. How could you!? How can you do that to me? Telling me how I am like…Eve. I’m…not a monster,” Aya said while trying to hold in her sorrow and tears. Unkonwn to her, Xeo felt terrible about telling her this information to only help out how his powers were able to help Daniel, Aya, and himself. At that moment Xeo felt a suddent rush of heat and it wasn’t from the wasabi. Another flash image of fire in his mind with a shadowy figure in the background giving Xeo a look of death as the deep and smooth voice echoed in his mind that was not Dreazin or Eve.

“…Monster…”

Xeo felt that feeling for a second as it left him while trying to understand what just happened to him; however, he soon forgot about himself while seeing the now depressed and bottled up Aya Brea as she curled up her legs towards her and had one hand on her forehead. The Jedi had to make her understand about what he said to her.

“Aya…I only did that because I had to know the truth about how everyone on this planet was without midi-chlorians. Now that I know…or almost know everything…I won’t do that again. It was what I need to do to get information without putting myself out to…well…making first contact of your kind and not let anyone with the resources to kill me. It was the safest way…” he said while Aya slowly try to look at his face as he kept talking to her with reason. “I could look into your mind was when my mind touched your body. Even when that happened I wasn’t able to use my Jedi powers to even see you or move about. Anytime that I did I felt…pain. When I did look into your mind…I was even shown a vision of my own that even help me explain my pasted. Your…power helped me see something that I’ve lost when I crash landed on here.” Aya summoned the will to look at Xeo’s face while still feeling upset. Xeo could tell that she wasn’t caring so much about his power or what she did without knowing from the Jedi. He quickly realized about what he said and had to tell Aya about her gift…her unknown powers. “…That night…I thought I felt Eve when I looked at you. I know what Eve is like and you’re nothing like her. You have some power within you…but as I looked at you…I felt…sadness and confusion.” Aya wanted to listen to what Xeo was saying about her and the power she doesn’t fully understand.“Eve…only lusts for death and to survive, like Dreazin,” he said while slowly moving his upper body closer to Aya to make her know that he wasn’t lying about the words that were being said. “When I look at you…and your power…it felt like valor and virtue staring back at me. You want help those who are in need of help…it also brings emotions that I can tell by the way your eyes are…now.”

“…You’re just using The Force…aren’t you?” Aya said while trying to believe him.

“If I did…you would know. Your power…it can communicate with mine…” Xeo said. Aya started to agree with his words in a way that convinced her that Xeo wasn’t using his powers but doing what any human would try. She then loosens up her legs and sat back to the way she was as Xeo moved his upper body back to where it was before. It didn’t take long for Aya to begin to understand that Xeo wasn’t using her for his own personal gain by the way he believes in The Jedi Code as she could feel a sense of calm now.

“I…I’m just so lost in this. This…power you keep telling me about…not like Eve’s but she has it…and I…I just…don’t want to end up killing those around me. Daniel…Maeda…even you,” Aya said as Xeo could feel her inner conflict of protection and lost swelling up within her mind. He didn’t waste any time trying to find the reason why Aya was dealing with these emotions while trying to ask her about her past for any clues.

“You…have this tendency to help those in need. I can see that within you. It’s your job I can understand. You were asking about my brother being dead and anything about my parents…why?” Xeo said while recalling the moment that Aya asked him about Dreazin and how he, Xeo himself, wasn’t happy to explain the situation to her.

“I just…don’t want to let people down,” she said while her head shook for her to explain more about what she just said to Xeo. “No…no it’s not even that. The feeling of losing someone…I can’t let that happen again after I tried to do last night. It…was the reason why I asked you about your family.”

“You…had family on that night?” Xeo said while Aya shut her eyes for a moment as she had to let a terrible event of her past to come back for the Jedi to hear.

“Eve…had nothing to do with what happened to my family. I asked about yours because it…well…” she said while still feeling unease about her personal background. The air began to rush in more cold air as Aya started to get the chills. She tried to not show herself has being cold but Xeo only had to look into her eyes to notice the change in wind and her feeling of being hit by the cold. Xeo then put his oriental breakfast aside and patted his hand on the ground while looking at Aya. Although she didn’t want to admit that she was having trouble with the cold she couldn’t be rude towards Xeo after all that he has spoke about. In respect, she felt deep within Xeo’s past life, being traumatic and depressing, as her own. She slowly moved from the opposite side of Xeo and sat right next to him; although, she didn’t ask for any help in being kept warm while kept talking. “…That your past wasn’t bright as…well…mine.”

“You had…family that you lost in your life?” Xeo said as Aya knew that it was her turn to talk about her past. She was always unease about her family’s lost but with Xeo and his story she felt that she wasn’t alone. She looked down at herself while telling the Jedi her past.

“It’s not a dramatic as yours. I am without anyone left in my family. No one…” she said while Xeo could begin to feel her emotions starting to rush her mind.

“…What about yourself before…the lost?” he said while looking at her with his full attention.

“Well…me, if you want to know?”

“Yes. Please…” Xeo nodded

“I was born in 1972 CE, it’s our time and date system we have on Earth. I don’t know about how you have your date memorized where you live. Anyways… Boston, Massachusetts is where I grew up for a while before I came to Manhattan. Mariko, my mother who I only knew for most of my life, was the only adult I could come to known. I don’t really know much about my father…” she said as her mind try to investigate the whereabouts of her past.

“I see. What about them as together? How did they…felt together?” Xeo said.

“…I don’t know that much. The only times I would known them to be together was when we could spend time with one another. Mariko, my father, me, and my sister…Maya.” Xeo than let Aya’s story take a hold of his attention.

“Almost the opposite of mine…”

“Just sisters…” Aya said as she nodded. “Our early years together we could only see our father from time to time as his job demanded him. He was a journalist for the New York Times so a lot of stress and effort was being brought to him. Always trying to find the scoop he needs he kept saying while leaving us behind. My mother knew well that his job was making us live with a roof over our heads. Mariko did what she could around the house while trying to help me and Maya understand how to grow up. It was hard for us not to see out father for even months until he could take a break, but once we see him come back…he had a lot of stories and knowledge of where his travels were.”

“Heh. Sounds like my father during his ‘glory years’ until he came back different,” Xeo said while Aya nodded with a bit of a smile.

“I guess so…well it could only last for as much as we could only dream. Until the dream…wasn’t anymore,” Aya spoke while her inner feelings begin to resurface as Xeo could feel the tension mounting within her mind.

“What happened?”

“…One day…Maya, Mariko, and myself were off to the supermarket on a icy December morning, which is a month and…” she said while Xeo understood what Aya was saying.

“I know that word. December…I saw a newspaper. December 24th 1997…I understand the system now.” Aya nodded while she kept explained her past.

“Mariko wasn’t going fast in the car that we were in. Maya kept looking out the window while making faces on it to kill time. Its kind of weird how out of the whole car…she was able to have her own personal window to mess around in…a lot of warmth she was able to make. I was just watching the buildings and cars pass by as if it was just another day in the car with our family without our father being with us…but…we didn’t make it…” she left herself take in a deep breath before her feelings and emotions would start to come out into words. “…I don’t know if my mother was to blame…but some other motorist came from another intersection. He must have not seen us making across the road while we had a green light, which means we can go from the traffic light signal.” Xeo nodded as he wouldn’t interrupt. “But…but whatever happen…did in a flash…and that was enough to rob me of my time being awake. During my moment of being incapacitated I could only hear voices in the background. My mother kept screaming out in pain while Maya tried to get out of her seat but wasn’t able too. She even said something about being hot and I thought the other car or our own car was on fire. Soon I was able to hear the emergency crew coming as people tried to yell at us to check if we were alive. The other motorist was DOA by the time the medics came for him and then us. I was out cold while they tried to save my mother and sister…but…” Aya could feel the urge to let out her sadness right in front of Xeo but he could tell that was going to happen. The Jedi could only guess the outcome of Aya’s mother and sister.

“They…didn’t make it before you awake to know the truth?” Xeo said while Aya nodded and trying not to tear up.

“I didn’t know until I was able to see and hear again. Once the doctors told me about my family…I wasn’t able to contain myself of the burden I had to live for. I was 5 when that happened. I know you went thought a different ordeal with your family but I was too young to do anything. Do you know how helpless I felt!?” Aya said while Xeo tried nothing to compare his traumatizing moment with hers. “I thought so…” she said while looking away from Xeo. The Jedi could only think of comforting her while her sadness had to past its course.

“Aya…I…I didn’t even know. After all I said about how and who you are on the inside…I’m…” Xeo tried to apologies but Aya knew he was doing his best to make her endure the pain of lost as he was trying to hide his pain. “Come…the cold must be making this worst for you,” he said as he moved closer to Aya. Already feeling her depressed emotions becoming to take shape into the form of tears and silence Xeo raises his left arm to get close enough to comfit her sorrow and the cold. Aya didn’t move as she could felt her own personal feelings being the only thing to deal with alone as Xeo could tell. Her past and his past were nearly identical from lost and pain as they had a calling to insure people’s lives weren’t ending up like there’s. Once his arm went behind her back and his hand on her left shoulder the Jedi believe that he could make her fight thought this sad mood. The cold was making Aya feel incapable of feeling any better for the moment as she began to let her depress feelings slowly flow away from her mind. She was able to feel the warmth of Xeo’s body pushing away the cold and the sorrow from her own. At first, Aya thought it was her unexplained powers coming back, but could tell it wasn’t form her own as her own body heat began to rise. She didn’t want to feel weak by accepting the comfort of Xeo’s warmth but after all she said and what the Jedi said on about her past, which was the only thing she could do. Even as she rested her head on his left shoulder she asked Xeo for a favor.

“Xeo…can you move your neck? I know you’re a Jedi but…” Aya said as Xeo can tell she was feeling better and went along with her request. He nodded as he lifted his neck off the wall while he felt Aya’s right hand and arm moving behind him. Her hand as then gripping his right shoulder As Xeo eased his back against the wall while trying not to burse her arm. At the time, Xeo and Aya didn’t know what to make of this as they both exchanged there past stories to each other and felt each other’s emotions. Not even The Force was used to confuse Xeo as he begins to think of what was happening.

“Her past…like my own. I couldn’t even believe that someone of her age, back then, would lose her family. I felt her lost and sadness but now…she’s being herself now. It was just me…knowing what she went through…as what I went through. She…must be feeling that she isn’t alone in this world. The suffering and pain of her past…just like mine and for that…she takes comfort knowing this. What a life she must have been going through…” Xeo said within his mind as he thought about Aya. “…I do feel sad for her about what she been through at that age but…at the same time. I feel…comfort of my own,” he kept saying as he looked at her face to see the tears beginning to stop. The scent of her started to take over his mind again but this time it only made his body feel even warmer than before. Aya’s moment of being sad started to wither away as his body heat made her felt comfortable on his shoulder. It was also the fact that she was able to get her scent of him; however, because of his days on Earth being hounded away by NYPD and NMC blood on him it was hard to find his natural smell. Aya was slowly taking this in as she kept resting her head on his shoulder and soon started to feel the same effect Xeo was having.

“…He’s from another world…and yet…is human. Not just on the outside but the feelings too. He tries very hard to help me with my problems and Daniel. I must have been harder on him if Xeo didn’t use his powers on me to hear my story. And his story…was almost like mine but…much more. His family is gone like mine…but I can at least not feel…alone. Xeo…you are different but the same…you and I have the will to help those who won’t let our lives repeat for others to be in turmoil,” she said deep within her mind as they had a moment to relax without the worry of the cold, past, present, enemies of any kind, or Maeda’s oddball questions.

Minutes when by that felt to Xeo an hour and thought it that her past wasn’t fully done yet. His mind was leading towards his solider leading back in the New Republic days. He slowly turned his head towards Aya’s face and asked her.

“If you feel this is too much for you about another question I could ask?” Aya opened her Aquamarine eyes while wiping the tear residue from her cheeks.

“Yes…Xeo?” she said softly.

“After you knew about your mother and sister…what about your father? He must have known once you were all alone.”

“Oh…he did come back to the states to find me…he raised me and put me through school. When I was in high school I wanted to know a way to make families…not go through the same troubles as I have but not just an accident like that. There were ways to track down murders and thieves in the city. The only friends I have in my public schools and high school had times of lost and hardship due to these…people.”

“So you thought…to be a part of the solution to a problem that you…and I went through.” Xeo said

“Yes. Criminals of any kind…I wanted to put them away so families would be able to have as much happiness that I never had before. I told my father this and he thought it was be great idea for not just myself but to make me stronger for any hardships I was going to deal with. I wasn’t going to be the helpless blonde girly girl that screams for my hero to show up,” Aya said while Xeo smiled to agree with her statement.

“…So far it’s you been proving that point, heh.”

“Well after you following me in the park I didn’t run away from anything,” she said while smiling back at Xeo while he kept smiling back at her. “Anyways…by the end of my high school years I learned as much as I could on criminology but it wasn’t enough; however, my grade average was acceptable at University of Virginia. It was there that I was able to learn the core ethics of criminology and forensics. Not only was that but able to hold my own against any men that tried to ‘make a move’ on me,” Aya said while Xeo had no idea of what that meant to him. “…I mean to have their way with me...” Xeo then nodded to understand what she was talking about. “I only had a few college friends but we never keep in touch. It felt like I was always alone at places that I had to do something on my own. Hell…even my father at the time thought it was nice enough to leave me alone while I was in college without saying anything or leaving me messages…but I could understand about his work and how I could me less dependent on him. That’s when one friend of mine told me about how I could take my…well…boldness and trained myself to take on the criminals in the field. I was given clearance to take on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or ROTC for short. I was only there for one year to get basic training in the use of weapons and self defense including leadership, which…I try to control Daniel,” Aya said while laughing softly as Xeo was taking interest to her background of military training.

“Ya…I can see that in you…and I how Daniel reacts to it. Badly…” he said while Aya tried to convince him about her leadership skills at Daniel.

“Oh…you got the wrong impression of you think I wasn’t able to control Daniel. He was just having a hard time after Carnegie Hall. I had the abilities to make him cool himself and rookies too once I got to the NYPD. He’s a veteran cop and great detective but has…or had that problem of his until…you showed up. It’s funny…how it’s been over 2 years after I joined up on the police force in Manhattan and yet he still calls me kid.”

“Sounds like you and Daniel are a family of your own…” Xeo said while Aya took that into consideration.

“I guess. More like brother and sister…but he’s older. Father and daughter really,”Aya said while thinking about how long Daniel has been out to look for weapons with Maeda but it only slowed down her train of thought as Xeo could understand about her training.

“I lead soldiers into battle under my command…I can tell you are shaped and trained to be one to put those skills who do injustice to others and bring them to justice…as I have. You and I…have the same idea to help others that shouldn’t live in fear or pain…or being alone…Aya,” he said while his voice softens while looking still at her face and eyes. Aya listen and felt the truth from his words as she look into his dark brown eyes while feeling a sense of comfort. They both didn’t know what to say or feeling but just let time slip by as the kept looking to what they thought was each other’s will for peace being reflected into their eyes. Unknown to them…far away within Midtown near the 17th precinct of NYPD, two figures were on top of the building close to the police station. One had his eyes shut and was in complete meditation while the other…floated next to him.

“…Arrogant humans. We shall show them how we will set their race into excitation! Once you are ready…” Eve said while looking down on a motionless body of a cloaked human who’s eyes opened after she finished speaking.

“We are, Eve. My brother’s fate is now sealed…its ironic. That feeling…”

“What do you mean…?” Eve said while feeling the urge to set fire to nuclei slaves in the building.

“You wouldn’t comprehend the feeling…only my parents had it. Until I ended it…and now Eve…it’s time.” Dreazin said while standing up and looking down towards the 17th precinct as him and Eve were planning there next attack.
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