Star Wars

Keepers of the Light


1. The Pante Circle

Help me. Help.
Around the corner, he is screaming
I’ve got to get to him
Help me. Please!
Kelrin awakened. His body felt stiff but there was hardly any room to stretch. He had no tools or food but only his homemade light sword, just like the others. He also had a small holoprojector. This would be his hope; his and the three fellows that still slumbered scrunched in the cargo compartment of the small shuttle with him. He usually thought things out before he acted , which was one of his unacknowledged qualifications for leading this small band. Kelrin had no time for applying prudence this time. He saw his chance, the only chance he would get for the rest of his life, told the others, and they all escaped .Now they were here. Kelrin had more hope than he had fear but this was not necessarily the mindset of the others.
They all wore bluish black clothes taken from one of their masters’ sleeping rooms. They weren’t thieves per se, but they were desperate. The clothes didn’t fit very well but were soft, silky, very comfortable and made for the upper class. It was rather cool for them in this small bay, much unlike the dry, desert heat of their home planet.
Kelrin leaned forward to awaken Li, “I think we’re almost there.”
“Shhh!” said Zicca, who had obviously already been awake.
“So where exactly is ‘ there’?” asked Li.
Being slaves of Tatooine, they not only wanted to be free but also were hoping to find freedom for a few other of their slave friends. They were considered weak and clumsy Jedi wannabes. Thus a danger to their neighbors and a laughingstock to the Hutts. There were only four of them here, while the Pante’ Circle were actually seven. The other three were simply too afraid for their own lives to leave.
Kelrin peeked out through a small slit in the thin metal wall. There were three beautiful female Twilek; one had green skin and the other two had blue skin. The two blue Twileks were standing at the front helm at the viewing screen and the green one sat comfortably at a side control panel. They each had heavy belts strapped around their slender waists with holsters and blasters. They had very developed biceps. This was not typical for Twileks . Most female Twilek were used as concubines for the wealthiest of the wealthy. These three, oddly enough, worked for the mobster Vicaratia the Hutt as operatives.
After at least a day’s travel with the combination of underlying fear and weariness from being in the cabin, it was relieving for them to finally be stopping somewhere. The grating cackling and harsh communication between the three women instilled fear into all of them.
A shady deal was about to take place. This was an important exchange for Vicaratia the Hutt. This would put him in power even over all the other Hutts. The small civil war-feud that had broken out on Tatooine had caused the two Hutts to fight each other to the death. Needless to say, Vicaratia and Liolas had many working for them and both sides fought like small armies. Many innocent had suffered because of this. Many slaves killed.
But this was the perfect diversion for them to escape.
“We’re slowing!” yelled Li.
“Not so loud,” whispered Zicca rather impatiently.
Past the Twileks at the helm outside the ship and into space, Kelrin could see a small space station approaching.
“This isn’t going to work,” mumbled Bonn. Bonn was homely and timid, and now was wishing that he’d stayed home but he was part of the Circle because of his minimal power of The Force; as were the rest.
Kelrin gave Bonn a confident grin.
Kelrin Foss was born on Tatooine to slave parents. He lived in the town of Mos Daihla. He was now twenty years old. Kelrin’s master had a son and this slave owner’s child took to Kelrin and taught him some knowledge of The Force. They became good friends but when the slave owner found out about this hidden relationship, he severely punished Kelrin and his father. Kelrin hates to even think about what his master had done to his son for treating a slave as an equal. Because of that horrid incident, Kelrin Foss had a severe fear of fire. Kelrin retained and developed his knowledge of The Force and secretly got other slaves to follow in his small movement. Soon there were seven slaves that became followers.

Born on Dantooine, Bonn Traynor’s family were trade merchants. The greedy and powerful Trade Federation wanted to get certain merchandise from the Traynor family but Bonn’s father wanted nothing to do with any business with them. The Trade Federation kidnapped Bonn’s sister and held her for ransom for several days until Bonn’s father finally gave in. He was forced to bring the merchandise, along with Bonn’s entire family, to a secret place on Yavin 4. There they were all apprehended, taken to Tatooine and sold to a Hutt as slaves.

Li, of the Jassel family, was born on Alderaan. Li’s father was one of the greatest medical practitioners of the galactic core. It was a simple family of two since Li’s mother had died when he was four. They were homing in on a distress signal to find Vicaratia the Hutt had taken ill. Li and his father were greatly rewarded for nursing the powerful Hutt back to well being. Afterwards Vicaratia’s associates were spying them on in case they were needed again. There was a building that had caved in on one of Alderaan’s moons in which Li and his father were rescuing the injured and treating them. A rather sinister looking man who worked for Vicaratia came to inform them that Vicaratia had taken ill again. They refused to go since there were so many injured where they were. Two days later they were kidnapped by the Hutts men and enslaved on Tatooine.

Zicca Strann was a third generation slave. Zicca had been born with the gift of prophecy and didn’t know what it was. He knew when something very big was going to happen. When he finally met one of the finest young men on Tatooine, Kelrin Foss, the two of them formed the beginning of the Pante Circle. Zicca was high strung, energetic, and a bit too bold for his own good. He tended to jump to conclusions too quickly, and because of his impulsive attitude, tended to hinder the Power of the Force in his life.
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