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The Lion Sleeps Tonight (JA): *New post by HaiGan*
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight is not the much vaunted sequel to ANTAR but more of a sequel to Lions, Tigers and Padawans, Oh My! This is primarily due to the fact that it takes place half a year after LT&P, and after the series of Snapshots called 'Family Matters', which have a certain amount of relevance to some of the background to TLST. It's the story of how a simple padawan/master trip to the planet Tildas turns into something much more sinister and complicated…
I want to thank everyone who will be contributing in some shape or form over the coming weeks, months etc:
Calamity Jinn
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Jemmiah
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Lilith Demodae
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Mouse
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Please strap yourself in for the jump to light speed!
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UPDATE: 5 days before departure
"Urgh! This place is just FULL of bugs!"
Toms Yarall wrinkled up his nose as something hovered round his head, circling with malicious intent as he tried to beat the yellow and black striped creature away with franticly flapping hands.
"We're in a garden." Came back Olrin's muffled reply, "What do you expect?"
The Corellian boy kicked his feet about, trying desperately for his friend's sake not to look as bored as he felt. He couldn't help it. Plants and shrubs just didn't have the mesmerising hold on him they seemed to have on his companion. Insects and creepy crawly things weren't much better.
Not unless they were put in Isadora Lucey's bed.
"But why," he continued in his complaint, "do there have to be so many?"
"They help pollinate the plants." Rin answered, digging another weed out of the ground and placing it almost reverently on the grass. He hated killing things, even weeds.
"I bet there are more bugs in this place than there are plants." Toms swatted a Grakka Fly as it tried to land on his arm. "Gotcha!"
"You'll come back as an insect in your next life." Rin mumbled. "Then someone will squish you."
"If I'm coming back as an insect I hope Isadora comes back as a Nerf." Toms scuffed his feet off the green turf.
Rin straightened up, confused.
"Why?"
"So I can give her a nip on the butt she'll never forget!" An evil grin began to form on the Corellian's impudent face. "What I want to know is how you never get bitten? This place is swarming with gnats and they only go for me!"
"Because I don't try to stamp on them." Rin said sagely with all the wisdom his extra four-year advantage gave him. "And will you quit ruffling up my lawn?!? I'm trying to get it all nice for when my master gets out the infirmary and you are wrecking everything!"
Toms shrugged and tried to tap into place the bits of grass he'd removed with his toes.
"I can't help it!" he smirked. "I never thought I'd be picked to go on this trip! I'm so excited I could just burst!"
"NOT on my lawn." Rin frowned.
"But don't you see? If Master Sidatu hadn't picked me then I wouldn't have been a padawan and I wouldn't be going on this trip! It's meant to be, don't you think? Just think, Isadora will be so green with envy that you could give her a stick and call her Yoda!"
"You only got your name put forward because padawan Kenobi's girlfriend managed to persuade your master it would do you good to get away from the temple." Rin rejoined.
Toms nodded silently, thinking. He knew he owed the fact he had a master at all to Jemmiah.
"I just wish everyone could be happy." He sighed, before his eyes took on their familiar sparkle. "Nevermind, if they can't be happy then I'll have to be happy for everyone! Hooraaaayyyyy!" Toms started to walk about the lawn on his hands. "I'm going on vacation! Ha-de-ha-de-ha-de-ha!"
"Hey, you're leaving big prints in the grass." Rin chuckled. "If my master was here you'd get skelped for certain!"
"But he's not!" Tom's grinned, the blood rushing to his head and swelling it like a red balloon with a smiley face painted on it.
Olrin watched the excitable Corellian boy's antics and thought wistfully of his master.
"No," he said sadly, "he's not."
Tom's allowed himself to fall over into an ungainly heap and lay there, basking in the freedom of the temple gardens. It was so good just to relax away from his lessons and to hang about with his friends. He couldn't have even done that two months ago…but he was a padawan now. He could see Rin and his friends more frequently. Sometimes he still couldn't believe it. There were times when he woke up expecting to find himself in the dormitory with the other kids and not in his own comfortable, padawan sized bed!
"I'm so glad I'm alive." He closed his eyes. "How about you?"
The long silence gave away a lot of how Rin was feeling and Toms opened his eyes in surprise, staring at his friend.
"What's the matter?" he asked. "Rin?"
"It's…nothing." Olrin lowered himself carefully onto the grass.
"You're not still worrying over your master, are you? He's coming out the infirmary just before we go on the trip to Tildas."
"I know." Olrin agreed. "No, I'm not worried about his health. An-Paj says he should make a full recovery. I'm just worried about how I'm looking after things while he's away. What if I'm making a mess? What if he doesn't approve of how I've been doing things?"
"You're not the only one in charge of the gardens." Toms plucked a blade of grass from the ground and began to chew at it. "There are others here to see that you don't screw up."
"And what happens to me on the trip? Maybe I won't get to go now. My master won't be well enough, surely?"
Toms looked downcast.
"But you've gotta go." He moaned. "It won't be as fun if you're not there. Maybe your master will be so pleased with your hard work that he'll feel he has to come with us."
"I only want…" Rin broke off his sentence, suddenly embarrassed.
"What?"
"I want to make him proud of me." He muttered.
Toms pushed himself into a half-sitting position.
"I know what you mean." The fair-haired boy agreed. "I want my master to be proud of me, too. I just feel so lucky to have a master at all. The other kids that don't get picked get sent to become farmers and the like, did you know?"
"Just as well you did get picked!" Olrin forgot his melancholia quickly as he pointed at the chewed stem hanging from Toms' mouth. "You'd have made an abysmal farmer. You're useless with plants!"
"I'm NOT the worst!" Toms screamed with laughter as he stood up. "I've heard what happened to Master Montal and Knight Kizzen when those funny plants came up in the gardens all those years ago! And then there's a certain master who managed to burst the drainpipe in the water gardens in the dead of night so that it turned into a gusher!"
"Then there was another master," Rin wiped at his eyes, chortling, "who started carving pictures of Yoda in my master's favorite hedges! And then was stupid enough to sign his name!"
"Would that master have long hair and a beard, by any chance?" Toms beamed.
"That's the one!" Rin laughed.
"But the best of all has got to be when a certain master sat on a certain gardening tool!" Toms clapped his hands delightedly at the memory. "That one went all round the temple! I heard he had to take an inflatable cushion with him to the council meetings for weeks after!"
"My master had to throw that rake away!" Rin shook his head as he recalled the incident. "He said he was gutted!"
"Which was precisely what he wanted to do to old Master Shiny!" Toms crowed.
"Don't call him that!" Rin snickered. "He'll be mad if he finds out!"
"Jemmiah said it was OK to call him that." Toms retorted defensively. "And I think it suits him!"
Toms brushed idly at the grass stains on his cloak.
"Here, guess who this is?" he piped up, placing both hands over his nose and affecting a wide-eyed, horrified expression. Rin leaned in for a better look.
"Aaaaaaargh! It's got me! It's got me! Help!" Toms screamed theatrically. "It's flown right up my nose! Aaaargh! Save me!" The boy danced around as if something invisible was chasing him. "Save me from the Fork-Tailed Stingers! They've got me! It won't come out!"
Rin collapsed upon the grass, bent double with mirth whilst Toms continued to prance about.
"Send for An-Paj! It's sucking out my brains!" Toms made himself go all cross-eyed and bendy legged as he wobbled to the ground. "It's too late! Farewell, galaxy!"
Olrin's eyes became impossibly large as a shadow loomed behind the writhing figure of Toms Yarall.
"I bequeath all my worldly goods to the Mace Windu trust for hair loss research! Ow! My brain…It's shrinking…."
"That should make it VERY difficult to find." A voice from just behind Tom's shoulder sent the Corellian spinning round to face it. Tom's gave an audible gasp.
"H-h-hello, M-m-aster W-Windu." Stammered Toms in fright.
Mace regarded the pair of them scornfully.
"I just hope to the gods that your master knows exactly what she's let herself in for on this trip." Mace gritted his teeth. "Because if I was her I'd be wondering what sort of little monster she's got herself stuck with!"
Mace felt something bite at the back of his neck and, not being able to think of anything else to say turned hurriedly on his heels and walked briskly away from the pair of them and the swarm of midges the two Sithlings had managed to conjure up. Toms watched him go with a sniff.
"One with a sense of humor." He muttered.
Mace let his feet speed him away swiftly as he heard the buzzing of wings not far from his head. He wouldn't run; he wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing how much bugs really scared him. But his narrowed eyes and his quickening step betrayed exactly how he felt.
"If It wasn't for the fact he's not dead, I 'd be prepared to swear that was Berlingside come back to haunt me in another existence!" Mace growled as an image of an equally cheeky Corellian was called to mind. "I am SOOOOOOO glad I don't have a padawan! Infact I never want to see another padawan as long as I live!"
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"I'm telling you, it's not fair!"
"I know."
"I mean, how come she gets singled out for special attention?"
"You're right."
"How selfish can you get?"
Sybelle Bethane and Junine Vyaat sat next to each other in the temple refectory, bitterly reflecting on their ill luck as they discussed the details of the final list for the vacation to Tildas. There had always been a chance that one or two of the party would drop out, but it had been a slim chance indeed. Now that chance had evaporated completely as Master Windu went to inform those whose names had been in reserve that there had been no cancellations. How unfair was that? Was it too much to hope that one of the padawans might break a leg or something?
"It's not as if she's a Jedi." Sybelle complained. "Don't get me wrong. She's nice enough, I suppose. But she should have done the honorable thing and dropped out. It's meant to be a retreat for masters and padawans, so what in Yoda's toasting fork is she doing on that list?"
Junine had none of Sybelle's grudging friendship for the individual they were referring to. She was well aware that the object of their discussion was sitting just one table behind, picking away at her food whilst awaiting the arrival of padawan Kenobi. If Sybelle had the decency to lower her voice to a harsh whisper, Junine had no such scruples and fully intended her words to carry over to the source of their misery.
"Friends in high places." Junine replied as she stirred her cup of Caf.
"How do you mean?"
"Oh, come on! She gets Master Jinn on her side, turns the big Nerf eyes on him and he falls for it! Then he goes to Yoda and says he wants her to go on the trip and- wham! That's her name on the list."
"Perhaps." Sybelle conceded.
"No perhaps about it." Junine continued spitefully, knowing that Jemmiah's eyes were bored into the back of her head. "It ISN'T fair. What do we have to do to get our name on the list? Promise to show the list compiler a good time?"
"It was Plo Koon." Tittered Sybelle.
"I doubt that would stop her." Junine grumbled loudly. "She shouldn't be going. Master Sovalla's ill and she's just abandoned her at the first chance of a vacation."
"How sick is she?" Sybelle asked in a low voice.
"I don't know. She'll probably be dead within a month, knowing Jemmiah's record. I'm just surprised she's lasted as long as she has with her to look after. If anything's going to kill her it's the stress."
Junine chewed on a scone for a moment, considering what else to say.
"They're only letting her go because they feel sorry for her. I mean, anyone can be stupid enough to get pregnant…if I did do you think they'd let me go?" she asked innocently as Jemmiah slid the chair back and walked over to her table.
"Only if it was an Immaculate Conception. Nobody would want to touch you." Jemmy's eyes blazed furiously before she walked out the refectory, forgetting all about her meeting with Obi-Wan.
Junine brushed a stray crumb from the corner of her mouth.
"I seem to have struck a raw nerve there." She shrugged; taking another mouthful of Caf just as padawan Kenobi entered the refectory through the left-hand door. Junine watched as he scanned the area for his girlfriend, frowning when he couldn't see her.
"He looks a little upset, don't you think?" Sybelle raised a dark eyebrow, watching as Obi-Wan made his way reluctantly across to their table.
"The poor boy's been stood up. Of course he's upset." Junine grinned.
Obi-Wan came to a halt by Junine's side, casting his eyes round forlornly in a final hope of seeing Jemmiah.
"Looking for someone?" Junine asked impishly.
"Yes, I was looking for Jemmiah." Obi-Wan frowned at the barely restrained glee he felt radiating from Junine. "Have you seen her?"
"Oh, we certainly saw her." Junine nodded. "She sat down, waited five minutes or so and then left. She seemed in a hurry to get away."
Sybelle's eyes narrowed, but she kept quiet all the same. She was still feeling Sith mad at being left off the trip and any charitable feelings she may have had towards Jemmiah had disappeared ever since Mace had told her she and her master would not be going. But the expression on Obi-Wan's face almost persuaded her to tell the truth. He looked so upset, and whatever the truth of the situation he didn't need the hassle.
"I don't believe it," he muttered, "this is the fourth time this has happened. What's the matter with her? I make an arrangement to see her and she runs out on me."
"Well," Junine smiled as she lowered her eyelashes a fraction; "Maybe she doesn't want to see you anymore. Maybe you ought to find yourself another girlfriend."
Obi-Wan glared at her before heading out the same exit that Jemmiah had used only a minute or so before.
"There's just no pleasing some people." Junine shrugged.
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"Mace!" Dex waved at his friend, jogging towards the still scowling master.
//Great// Mace thought to himself. //I'm getting harassed by the grown-up version now!//
"What do you want?" Windu asked impatiently. "I'm a very busy man and I have a lot of people still to see."
"The trip?" Dex asked.
"What else? This whole thing is ridiculous." Mace heaved a huge sigh. "The only reason everyone wanted to go to this one was because we're using the retreat on Tildas."
"That rumour about the forest having those aphrodisiac berries that make you go all funny?" Dex grinned. "It's true. Remember?"
"Shhh!" Mace scolded. "I keep telling people that there aren't any spaces left…"
"Not true." Dex said pointedly. "That's why I've been looking for you."
"Sorry?" Windu blinked.
"Well, it's like this," Dex met Mace's confused stare, "I had Jemmiah run up to me not a few minutes ago and tell me that she wanted her name taken off the list. She's not going."
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Yes!!!!!! The first post!
And a great post to start with sis. I loved how Mace thought Toms is a miniature Dex.
And Junine. I’m REALLY glad she doesn’t get to go!
I’m sooooooo looking forward to this story!
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YIPPIEE!!!
That's made the past few hours worth it!!
I almost wish that Junine and Sybelle were going just so something bad would happen to them!
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Ha! At last I get in on one of the famous Jemmy and Co. stories BEFORE it's forty pages long!!! Great first post. Hope to see more of Sexy Dexy! <grins>
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Yipeee!! Now I just have to wait a little bit for my opening . . .
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What a couple of catty witches! I can understand feeling it's not fair but to be so cruel as to talk that way just to hurt someone...and their conversation with Obi-Wan was just as bad!
Maybe Sybelle and Junine will find a vacant seat and can be our Star Trek extras...you know the ones that always got killed???
Wow. You started with a bang Jemmy!
And for all those who are about to contribute...
Post often, post soon!
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Yes! Frosty, another Sexy Dexy fan! Tee-hee! If you'll forgive me I'm quite fond of him myself!
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"IT'S WORKING!!! IT'S WORKING!!" *grin*
An excellent beginning Jemmiah, this has been a long time coming (at least it seems that way).
**//Great// Mace thought to himself. //I'm getting harassed by the grown-up version now!//** hehehe, I think Mace may as well get used to it.
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You know, I was studying duitifully for that math exam I'm going to fail tomorrow, and I looked up at the clock and realized this thread was probably finally up, so I came to look and it is!
Great opening post Jem! Though I hope those two girls do go and something really, really, horrible happens to them.
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Now, I haven't read all of Lions and Tigers, and I haven't read all of the Snapshots, so I've got a few questions.
Is Jemmy pregnant? And if so, I take it something happened to make her not pregnant in STWOM? ::confused:: All I ask is a quick catch up, and I'll be happy. ;D
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hoooray! It's started!
Love,
Jen (another Sexy Dexy fan. ::drool::)
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grooooooooooooovy! finally, being at the beginning of one of Jemmiahs fine storys
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Quick answer:
Jemmiah was pregnant in LT&P but lost the child in 'Family Matters'. STWOM took place about two years prior to TPM, where Obi and Jemmy were commemorating their daughter's 2nd anniversary (As it might have been).
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How sad. Poor Jemmy and Obi.
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Yay! The horse is out of the gate! I have to wait a bit on my first post as well (although I'm considering a sneaker-post in the meantime...)
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Now might be a good time to ask people who are/will be posting soon to discuss the posting order on The Hells Chance Cantina Planning Thread, just incase anyone's worried about posting out of order. That's probably the best way...infact if there are ANY queries or things that need resolved it might be a good place to talk about them. Is that OK, fellow posters? Or is that a bad idea?
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