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"Oh my," Fay murmured, stepping around Harry quickly, and raising her hand. What would've taken any other Jedi at least a few moments and some concentration took Fay a bare second of looking into the beast's eyes. Its charge stumbled to a halt, and it leaned down, snuffling at her hand. The blaster bolts coming from the far end of the whole trailed off and all of good the goons could only stare in shock as their lord's trump card was dealt with so easily.
"He's a local boy, aren't you pretty one?" Fay murmured, rubbing under the thing's chin.
"Kind of ugly though?" Harry quipped, leaping onto the rancor's shoulder and then off it, his lightsaber activating as he hurled it forward, covering himself in a shield as the blaster bolts once again began to rattle.
"Never let your lightsaber go like that in battle padawan, it is showy nonsense!" Dooku shouted as he raced around the rancor although he could not argue with the results. Harry's lightsaber had cut into several quad lasers along the hallways ceiling, before returning to his hand, slipping through the Force Shield that protected him.
"Yes Master I'll remember that," Harry said glibly, and Dooku spared a moment to promise himself to smack the fool boy upside the head later before they were in among the defenders, hacking them down.
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"Mother Lily!" Aayla said, grinning at the Force Ghost shoved her head through the wall along one corridor. "Does that mean Harry's nearby?"
"They're in the main hall Aayla," Lily replied, giving the girl once over. Aayla had been tagged by some rock shrapnel on one shoulder, and seared by a near miss along her leg, but that was all the damage that Lily could see. She breathed a sigh of relief, moving forward to give the girl one of her ethereal hugs, which Aayla didn't return, since her hands were full of lightsaber. She doubted that stabbing Lily with them would do anything, but she wasn't about to find out.
"You're looking magnificent my dear," she said, leaning back and taking in Aayla's form less clinically now. Of course over the Hypercom most of what the participants saw was face, so this was a first time Lily had seen Aayla's entire body in years, and to say that she was going to be a beautiful looking woman was an understatement. At 15 she was already attractive, and still has some growing to do.
"I'll show you the way," she said, turning and moving as Aayla and went back to cutting open doors for the various slaves, urging them to follow her.
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The fight in the main Hall was still going on, with more people arriving from the rest of the palace, but there weren't enough of them to matter, not with Harry's conjured creatures everywhere, his spikes of power slamming out, or Dooku's lightsaber cutting them to ribbons in close. Dooku forged his way through them, his lightsaber returning every bolt towards him his Force Shield didn't absorb, as all around him people retreated quickly trying to open the range further, ignoring Jabba's shouts to protect him as he tried frantically to open the door to the elevator.
But thanks to Fay's suggestion Harry had done far too good a job of bollixing the elevator down from where it had come out on the hanger bay for that work. Jabba turned, ordering his hover sled to take him down another corridor, but before he could retreat further Dooku was there, and Jabba frantically slammed out with his tail.
The speed of it would have taken most people by surprise, but not a Jedi. Dooku's lightsaber flashed up, cutting the tail into pieces, before Dooku twisted around, bringing his lightsaber up and around and slicing into and through Jabba's head right below the eyes. The top half skidded off the bottom, sizzling slightly from the heat of the lightsaber's passage, and even a Hutt could not live with that large a portion of its brain missing.
Turning Dooku found that Harry had finished dealing with the last of the goons who are still trying to fight, of which there were few and far between at this point. Several dozen had surrendered, kneeling on the ground with their hands in the air, where they had been bound by conjured stone manacles. "Why stone?" he asked quietly as he came out of the elevator looking over at Harry.
He had just realized that if anyone realized that it was solely Harry who could do much of what he had just shown during this battle, the youth might well have painted a giant target on his back. Admittedly the scum here were not very intelligent, but even so, it might be very dangerous for Harry. Force damn it, I should have thought about that before this fight! Still nothing for it now but to erase any footage. Hopefully none of these fools will be able to put it all together, but we can still do some things to confuse the issue.
Cocking his head quizzically, Harry also spoke in low tones, and Dooku nearly breathed a sigh of relief at the boy's perspicacity. "Stone is simple Master Dooku, it's a single element, whereas steel is a little harder to visualize the way you really want it to unless you have an example on hand. I could do iron I suppose, but stone was the first thing I thought of."
"Understandable given our environment," Dooku said. "But that kind of supposition is something you might want to be aware of in the future."
"Yes Master Dooku," Harry said politely, smirking over at the older man who allowed his lips to quick upwards slightly.
Then he smacked Harry upside the head. "That for that bit of grandstanding with your lightsaber. You could've done the same thing in multiple different ways using your Force, and not put yourself in such danger. Your powers do not make you immortal do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Master Dooku," Harry said somewhat more docilely now knowing that man had a point, but Harry was still somewhat riding high on the feeling of Aayla being so close. It was literally indescribable to him being this close to her.
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