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Kane growled slightly, he didn't even fully know where they were, but he had a general direction. Letting out a frustrated grunt he started walking at first, "Just try and keep up." After that, he was gone, darting into the forest with similar speed as before, but he wasn't trying to stay hidden. Quite the opposite, in fact, he was trying to make sure Bolt could follow, once they got closer he'd hush up.

As the ninja's energy was being absorbed, he laughed, "Interesting. He didn't mention this."

From both sides of Keioko, three shuriken each came at her neck. Out of the bushes on both sides were two more ninja. Both were unique, yet uniformly dressed in black garb like the first ninja. One was a large man, obviously not human, with a body that seemed to made of rock. The second new-comer had eyes that glowed white. He moved, but the odd thing about him was how his movement let out no sound, and his presence could not be detected by smell. They each had their names written on their back, unlike the first. The rock-ninja was called, "Golem", and the one with the glowing eyes was called, "Spectere".

Spectere said to the one caught in Keioko's... ooze... "Well, Cobra, good job getting caught."

His senses alerting him to the presence of the large hedgehog, the Jedi focused his attention on it. Stretching out with the Force, he emptied his mind and approached the mind of the creature, carefully bridging the gap that separated man from beast.

As gently as he could, he touched the creature's instinct control center, implanting a subtle sensation of extreme danger radiating from the direction of the campsite, and from the direction that Bolt and the large fellow had gone.

It was a fairly easy thing, manipulating the mind of an animal, with the beast trick technique that one of his many masters, Kreia, had taught him long, long ago.

Shaking off those thoughts, he focused his attention on gently hinting that the beast should find anywhere else to nose around but the camp.

He frowned slightly, his eyes still closed.

Time to up the ante.

Settling himself once more in the ebb and flow of the Force, he reestablished his mental connection with the beast, and projected into its mind the image of a rancor. A fully-grown, seven-meter tall, hungry male rancor. A monster fully capable of swallowing the hedgehog whole.

To assist with the mental image, he spread his influence over the auditory and olfactory centers of the beast's primitive brain, feeding in such false information as a rancor's angered/hungry roar, as well as its distinctive scent, and the scent of death that always pervades a rancor nest.

That was all he would try. If that failed to send the beast away, it'd be time to play the Stabbity Game. In readiness, his lightsaber drifted off his belt of its own accord and settled into his lap, resting atop his upturned palms.

He sighed, opening his eyes slowly. That, as they said, was that.

Pushing himself to his feet, he took his lightsaber in his right hand, holding the weapon down at his side, not yet activated. He centered himself within the Force, feeling its currents ebb and flow through him, preparing him for the conflict to come.

'There is no peace without emotion.'

A smile curled his lips as he considered those words, the beginnings of his and Bastila's personal Code. Not Jedi, not Sith, but something more. He reached out across the Force, touching her essence, all the way back on Coruscant, and then withdrew.

With a smooth hiss of energy, the violet blade of his lightsaber activated, banishing the darkness within five meters of him. He spun the blade once around his right hand, then settled back into the aggressive Juyo opening stance of the Ka'rta lightsaber form.

He was ready.

'Through knowledge, I gain strength.'

As the second verse of his and Bastila's Code slipped through his mind, he could feel her reaching out to him, her essence surrounding and reinforcing him, in a sort of long-range Battle Meditation that only worked on him.

His grin widened as he centered the tip of the glowing lightsaber on the first hedgehog's forehead. "Let's go, piggy," he thought to himself.

With the Force enhancing his speed, Kagi rushed into the counter. He dashed headlong toward the charging hedgehog, drawing his lightsaber across his body, holding it behind him on the left.

At the last instant, just before crashing headfirst into it, he stepped to the right, out of the beast's immediate path, and crouched low, the arc of his swinging lightsaber aimed to connect with the beast's legs and remove them at the knee.