More fun
Want to support CHYOA?
Disable your Ad Blocker! Thanks :)

Chapter 36 by Caesar25 Caesar25

What's next?

The wedding ceremony (Tier 2)

Lana: What?! You are getting married already?!

Drek: Sorry, I couldn't tell you sooner, we were busy on Serreno and...!

Lana: How is that you didn't know it earlier?! Aren't you supposed to be the one organizing it?

Drek: On Naboo, the tradition dictates, that the wedding must be organized by the parents of the pair, not by them directly. I got a holomessage a week ago about it, but I have just read it now!

Lana: Have you told Ranvi about it?

Drek: Yes, I have just arrived from her room.

Lana: How did she receive the news?

Drek: She seemed to have a mixed reaction, but she told me she was happy that I'm getting married. I don't really know why she reacted so strangely...

Lana: Ah, you will never understand women!

Drek: Why? I don't get it!

Lana: How do you feel?

Drek: I'm fine, a bit nervous though... And I wish it had been a different woman I marry...

Lana: Who exactly...?

Drek: Ah, that's not important...!

Lana: Okaaay, I'll get Ranvi to be ready and meet you at the ship!

Drek: Thanks, I still have a dozen invitations to spread.

Lana: Really?

Drek (handing you one): Yes, look! All holo-embossed, genuine flimsiplast invitations with hand written Aurebesh lettering! You could only see a similar one once every century on Naboo!

Lana: Oh my, I have never seen such before! Your parents were really taking that organisation seriously!

Drek: They always are... They invited the entire Jedi council to the wedding, plus some well known Jedi, who were doing a lot for Naboo, like Master Skywalker or Ahsoka.

Lana: Why are they inviting Jedi to such an event?

Drek: As I am a Jedi, my father is taking them as my "colleagues", so they should be present.

Lana: Colleagues? That's one way of calling the Jedi!

Drek (noticing Kit Fisto passing nearby): Yes, so... Oh, Master Fisto! May I have a word with you?!

He runs off to hand out the invitation. You don't wait for him, instead go and see how Ranvi is coping with the situation. You knock on her door and she lets you in. She obviously seems sad.

Lana: I just wanted to tell you, the ship to Naboo is leaving soon, and... Oh, crap, forget it, I just wanted to see how you are! So, how are you feeling?

Ranvi (lying badly): Thanks for that, but there was no need to! I feel happy for Drek, wohou, he is finally getting a wife into his life...! He deserved to be happy like that...!

Lana: Ranvi I... I know things... I know you how you feel for Drek...

Ranvi (lying badly while blushing): You...? What...?! I don't...! He is just a friend...! I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about...!

Lana: You can stop giving a show Ranvi, I know the truth!

Ranvi: Oh well... Since... when...?

Lana: Can't tell for sure, but you have been courting him for some time now!

Ranvi: It was that obvious then...?

Lana: It was obvious like you have to let a Wookie win every dejarik game you play with one!

Ranvi: Damn, that's pretty obvious...! I have been so embarrassing it seems...! Why haven't you told me I was doing such a terrible job at hiding it...?!

Lana: It wasn't my business to begin with but... Hey, I am telling you right now!

Ranvi: Better later than never...

Lana: So, how are you?

Ranvi: What do you expect to hear now? That I am fine so that my crush is getting married? Or that I am sad for it?

Lana: Honestly, I don't expect to hear anything, only the truth!

Ranvi: I have seen better days, to put it that way... To tell the truth I don't know if I can hold on for long... I have seen you and Drek... Well... "do things" on Serreno... Now he is getting married... This it too much for me to handle.

Lana: You mean "that", on Serreno...? Oh, ooooh, no, noooo, it wasn't anything like that, it was just...!

Ranvi: I know exactly what it was, I have seen enough of it... Too much to tell the truth...

Lana: Ranvi that was only done for the mission! Don't think we have anything going on between us or anything...! For real...! It wasn't anything personal...!

Ranvi: Yes, that's what I keep telling myself too... Even about his wedding...

Lana: Look, Drek doesn't love Padmé, I know it, he knows it, she knows it, you know it, everybody knows it! This marriage is merely a formality, nothing will change between you! As for the Serreno thing... It really was nothing personal, it was needed to be done to save our lives! And see? We are here, alive and well, so it worked out in the end! It was necessary...!

Ranvi: I know but...! Still, it's going to be very strange... The man I love will have a wife soon... I don't want to be a woman who will make him cheat on his wife!

Lana: I don't think he is going to need too much encouragement to do that...!

Ranvi: What...?!

Lana: I don't think he isn't feeling anything for you! He might be hard to read and he certainly sucks at showing his emotions...! But he is Drek! On a weird Drek love scale, he is clearly falling for you!

Ranvi (laughing): When have you invented such a scale?

Lana: Just about now, but it works, guaranteed!

Ranvi: So... Are you certain he... Too feels for me...?

Lana: Certain like Tatooine having two suns!

Ranvi: Lana, giving me hope without foundation could hurt a lot...! Are you absolutely sure...?! Don't give me hope when I shouldn't be having any...!

Lana: I have already told you, he likes you as much as a Hutt likes a vel slug! He just won't eat you! Or, at least not that way...!

Ranvi (embarrassed and blushing stronger than before): Lana...!

Lana: Sorry, I just couldn't hold back! So. Take it easy alright? All will be well and nothing will have changed after the wedding!

Ranvi: Thank you Lana, I think you have helped me now! I still have much to think about, but... This is a start!

Lana: What are friends for? I have a feeling that Drek will do his first moves soon as well! It will be a now or never chance for him!

Ranvi: We will see about that...

You talk a little further before walking to the ship to take you to Naboo. You take HK69 with you, since he was growing increasingly depressed as he hasn't been allowed to kill anything in the previous weeks, so you are planning to take him out for a hunting while you are staying on Naboo.

HK69: Finally master! I have been experiencing a lowering electrostatic circulation in my motivator! Besides, we are going to go to a wedding! The last time I participated in one, we were slaughtering all the guests to intimidate the supporters of the Republic on a small remote planet! I hope something similar will occur here too!

Lana: Don't get your hopes up! No intimidation, killing, dismembering, incapacitating during our stay! Got it?

HK69: Can't I just blast a bodypart off of somebody? Not even a little bit? Oh, please master!

Lana: Not this time HK!

HK69: You are so cruel with me master! Never allowing me to enjoy the full capabilities of my programming!

You four land in Theed, where Queen Neeyutnee welcomes you and escorts you to your residence. This time, to the palace of the Modme family!

What's next?

Want to support CHYOA?
Disable your Ad Blocker! Thanks :)