**Walks in**

[Cerasi]

*Cerasi sits on a bar stool waiting for a friend.*

[Dio Blackmoon]

*Dio walks into the bar for the first time. Gritty, dark, smoky... just the way he likes it. He takes a long look around, searching for someone...*

"hmmm..." *He spies Cerasi sitting by the bar and quietly slides up to her.* "Hey there."

[Cerasi]

*Cerasi looks up to see a handsom stranger sit down beside her* "Hello," she says with a smile. "Are you new here..? I don't think I've ever seen you here before..."

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Well, yes, I'm new around here..." *Smiles into her light, almost feline green eyes* "I'm, Dio... Dio Blackmoon. And you are...?"

[Cerasi]

*holds out her hand* "Cerasi Jones, my friends call me Cera..."

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Cera... beautiful..." *He kisses her outstretched hand.* "Could I buy you a drink?"

[Cerasi]

*blushes* "Um, sure."

[Dio Blackmoon]

*Smiles* "OK." *Flags down the bartender.* "So, what'll you have, Cera?"

[Cerasi]

"Whatever you're having is fine." *smiles*

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Alright then. 2 Anduviaan Tonics, please." *Slaps down a few credit chips.* "Keep the change."

[Cerasi]

"Thanks.... so, where ya from?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Invictus. It's a boring place... well, was. But I don't want to talk your ears off. Where you from?"

[Cerasi]

"Naboo. Small farming town just outside of Theed."

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Are you serious? I've always heard so much about that place. Pretty famous, I gather..."

[Cerasi]

"Yeah, lived there all... well, most of my life. It's pretty boring actually..."

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Yeah. So what brought you here? I don't suppose you're just passing through, huh?"

[Cerasi]

"No, I'm a student at the academy. You?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Same here. I just got here."

[Cerasi]

"Oh that's great! Welcome to the academy, then"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Thanks. Hey, do you know that clown over there who was knocking people's stools out from under them?"

[Cerasi]

"Hehe, that's Gaven Antilles. Don't know much about him, I've only talked to him a few times.... excuse me just a minute, please..." *Cerasi gets up and walks over to Gaven*

[Kata Lyris]

**From the shadows a young Sith apprentice named Kata watched the Jedi girl get up and walk over to man who was pulling barstools out from under people. What a fool... She slowly walked over to the bar and sat down in the Jedi's seat. The young man sitting next to her, what was her name? Jones? Oh well, it didn't matter. The young man looked her in the eyes, "I believe that is Cerasi's seat," he said. "So?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

*Dio glanced at the stranger who had taken Cera's chair.*

"Who are you?"

[Kata Lyris]

**Grabs the bartender as he passes** "Hey, can I get a little help around here? I'll have an Alderaan Ale, make it snappy." **Turns to the man beside her** "My name is Kata. Who are you?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Dio. Dio Blackmoon."

[Kata Lyris]

"Nice meeting you. That your girlfriend?" *points across the room to Cerasi*

[Dio Blackmoon]

"No. Not yet, at any rate. I was thinking about asking her out sometime. You know here?"

[Kata Lyris]

"Nope, never met her before in my life. As for asking her out... *shrugs* I dunno, go for it I guess." *takes a sip of her drink* "In fact, I've never been in here before."

[Dio Blackmoon]

*Dio takes another sip of his drink.* "I will, I think. Where you from, anyway?"

[Kata Lyris]

"Not important. I don't don't really remember anyhow. You?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"I'm from Invictus. Mid-rim, farming... boring place to live..."

[Kata Lyris]

"Hmm, sounds like it." *finshes off the rest of her drink* "Well, I'd better be going, and if it doesn't work out with the other chick, gimme a call." *she winks at Dio and walks out*

[Dio Blackmoon]

*Wipes a little sweat from his brow.* "Oh boy..."

[Cerasi]

*Cerasi sits back down by Dio* "Who was that?"

[Dio Blackmoon]

"Beats me. Kata Lyris, I think she said. YOu know her at all?"

[Cerasi]

*shakes her head no* "Nope, never heard of her..."