I woke up. Everything was blurred around me. The sky was purple, ground deep black. Crumbling pieces of something like walls of a corridor surrounded me. I could only wonder: Where am I?

Was I not in a corridor of the Jedi Temple just a moment ago? I tried to retrace the last actions I had taken. All I could remember was Arya screaming for me. I have heard her screaming for me before but this... this was something different. Something very upsetting.

"Master! MASTER! COME TO YOU SENSES! MASTER!"

The distress, the overwhelming fear in my Padawan's voice was horrible. What was happening to her?!

Force, tell me what is happening to the Padawan I care for so much!

The scenery shifted. I was in an ocean of blood. I heard a laughter. I was choking in blood!

Suddenly I remembered; the shadow me had hit me with something like black miniature ravens. Arya's distressed scream followed.

"MASTEEEEEEER!"

Can't bear this! Stop it, stop it!

Blood disappeared and I could breathe again. But now I was falling into utter darkness, a never-ending pit. I could only shout.

The same laughter. Now I recognized it. The shadow me, the Jedova Wang gone awry, strayed away from the light. Had the fate of Master Xurego been too hard for him?

Humph. Am I really the one to talk?

"Your Padawan shall suffer in our hands."

It was the shadow me. But what the hell, "us"? I'd never hurt a Padawan! NEVER!

And if that Padawan was one so close as Arya... How could I ever even think about hurting her myself?

"Master, stop this! Please, don't do this to me! You are not his puppet! STOP!"

Arya's voice was full of many emotions: fear, horror, despair... She was crying for all of it, I could feel it.

But why? What's going on? I am not there! I'm in this odd ever-changing scenery!

Wait... Only my consciousness is here. This must be something the shadow me did to me. I am not in control of my body anymore, I realized all the sudden as I hit the bottom and scenery became flashing with lights that hurt my eyes.

What am I doing to my Padawan?!

"Master... MASTER!" it felt like tears came out of Arya's eyes now as she screamed.

I have to get out of here!

The shadow me laughed at this thought.
"You shall never escape my grip. You pitiful excuse for a Jedi", he taunted. I pushed his words aside. I would escape!

I had to do it for my Padawan's sake... I can't stand the idea that I hurt her, even if I was in someone else's control.

I CAN'T STAND IT!

I opened up my eyes and pushed my mind to the limit. I was going to escape this dark prison, no matter what!

The flashes turned into a pleasant field. I knew that the shadow me tried to manipulate me to stop. He had not seen a pleasant place like this, not without ravaging it. I saw death occasionally. It disappeared as soon as my noticed it.

I am not going to succumb to this, I can go to a place like this with Arya when this is over.

FOR I WILL-

Great pain came to my thigh. I fell, my lightsaber leaving my hand.
"I'm very sorry, Master", Arya said to me.

She screamed again, but now it was a battle cry.

I had wanted to save her, but I only ended up lying on the floor, hearing the screams of the two clashing combatants...

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