Betrayal

Battle broke out, disrupting the calm forest night. A saber of orange light, and a Sabre of blue light, clashing against each other in brutal combat. The orange pushing back the blue, the blue parrying each and every attack. He was pushed back farther and farther, out of the forest and up a promontory. To the edge they fought, none showing any sign of relenting their attack, or defense.

"You will go no further, young padawan," the owner of the blue saber said.

"We shall see!" the padawan replied, a sinister grin accompanied his cold tone.

Palius Nazier, the Jedi master, had felt an evil presence in his young padawan for quite some time now. He had shrugged it off, thinking it nothing. Anger was common in kids his age, right? Well now he knew something was wrong. He could sense a disturbance in the Force, something big was about to happen, and he would rather be at the Jedi training facility with the others right now, but his padawan had forced him to battle and had now driven him far, far away from the temple.

"Do you feel that?" Palius asked.

"Feel what, master?" Reven replied.

"A disturbance in the Force, something is amiss," he looked up at the night sky.

"Your thoughts betray you," Reven replied coldly.

"What is that?" he asked looking out into the distance, "Separatist fighters! But, how? How could they know of this place? Even Dooku does not know of this training facility."

"No, but I do!"

"What?"

"You were right to feel the way you do," Reven replied as the ships flew over head, "I gave the Separatists this location."

"But why?"

"I have my reasons, now, to go save your precious temple, you have to go through me!"

Reven raised his activated lightsaber, preventing his master from moving forward.

"How could you, Reven?"

"Very easily," he struck with all his might.

Palius defended, parrying his attacks as well as he could. Reven had become too much for him, he found it hard, too hard, to keep up with his young padawan. Attacking with more force that he ever thought, he could now feel the Dark Side strong within him, yet he could also tell that the Light was still over powering it, to a certain extent. Palius would not give up, even as he saw the temple burn by the Separatist attack.

Reven would not give up his attack, he knew that if he continued he would kill his master, yet he had too, he promised Darth Tyranus that he would.

"Give up, Palius, it is no good, surrender."

"Never!"

Reven brought his blade down with full force, knocking the weapon out of the Jedi's hand. He brought the blade around again and sliced the hand of his former mentor. The smell of scorched skin filled the air, entering the nostrils of both men standing on the promontory.

"Good-bye, Palius."

Reven once again brought his saber around, this time slicing through the neck of the man he used to call master. Using the force Reven through the Jedi's body into the water below. He deactivated his weapon, letting the crashing waves drown out his thoughts.

"Reven, I have been looking all over for you!" a familiar, female, voice behind him said.

"Jaina, remember when we were children? We used to come here every day, we'd laugh, swim and play."

A smile creased Jaina's features as she remembered those time long ago.

"Remember that day, eight years ago, when we promised to stay together no matter what?"

"Yes I do, Reven," she replied.

"Well then, it is time to test that promise, I am leaving the Jedi order and am joining the Separatists. I don't want to leave you, or kill you, so please, come with me," he turned and Jaina saw tears forming in his eyes.

"Why are you leaving, Reven?" she asked, fighting back the tears, they both knew what was going to have to happen.

"The Senate is corrupt, no, the Republic is corrupt, as well as the Jedi order. They feed us lies and I can't take it any more, so I am leaving."

"I am afraid I can't go with you," she activated her green lightsaber and prepared for the fight.

She charged forward, Reven activated his lightsaber just seconds before her saber was to hit. He blocked all of her attacks, he stopped her saber just inches from his face and, with a little help from the Force, launched her back a few feet. She stood up to her feet, realizing that he is much better than she, and that he will kill her.

I'm not going down without a fight! She thought. She noticed Palius' discarded saber on the ground, using the force she, the saber flew through the air, and into her hand. She now thought that she had the upper hand, two sabers against one.

"You know that you can't beat me, even with two lightsabers," Reven said, his voice colder than ever.

"We shall see."

She ran forward, lunging at him with all her might. Much to her dismay he was able to parry all of her attacks and succeeded in driving her back to the edge of the forest. The three lightsabers crashed, drowning out anything else that made even the slightest noise. Reven lunged forward, cutting Palius' hilt, causing Jaina to discard it. The battle raged on for another hour. Their sabers clashed and Reven forced her blade down, nearly touching the grass.

She could not move the weapon, he had her trapped, for good. He came in closer to her, sadness now in his voice.

"If it means anything anymore, I really did love you," he whispered.

"I loved you too," she replied.

One more strike, and the battle was over.

The sun was over the horizon, only one stood on the battlefield of the previous night. A tombstone was erected, he couldn't just leave her body on the forest floor. He was paying his last respects to his one and only love, he would be surprised if he ever came here again, so he needed to do a lifetime of prayer in just a few short hours. Under his cloak he touched the hilts of his two lightsabers, his and Jaina's.

Reven started to wonder if he had made the right decision. Should he have brought about the destruction of the Jedi training facility and all of its occupants? He shrugged the thought off, he had made his choice, and he now had to live with it. He couldn't take back his actions, and he didn't want to die having done what he had done, so he must now live with it and hope that he could meet his end soon so he could be reunited with his love. The roar of the drop ship's engines brought him back to reality. He walked towards his transportation away, away form the place he used to call home, the place he spent nearly his entire life. He had traded it all, and now he would give anything to get it back, anything at all.

A/N: I plan on this being the only chapter I create. Although if there is enough people wanting to see more, I will see if I can come up with something good enough to post. The only way to see more, though, is to review, even if you don't want to see more.... review anyway.