Unrivaled Wars: Time Spiral
Rated PG-13 for language and violence
Long ago, before written history, before the dawns of time had began, there was the Triforce, a powerful artifact created by the Shadow Masters to maintain peace and balance in the universe. But unknown to them, the dawns of time was shifting and the fate of many would rest on the shoulders of the one.
Not much is known about the Triforce or the Shadow Masters, some say they where the ancient gods who created the universe, some say they are the keepers of the secrets to the force. Others have a different opinion of them.
It is said within the book of Diablo that the secrets to the force lay within the Triforce itself. Many believe that the force itself draws from one of the three stones within the Triforce itself. Along side the Triforce is another powerful artifact known simply as the Dawn of Time. Billions of light years before time started, it was said that a bloody war broke out between the Shadow Masters and the Death Masters.
The Death Masters where three powerful and very much corrupt Gods of Darkness. The evil counter part of the Shadow Masters. Not much is known about this great war between gods, but what is known that it ended when the Death Masters corrupted the Dawn of Time. As a result the universe split into many. It is not known what became of the Dawn of Time or the Shadow Masters. Some say they seal themselves away along with the Death Masters to prevent them from ever bring evil to the universe.
However some say the Death Masters and the Shadow Masters are one and the same, filling darkness into universe and in fact the Dawn of Time is nothing more then a dark side artifact created to send one threw time itself. Only within the book of Diablo can the truth ever be revealed. But the book is written in a forgotten language.
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Part 1
"Did you hear that?" Over near the west of the banks a dark shadow stood as the moon light shined over him as if he was the devil himself.
"Move! Move! Move!" yelled one of the officers just as the building behind them exploded.
"This is FireFox, do you read me?"
"We read you loud and clear sir, what is your location?"
"I'm in sector 00-45. I repeat sector 00-45. I need backup. I don't think I'll be able to hold them off very long."
In a blaze of fire and blood, Sith'ar Knights ran for their lives as large demon like creatures flooded the buildings. Killing and attacking everything as if there was no end to the madness. The few Sith'ar Knights fought the beast off but none where able to really stand up to the power of Onslaught. One by one they where killed, crushed under the darkness as if they where nothing but small bugs.
"DAMN IT!! We can't hold them off. Damn it! FireFox report in! I need a head count, how many men do you have left? FireFox this is Talus please report in."
Talus Looked around the corner to see one of the creatures eating one of his men. In anger he pulled his lightsaber and jumped at the beast, jumping on its back. The demon moved around as Talus try to cut its neck. The demon pushed him off as Talus fell to the ground, dropping his lightsaber. Reaching for it with the force.
"Please don't fail me now."
The lightsaber flew to his hand as Talus thrusted his lightsaber at the demons head. In a quick motion, the demons head fell off his shoulder to the ground. Talus drop to one knee, the demon had stabbed him in the side. He knew he didn't have much longer. Just as he looked up more demon like creatures entered the building. They surrounded him.
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"FIREFOX! wake up!"
"What happen? Where is Talus?"
"He's dead, you had another nightmare huh? Its going to be okay."
"Master Raziel, I.. I.."
"Please, don't call me master anymore. Listen I know, what happen that day it wasn't your fault. You fought like a true warrior and you did your best. It was three years ago, you have to let it go now."
Raziel sat next to FireFox and looked up at the stars.
"I know all too well how you feel, everyday I think about it. But the time of the old ways has come and gone. We can't allow ourselves to be fallen into the past. We must look to the future. That is what Sachael would have wanted."
Raziel paused as he looked at one star in the sky.
"I have long and thought about why things happen the way they happen. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever thought the Sith and Jedi would be one, never in a million years. Even at my old age I still wonder about how my life has been. My time has come to an end. I am no longer the master. Deep down, I wanted revenge for what they took from me. As I feel a part of me died that day. A part of me that I could never get back. This is the future, and you must never look back to your past, understand your past, learn from it. But never let it control you. The teachings of my master Hord and that of the Sith'ar must lead the way to the future. Threw young people like you, long after I am gone, the fight will go on. I have faith some day, the nightmare will be over and we can all rest in peace."
"I understand. I just can't help it. I mean I should have been able to stop the Onslaught. I mean if only.."
"Stop right there, no one could have foresaw this. Little did we know that the future was not what we made and while we where so busy fighting each other all those years. The real threat was right in front of us."
"Are you talking about Un..."
"No.."
Raziel paused. Looking very hard at FireFox, he then sat down on a chair next to FireFox's bed. In his eyes the pain of all he had lost could be seen. A lesser man would have cried, but Raziel learned along time ago that giving in was never an option, it was the one thing he learn from her.
"He was my friend, he gave everything he had and more to protect. He was a good friend. The events of that day changed everything. I know in my heart if some how he survived that day, things would have been different."
Raziel stood up and walk back over to the window, his hands folded behind him. He looked deeper into the night sky, at the stars.
"I believe in my heart that if I had stopped him from going, things would have been different. But I believed in his words, I believed everything would be okay. Five years later the darkness came and everything came to and end. I believed in my heart that if he had a chance to live we might have had a fighting chance."
FireFox got himself out of bed and stood next to Raziel by the window, looking outside wondering if he could ever make the choice. The galaxy was a much different place back then, there was a lot of wars but it was peaceful. Not like now, everything felt dark, the force was so corrupted with darkness it became hard to control the simplest of tasks.
Every world was lowered in darkness, beyond anything anyone could have dream. Darkness and evil flooded history and for more then 60 years the Empire of Onslaught ruled with an iron fist. The Anti-Force Act which they past over 25 years ago did nothing but turn the fight against them. They fought to protect the people and the freedoms they all once had, but when the moment came they turned on them. A target on every Jedi and Sith, that event ended the war between them and together they stood.
The slaughters had taken it's told on the galaxy, and the people soon learn they had been tricked but it was too late. Worlds where turn into camps for cloning farms, demons and monsters walked the same ground humans once walked. Millions of people had died in the war and those who where unlucky became mindless demons.
"Do you think we will ever win the war?"
"Well my boy, we are always at war. Its not really how you fight it but how you live it."
"I want to fight, I can't do anything laying here like this. Please train me. I want to know the ways of hord."
"Oh is that so?"
"Yes, I have learn many things in my time with the Sith'ar and I know I can help turn the tied against Onslaught. I lost so much in this war, there is so much I never got to see or do because of it. I was born into a world of hate and suffering. I only want some of that peace and life my mom and dad once shared. Please teach me, your one of the only grand masters of the old days who's still alive."
"Your mom and dad where good people, they where my friends and I promised them I would look after you until you where able to take care of yourself.."
"So please, teach me. I want power, I have passion. I mean isn't that what it takes to be a Sith'ar, right?"
"Not anymore.."
"What? What do you mean, Not anymore?"
"What I mean is not anymore. You talk as if it was the old days. Wake up already. Everyone is dead. They died in the apocalypse 68 years ago, along with trillions of other people. What do you think you can do against a hell itself."
"So this is the great Darth Rage huh?"
"I don't go by that name anymore. Not after that day."
Raziel turned away from the window and started to make his way out of the room, but FireFox grabbed his arm stopping him.
"You may want to give up, you had your life. I want mine. That.. that monster is going to pay and I will never stop until he is dead."
"Your father said the same thing. I respect your spirit, but that alone will not save you or stop anything. If you want to be true to the teachings of hord you have to remember that life with out meaning if not with out the choice. Just remember that."
"Listen, just because Unrivaled is dead doesn't mean that all hope is lost. We can still save this galaxy from Onslaught. I believe in my heart. There has to be a way.."
"Maybe your right. But Unrivaled's spirit was destroyed. When that happen not even I could bring him back. I did once a long time ago. I only regret is that he never found what he was looking for."
"What was he looking for?"
"Hope, Will, hope."
"That's the first time you've called me Will in a long time."
"Will T Patziel, is your name, to those left you are the FireFox. Never forget where you came from, who you are and what your path is."
"Then please train me. Why allow a False.." Raziel covered FireFox's mouth.
"Never say his name around me, to many have died in his name."
"I'm sorry Raziel, I just want to do all I can."
"Will, someday you will understand why I wont teach you the ways of hord. Just know that when the time comes you will have your answer."
Just before FireFox could say anymore Raziel open the door to his room and walked out into the hall way. FireFox ran out as he watched Raziel walk away form him, calm and quite has he walked. Raziel paused, turning around and looking at FireFox, a small smile raise on his face. It had been so long since he ever saw him smile like that. Little did FireFox know that would be the last time he would ever see his friend, his master, Raziel.
Two days later a small group of Sith'ar made their way to Onderon to gather information on a new weapon they're spy reports had pick up some days before. FireFox was on board one of the phantom battle ships from the old DATS fleet when he got the news that everyone was killed in the mission. When FireFox finally got the list of names, his heart drop when the name Raziel appeared. Turns out he was the one heading the mission, FireFox remember the last thing he said to him.