A long time ago in a galaxy far far away ...
Star Wars: Sith Beginnings
In a time of peace, thousands of years before the clone wars; the Siashi, priests among the Verehre species, spark unrest as they gain control of the high senate. Due to their extreme religious views that require sacrifice for peace and the potential of such a extreme view being accepted, the senate is torn. Some leave and whisper of war on the Verehre while others are in fear of them. Those in the newly established Jedi Order watch over the Verehrian and make sure that war does not happen.
In the space above the planet Ahch-To, Jedi Knight Torrinn Delric communicates with his Jedi Knight twin brother, Akaios Delric, who has been missing since a reconnaisance mission to the Verehrian home world of Boroti-Edo that he and Twi-lek Jedi Master Kiirenaa Isoldro went on-It's been weeks after the reconnaissance mission on Boroti-Edo. The Jedi knew something went wrong once Kiirenaa's force presence was gone; it could only mean one thing. While Akaois's presence was still felt, no word has been received from him. Only dark rumours, sightings, and reports of some one disfigured.
Chapter One: Far From Lost
Torrinn knew better, as he sat and meditated, he knew what his brother was doing; with the connection of his twin they are able to force sense each other's actions and thoughts.
His easy going, posting willed twin was no longer the brother Torinn knew.
Torrin had so many questions and good news. He even may be able to talk his brother into coming home to the first Jedi temple, after all Akaois hasn't seen it since it was completed.
Torrinn reached further into the force trying to connect and see his brother when he heard a chirp from a old modified comlink. The link established by its counterpart, and last used by Kiirenaa.
Torrin, surprised the connection link indicator turned green, grabbed it and began to speak.
"Identify yourself, the comlink your using belonged to a Jedi Master, whom we believe was killed"
Torrinn heard a almost silent reply, like a whisper almost as if the one on the other end spoke to themself. He knew that voice though he felt it.
"Brother, is that you? Are you there?" He asked.
Silence, Torrin checked the indicator light, the connection still established. He just knew it was him. He felt it in the force and said, "What happened Akaois? I know you..."
Torrin paused for a second to find the right words to say, he pleaded,
"I know you are not yourself Akaois...but you know that the Jedi won't allow your actions to continue. I won't allow you to destroy yourself and become everything you've stood against!"
-the communicator crackled off, and silence-
Looking far off in a stare of both loss and hate, Akaois spoke back into the communicator,
"She fell before me...her eyes..met mine...I could see that she was scared...scared. I've never seen her eyes like that; tear filled and frightened. Then she was gone- just like that. She–"
"She wouldn't of wanted you to go down THIS PATH," Torrin interrupted.
Akaois spoke but this time through gritted teeth, the communicator closer to his mouth and catching spit from the strained words, "The Jedi are taught to have compassion but that compassion is what got her KILLED!"
A wave of grief filled the cold air around Akaois with warmth. He let his emotion create waves of warmth in the force around him as he reminisced Kiirenaa
Akaois with staring off says in almost a whisper
"You don't know what happened Torrin, you don't know what they did, what I did..."
Akaois clenched his fists and the air froze its surroundings. Ice formed on the cave walls and quickly reached inward from all directions towards Akaois. The small fire he made grew, then flashed brightly, and fell to a still dim flame and he continued, "...what they made me do..."
Akaois lowered his head and the surroundings became still as he filled with grief then hate.
Outside the cave, the wind suddenly came from no where and cycled violently against the deep green bushes that covered the entrance. Any sound that made it past the bushes and into the cave was eerily choked from utterance.
One wouldn't hear his own steps or even be able hear his own voice in the cave because of the unnatural environment created from Akaois.
He focused his grief and hate in on his connection to his twin, feeling where Torrins presence was located he forced own presence through space to meet him.
This ability only special to the twins of Anzat. Lowering the comlink Akaois then finishes what he was saying to Torrinn through his mind, "...Or what I am going to do to them..."
Torrinn opened his eyes suddenly upon hearing his brothers' twisted words; words that were not coming from the comlink, but from within his own head!
The force warned Torrin of something imminent, something in the very room he sits, his brother was there in the force!
Feeling the force change the temperature around him, he pleaded to Akaois aloud, "She chose her path and knew the risks, she sacrificed herself for peace! Torrin voice lowered with emphasis, "...if you continue, the order will stop you at any cost! You could start a war. We will not allow her unfortunate, necessary sacrifice be a waste..."
As his brother Torrin spoke, something nagging inside Akaois became clear. It was a perspective of a new truth realized through one question that was brought to him in the force.
Akaois thought to hisself, 'Sacrifice? How did he know? Did they know what would happen? wouldn't they warn us?'
Torrin's voice came back, "...you're right I may not know what happened or what they did but I do know you brother, and who you are not. I know you can make the right choice and come back to the temple, here we can discuss what happened, what the Jedi should do, and inform the senate. We are a united Galaxy now."
Anger filled him and his head went to the side in disgust as his brother Torrin finished speaking.
Akaois's mind drifted to thoughts of Kiirenna and thought of just how the doctrine of the Jedi and those who lead it were responsible.
With his anger growing and taking clam of the force, He replied to Torrinn, "They are unfortunate. Because they do not what is about to happen to them. They cannot be allowed to decide what is necessity. We should be the ones who decide. Not the ones who are at the head of the senate! We should be the ones enforcing and ruling! That way things like this may not happen by our rule!"
He paused and with disgust said, "...but I understand now...the Jedi are held back. Unable to do what is truly necessary for the good of the Galaxy..."
Akaois clenched his teeth together and an anger bounded through him setting a fire-like feeling through this veins. He reached out in the force and removed the air from Torrin's lungs.
In the meditation room on his ship his brother Torrin began to gasp for air! He clasped his neck and stood up stumbling. He didn't know that Akaois's had grown so much in the force!
His twin had cut off any such force connections weeks ago but now that he could sense Akaois, he realized why.
Akaois was disfigured and his force presence was terrifying. It reminded Torrin of their childhood and the only other time he felt fear.
It was a horrific, tragic day that changed the twins destinies forever. Torrin struggled to breath and was wide eyed, shocked at Akaois's appearance. He wondered how this happened to his brother and figured it out as he remembered that day:
The Delric twins were the first twins of its Anzati kind. Through tragedy the twins were abandoned as children on their home world of Anzat. However, the newly established Jedi Order was there maintaining peace and establishing rules for the Anzati culture to be apart of the growing rebublic when, they felt a great disturbance in the force in a nearby village. Rushing to the source of the disturbance they found dead Anzati in a home, male and female, shot with a heard in the next room a struggle and rushed to help. They found a male Anzati force-holding two small children in the air about to plunge his proboscises into them. The Jedi intervened and saved the children.
They knew of the Anzati culture but it was not in a Anzat to go after children. The Jedi quickly realized why when the children, two young identical twin boys, where coming back to awareness and with them their force connection.
The Jedi knew that the attack was to absorb their power and connection to the force, of which was stronger than even the oldest adult Anzate they've met. The Jedi knew the orphaned children were not safe and decided to take them back to the Jedi Temple to train them in the ways of the force.
Torrin's memory was violently cut short as
Akaios lifted his arm in a motion upward making his brother lift in the air struggling.
Akios then said, "After I am done with them brother, I will be coming for those truly responsible for her death and the weakened state of the Galaxy. I will not let anything or anyone stand in my way. I suggest you come to your senses and see the evil you worship before I destroy it along with you...Now that brother..."
Torrin, now suspended in the air grasping his throat, was thrown across the room. The comlink, along with him, slammed against the transperasteel view port of the meditation room.
In the devices final moments before breaking on the floor, he felt Akaois retract his presence and heard him finish his thought by speaking through the comlink.
"...would be truly unfortunate "
Everything around Torrin then drifted to black.
Akaois, griped the custom long range comlink device that was given to Kiirena before their mission and broke it in his hand. He slowly got up and walked outside of the cave to a setting sun; barely noticeable through the indigenous plant life that covered the cave entrance.
Unlike most star systems this particular moon of Boroti-Edo is habitable; with arched bare trees and spotty deep green bushes behind him, he stood on the sandy red edge of the canyon.
The distant planet, taking up almost all of the horizon, rised with every setting of the sun and set with every rising of the sun. A very beautiful sight from the moon Akaois stood on but, Akaois was far from wanting to sight see.
He looked out into the setting horizon, sun beams flowing over the edge, casting the shadow of that disgusting species home-world over him. Yet, it is a striking sight, almost as striking as him thinking of her being next to him.
With the setting of the sun, the truth of her death took over his heart. He began to burn inside; red hot in anger and his eyes became yellow.
He fell to his knees in torment and his anger brewed a storm in the horizon. It sounded unstoppable with the power of the force at its helm.
He reached into his cloak and pulled from it a small triangular device. It hovered from his hand and opened up, sending a reddish hue across his face. He spoke aloud into his personal holocron.
"I see the beauty of the heavens and beyond. I am cracked between its beauty and the dark. I feel the power of the force burning like a thousand suns yet, they shine their light upon the world I live in and I can't help but recognize the irony. How they ignite my fury, simply by showing what once could've been my fate. But I have changed...things have changed...And I will sow the seed of the horizon and water it with my hate. I have no empathy. I have not the ability to relate, they are nothing but objects before me."
A memory of Kiirenaa smiling and being with him pursued his words and gained his attention. He remembered the feeling of her presence as he stared into the red hue:
Kiirenna said, with hope in her eyes and the red land reflecting off them,
"See all the lost souls down there? We can help them find there way, help them be apart of the greater good! Maybe they can help the Order and the Order help them; like a ultimate balance of the force! Help them see the light of the force! It is impossible for all of them to use the force in that way and not feel some sort of...emptiness...you saw what I saw, you know there is a good in them. After all, they are apart of the force..."
The memory faded with her screaming.
He stopped thinking about it as the light finally set and the dense Verehrian cities dimly casted its' light through the now broken storm clouds.
The Holocron closed after his tormented words, "No...not them... lost is what I am..."
The power of the force began to spread within him again, along with his desire to give back the hell that they caused within him.
(Fan Fiction Written by .D, resources used: Star Wars wikia)