AN: hello this is the start of a new story of mine it is related to my other story "Soul of the Jedi" though you don't need to read that to understand this.

Disclaimer. I only own my OC's and that's it Star Wars belongs to Lucas and Disney, the Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien

Addendum: this has been edited with the help of my good friend Jacob Sailer I recommend you check his stories out for now I hope you enjoyed the superior draft of this chapter.

Prologue

A young man sat in the cockpit of his ship, he sighed tiredly, "How long will this go on?" he asked no one in particular as he picked up a data pad and decided to record what was happening at the moment. It was one of the things he did ever since the start of the Jedi Purge.

"Begin Log: I haven't done one of these in awhile, been busy and all... it has been two years since Order 66 was issued. My friends and I were at the temple when it all went down. Almost all in our little group made it out... I don't know what happened to Daniel," he choked a bit on the name, "we were escorting a group of initiates with master K'kruhk when we were ambushed. The younglings made it through the door and so did Daniel, Chase, and Master K'kruhk, then the clones shot the door mechanics and we had no choice but to fight them... I don't know how many we killed, but they kept coming!"

He shook his head in frustration, and the long buried pain reaching out to dig into his cut with its icy fingers. He then sighed, and continued.

"That was, until to our surprise, former master Depa Billaba appeared and saved us with another padawan, Jasmine Yajk. We managed to escape the temple, and thanks to Serra and Cin Drallig, survived a brief encounter with the new sith lord: Darth Vader," he almost spit out that last name, he shook his head in slight disgust, "I'm not even going to get into that. Well, anyway, we found ourselves on a planet out of Republic space. You'd think we'd be safe their right?"

He smirked at his rhetorical question, scoffing at it: "Well you'd be wrong. The planet was taken over by a group called the Knights of Opalka, and here's the kicker: they despise Force Sensitives! So we ended up helping a local resistance for almost 2 years and we did very well too," he sighed in sadness, "then it happened. The Empire invaded and Master Billaba was killed in the fighting, and we had to leave... and that's pretty much everything else other than the fact that while we were on…"

He shook his head again, closing his eyes in despair at the memories bubbling to surface. He coughed to regain his composure, and continued:

"I don't remember what it's called, but that doesn't matter. We acquired several new allies but we're currently on a small ship, basically looking for work. We need credits to keep the mother ship working. One of our new crew was a boy, about 16 or 17 now, named Janus Lynn. Depa took him as her apprentice when we discovered his affinity to the Force. He'd apparently been trying to learn it for years on his own... a difficult task but not impossible," he said with a smile before sobering again, "he took it really hard when Depa died and his world subjugated... again."

"Viridian?" a familiar female voice asked. Viridian turned to see a sixteen year old girl with beautiful strawberry blond hair and amethyst eyes. She wore standard civilian clothing with some armor pads on her arms. She smiled tiredly as she leaned against the doorway. Viridian quickly switched off his recorder and swung around in his chair.

"Hey Kes, is it your turn for the night shift?" he asked as he looked at the Chrono.

"Yeah," she confirmed, "What were you doing?"

Viridian let out a breath, "I was recording in my journal."

"Oh I see," she nodded. A comfortable silence descended between them.

"...I'm not all that tired, Kes. If you want you can go back to sleep… or keep me company. Whichever you prefer."

Kes smiled and took the seat next to him, "I could use some company."

"That's good, how are the others?"

"They're all asleep," Kes answered.

"How's Janus doing? He's been quiet ever since the empire took… what was it called?" Viridian asked sheepishly.

Kes just shook her head slightly in amusement at her friends forgetfulness, "it was called Carthean, Viridian," she told him with a smirk, "but yeah, in many ways, it reminds me of you after we survived the temple massacre," she choked on that and almost burst into tears. Viridian swallowed a lump in his throat and fought the urge to shed tears himself. The massacre was still a hard subject even two years later.

"I don't see how I talked back to members of that organization quite a bit." Viridian countered.

"You dealt with it differently than he is, give him time," she replied patiently. Viridian nodded in agreement, "Say, is the probe still transmitting?" she asked. The probe was sent ahead of them to scout out resources in the unknown regions. The probe stopped in a system some time ago and if Viridian was right, they'd be coming upon it soon.

"I'll check," Viridian swiveled in his seat to check the readouts, "Well this is troubling," his tone showed concern as he double and triple checked the readings.

"What's the matter?" Kes asked worried.

Viridian turned to look at her, "The probe stopped transmitting." he answered, "I'm trying to get the last transmission displayed here," then he exclaimed, "got it!"

"What did it detect last?"

"It detected a giant rock, and the giant rock shot molten rock at it." Viridian answered somewhat in disbelief.

"What?" she asked disbelievingly.

"Believe me, I have no idea either, but that's what the readings say."

"Can you convert it into visual information so we can see it."

"Yeah, one moment," Viridian went to work on it. In less than a minute he had a very poor holo image of the object that destroyed the probe, "Sorry this is the best I can do with the equipment we have."

"It's better than nothing," she waved away the apology. The object did indeed look like a giant asteroid, "that's peculiar."

"You see it too?"

"The asteroid moved with the probe! No matter what the probe did the asteroid always followed..." she started.

"Than the ship fired at the probe with molten magma,." Viridian finished, "we'll be arriving in the system within half an hour. Send a coded message to the mother ship, and I'll wake everyone."

"Okay," she nodded and set about to prepare the message. Viridian pressed a button on the console and the ship entered yellow alert. With that, he rose and walked into the crew quarters; seeing that some of them were stirring from the alarm with three of them being wide awake: Jak Vizla, Ulra Jasmine, and Janus Lynn.

"I'm so sorry about disturbing your sleep everyone," he said loud enough to wake up everyone else, "but we got a situation."

"What the matter Viridian?" Du, the young zabrak male asked. He had black hair tied in a wolf's tail that covered some of the vestigial horns on his head.

"Well, Du. Kes and I have discovered something: the probe has been destroyed." he answered.

"By what?" A cathar female asked. She was about four years older than himself; her feline eyes narrowed in preparation.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Viridian stated.

"So you don't know?" Janus asked, crossing his arms.

"The object appeared to be a giant asteroid that moved with the probe."

"So maybe the Probe just entered the orbit of an asteroid?" Jak suggested.

Viridian shook his head, "Even if that probe made course corrections, the asteroid still followed it."

"Hmn, that's peculiar," Jak agreed as he stood up, "We'll meet you in the living area."

Viridian nodded in agreement and left the quarters to check on Kes to see if she was done composing a message. When he got to the cockpit he saw her standing up, stating, "the message has been sent."

"Great," he nodded, "please tell me you didn't make the code too complex?"

"Oh, don't worry about it. If they know their mathematics, they'll decode it quickly." she reassured.

"So basically they need a Given to decode it." he translated with a smirk.

"Hey!" she defended, her cheeks turning red.

"Don't 'hey' me, Kes! You tend to go overboard when it comes to codes," he replied matter a factly "but quite frankly, it's what I like about you. Now let's go meet them in the living area," he brushed past her, not missing the small blush appearing on her cheeks at the compliment.

"Alright," she agreed, sighing to get control of her emotions, and followed him to the living area with the holo projector. When they arrived, the crew was on deck, their gear prepped and ready for battle.

"So, what is the situation?" the female Cathar asked.

Viridian turned to Kes and gestured with his hand to show them. She pressed a button and showed the object.

"You're right, it does look like an asteroid." Du said in agreement.

"What did it use to destroy it? I don't see any obvious weapons on it." Jak observed as he studied the image intently.

"Keep in mind this is not a good image, but it's better than nothing. As for your question though, the rock apparently fired molten rock at the probe."

"Hmn." Jak hummed in thought, "This just gets weirder and weirder."

"How long till we arrive at the probes last known location?" Viridian turned to the 16 year old echani girl who asked the question. She had short white hair, chalk pale skin, and a blindfold covering where her silver eyes once were. When she'd been in captivity, the Knights of Opalka tortured her: poured acid in her eyes and effectively scaring them; blinding her during their final year in the resistance on Carthena. She hadn't talked about what happened to her during her captivity... all that the group knew was she was unlikely to see again.

"About 20 minutes."

"This is peculiar," stated a Miraluka female. She wore lite mandalorian armor, and also had a blindfold covering her eyes except in her case, she had no eyes to begin with.

"What's the matter?" Jak asked noticing her perplexed tone.

"I can't sense anything." she told them.

All the force users in the crew stretched out their senses and to their shock they found nothing but a complete absence, "What the hell could generate such a thing?" Du asked.

"What thing?" Jak asked confused

"Nothing." Viridian answered.

"What?"

"What I mean is there is nothing to be sensed, no life forms, no emotions, nothing, it's a void." Viridian tried to explain.

"Which means it shouldn't exist." Kes stated.

"Well there were two things in history that we are all familiar with that did has a peculiar presence in the force." the Echani said.

"You're right, Xey, except the Lord of Hunger and the Exile still had some sort of presence in the force." the Miraluka commented.

"Ulra has a point." Viridian agreed.

"We can speculate later we should get ready for a battle." the Cathar stated.

"I agree with Jasmine." Xey nodded.

"Alright, battle stations!" Viridian barked and the crew moved with a purpose. Jak and Du went to the turrets on the top and bottom of the ship, Viridian to the cockpit along with Kes, while Jasmine to the dorsal turret. Xey, Janus, and Ulra went to the center of the ship and strapped in.

"We'll be exiting hyperspace in ten seconds," Kes bellowed into the comms "9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4…" she never finished the countdown as the ship was violently ripped from Hyperspace! The crew shook in their seats, bouncing back and forth like bobbleheads while their harnesses held fast.

"What was that?!" Jak shouted into the com.

"One moment!" Viridian shouted back, "A gravity well pulled us out of hyperspace prematurely! We're very lucky we weren't destroyed from that!"

"My targeting sensors are down." Du reported through the comms.

"Same back here." Jasmine fired back.

"Osik, mines dead too!" Jak confirmed.

Viridian looked at Kes, "This isn't good.," they said in unison. Then Viridian saw the same 'asteroid' in the viewport.

The console pinged signifying that they were being hailed. Kes looked over at Viridian and went to answer it, "Hello?" she asked. The response was in a heavily accented Basic:

"The infidel shall be purified in the name of Yun'Yuuzhen."

Suddenly Viridian saw a burst of molten rock shoot out from the asteroid and he banked hard left, "Ulra is there a planet we can set down?" he roared desperately into the comms.

"There is a planet strong in the Force! Surely you can sense it?" she asked.

Viridian delved into the Force and sure enough he found it, "Yes... I sense it! I need you all to hold off any fighters that come our way! Also we may have to abandon ship when we get close to the world!" he told them, they all responded in the affirmative and Viridian took off at full speed towards the planet.

"Janus, you come up here and take over for me." Jak commanded, knowing it was nigh impossible to attempt shooting something without targeting sensors.

"I don't see how I could make any difference! We can't sense them remember?" Janus reminded him. Jak cursed under his breath he had almost forgot about that.

"I got one of them." Du cheered. Jasmine also confirmed that she got a kill as well. Pretty good considering they were only using their hand eye coordination to hit them.

The ship rocked as the plumes of molten rock hit the ship and pieces of the bulkhead melted off, "We'll be entering the atmosphere in thirty seconds!" Viridian reported, "Get to the escape pods!" he ordered as he set the autopilot, and shot out of his seat after Kes to the escape pod area: where everyone jumped into their personal pods, "I just hope we can get back to the known galaxy somehow!"

With that, the pods blasted from the ship and plummeted to the world below.

(location the Valley of Imladris, Elrond's home.)

Elrond, half elven lord of Rivendell, stood on his balcony overlooking the hidden valley but tonight he wasn't looking at the valley but instead in the sky: eight meteorites falling in crimson splendor: the largest went over the mountain and six of them were falling close to the settlement of bree. One of them fell in the wilderness near the valley itself and the final one fell near where the Shire was.

"Father did you see that?" Elrond turned to see his son appear on the balcony with him.

"I did indeed, Elladan. One of those falling stars fell near here. At first light I want you and your brother to take a look."

"Yes, father," Elladan said with a nod and turned to leave, "what of the other fallen stars, father?" he asked that just having occurred to him.

"I will send out riders for the group. The last one I'll leave to Gandalf: he is on his way to the Shire as we speak." Elrond assured him. Elladan nodded in acceptance and left to find his brother.

When the sun came up, Elrond sent Elladan and Elrohir to the fallen star nearest Rivendell, and sent Glorfindel, his most powerful warrior along with his apprentice, to the second crash site.

(location the wilds between Bree and Rivendell)

Xey groaned as she awoke, feeling the large lump on her head. She felt a great sense of nausea swelling up in her gut, and fought hard to maintain her composure. Moving through the smoke, she took a moment to get her bearings; checking to make sure she had her weapons, her lightsaber and a blaster. The Force was truly powerful here. She didn't even have to sense herself: she could actually feel a lightside nexus nearby. Through the Force, she saw four lifeforms coming her way: two animals and two sentiates. She panicked slightly, kicking out the door and climbed a nearby tree in hopes of hiding. The trample of a steed neared her and she did her best to hide herself.

"By the Valar, brother, this object was made by hands!" she heard a man's voice exclaim.

"But whose hands crafted such a vessel I wonder?" another man's voice asked, shocked in equal measures.

'Please don't see me.' she silently begged. She normally wouldn't have been terrified at this but in these circumstances without her friends with her and in her weakened state...

"My lady, are you okay?" the first man asked, breaking her out of her musings.

"What are you doing in the tree?" the other asked, concern written on his face.

"Please don't hurt me." she practically begged.

"We would never do such a thing, my lady! I am Elladan, son of Elrond, Lord of Rivendell."

"And I am Elrohir son of Elrond." the other introduced himself.

"I don't care who you are, I won't risk that happening again!" she shouted.

Elladan looked at his twin and spoke in the language of Quenya: "Do you think she was…" he trailed off.

"I dare not speculate on that. It is her business." Elrohir stated firmly.

"What language are you speaking!?" Xey shouted.

"My apologies, my lady," Elladan bowed his head politely, "please come with us to Rivendell the healers their can help you with whatever you need."

Xey looked uncertain, "How do I know I can trust you?" she asked, her voice almost breaking. The sons of Elrond genuinely felt pity for her. She seemed so terrified of them.

"My Lady, I don't know what to offer you in order for you to trust us as I believe you are not of this world and therefore know nothing of the Elves. I promise we bring you no harm." Elrohir told her.

"You're right I'm not of this world!" she shouted back, her mistrust heavy in her voice, "We were attacked and my crew took to the life pods!"

"My lady, I don't mean to scare you, but if we saw your 'life pods' fall than it is very possible others may have as well. Please come with us to Rivendell, and we will do everything we can to find your crew." Elladan jumped in, not particularly up to facing the creatures that may or may not come through there.

Xey whimpered slightly and reluctantly made her way down the tree seeing no other option, though she did pull out her blaster just in case, "Alright then, but if you do anything I won't hesitate to defend myself," she growled.

The brothers were confused how she could do anything with a blindfold but ultimately didn't question her, "You have nothing to fear of us my lady, but I understand," they said in unison.

"Can you follow us?" Elrohir asked uncertainly.

"I don't need my eyes to see." she snapped.

"Alright." Elladan replied, raising his hand in a disarming gesture, and led them back to the hidden Valley, 'I hope that whatever happened to you was resolved,' he thought to himself as the sons of Elrond led the uneasy girl to the hidden valley.

(Location five miles off of Bree)

Jak felt his body being shook as he started to awake. He became instantly alert and reached out and grabbed someone's neck, "Hey man calm down, it's just me." Du squirmed. Upon realising who he was holding, Jak let him go.

"Sorry." Jak muttered as he looked around, "Where are the others?"

Du rubbed his throat a bit, "They're over there... at least five of them are," he answered him while pointing to the right.

Jak nodded in acceptance and picked himself up, "Let's go get them and get out of here! It's likely that those aliens who shot us down will come down and finish the job."

"I was thinking the same thing." Du nodded and ran over to the pods to get them up. Jak shook his head to clear the tiredness and moved to one of the pods after making sure he had his weapons on him. He pried open the pod he came across and saw Ulra struggling with her harness. He smiled in amusement.

"Hello Riduur, it's good to see you!" he greeted cheekily. She smiled and finally managed to get the straps undone.

"Good to see you too," she chuckled as he helped her out of the pod. He looked over and saw that Du had gotten Janus out of his pod and they were getting the others.

"Can you tell who's here?" Jak asked her.

"Yeah: Kes, Jasmine, Janus, Du, you, and me." she listed off.

"So Viridian and Xey crashed somewhere else," Jak noted somewhat needlessly.

After everyone was gathered, Du told them something, "On the way down I saw a settlement some distance to the south, I say we head there and get a look at a map."

"Well, it sure beats sitting here waiting for our 'friends' in space coming down to kill us." Janus stated in agreement.

"I agree. Did you see a spaceport in the town?" Jak asked.

"No." Du said with a shake of his head.

"Okay, it's not the end of the world." Kes sighed optimistically, "perhaps there is a space port somewhere on this world."

"Or we landed on a world with no space travel what so ever." Janus deadpanned.

"That is a very real possibility." Jak agreed, "but at the moment we don't have a lot of options lets head to this town that Du saw and then we'll work from there."

With that the group of six began their trek through the wilds.

(Location the Barrow Downs of Cardolan)

Viridian let out a groan of frustration as he tried to undo the straps of his Pod before he took a deep breath, chanting silently: 'there is no emotion, there is peace' he thought to himself the first line of the Jedi montra. He then grabbed his lightsaber and activated it, the beautiful viridian blade illuminating the pod's interior. He then began adjusting a few controls: twisting the knob at the end of the hilt near the blade, and the blade began to shorten till it got to four inches. He then cut the straps and clambered out of the pod.

"Oh great, I landed in a graveyard." he sighed as he looked at his surroundings. He saw hills with stone entrances and pillars. He continued to look around and he saw the ruins of a city in the distance, "hmn, that could be a good starting place," he mused to himself and looked at the position of the sun, "it's early in the morning I should start now."

With that, he made his way to the ruins of the city with the hope of getting a general idea of where to go. He stopped and heard loud noises coming from the air, and looked up to see the same fighters that had shot them down. With that, he broke into a run only for the fighters to land in front of him and block his escape.

"Terrific," he groaned as the fighters surrounded him; opening to reveal scarred humanoids. They rose, moving with breakneck speed and surrounded Viridian all the while holding some snake like creatures. They also wore some kind of crustacean creature for what he assumed was armor. Viridian drew his lightsaber ready for a fight he knew that was to come. The aliens actually seemed to become more cautious upon seeing his weapon, "Given by your reaction you know what I am, and if you know what I am than you know precisely what I can be capable of," he stated, his eyes narrowing, "so I have one question, what are you?"

The alien snarled his answer in the same heavy accented Basic he heard on the ship, "Yuuzhan Vong, Je'daii!"

With that, they lunged at the Jedi with their weapons raised.

AN: I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter and if you have any concerns please review (Unless it has to do with the enemy I used in which case if you vehemently hate the Vong, then do one of two things, enjoy the story for they will be killed en mass, or F*** off!) please and thank you :D