"Yeah! He was all like zoom! Werrrm! Chaaa!" a young boy was describing his adventure in the desert to a young girl. She was staring at him with wide eyes,

"And Master Qui-Gon defeated him?" she asked.

"Almost! The ship picked us up and we left him in the dust!" the boy answered.

"What'd he look like?" the girl asked.

"I don't know. Qui-Gon ordered me to duck and I ran to the ship. But he had a red lightsaber and was wearing a black hood!" the boy explained to her. She clapped her hands,

"That sounds so exciting! Have you heard anything else?"

"Nah. Qui-Gon has been too focused on getting the Queen back here." The boy answered. He craned his head as he heard Qui-Gon calling his name,

"Hey I gotta go! What's your name? Maybe I can come back and tell you more stories!"

The girl smiled,

"I'm Arcas. What's yours?"

"Anakin. Bye!" the boy said and he turned and ran.

Years Later

Arcas watched as her childhood friend Anakin Skywalker strolled the Temple. She glided up to him,

"Hello my friend! How's life for you these days?"

"Arcas! Hello! No, never a boring day with a Padawan like mine!" Anakin laughed, "How goes it for you?"

"Not too bad. I am finally a Jedi Knight!" Arcas smiled. Anakin smiled happily for her,

"Oh ya when'd that happen?"

"A few years ago, but it seems whenever I was here you weren't and vice versa!"

Arcas was about to say something else but then Master Obi Wan hurried up to Anakin.

"Anakin. Where is Master Yoda?" Obi Wan asked.

"Uh… I think in his meditation room. Why Master?" Anakin said, confused.

"Remember that Sith who killed Qui Gon? The one who tried to kill you on Tatooine?" Obi Wan asked. Anakin nodded.

"Well somehow he has survived and now he's back." Obi Wan finished.

Anakin looked stunned,

"How?!"

"I don't know, but Master Yoda will know what to do." Obi Wan looked ahead and attempted to hurry off to find Yoda. Arcas stepped out of his way, she turned to Anakin,

"Is he talking about the same man you told me about all those years ago?"

"The very same."

Arcas crept up to the Council room and listened in…

"Letting this get personal, you are Master Kenobi." She heard Yoda say. Obi Wan hummed and hawed a bit, trying to get the Council to set up a search party to bring in the ruthless Sith assassin. Arcas heard the movement of feet and hid behind a pillar. She came out of hiding when she saw Obi Wan walk out.

"Anakin told me about that man when he first came to the Temple. He sounded very dangerous. What was he like in reality?" she asked.

"Even worse than before. He had that monster that killed the Toydarian king with him. They are a force to be reckoned." Obi Wan murmured. Arcas looked down and bowed to the master.

She then left and hurried to the archives, maybe she could find an image of this Sith. She was very curious about who he was. It had been a rumor throughout her entire childhood that Obi Wan had sliced the Sith in half as an apprentice. It was said that his appearance was like looking into a demon itself and that his behavior was just as bad. But none of the younglings had ever seen a glimpse of what the monster looked like. She slide her hand over the door and it opened. Arcas walked in and up to the librarian,

"Hi. Do you have anything on that Sith that murdered Master Qui Gon?"

"Why would you be interested in that?" the librarian asked.

"I've been assigned a scouting mission and I thought maybe I'd do a little research before heading off to find him. Maybe any history on him might help me find him and report his actions." Arcas lied. The librarian seemed satisfied with that and sent her off in a direction. Arcas bowed and thanked the librarian for her help. She hurried to the section the librarian had suggested and found a small Holocron on him. She found an image of his face and gasped. He was something to look at. She was amazed at his tattoos. She noticed something about him though. She looked closer and saw he had protruding horns. She ran her fingers over her face and felt hers. He was the male opposite of her!

"He's a Zabrak…" she whispered to herself. There had never been many of them in the Jedi Temple because of the anger they had, but when the Jedi were desperate they acquired Zabrak force sensitive children. Zabraks were known for their ruggedness and hardiness in battle, but they had a lot of darkness due to Sith visitation long ago on their home planet, Iridonia. The Jedi saw darkness in every Zabrak that was seen throughout the galaxy. Arcas herself had been lucky to train as a Jedi…

She shook herself out of her thoughts and returned to her "scouting" research. She saw he had not been very well known until recently. His log of criminal activities was astoundingly long. She saw the name Opress in there very often, 'That must be the murderer of the Toydarian king'. She kept scrolling through until she saw a list of his recent sightings. His most recent one had been at the home base of the Black Sun organization. She closed the Holocron and hurried out of the library. The Zabrak Sith had intrigued her, he had evoked something in her that seemed to have been dormant. She desperately wanted to see who he was in person. Arcas hurried to her chambers and paced back and forth thinking.

"How can I spy on him? How can I spy on him?" she kept repeating herself. She decided her only choice was to travel to the Black Sun base herself. Arcas packed up a few of her belongings in a bag and hurried to the lower levels of the Temple.

She was about to enter the hangar when her friend, Kellina ran up to her.

"Arcas! Where are you off to?" Kellina asked.

"I've been assigned a scouting mission." Arcas said, using the same lie.

"Ooh! Who are you scouting out?!" Kellina asked excitedly.

"I don't know. I didn't get a name. Just his location. They said I'll know who he is by the vibe he gives off." Arcas said, "I'm sorry Kell, but I've really gotta go!"

She hurried off and jumped in a ship. She set her coordinates to the base.