Peace is like cake, They are Both Lies!
(A/N): So I have been snooping around on the Star Wars forums recently and I have found an interesting idea. An honour bound Sith. Now when I say Sith, I simply mean someone who follows the Sith Code of:
Peace is a lie, there is only passion
Through Passion, I gain strength
Through strength , I gain power
Through power, I gain victory
Through victory, my chains are broken
The Force shall free me
Not the mass murderers that the title Sith has been associated with. My interpretation is that as you progress through the code you will eventually become free and ironically at peace. I believe the case to be, "Peace is a lie, there is only passion" is a whistle blown at the Jedi Code of "there is no emotion, there is peace". So all I am really trying to pull off here is a believable and honourable Sith.
All in all, I am writing this as a challenge to the stereotypical view of Sith being heartless murderers. I ask you only give me some feedback.
Oh yeah the time frame is in the middle of the Clone Wars, before stage two.
- Prologue -
A long time ago, before time began there was the Cake
We know not where it came from, all we know is that it gave us a purpose, a mission
Some to destroy it,
Others to save it.
The rest of us?
Well, we just want a piece of cake.
But like others have come say later
Pieces of cake are lies, there are only passions
- Chapter one – A Sith not out to kill us? Yeah right! -
A hooded and cloaked young man stumbles forward on to the steps leading up to a huge building he looks up. Misery fills his thoughts. Blast. This is the Jedi temple. I am so dead. Well at least I might die by the hands of the Jedi. Thus he wills for his legs to support him, he orders his arms to draw his lightsaber and fight, but, against his orders, his knees betray him sending him to the ground. He wills to stay upright, yet even then the exhaustion in his body outweighs his will. Perhaps a merciful Jedi will slit my throat and I die here. Oh wait killing is my shtick. He almost laughs at the predicament. He gazes up as a brown robe person bends over him as the world fades to black.
His eyes slide open, his mind already calculating the time he was out with the help of the force. Well it looks like I have been out for a few days at least. Turning his head, he looks out the window to his right. So peaceful, almost like home... his thoughts wander into nostalgia. He snaps out of it hearing the door open and a girl his age walks in, wearing the traditional Jedi robes. "I see you have- whaaa!" the robes trailing behind her get caught in the door and she falls flat on her face. "Woken up" She finishes from her new vantage point.
"Indeed" he stands up and opens the door so that she could pull in her robes. "So, to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"
"The Jedi Council wants me to stay with you in case you are not a Jedi." So you can kill me, he adds mentally, "They mentioned that they could detect the Force in you they just could not tell which side." She informs "So I am to observe for what side you use."
His thoughts turn dark they should have checked my lightsaber then killed me when I was on the ground. "And just how do you intend on finding out?" he questions, with an inquiringly raised eyebrow.
"Well we are expecting an attack from the Sith anytime now so, if you fight for them we will soon know." She smiles, confident in her methods.
Blast that smile is infectious. He smiles as well. Well if the Sith show up it will be the last thing that Sith ever does. "Tread lightly, for arrogance is a path to the Dark Side... Then again every emotion is..." He jokes "My name is Elias Kaiin. Might I ask of yours?"
"Definitely a Jedi" she laughs cheerfully. "Raru Kymari, Jedi Apprentice."
An explosion rings out from the upper levels of the temple. "Well looks like we got company, but not the friendly, 'let's have tea!' kind."
Raru laughs again "Funny guy. Well we should go help. This way." the usual pair reach the source of the explosion. A Sith wielding two lightsabers fights a certain hot-headed Jedi and his apprentice. The Jedi and his apprentice are driven out of the room and into the main hall past Elias and Raru. Elias hefts up a huge metal plate. The Sith leaves the room following her targets. WHAM! The metal meets flesh as the Sith staggers back disorientated. The Jedi apprentice uses her purchased time to remove from her grip her two weapons. A second sith enters the room and kicks the unsuspecting Elias aside and knocks out the Apprentice who disarmed his ally.
Elias staggers to his feet shaking a bit How dare they kidnap her. His people's code of honour, he follows that code first and the Sith Code second, dictates 'one shall not harm a woman'. He sees kidnapping her to be in direct conflict with his code that he follows. Limping after them he makes it out to the roof where the other Sith are holding her. "Hand her over to me, you filthy excuse for Sith."
The Sith laughs "What happened to peace, Jedi?"
Now it is Elias' turn to laugh "Peace? Ha! Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength, through strength I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me!" The extremely young Sith Lord declares. "Once my chains are broken I am free! What I choose to do with my freedom is up to me. Now I choose to avenge the deaths of my people. The entire planet sacked and burned." He step forward drawing, igniting and slashing in one movement. This fluid precision throws off the Sith's sense of balance as he continues his assault. Pushing the Sith back and back with is crimson blade, he pauses, the tip of his saber right at the Adam's apple.
"Well done, boy! Now strike me down and take my place as a Sith." The Sith by the name of Tyranus orders.
Raru wakes up enough to see Elias with the Sith at saberpoint, "Don't listen to him."
Elias smirks "You underestimate me, Tyranus. Killing randomly on my planet is not strength. If an opponent is at your mercy, particularly one that has wronged you, the strongest thing to do is spare him. not kill him. I am one of my people first, a Sith second." He lowers his blade "You are hereby under arrest by the order of the Grand Army of the Republic." The young man turns to his friend laying on the ground, as the Clones cuff the terrorist and take him away. "So how you doing?" He kneels down only to find a lightsaber to his neck. "Ah I see, that is just how it is then." He rest his other knee on the ground and hangs his head, waiting for her judgement.
More Jedi Masters walk up the stairs behind her, seeing the Sith on his knees lightsaber in front of him, his hand resting curled on his thighs. Her blade pointing at his head with his face cast to the ground. "Apprentice what are you doing? He carries a lightsaber!"
"Ya one of the wrong colour." She replies. "He is a Sith, he said so himself." Raru replies contemplating. "Tell me this why did you not turn and fight the Jedi?"
"I owe the Jedi this, you saved my life when I was near death at their doorstep." Elias confesses "Your Order, however shallow, offered me condolence on the loss of my people and my planet. I acted only to repay that debt." He laugh sounds broken when it sings forth from his lungs "And look what helping the Jedi got me. An all expenses paid execution!" His smile appears again, saddened and downcast. He raises his head to look straight forward "Make up your mind. Is my saving your life and protecting your Order enough to negate the unforgivable sin of being a Sith?"
"Killing you for what you believe in and nothing more... is that right? How can that be right? You sound like you would not have killed anyone, anywhere. Unless it was in self-defense" raru guesses.
"You are correct, but is that enough to forgive me of being a Sith?" Elias questions sadly.
"That is not my decision to make. You are hereby detained for questioning here in the Jedi Temple" Raru declares.
Temple guards walk up and take Elias by the arms to their holding cells. He feels weightless before being thrown into the room. "Well, thanks for the warning, chief!" ugh just great and here I was hoping to die yet still living... he lays himself down on to his back and drifts off to sleep. His dreams evade him leaving him with darkness.
He opens his eyes slowly the next day to see the door to his holding cell opening and Temple Guards standing outside. In walks Raru "Elias the council will see you now." Sorrow written on her face. Elias stands and silently follows her out of the room. The formal procession reaches the elevator just before the council. Elias, two of the guards, and Raru walk into it.
Not a word was said by any of the occupants of that elevator. The entire group all understood the gravity of the situation. One was a man heading to his execution, one the young woman sending him there, the guards are witnesses only to the silence of the other two speech is not required of them.
The four walk into council room. Elias strides forward, arrayed in the glory of a Sith Lord with the presence and pride to boot, forward to the center of the room. Raru stands back by the door. The two Guards joining the other two already in the middle of the room should he attempt anything like escape.
Elias lowers himself to his knees allowing the Jedi council take the lightsaber placed on his hip for inspection. "Familiar with me you are not I sense Sith?"
"Indeed sir I am not" He informs.
"Grandmaster of Jedi, Yoda I am." He pauses to looks at the style of the lightsaber. The handle is extended beyond the length of standard hilts. In fact it looks as if you could fit three human hands around it comfortably "Your lightsaber, indeed, this is hmm?" the green midget in the middle of the assembled Jedi questions.
"Yes Master Yoda it is my lightsaber" Elias confirms, staring dead ahead.
"Confess do you to being a Sith and an enemy, therefore, of the Jedi?" Yoda questions again searching in the depths of the emotionless eyes of the Sith, a rare sight indeed.
"I do confess to adhering to the ancient Sith Code. Though as to my being an enemy of the Jedi... let my actions speak for me..." He confesses taking a deep breath and releasing the held air.
"You actions speak of pride, of arrogance, of revenge yet that lack the negative emotions of the Sith how is that?" one of the other Jedi Masters speak up.
" 'Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength I gain power through power I gain victory through victory my chains are broken the force shall free me', I am free from the chains of anger, hate and rage. I need them not, so why use them needlessly?" Elias responds.
"Fair enough." the one who questioned him last accepts the response.
"The council has come to a decision on this matter" the Sith Lord believes the Jedi who said this to be Mace Windu.
To be continued!
(A/n): Cliffhanger much? Well tune in later, I might have another chapter for ya some time next week probably!