It was cold in the port dorm where the Jedi Exile known as Aria Jace was sitting on her bed. They had been heading back into Republic space since they left Malachor. She had been tense ever since they left, she had been through a lot during their journey over the course of the year. They had saved lives on many different planets but that didn't seem to help Aria get her mind off of the one life she couldn't save. She had been hurt many times in her life but the thing that had hurt her the most over their journey was Kreia's betrayal to her. Kreia was someone that Aria looked up to, even though she didn't approve of all her methods and idea's she still looked to Kreia for guidance and now she was gone.
She was interrupted from her thoughts by Mira who was coming in the room looking somewhat stressed out as she sat down next to her.
"You okay?" she asked.
"If only she knew what i was thinking" Aria thought
"Yeah I'm as good as I'm going to get for now" she answered.
Mira looked at Aria and could tell she was stressed out more than anyone else that was on the ship. She could feel her master through the force and knew she was thinking about what had happened a few days ago at Malachor. They had all been hit hard about Kreia's betrayal but she knew that Aria had been hit the hardest. Mira hadn't liked the old woman anyways but she had to respect her around Aria because that was the person who she looked up to. Now Mira was worried about Aria because she had kept herself locked up in this room for days just sitting here and thinking about force knows what.
Aria looked at her and forced a smile. "Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah i mean I'm fine but....well you know what we just went through. Everything feels different now" Mira said.
"Yeah i know" she replied back.
Mira looked at Aria strangely. "I was talking about you!"
Now it was Aria's turn to look at Mira funny. "What do you mean?".
"How could she ask me that sort of question"
Aria looked at Mira. These past seven months had been a great experience for her in terms of training three apprentices. Now they were Jedi Knights and she....well she really didn't know what to call herself. She knew Mira was right about how she had been acting these past few days. She really didn't know what to do now that Kreia was gone.
"I'm sorry Mira i know i haven't been acting like my usual self lately its just that i wasn't expecting Kreia to turn on us. Your right I don't know what to do and that's why were heading back into Republic space. I heard someone call me through the force and i think i know who it was and in order to find who it was we have to go back into republic space" Aria explained.
"So who was it that called you through the force?" Mira asked.
Aria looked up at Mira and shrugged her shoulders. She only knew that someone had called her through the force. Whoever it was they were a Jedi.
Just as Mira was about to say something else Atton walked into the room.
"We just received a message from Admiral Onasi, he has given us orders to come to his fleet which happens to be less then a parsec away from us. He says its urgent" He told them as he waited for Aria's response.
"I wonder what he wants from me now. first he told me I should find Revan and now he wants me to come and meet him. Not only that but he has given me orders to meet him at his fleet" Aria thought.
"Lets go see what he wants and hope that its good; whatever it is"
Atton left the room and headed back to the cockpit as did Mira and Aria.
On her way there she was stopped by Visas who looked troubled; which there really wasn't any reason she should be. Visas had basically befriended her and also looked to her as her master. She knew that out of everybody on the ship Visas was the most loyal along with Mira. The two of them would protect her with their lives even if it meant death. Aria was truly glad to have them at her side.
"Are you okay?" Aria asked her looking at her in the eyes.
Visas noticed that asking people if they were okay seemed to be the popular thing to ask these past few days to each other.
"I'm okay but i just felt a disturbance in the force. I think that a very powerful force user has done something very tragic somewhere in the unknown regions" she said slowly as her voice was barely a whisper.
Aria didn't know how to responded to that at all. she had felt the disturbance also but hadn't been thinking about it too much because she had so much on her mind.
"Maybe when we see the Admiral in a few hours we can get some answers from somebody" she said.
Aria proceeded to the cockpit and sat down next to Atton. She had developed strong feelings for him over the course of their journey. Although she also had feelings for another man but she hadn't seen him since the end of the Mandalorian Wars. she had been keeping her feelings for both men a complete secret. The only two people who knew how she felt was Mira and Visas. She cleared her mind of any thoughts she had and fell asleep.
Aria woke up with a massive head ache and to top it off she was inside of a republic living quarters. She guessed that she was on a ship. she had no idea how she got there except for vivid images of her walking past republic soldiers. she got up and put her robes on and walked out the room and into the hallway to find Jedi walking up and down the hall. She was somewhat in awe as there was allot of them. Though she assumed her shock was only because she had been fighting Sith for the past seven months.
She walked down the hallway until she heard someone calling her name from behind her. She turned around to see Mira and T3 running up to her.
"We've been looking all over for you. The Admiral wants to see you on the bridge, he said that its important" Mira said.
Aria nodded. "Where are the others?" she asked.
"They are on Telos with Atris and the rest of the Jedi" Mira responded.
Aria felt better knowing where everyone was now, but the thought of Atris put a unwashable taste in her mouth. She spared Atris' life because she didn't feel that she deserved death.
Now Atris was once again a Jedi, how interesting.
Aria nodded to Mira and walked to the bridge passing more Jedi on her way there. She couldn't help but over hear someone say something about a General Valsick and that he was on the ship. She had remembered that name because it was someone that she had known during the wars.
She entered the bridge and saw Carth but she also saw another face she wasn't expecting to see again.
Damn I had no idea that she was still alive. I thought that she didn't survive the Jedi Civil War Aria thought.
"Hello Aria good to see you again" Bastila said walking up to her.
"So you must be the reason I'm here huh?" she asked.
"Actually I'm not, your here because someone else called you through force four days ago" Bastila replied looking Aria.
"I wonder how in the force she knows this. She even knows how long ago it was" Aria thought
"So who is the one that called me through the force?" Aria said curiously.
"I'm sorry but I can't tell you because I've been told not to speak to much on that subject until we land on Telos. But I can assure you that you will find that out soon, for now i need to ask you a few questions" Bastila explained.
"Oh lord here we go with the questions. It never fails with Jedi, they always have to ask the questions"
"So what would you like to find out?" she asked.
Bastila stopped eyeing Aria up and down and concentrated on her question. She had rehearsed these questions before but now that Aria was here in person she didn't know how to ask them.
Aria stood there waiting for Bastila to ask her whatever it was she wanted to know. Bastila looked somewhat at a lose for words; she must've not been expecting to see Aria again after all these years.
Bastila finally gathered herself and opened her mouth. "What did you detect from the disturbance that you felt in the force a few days ago?" she asked.
Aria began to think as she had detected many things from the disturbance. "I'm not sure but I believe that whatever it was, its very powerful because one of my companions felt it also. She said that it was coming from the unknown regions" she replied hoping that her response was good enough.
Bastila nodded her head at this. "We have reason to believe that it came from Malachor. But we also have reason to believe that it could have came from somewhere else within unknown regions" Bastila stated.
Aria's face began to show confusion. "Malachor was destroyed a week ago by what was left of the Mass Shadow Generator. The only thing that could have been felt from there was its destruction" Aria said.
"Trust me Aria our source isn't wrong about what they felt. All the Jedi have felt it which is the reason why we have all gathered. But only one of us could feel who the source was that created the disturbance" Bastila said.
"So who is the one that created the disturbance?" Aria asked.
"We won't know that until we meet with Atris. Our source is on Telos at her academy" Bastila said.
"Please tell me that Atris is not your source" Aria said hoping that Bastila would tell her that she wasn't.
"No Atris is not our source. there is another who is very strong in the force" Bastila said.
"Well I won't ask you anymore questions being that I know there is more that you wish to know" Aria said.
Bastila shook her head. "I don't have anything else I want to ask you. I just wanted to know about the disturbance that you felt and see if you felt anything different from what we had felt" she said.
Now Aria was feeling kind of funny on the inside. She had felt the disturbance and she knew that Visas had felt it also; she knew that it came from the unknown regions but as for anything else she didn't know. The only thing she could do now was just wait until they landed on Telos.
Carth stood near them looking at the Exile as he called her over to him. She had a look of confusion written all over her face; he guessed that it came from the talk with Bastila. They had told him that when he found her not to tell her too much too soon because she may not want to join what the they were doing.
Aria walked up to Carth with a whole bunch of questions in her head and she wanted to ask them all but had a feeling that she wasn't going to get them all answered.
Carth looked at her and just waited for her to ask the big question that he knew was coming.
"Why am I here?" she asked.
Carth was about to answer the when he heard the bridge doors opening
He looked at Bastila who looked at the bridge doors opening as well.
Carth Looked at the figure coming through the doorway and thought for a moment that it was Revan. But then he realized that the man he was looking at was not Revan at all.
Bastila walked over to the young Jedi as Aria watched them talk amongst themselves. She couldn't believe what she was seeing, this man that was talking to Bastila looked just like Revan but she knew it wasn't him because Revan stood an inch or two taller then he did. She began to come to her senses and remembered a man from the wars who looked like Revan and she had always gotten confused with them at times. She studied the man as Bastila brought him over to Carth and Aria.
Aria was now in complete shock and dismay but tried as hard as she could not to show it. The person who was standing in front of her was the man she had fallen in love with during the wars.
"Great now I'm really gonna have some explaining to do" she thought.
"Aria this is Jaden Valsick. He is the one who called you through the force. You weren't suppose to be told until we got to the academy but he chose to tell you now " Bastila explained.
Aria took a deep breath. "Well thank you and its good to see you again Jaden" she said trying to keep from looking so hard as all the feelings that she had for him were starting to comeback.
"Its good to see you again as well. But we have to go to the academy; I have a shuttle waiting for us in the hanger" Jaden said as they left the bridge.
The three of them nodded and walked with Jaden to the hanger to board the shuttle.
Later on Aria found herself sitting down in one of the rooms inside the hidden academy on Telos. She had went to sleep when they first arrived at the academy but she had woken up due to her on going thoughts of Jaden.
She couldn't believe that he was here with the others. The strange thing about him was that he looked like Revan, talked like Revan, in fact she couldn't find anything about him that didn't remind her about the former Dark Lord. She had a feeling that there was more going on around her then she was being told about which made her even more alert about the on going situation.
She cleared her mind about anymore questions she had and put on her robes and walked out of the room and found Atris' Handmaiden's training in the center of the room.
They kept on training until they noticed her watching.
"Her Mistress said she would like to see as soon as possible" said Brianna.
Aria nodded to the white haired woman and walked to Atris' chambers. She walked up to the chamber doors and they opened to show Atris, Bastila, Carth, her crew, and another group of people that she didn't know.
"Well now that you are here we can start the meeting" Atris said looking at Jaden who looked like he had alot on his mind.
Jaden looked around at the group and sighed. It had been a long day and the last thing he wanted to do was tell bad news to people but it had to be done.
"Most of you have felt a disturbance that happened somewhere within the unknown regions. You were all called here because Atris has felt that we should rebuild the order due to this unknown threat that has been felt" Jaden explained.
Aria rolled her eyes at the sight of hearing that Atris wanted the order rebuilt. Of all the things that she could want Aria figured that the redeemed master had some type of hidden agenda.
"As most of you know, Aria Jace went to Malachor and destroyed the last Sith Lord. But from what I felt from this disturbance I believe that there is another Sith Lord out there somewhere deep in the unknown regions and I don't think he is alone. When I felt the disturbance I felt the destruction of Malachor and I also felt that something survived it" Jaden said.
Just as the words left Jaden's mouth several Jedi began to argue with what he said.
Aria looked around the room as the young Jedi argued at what Jaden had said. She too had felt that something had survived Malachor but she didn't think that she was correct about her feelings. But she couldn't stand there and not voice her opinion about what was going on so she spoke up.
She called for everyone to be quiet. she had to wait a few minutes but eventually the room was quiet.
"As Jaden said he felt that something survived Malachor, I also felt that something survived Malachor. I don't know what survived it but I do know that what ever it was its going to come after the Jedi" she said.
Visas and Mira and the others also explained that they had felt the same thing as Aria.
Everyone in the room was silent.
"So what do you suppose we do then" said one of the Jedi standing next to Bastila.
Aria noticed that the Jedi was female Cather. From what she knew there was only one Cather Jedi in the order that she knew of. That was Juhani; Aria knew she had traveled with Reavn during his search for the star maps but hadn't known she survived. Hell she didn't know that anyone had survived the attacks upon the order.
Jaden looked around and once again sighed. "Someone has to find Revan. He is our only hope to stopping whatever is coming to destroy us" he said.
"Revan has been gone for almost six years we have to assume that whatever he set out to do took his life" Atris said.
"How could you say something like that. I would have felt Revan's death if he did die out there!" Bastila exclaimed.
Even though it had been almost six years since she had last seen him, Bastila was still madly in love with Revan. Their bond had never broken when he left, in fact she felt the bond get stronger. But the only problem was that she couldn't always feel him. She had tried to speak to him more than once through their bond but she felt nothing but emptiness. She had feared that maybe he had shut her out when he left but she didn't really know. But if anyone was to go look for him she knew in her heart that she had to go with them.
Atris glared at the young knight.
"We already know how you feel about Revan, Bastila don't let your personal feelings get in the way. If Revan was truly alive then you of all people would have felt it" she said her tone even.
Some of the other Jedi in the room began to agree with Jaden that they would have to go search for the former Dark Lord. They knew that finding Revan was something that had to be done. there were only one hundred of them left but they knew that Revan knew what they were up against so he had to be found.
"Then it is final, we will send out a search team to go and find Revan. Hopefully we will be able to find him. We will choose who we will send in the morning as for now i believe we could all use some rest" Atris said dismissing them.
As they all walked out of the chambers Jaden stopped Aria and took her outside on the top of the academy. He knew that she had questions and wanted them answered.
Jaden had been one of the first to join Revan during the Mandalorian Wars. He had been the best General next to Aria who had been attached to him through the war. They had fallen for each other during the war and professed their love for each other. But something happened that Jaden wasn't expecting. Revan had asked him to leave which Jaden did as soon as Revan had asked. He remembered that he didn't tell Aria or anybody else, he had taken only his T3 unit and went to Coruscant. Of course when he stood before the council he was expelled from the order but when Revan left Jaden knew that it would only be a matter of time before they come and found him. But when the Jedi did find him it was too late, the order was nearly destroyed. The Jedi that were left went into hiding, but there were some who remained active. Those who did ended up being killed a week ago.
He snapped back to the present and watched as Aria was enjoying the view.
He looked at her just taking in every moment of her being in his company.
Aria had noticed that Jaden had been looking at her since they stepped out here. She knew that he wanted to talk her about their past but she didn't know if she was ready to step into a relationship again now that the Jedi Order as being rebuilt. Too much had happned between them during the wars, and when Jaden had left, her heart had been broken; and to top things off she had lost her connection to the force although now she had gotten it back and had become more stronger then she had been in the past.
If there was anything that she wanted most, it was for her and Jaden to be together but she also had feelings for Atton which were strong as well. She didn't know what to do about either of them, she sknew that she would be forced with a decision soon. She would have to choose between a relationship with either man and leave the order forever or let her feelings go and stay with the order. Aria knew that she wanted nothing more to do with the Jedi but she didn't want to leave the order, she just wanted to be happy but with things the way that they were now she didn't know if that ever was going to happen.
She took her mind off her current thoughts and turned to Jaden. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"
Jaden looked at her and began to respond. "I just wanted to tell you that I'm still in love with you and that I've never stopped loving you. There's allot of things that you don't know about and I think its time for me to share them with you" he said.
"Well first off, tell me why you left before the last battle" she responded looking him in the eyes.
"I left because Revan had told me to. He told me that there were things that I had to do and that if I had stayed with him I would be drawn into another conflict" he explained.
"What things did you have to do?" she asked curiously.
Jaden feared that he would have to answer this question but he knew that he had to, if only to be honest with Aria and himself.
"I had secretly trained a group of Jedi the ways of the Sith, I taught them to embrace the dark side and they became my apprentices. As time went on more Jedi found out about us and joined; we were still loyal to Revan but he had given me command of these Jedi now turned Sith. Revan made all of us leave because he wanted us to assassinate the members of the Jedi Council. When it was time for us to attack my apprentice Darth Veon betrayed me along with the rest of them" He explained his head turned away from her.
Aria stood there amazed, she hadn't known the reason why he left all she knew was that he was told to leave so he could explain what had gone on to the council. Now after hearing that she realized that she had been lied to.
"What happened after he betrayed you?" she asked.
Jaden sighed as he began to finish the story. "We fought and I fled into the unknown regions. I found Revan and told him what happened. I joined him and Malak on the journey through unknown space until we had been brought news that you had been exiled. I went out to search for you but i could only find traces of were you had been. I knew that you had traveled alone and then realized that you didn't want to be found so I went back with Revan, thats when the Jedi Civil War began" he told her now standing directly in front of her.
Aria knew that he was telling her the truth but she knew that he was keeping something from her. She never knew that he came looking for her after she was exiled. She thought that the records of her trial were kept secret to everyone but the council. Even though she had heard about what happened in the wars from Kreia she was curious about what happened to Jaden's apprentice.
"So did you ever kill him, your apprentice that is?"
Jaden shook his head in dismay. "He along with the rest of them had left known space during the war with the Jedi. I had heard that he had came back to known space after Revan had been captured by the Jedi, but after that I never heard anything about him again until just recently. He had been spotted on Onderon by my sister who also saw you there" He explained.
Aria was now curious being that she never knew that he had a sister. As a matter a fact she didn't know anything about who his family was.
"Why didn't you ever tell you have a sister?" she asked.
"Because there were so many things going on at the time that I just never mentioned her. But there is another thing that I meant to tell you, I also have an older brother" he said.
"Who?"
"Revan" he said.
Damn I wasn't expecting that. "That would explain why they look so much alike" she thought.
"He is a year older then me and my sister Kira is my twin. We were put in the order at infancy and no one except for the council knew about us being related " He said.
Aria was surprised at this bit of information. She always had a feeling that Revan and Jaden were related but she never would have guessed that they were brothers. that must have been the reason why Revan always chose to take Jaden with him whenever they went somewhere.
"So I guess that everyone else knows about you and your apprentice and you and Revan? she asked.
Jaden nodded.
"Is he what you felt created the disturbance?" Aria said.
"Yeah but I also think that whatever Sith you killed created one as well which became merged to gather. That's why the disturbance was felt so strongly by all the Jedi" he said.
"And you believe that finding Revan will help this?" she said.
"I have no choice but to search for him. I was the last person to see him before he left. He told me that if he hadn't returned within five years to come and look for him, and its been almost six years so i must find him" he said.
Aria knew that they had to find Revan but she didn't know where they would even begin to look for him.
She looked up at Jaden to see him looking straight at her. He had put his arms around her waist so that they were only a breath apart from each other.
"I thought you had left because of what we had talked about the night before. I guess I was wrong about allot things" she said.
Jaden knew she was just beating herself up about the past which he knew would happen. he started to say something when he got a cold chill that began to go down his neck. he took his hands from around Aria's waist and backed up. He activated his lightsaber and turned around swinging high.
Aria looked away at what she saw.
There laying in the snow was a beheaded body and the head of a woman laying next to it. Jaden went to examine the body and found a lightsaber attached to a belt on the body. whoever she was she had dark robes on, they were the type that only Sith wore. Jaden took the woman's left arm and pulled her sleeve and saw a tatoo of a red eye.
Jaden backed up from the body.
"Their hear" he whispered to her.
Aria looked at him and then to the body. she thought that she recognized the face as one she had seen during the war, she began to shake off the feeling as Jaden came over to her.
"We need to go and warn the others?" he said.
As soon as the words left his mouth a silver lightsaber blade was at his neck. He turned his head slightly to see a hooded figure behind him. He called to Aria who said she was in the same situation. At that moment a multitude of Hooded figures in black robes appeared around them.
Jaden didn't know what to do as he was seeing all of these Sith around him. He waited for the hooded figure behind him with the lightsaber at his neck to speak.
"It didn't take much to find you Jaden" said the voice.
Jaden noticed that the voice was female and a smile came to his face as he realized who it was.
"My master has been searching the galaxy looking for you. He will be happy to know that I have found you, although I must say I'm disappointed that I have to leave you in one piece" said the woman still holding the blade at Jaden's neck.
"What do you want Jadis?" Jaden replied with a smirk.
"My master had wanted to offer you to join him, he said that to have his old master at his side would only make it easier to destroy the Jedi. He said you would be a great asset to us" Jadis said.
"That's never going to happen, you can tell my old apprentice that i have rejected his offer" he replied back.
"Then i guess you are no longer needed" she said.
once the words left her mouth Jaden back kicked her in the knee. He punched her in the face and sent a massive wave of force energy at her. She went sailing and landed on her back in the snow.
Aria had managed to get free and now her and Jaden had their sabers up and ready. There must have been at least thirty Dark Jedi surrounding them. He then noticed how they all disappeared, he looked around to see no one but him and Aria out there. He then heard the sound of an engine and looked up to see a shuttle leave the planet.
"I'm guessing that is the Sith that you trained?" she asked him trying to catch her breath.
"Yes that's them but trust there is allot more of them" he replied.
"What are they, i know their Sith but what kind of Sith are they?" she asked.
"Their Sith trained to do one thing only; kill Jedi using every skill they have" Jaden said sighing deeply.
"What are we gonna do?" she said.
"Were going to go after them" Bastila said walking up to them.
Bastila, Mission, Visas and Mira came up to them.
"How did you know they were here?" Jaden asked surprised.
"Their ship landed outside of the academy so I had Mission put a tracking device on their hull" Mira said.
"We are getting a crew organized as we speak. I think they may lead us to Revan, and we just may find out what caused this disturbance" Visas said as they went back inside.
Jaden was still in somewhat shock at seeing Darth Jadis again. It had been years since their betrayal and he was surprised to see that his former apprentice would offer him a place at his side. Jaden had felt his anger when Jadis had told him the offer. He walked inside his room and sat on the bed as thought about what he was gonna do about all of this.
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Somewhere in the unknown regions a large fleet of Sith Interdictor ships sat in space. On the bridge of the Avenger stood Darth Veon, he had positioned his fleet right outside of the Rakata system. He had been told by a mysterious Sith Lord to stay there until she arrived. This Sith Lord, whoever she was apparently wanted some type of revenge upon a certain Jedi. He wasn't sure of her name all he knew that she went by Traya or at least that's what he thought it was. He was brought out of his thoughts by the arrival of his apprentice.
"Well?" he said.
"Just as you suspected my master, he rejected the offer. He seemed somewhat shocked that I had found him, though he eliminated one of my dark Jedi quickly" Jadis said.
"Jaden has always been powerful, he will soon realize his mistake of leaving me alive" Veon said to her.
"What is your plan master?" Jadis asked coming to stand beside him as they looked out the window a space.
"Were going to kill the Exile. With her death he will have nothing left, when that happens he will join us. If it wasn't for our new leader I would kill him myself" He replied.
"Why does she want him alive?" she asked.
"I wish I knew but my mind cannot comprehend the reason. I must obey her, she holds secrets that I need and once I have them we will do away with her also" Veon said smiling.
Jadis looked at her master and forced a smile. She hated seeing her master be used for someone else's personal gain and she knew that this Traya woman only wanted to get to the Jedi.
She promised her master power but she knew deep down that he was just a pawn in a larger game than he realized. His lust for power and obsession with killing Jaden Valsick had completely clouded his mind. If she couldn't find a way to open his eyes soon then she knew that she would have to do something.
"When is this woman suppose to be arriving?" she asked.
"She should be here soon, if what she says is true then we can find Revan and once we kill him the Jedi will not be able to stop us. The Republic will be brought to its knees and we will rule the galaxy" he said with a stern look.
"Master this woman has something planned and I fear that it doesn't include us. I think we should keep a close eye on her, she has offered you too much too soon and that's not a good thing in my eyes" Jadis warned him.
The dark lords facial expression changed from serious to soft and he looked at her. He knew that Jadis cared about his well being but she didn't see the big picture. Traya had offered him the prize he had been wanting for years and now he would get it. All he wanted was to have Revan and Jaden dead, with them dead he knew that swaying the rest of the Jedi over to him would be easy. He could feel that his apprentice wanted to kill this woman but he wouldn't allow it, he knew that she would give her life for him but he also knew that she wanted the title of Dark Lady. He knew it wouldn't be long before she tried to overthrow him just as he did Jaden. Although Veon knew that he wasn't stronger then Jaden at the time which was why he led the others against him. Jaden had started Dark Hand by himself, He was Jadens first apprentice.
As the war went on over two hundred Jedi had been turned Sith by them. When Veon saw that he had learned all he could from his master he betrayed him. But it didn't go as he had planned, Jaden had killed all who had rose up against him except him. Veon had wondered for years why Jaden left him alive; it never made sense to him up until recently. He had let him live because the members of Dark Hand looked to him as their leader, and if he was still alive then he knew that one day he would destroy them. Veon smiled at the thought of that, Jaden was just one man and he alone couldn't defeat him. Not only did he have two hundred dark Jedi but he also had a large portion of the Sith fleet. In his eyes nothing could stop them, plus he also had some friends out here in the unknown regions who had pledged their warriors to him as long as he helped them destroy the Jedi so they could take over the Republic. And that's where this Traya woman came in. If he could get her to reveal Revans location and give him the power that she had promised him then he would be victorious all around.
He snapped back to the present and came up with a plan.
"Jadis I need you to take a small fleet with you to Korriban and restore the academy. Keep what were doing there a secret from the locals, we don't need anybody alerting the Republic. Go to the Tomb of Naga Sadow and find the star map inside. After you find the map go to all the other planets the maps shows" he said looking at her.
"As you wish master" Jadis replied bowing before leaving.
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It was morning on Telos when the Ebon Hawk was being loaded up. Atris had chosen both crews of the Hawk along with her apprentice Brianna to go along with them. They would be going into the unknown regions being that is where the tracking siganl said the ship had gone.
Mira, Atton, Visas and Bao-Dur were standing outside the ship waiting while everyone was getting ready.
Mira was not really in the mood to be leaving again, being that they just got back from a year of traveling around the galaxy. She had been restless while bein on the Hawk the first time and now with all the new people coming on the ship now she was sure that she wouldn't get any rest at all. She was sitting on a plasteel container crafting a new rocket launcher, she had a feeling that she was gonna need one. She also now had a jetpack on her back which she had been building since Aria had found her on the smugglers moon. She only wore her Jedi robes when she felt the need for comfort which wasn't very often bein that she hardly ever got a chance to be comfortable. She turned to look at the others who were doing nothing except standing around.
"Well I guess were going on another galaxy saving adventure again" Atton said trying to lightin the mood being that everyone had grim looks on their faces.
"Yeah how wonderful, as long as no planets get destroyed and we go somewhere that doesn't give me the creeps were good" Mira said putting a hand on Attons shoulder.
Atton looked at her with a funny look. "Come on your a bounty hunter slash Jedi you shouldn't be scared to step on a world that's filled with monsters and looks like death" Atton said jokingly.
"You would be surprised at what scares me and what gives me the creeps. Malachor did it for me, If we hadn't been thrown from the ship in the crash then I would have stayed on the Hawk and waited for our fearless leader to comeback. Although it didn't happen that way; then again nothing ever goes the way we want it to these days now does it" She retorted with a half smile.
"Oh I guess you would have liked it back on the smugglers moon being chased around by a crazy Wookiee?" Atton said laughing.
"No to be honest I would just rather be on a planet where its peaceful and no one is killing each other" replied Mira.
"Well I hate to be the gizka of bad news but I believe that's not gonna happen. Every single planet we go to there seems to be a war or something going on that puts all in some type of danger. And from what I can understand about what were about to get ourselves into this time you might just wanna hold on to your butts because I don't think its gonna get any better" Atton said looking over at the others.
Visas looked at him with a reassuring smile. "I've been through worse then what we did in our last journey trust me. The only thing that seems to worry me is Aria" Visas said.
"For what reason do you worry about the General?" Bao-Dur asked.
"She has been somewhat distant from all of us since we came back into Republic space and with this mission I don't really think its going to help" Visas replied.
As they were still talking a Blue Twi'lek walked up to them.
"Hi my name is Mission Vao and I'm looking for a Aria Jace" she said.
Mira looked at her up and down and could tell she was a Jedi. She had heard of Mission from the holonet right after the battle of the Star Forge. She looked a little bit older now being that it was almost six years later.
"Um Aria is on the ship prepping it for departure. You shouldn't have trouble finding her" Mira said.
She watched as Mission signaled to a tall Wookiee, another Jedi and if Mira's eyes weren't deceiving her she could have sworn that Mandalor was with them.
She turned around to see Brianna the handmaiden in Jedi robes.
"Your coming too?" Mira asked surprised.
"Atris has commanded me to accompany on your journey so I don't really have a choice" she said.
"Well then I guess you will be boarding the ship" Mira replied pointing to the boarding ramp.
Brianna walked on the ship.
"Well Atris has said that its time to leave" said Jaden walking past them as Bastila and Juhani followed him.
"Damn its seem that the ship is gonna be overloaded" Mira said at the sight of everyone going on the ship.
Atton looked overwhelmed. "Well I hope that none of us end up sharing bunks" he said looking back at the others.
The four of them walked on the ship and went into the main hold.
Everyone was in there. Visas looked around and saw at least twenty or more people standing in there. She saw some familiar faces and others not so familiar. Aria, Jaden, Bastila, Juhani, Mission and Jolee were standing over on one side. Brianna, HK, T3, Mira, Herself, Atton and Bao-Dur were standing on the other side. In the center where the holoprojector was stood a yellow skinned Twi'lek, Visas didn't know who she was. She knew that Atris had hand picked everyone on this ship to go and find Revan.
She looked at Jaden who was getting ready to speak.
"Now that were all here its time that I would lay out the plan to all of you. We are going to the Rakata system being that's where the signal is coming from. I don't know what we will find but I do know that it will bring us a step closer to finding Revan" Jaden said.
At that everyone left to go find them someplace to rest.