Rise of a New Dark Lord Chapter 2
Chapter 2 of Rise of a New Dark Lord is now here! I originally planned for this to be part of the first chapter, buy my family's Windows 10 stopped working all of a sudden and my dad had to reset everything. All the work I did was deleted because of that. I really wasn't in the mood to redo the entire battle scene, so I decided to give it a whole chapter. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Jedi Temple, Coruscant
On Coruscant, there existed millions of buildings. Some small and short, others large and said to be tall enough to reach the atmosphere of the planet itself. In all of these buildings, there were rooms existed rooms with several different purposes. One of these rooms, inside the great Jedi Temple, served as a room where Jedi could meditate and find peace. In this room sat one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy, Jedi Grand Master Yoda. For someone so powerful, he was rather short and small, which would trick some into believing this was just a weak creature. However, appearances can be deceiving.
Normally, the Grand Master's eyes shined with a twinkle of amusement and deep understanding of everything, but now, it was a completely different case.
For the eyes of the Grand Master were filled with shock and horror as he heard the distant cries of clone troopers, the sounds of blaster fire, and the sounds of a lightsaber cutting down presumably the clones through the Force. After five more minutes of these horrific sounds, they suddenly stopped, leaving a tense feeling in the Grand Master.
A minute later, he could feel the Dark Side. But this wasn't normal. Instead of just a mere feeling, the Grand Master felt the Dark Side itself roar in loud triumph, as if it had just found a new champion. Considering what he had just heard, that wasn't unlikely.
For the first time in centuries, the Grand Master felt true fear. For he knew that the Dark Side had not only found a new champion, but it had just returned with a fiery vengeance. The Grand Master only felt this kind of dark side energy when the Cularin system suddenly vanished from the galaxy, and that was at least twelve years ago and it had nearly hospitalized him. The Grand Master could only say a few words from the shock he felt at that moment.
"Returned… the Sith have."
*Jakku*
The Sith moved at the speed of a Teek, slaughtering soldiers left and right with his lightsaber, not stopping for even a single second. The soldiers had no chance to retaliate, which led to more being killed while the rest tried desperately to get an aim at this new Sith. The artillery had even stopped its barrage on the complex and attempted to fire at the Sith, when they had a lock on the Sith, he always managed to dodge it and the shots only managed to kill some more soldiers. Eventually, the soldiers realized the futility of fighting the Sith and started to retreat.
However, some gunships suddenly came and started bringing in more droids, and with the current number of the soldiers, they were quickly outnumbered. Numerous soldiers were gunned down by both the droids and gunships. The droids were ignoring him, apparently seeing the Sith as an ally. He didn't mind, allowed him to better focus on the soldiers.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of two lightsabers igniting behind him. He turned and saw two Jedi charging at him. He managed to easily block their blows and gain some distance from the two Jedi. One of them was a Chiss, had short blue hair, the normal red eyes of a Chiss, brown robes, and a lightsaber that gave off a sky blue color. The other Jedi was a Human, had dark skin, similar short but brown hair, the braid and robes of a Jedi Padawan, and a lightsaber that gave off an apple green color.
"Sith, whoever you are, know that the Republic shall not stand for this. We will make sure you are brought to justice for this great crime" said the Chiss Jedi. The two Jedi stood there, with the Chiss standing in a Soresu stance while the Human stood in a Makashi stance. The Sith then charged at the Jedi, and the duel began.
The two Jedi tried to attack the Sith, but they couldn't break through his seemingly impenetrable defenses, so they stayed on the defensive, waiting for an opening in the Sith's attacks, but found none. The Sith continued to attack the Jedi, using a combination of both Ataru and Djem so, and he sensed the growing tiredness of the two Jedi.
The fools are getting tired. Good, it shall be easier to find an opening in their defenses. the Sith thought as he fought the two. To give credit to the Jedi, their defenses were quite strong, but they clearly weren't prepared for the relentless attacks of the Sith, so their defenses were weakening from the constant attacks.
Eventually, the Padawan attempted to strike at the Sith when his back was turned when he was focusing on the Chiss, but he unknowingly made himself open for another attack by the Sith. The Sith turned around and unleashed a torrent of Force lightning on the Padawan. The lightning hit the Padawan straight in the chest, and sent him flying across the battlefield.
"BEK!" the Chiss yelled as the Sith turned his attention back to him. The Chiss's eyes were wide in shock, before quickly turning his attention back to the advancing Sith. His eyes quickly turned into an angry glare and engaged in a saber lock with the Sith. The two looked each other straight in the eye. The Sith then looked behind the Chiss and saw the Padawan, named Bek, had already recovered from the lightning and was now running as fast as he could towards them. Turning his attention back to the Chiss, the Sith then started some mental attacks on the Chiss's mind with the Force. At first, the Chiss seemed to be fine. But, the Chiss's face began to contort in pain as his power in the saber lock began to weaken. Finally, the Sith exited from the saber lock, and the Chiss dropped his lightsaber on the ground, his two hands gripping his temples while he screamed in agony. The Chiss's lightsaber then flew into the Sith's waiting hand. The Sith then walked behind the Chiss, activated the Chiss's lightsaber, and stabbed both lightsabers through the Chiss's back. The Chiss screamed as he saw the two blades through his back. The Sith then pulled out both lightsabers. The Chiss let out a choked gasp, and fell to the ground, dead.
"NO!" yelled Bek. The Sith turned and saw that Bek was now standing only a few feet away from him. The boy's eyes were wide in shock, before finally turning his attention back to the Sith. The two stood there, their lightsabers activated, the humming of the blades adding to the tension. Finally, Bek raised his lightsaber in a Makashi stance and charged at the Sith.
Bek tried several attacks on the Sith with Makashi, but the Sith managed to easily block them with both lightsabers The Sith then started attacking the Jedi. He managed to put up a surprisingly good defense against the Sith's blow, but the Sith knew it wouldn't be long until he managed to break through his defense and kill the boy.
After what seemed like a few minutes, Bek suddenly unleashed a powerful Force push on the Sith. This surprised the Sith, and he was unable to react in time as the Force push knocked him off his feet and sent him flying into the sand, losing grip of both of his lightsabers. Ferroda's lightsaber soon flew into Bek's waiting hand via the Force, and he activated that lightsaber as soon as it entered his hand. He then charged towards the Sith.
The Sith quickly managed to get back on his feet, and saw Bek charging at him. The Sith was fast on his feet, easily dodging each of Bek's attacks. After a few minutes, the Sith finally caught sight of his lightsaber in the sand near Ferroda's corpse. He then jumped above Bek and used the Force to bring his lightsaber to his hand. In just a second, the lightsaber flew into the Sith's hand and ignited when the Sith landed. The Sith then charged at the Bek.
The Sith blows were strong and fast. Each time he struck Bek's defenses they got weaker and weaker. Bek couldn't keep up with the constant battering assaults from the Sith. The Sith managed to easily knock Ferroda's lightsaber out of Bek's hand and slashed his claws across Bek's face. Bek screamed, placing his hand on his face. The Sith then kneed Bek in the chest, knocking all of the air out of his lungs. The Sith deactivated his lightsaber, and proceeded to punch Bek in the face several times. Bek attempted to slash at him with his lightsaber, but the Sith easily dodged it and grabbed the hand holding the lightsaber by the wrist and twisted it. Bek screamed and dropped his lightsaber. He then lifted Bek above his head, and then slammed him on to the ground.
He's had enough. Time to end this. the Sith thought as he unclipped his lightsaber from his belt and activated it. Bek then got on his knees, and the Sith got a better look at his face. His face was severely bruised, with two black eyes, a bleeding nose, and many bruises on his cheeks and jaw. The most noticeable feature were three deep and bleeding cuts across Bek's face. Bek's eyes formed into a glare, or rather the best one Bek could muster with all the injuries on his face. The Sith then raised his lightsaber, prepared to deliver the final blow, when suddenly, he sensed danger nearby. He turned his head and saw dozens of the soldiers with some of their own gunships, aiming their blasters at him. The soldiers then started firing at him, and the Sith then quickly ran out of the way.
The Sith then started using Force Speed again, easily running across the battlefield and avoiding the blaster fire.
"Shoot him down! SHOOT HIM DOWN!" he heard Bek yell. The Sith turned his head as he ran, and saw Bek managing to stand with the help of a few of the soldiers, pointing at the Sith's running form. The then did a great jump into the air, and landed near the soldiers and activated his lightsaber. He then started cutting down more of the soldiers, until the gunships got in the air and started firing missiles at him. This forced the Sith to run away from the soldiers and find cover behind some of the wreckage. After a couple minutes, the soldiers started falling back to the gunships. Bek clearly wanted to pursue him, but after being restrained by one of the soldiers and hearing what he said, he went on to one of the gunships. The Sith watched as the gunships, one by one, took off and fled the planet.
"Yes, run Jedi. You cannot run from me. Soon the Republic and Jedi shall fall, and I shall be there and watch them both burn." said the Sith as he walked by Ferroda's corpse and picked up the dead Jedi's lightsaber from where Bek had dropped it and clipped it to his belt. He then heard footsteps from behind him. He turned around and saw a Muun who was accompanied by some battle droids.
"Hello, I am San Hill of the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Confederacy of Independent Systems. On behalf of the CIS and InterGalactic Banking Clan, I thank you, good sir. You have just stopped the Republic's assault on the CIS's main base of operations in the Western Reaches, and killed the Jedi responsible for the setback of our invasion. May I ask what your name is? San said as he stopped his approach.
The Sith thought about this. Could this "Confederacy of Independent Systems" be an enemy of the Republic? Could this finally be his chance to finally strike at the Jedi and Republic? Well, he wasn't going to waste this chance.
"I am Darth Stalkar. Dark Lord of the Sith. As you can see by my appearance, I have been on this wretched planet for a very long time. I am afraid I am unaware of the past 15 years of galactic history. I would like to join this "Confederacy" so I may finally have a chance to strike at the Republic and Jedi, and watch the wretched temple on Coruscant burn. I wish for political asylum within your Confederacy and permission to conduct military operations in the name of your parliament and Confederacy." Stalkar said. He did believe this Confederacy could be his chance to find out what had happened in the galaxy for the past 15 years he had been on Jakku and finally get his revenge on the Jedi and Republic.
San's eyes then darkened and he placed his hand on his chin in consideration.
"That is a very…hefty offer, Lord Stalkar, but I do believe it can be arranged, especially after your heroic actions today. If you'll follow me." San replied as he gestured for Stalkar to follow him. Stalkar did, and they both walked to the now smoking complex through the battlefield as Stalkar took one last look at Ferroda's corpse as he walked to the complex with San and the droids. As he walked, only one thought came to his mind.
This is just the beginning.
So, what do you all think? I spent quite a bit of time typing this, so I really hope you like it. Also, the Sith's name has finally been revealed! Who knows what the galaxy is in store for now? Reviews are appreciated.