"Rosh!"
"Hello Jaden."
Jaden looked around the room. It was the temple of Ragnos.
"How did we get in here? What's going on!" Jaden asked. Rosh laughed.
"Did you really think that just blocking the door would keep anyone away from this power? And leaving the sceptre in here was really, really stupid. Almost as stupid as you letting me live." He smirked.
Rosh held the sceptre in his hand, turned and aimed it at the statue.
"Rosh no! What are you doing?"
"Giving myself the ultimate power." Rosh spoke. "The power of Marka Ragnos."
"Rosh stop!"
The sceptre shot out a red beam at the statue and all of a sudden, the temple started shaking.
"Rosh come on, we've got to get out of here!"
"No Jaden! This is my time! And you're not leaving either!"
"Why not!"
"Because Marka Ragnos wants revenge on you Jaden, for stopping him from being free."
"Rosh this isn't funny! Enough lets-"
Jaden's sentence was cut short as a blue ghost came flying out of the statue, and entered Rosh's body. Rosh fell onto his knees.
"Rosh, no!"
Rosh started laughing. Although, when he stood up, Jaden knew it wasn't him.
He eyes were bloodshot red and parts of his clothing were blue.
"R-Rosh?"
"No Jaden." A voice spoke. A darker voice of Rosh's. "Rosh is gone. Marko Ragnos is back. And he will destroy you!"
"NO!"
"NO!" Jaden screamed and fell off her bed. The sun shone through her window and birds chirped in the background. Jaden looked around, gasping. She eventually relaxed and fell collapsed on the floor. She rose a hand close to her chest, where a medallion that Rosh had given her for her birthday sat, giving her comfortable thoughts.
"Jaden?" A voice called from behind the door.
"Yeah?" She responded. She swallowed some saliva to moisturise her raspy throat.
"Kyle wants us to have a practise today." The voice said.
Jaden sighed. "I'll be out in a few Rosh."
She got up, had a quick shower, brushed and tied up part of her hair, and got dressed.
She unlocked and opened her door to see Rosh on the other side, lazily leaning on the wall on the opposite side of the door.
He smiled at her.
"Don't you just love having the same master?" He grinned "Kinda makes us partners huh?"
Jaden gave a small smile and nodded in response. He was always saying things like that in the morning. Then he'd move on to something completely random or off subject.
"Is that a new shirt?" he asked.
Jaden looked down at the shirt she was wearing and shook her head.
"I've had it for awhile."
I was defeating you when I last wore it. Jaden thought unhappily.
Kyle was waiting for them in an area in the training ground. Jaden grimaced because it was the same area that Rosh had planted a Jedi robot for her. She had just barely made it out alive.
"I know that you both have very well balanced force powers." Kyle began. "But now I want to see how you use your force powers for attack and defence."
Kyle turned and force pushed the button on the bridge above them and two Jedi droids came out from a door.
"I want you both to attack and defend yourself with one droid each. Use as many force powers as you want, but do at least three." Kyle spoke as the two droids looked around. "I'll be standing guard just in case one of you two slip up. Not that I think you will."
Kyle jumped and landed on what looked like a broken wall.
Jaden and Rosh both brought out their light sabers and got ready to dual. Naturally, Jaden knew that Rosh's competitive side would come out and naturally, Jaden wanted to beat him.
Knowing that this test was based on force skills, she raised her hands and force lighteninged the droid. Rosh instead, opted to force protect.
Jaden's droid noticed her when she used her force powers on it, so it turned and charged at Jaden, lightsaber raised and ready to strike. Before it could get to her though, she used force push to make it fly back and become defective for a while.
Rosh healed himself quickly as his droid sliced a cut at his arm.
Jaden got bored quickly and finished off the droid, using her force rage and attacked her droid. It fell instantly.
Rosh must have noticed Jaden killing her droid and used his force speed to run up to the droid, and attacked it from multiple sides, causing lose some of its droid parts, and fall.
Kyle new that they both had much more other force powers, but chose not to dwell on it then.
"Very good you two." He complimented them both.
"Thank you master." Jaden bowed.
"Thanks Kyle." Rosh smiled and turned to Jaden. "I noticed you using a lot of dark side force. You aren't thinking of turning are you?"
Jaden looked at him shocked.
"What? No! I was just nearly out of force power!" Jaden frowned and crossed her arms.
"Oh please. I was just halfway through my force power." Rosh retorted.
"Yeah well I was using dark side powers that I hardly use at all so I just wanted to practise them a bit. They use way more force power then my light side ones!"
"Oh yeah? Then how come you were just recently using lightening on a storm trooper? I know that you were just getting info out of him, but I think that you just liked seeing someone squirm."
"It wasn't like that!"
"Yes it was! I could see it in your eyes. In fact I think-"
"Rosh I think that's enough." Kyle interjected.
"No Kyle, let him finish." Jaden said to her master.
Rosh smirked. "I think that you want to go around killing and slaying people like Tavion."
"This coming from a man who joined Tavion's side and tried to kill me."
"Exactly! I know what it looks like when someone wants someone else to suffer. And as far as I can tell, you want everyone to suffer and beg to be killed."
"Rosh, you and I both know that I wouldn't do that. I stopped Tavion. I let you live. I-"
"Killed as many people as you could to get to where you are. And if you had to go back to the start, you'd do it all again."
Jaden's eyes glared at him.
"What are you saying Rosh? That I'm a murderer?"
"No. I'm saying that your nothing but a Sith spit wannabe, who wants to kill whoever she can to get to the top, and lead the entire galaxy to destruction!"
Jaden grit her teeth and stomped up to Rosh. He began to step back and just when Jaden was on him, Kyle put his arm in front of her.
"That's enough Jaden. We've already lost pupils."
"But he-"
"I know but you can't let him get to you. Just calm down."
Jaden looked down angrily at the ground.
"Yes master."
"Now Ro-"
Jaden used her force speed to get out of the training grounds as quick as she could. She didn't want to hear anything anymore.
She ran to her room, locked the door and collapsed on her bed, tears streaming out again.
She was almost convinced that she shouldn't be in the academy. Rosh was her only friend, and after what he had said to her, it was too much. Jaden couldn't cope.
Jaden had no friends. Kyle or Luke could be counted as one, but they didn't. There was no one to complain to about anything. If she did to Kyle or Luke, instead they would just contradict her like they did every time she complained.
Rosh had betrayed her, and she didn't know anyone else.
There was a knock at her door and she quickly wiped away her tears.
"Jaden?" Rosh's voice called.
"Go away." Jaden spoke. She made herself sound calm instead of angry or sad.
"Come on Jaden. You know I was joking."
"Did I?" she asked, trying not to growl.
"Jaden just let me in. Please?"
Jaden bit her lip, went to her bathroom, quickly wiped the tears off her face and opened the door.
"Look Jaden. I'm sorry." Rosh spoke. His hand rubbed the back of his neck like he was nervous.
"Sorry for what? Calling me Sith spit, or assuming that I'm going to betray the Jedi soon?"
"All of it. Really I am."
There was a slight pause, and Jaden was about to accept Rosh's apology when something clicked. Jaden grit her teeth and grew angry again.
"Kyle put you up to this didn't he?" She growled.
Rosh looked up at her surprised.
"No, Jaden! He didn't-"
"Tell him that when I want an apology, I want to make sure that it was you that apologised. Not Kyle telling you to." Jaden pushed Rosh out of her room and he hit the wall behind him.
"Jaden I-"
Jaden closed and locked her door. She let go a breath she didn't know she was holding and sat on her bed.
"Why?" She murmured. "Why can't you just do something because you told yourself to, not someone else? Even if you are afraid."
