Hope you like the second chapter, I'm still writing the third so will get it up as soon as I have finished writing it because then I need to type it up.

Chapter 2: Taris Upper City

"You cannot win, Revan."

"Just try me."

Drakerla and Jaden woke up, they found themselves in an apartment in the Upper City of Taris. "Thank goodness, you guys are awake! I was beginning to wonder if you were ever going to wake up." Carth exclaimed, Drakerla was confused. "Wait, Carth. Where are we?"

"Well, you and Jaden have been slipping in and out of consciousness for a couple of days so you must be pretty confused. After the pod crashed toy and Jaden were quite banged up, but luckily I wasn't seriously hurt, I managed to drag you two into this abandoned apartment. By the time the Sith arrived on the scene, we were long gone." There was a groan coming from Jaden's bed. He was finally fully awake, "Jaden! You're finally with us then eh? Haha!" Drakerla said, Jaden said that he had had a weird dream, like a vision, almost. "Oh, was it that Jedi with the yellow lightsaber battling the masked person with the red one?"

"That `masked person` is Darth Revan, and yeah it was, I think the Jedi was Bastilla, I heard that she was with the Jedi strike team that killed Darth Revan, but I don't think he died. Otherwise wouldn't the strike team have died as well?" Jaden asked, "No, the strike team made it out just before the ship exploded, Revan was too baldy injured to escape the ship, his body was never found." Carth explained, "Oh well isn't that a coincidence?!" Jaden said, annoyed. "The ship burned! His body would've been burned to ashes!" Carth yelled, "HEY CALM IT DOWN BOTH OF YOU!" Drakerla shouted, he had had enough. "What do you say we go and explore Taris? I heard that they have an awesome duelling arena. I'm aiming to become the champion!"

"Yeah, dream on.!

"What?! I could do it you know!"

"I doubt you could even beat me." Jaden remarked, Drakerla gave him an evil look, and ran out of the apartment. "Jaden, that was stupid, you didn't need to do that." Carth said. "Shut up Carth. I don't need your advice." Carth was taken aback by that comment from Jaden, Carth was wondering what had suddenly gotten into him. Jaden ran out of the apartment after Drakerla, Carth followed him.

Jaden, Carth came out into the corridor where they found Drakerla, he was watching something, they joined him, and saw some Sith interrogating some Duros. The leader of the little gang of Sith shot down one of the Duros, and then turned to face Drakerla, Jaden and Carth. "What's this?! Humans hiding out with aliens?! They must be Republic fugitives! Attack them!" Drakerla and Jaden drew their vibroswords, and Carth drew his blaster. Drakerla charged straight at the Sith Commander, avoiding all the blaster shots, he sliced the Sith Commanders arm, and killed him. Drakerla turned around, and Carth saw the fire in his eyes, he wanted to kill them all. To show Jaden that he is really a threat. Before Jaden could kill anyone (Carth had already killed a few soldiers) Drakerla ran in front of him and killed the remaining Sith soliders. The Duro thanked Drakerla, Carth and Jaden, "There'll be another Sith patrol along soon, they're bound to notice the bodies." Drakerla said, "Don't worry, I will move the bodies so it looked like nothing happened." The Duro told him, Drakerla thanked him and they went to the elevator to the Upper City

"Wow! The Upper City looks amazing! Now come on! The duelling arena's in the cantina! But where's that?" Drakerla asked, "I know, I've been to Taris before." Jaden told him, Drakerla and Carth followed Jaden to the cantina, they went in and Jaden showed the way to Ajurr, who was a Hutt. He organised all the fights that went on in the duelling arena. "Ajurr! Ajurr!" Drakerla ran over to Ajurr the Hutt and asked him if he could fight in the duelling arena. "Sure! What? Like a charity match or do you want to challenge the champion and see if you can beat him?" Ajurr asked, "I want to challenge the champion, whose the current one?"

"Me!"

"That's Twitch."

"A Rodian?! This should be fun." Drakerla said, "I'd be careful if I were you, Twitch has a very twitchy trigger finger! Well, that's how he got his nickname, obviously." Ajurr warned him, "Simple!" Drakerla said, "I'll just use my vibrosword!"

"That could work." Ajurr said, "OK then! Let's get this match started!" Drakerla was so exicited. "Wait. Before you enter, we a nickname for you, let's see... well... no-one knows who you are, or where you're from... I know! The Mysterious Stranger!"

"Yeah, yeah I like it!"

"Good! Now let's get you in the ring then, follow Twitch."

"Ladies and gentlemen, we're ready to roll! In this corner, the reigning champion, the trigger happy Rodian, I give you... Twitch!" The crowd roared. `Twitch` banners were flying everywhere, the crowd were cheering, "Twitch! Twitch! He's the best! Let's have a trigger happy Rodian fest" The commentator continued, "And in the other corner, a man with no name, no past ready to challenge the champion, I give you... The Mysterious Stranger!" A quarter of the crowd cheered with `The Mysterious Stranger` flags and scarves flying everywhere "We don't know him, but we love him!" They chanted, Drakerla raised his sword. Everyone fell silent, Twitch started firing at Drakerla, who swerved left, right, up and down, avoiding all the blasts, except for one. One had just grazed against his cheek, blood started pouring out, medics came to sort Drakerla out, but he said he was fine. He turned his vibrosword around so that he was holding the blade instead of the handle, he charged towards Twitch and hit him on the head with the handle of the vibrosword, Twitch fell to the floor. He was unconscious. "Wow! I don't believe this! Twitch is down! Ladies and gentlemen, Twitch... is... down! Well, it looks like we have a new champion! All hail, The Mysterious Stranger, the champion of the Taris Duelling Arena!" The crowd cheered for the new champion, Drakerla smiled, and lifted his arms up high. "Finally, I'm the champion! Told you Jaden."

"Well done Stranger, you're the champion now, but I highly doubt that you'll be able to defeat Bendak Starkiller!"

"Oh? Well whose he?"

"He's me." A man in golden Mandalorian walked up to Drakerla and the woman that he was talking to. "Well I'm leaving. Goodbye Stranger. I'm Ice, by the way."

"Ice. I'm Drakerla. See you around!" Ice left the cantina, leaving Drakerla to talk with Bendak. "So, you're the infamous Bendak Starkiller, nice to meet you."

"Likewise, now let's get down to business. I watched your fight with Twitch in the duelling ring, you're pretty good, I'd like to fight you, if you're up for it."

"How do you mean? I can't die anyway."

"Actually you can, you fought Twitch under certain conditions, there was a field around the ring so that you can't kill your opponent, only seriously hurt them. I don't fight those kind of matches, I fight in proper matches. Death matches."

"Death matches? What are they?"

"Well, they're outlawed now, in fact they've been outlawed for ten years, I retired when that happened, but with a death match, the field is shut off, so you can hurt your opponent as much as possible, which includes killing them. You sure you're up for it kid?"

"I'm not a kid! I'll fight you! And I'll win!" Bendak saw the fire in Drakerla's eyes, which reminded him of someone he knew very well. "You know kid, you look just like my brother when he was younger, you've got the same passion, same determination, just don't get cocky like he did, his arrogance cost him his life. And I was the person who killed him. He got cocky and wanted to challenge in a death match, I told him he shouldn't, but he ignored me, and he lost." Drakerla thought about what Bendak said, and asked if it would be OK if he could come back tomorrow to tell him. "Sure, take all the time you need, kid."

"I'm not a kid!" Drakerla found Jaden and Carth, who congratulated Drakerla on becoming the champion, they all went back to the apartment, where Carth and Jaden went to bed, Drakerla went into the private room, where the workbench, he got out a few items and combined them, to make the ultimate armour, so that he wouldn't die against Bendak, should Bendak best him in combat. Drakerla tried the armour on, it fitted perfectly. It was pitch black, so that way it would not be visible underneath his clothes. He pressed a part of the shirt, it scanned his body, and suddenly, a blue light appeared and spread out across the shirt. Drakerla could not be harmed, he felt great. He took the armour off, hung it up in his wardrobe with the rest of his battle gear, and went to bed, where he fell asleep quickly.

"You cannot win, Revan."

"Just try me."

Bastilla charged at Revan, who was completely calm about it all. He blocked all of Bastilla's attacks, suddenly, the ship rumbled to one side. "Malak! He's trying to kill us, get out of here, while you still can. Bastilla Shan. I'm sure we will meet again."

"What?! How do you know my name?!"

"Get out of here, NOW!" Revan commanded, Bastilla and the rest of the Jedi Strike Team fled the ship, "Malak! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Revan yelled on the inter-com, "Don't you see Master?! Your time as Dark Lord is up!" Malak yelled back. He fired on Revan's bridge, where Revan was knocked unconscious.

"Drakerla, did you have another vision, dream thingy?" Jaden asked, "Yeah, yeah I did, where Revan got knocked unconscious at the end. That was weird. Anyways, I think I'm ready to battle Bendak, I'm gonna head to the cantina." Drakerla said, "Bastilla obviously isn't in the Upper City, so while you battle Bendak, Jaden and I will see if we can get some information on where she could've crashed or if she's been captured, then where she's being held."

"OK Carth, good luck, by the way I think you need a Sith uniform to gain access to the Lower City."

"Thanks, I'll see if I can find a Sith uniform anywhere, and good luck against Bendak." They all left for the cantina, where Drakerla found Bendak Starkiller and told him that he was ready to duel him. "Great, go talk to Ajurr, he'll set it up. Come and see me afterwards." Drakerla went to Ajurr the Hutt, and told him that he would like to fight Bendak in a death match and that Bendak agreed to it. "A death match? This will be difficult to set up, as they are outlawed now, but I will see what I can do."

"Thank you Ajurr." Drakerla ran back to Bendak, "Well, what did Ajurr say?" Bendak asked, "Well, he said it would take some time to set up because they're outlawed, but he will see what he can do." Drakerla told him, Bendak thanked Drakerla and left the cantina till someone came to get him for the match. Drakerla sat down at the bar, waiting for news from Ajurr that it had been set up, he was wearing his armour that he made underneath his clothes, Jaden and Carth came over to Drakerla. "Hey Drakerla, you nervous?" Jaden asked, "Nah, not really Jaden, I mean, I have `special armour`."

"What do you mean?!" Drakerla lifted his top and showed them the armour, he showed how it worked and everything, he put the top back over it. "See? Pretty cool huh? I won't get hurt at all, even if Bendak uses a vibroblade, and it'll be hidden under my armour so no-one will know! Pretty clever right?"

"No, Drakerla. It's cheating!"

"Oh Carth come on, lighten up a little!"

"Lighten up? I won't lighten up, while you're doing this, Bastilla could be in trouble, or worse, she could be dead."

"Well listen, after this we'll go and search for Bastilla, OK?"

"Fine." Suddenly a male Twilek came up to them. "Ajurr sent me. He wanted me to tell you that he has set up the match. Go and talk to him when you're ready, I still need to go and inform Mr. Starkiller." He said, "OK, cheers!"

"Ladies and gentlemen! Tonight, I give you a match, so violent, that it had been outlawed for nearly ten years. But tonight, we have one just for you! A good old fashioned, death match! Two combatants, battling it out to the death! In this corner I give you... the Champion of Taris, the Mysterious Stranger!" The crowd roared with excitement. "And in the other corner, the greatest duellist to ever grace the rings of Taris, La-dies and gentlemen, I give you... Bendak Starkiller! Now, let the death match begin!" Bendak got out his blaster and started firing at Drakerla whose special armour deflected the shots, Drakerla, vibrosword in hand, charged at Bendak and stabbed him. The vibrosword drove right through his armour and finally, his heart. Drakerla removed the sword and Bendak muttered, "Well done kid. You beat me." Bendak dropped down the floor. He was dead. The commentator finally yelled out, "Bendak Starkiller... is... down! Bendak Starkiller... is... dead! The crowd roared for Drajerka, the commentator continued, "All hail the Mysterious Stranger, the greatest duellist ever to grace the rings of Taris!" Drakerla held his hands and sword high and left the duelling arena, feeling rather pleased with himself.

"So, did you enjoy the show?" He asked Carth and Jaden, Carth said nothing, and turned away. "Meh, you were alright, still doubt you can beat me though." Drakerla scowled at Jaden. "I'm kidding! I'm kidding! You were amazing." Drakerla laughed, and thanked Jaden. Carth turned back to face Drakerla and told him, "Whilst you were fighting I was asking around about any Republic escape pods that crashed. Someone said there were some pods that into the Undercity (Jaden shivered at the thought of the Taris Undercity, the Undercity was a horrible place, where the rakghouls lived. All the outcasts from Taris lived down there.), but if there were any Republic Officers then they would've been taken by one of the Lower City gangs to sell on the slave market or something, they didn't a lot of information." Drakerla thanked Carth for his hard work. "Don't mention it, as long as we find Bastilla and get off of this planet."

"So, Let's get to the Lower City then!"

"Hang on Drakerla, the planets under Sith quarantine, so we need to get some Sith uniforms like you said about earlier." Jaden said, "Well." Carth interjected, "I spoke to a young woman over there, turns out she's Sith scum but she's off duty at the moment. Apparently she's having a party at her apartment tonight, she invited us to go along, there's bound to be some armour around."

They went to the apartment where the party was being held, they opened the door, and were greeted by a young woman in a sparkly black dress. "Hey, welcome to the party my name's Sara, by the way." She told them, Sara then went off to go and have a drink with her friends, Drakerla told Carth and Jaden to wait by the drinks table. Jaden went to flirt with some of the ladies there, while Carth just drank some water. Drakerla crept over to a corner at the back of the room, opened the footlocker quietly, and removed the Sith armour, he told Sara that he had to leave urgently as he was meeting someone, Drakerla met Carth and Jaden at the door and they went to Sith guard at the Lower City Elevator.

Drakerla, Jaden and Carth approached the Sith guard at the elevator and Drakerla, wearing Sith armour, told him that they would like to go into the Lower City. "Sure, how come you two aren't in Sith armour?" He asked Jaden and Carth, "Well, we had a party in my apartment and they put their armour into my footlocker and we think someone stole it." Drakerla told him, "Well how come you still have yours then?"

"I locked my armour up."

"Fair enough. Head on through. But be careful down there, the Black Vulkar swoop gang will shoot at anyone on sight, and they don't take too kindly to us Sith."

"Got it. Cheers." The guard opened up the door to the elevator, and let them through to the Lower City.