STARKILLER'S APPRENTICE
Chapter 2 Training
Derek is shaken awake by a droid who says "Master told me to wake you two hours before sunrise to start your training." He is shocked at what Starkiller wants him to do, It is insane to wake up this early and start training. The droid tells Derek to follow him to the balcony. He does as he is told and follows the droid, when he gets to the balcony he sees Starkiller and sighs with relief that he is going to be trained by his Master instead of a droid.
Starkiller shakes his head and tells Derek to activate his light saber. Derek looks down and starts to get red and tells Starkiller he forgot his light saber.
Starkiller laughs and says "I knew you would forget so I had Proxy bring another light saber from his collection." Proxy hands Derek the light saber, and when he activates the blade to find it glows a dark green.
He goes and takes a defensive stance and Starkiller grabs a laser ball and activates it and tells Derek to block the laser bolts. Derek goes and trys to block the first bolt but it hits him on the arm. After about a hour Starkiller tells Derek to follow Proxy to learn the best defensive style of light saber combat. He does as he is told and follows the droid to a big open yard.
He looks away to look at a archway and when he looks back he is face to face with the sith lord Count Dooku. He only read about him in history books at school but he thought he was dead killed above Coruscant. Derek tells Dooku 'Well I think the history books were wrong about you, I guess you are alive after all." He sees Dooku smirk as he activates his light saber and attacks.
Derek activates his light saber just in time to block the first attack. Dooku tells him "Try harder, if that is the best you can do I almost sorry I have to kill you." He is surprised that he is able to block Count Dooku's attack's. After about ten minutes he is so tired he can hardly lift his light saber.
Dooku uses the force to push on Derek's light saber and knocks it away, then is about to strike when he stops immediately. Count Dooku starts to shimmer than disappears completely, and is replaced by Proxy who looks at Derek and says "Master you are progressing very well." He goes and picks up the light saber Proxy knocked out of his hand and is about to return it when Proxy says "That is yours Master, I just changed the color crystal in the hilt, if you wish I will show you how to change it back Master." Proxy goes and takes Derek to a small table with a stand built in to it.
Proxy tells him to put his light saber on the stand. He does as told to, and as soon as he does Proxy pushes a small button on the side, and lights come on underneath it and above it. As soon as he sees how to change the crystal color, he decides to go to the marketplace and see if he can have a Jedi robe made for him if Starkiller ever lets him on a mission. Proxy tells Derek to be careful when going to the marketplace for there might be stormtroopers looking for force sensitive people to bring to emperor Palpatine fro sith training.
Derek goes and takes his light saber with him into town, as he is entering the marketplace he feels a pressure around him, he looks around and sees a women in dark robes staring at him. The first thing that enters his mind is "SITH!", as he goes and turns to leave when sees another dark robed figure staring at him. Derek cannot believe he can have such rotten luck, two siths in one place even Starkilller would be hard pressed against two siths attacking at the same time.
Derek knew his only hope was to get out of the marketplace as quickly as possible for he was still learning the basics of light saber combat, he had only one lesson and it was not very helpful.
As he was turning to go to the palace, when he did he saw a whole squadron of stormtroopers coming down the road. The first thing out of his mouth was "Awww, come on, This is just not my day." He ducks into a alley way just as the stormtroopers start to come his way. As they are going past one stops and tells the others to go on.
He walks into the alley way and tells Derek to come out of there and show himself. Derek starts to panic as the trooper comes closer, then he remembers the trick he used on the palace gaurds. As he reaches out with the force and tries to read his mind to change it, when he does he finds out that this stormtrooper is a former clone trooper, and that he stole this stormtrooper armor to find Jedi and help them to others he found.
Derek steps out of the shadows to confront him. And says "Commander Orion, what do you want with me." Commander Orion is not surprised that this Jedi knew his name, he says "I want to take you to see a Jedi I helped escape from order sixty six." Derek's is already thinking this has got to be a trap.
Orion says "I need a Jedi who can heal my friend if you could help me I would be eternally grateful." Derek knows that if he helps Orion it might end badly for him if this is a trap. He tells Orion to follow him and to ditch the armor so he wont attract more attention then needed. As he does Derek notices several scars all over his back and torso.
He tells Orion to follow him and stay close. As they are making their way to Starkiller they run into a few problems. They have to ditch a few stormtroopers, and run from a few bounty hunters. When they finally make it to the palace Derek has to use the force on the palace guards so they will let Orion in to see Starkiller. Orion asks Derek "How much further is it till we see your master."
Derek tells Orion "Not much futher, we just have to get to the palace."
Orion stops in his tracks then says " tell me this what is your master's name?"
Derek uses the force to read Orion's mind again, to see if there is any sign of treachery before he answers. he says "My master has no name, but he goes by Starkiller."
Orion starts to back away from Derek before he says "Your master is Starkiller, do know any thing about him before you met him?, if not let me tell you, he was trained by Darth Vader, and he killed numerous Jedi in the name of the Sith, you must leave him before you are turned to the dark side."
Derek is shocked at what Orion just said, is it possible that Starkiller is a Sith. He shakes his head at says "Orion you are wrong, my master is not a Sith, his master is not Darth Vader, his master is General Kota."
Orion eyes open wide with shock at what Derek just said, and asks "Your master's master is General Kota, if he is then I'll follow you to your master,then I can talk to General Kota."
Derek wants to know why Orion has such an interest in General Kota, but it will have to wait for now. He looks at Orion and says "Follow me, I'll take you to Proxy he'll take you to see my master."