Chapter 3: A New Ability and Things Worsening

Kanan's P.O.V

"I want more of what you can offer me. What else can you teach me?" I asked the holocron, my voice begging and lustful.

"An ability that is viewed as rather... unwanted by the Jedi." the voice answered. "But you may need to go somewhere... private, shall we say?"

I nodded in response and got up, taking my holocron with me, heading out of my room to the cargo bay, hopping on a speeder bike. I put the holocron in my pocket and drove away from the base, heading a couple of miles out, somewhere where I know that would be a good place to learn. I parked my bike in the middle of nowhere in the Atollon desert, shutting it off and getting off the vehicle, taking the sith relic out. "Alright, I am here. Teach me what you have to offer me."

"Your craving and lust for power pushes your eagerness to learn." Just as the holocron said that, I heard the sounds of those creatures. I turned around, a group of krykna spiders approaching me. I started recalling what the Bendu said to me a while ago about not harming them, but if I was gonna learn anything new, it meant forgetting what that creature of the force told me. I now wanted to do harm to those after what they did years ago, when Dicer got killed by those things and my friends and I were next. I wanted to kill them all with a passion.

"Those things. They've almost killed me and my friends. I wish to make them pay." I said as I ignited my lightsaber. The krykna, getting provoked, slowly made their way towards me. "Back off! I'm warning you all!"

"Your hatred for these creatures gives you the strength you need. Use it like you've never used it before! You want revenge on these creatures as much as your enemies!"

"I do. I want to hurt them!" The krykna got more closer as I raised my lightsaber, allowing the darkness to touch my soul again. I felt the force become a shadow as I called all of its dark qualities to me, the hatred building in me more and more.

"Give in and let your hate and rage fuel and command your actions, Kanan Jarrus!"

I screamed in rage as I felt my arms extend, and when I saw what happened next, I knew I was going to become way more.

Torrents of electricity flew out from my fingertips, my rage augmenting it as it went from just simply stunning the krykna to annihilating them. I stopped electrocuting them, reveling in what I unleashed upon them as I looked down at my hands, rolling them into fists as I gave in again. I looked back up at the krykna, more of them coming at me. I activated my lightsaber, smiling maliciously at the fun I was going to have with those savages.

One of them started crawling towards me, in which I raised my left hand and let the force lightening escape from it, stunning the kyrkna as I started walking towards it. I increased the torrents, screaming in rage as I lifted my saber over my head and plunged it down into the head of the creature. It let out a scream of pain as life escaped it, and until it fell to sand of the desert, lifeless. I looked back up from its corpse at the other creatures, screaming again in rage as even more fatal torrents of force lightening escaped from my hands, those spiders letting out screams of pain. One by one, they fell by my blue blade, the burn of it just as hot as my burning hatred. I was now using it as a weapon for myself, and look where it was getting me. Hatred and rage is the answer to this, and it's going to be the same thing for the Empire.

There was only one more kyrkna left. I electrocuted it with force lightening, letting it suffer for now as I walked towards it, slowly. When I got close, I swung my lightsaber and cut its legs off, one by one, all done with swift strokes. It screamed in pain as I repeatedly jabbed my lightsaber into its back, working my way up to its head. When I got there, the look in its eyes told me to not do it, but that wasn't going to happen. I pointed the tip of my blade at the head, raising it above my head, my grip firm. I was ready. I yelled in rage as I brought it down, impaling the head of the helpless krykna, breathing heavily after the kill.

Later that evening

Ezra's P.O.V

I walked outside the Ghost when I heard the sound of a speeder bike arriving. I knew that it was Kanan. We all knew that he just disappeared without him telling us anything, and I sensed what he did through the force. My gut told me that whatever was going on with Kanan was getting worse, I just knew it. "Kanan, we need to talk." I told him when he got off his bike.

"What's there to talk about?" he scoffed.

"Where were you?"

"None of your business. I just went to the Bendu to talk about something, that's all."

"And what did you talk about?"

"That is none of your business!"

"Kanan, calm down! Please!" Kanan force pushed me against the Ghost, forcefully pinning me there! I screamed in pain when I felt myself be electrocuted by him. "Kanan, please!" I begged, the pain getting worse. Kanan didn't listen. "Kanan, please, stop this now!" The amount of electricity intensified! "KANAN STOP THIS NOW!"

"Let him go, Kanan!" He stopped electrocuting me when we saw Alex come out with the others. "Let. Him. Go!" he glared.

"Perhaps you want the same thing then, Alex?" Kanan asked angrily.

"Kanan, let him go right now." Hera ordered.

"He questioned me again, Hera, he knows better! It's nothing personal, but all he just had to do was learn his lesson."

"There's no need for punishing him that way." I dropped to the floor when he said that, groaning in pain. Sabine and Alex helped me up, my arms wrapped around their necks. My body felt so numb after what happened, and then it just started hurting.

"Kanan, why?!" Sabine questioned him.

"I will do that to all of you the next time somebody questions me!" he warned us all. "In a war, you do not question your superiors, you do as you are told which is fight and win!"

"You are not our superior, Sato and Rex are!" Hera retorted.

"I lead our crew, Hera, you know that already! You do not question me. There are going to be some rules set up here from now on. Rule 1: you do not question me, even if we are not on a mission. You do so and this happens. Hera, if you will."

"Kanan, no! You've gone mad!"

"HERA THAT IS AN ORDER!" She obeyed, Kanan electrocuting her. She screamed out in pain. He stopped and he got her up, shoving her back to us. "That happens. If anybody has a problem with it, speak up now." We all knew what was coming if any of us said so, so we all shook our heads frantically. "Good. Rule 2: it is all on you if a mission goes wrong. You all know that in a war, defeat is not an option, and if something happens, it's on you. Not on the enemy, you all. We all fight against an Empire, and it's on you all if something goes wrong in this war. Victory comes first before everything. Got that so far?" We all nodded frantically. "Rule 3, the last rule for now: from now on we all put our time in effort into fighting. Until we prevail we cannot rest. Sleeping, however, is a different story. And I don't care if you all are tired after a long time, that ain't happening. Am I clear?"

"Crystal!" all of us answered at the same time.

"Good. That is it for now."

I sighed as we all turned around and headed to our rooms for bed. I tried to sleep but I couldn't sleep well enough, my mind still glued to the image of Kanan using... that ability, and how he had gone mad.

The next few days were going to be long ones.