Another chapter with the Hollow on the home world of the Sith.
I hope you enjoy at this chapter was irritating to write for you all.
"If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself … and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards… If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles." -Darth Traya
Yoda walked though the mists of the force as he meditated. He knew the force was trying to tell him something terrible had happened. Both dark and light energies pulled at him and he was forced to follow both their currents away from something. A feeling of being followed prevailed to his senses, yet the force would not let him turn around from whatever was following him. All around him there was a sense of uneasy and restlessness that the force as a whole emitted.
The Jedi master shivered as an unnatural roar echoed though the force. A roar that was and wasn't a part of the force, but of something more. He knew he was being stalked. He could sense the breath of whatever it was brushing his neck. The eyes of the creature on his old green body as he hobbled along the path the force forged for him. He knew he wasn't safe as the creature wasn't paying attention to him, that was his saving grace. It was hunting others. Though the force he could feel the echos of the ancient Sith disappearing, but a sense of despair from both parts of the force.
Diving deeper into the force he could feel the force telling him to head to the planet of the Sith, to save... Someone? he could feel the presence of two females, one was a mother while the other was her unborn daughter. He could tell that both lacked in the force, but the uniting force gave him the feeling that the unborn child had a destiny, one that must happen else the galaxy would become...
Yoda's eyes snapped open as he was forced out of the vision. The feeling of the dark and the light asking for aid shook him to the bones. He knew that fate of the galaxy hanged in the balance, not between the dark and the light sides, but of existence itself as life knew it.
"Master Yoda are you alright?" The old Jedi looked up to see Mace Windu walking towards him. The Jedi knight looked worried as did many Jedi these days Yoda reflected. Ever since the unnatural roar in the force there was a feeling of fear over the temple. While the council was doing its best to down play the worry, it was not easy as the youngest members kept waking up screaming in terror about a monster with a white mask hunting them.
"Fine Windu I am. Yes, hmmm. I help you with, what can?" The master asked as he picked up his stick. Yoda inwardly smiled at irrational and irritating way he answered his fellow Jedi. After several hundred years it felt good to have a little fun with the younger beings. Their expressions made his day as they tried to understand him. "The terror, griped the force is troubling you, that has."
"Yes master."
"Hmm, deeply troubling this mystery is. Know, I do not. Unsettled, the force is. Meditation, reviled nothing has. Come, come. Walk with Yoda you will."
"Of course master. However, I must pass on message to you. Master Dooku and his padwan are almost to the temple and he wishes to see the council and you at the earliest convince."
Yoda nodded as he floated along on his chair. His old padwan probably was seeking answers like so many of the returning Jedi. "To see me at once let Dooku know. Mission that will need both of you in mind, I have. Done reporting, he once is."
"Of course Master."
The sith clenched his hands as his ship exited out of hyperspace. The old home world of the Sith filled his senses both in the force and his vision. The blood carver however felt something wrong at once with the planet below that almost made him pause and reconsider his mission. It was the feeling of emptiness on the valley of the Sith. As if the darkness had been stripped away and what was let was something... Something hungry..
The sith jerked back as he felt something as the force screamed in fear. he sneered at the idea that the dark side was so weak to whatever was down below. Nothing was more powerful then the dark side.
"Master, the ship will be landing soon. What is it you need of us?" The Sith frowned at the droids that he had brought along with him for flying his ship and to help find whatever the thing was. They were custom made assassin and tracking droids with programing and materials of the best money could buy or steal in the galaxy. Holo-matrixes, blasters, vibroblades, a lightsaber, blasters, local shield generators, acid sprays, computer slicing equipment, mandalorian armor, and also in field training to increase efficacy of the programing.
"Prep for the hunt TY6-H21. I will be getting ready myself."
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The hollow's eyes snapped open and it got up. 'Prey.' It thought as it detected more of the strange energy heading towards the planet. Unlike the ones it had devoured, this one was fresh and was leaking of dark energy. Hissing, the creature moved towards the best possible spot to prepare for the hunt. As it moved towards the new comer it passed by the terrified forms of the two remaining Skywalkers and the remains of their guards it had killed before it went to sleep. It did not know why it spared their lives, but every time it looked at them it was reminded of two girls around the age of the tail haired girl. The other mother it had spared because it had sensed a life forming in it... Also, they were rather weak prey and he was full form all the dark energy in the room he had eaten.
"I-is it gone?" Veela asked as she held onto her adopted mother. She felt sick after the being had bitten her and the interest it had it her made her terrified. Her mother had wrapped the bite marks with the remains of the shirt her husband was wearing.
"I think so honey."
"Why won't it kill us? It killed daddy!" She wailed as she held onto her mother.
The hollow disappeared into the tunnels where their conversation left its sensitive hearing range. It was troubled as to why it had spared the females but after thinking of it that having them alive would bring more prey to save them and thus feed him.
...Protect...
The hollow hissed with irradiation at the echo in the back of its mind. There was nothing to protect as she was gone. Blinking it stopped as it tried to under stand a memory of a female... human? Hollow?
...Protect...
Growling in anger it raced forward and way from the memories. It did not matter anymore as the hunger was so strong. The need, the want, the desire... It roared with all its power when it felt the prey land on the surface. He was the top predator.
HE was the alpha.
And he was hungry.
With a crack he raced forward with Sonído to met his challenger.
...
The Sith shivered with a feeling of battle racing thought his blood when the roar came. The droids hesitated only for a moment as their processors tried to understand the feeling of cold.
"Cover me." The Sith ordered when he felt something moving towards him at a rapid pace. The droids nodded and moved to higher ground for sniper positions. The Sith lord closed his eyes as he collected the dark side around him in preparation of the fight. Grasping his lightsabers he shook of his cloak and exposed his body to the elements of the noon sun of Korriban. Snapping his blades on the Sith blocked a vicious strike to his head from his opponent.
The Sith gasped in surprise when he felt the things power in the force. If it was the force at all. It was a gasping maw of emptiness sucking in all light into it. The force swirled around the creature as it tried to escape it's presence. With a force enchanted shove the Sith pushed the being away from him and took a closer look at his opponent.
It was like nothing the Sith had seen in his travels though the galaxy or in the text he had read. A white humanoid lizard with three-toed feet and a tail with black marks all over its noticeably muscular body swaying in the breeze as it studied him. A mask resembling a human skull, complete with a jaw joint and rounded forehead and dark-red stripes on the left side peered at him with dark eyes with iris of yellow. A sword unlike any other was held in it's clawed hands like an instrument of death. It had on hilt, only a place for the hands to grip then blade. At 1.75 meters the sword looked like an oversized knife from a kitchen to the Sith's eyes but it was strong enough to stop a lightsaber blade.
But there was one feature that drew in his eyes from the being before him. At the center of it's chest was a hole. A hole where the Sith could see the temple where the being had come from.
"What are you?" The Sith asked as he fell into his stance ready for a battle. He got no reply as the creature began to spin it's weapon. "Who are you?"
A warning though the force was his only response as the sword was flung towards him like a dart. The Sith dodged and twisted his body to avoid the being that came after him, swing it's weapon like a flail. With his lightsabers the Sith blocked and attacked the creature with a thrush then swipe before flipping away as blaster fire came from above. The Hollow, a most adapt name he felt appropriate, roared with angry and to the shock of the Sith charged up a destructive beam of energy unlike anything ever seen. The droid was atomized from the blast but the Sith was now in full fight mode in angry. How dare the creature destroy his property and ignoring him for some droid.
With a scream of rage the Sith unleashed his lighting on his foe causing it to stumble and fall. The Sith lord smirked before frowning as the hollow being stood up and appeared before him talons ripping the Sith's face apart. The Sith retaliated with a force choke and throw before charging after the creature with lightsabers burning the ground behind him. The insectoid's mandibles clicked together as the Sith wished to feast on his foes flesh for what it had done to him. A punch to the face shattered a mandible then sent the Sith flying into the air. Flipping over the Sith landed with a crouch to establish himself as the force of the landing caused the ground to crack from his slide.
The creature reappeared from the dust cloud from above with a energy blast forming at it's claw tips. Acting fast the Sith flung a saber into the air severing the hand. The Hollow screamed with rage as the energy blade severed it's flesh and used it's tail to swing down on the Sith surprising the insectoid from the blow. While his enemy was stunned the Hollow bit down as hard as it could but was stopped by a rock that was shoved into it's mouth.
"I WILL NOT BE EATEN BY SOME ANIMAL!" The Sith roared furiously, green blood spewing from his mouth where his mandible once was. With a leap he landed on his ship where he used the force to target the creature with his ship's cannons. With a scream he attacked, blasting the earth and sand of the planet along with the creature. With glee the Sith watched as the creature shuttered under the on slot of the cannons before paling as the Hollow screamed with angrier. The Sith gasped as a pressure fell on him as the being glowed with power and before his eyes regenerated from it's wounds.
Summoning his lightsaber from where it fell he redied himself for another round when he noticed something odd. The creature was holding the sword in front of itself and it was glowing. The Sith watched with curiosity and interest before noticing it was too late.
With a roar that sounded like glee the hollow swiped at the ship unleashed a wave of red tipped black energy in the shape of a crescent moon. The Sith used the force and his blades to stop the blast, but was unable to. He screamed in pain as his body was cut and his blades flickered before failing him. He fell to the ground and glared at his enemy. A lightsaber laid by him, ruined by the thing before him but the Sith was not out of the fight yet.
With pain and anger adding to his connection to the dark side the Sith unleashed all his power to attack the being with rocks, stone, boulders, pieces of his ship and bone with his power. The Sith cracked madly as the being swatted away some of the materiel but was battered around. The remaining droid also unleashed it's payload of blaster bolts at the creature that was attacking it's master.
Seeing that it could not dodge, the hollow narrowed it's eyes before spinning rapidly. As it spun it began to unleash mini blasts of the attack that it had used on the Sith. As it spun it plotted on how it would sink it's teeth and devour it's prey. It had too long since a proper fight and it was enjoying it new that it was no longer facing weak prey but prey that could fight back. Hissing though it's teeth, the hollow attacked with earnest want and hunger to eat the pry that had hurt it so.
The time came when the sith was struke by a blast qand lost contral over the malestorm that was holing it in place. With a savage roar of glee and anticipation, it sped towards the Sith where they engaged in a fight to the death, sword vs Lightsaber. A dark force user vs a hunger that reached for more to feed itself.
The two sides, so focused on each other, did not notice that their battle was sending shock waves though the force and throughout the galaxy. The Sith's master and the Jedi on the planet of Coruscant felt the battle and began to plan once more in haste for what was to come. The Jedi were forced to comfort their youngest members while the Sith lords drank the darkness of the force as it filled their bodies.
Both knew the game was changed but how it would affect the other, neither side could tell as of yet. For the Sith, the wild card that was affecting the force was a blessing in discise as the Jedi would be forced to look into it while ingoring the signs of their return.
As for the Jedi, they knew that something had to be done. With the force in turmail, they knew that someone had to go the the home world of the Sith. But who?
As for the two fighters, they did not care what their battle was doing to the universe, altering fate and history. All that mattered was their foe was put down and they feasted on the flesh and bone.
All the while, two females laid in wait for destiny to arrive. One with a child and the other...
A roar echoed in her mind.
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