The Sith Angels
Chapter 4
The adventure continues. The Exile will be coming soon. Whether she will be dark, light, cheerful or broken remains to be seen. Well I know because I'm writing the story. It'd be a bit stupid if I didn't know what I was going to write.
Both Lonna and Atris went back to my flagship while I, Bastila and many Soldiers and Dark Jedi marched towards the Senate Building.
Luckily it wasn't too far from the Jedi Temple and therefore we arrived quickly. Once we arrived at the mushroom shaped building I noticed how quiet it was. There were no sounds of blaster fire, no screams of fear or terror only silence. This was soon broken by a report by my top Mandalorian.
"As you can see we have the surrounded the entire building" Canderous explained. "We have had minimal losses and no senators have been killed or have escaped. All of the senators have been locked up tight in the Grand Convocation Chamber since we got here".
"Good, that will makes things easier" I reply with a smile. "Time to disband the senate"
Again, we marched, with the three of us in the lead. The few guards that remained were quickly overwhelmed as well as a Jedi that thought he could hide in the senate building.
We made our way towards one of the Chancellor's offices: one that is below the Grand Convocation Chamber. I can already sense the fear coming off of the so called leader of the Republic. He should be scared.
The doors open and an older man, with greying hair sat behind a desk. I can see he is shaking. Pathetic: only the strong deserve to lead not this feeble excuse of a human being. I feel my anger start to rise at how the Republic is governed but then remember that that is the reason I am here.
"Leave us" I say to my escort. They quickly bow and go, leaving only me and Bastila alone with this man.
I gracefully walk over to him with Bastila close beside me and sit down on the opposite side of his desk. There are a few moments of awkward silence before anyone speaks. Perhaps he believes keeping quiet will keep him alive: I don't think so.
"You can't be Revan" he whimpers. I nod, saying I am. "But... you don't look like a Sith!" He spits out the word Sith venomously.
"You think that because I am a Sith, that I am of the dark side, that I am evil? Well you would be wrong. You have been too easily manipulated by the Jedi Order to believe in there hypocritical lies" I say calmly. "Furthermore, how could you possibly trust them over us? We were the ones that saved the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars but yet you believed in what a Jedi Council, that didn't and doesn't help you, said".
"We believed them because you attacked us dammit!" the Chancellor shouts in desperation.
I shake my head. "If I recall correctly, and that might be difficult considering the Jedi erased my memory, but I'm sure that you attacked us first". He looks to me in shock. "Oh, is that something else the Jedi didn't tell you. They attacked us first, believing we had all turned to the dark side and then told you that we attacked them."
He shakes his head in disbelieve. "I don't believe it. The Jedi can't..."
"Have been lying to you?" I interrupt. "Of course they were. They don't care about the Republic, they only care about themselves." Or cared. I lean forward slightly. "Do you believe me?"
I see now that he's looking at me differently and after a few moments he nods. "I knew there was something wrong with the Jedi, especially that first battle".
"Then, can you talk to the Senate for me. I want them to hear the truth, from their leader". He again nods and gets up from his seat. We walk together over to his pod and then are lifted straight into the middle of the Galactic Senate.
Many people look in shock at us, the enemy, standing next to their leader. The noise level begins to rise as the senators start to mumble and talk to one another. I begin to get impatient and Bastila, sensing this, calls out for everyone to quiet down. Not wishing to annoy us everyone does as ordered: that's my Bastila.
"As you undoubtedly know, I and the Sith have invaded and conquered Coruscant". A few murmurs began but I cut them off with a raise of my hand. "We have come here, to the centre of the once great Republic to ask for your co-operation and support. We want you all to continue to govern your territories but you must answer to me".
I stopped and a human senator shouted out "Why should we answer to you?"
"Because I will make this galaxy strong again. I have no quarrel with anyone in particular..." except the Jedi "... but I do hate the way in which this government is run. I come to you today to form the first true Sith Empire". There was no sound for a long time but after a few seconds senators began to rise and voice their support. Obviously most of the Senators must feel the same way as I do.
"And as my first act as the Emperor of this new Empire I hereby decree that every Jedi who does not swear allegiance to the Sith be hunted down and defeated like the animals they are". A number of the senators cheer but some do not so I try to appeal to a different side of them. "The former leader of the Republic will explain the reasons for this order" I say as I move aside so he can speak.
"Today it was explained to me that the Jedi Order lied to both I and you, senators, about the first battle of the Jedi Civil War." The senators all quietened down. "At the battle of Foerost, the Sith arrived but before they could contact us they were attacked by Jedi fighters. Revan then ordered her ships to bomb the docks to stop the attackers. The Jedi lied to us, saying the Sith attacked us first, and they caused millions to lose their lives as well as making us fight against our own hero's, the ones who saved us in the Mandalorian Wars". He is a good speaker. Perhaps I will keep him alive. Or maybe I'll make his daughter kill him. She's becoming quite a powerful Sith.
As I looked around the huge hall I could see that the senators, where beginning to get angry at the Order. I smiled: good.
"Furthermore, they erased Revan's memories. I say that we all support this Empire and destroy the Jedi Order that threatened this galaxy". Everyone in the Senate stood up and clapped and cheered their support to me and my Empire. This went a lot better than I expected. I grinned and looked to Bastila who smiled back.
Everything was falling into place. Soon we would rule, the galaxy would be strong and the Jedi would be extinct.
Lonna sat crossed legged in front of me, trying desperately to meditate. She was finding it difficult, I could tell, and my mind kept telling me that it was because she'd been through a lot: with the death of everything she once knew, but my gut told me it was something else.
"You're struggling" I stated as I sat down beside her. I was dressed in a simple black shirt and pants while she wore some grey coloured robes. "What's wrong?"
She looked at me. "I'm worried for someone, someone I know I should have helped but didn't". I knew immediately who she was speaking of.
"My former General. The one the Order exiled". Jue Shiela, my only real friend during the Mandalorian Wars. She had been my only real lifeline throughout the Mandalorian Wars, while I was still a Jedi. She stopped me from falling to the dark side.
However she had told me that she had been in love with Kavar but from the hurt I could hear in Lonna's voice it was as if there had been something between her and Lonna as well. I always knew that Lonna had liked women as well but I hadn't known Jue had as well.
I slowly placed a hand upon her delicate looking shoulder and another underneath her chin so that I could raise her face to look upon mine.
"We will find her Lonna" I told. "Together. We will make sure she's safe". She nodded but I could see that tears were beginning to fall from her eyes once again. "What is it?" I asked softly.
She started to sob. "It's what the Council did to her. What I allowed them to do to her. They cut her off from the Force" she told me. I gasped in shock but then that shock was replaced by anger. Again the Jedi had proved how pathetic they were. I needed to end them permanently.
"We will find her" I said as I held my friend close to me. "Don't you worry".
A shorter chapter than usual but I wanted to stop it here because the part will be a few weeks in the future.
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