Chapter 6
A cave in the land of remnant, a test of the force, flashing visions, and a sith warrior
Karel was falling down the pit into the abyss. The darkness surrounded him, but he saw something glow in the dark. "What is that?" Karel hit the ground with a loud thud. "That could have gone better. My back is going to be killing me." Karel looked around, but couldn't see anything. "It's far too dark to use my eyes. Without my lightsaber I can't see anything here. I got a far distance away from that Sith at least." Karel reached out with the force to get a glimpse of his surroundings. He saw three way split and heard the hum of an ignited lightsaber and a darkness filled the room. "I finally found you Jedi." Karel turned around and was able to get a batter look at the sith following him. His mask was white except for small red marks above the eyes and a piece of metal just above the nose. "You, you can't be here… You've been dead for almost 4000 years. You were killed on the Ravager." Karel let his fear show, and the dark Lord of the sith moved closer. He raised his hand closing the airway on Karel's throat. A second before the sith would have crushed the airway he threw the boy through the nearest opening in the cave. The sith Lord disappeared, almost if he changed form. Another sith from the past, a sith warrior from a time long ago. A human male from the look of it, and Karel knew who it was. He still gave off the presence of the dark side, and he laughed.
"That was unpleasant. Who or whatever that thing is really is a pain. It almost killed me." Karel sat down and meditated to find where he needed to go. A light appeared in the cave and Karel followed it. He saw the figure of a Jedi. He was human and he was meditating. "Who are you?" Karel covered his eyes as a light shown so brightly that it could have made him blind, and then it faded. When Karel opened his eyes he saw the Jedi standing there "Young padawan, I know that you are on this journey, and are on a world that is unfamiliar to the force. I have felt it." The Jedi stopped and waited for Karel to look at him. "Who are you, and why do I feel like I know you… no even the force couldn't do this. You are Revan, the Jedi master, and Sith Lord. How can I see you, and why aren't you trying to kill me like all the others?"
"I am not truly here like the others, but I am here for your trial. The sith of the past here are to try you. I am here to make sure you have a fighting chance. This is all the information I can give you, beside information about who I am proxying for. You won't be able to talk to me after you leave this room, but know that I will be there for you when you need it."
"Okay, but I have one question."
"Ask it, and I will do my best to answer it."
"What was that thing chasing me?
"That is a vision of the past, like me, but this one is here to test you, and it can kill you if you aren't careful. Now go choose your way." Revan showed Karel two branching paths. "The force is my guide. Thank you Revan." Karel walked through the right passage way, and the light of Revan disappeared.
Karel walked through the cave until he was stopped by the spirit of an ancient Sith Lord. He pulled out his lightsaber, and it was a duel sided blue lightsaber. The sith threw his lightsaber at Karel, but Karel ducked the blade, and he sent out a force push. It didn't affect the Sith Lord, but it did distract him. The sith lord forgot to pick up his lightsaber, and he sent a wave of force lightning, but Karel grabbed the scattered saber. He tried to turn it on, but is dissipated in his hands. The force lightning hit Karel, sending him to the nearby wall. Karel screamed, and heard a voice call out "Blue!" Karel and the Sith lord looked up and saw Weiss jump down and stand ready to fight.
"White, get out of here!"
"No, I can't leave you here alone!" Weiss shot a blast of fire dust, but the Sith used the force and waked the dust to the side. Weiss looked shocked while the sith pulled out his lightsaber "That was destroyed, how do you have that?" The sith ignored the question, and used the force on Weiss. He used the force choke Weiss and he pulled out his lightsaber. With his mind the Sith threw Karel at the wall keeping him up, and made him watch what he was about to do.
"White! No, I can't let this happen!"
"Silence!" The sith griped him harder, and Karel screamed.
"Blue! Help m…" She said as the sith pulled her into the lightsaber, Weiss fell limp and the sith turned off his lightsaber
"Stand Jedi, and face your destiny!"
Karel gripped the dirt on the cave floor, and a dark power flowed through him and he lifted up his hands "White! I will destroy you!"
"Let that anger flow through you, and strike me down Jedi. It is the only way to kill me."
"Shut up!" Karel pushed the sith at the nearest wall and he picked up Weiss's limp head. The tears came down and Karel closed her eyes. He turned his head towards the sith and used the force once more to push him even further. Karel saw the sith pick himself up and change form. This sith was tall, two meters tall. His skin was pale except for two marks of blue. His body was well built and filled with muscles. He was a pool of dark side power, and he looked down at, and upon, Karel.
"you are a little pathetic thing. I have spit on ground tougher than you." The sith Lord threw Karel into a tunnel. When he got up he saw a new room, but this one was familiar. He looked around and saw a room in the Jedi temple. "What is this?" he said He saw the damage from Order 66, long after that day. He saw a person enter the room. He was tall and blonde wearing a black robe, showing a patch of white. He saw the lightsaber at his side and waited for him to talk. "This place was once great. I hope to restore it to that same state it once was. It is now my mission to rebuild the order." The man noticed his com Link went off "Alright Leia, I'll be there soon." The Jedi looked around one last time and left the temple ground. "That man, the force is flowing through him. He is so strong." Karel looked at the man walk out of the temple. The vision faded, and in the room was dark again. "What was that?"
"A vision it was." The voice of master Yoda came to Karel.
"Master? Where are you?"
"Gone you are, alone you fell. Remember your training and joy you will feel. The light a powerful ally it is. Trust the light, let it shine. Guide you it will."
"Master, I have no idea what's real anymore. This cave will kill me master."
"Trust in the force."
"master…"
"who are you talking to?" Karel turned around and saw Bora
"What? What are you doing here?"
"You brought me here."
"Yeah, we need to get to that crystal. Follow me."
"Alright" Karel grabbed Bora's hands and he moved the two of them further down the cave. After following the force for ten minutes Karel heard the familiar and terrifying hum of a lightsaber being ignited "There you are Boy!" Karel turned around and saw the sith lord. When he turned he saw the same sith, but he had armor on now, and it covered his body. He was accompanied by a young woman, looking no older than twenty two. Bora got out her blasters and used a light on her gauntlet to signal everyone. Ruby, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Phyrra, and Ren came down from the roof of the room. They all readied their weapons and Ruby yelled "Attack!"
"No! Don't attack them!" They ignored the command as the sith apprentice got out her weapon. Blake was the first one to get to the sith. The woman rolled to the right and sliced down, cutting Blake's weapon in half. Blake used her semblance to attack the sith from behind, but she used the force to grab Blake's neck. Yang dashed forward and punched, but the sith moved her blade, cutting off yang's hand. The sith crushed Blake's airway, killing her, and focused on Yang. Force lightning arched from out of her fingers hitting yang, and she was dead.
The armored sith was being attacked by the members of team JNPR when Ren jumped forward to kick the dark Lord. He stood there as the kick connected, but it did nothing. The dark lord turned to Ren and brought his lightsaber in him, killing him. Nora jumped forward hammer in hand but the sith lord grabbed the handle, breaking the mighty hammer in his hand, and he crushed Nora's hand. He swung his saber, cutting of the once cheerful girl's head off. Phyrra used her magnetism to shoot out the lightsaber of the man and she charged him. The sith lord let the spear hit him and grabbed Phyrra's shield, crushing it in his hands. Jaune came up behind and sliced the hand of the man, but it did nothing to help, as the injury of the sith lord healed itself because of the orbalisk armor. The sith grabbed the necks of both teens, and sent electricity down both body's killing both.
"Ruby, get out of here!"
"No! This monster killed my sister, my Team! I'll make her pay!" Ruby moved faster than Karel could detect, and she got in close, but the woman used an ancient Sith art. Sith Sorcery. Ruby started screaming and shooting randomly until the sith woman cut her down. "That was enough of that." The two sith lord changed form again. This time it was a face that Karel knew, and once respected. The elderly man saw the two "Those clones most have missed one. I'll clean up after them."
Bora charged the sith and she pulled out her Vibroblade, only for it to be destroyed with a lightsaber cut. Bora pulled out her blasters but they were both destroyed the same way. "You are in my way little girl." The sith used the force and shocked Bora with such a power that she was a crisp corpse in the blink of an eye.
"No…" Karel fell to his knees realizing that he would die if he ran. The sith was followed by another sith, the great Jedi hunter and the fallen chosen. "Master he is the only Jedi in these caves. Shall I take care of him?"
"Alright"
Karel started meditating fully understanding that he was nothing to these people, but he fell in shame. He let the force guide him and so what it would do. If he would be killed in this cave then so be it, he wouldn't fight back. He heard a lightsaber ignite and it was raised, he heard it come down and he felt nothing. The cave was empty, and his friends weren't there. He opened his eyes and saw a purple light in the distance. He got up and followed the light. He heard a voice call out to him "Young padawan, you have passed the test. You excepted the fact that you couldn't save everyone, and stared death in the face with no fear. You have proven yourself. The trials may have begun, but you have passed on of many. You are close to knighthood. As a reward for completing this task we are entrusting you with this Kyber crystal." The voice sounded familiar
"Who are you?"
"I am no one, but I used to be someone." Well that didn't help Karel thought
"Who were you in life?"
"I was a Jedi master, my name is Qui-Gon Jinn."
Karel knew him, he was the master of jedi master Obi wan "how can I see you?"
"sadly, I was killed before I got to that part of my training. Please young padawan, take this crystal and get out of the cave. If you need to talk to me then you will find a way to get to me."
"Um, master. Everything I saw in this cave, my friends dying, did that happen?"
"no young padawan. That was a part of the test, and you have past. All you saw here were illusions made by the cave. Now it's time to leave this place and join your friends once more."
"How am I going to get out of here? The trek down here was long and there were lots of high holes that I can't jump past."
"no need to fear young padawan. The cave has provided a way for you to leave." Karel thought he saw a hand wave passed him, and the cave wall opened up. Karel looked at the crystal. "Thank you master. Thank you for your guidance." Karel walked towards the exit of the cave and walked up a staircase for a while. In that time the robes that he was wearing turned back into his cloths and his lightsaber came back. He placed the crystal in his pocket for safe keepings until he made the new lightsaber out of it. The young padawan walked until the cave opened a way out for him. When he got out he saw Bora, Nora, and Ren were all waiting outside of the entrance. Ren was the first to notice him and called the others. "How was It down there? We tried to follow you, but the entrance caved in."
"I got what we came here to get, and here's the beauty in all its glory." Karel lifted out the purple crystal from his pocket and showed it to the teens. Bora moved forward and took the crystal "So this is the famous kyber crystal, so small, but so powerful. It truly is a magnificent thing." Bora said and handed the crystal back to Karel. Nora looked at it and said "That was all, there weren't dozens of crystals like them?"
"No Nora, this is the only one of its type down there. Trust me, I almost died a few times to get this." Karel said that then remembered the fight he saw between all his friends and the sith. "When I was down there I saw something. Team RWBY and team JNPR with Bora al came to protect me."
"So we did what hunters do then?" Ren said
"No, everyone except for me was…" Karel stopped as he remembered the fight. He knew this was bad, but very likely if it ever did happen
"What happened to us? Did we get hurt?" Nora said, worried about his answer
"Yes, I saw everyone getting… Killed." Silence filled the air
"All of us?" Nora asked
"yeah. Weiss was first, then Blake, Yang, you Ren, and You Nora. The sith lord grabbed Jaune and Phyrra by their necks and sent shockwaves powerful enough to kill them instantly. Ruby went insane and was killed. Bora, It was Palpatine. He killed you."
Bora stepped by Karel "I doubt that could ever happen, but we'll be better than we are now. I will make sure of it. Karel was shaken, and agreed. "And it was just a dream right Jedi. Let's get going, we have a lot to explain to the teams. And you have to tell Weiss"
"I did a while ago, but yeah I do need to tell everyone. Ren, Nora, can you pilot the ship for me?"
"sure can." Nora said, Ren shook his head
Karel got on the ship and went into his master meditation room. He started to meditate on what he saw in the caves, and he felt something. A ripple in the force. It wasn't something that any force user would feel unless they were paying very close attention, but the fear of being found was there. "I have to remember to try not do things like that often.
In a far off place from remnant in open space stood a single inquisitor under the order form Lord Vader himself to find any Jedi and eliminate them in the outer reaches of space. The mission was simple enough then he felt something in a different part of the galaxy, no wait it was farther than that. It was a lot farther than that. "Commander!" The imperial commander came up to the masked sith warrior "yes?"
"How many galaxy are in lightspeed reach from the outer rim?"
"There are three sir."
'How many from Coruscant?"
"two sir, but one is much farther than the first. We have no information because the average feul cells would be depleted when you get into the galaxy, and any ship that went in never came back out. Does that answer your question sir?"
"Yes, but now here's another one. How long till we can get to the a ship to that galaxy and back?"
"Sir..?" The imperial commander stepped back
"You heard me commander. When are we able to get to that galaxy and back. I need to do something for Lord Vader and it is in that galaxy."
"Well your guess is as good as mine sir. The empire has no ships that can reach the far off galaxy that you speak of. It is to mush stress on the engines."
"Spoken like a true coward commander. In one year's time everyone under my command will travel to a certain planet in that galaxy, I have felt the presence of a Jedi, and on a world we don't know about. That could be terrible for our glorious empire. One year commander, or you will feel my wrath." To put emphasis on wrath the inquisitor used the force to choke the commander. He let him go and left the command bridge. The imperial officers started working harder and faster, making a trip for the empire's homeworld. The inquisitor went into his quarters and knelt down "My lord. I have felt a ripple in the force. It came from a far off galaxy, but I felt it all the same. With your authority I would humbly ask you to let me travel to this world and eradicate the Jedi. The threat he can pose is great to our empire."
"Do as you please."
"I will leave in one year sir. May the dark side prevail." Vader ended the call and the inquisitor stood up, he walked out of the room.
Author's notes: hey guys, so I made this a short story arch, but I none years' time, all I will say is everything goes at beacon. Trust me that will be some of the best work I will write. The other galaxy is a dwarf galaxy seen in SWTOR. So everyone, I will Try to post a new chapter on Mondays, but I still want to live my life. Please review and give me feedback. I want to hear from you guys.
