Chapter 8

The newly crowned Darth Interitus is taken from Coruscant and taken to Vjun. Here he began his Sith training.

Darth Sidious looks down at his new apprentice. "Darth Interitus are you ready to begin your training?"

"Yes Master."

"Good the life you knew is over. Your new life as a Sith will be a hard one. Victories will be rewarded. Failures though will not be tolerated and will result in harsh consequences. Do you understand?"

"Yes my Master, I will strive to not disappoint you."

"See that you do not. You are no longer a child and I will not treat you as such. You will do as I say without question. My word is law. Your only reason to exist is to serve me."

"I understand my Master, when do we start?"

"Now my young apprentice. We will start with meditation. Sit and do as I do." The Sith Master sits down crossing his legs. "Now concentrate on your anger. Remember the feeling you had that night in the alley. Now focus it. 'Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken.' That is the Sith way."

Interitus thinks on that night. The hatred and the anger he felt for those three beings. He could feel this sensation around him.

"Good my apprentice. That feeling is the Force. Relish it, savor it. Let it flow through you. This is your power. In time you will learn to control it."

The first three months of the new Sith's life was constant meditation. He would sit with his Master for hours, to the point were he would lose the feelings in his legs. He made the mistake of trying to move once to get the feeling back. He was thrown across the room and against the wall, "Did I give you permission to move?" His Master asked him.

"No Master, my legs were numb and I was just trying to get the feeling back."

"I did not ask for you excuses." With a wave of his hand Darth Sidious tossed him into another wall. "Discomfort is no reason to defy me. If you were waiting in one spot for your enemy and you legs went numb would you get up. NO. You deal with it; use it to make you stronger. Turn the feeling into something you can use. Use the Dark Side to return to your body what it needs. Do you understand?"

"Yes Master."

"Good. Now when I tell you to meditate, you will do so until I have given you permission to get up."

"Yes Master. I will not do it again." The younger Sith replied, bowing to his Master.

"Very well. Now return to your meditation."

"As you command my Master."

The next meditation session was much like the others he has had with his Master. After three hours his legs had gone numb again, but he did not dare move. He called upon the Force to begin the feeling back into his legs. His legs began to feel a little better, but only enough to make it even more uncomfortable. Calling upon is frustration with not being able to relieve himself of the stiffness in his, he felt a surge of the Dark Side flow through him. A burning sensation shot through his legs. The novice Sith had to bite down on the inside of his mouth to keep himself from jumping from the pain. The feeling in his legs came back too quickly for him and he was not ready for it.

As the pain eased he was able to comfortable feel his legs again and returned to his meditation. With his eyes closed he sensed his Master begin to stir. The older Sith Lord began to rise. Interitus was relieved that the session was over. He began to relax. "No, he has not given me permission to get up." He thought to himself.

Darth Sidious rose and stretched his body. Looking over at his apprentice he noticed that he had not moved yet. "Good. He is learning." The Sith Lord thought. The Sith Master then decided to test his young apprentice. Without a word he left the room.

A confused Interitus sat there. "Now what in the galaxy am I to do now?" Having not been told to move, he dared not. He sat there for hours not moving a muscle. Continuing his mediation, he thought of the things he wanted to do. He knew that his Master was testing him. Opening his eyes he looked around. He was alone, but knew better that to move. He noticed a book sitting on a table next to his Master's chair. Concentrating on the book, he decided to see if he could make it move. Focusing himself on the book, he imagined it rising from the table. After five minutes nothing happened. Aggravated that nothing is happening, he took a breath and began to re-focus himself. "Focus you emotions. Don't ask it to move, order it to do as I want." Trying again he controlled his anger at the book. Slowly it began to rise. Concentrating he willed the book to come to him. After reaching him, the young Sith decided to try and get it to float in front of him. Turning the book in mid-air, he made it flip and rotate. Feeling it slip away and knowing that if he let it fall or got up to put it back his Master would be most unhappy. Summoning the Force some more he returned the book back to where he got it from.

Watching his apprentice Darth Sidious could not suppress a smile. "Very good. Maybe it is time to move onto telekinesis." The Sith Master walked away leaving his apprentice for a while longer.

Darth Interitus had not moved since his Master had left. His whole body is sore; once again he can not feel his legs. Unable to summon the Force to rejuvenate his legs again, the young boy succumbs to his body's wariness and falls asleep in his meditation position. Unknown to him his Master enters the room. Noticing that his apprentice had not moved since he left, the Master was upset that the boy has done nothing wrong. That is until he notices that he has fallen asleep. A wicked grin spreads across his face.

Once again the Sith apprentice finds himself flying across the room. "DID I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO SLEEP?"

"No Mas…" was all he got out before a searing pain shot through his body. The Sith Lord stares at his apprentice as he pumps his Force Lightning into him.

"I did not tell you that you may stop meditating and sleep." Emphasizing this with more Lightning. He then stops. "I have told you that I will not tolerate disobedience." Sidious then spent the next hour slowly torturing the younger Sith. "Now return to your room."

"Yes Master." The boy replied struggling to bring himself to a knee, before slowly dragging himself out of the room. Sidious sits in his chair as his apprentice crawled out to return to his room. Calling a Holocron to himself the Sith Master began recording his progress with his new apprentice.

Darth Interitus learned quickly not to be told twice by his Master. After his first mistake in meditation. The young Dark Lord would spend what little time he had to himself sitting in his meditation position until his body went numb, forcing himself not to more for hours on end. His Master had told him how to use the Force to relieve the numbness in his body and he began to think that the Force could help keep him awake if needed also.