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A/N: Hi all and welcome to another chapter of Raven's rise, I think I did good with chapter and must say that I had fun doing it I do think that a lot of you well enjoy what is going to happen in this chapter, do review and let me know what you think. Enjoy!
Chapter 10: Restored Minds.
Over the next galactic month or so Raven and the others found themselves travelling all over the galaxy to find the other Star maps and were now down to their last one, this one on the Sith world of Korriban the team growing to include two new Jedi Jolee Bindo, and Juhani.
Not that Harry seemed to mind as Jolee was a quiet old man who left him alone to his own devices and Juhani had been easy to turn on the council and realise that the council was leading them to there deaths.
At the moment Harry was sitting back at the helm of his ship Carth working the controls and keeping the ship on its course for Korriban, Raven was in the cargo bay training with her Lightsabers trying to master the moves that Harry had shown her earlier but for some reason she felt like she already knew these moves.
Bastila was watching the middle age woman train and just knew that it was only a matter of time now before she remembered everything and Harry would be the first person she would go to not the council or anyone else just Harry.
Everyone else was either sleeping or just enjoying some quiet time, Harry who had been dozing for the moment looked up and says softly looking dead ahead, "Carth we are about to be attacked and this old girl isn't up to taking on a Sith warship so let them capture us."
"How can you possibility..." Carth trailed off as a Sith warship appeared in front of them locking on a tractor beam a moment later. "Everyone up we have company!" He shouted out after the shock of a warship coming out of hyperspace in front of them.
"What the hell! Where did that ship come from?" Bastila says in surprise on seeing the ships cargo bay coming into sight.
"Never mind that what are you lot going to do once those Sith start storming up that cargo ramp?" Harry says calmly still sitting back.
"You're going to be locked up like the rest of us you know so maybe you could give some ideas of your own for a change." Mission says sharply only to be looking at an empty chair as Harry vanished from sight.
"Stealth and shadows the way of all Sith." Bastila spat out having felt Harry walk out of the room a moment later his Force signature vanished from everyone's sense.
Raven gave a sigh and says calmly looking were Harry had been, "Mission I want you to try and get yourself thrown into another cell and then with your skills I want you to get the rest of us out, the doors shouldn't be a problem for you, everyone else try not to fight as we are going to be outnumbered a good thirty to one."
Everyone nodded in understanding a few minutes later everyone was disarmed and being marched towards the holding cells Mission being able to upset the guard on her enough to throw her into another set of cells and away from the others, watching the whole thing Harry just smiled as he felt another barrier come down on Raven's mind and now it was only a matter of hours before she was herself.
An hour later Harry was calmly moving along behind Raven, Carth and Bastila as they fought their way to the bridge to deal with the tractor beam that was keeping the ship there, his blades lashing out at those who tried to attack the flank of the small group a small smile on his face as Raven was taking the fastest route to the bridge without realising it.
Harry stopped however when he felt the push against his mind that only one person would be foolish enough to try, turning away from the group knowing that Raven could take care of herself now that her skills were nearly back to the level they had been before the council had messed around with her mind he started down to the hanger bay knowing that Malak was there waiting for him and Raven.
He calmly moved through he ship already knowing that Malak was trying to move around him to get to Raven before she fully awakened as he know that he didn't stand a chance against Harry and that Raven was a much easier target in her weakened state yet he knew that that wouldn't be the problem soon.
After a few minutes of cat and mouse Harry calmly stood before Malak blocking his way to the next deck Harry just giving him an even smile at the metal collar that marked were Raven had flown into a rage and took his jaw off for trying to under mind her position in the early stages of the what people were calling the Jedi Civil War.
"My former Master, I would say it's nice to see you but your blocking my way to taking full power over the Sith." Malak says sharply looking at Harry closely already reaching out with his mind to feel for all of Harry's weapons and also in case he did his invisible trick to fight him.
"This so called Sith fleet will soon be back under its true leader Malak and you will be dead at my hands as I don't want Raven to dirty her hands with your blood, traitor." Harry says as all six blades come into being all around him a small smile on his face as Malak activated his single blade.
"No it's mine all of it, not even you can stop me now as I have learned the true secrets of the Star Forge and can control its power even from here." Malak says bringing his Lightsaber around ready for any possible attack Harry could make with his six blades.
"You mean the ability to drain Force power from other Force Users and put it into yourself." Harry says a smile on his face at the shocked look on Malak's face at the fact he know that little titbit. "Raven and I knew from the beginning but we only wanted it as a weapons platform and factory."
"Then you are weak for not using it to its full potential."
"No we are strong for using our own strength and not the strength of others."
Malak didn't bother to answer back to Harry's comment and just raised a hand, Force Lighting arcing from his fingers right at the black haired Jedi Knight.
Harry calmly stepped back a few feet letting the lighting smash into one of his sabre blades, the violet blade crackling with energy for a few moments afterwards but otherwise remained undamaged. Before Malak could launch another attack Harry just flicked his wrist as Malak was thrown backwards by the power of his Force Wave.
Malak did a flip in midair to avoid crashing into the door he had just came through his eyes narrowing at the power behind that relaxed hand motion, 'He wasn't this strong before? How did he increase his strength without using the Star Forge?'
"You know you should really work on shielding your mind as I heard all of that." Harry says with a laugh stepping to the side again as a bolt of lightning went past, his laugh only growing in volume, "As to your unasked question, I am stronger because I respect all life while you destroy all life." Harry says after a few minutes getting into a combat crouch all six blades up and ready for anything.
Malak gave what sounded like a snarl but without a lower jaw and only able to talk because of the metal jaw taking the vibrations of his vocal cards and turning them into sounds for others it just didn't sound right not that he cared as he jumped forward trying to move all of the blades in between him and Harry.
The two of them seemed to dance around each other for a few minutes Malak showing that he had improved a little with the blade but against Harry's unique six blade style combat he was hard pressed just to get into striking distances with the man.
Harry jumped back from another burst of lighting and with a flick of his wrist sent Malak tumbling end over end again with another Force Wave his smile still in place as he brought the four violet blades back to hover over his head again.
"Seeing you like this it makes me wonder how on earth we were friends so long ago. Look at you twisted by your hate towards everything and me embracing life and willing to forgive and forget." Harry says calmly sending all four blades at Malak who quickly started to block them as best he could.
Before Malak could answer that a voice came over the ship's com, a voice that Malak hoped to never hear again and one that Harry couldn't help but smile, "This is Raven to all Sith forces on board this ship, know that I have taken back control of my fleet or will be doing so soon and the traitor Malak will pay for trying and failing to kill me,"
"NO!!!" Malak screamed out in rage charging forward at Harry who just smiled and blocked or deflected all of his wild swings the smile only growing at the anger and rage coming off his former friend as his swings were getting even wilder as he didn't want to kill him until Raven gave the say so.
"My love Harry, I know you are fighting that traitor at this time so do me a favour and bring me his head or if that's to much just that jaw of his." Raven's voice came over a few moments later as the com went dead not long after that Harry just giving a smile as Malak's eyes' widened Harry shifting from defence to attack in one smooth move Malak finding himself trying to defend from a half dozen blades all at once only just keeping up by tapping heavily into the Force.
"Times up." Harry says with a smile as he jumped up and kicked off the roof of the hallway all four floating blades coming in and moving Malak's blade out of the way as Harry landed behind the Sith Lord a sad look coming over his face as he stood up and deactivated all of his blades returning them to there resting place.
"You could have walked away at any time Malak you could have stuck to our plan for the Republic but you strayed and killed for no reason, like so many others you lost yourself to the rage… I'm sorry my old friend." Harry says softly not even turning around when he heard a thud of something metal on the ground behind him a slumping sound coming a few seconds after that.
Without turning around to look at the headless body behind him Harry waved a hand and caught the Lightsaber that Malak had been using since he left the Jedi Temple and joined in the Mandalorian War the blade that had helped fight off countless True Sith beyond the rim and the blade that had taken innocent lives.
"This will be proof enough for her my old friend as I refuse to desecrate your body." Harry says softly starting down the hallway to meet up with Raven and see what happened to their new friends now that she was back but the question on his mind being wether or not she would let go of her rage over their Child's death.
The bridge was in chaos when Harry walked on to it, Raven was standing at the far end still dressed in the Jedi robes at the moment, Carth was tied to a chair to one side as was Bastila who had also been blindfolded and a collar attached to her neck to stop her from using the Force to get out. The crew was running all over the place to try and sort out everything that needed to be done now that Raven was back in charge many of them remember her short temper for failing to follow orders.
"Is it done?" She asks softly without turning around to face Harry just watching his reflection in the window of the bridge calmly one hand coming up to rub her forehead as if to relive a headache.
"He's dead."
"Did you bring me his head?"
"No."
"Why not? He betrayed both of us and tried to kill us both."
"Because he was once our friend and I won't desecrate his body in that way, I did take his head but I won't bring it to you." Harry says moving to stand behind Raven and held out the Sabre for her to see Raven just giving a nod.
"You're right… arrange for his body to be picked up and given full rights," Raven says softly turning finally to face Harry, her eyes still brown and filled with love now her long red hair only just starting to show a little grey from a hard life of war and politics. "I've let my hate go Harry, I still feel the pain of failing to protect my… no… our daughter but I no longer hate the Republic or the Jedi for it but we still have to finish this war and the council has to be changed if the Republic is to survive the coming darkness."
Harry just smiled and leaned in and kissed her one hand coming up and cup the side of her face Raven's hands moving up to encircle his neck pulling him into a deep kiss neither of them paying Carth any mind when he made a sound of protest at the display in front of him.
"Its nice to have you back love, now what do you say to taking this ship and a few others right to Coruscant and finish the council off once and for all, Xune should be meeting us there soon as she has been hunting down and removing all traces of Dark Side users from within the Republic all this time."
"We don't have a clear path to Coruscant in case you have forgotten Harry dear, and what is this about Xune hunting Dark Side users when she cut herself off from the Force at Malachor V."
"She didn't cut herself off the way we thought, she seems to form bonds through the Force easily and when we destroyed Malachor V she cut herself off to give her body and mind time to recover from the shock of so much death on that day."
"In that case all we need is the new beacon code and a couple of dozen ships and we will be set." Raven says with a smile looking at Carth and Bastila before pushing a button to one side and saying into the ships com, "HK, do bring everyone on board the Tigress to the bridge as I would like to talk to them all."
"Happy Commentary: Oh Master I am so happy to hear your voice again and be able to follow your orders again, I'll bring all of the Meat Bags to you right away Master." came HK's voice a few moments later a few cries of protest at being pushed off the ship and back onto the Warship they had been trying to get away from.
"Don't worry Carth and Bastila; I'm not going to hurt them I just thought they would like a first class view of the fall of the Order's Temple and the death of those cowards in the Council room." Raven says in a sweet voice to both Carth and Bastila when they had tensed at her order a moment ago.
"You can't get into the core worlds though as they change the Hyperspace beacon codes every time the Sith take one beacon so your stuck out here." Carth spat at her a smile on his face at her raised eyebrow.
"I know that and you know that and so does everyone else but what they don't know is that I'm not aiming to bring my fleet right into orbit of Coruscant but into the system next to it. Then I'll move in from there, all those planetary defences and ships setting on the exit point would be such a headache. Also to add insult to injury I'm going to only take a dozen or so people with me and head right to the temple leaving the rest of the planet alone despite what the Council has been saying I have no desire to take over the Republic."
"Those codes are changed too Raven so how do you plan on getting around that problem." Bastila says tilting her head to one side when she felt a hand take the blindfold and pull it from her head her eyes being greeted by the sight of Harry looking down at her with a large smile.
"What did you think I was doing all those times you lot went hunting for the Star Maps Bastila, I was getting the codes all of them and ever time they changed I had them updated and as the Sith haven't take any beacons in a few weeks… well you get the picture." Harry says with a laugh at the shocked look on both Carth and Bastila's faces at that information.
"You can't, Raven will wipe out the Order and replace it with a Sith organization." Bastila says sharply only to have her hair pulled back making her look at Raven who had narrowed her eyes at that comment.
"I have no intention to wipe out the Order and bring in a Sith one… I want to strengthen the Order to be able to fight what lies beyond the Rim, in fact I'll show you something that only a few have seen before now." Raven almost snarls out bringing a hand up to undo the front of her robes and pulling them down to show she wore a black sports bra and just below that on her stomach was the dozens of stab wounds and burns all over her stomach not counting other locations they couldn't see.
"Those scars are from True Sith torture that only lasted three weeks and they didn't do it for information after the first few days, they did it because to them it was fun it was pleasure it was what gave their little lives joy to inflict pain on others, you tell me I'm a Sith when I only killed as needed when I don't wipe out whole worlds just because they didn't fall into line while Malak and these Sith would, so don't ever class me in the same class as them…" Raven trailed off here and seemed to go into a daze one hand coming up to rub some of the scars on her stomach before saying looking Bastila in the eyes the shock on the younger woman's face at the injures and what she said clearly showing on her face now.
"I am grey… I am neither light nor dark side of the Force but grey I use both the light and the dark in hopes of helping those who would suffer under those who are dark yet be a voice for them against the arrogances of the light."
"Much like I am." Harry says turning to look at the door to the bridge when it opened and HK walked in leading the rest of the group all of them looking a little surprised at Raven's state of undress but she didn't seem to mind as she pulled the robe off fully and threw it to one side showing the simple pants she had on underneath them turning her back on them all to look out the window again.
"Ah good you're here, welcome to the bridge and let me just say first friends that I am still the same person you met in our travels I just have my memories back is all… also Canderous I have a special mission for you if you're interested later on."
"You defeated us Mandalorian's in the war as such you are the new leader to those of us who survived meaning I would follow your orders no matter what." Canderous says in his normal gruff voice moving to stand to one side watching Raven closely.
"Good you'll like your mission to come then, as to the rest of you welcome to the ship that is going to be heading towards Coruscant and taking out those fools on the Council," Raven says looking at Harry who just smiled and nodded moving to a one of the consoles to one side and punched in the code sending it to the ships that were and always had been allied to Raven even when Malak was in control knowing that the captains of those ships would follow through with their plan.
"Everything is set commander and all we are waiting for is your order." One of the crew to one side said watching as the Twi'lek girl moved over to Carth and untied him; neither of the commanders however moved to stop her.
Raven just looked out at the blackness of space for a time before saying softly without turning around giving a small smile when Harry moved to stand behind her and wrap his arms around her middle, "Give the order to all ships under my command we are going to end this war… do let the others know that I am back in charge and to follow my orders from now on and not those loyal to Malak."
The crew just nodded and went about their work everyone from the Tigress pulling up seats and just watching as the star field vanished into lines as they entered hyper speed and headed for the final battle of the war.