I couldn't recall one of the appropriate Star Wars swears, so I just used the real life one. It kind of disrupts the flow, though.
"F- Father, what is this? Why are you and Lord Taalon here?" Vestara said, composing herself after a few moments of gaping in shock. She did not bother to hide the stutter in her voice.
"Well, child, what do you think we are doing? Our alliance is over, it is time to kill the Skywalkers," Taalon said. Ben started backing away. "Don't try to leave, Skywalker." With a wave of his hand, tens of Fallanassi appeared in the doorway and lined the wall of that exit.
"Wait, but why are you standing with Abeloth? Aren't we trying to kill her?" Vestara said.
"We are controlling her, along with this ship. Now, hurry and kill the younger Skywalker," he said impatiently.
Vestara noticed that the likelihood of them alone gaining control of Abeloth was slim to none when hundreds of Sith couldn't. She also noticed that Taalon and her father were the ones that looked like Abeloth's subordinates.
Vestara stood her ground. "Ben." They shared a glance, and she jerked a thumb in Abeloth's direction. That was all Ben needed to know what she meant. They needed to save them from Abeloth's control, and for that they would need Luke for backup. Abeloth looked amused at their subliminal conversation.
"No, High Lord Taalon, Abeloth is controlling you," she said, rooting her feet in place, looking straight at Taalon. He would never take this insult, especially from such a lower rank, so she had to hurry the next words if she hoped to free him of Abeloth's control. "I know the real Taalon would never let his subordinate sit on the throne while he would have to stand. She is telling you what to do."
Taalon's head shifted. "You little bitch. No one tells me what to do!" He started walking toward Vestara with pure hatred in his gaze. She had to use the Force to keep from shivering under his look. Khai stood Abeloth smiled triumphantly from her throne. She had played Vestara perfectly. She wouldn't even have to convince him to kill her. Vestara had set them up to kill each other. And now, Abeloth would be able to have Luke alone.
A few steps before Taalon was in striking distance, a Force blast shook the room, shaking the occupants. In the split second it took everyone to locate the source of the blast – Luke, now running through the Fallanassi – Taalon lunged at Vestara. Gavar Khai was simply rooted in place up until now, unable to betray either of his masters. Now, he started moving towards Luke. By the time she looked back, he was already about to slice her down the middle, and she barely brought her blade up in time to block it. Taalon, however, was able to transfer it to a slice down the middle of her. But by now, Ben had gotten to the side of her and was able to block it. Taalon turned to the intruder on this fight, as if personally affronted that anyone would dare block his kill, which he probably was. But, that had left Ben completely open to a side swing that would cut him in half. Taalon smiled victoriously.
Then, a huge scream resounded through the room. It had come from Abeloth. Luke had Force-blasted Gavar straight into a stone pillar across the room, where he slumped against the floor. Now, Luke was sprinting directly toward Abeloth, sending another burst of energy at her. It looked like Luke had caught her off-guard, she was screaming as she flew toward the back wall.
In Taalon's moment of weakness of looking at the new fight erupting, Vestara struck straight down at Taalon's head. Taalon slumped to the ground. Ben stared at her in shock.
"Shut up. He had to be taken out, or else Abeloth would be controlling the Sith." They started moving toward Abeloth to help Luke, who was now realizing Abeloth had tricked him into drawing him closer so she would be able to kill him easier. So, Luke did a Force assisted leap propelling his blade directly at her, and she parried. They started fighting furiously from behind the throne, with Luke taking most of the damage. When Abeloth noticed that Taalon had lost, she had called some Sith from somewhere within the ship. This was not going to end well for Vestara. Either way, she would be killed – by Sith or Fallanassi. And, their exit was still blocked.
"That's not what you were saying before," Ben said, grinning. He opened his mouth to say something, but Vestara cut him off.
"It's not that, you idiot," Vestara hissed.
"Hey guys, you mind flirting later?" Luke said from his battle with Abeloth.
They both blushed from where they were had stopped. Then, they started running towards Luke again.
Abeloth started pushing Luke back from where he had pinned her at the wall, making glancing blows on his arms and legs in the process. She had almost pushed his back to the throne when Ben and Vestara came around both sides. They both slashed at both of her sides, so she sidestepped right – moving out of the way of Ben's blade – and blocked left – blocking Vestara's strike. Luke then slashed at her center. Abeloth shifted her blade to block his. And then Ben's, and then Vestara's. But she was slowly being forced back. It looked like they would defeat Abeloth.
Now some of the Fallanassi and Sith started regaining control over themselves, since Abeloth was losing. They started to walk out of the room blindly, as if they were in a daze.
When Abeloth was five meters from the wall, she jumped back and Force-blasted a hole in the floor. "Oh no you don't," Luke said. All three of them jumped at her, and they struck all at the same time. She blocked Ben's blade, dodged Luke's, but Vestara's fell right on target, slicing her in half.
For a moment they stood there panting, contemplating their victory. Then, Vestara snapped up and said, "You two are now under Sith custody."
"You can't be serious," Ben said, looking straight at Vestara.
"Have I ever lied to you, Ben?" she said, completely seriously.
While Ben gave her a glare that likely would've killed any non-Force-user, Luke said, "Now Vestara, are you absolutely sure about this?" He made sure he would drag every syllable so his son would pick up on it. He gently started to poke the now semi-conscious Gavar Khai awake fully.
Vestara looked at him confusedly. "Yeah, Ves, I thought you liked me. Why else would you save me by killing your superior?" Ben cut in.
"What? That's crazy. I had to kill Lord Taalon, or else Abeloth would be controlling the Sith," Vestara retorted.
"What? Vestara? You killed Lord Taalon?" His face morphed from shock, terror, and anger all at once as he saw Taalon's corpse.
Vestara sighed and gave Luke and Ben a look of pure hatred, and turned to her father. "No, father. This is just a bad dream, go back to sleep." She sent a flick of her hand, and sent him slamming back into the wall, again rendering him unconscious.
"So, what's it gonna be Ves? Explain to the Sith why you killed Taalon and knocked out your father? Kill your father? Or help us escape?" Ben asked, grinning wickedly.
Vestara sighed.
I thought this was a really bad chapter in some respects. Why? 1st I'm just terrible with action scenes. 2nd Does Abeloth even have a blade? I can't recall if she ever did or not, and I'm too lazy to read through the series again. So if not, just pretend for me. 3rd and most importantly, I could not think of an ending transition to the next chapter to save my life, so I had to use some stuff from Vortex's end. I'm really sorry about that. But I'm at the same distance that the end of Vortex got us to(Except mine is more poorly written, has bad grammar, and has about two hundred pages less, and a different plot), so I shouldn't be able to do that, or need to (hopefully).