Forgetting what matters chapter 10
"I told you this was a bad idea going this way!" Mara yelled shooting at the massive rancor who had made a rather dramatic entrance. Luke flipped over a sleeper's massive tentacle and pushing it back with the force, he looked over at Mara who was backed into a corner pinned between a rancor and a wall. Luke ran up behind it and jumped up on its back driving his saber into its back. The rancor let out a scream and began thrashing reaching around trying to throw Luke off its back. "Mara aim for the eyes blind this damn thing" Luke yelled as the rancor stumbled back into a wall attempting to smash Luke into it. Mara ran after the rancor aiming her blaster at its face and rapidly pulled the trigger scoring several hits on the creatures face.
Luke jumped off of the rancor landing on the ground and rolled between its legs cutting both of its legs with his saber. The sleeper that Luke pushed away slithered up and wrapped its tentacle's around Mara lifting her up into the air "Get off of me ugly squid!" Mara yelled reaching for one of her vibro blades and shoved it into one of its tentacles. Luke hurled his saber and severed the tentacle off freeing Mara, she fell to the ground and pulled the tentacle off of her shooting the sleeper in the face.
Luke called his saber back into his hand and cut the rancor's legs off before driving his saber deep into its skull killing it. Mara walked up to him "if I had known we'd be fighting things this strong I would have brought a bigger blaster" she said. Luke pulled his saber out and took a second to look around "We're close" he said feeling the darkside growing stronger the further they went. "I feel it" Mara said walking beside him as the descended down yet another stair case; this had been the sixth one.
"Phantom Phantom look what sissy gave me!" Abby said running into her room holding her small lightsaber up to the nexu. The nexu looked at it then sniffed it curiously not quiet understanding why the girl was so happy about a shinny piece of metal. "Sissy is showing me how to use it" Abby said happily, the nexu began to purr as Abby petted its head. A few more minutes later Abby was fast sleep resting her head against the nexu's side, the training season with her bigger sister wore her out.
Leia smiled seeing Abby fast asleep in her bed she picked up Abby's saber and put it in a chair next to the bed before pulling a blanket over Abby and quietly leaving the room. Leia closed the door softly behind her and began walking toward her room when she stopped, she hadn't seen Luke last night or all morning. She had figured she would have seen Luke more since their parents were gone, he was probably out with the red headed chick again. Luke did well to hide his girlfriend but he couldn't hide it from his sister no matter how hard he had tried. Leia had decided long ago to keep it a secret from her mother it was the least she could do after chopping his hand off.
Leia walked down the hall to the study where her mom had spent a lot of her time recently. She walked in and looked at the walls that had several Sith artifacts resting on the shelves. It must have taken her dad forever to find all of these, it wasn't just the holocrons and the artifacts but also all the accent scrolls and text. Even being Sith Leia felt the darkside as strong as it was in this room it felt like it was going to crush her. She didn't get how her mom could spend hours upon hours in this room and come out like it was nothing. Leia sat down in the only chair in the room after pulling a random scroll off of the shelf and carefully opened it. She didn't know the language that it was written in but after looking around on the desk she found a decoder that translated each letter into the common tongue.
Leia carefully began to translate the script onto a separate empty scroll. As her eyes moved from scroll to scroll as she translated the script she began to read: I have written this so that my understanding of the darkside may be preserved and passed on to further the strength of the Sith. I am Darth Bane dark lord of the Sith, the master mind behind the destruction of both the army of Light and Skere Kaan' s Brotherhood of Darkness. One might think that by destroying the Brotherhood that I had eradicated any chance of the Sith's survival but how wrong they would be. The Brotherhood of Darkness was nothing but a twisted perversion of the Jedi Order, equality among Sith there is no such thing. I have brought the Sith back from that perverted way back to the teachings of old. Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. When the apprentice is ready to claim the title of Dark Lord they must rip it away from their master. The darkside is the like venom of a snake, if it is spread out it becomes deluded and weak but if it concentrated into just two beings if retains its potency, its full destructive power. This is the way the Sith were meant to be and how it shall be for millennia to come.
Leia sat back in the chair stopping only halfway through the translation. The Rule of Two she had heard that somewhere else probably in one of her father's stories or something. If there were only suppose to be two Sith then why were their four and one growing up to be one that went against this old code. Perhaps Vader and Wraeththu changed the code to allow Leia and Luke and soon Abby to be trained in the darkside to become Sith. "What are you doing?" a curious voice said from behind Leia. Leia almost jumped out of her seat, she had been so lost in translating and reading the text that she didn't notice that Abby had walked into the room. She turned around and picked Abby up sitting her in her lap "I was reading" Leia said. "What were you reading?" Abby asked curiously "Just some old books that mom has, are you ready for lunch?" Leia said. "Yes please" Abby replied happily. Leia nodded and carried Abby out of the study to fix her some lunch.
"We've searched every room in this damn place and still haven't found it yet" Mara complained. "If they wanted to make it easy they would have put a sign up and for an assassin Mara I would have thought you want to be thorough" Luke replied sarcastically while using his lightsaber as a light source and searched another room. Like several rooms before he found nothing inside, one room left now. Luke walked down the stone hallway to the last door way unlike the other doors however this one was made of stone instead of metal. Luke reached his left hand and gripped the door with the force, channeling his anger to bend the force to his will the stone door began to move.
Luke gritted his teeth, the door was much heavier than he thought. "Let me help" Mara said standing beside Luke raising her own hand toward the door and began to lift. The stone door continued to lift upward until they were both able to walk through then they let go and the stone door slammed shut. They stood in darkness for a few seconds then the room suddenly lit up by torches that were mounted to the walls. Luke eyes locked onto two objects resting in the center of the room, one was the familiar shape of a holocron more specifically a Sith holocron. The other is what puzzled him, it was like any other artifact that he had seen before, normally when it was an artifact that his father bought home it was an old Sith sword or even armor that had been crafted with the darkside.
Luke carefully walked forward searching the room with his eyes and the force for any traps. He bent down on a knee to get a closer look "Its…a necklace" Mara said confused. The necklace was quiet unique, the chain had small red rubies in between the joints the chain itself was black and at the center there was a large red ruby. Luke could feel dark energy emitting from the piece of jewelry but the question was why would a Sith craft a piece of jewelry with the darkside in it.
Mara bent down looking at it, she wasn't even a jewelry kind of girl but she couldn't deny that it was beautiful. Mara reached down and picked it up "Why would a Sith put this with a holocron?" she asked her gaze fix on the jewels of the necklace. "I don't know perhaps it belonged to a female Sith long ago" Luke said turning his attention to the holocron, to his prize. Finally with this he could prove that he was capable with finding other artifacts. He reached down and picked up the pyramided shaped holocron and placed it in a small bag he had brought with him. He turned to do the same with the necklace but he found it around Mara's neck. "How does it look?" she asked curiously, Luke smiled even he had to admit it looked prefect on her the way the red rubies matched her red hair it just seemed to fit her. "Come on lets get out of here I don't want to run into anymore rancors or sleepers" Luke said standing up. Mara nodded and began walking toward the door with her hips swaying more than usual as she walked.