Chapter 10. Revan's Last Stand

As the Arquillian war was just getting started the war of Revan was just ending; Revan had left the core worlds and come to the Unknown Regions to destroy the old Sith Empire and it's emperor. Revans quest had taken him from one end of the quadrant to the other and in his wake he left a path of destruction unlike any in the galaxy.

Revan's war against the sith involved tricking the allies into war and destroying sith thrown worlds and using the force to influence the outcome of that battle. Sometimes he would physically get involved with a battle or two or spy for the allies and send them information critical to winning a battle against sith. Eight long years of fighting from system to system and it was finally over. Before Revan and Malak fell it was believed that the sith emperor died at their hands, but it was the emperor's apprentice who fell to Revan and Malak's light sabers. After Revan killed Malak more of his memories started to return and he decided to go on his quest; it hurt to leave his friends behind and it would have hurt even more if he had brought Bastilla with him and she had died. He told her he would return and soon he would be able to keep that promise, because the sith emperor lay dead at his feet. Revan took the curved handled light saber from his dead cold hand and when he did his body began to fade. Revan was six feet two inches tall with a scar crossing his right eye; his hair was cut short to his head and he had a strong, but oblong face. He wielded two light sabers and wore a blue tunic and pants under a white Jedi Masters robe; his boots were black and blue.

Revan took an hour to search the sith fortress for survivors or holocrons and if he found any holocrons he destroyed them as for survivors Revan found about seven sithlings he put them to sleep after killing the Sith Master protecting them and put them in a ship that would take them to the core. The jedi council could probably retrain them as jedi.

It took Revan three hours to search the fortress and when he was done Revan destroyed it with the force, "Finally…" He said watching the fortress crumble in on itself. "I can…" Revan stopped in mid sentence as something from his past returned to his mind. ("Holocrons…") He thought, it was the holocrons he destroyed that brought the memory up. ("But what about them…") Then it clicked and he wanted to laugh, for Revan remembered he had created a holocron as Darth Revan and hid it on the Rakata home world.

"Well it looks like I have one more adventure before I return to the core…" He said out loud.

Revan got down on both knees and called out in the force to Bastilla who was in meditation; he could feel her joy at the touch of his mind to her. They enveloped each other in their love for one another and merged their identities as one. They had been linked ever since she saved his life aboard the flag ship when he was a sith lord and then had the council reprogramed him. He reassured her that he would be returning soon and that he loved her, but their moment was interrupted by a dark presence heading towards Revan a presence that felt both odd and familiar at the same time.

("I will be fine…") He said across their link.

A Telosian long range shuttle streaked across the sky and dove towards Revan; it zoomed low overhead kicking up dust and wind causing Revan's robes to blow open. The ship circled over head three times before it landed about twenty feet from Revan; he braced himself as a woman dressed in the robes of a sith lord walked down the ramp. She had a terrifying beauty with her grayish looking skin and red lips and despite the heavy robes Revan could tell she had dancers body. As she walked towards Revan the woman removed her robe and let it fall to the ground; when Revan saw her face he gasped for it was Atris but her hair had gone dark.

"Atris… is that you?"

She laughed, "Atris is no more… I am Darth Traya…"

"I once knew a woman by the name of Kreia… she was my master or at least one of them and it was she who became Darth Traya… You are no Darth Traya." Revan removed his robe and unhooked both light sabers.

"There must always be a Darth Traya…" She replied removing her light saber from her belt. "…But why fight when we can help each other? Become my apprentice and know the true nature of the force…"

"I know the force and the dark side…" He started walking towards her. "…And you Atris have chosen the dark." He called her Atris to anger her and throw her off, but she didn't respond like he expected her too.

"Fool you are blind and you will die in your blindness…"

She threw out her left hand unleashing a storm of force lightening; Revan caught it with his hands and threw it back, but she teleported in a bright red flash and reappeared behind him. She swung her blade but Revan ducked and ignited his sabers and the duel began. Revan would alternate fighting styles blocking with his right and left switching or doubling up. Traya switched between the first two levels of saber fighting toying with him because of the memories she inherited from the previous Traya she was able to anticipate some of his moves.

Insulted Revan attacked with the full might of his saber knowledge, but Traya responded with switching in between all seven forms and added a couple of moves from the lost art of the Taunzhi technique that had been invented by Marko Ragnos. Traya moved so fast that she was casting multiple shadows of herself, but Revan was able to keep up with the real time Traya.

Traya jumped up and did a back flip, "You are holding back…" She angrily said when she landed.

He raised an eyebrow, "So are you.." He replied pointing his left saber at her, "I didn't think there was anyone alive who knew the Taunzhi technique much less how to execute it properly…"

They circled one another and as they did they got closer, "Well I hope you are ready to die…"

"To die I would become one with the force…"

Traya laughed and opened up with series of high and low quick attacks, while Revan blocked with his left and attacked with his right. He started matching Traya blow for blow and started making shadows of his own. Traya pinned his left sword to the ground and did a back cartwheel to avoid the right sword. She arched backwards sticking her own blade into the ground and came up with a force punch to the chest. The blow sent Revan flying back shattering his force barrier Revan flew eight feet knocking the wind out of him; Traya leapt at him with her red energy blade thrust out, but Revan stretched out his had and caught the energy blade with his gloved hand and stabbed at Traya with his right. Traya turned to the side and kicked Revan in the ribs; he released her blade spun around on his back sticking his feet up and kicked her under the chin. As Traya fell back with a thump Revan jumped to his feet groaning because his left lung had been punctured by Traya's force punch and from the kick he received three broken ribs. Traya was a sith lord and the broken jaw only fueled her power; pain was apart of life and those who didn't know how to use it and turn it to an advantage was weak. She charged Revan again, but by the time she reached him he had already healed his lung and was working on his second rib. Without breaking his concentration Revan blocked her attacks going into a defensive posture until his ribs could be healed; Traya managed to rend his left saber from his hand and was about to stab Revan again, but he stuck the palm of his hand out again and pushed the energy blade of her saber back into the shaft shattering it and throwing Traya back five feet. As Traya flew threw the air she pointed her left had at the weapon she knocked from Revan's hand and disabled it with force lightening.

Revan stood up and unleashed a force wave that shuck the entire planet and tore up the ground, the wave ripped boulders up and kicked up a dust cloud. When the dust settled Revan was in shock because Traya's body was transparent the force wave went right through her body. She reached to her belt and uncoiled her light whip, the crackling red whip hissed as it dragged on the ground. Revan removed the curved light saber of the sith emperor and ignited it; they charged each other at the same time, but Traya kept Revan at a distance cracking the whip at his right hip. He blocked the attack with his right and tried to attack her with his left, but with the light whip Traya could attack and defend herself at the same time. No matter what Revan did he couldn't get close enough. Until Traya wrapped her whip around both of Revan's energy blades he twined the energy covered metal whip around his sabers until he was two feet from her then he switched off the sith blade that usually required two hands to properly wield, but for Revan it was no problem. When his weapon was free he ignited it again and swung at Traya but she stepped inside of his reach and elbowed him in the side of the head; she spun again and punched him in the back. With a grunt Revan head butt her in the face and swept her feet from under her then he drove his foot into her knee breaking it. Traya reveled in the pain and popped her knee back into place; she kicked Revan in the groin and unwrapped the whip from around his saber. As Revan tried to role out of the way she struck two large marks across his chest and a third on his leg. The time went from minutes and on into hours Traya was relentless while Revan's concentration started to fade. He overcame an empire of sith defeated Malak and brought down the Mandelorian empire but this one sith was wearing him down little by little.

Traya saw the weariness in Revan and with a flick of her wrist she disarmed him leaving the blue blade in his hand. Summoning the last of his strength Revan encased her in a stasis field of force energy to immobilize her then he went in for the kill; a fatal mistake on his part especially since Traya was faking; at the last possible minute she unleashed her true power and shattered the field and with a dive and flick of her hand she landed the fatal blow across the neck. Revan hit the ground with a sickening thud as his body imploded; a beam of pure blue light streamed from Revan's body into the sky transforming that dark sith thrown world into a beacon of light.

Traya fell to her knees weary because she and Revan had been fighting for over four hours strait. Traya took a deep breath and went into a healing/meditation trance; now normally a sith lord would not imply such a technique, but Traya was no ordinary sith she believed the force was the force and to put the limitations on it that the sith and Jedi did was a weakness and no one abhorred weakness more than the sith. Within minutes she was healed and her force energy restored.

"Hmm Revan…" She mocked out loud. As she stood up Traya could feel Bastilla's sorrow and pain. Revan was everything to her and she had taken that from her and that was a sweet revenge she would relish. Traya gloated in the force as she felt the shock of every Jedi in the galaxy over and over again.

After taunting Bastilla in the force she stood up and went to the sith fortress but found nothing in the ruins. Then Traya began the dubious search for Revan's ship and found it using the force to override the security system. She found nothing but ten light sabers that had belonged to the sith lords of the empire. One was a double edge light saber that was curved with a black and silver handle; she also discovered another exotic weapon that was longer than a normal light saber and shorter than a double edge saber. Out of one end came an energy blade and out of the other side a light whip uncoiled.

"Interesting weapon…" She said. "…I might keep you."

She decided to keep all the weapons and down loaded the navigation charts of Revan's ship; after loading her booty on board her ship she blew up Revan's ship and gasped as her second quarry entered the sith system; the presence she felt was none other than that of the exile.