Wow, it has been way to long since I posted a chapter. Really sorry for that but now I'm back and I will try to post more chapters regularly. Please enjoy the story and as usual sorry for an grammar/spelling mistakes if there are any.
The younglings huddled together in fear as the gaunt and ghostly pale women dressed in a red cloak approached them. She smiled, before raising her hands. Beads of green light spun through the air like a web, encasing the several dozen younglings in a large bubble. And then, with a swoosh, the women disappeared.
"Sister…," said Naa'leth weakly to a hooded figure bending over her.
"Lead the night sisters to victory against the jedi, let the floors of the cursed temple be stained with their blood," she said, her voice dying out and her eyes rolling into her hand as the puddle of blood surrounding her continued to grow. Asajj Ventress turned, the look of cold rage in her eye betrayed her calm demeanor as she walked away from the body toward the crowd of jedi. She was draped in a ghostly white tight suit, black markings scribed into it, and white hood fitted over her head. Raising her hand she released a wave of force energy which threw both the dead, living, and undead into the wall. With a scream she charged. Ventress ran her scarlet blade through the chest of the first recovering jedi, spinning high in the air and twirling her dual lightsaber over her back and around her body, beheading another while in the air before landing in a neat roll. The jedi wasted no time, cornering her, four against one. A kel'dor and human jedi attacked first, Ventress blocked their attacks with ease and held them still as each tried to push the other's blade back. The two remaining jedi took their chance, one flipping over Ventress as the other dived for a stab to her stomach, the other swung downward, attempting to slide her in two. Quick as lightning, Ventress kicked the kel'dor jedi away and cartwheeled aside. The lightsabers of the three jedi met and clashed, sending each stumbling backward. Ventress attacked viciously, forcing the jedi back with a constant stream of fluid movements and a hurricane of blows. The jedi's lightsaber simply fell our of his hands, and he looked up, the fear evident on his face, which was no more as Ventress sank her blade between his eyes, scorching the man's face into an unrecognizable mess. She turned and countered the blows of the kel'dor jedi, now recovered, before severing both his hands and relieving him of his head. Ventress rolled away from the feeble slashes of the last two jedi, she turned and used the force to throw them both backward violently into the wall. Ventress advanced on the two frightened jedi, it took two quick swipes for the bodies of the jedi to fall, blood spouting from the stumps which made up their neck.
"Play time's over Ventress," said the cold voice of Obi Wan Kenobi from behind her. Ventress turned to face the blood covered jedi. She discarded the white hoodie, revealing the tight white body suit, made of a sacred nightsister web, coated in ancient black symbols. Ventress screamed violently before lashing out at Kenobi, who struggled to block the mere force of the blows. She jumped high into the air, giving him his chance. He threw her backward high into the air with force push, she landed gracefully on a balcony. Obi Wan leapt up to attack, landing and rolling quickly he tried to kick her legs from out beneath her. She leapt into the air and suspended herself in the air for several seconds as his quick attack swished under her. Then she fell upon him knocking his lightsaber out his hand from sheer impact and she pulled her twin lightsaber together, aiming straight for Kenobi's neck. She was met by a brick wall. Kenobi raised his hand blocking the dual blades with the force…barely. Sweat began to trickle down his face as the seconds passed by. Ventress allowed a triumphant smile to cross her face as Kenobi began to pant under the effort it was taking to repel her twin blades.
Mother Talzin could sense the presence of Yoda and Mace Windu from the next room over, which meant one thing, they sensed her as well. She disappeared in a puff of green smoke and slithered across to the other side of the room just in time as the wall was destroyed by a massive wave of the force. Through the dust she attacked, conjuring a green sword from thin air. She knew she would loose this fight, but winning was not her intention.
Kenobi's control over the force had finally broken, and in a swift strike he grabbed both of Ventress's wrist and head butted her, throwing her off him. She regained her footing quickly and landed a kick to his chest, knocking him backward against the balcony. Her ducked hastily as she slashed wildly at the spot where his head had been moments before. Obi Wan dived for Ventress's waist, knocking her against the balcony before using the force to throw her across the balcony. Ventress smashed hard into the ground and made contact with one of the two statues surrounding the balcony blast door. Obi Wan summoned his lightsaber before igniting it, it's blue light shining menacingly across his features. Ventress spat out blood before flying at Obi Wan. Obi Wan swung his lightsaber toward her abdomen, and she flipped over kicking him in the back and sending him to his knees. He turned around with lightning speed, meeting her dual sabers. Ventress was slowly being pushed back, she bent her back with uncanny flexibility before leaping upward, wrapping her legs around his neck and pulling him off his feet with the aid of the force throwing him against the wall. He rolled with the throw and turned around, kicking her down. Infuriated Ventress jumped high into the air, landing on a higher balcony, before jumping once more to an open ventilation shaft where she vanished. Sighing, Obi Wan followed, sliding down the shaft, guiding his pathways through the force until he came out to a recently opened ventilation shaft, above one of the many jedi training rooms.
Palpatine observed the jedi temple as green flames licked it's sides. He smiled, before turning to face the group very unhappy senators.
"As I informed all of you several hours ago several clone squads were dispatched to aid the jedi, however, the Republic will no longer support the jedi seeing as they have failed as guardians to the Republic," said Palpatine calmly. Little did he know it, but he was looking at what might have been the rebel alliance. Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, Padme Amidala, and several others. Palpatine could sense their anger, and, something else, he reached out with the force, digging deeper into their minds. He couldn't help but feel surprised as he saw what they were thinking. How idiotic of them, trying to betray me. He thought to himself.
"After years of protecting the Republic we will now just turn away from them as they burn?!" said an outraged voice.
"This outrageous, we cannot win the war without the jedi!" said another voice. Palpatine raised his hand to silence them.
"As I previously stated, we have dispatched several squads in hope of aiding the jedi, but, under no circumstances will we waist the republics resources on a historical feud between the jedi and the night sisters," said Palpatine, the hatred in his voice showing at the very end of his words. Before the senators could speak he raised his hand and continued.
"It was foolish of you to come here, and might I add, I take no pleasure in this. It will be a great tragedy to the Republic, loosing all of your great minds," said Palpatine. The faces of the senator's changed from angry to confused. The blast doors then slid open, revealing the menacing figure of Darth Maul, who then ignited his double bladed lightsaber.
"I'm afraid that despite my best efforts, I was only able to call in a Shock Trooper squad after it was too late," said Palpatine, starting to laugh evilly.
"Son of a bitch," said Bail Organa, pulling a blaster from his cloak and pointing it straight at Palpatine. Invisible robes pulled him backward and into Darth Maul's blade. Maul discarded the body as blood soaked the carpet and advanced toward the cowering senators.
"Padme…run!" said Mon Mothma as she charged toward Darth Maul, who simply flicked his saber staff upward and beheaded her. Before turning on the three remaining senators. He began to twirl the double bladed lightsaber menacingly, backing the senators into a corner. He killed the first two with ease, leaving only Padme left. He smiled evilly before lifting her by the throat in the air, and throwing her out the window. The shattered pieces of glass were sucked out as the cold air of Coruscant rushed in. Palpatine approached his apprentice.
"Well done my apprentice, your training is nearly complete," said Palpatine.
Obi Wan ducked another blow before parrying a second, for several moments each struggled against the other before Obi Wan gained the advantage, pushing Ventress back as she blocked furiously with several blows, they crossed the partially destroyed hallway and through the great gates leading to the main jedi meditation room. A great window made up the majority of the room, as it stuck out from the side of the jedi temple in a diamond like shape, while pale moon light flooded into the room. Ventress desperately flipped backward landing in the center of the room. Her clothes were tattered, and she was covered in scratches and bruises. Obi Wan had a fine coating a dry blood, not all of it his, and was bearing several slashes and bruises as well. Seconds passed by of deathly silence, and then…there was a buzzing sound as Ventress attacked. Obi Wan sidestepped away and attacked at her open back. She fell into a split beneath the blue lightsaber as he struck out, and slashed at his wrist. Obi Wan flipped over Ventress, landing several blows down upon her as he was momentarily above her. She blocked each with great effort, before using the force to send him flying upward into the roof while he was still above her. Obi Wan fell hard, not being aware enough to soften the fall with the force. He heard a distinct crack in his right ankle and left leg before crumpling to the ground. He lightsaber was several yards away, and pieces of debris from his impact from the ceiling had pinned him down.
"I fear that your time is over, jedi," she said, raising the twin blades into the air.
Above Coruscant
The nightsister ships looked like large creatures, organic materials such as humungous thorns and strange red glowing leaves had been added over the metal. The shell like formations lining the cruisers were melted and given strange properties by the nightsister individually. Despite all this Anakin could see the slight color differences and shapes of the cruisers which told him that they had once been common day transporter cargo ships, equipped with weapons and whatever other magics the night sisters had put on. The ships opened up revealing an overwhelming count of weaponry. The battle erupted like hell around Anakin, a wave of stinging blaster fire raked the republics ships, filling the void with fiery explosions. The republic cruiser responded, and soon the skies were torn with the drumming of back and forth blaster fire, blue and green bolts of energy whizzing through space. Anakin spun straight into the thick of the fire, twirling and swooping around the blaster fire, allowing his instincts and the force to guide him. He maneuvered through the blaster fire of the first night sister cruiser and opened fire, sending a dozen shots in rapid fire underneath the armor of the ship. He was rewarded by an explosion followed by the departure of the ships upper left compartment of weaponry. Suddenly the wires of the ship shot out, glowing green, and latched onto the sinking metal. The fire retracted into glowing orbs as the ship quickly healed itself. Surprised Anakin didn't even notice the one fourth of a mile long wave of green lightning streaking toward him. He quickly tore his attention away from the healing ship and swerved upward, the bolts missed him, partially. Several smaller green bolts cut into the back of his ship and cracked the glass of his cockpit. His right engine was on fire, and his left wing had several deep molten gashes carved into it. His ship was becoming harder and harder to control.
"Artoo can you fix the back wing…Artoo?" Anakin suddenly panicked looking around desperately for R2D2. The general place where the droid sat had been blasted off by the lightning. Anakin gulped down his sudden feeling of cold hopelessness and rage. The droid had survived for worse than this before. But even as the though hit him he couldn't deny the image of the droids cockpit being reduced to a molten hole.
"Gold squadron here, we lost six and that last wave also took down a cruiser," said a voice over the com.
"Order for reinforcements, if they release another wave like that this will be a short fight!" said Anakin as more and more reports of losses came in over the coms. He angrily the shut the coms off before flying straight towards the cruiser and gracefully spinning out of the blaster range before blasting through the first night sister cruiser's bridge, dropping off several ship propelled grenades in the now shrinking gap between the ship and the bridge. As the wire and funnels, as well as green energy grasped the bridge they were thrown apart by a blasts of blue energy, one after another, as the grenades went off. Anakin twisted around in his cockpit to see the result. The bridge now sunk into the atmosphere of Coruscant, turning a bright red as flames curled around it form the impact of the atmosphere. Anakin pounced on the first cruiser again, blasting open the ship and leaving behind grenades until the cruiser was in fragments, all burning up into the atmosphere. Around him his squad as well as several other were doing the same, as the republic cruisers kept the enemy ships occupied. Green energy leaked like blood from the falling night sister cruisers.
Obi Wan suddenly flipped up and kicked Ventress square in the stomach, having shaken loose of the debris using the force, he then threw her even farther up into the ceiling with the force. She landed on both her feet shakily before turning and charging. Th hilt of Obi Wan's lightsaber shot overhead and into his hands as their blades met, showering the ground with sparks. Ventress advanced, using her momentum to jump in the air while swinging both of her blades in the opposite direction. Obi Wan backed away, blocking the blades with quick movements. Ventress landed in a cartwheel and landed one more kick to Obi Wan's stomach, before running up his chest, kneeing him in the nose, breaking it, and flipping backward, her blades sinking into the ground. Warm blood flowed down into Obi Wan's beard as he tried to ignore the pain from his broken nose. Ventress new she was winning, she focused her rage and moved quicker than a shadow, her abilities boosted by her night sister training. Obi Wan bravely fought back as Ventress darted from corner to corner, landing kicks and blows to his battered body. He managed to block the majority of the lightsaber attacks, those he missed scorched his jedi clothes and cut his arms and legs. There was no doubt, Obi Wan knew he couldn't beat her through sheer close combat skills. As Ventress's next attack rolled in he ducked under and elbowed her in the stomach, knocking her backward to the ground. She regained footing easily but was too slow as Obi Wan tripped her with the force before using the force once again the throw her against a pillar. She dodged his next wave of attack, leaving a crater on the pillar where she had been moments before. Obi Wan allowed his mind to expand around him. Instinctively he blocked her next attacks, and for several moments they stood, neither of them moving backward or forward, exchanging blows. Then both of the force user's blades connected, now it was a contest of strength. Each held firm for several seconds before Obi Wan began barely began to push her back, using the force to increase his strength. Ventress slid unto her back like a snake, rolling Obi Wan over her and sending him rolling unto the floor. Obi Wan spat out more blood, one of his arms was badly damaged, and he could no longer stand on his left leg. As he kneeled there, panting, panic replaced his power over the force. He was not concerned for his own life, but of what would become of the galaxy without the jedi. Obi Wan lifted his lightsaber as Ventress slowly approached. He smiled and shook his head, falling on the ground and knocking her legs out from under her. He twisted on the ground and sent her flying off the bridge and into the darkness with all the force power he could muster, every last ounce of it. He heard her screen grow distanct before nothing, not even the sound of impact. And then, without a another thought, he collapsed to the ground.
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