----Chapter XIII – Rebirth part I----

It has been nearly two days since Anakin had arrived on Cloud City and something was missing from him. He awoke from another nightmare and was sweating intensely. T2 was in the corner of the room in his own stasis. Anakin then climbed out of bed and toward a closet that contained many outfits that Baron Taking had left. He then found a storage cylinder in the dark corner of the closet.

He walked toward it with curiosity. He was in front of it and then tried to open it however was unable to. Anakin walked out of the closet and grabbed his lightsaber and approached the cylinder for a second time. He turned on the lightsaber and sliced the upper part of the canister off. Inside was many ancient artifacts. Anakin reached in and pulled a mask that seemed to have seen a lot. It was red and black and where the eyes should be a black line all the way across the mask.

"That would be the mask of Darth Revan…a very powerful Sith lord during the Jedi Civil War." Said Baron Tarkin. "All that is in the cylinder is yours to take and wear if you please. Some of those are said to give you the power of the Sith lord it belonged to."

Anakin looked from Tarkin to the mask and glared into it. "Are you saying if I wore this mask it is possible that I will retain some of Revan's powers?"

"Indeed…However the Empire is ready to prepare it's first appearance. We will start by destroying Coruscant and the Jedi. I thought you may be interested in your former master's status though…" Tarkin yelled out the closet and a clone commando brought in a beat up Obi-Wan.

Anakin dropped the mask and was stunned to be face to face with his friend again. Obi-Wan was unconscious and hasn't remembered anything for two days. "Our clone assassin's stabbed him with an stasis chip which will keep him unconscious until we take it out."

"Baron Tarkin, what do you plan to do with him?"

"That is what I wanted to ask you my lord. He is a threat to the Empire and will probably side with the Jedi and whatever clone troopers do not join us. A decision only the leader of the Empire can make Lord Skywalker."

Anakin looked at Tarkin thinking about the words he had just said. "Throw him somewhere safe…I will deal with him later."

"Very well my lord…" Tarkin then turned to the clone commando. "You have done well RC-1013. Take our guest to the cell blocks in the lower part of the palace."

"Yes sir right away…" RC-1013, also known as Sarge, carried Obi-Wan out of the room and Tarkin followed him.

Anakin now stood in the closet and thought about what just had happened. Would Obi-Wan forgive him? Could Anakin ever rejoin the Jedi or would Obi-Wan hate him. Anakin tried to forget that whole conversation. As he looked on the ground Revan's mask was now face first into the ground. Anakin slowly picked up the mask and looked into it again.

He walked over to his bed and sat at the end of it. Something was drawing him into it. Anakin turned its face away and slowly began to put it on. Finally it was on and he felt so…good. He stood up and went back to the cylinder and pulled more from it. Next he drew an upper chest and shoulder plates that were golden. In the center of the chest plate was an eye. He grabbed a black cloak and put in on. Then he placed the chest and shoulder plates on.

Anakin felt more powerful than he had ever felt in his life. Lastly there was a lightsaber inside. He pulled the lightsaber out and turned it on to reveal a black emitting light coming from the handle.Anakin raised his hood and then walked over to T2. The droid then went out of its stasis stage and the two headed toward the hanger. A B1 battle droid stood outside the hanger.

"You may not pass without au-" Anakin then raised his hand and quickly turned it into a fist and the droid's head crushed. Anakin looked at his hand in amazement. He then traveled to his newly painted Jedi Starfighter. It was black and had a white symbol on it. It was the Imperial symbol. He and T2 hopped into the starfighter and left Cloud City.

"T2, set coordinates to Korriban…that is where I must fully fulfill my destiny as Sith lord…" A new person was created from three different Sith Lords and a confused padawan...

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REBIRTH PART II - Anakin Skywalker arrives at Korriban and finds two other Sith. How will Anakin survive if the two Sith try to attack him?

STAR WARS : SHADOW WAR OFFICIAL TITLE

FIRST PROFILE CHARACTER :

Name : Darth Vash

Profession : SITH LORD

LIGHTSABER COLOR : Black [ the black saber used in Revelations is Vash's

DESCRIPTION : A cloaked man who hides behind a mask to hide his distorted face.

PRELUDE TO THE SHADOW WAR...Coming next week...