Chapter 25: The Fight in Darkness

Vader opened his eyes and stared through the holes of his helmet. He could see nothing but a dark white. He raised a gloved hand and pressed it to the eyeholes rubbing them in attempt to wipe off the stuff. It did come off and Vader saw nothing darkness. He realized he was lying flat on his back, he stood up and tried peering through the darkness but it was a vain effort and he saw nothing.

Suddenly he remembered his mask had several different types of vision including night. He reached down and tapped a button on his control panel. Instantly wherever he was lit up with green light. He was standing in a huge dark pit covered in snow, he looked up and he could dimly see the bridge he had fallen from. He felt Yoda's presence there. He looked around the place he was in once more.

About thirty feet in front of him was Revan, Vader sensed no life in him, he had a huge charred hole in his chest. He was no longer wearing a loincloth, for it was right next to him but pretty much from his knees to his waist was covered in snow.

Vader looked around more and a few feet away from Revan he saw something rising from the snow, it was Traya. Her robes were fluttered and her hood was down. She looked right at him and smiled even through she was blind. She extended her only hand and Vader felt a ripple in the force. A saber hilt zoomed into her hand and she activated it producing a blood red blade. Vader reached for his own saber but it was not there. He looked around, it was an inch away from him lying half buried in the snow. He to called it to him and ignited it just as Traya began walking toward him.

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Yoda opened his eyes after he felt Vader tap into the force. He sighed in relief he was alive. Yoda stood up and grabbed his lightsaber, he considered jumping down to help Vader but he wasn't so sure that he would live. His bones were so tiny that they would probably shatter if he landed on the ground below. No, he had to let Vader do this himself.

He sat back down and tapped into the force to observe the battle.

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" Now that one of us is about to die I suppose I must answer any questions you have Lord Vader." Traya said circling him saber pointed low and steadily melting the snow under it. " What kind of a teacher would I be if I didn't?"

" First of all tell me why you impersonated my wife!"

" You see Lord Vader I needed to use her in order to draw you to me. Luke had to escape from you at Hoth, he told Han to head for Telos because I gave the idea to him through the force, and subconsciously he listened. Then you followed him, as I knew you would, then we met, and I set my plan into motion. Now here we stand chatting to each other before the other dies."

" Why do you wish to kill me?"

" I've already told you, I must kill everyone that has control of the force. Then it will die."

" Because you hate it?"

" Yes I hate it! It has a will of its own and that is something I simply cannot live with."

" Then why do you use it?"

" It is necessary, by using it to kill the others who do I insure its death."

" That doesn't make much sense."

" It makes perfect sense Vader, you just choose not to listen like countless others before you!"

" Like who?"

" Sion, Nihlus, the exile, the Jedi, the Sith, everyone! No one understands because they are so grounded in their belief it help us live! It doesn't, it kills us when it wants to! It makes us ill, makes us do its bidding because it has nothing better to do!"

" When you think about it all these thing balance out, it does help us live therefore it must present us with challenges along the way."

" Ignorance, if only you would open your mind and listen! Alas I am in no mood for any more discussion, the force must die and so must you."

" Alright then."

Traya charged at him in rage and struck, he parried but backed up a step at the strength of her blow. Before he could return the attack, she did it again and he parried losing another step. This continued for a few minutes and Vader could not get on the offensive.

After Vader parried her last blow she brought her saber back and plunged it forward. Vader leaped to the side and she stumbled and lost her balance. Vader smiled and extended his hand. She zoomed ten feet away from him and landed on her back in the snow. He ran at her blade raised and ready to kill. She scowled and hurled her blood red blade at him, Vader ducked just in time but her saber had just sliced through his hilt, he was defiantly in a sticky situation now.

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Yoda sensed exactly what just happened. He leaped onto his feet detached his saber from his belt and tossed it over the edge of the bridge.

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Vader sensed what Yoda had done and looked up wards as Traya stood up. There a tiny hilt fell downward. Vader reached up as though attempting to grab it and it altered his course and flew straight for his hand as though he were some kind of magnet.

He caught the tiny hilt and activated the green blade. It was about half the size of Traya's but it would have to do. She was right by him now, she raised her saber and tried to bring it down on his head. He parried and she did the same. This time though when Vader raised Yoda's saber to parry he missed and instead the blade sliced through Traya's hand. She fell to her knees and he caught her saber in mid air and put both of them to her neck.

" Goodbye Traya."

" I failed." She muttered.

" Damn straight."

And with a hiss and muffled thud Traya's head rolled onto the snowy ground, just like Luke's.

End

Ended rather quickly didn't it? But it was satisfying just the same for me. Don't know about you, I rather enjoyed typing this one. Though for a while I'm going to be done with star wars fics. Well at least I have right now an old plan for a Red Eye one that I never put to use, now that I'm done perhaps I will. Those of you who have seen the movie might want to be on the look out for it. Thanks for all the kind reviews and I'm glad you enjoyed this story. This is probably my favorite one I have ever done really, though I liked the last three Star Wars ones I did as well. – Sithmaster2019