We fought for our lives. Every day I look back on that battle, all I will be able to see is Shanti's two lightsabers everywhere at once, Shaak Ti weaving back and forth and taking on four opponents at the same time in a blur of orange and white, Obi-wan doing acrobatic tricks no man his age should be able to pull off, and Kina Ha's long arms flying about everywhere. Tenebris sat at the back of the hangar, in a meditative position. She probably couldn't control this many people and continue functioning herself. She was even making Eve fight…

I ducked under a swipe from a pink lightsaber at my head and parried a slash from a blue one at my waist. Tann's attacks were relentless, and in combination with Aayla's, I was having trouble.

Master Choi was dead, but Tenebris had made up for that loss by taking over Ahsoka and Scout's minds. The huge group was pushing us farther and farther back into the cruiser. I had a long cut on my left thigh that stung and made kicking nearly impossible. Shanti was faring better than any of us, fighting alongside her apprentice. Shaak and Obi-wan also fought back-to-back, and Kina and I fought alone.

I had never utilized so much acrobatics in a single fight in my life, not even when I took on seven commando droids, or when I took down the squadron of Droideka on Onderan with Master Trebor…I was tiring, and since there was two of them and one of me, they could last longer. Every time I started to gain the upper hand against Tann, Aayla would step in, and every time it looked like I might beat her, Tann would block my strike. I had never fought such an intense battle, ever. It took every scrap of focus in me not to lose a limb.

I had given up on reasoning Aayla and Tann back to the light long ago. The presence of Tenebris, so dark and overpowering, was drowning the light and smothering me. My back thunked against a wall. Suddenly a blur of orange flew over me and I felt a huge disturbance in the force. Just as Master Ti landed, coming out of her long, arching flip, Irka spun. Obi-wan's lightsaber, which she still had, found its mark in the center of its owner's chest. He didn't even gasp, his body vanished. His cloak fell to the ground in a pile. There was no scream, no gasp, and no whispered goodbyes. The only remnants of him was Ki-Adi-Mundi's lightsaber landing with a plink in the center of his robes.

"OBI-WAN!" Shaak screamed, his name soon echoed by Shanti and myself. Suddenly a powerful force push shoved me inside an open door to my left. Shaak followed me, as did Leia and Shanti. Kina jumped in and slammed the door, stabbing the lock and permanently taking it out of commission.

"We have to find a place where we can hide," the kaminoan said. "I have our last resort."

"And what is that?" Shaak asked, raising her head. There were tears in her eyes, which she quickly wiped away. Leia was shaking.

"We must create a wall of light, to drive away the darkness that threatens to swallow us," the ancient Jedi said. "I've done it once before. I and a few other Jedi used this technique to cleanse a corrupt planet many years ago."

A lightsaber appeared through the metal of the door. I looked around. We were in…the engine room?

"This way," Shanti said. She pointed to a balcony far up the wall. She leaped and pushed off the opposite wall, backflipping and landing on the balcony. Shaak followed her, and I made sure Leia made it up before I followed. A door awaited us, and we found the safe room of the cruiser. The walls were so thick, thicker than a lightsaber was long. It would take some time to cut into this room. I put out the lock with my saber.

"So how do we do this?" Leia asked. The safe room was dimly lit, casting an eerie red glow over everything. Darkness and evil surrounded us. This truly was our last resort.

"We make a circle. We put everything we have into the space between us. Every piece of us. All the love, compassion, every positive feeling. It may well kill us all."

Leia gulped. To be so young, and to be told she was probably about to die. Shanti bent down and put her hand on her apprentice's shoulder.

"Leia, I just want you to know that I am so proud of you. And your father would be proud as well. You have become quite the young Jedi." She stood again, and sheathed her lightsabers.

"We need to start now," Kina said. I closed my eyes and sat down, immersing myself in the force. Outside it was dark, but here, there would always be light. Always. I searched myself for love, found it, and put it out. From behind my eyelids I could see a growing light, but I did not dare break my concentration to look at it.

All my love for my master, for my fellow Jedi, I called up. For my apprentice Jiam, for my favorite foods, for my childhood crush, all the love I felt, I converted it into pure, loving light.

Luminara, I love you…Master Cartiér, you taught me everything…Kras'Dok, I did as you said, master…Naria, you're my best friend…Dad, Mom, I love you…. Jiam, Eve, I am so proud to be your mother, and I love you too…Adi, you were my conscious, I thank you for your support…Shaak, you were the mother I never had...

I could hear the loving thoughts of the others. The light was steadily growing, and emotion was slowly draining from me. All I could feel was peace, and a roaring silence that blocked out everything else in existence, and the presences of Leia, and Master Ti, and Kina, and Shanti, so huge and all-encompassing…the light was conquering everything, swallowing screams of pain, gobbling up the darkness like a hungry animal.

The peace was so huge, it was everywhere, imbued with light that came with love, saturating the minds of those outside who were controlled by one so dark, but even she could not escape the light.

All creatures of darkness' links to the force will be cut off and then restored when they are cleansed, I heard Kina say, from someplace far away that was right beside my ear.

Everything is one, because everything is light, Shaak said, and I could see her smiling.

We must create a wall of light…Shanti murmured…

…Either to create or to destroy, it does not matter, I finished. I put forward everything I had.

And I felt nothing at all.