THE LIGHT AND THE DARK
LUKE
Luke was learning quickly and his strength in the force is incredible, but he had yet to reach his full potential. He also had to deal with patience. "So Master Yoda…Do you have a lightsaber?" Luke asks one day. Yoda just looks at him and does not respond, "What?"
The next morning after he eats, Luke finds Yoda waiting for him with a lightsaber in hand. "Defend yourself." Yoda drops his cane and leaps at Luke igniting his silver blade lightsaber; he had lost his first lightsaber during his fight with Darth Sidious in the Senate Rotunda. Luke was barely able to draw his own saber, to block and the strength behind Yoda's attack staggered him. Calling on the force, Luke counters, but no matter how fast he is, Yoda is able to block and counter him.
In the end Luke is disarmed, "I yield Master."
"Technique, work it needs…Practice, train!"
So everyday after their exercises Yoda and Luke would duel. As time passed Luke was able to, put up a better fight against the ancient Jedi Master. Then one day Luke was able to disarm Yoda. "Done well you have…No more training today."
Luke sits in his hut staring at his father's lightsaber. Yoda had given him lessons on the mechanics of building a lightsaber. Lately he had been getting an uneasy feel when it came to his father's lightsaber. He took it apart and then led by the force he leaves his hut. He walks for hours across the small Island, until he comes to a cave. The tide is low, but he still has to swim through the cave and finds a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the Island.
Luke explores the tunnels until he gets tired, he uses the force to rejuvenate himself and continue on. Then he finds a vein in a rock formation. The veins glow bright green and Luke feels as something in the rock is calling him. He uses the force to move the lose rocks around and finds a Kyber crystal. When Luke returns to his hut Yoda is waiting for him.
"Master I'm sorry I…"
"Apology needed is not…Called to you it did…Go rest and build."
Luke falls asleep and then the next morning after eating he stares at the lightsaber and starts building a new lightsaber with spare parts from his X-Wing. He puts his father's lightsaber back together and puts it away.
DARTH JADE
Her hunt for Darth Raga has bought her to Ruusan. She had gone to Naboo first and then followed his force essence to Degobah. She enters the cave and sees a vision of a woman, a man, and a boy. The woman has a red hair, but she cannot see their faces. She brushes the vision to the side. "I need to find Darth Raga!" She says focusing her will into the Darkside cave. She receives a vision of Galon Marek visiting the cave. It is not Darth Raga, it is the clone that lived before him. "RAGA!" She says again trying to bend the force to her will as all Sith do. Then she sees a planet and on it is a great well of power and Darth Raga bathing in that power.
Mara leaves the cave on Degobah and heads for Ruusan. She used theDarkside to lead her to the planet. Before exiting hyperspace she hides her force presence. "Oh yes Ruusan…" She says remembering her education and lessons learned from Palpatine's holocron. Palpatine knew of the planet, but not its location.
She enters the monument and down into the cave she goes. Darth Raga is not here. Guided by the lightsaber scratches on the walls she finds the cave with the swirling power of the force. She bathes in the power and receives several visions. She sees a Red Planet strong with the Darkside of the Force. She knows this planet as well. Dathomir, the fabled home of the Nightsisters. After bathing in the force tornado, Jade leaves for Dathomir.
HAN
To say things were not going well was understatement. The Falcon's hyperdrive was malfunctioning and to top it all off the entire Revenant Fleet was chasing them through the Hoth System. But, Han was living up to his boast that he is the best pilot in the Galaxy. He fired two proton torpedoes into the tractor beam that had caught them. Then he outflies several hundred Tie-Fighters and Star Destroyers all the while the Falcon is being shot at.
"Don't these guys have something else better to do?" Han asks.
"He is after me." Leia says.
"Who?"
"Dartth Revenant…He can feel me through the force."
"Well he's going to have to catch us first. Chewie set seven two one."
"What are you doing? You're not actually going to fly into an asteroid field?"
"They'd be crazy to follow us wouldn't they?"
Leia shakes her head, "You don't have to do this to impress me."
"Sir the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to 1."
Han smiles, "Never tell me the odds." He flies around a large asteroid and then in between two; while six fighters are chasing him. One of them explodes between the asteroids.
"Oh no! Look out!" C3P0 yells.
"Well you did say you wanted to be around when I made a mistake…This could it sweetheart."
"I take it back…We're going to get pulverized if we stay out here much longer."
"Pulverized!" C3P0 repeats dramatically.
"I'm going in closer to one of the big ones."
"Closer!"
Han flies the Falcon towards an asteroid the size of a planet. It lies at the heart of the asteroid field. He flies through a thin space of rock with walls on either side. The two remaining fighters blow up trying to follow. "That looks good."
"What looks good?"
"Pardon me Ma'am, but where are we going?" Leia hunches her shoulders as the Falcon flies into a cave that leads into the asteroid.
"I sure hope you know what you're doing."
"Yeah me too…" Han replies.
VADER
Construction of the new Death Star is going along quickly. With crews working night and day, Vader will have the upper hand against Darth Revenant very soon. He has yet to hear from his apprentice Darth Jade, but Vader is confident in her ability to find Darth Raga and kill him. Now he stands before a group of the most ruthless Bounty Hunters in the Galaxy. Boba Fett the Mandolorian, IG-88 a Droid, Dengar a Corellian Male, Zuckuss a male Gand, 4-LOM another droid, Bossk a male Trandoshan, and a female of the Hapan people Iris Phel.
"There will be a substantial reward to the one who brings me the Millennium…Use whatever means necessary, but I want them alive and unharmed…" He stops in front of Boba Fett, "No disintegrations."
"As you wish."
DATHOMIR
He had come to Dathomir to find an apprentice before facing Darth Revenant. With his Master busy chasing the Rebels and his personal ongoing war with Darth Vader this was the perfect time to betray him. As he walks toward the ruins of the ancient Dathomir village Darth Raga calls out in the force, "Come out! I seek an apprentice to train in the ways of the Darkside…" Long ago Darth Tyrannus AKA Count Dooku attacked Dathomir trying to wipe out the force sensitive people of the planet, in an attempt to destroy his former apprentice Ventress. Many believe that the witches of Dathomir were all killed but many survived by hiding deep underground.
Two women one with a balled head and green eyes, the other with red hair, black lipstick and fingernails. Both women wear red and black robes, the bald woman is armed with two swords and the other a lightsaber staff. "Who are you and what do want here Darksider?" The bald woman asks as several male Zabraks armed with bow casters appear.
"As I said…I have come to find an apprentice to train in the ways of the Darkside. I mean you no harm."
"We are weary of off worlders…Dark Force Users who come here to take from us and never give…We will give you Darksider, but you must give us something."
"What is that?"
"You are being hunted…By the apprentice of your former Master's rival…Entertain us…If you survive. We shall give a worthy apprentice…If you die…"
He smirks, "Suppose I take what I want."
"You could, but as powerful as you are, not even you can fight all of us. And even if you managed to kill us all…Those that are hiding will never reveal themselves to you…"
He weighs his options. Raga could best the two women and the ten Zabrak warriors. But they were all he sensed. The women of Dathomir ruled and they had an uncanny ability when it came to the force. They were somehow blocking his ability to sense anyone else on the planet. On top of that they know the planet better than he did. They could hide anywhere. "Fine, you shall have your entertainment." He says making a decision.
"Wait for her here…She will come. We will be watching…" The bald, woman, the redhead, and the ten Zabrak males all vanish.
He shakes his head, "Witches…"
DARTH JADE
Keeping her presence hidden she exits hyperspace and flies from the far side of the planet. To Jade it feels as if a hundred unseen eyes were watching her. She flies low and soon she picks up his ship, She climbs high and dive bombs on the ship destroying it. Darth Jade lands her ship on a cliff and disembarks. Her quarry is waiting with his lightsabers drawn.
"I know you…Mara Jade…The Emperor's Hand…Now Vader's boot licker."
She smiles, "If I am Vader's boot licker what are you to Revenant?"
"His doom…I came here to find an apprentice. And in the tradition of the Rule of Two…Kill Vader and become Emperor."
"So why haven't left?" She asks still hiding her true power in the Darkside.
"The Witches informed me that you were hunting me. But I see a better opportunity…Let us fight, but not to the death…If you win I will bow to you and call you Master…But if I win…You will call me Master. Together we can destroy Vader and Revenant and rule the Galaxy the two of us."
Jade draws her lightsaber, "My destiny lies elsewhere…" She leaps at him and he blocks. Then he flinches sensing her true power in the Darkside.
"No!"
"Yes…Now you see…I found the secret on Ruusan same as you did…"
She uses the form VII and he surprises her by using Palpatine's form of Asathii. To counter him, Darth Jade switches back and forth from one style to the next in different orders. She makes contact and slashes him on the upper arm, Darth Raga flips away unleashing force lightening at her. She blocks with her saber, grabs a stone pillar with the force, and throws it at Raga. He blasts the pillar with Force lightening creating a dust cloud and losses track of Jade.
She hides her presence in the force and hides behind a rock formation. That is when Raga uses the force to dispel the dust cloud. "That is a nice trick you have! Hiding your presence in the force. Perhaps you are not as strong as I thought you were."
"Perhaps you are afraid and feel your death coming. So you talk to distract yourself."
"I am Darth Raga I fear nothing! Least of all you!" He unleashes a lightening storm blasting the area in every direction. That is when Jade leaps from behind the rock into the air. She throws her vibro-dagger guiding it with the force. Raga bats the blade to the side, but is too slow to block an attack from behind and is impaled on her saber. His body erupts and Jade is thrown to the ground, by the force unleashed from his death. She collects his lightsaber as a trophy and leaves victorious.
