Hey. Sry this took a bit of time to get to ya. I've been at the theaters the past two days… EP2 kicks ass dude! Ok now that that is out… I know I suck…lol… now on to the matter at hand…

Lost to Darkness

Siri stared out at the all too familiar lab.  She had been there for fourteen days that stretched for an eternity.  336 long hours of pain, torture, and confusion. 

She wanted so much to see the sun and moon again.  To see her friends, family, home…

Adi.

Every minute Showdow wasn't occupied with them she thought about the hours that past when she wasn't able to connect to the Force.  It drove deeper and deeper into her mind… she couldn't access it.  Siri was convinced the only reason she hadn't broken down yet was because Zae-Non seemed to calm about it. 

If her friend cracked, she would.

"Z," Siri said. "Tell me the truth. What do you think about that stupid carver?"

"I don't need to think at all about him." She answered weakly. "I know him."

"You… you do?" She asked confused. She looked at her friend worry edging into her eyes. "Zae-Non are you OK?"

"No, I'm not OK." Z said truthfully. "But that's besides the point.  Yes, I know that Blood Carver." She sat up from where she had been laying down and shook her head. "That is Showdow."

Siri gasped. "What!? That's the blood carver that…"

"Almost killed me, yes." She hesitated on her next statement, but went on.  "You have every right to know this I guess… But he has gotten worse from then."

"No… he couldn't have." Siri felt panic rise through her.  Zae-Non had told her all about Showdow after she had recovered from what he had done to her.  He had almost killed her.  Her vital signs had stopped at one point even.  If he had gotten worse, what was he capable of now?

Z was about to say something when they doors flew open and Showdow walked in with is usual stare.  He took out his remote control and activated the view screen on the back wall.

Siri let out a loud and long deliberate sigh. "Isn't this getting old?" She snapped at the carver. "There're really is no point in showing this to us unless it's somehow different from the first hundred times you've shown it."

Showdow stared at her with menacing eyes. "You'll pay for that smart mouth of yours some day." He spat back. While turning back to the remote he added. "Some day very soon."

Siri stared up at the ceiling.  It was boring now that she had looked at it so much.  She looked out her friend who sighed as the 'movie' once again started.

"Humph!" Z snorted softly as she spun around back to the screen.

Siri watched as Showdow unraveled his whip and gripped the handle tightly.   His unspoken message was clear: 'Watch it or else'.  Unconsciously Siri rubbed her arm where she held many new cuts.  Both girls had experienced Showdow's expert skill with that whip.  It's stinging surface as it rang out a snap every time he gracefully let it dance through the air towards them.  Neither of them wanted to hear that snap again.

Siri chanced a glance up at the screen. The 'picture' of the Temple standing there in all of it's glory one second and the next it was a pile of burning ambers… 

Siri laughed in her head.  Of everything the carver told them this was the stupidest of all…

She once again looked over to her friend and saw that she still hadn't turned around. 

Showdow had noticed also.  He put his whip down on the table on walked over to her cell. Putting down one of the walls so he could step on he clipped his remote onto his belt.

Z didn't up look at him.

"You better turn around and watch that." He threatened snapping the whip out the opposite direction as a warning.

"Why should I?" Z replied coolly turning to look at him. "I won't believe it."

"But you are seeing it with your own eyes."

Z narrowed her eyes. "Then I guess I can't trust everything I see."

"Watch it." Was the simple command.

Zae-Non jumped up her face reddening with anger. "Get this though your already warped mind! I am never going to believe that!" She pointed at the screen. "Nothing will ever make me believe. Nothing you say or do. And not just because I can see it on some damn screen!"

Showdow did not reply. Instead he turned around and started to walk out of her cell.

Deprived of her senses Z could only cry out as Showdow whirled around with lightening fast reflexes and hit her across the face with his electrojabber.   She fell to the floor is a shaking heap as she cried silently from the pain.

"If you cant trust what you see, why should you need to do so at all."  The carver spat. He went to the door and turned to Siri. "I'll be right back for you."

Siri ignored the threat as the door slammed and she called out to her crumple friend. "Z!"

No reply

"Zae-Non please!!"

A small whimper.

"Z please answer!  Are you OK!?" She was pleading earnestly now.

"Siri," Came a pain choked answer. "I… I can't see."

Siri watched in horror as Zae-Non's pain striken form went limp.

What was she to do now?  She had no one. Adi wasn't there, Z wasn't there, the Force… no one.  She was all alone.

Siri curled up into a tight ball. "No!" she wept into her knees, tears streaming down her face. "It's not true! It can't be!"

But something inside her mind made her cry harder.

Her home was gone…

Her family…

She might as well just give up now…

NO! Siri cursed her self mentally.  How could she think such a thing? 

Adi would never abandon her.

The Temple could never just crumble.

"I'm back." Came an insane call.

Siri dropped her head and stared blankly at the floor.  She could not let Showdow see that she was giving in. She was not going to give in just because of what was told to her.  Or because she watched it on a screen. She couldn't

A laugh echoed in the room. "You know it's true." Came a snickered reply.

"NO!" Siri screamed. She leapt up and glared at Showdow. "Never! It can't be. You are just some insane Blood Carver looking for revenge!"

"I told you that mouth would get you in trouble." Showdow said.

Siri scowled back.

He again laughed. "Why don't I put it in these terms. I have a bone to pick with you… literally."

Haha, I luv this kinda chapter even though most ppl wanna kill me… n e wayz, ill try to have the next up by Friday. Till Later~

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