CHAPTER 7





Dark Master Zarreck sat quietly in his room in his large temple. His Dark Jedi were waiting. Soon he would make the announcement that everyone knew would come, but one question remained... Who would be his Sith Apprentice?
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"The Jedi are ready," Sullustan Jedi Council member, Fib Fluton, said to Grandmaster Hue Yung. They both stood on a balcony looking out at the three Star Cruisers filled with Jedi. "You have not yet announced who will be in charge of the attack."
"You will be," Yung said.
"I will make sure the scum are destroyed."
"I know. Bring Masters Hjeg and Silve along with you."
"Okay."
"May the Force be with you."
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Dark Master Zarreck stood on a balcony overlooking a few thousand Dark Jedi. He cleared his throat and then using a Jedi power he made his voice loud so all could hear, "My fellow Dark Jedi, we are gathered here today as everyday on the planet Korriban, the Sith planet Korriban, where Sith temples, tombs, and relics have been sense the beginning of the Dark Jedi. We are Dark Jedi yet we have no Sith Lord to watch over us and command us, to bring us glory that will last forever. I have been our leader sense the rebirth, but I was just like all of you, a Dark Jedi. I helped organize us into what we are today, but I have found that the time is right to proclaim myself Lord of the Sith Empire. Many of you expected this and it has finally come. I recently went through a long procedure to make myself fully one with the ways of the Sith. New powers have come to me that a normal Dark Jedi could never accomplish and old ones have become much more powerful." He looked out at the gathering. "A question in many of your minds is the one of 'Who will be my Sith Apprentice?' after much thought I have decided that the mostly unlikely of my advisors will be my apprentice, I have two things to say to Dark Knight Zev, you are now a Dark Master, but you will also soon begin your training in the ways of the Sith!" Zarreck motioned Zev up next to him and they both gave a bow that brought cheering from all. Then Zarreck whispered to him, "As your first duty as my apprentice you will be commanding our first attack with our clones. In a vision, I saw ships filled with Jedi leaving hyperspace at the planet Nal Hutta. You will take three thousand clones to the planet and attack them."
"Yes my Master."