Disclaimer: All the real Star Wars people, Luke and Ben, are owned by Lucasfilm Ltd. Everyone else is mine! MINE! Do you hear?! *goes off into insane cackle* *clears throat* that's enough. Raven.


Chapter 3

On Courscant the sun was just rising when Luke awoke to a stir in the Dark Side of the Force. He put his hands over his eyes and groaned because he knew the Sith had once again surfaced in the Universe to cause more trouble.

Luke Skywalker, Master of the Jedi Temple, walked over to a floor length window and watched the upper levels of Coruscant come to life, a foreboding feeling deep in his gut.

Then, entering stage left, were his two oldest children, Layla and Ben, Knight Jedi and both were 17. They had enormous power, being the children of the son of Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader and they had showed that they could control it.

"Father," Ben said, "What is that stir?"

"I'm not sure. I thinks he Sith have returned. But I thought they were all defeated after Darth Vader killed Palpatine on the last Death Star." Luke turned toward the two, "It's toward the Outer Rim Territories. Maybe their trying to get the new Hutt on their side." Ben and Layla nodded. "Go to Tatooine and check it out, Layla. And Ben, Go to Leia's and tell Han I need him."

*

Layla landed on Tatooine and sat out to search the small villages for signs of the Sith. In the last village of the day she sensed for only a brief second a malevolent force burning itself into the very energy of the town, tainting it.

She followed the Dark Force 'scent' to a speeder seller. When she questioned him he told her that maybe two days ago a young women with long red hair and green-yellow eyes bought a speeder from him. He remembered her clearly because of the claw like tattoo marks coming from the outside corners of her eyes.

Layla intended to follow up on this clue the next day, after she got some sleep. Jet lag sucked.

*

Darth Kantar and Darth Rapsha walked down the steps of the Hutt palace, both in sour moods. Zonga the Hutt was even more bloodthirsty than Jabba, his predecessor, but so much more clever.

Zonga didn't take them up on their offer and to make matters worse, demanded the Senator as payment for disturbing his morning. Zonga wanted the head of the Senator and he aimed to get it.

"Now what, Master?" Rapsha asked, pulling her hood up.

"Now we get off this Jedi forsaken planet and return to Coruscant." Kantar replied, his pupils slashed in anger.

"Yes Master." She replied and followed her master to the speeder and went back to the village and their star ship.

*

Layla awoke, sensing the approaching Siths. She quickly got dressed and slipped out of her poor lodging to stealthily follow them as they walked to a hanger. When she got close enough to hear what they were saying she was startled. The apprentice Sith was female and the Sith lord was going to wait for her while she went and killed Zonga the Hutt. He would then fly low over Nal Hutta and pick her up.

The apprentice bowed and walked toward the door Layla was hiding by. She hurried outside and raised her hood and her Jedi senses to protect herself. When the Sith passed her, she shadowed her. It was fortunate that she was staying in the same lodging that Layla was. That would make it a lot easier for Layla to follow the Sith throughout her travels.

And the next day she would follow this female Sith and defeat her once and for all.

*

Kantar watched his apprentice with a certain satisfaction. Females always did learn faster then men did. Then he felt the Jedi. It was a Jedi with amazing strength and skill. He trusted his apprentice to know when to back off but also trusted her training, even though she hadn't had enough to kill the accursed Jedi. kantar smiled as he walked to his star cruiser and went to Nal Hutta to await his apprentice's work.

*

Rapsha snuck into the Huttese palace with an easiness that startled her. Then she walked into a trap. Before she could get away her 'saber was taken from her by a frightened guard to the Hutt. Then Zonga showed up with a filthy Jedi.

The Jedi was handed her lightsaber and she activated it, somewhat surprised at the beautiful deep violet blades that came from both ends. "I've been looking for you, Sith." she said, "I am Layla Skywalker."

Rapsha hissed. Layla Skywalker, daughter of Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin Skywalker who was Darth Vader, a very powerful Sith apprentice? She shook her head to clear away the surprise. This was getting out of hand. "I don't care who you are, Jedi. You, and that Hutt Will die." she focused the force and blew the guards around her away. Then she stood and faced the Jedi. Rapsha smiled and called to her 'saber and the Jedi let her have it. Then the Jedi ignited hers, a deep, sapphire blue color. "You have made a terrible mistake, pulling this trap on me."

"I don't think so." the Jedi replied. shedding her cloak and standing in front of Zonga like a shield.

Rapsha grinned her Sith grin and wrapped herself in the Dark Side of the Force, letting the hatred she felt for the Jedi Council bleed into her eyes.

"Tell me your name before I destroy you, Sith."

"Darth Rapsha of the Sith order. And your dead meat." Rapsha then flipped over Layla's head and slashed at Zonga, killing him. Then she turned and saluted, Jedi style, holding the lightsaber above her head and ran out of the palace, the Jedi following.

When she got outside Kantar was waiting for her up in the cruiser. She was about to jump when Layla tackled her and pushed her to the ground. She then fell into the power of the Dark Side of the Force and knocked Layla back against a rock outcropping and was knocked out for a minute before the Force reawakened her. Rapsha was about to engage her in battle but her master called to her, summoning her telepathically and she saluted Jedi style before she jumped with Force and disappeared into the star cruiser, leaving the Jedi Layla Skywalker surprised, confused and scared all at once.