Meanwhile Rian had just got the door open to the abandoned temple.

He and Ric'ia entered, the place was in very good condition to the rest of this hell-hole, the rest of the area they were stuck in looked like a losing side of an explosive war, ruined buildings scattered the several miles it took up, junk piled up to hundreds of feet, the only people in the place were the droids, they infested the place, Rian had yet to see an entire droid, they all had either a missing arm or leg or something.

"How does the place look?" Ric'ia asked Rian from behind him.

Rian was looking at an electronic map of the building.

"There's power, so probably heating too if we can find something to control the temperature." It had been freezing since they left the palace.

Ric'ia fiddled with some switches and buttons behind what seemed to almost be a reception desk, after a moment of fiddling she pressed something causing the room to be filled with brilliant light.

"Good job senator."

"You can call me Ric'ia if you prefer."

"Good job...Ric'ia."

"Isn't that better?"

"Not really."

"Not even a little."

"Maybe...a little."

"There's no point in hiding behind a tough exterior with me, it doesn't work, I can see the shy little boy you truly are."

"You're seeing things."

"Ha ha."

"We'll need to eat."

"We won't find consumable food here."

"That means we have to find the way out of this crap shoot."

"Don't talk like that."

"Like what?"

"With words like crap shoot."

Rian gave a big formal bow and said.

"I truly apologise lady senator."

"There's no need to be sarcastic."

Suddenly something slammed against the large metal doors,

Ric'ia reached for the blaster she had picked up from the mob and placed it on a table making it easier to use. Rian activated his lightsabers and prepared for the doors to open, but then thought of the cold.

"Ric'ia open the doors."

"What?"

"If the doors are broken open then all the cold will come in! We'll freeze at night." Ric'ia looked at the various buttons at the desk she bunked at and found the right one, the doors opened and droids poured in.

Rian began slashing and swiping while Ric'ia shot at the doors and outside them, the number of droids wasn't very high but Rian was tired from earlier and wasn't fighting at his best, he swiped at droids as they slowly came at him, one of them shot a blast that got through and hit his shoulder, Rian was lucky, the blaster was very small and weak, designed to be shot a lot of times, very quickly, Rian still dropped a lightsaber as the pain shot through his body. Ric'ia kept shooting until there was none left, and with one pulse of the force Rian pushed the shells out the door so it could close. Ric'ia ran outside and picked up a few blasters, she might need them.

They were there for two days and nothing of great interest happened, no more attacks that is. They did find a temperature control and now enjoyed a fine warmth 24/7. They found clothes and frozen food that seemed to be eatable in some of the rooms in the higher floors and Ric'ia found a recording of what seemed to be the last person to be in there. She played the recording.

A person appeared on screen, a woman, long blonde hair and a determined face.

I am Leith Starkiller, The race known as the Selations have been little help, they've buckled under Sith control. The Sith have stopped our ability to send messages off world with a small device that relays all messages to a ship they have floating above the planet. The device is located on an antenna on top of this temple...I don't know how they got it there but we can't get near it, we've sent four Jedi after it to stop it and they were all shot down, The Sith came here with thousands of soldiers, cannons and of course Sith Knights. They have stopped incoming imports, exports, everything. We can't last much longer, even now I can hear combat outside and I can feel Jedi dying. They've mobilised a droid army, tens of thousands! But they are weak droids, inefficiently made! They line outside the city and we are cutting them down! But they are resilient droids! Losing limbs and the sort but continuing to fight! I think we could turn them to our side if we destroy that damn relay device! Our antenna is more than enough to send commands to there communicators! We could turn the war, but that damn device!

I pray that the next person to watch this is either reinforcements or someone helpful...may the force be with you...and may it protect us.

The screen went blank before coming onto a menu asking what to do next. Ric'ia had an idea...they could send a message to the council or Ca'hal or someone! Anyone who could help. And the Sith probably aren't protecting the device anymore. Rian can get up there and we'll be saved!

Ric'ia ran down a few flights of stairs looking for Rian, she found him meditating and she shouted

"I found a way to safety!"

She explained the idea of Rian climbing up and destroying the antenna, Rian thought on it and decided he would do, he had to.

Rian stood at the foot of the tall antenna he had to climb up if he wanted to get at the device. Ric'ia was warming some food for when he got down. Rian used the force and started jumping up and soon he found the device, a small spider like gadget stuck onto the antenna, He ripped it off and threw it away, it fell downwards and smashed against the floor. As Rian looked out at the distance he saw the city he had escaped from, it was actually very beautiful from here. The city lights shone brightly and he could see people scurrying about, then he saw really bad sight, he saw two black figures approaching the gates he and Ric'ia had entered over,

"Sith." He could feel that they were Sith, He made his way down to the roof entrance of the temple and found Ric'ia after following the smell of food.

When he found her she had to ask him.

"Did you find it?"

"Yeah, I bust it up." She saw a worried look on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"There are two Sith are coming towards us."

"Where are they?"

"Just after entering the city walls."

"We have to be ready."

"I kinda wanted them to kill us."

"Very funny, seriously you can't beat both of them."

"Yes I can! I've killed two Sith very recently!"

"They weren't together!"

"Still they weren't even competition."

"Really?"

"Really!" Ric'ia got some blasters and made sure she was ready, one of the blasters was the one that had hit Rian in the shoulder, Rian could still feel it sting every now and then. Rian and Ric'ia were hiding on a floor waiting for the Sith and a little later they heard them entering.

An old, cold voice spoke.

Go my apprentice, bring the senator alive...kill the Jedi if you wish.

The next voice was young, fresh and very cocky.

Thank you master.

Rian could feel the Sith running up the flights of stairs, when he arrived in the room where Rian was waiting in hiding the Sith threw off his cloak and activated a double ended lightsaber, it's red glow gave a little light in the dimly lit room, The Sith heard two lightsabers moving through a door that led to a balcony, The Sith approached the door but Rian opened it and ran at the Sith, the two paused for a moment, Rian looked at the Sith, a Selation, pale skin, some hair growing around the mouth, bald, eyes full of malice. The Sith looked at Rian, big blue eyes, brown hair that had been growing long over the past few weeks, both were tallish, rather thin and determined.

"It's a shame I have to kill a kid." Rian wanted to anger the Sith.

"I'm no kid, and when I kill you...I'm gonna have my way with that senator." The two ran at each other and started slashing, this Sith was very strong for his age and physique, Rian was fast, very fast, his strength was slightly lacking but his skill with a lightsaber was extreme, and his knowledge of the force was also above normal for someone in his phase of training. The Sith was talented with the dual-sided lightsaber and had a certain grace with his movement.

The Sith was now hammering blows down on Rian, then he'd spin upwards and come down with more strikes. Rian was blocking all of these and looking for an opening to get onto the offensive but was stuck defending, The Sith tried to spin left and strike Rian but Rian was able to graze the Sith's leg with his lightsaber, the Sith fell and clasped his leg, he could feel the burn but had to press on, he must kill his adversary, his combat became a sort of dance, certain moves, each one pulled off with acrobatics and grace, Rian was fighting with a much more defend, strike, defend, strike method. Ric'ia sat in her hiding spot, the small blaster clasped, she was thinking of the statement the Sith had made,

I'm gonna have my way with that senator.

Ric'ia could see them fighting, There was something marvellous about a fight to the death between good and evil, Jedi vs. Sith, Acrobatics vs. assimilated Jedi training, strength vs. speed, young vs. younger, dual sided lightsaber vs. two lightsabers. Rian was now jumping over the Sith and was swiping high and low. The Sith could feel the graze on his leg and it was affecting his fighting. The Sith used his good leg to kick Rian in the face, it landed right on Rian's chin and Rian fell onto his back, Ric'ia burst out of her hiding place and started shooting with the small blaster and a larger pistol blaster, The Sith deflected the first few shots but then one got through and this led to them all getting through, he was knocked back by the shots until he was pushed out to the balcony but instead of falling over he just fell against the railings, he was dead.

Rian was up by now and looked at Ric'ia, she turned to him.

"He's not having his way with anyone."

"I'd imagine not...you hit his penis."

"Did I?"

"Yes, I'm very sure you did."

Then they heard that old, icy voice.

"So, you've had yet another victory senator. I applaud you, that's three dead Sith in a few days, but lets see you defeat a master who has no intention on being a martyr." Rian answered.

"What do mean...martyr?"

"Did you think you were powerful enough to kill Promatius?"

"I did kill him!"

"You foolish child! He gave his life to start you down a path to the dark side!"

"That's a lie! I killed him with my power!"

"Yes...using force lightning I believe, a technique he taught you!"

"So what?"

"You should know! That lightning is the dark side!"

"Well...but...the end justifies the means!"

"Does it really?"

"In this case...yeah, yeah it does!"

"Well...I bore of this...I'll take the senator now." Ric'ia looked at Rian.

"We have to be careful against him."

"Screw that...I'll teach him!" Rian ran at him the way Anakin Skywalker will run at Count Dooku, and both were stopped the same way. Lightning shot from the Siths hands and shocked Rian, Rian ended up on his back, his robes were smoking, and then a second blast of lightning hit him, and again, and again. Ric'ia could watch anymore of this onslaught, she started shooting the blasters but before her fingers had even put pressure on the trigger the Sith had his lightsaber ready to defend, it glowed an evil red and the Sith rebounded all of Ric'ia's shots as if it was child's play. Ric'ia didn't know what to do.

He's too fast with his lightsaber, I can't hit him. How can I win?

Suddenly another figure came through the doors, a tall long bearded figure, The Sith turned to face the figure.

"Ahh good king, I am about to arrest the murderer!"

"And I'm about to kill him!" The Sith raised an eyebrow.

"You said him but you don't mean the Jedi...I can tell."

"You are wise Darth Sess'th" The King raised a hand and a small silver cylinder flew to his hands, he held it like you would a sword and he crouched slightly to enter a fighting stance, a brilliant purple shot up from the cylinder.

"You are...a Jedi...but how I never sensed the force in you, why not?"

"I am truly one with the force." The King jumped up and started swiping and jumping and followed this pattern, jump to swipe to jump to swipe. Ric'ia watched in awe.

"Now this is a heroic comeback! A Return of The King!"

Ric'ia could hear his voice in her head.

Don't worry Senator, I know your innocent...I have contacted the Jedi Council. We have a war!

Darth Sess'th was moving backwards and forwards to try and keep up with the Jedi King, the jumping was causing a lot of trouble, Sess'th had to keep turning around and moving around to protect himself.

Rian was rolling in pain, his clothes smoking. Ric'ia ran over and tried to help him up.

"I can stand," he said pulling away from her.

He watched as the King and the Sith Master, they were both focussed completely on the other.

"Stay here," he whispered.

Ric'ia watched helplessly as Rian jumped onto the roof beams, he paused watched the site below him. Darth Sess'th had forced the King to the ground and was about to kill him when Rian leapt down and cut the Sith right down the middle.

Ric'ia felt like she was going to be sick, there in front of her lay two part of a man, an evil man yes but a man a living being none the less and Rian was standing over him a victorious smile on his face. She tore her eyes from the disturbing image and went to help the King.

"Are you alright?"

"I will be, do not worry yourself."

"Sir whatever the news reports say I assure you I did not kill your wife."

"I know it was the man on the ground behind you, he was afraid of what the war would do to the Sith on this planet and thought that this would be a way to stop it. His fears, I dare say, were warranted. When this war is over the Sith will no longer be a problem."

Slowly he rose from the floor.

"If you would do me the honour of returning with me to the Palace and we can clear up this little misunderstanding."

Ric'ia turned to Rian who was now bent over Darth Sess'th's body.

"Rian are you coming?"

The King looked over and saw that Rian was reaching for Darth Sess'th's lightsaber.

"You don't need that padawan, come we need to rest."

"I don't need it, I want it, every Lightsaber I take is one the Sith can't use."

"I won't judge you...that's your masters job."

"My masters an old fart." Rian said this under his breath but the look he got from Ric'ia suggested that she heard it.

They made there way out of the city with no trouble, no droids attacked. They made there way to the palace, luckily the Sith had no time or chance to announce that they would have to fight the Selations. After the whole murder fiasco was sorted and the world pointed the finger of blame at Darth Sess'th.

After they had eaten a lot (They hadn't had that much in the temple) Ric'ia had to discuss very important and personal matters with Rian.

"Rian can I ask you something?"

"No."

"I was just wondering why you have such a deep hatred for the Sith."

Rian didn't answer; he just sat there looking at the wall.

"Look I need to know if this is going to become a problem!"

"Why would it be a problem, every Sith I kill is one less for you to worry about."

"It becomes a problem when you go too far, I saw you today you would have slashed those Sith's bodies to pieces. I'm afraid that before we leave you are going to bite off more than you can handle."

"I'm a Je..."

"Don't give me that I'm a Jedi crap, you are still only human. You can be hurt just like the rest of us."

"Why Senator, I didn't know you had that much fire in you. The use of the word crap is highly undignitarial."

"I apologise, I'm just worried."

Rian merely nodded and went back to his meditation. Ric'ia sat at her desk sorting through the information the King had given her but she couldn't focus.

"How did you become a Jedi?"

"At the age of ten it was obvious that my ability with the force was unique, I could do things that some masters struggle to do. So I applied to become a Jedi, I was refused because of my age...five years later I was ripped from a life of bliss, I was ripped from my family...I was ripped from my girlfriend whom I loved...I was ripped from everything...they discovered I was unruly and quick to use the force...they developed a drug just for me to suppress my power, and later a member of the council told me that the reason I was ripped from everything is because that overpowered bastard had a vision of me as a Sith killing every member of the council, a twelve on one fight and I somehow manage to be victorious. Is that detailed enough?"

"Thank you for telling me, it means a lot that you trust me."

Rian nodded and said no more on the matter. Ric'ia started looking at the plate in front of her before asking another question.

"Are you still on the drug?"

Rian raised his sleeves to show where he had received many injections.

"I'm on it until I become a Jedi Knight."

"How often do you take it?"

"I'm supposed to take it once every two days."

"When did you take it last?"

"The day before I got here."

"But that's three days."

"Yeah."

"You better take some."

"No...I think I'll need all the power I can get in the next few days."

"How quickly does the drug take effect?"

"Instantly."

The next morning Ric'ia and Rian had a meeting with the King, their last before their departure, to discuss the war once again.

"So the plan is your are going to contact a fellow Jedi on the planet of Iridonia and tell him what you've learned and he'll tell the Iridonians."

"Yes, that's what we'll do."

All three were agreed on that plan, also the republic would be coming here to fight the massive Sith threat.

"I have every intention of rallying troops to fight." He turned to Rian. "Will you lead my troops? I need someone I can trust and a Jedi would be most helpful."

"If that is what you wish. But couldn't you lead them?"

"If I reveal my abilities then I shall become a target of the Siths."

"I understand."

Three days later the Selations had raised their first army since the Sith take over, seven hundred years ago. The troops were not the best but there was many of them...every Selation who couldn't get a job elsewhere were recruited, prisoners who wanted to redeem themselves and anyone else who wanted to join. The Sith were told that it was for fighting the Iridonians.