CHAPTER 2
Nube Canthar stared at his right hand. It was machine, due to the fact that Sanai had cut it off on Mustafar. But he wasn't mad at Sanai, in fact, they had become good friends, and Canthar had even trained Sanai at first in the ways of the Jedi. He quickly put on a glove as he heard a knocking on his door, since he was in his room in the Jedi Temple.
"Come in!" he yelled. The door opened, and Sanai walked in. Sanai brought a smile to Nube's face. Sanai was young, and looked even younger than he really was. His looks had changed much since his turn to the light. His skin had gone from grey to tan, and his eyes had gone from yellow to a baby blue. Even his hair had gone from curly black to a buzzed brown-blonde. Nube watched as Sanai sat down in front of him.
"Nube, there have been rumors that Masa survived, do you know anything about this?" Sanai said, becoming very serious. He always did when he talked about Masa. Nube shook his head.
"No, I've heard the rumors, but that's it," he told Sanai. Sanai nodded. Nube could tell he was upset.
"Sanai, you know that Masa died, you saw him fall into lava," Nube told him. But even as he said the words, Nube wasn't quite sure of his own words.
Masa walked down the hall to his second in command, Admiral Jair, who was standing at the head of the bridge of the ship. Masa was covered in a dark cape that covered all from the neck down. He had his hood up, and was wearing a black mask with holes for the eyes.
"Sir, we should be at Coruscant within a week," he told Masa. That would take to long.
"I wish to be there sooner," Masa told him, his voice deep and cracked. Jair looked at him confused.
"Sir, its impossible to get there that soon, we would have to…" Jair started. Masa watched as Jair grabbed at his own neck, gasping for breath. If he could not get Masa to Coruscant faster, the Masa had no use for him. Masa walked away as Jair's lifeless corpse fell to the deck. Masa looked at one of the troops he had found over the past for years.
"Clean up that mess," Masa told him. The troop nodded, and ran to grab Jair's body.
Masa looked out the window. It had been two days since he had killed Jair, and they were already at Coruscant. He walked over to his head commander, Commander Nogha.
"Send the troops down, force sensitives with lightsabers, all other with blasters," he told Nogha. Nogha nodded.
"Yes, master," he told Masa. Masa grinned beneath his mask. He would wait here. His apprentice would come soon, and he would ever join Masa, or die.
Nube heard a loud noise from within his chambers. Followed by screams. He jumped up and opened his chamber door, looking out to the rest of the temple. He gasped as he saw what was happening. Hundreds of troops were blasting upon the Jedi, along with several troops with lightsabers.
He saw Sanai was already down there, along with all the other Jedi, fighting the incoming troops. Nube jumped down to the lower level, and began fighting beside Sanai, cutting down several troops.
"What the hells going on!" Nube screamed as he sliced down a blaster-carrying troop.
"I don't know, they came out of nowhere!" Sanai yelled back. Nube tapped Sanai on the shoulder and jumped to the temple exit, Sanai right behind him.
"What are we doing?" Sanai asked Nube. Nube pointed to the sky, where a Star Destroyer was.
"We're going up there," he told Sanai.
Yoda jumped into the air, avoiding a swing from a Sith troop's blade. He came down to the ground, bringing the blade into the troop's skull. He winced as the troop screamed in agony. Yoda had been in his chambers when the attack started, and had started defending the other Jedi almost immediately. Now, Jedi and Sith were fighting all around him, and many more lay dead, covering the floors of the Jedi Temple. Suddenly, he felt a surge of lightning, and was flung to the other side of the temple where fewer Jedi were. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw a Sith, a lightsaber in each hand.
The Sith's skin was white, his pupils a dark red. He smiled at Yoda.
"Ah, I have hurt the legendary Yoda," he laughed. Yoda stood up and activated his small green lightsaber.
"Hurt me, you have. Defeat me, you will not!"
