Inner Struggle

A/N: Sorry the update has taken awhile! Hope this chapter makes it worth the wait, it's one of my fav chapters of this story! Thank you ShotgunChiefand Nerwen Aldarion
glad your all liking the story!

Cyan sat in the dimly lit cell staring at the ground. One side of her mind was trying to find a way to escape but the other half of her mind was numb with grief and pain. She had betrayed Joran, betrayed the friendship they had and possibly even the love that might have been growing. She began to wish the Jedi Council would just destroy her and put her out of her misery, after all she was a Sith, and apparently descended from a long line of them too.

"Luke Skywalker's father was a Sith…and he is the leader of the Jedi Council" the voice spoke out.

"Master Arnav?" Cyan asked in a slightly scared voice. The Force around her seemed to shift as the apparition of Arnav appeared before her.

"My Galena-Cara…" he said sadly.

Cyan bit back a sob. Memories came back in a rush, most clearly was the day Jai had killed Arnav and when he had taken her from the Jedi Order.

"None of this is your fault Cara…you are already fighting the Dark Side. Assist the Jedi and take down Tormel. Make peace with Joran."

"Don't leave me Master Arnav!" Cyan called to him as he began to disappear. Her master placed his hand on her shoulder as he had done so many years ago.

"May the Force be with you Galena-Cara."

Cyan sobbed lightly as her master disappeared from sight.

When her sobbing began to slow she made her decision. She was the Jedi Galena-Cara, not the Sith Cyan. She would make Arnav proud of her.

Luke was the first to come down to speak with Cara. As soon as the door of her cell was opened he could sense the change in her. Not only that but a part of her hair had been pulled back into a Padawan braid.

"We believe you are willing to come back to the Light Side of the Force. I can see that are decision was correct." Luke smiled slightly as he spoke.

"I am sorry I ever turned Master Skywalker…" Cara started

"Do not apologise, your young mind was taken advantage of." Luke interrupted, "you will be apprenticed to one of the Jedi Masters here. Do not forget you will be under close observation for a long time."

"Thank-you," Cara said.

"Now you better reconstruct a new Lightsaber, I hear that is your talent and you will definitely need it in the coming months. I doubt your old Master will want to let you go this easily." Luke said as he led her from her cell.

Cara sat in a bare room with only the materials she would need for her Lightsaber. She had been mediating for half an hour and now in an almost trancelike state began to create her new Sabers.

She followed a similar design to what she had used as a Sith, the two separate Sabers that could be joined to make a staff, as far as she was concerned it was the most comfortable design for her.

When the Sabers were finally finished she activated each one. Both blades where green, just like her's when she was a Jedi Padawan, and like her old Master's.

She closed her eyes and started through a set of velocities, the training moves both Jedi and Sith trained in.

Realising that she was slipping into the more aggressive Sith stances she pushed her mind back to her first training and concentrated harder on displaying the proper Jedi stances.

Soon she wasn't concentrating any longer, all she could feel was the vibrations her Lightsabers cut through the air and the strength of the Force flowing through her body guiding her movements.

She disarmed a Saber and proceeded with a new set of velocities.

One of her attacking stances was suddenly blocked by another Saber. Opening her eyes Cara firstly saw the blue blade of a Lightsaber. The next thing she saw was Joran.

Immediately he lunged and attack which she just as quickly parried. At first Cara found it hard to not use the Sith stances to her advantage but soon she relaxed into the rhythm of the velocities.

By unspoken agreement they both started to increase their speed until both Lightsabers where just blurs of blue and green light and the room was filled with the sounds of the Sabers meeting.

Traditionally these velocities continued until a Jedi slipped up or gave in with the cry Solah! But after awhile Cara and Joran stepped apart and deactivated their Sabers.

Both Jedi bowed in respect for the other.

Cara knew all was forgiven between them, they where friends again.Forgivness was the way of the Jedi

"What?" roared Darth Tormel as he turned thunderously towards Jai and the two cultists beside him.

"It's true Lord Tormel," stammered one of the cultists, "The Jedi arrested her, and she changed sides."

Tormel used the force to grip the man's throat and let him hang in the air choking.

"I heard what Jai said! I don't need you to back them up!" He bellowed.

Jai swallowed nervously.

Tormel tossed the corpse across the room and turned away from them. How could she just turn on him! Arnav must have had something to do with it! Jedi were notorious for not staying properly dead. Well he would make sure Cyan stayed permanently dead! He had no use for apprentices that turned on him that easily.

"Retrieve May-Lan from her last assignment!" Tormel ordered, "Both of you will watch the Jedi carefully. Warn me of any impending attack."

"It would be suicide to attack your Temple master!" Jai said suddenly.

"Cyan knows the place well! If she leads the Jedi here we will lose many followers even if we did take her down!" Tormel continued to rage.

"Yes Master." Jai said lowering his head.

"On my command be prepared to capture her and bring her back her, I want her alive! And bring me that fool Padawan he turned her!"

Luke Skywalker entered the council room with Joran and Cara behind him. He was temporarily training Cara until a suitable Jedi Master could be found.

"Friends, today we will do something that has never been attempted. Due to knowledge we have gained that was previously unavailable to us we are taking the fight straight to the Sith." Luke announced.

There where many opinions being voiced at his rather sudden news.

"If Cara assists in leading this attack she will have proven herself a true Jedi to those who still doubt her!" Joran spoke up suddenly.

"The Padawan is correct." One of the Jedi spoke up.

"I can't expect you to trust me immediately" Cara said as she stood forward, "and I won't expect you to welcome me back to the Order with open arms. But I was raised amongst Jedi and the Order is my home. With me I bring my knowledge of the Sith, which I admit is considerable, and my skills with Lightsaber and the Force. But I must also bring an ancient Sith heritage and eight years of being a Sith apprentice to one of the worst of the Sith Lords. I cannot change my past but I will shape my future."

There was a silence that was soon followed by applause. Cara with the assistance of Joran and Luke had proven herself a Jedi.

It was time to take the attack to the Sith