Chapter XV
Darth Vaderis leading the ground troopers.
This startling realization hit Aigus like a battleship, just as he had raided the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, by walking through the majestic archways, and into the temple spire, he slaughtered every Jedi in his path.
No one knew it but Aigus was in a transport with his Clone Troopers when they saw the commotion going at the Temple. His Commander had saved him by cutting Palpatine's Imperial Order Sixty-Six, the activation of the Stormtrooper protocol, and the extermination of the Jedi.
His former Commander was now dying, as he lay on the floor. The first Imperial Raid killing almost all of their ground troops. Aigus hated what was happening, the Jedi were being slaughtered where they had done nothing wrong. It was the Sith's doing, they had plummeted the Galaxy into even more chaos.
He knelt next to the Clone and eased his passage into death, his friend's final resting place; Clone Trooper GA-963 looked at the Jedi Master through his cracked helmet with grateful eyes before they became dull and lifeless. Aigus rose from his position and motioned for Lukra the Twilek Jedi to go to Master Yafrees' aid, the old Jedi lying wounded on the landing site.
Lukra returned to the Jedi Master and Aigus' face fell, Yafrees was dead. That was another Jedi Knight to add to the death list of Darth Vader.
Aigus' hand clenched into a fist and he trembled uncontrollably, "What, is happening to the Jedi?"
He felt it, in the Force, the dark side was strong in his blood, his lineage stretching back to the great Sith Lord of old, Exar Kun's lost child Ellar Kun.
Aigus turned as he felt the eyes of others on him, a small group of stormtroopers were aiming their blaster riffles at him, with a swift movement of his hand the stormtroopers were thrown into the sky, he felt another set of troopers to his left, with lightning speed his bronze bladed lightsaber flew from his grip and slashed through the five troopers in moments, their dismembered bodies falling to the floor in a heap.
Lurka was busy battling a Dark Jedi when he heard her cry out, he saber hand and the lightsaber a few feet away from her. The Dark Jedi executed a Shi-Kiun, and beheaded the defenseless Jedi Knight.
How many Jedi remained? Nine? Eight? Questioned Aigus as he let his anger through, blue Force Lightning materializing inches from his finger tips and ripping into Dark Jedi's chest.
The Jedi Master pulled the fallen Jedi's red lightsaber to himself and activated it, now holding two lightsabers he moved down the stormtroopers like a vibroblade through nerf cheese. One blocking blaster bolts, while the other slashed through the troopers.
Aigus became a storm and tornado of swirling blood, and death as the continual bombardment of troopers lay waste to hundreds of corpses. When the stormtroopers finally stopped coming he stopped, his Jedi robed bathed in sweat, blood and grimeand his breathing heavy.
The Jedi Master had made a terrible transition as he took stock of the situation, he had used dark side powers to defeat his enemy. But what scared Aigus most was the he enjoyed it. Jedi Master Aigus had turned to the darkside.