Chapter XX

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master and Timoth Frejik, Jedi Apprentice waited outside the Burial Grounds, the rain had become very heavy and Obi-Wan had to doff his hood in order to prevent his head from being drenched.

"Master, shouldn't we go in and help them?" asked Timoth.

"No," was Obi-Wan's quiet reply, "We are to wait for either Vader or Master D'Cord's exit, or Aigus' arrival to join in,"

"Yes Master,"

The two were silent for a while, when Obi-Wan rose from the tree on which he was leaning on, "Do you feel it?"

Rrrurr-rruurr, rrrurrr-rrurr.

"Kath Hounds," sputtered Timoth as a handful of water from a branch splashed into his mouth, he drew his lightsaber and its ilver agenum blade extended with a hiss.

Five Kath hounds came bounding after them and Timoth ran toward them, roaring and snapping thier teeth at the two Jedi Knights.

"Wait!" shouted Obi-Wan.

Timoth stopped confused, as the horned canines circled them, "Why master?"

"Violence is not always necessary," he said quietly, "peace hounds," he said softly almost sleepily as if singing a soft lullaby for Tusken children, with a smooth gesture of the hand the Kaths slowly stopped growling and one even came up to Obi-Wan and licked his hand affectionately.

"You see? This is Beast Trick, much like a Mind Control trick," continued Obi-Wan.

"Oh," replied the younger Jedi ruefully, he deactivated his weapon, "What I could never understand wa-,"

The Kaths looked in the direction both Jedi looked, and whined fearfully,quickly theyfled, as did the Yalis birds that had built a nest in the tree, the Yalis never left their eggs, they would fight to the death to protect them, Kenobi saw this and braced himself for what was coming, he stretched out to see who or what was coming.

"You feel that?" whispered Timoth, "Vader?" he asked feeling the sheer dark side power that was racing toward them.

Obi-Wan shook his head sadly and activated his lightsaber, he sighed, "no, Master Aigus,"

Jedi Master Aigus,clothed in black Jedi robes came into view, his skin tainted fully with the darkside, his eyes shone forth pure yellow, his lightsaber ready, "Come Jedi, let us do battle," he ignited both lightsabers.

Timoth was the first to lash out, his lightsaber spun with a twirl on his wrist as he reached near Aigus, the Jedi Master made a small gesture with his hand, gripping the young Jedi Knight with a Force choke and bashing him into the wall of the burial grounds. Timoth slid down with a groan, a trickle of blood from his foreheadbegan to bathhis robes.

Obi-Wan ran toward Aigus, his lightsaber outstretched and in the Ataru Ken form, a sub form of Form II, his preferred fighting style. Aigus blocked his right lightsaber and attacked with his left, Kenobi stepped back and twisted his hand, narrowly avoiding being impaled.

With a slight shift, and by the Force he swept his lightsaber up destroying Aigus' bronze lightsaber. Aigus sneered and switched hands.

Obi-Wan seethed, Aigus was a master of more Arcane techniques, some even unorthodox. He remembered his fight with Grevious on Utapau, and drew upon the memories of that battle, "Aigus, I do not wish to fight you,"

Aigus sneered, "I am tired of this fighting in hiding and keeping back our strength, if the Jedi Order couldn't defeat the Sith, maybe a Dark Jedi Order can," he rushed toward Obi-Wan.

Ataru Ken shared a small portion of its key attacks with Ataru Vaapad, Form VII the most powerful of all the Forms, Obi-Wan's lightsaber clashed with Aigus' both sending sparks throughout the rain.

Aigus twirled his lightsaber on his wrist and stretched out his left hand, Obi-Wan knew what to expect, Dooku had done it as well. He brought his lightsaber to bare as blue force lightning crackled out to greet him.

The sheer power of the blast caught him off guard and he was thrown back with tremendous force, causing him to stumble and lose his footing crashing his skull against a Juep tree branch.

With a low moan the Jedi Master was rewarded with darkness.