XXV

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith used the Force to pull his apprentice unto the higher ground, "You could have saved yourself Taria, learn to use the dark side to the fullest,"

The red haired Dark Jedi nodded feebly and turned on her heel in the direction of the Lambda shuttle. Vader stretched out with the Force toward the burial chamber. No, no Jedi were here anymore, and he turned to face outward and the betrayer, his former master was no longer on the planet, Kenobi had slipped through his fingers.

He turned on his heel, his black came bellowing in the wind behind him as he approached his ship.

Vader was surprised to see Taria lying unconscious on the ground, her red hair in tangles over her beautiful face.

He felt the disturbance and twisted quickly, his red lightsaber sliding out of its handle and parrying the red lightsaber before it could reach him. The wielder leapt away with the Force as he saw that his attack failed and faced the Sith Lord.

"Vader!" he screamed, "now I shall wipe your taint from the face of the galaxy!" he rushed toward the Sith Lord and swept his blade upward, "the key to defeating the Sith was never Jedi, but Dark Jedi, feel the wrath of my dark fury,"

Vader blocked easily and redirected the insane Jedi Master's attack outward, with a few more close encounters Vader finally took the decency of closing in on him, sheering Jedi Master Aigus' lightsaber hand sending the lightsaber of one of his former dark Jedi a few feet away.

Aigus screamed in pain and fell to his knees, his left hand over his stump of a right one, the Jedi Master climbed to his feet and ran toward Vader, with suicidal motivation.

Vader shook his head sadly and swept his blade straight across Aigus' neck, with disgust at the failure of a Jedi, Vader used the Force to throw his corpse away from him, Aigus' head rolling away from his body.

The Sith Lord looked carefully at the Jedi Knight and remembered his battle with Count Dooku, he had beheaded the helpless Sith Lord then, and he had beheaded the helpless Jedi Master now. He smiled to himself, he was still the same. Vader was alive and would live forever.

He reconnected his lightsaber to his belt and turned toward his ship, two stormtroopers came from the ship and picked up the unconscious dark Jedi.

Vader clenched his fist and let his anger go onto the hovercraft that lay stationed in the small pit of the Lambda Shuttle, it crumpled audibly and the Sith returned to his small chambers. They would be returning to Executor soon.