Chapter 1

The deep depths of space were packed in heavily and beautifully. It was night time, and outer space always looked beautiful in the night.

Silently, two ships flew across the night to the Sluckige system.

Luke steadily flew his ship with Ayden following him by his side.

Luke hated having to go back to Sluckige where so many of his nightmares led him. Although he had destroyed Darth Creeum (the clone of Luke who had really killed Jan) he still had nightmares of him fighting Kyle and cutting through his hand to let him fall down an incredibly deep shaft. He had at least stopped the old arguments with himself saying over and over again, I didn't kill Jan. The only reason he agreed to come here was that one of Slain's most powerful Generals known as Darth Grederken was at a pub here meeting someone he needed to get information from. Luke was guessing it was to be a trooper with orders from Slain (who was hiding somewhere in such secret that the Republic didn't even know where he was; which was something Luke was hoping to discover on this mission) telling him where to build a new base. One up side to going here was the pub they were going to was at another part of the planet than the old base that Kyle turned into Darth Crusifidge at of which Luke had nightmares about. They were closing in on the planet landing a little ways away from the pub which was in a more crowded part of the planet in a street full of different shops.

They got out of their ships to be in deserted field. Luke could see the small town the pub was at. He and Ayden walked there silently trying not to get spotted by any ships. So they just acted casual with beggar robes over their Jedi robes. They reached the pub walking inside.

"You look for Grederken; I'll look for anyone waiting for him," Luke ordered. They split up. Luke scanned the tables. The pub was full of people. Luke saw a man just sitting at a table with a mini hologram projector. He wasn't eating anything. He was just sitting there. Luke sat down at a table next to him, his back turned. After about 10 minutes of waiting he heard the man talking to another raspy voice.

"The base shall be built on Granulize," the man said.

"Granulize? That a junk planet. Why would we build there?" the raspy voice asked.

"Because the Jedi won't even suspect us building a base on Granulize. It's so close to them that they won't expect it, and they also won't be expecting a base from a junk planet," the man explained.

"Good point," the raspy voice replied.

"The Master sends his re- Jedi," he interrupted his own sentence.

"I sense it also," the raspy voice said. Luke heard a light saber ignite, and sensed it would be brought down on him. He spun around quickly igniting his emerald green light saber and blocking the attack. It was from the man, not the other guy known as Darth Grederken. The man must've been a Dark Jedi also.

"Ah, Skywalker," the Dark Jedi said smiling. "Trying to intercept some information, eh. Well, it'll end with your demise," he said.

"I don't believe so," Luke responded.

"It will when you battle both of us," Grederken said igniting his shining red light saber. He raised it when Ayden jumped in blocking the blow from Grederken with his sky blue light saber. Ayden pushed him back with hundreds of attacks. Luke broke the lock he was in attacking. People were running out of the pub trying not to get hurt. The Dark Jedi blocked all the attacks. He spun around slicing through a civilian on purpose, and attacking Luke blocked the attack pushing him back.

"Everyone, get out of here," Luke screamed. He back flipped onto a table. The Dark Jedi ran up trying to slice through Luke's feet. Luke jumped up dodging this attack. The Dark Jedi spun around going low and slicing through the table's legs. It hit the ground while Luke was on it. Luke didn't lose balance at all. He brought his light saber around to have an attack blocked right in front of his face.

"It was a nice try coming in here, trying to figure out where the base was," the Dark Jedi said while they were in a lock. Luke stared at him, he all the sudden saw someone he fought before every second on the Dark Jedi's face. Slain flashed onto the Dark Jedi's face. Kyle flashed on his face. Cereus flashed on his face. Creeum flashed on his face. Luke was tired of this war. It was going to end soon, Luke could sense it. Luke wanted to stop destroying and live in the Galaxy in peace. Luke was going to fulfill this dream. He broke the lock spinning around and slicing the Dark Jedi in half. He stared down at two lifeless pieces of the body. He turned off his light saber.

Ayden was blocking thousands of blows from Grederken. He was very skilled. Not as skilled as Crusifidge, but Ayden had gotten lucky that day those years ago. He brought his light saber around trying to attack Grederken once again. Grederken blocked it, and used the Force to push Ayden back. Ayden flew out the pub door smashing it down. He got up igniting his light saber once again. He spun around bringing it up trying to hit his face. Grederken blocked the attack kicking Ayden back. Ayden rolled over landing on his stomach. Ayden got up slowly with his light saber in hand. He sensed Luke watching him. Ayden made it look like he was going to strike when he spun around onto his knees making a clear attack for Luke who brought it down with great force. Grederken blocked this just barely. They were in a lock.

"You think you could get away with killing my old apprentice?" Luke asked.

"Yes, actually I did," Grederken sneered.

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Luke said breaking the lock. He and Grederken both bought their light sabers down to the ground twisting them so they met at an angle, and did that with the other side quickly. Ayden brought his light saber down trying to get Grederken. Grederken blocked this quickly going down to block another attack from Luke from the ground. Grederken twisted around pushing Ayden high up through the air with the Force. Ayden landed on the roof of the pub (which was maybe 12-15 standard feet.) Grederken brought his attack at Luke to have it blocked, so he back flipped onto the roof where Ayden was. He spun around bringing his attack down on Ayden who was on the ground. Ayden blocked it barely using the Force to make an attempt to push him off the roof. Grederken blocked the Force attack laughing. Luke jumped up bringing down an attack to Ayden's rescue. It grazed Grederken's arm. Grederken shouted in pain grabbing his arm. He all the sudden used Force Lightning. It hit Luke so hard he fell on his back on the ground off the roof. Ayden had never seen that before. Grederken used it on Ayden quickly. Ayden screamed. Grederken picked Ayden up and wrapped a rope of what looked like to be a coming out from a barrel to a gun around Ayden's neck. He then threw Ayden pushing the trigger of the gun. More of the rope shot out. Ayden hung from the building being choked. His neck felt like it had snapped from the all the sudden jerk. He couldn't breathe. His insides screamed for air. Grederken hooked the gun onto the roof. Luke recovered and jumped back up. He saw Ayden being hung, and stood there frozen to the spot.

"He will be dead in one standard minute," Grederken said smiling. He jumped off the pub running away. Luke ran forward igniting his light saber. He cut through the rope. Ayden slammed onto the ground giving a moan of pain on the impact. Luke jumped off the pub unwrapping the rope from Ayden's neck.

"Are you ok?" Luke asked.

"Yeah," Ayden choked out. Luke quickly jumped back on the building looking to see if he could still catch Grederken. He was out of sight. Luke jumped back down helping Ayden.

Chapter 2