Star Wars: Heart of Evil
Chapter 2: Part 1
Chapter Title: The Day of Reckoning(Part One)
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"So, should we continue on to town? Master Mical said we could borrow a landspeeder."
Dave returns from the bathroom, with widened eyes. "Serap, never do that again. But otherwise, nice joke. So do you guys think we should get going? or is there anything else that needs to be done?"
Sparrow, now under control, said "Yeah... I guess. Let's go."
"Alright guys! Hop in!" Serap was in the Landspeeder... he looked at the landspeeder. It was broken.
"Dammit! This landspeeder is broken. We have to walk."
"Hey! I got it working. Only problem is that it goes at 5 MPH! That's barely faster than walking, but at least it is faster a little! Lets pile in guys!"
Sparrow raised an eyebrow at Serap, then frowned. "Not really worth it. If it's in that bad of shape, then we'll have to repair it often, which will only slow us down Let's just not bother."
"No! I'm sure it works! It's also a lot less tiring. It's faster, and safer. It's also a lot more comfortable.
Serap ran, and went into the passenger seat. He slackened, and started to fall to sleep...
Dave looks at the landspeeder, and without warning, kicks it. A few seconds go by then all of a sudden, the landspeeder starts shaking, and falls apart. "I guess we gotta walk" Dave says smiling.
"You know, on second thought, we'll spend the night here at the enclave, and we'll head out in the morning."
Serap went to sleep in the enclave. He didn't quite want to leave...
Sparrow shrugged. "It is getting late. Yeah, we should get a fresh start tomorrow. And we need to ask Master Mical were we actually need to go."
"Hey! You know what would work great! If I stayed at the enclave, to uh... teach new recruits! Is that a good idea?" Serap twittered his fingers nervously, he was afraid to leave the enclave and go to face a Sith Lord.
Sparrow smacked Serap upside the head again.
The Padawans later decided to go to sleep, feeling that they needed as much rest as possible. Sleep came to the young Jedi, within six hours it was night time.
Xander was the first one awake as always. He used these times to center himself and train mentally. But today he had a conflict within himself, the light image in his head yesterday had been struck down by the dark...He figured that even if it came down to death, he needed to do the right thing.
Dave looked around the room to an empty bed and the rest of his party sleeping. But Dave wanted to get some more practice in, so he walked around the enclave dueling with any padawan he could while waiting for the rest of his party to wake up.
Xander snaps out of his meditation sensing Dave was coming near. He rushes our to meet him. "Don't have to many more duels, we're going to need our energy later today"
"I'm done dueling anyway, I think I broke a few of Master Mical's possesions, and one of the padawans are crying." Dave looked around and chuckled
"Dueling is fun, but Xander is right. We have to do a lot of walking, so you need lots of energy. By the way, I brought some sandwiches along, if we got hungry on the way...and I think that Padawan was me..."
Serap zipped up his backpack, with tons of stuff in it.
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Reg looks at Raiden, a person he has known for years at the Jedi Academy, he knew he wasn't the best of people, but now he seemed..different. Raiden looked as if he was possesed by the Holocron. He decided would deal with this later.
"Hey Raid, maybe you should activate the Holocron, see what it is."
Raiden walked out of the cantina, tossing the holocron up and down, catcing it with the palm of his hand. This action seemed to indicate a 'no'.
Reg wondered why the hell they didn't just activate it now. There didn't seem to be any lock on it to stop them from not playing it. And another thing he was wondering was where the hell was Raid going? Reg quickly dashes the street and catches up with Raid.
"Hey buddy, theres no lock on the thing, there's nothing stopping us from activating it. Why wait? Let's just activate it now."
The ex-Jedi felt something in the Force, a Force-sensitive was near, Raiden's attention turned away from Reg and he set his eyes on a black octopus creature. "So Raiden, I see you have a Sith holocron. Impressive," the creature said, in it's dark, booming voice, "I have a mission for the three of you." Xantos looked at the monster, his eyes narrowing in suspicion, "What kind of mission?" The creature's one eye also narrowed, but in annoyance at the interruptions, "Raiden's.. ancestors promised me something, something big. Since they haven't done this, you all have to do it for them," it said cryptically.
The rogue Jedi, as of now, were confused, they left the Order out of distaste for their philosophy, not to go fufill some ancient promise. Raiden's lips turned from a confused frown into an uncanny sneer, he gruffly asked "What promise is this? What are you in this for?"
The monster looked at him and regarded him carefully, "You must bring me eleven.. special crystals. I believe you all have heard of the Solari and the Qixoni crystals, correct?" The group nodded, "Those are two of the eleven crystals, I need you all to bring me all eleven of the most powerful crystals in the galaxy." Raiden pondered this all for a moment, then thought of something. Taking out the Heart of the Guardian crystal he asked, "Is this one of the crystals you're looking for?" Its eye widened in shock, that was it! One of the eleven was in their possession! "Yes, that is it! Now, go! I sense another of the eleven crystals on.." The one-eyed-creature felt through the Force for the location of the nearest crystal, "The docks, you must head to the docks to find the next crystal."
The group, forgetting about the Sith Holocron, headed straight to the docks.
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The monster laughed after they left, it telepathically contacted Xanith, Master, I have tricked the fools into searching for the Eleven Sacred Crystals. On the other end of the galaxy, in a giant warship, Xanith laughed. "Good my pet, you are truly worthy of the name Xanith's Eye. Now go and ensure young Skywalker falls to the Dark Side, he will make a great apprentice, after all, he's the most likely to be the Sith'Ari of legend." Xanith's Eye absorbed this information and would fufill its master's wishes. As you wish.
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Reg and Xantos' curiousity soared immensly, why did the creature want them to search for the crystals? Its reasoning was illogical, if what it said was true, Raiden would have known by now instead of being dumbfounded. But most of all, they wanted to know where Raiden found the Heart of the Guardian crystal. Xantos was the first to speak up, "Say Raiden.. where'd you find that crystal?" Raiden's green eyes slowly moved towards Xantos in a cold stare, common from the young man by the seems of it, "On Taris, three months ago, when the Sith attacked."
The other two shut up, Taris was one of those topics that none of them talked about, except in reference. After that last mission Raiden's friendly attitude turned into a cold, harsh demeanor. The two looked at where Raiden was and found him missing, Reg swore, "Damnit, where did he go?" The two rogues searched through the Force for his location, for any imprints at all, they found nothing. The eldest of the two looked at the other, "Sometimes I wonder how he does that." They looked at the sky and noticed it was night, sighing, they moved out.
The Light Avatar watched as the rogues left to find their friend and noted the strange shifts in the Force. "Dark times are approaching, keep safe you three."
Raiden began walking towards the grove and sat down under a tree, he listened to the currents of the Force, breathing in the polluted power, then exhaling. "The Force has been polluted for the last three months.. ever since Taris.. but.. why?" He heard no response, he didn't care. None had been expected. The late night sky met Raiden's determined eyes and the howls of a kath hound could be heard. "Hmm, wether or not I'm the Sith'Ari, I will find out what's going on." He stood up from his sitting position and bolted off to find his friends, but all of the sudden he heard the calls of an old man screaming, "Help me! Please! You must help me!"
Raiden's eyes turned to the source of the shouting and decided to help the old man first, then go and find Reg and Xantos. "Why do I get the feeling that this'll be a long night?" He changed course and bolted to the old man to find out what was going on.