Revans Quest

Chapter 1

Haunting memories

OUTER RIM, UNKNOWN GALAXY.

"We have to leave now Revan, before he comes. . . It's our only chance- you have to trust me now . . ." The womans voice was urgent, her hand reaching for his as she hurried along the dark hallway. . .

Former jedi knight Revan Khan tossed and turned in his bed. Sleep would not come easy tonight.

Again.

Swinging his legs across the covers, he let out a sigh as he sat up, rubbing a hand across his face as he did. The vision had been more persistent this time. . . But he still couldn't see the persons face- but he knew her, was close to her. "Why can't I remember!" He thought, frustration showing across his face. Letting out an aggravated breath, Revan attempted to center himself.

"Alright whoever you are- what do you want with me?"

REPUBLIC COMMAND POST, TELOS.

Carth Onassi stood staring out the window, high above the city below. Shaking his head he turned to the three people standing in the room with him.

"So your saying that you don't know for sure, but you have a feeling that she might be alive?" He asked, folding his arms across his chest. "Not good enough-I'm not sending a team of men to look for a possibly dead person."

"We understand why your hesitant, Carth, We too, were at first. But the counsel believes that she may have somehow escaped and not knowing what has happened, believes he is dead- she will be on -"

" A warpath. And seeing how that cannot be a good thing considering her family history, we need to find her fast." Carth let out a sigh as he walked over to the group. "Alright, but only on one condition; I am in charge here- we will go search for her, but if we don't find her in a reasonable amount of time, its called off-" Seeing the leader of the threesome about to speak up, he cut her off. "No Bastila- this is the only way."

Bristling, Bastila shook her head in submission. "Fine Carth -We will abide by those rules...for now" She answered, then walked out of the room, closely followed by the two other jedi.

MARCO RAGNOS SITH TEMPLE, KORRIBAN.

"...Jedi knight Revan Khan was killed by Lord Malak on the star forge, another glorious victory for the empire..."

"It's a lie. . . all sith are liars- why am I listening to this holo anyway?" Jaina Khan deactivated the old news holocron, attempting to shut out what she had just heard. It wasn't true anyway- after all, she would know-would have felt it if. . .if it had happened. The bond they shared even couldn't be destroyed by the counsel, so if even the strongest masters of the light side couldn't break it-the sith didn't stand a chance. . .Or did they? The sith had, in fact, captured her, or rather, Malak had captured her soon after the sith had fired and attacked Revans ship, when the Jedi bording party had captured him. Malak had laughed at her, tortured her in ways that she would rather forget but could not. And then he had done something she would hate him for the rest of her life. . .drained her of her force powers and left her alone to die aboard a crashing ship. She still wasn't sure how she had survived, not that she wasn't thankful, But now she had to figure out how to find out the truth, and when she found Malak, he would pay for what he had done. The holocron was the first piece of evidence that Revan had survived Malaks attack over a year ago, and since she had been lied to in the past, she wasn't, no matter what, ever again going to believe he was dead unless she saw his body with her own eyes.

Her memories where hazy as it was; it felt like a life time ago since she had stood beside him, watched him as he slowly turned , turned into the very thing they had started out trying to destroy, the very thing that had ripped them apart, the darkside -the sith. . . Malak. She had tried to tell him many times that there was something about Malak that was off, his personality, even as padawans at the temple, screamed hurt, anger and distrust. But no, Revan had to be a hero, had to go become best friends with the rouge padawan, and had laughed at her concern.

"Your exaggerating Jania; besides, everyone needs someone in their corner." Revan had said, shaking his head at her, that smirk that annoyed her so much on his face.

"I am not! Revan, he has an agenda...you must listen to me, we need to inform the masters...or at least tell Master Vandar." Jaina had pleaded with him, tugging on his robe sleeve, something she had not done since she was a child.

"NO! We will not inform the masters- we cannot Jaina! Malak is ok, you just need to give him a chance. . ."

Jaina spun around, anger boiling up inside her. "A chance? Like he gave those settlers a chance before he killed them all on our last mission? How long must we cover his wrong doings Revan? Until he kills one of us? Revan, he is past redemption, Even now, he wants you to leave the order and join the war–We are peace keepers Revan, not soldiers , yet you told him we, not just you, but both of us, would consider it. I won't do it Revan, I won't become a pawn in this . . .this game your playing with Malak."

Revan let out a sigh as he came to stand beside her. "I need you with me Jaina- together we can accomplish so much, bring true peace to the galaxy , the masters are wrong, if we are truly peace keepers, then the jedi must get involved in this war! And I want you to come with me, there's no one in this galaxy that I trust more then you to watch my back, and I won't have the counsel treat you badly for me going off to help stop something they should be assisting with as well."

"Then don't go- don't give them a reason to Revan! We will be exiled, forced to leave the order when we join the war. . . Is that what we truly want? The order is all we have Revan, besides each other, do we really want to separate ourselves from it?" Jaina asked, staring out across the plains.

"If it makes us better jedi, then yes , Jaina we must. Innocent people are dying, and we must do something to stop it." Revans jaw set firmly, his conviction showing plainly how he felt.

"Then I'll go, but we must first tell the Masters-" Jaina stated, turning to face him. "And we will come back Revan, both of us."

Revan let out a war whoop as he picked her up and spun her around. "Of course we will, and sit on the counsel too! I knew I could count on you- You won't regret it, I promise."

Shivering, Jaina shook her head to clear the memory, she was never able to tell him no, even as children, and in the end, it had nearly destroyed them both. "What happened to you brother? What has happened to us both?" She thought, walking out of the dusty tomb and in to the daylight of the dessert sun outside.

End of chapter 1