Chapter 12 - Duel of the Fates

Yun watched the whole thing transpire from where he stood on the battlefield. He was disgusted.

"Ralic! What have you done to Master Dan?" he asked expecting what the answer would be.

"It doesn't matter, he's gone, and that's that!" Ralic coldly stated while staring at the corpse of the sithlord.

"You killed him…didn't you," Ralic said nothing.

"Why? Why did you do it?" Yun asked while he walked up to Ralic.

"He was weak…" Ralic scoffed, "Too weak…"

"So you kill him?"

"I did what was necessary!" Ralic shouted and turned around blade at the ready, "Don't make me kill you too!"

"I can't let you get away with this Ralic!" Yun lifted his sword.

"Are you…" Ralic froze for a second and then a small smirk emerged on his face, "hold on…are you threatening…Me!" he laughed.

Yun looked concerned and shook his head, "You're no different than that dark lord!"

Ralic stopped laughing and glared at him with cold eyes.

"You don't know what the force has given me, do you!" He held his sword in one hand and lifted the other, "I have stronger potential than even this dark lord wannabe ever imagined he had,"

"What makes you think that?" Asked Yun.

"Because I discovered it…but I never knew what it meant. Until he just explained it to me now," Ralic's eyes enlarged to the next words, "The Darkside…"

"Ralic, in case you haven't realized…the dark side is evil…" Yun sarcastically pointed out.

"That's one way to look at it…" Ralic raised an eyebrow, " But I see it differently…its…a path," he said, "and I want to take it…and I will destroy anyone who gets in my way,"

"But doesn't that make you a sith! Ralic we fight the Sith!"

"Not any more! I'm forming my own Empire based on these new powers! Dark side powers! From now on you will refer to me as Darth Odious!" Yun's eyes widened with horror at those words. Ralic's narrowed with delight.

"Now…get out of my way!" Ralic put his hand out waved it aside resulting in Yun's body being cast aside and violently crashing onto a rock.

"You will pay for that move Ralic!" Yun muttered as he stood up and recovered.

Ralic was hysterically laughing when he spotted Yun dashing towards him sword ready for attack.

Ralic parried the attack just in time, and they both dueled.

After a series of boring and tasteless ranting, endless parrying and tedious sword clashes Ralic and Yun found themselves quite exhausted and badly scarred from battle.

"This duel is getting us nowhere!" Ralic stated.

"What, Darkside not give you what it promised?" asked Yun.

"have you considered that it is you who are fooled?" Ralic mocked.

"Wha!" Yun looked behind in disbelief and found…nothing!

Ralic took the opportunity and pushed Yun over using the force and made a run for it.

"My force skills are greater than yours Yun!" he said snickering looking behind him.

He found an empty shuttle and killed the guards around it.

Yun managed to catch up just in time to find Ralic blasting off into space.

Yun quickly grabbed his com link and called over it.

"Captain Dash, are you there? This is Yun"

"Grey leader here! Over." Said a frustrated and battle weary squadron leader.

"There's a shuttle it just took off, take it out, quickly!" ordered Yun.

"Sorry, Yun, no can do! We're needed elsewhere." Said Captain Dash.

Yun gave out a big sigh, "This does not bode well,"