Author's Note: Welcome to the next installment/episode of the Jedi Chronicles! If you haven't been reading this story it's probably best if you read the first one, otherwise you won't understand the main character (therefore making the story rather annoying!)
When my brother was helping to clean up this story he dubbed it Cara's pshychological stage, there's more mental development then in the first one so he enjoyed it less, some of you may enjoy it more! Hopefully i have longer action sequences in this one and less of those annoyingly short and empty chps.
Enjoy!

It has been almost two years since the New Jedi Order defeated the Sith Lord Tormel. Since then the Jedi Knight Galena-Cara led several other attacks on other Sith Lords.

All remaining Sith have decided to hold a gathering to join their forces to withstand the Jedi attack and turn it back onto them.

At the same time the Jedi Council on Nuwai debate over Cara's ability to overthrow the Dark Side. They decide to apprentice her to Kyle Katarn, another Jedi Knight who has had his own struggles with the Dark Side.

Cara has defeated the Darkness in her past, but can she defeat the Darkness within her?

Beginning – again

It was a day of rest for the Jedi Academy of Nuwai. Most of the Jedi and students present at the Academy where in the main hall watching as Galena-Cara and Joran performed the Kan Kata, a deadly demonstration of lightsaber duels at the highest level. This particular Kan Kata was based on the duel between the old Sith Lord Count Dooku and the old Jedi turned Sith Anakin Skywalker. Despite the fact that no one had a direct recollection of this duel it was a favourite among the more advanced weapon masters. The styles and detail of it made it complex and thrilling for both participants and observers.

This was one of Cara's favourite battles to re-enact as for once she wasn't stuck fighting the Sith part. Sure Anakin Skywalker did turn to the Dark Side in the end, but he had a fighting style that Cara knew very well, the one known as form IV, the power based style and one she had first learnt as a Sith and still used as Jedi.

Silence reigned on the whole hall as young Padawans watched with wide-eyed excitement and the older Knights watched their friends battle each other.

When they where finished the hall erupted with applause.

Amongst the Jedi stood the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. Luke had been a master to both Joran and Cara, but now they considered him more of a close friend. Luke had been one of Cara's strongest supporters as she fought the Dark Side inside of her and had also helped her come to terms with her heritage to an infamous Sith Lord. It was something he had understood quite well.

Joran walked over to his young apprentice, a boy named Celric and started to speak with him. Cara walked over to Luke.

"Luke!" She greeted him warmly.

"Cara," Luke returned her greeting "good to see you are all well."

Cara just grinned broadly in response.

"Your lightsaber skills seem to improve every time I see you, the Light Side is growing strong with you." Luke told her warmly.

"I wouldn't go that far, but your right…about the Light Side I mean. I feel it much stronger then I used to." Cara replied.

Luke couldn't help but compare her to the sullen and mysterious Sith girl she had once been. However he felt a heavy burden that was weighing on him more often then it used to.

After the destruction of her old master the Jedi had done a clean search of the temple. Inside the had located a Sith Holocron, a vast amount of ancient Sith knowledge that was rare and valuable. Inside Luke had found keys to what Tormel had planned to do with Cara, and a danger that she could still be faced with if the knowledge was known by other Sith. Hence it had been decided that Cara's Sith identity would be kept secret. She didn't even know why.

"Joran enjoys being a Jedi Master." Cara was saying.

"He definitely seems to be doing well," Luke commented, "have you thought of taking on a Padawan?"

"No." Cara said a little to quickly.

Luke raised his eye at her quick response.

"I have no interest in passing on my, shall we say, impurities to a Padawan." Cara said a little coldly.

Luke just nodded. True she was a Jedi Knight and strongly connected to the Light Side of the Force. But her fighting style still showed aspects of her Sith training, which when added to her Jedi training forged her into an almost unbeatable warrior. Cara was one of the best Lightsaber duellists in the Order, second only to Luke himself, and possibly some of the Jedi Masters though no one had tested her that fully yet.

Joran came up to them and poked Cara, which was returned by a good-natured punch.

"Did I miss anything?" he asked

"Nothing important…just talking about you." Cara teased.

"Hey!" Joran said back. "It's good to see you Luke, It's been too long."

"Definitely." Luke said.

"How long are you staying here for? Is Mara with you?" Cara asked. Mara Jade had been Luke's girlfriend for a while now. No one knew exactly how the two had become so close and a few people still didn't trust Mara. She had been one of the few people working closely with the old Emperor and Sith Lord Palpatine. She was now training as a Jedi.

Cara had only heard of Luke's girlfriend but looked forward to meeting her. Mara had impressed many people with the ease in which she stood up against all who had doubted her.

"Probably more then a week. At least enough time to check up on everything here, I've already been to Yavin 4. And no she's away." Luke shrugged slightly as he replied.

"Well, I'm taking Celric out onto one of the training courses in an hour. His been begging to try a new level, but after that I'm free." Joran said.

"I'm going to be speaking to the Academy Council here for awhile, but see you both later if you're okay with it." Luke said.

"Of course where okay with it!" Joran said, "It will be good to catch up."

"I'll probably be doing Velocities while you take Celric out onto the training course." Cara said to Joran. "I spent a long time meditating before the Kan Kata and could do with something more interesting to do."

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Luke sat in the Council room with the three Jedi Masters who managed the Academy in his absence from it. Jedi Master Shi-Ray was a talented blue Twi-lek female who had been rescued from slavery after her twin had been killed. She had quickly risen in the eyes of the Order and was very talented with the Force. Jedi Master Ranti was a Zabrak male who had been apprenticed to one of the Jedi Council members. As an all-round talented Jedi he had earned his position on the Nuwai Academy Council after training three Padawans into talented Knights. Finally there was Jedi Master Shaun, a human male. Shaun had been trained slightly late into his abilities but he was a skilled ambassador and often managed to resolve conflict without even showing his lightsaber. All three where valued and respected amongst the Order.

"If Joran manages to train Celric and his next few apprentices well, then we think he is worthy of a seat on this Council." Ranti said.

"We all can see that he will do more then that," Shi-Ray interjected, "That boy has a talent not regularly found, not of the Skywalker level but still worthy of special notice. He will go far."

Shaun nodded his agreement to the other two.

"And what of Cara?" Luke asked.

"Talented but Intense." Shaun said.

"A little to intense for a Jedi." Ranti admitted. "I'm glad that she has decided against taking on a Padawan, she would place a dangerous streak into any apprentice."

"She's a little too eager to strike down the Sith. She's not being corrupted by the Dark Side, but, well, she was trained as a Sith for eight years… that will leave a taint." Shi-Ray added.

"She's worth the slight risk though. With her help we have eliminated many Sith Cults" Ranti finished.

"She's not a danger to us, only to herself." Luke said with a note of worry. "Maybe we should assign her to work with a Jedi Master?"

"There's Kyle Katarn at the Yavin 4 Academy." Shi-Ray suggested.

"His touched the Dark Side before," Shaun said, "he might have the best chance of getting her completely past the Dark Side."

"Good, Can you arrange it for me? I'll speak to Cara later." Luke said as he finished the meeting.

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On a dark and dank planet, which was under the notice of the New Republic, a forbidding and tall temple structure was almost completed with a dark purpose.

The Grand Hall of the Inner Sanctum would soon contain the scattered Sith Lords.

The Sith would unite their forces and powers and the Jedi Order and New Republic would fall!

Author's Note: Hows that for a begining? Any suggestions are taken into account, I respond to every reveiw! Unlike the first one i won't clean up the next chapter untill the one before it has been posted so although it has been written I can adjust minor details. Also for new readers if you want to crit the story go right ahead, good crit will be used to improve the story for all, flames will be used to roast marshmallows :D lol. Here we go again!