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Draining
One of Kyle's favourite places in the Yavin Academy was one of the ancient meditation chambers. The walls, floor and ceiling where the same stone used throughout most of the Masassasi Temples but had been coloured black. Where the walls and ceiling remained smoothed and polished the ground was well worn. A single window looked out towards one of Yavin 4's large swamp lakes, the same lake where Cara had disappeared.
As the day turned to night this was where Kyle came to find some peace.
Once this room would have been clouded with dark energies, but time had purified it and the arrival of the Jedi had changed it.
The setting sun filled the room with amber light.
Kyle heard footsteps entering the room and immediately identified Mara.
She sat down next to him without saying a word.
"Hows the search?" he asked at last.
"Nothing yet." She said quietly.
"I should be out there, no one felt her die she has to be there somewhere!" Kyle snapped.
Mara sat down next to him noticing his efforts to calm himself.
"We're missing something… What about those ships that just took off? I didn't even sense them they have to mean something." Kyle said after a moment.
"What do you mean you couldn't sense them? You mean like a void in the Force?" Mara asked curiously.
"No it's not that they weren't there it was more like I just didn't notice. And I know that wasn't negligence on my part…" Kyle paused frowning.
"If she's alive she'll show up again." Mara tried to comfort her friend.
"She better…" Kyle muttered.
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Cara bit back a cry as she was roughly dropped onto the cold stone stairs.
She had remained awake after Kelron had left her that night staying in a state of meditation desperately trying to reach out to her friends. However Kelron's words hadn't left her mind. No one needed to warn her about the Grey Sith, in some ways he was more dangerous then an all out evil Sith. He was the kind of person that didn't allow himself to be ruled by the Dark Side and therefore was probably her biggest threat in the Sith stronghold.
Cara had lost track of the time but figured it had been close to morning when the rank fumes had spilled into her cell instantly fogging her mind and placing a wall between her and the Force.
Two guards had then entered and taken her down the hall to this room.
She slipped down at least five stairs before landing at the bottom. Restraints were quickly placed on her wrists. Cara paused to calm her thoughts before she stood up, only then realising just how much trouble she really was in.
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Kelron watched as Cara surveyed the dark room. The Dark Side weighed heavily upon people in the heart of his Narcis's sanctuary, and it was here that Narcis's grandest plan was to unfold. Cara's eyes flicked up in his direction and locked onto his. He didn't look away.
"Lords and Ladies of the Sith." Narcis stood up as he spoke breaking the contact between him and the Jedi. "It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this place, you are here because you are all that is left of the great Sith leaders, you are here at my invitation to bring about the glory of the Sith. Together we will bring about the Sith Empire's return and crush the New Republic and the Jedi Order."
Everyone spoke at once. Narcis sat down with a self-satisfied smirk showing beneath his hood, he hushed the crowd quickly so he could continue.
"Some of you I have already spoken to, you rightfully demanded proof of my ability to tip the balance, or at the very least some act of revenge against those who have brought us to this act of desperation. That is why I brought this girl here, Lords and Ladies this is Galena-Cara, the Jedi who has hunted our kind and also the last descendant of the ancient Sith Lord Enragion."
"You fool!" Shouted one of the gathered Sith. "She is friends with some of the most powerful members of the Jedi Order, you will bring about their attention by having her here and alive."
"Jedi she shall be no longer." Narcis said glaring at the Sith. "Today she will face a choice, either to rejoin us in the power of the Dark Side or face the consequences."
"You're an idiot." Cara replied simply.
Kelron could feel the Force gathering around her. How could she not feel it? Nothing should be able to cut someone off from that much power. He knew her abilities were described as dormant, but there was nothing dormant about this! The power was there she just needed help to reach out and take it. Amongst the dark energies of the Sith she shined like a beacon.
If she were to take it she could strike them all down.
"You know the power of the Dark Side." Narcis said as he stepped down towards her. "You can have your power back, and you can find out about your true home by simply returning to the Dark Side."
Kelron held his breath waiting for the response he knew would come.
Cara spat in his face.
Narcis whipped it away. "You foolish child."
Cara glared at him defiantly. "Do your worst, I would rather die then join the Sith."
Narcis sighed and reached under his cloak.
Kelron wanted to warn her.
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Cara cried out as a sharp pain exploded in her shoulder.
As if from a distance she heard the shouting of the gathered Sith, saw the triumphant gaze of Narcis as he held the blade's hilt, ancient symbols glowing along the length of blade she could see.
She felt her legs give way and stumbled to the ground, vaguely she felt Kelron run to break her fall.
Still Narcis held the blade in his hand.
"In this blade I hold an ancient power, watch as this Jedi is drained of ever bit of the Force, watch as it is given instead to me."
Cara tried to reach out to the Force but it slipped from her grasp. She then tried to hold what she had inside of her, but that too was cruelly ripped away leaving her empty and cold.
She had lost.
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Narcis pulled the blade out of Cara's limp body. The gathered Sith watched with anticipation.
"It has been done!" he declared.
"You said she wouldn't die!" hissed Kelron. "You know I need her!"
"She may not die," Narcis casually dismissed his apprentice, "but if she does survive it will be through grasping what bits of the Force she can, and all that is here is the Dark Side."
Kelron glared at him.
"Unfortunately due to his near insubordination my apprentice will not be joining us on this momentous day. We will strike at the heart of the Jedi! The Yavin Academy will fall beneath our power!" Narcis declared then with a nod to two of his guards he swept out of the room followed by all of the gathered Sith.
Kelron was left behind in the darkness.
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On Yavin Kyle felt the Force rip through his body strong enough to leave physical pain. Without even thinking he ran to the docking bay and took the Raven's Claw, he knew where Cara was.