Trouble and More Trouble
Chapter 13: A trip back in time, anyone?
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3 years ago
Teren Miller woke with a start. She glazed uneasily around the room. Every thing was very dark. Her red hair stood out stark against the black walls. Her emerald green eyes held worry.
"Well, well, well, it seems as though the little Earth girl has awakened." A sly voice said from the shadows.
A man stepped out of a darkened corner. He was dressed in dark navy blue. He was almost completely bald, and he had a sinister look about him. His eyes glowed an eerie red.
Teren sat up and pulled her legs under her. "Who are you?" she asked. She sounded braver then she felt, her British accent heavy.
"You will know all in due time, my young apprentice." The man answered.
Teren's green eyes darkened in frustration. She got the trait from her mother's side of the family.
"What do you want with me?" she questioned, giving the man a hard look. On the news not to long a go there had been a report about a murderer that held his victims hostage for days, torturing them, before he finally put them out their pain.
The spooky man grinned, well smirked, at her. "You have been picked to be my next apprentice."
Teren glared at him. "Really? Apprentice for what?" she asked.
"A Sith apprentice. If you do become my apprentice you will have a fair share of the galaxy to rule. You will have ultimate power in the universe. And you will become even more powerful then you already are, Teren." He replied.
"H-how do you know my name?" Teren asked. This guy was really starting to freak her out.
"Oh, my dear, I know everything about you. I know about the power you have kept hidden for so very long. About how you and your family must always move about because of what you have done. About the darkness with in your very soul that threatens to consume you. Let it, Teren, let it consume you. Become a dark lord of the Sith. I can help you with this awesome power, Teren. I can help you control it. Follow my teachings and me, and you will be the most powerful person in the galaxy. " He replied.
Teren fixed him with an icy glare. Her mind was working over time. Should she? If she did she might learn to control this power. To gain control so that she might be considered normal. But what implications did this have for the rest of her life? Was this a life debt? Or just until the teachings were complete?
"How do I know you are not just playing with my mind?" Teren asked, her green eyes narrowed in to lethal slits.
The air crackled around the man like a thundercloud. His eyes blazed a brighter red. Suddenly the chair that was placed by the door lifted and shot straight up at the ceiling like a torpedo. Cracked wood fell limply back to the floor.
"You can do it to, Teren. I know you can. Even if you didn't mean to. When did it happen, Teren, when you were angry? Or scared? Or when you finally let out all that bottled up hatred for the poor blonde girl at your school?" he asked. His eyes seem to pierce a hole right through her very soul.
By now Teren was in tears. How did the man know all this? Was he stalking her? She knew that alone she would never know how to control it. She was terrified. This power was what kept the other kids away from her at school. Well except Carle and Mecca and Jessica, but they didn't count. They were practically her sisters.
"Become my apprentice, Teren. Learn the ways of the Dark side. Follow in my foot steps." He said again.
Teren looked at him. Worry was etched firmly on her features. Her mind worked furiously. Could this be the answer to her prayers? This spooky looking man, with the eerie glowing eyes? After this could she live a normal life? A life with out this terrible power haunting her every move.
"Who are you?" she asked again, though this time almost afraid of the answer.
"I am Lord Darth Sidious, dark Lord of the Sith." Sidious said his smirk never leaving his face.
Teren stood and found herself wearing long dark pants and a dark tunic to match. She had no shoes on. She winced as her bare feet touched the cold hard ground.
Sidious walked over calmly to her. Teren knelt before him, her head bowed in respect.
"Master Sidious, I pledge myself to the Sith and to your teachings." She said, her voice suddenly becoming flat.
Sidious placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. "I accept your pledge. From now on you will be know as Darth-" he paused questioning the Force, "Vengeance."
"Thank you, my Master." The newly minted Darth Vengeance said her voice little more then a hiss.
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1 year later
Darth Vengeance stood staring off into space. She stood in front of a large window in her apartment in the Senate complex. The apartment itself was very nice. It had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a family room, and a nice sized veranda.
Sidious had just been voted Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. A pleasing development to be sure, but still Vengeance was not quite sure how he intended to conceal the Darkness from the Jedi now that he would be dealing with the 12 most powerful Jedi in the universe.
A clap of thunder startled Vengeance out of her daydream. It was raining on Coruscant. It had been raining for the past four days. And Vengeance's mood was a perfect match for the weather.
The cause of her cranky mood was not common knowledge. Today one year ago she pledged herself to her Master and his evil cause. And now she was regretting that pledge. Sure she had learned to control her powers. She had learned much about politics by working in the Chancellor's office. She had gotten quite good with a light saber. Sidious felt sure that she could take on a fully trained Jedi Knight. Well, it helped that she had learned fencing and martial arts when she had been on Earth.
Vengeance cringed at the thought of her home. Always the thoughts saddened her.
She pulled her black cloak around herself tighter. Her green eyes held defiance.
With out thinking, she bent down and removed a knife from a hidden pouch in the side of her boot. She casually twirled it in her hand.
Making up her mind, or possibly losing it, she held it to the palm of her left hand.
"I redeem myself from this shadowy prison. No more shall I be Darth Vengeance, but once again shall I become Teren Miller." She said, her British accent not as pronounced as it once was. After she said the word she closed her eyes and cut her hand.
Biting her tongue against the pain, she pulled the knife away. Suddenly, she felt the Force surge around her and a terrible weight was lifted from her weary soul.
Teren opened her eyes and stared at her reflection in the mirror. She still looked the same but she felt a whole lot better.
Looking down at her hand, she grimaced. She quickly turned and walked to the bathroom. She needed to clean this cut before it became infected.
Sidious would never know what she had just done. He trusted his apprentice, and he would never question her, and that would be his down fall.
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2 months later
She guessed that the two Jedi currently seated in the Chancellor's office were Masters Yoda and Windu.
Teren sat behind her desk in front of the large double doors leading into the office. 'The small green one must be Yoda, and the taller human must be Windu.' She decided. There had been a number of visits from these two Jedi recently. Both had been nice to her, but she especially liked Yoda. He was sort of like the wise old librarian that used to work at Morgan Memorial.
"Are you daydreaming again, Tena?" a cheerful voice asked from beside her.
Teren turned. Tena was the name Sidious had given her for the job in the office.
"No." she replied, "Just thinking, Luc."
The blonde teenaged boy laughed and shook his head. "Ummhmmm. Riiight." Luc said his blue eyes blazing.
A moment of silence, as Teren turned back to looking in the double doors.
"So, who is it?" Luc asked, catching Teren off guard.
"What?" She questioned, slightly stunned.
"What lucky boy has gotten wrapped around little Tena's heart?" Luc asked again.
"No one! It's not a boy." Teren replied.
At this Luc raised an eyebrow.
"Ewwww. Not like that, you perverted freak. It's no one!" Teren said, getting annoyed, "And don't you have some disks you should be filing, hmmm?"
Luc blushed slightly, "Yes, it does seem that these disks have magically appeared on my side of the desk. Oh well, looks as if I must go. See you latter, Tena." With that said he scurried off down the hall the rather large pile of disks in hands and arms.
Teren laughed softly to herself and returned to her own work that needed to be done, but not before casting one more glance through the glass door. Windu and Sidious seemed to be having a slight heated argument. So it was best not to interfere. She shook her head ruefully. There was not a dull day in the Chancellor's office that was for sure.
A sudden crash drew her attention once again from the work on her desk. It sounded like it had come from the filing room just down the hall. It had probably been Luc knocking something over or him falling into a stack of disks, for he was not the most graceful of people.
A string of curses in Huttese, followed by a muffled "I'm okay!" told Teren that she didn't need to worry about him.
Once again she returned to her work. A most exciting place to work, the Chancellor's office was. Most exciting indeed.
A/N okay this is very long so I hope you like it. oh and once you get past page500 in the new Harry Potter book stop reading it. If you cry when you read books I can assure you will cry if you go past that point.
Reviews:
time is a waste of life: so have you read the book yet? If you hadn't please head my warning, cause I cried. And you were starting to scare me with the end of the little story but (sigh) at least you said that wasn't true (grin) THANKS FOR THE REVIEW
Serabiwarrior88: yes but to land on the exact same day and time would be kinda hard, and besides this is sci-fi. But thanks for the scientific correction. THANKS FOR THE REVIEW
Jas-TheMaddTexan: yeah I tend to have that affect on people. So you know. I even have that happen to me on occasion. So join the club! THANKS FOR THE REVIEW.
Em: no I swear the names don't have any connection with that. There just names of two of the girls from my gym so(shrug) but thanks for pointing that out. THANKS FOR THE REVIEW.
8 days,
Night Of The Land
P.S. I'm gonna be gone for two weeks starting the 22 of July so sorry if this is a problem but I will have paper and I will be writing so I will update once I get home.