A/N: Update: I have done some minor edits chapters 40 brought on by the review left by ToxicGentleman as I felt one scene could use a bit of explanation, so please take a look at it if you can, please. But yup, another so soon, I have till Wednesday till the new computer arrives at which point I am going to be playing various games, aside from that here we are with Chapter 42: Things are Afoot!


Chapter 42: Things are Afoot


En route to Nar Shaddaa, aboard the Whispering Specter, Pyrrha could be found steeling herself, preparing herself for the crime-ridden streets of Nar Shaddaa, meditating in the quarters with her saber and scepter laid in front of her in a quickly chalked up ruined circle in front of her with a records tome. Her muscle were relaxed, and her long faded pink hair was left loose as she meditated. Though her meditative state was broken by an interrupting voice. It was one that she remembered from long ago,

"I am impressed that your group has not turned on each other, it is rare to see Sith working as well together as you do," a deep voice spoke as Pyrrha opened her sithly red eyes. She saw the man she saw in her vision so long ago. Clad in his insectoid armor, he stood proudly over the tomb witch.

"Bane maybe you should learn a thing or two from what an allied group of Sith, rather than try and force-feed me your doctrine of how there can only be two Sith," Pyrrha replied in a quip at the idiocy of the 'Rule of Two' Bane preached. "That ideology will doom the Sith, Bane," Pyrrha smiled as she remembered the lengthy debates that happened in the tombs when bane originally tried to put her in the mindset of the Rule of Two, which didn't appeal to the young Sith.

"The rule of two brought down the Jedi," Bane spoke, referring to the events beyond his time, though Pyrrha was unimpressed by this idea, as the elimination of the Jedi could be done at any time, and it couldn't be done with only two Sith in her mind.

"I frankly don't find that feasible, Bane," Pyrrha spoke back, she didn't find that possible at least with how ready for war the Jedi were, it made the idea quite difficult to comprehend how only two sith could destroy the Jedi, "We are strong as it stands why limit ourselves to two? As it stands we can smash the Jedi,"

"Perhaps, though my main purpose here is to inform you your final trial is coming, then you can truly call yourself a Sith and a Darth," Bane spoke before fading away. As Pyrrha closed her red eyes with a shrug and returned her mind to its focused clarity, she focused her anger and hatred of the idea of the "Rule of Two" to focus on her meditation.


In the main hold of the Whispering Specter, Nora was dancing along to some music, spinning and twirling with her saber fully deployed though not ignited. Though her dancing quickly morphed into mock combat against enemies she imagined. Her saber was a weapon unignited as much as ignited with its force pike and spike on either end, almost like a Gaffi stick. She smiled wickedly mumbling about how she would 'treat' anyone who got in her way on Nar Shaddaa. She was bubbling with an insane joy as she swung the weapon around, maneuvering it with joy as it wooshed through the air.

Pretending to slam the long pike into enemies, she smiled as she began to pump force lightning into her arms increasing her strength and speed, though her maneuvers were stopped by an interrupting voice that spoke out trying to get her attention with a,

"Svarttrost, Ahem," a deep voice coughed, sitting on the couch in the hold like would a throne.

Nora quickly turned to face him "Oh! 'Crabby Man'," Nora said retracting the hilt of her saber as she acknowledged the man from her visions known as Darth Krayt. The chitin-clad Sith just sighed at his nickname, as Nora was very childish and extremely insane at times when dealing with him.

"I can see why your friends worry about you, though the union you share with them is special, a true One Sith better than that fool, Bane's Rule of two that your friend has to endure the preaching of," Krayt spoke, with disgust in his voice as Bane was a sore point of contention for Krayt, as what he said next was a truth. "His 'Rule of Two' almost destroyed us,"

"So should I break Bane's legs?" Nora asked in a snap with a very excited tone. Her face gave a psychotic look that only few Sith could not be terrified of,

"No, he is not the one you will face Svarttrost," Krayt responded with a smile under his black chitin like mask, "your trials are soon then you will be true Sith," Nora replied to this statement with a whimsical look that gave way to a shrug as the figure of Krayt retracted back into the force. Nora thought well that was a thing, and she continued with her dance of death against her imaginary foe.


After Weiss had retired back to their quarters, Ruby had decided to stay out in the cold Hiskalan mountain air, practicing, focusing on her emotions holding her hand to her chest, she used her aura and connections to the forces to build up a charge in her left hand. Ruby struck out with the bolt of red force lightning at another test dummy droid. Upon connection with the grounded training droid. The gilded eyes, burned as the Sith sneered wickedly as she felt the power of the dark side coursing through her body and Aura. The dummy droid could barely withstand the torrent of red lightning. Relenting her attack Ruby smiled as she saw the scorched dummy droid and said,

"Well I may never beat Weiss when it comes to lightning, but damn that is still fun," Ruby spoke with a big smile, on her burned face, "and by the force, it feels good to do that!" Ruby sighed as she dealt with some pent-up anger from the prior week's events.

"It is good to see you have embraced the power of the dark side, that is good, considering the quivering weak child you once were, though I still worry you may take it too far, and lose your way, again," The deep raspy voice that Ruby knew so well spoke to her from behind, as she felt the chills up her spine and the cold presence behind her.

"I am working on keeping control, but I have come a long way from a week ago, Vader," Ruby chuckled as she turned to face the towering figure as she removed the gauntlet on her right hand to show Vader the arm he gave her so long ago, "I have adapted to everything you have given me, even your arm has become my own over time," She smiled at Vader showing the red plates and the adjustments that she made to accommodate her growing body. "And I have adapted to those nasty burns you insisted on me keeping," Ruby continued with a hint of disgust in her voice that grew with each word she spoke as her voice had a light nerve to it as what she said was a lie.

"Have you?" Vader retorted, pushing back against the hooded Sith, "you hide your face beneath that hood, could you be ashamed of it? Not wanting to show your face, not wanting to fully accept who you are!" Vader accused, his voice rising in tone before the ending crescendo. Which sparked a violent retaliation from Ruby. Who blasted the Darth with a massive force wave, though he was unaffected, which only served to further anger, Ruby. Who followed the attack up with a strike with De Sang and force lightning. Both of which the figured dodged, with a quick strafe. Ruby quickly adjusted her angle of attack though Vader parried it while saying as both of their bodies locked, though Ruby's hood was blown back by a rogue gust of cold mountain wind.

"Most Impressive, Fleurnoire, your strength in the Darkside is most impressive, you do not know it yet but your strength is far from fully matured, I pray that you can control it and not forget about why you fight," the vision of Vader spoke with a gesture as an image of Weiss flashed in Ruby's eyes before the dark lord continued with, "on that note, your trials will be soon Fleurnoire, prepare for them, as it will not be easy," Vader continued as his voice was punctuated by the raspy breathing of his suit.

"Well then, I will look forward to it," Ruby growled as she could imagine she was going to fight the man known as Darth Vader. With her body released she put her hood up as she tugged the black synth leather gauntlet back over her metal hand, and clipped the half of De Sang onto her Harness as she looked up to see another crack of lightning in the force storm above as a dark bird flew overhead almost as if it was watching the preceding below. She stomped her onto the frosted Duracrete with an angered huff as she retreated back inside of the ruined fortress.


Weiss was inside taking a shower, she had finished her training regiment for that day and she just felt dirty after the execution of the Jedi. She always enjoyed a warm shower after such events. Though, she knew in the coming weeks the Balikor and Dornettz would face execution, a public execution. Weiss didn't really like the idea but what they did was unforgivable.

Weiss sighed as she walked out of the shower wrapping, taking a second towel to dry her hair. Once her hair was dry she went over to the mirror, a habit she did every time she took a shower, was to see if she could still look herself in the eye, or had she done something so detestable she couldn't look at her reflection in the eye. Like all times prior minus when she was still in Malserik's training, she could look her reflection in the eyes. She was still adjusting to the morphed and detestable left eye, though, Weiss thought, like the flecks of gold in my eyes, I will get used to it. She thought as she affixed the eye patch to her left eye and then moved her hair so the eye patch would be on prominent display. Being influenced by Ruby she had thought of growing her hair back out to its full length for a ponytail. She did like how Ruby looked with the low ponytail Imperious recommended. Though with the way Ruby was acting, her concern for her lover peaked once again as she felt the bond between them, She felt anger and hatred, which was odd, as she felt Ruby was fighting something.

Though she could tell she wasn't in any mortal danger, as well, which was a good sign, as she probably just ramped up the settings on a training droid. She shook her head as she worried for Ruby, she always had second thoughts at times about how far they went as Sith. She was worried that Ruby may have gone too far. She knew she was going to have to talk to her at some point. Though as she was going to take the towel off and change into her relaxed wear, a voice spoke out from behind her, causing her to almost slam into the ceiling.

"Ah Glatteis," a voice that made Weiss's hair stand on end as she ripped her saber from the belt on the wall hook with the force, swiftly igniting it as she used her right hand to secure the towel.

"Exar Kun!? What the hell do you want?!" Weiss said keeping the blade in line with the force entity. She was almost half tempted to throw a loud ' you pervert' on the end of her question, though she decided against it because She figured Exar wouldn't care about such a thing.

"I merely came to inform you that your trials will be soon," Exar stated bluntly, his face bearing a low smile as he said the next "Though, I am glad to see you keep your weapon within reach at all times." Exar smiled as he faded away. Causing Weiss to disengage Mitternacht and relaxed as she pulled out her relax wear tunic and pants. Well this just got interesting, Weiss thought as she snapped her belt on and walked out of the bathroom and sat on the couch, she relaxed there for a few minutes just lounging in her black relax wear. Though before she got too comfortable, there was a ring of their doorbell at which point Weiss just replied with,

"Enter," her voice cold and disinterested as it wasn't Ruby, who was seemingly caught up with something, which was even more concerning to Weiss. The door hissed open and revealed Malserik who walked in with a faint smile as he began to speak.

"Weiss, can I bother you for a moment?" Malserik inquired not wanting to annoy his former apprentice if he didn't have to as he was informed by some of the staff she was having problems with her eye. Along with that, he had a small gift for her.

"I am not doing anything at the moment," Weiss replied almost perking up as she relaxed as Malserik came and sat down on the couch, diagonal from her. He pulled out a small box from his pocket and set it on the coffee table. After setting it down he said,

"That is for you, it should make your eye a bit more tolerable to deal with," He smiled, as Weiss picked up the box, quickly opening it. Inside was a new black eye patch, it was much larger than her covering a portion of the left side of her face rather than just the eye, and it looked like the one Malserik wore, as she picked it up she could feel the force that was imbued into the item. It was secured by three small gold snaps if the situation needed it. "It should help with the pain, but that's beside the point, I would like to ask you to proofread a speech to the people of Hiskal, and rehearse a part of it as I would like to announce you officially as the heiress to Waldstahl."

Weiss was shocked by that order, Malserik was trying to keep quiet about her being his heiress ever since the party, though the Rumors had been circulating, though Malserik hadn't told the people, anything official.

"I can do that," Weiss replied, slightly shocked at the fact that Malserik was going be public about her being his successor. Though just a Malserik was about to change topic the door to the room opened again, this time it was the black and red cloak of Ruby that entered, who darted over to the seat next to Weiss as she asked,

"What is going on?" Her voice rang with concern from beneath her hood, so Malserik and Weiss explained the situation of the upcoming speech. After Malserik left, Ruby asked Weiss about if she had received word of the upcoming trials. Which was something Ruby seemed quite angered at the idea of.


While the Knights were informed on their trials, Ozpin, Raven, and Taiyang had arrived on the Smuggler's Moon in their modified thunderclap. Though while they were en route there, Ozpin was briefed about how Taiyang and Raven were working for Revan. uniting his followers under a single banner then sending them to the Star Forge. Raven herself wore an outfit like Revan's as she was trained by him in the way of the force and lightsaber combat, something Ozpin had only basic knowledge in. Ozpin was shocked to here how expansive the galaxy was. Taiyang during his time as a smuggler knew the planet of Nar Shaddaa quite well and he still knew a good landing place near the Hutt Gangster they were looking to investigate was.

They heard these remnants were under his employ as bounty hunters. That was as much as they knew, and they couldn't immediately get an audience with the Hutt, as he only let those in who earned his attention or could get in on the words of others.

With this in mind, after putting down on the landing pad the trio got to work, Ozpin stuck with Taiyang as in the blonde smuggler's words 'this planet will kill you quickly if you are not careful,' he spoke from experience, as during his time as a smuggler he had been to this moon on numerous occasions. they went to the nearest local cantina, while Raven faded into the shadows. They were convinced this was going to take some time to locate the Remnants that Revan said resided in this treacherous world.


After two weeks had passed since the execution of Anderon, and Ozpin's arrival on Nar Shaddaa. During this time events had been unfolding with the Dark Council, on Korriban sitting in the Sphere of Defense, Darth Marr was concerned as a figure had returned. Darth Jadus had returned a few weeks ago to claim his chair in the sphere of intelligence after the Eagle Plot and his journey into uncharted space. Taking up the head of Imperial Intelligence once more. His return was concerning as it was so sudden and had put the council on its toes after the things he had done. Even with this Jadus had requested an audience with him.

Jadus entered his sphere all of the staff staying well clear due to the effect his presence had on normal common people. Marr stood up to greet the Darth. Who promptly asked,

"What do you know of a Darth Viridian Malserik, Imperious, and the 'Knights of Hiskal' on Drommund Kaas?" Jadus asked, quickly getting to the point.

"Malserik is a patron of Imperious and he holds Vowrawn's favor for his management of Hiskal. As for the Knights, I have very little knowledge of them. I am sure Agents of the Imperial Intelligence have full dossiers on them," Marr Replied snidely and quickly to his fellow masked Sith.

"Information minus a basic biography of them is all we know about them, and we don't have anything on the Knights. Getting information on them has been rather difficult for Imperial Intelligence," Jadus admitted quickly, annoyed by Marr's snide remark.

"Jadus are you telling me imperial intelligence has failed to gather data on Imperious and her underlings?" Darth Marr asked with an inquisitive tone that seemed annoyed that Imperial intelligence failed at their duty, especially on the seat of the Empire's power. "also why do you care about a backwater Governor like Malserik?"

"That man has turned over a list of republic infiltrators that was legitimate," Jadus explained as Marr raised an eyebrow under his mask at the statement, "which normally would mean nothing but this has had the effect of blowing out all of their intelligence network in the empire, so much so that we justified a massive communication lockdown on Drommund Kaas,"

"Is this serious?" Marr inquired in disbelief, though a quick gesture, he could tell Jadus was indeed serious, and with that though he continued with "So most of the Jedi and Republic network has toppled due to this list?" Marr asked both shocked and surprised with this outcome, and the fact Jadus was the one telling him this and from the tone in Jadus's voice, he could tell the Darth was unnerved by this as much as he was surprised.

"Yes, it is true our investigation into the topic brought out the deepest levels of their infiltration and allowed us to purge it," Jadus explained. "Originally, I thought it could be a ploy to get imperial intelligence off of his back as he was a spy, I don't know why he would blast the republic like this?" Jadus spoke legitimately perplexed by this action.

"Jadus, Darth Malserik is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt on his loyalty is with the Empire, and I think that attack on Hiskal may not have been all it seems," Marr replied giving his sense on the issue, "with this information I think it may have been the republic acting on various information to silence him, though there is much more afoot than meets the eye with Malserik and Hiskal."

"That is true, Along with that he also just submitted weapons and armor designs to Vorwawn and Acina's Trials," Jadus said as his mind analyzed Malserik's motives. "Then you have the fact that Imperious relocated from her office in Kaas city to Hiskal, and has been seen quite regularly with Malserik, and one of those knights was her apprentices"

"What I do know about, Imperious has become awfully close to Malserik as of late," Marr chuckled beneath his mask, Imperious wasn't one to be very forthcoming on the council. Marr recalled the fact she moved her entire sphere to Drommund Kaas to avoid the council and then moved it to the backwater city of Hiskal, which further concerned the Darth's on the council as she became even more distant. "It is an interesting situation." Marr continued with finality on the subject, that Jadus followed up with,

"Yes, it is, though Marr, there is another aspect I must know and it isn't about the incident at Hiskal," Jadus said bluntly as he handed the other Darth a data pad that read:


Marr, I know your views on the empire as they align with my own.

I am no threat to you. I feel with our unity against the Emperor, we could unite more Sith to our cause. The Emperor is dangerous and is a threat to the galaxy, and must be stopped.

So, Marr, do you stand with me or against me?


"You put me in an interesting predicament, but I do stand with you Jadus," Marr spoke putting his hand in a position that showed his agreement. "what is your next course of action, Jadus?"

"I suggest we see to Imperious and her group, as I think she may stand with us," Jadus spoke quietly, "I know she would agree with at least some of our beliefs."

"Then we should be on our way to Hiskal immediately," Marr, spoke quickly as a conspiracy to route Vitiate had been formed, and they needed Sith and assets on their side if this plan was to work and Imperious seemed like their best place to start.


A/N: Well we are entering the final three chapters before the new content can commence I would like to thank all of you who have stuck with me thus far and those who have joined in thus far, it really makes my day to see that so many enjoy this story, but enough of that, I will save that spiel for when I have gotten the rework done. Firstly, I don't know why I thought the Dark Council was on Drommund Kaas originally, but alas that has been fixed. Now then, the Trials event which it going to be coming up will be fun, but there is going to be quite a bit in the way before that happens, but we have the events on Nar Shaddaa to deal with. Also in this chapter, I wanted to show the relationship between the three other sponsors and their charges. Though the main event of this chapter is Marr and Jadus are going to enter the plot, as I haven't used many Legends Sith as much as I should of, but I think they will be an interesting addition at this point.

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hornofdesolation: Yup only three more to go, though I am going to relax for a week to reread everything I have written to correct any errors.

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