Terri put down her macrobinoculars, still nothing, as far as she could tell it seemed everything was going according to plan. She needed to distract herself; she could hear the faint sounds of the ritual and of Lusari, she knew she had to be strong but all she could hear was Lusari's screams in pain. She must be enduring a lot of pain for this that's how it worked right? Terri wished there was another way but she had to trust her. Lusari had told her it was necessary, the excess force energy had to go somewhere right? She hoped this would be worth it maybe they should've just left the Lady and got out of there that wouldn't have been so bad. No that's wrong they'd promised they'd help her she buried her face in her hands how could she think that they were supposed to be better than the sith. Terri hated this she just wanted to get out of here the world was so bizarre she didn't know who was right or wrong or even if that mattered, she took a long deep breath she did know one thing she could trust though, that Lusari knew what she was doing. Terri wished she had Lusi's confidence she had to at least try and help right even if she was really bad at it, she'd been distracted too long she picked up her macrobinoculars and started surveying the area. The beacon still looked active and the mercenaries were ready for their pickup, the conversation of where the other mercenaries were was not going to be a fun one. She didn't know where the Commander and her friend would come from but the Lady was pretty confident they'd be on their way shortly. That still puzzled her though, the commander had once been The Lady's apprentice but then why was that togruta still helping her? she had been manipulated but Terri saw nothing holding the togruta there. Maybe she had fallen and wasn't aware of it, like that Jedi they'd learned about Norman Car? something like that Terri wasn't really listening at the time. She could just be lying Terri had to consider that possibility that people lie, she had been told she was far to trusting in the past (mainly by Lusi) she had to remember people lie in the real world. She realised she'd been staring at the same patch of forest for about 10 minutes, damn it she had to concentrate this was important.

She began to scan the area again but was still met with nothing, she'd identified a few points in the brush where they could be hiding but Infra-red was showing up no signs. Maybe if she used the force she may be able to gleam something, she closed her eyes and let go of herself feeling the space around her. She focussed on living things and could sense the many fish circling in the lake, phew glad she didn't fall in some could be carnivorous. She tried to picture the commander who she had fought on the top of the first temple, red skin yellow eyes long red hair. She began to feel something but it wasn't from the forest it was from… above!. Terri frantically looked up at the sky and was met with a black and grey Ship descending through the clouds from across the lake. oh no oh no oh no what could she do, keep them off the island? how would she? Terri gasped as she got an idea, they would be using parachutes right so she could divert them. She dropped her binoculars and scurried to the top part of the wall ready to divert them maybe with a gun maybe with the force she wasn't sure yet. The ship raced towards her and as it did she saw the landing ramp descend, here we go get ready. She saw the silhouettes jump she followed them with her eyes waiting for the parachutes to deploy but after a few seconds they hadn't deployed what were they thinking? they wouldn't be able to land in the lake it's not that deep. The silhouettes began to get closer and Terri could see there was three of them! two she recognised and a new maybe Kaleesh? She watched perplexed as they got closer and closer to the water and saw the three of them push down with the force, no that wasn't possible? right? She saw as a wave of dust came towards her, blue lightning shooting out of the Zabraks hands, they were actually slowing down this might work. She saw as they landed with a less than graceful roll on the edge of the island, oh god Terri had gotten so caught up in it she hadn't even tried to stop them. She had to tell Lusari but she also had to stop them she quickly looked around and saw a rock she could probably lift. She haphazardly flung it in their direction and jumped down into the courtyard rushing to the entrance of the temple, she took a deep breath and shouted

"LUSARI MY LADY THEY'RE HERE" she spun around and saw the three enter the courtyard. What was she gonna do she could barely take on one how would she handle three, Terri's muscles tensed up as she shakily turned her lightsaber on the green glow reflecting of the temple walls. She stammered "I-I-I c-can't let you past s-stay back" god she sounded so weak she doubted they were even slightly intimidated

The commanded sighed ignited her own lightsaber "just let us pass and we won't have to hurt you" the Togruta and Kaleesh followed suit, the Kaleesh snarling as he did he seemed very scary

Terri's breath quickened rapidly she had to do this for Lusari "I can't do that I made a promise" she stepped forward and as she did she heard another lightsaber ignite next to her.

She turned to see Lusari's yellow lightsaber floating there as she heard in her head "not to worry Terri I'll fight with you" the Lady had her back maybe she could actually do this she swallowed all her fear lifted her lightsaber and ran forward ready to save her friend.

She sprinted forward taking a running slash as the commander blocked it pushing her back a few feet. She could see to her right the yellow saber parry the attacks of the Kaleesh as the togruta went for a disarming slash on her. She thought of all they had done to get here and suddenly all the frustration she'd been feeling built up putting all her energy into throwing her at the wall. She turned back to the commander ready to fight but as she did a flash of blue energy caused her to flinch followed by an intense searing pain when she managed to reopen her eyes she saw bolts of energy covering her vision. She began to convulse in pain, no no no she needed to fight through it fight smarter she began to walk forward she could see the commanders snarl as she shot the lightning at Terri. Terri continued to walk forward and managed to grab her arm, she saw as the lightning jolted back into the commander causing her to stumble back in pain. Terri saw the opportunity to maybe incapacitate her as she went for a slash where she had gotten the commander before but to her surprise she saw the commanders hand grab the lightsaber by the blade and rip it out of her hand.

The commander threw it to the side and clicked her neck he face far more serious than their first encounter "that hurt, now get out of my way kid" Terri felt an intense force and next thing she knew she was against the wall her back sharp with pain. She slumped down the wall as she saw the commander sprinting towards the temple no she had to stop her she had to save Lusari, she got up and began to chase after her but choked as something grabbed the back of her neck. She stumbled around to see the togruta back up and ready to fight, she knew she had to catch the commander though and ignored her turning back around to run.

She began to run but as she did she saw an orange form spin over her landing in front of her "I'm sorry but I can't let you pass" Terri felt anger boiling up like never before

She felt herself scowling as she shot "try and stop me" at the togruta she then lunged at her with her saber…

Kyradia sprinted with all her might towards the temple entrance, this had to end now. As she arrived at the entrance she could see an immense amount of dark energy surrounding something, she guessed the girl. But as she began to run in the chamber seemingly shifted becoming a pitch black corridor, she looked around as silhouettes began to form in the space

She recognised the shape, Zash was messing with her. The silhouettes opened their pinprick yellow eyes as an echo filled the chamber "I'm sorry Kyradia but you're not getting through we're almost there and we can't have you messing it all up" Kyradia scowled as the silhouettes began to run at her. Alright she could play this game she took a deep breath taking in all her anger and rage remembering every shitty thing Zash had done and quickly feeling the lightning build up in her hands. With a defiant scream she let out all the energy she could muster as the lightning jumped from shadow to shadow each falling one by one leaving an empty chamber. Zash wouldn't let up for long though she knelt down and pictured the room she had just seen, she built up the energy and in a flash she had strode there.

She could feel the wind on her face as she looked up and was met with a vortex of swirling black energy in the round open chamber surrounding the small blonde form of Lusari. She could hear her shrieking out in pain as Kyradia saw dark slivers of energy enter her form, Zash had said it would hurt but Kyradia was sure she hadn't been entirely forthcoming. The echo of Zash's grating voice returned ringing in her ear "well well well good job you outsmarted me there well I'm afraid that was the easy bit" Kyradia looked around for some form of entryway and as she did she saw a Lightsaber rise up in front of her floating in the space.

This lightsaber was familiar though, this was Zash's lightsaber oh she was so ready to destroy her "oh don't worry Zash! I'm going to stop you and I'm going to enjoy every second of it" she lunged at the lightsaber trying to grab it as it danced out of the way of her hand. While she fought she could hear the echoed laughs of Zash mixed in with the screams of the girl, the saber lunged at her as if it was being held by someone, damn it she didn't have much time. She blocked the saber with her own, the mix of red and purple sparks sparking off into the dark abyss before her. She felt the force of the blade as it began to push her down further, she had to fight back! she stepped back letting it fall but as it did it rose back up ready to fight again.

Kyradia could feel the scowl on her face "sithspit!" she cursed as the blade went for a horizontal slash, she could feel the heat of the blade as she narrowly avoided it flipping over and using her momentum to bring a hard slash down on the blade. She pushed the blade down and instinctively went for a jab as she did however she stumbled forward, damn she forgot there's no one wielding it. She sensed the blade would take advantage so put her own behind her and blocked the blade going for a vertical slash then she let it go jumping as she did narrowly avoiding the blade.

The laugh echoed out again "getting sloppy are we Kyradia at this rate you have no chance of stopping me" as much as she hated to agree with Zash she was right this saber was just a distraction she had to get to the girl. But she'd have to eliminate it nonetheless

She grinned she knew what to do she took a deep breath taking a defensive stance drawing as much power as she could. She waited and as the saber slashed at her she began to phantom stride around it she could see it turning to her prior locations as she continually strode around it. After it was clearly disoriented she strode threw it grabbing it by the handle turning it off as she went, it deignited and Kyradia threw it into the corner. Ok now the vortex she could use the force against it? no it's a vortex of force energy that would only feed it, take some in? maybe that would make a hole big enough to get through. She put her lightsaber away, well this was definitely gonna hurt she took a deep breath gritting her teeth and began drawing energy from the vortex, as it hit her she felt the searing pain coarse through every inch of her body. She built her anger letting it seethe as she redirected the pain, she began walking towards the edge of the vortex, every second a new wave of pain hit her she had only felt something like this once before. She put her hand on the edge of the vortex as she did every nerve in her hand shot with pain, redirect it push it down think of all of it every last thing, home, the change, the sith all of it. She felt the energy flow through her as she took a deep breath stepping fully into the vortex, looking around all she could see was dark energy and all she could feel was an intense wind blowing against her face. To her surprise the energy wasn't so bad in here, however the somewhat tame screams she could hear before were now deafening seemingly acting like a lightning rod for the energy.

She began to walk forward slowly putting her arm over her eyes to block the wind as she did she heard the familiar echo everywhere around her "what do you think you're DOING! you really think you can stop me again!" she absolutely would, Kyradia saw a sliver of dark energy fly towards her entering her form coarsing through her her body, the pain she felt like every nerve in her body was on fire as she continued to push it down.

She let out a deafening scream and as she looked around she caught a glimpse of blonde hair through the dark clouds, there she was she just had to get to her. She looked up as she began to stumble forward "yeah and this time you wont even have a Dashade to live through" she took a deep breath trying her best to deal with the searing pain "this time you're going to be gone for good" she started moving towards Lusari who she could see screaming out some old sith language.

The echo of Zash began cackling "you're going to have to be quick then apprentice, I'm almost home" she almost sang the words she said as Kyradia stumbled towards Lusari. Just a little further and she could end this, she would've loved to have saved Lusari but they were way past that now it was Lusari dead or Zash alive she knew who she'd pick. Standing defiantly Kyradia reached her the pain almost immeasurable as she tensed every muscle in her body, she took a long deep breath before drawing her lightsaber she had to end this but then Lusari suddenly went quiet. Kyradia was bewildered no screams not even any emotion just nothing like she'd gone catatonic, no matter she had to stop her she ignited her lightsaber ready to end this. As she drew the blade up she suddenly felt an immense amount of wind on he back suddenly her vision was covered by the dark force energy and before she knew it she felt herself pushed up against the wall of the chamber. As she got her bearings she opened her eyes, did she get her? was it over? She could see Lusari kneeling down in the middle of the chamber no vortex and no Zash to be seen. But wait if she'd got Lusari? then how was she breathing? as Kyradia pondered that she saw Lusari's arm jut out suddenly as the red lightsaber shot into her grasp. No no no she couldn't have no! Lusari stood up turning around to face Kyradia, her hair was weirdly curled and her eyes, Kyradia knew those eyes

Lusari grinned at Kyradia viciously "well it certainly feels good to be back" she clicked her neck and strode towards Kyradia "and what are we going to do with you apprentice" she began to cackle with laughter, the likeness was unmistakable Kyradia was too late, Zash had returned…