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Death's Chosen Knight
Chapter 8
Hyperspace, 47 B.B.Y.
Asajj was currently sitting on the bunk on the Crucible, a Paladin-class corvette, that was on route to the planet Ilum. For the longest time, Asajj had only been using a basic back-up lightsaber and Dooku had told her it was time for her to make her own lightsaber. Because of that, she needed to find a crystal that was specific to her. She was slightly nervous about finding her crystal but she readied herself for the challenge ahead.
She was brought out of her thoughts when she felt Dooku's presence outside of the room. She got up from the bunk and opened the door, only to hear her Master's cultured voice say, "We will be arriving at Ilum within a few moments. Make sure you are dressed warm and ready for the journey you are about to take."
Asajj nodded and watched as Dooku walked away, heading back to the bridge to bring the ship out of hyperspace. She quickly got everything she would need to venture out on the frozen planet in order to find her lightsaber crystal. When she had everything ready, she made her way to the bridge, only to see the ship come out of hyperspace and soon she saw the frozen planet of Ilum. She looked to see both Luminara and Dooku gently guiding the ship down to the planet's surface. It had been agreed that while there were dangers going to find her lightsaber crystal far into her pregnancy, she had to find the crystal soon because she would not be able to leave Dathomir after she gave birth until her daughter was around five years old.
Asajj watched as the ship was carefully brought down to the surface, not far from what looked like a cave within the ice. Dooku turned to Asajj and said, "We are here. When we enter the cave, you will have to go alone as this is your journey."
Asajj nodded and followed both Luminara and Dooku as they led her to the outside of the cave. Soon she saw Luminara approach her with a metal bracelet and said, "This will allow me to monitor your health and if I see any signs of distress, we will come and get you immediately."
Dooku nodded and said, "We will also be following your presence in the force, to also monitor your health and the health of your child."
Asajj nodded and took a deep breath before entering the cave by herself. She walked around the cave before she felt a presence move behind her. She quickly turned around but saw nothing behind her. She shook off the foreboding feeling she got and continued to follow the path she was originally following. After a few minutes of walking, she felt the presence behind her again. She turned around again but saw nothing behind her. When she turned around, she jumped in fear as she saw a woman with cold demonic green eyes and wearing a black leather cloak standing in front of her. She went to get into a defensive stance but saw the woman before her was only staring at her. She watched as the woman turned around and began walking in a different direction. Asajj looked around for a moment before following the cloaked woman, feeling as if she needed to follow the woman.
As she continued to follow the woman, Asajj found herself in a large chamber with two people wearing black cloaks. One looked like a man, without a nose and cold demonic red reptilian eyes. The other appeared to be a young girl with the same cold demonic green eyes as the woman she was following. The last thing she noticed was a large mirror with strange writing in the middle of the room. She soon heard the male speak an unknown language with a cold hissing voice to the young girl. When she reached out with the force, she felt a strong presence in the Light Side of the Force coming from the girl and a dark and twisted presence in the Dark Side of the Force coming from the man.
She watched as the young girl pointed a strange stick-like device at the man and saw a strange red light come out of the stick-like weapon. Asajj watched in horror as the man rushed at the girl and try and choke her with his hands, only to let a horrid scream of pain as his hands turned to ash. The girl looked shocked for a moment before rushing and the man and grabbed his face with her hands, burning his face and turning it to ash. The girl looked exhausted but smiled and started to walk away when the ashes of the dark being began to swirl and Asajj tried to call out to warn the girl to look behind her. She watched in horror as a wraith-like being gave out a sickly yell and rushed at the girl, passing through her and knocking her back. Asajj felt the girl pass out after a few moments and everything faded away, revealing that she was still in the cave.
Asajj caught sight of the woman, and immediately asked, "What was that I just saw? Who was that Dark Side force user and what happened to the girl?"
The woman remained silent and began walking again. Asajj cried out to the woman to wait and quickly followed her, only to find herself in a cold and dark chamber. She immediately felt two familiar presences in the force and saw the same girl, but a different male. When she caught sight of his eyes, they were the same cold demonic red reptilian eyes and he spoke with the same cold hissing like voice as the man from the other vision. Both wore black leather cloaks that didn't allow much of their features to be seen. Soon the young male turned and hissed at a statue and the lower jaw opened up, and a horrid snake-like beast emerged from the mouth of the statue.
She watched as the young girl ran away, only to feel a strong presence in the Light Side of the Force appear. She followed the presence and saw that it was some form of avian-like creature, most likely native to the girl's homeworld. She watched as the avian-like creature dropped something on the floor of the chamber before going straight for the massive snake-like beast and blinding it by scratching out its eyes. Soon the avian creature disappeared in a ball of flames and her focus returned to the young girl, who was running away from the beast. After a bit, the girl was running back into the chamber, and straight to the object, the avian had dropped. She soon grabbed something and pulled out what looked like an ancient war blade with an unknown language written on the blade.
The young girl turned around as the beast returned by shooting up out of the water. The girl got into a fighting stance with the blade, and Asajj could immediately tell that the young girl had no training with such a weapon. The girl swung the blade at the beast when it would try to strike at her, backing off when the blade would hit at its snout. Soon the beast grew irritated and lunged at the girl, who raise the sword and stabbed at the beast. Asajj watched in horror as the beast lunged at the girl, only to cheer moments later as she saw the girl stab the beast in the roof of its mouth. Asajj watched as the girl relax a moment, only to see as she dropped the war blade and fall to her knees as her veins turned to black. She looked and saw the girl pull a fang from her arm and realized that the beast must have had some sort of venom. The young male began to taunt the girl, only to watch in horror as the girl used the fang to stab a small black object. Asajj had to cover her ears as an unholy wail came from the man before he burst into sickly back smoke. Soon, everything disappeared as the girl blacked out.
Asajj looked around the cave and saw the woman standing before her again, not saying a word. Instead of asking anything, Asajj followed the woman, who silently began walking through the cave again. After a bit of walking, Asajj found herself in a forest clearing and immediately felt a cold and dark presence around her, as if there was nothing left for her to be happy about ever again. She looked around as two people were being swarmed by dark creatures that gave off a hollow sucking like noise when they approached the two people. Soon, she felt a presence of dread as the man fell silent and a small silver orb began to float from his mouth. She felt a familiar presence and turned to see the young girl stand beside her. She watched as the young girl stood with her eyes closed, gently smiling before yelling out something in the same unknown language. Soon Asajj felt a burst in the Light Side of the Force as a ghostly creature appeared and attacked all of the swarming creatures. They let off a cry of terror as they tried to flee the ghostly animal, but failed at it let out wave after wave of power. Soon she looked to the clearing as saw the glowing orb float back into the man and he gasped for air.
Asajj relaxed as she saw the woman appear in front of her once more and silently followed the woman once more. Soon she saw the young girl again, flying on a strange object away from a horrid looking beast with wings. Asajj watched as the girl barely outflew the monster, only to watch as the vision changed to the girl fighting off humanoid creatures with fish-like features. She watched as the girl saved a young blonde girl and a red-headed boy about the same age as the green-eyed girl. The scene changed once more as a young man and the young girl began running away from beasts and plants towards a strange-looking goblet. Once they both grabbed the goblet, they vanished and the vision changed once more. Asajj found herself in a strange place with stones that had strange writing on them. She looked and saw the young man and the young girl appear, only to watch as a sickly green light collide into the young man, who was standing protectively in front of the young girl. Asajj bowed her head at the young man as she felt his presence become one with the force. She watched as the girl was tied to a statue and soon Asajj watched in horror as a dark ritual was used to bring the red-eyed man back to life. Asajj prayed the girl would be okay and watched as the two began to fight with stick-like weapons. Strange lights began to fly past the two, only for Asajj to watch in horror as the man shot the same sickly green light, that killed the young man, at the girl. She watched in awe as the young girl cast a sickly red light at the man at the same time and the two beams of light connected.
A sad musical trill came from a golden dome of energy that surrounded the red-eyed man and the green-eyed girl, and ghostly figures appeared, only to turn and attack the man after speaking to the young girl. The girl ran to the young man's body and soon the goblet was flying towards them. As soon as the girl disappeared, the vision ended and Asajj found herself standing in the cave once more. Asajj nodded to the woman and began following her to the next vision the force wished to show her.
When the next vision came, Asajj found herself watching a battle between the stick-wielding people as strange colors of light flew all over the chamber. Soon she watched as a woman appeared out of black smoke and a light hit a black-haired man who jumped in front of the young girl. The man looked at the young girl and gave her a sad smile before vanishing in an archway with a ghostly mist-like waterfall in it. The young girl let out a wail of agony before Asajj felt a similar presence to the red-eyed man. She looked at saw that the young girl's eyes had turned blood red and all she could feel coming from the girl was cold rage. The young girl stalked after the woman who had appeared out of the black smoke before a beam of Dark Side energy shot from the girl's stick-like weapon. The woman dropped to the ground and screamed in agony, rolling around and twitching as if she was being tortured by Sith Lightning. The girl stood over the woman, with the stick in her left hand and the war blade appearing in her right.
Asajj watched with sadness as the girl began killing all of the people in masks that tried to stop her. The lights of energy slammed into the girl, cutting her and damaging her, but she acted as if she felt nothing. Soon the demonic red-eyed man appeared again and began attacking the girl, only to watch as she dodged and returned the attacks as well. Soon the man grew irritated and shot a sickly green light at the girl and the light connected with her. The girl flew back and her body turned to ash as it fell to the ground. The red-eyed man began to laugh and turned his back to where the girl had died, speaking in a cold hissing voice. Asajj watched in horror as the ash began to form into a cloaked wraith-like creature with green energy swirling with the ash. Another thing Asajj noticed was the cold demonic yellow eyes of the creature as it let out an unholy shriek and flew through the man, just as he had done to the girl.
Soon Asajj found herself staring at the woman, only this time her eyes were blood red. The woman gave a sad smile and said, "Her destiny was not to die but to defeat the red-eyed monster. But she failed because of one man who believed that she had to die in order to the monster to be destroyed."
Asajj looked at the woman and asked, "She was you, wasn't she?"
The woman nodded and said, "That was my past, yes."
Asajj nodded and said, "I am sorry that you had to go through all of that."
The woman smiled gently at Asajj and said, "As I said, that was my past. And you have nothing to be sorry for."
Asajj was about to ask the woman a question, only to watch the woman fade from view. Asajj quickly tried to approach the woman, only to see two small crystals were the woman's eyes once were. Asajj looked around to see if the woman was around but saw nothing. Sighing, Asajj grabbed the crystals and made her way back to Luminara and Dooku, not seeing the woman appear once more, saying, "Good luck, Asajj Ventress. May we meet again soon."
Here is chapter 8. I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far. In this chapter, for those who are wondering, Asajj is about 29 weeks or 7 months pregnant. Let me know what you think of the story so far or if you have noticed any errors in grammar.