on Lorn Voat the most powerful and skilled student at the academy.

Chapter 6. Lord and Lady Cage

The students have gathered once again in the academy duel arena. Three challenges have already taken place. "Are there anymore challenges?"

"I challenge!" Syrah says in a loud voice. "I challenge Lorn Voat…"

"I accept…" He replies stepping into the arena.

Both have their lightsabers, but Syrah is a Sith Lord and she could kill Voat with a thought if she wished, but she had to fight on his level to keep up appearances. They ignite their sabers and Voat initiates the combat with a high overhead swing. Syrah easily blocks and parries his attack. She feints a thrust and turns the move into an arc attack. At the last minute Voat grabs the energy blade with force and stops the blade. He leaps backwards and resets. Then he charges again with more ferocity.

Syrah wrenches his lightsaber from his hand, but Voat goes into a backwards roll and comes up on his feet unleashing a lightening attack. Syrah blocks with her lightsaber and summons Voat's saber off the ground. "My Prince!" One of the other students screams throwing him a new lightsaber.

"That's enough!" Master Kyan orders, "The duel is over…"

"The duel is over when I say it is over!" Voat says in anger.

"You forget yourself young one. You are beaten!"

"Perhaps you were adopted." Syrah says with a slight nudge in the force. She switches off her lightsabers. "I will keep this as a symbol of your defeat." Syrah turns to leave.

"Syrah watch out!" Gyllan screams as Lorn Voat ignites the lightsaber and leaps at Syrah, she spins around, grabs him in the force, and holds him in the air. "You dare attack me from behind like a coward!"

"Syrah let him go…NOW!"

The command is ignored and the other Masters try to break her hold on Lorn, but Syrah increases her force strength just enough to outmatch both Sith Masters. She roars and everyone falls to the ground at her explosion of power. Then she twists Lorn's neck and his hip area in different directions killing him. She falls to her knees looking at her hands after Lorn hits the floor.

"Syrah!" Gyllan walks up to her and drops to his knees at her side to sell the deception. Syrah is taken to a cell and placed under guard, by eight Sith Enforcers.

SITH FORTRESS

"No! My son, not my son!" Kamile Voat falls to her knees at the sight of her son's twisted body.

Trystan Voat Supreme Dark Lord of the New Brotherhood is with her, "How did he die?" He asks looking at his brother Jorn the headmaster of the academy.

Jorn looks at Master Kyan, "My Lord, your son was challenged in the arena by Syrah Cage. She bested him and ended the match by keeping your son's lightsaber. He attacked her from behind in anger and she responded in kind." He looks at Master Vai. "Master Vai and I combined our power to restrain her, but her power was…Her anger and rage allowed her to overcome the two of us and she killed your son."

"I want her dead!" Kamile says standing up.

Lord Voat takes his wife wrapping his arm around her, "You know our laws my love. And as much as I would like to rend the flesh off this woman it would be a waste of such power." He looks at his brother, "Where is she?"

Syrah is in her cell with her legs folded and eyes closed. Gyllan is standing outside her Cell meditating as well. "Someone is coming." She says after opening her eyes. Gyllan stands up and bows as Lord Voat appears with Masters Jorn, Kylan, and Vai.

"My Lord…" says.

"Open the cell…"

As the door opens Syrah stands up and bows, "My Lord. Masters."

"Come with me." Syrah walks beside the Supreme Sith Lord through the Academy. As they pass by students some bow. "I loved my son." He says breaking the silence.

"And I killed him so you will kill me." She replies in a sad tone of voice. This is a critical moment, if Syrah reacts the wrong way her cover will be blown. If the Supreme Sith Lord strikes at her with the intent to kill; she must be ready to defend herself. If his intention is to punish her himself then she must act contrite. They are now walking through the gardens.

"No young one we have laws. Love leads to jealousy and can become a weapon of the force. A destructive weapon if one lacks discipline, the Jedi have no place for attachment or love. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." He stops to touch a star rose, "You struck out in anger. Now you must learn discipline and self control as not to strike out for the wrong reasons. The New Brotherhood is based on strength. You are very strong in the force and to kill you would be a waste. The Sith always needs strong leaders and perhaps one day you may become Supreme Sith Lord."

He stops and reaches under his robe to hand her Lorn Voat's lightsaber."I believe this belongs to you."

"Thank you My Lord."

"You and your husband will no longer be living here at the academy. You will be coming to the palace and assigned to Masters. From this day forth you and your husband are Sith Knights…"

Syrah and Gyllan are taken to the Sith palace in a private shuttle that follows Lord Voat's shuttle. When they arrive they are introduced to Master Daaro a Noghri. "Welcome I am your Master and you my apprentices…You are both Knights, but you need real world guidance."

Lord and Lady Cage are the talk of the Sith. The two are admired and envied by the Sith Knights, Masters, and Lords all over the palace. Gyllan now had the ability to manipulate Hyperspace lanes through the force. He also had force lightening, kinesis, telepathy, energy redirection, speed, agility, and he could use the force to feed off the force energy of others. He had yet to reach his full potential.

Syrah stands on the balcony of their room staring out over the landscape. She smiles as Gyllan joins her. Their love for one another is evident, but she is the Lord of the Sith and one day Gyllan would rise to challenge her. "What are you thinking about?" He asks breaking the silence.

"Many things."

"It has been a longtime since we." He says fondling her body.

They slowly undress one another, then she straddles him and they make love all night. As Darth Syren sleeps she dreams of the Supreme Sith Lord. "Charlatan…Child of Darth Bane!" He stabs her with his lightsaber.

Darth Syren awakens from her dream and feels something strange. "Are you alright?"

"Its just a nightmare. Go back to sleep." Gyllan pulls her down and wraps his arms around her. Soon he is asleep, but Syrah cannot sleep as something seems off. The next day she goes to see a med-droid.

"You are pregnant my Lady…" The droid says.

"You will tell no one about this." Normally the droid would report her pregnancy to the high council, but ever since Syrah had been in the palace she had Gyllan's droid Beebo implant sub-commands into everything from Sith Med-Droids to Sith Battle Droids. All were under her command.

"As you command mistress."

"Where have you been all day?" Gyllam asks when she returns to their quarters.

"Out!" Was her cold reply, then she touches his mind, ("The time has come…We must act now…")

("Why?")

("I had a vision…Lord Voat discovered my secret and killed me.")

He stares at her, ("I know you and you are hiding something.")

("When the time is right I will tell you.")

He frowns, ("Fine we should do it now and then you will tell me this secret.")

Yes love for a Sith Lord could be a weakness or a weapon. The most important thing to Darth Syren who is pretending to be Syrah Cage is her unborn child. Her mind already racing as the child put her in danger and will affect her ability to maintain her sith spells of deception. Then there is Gyllan the father of her child and he would want to rule the Sith as a family and that she could not allow. Not for him or their unborn child. So mentally Syrah was making a new plan for the future of the Sith and the Rule of Two.