Here is part two of my Mortis Arc. Enjoy

Disclaimers are the same as before.

Chapter 6: Altar of Mortis

July 15th, 2018 21BBY

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Mortis

Roberts point of view

It felt like we were flying for hours since we left the monastery.

Ever since Anakin passed the test the father had him take to see if he was the chosen one, he began to feel uneasy and now was resting on one of the beds in the back of the shuttle. Soon he woke up and rubbed his eyes. "Nightmare?" I asked. "Something like that." Anakin replied.

"If your done napping I could use a little help here." Obi-Wan called from the cockpit. "I'm coming." Anakin said. No sooner had he began to leave the back both of us sensed a presence. Turning around we saw the Son had Ahsoka, his arm wrapped around her neck.

"Leaving so soon? Not without this, you won't." The son replied as Anakin's eyes widened with concern. "Let her go." I demanded. The son ignored me and the hatch for the boarding ramp opened up and he fell with Ahsoka still in his clutches.

Turning into a Gargoyle he sped away as quick as he could while we returned to the cockpit. "What's going on?" Obi-Wan asked as Anakin took a seat in the other pilot's chair. "The Son took Ahsoka." I responded. "What in blazes are you talking about?" Kenobi asked.

"Move and let me fly." Anakin demanded as he pulled the ship into a near vertical climb and reversed the engines before speeding after the son.

Soon we caught up to him but were now in a canyon full of large stone spiers. Zigzagging through the canyon made my stomach churn. "I think I'm going to be sick." I said as I put my hand to my mouth in case I was going to vomit. By the time we caught up to the son, he disappeared into the thick fog and we almost collided with a what reminded me of a lighthouse had Obi-Wan not veered the ship away from the tower in time.

The bad thing was that we crashed landed and skidded a good couple of feet away from the tower. Once again, the two argued about the tower which made me loose my patience. "Save the argument for later." I said, walking between the two and looked at the tower we almost crashed into.

"There. If I had a hostage that's where I would be." I said pointing to the tower. "Come on, we don't have time to stand around." I added only for Obi-Wan to get in front of me. "Robert this wasn't a mistake. He brought us here for a reason. We must not get involved. Any conflict here could dramatic repercussions for the universe at large." Obi-Wan said, reminding me of how important this place is.

"I don't give a shit if this place is a fucking active volcano, that bastard is way to powerful for Ahsoka." I countered and kept moving forward until Anakin put his hand on my shoulder. "Robert, we are in the middle of something we don't truly understand. We'd be wise to confer with the father, this is what the son wants, to divide us." Anakin explained.

"She's your padawan and your going to tell me that you would rather wait here for the old timer to help us? Face it Anakin, there is no time. I already lost one friend in my life I will damned if I lose another." I said before I pushed Anakin aside and ran towards the tower, leaving them far behind.

I hadn't gotten very far from the crash site when I began to sense a disturbance. "Here comes the welcoming committee." I said, unsheathing my lightsabers and prepared for battle. Rising from the ground, were over a dozen rock creatures which looked similar to the Gatekeepers from the 1995 Power Ranger's movie, but tougher, bulkier and armed with stone swords and axes. "Be warned boys, I might cut a little off the top." I said as the rock creatures charged towards me.

One creature brought their sword down attempting to crush me, but I backflipped before grabbing the rock head with the force and sent him flying into two other rock heads, causing all three to shatter into pieces.

Two more of them charged at me from the right, these ones wielding axes and made a high swing for my head trying to give me a haircut. I ducked and threw my sabers at their feet, before pushing them back with a strong force push.

Calling my sabers back to me, I attempted to cut down another one of the creatures only for it to block my attack with its sword and sent a powerful upwards slash towards my chest, which I countered with a Form III block before sending a strong Form IV strike, taking its head off.

Soon I heard the sound of rocks clattering rocks. I looked up and saw that over a dozen more creatures were approaching from the tower. "Where's the Calvary when you need it?" I said, lunging forward towards one of the creatures, carving it up like a pizza and sending the remaining rocks flying towards the other creatures.

One of them was able to get behind me but before it could bring its axe down on me, a blue blade pierced its chest destroying it. As the stone body crumbled to the ground I gasped in surprise as Anakin jumped over me and delivered a Shien strike towards the chest of three rock heads. "Need a hand?" Anakin asked jokingly as I entered the fray.

Another rock head attempted to swing their blade at me, but I ducked down and using the force had my blades circle me cutting down the six attackers that had surrounded me while Anakin thrusted his lightsaber behind him, eliminating the one that managed to get behind him.

Reaching out with the force, I grabbed two of the four remaining rock creatures and sent them flying into a nearby pillar, destroying them. Once they were down, I turned and watched Anakin jump into the air and preformed a jumping sword slash, cutting one creature in half before throwing his lightsaber into the chest of the last creature eliminating all hostiles.

"I don't need your help." I said to Anakin, deactivating my lightsabers and continued my way towards the tower. "You say you don't need my help, but it looks like you did. Obi-Wan went to see the father and he wanted me to ensure that you stay alive." Anakin responded, causing me to stop in my tracks. "Just stay out of my way." I replied before leaving the battle sight with Anakin behind me.

Normal point of view

Inside the towers prison level Ahsoka was strapped to the wall, surprisingly with her sabers still in her possession. "You cannot keep me hear. You hear me?" she shouted, struggling to get free.

"Save your energy. You have been left to die." A voice called from in front of her. Walking into the light was a small greyish creature approached her. "Then I will escape." She replied. The creature just laughed saying he had been on Mortis longer then she had, but when she mentioned she was a jedi, this caught the creature's attention.

"Jedi? Huh. But you are so young, where is your master?" the creature asked as it started to climb the wall besides her. "He will come for me. The same thing goes for Robert." Ahsoka responded. "This 'Robert' he means a lot to you, doesn't he?" the creature asked. "He is a good friend and maybe more." Ahsoka replied, hiding her real feelings about Robert from the creature.

"And if they don't?" the creature asked more curious then before. "They will." Ahsoka proclaimed as her 'cellmate' released her from the wall. "The chains, the chains are the easy part. Its what goes on in here that's hard." The creature said pointing towards his head before guiding Ahsoka out of the cell. "Don't you see, child? You are alone now, if you want to survive, you must forget your master and friend." The creature added.

As Ahsoka contemplated what she was told, the creature saw his chance and bit her arm. "Ow! What have you done?" she asked clutching the hand that was bitten. "You are mine now." The creature declared as Ahsoka collapsed to the floor, while the creature transformed revealing himself to be the Son as her skin turned dark and her eyes turned yellow.

Meanwhile at his monastery, The Father and Daughter meditated as the Son walked into the main chamber. "You are growing stronger, my son." The father stated, opening his eyes. "Am I, father?" he asked.

"Vanity, however, is getting the best of you." Father added. "How so?" Son asked as he turned to face his father and sister. "You have done what is forbidden, you have chosen the dark side and allowed it to feed on your anger and desire for power." Father explained getting up from his position followed by Daughter but motioned her to stay in her position.

"By bringing the Chosen one here, you've shown me my potential. You've only yourself to blame." Son declared as he walked with his parent. "Do not do this, son. Do not become what you should not. Be strong, I implore you, or else I will be forced to contain you." Father begged, he didn't want to confront one of his children.

When he noticed that Father looked frail, Son took his chance and sent a strong blast of red lighting towards him, sending flying over the stairs just as Obi-Wan arrived. "I hate you." Son screamed before transforming into his Gargoyle form and flew away from the monastery.

"Father!" Daughter shouted as she ran down the stairs to help her parent.

Later, after bringing Father to his room Daughter used the force to help his healing. During the process Obi-Wan asked her for help but she flat out refused, stating that her Father forbids such actions. But after telling her that her brother was losing himself to the dark side, took Ahsoka, tried to murder Father and will wreak havoc upon the universe, she decided that she must take action and brought Obi-Wan to an Altar containing the only weapon to kill the anyone of her family.

Meanwhile, Robert followed by Anakin climbed the tower, pulling themselves over the top before looking up seeing that they had a lot more climbing to do. While catching his breath Anakin watched in amazement as Robert ran towards another wall, kick off one of the wall's sides, repeating the same process all the way to the top without even stopping. "He is certainly something special." Anakin said to himself before following him.

Later they arrived at the towers courtyard and to their relief found Ahsoka, sitting in front of a large tree meditating. "Ahsoka, its us. Your safe now." Anakin said, his voice echoing through out the courtyard. "Let's get the hell out of here before tall, dark and evil comes back. This place is giving me the creeps." Robert said in agreement.

"Are you proud of me, Master?" Ahsoka asked slowly, not moving from her position. "What?" Anakin asked, thinking for a few seconds before answering. "Uh, of course Snips. Course I'm proud of you."

"And you Robert. Do you like me?" she asked again not moving from her spot. "Yeah I like you as a friend. Now come on, lets get out of here." Robert responded.

"He's right, right about everything. You must join him master." Ahsoka said opening her eyes and standing up to look at the two. "He only wants whats best for the universe." She added, adding a little innocence to her speech.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Anakin asked. "Always with the criticism master, never really believing me, trusting me. And you Robert, you don't know how I really feel about you. You never even talked to me after Scarif. Well I don't need either of you anymore." She added angrily.

"Ahsoka, Ahsoka listen to me. He's done something to you, snap out of it, this isn't you." Anakin plead trying to get a hold of his padawan. Robert however noticed that her skin had dark violet cracks and her eyes had turned yellow. That's when it hit him, the son had turned her to the Dark side.

"Isn't it? I feel more like myself than I ever have." She declared, running her hands across her face before spreading them out. "He asked me to give you a message. He said if you don't join him, he will kill me." She added letting out a creepy giggle. "I won't let him." Anakin declared.

"Then you will be forced to kill me." Ahsoka said coldly, turning to face her master and friend, activating her primary lightsaber, leaped into the air and attacked Anakin who activated his own saber and brought it to defend himself.

Roberts point of view

That Dark side bastard did something to Ahsoka. She wouldn't attack Anakin like this for any reason. Sparring is one thing, but this it was obvious that she was trying to kill him. I watched as Anakin blocked and ducked every one of her strikes, it was clear he had no intention of fighting back. Me, I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and what I heard.

What did Ahsoka mean about her feelings for me? Did she love me? No, she wouldn't give into those feelings.

Shaking off those thoughts I watched Ahsoka back flip, knocking Anakins lightsaber from his hands and sending him to the ground before reigniting her saber. "And now the student will kill the master." She declared, leaping into the air preparing to end Anakins life.

That's when I made my move.

As she brought her blade to his face, I blocked it with my own blades parrying her strike and pushed her back towards the wall. "Your getting a little ahead of yourself, aren't you snips?" I retorted. "Don't call me that, I hate it when people call me that." She said, loosing her focus and allowing me to knock her saber out of her hand, only for her to leap into the air catch it and activate her Shoto, just as Obi-Wan arrived, his own saber ignited.

"Three Jedi. Finally, a challenge." She said with a smirk, before leaping into the air, landing and trying to cut our legs off.

Blocking the attacks from Anakin and Obi-Wan, I leapt in and tried to once again to disarm her only for her to headbutt me and send me flying into one of the courtyards walls.

Blocking and attacking without trying to kill her proved difficult for the three of us. "ANYBODY HAVE A GODDAMN PLAN?" I shouted. "Yes, we cut her free." Obi-Wan answered, pulling a hilt from his belt with a blade materializing at the other end.

"What is that?" Anakin asked. "It can kill the son." Obi-Wan answered. Seeing the dagger angered Ahsoka and she demanded that she give it to her. Before the fighting could resume, the glass from the window above shattered, forcing all of us to jump out of the way as the Daughter and Son landed in front of us. Looking up to the window, I watched the Father land in front of the same tree Ahsoka was in front of.

Somehow, the Son was delighted. He wanted his father to show up, so he could kill him. The battle of their force powers was brief and in his weakened state, the Father couldn't hold on for long. Obi-Wan took the opportunity to throw Anakin the dagger, only for Ahsoka to catch it and give it to the Son.

"Thank you. Your usefulness has come to an end." The Son said, putting two fingers to Ahsoka's forehead making her drop to the ground, her lightsabers falling out of her hands. She was dead.

Seeing this, something inside of me began to take control and soon my anger began to rise. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" I shouted at the top of my lungs before lunging towards the Son. "YOU MURDERING BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS! YOU HEAR ME!" I roared clashing my blades against his two rock swords that he pulled from the ground.

(Shining Finger Theme begins)

I pressed my attack and no matter how many times he blocked my strikes, I kept attacking. "THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWSOME POWER! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU!" I roared as I gripped my blue saber tightly with both hands, its blade becoming more powerful than before.

"TAKE THIS! MY LOVE, MY ANGER AND ALL OF MY SORROW!" I declared, before raising my blade into the air. "SHINING FIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGEEEEERRRRR!"

"GO, GO, GO!" I roared, bringing my saber down onto the son, how unfortunately grabbed my saber with his hand and sent me flying into the wall so hard, that I lost consciousness.

(Theme ends)

When I came to, I saw that Ahsoka was alive and well but the daughter was dead. She had used her remaining strength to bring Ahsoka back to life. "What did I miss?" I asked.

"As the balance in this world crumbles, so shall the war escalate in your galaxy." The father said. "As my son has descended into the dark side, so have the sith gained strength." He added holding his daughters head in his hands.

I vowed we would stop his son, but The Father said we had to leave, before his son could use our ship to escape this place, while he stays and mourn the loss of his daughter.

However inside of me, I wanted to get even with the bastard for what he did to Ahsoka.

Second part of the Mortis Arc done. One more to go before I reach the Citadel Arc and the first appearance of that Jackass Tarkin.

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