Chapter 12
THE COMING STORM
TYTHON
Yoda sat in his Council seat, quietly listening to the conversations about Lata Nevorra rejoining the Order, and wanting to be referred to as "Lata" instead of her original name. Yoda was glad Rahm Kota was alive, he would be good with stealth missions due to his experience with going solo.
Once the Council meeting was over, Yoda stood up and walked to his meditation chambers. There, he wanted to figure out who this man who would save the galaxy was, and who was the person who would find him.
Three figures walked into the stone temple. Two were shorter than the other, and the other was easily recognizable as a Togruta. Yoda knew who this was, but wondered why she played such an important role.
A building went up in flames, as a Sith and a Jedi fought within. Crying and yelling could be heard, there must have been people close to this Jedi who were watching this. The building then exploded.
A planet explodes into a million pieces.
The man's face is there, and his eyes open.
Yoda's vision ends, and he understands. Although this man was from a time long ago, Yoda knew exactly who it was. This person was truly going to save the galaxy from Plagueis, and Yoda knew that. Whenever this man awakened, everyone would know.
Yoda walked out of the Jedi Temple, inspecting the landscape. Tall pines cast long shadows as the sun set, the rivers make a calm sound, and the hills that show stand out. Yoda begins to walk towards a flat plains area where Bail Organa and Mon Mothma are working on starting the Resistance. The base is nearby, but not too close. The gravel paths crunch under Yoda's feet and gimer stick, and he knows this was meant to be the Jedi's homeworld.
"It was." a voice said from behind him. He turns around and sees Satele Shan. "It was made for the Jedi, it is where we were supposed to be. That is why you are here."
"The end of an old age, beginning of a new." Yoda replied.
"The end of the old Order. You have started an Order that will prosper for years to come, the Jedi are reborn." Satele said. "Many people will fall in the battles to come, but we will persevere."
"Important parts, many will play." Yoda added.
"Yes. The man who will be awakened. The Chosen One. The Togruta, the master of the Chosen One and many more. Everyone will have a purpose, Yoda." Satele continued.
"A purpose, you have, too?" Yoda inquired.
"It was to guide you here. I was bound to this world when I died." Satele explained. "You know now, Yoda, that everyone has a purpose in this war." Her ghost dissipates, and Yoda is left alone on the gravel pathway as night falls. Yoda does not go towards the Resistance base that is being built, but rather into the forest. Here is an old pathway, not gravel, only a clearing with stones. He follows the stones to a lake where he identifies a hut.
Yoda noticed the hut wasn't complete, which made sense. He knew who lived here, and maybe she wouldn't like him being there. But times have changed, and Yoda slowly walks towards her. She stands up from her chair.
"Master Yoda?" Ahsoka Tano asked.
"Offer you help, I do." Yoda said.
"I don't need any." Ahsoka replied.
"Matter, that does not." Yoda told her before lifting a large flat piece of wood onto the roof of the hut. She began to lift other pieces of wood in order to finish the hut. It was much larger than the one on Shili, and once they finished the roof, Yoda smiled at her. She smiled back, and the small green figure wandered back to the Temple as Ahsoka walked into her home, happy that her home was finally done.
Yoda continued through the forest until he found what he was looking for. He began up a steep hill, and while he walked up, boulders tumbled down. Yoda jumped over one, then another, and soon he had reached the top. He walked to the edge of the cliff, and there he saw a massive ocean, waves slowly moving towards the beaches. Off in the distance, there was a small island with a lone tree.
He surveyed the landscape, and noticed the beginning of the river that snaked around the Temple, which he decided would be a good place to go tomorrow. The sun began to dissapear lower under the horizon, and Yoda climbed back down the hill, and returned to the Temple. It was quiet, like it was before the war. When everyone had gone to sleep, and you could hear the wildlife of the planet making beautiful songs.
Yoda returned to his quarters, and sat down on his bed. He imagined the landscape he had seen earlier, before returing to sleep.
JEDI TEMPLE, UPPER LEVELS, TYTHON
Anakin kept having the same dream replay in his mind. It was of everyone he cared about dying. He saw Ahsoka and Obi-Wan being killed by the Sith Lord. He saw Padmé being choked by Darth Maul. He saw the Jedi Temple going up in flames, and he saw Luke and Leia being carried away by a man in black robes. He saw himself burning up alongside the other Jedi within the Temple.
It was all he ever saw when he slept, and he couldn't get the fear out of his mind. He couldn't let this happen, and he would stop at anything to prevent this. He would make sure that everyone was safe, so he jolted awake in the middle of the night. Padmé was there right next to him, and his babies were across the room. He sighed, and stood up. He moved over to the window, and tried to get a view of what was there in the night. Off in the distance, he thought he saw lights.
Ahsoka, he thought. That must be where she was living. She was okay. The Temple was not on fire. He could feel Obi-Wan's presence in the Force.
IMPERIAL CITY
Darth Plagueis was awake, and he was plotting how to get rid of the Jedi. He didn't know where they were, they had hidden themselves from him well. Eventually, he would draw them out and finish them once and for all. But, he also received visions of this man from the stone temple who destroyed his plans. The man was causing trouble, destroying Plagueis' armies.
Plagueis had to find a way to deal with this threat, but for now, there was no threat. For now, he needed to weed out any rebels or Jedi. He began to search through Palpatine's old desk, and he found something that would be perfect.
It was titled "DEATH STAR PROJECT" and it also told what it did. Plagueis smiled at all of this detail, it would be perfect to destroy the Jedi. He typed in the hologram for his admiral.
"Admiral Tarkin, I am sending you a project that I plan on creating within the next 15 years." Plagueis said, before he copied it into the hologram. Tarkin nodded once he had recieved it.
"This looks good." Tarkin said, before his hologram dissapeared. Plagueis turned around, and stared out at what used to be Coruscant. Off in the distance, he could see the ruins of the Jedi Temple. He would make sure wherever they were, it would be burned down. They would be killed. He would have true power, and nobody would dare stop it. He was invincible.
TYTHON
Ahsoka Tano sat comfortably in her chair, wondering what was happening around the galaxy. She didn't expect Yoda to come and offer help, but now that her house was finished, she could rest. She took another sip of her tea, and walked across the house to the other end, where she stared out a window. Beside her bed was her two lightsabers. Ahsoka looked at them, before packing them in a drawer and sitting down.
Ahsoka had made a friendship with Bail Organa, and was soon let into the "covert operatives" division of the Resistance. She didn't know why Bail had been so homely, but she didn't care that much. The Resistance had only been started, and to let it grow they had given certain people who opposed the Empire's rule cells. They could build their cells, and there was a point when everyone would merge their cells.
But that time wasn't now, everyone knew. It would be a long time before that was true, but for now they just had to wait, while the coming storm gathered. Ahsoka lied down on her bed, and drifted off to sleep along with the rest of the people on Tython.
The next day...
Yoda stood overlooking the Jedi infront of the Temple. He saw the youngling classes, the padawans training, the Knights and Masters smiling, and it was perfect. Only now could he understand why Satele had sent them here, not because of the views, because of the peace. He turned around, and returned to the Temple. He made his way up the stairs, all the way to the top of the building, where he discovered a passageway into a hill that lied directly behind the Temple.
Yoda made his way through the passageway that he discovered that morning, when he discovered a balcony that was overlooking the same ocean he saw the other day. But out of nowhere, a red blade pierced through the balcony's bottom, and the balcony tumbled towards the sea. Yoda quickly jumped on to the beach, and looked over to where the red blade came.
A woman that he didn't recognize was standing there.
"Never thought you Jedi would return." the woman said. She was not human, and Yoda immediately recognized it from him searching through the remains of the Archives on Ossus. It was a Flesh Raider, and they were evolved to speak Basic, and seemed more powerful.
"Enemies, we do not have to be." Yoda said, attempting to calm the woman down, but to no avail.
"Oh we have to." the woman said, before charging at Yoda with red blade raised high above her. Yoda ignited his short green blade and began to twist and twirl around the woman. The woman wasn't expecting this sort of attack, and Yoda pierced her back, and she shrieked and fell to the floor.
"Gahh... they will be coming for you, silly Jedi!" the woman said in her last dying breaths. Yoda frowned, and returned to the tunnel, picking up the woman's fallen lightsaber. He was going to inform the rest of the Order that this safe haven wasn't exactly safe.
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He saw nothing, felt nothing, heard nothing. For millenia, he had been stored away, oblivious to the world. What had happened? Who had conquered, and who had fell? While he was in his carbonite prison, he was alone with his thoughts. He couldn't die, but he couldn't live. Dreams of what he was, he wondered.
He didn't know much, hoped everyone he cared was safe. He hoped every one of his enemies was no longer a threat, no matter the reason for that. But there was only one thing that he was truly sure of, and that was his name. His name, the name that people feared, or the name that people looked up to.
He could never forget his name, and many others could never forget it as well. He knew his name. His name had been burned into people's memory, by battle or by family. He held on to what his name was.
BAHAHAHA! You'd think I'd really tell you the secret name? If you thought I would, then you were mistaken. Anyway, now the Jedi have Flesh Raiders to deal with, and I also snuck in a little EU planet that you might recognize as a Jedi planet.
Anyway, also a bit of hints at the sequel to A Dark Veil.
It's name is "Rise of the Resistance" (RotR) and will be set 17 years after the events of this. Also, a sneak peek at a bit of dialogue from that story.
After a few moments of slowly stalking the woman, a stone temple came into view. Neither Luke nor Leia recognized it, and it seemed as if the woman noticed too. The woman began to inspect the temple.
"Is she a Flesh Raider?" Luke asked.
"No, they don't look like that." Leia replied in a whisper. "She looks like a Togruta."
The temple is where the guy is, and he's frozen in carbonite. This also ties into Yoda's vision of the three people walking into the Temple, which should make sense by now.
Anyway, next chapter will focus on the Empire's point of view, Lord Ikans' Acolytes, Plagueis, the Death Star, and Tarkin.