Chapter 15

Snow Fight

"Jedi Sentinel John 'Veloce' Nicnore... you have been accused of treason against the Republic. With the Senator, your now deceased padawan, and a regiment of clone troopers from the 41st Elite as witnesses, we the council take your title of Jedi Sentinel, your lightsaber, and we exile you from the Jedi Order. The Jedi Council has finished their judgement. You are to leave the Jedi Temple at once, John."

-Master Mace Windu of the Jedi High Council

The YT-1300 light freighter was only hovering. It didn't seem like it was going to land next at all. Hover, it was hovering nearly above them. Then suddenly, the exit to the ship opened up and two figures stood there. They both seemed to wear mandalorian armor. One wore black armor with red stripes and a red cape. The other was in white and blue mandalorian armor. Blazde for a second thought the one in black armor with red markings was a bounty hunter he had hired a few days back, a bounty hunter named Zerd, but this person, whoever they might be here for, had no kama and was way too slim compared to Zerd. There were also other body features that he noted that were more feminine. He had no clue who the other mandalorian armored fellow was.

Sensing danger that were to come from the two mandalorians, he whipped out his double bladed lightsaber. He ignited the blade and two red lasers shot out from either side. Zankokuna followed what Blazde had done, and he force pulled his single blade to him and thumbed it on.

The feminine looking figure pulled out two DL-44 blasters, while the other figure pulled out what looked to be another double bladed lightsaber. Suddenly, two yellow blades spat out of the handle, and the now visible laser seemed to be slightly burning another darker color of yellow, similar to how Blazde's double lightsaber is, except red.

"A Jedi Sentinel? Doesn't matter to me, you have the force and don't embrace the dark side, you die," Blazde yelled at the ship. The figure with the yellow lightsaber slightly tilted his head. Blazde sensed confusion, but he ignored it. The Jedi must have been trying to fool him that he has no idea what the Jedi Sentinels are, like the rest of the Jedi. That wasn't going to work on Blazde, however.

At last, the two figures leaped down from their freighter, and the two duos met face to face. Snow melted against the streams of light from the lightsabers. Suddenly, it got warmer. And then warmer. Suddenly, it felt like there was a barrier of fire to make a battlefield area. Zankokuna noted that that indeed was happening, and saw a wall of fire appear behind the attackers. He slightly glanced at Blazde to see if he was puzzled as well. Blazde wasn't puzzled, in fact he started the flame wall. Amazingly, it seemed that Blazde taught himself how to create fire with the force. Zankokuna pondered if Blazde could shoot fireballs, when he found himself reflecting shots from the female. She duck to avoid her own shots, and the battle began.

Blazde and the lightsaber armed foe began to clash already. The Sentinel seemed to be pushing his weight towards Blazde more, however that quickly changed. It seemed Blazde wasn't even trying the first few minutes, and flung the Jedi off of him with his brutal strength.

"Luna, roll!" The Jedi shouted at his ally. The female, who the Sith now identified as Luna Terrorly, rolled as Zankokuna nearly chopped her in half. The Jedi Sentinel began to slash at Zankokuna now, pushing him away from Luna. Luna aided by firing, but it seemed to be of no use.

The two began to clash in a Juyo form. They seemed to be going no where, but the Jedi Sentinel had the upper hand. Blazde decided to interfere to help Zankokuna, but then then thought of a new plan.

He sidestepped and force dashed at Luna, grabbing her by the throat. Before the Jedi Sentinel could do anything, she flew into his head and they collapsed, Luna on top of the Sentinel's stomach. Blazde and Zankokuna slowly stepped towards their attackers and stared them down while they were still on the ground. It was time to end this battle.

Suddenly, Luna managed to roll the Jedi off of her, and she shot both of them to where the Sith stepped back far away enough so they wouldn't get shot easily, while still deflecting the shots. Luna did a back flip to dodge some of her own shots, and lands on her feat.

Blazde began to sense on how agile the girl was. They would need to form a new plan in order to overcome her agility.

Zankokuna aimed his left arm at Luna, and bolts of lightning shot out of this hand. It stopped her midair and she began to electrocute midair. Then suddenly, Zankokuna stopped. He began to use the force and Luna felt lightning get absorbed into her body. She then lost all consciousness and was no longer resisting.

"Ah... Impressive use of lightning grenade..." Blazde nodded towards Zankokuna, "Now... finish her. Show me a fatality this Jedi will never forget." Blazde looked as noticed the Jedi Sentinel has awoken, but can barely stand. He looked up at Luna, and then at Zankokuna, who was preparing his spell. Luna's body began to float into the air.

"...NOOO!" The Jedi Sentinel pulled his lightsaber from the ground and activated it, yellow blades appearing on each side once more covered in flames. He charged at Zankokuna, forcing him to stop what he was doing and defend against the angered Jedi. The Sentinel ran around, mad as a starved rancor, but as quick as a ARC-170 starfighter. The two began to clash in a fight to brutal death. Blazde, wanting to see how powerful his apprentice really is, levitated a rock and back flipped to the top of it to observe the scene.

The Jedi Sentinel's armor was gravely dented and damaged now, as was his helmet. It wasn't long after this did Zankokuna kicked his helmet off, and it landed next to a rock Luna was currently leaned against, and fell on to her lap. The face of the Jedi Sentinel revealed a man with brown hair, which was currently messy, and a beard that has just started to grow.

Zankokuna nearly stabbed the Sentinel in that beard. But that Jedi is trickier than he seems. Zankokuna was flown far from the Jedi, and he nearly fell into the flame barrier. He had decided to make the battleground different. Zankokuna force pulled the Sentinel towards him, and he lifted the ground to where there is only enough space for the two of them to stand on.

The two of them began to clash on the small chunk of ground. It had to be soon when either one of them would fall off and burn.

It was time to turn the tides.

Both of them began to use the force. They had put their lightsabers away now. They were both preparing to make the final blow to the other. Zankokuna's red, glaring eyes seemed to stare right through the Jedi's soul. The Jedi showed a most intimidating glare back at him, one that was enough to scare a droid.

The Jedi went first. He had felt no reason to use a move to let the Sith survive, for he would die no matter what.

Zankokuna felt his limbs squeezing in. Then his organs started to squeeze up. He thought he was locking his muscles in place, but he soon realized it wasn't coming from him, it was the Jedi. A dark side move coming from a Jedi? That was unusual, but he felt it as a good sign for the Sith. Soon, he felt his heart squeezing, and his throat. However, instead of feeling himself explode, he felt tired. Then, he lost all of his senses.

The Sentinel witnessed as his opponent fell off the edge. He looked over and saw the Sith's hood had fallen off, revealing the Sith's face. He saw the blue skin and the red, gleaming eyes. However, before he fell into the fire, the Sentinel stopped the Sith midway, and he finished his force kill, and the Sith exploded. His limbs and organs blew everywhere as blood splattered on the Jedi and Blazde. Then at last, he saw all of the remains of Zankokuna burn in the inferno.

"...Why did I go from force killing him to a force stun? He didn't deserve to fall to sleep as he died," the Sentinel finally spoke during the fight. He looked around and saw that Blazde disappeared. He looked in the distance and saw a spark from a ship... that was flying away.

The flames had extinguished as the Jedi leaped from the ground, which then smashed in to the ground. "Coward..." he muttered. He finally remembered why he used such dark powers in the first place, and he began to look around in the snow. Finally, after feeling someone in the snow, he grabbed hold of Luna and pulled her out of the snow. After putting her over his shoulder, he waved over the YT-1300 light freighter back down.

The ship at last landed, and the hatch to enter lowered. There stood Zerd, along with his CO-Pilot, Akira. The Jedi held Luna tightly and began to make his way up the ramp. As he was about to go up the ramp, he heard Zerd slowly clapping, giving the Jedi the hint that Zerd was either not happy or being sarcastic about congratulating him.

"Be glad I got your sister, Zerd," the Jedi told him.

Zerd didn't reply, instead Akira chimed in, "I, for one, really enjoyed that fight, Riflesso."

Blazde stared down his holo terminal, then he activated it. In a blue, transparent image appeared Palpatine. Beside him stood the Captain that accompanied Blazde to Palpatine.

"My lord..." Blazde began slowly, "My apprentice Zankokuna has fallen into the flames. He is no more."

"Who was the man who attacked you?" Palpatine questioned. Palpatine was tapping his fingers together, and the Captain stood still.

"One of the Jedi Order's Jedi Sentinels. He was strong to my apprentice, and I fled as you commanded."

Blazde barely saw the grin on the Sith lord's face to the news. "Good... he was worthless anyways. I have a new apprentice for you, fresh blood."

The Captain stepped out of the image, and there appeared a female next to Palpatine. Blazde found it hard to make out anything else from the image of her.

"Kaa'tana Thivierge. She is an impressive little, 'sweetheart,' and I believe you two will get along, quite well," Palpatine explained. He chuckled slightly as he said sweetheart.

Blazde looked at Kaa'tana. He could sense that she was far powerful in the force, and the dark side was strong in her. Her structure also seemed to make her better in a duel, which she would need to be able to survive if she were to stay with him long.

"I'm sold, my lord. I thank you for a far better apprentice than my last one," Blaze expressed his gratitude towards the Sith lord.

Kaa'tana finally spoke to Blazde, "So, you are going to be my new master then? I killed my previous one, I hope you are far greater than he was."

Blazde wasn't spooked by her threat. In fact, he nearly began to laugh. "If you were to do that, you would be dead at my feat, for you may be powerful, however you are not and you will never be as powerful as me." Kaa'tana looked slightly hurt from that comeback. "Meet me at Dantooine. We have a mission to do."