Another chapter here. And remember I don't own anything!
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Carth woke up and wasn't sure why his head ached so much. Then he looked around and took in his surroundings.
The walls were bare and gray. He looked at his bed and found that no pillow was there, which explained his headache. Then he remembered where he was.
The Iron Fist wasn't much for the eyes. Then his door opened and Lord Jansk walked in. Her appearance wasn't shocking anymore, for he saw her often. Jansk walked over to him and touched his face.
She said softly in his ear, "Onasi, Onasi, I don't know if I can keep you on. You're like extra weight on the ship, but I cannot kill you because I too have had the vision of your friend coming. I now know that the meeting with my sister is identifiable."
Carth gave her a puzzled look and asked, "Your sister? Who's your sister?"
"Never you mind!" Jansk snapped back, "My point is, is that you must do something around here. But you are to…good looking to be a slave, and I am looking for an apprentice to teach my knowledge to."
"I'll never fall to the Dark Side," Carth said confidently.
Jansk stood up to her full height. "Onasi, don't be a fool, you have enormous potential, and besides that is what everyone says. Darth Nihilus said it, Sion said it, Traya said it, Malak said it, Marko Ragnos said it," she paused, "and even Revan said it. Now while one of them took the cowardly road and returned to the Light Side, they all still fell. And so will you," she told him with a soft smile.
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It had been two weeks since Lord Jansk had told Carth that he was going to fall; she had been right. He was now the Dark Lord's apprentice and he was training night and day so he could one day fight and kill his master and seize the mantle of Dark Lord for himself.
"You are making excellent progress my apprentice. I must admit, I think you have been trained before," Lord Jansk said to Carth as they walked the halls of the Iron Fist.
"Well," Carth said, "Revan had taught me a thing or two before she left me. That was why I resisted the Dark Side at first."
"She has created her own murderer. Carth I want you to be the one to kill her, it will extinguish that little spark of light in you."
"That is what I truly desire master," Carth said, thinking to himself if that was, in fact, what he wanted.
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Revan sat on the ground trying to find Carth's presence; it had never been this hard before. She took in another breath and relaxed deeper still in the Force. Searching, just, searching. Where are you? She thought. Then she found his presence, and she tried to relax into it, but she couldn't.
This Carth Onasi was different, angrier than the last. What's wrong? She thought again. This Carth was scared and lonely and angry and sad and confused. Then Revan saw it. A vision of the…present? Carth was bowing to a figure in a black cloak. Then the figure that was not Carth ignited a lightsaber, a red lightsaber. It was a Sith lord!
"No! Carth!" she shouted to herself. Master Zhar had been right: Carth had fallen.
But how? I mean he's supposed to be in the Republic? Who could have possibly turned him there?
What if he was hurt or dieing? What if he was putting other people in jeopardy?
There was no help for it. She would have to go back to Republic space and hope beyond hope, that, perhaps, Master Zhar had been wrong about it being too late by the time she got there.
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"Carth, at first I thought it was a…coincidence that you came upon the Iron Fist. But with each passing day, I find that the Force has brought together. I am now certain that you will be the one to kill Revan, these dreams must be a sign."
Carth nodded in agreement, though, subconsciously, he thought that she was mistaken. His dreams hadn't been a Jedi vision, but he did feel it had some importance.
Carth's dream had been the same for the past fortnight.
Carth was standing on the edge of a cliff, getting ready to plunge into the unknown depth that ended in jagged rocks. He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath.
"Wait," he heard a voice whisper softly behind him. He turned around and saw Revan standing there, her face was full of concern and love.
"It's too late for me Revan," Carth would say.
"No it's not. I can still save you."
Carth looked back at her and said, "No you cannot. I've fallen you can't possibly risk yourself."
He then turned back to the cliff and bent his knees to spring off. But then Revan rushed past him and dropped, dropped.
"NO!!" Carth screamed and stretched out his arm to try and grab her wrist.
"I love you," she said feebly as she kept falling.
Carth woke up with a soft gasp. It had been the dream again. He got up and walked around his room. He paced back and forth thinking.
I can't kill her…I…I love her. After all these years, I still have feelings for her. He could not, however, let his master find out about his new discovery of emotion.
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Revan got off of her ship on the space port on Telos. "It costs 10 credits to dock here ma'am," said a man that looked more like a boy around the age of maybe eighteen.
"I got your credits right here, sir," Revan said respectively. She reached into a pocket of her Jedi Knight robe and pulled out ten credits.
"There you are."
"And here is a pamphlet on all the wonders of Telos." She said her thanks and started walking toward the exit when a sudden thought accrued to her: she didn't know where Carth lived.
"I am sorry to bother you further, sir," she said courteously, "but do you know the current residence of Admiral Onasi?"
"Oh, everyone knows where Carth lives ma'am," said the boy, "He lives in an apartment complex around the corner, complex C room three."
"Thanks," Revan said with a smile and pulled out an extra five credits and tried to give them to the boy.
"I can't take those ma'am, it's regulation."
Revan smiled and said, "Sure you can," and then she opened up his hands and placed them there before he could protest further.
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Knock, knock, knock. Bastila opened her eyes unwillingly and turned to the door in annoyance. After all, Carth had fallen and she couldn't possibly hope to contact Revan with all of these interruptions.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" she shouted to the person knocking. She opened the door to find the exact person she had been trying to find only moments ago, Revan had come to her. "R-Revan?" "Bastila?" Then they hugged like sisters after so long apart.
Revan looked around the apartment complex that was Carth's home. "So, you and Carth live here together, right?" she asked trying to sound casual.
"Yes, that's right," but Bastila could feel Revan's faint jealousy under the calm mask of a Jedi. "But nothing's happened, Revan," Bastila assured her 'sister', "he still loves you."
"I know," Revan said, but Bastila could sense the jealousy fade away.
"Bastila, we have to save him," Revan said without warning.
"I…" Bastila started, but Revan cut her off.
"Do you know where he has gone?" Bastila had been dreading giving Revan this answer, and Revan could tell. "What?" she asked.
"He has," Bastila hesitated, and then continued looking at the floor, "gone beyond Republic space."
Revan took in a sharp breath and lifted her hand to her mouth. Bastila saw that her
eyes had become wide with fear.
"Do you know how to get where he is?" Revan asked after a few moments of silence.
"No," Bastila said, "but I know who does."
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The apartment complex wing of Commander Jarh was much more spacious than Carth's and Bastila's apartment. "This is the place," Bastila said. She knocked on the door and waited for an answer.
They heard someone lift themselves off the replusor sofa they were sure was inside.
"Hello," Commander Jarh said as he saw Bastila and Revan standing in his doorway, "How can I help you?"
Revan rushed over to him and said in a rush, "We need to know where Carth Onasi is."
"I can only disclose that information to family members. Now, unless you were one of the following: his sister, mother, cousin, daughter, aunt, wife, or in any other way related to Carth Onasi, I cannot tell you."
Revan stared at him then a triumphant grin spread across her face, "But I am his wife." Bastila turned her head to stare at Revan, but she didn't care, she was close enough to his wife.
"Well in that case, give me your data pad and I'll up load the coordinates from his hyperspace jump into it." Revan handed over her data pad.
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"More aggression, Carth," yelled Lord Jansk. Several more days had passed since he realized he still had feelings for Revan, but as time passed they started to grow dimmer and dimmer.
Lord Jansk and Carth were sparring in the training room and Carth was holding back. "Come on my apprentice!" she yelled again, "I can feel your anger, let me have it!!"
Carth felt a rush of anger that he had not had a moment ago. With that aggression he charged at his master with his dueling sword. Lord Jansk was taken by surprise and fell, Carth came up to her and pointed his blade at her throat.
"Very good, Carth," she said approvingly, "I think that is enough for today, get your rest, Carth. My sister is approaching."
Carth got up to leave when he thought of the question he had asked when Jansk mentioned her 'sister.' "Excuse me, master, but, who is your sister?" Jansk looked up and saw Carth looking at her.
She cleared her throat and said, "Revan, Revan is my sister."
Carth felt his heart skip a beat. How could Revan, sweet, loving, caring, Revan, possibly be the Dark Lord's sister?
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Revan and Bastila were arguing over when to go after Carth. Revan wanted to leave straight away, while Bastila wanted to wait for the Republic to find out and give them assistance.
"If the Republic finds out about him falling," Revan explained softly to Bastila, "then they will kill him!"
"But," Bastila argued back, "if we go without the Republic, what chance do we have?" Revan almost laughed out loud.
"We? Bastila, there is no we. I'm going to save him, alone," she said.
"But…" Bastila started.
"No. You've fallen before and I don't want you exposed to Dark Jedi. And besides, if anyone is to save Carth, it's going to be me."
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So heres another chapter. Sorry it took so long. Review please!
