The planet was consumed in an never ending fog. That would wash over the plains and darkened forests of the moon, it always seemed to be on the darker end of dusk. Its star bathing the planet in a red hue. Even the wildlife seemed muted, save for the cawing of predator birds in the distance, and the distant rumble of the Rancor.
The Dark Side was strong here. Time had forgotten the planets name, as the galaxy moved away from such archaic times of ancient religions and beliefs, long gone were the days of the Republic and the Empire and whatever else had come after, so much time had passed that most barely paid heed to those wars and the effect they had on galactic history.
They were merely words written in stone, the galaxy was quieter than what it once was, places kept to themselves, too much war had rendered the galaxy ill prepared for a fight. The battle of good and evil had becomes stale after a millennia.
There sat a simple stone temple. Cracked and decayed from age and the ravages of times. There was no good here, no light. Just the bitter remnants of decay and death.
A single ship landed in the clearing. The cockpit, opened and the occupant slowly climbed out, her boots touching the dirt gently as she reached out with her senses and found the burning black hole that she had come to seek out.
The order, or what was left of it, warned against it.
There is no emotion, there is peace. She had been chided gently as she had made her way to the hangers, but she found there was no peace but only emotion, too much emotion and passion that had her teetering on the lines of the dark but she had remained firmly within the light, for both their sakes.
She had been searching the Galaxy for a year, never returning to the temple unless absolutely necessary.
It was her passion that drove her, it was the only thing she had left any more, she had let her pain flow back into the force, it brought little peace.
When she had returned to the Temple it was burning, the order was so depleted that it could not hold off the attack from the one they had cast out. The outcast had returned to find the one person that mattered the most to her and she was denied.
The Girl, covered in dark robes, blacker than night had approached, a whirlwind of anger, hatred and sorrow.
They could sense it.
"I have come for her"
The knights in front of her bristled at the demand.
"Your presence here is not welcome, darksider" The Jedi had hissed in return, the others had stepped forward, Lightsabers igniting as they did so.
"Leave now, and never return"
The whirlwind of anger and hatred grew more viscous in the force before it crashed into a maelstrom of diseased darkness
She sighed as her eyes turned a sickly golden yellow "Very well then, you leave me no choice, Jedi"
There is no death, there is the force.
She had once been as bright as a star in the force and now she had become everything she had swore to never be, suffocating the light.
Through Passion, I gain strength.
Her sabre had trailed along behind her as she strode into the temple, bodies lain a strewn at the entrance, her blade work had left precise cuts through the necks of her former fellow knights. People that she had once claimed to care about, but she only cared about her now, to be separated from her was excruciating, all she needed was her.
The Darksider was gone by the time her other half returned. The temple a smouldering ruin and no survivors. She was the last of their kind in the galaxy. The guilt weighed heavily on her, if she had been there she could have prevented this.
But she wasn't.
She stared at the co-ordinates carved crudely into stone with a sabre. Did she have the strength to find her? After all this time, she turned on her heels, the conflict within was enough to match the maelstrom that had destroyed the temple, her devotion to her duty, to do what must be done VS the pining of her heart.
And so here she stood.
Her senses had picked out that same Maelstrom that had wiped out the temple. And for the first time in a year she felt it.
Her beloved had reached out and touched her presence in the force, caressed it gently, carefully and filled with love. It was gone as quick as it came, drowned in that storm of darkness.
She mutely passed the walls, no defences of any kind. No traps, no followers, no tricks.
Just the two of them.
She stood rooted in place in the archway, her heart exploded with joy, her beloved was knelt on her knees, meditating.
"I knew you would come" She said, her voice barely above a whisper.
The other girl swallowed thickly "How could I not? Where else would I rather be, than here with you, Cara Mia" she watched as the girl with golden locks stiffened at the phrase. Finally turning around to gaze at the other girl.
"Everywhere I go, everything I see, there was your face haunting me" the blonde uttered, their eyes met and the Ravenette saw it for the first time, her eyes were indeed a sickly golden yellow.
Sith Yellow.
"Eni-" she made to step forward.
"That is not my name!" she replied sharply, yellow eyes flashing dangerously "Everything I was, everything I wanted to be, died with you, she died with you"
"But I'm right here, Enid" she put emphasis on her name "I'm right here" she said taking a step forward.
"And yet, I will never forget the anguish I felt, but you were alive this entire time" the blonde spat standing to her feet.
"Come with me" She stepped forward "I can help you" she pleaded, the blonde was taken aback, Wednesday never pleaded. She cruelly laughed.
"Don't tell me you finally feel something in that cold heart of yours" She snarled back. The sickly Yellow eyes glittered in the darkness.
"You've always known how I felt, to the very depth of myself, even though it was against the code, against every fibre of my being, How could it be anyone other than you?" and for the briefest of moments, those yellow eyes softened, the good person that she had been surfacing for a moment, hands reaching for the girl she had fallen to the dark side for in her anguish.
"It's not too late" the Ravenette said softly
The yellow eyed darksider sighed sadly "It's too late for me, Willa" She climbed to her feet, raising herself to her full height "Once you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny, and I have done horrific things Wednesday and I relished in it" their eyes met "Drew power from it"
"We both know that is not true, Enid" The Ravenette stated sadly. The hiss of a respirator echoed through the force, proving her point, the reverberations of a distant past, of the son saving the father, and Wednesday was eager to repeat that and save her. Here and now. Encouraged by the force and the Light.
"If you think otherwise then you are a fool" The Sith snarled, Wednesday could feel the dark side coil its tentacles around the blonde tightly, her hands came up on instinct, ripping hunks of rock from the walls on either side. Barely moving them in front of her in time as golden blue Force Lightning was hurled from the blondes fingertips.
Wednesday blinked rapidly, clearing her eyes of the tears that threatened to fall. This was it. She had failed. Enid had fallen too far into the clutches of the Dark Side. As far as she knew she was the last of the Jedi in the galaxy. Now she was confronted by the possibility that she would have to do the one thing she begged the force she would never have to do. But the force whispered its will to her.
And in one shining moment, she understood why the Jedi of old had forbidden attachments.
Wednesday steeled herself and pushed with the force, sending the rock that was currently being reduced in size straight at the blonde. The Darksider simply waved her other hand and the rock was swept aside.
"Are you going to destroy me, Willa?" Enid Asked softly. The question hung in the air between them.
Wednesday unclipped the Lightsaber from her belt. The white blade hummed to life as it was ignited. She raised it in front of her, the traditional salute before swishing it down so the blade was pointing towards her feet, the Makashi stance, the fencing style.
"Don't make me do this..." Wednesday uttered sadly "But I will do what I must" Her voice sounded resolute throughout the chamber.
Enid smiled maliciously, it made Wednesday's skin crawl "That's my girl" Snap-Hiss – the red blade sprang into existence, lighting up Enid in a red hue. The lightsaber crystal had only been recently bled, it's essence screaming into the force.
Enid let out a force scream as she leapt forward bring her blade down in a downward strike, their sabres met in a clash of sparks, Enid pressed her offensive, whilst Wednesday was pressed on the back foot. She wouldn't make any counter-strikes of her own, unable to attack the girl she claimed to love.
But she could tell that Enid's aggression wasn't natural, the girl had trained for her whole life to defend others with her Form III Soresu, a form that wasn't designed for aggression.
Their sabre's locked harshly both girls fought for dominance over the other. Wednesday didn't care any more, she wouldn't give up on Enid.
"Cara mia" She said, the Darksider tensed up at the familiar phrase "Remember when we first met?"
"Shut up!" the girl growled, her hands clasping the hilt of her blade tightly, she pressed her assault, blades clashing once more, Red against White. Their blades locked once more.
"Remember how you came up to greet me?" the memory was clear for the both of them, sixteen and being assigned to the same room as each other, it was a new policy the Order was trying out, allowing Padawan's to bond.
Enid had come up bounding towards the Wednesday who dressed in black robes, a contrast to Enid's white.
"Howdy Roomie!" Enid had exclaimed happily, reaching out to hug the darker girl who stepped back out of instinct "Not a hugger, got it" Enid said, taking the rejection in stride. Unnoticed by either of them, the force swirled round them, delighted at the merging of two destinies, intertwining their force signatures into a force bond. Forever.
Wednesday felt her heart flutter, her heart was afire as the force bonding was red hot from being newly tempered and set.
"That was the day it all changed" Wednesday said, her eyes soft "i fell for you on sight" Enid snarled pulling back out of the blade lock, causing to Wednesday to stumble briefly, another barrage of force lightning was thrown her way. The white blade came up to meet it, absorbing it harmlessly.
"Remember how we would sneak out at night to explore the lower levels?"
Both girls had managed to avoid the temple guards, landing on their feet before racing off away from the temple eager to explore. Enid had taken Wednesday's hand in her own as she dragged her through level 1313. talking about anything and everything that came to mind.
"Oooh I heard so much about this place!" Enid gasped at the sign, to Wednesday it just looked like some seedy diner
"Here?" she questioned the bright, bubbly girl beside her "I don't entertain the idea of us getting drugged with deathsticks, Enid"
"Please? For me?" Enid's eyes inflated, hands clasped together, against her chest.
Wednesday locked eyes with the blonde and felt her self take a heavy sigh. She nodded curtly
Enid squealed, drawing some strange looks from bypassers.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the best" Wednesday found she couldn't hold it against the blonde, her lips upturned as she interlocked their fingers and dragged the exasperated girl into the "seedy" diner.
The pair returned to the temple later that night with some exotic beverage from some planet that they never heard of, walking up the temple steps Wednesday held her arm out to stop Enid in her tracks.
"Shit" she dead panned.
There stood their master. Her expression unreadable.
She shook her head fondly "Girls, you're not the first Padawans to sneak out at night and shall certainly not be the last" although her eyes drifted down to where her two students, were holding hands, fingers interlocked.
And their master saw nothing but love from the Ravenette, it rolled off in waves through the force, Wednesday was usually so expressionless, eyes intense. But any fool could see when her hardened gaze would soften only for her.
"Stop it!" The blonde screamed "Shut up and fight me!" The Blonde hurled her Sabre, Wednesday ducked as it flew over her, the yellow eyed girl pulled it back into her grasp, her eyes filled with fury and sorrow. She pressed her attack and her fist pulled back and hit Wednesday in the jaw, she stumbled backwards.
She blinked and raised her sabre, refusing to attack but ready for any new blows that were surely on their way.
The Darksider strode forwards.
"My heart beats only for you, cara mia" Wednesday said softly "If this is what it takes then do it" Her fingers lost their grip and the lightsaber clattered to the ground, Wednesday sat on her knees and gazed up at Enid
"Pick it back up and fight!"
"No, I refuse to hurt the only person who has my heart" Wednesday replied.
"Then you will die!" Enid snarled raising the crimson blade above her head. Wednesday braced, her final thoughts on the girl before her, letting all her love, all her fear, all her pain and all her devotion flow out through the force.
Enid brought the sabre down.
And the blade stopped, mere inches from her face.
Her eyes followed the blade to the hilt, Enid's hands were trembling, her eyes flicked to Enid's face.
Streaks of tears had flown freely, her eyes were wide with despair and finally the sickly yellow eyes dulled until nothing but blue remained.
Enid's red blade deactivated and the hilt fell to the floor next to her soulmates, her body wrecked with sobs as she fell to her knees. Wednesday launched forwards and caught her before she could collapse.
"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry!" Enid clutched at Wednesday's collar as she held the blonde in her arms.
And the force rejoiced as the light returned to Enid, cleansing the dark side from her.
Wednesday rocked her and shushed her as she held on just as tightly to her, pressing small kisses to the top of her head.
"It's okay, cara mia, it's okay" Wednesday said softly, two single solitary tears escaped, one of sorrow and one of relief.
The moon felt the first rays of sunrise as the sun peaked over the top of the horizon, the dark side no longer stopping the light from flowing.
"I will always find you, Enid, across the stars, always"
And there they lay. Together.
(A/N) Honestly I have no idea what inspired this, I feel kinda ridiculous posting this but my brain would not let me stop until I had wrote it, dialogue has always been my weakness so I hope I have done the ship justice. I'm still working on "Eternal Howling" yet again dialogue is being the biggest issue.