Hello peoples, I present to you chapter 15 with action in it. But before you read please take the time to read the rest of this note. Please Review! I need feedback, plus I enjoy reading it and I would be very happy if I got more reviews that Unknown Son 1 had. Thanks to doreenthatshot and DarthGladiator45 for reviewin' it since the beginning! This chapter is for both of you since both of you seem to like my action sequences, this is kinda small, well not really but it has no lightsaber fighting. Now is the time for the readers to go "huh? Did he say no lightsaber fighting?" And now they say "will you shut up so I can read?!" And so read and review.
Chapter 15: The Power of Leia
Leia had been training for the past three months, it was going more than well, so Vader said. In fact it was going more than perfect, it was going so great it could not be described in words. Leia's skill with the Force improved so much each day Vader actually wanted to take it slower. Leia has mastered the initial Force training in a month and a half, in the next month and a half she began more difficult training. She had mastered the technique of levitation long ago, as well as Force pushing and pulling, and the simpler mind trick during the initial training. Now she had also mastered Force Choke, Jump, and she was working hard an lightning, but so far all she could create were a few little sparks and a vast amount of heat. She had also mastered the simplistic, yet complicated art of meditation, Ravan was teaching her a new technique in meditation that gave her all the benefits of sleep in half the time, which she was using a lot at night now.
At the moment she was in her quarters. Meditating like Vader had told her. Everything was changing, she was gathering power quickly, she was hungry for more. She was becoming a Sith Lady, and when her training was done and she was sure she could do it she would destroy Vader and Ravan. And even her wardrobe had changed, she wore velvet midnight black robes with a hood, her hair divided into braids that hung down on her shoulders. And she carried a lightsaber on her belt, she was mastering the art of Makashi, Vader it seemed was a Djem So stylist, Ravan seemed to favor Makashi as well, but had some Djem So and even a little Juyo in his stance.
Just another month or so and she would be ready for Vader's test.
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She was ready. It was now the end of her fourth month of training, and Vader had said himself she was ready, her test was today. Vader had not told her what it was, and Ravan seemed to be in the dark about it as well as she. Though knowing Vader she was going to have to fight someone. Maybe him, lightsaber combat probably, nothing difficult.
Ravan entered his sister's quarters to find her on her knees, in meditation posture on the floor. She looked up at him.
"Is it time?"
"It is." Ravan answered.
She nodded and stood up.
"Let's go."
They walked into the hall, silently. Keeping a quick pace they strode down it till they came to the arch that led into the throne room behind the turbo lift. It seemed to take Leia forever to reach Vader's custom chair, and with each step the butterflies in her stomach multiplied and her heart rate doubled. Finally she bowed before the monster who was her father, whom she would kill when her training was completed along with Ravan.
"Rise daughter." Vader said. "It is time for your test."
"What is my test father?" Leia asked smoothly, like her velvet robe.
"You and your brother will duel."
"Simple." Ravan said, chuckling a little.
"Without lightsabers." Vader added, and before either one could react both of their lightsabers unclipped themselves from their belts and flew to Vader, landing in each of his gloved hands.
"Bring it on." Leia said turning to Ravan. Ravan turned to her.
"Yeah."
"Bow." Vader ordered, both did. "Begin."
Ravan flipped back. A mistake, using the Force Leia wrapped it like a rope around a chair in front of Vader, then the other, when Ravan landed both flew at him. He dodged the first, it smashed into the wall behind it, the last he caught with the force, its frame broke, and the back and sitting part fell to the floor, along with four legs. Ravan called two of them to his hands, Leia the other two.
Leia made the first move, she flipped herself at Ravan, her black velvet robes swirling freely like they do in those old holonet programs. When Leia landed she moved fast and struck at Ravan's head with one leg, and his ankles with the other. Ravan's chair legs rose and fell greeting hers, they locked. A test of strength. Ravan pushed back into Leia's weapons, and Leia forward into his. Finally hers gave way, her chair legs fell into an X, a ready stance while Ravan's blew back behind him, leaving an opening.
Leia jabbed both lets into his stomach, promptly causing him to drop his weapons and clutch his throbbing abdomen. Leia dropped her own weapons and using her mind made all four his Ravan on the right side of his body. One his head, two his shoulder, three his side, four his ankles. Ravan toppled over to the left and rolled down the stairs. When he reached the bottom, Leia, not even lifting a hand to manipulate the Force used her mind to toss Ravan behind a control console that controlled something in the giant reactor pits surrounding the turbo lift.
Ravan toppled over the consoles and landed with a hard thudding whack. Leia descended the steps. Vader stood up to get a better look. When Leia reached to bottom Ravan's upper body reared over the consoles, he extended his hands and two ripped apart, he sent the sharp shards of metal and wire flying at Leia.
Vader from the top of the stairs felt nervousness as the pieces moved towards his daughter, and Ravan looked confident, Vader's nervousness grew as Leia didn't lift a finger, and then mere feet in front of her the pieces stopped, and she stood there controlling each one simultaneously with her mind. Vader's nervousness turned to utter shock as he felt the giant surge of Force power flow through Leia, completely bent to her will. It was like a hurricane, an earthquake, a tornado, a tsunami, and a bang of thunder and lightning all answering to Leia's call.
In unison every single shard of metal turned towards Ravan who had the same look on his face Vader did beneath the mask, the pieces flew at him. Putting his hands up he stopped the one's flying directly at him, the rest few past, some missing him widely, others narrowly, and a few nicking his legs and arms. Then even more shocking than the first display of power Leia grabbed the entire set of consoles behind her as well as a few pillars and launched them in a huge wave of Force at Ravan, so huge the windows shattered in the room, everything shook and the platform on which Vader stood shook.
Ravan barely dodged the flying objects up jumping over them. By then Leia was picking up their crushed remains and even more objects all by just standing there and using her mind. Feeling absolute power flow through her she launched an army of floating objects at Ravan from both sides, extending a hand in each direction her narrowly stopped the from hitting him, the others flew past crashing into each other or moving and smacking into opposite walls. Several even came toward Leia, who didn't even flinch. The objects stopped in midair and her veins popped up and her eyes turned red. The objects crushed into each other and tore into shards which began swirling around Leia and sending wind throughout the entire throne room blowing Ravan back into the pile of objects against the walls. The red robed guards at the turbo lifts were affect as well and each fell into a long deep reactor pit screaming on the way down.
Vader watched in awe, and horror as Leia's powers grabbed seven pillars right from under the ceiling and hurled each of them at Ravan who had the look of sheer terror on his face. Leia's veins popped more and her eyes turned dark, dark red almost black making her pupil almost combine with them.
It was like a punch in the chest in the Force, Leia's power, Force sensitive's across the entire galaxy could feel it, Mara jumped back on the Gorgon when she felt it, a green little Jedi master on Dagobah was hit by a massive headache and fell down on the swampy ground, Vader almost lost his footing. And Ravan did the impossible, using every ounce of Force he had he propelled himself onto the catwalk above him as the pillars crashed into the wall and the entire palace and surrounding buildings shuddered.
Leia's eyes were now so dark red they were blacker than black, blacker than the blackest room in the blackest night in the darkest universe, they made the whiles of her eyes look like shining strobe lights.
Ravan plopped down onto the catwalk, force exhausted but Leia seemed intent to kill him. The blots holding the catwalk up unscrewed themselves and fell to the floor with a thousand metal clinks. Then the entire catwalk dropped, luckily Ravan was not hurt. Leia leaped into the air and landed on the downed catwalk pressed her foot into her brother's neck.
"ENOUGH!!!" Vader cried.
It seemed Leia had had no control over herself the moment prior to Vader's loud outburst, but then her eyes retuned to normal, her veins sunk back into her smooth white skin and she looked down at Ravan triumphantly.
"I won."
"Impossible." Vader said quietly, but loud enough for Leia to hear. If you blinked you would have missed it, her eyes turned back to their hideous impossibly dark black, making the whites look like stars in the darkness, and her views popped out again, from far away she almost had a purple red tinge look to her as the color of the blood lines ran together over the whiteness of her skin.
"What is?" She rasped in a voice that was not her own. It had an echo quality to it, and was as smooth as her velvet robes, but as hard and raspy as the raging flood. It was like water, soft but hard. Nothing is soft as water, yet who can withstand the raging flood?
"The amount of power that is flowing through you now, that was flowing through you during the battle." Vader replied breathlessly. Leia returned to normal. He let his mask pump oxygen into his scarred lungs and spoke again. "It was as though you took control of the Force itself and had the power of every Jedi and Sith deceased or living. You became Marka Ragnos, Darth Bane, Darth Ravan, Master Qui-gon, Master Kenobi, Myself, Sidious, Ravan, and every other powerful and non powerful Force user at the same time. It's like nothing I have ever seen before, and you didn't even have to use your flesh to manipulate it, even though the Force is only manipulated by it, you used your mind, something every Sith and Jedi dreams of accomplishing, yet your training is barely half done. You are still an apprentice. It is impossible for you to be able to do such a thing. Even Darth Sidious could not, no Sith or Jedi could. You do not even need a weapon. You could destroy the entire Imperial district of Coruscant with your mind. How did you feel when you had that power flowing through you?"
Leia took her foot off Ravan's neck, he sat up and coughed and Leia fell down next to him.
"I… felt empowered beyond words, like I could save the universe, or destroy it completely and utterly."
"You…" Ravan coughed. "nearly… destroyed me… completely… and utterly."
Leia felt his rage, as did Vader.
"Do not be angry at your sister Ravan." Vader said in a venomous voice. "Respect her and fear her, she is more powerful than you or I can ever dream of becoming."
Ravan stood up and huffed, walking out of the throne room promptly rage seething in him and flowing like poison through his veins.
"Can you do that again?" Vader asked.
"Not now." Leia replied breathlessly. "I'm, I'm trying but it's like it has a will of its own."
"Perhaps it is a dormant power, it awakens when you are being attacked, or feel great anger. Like a normal power surge a Sith Lord might feel during combat but multiplied a thousand times over. It's like the Force itself works through you and gives you all its power."
"It is…" Leia gulped. "Dangerous?"
"Potentially." Vader replied. "When you were using to power your appearance changed, your veins, your eyes… were like nothing I have ever seen, like light and dark, like good and evil together in the Force, but evil was dominant. It could… with over use potentially rip you apart. You saw what the Emperor looked like, that was from his power in the Force, it was constantly eating his body it was so dark. But perhaps with your power comes protection. It's as though the Force uses you as its vessel, to display its power."
"Yeah." Leia agreed.
"We… we are done for the day. Go rest my daughter, while I get a repair crew in here."
"No." Leia said quickly. "Let me… let me try."
"No! It could be dangerous Leia, you could destroy yourself or me or Coruscant for that matter."
Leia seemed to get angry, her eyes darkened again and her veins popped. And then everything clicked itself back together. A tornado of objects flew through to throne room and everything returned to normal. The catwalk floated up and the screws twisted themselves in, the pillars floated back and blended seamlessly with the rips and gashes in the ceiling, every piece of glass from the windows pulled back together and blended fixing the windows. Even the chairs put themselves back together. Nothing looked like it had even been touched. Leia returned to normal and walked out, leaving Vader to gape and stare in awe at his fixed throne room and Leia's awesome, and awful powers.
Creepy stuff 'eh? I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed typing it. I'm not sure why but I just felt like making Leia the most powerful Force user ever, something original.