The Story of forgotten Jedi Owen Sun
Chapter 21: Showdown on Byss
Owen and Arca had been traveling for what seemed like days looking for the deep core planet Byss.
"Master do you know where were going?" asked Owen.
"Were close, the planet is located deep in the core and will take time to reach" replied Arca.
"Raise your hyperspace speed, we'll get there in half the time" ordered Arca.
"But Master at that speed it will rip the ships apart" stated Owen.
"Not many travel in this sector Owen, if we are discovered it will give Drakus time to escape, it would be wise to increase our speed" replied Arca.
Owen looked worried. "The ships will be fine Owen trust me, now raise your Starfighters speed" ordered Arca.
Arca and Owen raised their ship's speed and took off as if they were shot out of a plasma cannon.
Meanwhile on the dark planet of Byss.
In Count Dooku's castle Darth Drakus was meditating trying to suck up all the dark side energy of Byss, in the demonic mind of Drakus only darkness dwelled. "I am the bringer of death my very presence strikes fear in the minds of all who oppose me, nothing can stop me I am invincible, I will soon become Sith Lord Drakus and crush anyone in my path, the galaxy will tremble before me for I will have my vengeance, Utapau will bleed and suffer as I will rape and destroy everything on the planet" meditated Drakus.
An evil smile came across Drakus' ashen face. "Hmm, yes my time is at hand"
Suddenly Dooku burst into the large sanctuary interrupting Drakus' meditation. "There is a problem, come with me" ordered Dooku.
They made their way back to Dooku's castle control room. "Do you see, the long range sensors have picked up two ships approaching at an alarming speed" informed Dooku.
"Impossible, no one knows you're here Master" replied Drakus.
"It could just be two lost ships out of control" stated Drakus.
"Or it could be your carelessness has lured someone into talking about this place, I warned you to tie up all the lose ends Drakus, you have failed me once again!" shouted Dooku in anger.
The panel started to beep again, Dooku looked closely and saw that they were Jedi Starfighters.
Dooku turned to Drakus with rage in his face. WHACK! He had just backhanded his tall Apprentice.
"I should kill you where you stand" stated Dooku.
Drakus sneered with his incisor like teeth through his hood but didn't dare try to oppose his far more powerful Master.
"But it seems that I need you once again my Apprentice, the Jedi cannot know I'm here so you will stay behind and kill these Jedi intruders when they arrive" ordered Dooku.
"Yes Master, I will do as you command" replied Drakus.
"If you kill them that will make up for your incompetence, but if you fail me again I'll strike you down myself" stated Dooku.
"But I trust you will kill these Jedi intruders, afterwards you may return to my side and I will bestow the title of Sith Lord upon you" stated Dooku confidently.
"Yes Master" hungered Drakus.
"I have trained you well Drakus, I know you will succeed" stated Dooku.
Count Dooku then turned around and left his dark castle.
With a fierce jolt Arca and Owen left hyperspace.
Before them lay the dark, cloudy, planet of Byss.
"Ughh, Master can you feel that?" asked Owen.
"Yes Owen, this world is pulsating with the dark side, try to maintain your composure" replied Arca.
"Ughh, I'll try Master" struggled Owen.
"The atmosphere looks very inhospitable and unsteady" stated Arca looking at the cloudy darkness that swelled around the planet.
Arca then checked his scan of the planet. "According to this there is a better entrance on the far side of the planet"
"I'm punching in the coordinates, meet me there" ordered Arca.
So with that both Jedi followed the coordinates to a small gap of more lenient atmosphere. "Okay Owen, as steady as you can, follow me" ordered Arca as they entered the violent atmosphere.
As he followed Arca Owen could barely see anything in front of him due to the black thick atmosphere of Byss, things started to get rough as the harsh orbit of the planet ripped into their Jedi Starfighters. "Hang on Owen, were almost through!" shouted Arca over the comm.
With large force Arca and Owen exited the harsh stint of atmosphere. "Are you still with me?" asked Arca over the comm.
"Yes Master, just barely I blew out one of my thrusters but I believe my ship is okay" answered Owen.
"Good, now follow me in" guided Arca.
Suddenly out of the corner of his eye Owen spotted a small red dot shoot off above him away from the planet. "Master did you see that?" asked Owen.
"No, what was it?" replied Arca.
"I'm not sure Master but it looked like something" informed Owen.
Arca searched his feelings and found nothing, it could have been nothing or everything, either way he wasn't about to take the chance. "Owen I want you to go back through the atmosphere and search the planet for whatever that was" ordered Arca.
"But Master my Starfighter, I've lost a rear thruster" pleaded Owen.
"Don't argue with me Owen just go!" yelled Arca.
Owen felt the same dark feeling inside his Master from before but this time it was much stronger. He then remembered what the council warned him of. "What should I do?" Owen thought.
"Owen did you hear me, GO!" ordered Arca.
"I'll set up a beacon from my Starfighter once I find Drakus, all you'll have to do is follow it, no get moving" ordered Arca.
Owen hesitated as his ship hovered in the dark skies of Byss. "Yes Master" he responded hesitantly.
"Alright, I'll see you on the surface, whatever it was I want you to be sure that it was nothing" stated Arca.
Arca and Owen then went off in separate directions as he made his way back through the rugged atmosphere.
Arca brought his ship in closer to the surface, jagged black rocks and cliffs covered the dark planet. Arca quickly did a scan of any life on the surface and found nothing, not even bacteria. "This is impossible" thought Arca.
Then up ahead Arca's scan revealed a light reading, he continued on increasing his speed then as he speeded over a large pointy cliff face he discovered something incredible…
Meanwhile in orbit above Byss.
Owens Jedi Starfighter continued to search the residual area and found nothing. "It was probably nothing" he thought.
But just as Owen was turning his ship about to venture back to Byss the small red dot of light appeared again, he glanced at the dim red light and noticed a small figure. "What is that?" he thought.
Suddenly the mysterious figure opened fire…
Back on the surface.
Arca couldn't believe his eyes build into the cliff was a large structure that appeared to be a castle of some sort. Whatever it was according to the scan only one life sign came from the structure, Arca took his Starfighter in for a closer look.
He noticed no opening into the black castle for his Starfighter but could sense a dark presence inside the structure as he got closer. Arca set his ship down on a chunk of rock and made his way toward the dark castle.
Meanwhile back in orbit.
"AHHH!" cried Owen as the shot just grazed the cockpit.
Another few shots connected sending his Starfighter critical. "Ughh, got to keep her stable" said Owen as his ship began to lose control.
The mysterious figure was now obviously a ship as it chased him above the dark and cloudy Byss, Owen did the best he could to dodge the merciless fire. "Who is this guy?" he wondered.
In the cockpit of the mysterious ship Dooku smirked. "Try these Jedi"
Just then two large torpedos's left the mysterious ship and connected directly into Owens Jedi Starfighter.
BOOM!
A large blast rang out as the entire back end of Owens Starfighter was blown right off.
He had lost complete control of his ship as it nose dived into the atmosphere of Byss.
Count Dooku smiled as the Jedi's ship headed for Byss with a large smoke trail leading behind it, satisfied with the result Dooku took his ship into hyperspace leaving Byss, his castle, and his Apprentice behind.
Meanwhile back on the surface.
Arca cautiously made his way into the dark castle, as he walked through the large hall Arca could feel the dark side pulsating within the castle almost as if its heart was beating. After a few minutes of searching the castle he found a massive stone doorway, using all his strength Arca pulled the door aside with both hands as the heavy door swung shut behind him.
Inside Arca could see black soot billowing in the air and in front of him a large stone statue, of whom or what Arca had no idea. He walked further inside and noticed a figure knelt down in front of the statue, Arca couldn't make out who it was but it appeared he had found the presence coming from the dark castle. Arca searched his feelings. "It's him" he thought.
Arca drew his commanding green lightsaber that lit up the dark room. "Get up" he stated.
The dark clad figure slowly stood up and turned around. "I'm impressed you managed to find this place"
"Your evil doings end here Sith" stated Arca.
"Ah, once again you've surprised me, so now you know" replied Drakus.
"You will pay for all the Jedi blood you spilled I promise you" Arca stated sternly.
"Hmm much anger I sense in you Jedi, you want me dead, that is good, the dark energy of this place will fuel your vengeance" replied Drakus.
Drakus searched Arca's mind and gave an evil smile from underneath his hood. "You were quite attached to the Jedi weren't you, the death of the female is like a knife in your heart, you believe to remove it by killing me" stated Drakus.
"This is good, embrace your hate and contempt for me…it will set you free" said Drakus.
Arca gave Drakus a stern look. "But why kill me when you can join me, just think of what you could become with all your knowledge of the force" offered Drakus.
"Enough Sith, you're wasting your breath, all I want is you dead here and now" stated Arca.
Drakus let out an evil low laugh. "Ha-ha, you can't beat me Jedi not here with this place running through me, I am invincible"
"We'll see about that" replied Arca.
Darth Drakus then removed his hood revealing his true identity. "If you insist Jedi, I shall add your bones to the heart of this dark world"
Arca got a good look at him and was stunned to find that Drakus was an Utapaun.
"Surprised Jedi, or does my face not shock you?" stated the ashen faced Drakus.
Arca had only once before seen an Utapaun many years ago when he was still a Padawan.
Nevertheless he starred into the black eyes of Darth Drakus ready to avenge Anna's death, he then remembered the terrible pain he felt inside him as her body was burned on the Jedi altar, but that pain soon turned to anger then anger to hate and finally hate to vengeance as he visually recalled Anna being cut into two pieces in front of his eyes.
Arca's eyes swelled and his face became red, he cast aside what little of his Jedi temperament that was left, he knew what he wanted, to make this Sith pay for what he's done. Drakus himself could feel the hate pouring off the Jedi for him, Arca was about to snap as he shook with rage as if any second he would explode and then…
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Arca raised his saber and overhead swung at the Sith.
Drakus was just waiting for Arca to buckle as he extended his giant hand sending him flying through the heavy stone door of the sanctuary.
Meanwhile on the other side of the planet.
Owens ship was coming down hard as it fell from the sky burning up fast.
He kept hitting the deploy button but got nothing, Owen knew that his Starfighter didn't have a chance as it was just seconds from crashing so he ignited his saber and cut a hole out of the floor of his cockpit and jumped out as what was left of his Jedi Starfighter crashed into the jagged rock of Byss.
Owens Starfighter shattered into a million pieces as he sat up after the rough landing he had. "Ughh, that hurt" moaned Owen holding his side.
He panned around looking for anything familiar but all he saw was miles and miles of black surface and dark jagged rocks. Also the air was nearly unbreatheable as the surface had no life to it just darkness as far as you could see. Owen then remembered the beacon Master Arca said he would leave for him to find, he pulled out his datapad and flipped it on. "According to this the beacon is due well west of here" thought Owen.
He had crashed quite a ways from Arca's location, Owen looked across the barren rocky surface. "Looks like I've got a lot of ground to cover" he said to himself.
Owen sparred little time as he knew his Master would need his help, he sped off using his force speed to travel the planet quicker.
Back in Dooku's castle.
"Ughhhh" groaned Arca as he had just been sent through a solid stone door.
Arca got himself up as Drakus was headed towards him, Drakus stepped through the large hole now in the stone doorway and drew his long crimson red lightsaber. "Are you ready to die now Jedi?" he asked smirking with his incisor like teeth.
Arca wasted no time and swung right for Drakus, the two fought savagely through the dark hall of Dooku's castle. Arca quickly bested Drakus and knocked him to the ground with a foot to the face, he then tossed his saber towards the jagged rock sticking out from the ceiling. The pointed rocks then fell from the ceiling but Drakus rolled out of the way in time and sprang high in the air and let out an evil Sith snarl as he bared down on Arca with all his power. The two continued to fight through the hall with neither of them letting up, block for block, parry for parry, they dueled like saber masters.
Meanwhile just outside of Dooku's castle.
Owen couldn't believe the massive structure that lay before him as he scaled over the last bit of jagged rock.
He then caught notice of Arca's Starfighter on a slab of rock. "Master Arca must already be inside"
He made his way over to the opening into the castle and cautiously walked in, as Owen looked around the large hall he noticed that part of the ceiling had caved in as jagged rock stuck into the floor. "By the force what happened here?" he thought.
As he ventured further into the dark castle Owen noticed stone debris in his path, he looked to his right and saw the huge broken opening in the stone doorway. "This doesn't look good" he said to himself.
Owen then noticed a black stairwell leading upwards, he ventured up it and in the opposite direction his Master and Drakus were now fighting in.
Back to Arca's location inside the castle.
Arca and Drakus had fought their way into Dooku's library, ancient Sith holocrons and teachings lay in red panels on the walls, obviously they were stolen by Dooku and brought here for him to study and research.
Drakus extended his long saber and swiped at him once again but he blocked it and Arca struck him in his large, oversized head with the butt of his blade. Arca then force pushed him into the wall, the force of the impact caused several holocrons to short out as their red light faded and sparks flew everywhere.
Drakus rose up and came at Arca with unparallel force as the dark side ran through him like a current, Drakus overhand swung at him but Arca ducked and his long blade connected with the holocrons causing even more of them to be destroyed. Arca swung for Drakus' midsection but he parried it and their green and red blades became intertwined, they raised their sabers up and down as a bright light grew from the entanglement. Finally after several seconds of being intertwined Drakus bested Arca and kicked him in the chest, he then twirled his blade around and caught Arca in his upper arm.
Arca rose up and looked at his arm, a fresh burn mark through his white Jedi garb, it was noting to him though a simple slash mark. Drakus smiled evilly with his jagged teeth. "Is that all you've got Jedi?"
With both hands on his blade Arca tore into Drakus as they continued to fight throughout the castle.
Meanwhile in a different part of the large castle.
Owen had found what appeared to be a throne room as he glanced at the lush red and black chair. "Boy, this Drakus sure knows how to live like royalty" he thought.
Owen checked the room and found nothing. "I've got to find Master Arca" he thought.
He then made his way into another area connected to the throne room, several screens and control panels littered the room, this was Dooku's castle control. "What is all this?" Owen said to himself.
Owen punched up whatever he could on the screen to see if he could get some information on this Darth Drakus but there was very little on him, just details on his training and development as a Sith. That hit Owen in the head like double-plated durasteel, if this Drakus was still training and developing as a Sith than someone had to be teaching him. Owen continued searching the castles database and found a name that stuck out in the order like a sore thumb "Dooku". He then punched up the name and discovered everything. "My God, this place belongs to Count Dooku not Drakus, this must be one of his hideouts" Owen said to himself.
He then remembered the altercation in space. "That must have been him trying to escape"
Fortunately for Dooku he left no information on his plans of soon invading the Republic. Owen started downloaded whatever he could to his datapad from all the consoles.
Back to the action with Arca and Drakus.
They both fought ferociously down the large stone stairwell as both of them kept blocking each others strikes, Arca then caught Drakus of guard and kicked him down the steps.
Drakus fell several feet and landed in pain but had no time to collect himself as Arca jumped from his position on the stairs and brought down his saber on top of him. Drakus got his lightsaber up in time to block him, he then used his feet to kick Arca off of him and over his head. He was sent right through a wooden doorway as Drakus came back at him, he growled at Arca with his sickly incisor like teeth and punched him just as he was getting up. Arca was sent flying once again from the shot right into the jagged rock wall, he was winded as Drakus came after him again.
Time went on and Arca and Drakus continued to duel, the fight had been taken deep into the castles catacombs as neither of them refused to give any ground.
Arca elbowed Drakus in the face to break another one of their blade entanglements, being unprepared Drakus flew back into the rocky wall as Arca extended his hand. He then picked up a large piece of rock with his mind and threw it at him, but Drakus saw it coming however and cut it in half with his long lightsaber. With nothing but vengeance in his heart Arca went right back after Drakus trying to cut the tall Utapaun down but he it took just a split second for Arca to make his mistake and Drakus punched him in the stomach, he then grabbed him by the throat and tossed him through a chunk of rock.
Arca was hurt bad as blood started to seep from his side, he stood up preparing to defend himself again but Drakus didn't attack instead he reached out and began to make a claw with his hand. Arca suddenly lost the ability to breathe as he dropped his saber and pawed at his neck, Drakus lifted Arca in the air and continued to strangle the Jedi Master with his devastating force choke.
Meanwhile in the castles control room.
Owen felt a sudden jerk to his neck. "Ughh"
It quickly faded however and Owen was left to wonder what it was. "What in the force was that?"
It hit Owen again this time much more severe, Owen felt himself short of breath. As he struggled to comprehend what was happening it suddenly hit him. "Master!"
Owen grabbed his datapad out of the console and ran through the castle to his endangered Master.
Back in the castles catacombs.
Darth Drakus continued to strangle him in mid-air with his devastating force choke, Arca could only hope that Owen had felt his pain via their bond. If he didn't arrive soon Drakus would surely strangle him to death, Arca used all of his Jedi power to sustain himself but with the dark side strongly running through Drakus he could do nothing to break the hold.
Meanwhile close by.
Owen ran down the large stone steps of the castle as he was getting closer to his Master. "Hang on Master I'm coming" he said to himself.
As Owen passed through the depths of Dooku's castle he could see the signs of combat, Arca and Drakus had indeed had quite a duel.
Back to the catacombs with Arca and Drakus.
Drakus tightened his hold on the force choke as he smirked his pincer like smile once again exinuating his demonic facial features. Arca's arms then started to go limp as he stopped struggling and his eyes began to roll back in his head. "Yes, that's it Jedi, give in" stated the evil Drakus.
Just as Arca was about to become one with the force Owen threw his lightsaber at Drakus' giant hand. "Ahhhhh!" shrieked Drakus.
Arca fell to the ground in a heap as Drakus' hold on him had been severed, Owen had not only saved his Master but had severed half of Drakus' finger off. He attended to Arca as Drakus held his hand in pain. "Master, please, speak to me are you alright?" pleaded Owen.
Arca smiled at his Padawan. "Thanks to you, I'm am"
Drakus collected himself and drew his long crimson red saber once again.
Owen went into his Jedi combat stance. "I'm going to enjoy killing you both" stated Drakus.
Little did Owen know all he did was make Drakus stronger by injuring him, he fed off his pain and anger, Drakus let out a low sickly growl and lunged at the fallen Arca. Owen immediately blocked it and got his yellow blade in his path. "I don't think so" stated Owen.
Drakus snarled with his crooked teeth at him and the two then went to battle, Owen right away brought the fight to Drakus pushing him back with his fierce lightsaber technique, there was a short break in the frantic action. "You are good Jedi, better than him" stated Drakus motioning to a fallen Arca.
Owen didn't care for Sith compliments as he swung for Drakus again, he continued to take the offensive by pushing Drakus back and even scored a kick to his jaw. "Ughh, you'll pay for that Jedi" stated Drakus in anger.
Drakus took the fight right back to him as he bore down on Owen with all of his dark side strength and power, Owen was being backed into a corner as he blocked each of Drakus' deadly strikes. He knew his plan, to overwhelm the overconfident Jedi and strike him down, Owen continued to block and parry the forceful strikes of Drakus but he was becoming weary just as Anna was when she couldn't take Drakus' harsh blows any more.
Arca felt this and struggled to get himself up. "Not you Owen, I won't lose you too" stated Arca.
Owen could no longer stand it as his saber was slapped away by the powerful strike of Drakus, he held his long saber to Owens throat and sneered. "Now I have you" stated the evil Drakus.
Completely helpless he shut his eyes preparing for the worst, as Drakus made his swing to strike down Owen suddenly a large chunk of rock smashed into Drakus knocking him down and out.
Arca then turned to a shocked Owen. "Grab your saber, lets finish this" stated Arca to his Padawan.
"Wait Master there is something I must tell you first, all of this it isn't just Drakus' doing its Dooku's as well" informed Owen.
"Dooku?" replied Arca stunned.
"Drakus is Dooku's Apprentice, Dooku's been overseeing this whole thing all along" stated Owen.
"Count Dooku, I should of known, he's the only one that could have gotten to the order so easily" replied Arca.
Drakus then started to make his way up as he pushed the broken rock off of him, but now both Jedi stood in his way, he smirked as both Jedi stood before him. "One, two, it doesn't matter Jedi you can't kill me, not here" stated Drakus.
Drakus then extended both his hands, Arca and Owen went flying through two large chunks of rock.
They slowly made their way up. "Master are you alright?" asked Owen who noticed Arca holding his ribs.
"I'm fine Owen" replied Arca holding the pain back.
As Owen helped his Master up Drakus simply stood there. "I'm waiting Jedi"
Arca and Owen charged at Drakus as now all three of them were engaged in the fight, their red, green, and yellow sabers twirled wildly as they took the fight deeper into the catacombs of Dooku's castle. Arca and Owen worked together to try and overwhelm him but Drakus was a true Master with the sword as he kept the Jedi at bay with his long lightsaber.
Drakus continued to parry both Jedi's attacks waiting for his moment to strike, as Arca fought Drakus toe to toe Owen flipped forward and swiped at his back, sensing the danger Drakus backhanded him into the corner with just one arm. Owen tried to get right back in the action but Drakus used the force to throw him into the pointed rocky wall. As he regrouped Owen watched as Arca and Drakus' sabers became intertwined, he shook his head feeling like this had already happened. And just as he watched Drakus get the better of his Master with a punch it hit him like a bolt of lightning, the dream, he was wrong, it was in fact 'a vision'.
Owen had little time to figure everything out as Drakus had just connected and slashed his Master in his arm.
He remembered the words of Master Windu and pulled himself up as Drakus rose his saber to a defenseless Arca, Owen dived in the way of Drakus' blade and stopped it just in time. He was face to face with Drakus as their yellow and red sabers hummed. "You're brave Jedi…brave but stupid" stated Drakus.
With that Drakus took the feet out from under Owen and nailed him in the face with butt of his lightsaber, Owen fell back unconscious as Arca got back into the fight.
With Owen knocked out Arca and Drakus continued their personal duel they started earlier, the two matched each other perfectly, parry for parry and block for block neither of them gave any ground. Arca's sheer hatred and vengeance came spewing out of him in his actions as he struck at Drakus savagely, he wanted nothing more than to kill Drakus and let Anna's spirit rest in peace. But Arca's recklessness now in his technique would prove fatal as Drakus had been waiting for this moment, Arca underestimated Drakus' long blade and got himself entangled again. In the entanglement as their blades went round and round Drakus used his tremendous power to overwhelm the great Master Arca and in an instant Drakus cut off Arca's right arm and sawed off his left leg. Arca fell to the ground motionless as his body parts flew off.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" cried Owen as he just came to seeing his Master cut up before his very eyes.
Owen was in a state of disbelief, he never believed anyone could best his Master but Drakus had and now he wanted Owen.
Drakus walked over slowly. "Your turn Jedi" stated Drakus.
Owen was numb to his core as he looked to a burned and smoking Arca now missing his arm and leg, he reached down deep and pulled himself up and picked up his lightsaber. "Your mine now Drakus" stated Owen.
Drakus simply sneered and twirled his saber about. "Let's finish this"
Owen came right at Drakus with fire in his eyes, they matched each other blade for blade as Owen swung at Drakus with everything he had. They continued on fighting with neither of them gaining any advantage, but then with Owen out of position Drakus tried to impale him with his long saber, knowing he was beat he jumped and twisted in the air getting himself behind Drakus. Owen went for the killing blow but Drakus got his saber over and blocked it in time. "Nice try Jedi" stated Drakus.
Drakus then kicked him to the ground with his large leg causing Owen to lose his saber, with Owen defenseless Drakus struck at him on the ground trying to end it right then but he rolled from side to side avoiding the blows. Owen rolled over just in time to grab his saber and block Drakus' heavy blade crashing down on him, his yellow beam from his lightsaber was the only thing keeping him from losing his head as Drakus pushed Owens saber closer and closer to his face. Using the force he then tossed a large chunk of jagged rock into Drakus sending him to the ground.
As Drakus collected himself Owen ran towards him not expecting a defense but just as he got close enough Drakus drilled him with a fierce uppercut, Owen fell to the ground almost unconscious from the unexpected shot. As he shook the cobwebs Drakus came at Owen uppercutting him again this time into the rocky wall, Owen connected horribly with the wall as a piece of jagged rock cut into his back, not only that blood started to run from his mouth from the two huge uppercuts.
As Owen lied there Drakus came at him again scoring with a punch to his gut, Owen had lost his lightsaber on impact with the rocky wall so while on the ground bleeding and in terrible pain Drakus picked him up by the throat. His giant hand choked Owen as he pulled him up to his height against the wall, Drakus twirled his long blade with his free hand. "And now you die Jedi" stated Drakus.
Being completely defenseless Owen held out his free hand to try and pull his lightsaber towards him, his saber slowly twitched and started to move. Drakus was just about to connect by driving his long saber right through him but Owen pulled his lightsaber towards him and with both of them now with their sabers at the same time they drove their lightsabers into one another. They both had shocked looks on their faces as they starred into each other's eyes, slowly Owen and Drakus looked down and couldn't believe the result. Drakus had connected with the rocky wall while Owen who had both hands on his lightsaber had drove his straight through the tall Darth Drakus.
Drakus let out a sigh of pain. "How did that happen?"
He then fell to his knees letting go of him, Owens yellow blade still stuck right through Drakus as he struggled to breathe. Drakus starred right into Owens blond eyes and once more sneered with his incisor like teeth, instantly Owen took his saber out of Drakus and lopped off his large head.
As Owen Sun surveyed the dead body of Darth Drakus he heard a slight moan nearby. "Ughhh, O…Owen…ughhh" moaned Arca.
"Master" Owen replied frantically.
Owen quickly ran over to Arca's side and held him in his lap. "Is he…is he dead" struggled Arca.
"Yes, he's dead Master" answered Owen.
"He was a…an Utapaun you know" informed Arca.
"Utapaun?" questioned Owen.
"Perhaps a…a story for…ughh another time" replied Arca.
Arca put his one intact arm to Owens face. "You've done well my Padawan, you did what I could not"
"You can't defeat evil by doing evil, I know that now" stated Arca referring to himself.
Owen smirked. "Without you Master, I never could have done it"
Owen then noticed Arca's precarious position. "I've got to get you out of here"
Arca looked to his torn up body. "I don't think I'll make it"
"I'm not leaving you to die here" stated Owen.
Arca struggled to stay conscious. "Owen y…you…must…lea…leave……ughhhhh" Arca passed out from the pain.
Quickly Owen grabbed Arca and flung him over his shoulder, he made his way all the way back through the castle and to Arca's Starfighter. Owen tossed him in the back and injected him with a sedative to keep him stable, he then climbed in the cockpit and took the Jedi Starfighter high in the air away from the surface. As Owen left he turned and noticed Count Dooku's castle falling apart on itself, he didn't want to know what had happened he just wanted to leave the dark side world behind him. Owen did just that as he took the ship into hyperspace leaving the cloudy, dark, Byss.