Sorry for the long wait I haven't been on much and I have been exceedingly buisy. Well here is the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter Six: A Sad Goodbye

As the shuttle landed River picked up Soreka's body and fell under the full weight of her sorrow and her old masters body. General Grievous made an attempt to pick the body up but River told him that she wanted to do this herself no offense to him. As they walked out they were greeted by Count Dooku, which didn't last long when he saw what had happened.

"We will give her a proper ceremony at sundown but first give her body to this droid here and it will be prepared

River handed the body over to the droid and bowed to Count Dooku.

"I would like to talk to you River so come with me." River followed obediently.

"I would like you to tell me what happened from the point that you got off the shuttle on Kamino."

River took a deep breath and she told how her and Soreka split up to look for the Jedi and how she had killed him, when she came to the part of what Soreka had told her before she died she paused.

"Well?" encouraged Count Dooku.

"She told me that I had passed the test for what I do not know, then she wanted me to promise to become General Grievous' apprentice, and I promised her that I would and I do not plan to break that promise."

"I will tell Grievous about you becoming his apprentice tonight during the ceremony. You may go now." She bowed to him and then she went to her room to change.

When she reached her room she sat on her bed replaying the day's event in her head and when she got to what she had promised Soreka she fully grasped what she had done, not only had she doomed herself to a life of fear but she was going to have to eventually deal with an angry General.

She pulled out the lightsaber she had taken from the Jedi and inspected it. It was like every other saber plain and one blade she switched it on and a yellow beam descended from it. All she knew is that she would be inspecting lightsabers a lot more often now.

After River changed into a dry dress that was a dark red shade and she didn't wear her cloak because it was wet and she wasn't to happy to be seen without it because the dress complimented her form, hair, and eyes, and she made her way to the room the ceremony was to take place. When she walked in she was one of the first ones there, she took her place in the front and stood there waiting for the ceremony to start.

Little by little people came in and stood were they wanted to, when General Grievous came in he took his place behind River, the last person to come in was Count Dooku. He was holding a torch and Soreka's lightsaber, he beckoned to River to come, when she reached him he presented her with her former master's lightsaber then she walked back to her spot she stood there as Count Dooku went through the ritual and lit the body on fire, then he walked to the opposite wall and put the torch on the wall behind him and stood there.

River stood there looking at Soreka's lightsaber it had mother-of-pearl-inlay and her initials were engraved on it. River noticed that Count Dooku had caught Grievous' attention and beckoned to him, she watched him walk over to Count Dooku. After a while Grievous turned his head to look at her and caught her watching him and she quickly diverted her eyes, to her he did not look pleased.

After the ceremony was over she avoided General Grievous even though she knew it wouldn't last long and made her way to the observatory room. When she walked in the lights were off as usual and she walked over to the window and rested her head on the pane. After about five minutes later she heard the familiar sound of metal on metal as the door slid open she stood up straight but didn't turn around, when he was standing right next to her he turned so that he was looking at her from the side then she turned around to face him but she kept her head forward which meant she was looking directly at the middle of his chest plate.

He bent down so he was looking directly into her eyes and what he saw surprised him, he saw sorrow, and fear but what was more plentiful was fear.

"Is that fear that I see in your eyes?"

When he said this she looked defeated she lowered her head so she wasn't looking at him, but that only lasted for a minute then she put her head up and looked directly into his eyes.

"Yes General you do see fear, but even a warrior can be afraid." she replied with dignity.

He straightened up to his full height and started circling her.

"As you already know you are my apprentice now and you will obey my orders without question. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes sir. Um...do you mind if I ask you a question?" she braced herself for an explosion but none came.

"No, I don't mind."

will here goes "Do you by any chance have Karaabaa blood?"

"Now why in the universe do you want Karaabaa blood?"

"Because a Kaleesh warrior always wears the blood of their enemies." she said holding her head high.

He had suspected that she would want some so he came prepared, he reached into his cloak and pulled out a fairly large jar full of what looked like red paint and handed it to her.

"Thanks," she paused there was something more she wanted to say but she didn't think she should but she finally got the gut to say it. "If I may I would like to say something," he nodded his head for her to continue, "I suspected you to be upset that Soreka had asked me to promise to be your apprentice but you don't seem to be. Why's that?"

He looked at her, was she really that stupid did she really think that he would willingly take on an apprentice especially a female.

"Actually I am not pleased at all, I've never wanted a apprentice and if it were up to me I would never want one, but seeming's as Count Dooku and Lord Sideous are the ones in charge I have no choice... So what about you? Are you pleased to be my apprentice?"

She looked at him thoughtfully, she was trying to decide if she should tell him the truth or not, but she thought it a better idea to tell the truth. She sighed she didn't want to be disrespectful but he wanted to know.

"To be honest when I promised her that I would be your apprentice I was not thinking straight and I wanted her to die peacefully, when I did come to realize what I had gotten myself into I regretted it but I will never under any circumstance ever break my word."

He accepted the answer even though it didn't please him.

''Go regain your strength and in the morning we are going to be busy so I suggest you do it immediately."

"Yes sir," was all she said then she left.

When she got to her room she said aloud to herself "So begins my apprenticeship with a crabby cyborg... Will there's one upside to this…I have a large jar of blood." She smiled to herself she was going to try her best to please him and she was going to finally find out about his past.

But what she would learn would be the biggest shock of her life.

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Hmmmmmmm very interesting. Well in the next chapter you get to see her as Grievous' actaul apprentice YAY finally. Anyway I shall try to get the next one up as soon as I can.

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