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Chapter 14

The two land speeders were flying across the barren desert land, heading to the town to find a place to rest after the energy draining day they had. It was nearing sunset as they got to the town. The streets were quiet, strange for Tattooine, since its bars were always open late. Many people usually stayed in the bars till early the next morning, but not tonight. No one was in sight, and the only sound was the lowly whistle of the wind. The three Jedi got slowly out of their vehicles, cautious of their surroundings.

"Where is everybody?" Janira whispered.

"Perhaps all in their beds?" answered Anakin.

Luke shook his head. "No, this planet is always lively. There is always someone out having a drink."

"How would you explain the quietness then, Master?" asked Janira.

"I think someone came through and scared everyone into their homes."

"But who would do that?" questioned Janira.

"You Jedi are all fools," said an eerie voice from behind them. They all turned around and saw a tall figure, clad in black, with a hood covering his eyes. The man continued to speak. "Perhaps you're wondering how I found you here. You Jedi were always so predictable. Of course you'd come back here, and you are even bigger fools if you thought that no one would follow you after your escape from my clutches."

He looked around at the Jedi in front of him, and his gaze landed on Anakin. "Ah, the legendary Anakin Skywalker, back from the grave. I guess you are here to try and stop me as well?" He laughed bitterly. "It's no matter. I like a challenge."

Anakin was about to charge the man, but Luke held him back, which received another laugh from the figure. "You were always rash, Skywalker. That will be your downfall like before. Perhaps you remember that day? With you and Master Kenobi? You tried to defeat me then, but… once again I prevailed. Just like I shall do now."

Anakin drew his light saber. "Then stop rambling on! Your speech is boring me. Let us fight, Dooku."

Dooku laughed. "So you do remember me! How nice. But I go by Lord Larveus now."

"I killed you once and I can do it again."

"I think not. In my death, I mastered all the forms of the dark side, even the part that you sought after, Skywalker. Yes, saving people from death. Once I learned that, I brought myself back from the dead. Then, I brought back a few of my old… friends."

Anakin lunged himself at Larveus, and thrust his light saber through his middle. But Larveus only laugh and force pushed Anakin back.

"You can't kill me, Skywalker! I'm already dead!"

Anakin got back up swiftly and went and stopped by his two companions, who had also erected their light sabers.

"Three against one?" Larveus asked. "Doesn't that seem a little unfair?"

Larveus cast off his cloak, revealing his face. He was no longer the old, gray man that he was when Anakin first fought him. Now he was young again, and had all the energy of that age as well. He drew out his double-sided red light saber, and got in his defensive stance.

But instead of the Jedi attacking him, they lowered their light sabers.

"We will not fight you," Luke said.

Larveus lowered his saber as well. "If you will not fight me, then perhaps you would like to fight my friends." Out of the ground, shadowed figures formed. Once they took their shape, only Anakin recognized who they were. There was: Darth Sidious, General Grievous, and Darth Maul. But there was one major change in them that worried Anakin the most. They were not real. They were just mere shadows of the former villains they were. Anakin didn't know if he and Luke and Janira would be able to do any harm to them, but they would try.

Larveus stepped back and ordered his minions to attack the Jedi. They pulled out light sabers, which were black like their shadowed masters. The three Jedi prepared themselves as well with their light sabers.

The shadows flew at the Jedi with their sabers at the ready. Janira blocked the shadows light saber, and tried to cut at the shadow, but her saber only went through it and didn't harm it all. She looked around and noticed that Luke and Anakin were noticing the same thing.

"How are we supposed to beat them if we can't harm them?" she yelled as she still fought to ward off her shadow.

"Just keep them at bay! But make sure you don't let their sabers cut you! It seems that the sabers can penetrate us, even if we can't penetrate them!" Luke yelled back.

Janira continued to attack her opponent, who was a man with horns sticking out of his head. Their light sabers locked above their heads, but the shadow pushed Janira back and she flipped away from his sabers swing. She charged him again, rushing her attack and swiped at his head. The shadow let it go through him, since it could do no harm to him. Then he twirled his saber above his head and brought it hard down upon Janira. She blocked it, but fell to the ground because of the power of the blow. She held her saber as the shadow tried to push down to cut her throat. Gathering all her strength, Janira forced back the shadow and flew to her feet. Forming the power in her hands, she forced pushed the shadow, and actually moved him back a bit. But the shadow was still standing. He did not make another move to attack Janira, only stood there.

Luke and Anakin pushed back their shadows as well, after they, too, fought a fierce battle. The shadows formed a line opposite of their opponents, but made no attempt to move.

Lord Larveus stepped back up and paced in front of his minions.

"You can't beat us, Jedi," he said coldly. "We cannot die, only live forever. Soon we will take control over the government once more, and there shall be an Empire. But not one like Sidious had. Oh no, this one will be much stronger and won't let measly peasants walk about freely."

"What are you planning to do?" asked Luke.

"I'll let you figure that out." Larveus swirled his cloak and disappeared with the other villains.

Janira ran forwards, as if to make sure that Larveus was no longer there. "What are we going to do? How can we beat them?"

Luke turned to Anakin. "I think we first need to know who they were."

Anakin sighed. "Larveus was formally known as Count Dooku. He was Darth Sidious' apprentice. I killed him when I was on a mission to rescue the chancellor, err, Sidious. General Grievous, the one you were fighting, Luke, was one of his allies in an attempt to overthrow the Jedi. I was fighting Sidious. And you, Janira, were fighting Darth Maul. He was Sidious' apprentice when I was just a boy. Obi-Wan killed him. But now I guess they're all back, unless we can defeat Dooku… or Larveus."

"Great. So we're up against a bunch of former Siths that can't be killed," Janira said. But then her eyes lit up as she got an idea. "Unless… I have plan."

Luke and Anakin gave her all their attention. "Since Anakin was brought back from the dead as well, it would seem that he couldn't be killed either. And perhaps since I brought someone back from the dead, I can put someone back in the grave."

"But how do you know that I can't be killed?" asked Anakin.

"You heard Larveus. He was brought back and so were you. He can't be killed, so I would think that it would be the same for you."

"I think Janira is right," Luke said. "You're already dead, so you can't be killed a second time."

"Right," continued Janira. "So here's what I think we should do."

While Janira was explaining her plan, another figure in the distance was watching them with care. He would be needed soon, but he would wait until the opportune moment to show himself. Until then, all he could do was wait.

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