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Chapter 23: Dueling the Sith
Rachelle Hunter, races through the jungle of the planet of Kashyyyk. The group of Jedi Knight she was with died from a fight from a group of Dark Jedi. Most on both side of the groups died, because they were evening match. She stops racing when she hears some landed behind her and a Lightsaber hisses.
Rachelle turns around and sees a female human with black robes and a black tunic on. In her hand is a black hilt Lightsaber emitting a red plasma blade with a tint of purple. "Look what we have here, the Hero of the Republic's Padawan, all on her lonesome self. I am Darth Destria and I am going to kill you." say Darth Destria as she walks forward with a grace that does not seem suitable for a Sith but someone on the Light Side of the Force. For some strange reason something seems familiar to Rachelle.
Darth Destria stops when she looks at Rachelle in the eyes. For some reason this young Jedi seems familiar to her. Does she know this Jedi Padawan from somewhere? She knows she once had been a Jedi, but she cannot remember most of it. There something about the female human standing in front of her, that seems important to her. She cannot seem to put her finger on it.
Rachelle activates her green Lightsaber and holds it so the plasma blade goes across her chest diagonally to the left. Rachelle now this person she is about to face is a Sith and a Sith is more powerful then any Dark Jedi. She needs to remain focused or her mentor fears might come true and she will die.
When this thought enters Rachelle's head it hurt her feelings. She really does not want to die not letting her mentor knows how she truly feels about him. She shakes these thoughts out of her head. She must not focus on them right now. She must focus on the task at hand and that task is staying alive.
Darth Destria then raises her hand and waves of Force Lightning erupt from her hand. Rachelle uses the Force to summon a vine to her and she leaps it and grabs it. As she did this, it takes her back to her first time at Ragoon 6 with her mentor when they were station at Coruscant during the waning days of the Clone Wars. She remembers the obstacle course. She made it almost all the way through until she Darth Maul made an appearance.
Rachelle then uses the Force to leap to the other tree on the other side. Darth Destria uses the Force to cause the tree to catch on fire. Rachelle leaps away but in mid jump, she felt the Force grab a hold of her and was slam into the ground hard by Darth Destria. Darth Destria tries to stab her but Rachelle manages to activate her Lightsaber once more and blocked with her Lightsaber going down to her feet. Rachelle then focuses on the Force. The vines tie around Darth Destria's arms, legs, waist, and chest. Rachelle just used a Force ability that she had learned from Shaak Ti and her mentor, it is called Plant Surge. Rachelle uses the Force to manipulate the growth of the plants and affect the ways it grows. She can control how it wraps around it. It is a primary a Light Side of the Force ability, but she seen some Dark Jedi uses it too.
Then again, Dark Jedi most likely can use more Light Side abilities then Sith, but they can use more Dark Side abilities then the Jedi. She could not image a Sith, someone who engulf themselves in darkness of the Force could us it since the Dark Side focus on hatred, pain, and death. Still if Sith cannot use some of the Light Side abilities that only those of Light Side can use, that does not make them weak. They make up for it in raw power.
Rachelle takes off running again. She remembers her teachings; she does not kill a prisoner or a defenseless foe. It would be wrong for her to strike her down. It is not how the Jedi use the Force. Jedi use the Force to learn and for protection, not to hurt those. She understands that sometimes in order to protect oneself that they must use the Force to hurt those but only in self-defense. A Sith or Dark Jedi will primary use the Force with the intention of hurting and killing who opposes them in any way.
She knows her mentor only kill when he had too and when his foes were not his prisoners or defenseless. He did not finish of Darth Vader when he had the chance. Darth Vader was defenseless. Mark left him to die on Mustafar from the injures that he have gotten. Darth Sidious died in battle with her mentor. According to her mentor he also died but was one of the rare few who gotten a Second Chance.
The tree behind her exploded and she went flying. "You think some tightly wrapped vines would stop me! Foolish little girl!" snaps Darth Destria as she lift Rachelle up with the Force. Rachelle drops her Lightsaber, which deactivate on it fall down to the ground. She feels pressure on her neck and has a hard time breathing. Then she was attacked by Force Lightning to make it harder for her focus. She has to hurry up and focus because she knows with the pain and lack to breathe it will become harder. Rachelle focuses and sends a weakly Force Push at Darth Destria to make her stumble.
Rachelle falls down to the ground gasping for air a bit. She watches as Darth Destria coming at her. Rachelle sends a much stronger Force Push that sends Darth Destria sliding backwards.
Rachelle stands up, uses the Force to summon her Lightsaber, and activates it. Then they start to engage in a heated battle with their Lightsabers. Both of them were using most of their physical strength to slam in order to gain an advantage over the other one. While Rachelle is trying to be more limited of how her attacks go, the Sith in front of her hold no control. She looks up at the darkness of the Sith face. She can see the Sith blue eyes turn to Sith yellow. Her mentor told her about this. A Sith eyes may turn Sith yellow when they immerse themselves deeply within the Dark Side of the Force. Usually it happens when they let their anger and hatred control them.
Darth Destria then sends a very powerful blast of Force Lightning at Rachelle. The Force Lightning nails Rachelle hard and sends her flying through the air as she still got shock from the Lightning that hit her even through she is not connected to the stream of Lightning.
Darth Destria rushes forward to where Rachelle landed hard. Rachelle barely was able to block the fast attacks that were pouring down on her from above. Rachelle fear the heavy impacts alone would break something in her Lightsaber, even through she heard of that happen is very unlikely.
Rachelle reaches her hand upwards above her head and uses the Force to slide her out from the space. As she slides her way out, she nails Darth Destria in the chin with her feet. Darth Destria stumbles a bit.
Darth Destria sends a bolt of Force Lighting at Rachelle. Rachelle as she was sliding backwards on the ground blocks the attack with her Lightsaber. She struggles to focus on the Force getting her out of range and defending herself against Darth Destria.
As Rachelle stands up, Darth Destria send bunch of Force Blasts at Rachelle. Rachelle dodges the purple blasts as if they were nothing. Darth Destria smiles as she uses the Force to rip the ground out and tosses it at Rachelle. She also uses the Force to increase the weight and hardness of the ground.
Rachelle uses the Force to leap over the piece of ground and strikes Darth Destria on her way down. Their plasma blades locks and they try to pushes the other away from them. They then leap back and both did a quick swipe at each other. The swipes only manage to glaze their uniforms.
Darth Destria holds her Lightsaber out to the right as she rushes at Rachelle. Rachelle sidesteps out of the way. Darth Destria twirls around and her Lightsabers hum as it spins through the air. Rachelle felt herself being dragged by the Force toward. Rachelle use the Force to make the tree root wraps around her own feet to prevent herself from being drag.
Rachelle then made rocks around Darth Destria exploded with the ability of Combustion. Darth Destria throws her hands up to cover her eyes. As the dust settle Darth Destria let out a powerful wave of Force Lighting and Force Blast.
Rachelle raises her hand to her side and focuses. A blue orb appears around her. She is using Protection Bubble. The Force Lightning wraps around it tightly as Force Blast rockets into the bubble. Every time one of the Force Blast nails the bubble, it sends a ripple through Rachelle's body. After the last of the Force Blast nailed the bubble, Rachelle let it drop and rushes out toward Darth Destria's side as she was doing this she was blasted off her feet by a powerful Force Push.
The Force Push was so powerful that it sends her spiral at least 20 feet up into the air. She went over one of the bridges that goes across the trees and landed into an opening. Rachelle crashes through a Wookiee home that was up on of the trees and landed hard on the ground. When she landed on the ground it made a crater and she slide to a stop.
She hears jetpacks flying nearby. Rachelle looks up it is Padme and Leia along with two Clones. Once they touch ground, Leia wanted to see Rachelle, but Padme knowing that her risks of death or being recapture was far too great for Leia to be nice. Padme hold Leia in her arms as she boards her J-type Star Skiff. The ramp closes and the ship spins up into the air.
The Laser Cannons fire from the ship to blocks Darth Destria who was nearing Rachelle. Darth Destria reaches out in the Force to grab the ship. Rachelle notices this and she stands up and rushes at Darth Destria. Darth Destria loses focus as she grabs her Lightsaber and blocks Rachelle attack. It was enough to let Padme get out of Darth Destria's grip.
Darth Destria then uses a powerful Force Lightning on Rachelle, which Rachelle blocks with her Lightsaber. The force of the impact made her drop to her knees as she focus on the Force. She uses the Force to send the Force Lightning back at Darth Destria after it contacts her Lightsaber. Darth Destria screams in pain as the stream of Force Lightning ended. Rachelle then kicks her in the chest and uses a Force Push to send her flying backwards into a rocky hillside.
Rachelle uses the Force to leap on the lowest bridge. She leaps once more to the second highest bridge and runs across it. She uses the Force to get as far away from the Sith as possible. The bridge leads from tree to tree and every tree seems to have a house of some sort.
Mark was walking through the halls of the building where Padme meet with Darth Vader. He walks casually as he holds out his deactivate Lightsaber, in case he needs it very quickly. He opens himself to the Force try to sense where Darth Vader is.
Then the Force gave him a warning. Darth Vader appears through an entryway was to the bridging system around the city. Mark sense death all around him and they were about Wookiees. "You called those Jedi Knights. They are pathetic." say Darth Vader using the Force carrying 10 Jedi Knights that came along with them.
Mark had warned them not to come since they lack experience and now they were murderer by Darth Vader. "They should have taken your advice about staying at the temple, but do not worry Zane, you will be joining them shortly." say Darth Vader as he throws all the dead bodies at Mark and have them exploded as if they were bombs.
Mark uses the Force to make the blow bypass him. Blood rain down on the wooden brown flooring of the building. "You know what Vader, you are going to pay for all the Jedi you and your Empire has killed today." say Mark as he activates his Lightsaber. "You will try." say Darth Vader activating his.
They both used the Force to boost up their speed as they rocket toward each other. Their Lightsabers connected and both of them leap back. Then they leap at each other again and again, until Darth Vader use the Force to break the part of the building Mark was standing on.
Mark leaps backwards onto the bridge system. Darth Vader sends out Force Blast as if he was an automatic machine blaster. Mark had to rely on the Force to guide him to miss all the blast. Then one of the Force Blast nails him and sends him flying backwards.
Mark landed on the center of the bridge, which widens up into a large circle over the middle of the city. Other bridges connect to it at this location. Darth Vader was walking toward Mark where bunch of lasers from blaster shoot at him. Darth Vader looks up and sees Wookiees with bows firing at him. He tilts his head and with a hidden smile, he uses the Force and chokes all them to death. All their necks break and Darth Vader notice bunch of Jedi underneath him fighting his Dark Jedi, he then throws the bodies down and have them explodes.
While Darth Vader did all this, Mark stands up and focuses on the Force greatly. Mark then unleashes a very powerful Force Push. The bridge itself seems to strain against it as it goes toward Darth Vader. Darth Vader was nailed so hard that it sends him sliding back to where the bridge ends and he crashes down to the ground.
Mark leans against the rail for support. He hears someone running toward him from behind. Mark looks up and sees it was Rachelle. She slowed to a stop. "Darth Destria is somewhere behind me. Padme and Leia made it off the planet. Mark smiles at this, but the smile did not last long until the whole bridge system was cover with Force Lightning raging from bellow. Mark chanced a look down and sees Darth Vader is using a massive Force Lightning from the ground bellow.
Mark turns around and sees Darth Destria come on the bridge that Rachelle just came on. Then they heard a loud thump on the other side. They look around and sees Darth Vader on the other side which he just fall off from. The Sith was nearing them. Rachelle stands with her back against her mentor.
Okay a little side note. I went back to Chapter 21 and the part that describe what a near human is, those two paragraphs for what the Holobook stated, I went back and Italicize that.
That is all I have to say about that subject. Mainly was the focus of this note. Oh if you see any mistakes in the story like spelling or something or I use wrong word, please let me know. That is with any of the chapters I do. I have a feeling I might missed a few.
Til next time, Enjoy.