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CH27

It's cold and dark and I don't like it. It's hard to breath an it feels like I should be wearing one of those face mask things the traders use when they go out into the desert. Someone is calling me and I don't get what I'm supposed to do everything is echoing I can't make out the words. I don't even get where I am or what I'm doing only that someone is running and yelling in pain and I'm so confused I was at the temple only moments ago wasn't I?

What's going on? It hurts a lot, an whoever it is, is in a lot of pain. It's dark an I'm getting these weird flashes of memories too fast and it hurts. I yell and I can hear someone else scream louder. There's something over my heart and it hurts like that time when I skinned my elbows on that old hyper drive I was trying to fix. It hurt a lot and now it hurts worse like someone's dragging a piece of metal over my heart. Theirs fire on the walls now and I'm running faster and I don't know why. I'm scared and it feels weird and there's a lot of pain and I need to get away it hurts!

It's kinda dark now, now it's very bright and hot the sun is shining and I'm on Tatooine, now market and everything. I'm really confused at what's going on but the pain is all gone an maybe mom will know? I can see my house! Yipee! But why's the door open? Mom never leaves it open and she always gets mad if I leave it open by accident she sais that sand will get all over the place an she will have to clean it an all. Maybe she just forgot? Something feels very wrong an now I'm really really scared and I don't even know why. I start running cause now it feels very very wrong an she's in the kitchen on the floor.

"Mom?" She's not moving. "Mom!" Her body is all wrong and there's no blood but I can tell she's not breathing and I run over and theirs this hole through her chest. MOM! No! I was supposed to save her! "Mom please wake up mom!" She's not moving an its not fair! I promised her I promised I'd come back for her and it's all my fault! It so dark and red and it hurts!

Someone is calling my name an suddenly I'm back at the temple under these white lights I think I'm in the healers ward or something and Master Nas is there an I'm so glad it was all a dream and I'm not sorry that I'm crying because she doesn't understand! She probably never had a mom and stuff she's not even worried it's like she doesn't care! I'm trying so so hard but I just want to go home now! I have to make sure she's okay! I have to!

Someone else is here she has aqua skin and warm gold eyes she's a good person I can tell and she's telling me it's okay an I'm safe an whatever happened was just a dream. But I don't think she gets it. "Obi Wan! I want Obi Wan!" Because if they won't let me go back to my mom than they can at least give him back to me. Her eyes go all wide when I say his name but she's not protesting so maybe I could see him like soon. And he'd understand my problem and I bet he'd go and make sure mom's safe for me cause he's a real Jedi. I have to speak with him I have to!


I make the leap just barely my hands grab the edge of the broken floor. Kenobi has blasted his way through several floors using pure force alone. I shall attribute his new found abilities to the accursed darkness. The effects of the atmosphere will soon rage havoc on my body, the air was somewhat cycled in the temple but the loss of my rebreather is now making itself known. I allow a groan to escape as I heave myself upon the next level of the accursed monument. Kenobi's trail is like a bright supernova. I follow it. The darkness grows stronger if that were even possible I can barely comprehend what I am doing only that I must move forward.

The halls I pass are littered with gross matter and skeletal bodies no doubt the guests of this gracious domain. They explain much in the lack of proper defense. One of the halls, the largest and the one Kenobi took leads to two overlarge doors. I fight for each step slowed as if I am wading through Alderonian syrup, he is near and he is inoculated in the darkness as only a sith lord would be.

I keel over at the door clutching at my midriff as the darkness attempts to enter my gut, I have in all my years felt such a fear but the boy is moving! The room that I have emerged in is large and staggering in it's twisted décor, skeletons hang of a balcony running along the expanse of the ceiling. A crystal is built into the center of this room shaped into an overlarge holocron. Its crimson glow bathes the entirety of the room.

He is their standing above it. It whispers of promise and power the core of this world. One no Jedi has ever found nor survived.

He approaches; my limbs are too heavy to move I can see the maniacal smile plastered across his face the eyes full of rage and anguish. Was this how Qui Gon felt when his own apprentice fell? I barely know the boy but his loss cuts like a scalpel. "Kenobi no!" His saber is over the holocron. Only Kenobi would think to run it through with his saber I yell for him to stop but he it is done. The saber burns through the flimsy shields no doubt weakened by age and corrosion, it cuts through the false beauty the encasing of the evil through its whispers and its promises through its lies and its deceit. "OBI WAN!"

Lightning spills alongside the darkness. I can breathe the darkness is here but it is lessened subdued defeated. It clings to the walls but I can sense a light it spills mingled with the first rays of dawn through the half dilapidated roof. I run to the now collapsed man laying at the foot of the shattered crystal my feet crunch over the shards as I make my way to him. His eyes are shut mouth clenched in pain a high fever raging through his body.

"Sithspit it all you don't do anything halfway do you?" I sigh as I throw him over my shoulder. I wish to linger but that is now not my priority. I sense footsteps in the halls perhaps whatever denizens reside in this accursed place have finally been alerted. Fighting now would serve little purpose. With the darkness at bay I can safely allow Lanius to send a party for the missing Jedi. I hope for the best but I am a realist by nature and I am aware that their chances of survival are slim at best even if they managed to avoid being devoured alive by the darkness. Perhaps they are the ones chasing me now.

It takes quite a bit of time for me to find the exit so I settle for retracing my steps. In the light of the morning sun it is easy to see the temple for what it truly is a relic of a time long past, black and twisted now lacking the borrowed splendor the night had given it. I wade through the swamp my padawan on my back and make my way slowly to the human settlement. What has occurred eludes me. Somehow Kenobi used the darkness to fight itself. I speculate a great many things but I can say several things for certain. Through thick or thin the boy has both my admiration and respect and shall always be my responsibility padawan or otherwise. And another that I Mace Windu am in need of a very many answers.