A/N: If you have no idea what the plot is, search Wookieepedia, then search Wookieepedia for Revan. It's a great database about all things Star Wars. Sorry I took so long to update, but this chapter was the hardest one to write yet, and I was working quite hard all week to finish it. By the way, Fole Isoder's name is pronounced Foe (as in 'I cut the head off my foe')- lay (as in 'I decided to lay down for a while'). Please R&R. Dedicated to Natasha Richardson.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters who appear in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, however the others are of my own creation.
Onward
"Sarah… Don't do it." Calan pleaded quietly.
"Relax Calan. I'm not killing Revan today. Not ever, actually. My father's Force ghost appeared to me. He doesn't want revenge, so I am also contempt." Sarah replied calmly.
"Good. Let's dock with Revan's ship. We can discuss this… incident with him and-"
"This is True Jedi Revan of the Shan Eagle. Hyperspace Herron, return to where the Zarricka was. It has been destroyed. Sarah Geshri and Calan Perron are alive and unhurt. Sarah, Calan, dock with the Shan Eagle. We need to talk. Over."
"Conren, if you can hear us, we are alive, and it is Revan in the Shan Eagle. Revan escaped from the Zarricka to his own ship, and Sarah shot down the Zarricka, with Black Fear inside it. Repeat, Black Fear is dead. Come to your previous location, Hyperspace Herron. Awaiting your response, Hyperspace Herron. Over."
"This is Conren Volta, pilot of the Hyperspace Herron, returning to where the Zarricka was. Over and out."
Thirty seconds later, Red Onasi woke up, moaning. He had bruises all over from the battle, but stood up immediately, limping to the cockpit.
"Calan, Sarah..." Sarah turned around and smiled at Red.
"We're docking with the Shan Eagle, Red. Revan has to talk to us. You take over piloting, while we talk to him." Sarah said. Red sprang to his feet and leant back in the pilot's chair.
"Wait. Is the Shan Eagle Revan's ship?"
"Yes it is."
"I want to hear what happened. Plus, for all you know, Black Fear is impersonating Revan. I need to be there."
"Well..."
"I'm coming. Initiating docking procedures. Starcross Falcon to Shan Eagle. Commencing... now!" Red said forcefully. Sarah and Calan stood up and left the cockpit. Red followed close behind. Revan was waiting for them, with one hand on his lightsaber. A look of surprise flashed on Revan's face; he hadn't known there were three of them conscious. He soon controlled it though, and returned to looking passive.
"Who are you?" Revan asked. "You look so familiar..."
"Red. Grandkid of Admiral Carth-"
"Onasi!" Revan exclaimed. "You are Dustil's son aren't you?"
"Yeah. You're Revan. Hi." Revan looked at bit confused at Red's lack of enthusiasm. He shrugged after quite a long second of silence and turned to Sarah.
"I can understand how you felt, Sarah. You did the right thing. Killing me would have had catastrophic affects on the galaxy. Now that that's behind us, hop back onto your ship and get the Herron to follow me to Jedia. Soon, you'll all be True Jedi apprentices." Sarah was genuinely astounded.
"You're not going to punish me? No speech about how I need to control my anger? No lecture on the dangers of the dark side?" Sarah asked incredulously. Revan shrugged, smiling.
"I can't punish you for what you nearly did." Revan said, laughing. "You look truly baffled. Well, you'll learn about the codes of the True Jedi when we get to Jedia."
"Jedia?" said Red, "What a stupid name." Revan laughed again.
"I'm not very good at naming planets am I?" Revan said. "Now quickly see to the others. Get Conren Volta to contact me when he's ready to go, same with you. If there are two conscious people on Conren's ship, get one to sit at the gun turrets, just in case we run into our second True Sith adversary. If there Conren is the only conscious one, Sarah, I'll have to ask you to go over to the Herron for the duration of this trip."
"You want me at the gun turrets so soon after... what hap- nearly happened?" Sarah asked. She was surprised he was being so lenient with her.
"I trust you. Now let's move. Sooner we get to Jedia, the sooner you guys can get settled in. It'll probably take our entire lives to put a dint in the threat of the True Sith." Revan said. Sarah was surprised at how much his casual remark affected her. It made her stop for a few seconds to really consider the enormity of the task ahead of so few Jedi, and with such little experience against the enemy. The True Sith were just so incredibly superior in combat. Revan, the galaxy's most skilled Jedi, had nearly lost to Black Fear. They had no way of knowing whether Black Fear had been the strongest of the True Sith or the weakest, or somewhere in between. The docking between the two ships closed and Sarah was jolted out of her reverie.
"This is Conren Volta from the Hyperspace Herron. There are currently two conscious Jedi on the Herron, myself and Ludlam Bannu. I am pilot and Ludlam will sit ready at the gun turrets. Revan, the Herron is ready to follow you. Over."
"This is True Jedi Revan of the Shan Eagle, Starcross Falcon and Hyperspace Herron, follow me. Jedia is close. Over and out." Revan locked in the coordinates of Jedi and ran the Eagle on autopilot.
*
Two hours later, three ships touched down on Jedia's surface. Ella Fevri and Felix Jinn were standing sagely a hundred metres away from the ships. As one, they slowly walked towards the Shan Eagle. The ramp folded out, and Revan walked down.
"The initiates are on those ships. Unfortunately, there are six of them unconscious from the battle with the True Sith, so we have to move them to med bay." Understandably, Felix and Ella had many questions for Revan, but they suppressed them, valuing the wellbeing of their soon-to-be initiates, and their eyes were concerned as Felix spoke.
"How can we best help them?" he said.
"You could help best by getting the unconscious off the Hyperspace Herron and enlist the help of the two conscious apprentices, Conren and Ludlum. I'll help Calan, Sarah, Red and Fole with the other two. Shesa Lordess and Kaydan Skidder seem to have the worst injuries. Try to heal the most serious wounds only. We need to have them all in moderate health within a couple of days." Ella and Felix left quickly on to the Hyperspace Herron.
Revan bounded up the ramp of the Falcon, and stepped aside as Calan and Red carried the unconscious form of Magus Tame. He nodded to them, and they returned the greeting. Close behind were Sarah Geshri and Fole Isoder. They were carrying Aliura Vih'Torr between them, and Revan took the load of Aliura's legs from Sarah, who was obviously struggling. She nodded gratefully to Revan and gave an apologetic look towards Fole, who just shook his head. Revan frowned, confused. Fole had shaken his head seemingly without emotion. He showed no dislike of Sarah and nothing in his body language indicated that he particularly liked her either. He would have to find out more about this Fole Isoder. He had been one of the four Jedi held prisoner by Black Fear on the Zarricka, and had smoothly avoided the question when asked how he had come to be captured.
In a few minutes, all the wounded and unconscious were in the med bay. The Masters told the soon-to-be initiates that they also had to have a check up and lie down for a few hours. They would then be assigned rooms, and when the others had settled in a few days later, they would all be officially initiated into the True Jedi.
*
Calan smiled as he looked around at the spacious room that would be his to enjoy for possibly the rest of his life. He had a large double bed with a simple bathroom including a shower, toilet and sink which made Coruscant's beauty suddenly seem less amazing. He strolled out onto the balcony which looked out over Bastila Lake. Calan smiled as he had when he had heard the name from Felix Jinn. Revan had named a lot of beautiful things after Bastila. He smiled to himself. He hadn't been this happy since his father and mother had been alive.
*
Revan walked out of Fole's new room dissatisfied. Fole was reluctant to share his past and had nothing really to contribute about the True Sith. He remembered being on board a ship named the Finite Osprey, and this had been confirmed by Aliura when she had woken up a day after she had arrived on Jedia. He also recalled fighting Black Fear with a blue lightsaber, and losing after about ten minutes of an intense lightsaber duel.
Revan had so far interviewed three of the Jedi who had been captured by Black Fear before the arrival of the Starcross Falcon and the Hyperspace Herron. His interview with Aliura hours earlier had been mostly fruitless, and Herja Jasyd, the hulking female Zabrak who seemed to be much more intelligent than her brutish image gave her credit for, had seemed to know almost nothing about the True Sith as well. She had told Revan proudly that she had used her appearance against Black Fear, nearly inflicting a serious wound on the True Sith. The other Jedi who had been captured along with Fole, Aliura and Herja was Athin Harna. She was still a little dazed from the battle, and would be interviewed by Felix at a later time. Revan found Ella and Felix in the foyer.
"The initiates need initiating. Now is as good a time as any. Let's do it." They nodded, and within an hour, all were assembled. Felix started the initiation.
"Seven years ago, Kreia told Master Fevri that this mysterious order, the True Sith, has been in existence for tens of thousands of years and were silently waiting in the Unknown Regions during the time of the Jedi Civil War." Felix said. Then, Ella Fevri picked up where Felix had left off.
"According to Kreia, the True Sith have existed for millennia prior to the rise of the modern Sith Empire. Kreia stated that both Malachor V and the graveyard planet, Korriban, had once been planets at the edges of that mysterious Empire, and that while these True Sith had forgotten those ancient worlds of the dark side, they would remember. The True Sith founded the Trayus Academy on Malachor V, and Darth Traya, AKA Kreia, may have had some sort of connection with them. Now, this link has been lost with the death of Darth Traya and Malachor V." Now, Revan said his piece.
"When I fought Black Fear, the lightsaber he used had a colour scheme none of us had seen before; it was black with a slight tint of red. The True Sith nearly killed me, I was lucky to be able to escape alive onto the Shan Eagle, at which point I removed my ship from its docking station on the Zarricka. When I did, Black Fear must have tried to get to the controls of the Zarricka to use his ship's superior firepower to destroy my ship, then the Starcross Falcon and the Hyperspace Herron, but to no avail. Sarah Geshri is the reason we are alive today. She fired upon the Zarricka, and destroyed it with Black Fear inside." He continued, after pausing slightly to let their words sink in.
"I learnt a lot about Black Fear from my battle with him. He was easily distracted, and arrogant in the extreme. Still, he would have defeated me. So I have decided that to help us against the True Sith, I will craft a new form of weapon that will not only surprise them, but also provide an edge in combat." Revan finished, and Ella got down to business.
"But now, you will be formally initiated into the True Jedi." Said Master Fevri, "Ludlum Bannu, come forward." Ludlum stepped forward quietly and solemnly.
"Welcome, Initiate Ludlum Bannu, to the True Jedi. We exist to fight the True Sith, and make sure they do not unleash their strength on the Republic. You are now a true warrior of the light. We are proud to have you join our cause." Ludlum nodded and stepped back. The initiation continued in a similar fashion until Conren Volta, the last on the list, was initiated. Revan stepped forward.
"Onward, True Jedi. Onward to battles, duels, trials and death. Onward to the path of a True Jedi!"