CHAPTER 8: COLLECTING
A cloaked figure walks across the barren land that was once a battlefield in 'The Clone Wars' that took place before the Emperor took power. Memories of the war flowing through the figures mind. The area, more silent than the void of space, never gave a hint of life other than this figure's. The figure stopped in the center of the battle scarred area, and waited. The figure stood silent, not even moving an inch, as though he knew what was planned here.
Soon enough two jedi leaped out from nowhere, cloaking themselves into the land around them to do just this. They ignited their lightsabers mid-air, but the figure knew this would happen, he ignited his red lightsaber and deflected both attackers with ease. The cloaked figure pushed his hand towards the larger jedi, and sent him flying, as he prepared to attack the jedi who was actually a padawan. The figure walked towards the padawan while striking at him with his lightsaber, but the padawan was able to deflect the attacks, however his blocking was clumsy and easy to exploit. Soon the figure was able to trip up the padawan, and the padawan feel backwards. The figure held the tip of his saber to the boy's neck, and waited for his master to get a good look, and realize that he has the chance to save his padawan before he struck the child down.
It took a few seconds for the jedi to fully grasp the situation, and prepared to charge and defend his padawan. However, he was too late, just as he was about to charge the figure pushed his blade forward into the padawan's neck. The master's eyes widened as he watched the life slowly leave his son. A grin could be recognized in the darkness of the figure's cloak as the master fell to his knees in defeat, his head looking down in shame. The figure deactivated his lightsaber, and knelt down to pick up the padawan's lightsaber. The figure got back up and walked to the master, disheartened and broken. A hand reached out open and waiting for something from the master, no words were needed for the master to understand. He pulled his arm up and dropped his saber into his victor's hand. He put it away, and held his hand out again, the master slowly reached into his pocket and dropped a lightsaber crystal as dark as a black hole into his enemy's hand. "I assume you were expecting a quick death then? If you game me what I wanted?" the figure asked. The jedi nodded. "That's what they all wish for." said the figure, putting away the crystal.
The figure grabbed the jedi by the neck and raised him high into the air, and threw him across the battlefield. The jedi's body skipped across the battlefield like a rag-doll. Using the force, the figure slid the jedi's limp body back to his feet, and stomped on the back of his neck, finishing the job.
The figure pulled out the crystal, and pulled back his cowl. his right eye distinctly scarred, and blind. He looked at the crystal with both eyes however, one seeing from the material view, and the blind one seeing the dark force that it was. The jedi had planned to try and purify the crystal, making it a pure crystal of the light side of the force. A tall slim figure appeared behind the cloaked man, The Inquisitor. "Master. Are you done with your little expedition? We do have plans to make."
"I am done, and it was not a "little expedition" it is vital to my end of the plan."
"Your end?" asked The Inquisitor.
"There are some things that I can't simply share with you Inquisitor. You will learn of my personal plans soon enough."
"Just make sure that your plans don't get me killed. I'd rather not be cut short on anything."
"You won't be Inquisitor, trust me."
"Good. How did the collecting session go?"
"Boring, no true hunts lately. I look forward to seeing Alyria. The sound of her neck snapping is one I look forward to."
"As do I for her new companions. We should be off, I'd rather not stay here longer than I already have to."
"Very well then. I'm done here anyways." The two sith walked off in the same direction they both came from, leaving the bodies to be dealt with by The Collector's acolytes.
(( Hey guys new chapter, sadly not with the crew and is a little short, but I haven't had ANY time to work on this, but I haven't forgotten and I have been doing some planning whenever I can. The next chapters will be more days of training with the crew, character development, so on and so forth. I will now be trying to get more chapters out since the unrelenting amounts of work have ceased and I have more time to work on this. :D I love you all and hope to get feedback from all of you. ))