Chapter 2 A Dangerous Gamble
"Hit him again this brat needs to pay for what he did to our friends. Take this punk!" Roared one of the remaining sith mercenary soldiers. After the other remaining soldiers had dragged Var Shan to his feet, and then proceeded to beat the young sith lord in retaliation for his merciless slaughter of their fellow mercenaries.
Var's vision had become blurry and red from the blood rushing down his forehead as the soldiers continue to beat him. Var had dropped his lightsaber after he had been slammed into the cold hard tree trunk by a small explosion of what he thought must have been thermal detonators. Before the beating had started, Var had tried in vain to reach for his lightsaber, but the biggest soldier who had multiple scars on his body picked it up and placed it onto his belt.
"Now that was some show right their kid, but now it's over and your gonna pay for killing my people. My name is Sergeant Dexen Lokar I've served the Brotherhood for years, but as you can see those days are over now. My men and I only care about one thing taking whatever we can get from our former masters, and then leaving this wasteland forever. And no kid is going to get in our way no sir". Said Sergeant Dexen as he took his blaster out and aimed it at Var, and pretended to pull the trigger in some kind of attempt to get a scare out of the young sith lord. Of course alls he got in return was Var lifting up his head, and shooting a deadly serious yellow red sith eyed stare that the Sergeant saw just screamed "Do it I dare you I'll kill you before you can even blink and pull the trigger". The Sergeant laughed at the sight of Var's stare and then put his blaster away.
"Wahaha! You're a stubborn little bastard aren't you…good that's just how I like my prisoners before I get to work on them. We're going to take our time with you before we kill you. I just want you to know that your going to suffer before it ends give you something to look forward to". Dexen said with another laugh before making a hand motion for his men to continue the beating.
As the soldiers continued to beat Var he tried desperately to regain his hold on the force, gather enough energy, and then finish his uncompleted job on the remaining soldiers. But every time Var got close to gathering enough power it burned out in an instant something was keeping him from gathering the power he needed. And Var knew that if he was going to achieve his destiny and more importantly survive this current problem he would have to find out what and put a stop to it. Var closed his eyes and began to meditate through the pain to find his answers.
"I need to focus it hurts but this is nothing compared to the shame of being defeated by common traitors like this I need to gain my power back. I need to think back to what Lord Kaan told me when I first started my training. Var thought to himself as he flashed himself back to his first days as a sith with Lord Kaan.
"No young one you are doing it wrong do not try to copy what thee other students can do. You need to rise above them and to do that you need to find and master your specific force skill. Then with it crush all thee other students. But to do this you must give yourself to the darkside you must left your anger and hate guide you. Rember the words of the sith code young one. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. You must beak your chains now student"! Roared the memory of Lord Kaan and as he did Var realized what he needed to do, what deep down part of him was still to afraid to do…he must let the darkside consume him.
"Yes peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. I must break my chains I must give myself to the darkside and feasted on its power. And then use it to kill my enemies like the dogs that they are. Starting with you." Var thought to himself as he stopped pushing back against the darkside and let it consume him. It started as a small spark within him, but grew into a raging fire as he fueled that spark with all his anger, hate, and rage. Then in a matter of seconds all he no longer felt the pain but now grew stronger and stronger until he was able to gather a huge condensed ball of force energy in his hand and blast it around him it sent his enemies flying back. Then in mere seconds he brought a viroblades to his hands with the force and began to carve into his victims they had no chance at all.
"Please…spare…us…we're…sorry…I'm…sorry…I'll…serve…you…master…just…please…don't kill…us…PLEASE!" Begged one of Var's victims at his feet. Before Var looked him straight in the eyes smiled and said "I HAVE NO NEED OF SERVANTS WHO WILL BETRAY ME AT THE DROP OF A HAT YOU SHALL DIE HERE LIKE THE WORTHESS PATHETIC DOG THAT YOU ARE!" before stabbing his viroblade down straight into the mans chest and then twisting it around a couple of times as he screamed in agony. Var then took his time killing the rest of the former soldiers he tortured them slowly as he killed them to "thank" them for helping him see what he had to do to unlock his true power. He saved there leader who was knocked out for last…he was going to be a special moment when his life ended at Var's hands.
"Wake up Sergeant wake up its your turn now…your turn to get your reward for trying to kill me I picked out a very special death for you. You see I looked inside your mind with my power while you were out and I found something very…interesting you're a family man…or at least you were until the accident happened. A sad thing really if only you had made it there fast enough…if only you hadn't gotten drunk and started that fight with those republic soldiers maybe your daughter wouldn't have been tortured to death. But oh wait maybe in her dying breath she wouldn't have blamed you for it as they made you watch a holo video of it…You hurt me and now I'm going to hurt you…NEVER anger a sith this is what will happen to you now enjoy this because I know I WILL." Var Shan said to the Sergeant as he trapped him in a mental loop where he had to keep watching his daughter die unable to save her a instantly repeating hell that would never end he had dug it down so deep not even a jedi could undo it. He enjoyed it as the Sergeant began to scream and cry begging Var to make it end and just kill him…but Var didn't he only laughed like a mad man at the man suffering giving himself to the dark side had unlocked a more darker and twisted part of his own personality that loved seeing those suffer and beg for death. Eventually when he no longer found it enjoyable and it became boring he handed the soldier a blaster and watched as he blasted himself with it.
Then as he began to search for supplies to take with his to try and get of Ruusan after strapping his lightsaber back on Var sensed someone coming towards him. "No…it more then just one it is at least a small team of soldiers…and…and a jedi padwan no doubt coming to investigated survivors from the thought bomb. I will have to deal with this myself I'll set up a temporary barrier that will remove my existence from this area when they walk in even the padwan will not see me coming then I will reemerge after slaughtering the pathetic fools soldiers and take off his head with my blade." Var thought to himself as he set up his barrier and picked his targets as the group arrived at the camp he made short work of the soldiers they had little to no combat trinng with dealing with a sith so it was easy…Then he pointed his lightsaber at the padwan and challenged him this would be his first of many jedi KILLS