*He enjoyed the darkness like it was his best friend, but when he felt it thicken, carrying with it ashes and sulfur in waves, he knew there was something wrong.

He considered himself already the Dark Lord of the Sith, waiting in the shadows until the time was right to initiate the Grand Plan that the Sith had been plotting since Darth Bane had established the Rule of Two.

For now, he was the newly elected Chancellor of the Republic. He wore a disguise that promised protection and peace for the galaxy, and then when the time is right, he will reorganize this pitiful Republic into the first Galactic Empire. The Jedi will be erased from the galaxy and the Sith will rise again, stronger than ever.

The man that the Jedi and the Republic saw was Chancellor Palpatine. To himself, and to only a few others, some of which were dead now, he was Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith.

He was absolutely confident in his plans, but this overwhelming wave of darkness he felt concerned him, despite his love for the dark side. This new wave was not coming from him, it was from somewhere else. A planet that he had honestly studied very little about.

He needed to go to Zenga.**

*It wasn't at all difficult for Anna to become a skilled, but dangerous machine with her newly constructed lightsaber. She leapt all over the place, slashing away at the trunks of the dead trees in the forest, savoring the crashing sounds as they fell over with a groan and clobbered the dry soil. Crusty red leaves flew around Anna as she continued to swing and cut and hack away. Trees continued to fall, irritating the humid air with its groans and crashing sounds. Anna's hunger for a real opponent to spar with festered in her as if there was a hole in her stomach.

Every time she slashed a tree down, she thought about her parents being killed, she thought about being poisoned by the kinrath, she thought about her brother being taken by the Jedi.

And she thought about that blasted boy Anakin, who lived the dream that Anna once had.

Her emotions were so concentrated on her thoughts and her current actions, that she didn't sense the stranger that was here until he was right behind her. She whirled around and saw a man wearing a black robe with a hood that hid his eyes. He was surveying the damage she had caused to the forest with great interest.

"I am most impressed with your handiwork young one. It is important to focus on your rage and your hate, and I sense much of that in you. But you lack attention to your surroundings, which is why I was able to land and approach you without you even noticing," he spoke. Anna narrowed her eyes and held her lightsaber tightly with both hands. She didn't want to speak with this man, whoever he was, because she would only provoke him to mock her further.

One corner of her mouth curved up, and she raised one hand and summoned electric energy to explode from her fingertips and ensnare the intruder in its painful trap. Anna blinked and suddenly saw the hooded man holding a red lightsaber in front of him, allowing the blade to absorb the energy. Anna stopped after a while, realizing this wasn't getting anywhere. This man was obviously a Sith. It enraged her, fueling the pain in her leg and forcing her to charge after him with her lightsaber ready to swing at the man's neck. She was determined to not allow this man to snatch away her destiny as the new Dark Lord of the Sith that will resurrect the Sith Order.

The red blades clashed. They buzzed and crackled, sending chills down Anna's spine. Hatred spurred her on, just like the mysterious man said. She realized the more that she swung her lightsaber and tried to decapitate him, the man laughed harder and harder. He was mocking her and toying with her.

"Stop playing with me!" Anna shrieked. The man laughed again and parried another blow that Anna attempted to deal out. The duel didn't last long. Anna could tell that this man was more powerful than she was. Unlike her, he had had years of training and experience. Though she believed herself to be powerful because of her heritage and the knowledge she already possessed, she wasn't reluctant to admit that this man was more powerful. Finally, the man switched off his lightsaber and hurtled electricity at her with both hands. She felt the energy smash into her and toss her backwards. She crashed her back against a tree and fell on her butt.

Something popped in her aching leg. Her vision blurred and she could see three images of the man towering over her.

Where was her lightsaber? Where was her lightsaber?

She heard a terrible laugh which cut through the air and irritated her eardrums. She then realized that the laughter belonged to the hooded man. She was too weak to get up. Another wave of Force lightning engulfed her. She could feel the energy shoot excruciating pain through her entire body and her screams and her headache reached higher than she could've possibly imagined.

"Mercy! Mercy!" She screamed. The man only laughed harder.

"If you were truly Sith, you would know that mercy is a lie."

After several more agonizing seconds, everything went black.**