Author Note:

I know that most of you were expecting me to keep going with Warden Gothic but I thought it might be a good thing if I wrote something else in order to stop myself from getting bored with that story as events are just like the game.

With that in mind I ended up writing this chapter of Sith Gothic. I just read Darth Plagueis for what must be the sixth time so I'm in a Star Wars mood this week which means you get yet another chapter of Sith Gothic sometime this weekend, but don't count on it as work might call me in for some extra hours.

Reviews

Vinyl Scratch3

Glad you're enjoying it and finally here is more

Solidstach

Exclamation marks? I didn't notice I was doing that. Thanks for pointing it out. Also I glad you like the character.

I thought the whole dark before become Sith would be good because so many Sith are Jedi who 'fall to the darkside' Frankly its gotten a bit borning

ViolatedMonkey

Oh his kids are important just not now. Sith Gothic One and Two will be centred around Gothic. The visions about will also start to become less important soon.

FLaTone

I actually did know about that, but I haven't had any of the Gothics deal with the problem was not understanding books and such. I wanted him to deal with that while still being able to talk to people. Having Aurebesh be verbally the same as English but with a different written format was something Gothic needed to overcome in order to advance. It also helps make the character seem less powers if he has limits.

dragon matt blue & war sage

Thanks guys.

Sith Gothic. Part 12.

The Jedi Enclave. Dantooine. Star Wars KOTOR Galaxy.

Voluntary being on a world that was pretty much the centre of Jedi power in this time period was not the wisest thing a newly minted Sith Lord could do, but it seemed to be going well enough.

To my amazement the Jedi Council actually seemed to understand why I had become a Sith, and they also seemed to understand my desire to help end Malak's reign.

Which wasn't as odd it might seem as the Jedi did believe in giving people second chances, and they too understood that I had let my visions guide me into taking the right course of action.

Of course they weren't fools. They didn't let me join in with their meetings and they hadn't let me leave the Enclave, but considering the fact that I was a Sith they were expending me a hell of a lot of trust.

If only the crew of the Ebon Hawk were as trusting as the Jedi Master, it would make my job at lot easier

Worse their mistrust, Shan didn't seem to want to let me out of her sight. Which was making me uncomfortable to say the least.

Still at least her interest in me was understandable, the young Jedi had seen me in a number of visions, at least as much as I had seen of her. She knew, as I did, that our fates were intertwined. But the rest of the crew, aside from Revan, hadn't foreseen my part in these events, they just knew me as a Sith defector and given that I already betrayed one group they had little reason to think I wouldn't betray them as well if it suited me.

They simply couldn't see the big picture, they couldn't understand that if I didn't work with them then Malak would burn half the galaxy in an attempt to conquer it. Worse there would be no Jedi left to stop the Sith Empire, that was even now gathering its strength in the Unknown Regions, from taking over the entire galaxy.

This would in turn led to the Sith Emperor consuming all life in the galaxy in his mad attempt to obtain some sort of godhood, and there would be no one to stop him.

I couldn't do it. I didn't have the training or the power and I wouldn't have either for many years to come.

All this meant that Revan had to survive and Malak had to die, this was important but I didn't have the time or the energy to convince the non Force Users of the group of my honest intentions.

At least Reven, not that she knew she was Revan, seemed to trust me. I guessed that the former Dark Lord of the Sith must of seen me taking her Starforge Map back on Tatooine because she had followed me out into the Dune Sea with very little in the way of convincing.

Although I imagine the fact that the Sith Troops had been shooting at both us, and that I fought the Dark Jedi, went a long way to proving my good intentions.

Aside from that, all in all things were going well. I was now in a position that would allow to me manipulate events enough so that the end result of this adventure would end with the destruction of Malak and the Starforge.

"You still won't tell me what this is all about, right?" Mission asked.

Well so much for being a Force User. I hadn't been able to sense a teenage alien walking up behind me, but in my defence this was a world strong in the light side of the Force. I'd never learned to use Jedi techniques and there was no way I would ever call upon the dark side with so many Jedi Master around.

Still I should of sensed something, perhaps the light side could blind the servants of the dark side in a place such as thing.

The Twi'lek slowly inched closer to me across the grass, and placed a single blue hand on my leg..

"So, why did you want to speak to the Jedi Masters" Mission asked when it became clear that I wasn't going to answer her first question.

I moved a little so that I could lean against the outside wall and the young Twi'lek copied my actions so that she could sit down next to me.

"It's complicated" I said trying my best to explain "its Force stuff".

Clearly that wasn't going to satisfy her, but I couldn't really explain how I knew that Malak was going to destroy the place. All I could do was hope that the master got the younglings away to a hidden base before the Sith warships showed up.

"That's all the explanation you're going to give me isn't it".

It was very hard to relate matters of the Force to those who weren't sensitive to it. Often it felt like trying to describe a colour to someone who is blind or a note to someone who was deaf. Most people just didn't have a proper frame of reference for it.

"I heard you didn't say anything much Bastila either".

In that matter I didn't have much of an excuse there as Bastila did understand the Force, but I really I hadn't had much to tell her as I didn't know why so many of our shared visions showed us as being together.

"Fine, whatever," Mission said next. "You know, I was talking to Carth earlier… He's not too happy about having you join the crew. He doesn't trust you".

"I'm pretty sure that Carth doesn't trust any of us," I said with a scoff.

Thinking back to when I'd played through KOTOR I couldn't help but sympathise with Carth. He had very valid reasons for not trusting people.

"I bet you can't tell me why that is either" replied the teenage alien with a scoff.

Actually I could.

"Its not my place to pry" I told the girl "but I sense he has issues due to his past. He doesn't trust anyone really its not about us its about what happened to him".

No one going to be a laid back kind of guy after losing their family but since he didn't want to talk about it I wasn't going to press the issue.

"Anything else you want to ask?" I questioned

The alien girl seemed to consider my query for a moments before asking.

"Why do the Jedi and Sith always want to fight?"

Oh boy that was a loaded question.

"Well I could tell you that's it just the way things work but my Force Powers tell that would result in you being very angry with me, so I won't".

I paused to gather my thoughts.

"Do you know what a see-saw is?"

"Sure" the alien teen replied "I've seen kids in the park. Wasn't allow to play on them but I watched".

Taris only had playgrounds on the higher levels where there was sun light and only humans spent much time under the sky.

"Okay so imagine the galaxy is like a see-saw and that there two children on it. The Sith are one kid while the Jedi is the other kid. Both of the kids want to be the one in the air as that means that they are in charge so they use their legs to push off and try to make the other one stay down. However the Force wants to be balanced so one kid can never stay in the air for too long, but since the two kids are trying to keep the other one down they will never have proper balance".

A very crude way of explaining what was a complex issue but it was the best I could come up on short notice. Perhaps scales would have been a better way of explaining it.

"So where's your partner in crime?" I inquired of the blue girl as wanted to change the subject.

Mission smiled and said.

"Oh I told him that I was going to seduce you, so he's staying in our quarters".

It took me a moment to fully process that.

"What?"

The Twi'lek girl laughed.

"Relax, I just needed some time away from the big furball" the teen assured "Big Z's great but a girl needs time to herself. Beside your meant to be with Balista, you know it, she knows it. Even our fearless leader knows it. You all had visions showing it. How many people can say that their relationship is foretold in prophecy".

Really it wasn't a prophecy at all. Jedi could have prophetic like dreams and visions but these weren't fixed things, they sometimes never happened at all and generally speaking they were warnings of future or even present dangers. They were sort of the Force's way of say 'hey this important thing is suppose to happen' or 'this bad thing is happening' once in a while you even had 'here look at this event that happened ages ago because its relevant to what is going on now'

Jedi prophesies were real but they few and far between, and might not be important for a few hundred years. Plus they only came out of the mouths of masters who had spent decades learning to hone their talents and they always happened when the master was in a trance like state.

"That doesn't really matter" I tried to explain "people have free will. If Shan wants to change the future she can".

Not that I thought she would due to the fact that I'd see her future self (well sort of) in that cave.

Add to that the fact that Shan and I were always shown to have some sort of romantic attachment in nearly all my visions. Sadly that also meant that I wouldn't have a proper family as the female Jedi and I wouldn't last.

I also suspected that it wasn't really about the two of us anyway. My money was on the child being important.

A baby born of two humans was nothing special. But being a child of a Sith and a Jedi. One of which wasn't even from this galaxy... well that situation had important destiny written all over it.

The only thing missing was in fact a prophesy and it was possible that there actually was one on the subject. There were many lost Jedi holocrons still to be found and any of them might mention these events.

"I don't think she will" assured Mission as she leaned her head on my shoulder "its too romantic not to happen".

Oh great another silly girl who though it was sweet when two people who should be mortal foes fall in love. Shan and I together would be just like Romeo and Juliet, and it would end just as badly. Sith and Jedi were suppose to kill each other. It was the will of the Force that they battle throughout history. Any Jedi/Sith romance was doomed from the start.

Well hopefully it wouldn't end in a double suicide.

I noticed then that Mission had fallen asleep and that I also wanted to close my eyes. I didn't sense any danger and we were safe enough so I assumed that it was simply the peace of this place that was encouraging us to relax. With this in mind I closed my eyes and hoped for pleasant dreams.

A Vision Of The Future.

This was the sort of dream/vision where I seemed to be watching from a distance. I was not in control of what I saw but I could control how I saw the events play out.

I watched myself move along a walk way that was bathed in darkness, there was little light to see by but I seemed to know exactly where I was going in such a way that I knew that this wasn't the first time that this future version of myself had walked that path.

Along side the older me, although I did not look much older than I was now, walked a child. She couldn't of been more than ten years old but it was already clear to see that she would be the kind of woman that would make other females green with envy due to her good looks.

It was also clear who her father was. She had my blue eyes and she had the scruffy look that I'd had as a child, but I saw nothing of Shan in the girl. In fact it wasn't until I saw the tattoo that I was sure who the mother was, even if the red hair had been a big clue and the way the child moved told me that this girl had never been a Jedi.

Oddly her style dress matched mine. The red headed girl wore a black robe over what I thought was body armour, she also wore boots that matched my own. There was very little about her that was feminine yet she was no tom boy either.

The two of us kept moving and gave out the sort of aura that told people not to mess with us, but there was always some fool who ignored those kinds of warnings.

"Hey wanna buy some Red Sand".

I had no idea what Red Sand was but it wasn't hard to guess that it wasn't legal outside of Hutt Space.

"You don't want to sell me Red Sand" my future self said while making a small motion with his hand "You want to go home and take an overdose".

The weak willed human did as he was told.

"Do you think he'll snap out of it before he gets home?" the little girl asked in a voice that did not belong to someone who should be playing with dolls and tea sets.

The older version of myself answered.

"Its possible. But I doubt it. The will to live is a strong one but the drugs he takes has dulled his mind. He didn't have much will. Still if he is able to resist then he deserves to live a little longer and if he doesn't then there will be one less dealer on the streets".

"That won't make a difference" the girl pointed out.

My possible future self smirked upon hearing that.

"Everyone matters in the grand scheme of things" he explained "a single person can change the fate of billions".

"You did" stated the girl who was my daughter "you insured that Malak was defeated".

"True, but I knew what course of action to take" the older me reminded our offspring "its much easier to manipulate the future when you know exactly how a certain outcome could come to pass. It would have been far easier to mess things up".

"Maybe not" argued the child in a way much to adult for her "perhaps certain things are just meant to happen".

The older me smiled and then said.

"This is something that has been debated for a very long time and likely it will be debated until the stars burn out. But that's not why we are out tonight".

Now I knew that I was seeing Nar Shadda because I recognised where my future self was talking my not yet alive child.

"Reach out with your powers and feel this place" my future self instructed of his offspring.

She seemed to do as she was told and the girl gasped in surprise.

"This is the heart of a world" the other me informed "I don't mean a heart in the sense that its keeping the planet going its something else. From here you could drive the population of this moon into madness or save them from despair".

The girl gripped the safety bar with her gloved hands.

"I can feel the dark side but there's the light side here as well".

The older me nodded in approval.

"My old friend the Exile, she gave this horrible place a bit of her own goodness. I can feel it if I look past all the despair, it will last forever and will ensure that is just enough light here to stop this place from totally failing into the darkness".

The two Sith, for there was no other word for them. Spent some time studying the place before either of them spoke.

"When will we leave this place?" asked the young girl.

The older me took a moment to answer that question.

"Soon, events are in motion. The Sith in the Unknown Regions can do without me for a while but I'm Emperor now. They need me to guide them".

Wait, hold on. I was the Emperor. How did that happen?

"War is coming, and when it does we won't have time to visit places such as this".

"Zoist was better" was all the girl said.

"I know" the older me said "but you and your mother will be targets. The Jedi wouldn't kill a child even to end a war but I wouldn't put it past them to kidnap you and there are groups out there who don't have such strong morals".

"Shame" replied my daughter "I wanted to go with you when the invasion starts. A direct strike on...

The Jedi Enclave. Dantooine. Star Wars KOTOR Galaxy.

With a lurch the vision ended and I was back in the present. I nearly went for my sabre but it was only Shan shaking me awake and not an attack. Still it would have been nice if she'd let me get through the entire dream.

"We have to leave" informed the Jedi Padawan "the masters want us to find the next Star Map as soon as possible. We don't have much time".

Yeah we didn't and I knew this because I was the one going around tell the Jedi that we didn't have much time.

"Right, fate of the galaxy and all that" I said "no time for napping in the shade".

"Certainly not with girls who are far too young for you" snipped Bastlia.

Given that Mission had decided to cuddle me during our little sleep I could understand why Shan might be thinking along such lines, but my opinion was that the twi'lek girl had latched on to me because she was already seeing me as an older brother type figure. Not that surprisingly given that I could sense her desire for a family which was why she'd joined the crew.

Of course I wouldn't put it past the alien girl to have purposely held on to me because she wanted Bastila to find us in such a position at some point. Even fully trained Jedi could feel jealous and Shan was far more emotional than most of her peers, even if did come out in a way that made her seem to be a bit of a snooty bitch.

Mission said nothing as we boarded the Hawk, and either did I as I was already starting to think over my latest vision/dream.

What I needed now was a quiet place to think.

Sadly I wasn't going to get one as it look like Shan wanted to lecture me about appropriate behaviour.

Thankfully she was sexy when she was mad.