I came over to Rooda and sat down beside her, my hands toward the fire.
"I know this place and everything going on now seems unusual. But so was going to Coruscant. A big change has hit us Roo. And I still know know if it's for the good or bad. Rakine severed my antlers this my career and now look what I've done in the course of my own anger." I rubbed the back of my head, slightly ashamed. "I turned to the Dark Side. I killed out chief and called Randin my own. Who does these things?" I looked to her for an answer.
"The Sith." She sighed. "If the Dark Side has possessed Rakine and influenced him to try and kill you, it may have an impact on you now. You're being mentored into the Dark Side, and now it seduces you closer and closer to evil." She took the hood off my head and rubbed my metallic antler-sabers. "Look at you. You're not the Eyt I remember. You've changed, and the Dark Side of the Force has you as its many living puppets." She broke her monotonous, expressionless appearance and hugged my abdomen, crying into my stomach. "Please Eyt. Please come back. I hardly know you anymore." The Force then sends me a message to my brain. It says this story had happened before. With a Jedi, now Sith, leaving his loved ones behind. Vader.
I immediately begin to regret my decision to turn to the Dark Side in revenge over my antlers. He was possessed by the Dark Side. And I challenged him like a fool.
"I know what I did was horrible and now I'm unrecognizable. But there's nothing I can do about it now. I don't know how I can change my sudden ways." I rubbed my hand across the back of her head as she wept. "But I will try to remain as I was. I won't let this Dark Side control me anymore." I look in my left peripheral and see Lord Sorin approach from the hangar. What could he have been doing in there?
"You came here to be taught by the Dark Side and now you're thinking about your choices to become a Sith Lord? You have cornered yourself in your own choices. Which ones are bad and which ones are good? Which are minor and don't hurt and which will permanently change your life and your friends' lives?" He rubs his balding scalp in extreme confusion. "You're like me when I was younger. I also thought was the Dark Side really my only option? Could it have been avoided? And even now, do I want to be a Sith?" He sat down by Rooda. "I wouldn't ever fight anyone. That's why I'm the Cowardly Sith." He looked down at Rooda leaning her head into my chest, wiping her tears away. "I know being a Sith isn't easy. Hell, I wished I could quit and go back to being a mechanic, but were both stuck with the Dark Side as our masters. It claims who it chooses and shows no mercy." Sorin looked to me. "So your friend Rakine was under control of the Dark Side itself. When did this happen?" It looked like he knew what I have been through. He then looked at Rooda.
"The Jedi Temple I think. If there is a Dark Side and it opposes the Jedi Order, then it may explain why-" I lose concentration in what Rooda was saying as my eyes drifted off to Master Sorin, who's eyes have turned white and he waved one hand at me.
Suddenly I'm overcome with strong waves of anger and hate. I hold my hands to my head and scream to myself and I feel the Dark Side start to control my body in intense waves. I'm screaming on the inside but no sound is coming out. I feel possession throughout my body and I lose all control over myself. I could only watch myself become a puppet of the Dark Side. And I saw now who it was in control of it. My own master has tricked me. "He's a liar" echoed to my mind.
"I wouldn't ever fight anyone." He chuckled evilly. "I make someone else do it for me." He lifted Rooda off of me up with the Force, sending her into some sort of sleep, and pointed to the hangar. "Now go, Lord Venison, to find Rakine Cerivian, and avenge your antlers, your manhood, your Zant life."
I'm stuck walking to the hangar carrying an unconscious Rooda in my arms. I opened the hangar door with the Force and I saw my ship had completely changed in appearance. The basic shape was the same but the hyperdrive for entering lightspeed has been disabled. Two massive metal stubs now protrude from the top of the ship. The shop itself is no longer a metallic color but it's a tan gray. The tip at the front is painted black and two black lines lead from the tip to around the front windshields. I noticed now what Sorin did to my ship. He turned it into a large metallic recreation of my head. Now everyone will know that this ship truly belongs to me. But how could Sorin have built all this on to my ship so fast, even for a mechanic? I opened the ship'a door and walked in. I lay Rooda down on a bed that I popped out of the ship's wall with the push of a button, setting her down gently, and pulling a large comforting blanket over her body. She lay still. I sat down into the pilot seat of the ship and started it up. While holding the throttle for the engine, I stared at the doors and sure enough, my mind opened them. Like my mind is open to Sorin's possession ability. I have to be careful because he can control me any time I disobey him. I flew the ship out of the base and up into space and thought to myself in fear of both Rakine and myself.
"Where is Rakine? I need to talk to him." I looked at my belt and lightsabers ten back out the windshield into space. "I know he was possessed. None of this was his fault. It was mine for trying to fight him, but it wasn't him. It was Sorin."
The ship left Hoth's barren atmosphere and I pushed the button for the ship to enter lightspeed. It didn't. Instead, out of the mirrors pointing out of the ship, I saw the large metal stubs grow long antennae and the antennae split into four sections. Like my antler-sabers. The long eight antennae stuck out into space and between them, massive sails attached them together and the ship was surrounded at the sides with large solar sails to help it quickly glide through space. The large metal icon of myself soared throughout the galaxy to find Rakine. I communicated with the Force to try to find him. It tells me to search my feelings.
And so my large sailed ship, now named "Zant's Nightmare" soars the outer rim territories to search for my old Jedi master. But Sorin can now take control of my body, now that I took his apprenticeship.
"Why did I have to be such an idiot?" I sat back in the chair thinking about where Rakine would be. I looked to Rooda, still unconscious in the bed, then to the front where I saw everything in space pass by the large sailed ship as it soared. I kept waiting for a sign of his presence anywhere. Until my connection with the Force spotted him somewhere in the Utapau system. I turn the Nightmare toward Utapau in search of Rakine.
Then waves of anger and fear consume my emotions. I gasped and tried to remain myself as I felt my body begin to go numb. I was no longer in control of my body. I could only watch as now, Lord Sorin took control of me and flew to Utapau to kill Rakine. My emotion, my body, my ship, none of it I could control. I had been possessed. Now Lord Sorin was in me, and now I had to fight him out.
Zant's Nightmare reached the Utapau system and directed toward Utapau. I heard Sorin chuckle evilly as the planet drew nearer, and with him now in control of me, I am only a small conscious being in my mind. I tried to reason with Sorin to stop the possession and release me into the real world.
"Oh, I think not. I haven't been out here in a long time. Allow me to say "hi" to your friend and introduce him to my crimson blades." He snickered and the Nightmare entered Utapau's atmosphere, the large antler-sails shrank a back down into the sides of the ship. We both sensed Rakine in one of the sinkholes, and we feel he senses both of us now. The Nightmare went down in one of the sinkholes and landing on a docking bay on the side of the wall. Lord Venison walked out of the landed Nightmare and sensed Rakine. He walked straight on to a walkway up to where Rakine was cleaning his lightsaber, possibly from our last battle. Venison pulled the hood over his head and Rakine jumped up and sensed his arrival.
"Hello, Rakine." He snarled.
Rakine backed away and ignited his blade.
"I know that voice. Sorin." He glares and readied his lightsaber.
"Sorin," he shook his head. "You think Sorin is here now?" He pulled off his hood and revealed me to Rakine for the first time. Rakine stare in horror.
"Eyt- what happened to you?" He backed up a step. "You're a Sith?"
"What happened to me?" Sorin in my body, chuckled. "You happened to me. You severed my antlers. You got me removed from Randin. Now only anger and hate live with me. I've joined your former Master Sorin as his apprentice. I have come back to avenge my manhood. But not as Eyt. As Darth Venison." He threw his arms in the air and his cloak flew behind his back. He Force pulled both crimson lightsabers to his hands and ignited them.
"Darth Venison?" Rakine glared. "Of course only Sorin would think of a name that stupid."
"I am more powerful than you are now, Rakine. And you will submit to Lord Sorin just as I have."
Inside my body, I tried communicating with the Force to remove Sorin from my body. Sorin gasped and groaned and I regained control of myself. I deactivated my blades and watched Rakine run toward me with his blade ready. He jumped up at me and I ignited my antler-sabers, both our blades clashing against each other. I Force push him back and hold him up in the air. I spoke to him in my normal monotonous Zan-Deer voice.
"Rakine, it is true. I have submitted to Sorin. But I came here not to attack you," I notice him glance at my eyes turning brown. "I'm warning you about Sorin. You tried to help me in the Jedi Temple, but he has taken you as his puppet. He destroyed me and I was too foolish to notice it sooner. Sorin is angry with us both." I set him down and watched Rakine's eyes switch to Dark Side eyes. Sorin's voice came out of his mouth.
"Lord Venison don't be a fool. You cannot save yourself or your friend. I taught you both, and I own you both." He ran to me and I blocked each attack.
"You're a liar Sorin." I yelled at his puppet of Rakine. "You will soon control us no longer. You're influence over us will end." I know I couldn't kill Sorin here. I knew f I attacked him, Rakine would die too. I watched Rakine's eyes return to blue and I felt myself become possessed. My anger and fear rising. "Rakine- we must stop Sorin. He's too powerful." My body started numbing. "Hoth. He's hiding on Hoth. Listen to me now. I can't keep him at bay forever."
"Eyt," Rakine whispered.
"Go to Hoth. His Force is strong there. He can't possess us both. Hurry." I scream in pain and Sorin takes total control. Rakine watches my eyes change to pale white, the sign of possession.
"There's no more time Rakine. You must listen to me," Sorin smirked. "Go to Hoth and kill him."
"I won't fall for your tricks Sorin. I know you're possessing Eyt." He made a gesture pointing to his eyes then to mine. "I can see your eyes. You've taken Eyt's body as another puppet. I will stop you Sorin." He Force threw Venison into a wall and I felt Sorin get thrown out of my body. I groaned and got up, pulling my lightsabers to me and attaching them to my belt. I stood up and motioned Rakine to me.
"It's me Rakine. Look at my eyes. Look. I'm not possessed. But he will be back." I walked for the Nightmare. "Sorin can control both of us. But not at the same time. He's hiding on Hoth. We need to go stop him together." I stopped and watched him board my ship.
"You've become a Sith, Eyt."
"I was under heavy influence. His anger and hate consumed me and I couldn't go back. It's a large wave of negative motion that couldn't be easily explained." I sighed. "The anger was too much and I killed the chief of Randin."
"That bad?" Rakine sat down on the bed by Rooda. "And what happened to her?"
"Sorin did something. She's alive, but she's not waking up." I sat in the pilot seat. "His effects on all three of us are strong. But once he's dead, we should be fine. The possessions will stop, and Rooda will awake."
"Hoth huh?"
"You know it," I started Zant's Nightmare for the Hoth system and Rakine sat by Rooda, trying to wake her.
"Darth Venison?" Rakine asked me.
"My Sith name." The ship flew up and off the landing platform. "From what I know, Eyt is gone. Now this is what's left of me." I say quietly, watching Utapau's atmosphere leave us.
"So-" Rakine looks over at me, "sorry about your antlers."
"Trust me, Sorin should be sorry. He did this to us. He split our bond as master and apprentice, when you tried to train me the ways of the Force. Now he wants us to do his dirty work. Well I've had enough."
"Why do you think I left after he trained me? He is an evil, evil man. He has mentally ruptured my Dark Side. But you," he chuckled, "you're a Zan-Deer. They're traditionally weak-minded. They usually fall for any slight trick."
I thought about all my choices. Becoming a Sith Lord, killing Tzano, attacking Rakine. All were caused by my inner anger.
"You're right about one thing, Rakine." The sails of Zant's Nightmare quickly carried the ship toward Hoth. "We Zan-Deer are weak-minded. I feel like such an idiot." I slammed my forehead into the edge of the control panel of the ship and groaned weakly. I lift an ear, hearing Rooda cough, and I sat up. Rakine and I both watched as the ship was gliding across the stars, and I looked to Rooda, as she started to regain consciousness. She rubbed her eyes and looked around the Nightmare. We both looked at her in relief.
"She's alright." I grinned.