Alright, this one is pretty short. It's the final chapter in this book. The next one should be ready soon.

Chapter 9: The BloodWorthy's Last Stand

Pereus looked out the transparisteel window, and fought to contain a sigh of resignation. They were once again placed against impossible odds, alone, outnumbered and outgunned, with no means of escape. A regular day under Darth Dragothis' command. This time felt different, however. The sith looked uneasy, and even non-force sensitive crew members seemed to feel it. Something was going to go wrong.

The crew was as prepared for battle as any other, the equipment fully prepared. But something seemed out of place, a gut feeling almost the entire crew shared. Dragothis sat in his chair, like normal, and when the enemy's capital ships came near enough, dark wisps of energy began to peel off of him. But, something still was wrong.

"Interesting." Dragothis said, surprising the tense Pereus.

"My Lord?" Pereus asked, "Is something the matter?"

"From what I feel, the enemy has a company of jedi masters and knights." Dragothis said. "More than I have felt in a single place for some time."

"What does that mean, my lord?"

"It means, Pereus, that they are blocking me. I cannot take control of their gunners."

"Which means…"

"It means that this may very well be the last time you will see the stars." Dragothis said, before turning to the comms officer. "Inform Darth Arkous that he is to have my seat on the Dark Council after this battle. Then open a communications link to the enemy fleet."
"Yes, my lord." The comm officer said, relaying the message and opening the channel with only a fraction of hesitation.

"My lord, what are you doing?" Pereus asked, surprised by the random act at this critical moment.

"Why let them have the satisfaction?" Dragothis said, before turning to the holo terminal nearby.

"This is Jedi Master Sessiish." A female twi'lek said, appearing on the holo. "Surrender and we will take prisoners."
"Ah, Master Sessiish." Dragothis said, an air of recognition in his voice. "I've wanted to meet the woman responsible for the death of the emperor."

"Sith, I understand that you dislike appearing weak, but I also understand you hate dying. Surrender and you can wait the war out in a cozy jail cell."

"You understand much about the sith, but very little about me. I am Darth Dragothis. And while you may have killed the emperor, I will not give you the satisfaction of capturing me."

"You're going to fight, even outnumbered?!"

"No, but you said sith hate dying, yes? Well I hate the jedi more."

With that final note of defiance, Dragothis pressed a button on the nearby engines control. The main thrusters suddenly fired up and the BloodWorthy charged towards the Command ship in the middle of the fleet. Republic guns fired up and pounded the BloodWorthy, but even as pieces of the ship spun out into space, the dreadnaught continued to make its way towards the fleet. Then, out of nowhere, hundreds of strange ships suddenly appeared, one of which got into the BloodWorthy's way.

Pieces of both dreadnaughts tore apart nearby dreadnaughts, and the entire ship seemed to disappear in flames. The last thing Pereus saw, before dying was open space, with strange white robots gliding through it towards him and a nearby unconcious Dragothis.

Why, did you kill us all? Pereus thought, as he died.

I did not kill all of us…

Well I hope you guys enjoyed this book and the teaser at the end. Remember I enjoy all feedback. If you think I need to make some changes to the way I right, do not hesitate to say anything. My only goal is to please the readers. I may take a break from Star Wars and maybe start working on a pokemon journey, so that may happen. I may try to juggle two books at once, since I.R.L I have been doing it with a few more. The next book should have a stronger story line. Please don't hate me if It doesn't.

-Darth Dragothis

P.S This is not from beyond the grave.