Chapter 10 – Darkness of the Spectrum

Hello again peoples! Just to say, this chapter will take place two weeks after the last chapter, and few things have occurred since then, read to find out!

Time: 948 YASW, 12th Month

Location: Unidentified, Force Realm

It was during a time of war, that darkness struck. That much was true, even if some knew that the sides were not true themselves. As there could be darkness within light, and light within darkness. The Force, in that way, was a vastly unknown idea, as many did not realize that each side had its pros and cons.

Several entities, powered by the innate power of the Force, knew that the timeline had been forever changed with the vision given, and the events that played out after that, one entity knew that it, for the darkness to survive, it would need to manipulate so that the light does not lash out too much so the darkness of everything would die, thus causing imbalance… again.

That, as many Jedi eons ago knew, would destroy the entire universe if left for a long time. And thus, the Dark would lash out again, and thus, balance would never be made due to eternal conflict waged upon all of the galaxy.

So, the galaxy needed several Grey entities… and starting with one they shall.

"Thou say, that we should surely manipulate, to gain the balance that we so desire the vast Galaxy to possess?" One of the entities asked, 'he' looked like an old man, with a long beard, except with no facial features except for his eyes, which were red all over, just a red shape. Otherwise, the entity was all black.

These entities are what the self-named 'humans' would call 'Dark Devils'.

"That is what I say, oh elder one. It is suggested we send the same entity we first sent, only a fortnight before. Shall she do well, I do not presume to be arrogant, but faith in her I have. We all presume that she shall do well. I know that thou hast faith in the plans the Great Power planned, for to bring balance to it." Another entity spoke, this one was similar, with red eyes and being all black, but this one looked more normal, with raised lines on it's 'head' that implied hair.

"Thou faith may be placed wrong, but we do not presume to know the future. I am sure that thou decision hast been taken into consideration… if this fails then the balance may have to kick the bucket! Surely thou hast noticed the darkness that seeped into the Light Lion's den!" The 'elder one' exclaimed, raising his hands in emphasis, the second entity stood there, thinking of his next statement.

Which he did, ultimately stating, "We all noticed the darkness that keeps to grow… the light hast been rebelling viciously… but the wrong approach they all are taking. All of our species, including I, hast been afraid of what the results could be, of this entire madness!"

"Surely you all do not have such low faith in me! I shall complete the task that has been prior stated… do not presume to think that I shall fail… already I have a plan to make the balance stay. Starting with one human… of whom is a Jedi." To these entities, the terms Jedi and Sith were those that were rarely stated. And this final entity was the one that talked to Qui-Gon Jinn, "I shall make sure the balance stays, by pointing the chosen to the right direction… only give me permission to interact with the galaxy, to be sure that I succeed in my task."

"The permission is given… go ahead, do succeed please, or else the entire galaxy as we know it shall be destroyed." The 'elder one' told the 'female' entity.

"I shall do as asked of me." The third entity said those words, and then left to find the door to the Mortal Galaxy.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Knight, was taking care of the plant life of his quarters, mulling over the events that had occurred for the past two weeks. Apparently the Force had gone even darker, spurring quite a few Jedi to lash out. Two Padawans had gotten into a duel with their lightsabers, and one had been taken to the infinimary, he was still unconscious. Qui-Gon himself felt the pull of the Dark Side, and he tried to resist it.

His former Master, Dooku, had become even more darker, as he made quite a few questionable decisions in his tenure at the Council, most at the Chancellor's behest, which in itself was questionable. Though, Qui-Gon didn't have much time at investigating it, as he spent most of his time either in his quarters, or on abandoned or dark sectors of Coruscant to find any Sith that were lurking around there.

That didn't mean that Qui-Gon didn't find stuff, no… he had arrested numerous criminals, some linked to the Sith, but many not, but all of them were pretty notorious. The Council, sans Dooku, all congratulated him after his arrests.

Numerous clues, Qui-Gon also had found, about the Sith, plans for numerous weapons and so on, most of Mandalorian design… which in itself was suspicious. This mystery had been baffling everyone who knew of it, which was every Jedi in the Temple, except they didn't know his involvement in it, only the Council did. The Jedi Knight had overheard a teen Jedi Padawan call the mystery a 'door that leads to two others, and so on', Qui-Gon had to commend that as a spot-on metaphor.

But, he had to find out about the Sith Lords… he just had to.

"You have to?" A voice behind Qui-Gon asked, the Jedi Knight turned around to see the same Dark Devil who he had met just a fortnight before.

"I did not call you." Qui-Gon breathed in heavily, before exhaling and putting his hand on his lightsaber

"Oh, I did not come to hurt you in any way." The Dark Devil gave out a girlish giggle, covering a hand on what could have been her mouth had she been human, which Qui-Gon frowned at

"Then what did you come here for?" Qui-Gon queried, his tone seemingly calm

The devil first stared at Qui-Gon, and gave a small giggle, which the Jedi frowned at. He knew that she was planning something. The woman-like figure made sharply stared at Qui-Gon, walking closer.

"Have you ever tried to see in the places where kidnapping has occurred before?" The devil asked, doing what seemed like smirking… but Qui-Gon couldn't tell due to the fact that the devil had no facial features other than a nose and eyes.

"Kidnapping… are you trying to give clues?" The Jedi Knight asked back

"That statement is for your interpretation."

With those words, the Devil left, leaving Qui-Gon mystified. He realized, the Devil might just have been telling him the truth, which she had been the last time, telling that she'd come back, and also the fact of the Sith Lord's names… they had been verified during the last two weeks by prisoners Qui-Gon interrogated personally, arrested before the Senator Damask's kidnapping or not. All prisoners confessed the names of the Dark Lords after Qui-Gon stated them… thus, the Jedi Council knew of the Sith's names. All these led back to the Dark Devil's confessions.

So, taking the plunge, Qui-Gon decided to travel down what was probably a dark path and heed the Dark Devil's words.

Qui-Gon had been given a datapad programmed to show all news articles based on the order of lated to earliest, for his investigations. The Jedi Knight had decided that the machine would come in useful at that moment. Moving forward to the table where it had been put, Qui-Gon plucked it up and pushed a button on the top-right corner of the machine, turning it on.

A display of news articles from the HoloNet came up, all displayed in blue, with the headline on the top, lead paragraph underneath and lines separating the articles. In the order of most recent to least. Qui-Gon saw the magnifying glass that was displayed on the top-right corner of the screen. It was the 'search' button.

Lifting a finger, the Jedi Knight tapped the button, and a textbox came up, with a holographic keyboard that sprouted from the bottom of the device. Laying down the Datapad on the table where it had been picked up from, Qui-Gon typed in, 'kidnap'. It was a basic search, but then, less words used often gave more results, and sometimes was the most effective when clues were discreet, as the one the Dark Devil had given.

Pressing the rectangular button at the right side of the keyboard, the image retracted into the projector as results immediately came up. Qui-Gon knew that the articles and clues he wanted were in the most recent articles, five… possible ten.

The latest articles were mainly daily death records, the sixth article being a major murder of a powerful man and his family that occurred a year before, and the latest article, 'Rise in Kidnap Rates', seemed very suspicious.

So, the Jedi Knight clicked on it, extending the article immediately, so it took the entire screen. The top of the article stated that it was only written the day before, on 05-12-948. It was currently the sixth day of the twelfth month. It took quite a while to read the article, as it had been long, stating previous records and numerous crimes that had been committed. Lot of them near the Works Area, committed by unidentified people, species was also unknown.

Qui-Gon then took a mapping machine, and put it next to the datapad, turning the machine on, it displayed a flat, vertical map of Coruscant, with the center being the Jedi Temple. He then put down the coordinates of the last location the people were in.

Noticing a very suspicious thing, Qui-Gon added another the location of another building that the previous locations seemed to surround. Figuring it out, he gasped. He then saved the coordinates of the building, and shut down the device, putting it in his robe side-pocket.

The Jedi Knight ran out of the quarters, knowing that he was going to fight, and hopefully arrest the Sith at that day.