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The sound of footsteps echoed across the ancient walls of Naga Sadow's stronghold on Khar Delba. The source of the footsteps was a young man, dressed in the brown robes of the Jedi Order and the silver hilt of a blue lightsaber in his hand. He held his weapon closed to hip, leaving a trailing blur against the shadows of the halls.
The young Jedi felt himself coming closer to another presence and it was not long until he found the trail of a red lightsaber in the shadows. The wielder of the red lightsaber was a woman, the Jedi could tell from her figure under the black robes. He knew very well what the person was. "You can't escape me, Sith!" the Jedi called out, using a burst in the Force to increase his speed.
It seemed like the Jedi was getting closer to his target with every passing second. The Sith noticed it as well and she whirled around for her lightsaber to strike the Jedi. The Jedi raised his weapon and his blue blade blocked the Sith's red blade. The light of the locked blades allowed the Jedi's eyes to come across the Sith's yellow eyes and long brown hair. The one thing that stood out the most was her crimson red skin that identified the woman as a Pureblood Sith.
The Purebloods were the original natives of Korriban, who were enslaved by former Jedi exiled from the Order. Those Jedi became the Lords of the Sith and they interbred with the Sith species, creating a long line of Sith Lords. The Sith race had not been seen since the fall of the Sith Empire during the Second Great Galactic War from a few decades prior, and the young Jedi had just found one.
Bringing his attention back to his opponent, the young Jedi managed to smack away the red blade with his blue one. He attempted a counterstrike against the Sith, but she blocked his attack and sent a thrust to his chest. The Jedi leaned back to avoid the stab, but he found himself almost losing his foot as he backed away.
The Sith stood where she was, her yellow eyes watching the Jedi clumsily regain his footing before he grasped his lightsaber hilt with both hand. A small smile formed on the Sith's face as the novice actions of the Jedi trying to kill her. "It seems you have much to learn," the Sith told him, a playful tone in her voice. "Perhaps the Jedi Council was too quick you to knighting you."
The Jedi growled before he lunged at the Sith only for his attack to be parried. Bringing his blue blade back, the Jedi swung his weapon parallel to the Sith's head, yet that too was blocked. As he continued to fight, the Jedi began to think back as to how he came to be fighting with a Sith.
He had been sent by the Jedi Council to investigate a freighter pilot carrying out suspicious actions in the Outer Rim. The Jedi found the pilot, but he also found inside the pilot's ship were Sith holocrons, recording devices used to store knowledge of the Sith. Once that was a simple mission had turned into a investigation of who wanted such knowledge.
The young Jedi used the freighter pilot to bring him to Khar Debla and it was not long until he came across the Sith he had been looking for. All of his efforts had led down to this moment, and it was was going horribly. The Jedi's attempts to destroy the Sith had gone poorly, and he had not improved his situation one bit.
As the Sith's red lightsaber blocked another attack from the Jedi, she slowly retreated further into the shadowy hall. "Too slow!" the Sith called out with a laugh that bounced off of the walls.
The Jedi pursued her, using a burst of the Force to once again to keep up with the Sith. The chase continued down the hall and through a large pair of double doors. The Jedi had to stop when he found himself standing at the front of a long corridor with multiple doors and no sign of the Sith.
Slowly treading on the stone floor, the Jedi kept both his hands on the hilt of his weapon and his eyes peered off into the shadows of the corridor. As he did, the Sith's voice bounced off of the walls and reached the Jedi's eyes. "I wonder, why is a Jedi doing all the way away from the rest of the galaxy?" she called out to him. "Isn't there a Republic you need to defend or something?"
The Jedi gritted his teeth as he tightened his grasp around his lightsaber. "You're a Sith! You're an evil that must be stopped!"
"You see shadows where there are none," her voice called out.
"That's funny coming from the one hiding in the shadows!" the Jedi retorted.
Another laugh. "Oh, I like you boy," the Sith mused. "Such a sharp tongue, I see."
In less than a second, the Jedi froze feeling the heat of a lightsaber against the side of his neck, and it was not his. "Shame your skills aren't the same," the same voice spoke, now from behind him.
The shaft of red plasma circled around the Jedi's neck, making sure it did not touch his flesh, and the Jedi could see the Sith keeping her red lightsaber at his neck. Her yellow eyes stared at the Jedi's face, not paying any attention to the blue lightsaber that was kept pointed at the ground.
The Jedi's blue eyes stared back at the Sith. "What are you waiting for?" he spat. "Kill me!"
"Kill you?" A look of humor and curiosity flashed across the Sith's face. "Oh no, no. You mistake me for some other Sith. Why would I want to kill you?"
Confusion etched on the Jedi's face as he answered, "Because I'm a Jedi. We're enemies. You Sith have wanted to kill us since the Great Hyperspace War!"
The expression never left the Sith's face as she continued, "Really? I thought that war was long over."
The Jedi's confusion turned into irritation. "Don't patronize me!"
"I'm not," the Sith answered.
The irritation rose inside of the Jedi and he could hold it in no longer as he lashed out with his lightsaber. The Sith backed away before blue the blade could touch her, bringing her own red blade away from the Jedi to parry another attack. She proceeded to raise her lightsaber over her head to block a slash that would have cut her in two.
The two blades remained locked with one another, and the Jedi continued to use his strength to push his lightsaber down upon the Sith's own weapon. The Jedi could sense the Sith's arms starting to give way as the locked blades began to come closer to her brown hair. However, the Jedi did not expect his opponent to raise a free hand to his chest.
By the time the Jedi realized what happened, a burst of Dark Side energy rushed from the Sith's hand and struck him in his chest. The lightning crackled around his body as he was sent flying into the stone wall of the corridor. The blue lightsaber flew from the Jedi's hand and the blade died before the hilt clattered a meter away from the Jedi.
The Sith lowered her hand and her yellow eyes stared at the form of the Jedi as smoke rose from the burnt tunic over his chest. "Typical Jedi," she shook her head as she approached him. "So predictable."
A small groan left the Jedi's throat before he raised his head to meet the Sith's yellow eyes. The Jedi knew he was defeated and the Sith stood over him victoriously, her lightsaber ready to strike him down. Yet, the Sith just stood there, her eyes gazing down at the Jedi who tried to kill her, and it bothered the Jedi to no end.
"Why don't you finish it?" the Jedi questioned. "I'm defeated and unarmed. You could kill me, like any Sith would."
The red blade of the Sith's lightsaber retracted into the hilt. "Well, I'm not most Sith," was her response before the Sith whirled around and headed into one of the many doors before her. "Best if you go."
The Jedi stared at the Sith's back with surprise. "What?"
The Sith did not spare a glance as she continued towards the door. "I'm giving you the chance to live, Jedi. I suggest you take it."
The young man slightly groaned as he supported himself against the wall behind. As grateful as the Jedi was, he still posed the question, "And what makes you think I won't tell the Jedi Order about you?"
The Sith's black boots came to a stop and faced the Jedi with a smirk on her face. "Because they can't chase after ghosts."
With that, the Sith disappeared into the entrance and like that, she was gone. No sight of her, no Force signature left behind. There was not a single trace of the Sith left for him to follow. All the Jedi could do was just stand there, resting his back against the wall as he wondered about the Sith's words.
AN: Sorry if it's so short, but that's all I could think of when I was writing this idea. The basic idea for this story is that a Sith spares a Jedi trying to kill her, and the Jedi in question begins to question his Order to the point he tries to become the Sith's apprentice. Pretty simple, if you ask me.
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