Star Wars A new Dark Lord

.: Luke Skywalker :. · Youngling

Star Wars
A New Dark Lord
By Luke Skywalker

He ran, and ran as fast as he could, through a forest of darkness and terror. He was running from a dark presence in the force. One so strong and terrible that it would rip him to shreds. He looked back only to see the dark shadow approaching; it came ever closer no matter how far he ran it approached. Green leaves and vines brushed past him, twigs snapped at his face, he flung him self out of the forest to find a Lake made of acid, and fire. He jumped from white stone to white stone into he was almost there. Then a fire lizard burst out of the lake. It shot fire at him through its mouth and then smashed stones with its acid covered tail. He jumped up activated his blue saber and sliced the lizards head off. Then he put all of his energy into jumping to the other side. He made it, barely; he looked back only to see his worst fear, the dark shadow that still followed him it went right through the acid without even flinching. He sprinted as fast as his body could handle, he went into another vine covered forest, this one even darker then the last, breathing hard and snapping every twig on the ground he stumbled forward. Five beasts emerged from the forest’s dark shadow they had red eyes and long snouts with teeth as sharp and shiny as a dagger, but he felt the darkness, he wasn’t worried about those beasts he jumped past them and ran on, the creatures followed hissing and growling. Sometimes they nipped at his feet, but the darkness was getting to close, it swallowed three of them into its invisible gut. Then a red blade emerged from nowhere and sliced two of them up. The darkness continued on and he ran, but then fell over a rock. He was exhausted and could not get up. He was breathing harder then he ever had he coughed like a sick old grandpa into the darkness closed in. Filling him with a cold horror.

“You made me this hideous beast, you killed everything that ever mattered to me, for that I thank you, for that I hate you.” said the darkness as it swallowed him whole. Sending him into a dark pit of doom.

***
Rob woke up in his quarters, right next to Jak'na his room mate and best friend. Jak’na was a strong and fast zabrak boy of sixteen, powerful with the force and physically strong. He had blue eyes and the ring of short horns around his head. His skin tone was grey and his rank in the order was Padawan, just like Rob. Rob was a humanoid of 15 years. He had light brown hair and green eyes he wore Jedi Padawan cloths just like everyone else and he swooshed his hair to the left side. He was panting, sweat dripped down his face…‘Had that been a dream it didn’t feel like a dream could it have been a vision? Jedi often get visions…No it was probably just a silly nightmare,’ he thought to himself. Rob looked over towards Jak'na who was still sleeping. He got up stripped off his nightly clothes and entered the shower. Rob put his hand on the scanner and instantly hot water sprinkled onto him like a waterfall. He was so tired, he let his eyes close shut and he just stood in the shower letting the water rinse away his sweat and fears… He was so tired, why did this have to bother him today? Now he wouldn’t go to sleep for hours! And the tournament was tomorrow! Why did stupid things like this always happen to him? Why couldn’t he do well? He needed to go to sleep or he’d lose for sure! Rob got out of the shower put on his robes and hopped into his bed. Jak'na was still sleeping; Rob looked at the ceiling and did his force meditation, it always got his to sleep the fastest, soon darkness was closing in on his eyes and he was a sleep.

The next day he got up Jak’na was already gone. After combing his hair he went down to breakfast. He found Jak’na eating like he hadn’t had food for a year. Jak’na was stuffing down food so fast that before Rob got to the table he had gone for seconds, three times! Rob grabbed a plate and scoped up some food. While he ate Jak’na talked about who was in the tournament, and what threat each one would posse to them…

“Riana is pretty strong and has skills with the force push and pull. But she stinks with a blade and I don’t think she will be any problem for either of us. Malikan was raised in a military family so he is extremely strong willed, plus he is amazing with his blade! He is going to be a tough opponent but I’ve noticed that his left side is weak and that could be taken advantage of. Still I hope he lands on someone like Rick! Rick is so good! I hope I don’t have to face him”

“Jak’na your one of the best swords man in are age group! Plus you’re skilled with the force and your brute strength isn’t bad either! You have no worries, if you want to worry about someone worry about me!”

“Ha! True you stink! You will be elimated right off the bat!” Jak’na said laughing like a crazy man.
Rob thought about how he was going to get anywhere. He should practice his saber moves some more. After finishing his breakfast and saying see you later to Jak’na Rob went into the training room. “Simulation three!” he shouted at the room. Instantly the room turned into a rock cave and a light saber activated. Its blue blade hummed into the air and lit the cave. He grabbed a training saber and activated it. It was a purple blade which he waved around a couple of times and then said, “Start program!” the enemy rushed at him. He put his saber into a defensive stance. That’s was his favored style ‘let the enemy attack first then after you figure him out strike hard.’ He blocked three incoming attacks one from the bottom, then the left then the thing tried to slip an attack into his upper right corner. Rob was not this foolish he wasn’t going to let anything hit him right on! The stupid computer was testing him! He upped his game and attacked with a power swipe to the right side. The computer blocked but stumbled a little. That was all he needed, he attacked three times and hammered the computer with all his strength. The computer was on the ground Rob whacked the computers light saber over and over then when it wasn’t expecting it he pushed his blade under and twisted his arm. The light saber slipped from the computer’s hand and fell to the ground then disappeared into dust. After Rob put the lightsaber right next to the computer’s neck. He had won and he was ready for the next level…

“Computer raise level to 6” The images changed, now he was in a grass plain. The computer had a green lightsaber. “Start!” he yelled out. The computer instantly attacked him. It rushed forward faster then Rob could react, it brought up its blade and began to swing madly. Rob could only do one thing. He jumped straight into the air. The computer twirled around and started to attack. First from the left then right then up and down, and again from the left. Then it broke pattern only to go back to it later. It was like a poetic dance. Rob blocked all the attacks but was starting to be pressed in upon. ‘This is how people lose, stop it!’ He thought to himself, why did he stink so bad! He couldn’t even beat a level six! He needed to press the attack or end up losing. Rob attacked bringing one up from the ground which the computer blocked. Then another from the right, after two minutes he was back into the fight. The computer then jumped over him and swung for his head. He ducked and swung out his foot which tripped the computer. He attacked with full strength but it was blocked. Back and forth they went blades flashing furiously. Then Rob saw an opening he had to go for it. He pretended to fall but really slid onto his back and slashed at the computer’s saber which cut in two and disappeared. Rob got up having barely won…How would he get anywhere?

Let the games begin! He thought and mentally frowned seeing Jak’na outside waiting for him. “Come on!” he said Rob hurried to his side. “Were so late!”

“Oh come on! It won’t start for an hour! You just like to be so early” Rob rolled his eyes, but Jak’na seemed ticked off about something, and through the force Rob knew it didn’t have anything to do with being late to being earlier then anyone…

Once they got down to where the tournament was being held Jak’na started to glance back and forth. Then they found something, or someone. Rob looked where Jak’na was looking and saw a very pretty girl of sixteen. She was a twi’lek girl, her name was Sa’shes and she had blue skin and two long tentacles that came down from her head and majestically fell behind her. While Rob thought she was very pretty, he just wasn’t interested in that kind of, stuff. On the other hand Jak’na seemed hypnotized he just couldn’t keep his eyes off her.

“Seriously her?” Rob asked Jak’na “I mean come on! She is good looking but still…Twi’lieks? Really?”

“Shut your mouth!”

“Ok, ok I’ll leave you to your drooling.” Rob walked away and after a couple of minutes so did Jak’na. They waited for alittle while and Sa’shes looked over at them and smiled. Jak’na instantly smiled and looked happier then when he was promoted to Padawan. Rob rolled his eyes again.

“Attention! Attention! The tournament will start in 5 minutes so everyone who is competing please come over here!” Said Master Durron. He was a tough looking man and was extremely strong with the force. All the students respected him greatly, even if he was alittle reckless. “Alright here are the new rules. You padawans wanted a more difficult realistic kind of setting for your tournaments to be held in. So here are a random assortment of Jedi training lightsabers all of different sizes and shapes. Even the blades vary in length and thickness if only slightly. So what you get is what you get.” He used the force to lift the light sabers towards them. Rob instantly noticed he had a one handed short blade. ’Dang! I’m so bad with one hand!’ “Now to beat an opponent you have to make two successful attacks on their bodies with your lightsaber. Then they are out and you get the choice of taking their lightsaber or not. You may only have two lightsabers on you at any point in time. Please activate your lightsabers!” Everyone did so, then it hit Rob what was going to happen and he slipped to the back of the crowd where no one would notice him right away. “Unlike all other tournaments this one will be all vs. all. You will have to watch your back, make treaty’s and take people out. Lets us begin!” Right after he said it he ducked and backed away because instantly light sabers flew into the air and kids were jumping all around, making slashes and parries. Rob used the force to make everyone want to ignore him or just to nudge them to attack others. While he wasn’t the best with mind tricks he didn’t need to be everyone was distracted.

“Hey Rob! Let’s duel!” said Malikan with a toothy grin.
‘Dang I hit one of the best instantly, that just my luck!’ Rob put his one handed short blade pinkish lightsaber out into a guard position. Malikan was already rushing at him. Then Malikan attacked with a head toe combo and then left and right and more combos each time it was alittle harder to block and parry. There blades swooshed through the air and when ever they clashed sparks flew into the air and the sabers hissed at each other. Malikan was obviously winning Rob was at a huge disadvantage while Malikan was trained in all versions of a lightsaber and he was strong. Very strong! They locked blades and both of them tried to push the sabers into the other. Then rob remembered, Jak’na said his left side was weak. He moved their blades over to Malikan’s left side ant pushed with the force. Malikan was knocked over and was shocked. Rob used the force to grab his enemy’s lightsaber and whacked Malikan once with each of them. He was out and Rob deactivated the short one handed blade that had caused so much trouble. He went back to his two handed defensive style. A boy rushed at him and flicked his blade twice and the boy was out. This wasn’t that bad.

“How you doing Rob?” asked the calm voice of Jak’na. Rob jumped straight into the air and spun around ready for an attack which came hard and fast. Rob barely blocked it. Jak’na laughed and said “Just wanted to put you on you toes!”

Rob nodded, a silent thanks that really meant nothing.

Jak’na cut down any jedi padwan that broke out from the main group to attack them. After Jak’na finished off a daring eight year old that had leapt out and madly charged him, a Twil’ik girl cut her way out of the crowd. Eliminating four people with a casual flick of her saber. She slowly but steadily made her way towards them. Jak’na seemed frozen in carbonite. He didn’t move he might not have even breathed. The girl thingyed her eyes at him and continued to approach him. When he didn’t do anything she brought up her lightsaber and banged it on his head. One of Jak’na’s horns split in half and landed on the ground. Jak’na fell to the ground apparently knocked out. Rob raised his lightsaber in a defensive stance. She did the same, and soon they were dueling with precession and accuracy. Where Rob was good with seeing flaws and errors and then taking advantage of them she was a lot faster and did quick but not truly deadly attacks. Even so this battle was a tough one for Rob. Fighting her required his full and complete attention. When she attacked at his feet he would jump or roll and aim for her head when she sliced for the middle he parried to her feet and so on. Soon the only thing that separated there fighting was that Rob was growing tired. He couldn’t continue this for much longer. He was already tired from his duel with Malikan and Jak’na before this. Rob had to end it now, and the only way he could think to do so was a trick he had taught himself if ever one of his opponents he couldn’t lose to was beating him. Now was one of those times. They locked blades and instead of trying to push the twil’ik girl’s saber into her he put his hand next towards her head and extended the force into it. The girl instantly became stunned as if in a trance and he just stood there. Rob disarmed her and cut her once, then twice. By the time he slashed her for the second time she had broken free of his will and realized that she had been beaten. Rob offered his hand and said
“Good fight, I’m surprised you didn’t win!” She took it and smiled.
“Your strong with the force, I’m Sa’shes” she said in a sing songy voice that sounded like a flower would if it could make sound. She walked over to Jak’na and grabbed him, “I will take him to get his head checked out. I think I may have hit him alittle to hard, but I was mad that he kept staring at me all day.” Then she left and Rob went back to the tournament. Only two padawans remained. They were fighting each other viciously. Then one jumped and spun in the air for a deadly attack his lightsaber hit his opponent but the other pad wan had brought his up to slash at the jumping duelist and had also made contact. Both had been eliminated. Then looking around Rob realized that he was the only one left standing. He had won even against some of the best padawans, he had won. Joy swept over him, this was the first time he had ever done something special, and the first time no one had come over and crushed him. He felt greater then he ever had before.

“Jedi Padwan Rob I am pleased to give you the title of this years Padawan tournament Winner. Your only reward is honor, good job and may the force be with us all. Classes start up again tomorrow, you have the rest of the day off. Go play or something.” Said Jedi Master Durron.

*****

About three weeks after Rob’s win of the Padawan tournament a Master had came and asked Rob to be his Padawan. Rob exepted and only a few weeks after had Jak’na been asked too. Now they were both ready to begin on their lightsabers. The masters had given them a general guide line but not all the details. You were supposed to work that out on your own. This had been extremely hard for Rob. First he had to find the parts, then figure out were the parts went. Then he needed extra metal and one of his crystals broke and he had to get that repaired as well. Soon the tasked seemed unfair and unlikely to succeed. But then Rob finally figured it out and soon had the basics done. After making a fairly long hilt he decided that a blue blade would be best for now. He grabbed his blue crystal and installed it. Then he took his fully charged energy core, spent five hours infusing it with the force, so that the energy would have some force and woudn’t run out, then finally he put it in. After adding all the details like the activation switch and the lock button he was finally done. He had activated the switch and listened to the hum of his blue blade, watching it glow all around the walls and pierce through the dark shadows that crept up in the night. Jak’na had already completed his lightsaber. It was about the same length as Rob’s but instead of being made of a white metal, his was all black and the buttons were weird and exotic to Rob. Two red ones and a green one. Rob remembered asking what they were for but Jak’na had not told him. He said
“It will be a surprise next time we fight.” Rob left him alone about it. Now Rob and his Master, Master Vrosks, were entering hyperspace for their first mission together. He felt three times as strong with his new Master’s training. He had learned so much. Jak’na and his master would meet up with them later, after they did something Rob wasn’t allowed to know about. Rob hoped that Jak’na was learning as much as he was. His Master Vrosks was a skilled diplomate and great at persuasion and strategy. Rob knew the second he met him that they would get along just fine. Currently Rob was engaging his master in a game of Sabacc. So far he was losing drastically. But his goal was to pass the time, keep his master on his toes and maybe learn something too.

***

Rob and Master Vrosks had left hyperspace and landed on the planet Rysconic. Basically it was a Corusant wanabe with building surrounding the planet. The surface had been destroyed years ago by toxins from all the factories and buildings. Unlike Corusant the buildings were only five to seven story’s high. Now Rob and Master Vrosks were in a meeting with the Rysconic government officials. Master Vrosks was trying, with great success, to convince them to hunt down the gangs that had been trying to cause chaos and fury among the people.

“If you do nothing the gangs will overthrow your government and you will no longer have a democracy!” Everyone in the dark chamber seemed shocked at those words and there was complete silence. Rob knew that it woudn’t take much longer and Master Vrosks and him would go meet up with Jak’na and his Master…

*****
Rob had seen the homing beckon, heard the clicking sounds as if it was yelling at him. Rob and Master Vrosks rushed to the aid. They encountered several gang members and had to fight they’re way through the idiots into finally they reached the spot. There they saw Jak’na’s Master dead on the steel floor, his body in two pieces. They also saw a tall man standing over the fallen Jedi. He wore a dark cloak over his entire body except his hands and feet which were covered with black gloves and boots. His face was covered with a grey mask that looked like a demon laughing at you. The mask had a horn on the chin, two on the forhead, and one on the noise. But the best sign that this was a Sith Lord was the red lightsaber glowing in the darkness of the chrome room. Their lightsabers activated and then the two Jedi charged the dark lord. The battle went on for an hour. Lightsabers flashed back and forth neither of the two jedi making any progress. Soon the Dark Lord pushed them back into a landing platform. The air rushed past them and smoke from buildings filled their lungs but they didn’t care, the Jedi were desperately trying just to stay alive. Master Vrosks spun and tried to land a kick on the Sith, but he dodged it. The Sith then slashed fast and hard and Master Vrosks’ head went flying. Now Rob was alone except Jak’na was there, but he was doing nothing. Just watching.

“Fool of a Jedi! Why do you fight me! I could show you true power! I feel your anger…Join me and my new apprentice Jak’na and I’ll give you power beyond belief!”
“Like I would ever join the sith!” Rob yelled
“You have chosen your destiny. Jak’na kill this fool like you killed your Master.”
Jak’na looked startled but soon he approached Rob, grabbing Master Vrosks’ lightsaber through the force and inserting it to his hand. Rob realized that Jak’na was going to kill him for a Dark Lord of the Sith. Anger swelled in Rob and lighting seemed to crackle at his finger tips. He wanted to rush Jak’na and crush his stupid ugly face. But soon he resized that anger woudn’t get him anywhere except to the path Jak’na was now following. Then Rob said

“Fine, if you would betray me for a Sith Lord then you will die with me!!” With all his jedi strength and endurance he force pushed Jak’na. Jak’na went flying, he flew past the landing pad and would have to fall for at least five stories before he hit the ground.

Then force lighting crackled out of the Dark Lords hand’s and zapped Rob. Rob felt more pain then anyone else could imagine. His whole body burned as if it were on fire and he could only scream out in pain. Then he realized that he was falling. Falling off the landing pad just like Jak’na had done moments ago. But before the ground swept up under him he blacked out.

To be contuined...

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