Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis: Nightmarish Meeting

September 10, 2004

Nightmarish Meeting

As Sev'rannce Tann walked away from the place where she had defeated the Itarni, she thought to herself about the whole loyalty between the two. If that smaller one had just lain there, he'd probably still be alive now she mused. They worked together fairly well, just not well enough, then again, there are few in existence that work well enough to defeat me. As soon as that thought popped into her head, the memory of Krant sprang unbidden to her mind.

I had just finished one of the swiftest and most devastatingly effective campaigns of the clone wars. From Geonosis to Tatooine to Eredenn to the Wookies. And to Sarapin. Sarapin had been the crown jewel of the energy worlds, producing eighty percent of the energy on Coruscant. With the decimators, that conquest had been easy. Not even the jedi master Jor Drakas could stop me. The fool had fallen, cut down by my blade in open battle. If only he had surrendered, he would have saved msot of his army, and himself. Why don't these people just give in to order. It would save them so much grief. And so much death. Her wandering memories returned to the battle. The accursed jedi Echuu Shen-Jon had landed on Krant with his armies and attacked. He'd been pursuing me from Geonosis ever since I had killed his padawan in battle. His troops ahd advanced, too early, before the Decimators were ready. the droid armies had resisted him, but there was no stopping him and the fury of his padawan. They stormed through the jungles, and I awaited them. As they entered the clearing, I struck. The lightning and flung vines kept Echuu at bay while his padawan charged. I easily outfought her, and captured her. I could feel his hate as my ship lifted off for the fortress. His army pursued, and the more troops had come from off-world. Nearly a quarter of the Republic's available clones were at that battle. The cruisers had torn huge gashes and holes in the side of my fortress. All the while, I directed the defense, the young jedi at my side. Then he had burst in, weapon drawn. U attacked and he swept my sallies aside, so hot did his fury burn. The anger was evident on his face, and anyone could tell that he was using the dark side. I had fought with all my skill, supremely confident that this jedi would fall like they always had. I let that confidence get the better of me, getting sloppy in our fight. Then he struck. I remember the white-hot pain as his lightsaber burnt through my chest, could feel the glee in his mind as I fell to the ground, the wound cauterized by the heat of his blade, could feel myself slipping into a black oblivion. then, the seperation. Gathering all the power I could muster, I sprang, spirit from body, doomed to remain forever a wandering wisp in the winds of Krant. The battle had raged around me. The Republic, finally content that my force was so battered that it could do them no more harm, withdrawing their forces. Those first days were the worst, tossed about on the winds, lost, with no footing, no purpose, aimlessly wandering the planet, still smoldering with hate an dsimmering with rage about my defeat, cursing myself for the overconfidence and sloppiness that had gotten me killed in the first place. Then I felt a change, a very subtle one, but still, a change. The few remaining droids had found my body, and taken it to the medical ward. Bacta had healed the wound. I leapt across the spirit-world in Krant, racing for life. I was too slow. The same efficiency that had had the droids heal a dead body led them to then freeze it in carbonite. Foiled. Left with my last hope snatched away. Until Ari had arrived. she smiled at the ease with which she had 'convinced' the foolish young girl to release her. As she walked through the caverns of Byss, a feeling caught her attention. the force sense or a jedi. A weak one. A padawan. Reading his mind like an open book, she sensed that he was named Eoghan. And he was all alone. Stealthily, she broughht her presence down to the smallest she could, and snuck up on him.

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Eoghan had been having a rough night. Sleep hadn;t come easily, tossing and truning in his bed as he seemed to feel a powerful darkness outside. Almost a darknes at war with itself. Luke and Mara had dismissed it as Palpatine, but Eoghan wasn't so sure. He didn;t think it felt evil enough to be the remnant of whatever presence Palpatine had left here. It didn't feel like the stain at Endor where Palpatine had died. This wasn't a surge of bitterness, but of......Hate....Anger.......Loss..........Pain...........and...................Triumph. It seemed to subside and he finally got some sleep.But even his sleep was uneasy. He was haunted by dreams.

A shadow moving in the breeze. An old strength, a power newly awakened. A great power, unmatched in intensity. An indomitable might that seemed like none could tame. His dream began to take form. He was walking in a cave, much like the ones back on Yavin 4, when suddenly the room went dark.how an already pitch-black room could go dark he had no idea, but dreams rarely make complete sense. The darkness seemed to get deeper and thicker until the whole room was full of a thick blackness that threatened to overwhelm him. As he began to shrink back, choking in the blackness, a white light suddenly appeared, burning hot as the suns of Tatooine. A memory poped into his mind, his mother, father, 9 sisters and 8 brothers all asleep in the same room, laying on the floor burning with heat from after the hot day. Trying not to touch any one as he walk to the kitchen accidentally pouring the water onto his foot and the floor. His father's sunburnt angrey face yelling at him. He had only been a small 2 year old. His memories faded and the dream came back. The darkness immediately converged on the light, bringing that immense force against it. The light began fading, burning dimmer and dimmer, as more dark power fell upon it. It blinked several times, and fell almost to nothingness. A tiny sliver of silver, pale, alone, surrounded by darkness. He reached out to touch the kight............... and fell, PLOP, out of bed. He bonked his head on the floor and cried out, awaking Luke and Mara in the next room. Wearing his normal jedi robes, Luke rushed into the room. Mara followed, still pulling the hood over her face as she darted in. Their lightsabers were drawn.
"What is it, Eoghan?" Luke asked.
"Nothing, master, just a dream. Then I fell out of bed. No problems." H e assured them.
"Okay, you go back to sleep. Luke and I have work to do, stay here and on't move. we'll be back in the morning. Don't go anywhere." Mara warned Eoghan as she and Luke turned and walked out, going opposite directions down the corridors of the massive Byss complex.

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As she crept in on the room, Sev'rannce Tann could still feel where Luke and Mara had been. I'd best lure this one out into the caverns. She thought. Skiming his mind, she caught the end of his memory of the dream. Gathering the force, she created a small silver light in his room, just a speck, like he remembered.

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When he saw the light from his dream appear in his room, Eoghan's eyes nearly popped out of his head, It looked identical to what he remembered. The light seemed to beckon to him, a mysterious feeling siezed him that he should touch it. Reaching out, he walked towards the light. When he was almost in reach, it moved, matching his pace as he followed it, eyes fixated on it, as one in a trance. His hand out streched, gaze was unflinchingly,on the light as he followed it farther and farther away from his room, where Mara had told him to stay. As it led him further and further. Deeper and deeper, into the caverns, part of him began wanting to turn back. It was rather obstinate. You really should go back. You don't know what's down here, and Mara said to stay put..

Oh, Mara's just being mean, like with the porophecy. She just doesn't want me to see anything. While she and Luke go off and have all the fun, "Stay here Eoghan and don't move, and while your at it, you can make me some tea and coffe and a whole gourmet dinner even if you don't know how to cook. I'll go off and have all the adventures YOUNG padawan.

He followed the light into another cavern.

That's not true the voice insisted. Mara only has your best interest in mind. Who knows what's out there, and you were being a little snippy and ignorant back in that prophecy-room