20 Years and No Peace
Part One
"But we must create a New Republic in order to restore peace!" A diplomat shouted in disgust. It's been twenty years. The last remnants of the Galactic Empire have been eradicated. Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, Han Solo, Chewbacca, General Ackbar, and many other war heroes from the civil war have called together an assembly on the rebuilt planet Alderaan, to try to compromise on how the galaxy will be maintained. Should a new republic be re-instated? Or should there only be a senate. Should there only be private colonies?
Arguments had broken out even before the meeting started on the Landing Pads, Luke had assured the arguing diplomats and representatives that every topic will be discussed, and comprised in the meeting. This did little to settle them, for they are anxious to see how the rest of the Galaxy will be run.
Between the Fall of the Empire, and this diplomatic meeting, Luke Skywalker had gone in search of any surviving Jedi. In his search he found only a handful of Jedi's. Among these were two very powerful Jedi that had previously been a part of the council on Coruscant. They were Julhan Carissi, and his apprentice Aiden Havok.
Aiden was still a Jedi Knight, but he had been on the council because of his ability to lower the aggressiveness of his adversaries. The two young Jedi had been assigned guard duty to this meeting, set to defend against any "Unexpected Guests". They were not alone though. Several Diplomats, and representatives had body guard escortments, who were also set to protect this important meeting.
Not even an hour into the meeting, several private cruisers, with strange markings had appeared inside the planets atmosphere. "Looks like we've got company master," Aiden quarried. "Indeed we do..." Replied Julhan.
The people turned out to be Mandalorians. Julhan added “I wonder if the Mandalorians are here on peaceful business or here to start a fight and destroy the chance of there ever being peace throughout the galaxy." Julhan walks up to the mandalorians to see if they have permission to be here as diplomats or just here to watch. Julhan asks them. " Mandalorians what are you doing here? are you watching or will you be participating as diplomats?" The mandalorians replied that they were here as diplomats to see what would happen to the galaxy.
Aiden whispers "Try not to be so aggressive master." He then tries to read the Mandalorians mind, but is interrupted by Julhan, "Don't waste your energy, there immune to that."
"Sorry master, I’ll try to remember these things." Aiden replied. Aiden was amazed that these soldiers could move in these power suits.
Aiden noticed they had "concealed weapons", and whisperd to his master "I thought weapons weren't allowed in the meeting.." His master informed him "These are mandalorians. They don't go anywhere without Weapons. But don't worry, they won't harm anyone, there wouldn't be honor in it. Mandalorians are all about honor."
Aiden and Julhan went back to patrolling the outside of the circular building.
After everyone had arrived at the meeting the arguments got worse. Julhan yelled" QUIET THE MEETING IS STARTING" and he let Luke start the meeting. Luke said to the diplomats " What shall we do to restore peace within this galaxy once more. Will we make a new Republic or will we let all the planets govern themselves." after Luke had said this the room once again filled with noise and this time it was aiden who quieted them down.....
"SIIIILEEEEENCE!" Aiden Yelled, he had used the force to amplify his vocal chords. His voice echoed inside the heads of the Representatives and Diplomats. They all stared in aw. "There you go master Luke" Said Aiden with a smirk. Luke Continued to Lecture the Representatives/Diplomats about there current situation. If the galaxy remains unorganized, they are allowing there enemy (whoever that might be) to get a head start on there plans. They must settle on either a New Republic, a simple Alliance, a Senate, a council of high powers, or separate governments.
Hours had past. And they had finally agreed to re-create a galactic senate. But, there would be no Republic. Even though the Old Republic faired for over 20,000 years, in the end, corruption was allowed to take place. With a senate, everyone has equal powers, there-fore no one has control over another. The meeting was adjourned, and the Diplomats and Representatives returned to there home planets. Luke, Julhan, Aiden, and a handful of other Jedi had gathered together in the remains of the Jedi Council hall. Julhan, being the wisest, started off the gathering of Jedi.
Julhan was trying to come up with a way to restore the jedi and this was the only thing he could come up with " ok we must go through the galaxy for a few weeks and try to find some people who have the potential to become jedi" the handful of jedi left agreed with Julhan and they set out to search for force sensatives. Aiden went with his master Julhan to the planet Nal' Hutta.
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Darth Vengonce sat in his private chambers and thought..."Disgusting worms... squirming in the surplus of "The Force" Coruscant, but if they only knew the power of what the Dark Side has to offer! *looks up with a smirk* I will show them."
He slowly stood up and walked over to his 'Trophy Case' of lightsabers... he looked upon the sabers of the Old Republic," Maul, Sidious, Dooku, Vader... all pathetic... SERVANT COME! Go... get another... I want Jedi sabers!" He then sat down again and meditated more... watching the quivering trooper run off to assemble a fleet...
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"Master! Master!" Aiden yells frantically, panting. "What is it young apprentice?" Replied Julhan. "I heard news from a few bounty hunters that a Sith Lord has survived all this time! He has been known for about 200 years, he was presumed dead, but he was just in hiding." Aiden managed to spit out those words before almost passing out. "That can't be true... Are you sure Aiden?" "Yes master..." Aiden Replied. "We must inform Master Luke immediately!"
Julhan and his young apprentice had been searching for lost Jedi all over Nal' hutta, but with no prevail. After hearing the news of the awakening sith lord, they set off to Kashyyk, the Bookie Home world, where Luke and a small party of three Jedi were searching for any surviving Members of the Order. After the entire situation was evaluated, the party of Jedi had decided to gather the senate once again on Alderaan to see what course of action should be taken, to search for, and capture, or kill this sith lord.
Jedi Secretary Sophie calls Aiden to the desk.
"Someone by the name of Haktuiki is here to see you," said Sophie.
"He is requesting a meeting with the Jedi Council immediately."
"Send him in," said Aiden.
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Haktuiki has offered to hunt down this Sith Lord...for a price of course.
"I am prepared to do anything necessary to eliminate this threat," Haktuiki said.
"As you know, I once applied for the Jedi, but they turned me down because of my species"
"Regardless of all of this, I still love the Jedi Order and will do anything to fight for it."
"And you know me by reputation. You know I am more than capable to do this...for a price."
Yes, you are quite... Reputable... But, I don't know if we could risk it. The power of the Dark Side is extremely hard to resist. Especially to one without training. I am very sorry but..." Aiden was cut-off by Luke, "We need his help..."
"Indeed we do..." Replied Aiden. "But we don't need to kill him. Right now I just need, information. Could you do this?"
"I don't usually do information. Its not my specialty," said Haktuiki.
"But in your case I will make an exception. Regardless of my talent for hunting, I will use my talent to find him, track him down, and gather information as much as I can."
Haktuiki stands up, looking around the room peacefully.
"I will do it, for a price. And I will give up Bounty Hunting for this Jedi Order."
"After this meeting I will service only the Jedi Order."
"And I do wish to speak with Julhan about another matter."
"But for right now, what say you?"
"Alright... but mind your place. Your not into the order yet. I must discuss this with the Full council present. There will be a rather large bounty for you. You will receive 25 percent of it now, and the rest upon completion of your Reconnaissance. Thank you."
"Alright well I’ll leave you two alone."
"Master, I’ll be in the grove meditating if you need me."
Julhan said "That is good Aiden. well let me first congratulate you into the order. So why do u want to speak to me in private? Is it of great importance? Just a request, or something else entirely different? For we must hurry and see what we can find out about this new 'Sith Lord'."
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A Sith fleet was slowly heading towards the planet of Alderaan... Vengonce was looking down at the blue planet from the command deck of the ship....
"Sir we are approaching the planet now sir..." said a servant
"Is the Enclave in Range yet?" he asked
"Not yet sir, I’ll order the gunners to fire as soon as it is in ran-"
"No! I will go down personally... in shadow I will remain... blockade the planet until I return... let no one pass this fleet..."
His shuttle was personally flown down by Vengonce himself in his black robes only his yellow eyes showed out of the darkness covering his face... walking down a street until he found the Enclave... looking up on it ominously...
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"Master!!!" Haktuiki suddenly jumps, feeling his head.
"I feel a presence in the force. Its growing stronger!"
"I can feel it too," said Julhan.
Haktuiki suddenly fell to the floor, clutching his forehead as if it was on fire.
"It's too close. I can feel it!" he gasped.
He started rolling around like a madman.
"NO! NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! ARGH!!" he screamed. <-----------hint for Peace, Part 2.
Silo looked over and rushed to Hatuiki's side and then stood pulled out his saber and walked outside and stared strait into Vengonce yellow eyes and then turned on his saber... walked slowly down the steps and waited for him to attack, Vengonce threw off his robe to reveal his Dark Jedi tunic and Black hair, he ran at Silo and ignited his saber... The two clashed with extreme power flying and jumping around swiftly blocking each others sabers... suddenly Vengonce ended the duel with a swift punch to the face that floored Silo...
Julhan says "Haktuiki you alright? Haktuiki what’s wrong? *shakes him out of it* Get a grip Haktuiki, we cant lose you now we need you."
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Vengonce slowly continued to walk up the steps into the Enclave... he ignited his saber and walked slowly in... glared at all in the temple before him...many ran at him he struck each of them down with ease..."YOU WORMS ARE NO MATCH FOR THE DARK SIDE!!!" he yelled
"AH!" Aiden screamed. He felt a major disturbance in the force. He knew something was wrong.
He jumped up, and headed to the enclaves main entrance.
When he arrived, he saw one single Dark Jedi striking down members of his order.
He then saw dozens of Dark Jedi pouring through the main entrance doors into the Great Hall.
Aiden threw off his ribbed jacket. Pulled out both of his lightsabers. Hooked them together and whispered "...... It's on ......."
~MEANWHILE~
Haktuiki, who was laying on the floor of the meeting room, open his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked.
"No," he paused. "What is happening?"
"I don't know but I think we should go and find out. They both hurry to the great hall. “Oh no the sith... they're attacking. We must help for I fear we may lose this battle."
They both pull out their sabers and charge into the battle.
Haktuiki runs and jumps into the battle.
The battle is fierce, but nothing he has ever handled before.
Vengonce moves quick, with feeling, but he puts too much aggression into his moves. Haktuiki parries easily.
Julhan easily dodges and kills many of the sith. The battle is long and hard and seems to have no end the sith just keep coming and coming and soon he is nearing the edges of his strength.
Haktuiki is thrown to the wall. He staggers and falls onto the floor.
He slices the Sith's leg who is attacking him. He falls to the ground.
Haktuiki scrambles to his feet and runs after Vengonce.
The battle isn’t going so well. Aiden and Julhan seem like they can barely stand.
Haktuiki jumps into the battle.
He swings left: blocked. Right: blocked.
Suddenly Vengonce kicks aside Juhlan and force throws Aiden.
Haktuiki took advantage of that sudden defenseless moment.
He swings at Vengonce, hoping to disable his arms, but misses and hits the lightsaber.
The lightsaber explodes into metal fragments. Vengonce took his crackling hilt and seared Haktuiki’s face with it.
"AHHHHH!!!!" he screamed.
Out of a fit of rage, he takes the spiked hilt of his own saber and swings at Vengonce face.
Vengonce screamed and held the side of his face, which was dripping with blood.
He then looked back and smirked and shot Hatuiki through with force lightning sending the poor little Jawa across the room, "Hokey weapons are for the weak! I have the force!" then turning to Julhan and doing the same thing sends him flying...
Aiden was force thrown to the wall, dropping his lightsaber.
And for a few seconds he couldn't see, hear, or feel anything.
A few Sith around him had taken that opportunity to slam there lightsaber hilts into his stomach.
He fell to his knees.
He noticed his lightsaber a few yards away, force pulled, and gripped the hilt so tight, his knuckles turned white.
He jumped up, slashed at the three Sith attackers, all of the swings were blocked.
Aiden was beyond exhaustion. But managed to strike down two of the Sith before the other retreated.
Aiden noticed Julhan struggling to his feet a couple yards away. And noticed his Jawa friend was almost unconscious..
He glanced at Darth Vengonce noticing his lightsaber was disabled. He charged, seizing the opportunity.
But just before Aiden reached him, Vengonce had already pulled out another Sabre.
They saber locked. This was a true test of strength.
But Aiden was already exhausted from being thrashed about. And he could taste the blood in his mouth.
He had to back off. Aiden in the middle of the saber-lock, unhooked his lightsabers, and began to fight with the twin sabers instead of a double-hilted saber.
This proved more useful, allowing him to fend Vengonce off a little longer.
But soon a few other Sith joined in.
"Uhm... A LITTLE HELP PLEASE?!?!??!?" Aiden screamed frantically.
Haktuiki struggled to his feet. He ran to help Aiden, but Vengonce threw another bolt of lighting at him.
He blocked it, and the bolt went striking off the walls.
But that 3 second distraction was all Vengonce needed. He swung his saber and barely just sliced across Haktuiki's stomach.
He fell once again, but he could not let the pain get to him. A friend was in trouble.
Vengonce sent a bolt of lightning towards Aiden, but Haktuiki jumped and force pushed Aiden out of the way.
Triumphant, Haktuiki turned around and saw the big bolt of lightning an inch from him.
BANG! There was a loud noise, and he went pelting across the hallway. He crashed to the floor. He could feel blood gushing from my stomach, and Haktuiki held it as hard as he could.
He lay there gasping for a moment, then got up and re-entered the fight...
Vengonce blocked each coming saber killing each wielder..."This is a waste of my time...” He takes out his comlink. “ Cassious... I await your arrival!" then from the other side of the comlink the group heard in and awesome Mandalorian accent, "Yes, I’ll be right theah." a seismic charge was heard and seconds later the whole top of the temple was gone! Cassious jumped into the lobby area where this whole fiasco was being held took out a few blasters and had at it, "ITS CASSIOUS FETT! RUN FOR IT!" yelled one Jedi, as Cassious mowed down jedi like Wookies on Knyraths.
It was a grassy meadow. With tall ancient pillars. A soft wind constantly blew across the flower beds. In the middle of this grove sat Aiden. Trying to finish constructing his first lightsaber, the traditional way, by using the force. A couple hours into the ritual, he heard a satisfying 'click'. And stood. Holding the hilt of the saber. Switched it on. And began twirling it around.
"Simple" He muttered.
Then he heard a loud scream from behind him and... Awoke from his dreamlike state. He had been unconscious for a few moments on the ground. Dreaming of constructing his first lightsaber. He thought about wanting to stay in the dream for a little longer. But soon stifled his thoughts. He looked around for his lightsabers. Found one. Grabbed it. And got up.
His vision was red. There was blood in his eyes. He took a quick assessment of the field. He saw many dead Jedi, and Sith alike. He could hardly remember the sequence in which these events happened. It was all a blurred lightsaber Duel at this point in time. He did recall his Jawa friend saving his life. He was very grateful. But he was no where in sight. But Aiden couldn't totally focus on this at this time.
Just then Aiden realized what was happening. They had spent one entire year searching for Jedi. Aiden and Julhan found at least 50 members alone. And Luke and his team found twice as much. But the sith had been preparing for no one knows how long. "We're not going to win this battle..." He thought. But his inner-self took over and said "Don't give up yet."
Aiden heard a large explosion, and saw falling rocks and debris. The entire roof of the Enclave was blown off. "Hoooolyyy shit." Aiden thought.
When Julhan got back up he charged back into the battle and since he was so exhausted he tried not to attack the more powerful of the group. he had no trouble, until one of the stronger sith tried to sneak up on Julhan but he struck them down even though he had gotten in a lucky hit and knocked him unconscious.
Haktuiki ran over to Julhan.
"Are you alright master?"
Thinking that he was dead, he slowly turned and stared up at the menacing battle.
"Rest in piece, my master. May the force be with you," said Haktuiki, still not realizing he wasn't dead.
Haktuiki re-entered the battle, trying not to let sadness and anger consume him.
He swung left: Cut through a Sith's arm. He swung right: Cut the top of a Sith's head off.
He kicked a one nasty hooded Sith and he staggered. For a moment I thought he was going to jump and retaliate, but instead he fell out the window of one of the chambers.
Aiden noticed out of the roof opening, a tall man in a Mandalorian type armor came into the Frey with a jetpack, wielding two Blaster Pistols.
Aiden began to make his way towards this "Mandalorian".
Julhan was finally awakened by the battle raging on around him . he got back up and started killing as many Sith as he could because he was enraged about what happened to him during the fight. The Sith didn’t seem as invincible as they did before. they fought with less vigor as before and there seemed to be less in the battle. He soon lost track of how many had died, for both the Sith and the jedi, and started to notice that Aiden was fighting the mandalorian, he tried to get there as soon as he could but there was no way around the Sith that kept attacking him. since he was so exhausted he couldn’t get through. he just had to hope that Aiden would defeat him, and he also had to worry about his own fights.
Haktuiki lost count of the Sith. They were everywhere. Red sabers blazed all around him.
He payed no attention to what anyone else was doing. As far as he was concerned, he was alone. Julhan was dead and Aiden was nowhere to be seen either.
He just fought. And fought. He fought until the point where it wasn't considered fighting anymore. More like swinging randomly like a madman.
There was a moment when he was back to back with someone else. He turned and grabbed him by the throat, prepared to make the kill.
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Haktuiki was shocked. "JULHAN??!!!"
"Yeah?" Julhan answered.
"Your alive!!!"
But suddenly through the commotion, there was black. And everything stopped.
"Come HERE you little FREAK!" Aiden screamed at the Mandalorian.
The Mandalorians tactics seemed to be 'Shoot at Aiden. Have him follow. Lure him into a group of Sith. Watch him fight. Repeat"
Aiden never could get within jumping range of the Mandalorian. He had been growing tired of this. It's better that the Mandalorian shoot at Aiden, than his fellow unsuspecting Jedi.
Aiden finally decided to try one last jump at the mandalorian. He ended up just barely striking the fuel pod of the JetPack.
Down went the Mandalorian.
But he fell on the Sith side of the battle, allowing him to retreat.
Aiden wasn't sure if he was to return later into the battle. But he was glad that game was over.
He went to try to find his other lightsaber. He isn't comfortable fighting with a single hilt.
Suddenly a blaster bolt hit Aiden and he went down in burning pain, "Heh, I’ve suffered your kind before... nothing that big..." Cassious said through the voice amplifier in his helmet... "Quite a bounty on Jedi these days," he said shooting a Jedi injured on the ground, walking up and grabbing his saber... "This job is finished I’m outa here..." he said walking away.
Through the mass of bodies flying through the air and the swirling field of red sabers, Saix could see the faint outline of his master. He ran to his master. They needed to retreat now, this killing spree had gone way too far.
The Jedi didn’t seem to stop coming at him. Another one attempted to charge at him at full speed, but simply missed Saix and ended up crashing into the wall. (>.>)
"Master!" he yelled "We must retreat, the damage done here is enough..."
"Maybe.... come we shall return.. come my new apprentice..." said Darth Vengonce walking the other way out of the door.... *takes out a com link* Destroy this horrendous place before anymore of our men our killed..." he said to the Destroyer above them.... but it had been destroyed by Admiral Ackbar's fleet!
Never the less he took his new apprentice to his shuttle and they were off! "You’ve proved yourself beyond belief my new apprentice... henceforth you will be known as Darth Seer... we must find the base before the Rebels can trace us.
Haktuiki opened his eyes.
Everything was blurry. He could not see properly. He choked and looked up. He could taste dried blood in the back of his throat. His legs and head were stiff. He felt around. He could feel blood all around him.
But this was nothing compared to what he heard. Screaming and crying.
He sat up painfully, clutching his blood soaked stomach. He choked again and stood up. His vision was coming back to him. He looked around.
Everywhere. Bodies. Blood. Severed limbs. Injured. He wanted nothing more to get away from this place.
He looked around for Aiden. Nowhere to be seen. He looked for Julhan. Again, nowhere.
By the looks of it, there were no live Sith left. It seems that they had won a very impossible victory, or the remaining Sith retreated.
He began the journey. The journey to rally up live Jedi. To help wounded. To save the Jedi Order.
Silo walked up to Hatuiki and knelt down next to him... "Not many survivors... they’ve won... they’ve killed so many... in such a little period of time... My name is Silo Bahn and You’ve shown amazing bravery here... we would like for you to be a part of the Jedi order. Going toe to toe with a Sith was something that only three of us were brave enough to do... the rest died... I am tired tend to the rest of the survivors... I must go and rest on what I’ve learned." he said standing and walking away limping.
When Julhan had found Hatuiki he was surprised to see him alive, he thought he had died in the battle. He asked Hatuiki if he was alright and he replied that yes he was ok. Julhan was in shock that they hadn't lost this battle, although many were dead and wounded, they were safe for now. now Julhan had to find the remaining jedi and see what else he had to do.
"Julhan, I’ll have to get some new Jedi Masters... to replace the ones that have fallen... will you represent the fallen in a funeral of all of them? We need to burn these bodies ceremonially."
Silo said placing his hand on Julhan's shoulder....
"I would be honored to be a part of this Jedi Order," replied Haktuiki.
"But there is no time for this now. I must carry on with the wounded."
He walked away sadly, holding supplies.
The battle was over, but the pain and damage was done. No one will ever forget about this battle. No one will ever forgot of the pain was endured on this galaxy.
20 years, and no peace...
Cold...
That was Aiden's first thought. How cold he was. His arms, legs, hands, feet, all numb.
He was laying on his stomach. Face smashed into the grey marble floor.
His vision was still blurred with hints of red. He had the worst headache he had ever felt.
Any sort of movement was hell for him. It took all of his strength to pull himself up to a nearby corner, and just sit with his back to the wall. It wasn't till' then, did he look around.
Look around to see the sad sight. All that he had worked on. The young men, that dedicated themselfs to this very order, the young men that deserted there families, friends, spouses, and children, all to go to war with an enemy, so powerful, that in one swift blow, could cripple there entire order. Everything they had worked for. Decimated.
Aiden came to the point where he blamed himself for everything that had happened.
Maybe if he hadn't have followed Luke to create a new order, this wouldn't of happened.
Maybe if he convinced his master not to follow Luke, this wouldn't have happened.
If we would have just excepted defeat, and gave up on the Jedi Code, the Sith might not have done so much damage.
Maybe if we didn't provoke the Sith, by trying to re-create an already dead order, all of these innocent men would not have fallen in battle.
Aiden was crying by this point. But even to do this, took all of his strength.
He examined himself. His nails were red, he gripped his saber hilt so tight, blood had seeped into his nails. He had carbon scoring on the back of his left shoulder, from the blaster bolt he suffered from the Mandalorian. Sabre burns covered his entire body. His customary Jedi Robes were scorched, tattered, and torn.
He thought about everything. He apologized a thousand times over to all of the dead Jedi, and their families.
Aiden will never be the same. He will never forgive himself.
In the hours Aiden spent gathering his strength.
Aiden got up, holding his right shoulder, bleeding from several open wounds, hung his head, and started to walk.
He walked to the main entrance, stopped, turned his head back, and whispered...
"Goodbye..."
To Be Continued...
Part One
"But we must create a New Republic in order to restore peace!" A diplomat shouted in disgust. It's been twenty years. The last remnants of the Galactic Empire have been eradicated. Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian, Han Solo, Chewbacca, General Ackbar, and many other war heroes from the civil war have called together an assembly on the rebuilt planet Alderaan, to try to compromise on how the galaxy will be maintained. Should a new republic be re-instated? Or should there only be a senate. Should there only be private colonies?
Arguments had broken out even before the meeting started on the Landing Pads, Luke had assured the arguing diplomats and representatives that every topic will be discussed, and comprised in the meeting. This did little to settle them, for they are anxious to see how the rest of the Galaxy will be run.
Between the Fall of the Empire, and this diplomatic meeting, Luke Skywalker had gone in search of any surviving Jedi. In his search he found only a handful of Jedi's. Among these were two very powerful Jedi that had previously been a part of the council on Coruscant. They were Julhan Carissi, and his apprentice Aiden Havok.
Aiden was still a Jedi Knight, but he had been on the council because of his ability to lower the aggressiveness of his adversaries. The two young Jedi had been assigned guard duty to this meeting, set to defend against any "Unexpected Guests". They were not alone though. Several Diplomats, and representatives had body guard escortments, who were also set to protect this important meeting.
Not even an hour into the meeting, several private cruisers, with strange markings had appeared inside the planets atmosphere. "Looks like we've got company master," Aiden quarried. "Indeed we do..." Replied Julhan.
The people turned out to be Mandalorians. Julhan added “I wonder if the Mandalorians are here on peaceful business or here to start a fight and destroy the chance of there ever being peace throughout the galaxy." Julhan walks up to the mandalorians to see if they have permission to be here as diplomats or just here to watch. Julhan asks them. " Mandalorians what are you doing here? are you watching or will you be participating as diplomats?" The mandalorians replied that they were here as diplomats to see what would happen to the galaxy.
Aiden whispers "Try not to be so aggressive master." He then tries to read the Mandalorians mind, but is interrupted by Julhan, "Don't waste your energy, there immune to that."
"Sorry master, I’ll try to remember these things." Aiden replied. Aiden was amazed that these soldiers could move in these power suits.
Aiden noticed they had "concealed weapons", and whisperd to his master "I thought weapons weren't allowed in the meeting.." His master informed him "These are mandalorians. They don't go anywhere without Weapons. But don't worry, they won't harm anyone, there wouldn't be honor in it. Mandalorians are all about honor."
Aiden and Julhan went back to patrolling the outside of the circular building.
After everyone had arrived at the meeting the arguments got worse. Julhan yelled" QUIET THE MEETING IS STARTING" and he let Luke start the meeting. Luke said to the diplomats " What shall we do to restore peace within this galaxy once more. Will we make a new Republic or will we let all the planets govern themselves." after Luke had said this the room once again filled with noise and this time it was aiden who quieted them down.....
"SIIIILEEEEENCE!" Aiden Yelled, he had used the force to amplify his vocal chords. His voice echoed inside the heads of the Representatives and Diplomats. They all stared in aw. "There you go master Luke" Said Aiden with a smirk. Luke Continued to Lecture the Representatives/Diplomats about there current situation. If the galaxy remains unorganized, they are allowing there enemy (whoever that might be) to get a head start on there plans. They must settle on either a New Republic, a simple Alliance, a Senate, a council of high powers, or separate governments.
Hours had past. And they had finally agreed to re-create a galactic senate. But, there would be no Republic. Even though the Old Republic faired for over 20,000 years, in the end, corruption was allowed to take place. With a senate, everyone has equal powers, there-fore no one has control over another. The meeting was adjourned, and the Diplomats and Representatives returned to there home planets. Luke, Julhan, Aiden, and a handful of other Jedi had gathered together in the remains of the Jedi Council hall. Julhan, being the wisest, started off the gathering of Jedi.
Julhan was trying to come up with a way to restore the jedi and this was the only thing he could come up with " ok we must go through the galaxy for a few weeks and try to find some people who have the potential to become jedi" the handful of jedi left agreed with Julhan and they set out to search for force sensatives. Aiden went with his master Julhan to the planet Nal' Hutta.
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Darth Vengonce sat in his private chambers and thought..."Disgusting worms... squirming in the surplus of "The Force" Coruscant, but if they only knew the power of what the Dark Side has to offer! *looks up with a smirk* I will show them."
He slowly stood up and walked over to his 'Trophy Case' of lightsabers... he looked upon the sabers of the Old Republic," Maul, Sidious, Dooku, Vader... all pathetic... SERVANT COME! Go... get another... I want Jedi sabers!" He then sat down again and meditated more... watching the quivering trooper run off to assemble a fleet...
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"Master! Master!" Aiden yells frantically, panting. "What is it young apprentice?" Replied Julhan. "I heard news from a few bounty hunters that a Sith Lord has survived all this time! He has been known for about 200 years, he was presumed dead, but he was just in hiding." Aiden managed to spit out those words before almost passing out. "That can't be true... Are you sure Aiden?" "Yes master..." Aiden Replied. "We must inform Master Luke immediately!"
Julhan and his young apprentice had been searching for lost Jedi all over Nal' hutta, but with no prevail. After hearing the news of the awakening sith lord, they set off to Kashyyk, the Bookie Home world, where Luke and a small party of three Jedi were searching for any surviving Members of the Order. After the entire situation was evaluated, the party of Jedi had decided to gather the senate once again on Alderaan to see what course of action should be taken, to search for, and capture, or kill this sith lord.
Jedi Secretary Sophie calls Aiden to the desk.
"Someone by the name of Haktuiki is here to see you," said Sophie.
"He is requesting a meeting with the Jedi Council immediately."
"Send him in," said Aiden.
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Haktuiki has offered to hunt down this Sith Lord...for a price of course.
"I am prepared to do anything necessary to eliminate this threat," Haktuiki said.
"As you know, I once applied for the Jedi, but they turned me down because of my species"
"Regardless of all of this, I still love the Jedi Order and will do anything to fight for it."
"And you know me by reputation. You know I am more than capable to do this...for a price."
Yes, you are quite... Reputable... But, I don't know if we could risk it. The power of the Dark Side is extremely hard to resist. Especially to one without training. I am very sorry but..." Aiden was cut-off by Luke, "We need his help..."
"Indeed we do..." Replied Aiden. "But we don't need to kill him. Right now I just need, information. Could you do this?"
"I don't usually do information. Its not my specialty," said Haktuiki.
"But in your case I will make an exception. Regardless of my talent for hunting, I will use my talent to find him, track him down, and gather information as much as I can."
Haktuiki stands up, looking around the room peacefully.
"I will do it, for a price. And I will give up Bounty Hunting for this Jedi Order."
"After this meeting I will service only the Jedi Order."
"And I do wish to speak with Julhan about another matter."
"But for right now, what say you?"
"Alright... but mind your place. Your not into the order yet. I must discuss this with the Full council present. There will be a rather large bounty for you. You will receive 25 percent of it now, and the rest upon completion of your Reconnaissance. Thank you."
"Alright well I’ll leave you two alone."
"Master, I’ll be in the grove meditating if you need me."
Julhan said "That is good Aiden. well let me first congratulate you into the order. So why do u want to speak to me in private? Is it of great importance? Just a request, or something else entirely different? For we must hurry and see what we can find out about this new 'Sith Lord'."
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A Sith fleet was slowly heading towards the planet of Alderaan... Vengonce was looking down at the blue planet from the command deck of the ship....
"Sir we are approaching the planet now sir..." said a servant
"Is the Enclave in Range yet?" he asked
"Not yet sir, I’ll order the gunners to fire as soon as it is in ran-"
"No! I will go down personally... in shadow I will remain... blockade the planet until I return... let no one pass this fleet..."
His shuttle was personally flown down by Vengonce himself in his black robes only his yellow eyes showed out of the darkness covering his face... walking down a street until he found the Enclave... looking up on it ominously...
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"Master!!!" Haktuiki suddenly jumps, feeling his head.
"I feel a presence in the force. Its growing stronger!"
"I can feel it too," said Julhan.
Haktuiki suddenly fell to the floor, clutching his forehead as if it was on fire.
"It's too close. I can feel it!" he gasped.
He started rolling around like a madman.
"NO! NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! ARGH!!" he screamed. <-----------hint for Peace, Part 2.
Silo looked over and rushed to Hatuiki's side and then stood pulled out his saber and walked outside and stared strait into Vengonce yellow eyes and then turned on his saber... walked slowly down the steps and waited for him to attack, Vengonce threw off his robe to reveal his Dark Jedi tunic and Black hair, he ran at Silo and ignited his saber... The two clashed with extreme power flying and jumping around swiftly blocking each others sabers... suddenly Vengonce ended the duel with a swift punch to the face that floored Silo...
Julhan says "Haktuiki you alright? Haktuiki what’s wrong? *shakes him out of it* Get a grip Haktuiki, we cant lose you now we need you."
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Vengonce slowly continued to walk up the steps into the Enclave... he ignited his saber and walked slowly in... glared at all in the temple before him...many ran at him he struck each of them down with ease..."YOU WORMS ARE NO MATCH FOR THE DARK SIDE!!!" he yelled
"AH!" Aiden screamed. He felt a major disturbance in the force. He knew something was wrong.
He jumped up, and headed to the enclaves main entrance.
When he arrived, he saw one single Dark Jedi striking down members of his order.
He then saw dozens of Dark Jedi pouring through the main entrance doors into the Great Hall.
Aiden threw off his ribbed jacket. Pulled out both of his lightsabers. Hooked them together and whispered "...... It's on ......."
~MEANWHILE~
Haktuiki, who was laying on the floor of the meeting room, open his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked.
"No," he paused. "What is happening?"
"I don't know but I think we should go and find out. They both hurry to the great hall. “Oh no the sith... they're attacking. We must help for I fear we may lose this battle."
They both pull out their sabers and charge into the battle.
Haktuiki runs and jumps into the battle.
The battle is fierce, but nothing he has ever handled before.
Vengonce moves quick, with feeling, but he puts too much aggression into his moves. Haktuiki parries easily.
Julhan easily dodges and kills many of the sith. The battle is long and hard and seems to have no end the sith just keep coming and coming and soon he is nearing the edges of his strength.
Haktuiki is thrown to the wall. He staggers and falls onto the floor.
He slices the Sith's leg who is attacking him. He falls to the ground.
Haktuiki scrambles to his feet and runs after Vengonce.
The battle isn’t going so well. Aiden and Julhan seem like they can barely stand.
Haktuiki jumps into the battle.
He swings left: blocked. Right: blocked.
Suddenly Vengonce kicks aside Juhlan and force throws Aiden.
Haktuiki took advantage of that sudden defenseless moment.
He swings at Vengonce, hoping to disable his arms, but misses and hits the lightsaber.
The lightsaber explodes into metal fragments. Vengonce took his crackling hilt and seared Haktuiki’s face with it.
"AHHHHH!!!!" he screamed.
Out of a fit of rage, he takes the spiked hilt of his own saber and swings at Vengonce face.
Vengonce screamed and held the side of his face, which was dripping with blood.
He then looked back and smirked and shot Hatuiki through with force lightning sending the poor little Jawa across the room, "Hokey weapons are for the weak! I have the force!" then turning to Julhan and doing the same thing sends him flying...
Aiden was force thrown to the wall, dropping his lightsaber.
And for a few seconds he couldn't see, hear, or feel anything.
A few Sith around him had taken that opportunity to slam there lightsaber hilts into his stomach.
He fell to his knees.
He noticed his lightsaber a few yards away, force pulled, and gripped the hilt so tight, his knuckles turned white.
He jumped up, slashed at the three Sith attackers, all of the swings were blocked.
Aiden was beyond exhaustion. But managed to strike down two of the Sith before the other retreated.
Aiden noticed Julhan struggling to his feet a couple yards away. And noticed his Jawa friend was almost unconscious..
He glanced at Darth Vengonce noticing his lightsaber was disabled. He charged, seizing the opportunity.
But just before Aiden reached him, Vengonce had already pulled out another Sabre.
They saber locked. This was a true test of strength.
But Aiden was already exhausted from being thrashed about. And he could taste the blood in his mouth.
He had to back off. Aiden in the middle of the saber-lock, unhooked his lightsabers, and began to fight with the twin sabers instead of a double-hilted saber.
This proved more useful, allowing him to fend Vengonce off a little longer.
But soon a few other Sith joined in.
"Uhm... A LITTLE HELP PLEASE?!?!??!?" Aiden screamed frantically.
Haktuiki struggled to his feet. He ran to help Aiden, but Vengonce threw another bolt of lighting at him.
He blocked it, and the bolt went striking off the walls.
But that 3 second distraction was all Vengonce needed. He swung his saber and barely just sliced across Haktuiki's stomach.
He fell once again, but he could not let the pain get to him. A friend was in trouble.
Vengonce sent a bolt of lightning towards Aiden, but Haktuiki jumped and force pushed Aiden out of the way.
Triumphant, Haktuiki turned around and saw the big bolt of lightning an inch from him.
BANG! There was a loud noise, and he went pelting across the hallway. He crashed to the floor. He could feel blood gushing from my stomach, and Haktuiki held it as hard as he could.
He lay there gasping for a moment, then got up and re-entered the fight...
Vengonce blocked each coming saber killing each wielder..."This is a waste of my time...” He takes out his comlink. “ Cassious... I await your arrival!" then from the other side of the comlink the group heard in and awesome Mandalorian accent, "Yes, I’ll be right theah." a seismic charge was heard and seconds later the whole top of the temple was gone! Cassious jumped into the lobby area where this whole fiasco was being held took out a few blasters and had at it, "ITS CASSIOUS FETT! RUN FOR IT!" yelled one Jedi, as Cassious mowed down jedi like Wookies on Knyraths.
It was a grassy meadow. With tall ancient pillars. A soft wind constantly blew across the flower beds. In the middle of this grove sat Aiden. Trying to finish constructing his first lightsaber, the traditional way, by using the force. A couple hours into the ritual, he heard a satisfying 'click'. And stood. Holding the hilt of the saber. Switched it on. And began twirling it around.
"Simple" He muttered.
Then he heard a loud scream from behind him and... Awoke from his dreamlike state. He had been unconscious for a few moments on the ground. Dreaming of constructing his first lightsaber. He thought about wanting to stay in the dream for a little longer. But soon stifled his thoughts. He looked around for his lightsabers. Found one. Grabbed it. And got up.
His vision was red. There was blood in his eyes. He took a quick assessment of the field. He saw many dead Jedi, and Sith alike. He could hardly remember the sequence in which these events happened. It was all a blurred lightsaber Duel at this point in time. He did recall his Jawa friend saving his life. He was very grateful. But he was no where in sight. But Aiden couldn't totally focus on this at this time.
Just then Aiden realized what was happening. They had spent one entire year searching for Jedi. Aiden and Julhan found at least 50 members alone. And Luke and his team found twice as much. But the sith had been preparing for no one knows how long. "We're not going to win this battle..." He thought. But his inner-self took over and said "Don't give up yet."
Aiden heard a large explosion, and saw falling rocks and debris. The entire roof of the Enclave was blown off. "Hoooolyyy shit." Aiden thought.
When Julhan got back up he charged back into the battle and since he was so exhausted he tried not to attack the more powerful of the group. he had no trouble, until one of the stronger sith tried to sneak up on Julhan but he struck them down even though he had gotten in a lucky hit and knocked him unconscious.
Haktuiki ran over to Julhan.
"Are you alright master?"
Thinking that he was dead, he slowly turned and stared up at the menacing battle.
"Rest in piece, my master. May the force be with you," said Haktuiki, still not realizing he wasn't dead.
Haktuiki re-entered the battle, trying not to let sadness and anger consume him.
He swung left: Cut through a Sith's arm. He swung right: Cut the top of a Sith's head off.
He kicked a one nasty hooded Sith and he staggered. For a moment I thought he was going to jump and retaliate, but instead he fell out the window of one of the chambers.
Aiden noticed out of the roof opening, a tall man in a Mandalorian type armor came into the Frey with a jetpack, wielding two Blaster Pistols.
Aiden began to make his way towards this "Mandalorian".
Julhan was finally awakened by the battle raging on around him . he got back up and started killing as many Sith as he could because he was enraged about what happened to him during the fight. The Sith didn’t seem as invincible as they did before. they fought with less vigor as before and there seemed to be less in the battle. He soon lost track of how many had died, for both the Sith and the jedi, and started to notice that Aiden was fighting the mandalorian, he tried to get there as soon as he could but there was no way around the Sith that kept attacking him. since he was so exhausted he couldn’t get through. he just had to hope that Aiden would defeat him, and he also had to worry about his own fights.
Haktuiki lost count of the Sith. They were everywhere. Red sabers blazed all around him.
He payed no attention to what anyone else was doing. As far as he was concerned, he was alone. Julhan was dead and Aiden was nowhere to be seen either.
He just fought. And fought. He fought until the point where it wasn't considered fighting anymore. More like swinging randomly like a madman.
There was a moment when he was back to back with someone else. He turned and grabbed him by the throat, prepared to make the kill.
...
Haktuiki was shocked. "JULHAN??!!!"
"Yeah?" Julhan answered.
"Your alive!!!"
But suddenly through the commotion, there was black. And everything stopped.
"Come HERE you little FREAK!" Aiden screamed at the Mandalorian.
The Mandalorians tactics seemed to be 'Shoot at Aiden. Have him follow. Lure him into a group of Sith. Watch him fight. Repeat"
Aiden never could get within jumping range of the Mandalorian. He had been growing tired of this. It's better that the Mandalorian shoot at Aiden, than his fellow unsuspecting Jedi.
Aiden finally decided to try one last jump at the mandalorian. He ended up just barely striking the fuel pod of the JetPack.
Down went the Mandalorian.
But he fell on the Sith side of the battle, allowing him to retreat.
Aiden wasn't sure if he was to return later into the battle. But he was glad that game was over.
He went to try to find his other lightsaber. He isn't comfortable fighting with a single hilt.
Suddenly a blaster bolt hit Aiden and he went down in burning pain, "Heh, I’ve suffered your kind before... nothing that big..." Cassious said through the voice amplifier in his helmet... "Quite a bounty on Jedi these days," he said shooting a Jedi injured on the ground, walking up and grabbing his saber... "This job is finished I’m outa here..." he said walking away.
Through the mass of bodies flying through the air and the swirling field of red sabers, Saix could see the faint outline of his master. He ran to his master. They needed to retreat now, this killing spree had gone way too far.
The Jedi didn’t seem to stop coming at him. Another one attempted to charge at him at full speed, but simply missed Saix and ended up crashing into the wall. (>.>)
"Master!" he yelled "We must retreat, the damage done here is enough..."
"Maybe.... come we shall return.. come my new apprentice..." said Darth Vengonce walking the other way out of the door.... *takes out a com link* Destroy this horrendous place before anymore of our men our killed..." he said to the Destroyer above them.... but it had been destroyed by Admiral Ackbar's fleet!
Never the less he took his new apprentice to his shuttle and they were off! "You’ve proved yourself beyond belief my new apprentice... henceforth you will be known as Darth Seer... we must find the base before the Rebels can trace us.
Haktuiki opened his eyes.
Everything was blurry. He could not see properly. He choked and looked up. He could taste dried blood in the back of his throat. His legs and head were stiff. He felt around. He could feel blood all around him.
But this was nothing compared to what he heard. Screaming and crying.
He sat up painfully, clutching his blood soaked stomach. He choked again and stood up. His vision was coming back to him. He looked around.
Everywhere. Bodies. Blood. Severed limbs. Injured. He wanted nothing more to get away from this place.
He looked around for Aiden. Nowhere to be seen. He looked for Julhan. Again, nowhere.
By the looks of it, there were no live Sith left. It seems that they had won a very impossible victory, or the remaining Sith retreated.
He began the journey. The journey to rally up live Jedi. To help wounded. To save the Jedi Order.
Silo walked up to Hatuiki and knelt down next to him... "Not many survivors... they’ve won... they’ve killed so many... in such a little period of time... My name is Silo Bahn and You’ve shown amazing bravery here... we would like for you to be a part of the Jedi order. Going toe to toe with a Sith was something that only three of us were brave enough to do... the rest died... I am tired tend to the rest of the survivors... I must go and rest on what I’ve learned." he said standing and walking away limping.
When Julhan had found Hatuiki he was surprised to see him alive, he thought he had died in the battle. He asked Hatuiki if he was alright and he replied that yes he was ok. Julhan was in shock that they hadn't lost this battle, although many were dead and wounded, they were safe for now. now Julhan had to find the remaining jedi and see what else he had to do.
"Julhan, I’ll have to get some new Jedi Masters... to replace the ones that have fallen... will you represent the fallen in a funeral of all of them? We need to burn these bodies ceremonially."
Silo said placing his hand on Julhan's shoulder....
"I would be honored to be a part of this Jedi Order," replied Haktuiki.
"But there is no time for this now. I must carry on with the wounded."
He walked away sadly, holding supplies.
The battle was over, but the pain and damage was done. No one will ever forget about this battle. No one will ever forgot of the pain was endured on this galaxy.
20 years, and no peace...
Cold...
That was Aiden's first thought. How cold he was. His arms, legs, hands, feet, all numb.
He was laying on his stomach. Face smashed into the grey marble floor.
His vision was still blurred with hints of red. He had the worst headache he had ever felt.
Any sort of movement was hell for him. It took all of his strength to pull himself up to a nearby corner, and just sit with his back to the wall. It wasn't till' then, did he look around.
Look around to see the sad sight. All that he had worked on. The young men, that dedicated themselfs to this very order, the young men that deserted there families, friends, spouses, and children, all to go to war with an enemy, so powerful, that in one swift blow, could cripple there entire order. Everything they had worked for. Decimated.
Aiden came to the point where he blamed himself for everything that had happened.
Maybe if he hadn't have followed Luke to create a new order, this wouldn't of happened.
Maybe if he convinced his master not to follow Luke, this wouldn't have happened.
If we would have just excepted defeat, and gave up on the Jedi Code, the Sith might not have done so much damage.
Maybe if we didn't provoke the Sith, by trying to re-create an already dead order, all of these innocent men would not have fallen in battle.
Aiden was crying by this point. But even to do this, took all of his strength.
He examined himself. His nails were red, he gripped his saber hilt so tight, blood had seeped into his nails. He had carbon scoring on the back of his left shoulder, from the blaster bolt he suffered from the Mandalorian. Sabre burns covered his entire body. His customary Jedi Robes were scorched, tattered, and torn.
He thought about everything. He apologized a thousand times over to all of the dead Jedi, and their families.
Aiden will never be the same. He will never forgive himself.
In the hours Aiden spent gathering his strength.
Aiden got up, holding his right shoulder, bleeding from several open wounds, hung his head, and started to walk.
He walked to the main entrance, stopped, turned his head back, and whispered...
"Goodbye..."
To Be Continued...
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