Star Wars: The Lost Son

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera smiled, eyes glittering dangerously. "Thank you, milord." She began to pace the room, slowly, watching the prisoners. Her eyes fell on the ones who had been imprisoned in force cages, and with a touch of the Force, she turned the cages' interrogation systems all the way up, unleashing powerful electrical shocks on the prisoners. "You.... will.... feel.... everything.... my brother felt, fools," she hissed, glaring at them.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron watched Darth Marea with great pleaseure as he heard the screams of the prisoners. She is already a great Sith, indeed. I am truly going to enjoy watching this. She will be a great Sith Lord when her training is complete. Once we get rid of the Jedi and their Republic, we will establish our own rule and crush those who stand against us! Darth Saaron thought as he watched, a dark, savage smile on his face.

[CSI]

"Ben Flameshadow? Well...It's on my bounty list. But I never seen that person before...have we?" CSI asked Vergil, and as response, Vergil shook his head again.

 

"Well, here we go again..." CSI reached for the console again as Vergil yawned, "Well, I'll get a nap. It's all yours, CSI."

 

"No problem. I got it."

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera watched the prisoners scream, for a while, then turned her attention to the others. She eyed several strapped to a table, and they glared at her defiantly. She took two slow steps towards them, fury building within her. Her fingertips crackled, and without thinking about it, she lifted her hand and blasted them with lightning. Once the lightning had abated, she held up her hand and looked at it, a little surprised. ::Master?::

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron watched his apprentice torture her prisoners, satisfied at her approach. He then watched her discover a new force power for herself as she blasted some of the prisoners with Force Lightning, looking a bit puzzled. ::My apprentice, you have just discovered one of the Force powers that is of the Dark Side. The Jedi would never teach you this, anything can be done with the force.:: He then reached out to her mind and created a link between them. He allowed her to see that as his rage filled, he channeled it in to the force. Forcing that energy to his fingertips, begging to be released, and doing so, released a even more powerful lightning than she was able to produce onto the prisoners strapped down onto the table. Listening to their screams made his power increase, increasing the power of the lightning. Darth Saaron continued to smile at his prisoners with a savage, dark smile as he continued to unleash the lightning. Through the force he called to his apprentice, ::Join in, my apprentice, make them suffer!:: As he sensed the Dark Jedi becomming weaker and close to death, the table they were laying on injected them with a IV filled with bacta, keeping them from death.

[Aurora Starfire]

::Yes, master. Thank you.:: Darth Maera followed what he had shown her, and unleashed another blast of lightning at the dark Jedi, this time purposefully. She tortured them for a while longer, then finally directed her attention to those dark Jedi who had not been incarcerated. She smiled, wickedly, and said in a low voice, "You have four seconds before I begin to hunt you. That's one second less than you gave my brother. Now go!" She watched as the remaining dark Jedi scattered, and with a chuckle, vanished from sight and sense, beginning her hunt.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron continued to increase the power of his lightning, even as his apprentice joined in. The cries of complete agony echoed through out the interrogation chamber, even as Darth Marea left to hunt. The Dark Jedi in the room only wanted to let death take them over. Darth Saaron let out a evil laugh as he continued the lightning, amused that he would not grant what these Dark Jedi wanted. Death would have been too good for them, and it provided a execelent oppurnity for training his apprentice.

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera moved silently through the halls, lightsaber in hand, trapping the dark Jedi one by one and picking them off. She could feel their fear as they ran, using it to track them. Finally, the only one who was left was their leader. She began to taunt him through the Force, mocking him. ::How does it feel to be the hunted, rather than the hunter, fool?:: She closed in on him, remaining hidden, and finally, stood quite still in a passageway, waiting for him. As he ran past, she tripped him, finally revealing herself. She began to circle him. "You didn't think you'd ever be in this position, did you? Hunted.... trapped....." she turned him over with her foot, and held her lightsaber blade at his throat. He gulped, and tried to speak, but no words came out. "Going to beg for mercy? Do you really think I'd put you out of your misery so soon? Think again. You're going to feel everything my brother felt, before you die screaming." Hate burned in her eye, and she released a powerful wave of lightning on him, more powerful than she had ever been able to achieve before.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron felt the ship come out of hyperspace and thought we need to enact the next phase of my plan before the Jedi sense us. He stopped the lightning on the prisoners. However, before going to where Darth Marea was, he injected both of the Dark Jedi on the tabe with a drug that kept them in agony while he was gone. He walked up to his apprentice and watched her exact her vengence on the leader of the Dark Jedi with a dark sastifaction.

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera continued to blast the dark Jedi with lightning until he fell unconscious. Oops, she thought to herself, half amused, half chagrined. Maybe I should've decreased the power, he might've stayed conscious longer. She turned and noticed that Darth Saaron had come to watch her. "Milord, do you have need of me?"

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron nodded his head towards the knocked out Dark Jedi. "I have something that you might consider a present." A dark smile formed on his face behind his mask, while he let out a dark laugh. He then forced his way into the mind of the knocked out prisoner and began to send extreme amounts of dark energy into the pain centers of his brain. The Dark Jedi instantly snapped awake, screaming in complete agony as every nerve in his body fired all at once. "He should be sufficently awake now, continue."

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera smiled. "Thank you, master." She looked down at the dark Jedi, and unleashed a new attack. She listened to his screams with satisfaction for a while, then said, "I'll finish with you later." She then lifted him with the Force, and carried him to the interrogation room and strapped him to the table with the other prisoners. She injected him with a bacta IV, and then, with a wicked smile, switched on the table's electric current. When she had finished, she returned to Darth Saaron, and asked, "What would you have me do now, milord?"

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron smiled at his apprentice. "How do you feel?" he asked as he was walking back to his quarters. "I am amazed at your progress, my apprentice. You are going to be a great Sith."

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera smiled, glad to have pleased Darth Saaron. "Thank you, master." She paused, considering his question. "I feel.... stronger, more powerful. And yet.... there is so much I have yet to learn." She kept pace with her master, walking beside and a little behind him.

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron chuckled as he entered his quarters. "Indeed, you are right, my apprentice. You have grown a lot more powerful in the past few hours, I can feel it. And I have barely taught you anything, think about the future, think about what you will be able to accomplish, my love." He said, sitting back down on his couch, motioning for her to sit down next to him as he took off his mask.

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera seated herself next to him. "Thank you, master. I am eager to learn more, whenever you are ready to teach me." She was quiet for a while, gazing up into his eyes. She had never known what it was to be alone before... in the past she had always had Arion, or other Jedi, near her, but now she realized that all she had left was Darth Saaron, and the thought was both reassuring and chilling at the same time, though she was not sure why.

 

* * *

 

Arion had gone to the cargo hold to practice saber forms when he realized that his saber was gone, and berated himself for letting Darth Saaron take it from him. So instead of forms, he had begun building a new lightsaber. Finally finished, he ignited it, pleased with the result. A silver blade emitted from each end, and with a twist of the hilt, it separated into two single-bladed sabers. Closing it down, he clipped it to his belt and walked into the common area. "Hey, CSI, any luck?"

[CSI]

"Eh, I'm still working on it." CSI taped several keys, and the monitor showed Korriban first. "Nope, no luck."

 

When the monitor showed up Ziost, CSI spotted a pretty big red dot flashed near Ziost. He clicked and zoomed it in, and it showed "Eclipse Destroyer, orbiting Ziost."

 

"Arion! This sure looks like it." CSI reported in.

[Aurora Starfire]

Arion's face lit up, and he moved closer. "Great work, CSI!" He surveyed the data, and nodded. "I'll go input the co-ordinates into the navicomputer, and get us under way." He walked quickly to the cockpit, and charted a course for Ziost. He keyed the comm. "Y'all might want to strap in, we're about to jump to lightspeed." The ship rocked slightly as went into hyperspace.

[CSI]

"Ahhh...I should let master handle the work." CSI said relaxing, and Vergil came out: "I sense we're in hyperdrive, you got any luck?"

 

"Yeah, we got a potential lead in Ziost, and we're going there." CSI nodded.

 

"Should we change the equipment to robes?" Vergil asked CSI.

 

"That won't be nessensary--oh, here they are...your lightsabers. Got them from one Sith." CSI handled Vergil a small bag.

 

"Thank you. I owe you one, mate." Vergil said.

 

CSI replied grimly: "Don't worry about it."

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron gazed into Darth Marea's eyes and smiled. "You finally understand what it was like for me with my father. I only had him, just like you only have me." He paused, "I sense some Jedi are approaching, we must hurry and get you more training before they get here. Otherwise, we may have problems indeed."

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera quickly got to her feet. "Yes, master. I am ready." She was eager to learn more, and also curious about the Jedi, and Darth Saaron's plans for them.

 

* * *

 

Arion walked back into the room. "We'll be there in a few hours. Till then, we might as well get comfortable."

[Darth Randus]

Darth Saaron lead Darth Marea into his training room where some soldiers were. ::This is where you will learn how to use your rage. Use it to crush these incompetient soldiers.::. "The Jedi will try to weaken you, to try to take your power away from you, they must be destroyed in order for us to be sucessful."

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera nodded. "Y- yes, milord." She frowned, willing her rage to grow within her, eyeing one of the troopers darkly. She clenched her fist, using the Force to lift the soldier into the air and crush his chest, then hurled him against the wall. ::Like that, master?::

[Darth Randus]

::Yes, my apprentice. Now, try using your rage, hate, and anger to impale your opponets with a scream that will kill them upon hearing it. Just like I did back at the acadmey.:: Darth Saaron watched his apprentice and smiled darkly, impressed with her abilities. :: Do not worry about harming me, it will not affect me.:: He added afterwords.

[Aurora Starfire]

Darth Maera hesitated, but only for a moment. ::I- I'll try, master.:: She concentrated for a moment, then released her pent-up hate, rage, and despair, infusing it with the dark side, culminating in a scream through the Force. Its shockwaves blasted through the troopers, causing them to cry out in pain before killing them. She released her hold on the Force then, trembling slightly. ::M-master?::