Sith "Peacekeeping"

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With the main threat lying on the floor in a pool of blood, there was nothing to stop Avreet from giving a signal to the Imperials. "Send the troops, ambassador, the guns and the Jedi are gone," said Avreet into the comlink on his left wrist and listened to the man confirming it. There was only one thing left to do in the room. The Jedi Master could hide his Force presence and signature, and Avreet didn't want to risk the man being still alive and waiting for the Sith to turn their backs to him. Pacing towards the body, muck still sloshing in his boots, Avreet lowered his right hand and his wrist flicked down, the crimson lightsaber blade sinking into the Jedi Master's right eye and moving further in as Avreet extended his arm. Releasing his thumb from the button turned off the plasma beam, leaving a charred hole that looked like a black eye in the Jedi's eye socket. If the man survived Grima's twin beams penetrating his torso, he definitely did not live through this this.

"So, Master," Avreet's whisker shivered as he turned to face the Sith Witch, while kneeling next to the corpse and searching through it's belongings, hoping to find something useful, "How does it feel to kill your first Jedi Master?" he asked with curiosity in his voice, remembering the first time he killed a Jedi. The memory was still fresh, he remembered the sudden realization he was alive and his opponent lied dead at his feet. The incredible exhaustion, yet enjoying the feeling of victory over someone so powerful after a long battle of life and death, two members of different orders fighting against each other, neither of them going to surrender or flee.

His hand touched something solid through the dead man's rough tunic. Avreet reached under it and pulled out a small cylinder shaped packet. It was big enough to fit into his hand, and had several white inscribings it's yellow surface. Avreet did not recognize the language, knowing only Basic. The cybernetic eye took several pictures of the object before the Mon Cal gently tapped on it with his claw. It gave a deep, hollow sound. There had to be something inside, though Avreet did not dare to try and open it. The object might have been very, very old, so anything that hid inside the shell might be destroyed if the packet was not opened carefully enough. Surprisingly enough, he felt tingling in his fingers when holding the mysterious object.

Standing up from the cold body, the Mon Calamari telekinetically levitated the cylinder in his hand and sent it to Grima. "Could this be what brought the Jedi here, Master?" Given the time the Jedi was inside the Temple, it was entirely possible. The Alliance soldiers must have explored it already.

From a distance, he heard an occasional sound so typical for blaster bolts ripping through the air. The Imperial soldiers swept through the jungle, searching for enemies and surrounding them in their ring of men that was closing on the Temple in the middle of the forest. It didn't take long and the teenager's ear canals caught a familiar whir coming from an approaching transport ship's engines. It wouldn't take long and the Sith trio would be picked up.
 

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I took my hilt from Master Volitu trying to overcome her stinging words, yet she was right. I attempted something new and unfamiliar to me which ended in not only failure but it nearly costed me my life had not Master Volitu intervened on my behalf. I rose to my feet looking at the carnage all around us, even Avreet wanted to make sure the Jedi was dead so he plunged his blade into the dead man's eye socket. I turned away examining the chamber when I discovered a room hidden until Master Volitu ripped the statue from the wall to hurl at the Jedi. I cautiously peered into the room that was poorly lit and smelled musty and sort of like, death.

Behind me I heard Avreet speak to Master Volitu and when I turned around I saw that he was levitating some sort of cylinder object to the Togruta Sith Witch. I was unsure of what the object was but I wondered if it had anything to do with what was in the chamber I just glanced in. Turning around I stepped inside and saw something that I only read about back at the Sith Temple on Korriban. Yet here was one in front of me and my eyes were struggling to focus at the sight while my mind tried to assure me that what I was seeing was in fact real.

I stepped out of the chamber slightly and said to Avreet and Master Volitu, "You two need to see this. Unless I am mistaken, I believe I found an ancient tomb inside this Temple. And if I am to believe what I just saw, I think there is an old sacaphogus with what appears to have the ancient Sith language written on it. Could this be a hidden resting place for a Sith Lord?"

In the distance I could hear blaster fire mingled with a faint sound of an approaching transport. Though the mission was done and soon we would be heading home, I none the less turned around stepping into the chamber once again. I stopped at the open sacophagus seeing the remains of some species but what caught my eye was a set of black and red gauntlets hidden beneath the rotted clothes. I reached down to pick them up, thought about if I should disturb them as my hand hovered over them, then decided it was worth the risk.

I wrapped my hands around them and instantly felt a surge of Dark Side energy course through my body, which made me shiver and feel slightly light headed. When my head cleared, I thought I saw some entity manifest briefly, smile at me, then vanished as quickly than it appeared before me. I clipped one gauntlet to my right forearm then did the same with my left forearm. I peered into the ancient burial device again racking my brain in determining who this was.
 

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The dead Jedi's lightsaber flew through the air then was snatched by the Sith Master's right hand. Grima turned over the hilt examining the creativity of the Jedi who had constructed it. How did she feel about killing her first Jedi Master? "It felt no different then squashing a spider roach under your boot.....no different then sniping a womp rat with a blaster.....and no different than shooting a mynock out of the air. Like these creatures, Jedi are nothing more than an infestation that needs to be cleansed from the galaxy before the galaxy can viewed clean and proper like," Grima said discarding the hilt back to the floor.

Grima moved through the chamber as if though something here was drawing her to something but her Aprpentice had found something and he levitated it to her. Grasping it, she looked at the silvery cylinder and opened it to reveal a scroll inside written in the old Sith language. Once her eyes roamed over it, she realized it was one half of a riddle until the Acolyte, Yr'il, said from the far end of the chamber that she too found something. Grima walked toward the opening that had been hidden by the statue, stepped inside and saw the broken, yet disturbed sarcophagus in the centre of the room. Again she saw the writing on the pall that held the body. It was the other half of the riddle. Kneeling next to the sarcophagus, she read both riddles then stood. The words on this cylinder and the words on this pall are two halves of a whole, making it one single riddle. This is a resting place of an old and ancient Sith Lord but I do not recongize the name, thus this Lord is meaningless to us. As for this riddle," Grima began to pace back and forth inside the tomb.

Grima frowned at both the scroll and the sarcophagus then read the two riddles outloud, "'In the morning I walked on four legs and in the afternoon I walked on two legs but at night, I walked on three.....what am I'?" Grima began to laugh then said, "A human. In the morning I walked on four legs refers to an infant. In the afternoon I walked on two legs refers to adulthood while I walked on three refers to an elderly man with a walking cane." As Grima explained the last part of the riddle, the sarcophagus made a clicking sound and slide to the left revealing a secret room with stairs that led downward.

Grima walked down the stairs that led into a massive chamber that was filled with several shapes and sizes and colours of gems and crystals along with various weapons from a thousand years agao. Also, there were statues of both male and female figures and on the shelves where assortments of treasures. But the thing that caught her eyes was a tome on a shelf by itself collecting dust. Grima picked it up with the Force and slowly opened the tome which revealed another scroll. Grima looked at it and knew exactly what she found. "It seems the text on this scroll has revealed to us a new power in the Force. Memory Walk."
 

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Avreet's head turned in the direction of Yr'il's voice. His curiousity was mixed with a sense of danger. If the girl had found what she thought, they needed to be careful. Warriors vastly more powerful than her had fallen to tricks of long dead Sith Lords, and Avreet definitely didn't want his friend to succumb to insanity or die. Glancing at the dead Jedi Master one last time, the Mon Calamari followed the trail of the white haired Acolyte's voice until he found the secret chamber. The sarcophagus cointaining the skeletal remains was broken, and what was worse, Yr'il had two gauntlets she did not have before. "Nice find, Yr'il!" the boy praised his friend as he examined the gauntlets with his cybernetic eye, "You remember how Master Volitu taught us Force weapon? I hope those gauntlets have positive enchantments, not something that would harm you."

Meanwhile, Grima read the riddle from the cylinder and the sarphopagus. Avreet paid little attention to it, instead focusing his mind on Yr'il's new gauntlets, trying to feel their power. They did not feel harmful, but then again, Avreet was no expert in these things. He did, however, pay attention as Grima read the riddle. The young boy found it rather amusing, it was one of the classic riddles and probably everyone knew an answer to it. The Sith Master must have found it equally amusing, as she let out a laugh, which caused Avreet to giggle.

Grima's answer opened yet another secret passage. Following her down the stairs, Avreet used the low-light vision in his cybernetic eye to see better. Aside from the big statues, he could make out many weapons all around the place. It was obvious the Sith Lord used to be a collector. While none of the weapons radiated any kind of Force disturbance, and after Avreet tested the material by trying to cut them with his lightsaber, only to find the weapons were esentially useless to him, he turned his attention to the crystals. There was never enough of lightsaber crystals, and it gave Avreet a chance to have something unique instead of the typical Sith red. Not like he did not like the color, but it wouldn't hurt to have more options when building a lightsaber. Maybe he'd pass one of the crystals down on his own apprentice one day?

A beautiful purple crystal caught his eye, calling to him through the Force after Avreet noticed it. It was simply sittion on a pedestal, possibly used as a jewelry judging by the expensive looking box it was in. Avry's hand went to touch it, but stopped mere inches above the purple shard, remembering not to touch ancient artifacts. Closing his big fishy eyes, he tried to feel any kind of danger coming from it, but the crystal's aura seemed friendly and warm, welcoming. Mentally shrugging, he gently picked the purple crystal up and put it into his pocket before swiveling his eyes at his beloved Master again.

"Master, that is a very powerful thing. I have read about it in the library. Had the Jedi Master discovered this place and used Memory walk on us,...." Avreet's voice trailed off, the boy trying not to think about the three of them being tortured by Memory walk before being killed.
 

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I looked down at the gauntlets on my arms as Avreet spoke of the dangers that came with enchanted weapons or armours. On first impulse I moved to remove them but then my second impulse was to leave them be. I trusted Avreet's words of caution as I said, "I will be cautious with these enchanted gauntlets. In fact, I will discuss this with Master Volitu once we leave this planet as she may be able to give me some insight as to whether I should wear them or destroy them."

I stood in silence as Master Volitu worked on the riddle. My eyes kept drifting to the sarcophagus while my mind kept thinking about the spirit I witnessed. Had it been what they called a Force Ghost? Not wanting to sound like a crazy, I chose to keep that to myself. After some time, Master Volitu laughed out loud as she solved the riddle. With a slight tremor and the sarcophagus shuddering slightly, it moved aside revealing another secret room that was obtainable by a set of stairs. I watched Master Volitu and Avreet disappear into the darkness and I gave one quick glance around in hopes to see the ghostly figure before entering the darkened room myself. I shrugged my shoulders and walked down the stairs.

I was taken aback by all the items in the room. There were weapons which Master Volitu ignored and Avreet tested finding their worth useless in both combat and credits. I watched Avreet find a lightsaber crystal and Master Volitu some ancient looking tome. I took the oppurtunity to look for another treasure and found myself a lightsaber hilt that looked ancient but in working order. At first I was going to toss it aside when again I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye of the spirit and it was smiling once again. I nodded toward the ghost as I examined the hilt. Unlike my traditional hilt, this one was plum in colour and had intricate patterns on it. I opened it up and saw that there was no crystals in it which slightly saddened me but i loved it none the less. I looked down at Serpent's Breath and at that moment, I was going to exchange hilts giving 'Ol Serpie a new look and design.

I heard Master Volitu and Avreet talk about some new power that had been revealed on the text. I clipped the hilt to my other hip and moved toward the others. "A new power? I am sorry Master Volitu but my own Master told me that if I wish to learn something new that i must either learn it from her or have her help me to discover it. Besides, I think I found some interesting things here. We should report thie Temple and all these findings, minus what we take for ourselves, to the Sith Imperium."
 

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"We are indeed fortunate that this scroll did not fall into the hands of the Jedi. And yes Yr'il, we will inform the Sith Order of our discovery here on Shilli. I see you two have found something worth keeping so our mission here was a double success," Grima said placing the ancient scroll inside her cloak. Taking one last look around, Grima figured it was time to leave both the Temple and the plaent of Shilli. They had thwarted the efforts of two corrupted Jedi and their minions, found an anceint Temple riddled with countless treasures, each had found something of worth, and most importantly, she had her revenge on the three Councilman.

"Come, it is time for us to depart," the Sith witch announced heading up the stairs.
 
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