~The End of Orphen..?

[Orphen]

Dozens of years had passed and the young Togruta had grown into her full, seen more than her share of war and battle and healed countless thousands across her travels as she moved through the Galaxy, planet by planet graving others with her unimaginable healing powers. She'd grown into herself, the young woman who was known as Orphen, but there was something more that she needed to do. The Anterres crystal, the legendary artefact was being threatened by war, should it be corrupted it would lose its brilliant light, and it now somehow felt a part of her now, she needed to retreat to a place where it could not be taken from her. That place was Iego. She had fled with all of the younglings she could muster to take from the war, to a place so drenched in the force, where people could not grow old nor feel hunger.

The trip from the besieged planet was dangerous, but not impossible, breaking through the enemy lines on a small ship, she reached Iego within a day and a half, setting down in the mountains far from civilisation, ruins which seemed long abandoned and known by few of even the Jedi order. The Valon Maelebus considered this ground sacred, and with Orphen's presence no doubt that would either cause problems, or they would make an exception for the refugees, her students, over time became known as "The eternally young." Went into the galaxy becoming known as great healers, moving from place to place and creating and preserving life, or bringing the sick back to the hidden location in such a way that it could never be tracked.

It was not long before on the harsh barren landscape of Iego around the area began to maintain its own life, the healing aura of the force nexus which surrounded the place became known for the oasis, which only maintained the image of its Sacred nature to the Maelebus, who built a monastery nearby to defend it, warrior monks surrounding what to them became a myth, as "The Eternally young" would occasionally pilgrimage down from the hilltops to ensure that their wounded protectors were healed. Time was meaningless on Iego, Orphen meditated and channelled the pure and unrestrained light side of the force, it flowed through her like only the strongest of Jedi masters as she heard it whisper of the darkness of the Sith.

But to think her time here would remain uncontested was folly, with the Maelebus' planetary shield, with the Diathim flying overhead, it was not long before a stealthed killer would be the one to penetrate their defences. Meeting the first of the The Eternally young, one of Orphen's children was struck down by the familiar humming sound which she had heard what seemed like lifetimes ago, moving through the area, there was another humming strike, followed by a third. They were under attack, and it seems that a Sith who had heard the rumours intended to pillage this place of its beauty. Orphen's eyes as she felt the soul of the third child waft from its body exploded open.

Orphen stood like in a dream, the light of the force clung to her eyes like white dwarfs expanding in supernova as the Sith entered the room which she stayed the sight was immaculate. The walls of the room were encrusted with force sensitive gemstones which had been traded and dealt and returned by her children and others as offerings for their healing. The Sith did not so much as bat an eyelid, as the Jedi who stood before him, if he could even call her that, was young, and non threatening. She did not even seem to carry a light sabre. but... he was wrong.

A sapphire blue crystal flew to her hand, as she welled up the power of electric judgement and Ray from her body, and like a beam focused them through the floating crystal which were held firmly in place, containing the heat of the single blade with telekinesis, a light sabre like no other, one without a hilt, which was simply pure blade. The sith master smirked in confidence, knowing such a weapon would take amazing strain, he attacked with lightning, intended to deepen the strain as Orphen blocked, for the first time in what seemed like aeons feeling pain wash through her body, but it was welcomed.

He launched at her, and they clashed, the battle had begun, Orphen would not relent, but the darkness within the Sith seemed strong, it was something of deep corruption as he fed on the dark-side. The crystals around them began to chime as Orphen stood as a rock in the centre of the room, out manoeuvred by her foe's speed and brutality, but her mastery in soresu was more than able to fend off the one opponent, to her opponent's glee as she demonstrated the skill, he coaxed that it was only the inevitable she delayed. Spears of dark side power rained down on Orphen from above, illuminated by the power of the light in the room as she danced around them one by one.

"You are unable to fight in the dark here assassin. Leave now, in peace, or I shall cease from defending myself."

The Sith laughed and coaxed once more as he continued his assault, using power to crash down on her defences, but her blade was held by a force that far surpassed his physical limitations, and no struggle crossed her face as he slammed down on her harder and harder, fighting like a typhoon of chaos and disorder, crashing on a rock as his second hand went to his waist. Orphen moved to a side pre-emptively as the assassin extended another blade for her gut, attacking and locking up orphen's blade before a second strike came for her head.

Leaning back just in time the blade cut deeply into her jaw, the pain shot through her body as Orphen staggered backward. Looking up at the Sith with her eyes bright and shining. He was a better fighter than her, that much was certain. She could not defeat his blade with her single one. Reaching behind her she drew her faithful companion, the shard Caris, who had taught the maelebus below in the arts of the sword, master of swordplay so much so he had literally become one. Two blades for two, one solely of energy, one of steel, as she faced down an opponent who used a combination of both. Orphen was beginning to feel drained, but the crystals floating around her alleviated the stress from her body like a drug, she channelled their power, in a similar sense to the infamous count and how he used his emotions.

Her opponent stood ready, but with her two blades she could better hold off his offensive. He charged again blades clashed with blades in the centre as he pressed down on Orphen locking blades with her, forcing her down until Orphen took the chance to use his force to slide between his legs along the soft polished stone, striking for his legs as the sith master jumped, landing on her altar and charging his dark side power into something evil, a blast of pure darkside destructive power. Orphen let go of her energy blade and grabbed the anterres crystal, channelling her own force light.

The two of them fired, and maintained their assault. The black squemous bolt of ethereal chaos ripped the air particles around it into nothingness with the sound of thunder as it crashed through the air. Orphen moulded the power of force light into a single isolated beam which crashed into the Orb. The power of the clash was astronomical, as the power of the dark side seemed absolute. But the light here was strong, and determined, it matched the power of the dark in the only way it knew how. The equal and opposite forces collided brutally, as more and more power was pushed into them, but something had to give, and this time, it was Orphen. His bolt edging closer as her foe fed off his own limitless dark intentions, her force light broke, and there was an explosion of raw power. Crashing orphen back into the wall behind her. Wounds apparent all over her body...

The Sith, tired, and exhausted from the amount of power he had placed in the blast fell to a knee, claiming the power of the dark side. Slumping to his feet, he began to walk toward Orphen, preaching his ways. Orphen's fingers twitched, and the sith noticed, taking a step back. A twitch evolved to her gripping the stone beside her, and the Sith's eyes opened. Orphen slowly opened her eyes, pulling herself from death, as the spark of light, which was ever blue within her shimmering white eyes exploded outwards with the power of the light side of the force. The candles of the cave all went out at once, and the light which some on them was like the reflection of water on the walls of a cave. The wounds across her body, the broken ribs, the collapsed lung, the cuts, the bruises all healed over, but there was more...

From the cave three other sets of eyes began to open, their wounds recovered as they sat up, their souls recalled to their bodies as if it was not yet their destiny to die. The Sith master could feel the radiance of the light emanating from the girl, opening his mouth to speak. "W-who, w-w-what the HELL are you!?" his tongue quivered as he felt his fear. Orphen opened her eyes within her mind, and it was as if she could not control even her own body, something, someone was doing it for her. But all she could feel was a warmth, and a knowing that everything was going to be okay, the whispers which she had known and felt to be the force surrounded her in blue light as she sat naked within her own psyche. "I am the Communal child, Valon Orphen, child of the dark, and you did not heed my warning, though you have grown powerful from corrupting the force to bend to your own whims, you do not deserve the gift which has been given to you. And for the crime of murder, and corruption of the most sacred tool in the universe, it is my duty as a Jedi... No, as a follower of the way of light to return you to the force. "

She began to approach the Sith, who's light sabers, retracted were locked, and would not extend, Orphen had stilled them as she stepped forward one foot after the other. Calling on the great powers of sith lightning he cast them in her direction, but Orphen's mind was separated from her body, she was being driven by the force, and felt no pain, she did not recoil and her wounds through the immeasurable power of healing, healed faster than the wounds were being created. So still, she stepped forward. The sith Leapt back, finding the wall of the chamber, strafing back into a corner, still fighting as he used the most powerful ability in his arsenal. Drawing on the power of the force blast, Orphen stopped, needing to defend the attack, as it was thrown in her direction she used the power of light once more. But this time, it exploded from her hand with force which rocked the room, the light bounced off every crystal and created a kaleidoscope of light side power which the orb crashed against. Orphen had attained something which no living Jedi had in a thousand years, Oneness.

The Orb began to lost its power, and its momentum, as it faded from the world, Orphen stopped her defence. Looking at the man who's arms dropped in exhaustion, she leaned forward, knelt on the ground before him, the Sith lord could never have imagined the power of the light, he was second guessing all that he knew. His ways of the dark side, the people he lost, the friends he left behind, the master he let down. Orphen knelt at his side as the emotional barriers the Sith master had built up one by one were crumbling to ashes. Placing a hand on the side of his face, she smiled softly. "Worry not, I will give you the ultimate gift, you will not fall into chaos... and you will cross in peace. " Leaning in, the man looked up and was met by nothing more or less than Orphen's lips. Light flowed through his body, ripping apart the dark side of the force which welled up within him, obliterating any trace of the darkness within him, but also, his life. The healing power of the light side of the force made him feel no suffering as the dark within him was extinguished forever, his clothes, fell to the ground, his body gone, as Orphen's slumped to the earth.

Attended by The Eternally Young ones, she was nursed back to health, but she had payed for the state of being not only in years of her life, but with her sight. Unable to see, ever again was the price she had payed for oneness, a state which she doubted she would attain ever again, though, to those who looked, four montrals fell from the Togruta's head, a sign of great wisdom and strength, once only budding, but now full length after the event. The Jedi sat, and meditated in the crystal caverns. Years passed, as the Jedi fell into a torpor within the force, she age as time did around her, fact became legend, and legend became myth, as time passed around her and the crystal another crystal formed which the monks called illuma'sekki which began to grow in trace sums around the mountain, a soft blue crystal, which gives off a feint light, it is said to protect those who hold it from dark things.

But within the mountain, within a raw formation of the shining illuminate substance, a young Togruta girl sits, catering her protectors healing all who comes in her presence with no darkness in their hearts, forever frozen in space, her mind on the force, on a planet, where there is no time...

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~The End~​