Star Wars: Darth Nyx (Book 1)

Ch10: Dark Goddess of the Sith

I've been battling this dead husk of a Sith for what feels like hours. The others have been cut off from our battle by what seems to be a shield and I can't break away from the fight long enough to try and disable it. 

Naga Shadow: Tell me, Sith, do you fear your impending demise?

Me: I would ask you the same but you're already dead!

Using the anger I channel throughout my being, I lunge forward at him, slicing him in half before he can move to block but his body merely fuses back together as he laughs me to scorn.

Naga Shadow: HAHAHA! Your efforts are futile.

Me: ENOUGH!

A wave of energy blasts outward from me sending him across the platform turning him into a crumpled mess. This time, the body doesn't restore itself but his laughter still echoes in my mind.

Naga Shadow: Tell me, are you aware of your destiny?

I keep my lightsaber at the ready as I try to locate where the voice is coming from. More droids drop from the ceiling and attempt to subdue me. More droids become heaps of scrap on the floor.

Naga Shadow: You are still too weak! I...I will make you strong!

Explosions rock the platform and for a moment I think he's about to cause the entire thing to give way but it soon stops shaking. Off to the side, Hadra's banging against the shield. She's trying to tell me something but I can neither hear nor make out any of her words.

Naga Shadow's apparition appears before me once more but this time it quickly morphs into something else, something dark and sinister. It has no face. It has no body save for the void in its place. It is something and yet nothing at all. I raise my lightsaber towards it, preparing for battle.

????: Daughter of Keshiri...Naija Khalei...Darth Nyx...Empress of the Sith.

Me: Who are you?

????: Come my child. Your destiny awaits.

A small part of the void moves towards me and I can feel it deep within me that it is symbolic of a hand outstretched for me to take. I refuse, using lightning to drive it away once it comes too close.

????: Do you not wish to see her again?

An apparition showing Kailey is uncovered in the being's "hands" before vanishing without a trace yet leaving my heart in bits. I'd managed to suppress my emotions to focus on the matter at hand but as they resurface my hold on sanity begins spiralling out of control. 

Lightning runs along my skin as longing is replaced with utter agony and then rage.

????: Yes...Remember the words...Peace is a lie, there is only your passion. Show me your passion.

Me: GET OUT!!!!

A massive concentrated beam of lightning punches straight through the being's chest and it vanishes in a puff of black smoke.

????: Through that passion, you will gain STRENGTH!!!

Me: ENOUGH!!!

My shout comes out a lot stronger than I was aiming for, the sheer power from the blast cracking the surrounding walls and threatening to crush the remaining pillars holding up the ceiling.

????: Through your strength, you shall gain POWER!!!

My rage already boiling over, the minute the apparition shows itself again I lunge at it with previously impossible speeds. I'm not sure what I was expecting given it is an apparition and not a physical being but when my hands come into contact with something I can touch within the void, it drains all rage from me and replaces it with confusion.