Star Wars: Legacy of the Darkness

Chapter 2

Can't stop...couldn't stop. The young man raced through a dense green forest, looking behind him. The man skidded to a halt and slid behind the trunk of a large oak-like tree. He silenced his breathing, trying to keep himself hidden. When the noise around him began to quiet down, he collapsed on his knees.

"The Dark Side is strong here," he said quietly, "I have to warn them..." He began to stand, looking around for his ship. He spotted it behind a dense cluster of trees: a red and white Y-Wing with the old Jedi logo on the left engine. He looked around the area before taking off to his ship. He got to the edge of the forest when his steps were stopped cold when the ignition of a lightsaber rang in the air.

"Oh no..." the young man sighed. He turned to race into his ship when two blood-red lightsabers came down only inches away from his face. He jumped backwards and whipped out and ignited his own bright green lightsaber. The assailant walked out in front of him, a young woman dressed in black wraps around her chest and arms. Clasped on her wrists are two lightsabers, humming red in the silence of the forest.

"There is no escape, Jedi," the woman cooed, spinning her sabers around smiling.

"You can still turn from the dark path," the man spoke, holding his lightsaber shakingly in front of him, "Turn from the Dark Side..."

"The Dark Side is what flows through us," the woman laughed, "And you will see just how powerful the Legacy of the Darkness truly is." She roared as she lunged forward, slashing downward with her sabers. The young man instinctively raised his sword. The sabers clashed, the three blades sizzling in the silence. The man pushed her aside and rolled to the side, throwing off his dusty brown robe and stood up slowly. The woman turned around slowly, seeing the young Jedi standing slowly. The Jedi rushed forward and swiped at the woman. She leaped up in the air and stabbed downward. The Jedi rolled over to the side and scooted back on his butt.

"You just never give up," the woman said. She zoomed towards him and slashed upwards. The man rolled again, the lightsabers grazing his left shoulder. He screamed, and rose to his feet. His shoulder seared in pain from the attack. He closed his eyes, using the Force to suppress his wound. He ran forward and slashed at the woman. The lightsabers clashed again and again in the darkness. The woman laughed as she slashed and swiped at the young Jedi. The man fell to the ground, groaning in pain. The woman rolled her eyes and pointed at the man. Instantly, the man felt his body freeze. He looked up slowly and saw the woman pointing at him. She smiled and curled her finger towards her. The man looked down at his feet as he is dragged towards the woman.

"I am strong with the Force, Jedi," she snickered menacingly, "More than you will ever be." When he got in a few feet away from her face, she raised her finger in the air. The man sailed slowly into the air, his feet dangling under him.

"You belong with us now," she said, before tossing him aside through trees. The man sailed through the forest, crashing through the trees and crashed into a large boulder. He crumbled to the ground, his body flowing with weakness and pain. The woman stood above him, placing her boot on his chest.

"Xilia will be pleased," the woman smiled, "I caught the Jedi."

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Kylas leaned backwards as his TIE fighter zipped through at hyperspeed. He looked to his right at the hilt given to him by General Hux. He looked around the ship and sighed.

No room, he thought. The ship began to shake a bit. Kylas snapped out of his drift and focused back on his fighter. The ship zipped right out of lightspeed as it floats in front of a large blue-green planet.

"This is Saras Kai, alright..." Kylas sighed as he accelerated into the planet's atmosphere. The TIE fighter began to shake again, this time alarms blared inside the ship. One of the wings of his fighter ripped off his ship, causing him to spiral out of control.

"No, no, no..." Kylas said, bracing himself. The ship crashed into a large blue plain, bouncing as it landed in the open. Kylas shook his head as he came back to. Flames wrapped around his ship, the alarms screaming in his ear. He sighed and pushed the window out with the Force. He crawled out with the lightsaber in his hand and began walking in the open field. He got a few meters out when he turned and saw his fighter explode, flames surrounding the falling wreckage.

"There went my ride back," Kylas sighed. He turned back around and dragged himself around the open plain, the bright red sun gleaming down on his body. He wiped his brow and looked down at his hand. Blood trickled down from his brow. Kylas nodded and kept walking. It wasn't long before Kylas came across a small speeder bike. He looked around as he hopped onto the bike. He turned it on and began floating in the air. He turned the bike around and zoomed slowly into a forest. Zipping past the trees and shrubbery, Kylas leaned closer onto the bike.

You say there are others, Supreme Leader... he thought, Then where are they? He kept riding on the bike before he felt something rip him off the bike. He tumbled onto the ground as the bike crashed into a tree. Kylas looked up, crawling up to his feet. Kylas knew exactly what that was - that wasn't just anything...

Kylas reached behind him and pulled out his new lightsaber hilt and turns it on. The red blades shot into the air, unnaturally sizzling in his hand. Kylas looked around for the assailant, but only hear a woman's laughter.

"Your saber," she said from somewhere in the woods, "It is very different from anything I've ever seen before."

"It is designed after the one of my mentor," Kylas responded.

"I know who you are, Kylas Zolo," the woman said, "The Dark Side of the Force reigns here."

"So it is true," Kylas said, standing upright, "There are Force users here on this planet."

"We aren't just Force users," the woman said. She appeared behind him, pacing around Kylas. Her sparkling red eyes gazed into Kylas' own eyes.

"You seek answers? I can provide you with them. I am Ciella Kara-Vel, and I represent the Legacy of the Darkness. Lady Xilia will be very pleased."