Star Wars: The Jedi Chronicles:Enter The Shadows (Books 1-4)

Chapter Nine: Zacar

After the battle on Mandalore, Zacar Gatio decided to go pay Censes Fade a visit. It is two days before Doom’s Day. He flies down to Coruscant and lands at the Senate building.

Censes senses the presence of Gaito, due to the fact that he does not have control over him. He finds it amusing that someone would dare to come to him with the intentions of dueling him. He takes a small ship and flies over to the Senate building to investigate. Zacar waits patiently in one of the senators’ offices. Censes enters the room where Zacar is meditating. Zacar flips up to his feet and opens his blue saber staff and turns toward Censes.

Zacar: If you really want to die, then feel free to attack. Your powers are nothing compared to mine.

Censes ignites his black and red lightsaber.

Censes: You fool! Your arrogance will be the death of you!

Zacar laughs.

Zacar: I see the Sith nowadays are still as stupid as ever.. oof!

Zacar gets thrown across the room by a blast of shadow Force, getting slammed into the left side of the room, then falls to the floor. He stands up slowly and turns to his attacker. His eyes turn red.

Zacar: You will pay for that with your life, Shadow.

Censes: Your bold endeavor ends here. You will not defeat me, no matter how powerful you may be.

Censes ignites his other saber, but before he can attack, Zacar yells and charges him. Censes uses his left beam to knock his blade toward the ceiling. He then steps to the side and spins his lightsaber skillfully, slicing Zacar's staff through the middle.

Zacar draws his green and blue sabers and deliverers several strong, swift blows. Zacar attacks with his right, with a wide swing from left to right; his left arm strikes down. Censes is just twisting his sabers with spins making the sabers go around Zacar’s target point. Zacar drops to the ground with a leg sweep and low saber-strike combo. Censes flips over his head and lands behind him. Zacar spins around and beats Censes back relentlessly, blinded by rage. Censes is completely relaxed as he defends.

Censes finally takes the offencive. He thrusts forward with his right and spins around to his left. Zacar has his left beam on the inside of Censes’s right. Censes flips his other saber around his back and lets go.

Zacar’s eyes widen. The saber stops flipping and flies toward Zacar’s head as Censes spins back around the way. Zacar quickly slams his other saber against the two sizzling blades and jerks them into Censes’s second blade, then he spins three-hundred-sixty degrees, with his opponent’s two sabers on his right.

Censes’s left saber goes through the far right wall. Censes draws his saber back to him, aiming for Zacar’s back. He ducks to the left. His saber cuts Zacar's arm. The same saber flips over and stabs his leg, but he doesn’t even notice. Censes continues to back off till he is against the far right wall.

Zacar kicks him in the ribs, only annoying Censes. Zacar kicks, his foot comes down doing a back flip as Censes does a scissor strike with both his sabers. Zacar catches his face with his right foot as he goes around. As soon as Zacar lands, Censes aims a blast of shadow Force at his legs.

Zacar jumps and uses Force repulse, blasting the roof and walls from the room. The glass window shatters. Zacar lands and charges Censes. Zacar strikes with a downward saber strike, using his whole arm. The move looks totally predictable.

Zacar spins his left saber and strikes Censes. Censes deflects his blow as he steps in. Zacar turns around with the blow. Censes thrust his saber at Zacar. His left saber lays across his back and knocks it away. Zacar comes around and Force pushes Censes, who is thrown out the Senate building’s window.

Zacar jumps after him with two reverse grips. Censes was thrown down to the roof of the senate building, creating a dent where he landed. He sees Zacar flying toward him and shoots a blast of Force lightning. Zacar blocks with his sabers and lands higher up on the roof. He charges again.

Censes hits Zacar’s green saber from the left and right - top and bottom, knocking it out of his hand. Censes chops the hilt in half as it rotates in place. Zacar thrusts, spins his saber to the left with two hands, then jumps and spins around to the left.

Instead of his saber being pointed toward Censes, it’s parallel to the ground. Zacar pushes his saber almost like an attack. Censes blocks and slides down the roof. Censes is starting to getting frustrated. No matter what complicated technique or combination he used, he can’t faze Zacar's insane fury.

Censes knocks his opponent’s lightsaber aside to the left, then he hits it again with his right saber. He flips over his head, and runs his blades down the left and right side of his head as Zacar turns and runs his blade into Censes’s chest.

However, the Shadow Lord doesn’t seem to be injured. They both pause for a moment and stare at each other with pure hatred in their eyes. Censes smiles.

Censes: At last, your foolishness has brought about your demise...Jedi.

Zacar: NO!

Zacar slices downward and across, cutting off Censes's arm and chopping him in half. Zacar staggers forward and stabs his saber through Censes's forehead. Then the young warrior falls backwards, dead. Censes’s shadow crystal heals him and he returns to the Jedi temple. Zacar's body slides down the roof of the Senate building and lands on the far right side of the building in the open.