Even Though In Darkness, Search For Enlightenment

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After hours of learning the strength in the defense of the old Jedi temple. Charlotte looks around and asks Phindo, "where's Rhayne and your padawan?" Phindo looks around as well and runs towards one of the Jedi knights that guarded the path into the temple. White Thorn looks to the mandalorian and his communicator says, "Rhayne's the type of person to get lost in caves." The mandalorian nods and walks towards Phindo as he talks to one of the Jedi knights. "We must find them or the fallen Jedi will find and corrupt them." Phindo says as he grabs the Jedi's robe. Charlotte puts her hand on Phindo's shoulder and says in a calming tone, "don't worry will find them. They could've gotten lost in the temple's caves." Phindo turns around with a terrified look and says, "that's what I'm worried about. There are hidden traps inside the temple that we haven't disabled yet. They could set one off and that would be the end of them, or they could release a force ghost that may trick them into their demise." The kaleash runs over and points toward the entrance that the children ran in and his communicator says, "I remember seeing them enter through there before we left them to play." Phindo looks towards the entrance and says, "then that's where we'll find them." While the Jedi, mandalorian, and kaleash began their search for the children, down beneath the temple was filled with darkness. A green light shined beneath the large column and piles of rocks. The rocks slowly rose and the light grew brighter until the moment the rocks cleared, only a beam of blue green stayed. The green light returned to a cylinder black hilt, held by a pale arm. The body arose revealing Rhayne and his robe torn, only protecting his torso  and legs. He grabs a green hand from the ground and pulled Visalia up next to him. He wraps his arm around her waist and hold her tightly, saying, "Visalia do you know a way out of here?" Visalia takes her silver lightsaber, wrapped in a dark brown cloth, and releases a bright blue beam of light that only brightened part of the darkness. "I can't see. We need more light before we decide where to go next." Rhayne releases the green beam of light once more, revealing a wall filled with rocks. Visalia sees the sensor and sighs. She looks up to Rhayne and says, "I know where we are now, so we can easily get out of here." A loud shrieking of a large beast echoes through the tomb, making the inner parts of the temple shake. "We better get out of here soon or we'll become someone's lunch." Rhayne says as he helps Visalia walk over a pile of rocks, through the darkness. The mandalorian enters the inner parts of the temple, using her helmet's flash light to guide herself through the darkness. The kaleash follows her as the Jedi slowly entered and activating their weapons for light. As they grew closer to the path the children took they are met with a large beast. The beast was a massive lion with tusk and it's eyes were glowing red as a dark mist surrounded them. "Be careful mandalorian, this beast is possessed by a fallen Jedi." Phindo says as he raised his silver coated bladed, emitting a dark blue beam of light towards the beast. The beast shrieked once more and began to talk in a deep demonic voice, "who are you to disturb the great and powerful Valenthor." The mandalorian raises her left arm and aims her pistol at the beast. "I'm a descendent of the mandalore, Canderous Ordo, and I never heard of you." As the mandalorian said this a flash of light is released from her blaster and hits the beast, between the eyes. The beast falls to the ground for a few minutes, but it rises once more and lets out an even louder screech than before. The mandalorian stumbles back and asks, "got any ideas about stopping that thing?" White Thorn grabs two bottles that were tied around his neck, and his communicator says, "I've dealt with this before on Tatooine. I can create a spell that will seal the ghost away into an object, but it will take me some time to prepare." Phindo leaps into the air and slashes a tusk off of the beast and screams, "will buy you some time!" The kaleash nods and takes out a piece of a chalk made of Tatooine's sand. While he creates a large ritual circle, the Jedi and mandalorian continued fighting against the beast. One of the Jedi sliced into a side of the beast, but was punctured in his eye as the beast scratched his face with it's excruciatingly sharp claws. The Jedi was then saved as the mandalorian flew in the air from the help of her jet pack and spewed flames from her right arm. Another Jedi drags the injured Jedi away as two others leapt into action. One of them sliced the beast's right leg while the other sliced into it's other leg, disabling it. The mandalorian turns off her flamethrower and shoots a dart that expands into a large web made of besker, mandalorian metal. The web covers the beast's body, attaching to the ground. As the beast tries to break out of the besker web, a large amount of electricity surges through the mandalorian's wrist and into the web. The web electrocutes the beast, making fall back to the ground as the web tightens up. The beast growls and yell, "I shall find a new vessel and kill you all." As the beast eyes slowly turned dark, one of the Jedi began to scream in terror. The Jedi's eyes red and she attacks one of her fellow Jedi, killing them in an instance. The Jedi raised her purple light saber close to her face, revealing she was a dark skinned corellian woman and her eyes were glowing red with a dark mist surrounding them. "Oh no not master Quin." Phindo says as he notices the Jedi. The mandalorian shoots a couple beams of light towards Quin, but she deflected every one of them. The possessed Jedi leaps into the air, towards the mandalorian, and raises her blade over her head for a killing blow. The kaleash began to chant in his kaleash's language, his eyes began to glow green and the mist that surrounded the possessed Jedi's eyes began to flow towards him. The Jedi lowers her weapon and glares at the kaleash. The possessed Jedi ran towards the kaleash and yells, "I'll kill you!" The Jedi raised her weapon and before she could finish the killing blow, the mandalorian grabs her arm, throwing her to the ground. The kaleash continued his chanting and an empty bottle rose into the air, it slowly became filled with a dark mist. The Jedi's eyes continued to turn back to their original cyan color. The kaleash's eyes return to normal and the bottle was fully filled with a dark red mist. The kaleash grabs the bottle and places it around his neck for safe keeping. The Jedi arose and sees the mangled body of one of her fellow Jedi she'd slain. Master Quin and Toronto, please take Bendor out of the Jedi temple and to a medical droid. I believe just the three of us will be needed for the rest of the way. The mandalorian and kaleash nod in agreement and continued their path deeper into the temple.

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