SEQUEL TO _Star Wars: The Jedi Reborn_
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Eleven years have passed since The Battle of Endor, and ten since The Battle of Jakku. With the discovery of _The Journal of the Whills_, an anc...
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The Jedi Knights and Masters stumbled over the slick mud and shale. Lightning crackled across the sky, blinding them. Fog hung low to the ground, diffusing the bolts into bright swaths of light. The roar of thunder continued for many seconds, tapering into a high-pitched whine.
The Jedi ducked while two TIE fighters roared overhead, within in meters of them. Bright green laser bolts radiated into wide flares.
The Jedi gasped when the blasts struck the academy lodge.
Naluma grabbed onto Kallay and Kalder. The deaths. Padawan . . . dying . . . one . . . two . . . three more.
The Jedi Knights stormed the hill—
Out of the fog, a cadre of dark-masked figures appeared, each holding red lightsabers. Naluma felt it then. The evil. The utter evil. Whatever had been shielding them earlier was now gone. Bile crept up her throat. Another Padawan death weakened her.
"I don't know why we even feared you. This was all too easy," one of the dark figures spoke. "Look at you. Weakened by the deaths of your Padawan. Hah! But for us, each death strengthens, not weakens. Feel the power coming from them. Grasp it."
Naluma narrowed her eyes. "Never." She charged at the speaker, the rest of the knights following her. As one, they struck with their sabers, blue, green, purple, yellow, and white, reacting against the red sabers.
The Knights of Ren outnumbered the Jedi by two-to-one. Naluma wondered where the Ren had come from. She never knew they had amassed so many. She wondered if Luke had known. Oh, Luke, where are you! We need you! We need you now!
Naluma swiveled, blocking a thrust and rebounding at her other attacker. While kicking him off, she reached out and pulled Fraynal's saber to her left hand. The green saber sprung to life. The Jedi Master beat off her attackers and then reversed the tables with the dual blades, her anger swelling in her.
A voice from the shadows emanated through the fog and rain. "Use your fear. Use your anger. Good. Good. I feel it now."
Naluma knew those words were directed toward her. She stumbled, at odds with protecting herself, her child, her children around her and staying in the light. Another Jedi fell—Zeke. Then another. Then another.
Naluma whirled around, flailing her sabers against multiple attackers. Feeling each death. Wei'ahht went down. Then Tandolleau and Jannah, together.
Naluma held off her attackers. Kalder lost his footing, but pulled it up in time. Kallay was knocked to the ground before a saber ran through her from the back.
Kalder dropped to the ground as his twin died.
Naluma counted. Only a dozen of the Ren left.
Eight circled Kalder. It took mere seconds until his life was gone, too.
