HTTYD-Star Wars: ECLIPSE

Part 16

Savro part 7

Wind whooshed past Tris, making his auburn locks flit about, as he opened his eyes. He was once again in a dark void. The Force vision giving him no clue what was supposed to happen.

"Darkness, is this truly what you want to show me?" Tris huffed aloud at no one in particular. "You know you can be a bit more direct right?" He then grumbled. "I do so love playing charades with a metaphysical entity."

Tris suddenly found himself falling again as if the Force had heard his sarcasm. Light bloomed and suddenly he was standing on the surface of a moon. But in reality it would have been impossible since the moon had no atmosphere. Above him stood a dark planet with tendrils of green lightning shooting along its atmosphere. Tris scrunched up his nose as he felt the dark side of the Force envelop the planet. A familiar fear began to settle in his gut. It was the same fear he felt at the chasm.

"This planet is unnatural." He whispered as he looked at the stormy dark clouds encircling the planet. A planet that he could feel had been hospitable and in tune with the Force. It felt like a dark hunger floated through the air, seeking anything filled with the Force to suck dry. Tris gave an involuntary shiver as the scenery changed. He next found himself on the planet itself if the darkened sky and the eerie black clouds were any indication. Tris was on a cliff that overlooked a desolate landscape. No buildings stood, nor trees. A sharp scream jerked him out of his thoughts as his head turned in the direction of the sound. Quickly making his way from the cliff he walked through the grey sand of this world until he came to the source of the scream. There huddled in a corner of a rock formation a disfigured humanoid covered in dust and grime was shouting its lungs out as a dark figure stood over it with an arm outstretched.

Tris's eyes widened when he saw the dark figure literally suck the life force from the terrified humanoid. He couldn't help but let out a gasp as what he saw couldn't have been possible. That gasp, however, drew the attention of the dark cloaked figure.

Tris took a step back as the figure turned. He was cloaked in black with the exception of a white mask that had two red stripes on it. The figure outstretched his gloved hand and Tris felt as if his life was being drawn into a void. He clutched at his neck as his breath became labored while the cloaked figure started walking up to him. Once there was almost no space left between them he heard the man say in a low monotone voice "Satisfy my hunger............"

Tris bolted up from where he had fallen asleep with a shout, startling not only the Lothcat that had been sleeping on his head again but also the room's other occupants. The cat gave Tris an angry hiss before kneading the blankets next to him and curling up. Navida had nearly tumbled out of the narrow cot she had been sleeping in, and still bleary from the party that the villagers had thrown, she looked at Tris with slightly unfocused eyes and blaster in hand. "Who do I kill?!" She asked as she looked around the dark room.

"What is going on?" Thrawn asked as he also had been awoken. When he saw Navida with the blaster he told her to put it down.

"Don't worry, the safety is on." Navida stated as she placed the blaster back beside her cot before turning to Tris. "Why were you shouting?"

"Force vision." Tris hissed as he tried to stop his hands from shaking. It had felt so real.

"Was it the same type you had when you woke up after Skaovis?" Navida asked worriedly. Tris nodded but said nothing yet. "What are these Force visions about anyways?"

"Darkness, all-consuming darkness." tris whispered as C1 also rolled towards them in worry. The droid gave a soft beep. "I'm fine C1, don't go into mother hen mode." That caused the droid to give an indigent chirp.

"Why are you even getting these visions?" Navida asked now.

"I think the Force is sending out a warning of what's to come. Something that we might have to stop. If that is even possible from what I've seen."

"If??!" Thrawn now asked.

"I'm not sure that it or rather he can be stopped."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because this thing supposedly feeds on the Force itself." Tris explained. "And I think the Force is scared. Genuinely scared that this creature will come to be. The balance is slowly tilting towards the Dark side."

"Tris can you tell me a bit about your vision?" Thrawn asked. "There might be something you missed."

Tris closed his eyes and thought back. "It was a planet this time. I believe it only had one moon. But the planet was so unnatural."

C1 beeped in confusion. "Yes a planet can be unnatural." Tris told the droid. "The sun did not shine on the surface anymore, gorges and cliffs littered a barren landscape. Dark clouds covered the sky and lightning flashed continuously." Tris was silent for a moment. He pursed his lips before uttering the next sentence "While the landscape was barren I could feel the Force signature of billions screaming out in agony. It was more like an echo, something that had long since passed."

"In all my studies of various cultures I have only come across a few that had planet-wide cataclysms." Thrawn mused while in thought. "I think you might be speaking of Malachor V."

"You know the planet?" Navida asked as tris gave the Chiss a surprised look.

"I know a legend." Thrawn stated. "The story was passed down by the Mandalorians."

"What legend exactly?" Tris asked.

"The legend of Darth Nihilus." Thrawn told the room bluntly.

"I thought you said this was from the Mandalorians." Navida asked. "Darth is a Sith title."

"Yes, the story goes that four thousand years ago near the end of the Mandalorian wars, the Galactic Republic that they opposed had built a superweapon. The weapon was fired at Malachor V causing the gravity to crush everything in and around its atmosphere. It is said that the surface was crushed, but there were few survivors. One of them was the man who would become Darth Nihilus."

"There isn't much information about Darth Nihilus himself but if this is the threat that the Force was warning me about then it will be very bad if he's unleashed." Tris muttered. "Amongst the Sith his name is whispered about and with great caution."

Tris was fiddling with his hair while trying to think about the situation when a horn sounded in the distance followed by frantic screaming not soon after.

"What the kriff?!" He shouted as the gang ran outside. At first they didn't see what had gotten the villagers so worked up. The sun wasn't even up yet.

"Over there!" Navida pointed towards something in the jungle. Tris narrowed his eyes as he noticed an orange glow in the distance. His eyes widened when several explosions rocked through the forest.

"Oh kriff someone is purposely setting the jungle on fire!" He exclaimed as the flames rose above the canopy.