The power Generated by the new temple would draw all the sith to him, an army who shared his hatred and would help him wipe out the jedi....but this wasnt the main reason he had built the temple no.....he wanted to draw the Jedi....
"let them come face me, let them come and see what their cause does to people..." he said abcently staring at the nearly complete temple.

"your plan to build the temple has not done what you wished has it my student." Darth Kacent said in a deep and powerful voice.

"they will come master, it will take time thats all..."

"will they? you know as well as i that it took many temples in the past to attract the jedi."

Darth Veren broke from his trance and surged to his feet and marched over to his master with rage boiling in his amber eyes, "they WILL come, the Jedi WILL feel the magic this temple holds and they will want to come and destroy it, but it will take time!"

"i hope you are right, i have put to much into this for it to fail."

"is that a threat?"

"a warning...."

Darth veren, fed up with the conversation sat back down and put himself back to the force to continue searching as his master stood and watched with a gleam of pride in his cold eyes at it persistant student, "you will make a fine sith...."

As he walked into the village, a person turned round. His eyes glistened in the sun, and the rags he was wearing as clothes moved in the wind.

"Go away" The villager said.

"I've been sent to find someone"

"GO AWAY!" The villager shouted. He brandished a small pistol.
"I dont want to hurt you" Andromeda said. He pulled out the dragons teeth. As he did this the villager fired his weapon. It hit Andromeda in the chest. Andromeda didn't move. He pressed some buttons on the dragons teeth, and the sabre activated. He walked up to the villager and pushed him against a wall. He then forced the dragons teeth towards his neck so that the blades were within a centimetre of his neck.
"Now don't move. Why did you attack me?" Andromeda said.

"Who are you? You aint a Jedi? are you?"

"are you sure about that? Now why did you attack me?"

"My family hate Jedi's just like Darth Veren does."

"Who's that?"

"He brought us to see who Jedi really are. He said you'd come"

Andomenda turned off the weapon, as the villager sighed with relief. He tried to run off but Andromeda grabbed him.
"Who said i had finished with you? Now where is this Veren"
The villager pointed to the temple, and then pleaded for his life.
"Please let me go! i did what you asked!"
Andromeda let go of him and shouted to the man as he ran off:
"If you see Darth Veren tell him that Lord Andromeda is here!"
Andromeda turned to the temple, and thought for a few seconds. It was obvious that he was there.

"So the Jedi have sent someone then" the figure whispered

"Are you Darth Veron?" Andromeda asked while moving his hand down to the lightsabre conceled in his pocket.

"So he's the one who did this! No but i think i'll see him before you!" The figure drew out a lightsabre and faced his enemy. Just as quiky as the figure had Andromeda pulled out a lightsabre.

"My master gave me this when i became a Jedi. It brought him good luck. Let's see if it does the same to me!" As soon as Andromeda had finished saying this, he lunged at his opponent. The figure dived out of the way and swung his sabre at Andromeda's legs. Andromeda jumped and landed behind the now standing figure. He swung at the figure, but his sabre met with another. The fighting continued untill, Lord Andromeda, felt something hit him. He fell to the ground, and his lightsabre fell just out of his reach. The figure waked up to him and put his sabre near Andromedas neck.

"Darth Veron should be pleased that i managed to kill an intruding Jedi. The Sith shall reign here not you!"

Andromeda felt rage build in him, and he used his leg to kick the sith.

"Now why did you do that you young, ignorant Jedi? Now i will have to kill you" The Sith raised his sabre above his head.
"Say bye to this world"
The Sith swung his lightsabre down.

It hit a rock on the floor and sliced it into two pieces.

"What the..." the sith stammered.
A voice sounded from behind the sith.

"I never really liked lightsabres anyway. He put his sabre away and pulled out the dragons teeth. He turned it on and swung it round, in a display of his skills.

"And that is supposed to hurt me then - is it?" The sith swung at the young Jedi, and it landed in one of the two crevices of the teeth. Andromeda pushed forward, which unbalenced the sith long enough for the jedi to knock him over.

Fear was in the eyes of the two combatents. Each one was glaring at each other, ready for the next attack.

"now its my turn" Andromeda said. He swung the teeth at the sith and the sith blocked. The fighting continued as each warrior battled for their lives, each knowing that this could be there last fight. But who would win? Andromeda decided that he wouldnt lose. He span the teeth repeated over his head then lunged forward. The teeth hit the siths neck, cutting his windpipe to shreds. The sith collapsed on the floor as blood poured out of what was left of the siths neck. His head fell to the floor as he drowned in his own blood.

Andromeda looked at the dead sith and got an idea. He grabbed the siths cloak and ran up the hill to the temple.

the steps parted sending the Newcome to the temple flying, squadrens of metallic orbs shot out from beneeth the parted steps, all in fours nearly taking the head off the Jedi, the orbs spread out in squares and once they where still a laser canvous apeard, streatched inbetween then, they traced a path like landing lights and you soon saw why.

A burning object shot down towards the canvases sending a shrieking noise that would liquify the brain of a wookie, echoing through the forest area, it slammed into the green squares breaking them but they gradually slowed the pod and put out it's flames before guiding it inside the temple.

Once the pod was layed down by the final laser canvas the door swung open and Veren crawled out, his amber eyes were glaced over from the sheer speed that the pod was unprotected against, he looked up from his position on the floor to see the lights switch on after the steps closed again and eluminated the face of his master who was Smiling down at him mockingly.

"you couldn't defeat the Jedi could you, you're not ready you puny fool!" he sneared

"Leave me be old man..." Veren croaked as he let his head rest on the cold stone floor.

"you won't do it until you harnes your anger and learn that you can't just march into somewhere making as much noise as a wounded dug!!!" After having his fun Veren's master gestured and two droids came over and put him on a stretcher before scurrying off to the Medi-bay.

"have this....thing...desposed of." his master said waving a hand at the smouldering hunk of metal that WAS an escape pod.

"no...!" he choked as the word squeaked from his throat. "no....not here, PLEASE!" he got up but he couldn't help but stoop low as he tried to back up, fear gripped him as he stumbled backwards trying to find something to grab onto, the fear filled his eyes as sweat dripped off his face and the tendrills that cascaded over his shoulders.

voices started to whisper through the endless mist that was everywhere around veren, they started quietly and then started growing...louder and louder, pairs of red eyes shone through the mist glaring at Veren, gearing him but he couldn't do anything, one moved towards him, it was someone from his past, all the eyes belonged to people from his past.

"PLEASE....! KEEP AWAY!" Veren cried as they came near him, he fell backwards and tried to back away only to bump into someone else, a young woman not to much older than him.

"why did you leave me? why do you hurt the one's i love? did you do it for me to like you? i'd never love a freak like you!" the woman said in a ghostly voice.

"no please! i'm sorry!"

"YOU'RE A FREAK! you're not a species-" a man's voice said, "-you're a monstrocity! you where made in a lab, you where a genetic misshap, no...a genetic DISASTER! there is no others like you, i should have killed you when i found you that day..."

"i never ment to be a burdon...i-i just wanted to survive!"

"so you killed....innocents, and good people! you murdered them you puny thing!"

the ghosts of people all surrounding him tearing at him but not taking his flesh but taking his sole, he could no longer find his voice to scream...

He made his way out of the temple and walked through the forest for an hour with a limp, he eventually came to one of the most beautiful natural spots he had ever seen, a small lake surrounded by trees lay well hidden and Veren doubted that anyone apart from him knew about it.

He slipped off his trousers and wandered into the cool waters, a sigh of relaxation escaped his lips as he returned to his element, he was an anphibian, he came from the water and he was perfectly adapted to live in the water, he felt some of his strength come back and the water washed away some of the colour in his wounds.

as he surfaced something moved in the surrounding trees, he would have ignored it but this creature was humanoid, he gazed roundlooking for the creature but he couldn;t see it, everytime he got a glance it moved again, her didn't like the feeling he was getting from this and he swam to shore, the creature stopped on the opposite side of the lake, he started into a run, he had no weapons with him and he is still far to weak to fight so he didn't like his chances.

As he runs back he feels the presence of the thing behind him and he can't wait for the safety of the temple which he sees before him.

"Now...it Begins...."

"what is happening? am i imagining this?" he grumbled as he made his way towards his master's quaters still naked and dripping wet.

He opened the door and walked into the room before closing it behind him, his master sat meditating on the floor and didn't acnolage his entry into the room, Veren cleared his throat bu his master didn't move.

"i see you have lost your mind and your dignity my student...." his master said in a distant voice.

Veren glanced down at himself and if his face wasn't so dark he would be blushing.

"what's happening, first i see someone on the steps of the temple, then i'm followed back here by something that seemed farmilliar THEN i here a ship crashing nearby!" Veren started to shake as he said this, his master made a cloak float towards Veren for him to dress but it took hima few seconds to take it and put it on.

"the person on the steps was a Jedi, the thing in the forest i don't know and the ship belonged to someone who came here on purpose, if i where you i'd gather my wits and be ready for some company. NOW GO!"

"yes master..." Veren said before limping out the room and taking a deep breath, His injuries had made him vunerable and that saped his confidence, until he got a new light-sabre and healed....he would be a shadow of the creature he once was.

"Who...Who are you?"

his eyes opened only half way and he raised his head to look at you, he slowly extended a hand and your light-sabre was renched from your grip and flew across the room into his open palm.

"a rather standard model nothing special...." he comentet bluntly with a cerean voice. He didn't stand but he beconds you over to sit across from him, you can see a circular pattern on the floor infront of him but nothing more but as you come nearer you see a fire hovvering on the spot but it doesn't illuminate the dark room.

Thoughts swurled through his mind, knowing if so, he would be enganged in a battle all by himself against two well-trained fighters, even with his great, and superior ability to normal Jedi's he wouldn't have a chance against two, the one before him seemed less a threat then his master....but the question was..who was this mans master.

"and who are you? you look to skinny to be a Jedi."

He growled, and lifted his head prepared for what was to come.

"don't under estimate me Jedi, i can harness the power of the temple and the darkness will destroy you easilly."

With that he made the doors slam shut with a gesture and then shot another arch at you, slamming your helpless body into the door again for good messure.

Stummbling off, he looked over his shoulder to see if he accomplished his attack, and defeated his enemy in one hit.....

"You never learn do you?" Veren said with a sigh.

"....A Jedi never loses..cause the force with them." He rushed forward at his opponent when he hit the ground, with his lightsaber raised and prepared to annilate his opponent in one bowling strike...

he throws you against a wall before walking over to you and spitting in your face.

As it makes a full circle, and falls, he leaps up, and comes down out the opening in the wall, and out the temple he goes into the wild life. Cracking against the ground and rolling along the dirt he lays motionless for a matter of seconds in the distants of the temple, nearly unconcious by the flee.

"Get...Away from my Ship..!"

As he constructed the weapon and the Robot's went about their duty repairing the damage to the temple and to their master, Veren's mind played back the thing he had seen in the forest...it had looked remotely like him, the out line of a tail with a bulbus tip, the same shape legs as him, the fin like ears but it had been slightly smaller and more...femanine...could it be that he wasn't the only one of his kind, could there be another? or even more? his concentration was broken by one of the droids stabbing his tail with a pin cuasing Veren to turn and hit it's metalic head with his hand.

"stop that you infernal machine!" he grumbled.

"sorry master, i was just making sure that the nerves-" the droid croaked by Veren cut it off, "go away now! Get my master, i need to speak with him." with that the droid scurried off and Veren's eyes stared at the floor with a glistening of hope in them but then he let out a long sigh and closed his eyes. Even if there was another, he would seem strange to them, they wouldn't accept him, he was to....human.

"i truely am a Reject..."

His one good eye (the other being damaged while in hyper space) was distant as he dwelled on who would come first, the sith or the jedi, his thoughts where broken as a runner climbed the temple to see him.

"sir! sir! the work is complete, we are ready." the man said while huffing and puffing, he handed Veren a romote control then went back down.

"we can't let the events of last night happen again." with that he pressed the on button and the ground shook as three pointed pillars rose in a triangular formation from the ground, each made of the blackest metal topped with a crystal, when they towered 10 feet over the temple they curved over slightly towards the temple like scorpion tails and each fired a beam at the crystal that Veren stood on.

Veren jumped down from the temple and watched a shockwave burst from the tip of the temple and slowly come down as a dome over both the tails and the temple, a beam of bure black shot up into the air gliding through space like a shadow and sending shockwaves through the force like sickening feelings.

"this should ensure victory..."

Behind the door was over 30 guards, all waiting for the intruder to enter the building. suddenly masses of guns appeared in the mass and fired. The figure fell to the floor, proctecting itself from all weapons fire. When the commontion had finished, he stood up, and said three words:
"wheres the sith"
The guards, who were obviosly shocked by his survival beckoned for the figure to go ahead to Veren's chamber.
The figure walked by them, and used his hand to move the guards away.

The figure still masked by his long bloodstained cloak, slowley moved his hand towards his hood, and removing it, showed the face of a young Lord Andromeda.

"So your the one doing this - i hope your ready for this to end" Andromeda said.

"Theres been one here all ready, he didnt stay long, but i must say he was easy to beat. When he comes back who shall i say i killed?"

"No one - but Lord Andromeda will make sure he gets the messege."

The sith drew his sabre, and faced his enemy, while the young jedi turned off his sabre, remembering that he must be peaceful.

"come on then. Im not afraid of any of you!" He lunged at veren, who quikly dived out of his way, and landed next to his master. He adopted a crouched position next to his master, his lightsabre in hand.

Andromeda swung again, this time at Kacent, who responded by cutting the bloodstained clock off his back with his sabre.
Andromeda became fearful, his eyes widened. He panicked turned off the dragons teeth and ran outside the temple to the forest for his ship - the golden warrior.

A few hours later he found his ship. The villagers had found it before him and had tried to get in. Andromeda saw their futile attempts, and used the force to move the ship up. He had planned to scare the villagers, yet this did not work, the villagers just watched it rise in the air, and the fall to the ground as Andromeda became tired. The villagers then became violent and attacked the ship with rocks and guns. Andromeda had enough. He pulled out the dragons teeth, and quietly moved down the mountain. Before the villagers knew what had happened there was a jedi standing before them, beconing for them to challenge him.

A young man with jet black hair walked forward. He brandished a small device. He lifted it towards Andromeda and pulled the trigger. A cable shot out of the device and attached itself to Andromeda. He looked down. A bolt of electricity flew down the wire into andromeda's suit. He didnt move. He then looked at the wire, pulled it out, then at the terrified villager.

He activated the dragon's teeth, and faced his opponents. Each villager fled for their own small life exept for the attacker, who was frozen on the spot. He moved towards the villager, and swung at him. He tore his clothes, and told him to;
"run away - or it'll be worse"
The villager didnt have to be told twice. In a flash he ran away. Andromeda relaxed and then returned to his ship. He planned to go to the Jedi concil and warn them of the danger here. He set the co - ordinates, and took off.

"maybe if i improve the standard of the temple i'll improve the standard of the Jedi that comes to face me, or are they all cowards?" Veren said as he walked to the outside of the temple to get a breath of fresh air.

"they arn't all cowards, they are just all idiots." his Master said while slowly following him down the steps into the blinding sun light.

Veren sat down on the newly cut stone steps and stared out at the three Giant Scorpion tail Obilisks that stuck out of the ground around the temple.

"That last fool thinks louder than he speaks...me grotesque? HA! i am only slightly differant from a human but is that a good thing or a bad thing?" he hung his head with a sigh and let out a small chuckle.

"the dreams keep coming...their becoming more real, i even awoke with scars this morning..."

"i have heard of such things...you will have to face your fear soon but usually in your head but this is differant...when the other two temples are complete you will gain great powers but this will no doubt affect the way you must deal with your fear in another way and others will get involved, whether they choose to or not." his master said standing behind him, casting a protective cloak of blackness over Veren.

"What do you mean that others will be involved?" Veren turned to look at his master but he was gone.

All thoughts on the subject where washed away when he saw that figure among the trees at the bottom of the steps and the flash of amber eyes that he had seen so many times when he looked in the mirror, stared back at him.

Guided by the sure direction of Shayla, the Sith ship descended, the odd geometries of its greeny-golden hull hidden behind the blanketing and quite impenetrable shield, its descent defying physics and the inertia that philosphy liked to wield as it rushed downward as though seeking death in the arms of the planet below. Mere moments before it would seem to a casual observer -- should such an observer actually have been able to see the litte ship, that is -- that the uncanny craft would commit suicide upon the planetary surface, it slammed to a complete stop. It then settled down the remaining two meters yet to go before its landing array kissed the ground and it lent itself to outgassing its excess and quite incredible energies.

Aboard her, the Chosen Daughter opened her eyes.

"I agree with your assessment, my Sister," she breathed, turning to let her violet gaze fall into Shayla's greeny-blue one. "There are those here who think they follow the Old Ways, those who play at being Sith -- and who fear that which they seek to become."

She nodded as though to cement her assessment, then got to her feet. The great tuk'ata likewise clambered to his own, grumbling and complaining as he rose stiffly to stretch. A face tendril snaked about Graysith's waist as he indicated his readiness to face whatever they would... and his willingness to protect her from who or whatever would attempt to bring her harm.

Graysith smiled, patting his great head. "Remind me to take you to Kha'Har Nag'a one day, that you may find a blood-hunt companion of your own, my sister," she commented lightly as she gently disentangled the tuk'ata's tendril from about herself. Then still smiling, she opened the hatch of the little ship, and led their way out to meet the source of the pain and darkness which crashed against them now like waves upon a rocky shore.

To anyone nearby, it was as though two women and a beast had stepped forth from nothing. Chronotic shields were simple to breach from the inside... but from their exterior.... Now, that was an entirely different matter.

Graysith's smiled broadened as she began moving forward toward a menacing blob which inked the landscape about a kilometer distant from them. "I shall let you practice your prowess with shielding, and see if you can breach that which I have just now erected, my Sister," she said lightly as they moved along. "But only upon our return."

She then spoke no more but continued onward, suddenly frowning to herself as a growing sense of bleak despair and self-doubt and fear assaulted her senses. Behind it all the while there lurked a foreboding sense of pure blackness... one she found somewhat similar to that which had emanated from a particular Lord of the Sith, one with whom she had fallen in love a seeming lifetime ago.

A smirk graced his face revealing his fangs that where slightly longer than a human's.

"i see you have returned fool...well, i have something to entertain you to keep you out of my hair, i'm soooo sorry that i can't play right now but i have buisness to attend to." with that he made a gesture with one 4 fingered hand and walked back into the temple but not before looking into the forest one last time.

You wander what he ment but your questions are answered as you hear a noise from behind you, like a clickety-clack but very loud, it starts to come nearer and nearer and eventually you see the source of the noise.

Two man sized smooth metallic scorpions crawl across the ground and ready their tails but something tells you that they won't use a conventional sting, you try to hit it with your light-sabre but the hit does no damage and just causes a shower of sparks to enrage the two monsters.

THe tips of their tails glow and fire Ion beams at you making the ground near you explode amazingly.

As Veren walked around inside the temple he felt a stinging inside his head like someone was inside his head, he could feel someone prying, probing inside him, he fell to the ground grasping his skull and grimacing at the building pain.

"GET...OUT...OF...MY...HEAD!!!" he screamed before the pain thankfully subsided.

With one of the creatures destroyed, Andromeda knew what to do. He aimed at the head of the second creature and fired.
He missed and hit the ground beside it. The scorpian fired back, hitting the wing and causing a fire. As Andromeda realised that this wouldn't work, and the young man, who appeared to be a Jedi, was preparing to fight it, he knew there was only one choice.

He concentrated on the scorpian, as it started to rise in the air. He grabbed hold of gun trigger and fired at the now motionless creature. The creature expoded in a showcase of fire, which fell to the ground burning any plants where it landed.

Andromeda landed the damage ship, on the planet, nearby the now startled Jedi.

"Well that was interesting" Andromeda said
The man paused...
"Looked like you needed some help there. I'll be right back". Andromeda ran down to the nearby lake and came back with some water. He poured it over the now blazing engine, which extinquished the flame.

"make sure the last temple is finished on time commander or my master will not be very forgiving." said veren before closing the holo-com link with Decandos 5, he turned towards the doorway of the temple and swept his hand slowly towards one of the doors causing it to open slowly just enough for him to walk through.

He stood on the steps with an placid smile on his hansom face and fiddled about with his new light-sabre.

"pathetic...i thought Jedi could cope with anything!" he said loud enough for you both to hear.

Graysith frowned and held her hand out, bringing her little party to a halt. Her eyes hooded and the Glyph on her forehead flashed into glorious life as one look brought her the information that soon they would more than likely be doing battle with some manner of being or another.

She sighed at the sheer impertinence of it all. And it is thus that a glorious Empire is now imagined, she thought a bit tiredly to herself. As nothing more than purveyors of Evil and children playing at war with each other.

Even as those thoughts crossed her mind, a strange and metallic creature tilted its robotic head, taking notice of their presence there. With an inanimate squawk it turned and bore rapidly down upon them, its hideously articulated tail waving about in a menacing manner as its forward sensors seemed to spring into bloody life. Twin balls of energy suddenly shot from them, heading on a direct line to where Graysith stood quietly waiting with her two companions.

M'wonBo'o whined uneasily. Shayla stood quiet, but cut her eyes to her Teacher, seeming to tense as though preparing herself to respond....

Graysith merely sighed again, and raised a hand. A tiny portion of the very air in front of them seemed to somehow twist in upon itself, as she created a discrete little chronotic shield there before them. No sense wasting energies; one large enough to take in the on-coming energy bolts would easily suffice....

The entire atmosphere seemed to somehow blink as the two bolts struck a bit of non-ness... and disappeared, their energies dispersed backward and forward across the very fabric of space and time. For a moment the scorpion-thing seemed to pause in surprise...

...then it charged them, screeching.

Graysith only smiled.

Turning to her Adept, she waved a graceful hand. "Would you care to do the honors, my Sister?" she inquired, acting as though there was absolutely nothing in the slightest bit disturbing about a gigantic metal scorpion racing pell-mell down upon them, seeking to destroy them in whatever manner its tiny robotic brain could imagine....

In on swift movement, Shayla reached out her hand, palm up, and "tweaked" the very atoms of the screeching metallic scorpion.

In the blink of an eye, it turned into a rather large lump of coal, falling to the floor of the planet uselessly.

His pain wriddled amber orbs shot towards the direction of Graysith and her party, he ignored the battle infront of him and used the power of his legs to catapult him an amazing way into the air and into the forest.

He lept from tree to tree as the sound of one of his mechanical creations came nearer and nearer, he paused as he saw in a clearing the two women and their strange creature, his eyes squinted and he growled angrilly.

"stop!" he yelled to the machine making it halt in its attack and shut down, curling into a ball. Veren jumped out of the tree and landed cracefully afew feet infront of the party.

For a long moment nothing was said. An advancing breeze blew about them, sending her long flaming locks into medusan movement about her head as she quietly surveyed the hooded form, reaching out with her powers to sense into the deepest recesses of his soul.

Abruptly, she turned from him altogether, and spoke to her Adept.

"This is the source of the pain we have felt, my Sister," she purred calmly, blinking her large expressive eyes as though to accentuate the words she spoke. "But it is not the source of the Darkness; that hovers somewhere-- else."

With those words she turned back to where Veren was standing, trying not to appear too anxious and as ferocious as he could all at the same time.

The Chosen Daughter smiled.

"Here, too, is one as young as you once were, my Sister," she breathed, now reaching out a slim hand to lightly take up one of Veren's head tendrils and run it through her fingers. "He would be Sith, yet he has no real inkling of what that involves...

"...or how removed from that goal his own Dark Master is."

She let the tendril drop from her fingers, and straightened. Giving the alien a brief introductory bow, she finally spoke up to him directly.

"I am Graysith, the Chosen Daughter of the Sith. These are my companions: my own Chosen Sister and Adept, and my loyal tuk'ata. You have no need of knowing their names at this time, as I have no need of knowing yours--

"Come!" she interrupted herself, turning away from Veren and heading toward the steps to the black-lit Temple. "Let us see if there are any answers to that which we seek in this place, or if we should then turn and depart in the same peace in which we have come."

She spoke no more but, totally dismissing Veren and the others of his command hovering in the background, lifted her signature cloak and began to mount the steps, thus beginning the long ascent to the apex of this strange and uneasy Temple, one supposedly dedicated to the Sith.

A civilization that she knew of only too well, and far more than most sentients would dare to believe.

"what answers do you need? This place is not for the Sith...it is to releave me of my pain put putting it on others...you shall all know what i have lived with for so many years..." he gripped his head once again as the pain rushed through him like his nightmares where trying to pry open his brain.

"stop that!" he yelled and fell to one knee, the doors of the temple swung open to reveal his master cloaked all in black with his arms folded over his chest.

"i see you are having an affect on my pupil...or should i say, he is having an affect on you..." his voice came softly but deep and dark.

The Dark Master's even darker threat then came into her ears, something about them all feeling this pain....

Graysith folded her arms and cocked her head, her eyes glinting with a touch of steel.

"Oh, really?!" she responded lightly. "It is one thing to be made aware of senselessly inflicted pain upon another... and quite another thing to actually feel that pain oneself."

She then took a step forward, and another, and one more still, coming at length to a halt mere centimeters from the darkly garbed Master who stood in forboding silence before her. She stared up into his face, her eyes seeking to bore holes through his into his very soul. Her lips curled slightly; then she continued on her former train of thought.

"No, the darkness I sense does not arise from his pain," she said softly. "It arises here."

With those words she had the daring to reach out and lay one slim hand upon the Dark One's broad chest, directly above where his arms lay crossed against it. She then fell silent, waiting to see what this new and unknown personage would try to throw into their path.

Truthfully, she was doing a pretty good job of it too. Is this the pettiness the Dark Jedi allowed themselves to blather in? No wonder Vader had been able to kill Emperor Palpatine. Had he been allowed to feel the same pain this young one now felt at the uncaring whim of his master?

And of that pain...her heart had felt that pain the day her parents had been killed along with many others all those years ago. But there was something different. She'd been taught to accept that she felt that.

This one...

...he let the emotion rage within him rather than accepting that it just...was.

And his master thought that THIS would be productive?

All these thoughts Shayla was able to keep masked in the All from this dark one and his apprentice, only allowing Graysith to sense them.

She sent one last thought along that link. How foolish these dark ones truly are...

The scorpians, who were confused with the actions of the Jedi opened fire on the ship. Even though the blasts had little effect, the Jedi inside were shaken.

The door opened to the ship. The scorpians moved towards the door, they were about to get in when, two cloaked figures flew out of the ship, with jetpacks attached to their backs. The metallic scorpians lifted their tails towards the figures, and fired.

The two figures exploded in a mass of fire and their charred remains were flung into the forrest below. The scorpians lowerd their tails and looked at the carcusses. Below them was what appeared to be two piles of charred meat, each been burnt out of all proportion. The droids looked up, turned around and crawled off, their mission a success.

The forest lay still as the remains of the figures were being burnt by the fuel of the jetpacks.

Around them the cold wind blew a haunting note through the apex of the stepped Temple upon which they stood.

At length, Graysith stepped back, the amusement in her brow now descending into her eyes and lips. "Again, a silent one have we found, my Sister," she commented lightly as she clasped her hands together in front of her. "Strange the reaction I seem always to find; perhaps by the touch of a fringe of the All..." she held up her hand... "these Dark Ones sense that which they truly wish to emulate... and are missing."

Now her lip curled, adding insult to injury. No apparent response came her way; behind her the betendriled entity merely remained on his knees, his head between his hands.

She bowed her head briefly. "So be it then," she whispered softly. Then her voice increased in timbre.

"Come, my sister," she said, turning. "I sense no answers here. We must seek elsewhere for that which I must find."

Nodding to her Adept, she shot a final penetrating gaze at the Dark Master, who yet stood in brooding silence. Then she turned and left him, staring straight ahead, apparently heedless to any action he should take if he chose to do so, and began to retrace her steps down the side of the Temple pyramid.

At first she thought to just leave, but she was curious as to who this excited being was. Thus, as the golden-bladed sword of light came blazing down to slice into her...

...she merely stepped to one side, and calmly watched as it lanced into the dirt beside her. Her violet gaze affixed itself to the spike-enhanced ones of this new adversary, and held there as he drew his blade from the ground. A touch of humor graced her features then, as with a calm wave she used the All to seek out the energies of his lightsaber... and send them momentarily into a Mobius-strip time-loop. The saber spit and sparked, its light surging backward into time and then forward again, but never able to reach out so much as a nanosecond to strike the two women or Graysith's tuk'ata, who was by now crouching beside her and growling in a most menacing manner.

Graysith calmed him with a light touch to his head, then turned to Shayla, her smile never leaving her face.

"Yet another one," she sighed with a little smirk. Speaking then no more words of this somewhat cryptic ilk, she turned to look at the man before her, who was trying his utmost to keep puzzlement from marring the growing rage on his face. The words she next spoke, spoken in his direction, were not meant for him.

"I sense... conflict in this one," she murmured, taking one short step toward him and then stopping. Raking him now from head to toe with her violet gaze, the Glyph upon her forehead springing into higher and higher energies upon her forehead, she finally spoke to him.

"Who are you, to come attacking with your assumptions and heady desires which blaze away so wildly within your soul? Have we dealt you ill?"

She fell silent, waiting to see how this being would respond to her, all the while mindful of M'wonBo'o's answering growl within her mind:

"Just think. I wasted all that meat on him and i still dont know who he is! Well thats some of my rations gone!" Andromeda drove up to the stairs of the temple and when he saw The young warrior challenging the two dark Jedi, he shouted one word:

"NOOOOO!"

"Oh bother it all," she murmured with a wave of her hand, now reaching out with the All and tweaking the very molecules of this brash person's strange weapon, imbuing them with more and more carefully funnelled energy until the dragonsteeth piece was on the verge of undergoing a phase change entirely. Nearly white hot, it fairly flew to the ground as the brash upstart clasped his hand, howling.

"i have nertured my apprentice's fear and anger, i played on his emotions, i have lived in this body since this poor fool was born but my power is to great! flesh can no longer hold me!!!" Veren's master boomed as the beam coming from the top of the temple started to turn black, conjuring storm cloads. "i shall build a body from pure fear and hate, and i shall get that from this feeble creature's mind! I will go into his mind and you are ALL coming in with me! after all....i need someone to try my new powers out on!" the former master threw his cloak off and cackled as the storm turned into a wirling vortex that grew out into space.

the distant starts could be seen being sucked into the vortex and you all feel a gravity that is to strong to resist as you get pulled in.

Veren's screaming form turns into pure light and is devoured into the Vortex that leads into the darkest ignigmatic parts of his own mind...

OOC: continued for all in Depths of the mind