General Quinlan Vos was working to reclaim a seperatist held planet for the Republic, once more trenches were dug and the battle was slow, as the droids had fortified a city.
Quinlan Vos was standing near the edge of a trenchline, he was sitting on a few boxes, Clones all around him were kneeling, their blasters pointed up as they bowed their heads.
"From the reading of Ezekiel 25:17." He began to read from his Warrior bible as he began to walk down the rows of the praying clones whos armor color was a mixture of dark purple strips with red crosses over their hearts.
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men." Vos spoke in a simple leveled voice.
"Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children." Quinlan Turned as he started to walk back towards the ladder leading to the battlefield standing in the open now, activating his lightsaber he aimed it to the sky as he began to raise his voice.
"And I WILL STRIEK DOWN! Upon thee with GREAT VENGENACE! And furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers! AND YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME IS THE LORD! When I lay my vengeance upon you!" As his blade pointed to the sky, and lowered a orbital bombardment began to fire down upon the city, blasting apart the fortifications, as Y-wings began a dive bomb on the city as well which resulted in the clones behind Vos shouting a combined "AMEN!" Before charging over the top towards the besieged city.
Shaak Ti was in the temple on Coruscant, one of her more frequent visits now. She was in the infirmery, checking on the injured. Resting a hand on one jedi's head, she looked down at them.
"What troubles you my child?" She asked, worried as they looked as if they had not slept in a long time.
"I can not sleep, I see those who I fail, the pain they suffered for me not being able to save them. It's my fault, I am a failure." the knight said, as they looked up at Shaak Ti.
"Let me tell you the words of Colossian, "Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you." Shaak Ti said, placing her hand over the heart of the Jedi.
"Rest, and hold no pain in your heart, for the lord grants you peace as you rest your head." She spoke softly.
Shaak Ti seemingly glowed in the light of the Infirmary, a beacon of hope and peace in the halls of injured, and fearful. As she left, several jedi were standing outside, seeing her and they followed her. As a youngling, one who was too young to be a learner approached.
"Mother! Mother! We are happy to see you here!" they said, smiling.
"It is a blessed day to see your innocent smiles, let us be happy the lord has given us this peace." She said, rubbing the head of the youngling, who smiled and laughed.
"Indeed it is Mother superior Shaak Ti." Shaak Ti couldn't help but smile as she looks up to see the neutral face of her fellow Mother Superior and jedi master Luminara who is now seen dressed in a new outfit which seems to represent her verses the snow white attire of Shaak Ti.
Luminara's robes were black, except for a section near the bottom, which was white. She had a white halfcape over her shoulders that connected to her white sleeves. Over top a black hood, that connected to a cloth that wrapped around her body, with a final long strip of cloth handing before her body. Her hands were now covered by black gloves, as they were crossed in front of her.
"I take it your teaching these younglings of the kindness and responsibilities we have?" Shaak Ti asked.
"I am teaching them discipline and respect, the role we have, and how to act. It is best we continue with the lesson." Luminara explained, as she looked down at the children.
All nod as they said in unison "yes Mother Superior Lumniara." Shaak Ti smiled sadly as she says to the children. "Now now lets not be so down. After your lessons with her i promise to come visit you all."
In the classroom, Luminara looked down students sitting in rows.
"I will ask a question, it will be answered in a precise exact manner. Is that understood?" Luminara asked.
"Yes mother superior." The children answered in unison.
"What is the world where the Jedi had the one of it's earliest temples?" Luminara asked.
"It was Coruscant!" a child said.
With a sudden loud slap of a stick that suddenly appeared in Luminara's hand, she looked down. A small plant growing in the corner was still shaking as everyone froze, somewhat scared by they sudden loud noise and menacing aura surrounding the Mother Superior.
"Incorrect." She stated.
"It was Ossus." another child said.
"Correct." Luminara answered, nodding her head.
This was normal in the classes of Luminara which was the opposite of Shaak Ti who many of the learners and younglings would call Shaak Ti the love of the force while Luminara would be considered the focus of the force. From what some had heard, if you were with Father Vos, he was the wrath of the force.
While all this was happening, elsewhere, Belloma was smiling.
"I had learned a trick from those of the north. They fought with totems, symbols of their strength, but I learned, that if they are taken, either destroyed or removed, it is an omen of bad things to come. What would you say the symbol of the jedi is?" Belloma asked, as she sent another wave of droids into Barris's defenses.
"That's simple, the Lightsaber. It's what we are recognized for." Barris answered, quickly having clones move to reinforce that position.
"Hmmmm, interesting. I would have thought the robes? No armor and all, shows a dedication to being peaceful." Belloma said, as she made a holographic lightsaber appear, it wasn't complcated, but the blade wasn't a cylinder, it was a blade, thin and rectangular, with no tip. She smiled, giving it a spin.
"From what I discovered, the Jedi once held power over the senate? Think of the good that could be done with such authority, especially now, no more debates, no more arguments, you decide the course of the Republic." Belloma said, as she swing down, Barris was about to use her own lightsaber to block, when it passed through the table....untouched by the hologram.
Barris was silent for a moment before she says "but, but the jedi are not meant to have such power, it should belong to the people."
"And you see how the people get little done. They don't really need power, they need direction. Besides, do you really think it's the people who are in control of the Senate?" Belloma asked, smiling, looking at Barris.
Barris was silent as Belloma came closer and was now whispering into Barris ear, "Think about it, my young student. Think about how much good you can do with my help, how many lives could be saved." Barris eyes seem to get an almost glassy look to them as she seem to start processing Belloma's words only for her to snap out of it as the sound of a door opening is heard, followed by the familiar voice of Ashoka. "There you are Barris! Ive been looking all over for you!"
"Ahsoka! What are you doing here?" Barris said, getting up.
Belloma's smiled vanished and she rolled her eyes, moving away.
Ashoka rolls her eyes slightly as she says towards Barris "uh the testing of the new stealth suits for the clone special forces! Duh! I wanted to see if you wanted to sneak in and spy on them."
"You mean spy on a bunch of guys in skin tight body suits as they.... I wouldn't mind seeing if they have other sizes, or if those are adjustable, I bet you'd look nice in one." Barris said.
Ashoka chuckles abit as she waves her hand "oh please as if id look good in a skin tight suit thats meant to turn me invisable, if anything it would probably just mess up and only turn the suit itself invisible instead of my body."
Barris was just staring at Ashoka as such an image came to her head which caused the young woman to bite her lower lip slightly as she says in a low voice "i wouldn't mind that."
Ashoka not sure what Barris said asks "What was that Barris?" Completely oblivious at what Barris had said.
Belloma shook her head, before a small chuckle was heard from a computer near by.
"Shut it you. I'm still not talking with you." Belloma said, looking down at the terminal that laughed.
Soon Ashoka took Barris off, all while Belloma interlocked her fingers together as she was deep in thought 'soon' she thought 'soon I shall have this young one under my control, and I think I might have found a way to make my plans happen.' With that Belloma walked off back into the temple to scout out other 'potentials' among the jedi and younglings.
Jocasta Nu looked at a near by terminal.
"It seems your still have some issues you need to resolve." She said.
"She was always a tough child." the terminal answered.
On the World of Dathomir, the Nightsisters were working, they would find this earth, once they could leave. The Negotiations for a ship was going well, though, now they were needing a course before they could finalize a deal. Which was why Talzin was currently sitting in front of Count Dooku who was not wearing his cape but now a sort of suit while drinking from a small glass.
"Now I understand your reasons for wanting a colonial ship, and while yes the war is slowly coming to a possible peace. Even i must ask why all of a sudden your people who as history has shown are isolationist. Would want to suddenly want to begin colonization efforts?" He asked.
"We have hopes that we may create a more.....sustainable system, Rancors and hostile plants are fine, until that is all you consume. A variety of crops that can not be grown on Dathomir would be better, after all, it is for the benefit of our future." Mother Talzin explained.
Dooku stayed silent for a moment as he leans forward slightly on his desk "I see." He said with a leveled voice, "and this wouldn't have anything to do with Terra would it? Possibly you having a source of information that the rest of the galaxy does not?"
"What would you be referring to. Communications are rather sparse. We have heard some reports of the war ending, and of technological improvements, but, no source of information." Talzin said, looking at Dooku.
Dooku stared at Talzin, who in return stared back as both seem to be locked in a battle of wills and wit.
"We shall place you on a list for now, the warships would need to be disarmed for civilian use, if that is understandable." Dooku explained.
Talzin nods her head slowly.
"I can accept this." She signed on the datapad that was slide before her until she stood up and went to leave.
Before Dooku finally spoke up as she reach the door where her guards were standing, "Oh and Mother Talzin. If you do happen to come upon information pertaining to the location of Terra, I do hope you do the right thing and share it with me seeing how much we have benefited each other in the past."
"If the unlikely chance occurs, we will." Talzin said, as she left.
Making her way back to the Temple, she was met by Ghost.
"Ship?" it asked, floating through a wall and moving along side Talzin as she glided along the ground herself.
Talzin sighs "Thankfully yes, but not as soon as i would have liked."
Ghost moved through before they sat on the ritual table looking up, pointing and moving their arm slightly from point to point.
Talzin looks at him before moving to see what ghost wishes to show her.
"The path is blocked......something is missing." Ghost explained.
Talzin gave a sad smile to Ghost as she just nods "Its alright, you have done much for us. Please do not hurt your own soul for our sake."
Brother Viscus entered.
"Perhaps, ghost is not missing something spiritually, but in a literal sense. Perhaps....if we could find another probe, we could compare them, and.....repair or search for the missing part." He said, followed by Feral Oppress and Savage Oppress.
Talzin sighs as she sits down looking at the night brothers "I fear that Dooku knows we have our friend here, and i believe the only reason he has not acted is because he knows that it would lead to unneeded tensions raising in the already delicate balance of power."
"Then why can we not ask for his AI to meet with Ghost, to see if they can be fixed?" Feral asked, confused, and trying to find an answer to a question no one had yet asked.
Talzins face becomes controlled as she answers "then we shall owe Dooku, and you can bet he will use this favor we owe him to great effect as a means to leverage our support for whatever he needs or wants. Id rather not be in debut to a man who may or may not pay it."
Savage looked down, looking at the ground, and the reflective pools, seeing the ceiling that had luminecent crystals and fungus growing on it.
"Perhaps....we are looking in at the wrong meaning." He said, standing near the reflective surface, then lifting his head up, and looking at the ceiling seeing "stars" in the dark cavernous ceiling.
Now everyone looked at what he was doing before Talzin asked Ghost "can you show me what you are trying to draw?"
Ghost had a line come from their finger, making an image, connecting dots that were illuminated on the cavern ceiling. It looked like branching paths, they stretched wide and far, smaller ones coming off larger ones.
"It's a map." Viscus said.
"But to what?" Feral asked, confused.
Talzin would try and recreate the map with the best of her ability, marking it in the very ceiling with her magics, so that it would remain. The lines were....wondering, unclear. Something seemed familiar.
Talzin strokes her chin as she asks Ghost "what is the map to friend?"
"Roads." Ghost said, before they sank into the table, and their voice echoed through the room, "New story! New Story, come to chamber."
Talzin smiled as everyone began to gather in the chamber.
While off in the republic at the Jeci temple, Vos was getting yet another ear full from Luminara "OF ALL THE THINGS! I swear you are worst then Skywalker when it comes to reckless abandonment!"
"Can you stop yelling at me, It's giving me weird dominatrix vibes, it's making me uncomfortable in the wrong way." Vos answered back to Luminara.
Luminara just stares at vos before she just pinches the bridge of her nose unable to handle what Vos said.
"Master, Belloma is saying that she has a new log." Barris said to Luminara over the coms.
Luminara sighs as she says "Thank you barris will be there shortly." Once she looks back at Vos all she does is being up a single finger and says firmly, "We are NOT done having this conversation."
Before turning and walking away with Shaak Ti following behind with a forced kind smile.
"Just don't have it over the phone, I don't need to be even more uncomfortable." Vos said.
"I don't want to hear any more as I am very uncomfortable with that stance you have taken Vos, and the fact that Luminara is doing this to you. I feel that we will need to atone for our sins after this." Shaak Ti said.
Vos chuckles as he shakes his head before joining up with Luminara, along with the rest who decided to join in the viewing. "Well lets get this show on the road!" Announced Vos in his usual boosting tone.
"Shut it degenerate." Belloma said, before pointed up and the video began to play.
"Is it me, or is she more....annoyed?" Luminara asked.
"You left your coms on connected to her channel, she heard everything." Barris said.
*Shows the story teller is standing before a cave entrance, there is a zoom in, as he turns to look at the assistant.*
"Ed-na, come in here."
*The Camera shakes*
"It's ok, there are no ghosts, no matter what that shaman says."
*Ed-na protested more*
"Cause there are no ghosts, except for that one ghost woman in the den, and she was put to rest a long time ago."
Shakti smiled hearing what the storyteller had said "its good to hear that spirit has found rest."
Vos chcukles "Dont get me wrong I've seen a lot of things in my life before I found the good word, but ghost?" He was clearly skeptical.
"Some old rumor that a spirit was angry about something. You ask me, I'd throw salt on it until it vanished." Belloma stated.
*Ed-na questioned and beeped*
"Yes, vampires are real, sort of. And zombies are real, but their not that kind of zombie."
*Ed-na beeped more*
"Well some people do believe in Voodoo and Magical zombies, and even think that ghouls are created by black magic instead of radiation."
*More beeps*
"I'll make you a deal, I'll tell you a story about magical zombies, if you promise to come inside this cave after words."
*Ed-na gave an approving beep*
"Ok" the story teller answered.
Talzin was intiruged, she had heard hints here and there that this world may have had magic in some form, but to now have it be confirmed was what intetrested her.
"What are vampires?" a young night sister, named Merrin asked as she entered the chamber.
"Drinkers of blood, monsters of night, truly great creatures to be feared." Ghost said, as they floated about the chamber, hanging upside down before the young Night Sister.
*Shows a scene of two groups of men in a battle, firing at each other, smoke fills the air with each firing of their guns in mass. It leads to show one group charging forward with bayonets on their guns. It shows men in grey kneeling, hands bound, before showing a rough image of an array of tents surrounded by fences. Shows a man that looks thin, his features sunken, before the layering of a skull over his face could be seen.*
"A long time ago in a far off land, there was a war where brother fought against brother for the fate of a nation. When the soldiers of the north captured men of the south, they took them to prison camps in a place called Point Lookout. It eventually became an amusement park, but 400 years ago, it was a horrible place, where many men died.
Luminara couldn't help but shuttered slightly "to make such a thing in a place where many battles were fought and people died on said land. It seems uncaring."
"It's almost like building a war room in a religious temple of pacifists." Barris said.
Vos nods "I mean she's not wrong."
"Do not encourage such behavior." Luminara said, glaring at Vos.
*It shows a monument, a obelisk in the swamp, just as tall as the trees*
"They were buried in mass graves beneath the swamp, and the people who came to live there after said the swamp was haunted by the vengeful spirits of the dead."
*Ed-na beeps. It shows the Story teller in a rather beautiful valley, sitting on a rock, it shpws a group walking towards the Story teller, before they stop and wave at him*
"No, there were no Holotapes 400 years ago. But you can grab any history book and look up the role that place had during America's Civil War."
Talzin couldn't help but chuckle as she nods her head "in a way he speaks the truth, many tales that have been lost to time is simply because someone did not translate them into data and can only be seen from tomes and books of old."
"How much history is lost for it being locked away in places most can't access, it is amazing some people still know their history with how they leave their old ways behind." Viscus said.
*Shows a panning shot over the swamp, it then shows a team underground in sealed suits, digging and doing research.*
"All those dead bodies under the swamp are responsible for the Methane gas that bubbles up from under the water. One of the old energy companies thought they might sell the gas for profit during the Resource Wars. But Feted gas wasn't the only thing that rose up from the swamp, according to Local legends.
Vos raised an eyebrow as he says "What? Did the dead raise from the grave?" He looks over Shaak Ti as he says towards her in a spooky voice "They're coming to get you Shaak Ti, they're coming to get you. Ooooo." Before he starts laughing at the arm slap he got from her.
"You'd be amazed how often a group of teenagers unmasked people in costumes who were trying to make a quick buck." Belloma said, rolling her eyes.
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you snooping Teens, and your robotic buttercup." She muttered, trying to remember the phrase from old holotapes she listened to when she was a child.
"I swear I am the only adult in this room." Luminara said, shaking her head.
Shaak Ti looked at her fellow jedi master/ Mother of faith as she says "Im an adult as well."
"It sure looks like I'm the only normal one here." Barris said as she sat down, watching the log.
*Shows a grave yard at night, the full moon shining and illuminating the darkness. The moon blinked suddenly, showing an eye, then reverting back to the surface*
"They say the restless spirits walked the land, and that one of the aristocratic families, the Blackhalls had made unholy pacts with eldritch creatures from the primeval past before men walked the Earth."
Talzin tensed as she says "those who make pacts with those form they know not is one action that should not be done. We of the craft know this better then anyone."
"It's like those old stories of what Night Sister Magic can do." Savage said.
"It makes you wonder what they gave in the pact." Feral asked.
Ghost said in a sadden voice full of fear "Too much."
*Shows a dark room, bones and illuminated through the room by torchlight, as a font filled with blood was in the center of the chamber, a book with a cut on the cover, rested on the edge. It shows a dark wood building, the skies cloudy and the areas feeling....cursed, unnatural...evil. It shows a dark room, a body on the table, blood spilling from them, as two people chant, wearing dark robes.
"They had a book of unknown arcana, called the Krivbeknih. An evil tome that, once written, could not be destroyed by any means known. For generations the blackhalls lived in a mansion in the western parts of the swamp, and they lead the local in daemonic rites, invoking nameless entities from realms beyond the ken of humanity."
Much like before the three of the new faith seem to tense as they look around quickly as they swore they felt something darker then the force, Vos grasps his cross as he whispers to himself "i am with the force, for the force is with me, for the holy name shall protect me from all that is darkness and sin."
Shaak Ti was holding her necklace "Holy spirit, Forgiving god, protect us. Let the darkness be banished and may your holy shine through us all." before she moved along a bead and repeated the prayer.
Luminara was silent but unlike her more vocal friends offered a silent prayer 'Oh holy spirit of the force, I pray to thee and ask for protection from this unholy darkness, I ask of you as your humble servant. Amen.'
Barris just sat there looking at them.
"I'm the only one that sees this as people being crazy." She sighed annoyed.
"You mean the log, or the people in this room." Belloma asked.
"Yep." Barris said.
*Shows an old woman walking the halls. It shows her reading the cursed book next to a window, her own shadow casting long across the room, distorted, it didn't look natural.
"At the time of the Great War, the book had come into the hands of Constance Blackhall, a woman who carried it's loathsome beliefs into the twenty-second century. She had married into the Blackhall family, but her own ancestry was no less depraved."
"The spirit of the woman is evil." Merrin said.
"It must be part of the deal, she is host to evil spirits." Feral said.
"Or maybe she was just evil to start with." Savage said.
"I can imagine both are acceptable answers." Viscus said.
*Shows a destroyed building that seemed unassuming. It shows a man who looked....wrong, his face long, his eyes too wide apart, his head narrow, his mouth too wide. His suit was strange, loose over his slender frame, it shows a group kneeling down and preying to a obelisk with figures reaching out from it*
"Born Constance Dunwich, her brother Richard had established the Dunwich Borer Company, and constructed its headquarters over a cyclopean cavern. There, beneath the seemingly innocent drilling company, Ichorous pagans conducted their jibbering rituals mere miles from the nation's Capitol."
"You know, with how absolutlely crazy and deranged as that sounds, the sith could have done that at some point." Barris said.
Across the city, Palpatine sneezed, he was alone in his office, looking at the ancient records, of the ancient sith artifact the Jedi Temple sat upon. When he would destroy the order, he would harness this dark artifact to make him more powerful, with their destruction, he would be unstoppable.
"There is no dust in here, someone must be close to uncovering my plot." He said, closing the ancient file.
*Shows an old woman, looking unnaturally hold, walking from the manor. It shows her laying in bed, next to the bed is the Krivbeknih. While she sleeps, a hand grabs the books and walks away. The rise and fall of her chest stopped as the sounds of the steps grew distant.*
"Generations after the Great War, Constance Blackhall was still alive, perhaps a mutation, or it might have been the unutterable influence of that book. She eventually did die, but only after an unknown person stole the krivbeknih from her."
Talzin stared at the events that unfold as she says in a serious tone that left no room for arguement "such a toem must never see the light of day and should be sealed away so other mortal hand may come upon it."
"I feel it would take a regiment of Clones chanting clensing prayers and splashing holy water on it constantly just for us to seal it without it's evil infecting our minds." Vos said.
"Or the strongest Jedi doing such an action." Luminara said.
"Or a good flame thrower." Barris said.
*Shows the Capitol Wasteland, in the dark, a cloudless night, the Dunwich shows, a figure looking down at the book, whispers heard as the figure looks at the book. It shows the insides, a younger man walking in, before descending down a set of stairs, to see a kneeling figure near the cursed obelisk*
"At some point the book made its way into the Capitol Wasteland. A traveler brought it to the Dunwich Building for the purpose no sane man could Fathom. What happened to him is known only to the moldering fiends from beyond. However his son followed in his wake, leaving holotapes as he descended into the abysmal catacombs beneath the building, toward a fate too diabolical to speak."
*Shows the storyteller, still sitting on the rock, as those around cowering in fear.*
Vos couldnt help but chuckle as he says "oh sure! any sane man knows that if you see a building that radiates darkness like its a sith temple that you should SO GO INTO IT! I mean that's just common sense!" Before smacking his forehead with the palm of his hand.
"I feel like we need to move cause of how similar the vibes I get from this image and this place are." Feral said.
"I feel like I just saw what needs to be destroyed." Savage said.
"I saw evil." Ghost said, seemingly shrinking in size as they curled up and floated, passing through Viscus, who shivered at the feeling.
Talzin gave ghost a soft smile as she pats a spot next to her "come ghost, no evil shall come here so long as i am here."
"What happens if you can not come back?" Ghost asked, fearfully as they were small, the size of a baby and rested against Talzin's chest, as she "held" them.
Talzins soothing smile never left her face as she says "i am of strong magic ghost, i shall always come back."
*Shows a group of swamp people in a the temple. Shows a bone charm hanging near the cursed Blackhall manor. it fades to show an old man, walking the halls, his long white beard unkempt, he scowled, his eyes sunken....and glowing if slightly in the darkness.*
"In Point lookout, the swamp folk have developed a superstition about the Blackhall family and their mansion. They Chattered the ancient chants and hung talismans about their swamp, but never dared enter the Blackhall house, where there Dwells the last of the Blackhall line, a decrepit old man who roams the halls of his decaying mansion, restlessly seeking the lost tome of forbidden horrors."
Vos clicked his tongue as he says "seems like a man who should be treated as one would treat a wicked heretical sith."
Shaak Ti felt cold, looking at the man walking.
"He is.....like a walking form of the darkness." She said, her hand trembling just from the seconds she saw of him.
Luminara couldnt help but feel a little frightful of the man, but the logical part of her mind had her said "he is but a man, not a sith."
*Shows a group of swamp folk gutting a bound man and bleeding him dry. It shows a skeleton, that had once clawed at the ground of a collapsed floor, that looked down at a open hole, with the Obelisk seen at the bottom. It shows the dark, the moon illuminating the dunwich building, before a ghoul-like creature moved in the shadows
"The Monstrous book, the Krivbeknih has vanished, but is certainly in the clutches of some degenerate, tenebrous beast. What sinister connection it has to the deep Temple beneath the Dunwich Building, I cannot say, but on nights the stars are right, and the wind blows from the east, travelers can hear whispered words carried on the breeze."
While many would have written off what they were seeing as nothing more then hooky mumbojumbo, that quickly changed as through the areas where log was playing everyone heard a voice not of this world speak, not from the screens playing the log but from where they were.
"Ug-Qualtoth is returned. Alhazred, G'yeth G'yeth"
Palpatine froze, that was....it wasn't the dark side of the force, it was.....it was a malevolent entity, the feeling it was evil powerful, overwhelming. It was one that he couldn't shake off, and he doubted that it could be controlled, even by him if he had all the power in the galaxy.
Hondo was looking around, he looked down, seeing the jet canisters, they were full, he hadn't partaken, he never did with what he sold, but...something about that just felt unnatural.
"If this is some sort of Joke, QUIT IT! It gave me the heebee jeebees." He shouted.
"It wasn't me, I still got no access to the ship's systems." Gino said, appearing next to Hondo.
Off with the Mandos they had their weapons out pointing in all directions as Bo couldnt help but shiver abit "in the name of all that is holy on Mandalore BEGONE YA SPOOKY BITCH!"
Dooku looked around confused. He felt as if every dark deed ever committed had just combined and spoke out into the galaxy.
"Milo, what was that?"
"No idea, file has nothing there audio wise." Milo answered.
Anakin turned the corner seeing Ahsoka on the ground.
"Snips, you ok?" He asked.
"I feel great, better than ever." She said, her voice layered, and her skin looked, tinted grey, her eyes were wrong, they were dark.
*Ed-na shakes in fear. They are now all around a fire*
"What? Why are you still scared? The evil book of unknowable horros was probably destroyed. And the Mass grave of restless spirits is thousands of miles away."
*Ed-na beeped*
"Well how about I tell you a happy story. One about a man who spent his life helping other people, and never took credit for his good deeds? The only way you'll learn the story is if you go in that spooky old cave over there. "
Shaak Ti couldn't help but smile at the idea of such an evil thing being destroyed, of course much like the sith such a thing was never so easy as the good book has taught her. "A good man who never took credits for his deeds?" She asked hearing the last part.
Vos couldn't help but chuckle "sounds like those old tales of jedi who wondered the galaxy."
"One we have fallen from." Barris said, looking at the jedi in the room.
*shows the cave entrance, whit hand marks cover the walls near the entrance. Shows a cave, with a man sitting at a terminal, a helmet and rifle sitting on the table.*
"Does it have a happy ending? In a way it has a happy ending. Not many in the wasteland do, but we have a lot of places to visit before I can show you the ending, so that- is a story for another day."
"A selfless man, a story that will be interesting to see." Viscus said, nodding a bit.
Satine couldn't help but look toward the older generations of Mandalore as she had a soft smile grace her face "Almost reminds me of our own people, we may have done bad in the past, but we also did many good and many that would claim credit for."
"The next log will be an important lesson to learn from." Dooku said, as he rubbed his beard.
Padme couldn't help but smile as she looked towards her fellow senators who agreed that much like the log about the burned man, they may very well be learning about another who tried to do good in a world of nuclear fire and constant death. It brought hope to her that maybe, just maybe their were kind souls among the dead world trying to rebuild.
"A man who does work for nothing? Where could I find such a man? He would make a great employee!" Hondo joked, smiling, understanding the need to do good, when there was nothing to gain.
Of course off with the three jedi of the 'new faith' Luminara couldn't help but smile for once "i can safely say that the next log will show us that not all terrans are a bad sort."
"Oh yeah, here comes Lanius to prove you wrong. Or maybe the Enclave." Belloma spoke, grinning as she stood before Luminara.
"Or Maybe me." She added, poking the Jedi in the cross she wore.
Before Luminara could respond Vos of all people retorts "hey not everyone is beyond hope, even I who did a lot of bad can find hope as the good book teaches."
"A group of tramatized children will argue something else." Barris said.
"I was showing them that God has a guiding hand." Vos said.
Luminara shakes her head and before Shaakti could comment a younglining came running as he shouts at the three "SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH ASHOKA!" This caused the three to jump to their feet and run only to stop at the sight of a now restrained Ashoka who is being help by two clones in power armor as shes trashing around trying to get free.
Snarling and almost foaming at the mouth speaking in clearly tongues.
"What the fuuuuuuuuuck." Barris said, worried.
"How did this happen? Where was she found?" Shaak Ti asked.
"I don't know, she slashed a statue and nearly made it topple on to a group of younglings." Skywalker said.
Ashoka who was still trying to get free yelled at the top of her lungs "HE WHO WALKS THE SHADOWS SHALL CONSUME THE LIGHT! HELL SHALL CONSUME YOU ALL IN GLORIOUS HELL FIRE!"
"Ok, I'm getting the holy water." Vos said, as he rushed to a utility room, filled a bucket of water and began a ritual to sanctify it.
The other two began to prey.
"Who are you?" Anakin asked Ahsoka, as she grinned while looking at him.
"The Devil!" She spat at him.
"Release Ahsoka, now." Anakin growled.
"Would you take her place? I smell the darkness in you, oh what fun it would be." Ahsoka said.
Vos with a bible in hand spoke aloud which seem to get the posed Ashokas attention "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them."
He walked up to Ashoka holding the holy book forward as he now speaks in a commanding voice "Tell thy self demon! Give thy name!"
Ahsoka trys to get away from Vos as she shouts "YOU PRAYERS HAVE NO POWER HERE FALSE MAN OF THE CLOTH!"
"Eternal God, cast out the darkness from this soul, free her of the hold this demon has on her. Banish the demon who claims her body! Say Thy Name Monster! Speak thine identity!" Luminara said, taking her hand, dipping it in the holy water and flicking it on Ahsoka's face, making her wail in a horrid way, unlike her in every way.
Ashoka shouted at Luminara "YOULL SUCK COCKS IN HELL WHORE OF GOD!"
Quinlan took the bible, closed it, took his necklace, placed it on the spine of the book, raised it before the face of Ahsoka, and flicked his wrist, hitting her on the forehead with the book.
"OUT! GET OUT! I BANISH YOU! YOU! WILL! RESPECT! THE! GOOD! BOOK!" He shouted, between each bonk on the head he delivered.
"YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!" Ahsoka shouted.
"Jokes on you, I don't know her!" Quinlan said.
"This is starting to hurt!" Ahsoka, in her regular voice said.
"How does blunt force exorcism work?" the clone asked.
"Beats me." the other clone said.
"Not now Joker." the first clone said.
Soon Shaakti spoke with her kind voice "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Splashing holy water onto Ashoka she commanded again as now Ashokas skin begins to cut itself "NAME THY SELF! SPEAK THEY NAME DEMON WHO HATH STOLLEN THIS INNOCENT ONES BODY FOR THY WICKEDNESS!"
Ahsoka eyes seem to turn white as she says in an unworldly voice "PAZUZU!!!"
Barris took the bucket and threw it on Ahsoka and the demonic wailing grew louder.
"GET OUT OF HER!!!!!" Barris shouted at Pazuzu.
The walls began to shake, cracks formed, the armor of the Clones cracked as they struggled to remain standing, holding Ahsoka in place, some plates breaking off.
Anakin extended his hands, trying to hold the cracking walls from breaking, making a barrier to shield the temple from what was happening in this ritual.
"The power of the force compels you! The power of the force Compels you!" Luminara and Vos Chanted.
Shaakti holding making a cross motion with her hands says "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy spirit of the force I command you to leave this innocent soul! I command you the name of the LORD to be banished from this realm! BY THE POWER OF THE FORCE I EXCORSIE YOU FROM THIS TEMPLE OF THE HOLY AND FAITHFUL DEMON!"
Pressing the cross to Ashokas head an unworldly scream leaves Ashokas throat as the temple shakes more before finally it stops as Ashokas body finally goes limp.
"Ahsoka? Are you ok?" Anakin asked, worried, kneeling down, supporting her head.
"Uuuuuuhhhhh, what happened? Where am I? My arms feel numb. Why am I soaking wet?" Ahsoka asked, confused as she looked around.
Everyone looked towards Shaakti who with a smile says "thy body is now cleansed."
Vos however whos grin never left his face started dancing around abit as he says "THATS IT! WE DID IT!" Throwing his arms into air he shouts "WE HAVE EXCORSISED THE DEMON!"
Everyone looked towards Shaakti who with a smile says "thy body is now cleansed."
Vos however whos grin never left his face started dancing around abit as he says "THATS IT! WE DID IT!" Throwing his arms into air he shouts "WE HAVE EXCORSISED THE DEMON!"
Luminara sighs as she says with a quick cross being made on herself says "thank the lord and force for that."
"Great, a war, the sith, us looking for the origin world of these logs, now Demons, what's next? Cats and dogs living together?" Anakin asked.
"There was a Zygarrian and a Shistavanen noble families that married for economic interests in the outer rim recently." Belloma said, lying just to annoy Anakin.
And this is the Halloween Chapter! Enjoy and have fun with candy you steal from your kids or buy and don't get rid of.