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Dxun wasn't a place that most people traveled to willingly, and Arla could understand why. Even if she had a very different perspective to others, she still understood that there were many things on this planet that would kill her if given the opportunity. A world steeped in the Dark Side for thousands of years, it reminded the Nightsister of Dathomir in many ways.

She had multiple goals in coming here, and not the least among them was the location of whatever remained of the Beast Riders that still lived and trained on Onderon and Dxun. Granted, they had no real relationship to the Beast Riders of millennia ago, but even as the planet became more "civilized" there were always sects who yearned to return to the "old days." It wasn't so different from Sith in many ways.

For her part, Arla had brought along a pack of supplies from her ship in addition to her energy bow and regular equipment. Although she didn't where to find the Beast Riders, she followed her senses in the direction of the greatest presence of Darkness on world. She had to assume it was the ancient tomb of Freedon Nadd.

What she would find - if anything - she didn't know, but it didn't matter. That was perhaps the greatest beauty to the Nightsister's travels was that she no longer was accountable to anyone. She could simply live in the moment on a world filled with excitement and exist among the many predators of the planet. The entire planet radiated with the Fanged Spirit's power, and Arla felt right at home as she navigated the game trail taking her toward what she hoped was the temple-tomb.
 

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The tomb of Freedon Nadd. Amun had come to Dxun for one thing and one thing only. Though the temple had lay abandoned for millennia, the Sith Acolyte turned artifact hunter decided it was worth the risk to venture into the depths of the wild and dangerous world of Dxun. Maybe he would find a few trinkets that would please the Crimson Dawn. More importantly though, he might find a scrap of Sith knowledge. Perhaps even a holocron.

Having fled the Empire and the Order alike, Amun Seti had found himself without a master, with no repository of knowledge from which to learn. He still walked the path of a Sith, was pledged to it in his own way. Just not the way of the Order.

Dxun itself was a bastion of wilderness. The darkside lingered thick in the air here. The floor of the forest embodied the nature of the darker side of the force. Hunt, or be hunted. Kill, or be killed. It was exhilarating. Amun stepped lightly, dressed for the jungle in dark fatigues. He wore a simple blast vest, and carried an assortment of weapons. None of which were preferable to a lightsaber, but a blaster on his hip and a sword over his shoulder was just barely better than being without. He also carried an assortment of daggers and small knives strapped around his person.

It was this way that he crept through the jungle silently, his training at stealth and survival at work. It was the first time in a while that he had felt truly himself, truly alive. The thrill of danger ever present, lurking around every tree truck, within every bit of brush, up above in the canopy. And through it all he could feel the presence of the tomb, like a lodestone in the dark drawing him. Calling him.

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Arla's progress through the jungle was about as quick as she could expect. While she was quite comfortable in the forests, this wasn't Dathomir, and she didn't truly know how the wildlife here hunted or functioned. She had read a little on her journey here, but it was entirely different to actually emerge oneself in the ecosystem of a foreign world.

For that reason, she tread carefully.

Still, the game trail had been otherwise a quick means of travel. She could sense herself drawing closer to the tomb when she paused. There was... something else. People? She knew the Beast Riders were here somewhere, and that was who she supposed she was sensing. Perhaps they, too, had been unwittingly drawn to the dark tomb. Or maybe it was all in her imagination. The darkness of the tomb seemed to almost block out one's senses to a degree.

She frowned and crouched low, spotting - almost coincidentally - the carcass of a large, dead animal ahead. No doubt predators knew where to hunt their prey, and although she didn't know the breed of the creature, it looked as if it was, itself, a predator.

She moved over to take a closer look, bow in hand when she saw something move. A four-legged lizard-like creature perhaps two feet tall stood and hissed at her followed by three more. She stepped back on instinct, but, these were not what had killed the animal, she guessed. They were simply scavengers, but from the way they moved, they decided they were large enough to kill the Nightsister.

They were wrong.

Both of her hands came up, forming strange shapes as she flung out a stream of fire from one hand and shards of ice from the other, burning one animal and skewering the other. And also giving very obvious indication in the Force that someone was nearby drawing on its power.

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Amun's trek through the jungle had been relatively uneventful. He had remained hidden, quiet. It was slow going but he was determined to make his destination. And back of course.

There was a scuffle in the distance, likely some predators and prey playing out the cycle of life as they did. The moment passed and he continued on his way, planning to skirt around whatever had caused the noise. He grew close to it as new sounds emerged.

And then he felt it.

It was like a trickle of ice over the back of his neck, the darkside was at work nearby. Somebody drew on the power of the force and if he had to guess, he was right on top of them as he heard some sort of creature shriek in agony. Moving a bit faster, he approached the sounds of fighting as he found a vantage point. He peaked through the brush and what he saw surprised him.

It wasn't the masterful display of force use that surprised him, nor the stunning beauty of the woman who fought in the clearing. No, it was the fact that he knew her. Or at least had met her once on a mission. He didn't spend more time than he needed to wondering what Arla was doing out here in the jungle, there were plenty of obvious explanations. Instead he focused on the quiet, stalking motion that was going on behind her as she fought the lizards.

Amun drew a pair of knives, squinting through the brush as he found his timing. He called on the force, no grand display of power like Arla used to blast the lizards into oblivion. A gentle whisper as he threw the knives, propelling them faster than he could throw them without the use of the force, more accurately, with more force.

The thrown weapons thumped into whatever creature was lurking in the forest behind Arla and it roared, rearing up in pain and surprise. It was large, ursine in form. Amun's knives jutted from it's shoulder and face.

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Arla spun and twirled, sending another wave of energy at one of the small scavenger lizards as it came leaping at her, only to be hurled back into a tree hard enough to crack the wood.

The final one began to flee and it was only then that Arla noticed something else. Or rather sensed something else. She didn't actually know what it was, but something was off.

In about the course of a second, she saw not only the creature, but also the knives that were protruding from its face. Knives she hadn't put there and knives that seemed as though they were what had caused such a reaction from the creature.

Her eyes darted around for the source. Beast Riders? Mandalorians who came here to hunt? Some sort of Onderonian force? She finally spotted the person who had done it, and he looked familiar, but that was about as far as she got before she had her attention torn away once again by the large animal.

This time, rather than attack it outright, she focused on the Shadow and the creature's ur-Spirit. Her lips moved as she spoke words in Dathomiri, and thrust her will upon it. It went from roaring and screeching to - for a moment - placated.

Arla made the mistake of letting her guard down, and a moment later it broke free from her spell, launching itself forward and swiping at her before barreling its body forward. She narrowly managed to evade the claw only to be slammed backwards and halfway down a hill by the body-slam from the creature.

Kriffing, little... ugh, she growled, pushing herself back to her feet and rising in preparation to meet her opponent again.

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Amun's knives had hit their mark, but not quite as intended. He had been aiming for the major artery in the neck and the brain through the eye. It was quite apparent by the way that the creature still lived. Amun watched from the shadows as the sorceress worked some magic, seeming to tame the beast.

But only for a moment it seemed. The beast slammed into her a moment later, sending her flying down the hill.

Amun cursed, drawing the blaster pistol from it's holster. He steadied his aim with both hands, pulling back the hammer toggle to set it to high power mode as he aimed. He had practiced with the weapon but he wasn't confident with it, not to the same degree he was with a lightsaber, his knives, or even a regular vibrosword.

It took him a moment to aim, finding the right shot as the beast charged forwards rearing itself once again to slam it's massive paws down on Arla as she rose to meet it that Amun pulled the trigger.

A single high powered bolt of superheated plasma shot through the brush to slam into the creature's neck where it tore through the vital organs there. The beast blinked, swaying for a moment before collapsing backwards. Dead. Amun was almost surprised, having worried that he might miss.

Of course now he had bigger problems.

He eyed the Sorceress for a moment from the brush, certain she had spotted him earlier. There was no avoiding her now, especially with his knives in the beast, not to mention the blaster bolt. Amun stepped out into the brush, his blaster held loosely at his side, not quite ready to put it away as he glanced around for more hostile creatures.

"Uhh... Hi Arla." Was all he could muster up, giving a small wave with his other hand while internally panicking.

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Arla was drawing the Force to herself, preparing to lash out once again when a blaster bolt tore across the still air and cut through the creature's body, stilling it after only a few more collapsing twitches of its muscles.

The shooter emerged a few moments later, and she placed him after only a few seconds, though his actual name escaped her.

You are the acolyte from Coruscant, she said matter of factly. Sent here by Darth Tempest? she asked. It should have been no surprise. Arla and Vahliri thought very similarly, and Arla had recommended seeking out ancient powers of the Dark Side. Sending agents to Nadd's tomb was a logical step.

She glanced back at the dead animal.

Good shot, she added, moving over and pulling his knives from the creature, wiping the blood onto the fur before extending them outward for him to take from her.
 

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Amun waited for the inevitable decision, where Arla would either recognize him, question him, or smash him into a pulp. The recognition was there though she didn't seem to remember his name, which was somewhat convenient.

"Coruscant yes." He said, considering her question. He wasn't sure who Darth Tempest was exactly, though he had a pretty good idea who it might be. The red masked Sith who had called them all to Junction seemed the likely candidate to match the name. He wondered just how much would be safe to reveal. If she wasn't a follower of Darth Tempest, all might be well. If she was, well then things might get tricky and possibly revert back to option three.

"I've come of my own accord." He said after a moment, settling on a neutral option as he holstered his blaster and approached tentatively to accept the knives back. "Are you here on orders from the Dark Lord?" He asked as he returned the knives to their sheathes, a gently probing question that didn't really give any indication of where his allegiance lay.

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Even Arla didn't miss how he seemed to be shifty with his answers. Granted, the last time they had seen one another Arla had been... quite consumed by something inside of her. Perhaps he thought she was going to lash out to kill him at any moment.

No, I am not associated with the Order anymore, she said. Did he even know what a Nightsister was? They had been a common ally to the Empire for many years, but he was... relatively new to the Order or at least to exposure to all of its facets. And now the Nightsisters were no longer allied.

You stayed with the Empire then? Or just taking to the galaxy for yourself? she asked. In truth, it didn't really matter to her. Her announcement of neutrality had allowed her - intentionally - to "break bread" with anyone. There was an incredible liberty to the fact that she didn't have to be accountable to anyone any longer.

And then something clicked in her mind. No, you did stay with the Sith, didn't you? No lightsaber, she said. Although it could have certainly been hidden, he had opted for knives and a blaster, though granted, those were also better ranged weapons. And it was unwise to carry a saber in these times. So there were actually numerous explanations, actually, but she'd already put it out there so there was no taking back the speculation now.
 

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Amun breathed a little easier knowing that Arla was no longer with the Order. Not only for his own safety but his own peace of mind as well. The former Sith Master started her line of questioning, making a conclusion on her own after going through the several possible options.

"I still consider myself one." He said after a moment of consideration. She wasn't associated with the Order nor the Empire. Or so he assumed. Perhaps he had just signed his death warrant with the admission, but something in him was inclined to believe that she hadn't.

"But the Order has it's problems that I'd rather disassociate from. I have no desire to stay chained to an endangered ideology." He decided to admit after some consideration. Surely if Arla had walked away from the Order then she saw it's issues as well. Amun held to the Code of the Sith closely, but the direction he had seen the Order taking, both before and after its emancipation from the Empire. It left a lot to be desired.

Amun eyed his kill, walking over to it and crouching besides it to examine the knife wounds. Brushing aside fur, he found the first blow, and then the jugular.

"Tch. Two inches off." He muttered to himself before returning his attention to Arla. "What about you? He asked, standing once again.

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Hm, was the only response he got as he made his statements about still considering himself a Sith despite everything that had happened and evidently leaving the Order. She could understand the sentiment, but she also found herself wondering if an Acolyte really had the insights to understand what he was saying.

There's a great deal you still have to learn, she said, the comment not a derisive or chiding one so much as a simple fact. Still, she wasn't one to force anyone to do anything these days. If he thought he had nothing to learn from the Sith then she wouldn't force him into it.

I'm heading this direction, she said in response to his question, knowing that wasn't really what he was asking, but starting to head off back down the game trail that she had been following. She could already guess that he was going to the tomb, and thus would likely follow her.

So then what are you doing? Just wandering around and trying to teach yourself? Or did you find some master to serve as an assassin for? she asked. It wouldn't have been an illogical move. He didn't - so far as she knew - have the resources or backing for just striking out on his own. Unless he was just following the way of the Ren, of course, which she couldn't truly blame him for.
 

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Arla's neutral response to his comments about himself as a Sith and the Order were about the best he could hope for given his situation. He'd take it.

"There's always more to learn. But yes, I'm not under the illusion that I know nearly enough." He admitted. He would be a prideful fool if he thought what training he had was nearly enough to call himself a true Sith, despite his sentiments that he walked the path of one. He took her comment about which direction she was going as an invitation and tagged along. Being alongside such a powerful ex-Sith would certainly lend some credence of security, even if it was a fickle one.

"Surviving, as a start. I've landed on my feet, and there's plenty of opportunity in the shifting galactic landscape." His words gave enough while also remaining intentionally vague. His eyes looked past Arla and towards their heading, towards the beacon of darkness that lay ahead. "Today, I seek knowledge. Tomorrow has yet to be decided." That wasn't to say he didn't have ideas, but he preferred to be more methodical in his actions. Which required security. One step at a time.

Which was how they proceeded along the game trail and through the jungle, growing nearer to their goal.

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The corner of Arla's lip tugged up ever so slightly as he described the "opportunity in a shifting galactic landscape." He was absolutely correct, and his views seemed to be not so very different from Arla's. Perhaps in a way they were kindred spirits as well.

Chaos is a ladder, she said, quoting the Sith Lord Baelish whose holocron she had once briefly interrogated in the archives. He was far too... conniving for her tastes, but there was still wisdom there. More than many Sith would ever understand.

Well survival is the most important. None of the rest does you any good if you're dead, she agreed, a true pragmatic survivalist at heart, though there was much more to her than that.

She couldn't help but think that in a way all his own, he seemed a bit... lost perhaps. A little bit directionless.

She walked on in silence for quite a time as they drew closer to their goal, eventually coming to a clearing in the plantlife. She bent down as they approached, looking at the way the shrubs and vines looked like they had been poisoned or sprayed with toxins.

The Dark Side is strong here, she said, so strong that the plants had been unable to grow in a clearing all around the tomb itself. Stories had it that Darth Bane had looted everything of value in the tomb, but she would wait to see that for herself before believing it. Bane had many skills, but the arcane wasn't among them, and he may have missed something that she could yet find.

And if not, then it was no real loss to her to come here.

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Amun nodded as Arla imparted a small bit of wisdom. He had felt the same in the current situation, though she put it much more succinctly.

"Dying is counterproductive." Amun said simply, a gross oversimplification. Or not. Without life there was no option to continue forwards, to strive, to persevere. Amun had decided long ago that he would fight against the clawing grasp of death with everything in his being.

Their approach to the tomb was heralded by a sudden shift from overgrown jungle to a dying landscape once they passed the edge where the plants seemed to wither.

"Very strong." Amun echoed. He had felt the strength of the darkside on Coruscant when they had shifted the nexus. This was... not quite so strong, but it also seemed different. "There wouldn't be a nexus here, like on Coruscant, would there?" He asked as began a cautious approach to the temple.

Whatever outer defenses the temple once bore were long ago rendered useless by age, scavengers, and the very corruption of the darkside itself. It seemed to have one day been equipped to withstand a siege, complete with a surrounding low circular wall covered in spikes and emplacements where cannons may once have sat. The spikes were twisted and warped inwards along with the walls as if there were a magnetic attribute to the temple itself that tried to drag everything in the area towards it.

"What do you make of that?" He asked Arla, pointing out the warpage. He had never seen anything like it before but that wasn't a very high bar. The older and much more powerful woman's experience would be crucial.

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Arla stayed where she was crouched for a moment, considering the acolyte's questions and statements. Mmm, maybe, but I don't think so, she said. It was certainly possible and although the Dark Side was strong here, it was more of a lingering scent than a constantly leaking thing. But it was difficult to say for certain.

Maybe someone got impatient and slammed their way through the defenses, she said, noting that it didn't look so different from someone blasting their way through a wall with the Force. It was, ultimately, all a bit of guesswork, though.

She shook her head a moment later, dismissing the idea. No, something dragged it all inward, she said as she looked and saw that it extended around more than just the single area that she had been looking at.

She didn't know what had caused it, so she didn't comment further but pressed on carefully toward the temple itself. As she walked on, she did spot an area of the wall that looked as if it had been barreled through, though not by a person. Some large animal perhaps drawn by the energy of the Dark Side. Like was drawn to like, and the predators of the planet seemed to know the power of the Fanged Spirit was here.

What are you hoping to find here? Why this tomb? she asked seemingly out of the blue.
 

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Arla voiced that she didn't believe the tomb was the site of a dark side Nexus and Amun took her word for it. Whatever power was here, though powerful, was more like a lingering taint rather than an active presence. There were a few comments about the surrounding wall and how it seemed to stretch inwards, but inevitably they came to the same conclusion.

"It's almost as if... gravity were pulling it inwards." Amun commented as they made their approach. There was a section of the wall that was destroyed, blown inwards as if by a creature or some sort of explosive. Something had breached the perimeter at some point, whether that was yesterday or a thousand years prior was hard to tell.

"Knowledge, perhaps some scraps, or if I am lucky... a holocron." Amun admitted after a few moments of thought. In truth he was floundering, looking for some sort of access to teaching, training, arcane knowledge. Anything to continue walking the path that he had chosen. "It's an old tomb but newer than most. Well known enough to have been looted before, possibly stripped of most of it's defenses..." He trailed off as he thought about it.

"And above all that... I felt... drawn to it." He said. It was hard to describe the feeling that had driven him in this direction, the light yet inescapable pull that weighed on the mind, pulling one towards something the way gravity pulls an object towards it. But now that he was there, the feeling was unmistakable. There was... something. Some reason. A reason he had yet to figure out.

By that time they had come to the deep trench that surrounded the bastion wall. Amun looked down into the trench and was met with a view of a variety of spikes, also twisting and bending towards the center of the complex. There were a few bare skeletons that had yet to be turned to dust by age at the bottom as well which gained a small grimace from Amun.

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She walked on and her eyes swept over the area, wondering for a long moment if they were about to make their way inside only to confront some deranged former-Sith or a Beast Riding clan who had made the tomb their home. It was not exactly a high traffic area under normal situations.

She knew the feeling of being drawn to something. Although she wouldn't quite go so far as to say that she, herself, was drawn here until she reached the moon's surface, as soon as she had set down, she had felt that same pull.

We will find out, she said. She didn't know if there would be anything either, but even as she made her way forward, she sensed that there was life inside the temple, though she couldn't tell what type.

Her fingers flexed at her side, loosening the muscles purely on instinct for whatever might be coming their way.

Finally, they made it to the front door, which had been left wide open. Surely plants would have made their way inside were it not for the poisonous darkness that prevented anything from growing here.

Well... at least we know that all the animals can get inside, she stated, as close to a grumble as she got. Whoever had come here last had clearly not had much respect for history.

A long walkway led into the tomb, and although ornate markings covered the walls all around, she was struck by how... sparse it was.

She didn't know where the long tunnel would dump them out, but she could imagine that it was going to be somewhere near the center of the building.

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Amun merely nodded to the fact that they would find out. Either there was something there that was worth finding. Or there wasn't. Either way there was one advantage that had already came from this expedition. Amun had once again met Arla. He wasn't sure whether she would be interested in sharing some of her knowledge or not, but it was a step closer to having a teacher, or at least another mentor. Either one was worth the trip already.

"If animals can get in." Amun paused, thinking for a moment before finishing the sentence. "Would they be dangerous... more dangerous anyways, than out there?" He gestured back towards the jungle as the passed the threshold of the strangely dull yet shiny metal surface of the tomb. There was a long hallway that led inwards and the tomb was filled with darkness. Amun produced a glowrod, holding it aloft as they walked inside.

Soon they came to an antechamber, the room seemed bare from the tunnel except for the ornate markings that had covered the walls and continued into the antechamber from what they could see. Three passageways lay ahead of them, splitting away from the antechamber room in different directions. There was a faint scuffing sound that echoed as they grew closer, the sound of something moving. Amun looked at Arla as he signaled with his fingers that they weren't alone.

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It is... possible, she said. Even likely. It was, again, difficult to predict, but if any of these creatures were able to soak up the power of the Force that were here... oh yeah, that could be something.

Arla nodded as he motioned that they weren't alone, her eyes narrowing and naturally hunching over slightly as if stalking in the jungle despite the lack of foliage.

The moment she stepped into the room, it pounced. It was a huge, four-legged creature, covered in scales and with vicious fangs. Arla dove forward, the screaming warning of the Force the only reason it didn't simply squish and eviscerate her as she leapt into the main room.

They would both quickly discover that its hide was nearly impervious, a side effect of that very same Dark Side energy it had been sucking up.

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Amun drew his blaster pistol as Arla dropped into a hunter's posture as she stalked into the room. There was little warning as a huge four-legged creature suddenly hurtled at the woman who barely managed to dodge it in time. Amun raised his blaster and snapped off a shot that fizzled uselessly against the creature's scales, only succeeding in one thing.

Amun's blood ran cold as the creature turned it's gaze to focus on him, saliva dripping from it's vicious fangs. He dove as it leaped at him, rolling under the sweep of it's claws and just barely avoiding what was almost certain death. He came up out of the roll on the other side of the creature, inside the antechamber.

Of course now they were both trapped, the beast's scaled form filling most of the hallway to the exit. Amun pulled back the charging lever on the pistol and snapped another shot at the beast as it turned once more to face them, the supercharged bolt exploding harmlessly against the creatures face.

"Blaster's useless against it." Amun said as he holstered the thing. Fear and adrenaline pumped through his veins and they were both potent tools for survival, so long as he didn't give into panic and let the fear take over. Fear was best used as a tool, channeled into power to be used as a weapon or shield. He focused his mind and prepared to use that fear to draw on the darkside as the seemingly invulnerable beast prepared for it's next move.

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