The Rule of Two

[Taz]

The Jedi's eyes shot to her male apprentice just in time to watch him fall to Virion's attack on his mind and body. The boy then fell to the floor lifeless as the self proclaimed Sith Lord stood over him with the young man's saber in hand. She wanted to cry, wanted to rush to the boy's aid but she could not. Aubrey would shower no mercy.

The Jedi quickly focused and used both hands to send a wave of force energy into Aubrey. The sheer amount of power would send the Sith reeling if not soaring away from the Master. "Run little one", the Jedi cried to her only other living Padawan before turning to engage the male Sith. Virion simply lifted a hand and split his fingers, bright orange/red sparks and lighting spider webbed the air and covered the Jedi Master.

"A little trick I picked up from my apprentice", Virion teased with his mechanical voice. As the Jedi buckled under the power. Placing the fallen Jedi's hilt at his side the Sith now freed his other hand and brought the full furry of the dark side over the woman with another wave of force lighting. His hunger for power blinded him to the threat of the other Jedi however.

The young female leapt to her Master rescue rather then flee to safety. Blade in hand and ready to kill the young Jedi attempted to slice the Sith Lord in half. But she would be little match for Aubrey as she recovered the Jedi Master's defensive attack.

 

[EmilyHuene]

The master stuck her quickly with a powerful Force push and Aubrey had to block with her left hand to stop herself from really feeling the blunt power of the strike. Her training helped her create a barrier to defend herself from some of the energy while also deflecting some of it as well.

She quickly recovered and readied herself against the master's next attack, but quickly saw her focus was not on her. She instead chose to turn against Virion, a foolish choice. It gave her all the more time to play with the girl.

Aubrey looked and saw the girl valiantly playing the hero. She ran at Virion with her saber ready. She had plenty of faith in her master's concentration, but chose to act anyway. With a burst of speed she bounded off the ground and lept for the girl. She switched her saber over to her left hand and swung downwards.

The girl of course would turn and block, exactly what Aubrey had in mind. The two sabers collided in sparks of light as Aubrey landed just in front of her now. At the same time, she grabbed the girl's wrist with her free hand then forcefully squeezed her own hand shut; the bones of the Padawan shattered in her metallic grip.

A deafening scream came from the girl as her bones were not just broken but pulverized. Needless to say she would also drop her saber. Aubrey kicked it away with her foot ad she watched the girl practically groveling on her knees. She held onto her arm tightly, not giving up her hold on the girl. All the while a sninister smirk on her face.

Her eyes moved from the Padawan to the master, making sure she heard her apprentice's scream. How could she not, really?

 

[Taz]

Virion was nearly ready to break off his assault on the Jedi Master and kill the younger as she closed to help her Master. But like a true partner and apprentice Aubrey to react to defend her Master, clashing with the woman just before she could strike at the Sith Lord.

As order the lady Sith managed to disarm and torture the young girl all while protecting her Master. The Padawan's hand was little more then flesh and meat with a bone powder filling. The pain was indescribable but the young woman did her best to voice the agony of it all. She had failed, failed to save her friend and to save her Master. More important she soon pay the ultimate price for failing herself.

None could see the look of sheer pleasure of Virion's face from under the mask. He bathed himself in the senses of fear and pain coming from the two remaining Jedi. This was not war, merely the powerful taking what they wished from the weak. Sworn enemy or no, another great war or not. Virion Mirrak was born and bred in the dark side, he would of done nothing different to quench his thirst for causing pain and agony. He was a Sith not by title but by action, and proudly considered the same of his apprentice and lover.

The Sith released the Jedi Master from the force lighting. She fell to the ground unable to feel anything but pain at this point. The screams of the Padawan continued to fill the ally as the Jedi used every last bit of strength and energy to turn her head and view her last living Padawan. The two women knew beyond a doubt that the time was near. The end would come soon.

"Let the force take you my child", the Master spoke softly behind the pain in her voice.

"Hmhmhm.....How noble Master Jedi, but a waste. You will join them soon enough", Virion mocked. Then called the force to stand the woman back on her knees and face the last living moments of her Padawan before turning his gaze to Aubrey. "Continue my little Fox".

 

[EmilyHuene]

Aubrey watched as her master finished off the master with his lightning. The fight was over. How sad. How pathetic. She almost felt sorry for them. Well, almost.

"Let the force take you my child"

"Hmhmhm.....How noble Master Jedi, but a waste. You will join them soon enough...Continue my little Fox"

She would smile at her master and then look to the Jedi. She could feel the hatred trying to crawl its way out from her core. With training and virtue the woman had likely taught herself to not feel hatred. But Aubrey could sense it. Now that she was dying, and she would witness both her beloved Padawan murdered before her eyes...there would be hatred.

Aubrey kept her eyes on the master as she maneuvered the woman around to face her master. Both woman now on their knees at the mercy of the Sith. Aubrey clipped her saber back to its holster on her back freeing up her good arm. She then proceeded to close her fingers in a tight grasp as she willed the Force to mimic the same action around the girl's throat. Aubrey would let her suffer slowly. She'd steal the life right out from the Padawan and likewise a hole from the center of the master's heart.

 

[Taz]

Virion stood behind the Jedi Master as he held her in the force. The two of them looking on as Aubrey Fox snatched the life out of the last Jedi Padawan. She gave a brave face at first, but soon enough would struggle to stay alive. To the Sith Lord she was flopping like fish out of water. To the last of the Jedi it was the very thing she was trying to avoid by running from the war.

The Master Jedi was cry quiet tears of pain and suffering as the last breath left the young woman before her eyes. Life and the force were gone from the Padawan. Virion gave no snappy quip, in fact said nothing but only looked on with pride in his once student. The Sith then put the hilt of the his fallen Jedi's blade to the woman's back and ignited the weapon.

The Jedi took a gasp as the plasma blade burst from her chest. There was no fight left in her. The young ones she intended to save were now gone. War was taking the galaxy as it had for thousands of years before. The Master slumped over as she allowed the force to take her, to free her from the pain and the suffering of this physical form.

Virion took the saber from the woman's back, letting her body fall to the cold ground. "We're done here my apprentice let us return to the ships and continue on", his digital voice commanded. The Sith Lord then reached his hand out over the ally of dead to take the hand of his Empress and return to the ship.

 

[EmilyHuene]

Aubrey held tight to the girl as she struggled pitifully to fend her off. It was too sad to watch, and the power difference was overkill. The child was never a threat to the redhead. Their suffering was their punishment for even thinking they could win. When it was all over, Aubrey dropped the girl to the ground and left her there. It was cruel, but it was life.

"We're done here my apprentice let us return to the ships and continue on"

Aubrey would now her head in recognition to his words and then call the girl's saber to her hand. She wiped off the blood from her metal arm on the Padawan's clothes, and then walked over to her master. Before taking his hand, she offered the blade to him. He was the one who enjoyed keeping prizes. She'd only taken Aeryun's green staff because he told her too. She was glad she did since her old ones were destroyed, but that was just luck. She didn't expect she'd ever use these sabers now.

Taking his hand in hers she enclosed her fingers around his hand and let the connection between them grow stronger. Their power was indescribable. Aubrey felt like a god at his side. They could take whatever they pleased now. She would make his kingdom for him and rule happily at his side. That was the power they possessed. She did not fear him. She did not envy him. Never would she betray her love for him. Never would she face her blade at him.

 

[Taz]

A few short hours later Virion's fleet would depart the Terminus system. From there they were at the edge and beyond of known space. Geltea was the last known planet and on most galactic maps it did not even exist. It was far from the great war, far from the concerns of the Empire or the Rebellion and all of the other factions who would care to challenge his plan.

It would be a few short days before his fleet would enter the Geltea system and the planets orbit. The Sith Lord would pass the time in the training room of the flag ship. Aubrey's mother Erica had managed to turn the room into something of a temple. Here Virion would call Aubrey to him, not with words but through the force.

The red headed Sith would find the Sith Lord at the center of the room. Surrounded by objects of dark Sith magic and force focusing crystals, along with candles and a small forge. Virion himself was stripped down to simple pants from his robes. He was floating over the forge in a meditative position as parts of lightsaber hilts hover around him.

As the lady Sith looked on she would watch her Master use the force to pull two dark red synthetic crystals from the forge and incase them in custom hilt pieces. A hybrid combination of wood and metal far more advanced then those the Sith had before. Once finished the Sith used the force to ignite both weapons and moved them about in combative form, before adding the sabers of the two fallen Jedi.

The Sith then put all four weapons away at his side and stood from his hovering position to touch his feet to the floor. Virion would then address his lover. " The time is near my little fox. We will be over our planet within a days time. Ready yourself and anything you will need for the next step in our plan. Together we will set fire to this world and carve out our kingdom on he backs of the dead and the oppressed."

 

[EmilyHuene]

Aubrey watched her master silently. Her mind was calm and empty, filled only with the sight of him. She let the Force flowing off him connect with her as well and their essence melded together. She could feel him holding each of the hilt pieces and also the crystals he'd spent hours molding. When they came together they were more than just weapons, they were extensions of his soul.

" The time is near my little fox. We will be over our planet within a days time. Ready yourself and anything you will need for the next step in our plan. Together we will set fire to this world and carve out our kingdom on he backs of the dead and the oppressed."

There was no need to think or plan, so she would simply bow to him and say, "I have everything I need, my master. I am ready to make your dream a reality. You have trained me to the fullest of my potential. I am your weapon. As long as I am by your side we cannot lose."

Sure she could use new sabers, maybe some new armor since hers had been destroyed, but these things did not matter to her. She was confident in her abilities to defend herself, and she'd taken quiet a liking to the stolen Jedi saber. Green jems or not, she liked the way it felt in her hands. However, if he were to command her to make new weapons, she would not object. She'd simply deconstruct the Jedi's and improve on it. She'd make new crystals. Those would be first. Maybe change out some of the metals in the hilt to make them stronger.

 

[Taz]

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Virion's three ship fleet came into orbit over the planet of Galtea. The Arrestor class Frigate immediately dropped into lower orbit over perhaps the only major city on the largest of the two cotenants on the world. Once over the city and well above the cloud line, the ship began to block all long and short range communication signals. Creating a complete blackout of the planet from the rest of the system.

The warship then opened fire with it's turbo lasers unleashing and orbital bombardment. No direct targets, no military positions. It was a shock and aww attack. Fire rained down from the sky exploding entire buildings and vaporizing escaping civilians. It would carry on for several hours, showering death and destruction.

Virion would look on from the bridge of the Patrol Cruiser happily taken from the dead Erica Ra'gul. Fully armored and covered in his Sith Lord robes. The holo-projector a 3D blue image of the laser storm of the city. With a push of his finger on the hovering image The Sith Lord unleashed a wave of droid piloted tie fighters and bombers.

The rain of fire would suddenly stop and the sky would open over the city. It was only a brief calm before the storm. The tie squad few in like a plague of locusts. Ripping apart any aerial resistance they may try to take to the sky.

Virion would then open a secured channel to the Spear of the Sith, his personal war ship a Dagger class Corvette. "Begin the invasion my Empress, let nothing and no one stand in your way. Our rule over this world starts now"

 

[EmilyHuene]

Aubrey had been waiting impatiently for the attack to start. For hours her master's massive flag ship rained destruction upon the planet. She tried training to keep her mind off of the fact she had no part in what was happening, but that didn't settle her mind. Had she been more of a Jedi she could have sat there and meditated, but Aubrey wasn't one for calm mind and soul. When she heard the signal for the fleet to drop down she left the training room and took a quick shower to clean herself up. It wouldn't be much longer.

Finally, dressed in her black armor, complete with her stolen saber staff, Aubrey made her way to the front of the Corvette and watched the battle from a hologram projector. It wasn't much longer when Virion appeared before her and she gave him a small bow of her head.

"Begin the invasion my Empress, let nothing and no one stand in your way. Our rule over this world starts now"

"Is there anyone left?" she would respond with her usual sarcastic quip. She then shut off the link before he could reprimand her and would begin barking orders at the lieutenants on board to lower the ship down. Everything after that was a blur. They were landing. She was running. She was killing.

A small resistance had made a last minute fort deep within the cit. While their fighters took on the Fox tie ships, Aubrey led a larger group on the ground. Her green saber spun like a tool of death itself as she claimed any life who tried to stand before her. The Fox troopers eagerly fought alongside the red-haired demon, but there wasn't much to do. Aubrey was itching for a fight and she would get one. With her black armor and red hair the girl looked more and more like her mother. And now, while even using a double staff, she looked almost identical. She was a blur of motion and to a few of the veteran troopers she had almost become as such.

The resistance put up very little of a fight. Even without Aubrey's help the troops could have broken through their lines with ease. It wasn't entirely their fault. The battle had come so suddenly and no one could have turned civilians into warriors in such a short time. Regardless, Aubrey would show no mercy. Unless her master instructed her to cease fire, she'd continue on with her rampage until the last child dropped. Any soul left alive would be a rebel at heart. Their new world, his dream, would start from pure beginnings.