Authors' Note: I am glad everyone's enjoying the story so far and I am happy to be bringing you the next chapter. I know a few people have been asking me about a pairing but honestly I am still trying to decide who I want to go with. I have already decided that it's not going to be anyone from earth, right now Harry doesn't want anything to do with his home world so it has to be someone from the star wars universe. Right now I am leaning towards pairing him up with Ahsoka or maybe Mara Jade, I also don't want it to be Leia since that would really fuck up a lot of the expanded universe story lines. But if you do have a suggestion than go ahead and leave it in the comments and I will take a look at it.

Ch. 2 The Power Within

10 BBY, Coruscant, Imperial Palace

Sidious awoke within his chambers inside the imperial palace of Coruscant, Sidious grinned to himself, it had been nearly 8 years since the downfall of the Jedi order and he still awoke every morning with a smile on his face. Everything the Sith had been working towards for the past 1,000 years had come to fruition through him, the Jedi had been almost completely annihilated by order 66 and to add insult to injury he had converted their precious temple into his own personal palace and now he had access to all of the information that they hid from the rest of the galaxy to learn at his leisure. The smile that he wore melted away and was replaced by a snarl as his thoughts of victory turned to his greatest disappointment.

Vader, Sidious considered him his greatest failure, when he first took Anakin Skywalker as his latest apprentice he was in awe of the raw potential that Anakin had possessed, but after his battle with Kenobi he had become a shell of his former self. Now Vader could barely be called a man, more machine than human, while an effective tool, Vader would never be more than that, unless Sidious found a new apprentice, the rule of two would be broken and since Vader's cybernetics could be deactivated at any time and he did not have enough power with the force to overthrow him, Vader's only chance for succession would be to wait for Palpatine to die of old age and he would rather fight the jedi all over again than let the Sith become weaker.

Exiting his room, Sidious was accompanied by two of his imperial guards to his meditation chamber. The door opened with a HISS! The two guards waited outside as the door shut behind him and Sidious knelt on the ground and began to delve within the dark side of the force. Spreading his senses out Sidious was able to stretch his perception to the edges of the galaxy and begun to feel every life form on every planet in HIS galaxy. Then Sidious felt something odd coming from the outer rim, it was faint but he could sense a dark presence coming from somewhere he could not locate. Frowning, Sidious concentrated on the dark entity and was able to locate it,"Korriban?" Sidious muttered to himself, it felt like something was growing on the graveyard world in power, he would need to investigate this himself.

Rising from the floor, Sidious began a long walk to the entrance of the palace with his guards trailing behind him. Exiting the temple, Sidious walked to his personal shuttle and walked past the imperial officer waiting for him without even a glance, "Emperor Palpatine-," Sidious merely gave him his order and walked inside the shuttle," officer instruct Lord Vader to meet us on Korriban, tell him this is a direct order from me." "I-, of course my liege, I will instruct my men to begin preparations immediately." Sidious frowned to himself, the force was telling him something was about to happen and it would change his plans forever.

3 Days Later

Harry walked deeper and deeper into the valley and looked in amazement as the strange temples became grander and grander the closer he got to the source of the power he sensed emanating from the valley. Harry saw something glint in the sunlight and walked over to a collapsed statue that had broken off halfway down up from the base. Walking up close, the features of the statue had long ago been worn away from such long exposure to the elements when he saw the thing that caught his attention. It was a piece of metal halfway buried underneath the red sand, using his hands, Harry began to dig up the metal and was able to reveal that it was actually a knife. The blade was curved and was about 3 inches long and looked as if it was still brand new even though it looked as though it had been buried here for a long time.

Grabbing the knife's handle, Harry touched the tip of the finger to the edge of the blade and hissed in pain as he pulled away his finger and saw it had begun to bleed. Even though it had been there for some time, the blade was still incredibly sharp, deciding to keep the knife with him, Harry continued his journey to the center of the valley. After another hour of walking, Harry had become incredibly thirsty and hungry after his journey and knew he was still nowhere near the center. Harry tried to use his power to teleport several times since arriving in this strange place yet it had failed for some reason, even if he wanted to leave this place he couldn't.

There were several paths leading up to the cliff face and several dead, brown bushes and thorny blackened trees strewn about the area. Sitting down on a large stone, Harry felt exhausted, the sun was beginning to dip behind the horizon and soon it would be dark out and he would begin to lose his way. Snapping back to attention heard something approaching him from behind and Harry turned around and saw the first living thing he had seen since arriving in this strange desert. It's skin was a dark blue color and looked like leather and it looked to be as big as a bear, it was standing on four legs that ended in feet that had three long sharp claws. It had two long horns protruding from the top of it's head and went down it's back and had a long snout that had rows of sharp teeth and two angry orange eyes that watched him hungrily.

Harry turned around and saw two more of the strange creatures had approached him from behind while the other one had distracted him. The one that had first caught his attention began to walk towards him and started to growl at him. Harry dodged out of the way as the large predator jumped at him intending to tear his throat out, Harry let his senses guide him and dropped to the ground allowing the animal to sail over his head. One of the other animals charged him and Harry decided to take a risk and jumped upwards and was surprised when he flew over the head of the starving animal by several feet and landed on it's back, it tried to shake him off but Harry grabbed hold of one of its large horns and held on for dear life as it started bucking and flailing around. Harry grabbed hold of his knife and thrust it into the animal's skull and it fell to the ground and twitched several times before lying still.

Smiling in victory, Harry had forgotten about the other two monsters and was surprised when he was knocked to the ground and pain exploded across his chest,"Fuck!" Rolling out of the way as the beast took another swipe at him and sand managed to enter his wound, agitating it. Focusing on his pain, he felt the power of the valley flow through him and increased the strength of his powers, he launched a storm of lightning at the closest animal and it burned it into a charred husk almost instantly. Next he used his telekinesis to throw one of the trees at the last remaining animal and it shattered on impact.

Roaring more in anger than pain, the beast charged at him, Harry held out his hands towards a boulder and lifted with considerable effort and hurled it at his approaching enemy. The rock crushed the beast's skull and the majority of its bones leaving it as a crumpled, bloody mess on the ground. Falling to his knees, Harry's chest and shredded shirt were drenched in blood and his hair was matted to his face with sweat. Taking off his ruined shirt and pulling his knife out of the head of the beast, he wiped the knife off on his pants, Harry used it to cut his shirt into strips and tied them across his chest as makeshift bandages. Harry was about to pass out from exhaustion right there but the smell of cooked meat motivated him to walk over to the burnt corpse and cut into it, tearing off chunks of bloody, cooked flesh and devouring it, the meat was dark and bitter but to him it tasted like the best thing in the world after not eating anything for the past three days. After cutting off three more large chunks of meat and eating them, Harry stood up and wiped the blood and grease off his face and continued to walk, wincing in pain from his injuries.

Looking back up at the sky the sun had already sunk behind the horizon and it was quickly getting darker out. Deciding to take a risk, Harry walked to the nearest temple and walked inside, luckily the building's entrance was not blocked off by a stone like the first temple he arrived in. Not daring to walk in deeper than the main entryway, Harry lied down on the cold stone floor and used his hands as a pillow. The wounds on his chest itched but he dared not remove the makeshift bandages in case he started bleeding again. After a few minutes, his eyes drifted shut and he lost consciousness once again and entered into another nightmare.

Harry looked around his dreamscape but there was nothing he could see around him, everything around him was black and he could not hear anything."So the boy has finally arrived," Harry turned around and fear gripped his heart, a woman's voice appeared out of thin air but he could not locate anyone."Hello?" Harry called out but the woman did not reply to him,"who are you?" The woman continued to speak and Harry doubted that the woman could even hear him,"a force sensitive child on this graveyard world all alone yet still not touched by the Jedi or the Sith?" Harry turned around again as he heard the voice from behind him and saw that the world around him had changed, he was back again at the Dursley's home, watching the shadowy version of himself murder his family one by one, the woman's voice drowned out the sound of the screams and the rain inside his head," ah! You have already touched the dark side of the force haven't you? You have felt it's power, its' fury, yet you can only use it in times of desperation. But yet something else lay dormant underneath it, something that is not the power of the force." Harry turned around again and barely caught a glimpse of the silhouette of a woman yet could not make out her features,"who are you!" Harry called out to the woman and this time she replied," I was once many things, a teacher, a ruler, a killer. I was once master to two of the greatest Jedi to ever exist, who sacrificed everything to destroy the Sith. Then I was once the teacher of hundreds of dark Jedi, instructing them on the ways of the force on a dead world. I was redeemed by my greatest student at the time of my death thousands of years ago after I had once held the fate of the universe in my hands and was denied the peace of joining the force for my crimes. I was once the lady of betrayal and master of knowledge. Now awaken, my apprentice."

Harry awoke with a gasp and jumped to his feet looking around for any sign of the woman that spoke to him in his dream. He noticed that there was a thick fog surrounding him that blocked the view of both the entrance and the tunnel into the tomb and what stepped out of the fog caused him to jump backwards and draw his knife, it was an old woman yet something about her was off, he noticed that every few seconds her skin would change from a naturally pale color to a ghostly white and her nails and lips would shift from white to black, she also wore brown and tan colored robes that would shift to a deep black. Her eyes were obscured by a long hood that cast a shadow over her face and Harry feared what lay underneath,"stay back!"

Without uttering a word, the elderly woman shifted to her darker form and held out her left hand and the knife went flying out of his grip and stopped several inches away from her open palm. Without any difficulty whatsoever, she crushed the knife into a ball of crumpled metal leaving him stunned. She also possessed the same power that he does, and he was surprised and let out a startled yelp as he slammed into the wall, approaching him the woman began to walk towards keeping her palm extended towards him."Listen and listen well boy, you are my apprentice and I am your master, I will not tolerate such insubordination from you." Grunting in pain as the pressure that she was applying to his body increased Harry managed to choke out several words,"What do you want from me?" The woman let go of her hold over him and he fell to the ground breathing in deep lungfuls of air,"I only require your obedience boy, now listen carefully I am only going to tell you this once. You possess a very rare gift that I can use to my advantage, you are a force-sensitive and I am going to instruct you on how to use it."

Confused, Harry decided to voice his questions to her,"you mean my powers are caused by this force thing?" Annoyed the woman replied,"not a force, THE force, the force is an energy field that surrounds everything in our universe, every planet, star, and galaxy was created through the will of the force and those of us gifted with the ability to manipulate it can do incredible things such as telekinesis or produce lightning from our fingertips, it even has the ability to create life from nothing if one is strong enough. Now save your questions until I am finished, I am going to make you an offer and if you refuse you will die, do I make myself clear?" Harry nodded his head,"good, then listen to me, you will succeed where my other apprentices have failed. You will learn everything I know of the sith and the dark side and become my greatest achievement, you will become the living incarnation of the dark side for the time of the final battle to determine the fate of this galaxy. Now you must hurry to the center of this valley, the dark one is coming and we do not have much time before he finds you. The mist began to disappear and the old woman began to become more and more translucent but before she fully vanished Harry called out,"wait! At least tell me your name!" The woman completely faded away and for a split second Harry feared he had been too late when he heard the woman's voice whispering in his ear,"you may know me as Darth Traya."

4 days later

Harry was on the verge of death when he finally arrived at the center of the valley and had resorted to using his powers to survive or he should say the force as Traya had told him back in the tomb, ever since his first encounter with his master she had not appeared to him or even spoke to him since he restarted his journey. Now at the center of the dark valley, the air was buzzing with the power of the dark side and bolstered his resolve to keep going. Now after a week of walking, Harry had reached the nexus of energy and discovered two rows of large, grand dark temples built into the sides of the canyon with 30 foot tall statues of robed men and women made of obsidian standing in front of them and Harry nearly jumped out of his skin when Traya's voice entered his mind," welcome to the valley of the dark lord's my apprentice, now enter the temple in front of you, inside you will find a powerful weapon that will help us." Nodding his head, Harry entered the large temple and shivered from the dark energy emanating from the tomb and he feared what waited for him inside.

Dreshdae Spaceport, Korriban 3:00 AM.

Sidious was greeted by a squadron of stormtroopers bearing blue markings on their white battle armor showing that they belonged to the company of 501st legion or better known as Vader's Fist, the best storm troopers in the imperial army, and leading them was his own apprentice Darth Vader. Bowing to the emperor, Vader greeted his master with thinly veiled contempt,"greetings master, I have followed your command and met you here. Now what is so important that it must interrupt my personal duties?" Walking through the rows of troops, Palpatine reached his apprentice and Vader fell into line next to him as he continued to make his way through the ramshackle settlement," do not try and pretend that you do not feel the power growing here Lord Vader, something has caused a stirring within the force and I intend to find out what has happened here." Vader stopped in his tracks and addressed Palpatine," you believe a dark Jedi is trying to learn the ways of the dark side here?"

Sidious shook his head," I do not think so, this power showed up out of nowhere here several days ago, and whatever it is, it is growing stronger so I intend to find out what it is and claim it for the Sith before someone else does." After another few seconds, Vader continued to follow his master until they reached the edge of the small settlement and found two stormtroopers standing next to several transport shuttles. Before Sidious stepped aboard the largest one Vader called out to him," and if it is a dark Jedi?" Sidious turned back to him and simply said,"then they will submit or die." Without another word the emperor stepped inside and Vader stood there contemplating on his master's decision before entering inside after him.

Harry stumbled through the darkness letting Traya's voice guide him through the traps and dead ends and continued deeper and deeper inside,"good, now take three steps to the left and continue forward." Stumbling Harry barely kept himself upright and accidentally landed on a trap plate and it sunk into the ground. Jumping backwards, Harry avoided being impaled by several large metal spikes by an inch and landed on his arse as adrenaline pumped through his veins as he realized how close he had come to being killed.

Rising to his feet, his heart rate began to slow down and he continued making his way through the tomb. After nearly another hour of walking he had arrived within a large chamber and was surprised when the torches on the walls flared to life with blue fire, illuminating the large room. In the center of the chamber laid a large, ornate, golden sarcophagus that was drenched in dark side energy. Next to him, Traya materialized and instructed him on the next step,"good now you must face the challenge that comes next, whatever you see or hear you must conquer it." Harry didn't have the time to question what she meant when the she and the entire room disappeared and he was engulfed in darkness.

Suddenly the scenery shifted and he realized he was back on earth in London yet something was terribly wrong, people lay dead in the streets and buildings had been destroyed or were burning. He saw soldiers in white armor being slaughtered as they tried buy time for civilians to escape by holding back an army of tall humanoid monsters with white skin and wearing black armor that seemed to shift and move as it was damaged by red beams of energy the white soldiers were firing at them, Harry assumed these things to be some type of alien species and their bodies seemed to be heavily mutilated and they were also carrying strange staffs that spat out acid or morphed into sharp whips or swords or spears.

Looking up as he heard an explosion occur above them he saw what looked to be an all out war occurring above them as strangely shaped advanced fighters were being attacked by what looked like asteroids shooting out yellow beams of energy while the fighters shot green energy. But what was more amazing was the gigantic triangular shaped ships fighting off larger versions of the meteors and seemed to be failing as debris littered the space around them from other destroyed ships while the enemy ships seemed to be repairing themselves.

The terrain shifted again to a castle that was burning as people in black robes were fighting off more of the aliens but for every one the humans killed the aliens killed ten humans until the people were eventually overwhelmed. The terrain shifted again but this time he seemed to be standing on the bridge of one of the large ships as he saw a man with black hair talking to a blue hologram of a man in a uniform," my lord we cannot win! Our fleets are being decimated and our ground troops have all been slaughtered! We must pull back to the core worlds before it is too late!" The black haired man slammed a gloved fist onto the table and said." No! We cannot afford to lose this world! We just have to hold out a little longer for the republic to send reinforcements." An explosion rocked the ship and the man turned and looked directly at Harry yet did not address him. Harry turned as well and saw the aliens had boarded the ship and had managed to reach the bridge, the hologram shut off as another explosion rocked the ship and the black armored man unclipped a metal tube from his belt and pressed a button on it and a blade of dark blue plasma erupted from the end and the man charged at his attackers roaring in fury.

Again Harry's surroundings changed and he found himself on board the bridge of another ship yet this looked different, everything looked like it was made out of rock instead of metal and was completely devoid of life when he heard a voice behind him and Harry jumped back as he saw the darker version of himself from his nightmares. The dark clone smiled showing blackened rotting teeth and said,"you will fail, you will die alone with no one to love you or give you hope with enemies surrounding you. Then the galaxy will fall and become slaves to your enemies, but there is still a chance for it to be saved Harry. All you have to do is let me in, give in and I will crush this threat and the galaxy will pay for everything it has done to us! Just give in to the dark side." Holding out his hand, the clone waited for his response and Harry was tempted for a split second to allow him in. Shaking the thoughts from his head, Harry snarled and gathered up the dark side of the force and used it to grab the darker version of himself and slam him into the ground, then not waiting for a moment unleashed a storm of purple lightning onto the clone and didn't stop until the clone stopped screaming and his body turned to ash. Harry panted in exhaustion as the anger drained away from him and he heard the voice of the clone within his ear,"you will regret this boy, you will doom the galaxy with your folly, and this time Harry passed out as the darkness closed in around him.

When Harry opened his eyes he realized he was laying on the floor of the temple and stood back up and looked around noticing that Traya had disappeared once more. But Harry did realize one thing was different about the temple, the lid of the coffin had slid open and he decided to walk over to it to see what lay inside. Walking over to the coffin Harry saw a large skeleton and within its hand lay a small, red, glowing pyramid covered in strange alien runes.

Picking up the artifact Harry felt a surge of power upon contact after a few minutes trying to figure out what he was supposed to do with it when Traya spoke to him inside his mind."Channel the dark side into it and the knowledge will reveal itself to you." Deciding to follow her advice, the pyramid opened and a small red hologram appeared before him," this is the personal holocron of Marka Ragnos, dark lord of the Sith empire, this holocron contains the history and philosophy of the sith and all of my accumulated knowledge of the dark side over the course of my life". Grinning to himself, Harry prepared to begin learning but was forced to close the holocron when he sensed a large group of people had entered the temple without him noticing, but what worried him most was the dark power he sensed accompanying these people.

Grabbing the holocron and stuffing it into his pocket, Harry stalked through the temple towards the approaching enemy forces. Walking slowly Harry used the force to locate his enemies and snuck through a long dark corridor and began to hear a voice of a man," Lord Vader has ordered us to find and apprehend the force sensitive within this temple and to bring them before the emperor, now spread out and find them!" Slowly creeping towards the closest intruder, Harry used the force to quickly snap the man's neck but the sound of cracking bone and the thud of a body hitting the ground revealed his location and he was forced to dodge out of the way as a hail of red light struck where he had just been standing and Harry used the force to slam two men into the wall behind them, cracking the stone behind them and as they were falling Harry pulled what looked like to be a pistol and aimed it at the chest of another soldier and fired and as the man crumpled to the ground Harry realized that they wore the uniforms of the people in his vision. Harry was shocked out of his contemplation as he felt a searing pain in his right arm and he dropped the pistol that he was holding, then realization struck him that he had been shot.

Roaring in a mixture of pain and anger Harry threw his left palm towards the source of the attack and watched in amusement as the remaining troops began to flail wildly as blood red flames began to engulf their bodies, once they stopped struggling and fell to the ground Harry knelt down and grabbed the fallen pistol with his left hand and continued making his way though the temple, intending to find who was leading these people and kill them for intruding upon his place of study.

After another few minutes of sneaking through the halls of the temple and eventually reached the main atrium and saw the room had been lit up by glow rods and saw that the majority of the troops had set up here and what the power he felt emanating from one person he could not see was staggering. Instead of trying to fight his way through the room Harry tried to sneak through and was surprised when a beam of red light lit up in the center of the room and heard a deep terrifying voice echo around the room," the boy is here."

Cursing to himself, Harry ran back into the temple yet he only sensed the powerful dark presence following him. Harry tried desperately to escape but lost his way and became completely lost, Harry ran through another hall and found himself back in the burial chamber. Knowing he could not escape, Harry turned around and decided to face his enemy head on. Turning Harry felt all the confidence drain away from him when he saw what he faced. Illuminated in red light, it was an extremely tall man clad in black armor and cape with a horrifying mask with black eyes and he let out deep, booming breaths." There is no hope in running boy."

In an act of desperation Harry charged while shooting at him with his pistol hoping to at least distract the demonic figure and dash past him but instead was surprised when he felt something collide with the back of his head knocking him unconscious. Picking up the boy, the black clad man through him over his shoulder, making his way back through the temple. His master would like to see the boy for himself, after arriving at the entrance of the temple, Vader was surprised to see his master waiting for him at the entrance." Good work Lord Vader, I do hope the boy is still alive," Vader nodded his head in confirmation," the boy will live." Sidious replied, then load our guest onto the shuttle, it is going a long trip to Coruscant." Without replying Vader exited the temple and Sidious smiled to himself, the storm troopers had located a squad that had been completely decimated, the boy had potential to be a useful tool and he was going to make sure he would reach his potential. Following his apprentice out, Sidious laughed, this boy might even have the potential to replace Vader one day.