Chapter 1

The Dark side rises

Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade walked through the dark, dreary, and dark scented halls of the old jedi temple. Skeletal remains of jedi with scorch marks on the edges of their bones littered the floor. Skeletons ranged from about six foot to three foot tall but since they were on the floor they looked long not tall. The dark side crept up and down the corridors circled the bones and swam away in the current of the force, than began moving around again. The further down that dark corridor they walked the more the dark side grew and moved. Luke looked down to the bones.

My father did this. Luke thought blankly. He was right his father did do this. And that was a long while ago to, the dark side should have grown weaker by now. But it felt stronger, how is that? They walked further still, then they stopped at the front of closed large metal doors. The dark side felt so strong here that Luke the most powerful jedi in the new order could not even sense the very contours of the hallway around him. Then the force whispered a warning.

Get away from the door!

Strangely it sounded like the voice of a woman. Luke and Mara looked at the door, Luke guessed she had heard the warning too. Then it happened, the door sprang up and a dark surge broke the steady force current. The force went crazy, objects flew out of the room passing the shocked jedi and landing on the skeletons with sickening crunches. Then the force current suddenly calmed.

"Luke what was that?" Mara asked Luke. Luke looked at her his face was calm but in the forced Mara actually sensed fear.

"Do you sense it Mara?" Luke asked.

" Do I sense what?"

" That Fear."

" Yes."

"Is it yours Mara?"

"No it yours!"

"No its... not."

"What then who"

Mara could not finish her sentence because out of the darkness of the room a blood red bar appeared, it hummed like a like light saber. Slowly it moved forward pointing down. Mara and Luke stepped back their hands tight on their saber hilts. Then the red bar came out of the door way and into the hall. Through the dim light Luke could see the outline of the thing that was holding the saber. He didn't need to though, he could sense it in the force and it reeked of the dark side. Fear surrounded it though, the fear they had sensed. The shadow raised the blood red saber into a Makashi battle gesture (similar to the one Count Dooku used to make). It clearly wanted to fight. As Luke activated his forest green saber, and Mara her deep violet one the fear evaporated instantly. Perhaps the things fear was that they would not fight, or perhaps something else. The shadow with the saber stepped forward just as Luke did but Mara stayed behind. She didn't move at all, then Luke sensed it an ancient dark side power able to stun people.

Luke put it aside. When you are a jedi you can not let distraction stop you. Luke went into his Ataru ready stance (Yoda's and Qui-gon's). The shadow angled its blade forward and cocked it high beside its unseen head. It was the true stance of all great sith ( Darth Sidious's in episode 3). Before Luke had his chance the dark one lunged forward his blade angled at Luke's chest. The thrust never met its target. Before the shadow could even look up Luke was in the air. He landed behind it and turned his blade going toward the shadow's head. But in a turn Luke could not truly see, the shadow parried. This fight was going and not getting anywhere. Luke had never faced anyone this fast, or this dangerously unpredictable. The shadow jumped and soared to the top of the pitch-black hallway. Immediately Mara moved striking with her saber at nothing but air.

"What was that!" She asked.

"Someone trained in the jedi arts."

"What are we going to do?"

"We are going to bring more jedi here."

Luke and Mara returned to the new jedi temple on Couruscant, which the center that was directly on its north pole. Luke twisted their ships yoke toward the east sky dock of the temple primarily used for jedi transports. Luke jumped out of it even before the ramp had lowered completely. He busted into the new council chamber with Mara close behind. Only two people occupied it. Kyle Katarn and his old apprentice whom had recently been put on the council a young human male Jaden Core. Kyle and Jaden were the only two people Luke needed to talk to.

"Luke, what is it?" Kyle asked turning to see him with an expression of slight amusement on his face from the way Luke had charged in. It wasn't quite like a jedi.

"Kyle we found someone in the temple, he was well trained in the jedi arts and the dark side surrounded him."

Kyle's amused expression quickly left his face, and Jaden turned a look of mild interest on his face as if what Luke said was a joke.

"Where you able to capture him?" Kyle asked.

"No but Kyle I need you to assemble a small strike team, I want to find out what he's doing and if there are more."

Kyle nodded and walked out Jaden close behind. Mara sat down as did Luke to meditate.

At the old jedi temple

The shadow made his way down the corridors to the northeast tower where his ancient sith master sat waiting. He sensed the jedi had left but he knew they would be coming back. He reached the only active turbo lift in the old place. He went up after 15 seconds it stopped. He stepped out of the opening doors. His master had hooked skulls of long dead jedi to the ceiling of this corridor that he now stood in as well as the room ahead. The shadow slowly walked to the room his nearly invisible robes swirling behind him. He entered the room several glow disks lit it. The walls were blackened by saber strikes from jedi defending themselves or Darth Vader murdering them. In the center of the room Sat an evil man covered in layers of ripped dark robes with several hoods covering his head. Barley any of it was exposed, but the parts that were, hideous. Scares, deep furrows, wrinkles, burns, and melted looking gray skin.

" Master Sidious, how might I serve you?" Asked the shadow bowing.

Yes Darth Sidious Master of Darth Vader was alive. But that story is a long one let's get started.