A shadow suddenly appeared oher side of Nizzal, and with a quient took off the not funing lightsaber hilt from Nizzal’s belt and threw it towards the shadowy form of that Sith.

  The Sith cautiously caught the thrown saber hilt and looked at the form of Lily, who interrupted the current stalemate.

  -It was that thing that brought us here. I tried to activate it and then the hing we knew was standing here. If you want to punish someone, do it with me, a my friends go peacefully.

  She stated this in a clear, mostly ral voice, which was eerily simir to the ohat the HK-47 models teo favor.

  The man now looked at the glinting saber hilt with an ued gaze. He seemed to be fused.

  -… Are you mog me? I have stated that my master was the one whht you here… this saber was merely a tool in the process, a lure…

  Souhe apathetic voice.

  -…

  -…

  -…

  -… Ah! I… ugh I see… sorry…

  Stated Lily while shrinking back a bit, in disfort. She must have really missed that part…

  -…

  -…

  -…

  The man suddenly turned off his saber stuff and started to move backwards towards the shadows while speaking.

  -Still, I admire your self sacrifice, foolish little o is a mark of a true Jedi. To suffer so willingly in pce of your friends. In the end it is a vain effort, but I admire your ce he less. You remind me of someone from my past. Someohat I will eventually crush along with you.

  There was an eery silence as the man finally disappeared into the darkness. His voice was the only thing that we could hear, and it always came from different dires. As if he became oh the darkness itself which was filling this pce to the brim.

  -Let’s see how far your loyalty goes towards a friend that was willing to die in your pce.

  Souhe sadistic voice.

  -I promise you, on my name as Darth Maul, that the ohat kills this pitiful existence will be allowed to leave this cave alive, without any harm.

  Hearing this, Lily seemed to blink, then turowards us with a flicted expression.

  Kalifa was enraged by the very idea. Thanks to her fury, she now mao e back from her initial shock. And screamed at the bastard hiding in the shadows.

  -YOU! You fug coward; I hope you die! We would urn against our own friends, so you stick up that idea in your ass! Humph!

  The shadows seemed to move around us as the darkness grew thicker.

  Then the man’s voice appeared again.

  -Ah, the feisty one speaks once again… good, let yer grow, it will allow you to strike me down… but it is not enough yet, no… far from it.

  Silence filled the cave for a short time, then the voice appeared from a different dire.

  -Do you know why I didn’t aim that earlier lighting at you, even when you were the i one? Hmm?

  Kalifa didn’t answer, she could only groueeth in silence, while standio us, still holding onto Barriss, as if trying to defend her.

  -It was because I wao see you despair, to witness your own weakness and the result of your stupidity, which caused the death of your friend.

  -SHUT UP YOU SICK BASTARD!

  Shouted Kalifa, with growing anger.

  -Hahaha… You know what, I won’t kill you… I will make you my personal sve. Master surely will allow me to have a pet of my own… Especially if I bring ohat it has sought for so long. First I will break your mind, then your body will follow, and when you will beg me to let you serve, I will discard you deserving to the trash that you truly are. That is… if you don’t kill your friend before I get to you… hehe…

  The effects of those words have visibly shaken Kalifa. Her body was now shaking with both fury and fear. Following the spoken words, she gowards Lily, who immediately stepped back a few times. Distang herself instinctively.

  Witnessing this rea awoke Kalifa from the terrible images that were already haunting her mind, and she reached out with her hand saying…

  -Wait, it’s not what I…

  -FOOL!

  Souhe deep voice, as a red bde ignited behind Lily who had stepped away from our small circle towards the edge of darkhat surrounded us on all parts.

  She turned around, sensing the danger ing from her blind spot. As, there was no more time. She could only raise her arm and one of her strange appendages in self defence.

  Surprisingly, the hot red beam of molten psma didn’t cut through the bde of the appendage. As Barriss and the others expected, it bounced off of it in a cloud of sparks, as if it met with a saber bde.

  It was immediately followed by an instinctive attack from Lily, utiliziher appendage pierg into the darkness, but it was tered by the evidently surprised yet still much superior oppo.

  Lily quickly moved back towards us, as she now realized where the true danger lied.

  -Hmmm… such a curious being you are… To have a pair of limbs that even repel lightsabers… I might still keep your body in the end, it might provide useful ingredients in alchemical rituals. Thoughts to eain, for ter…

  The mention of being used as some mere ingredient in some ritual had struck Lily where it hurt. She gred at the darkness, while her bdes started to vibrate, creating a high frequenoise around her.

  -Unfortunately, I am not in a mood to eain you, still I will admit that you have at least one formidable warrior among yourself even if she is a bit soft in the head... Jedi are irely pathetic, after all. Who would have thought?

  He chuckled loudly.

  -And there is one, from the aloof Grey Order… but that shouldn’t be surprising. Isn’t that the truth, Grand-mas-ter?

  He spoke the st word while stretg out every sylble.

  -Should I wele you with a bow of my head? After all, it is not an everyday occurrehat you gift us with the presence of your esteemed self. Are you surprised? Did you really think that we didn’t notice your putrid existence crawling around our aombs? It was merely an ued surprise that you actually did something. After all, you have been docile hidden in your secret tombs, or using those belonging to the Sith for so many years now. What happened with your cockroach like mentality? No matter... I guess it is time to remind your kind of where your i lies.

  The man paused for dramatic effect, then tinued. His voice disappearing, then reappearing in a different pce more.

  -I could kill yht now, but it would be a lot more amusing to see you despair, struggling to survive. It will be a treat to enjoy, and siphon upon your tender fear, and slowly raising terror, which you will surely develop soon enough. I look forward, witnessing the slow erosion of such pure spirits as yours, and when you are about to succumb to the maion of your deepest terrors, I will e to reap your souls a upon your tender flesh.

  With that, the dark presence disappeared from the hall. Only leaving a weak, whispering echo traveling through the tunnels.

  -Go now, my sweet little jedi, run, fight, scream, then tremble all you want. You will never leave this cursed p alive. You will find nothing more than unending despair in a garden filled with long fotten tombs, surrounded by red sand in an endless desert and dry rocks. Tombs of the long dead yet powerful lords who once ruled this nd, now degeed to mere shadows, stretched over the span of thousands of years spent in their stubborn sileombs which you will be a part of soon enough. Let me wele you to Korriban, Korriban, Korriban… riban... ban... an...

  The st word echoed across the thousand year old dark halls, like a terrible knowledge whispered into the ears of those who existed without hope.

  The abrupt and deadly enter came to an end with that sentence, a every single one of us trembling in our boots. Each of us was deeply disturbed, each for a different reason. As we were left in a dark chamber, gng at each-other with a suspicious gaze.

  Nizzal immediately realized that the cursed Sith, had successfully mao pnt the seeds of doubt between them… as he told some of their secrets, while also pying with their minds, that if they kill one of their own, they will be freed.

  It was a ridiculous assumption that the Sith Lord would let any of them leave, on his own accord… She know that, as she couldn’t be sure, that her mentally less experienced and clearly terrified friends know this as well…

  After all, desperate people teo it stupid acts, and the bastard even told them that she was a Grandmaster… showing that she had already mislead them once…

  But that wasn't what troubled her the most… she couldn't help but worry, what did he mean by reminding us where our i lies? Did they really know of our existence? I guess it would be arrogant to think otherwise, especially after all of this…

  The other thing… are we really in Korriban? It seems possible, based on the immense dark energies surrounding this pce… But if we are on Korriban… then the only way out of this pce will be by using that Sith ship… I mean, he must have a ship that brought him here, otherwise there is no civilization on this p. It is a tomb, as he said…

  If the bastard decides to leave us here, then we will be as good as dead. At least without some serious miracle going off. Luckily he wants me alive... So it is uhat he will leave, not without me.

  Suddenly, I have bee aware of a strange noise. I looked up and reached out with the force. After doing that, my scalp became numb.

  I gulped loudly, gaining the attention of the rest of my impromptu pany.

  -What is it?

  Asked Kalifa… with deep worry in her eyes…

  I blinked a few times and said with a slight trembling in my voice.

  -Tuk’atas… more than a few.

  Kalifa’s jaw seemed to drop to the ground. Lily only tilted her head, and Barriss turowards me with an expression that leading for me to wake her up from this bad dream.

  I growled to myself.

  -… Damn you Darth Maul… you will pay for this…

  I heard Barriss’ hesitant voice speak in a whisper… she was still shaking from her near death experience.

  -Isn’t that the name of the Sith that killed Master Obi’Wan’s Master? Wasn’t he supposed to be dead? I heard that he was cut in two… then how could he be alive!?

  Kalifa paled at hearing the revetion. Her eyes widened as she stated.

  -You are right, Barriss! Is… is he an immortal? How could he survive that?

  I looked at them while urging them to take a position back against a wall. While saying.

  -He could be someone using the same name, or maybe he really survived. It is possible… If a bit unlikely.

  -How would that be possible?

  Kalifa demanded an answer.

  I looked at her and said.

  -Do not uimate the power of the dark side… Stroions, especially pain and anger, could achieve results that would seem out of this world. I know of a man whose body had been ripped to thousands of pieces, yet his anger harnessing his pain still mao keep him alive. Such outes are unlikely, but he less possible.

  -You… you must be pulling my leg!? Right… right? And anyway, why would I believe that to you!? Grandmaster!? What the hell those that even mean, in what world would a kid like you be sidered a grandmaster?

  Barriss sighed and said, finally pulling herself away from Kalifa’s support.

  -You saw how she fought, one oh that monster… If that isn’t enough to prove her position, I don’t know what is.

  -But, Barriss! Why are you defending her all of the sudden…

  -Obviously, because she saved my life… and yours too. You shouldn’t trust in the words of someohat just tried to kill you, at least not more than your rades and friends.

  -But, she… ugh… I mean… ARGH! Fine, I guess, she isn’t a Sith after all… now that I met with the real thing; the difference seems painfully obvious… Sorry for your leks… I mean… st time…

  With that, she blushed and turned away. While leaving a very fused twi’lek behind… Who could only say awkwardly.

  -…Thanks… I guess…

  With that Kalifa turned back to Barriss and asked.

  -Remind me, why don’t we just run away? Right about now?

  The sounds of the ining tuk’atas have grown a lot stronger in the meantime.

  Barriss turowards Kalifa with a frown.

  -Hadn’t you learned anything iemple? You ’t outrun tuk’atas definitely not o. We would tire ourselves out, and would be eaten without the energy to fight back… those things are created by Sith alchemy with the iion of hunting down force sensitives… Your force abilities won’t work that effectively against them, so try to rely on your bde.

  Kalifa mao pale further, hearing the new information, which was quite a challeo achieve at her current level of paleness. Then she cursed, while kig a rock.

  -Fug hell, thanks Barriss, now I feel a lot better!

  -...

  There was a silent snicker ing from Kalifa’s left. She immediately turowards that dire and saw Lily smirking with a stupid grin.

  This seemed to cause existential crises inside Kalifa. Which sted for about five seds, until she burst.

  -YOU! Stop ughing at me you sneaky little bitch! You hear me? Stop it before I decide to screw you over! That way at least I could get off this damned rock!

  Nizzal sighed, and said.

  -You 't seriously believe that he would let you go... especially after what you said to him...

  -... Shut it... just shut it for once you tailhead!

  -... Didn't you just ask me tive you a few seds ago?

  -That... and this are pletely different things!

  This argument seemed to cause Lily to giggle even more. Which surprised even Barriss, who clearly didn’t expect this oute either…

  She stated as she watched their growing argument.

  - Ahh… it turns out Lily has a very gross sense of humor after all…