Chapter Twenty-One

Darth Aolroth and Seras made their way to the Sith Temple to meet Darth Jahl. The two lovers made their way to the Inner Sanctum of the temple.

Darth Aolroth: Seras, Wait here.

Seras: What? I'm coming with you Jaric!

Darth Aolroth: I don't know what my master plans. Whether Gratham speaks the truth or not remains to be seen. If those words are true, then I must kill my master. Darth Jahl is too dangerous for you to be involved. I don't want you to be harmed in this!

Seras knew he was right, but she didn't like the idea of letting the man she loves potentially fight a Sith Lord more powerful than Aolroth to the death.

Darth Aolroth: Please Seras.

Seras: Just be safe Jaric!

Darth Aolroth kissed Seras and entered the Inner Sanctum to see his master.

Darth Jahl: Apprentice! I sense conflict in you. What troubles you?

Darth Aolroth: Is what Lord Gratham saying true? Do you plot against the Empire?

Darth Jahl says nothing.

Darth Aolroth: I'm not hearing you deny it! Do you plot against the Empire!?

Without hesitation, Darth Jahl used Force Push to slam Darth Aolroth into a wall.

Darth Jahl: Truly a pity my apprentice.

Darth Aolroth got up.

Darth Aolroth: Why?

Darth Jahl: The Holocron showed me the future of the Empire. Not that it needed too. I see the Empire's true weakness everyday! It has fallen victim to bureaucracy!  The Empire is sick and the Emperor does nothing! I will fix it!

Darth Aolroth: This is treason!

Darth Aolroth lashed out as he charged his master with his lightsaber, but Darth Jahl only sidestepped.

Darth Jahl: Treason? Ha! Treason would be allowing this sickness to fester and strangle the Empire! The Sith are conquerors! We bow to no one! Yet we are expected to answer to incompetent Imperial commanders?!

Darth Jahl growled as he unleashed a torrent of Force Lightning upon his apprentice, but Darth Aolroth absorbed it with his hands, burning them.

Darth Jahl: Or how about the inaction of our Emperor? When we have failure like Malgus lead us, failure is inevitable! I will bring the Empire to it's true glory!

Darth Aolroth and Darth Jahl soon engaged in a brutal lightsaber fight. While Aolroth gave it his all, Jahl simply played with his former apprentice like if it were a game. Eventually, Darth Jahl used Force Paralysis to immobilize his apprentice.

Darth Jahl: Powerful you may be, but you are still the student and I the master!

Darth Aolroth struggled to break his master's hold on him, but to no avail.

Darth Jahl: We could've ruled together, truly a shame that someone with so much potential must be snuffed out!

Darth Jahl raised his lightsaber to kill Aolroth, but was disturbed by a missed shot from Seras.

Seras: You leave Jaric alone!

The Sith Lord let out a sinister laugh.

Darth Jahl: Jaric Orotekt. And I thought you had killed him all those years ago! It seems you still have much to learn!

Darth Aolroth: Seras! Get out of here please!

Seras: No can do Jaric! We're taking him down together!

Darth Jahl simply laughed as he focused on Seras.

Darth Jahl: Then show me!

Darth Jahl  walked up to Seras as she began to shoot at him, but he simply absorbed the shots with his hand. Darth Jahl then used Force Choke to begin strangling her. Darth Aolroth struggled as tears began to fill his eyes. Darth Jahl moved Seras to Aolroth's view.

Seras: J....Ja......Jaric?

Seras looked to her lover as a crimson lightsaber was plunged into her chest. Darth Aolroth could only watch in horror as the love of his life was killed by his master. A familiar rage began filling into Darth Aolroth. His eyes soon turned from the Sith crimson to pure black. Rage and anger began to seep from his body. Darth Aolorth let out a deafening roar as he used his power to break from his master's hold. Darth Jahl was amazed at the pure rage that was seeping from his apprentice. He was the Dark Side incarnate. Darth Aolorth wielded his lightsaber and began to wildly and savagely swing at his master. Darth Jahl had difficulty keeping up with his enraged apprentice. After a brutal engagement, Darth Aolroth cut off his master's hands and dealt a devastating blow to his master, killing his master. Seeing his master dead, he let out a sorrowful and vengeful scream at the top of his lungs. When his raged calmed, he ran to the body of Seras. He cradled her body as the tears began to fall down his face. The woman he loved was dead. He closed her open eyes and gave her a final kiss. As he mourned his love, Darth Aolroth heard the Holocron begin to make a strange sound. Darth Aolroth walked to the Holocron and took it from his fallen master. Suddenly, the Holocron seemingly took him to a dimension far from his own. He sees and Ancient Sith in front of him.

Darth Aolroth: Who are you?

Ancient Sith Spirit: I am Rhalkos Maron. The Sith who served Revan. The Sage.

Darth Aolroth: What is this place?

Rhalkos: This is my dimension. Where my spirit lingers. This Holocron is my last sanctuary. In my lifetime, I was a Sage. A Seer. I knew the future of others. I gave the future to the last wielder of this Holocron.

Rhalkos's words left Darth Aolroth confused.

Darth Aolroth: You want peace. You will have it. Thousands will die. By your hand and many others. You tread the Path of Light and Dark. Through pain and war, peace will come.

The Seer prophesied to the Sith.

Darth Aolroth: I don't understand.

Rhalkos: Nor are you meant too. This path is yours and yours alone. The future is not set. It is a fluid thing. Embrace it or deny it. The choice is yours Jaric Orotekt.

Darth Aolroth: How do you know my name?

Rhalkos: I know what most cannot. I see the future before my eyes. So many outcomes and stories before my eyes. All can happen. All could be prevented. And now the time has come for you to decide on your future Jaric Orotekt. Embrace or decline. The choice is yours.

As Rhalkos spoke, the dimension began to disperse back into the real word in the Inner Sanctum in the Sith Temple. Darth Aolroth was speechless. He had just heard his future, or what he interpreted as his future. The Sith's world was now forever changed: the love of his life was dead as was his master. He would take Seras's death and use it as a source of power to tether his rage. As Darth Aolroth stared into the Hoocron, he made a decision that would forever set his course. Darth Aolroth would continue his lifelong ambition of bringing Peace to the galaxy no matter the cost. For his mother. For Seras. Darth Aolroth's journey would begin in that Sith Temple.

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