{no pictures this chapter, also sorry for any bad gram, As I have been locked out of my outlook.}
The galaxy sings…. As the stars pulse to the notes, while the force carries them through the systems…hearing their notes…feeling them… the purrgil… the whales… give their own songs, as their force souls were torn from them!
As they screamed into a swirl of mystic powers, the locks and seals began to turn as one of the seven cracked! Releasing a rippling force… with its wave, Ashoka and all those who still felt the force fell into a vision, even Lucifron in his meeting was not spared its influence as he held Beldorion's key!
As Lucifron awoke on a wave of red sands, while the black wind pulled at his robes… and where thousands of skeletons rose to meet him, as a line of troops… they bowed to him, with sworn swords of all eras, in the forms of countless species! To the backdrop of countless worlds too many to number…
While Lucifron strode through the lines of troops, like a king, Ahsoka saw him… but as she ran to him, with sabers in her hands, the sands at her feet became like mud! While sinking and screaming her curses, a green owl flew into her aid, and with its touch… she found herself floating in the air!
Above them all, she witnessed the countless skeleton troops, the hundreds of pillars of metal, and the shrine portal in the middle coated in seven seals. As red lightning struck the sands, to the backdrop of worlds she never knew…. And like a far stretch, Television view, she felt herself being pulled into a black room!
There she saw many different versions of herself, from the different stages of her youth, to what she could have been had she made different turning point choices in her life! But no matter the outcome, all the life she witnessed of herself… There was only one thing in common…. Her death!
She saw how she could have died in order 66, she saw how her life could have been had she stayed a Jedi… she saw how her life could have been had she chosen to settle down…. The kids she could have had…
And then... as her vision bled, she saw her spiritual brother! A child in black wings… alone and scared… trapped in a tome… and quickly, she realized why she was being shown this… Where she had the potential for many choices in life… he… did not!
With eyes open, her worldview became clouded as a child cried blood, and the black feathers rained down to the cries of vultures! But while Ashoka played with birds, Lucifron walked through the paved roads of blood, to the portal of seals! There he stood holding out the holocron that turned and became a black obelisk!
There, it fed on the force leaking from the crack of the first white crowned seal, rotating and shooting out a beam to the worlds above that formed a star chart!
{ I see.. The eons have not been kind to you… The worlds that should be aligned have fallen, and their treasure blundered and moved... but don't worry, my friends... I will free you!}
With those words uttered, the right to conquer was released from its seal! As a giant mystic clock chimed a turn! Releasing all from their individual visions! Were on the desert planet of Tatooine sat a girl in meditation, nay! A grandmaster! Rey!
Rey short POV:
While in vision and surrounded by floating sands and rock, where mountains appeared form clouds, Rey opened her eyes in a cold sweat! With sparks and an evil maniacal laughed in the back of her mind, she looked back from her cave in pure darkness!
But knowing it was a force trick, Rey just continued to stare as if taunting…and to call her bluff, a horrid vulture roared a hiss, as his talon scratched the walls and the floors! With folded wings the creature stared its blistering red and orange eyes into Rey!
[what are you…]
Hearing, Rey question, the vultures smiled a toothy grin as it opened it beak to a multuide of tongues coated in many mouths and tongues of many languages! Hearing many inconceivable words at an absurd volume, the winds gathered as the sky outside the cave turned to dusk of red and black color!
[enough! With the tricks sith! Speak clearly!] demand Rey as she shield herself with the force.
[ha…ha…caw! You can't hid from it…] replied the vultures in coughing laughs
[hide? Hide from what?] replied Rey as the force around her, stirred into blue sparks
[your death!] replied the vulture as it chest opened to a rib cage that concealed a hooded figure with red fur!
But with a face covered in a black shroud and a red saber, the coated figure pointed at Rey with a feminine hands, as the darkness around formed into red lighting sparks! As the room filled with blue and black and red sparks and the sound of thunder, the vulture and the cloaked figured vanished as light returned into the cave!
Ahoska short POV:
As Ashoka woke in the snowy forest of Tython, she rubbed her tempos, and through the pain she looked around and to her robot friend:
[were are we?]
But Huyang didn't reply, instead as a droid he stared up at a flicker of the force inside a moth. At his finger tips he eyes blinked as he study the creature! But as it took flight as if scared, Huyang turned to ahoska and said:
[oh! You finally awake.. Ahoska… we are… as expected on the planet, Tython, but how we got here is still a mystery to me…]
[a mystery? Huyanag tell me exactly what happened… as I was out!]
[hymm… I see… as we were riding the 'stream' we were pulled… no.. chosen… out of the hyper lane! And while uncontrolled and turbulence racked the ship, OH! But I did what I could to safely land the ship…] replied Huyang cutting himself short mid-sentience.
[land us were? I don't see the ship…]
[noted… Ahsoka if I may… this world… Is alive.. Rich in the force… the ship vanished in fog as I came to…. similar as you… fascinating isn't…]
[wait! Hold on! Came to? But I thought you said you landed the ship?]
[I did.. Though not consciously… if that makes any sense….]
[sigh, what do we do now?]
[well… may I make a suggestion?]
[well… go right ahead Huyang, you don't have to wait for my permission every time you have an idea.]
[noted… as for my suggestion, why don't we try to meditate again? I feel like it will go differently this time…]
[this time? Wait did you also get sucked into a vision?]
Shaking his head, Huyang blinked at his hands as he said:
[I do not know if it was a vision but… as I was out.. I felt what you organics call a dream… I was locked in a conflicted… but ah! I can't remember why… just…]
[just?]
[the wind… like a breeze in a war… and lotus fruit… and then I was falling… chasing another… why…. Into a pit of utter darkness!] continued Huyang as he began to panic! With jitters he places his hands on his head and screamed noises!
Rushing to his aid, Ahoska grabbed his head and placed forehead to forehead and in a calming gesture, whispered calming charm of words…
Lucifron POV:
As his vision ends, the meeting room shakes, while glass breaks and a colder than ice, freezes the very air in the room! With red eyes, Lucifron looks up and continues were he left off:
{as I mentioned previously, what I have to offer is not the future or the present… But the past to change the future! Destruction of the republic and reforging our galaxy is one in the same…}
[oh? What does that mean?] replied king Molec with his usual dispensation attitude.
{its means I'm going to give back what you all crave… the opportunity to start again!}
[oh! Start again in what way? More funding.. Blah! Other warlords thought the same but look how far that got…] replied Zond with a bored expression
{no, though money is important its not what I meant…}
[then what did you mean?] replied Thrawn
{funny and how fitting that out of all the people present here today, that you would be the one to ask the question…} replied Lucifron with a smirk
But a smirk that pissed off the Geonosian! And so, with click and noises and the slamming of the table, the translating robot in the room spoke on his behalf!
[quit these riddles… bird! And just tell me how I can bring back my queen!]
Hearing the Geonosian remark, put an even wider grin on Lucifron face as he explained…
As he explained his plan, those in the room, visible change! Even the harden mandalorian, started to look up in hope!
[this plan of yours…is madness….] replied Kurk stirn
{oh!}
[but fortunately… I like madness!]
{is that so… Bo-Katan!}
Hearing her name through the analogs of her stand-in, didn't shock her, as a queen of corpses, she knew much of force wielders and their abilities.
[Lucifron… I'll like to ask you something…]replied Bo-katan through Kurk stirn
{go on}
[since you know my name, then you must also know my history with the Jedi and such.. Am I right?]
{yes... I know of your past friendship and your past enemies… and I know what you want to ask… and yes your right I don't trust you Bo-katan}
[well then this meeting is…]
{hold on now! I said I don't trust you Bot-katan as a person but I do trust Queen Bo-katan!}
[...]
{I know… of all people… you are one of the most willing… to commit to her people! I know what you feel, as you look at your aging and small population… your breed is dying… most are not even purebred, and I know that you have change your way of thinking, unlike the others of your kind, you don't really care about pureness and such, but still you know… you may very well, be the last true queen of a mighty race…}
[your right and your words are like sweet honey, but who knows of the poison hidden underneath! We trusted the sith before and look what happened! Do I dare 'hope' again in the same bed that cost my people everything!
Were finally building something new! And my people are already hopeful to their future… so, why should I take the risk and trust such a maddening plan? And even if it does succeed…I wont live long enough to see the changes! ]
{your right… you won't with your short lifespan, but there is one thing you can guarantee…}
[and what would that be… Lucifron?]
{your world, alive and thriving were once old wars buried its burden, but simply take my hand and "we" will save it from death hands…. Because if you don't….} replied Lucifron as he "emphasized" the words alive and thriving to the other members at present or those who listen through their stand-ins, who have already lost their worlds.
[what! You'll destroy whats left of my people!]
{no, queen Bo-katan I won't but as I mentioned in my plan, the grysks will fall before the might of the yuuzhan vong… and with them gone and the force wall holding them back crumbles… nothing will stop them wiping this galaxy clean of life! The republic is to weak to stop them, the grysks can't be trusted, and so you have a choice…}
As Bo-katan was contemplating her reply, admiral thrawn was lost in his own thoughts about the grysks situation, while all the other rare species in attendance mauled over their own pros and cons of the situation at hand. Soon when all was quiet in acceptance, Lucifron outstretched his hand and said:
{so… what is your choice?}
As the meeting came to a close and the normal member went to enact their parts, Lucifron smiled in the dark room and said amusement:
{so, what do you have to offer me…. Disciples of twilight! Or you! Prophets of the dark side!}