The Valley, and the Lost

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

A single FAC appeared in the space above Korriban and stayed in orbit around Korriban as a single longsword piloted it's way down to the surface of Korriban. They ended up in the valley of the sith lords, and two dark figures emerged from the ship. The valley looked almost unchanged since the last time they had visited the valley. Some temples had been destoryed by Cain and Lord Nanashi's previous trainning session where Cain had taught Lord Nanashi a higher control of the force, along with the ability to heal from a mortal wound by relying upon the darkside of the force.

"Some things never change...." said Lord Nanashi as he started walking forward down to the bottom of the ramp, Cain soon followed from the ship stopping next to Nanashi. "And we have returned here for training once again. I sense two familiar pressences...."

Cain glanced over to Lord Nanashi for a moment before smirking for a half second.

"There are always more knowledge to learn, this you will learn in time Lord Nanashi." said Cain before starting forward towards a distant tomb.

"And what of the others...?" asked Lord Nanashi. Cain replied simply, "Leave them, we've no business with them."

Lord Nanashi stood there for a moment reflecting as the wind blew his robe. It wasn't long before he went in pursuit of Cain's path following him into the tomb. The door as usual was locked like most of the tombs, it required an aplication of the force to open. The door began to crack and rumble as Cain was manipulating the force to open the door without almost any sign of doing it. They both had transcended needing to use hand gestures to focus the force.

As the door opened both of them walked within, and the door slowly closed behind them.....

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

As they walked through the tomb Lord Nanashi received a message upon his forarm display as a holo projected message popped up in froming him on the current situation on an aray of different topics. It seemed it was time to enact a horror from the past soon within the coming weeks as well as the fleet was increasing steadily in size. Karite had returned to the temple and since then none of the students had returned it was time to send him to find out what the others where doing. Lord Hanzo hadn't reported in yet, either so things were busy.

"Karite, we're sending you cooridinace to follow one of your fellow classmates. You may remember, Jaylen from our trainning exercises. He met with a contact on Korriban or so I sensed, I want you to find out who that contact is and what he's up to. If possible tell him to report back to the jedi temple." said Lord Nanashi before clicking the com off and sending a few more messages to the republic upon different subjects from fleet preperations, to the current project of Kuat drives, and to the republics secret projects from cloning to biological weapons, to continue their progression.

Lord Nanashi then made his way down the hallways Cain had escaped off to. He sure left things to officals, afterall.... Cain only wanted results. As Lord Nanashi walked along the coridor it came to a vast open room curving down into a main platform by a V like formation. Cain was already down in the center of the room which seemed oddly circular. He was reading ancient text upon the stone as Lord Nanashi approached.

"Have you ever heard of Sith magic, Lord Nanashi?" asked Cain sounding bemused, he held a smirk on his face for the first time in months. Or so it seemed at least. Nanashi proceeded to stand next to him looking at what Cain was siphering.

"I can't say I know too much about it, however I know this is why the sith lords of old are rumored to be more powerful then us. As it has been put some scholars think of us is trainee's fubbling with their laser swords." said Nanashi as he turned his attention back to Cain. He felt a wave wash over this place, the Darkside was strong here.

"Yes, some of the greatest Sith Lords were also Sith Sorcerers.... they weilded a power that few have ever seen. Some of them the purest darkside essence ever seen." said Cain as he stopped in his ciphering and looked at Nanashi. "Naga Sadow, this is his tomb however he was not buried here."

"I've heard he was rumored to be buried somewhere in the Yavin system, but all attempts to find his tomb have been failed or they've never reported back." said Nanashi. "That means there's nothing useful in this tomb.... Save the Galaxy Map."

"Hmpf, you assume too much my young apprentice." said Cain as the sarcophogus before them was empty as Cain opened it. The floor of the Sarcophogus began to crack and splinter as force was applied until it finally shattered inwards like thin glass. "This world belonged to a speices named the Sith. They are an excint speices or most would have you believe. The tunnels connecting the Tombs are still here it seems, even after all these centuries.... they never learn."

Cain dropped into the hole and Lord Nanashi uncliped his single bladed lightsaber and as he landed activated it as his dull dark core red lightsaber flashed out red light. By contrast a second dark core blue lightsaber shot out of Cain's own lightsaber. The cavern proceeded deeper into the darkness and the Darkside seemed to be saturating over them and it was coming from up ahead.

"Careful... they love positioning Guardians...." muttered Cain as they began to walk forward into the gloom, leaving the faint light of the tomb behind....

[Cain]

The tomb of Naga Sadow had been pillaged and plundered over the years since Revan had been to Korriban, young hopefuls coming to Korriban in search of the Sith but instead finding nothing but shattered relics. The Sith of old had truly become a sad institution, but there was still power to be unearthed in the dark forgotten corners of this planet.

Cain led the way, dropping deeper into Naga Sadow's tomb. The hidden chamber beneath the ancient Sith's sarcophagus was damp and unusually cold. Absolutely no light made this far from the surface, in the pitch black room Cain closed his eyes and stretched out with the force.

"There is something here..." Cain began, "The dark side saturates this place," Carefully Cain reached into his robe and pulled out his lightsaber. As he ignited it a dark core shot upwards from the hilt and the pitch black room was filled with a dull blue light. At the center of the chamber was a neatly laid out circle of candles, long since used up and burnt out, and neatly placed inside the circle of candles was a lone Sith holocron.

"All too easy," Cain muttered. As he took a step towards the holocron Cain suddenly stopped. From the darkness in front of him a figure stepped forward, a half human half Sith man with red skin and green eyes, "Naga Sadow..." Cain said, his lightsaber still down at his side, "Seems a part of you was buried here after all."

The Sith did not mince words, immediately he drew a double edged blade and with a hiss swung it at Cain's head. Cain leaned back to avoid the strike, popping back up and delivering a tremendous force push that shook the entire tomb but didn't even make Naga Sadow flinch.

"Hmph... interesting..." Cain said calmly as Sadow swung down at him with his sword. Cain quickly jumped back away from the attack, "Whatever this thing is, it's not Naga Sadow," Cain began, "do not let your guard down, Lord Nanashi."

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Lord Nanashi opened his eyes bringing his focus back to the matter at hand and saw Cain underattack. Using his own force he counteracted what Cain's force push as it reverberated around the tomb. The figure of Naga Sadow didn't budge one bit, either that was an absolute display of power not even moving the slightest bit, or the force would be ineffective against this thing. There was only one way to find out.

"Lets see what this thing can do." said Lord Nanashi lifting his free hand straight out and blasting a volley of force lightning as Shadow clones began to form up near Naga Sadow going for a slice to the back of the knees. His senses where examining everything happening within the dark part of the tomb, booby traps weren't uncommon amoung korriban tombs.

[Cain]

Nanashi's lightning, just as with Cain's push, did nothing to Naga Sadow and only tore through the walls of the tomb leaving long jagged scars in the rock face. While Nanashi was attacking Cain had stopped again, trying to reach out to Naga Sadow with the force. There was no life form there, only the wound in the force created by the dark imprint of the Sith holocron. A wound that had hidden itself until Cain and Nanashi entered the chamber.

"Enough, Nanashi," Cain said, "It's an illusion... but one unlike any I've encountered before..." As soon as both Cain and Nanashi recognized Sadow as an illusion, the ancient Sith faded away leaving only the holocron behind, "Someone set that holocron to react to any strong presence in the force. Whatever information is inside, the original user did not intend it to be found by just anyone..."

With that Cain reopened his eyes and opened his hand, the holocron jumping up from its position on the floor and into Cain's grasp. Using the force Cain activated the holocron, the chill in the room grew ever colder as the dark side permeated outward. Setting the holocron back on the floor a hologram flickered on above it. Standing before them now was a projection of Naga Sadow.

"You must be a powerful Sith indeed to have accessed this holocron," the projection said, "Are you the Dark Lord of the Sith?"

"Hmph..." Cain chuckled lightly, "That is one way to look at. We've come here for the power of the ancients, Sith magic."

"Indeed," The projection responded, "but this is a power reserved only for the Dark Lord himself. If this is a title you feel yourself worthy of, then perhaps you'd go a bit farther to obtain it. Go to the Temple on Yavin 4. If you can prove yourself worthy to me there then perhaps I will see fit to share this power with you."

"This holocron was just a test then," Cain said.

"To weed out the weak," The projection said, finishing Cain's sentence, "But do not think your journey to this tomb to have been totally unnecessary. Bring the holocron with you. It holds a power you may find useful in the very near future..."

The projection then flickered off. Cain stood silent a moment before summoning the holocron back to his hand and tucking it into his robe.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Lord Nanashi had figured as much as the lightning passed through, he wondered if the sword swipes would have even killed Cain had he let them hit. A question that was unimportant at the moment. They both listened to Naga Sadow as he reappeared from the holocron.

"Hmpf, always with these tests." said Lord Nanashi crossing his arms and looking at Cain. There wasn't impaitence as there would have been usualy, instead their held a slight smirk. "Yavin, I don't believe I've been there before."

Lord Nanashi received a message and without even looking he knew what it was. He had been waiting for the call a long time now. "It seems we'll be able to ride to Yavin IV in style." said Lord Nanashi vaguely as they exited the temple a large Executor class super star destroyer could easily be seen in the sky as one large ship. "I've been working on something that would inspire fear in our enemies where ever we may go, and I beleive this will be it."

He climbed into his Longsword and started firing her up for the trip up to the Executor. "So tell me, any plans of what to name her?"

[Cain]

A rare smirk spread over Cain's face as he caught a glimpse of the Super Star Destroyer in the sky. He didn't say anything but he was clearly very satisfied with the new base of operations. When Nanashi asked if Cain had any thoughts on what to name the new Imperial flag ship, he thought on it for a moment.

"The Heaven's Dark Harbinger," Cain replied softly. Stepping off the Longsword and onto the new ship, the Dark Lords made the jump into hyperspace on their way to Yavin IV.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC Aw where did mik's cute comment go?