| AN END |

"So we meet again. How you've grown."

Draulvesi remained silent. Rain graced her armor, the midnight shroud veiling her face hiding twisting sorrow, shifting towards inconsolable rage but still repressed behind a wall of self-control.

"Now that you've found me, do tell, what did you hope to achieve? Closure? Easy to read, I must admit. Are you even trying?"

Her silhouette-like figure trembled, like leaves shaking in the wind. Her mind scrambled to find words as her heart beat like a war drum, every fiber of her being was screaming for frenzy, to let go and no longer be restrained by what the Order taught.

"Do... you understand what you did? How much I've lost?"

The Sith fell silent, cracking a wicked smirk.

"I did what was necessary. Your people, your little village, were nothing and held no value. An obstacle."

"Because we refused you..."

"Because you were all weak."

Thunder rumbled in the distance, both Sith and Jedi stood opposite of one another as a torrential downpour raged on. Draulvesi could see him for what he was, his truest essence; a twisted and bastardized siren call of grandeur and power, a power she herself shouldered as a burden.

She would be stronger. She had to.

Igniting her saberstaff, the Jedi Shadow lunged forward and engaged the man that had stolen her life, killed away the last vestiges of innocence. Their battle only lasted moments, clashes of crimson and cobalt, the hissing of droplets as the two danced wildly, each blow meant to kill.

She stood over him, sensing fear.

"What - what are you doing? Is this what the Jedi taught you to do? To murder?"

"Shut up."

Draulvesi sent a heel to the jaw of the man, causing an audible cracking sound. A fracture.

"You.... can't....do this..."

"I can. And I want to."

In one swift motion, the Jedi Shadow snapped her saberstaff around, decapitating the Sith. Standing over the corpse momentarily, she could see the essence fade from his being - dissipating into the ether as darkness consumed his presence. He was no more.

"Your kind will give back more than you could ever fathom."

His body would be left where it was. No burial, no remorse.

This was only the beginning.