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A Knighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QUZzeZoPQ
[member="Saiah"] [member="Kitty"] [member="Iziz Vei"]
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There comes a time in everyone's life when hard work pays off. When the constant push forward finally gives something in return. This is true for all, but especially for Sith.
Darth Ferus stood just outside an isolated Sith Temple, both hands resting calmly behind his back. The planet he had chosen was not on any star maps, no, it was a place hidden from the Galaxy, though barren and a wasteland. None could survive here for long, nothing natural grew. Yet it was a place of the Dark Side, completely consumed by hate and fear.
It was cold.
Despite this, the Zabrak was wearing nothing more than an average cloak of his fellow Sith. No special armor, no unique style. Here, he was one and the same, just another Dark Lord to walk across the surface. Here, before the temple, he waited, and watched. His apprentices, the three, would come. They were called, through the Force itself, and there would be no ignoring such a a demand as this.
Golden eyes gazed up at the statues, and red lips formed a thin line.
It was time.
 
Iziz was the first to enter, he had managed to follow the signal to its location with an odd level of accuracy, though it had taken him more than some time, as he landed, and having to calibrate his hyperspace route through old smuggler paths which were vastly out-dated. He would leave an ion trail for others to follow if they could lock onto it. Looking down and around at the planet from orbit, Iziz didn't think much of the place, cruising down and landing no more than a few kilometers form where Ferus and the temple were. Unlike his master, Iziz wore his usual attire, which, as always kept him warm, now wearing the armour of the Sith assassins which had been lain on his bed once it had been made. Iziz liked it, though, it was a tad heavy for the Jawa, not quite what he was used to, but, it was good enough. From his ship, he began to walk the distance to the risen temple in the distance... not knowing why here was there...

It took him a couple of hours, but, once he arrived the Jawa looked up at Ferus, he was used to harsh conditions and barren deserts, though, this kind of cold desert was a little new to him, though, his fur was keeping him somewhat snug for the mean time.

"You sure know how to pick your venue Master Ferus..."

Iziz spoke with no shortness of sass and ire in jawanese trade language, though a smile crossed his face, he was never one to talk up to someone as if they were his superior, and it seemed that Ferus had never taken it as a sign of disrespect. Which, frankly Iziz had always been surprised at, he was most of the time able to casually perform any deed beside the Darth, be it complain, talk back to, even undermine in some respects... yet Ferus only ever seemed to accommodate the nature of the Jawa and give him a long leash whenever he needed it... So, in turn, a great and deep seeded respect for Ferus had formed in Izizs' heart, rather than a fear or a reverence.
"Why the hell are we on this blasted heath? Some form of extreme survival training? "

It was then that Iziz could feel the shadows of the force from this place, there was a darkness here, specters, history, things in dark places that should not be. It silenced the Jawa and put him on edge, his tail unravelling from his waist and flicking from side to side anxiously as if he were waiting to be attacked at any moment.

[member="Darth Ferus"]
 
A calling from the Force was an interesting sensation. To Saiah it had started as a small electric tingle in the base of her skull, now it felt as if a magnet was pulling her towards the final destination. When plotting in the coordinates, she had not even looked. Her fingers seemingly did the calculations on their own. It was terrifying and it was thrilling. She had pressed her ship for all it could muster to get there in time, and when she landed she knew she was not the first. She had landed a few kilometres from the meeting point in a different direction. It was a precaution in case one of their ships were discovered.

As Saiah walked across the frozen surface of the barren planet, she felt the presence of the Dark Side all around her. With this kind of presence, some could be driven to madness, or drive them away. Instead, Saiah figuratively frolicked. She had learned to drink the hatred and fear, to take energy from it to fuel her own passions. Such was the nature of the Dark Side: To eat or be eaten. She did, however, not enjoy the temperature. It was far too cold for her tastes. She had wrapped herself in layers to keep it out, but she had not expected this climate. She clenched her teeth to keep them from rattling, balled her hands into fists to keep them from shaking, and she kept treading between those jagged stones and ruins. Heading towards ground zero of her calling, she could see the rising silhouette of an old-fashioned Sith temple.

As she walked the path, her pale eyes noted the faces of the great statues surrounding the ascending path to the temple. They were unfamiliar, yet they radiated a certain character, a certain dominance, a certain power. The power of the dead and long gone. Perhaps if she had read more history she would have known them, but for now they were monoliths lost in obscurity.

Upon approaching [member="Iziz Vei"] and [member="Darth Ferus"], Saiah speeded up a little. Stepping up beside her diminutive co-apprentice, she gave her master a small bow while keeping her eyes on some portion of him all the while. She looked at Iziz and gave him a nod of recognition. Keeping your eyes on someone while greeting them was a sign of respect, and she had great respect for both of them. Ferus had proven himself worthy of his title as Lord time and again and as such earned a portion of rare reverence from her. It was few she admired, but he was one. Iziz had earned her respect as an opponent and shown that he was more than capable in many a situation. Although deciphering his Jawaese chatter was infuriating at times. Were they missing someone, waiting for anyone? It would seem so, but whom?

"Lord Ferus, Iziz Vei. Fine day for a walk, isn't it?" The left corner of her mouth twisted into a smirk.
 

Kitty

The Attention Seeker
This buzz in her head was driving her insane. It just wouldn't go away and seemed to want to lead her to a particular location. Kitty boarded her recently obtained ship and spewed some random coordinates to her pilot droid. She had no idea where the coordinates came from just that they were there. Kitty went to her cage and locker herself up.

As usually Kitty was the last to arrive. She was always the last to arrive thanks to her difficulties with hyperspace. The young feline was caught completely unprepared. She had no idea where she was being drawn to was a freaking frozen wasteland and her wardrobe didn't have anything for this kind of weather. She just never went to places like this. The warmest Kitty could do was stack a whole bunch of T-shirt's on top of each other. Unfortunately a pair of pants was all she could do for her legs. Thankfully her natural fur offered some warmth but in this extreme cold it wasn't enough.

Walking on foot towards the pull Kitty arrived shivering and nearly falling over with every step she took. She relied heavily on her tail for balance and right now it was tucked down her pants to try and keep it a little warm. Finding Darth Ferus Kitty's heart sank as the painful memories of his betrayal returned to her. She could only stand there with the other two. Unlike them she remained completely silent.
[member="Darth Ferus"] [member="Iziz Vei"] [member="Saiah"]
 
The Sith lord was quiet for a moment, as if lost in thought. But as he spoke, there was a grim tone to it all. What ever he had asked them here for, it must not be good. "This is the land of the forgotten Dark Lords. Sith who no one can remember, only that they existed. Nothing can grow here, and even we of the Dark cannot survive here long before this planet consumes us. You feel that cold? This is a desert, actually as hot as Tatooine. This cold you feel is from the Dark Side here, overwhelming feelings of hate, anger, and fear. This place is where Sith who fail go to be forgotten, so do you understand why I brought you here?"

Ferus turned then, his golden eyes looking over each. [member="Iziz Vei"] , the fastest. [member="Saiah"] , the most skillful. [member="Kitty"] , the strongest. Three syringes would float up behind him, clearly through the Force, and each would travel slowly through the air towards each Sith for them to grab.

"Within this vial is a poison. Unimaginable pain and unspeakable horrors awaits those who inject themselves with it, but those who survive it become stronger. As my three apprentices, you are to suffer through this just as I did. And when you once more awake from the nightmares this will give you, you will be reborn into true Sith. True Darths. You will not leave this planet until you do so, and the longer you wait the weaker you will become."

With this, the Zabrak turned once more, adverting his gaze from his apprentices and looking back up to the statue. Should there be any protest, any trying to leave, he would act again.

There was no place for cowards as his apprentices.
 
Saiah's eyes narrowed as she observed the grimness of their otherwise quite lively master. Her own quip died down and she focused her energies on observing, listening, understanding as Darth Ferus spoke. A place Sith who fail go to be forgotten. The price of failure was obscurity, to be lost and unknown. Saiah could imagine no worse punishment, nor any more fitting for a failed Sith. She could indeed feel the cold, the hate and the fear. Though she revelled in it now, it would get to her. Much like a pleasantly warm day could burn your skin or drive you mad without proper hydration. There was no hydrating your way out of the Dark Side.

She grabbed the syringe and looked at it while their master spoke. When he averted his gaze, she looked straight at him, almost demanding his eyes as she set the syringe in a vein on the inside of her elbow. Pumping the poison into her own system, she quickly retracted the needle from her skin and dropped it in the sand in front of her. There was no protest, only her mantra.

"Success or death."

They were fitting possibly last words, but there was no trace of her usual twisted smirk. She understood the weight of this trial. This was the gateway to the true Sith.

[member="Kitty"] [member="Iziz Vei"] [member="Darth Ferus"]
 

Kitty

The Attention Seeker
Kitty listened as Ferus explained why they were here. She was not happy with it, not happy at all. He just confirmed his betrayal even more. He spoke of changing the sith all just to lead her into a trap. To commit to something she didn't want to commit to. He told her he wanted her to want to live. Yet here they were forced to take syringes full of poison that would likely cause them pain they had never experienced before. Well except for Kitty. She had to endure the deadly venom her body now created naturally. She already took this test. Die or build an immunity to it. One could say the test she took before was worse. At least there will be others sharing her pain this time. Last time she was left alone, forsaken by the man she considered her father. He knew the pain she was going to suffer and the fact that death was a very real possibility and chose to leave her to deal with it herself. Ferus had given her meaning in being a sith only to turn around that very moment and crush it. What was the point of this test anyways. A religious tradition to see if they had the will power to survive. To kill off any cowards or weaklings before they can be considered true sith. Kitty had thought Ferus was different, but it seemed he wasn't. He had no right to be pissed off at her biological parents for what they had done, he was doing far worse to her now.

Still Kitty would take the syringe without any doubts. The sith was all she had, it's where she grew up, its where she lived. She was going to live and since the sith was all she had she was going to continue living as sith. She didn't have any fear or doubts that she would die, though she sure as sith wasn't looking forward to the pain. The was just one problem. She had never used a syringe before. Kitty turned to Saiah who seemed to know just fine. "Uh how do I use this?" Kitty asked hoping she would get an answer before the fellow female sith was overwhelmed with pain.
[member="Saiah"] [member="Darth Ferus"] [member="Iziz Vei"]
 
Given Kitty's question, she raised the area of her face that would be eyebrows. Quickly, she snatched the syringe out of Kitty's hands, jabbed it into the feline's shoulder and injected her. She was not as delicate about it as she had been with herself, mostly because hers was beginning to take effect and her hands were not so dexterous any more. Saiah gritted her teeth and wrinkled her nose as she felt the first pains emerging. It was as if an electrical storm raged through her veins. Yet she managed to inject Kitty and throw the syringe next to her own before the full effect kicked in.

[member="Kitty"]
 
Iziz looked to the syringe, before looking up at Ferus, holding the syringe, he held it to himself, his hand was shaking a little, but, he knew deep down that this was a test, although the query may not be there, Iziz looked at the scaled down dosage size and felt a little bit offended, puffing up as if to claim for a moment that he would be able to handle the same dosage as the others, A determined look crossed the face of the Jawa as his eyes opened wide and seared with an almost aggressive focus, it was the staring of daggers as he angled his neck to one side, and plunging the needle into a vein, he injected the serum without so much as a wince... The pain came moments after, hitting him so hard that he was instantly taken to his knees as a high pitched sound roared from Iziz. The poison pumped through his system to his heart, much of it being seperated there through the chambers with the oxygenated blood which then outstretched to the muscles over his body.

The feeling was like the spreading of napalm, the flickering flames like tiny arms not burning, but grabbing and tearing every cell of his body to pieces as the Jawa simply could not take it. He crumpled into a mess of writhing agony on the ground, rolling and unable to make out a single coherent sound... the branded mark had begun to appear on his shoulder where he had injected himself, a deeply intricate symbol made of small inter-connecting lines like a sigil which spread just above his shoulder blade. After a final low-gurgling sound, Iziz stopped moving, his breathing stilling almost entirely as he lay there motionless for moments until finally, it stopped entirely, the fate of the Jawa seemed to have been decided, as the bio-materials which ignited his eyes even slowly began to dim, from their glowing and brilliant sun-like gold, to a dull amber, then a drab copper colour then finally, his eyes were the colour of rust...

It seemed to be his end...

Though, deep inside, something began to churn... invisible to the outside being slowly drawn the the surface... but, in every other way, to those around, the Jawa was dead, and was no more.

[Exit thread?]

[member="Darth Ferus"]
[member="Saiah"]
[member="Kitty"]
 
A frown formed on the Zabrak's face as he felt [member="Iziz Vei"] begin to slip away. Out of the three, he had expected him to fight the hardest. Alas, some fail, and those that do will simply be forgotten. The remaining two, [member="Saiah"] and [member="Kitty"] , were about to face the main part of this challenge.

"We, of the One Sith, rely on one another. We are not rivals or hated foes, we are brothers and sisters working towards one goal. Control of the whole galaxy. These poisons are more than physical pain. They get into your minds, and link your consciousnesses together. You will be entering a nightmare made of your darkest fears, and you will have to work together to overcome them. Fear leads to anger, use your anger to get stronger and not be held back from your nightmares."

If only Iziz had survived. He would of had the same thing. Then again, if he some how does pull through, he'll find himself within the same nightmare.
 
[1/?]

[SIZE=11pt]While Saiah’s body crumpled to the stony floor, her consciousness walked away, unaware that she left her body behind. She was lost in the pain, excruciating to the point where there were no more reactions except to live in it. The planet seemed to blur and stretch in her eyes and she was aflame. It was no longer just a sensation; she looked down and saw purple flames engulfing her hands, charring her skin and consuming her flesh. The statues surrounding them came closer, staring down at Saiah until they stood shoulder to shoulder and blocked her from walking any further. She looked up at the obscured faces; the scent of burning flesh filled her nostrils, the crackle of fat sounded in her ears, and the void above called. She could see no stars only the empty darkness beckoned her.

Then, something glinted as it came falling down: A golden coin, which landed in her palm heavily. She inspected it; a skull encrusted in bones adorned one side, and on the other two serpents bit each other’s tails. She looked once more up into the void from whence it had come, then back to the coin. Saiah twirled the coin between her fingers, but it slipped and landed with the skull facing up in the cold sand. As Saiah bent down to pick up the coin, she found herself standing in a familiar place.

Around her towered the walls of the arena, and between her fingers there was only dust. As she stood and looked about, then before her stood a young figure. She was a Rattataki, wearing the ragged clothes of a pit fighter and clenching a knife in her small hand. Her grey eyes stared at Saiah with a mixture of fear and hatred. Saiah took a step towards her, but the child seemed to grow, so did the arena and the two massive serpents that spectated from the seating area. Again, Saiah looked at hands she expected to be charred and aflame. However, they were whole, pale, and holding a knife. She looked up at the girl in front of her again as she screamed and charged at Saiah. Saiah let out an involuntary counter-yell and charged as well. The two children clashed halfway and blades flashed, blood squirted from deep cuts. Every time a cut hit, she found herself on the receiving end. Saiah was fighting Saiah and carving Saiah up to little bits. No, it was not Saiah. This was Maica, Maica Pec, street-rat, nobody. She plunged her knife deep into her opponents’ neck and felt the same pain in her own. She clawed at her eyes and found herself blinded. She screamed and heard the resounding scream in unison of her own voice.[/SIZE]
 
Somewhere in all the stabbing, the screaming, the pain, oh such pain, Saiah found herself looking down at herself and herself fighting. With a swipe of her hand, the two bloodied fighters dissolved into a cloud of smoke. The arena too dissolved, losing shape and forming a swirling, misty darkness on a floor of solid gold. The serpents still watched, unblinking, from the shadows with eyes like fires split only by the absolute darkness of the void. They circled her as their piercing gaze surveyed every molecule of her body and every fragment of her soul. They were judging her.

Once Saiah realized this, the serpents formed a complete circle and reared up into the empty sky before bowing down over her. They towered over the Rattataki’s spirit like the great statues on the forsaken planet. Sound reverberated through the very air around her, as if the mist itself spoke. After it had repeated, Saiah recognised, understood, and repeated it in Basic.

Nw r tuti zo tash- Irsir ros Kanasazi.
Peace is a lie – There is only Passion
Dro Kanasazi Nu tihri Tutsatsa.
Through Passion I gain Strength.
Dro Tutsatsa Nu tihri Midwan.
Through Strength I gain Power.
Dro Midwan Nu tihri Dirtsarias.
Through Power I gain Victory.
Dro Dirtsarias ki dzara tuti Kots.
Thriugh Victory my chains are broken.
Qyâsik tqi ridasi ki
The Force shall free me.
As she spoke, the mist gathered. It condensed into a thick cloud, crackling with lightning and roaring with thunder. Yet, the voice deafened all other sound. It was everywhere and nowhere at once. Inside and out, it was the quietest whisper and the most resounding of roars. The cloud coiled into a vast tube, engulfing the serpents and surrounding Saiah. It reared into the sky where its eyes ignited with flame and turned down against the would be Sith.

Nu tuti ri midwan. Diu kioska arsia ki?

“I am the one who craves the power. I am Saiah, and I will be Sith.”

Sosûtari nindz rokatsa ri kirsana iw Tsitira.


A hiss sounded from the two coiling serpents as they shifted and rose behind Saiah, eyes ever staring. Saiah did not take her eyes off the cloud, if she showed a moment of weakness, then they would strike her down and leave her for oblivion. She knew this from the bottom of her heart. She raised her arms and rose in her full height to challenge the cloud.

“I claim the title of Darth, and if I am unworthy then strike me down at once!”

Silence, then a chuckle, followed by a laugh. It roared like thunder and shook the very foundations of the earth as she felt it.

Womohtsara ao kûts, tsioâ tuti tu'iyia ridis. Dursi kaj arji Saiah.


Upon the utterance of her name, lightning enveloped her in searing pain. She felt herself taken apart once more, but she would not let it destroy her. She would be Sith and claim her power. She put all she was against the lightning and she would persevere.

OOC: I used a translator for the High Sith used in this post, which you find here. I believe most of it is guessable from context.
 
From the perspective of Iziz-Vei

"I did not feel myself slip from the world of the living, it was a transition as seamless as walking from one world into another, smoke clearing from my eyes as I began to look into the true nature of the force, tethered by something i could not possibly understand as I gazed deeper into the Abyss. Awaking, I was not where my body once lay, I stood at the foot of the stairs looking up at what could only be described as the presence of those around me, be they living or dead. There was the shape of Lord Ferus, like smoke and fire coiling around each other into a form which seemed almost transparent. Like a furnace of Primal nuclear chaos was his presence in the force to mine eyes. The presence of the other two dwarfed in its magnitude, the signature of kitties seemed bestial, natural, touched by the dark-side of the force but not yet succumbed, her power much calmer, with a warping center. And then there was the Saiahs' bright and intense, more fire than smoke, more passion than deviance and evil. I could barely stare at them, and so i turned from their light to look down at myself, but only saw what I know.

As i turned however, there was another force, not transparent like the others, but it was like a pillar of darkness and sickening green flame, I could feel the malice leaking from it as it came into form... the form it took was one which looked like myself, though with subtle changes. He bore the same white fur as myself, but wore a shroud and cloak over himself to disguise his form. So much hate seethed from his form as the crackling flames spread to the area around them. Raising its hand, it pulled a fist, like a signal as hundreds of spirits began to create a maelstrom around me, each of them nameless, but bending to the will of this presence. The tension in the air, the darkness which radiated from the increasing density of long forgotten specters began to drown my form, like I was unable to breathe. But, the passion, the envy, the hate and rage... but more importantly, the hunger which burned from the form of the ghost...

It was familiar.

Like a long lost brother, or parent I had never known, a bond could be felt within us, like a chain tethering us together on a primeval level through the force. Despair took hold of me, unable to break free from the unfathomable power which trailed the energy of the Chaos it had crawled its way out from....

It was over...

But, as if by a fleeting act of mercy on a whim, the specter with a single repulse through the force scattered the spirits and approached my form, kneeling as i clawed for breath it leaned down low, its presence hot to be beside, like I would burn up at any moment as it whispered into my ear, a voice as hoarse as my memory remembered. But speaking words that I cannot remember, for as soon as I heard them pain wracked my soul, crippling me further, far greater than the pain of the potion which had flown through my body but moments before as the spirit moved past and began to ascend the staircase, looking over each of the forms which irradiated the plane from its top. Panting, and pulling myself to, it seemed that whatever the creature was, had won. Looking to each of the three in turn, trailing a finger across their aura as I could not help but wonder if they would be able to feel the spectral caress of the giant... though, as he came to the form I knew as Ferus. I could not help but compare the size of their veritable power.

Though the power of the specter was more palpable, more solid to my eye, it was like swirling tendils of squemous power which was hard to observe compared to the raw overwhelming power of my master, but the sizes of their presence in the force was nearing identical to my weakened eyes. But as the creature moved to my husk of a body... it began to all make sense... it had been the creature to aid me in my childhood, I had been under its spell in my most dangerous moments... this lord-like demonic force... and now it had its vessel. But, as if it was able to perceive my very thoughts, the creature turned to me and began to chuckle, a chuckle which echoed through the force like a demon"

"Not... Quite, Iziz... Not... Quite...

...You ... are much...
Much... too weak... for me ..."

Clapping its hands together, the spirits around him began to swirl, as if controlled by its very whim... I could do little but stare as it commanded the legions of the forgotten like puppets on strings as it bowed down low, reaching a single hand out for the collapsed form, which had once been me.
 
Saiah was back, in a sense. She stood once more on the planet surface with a golden coin in her hand. She turned it between her fingers, flipping it over her knuckles. As she looked at her hands, she saw she was only bones enveloped in purple flames. Interesting, very interesting. Was this a way to show how the planet consumed her? She started walking towards the temple where they had met; Every step she took was a mountain climbed and demanded the entirety of her will. She as feeling the toll of the planet's darkness, its all-consuming emptiness. She saw the fire gnaw voraciously on her bones and the remainder of her flesh. Yet Saiah would persevere. She would not be claimed by oblivion just yet.

She stood over her body where it lay limp in the dust, a small pearl of blood had formed where the needle had pierced her skin. She could still feel the pain of the poison in her incorporeal veins. Saiah knelt by her body and put her skeletal hands on either side of her fleshed face. Slowly she bent down, face to face with herself she kissed herself and felt herself be drawn into her flesh once more to be reunited. She would be stronger than ever before. As she was drawn in, she looked at her two fellow knights-to-be, and their Master. Darth Ferus never looked so powerful as when she could see the Dark Side surrounding him. Something was off about Iziz, but she was too weary to investigate. She would know in turn. She would know. She closed her eyes and let her spirit and flesh reunite once more.


[member="Iziz Vei"] | [member="Kitty"] | [member="Darth Ferus"]
 
Iziz suddenly felt the world around him pull inwards like being drawn deep towards a gravity singularity, drawing forth all power in the world and creating a spectral black hole, swallowing everything as in the center, the grim apparition had touched the forehead of Iziz. The specter smiled and poured his own dark-side power into the Jawa as Iziz's soul could feel dark shackles of death wrap around his wrists, reeling him back towards the body. Out of fear, Iziz attempted to resist the pull, fighting against it with everything he had... he couldn't... his master... he had failed the trial, of which he doubted there were no second chances. But the creature of darkness' head cocked to a side psychotically, its form warping to accommodate as a Cheshire grin of rowed teeth shone like starlight strung together in crescent moons across its maw. Iziz could feel the power from the dark being, as his attention went back to the Jawa... the squemous energy which irradiated the area around him warped all perception, like the laws of the afterlife were being bent, with the finger upon the head of Iziz's body, power began to explode from the area, and without being able to resist any longer, Iziz was flown from his feet as a small scar was torn in the force on the location of Iziz's body, temporarily severing the realms between life and death...

"No..."

Iziz's body spoke audibly, though, at this point, the lifeless corpse still held no bio-rhythm, speaking basic, but not in the same higher pitched hoarse voice which was the tongue of Iziz. Instead what would be heard was the course, gritty, and guttural voice of something else... though his lips never moved... The words, soft as a whisper, didn't breathe pass the lips of the Jawa, but to those sensitive in the force, it could be heard emanating from him like feather on the wind. The voice power, like a bolt of lightning ripping apart a tall oak and splitting it in two... but also control, like water flowing down a winding river, rolling on the rocks... To those around sensitive enough to hear, it would be his first heartbeat after a long silence which would be the first sign of life within the Jawa, causing his fingers to twitch on the ground... the dull copper-red of his eyes began to stain, corrupted, like tendrils as licks of blood began to sweep over them as their bio-luminescence lit up once again, becoming orange, and soon crimson as the harvest moon. Though, of all of the things which stuck out the most, the symbol which had appeared on his back, lit up like fire, as it would with the use of the dark-side... but suddenly, it branched out, the small circular symbol, as the Jawa's heart beat once more, began to spread again in a shocking burst of movement, more lines formed like burning oil, and more, and more creating more connections from which spread more lines making more connections still, like carving out a maze of symbols upon the Jawas back... the end result was a dark branding which spread from his neck to his lower spine, intricate and elaborate underneath his silver fur.

'WE... wont... die...'

The voice would ring out once more from the Jawa's motionless lips as the creature in place of Iziz would raise his hands, pushing himself off the ground and up to his knees again, raising one leg and with determination, and blood leaking from a bite wound from the Jawa's mouth, Iziz would stand... not quite alive, like he was being puppeted through the force, the reek of chaos staining the air around them as the Jawa's eyes crackled with emerald lightning... Meeting his eye of Ferus, a hateful, unnatural glare pulsating from Iziz's eyes... but not from his mind, as suddenly, as if night turned to day, there was a shift in the nature of the force around the Jawa... the force in the air around him was being sucked in, from the spirits all around in trace amounts until, like the breaking of an eclipse after reaching its zenith the first crack of light split the area around him and the being let out a powerful cry, as a force scream flooded the area, the telekinetic and the mental anguish exploded in violent physical force enough to rip a crater into the ground below them as red and green power tore at the stone and everything within range in the violent outburst, the intent... hidden somewhere within the cause.

But finally, with the shock, a rhythm emerged...

Falling backwards after the expenditure of power, the heartbeat of the Jawa flashed back to light as his boiling blood began to pump life once again in his veins... wavering, and staggering, the corruption in one of Iziz's eyes receded, but not the other as the Jawa fell backwards, colliding with the ground hard. Panting, and groaning as his capillaries felt like they were ready to explode, his skin felt like it was acid burning into him and his body felt heavy, as if he had spent his entire life weightless only to be given corporeal form, subjected to the forces of weight for the very first time... But, worst of all...

"Ow... I think I dropped the needle..."

His memory had been warped by the trauma and experience... looking around he could see an empty needle on the ground nearby, shattered into splinters from the scream, but intact enough to be a reference. Looking to his shoulder he saw the symbol's final moments as it had faded into nothing but embers... and finally, invisible to the naked eye.

[member="Darth Ferus"] | [member="Saiah"] | [member="Kitty"]
 
Ferus had turned once the three fell into a trance. Facing them, he watched their bodies for any sign of decay. This planet would absorb the weak after all, and should they not of lasted, well. They would of simply faded away. And yet he felt two disruptions in the darkness. First, [member="Darth Ophidia"] . She had reunited with her body, a sign of her overcoming the trial she had to face. He did not know what her fears were, but they were no longer crippling. They were now power.

Second, [member="Iziz Vei"] . It was.. A unique feeling he felt, something he had never experienced in all this time of being a Sith. It felt.. Hollow. As if a second form was acting. It wasn't his apprentice, who ever it was, and it wasn't a forgotten. It was far too powerful, far too fresh for those of the Sith left here to die. An anger within the Sith Lords eyes became clear as he looked to the body of his seemingly dead pupal. It was a disrespect unworthy of even the lowest of Sith, let alone the Hand's own student.

He was about to act when the body spoke. Golden eyes widened as the realization set in on what would come next. Iziz was fighting Death, and as the Force began to swell the concern of his other pupals came into existence. Moving between the body of the Jawa and the other two, a purple barrier would come into existence with the full power of the Lord. Then it came, the scream.

Pressing against the power with both hands behind his barrier, the Sith Lord was determined to protect his students. They had earned their place as Sith after all, and this was not part of the original challenge he set before them. Once the scream stopped however, Darth Ferus took a deep breath, and let the barrier fall. Iziz, the first to fail, was the first to stand at his fullest.

A small chuckle escaped the lips of their master as the danger was passed.

"Yes, perhaps you did. But, you have also passed the challenge young Jawa."
 
Between the return of her spirit to her body and her awakening, there was a something of a restful dream. One last lure for Saiah to give in, the planet gave her the chance of peaceful sleep. However, peace is a lie. When she opened her eyes, a shreak tore through the air and from her position in the cold sand, she looked up at [member="Darth Ferus"] as he was casting a large purple barrier around her and @Kitty. She sat up quickly, placing a hand on her bald head as her skull throbbed. Even within the barrier, the shriek was loud, piercing, She forced herself to a knee-stance, then to a full standing position. Saiah glared down at [member="Iziz Vei"] from behind their master's shoulder. She wondered quite about what had happened to him to cause such a crater. Still, their nightmares were individual, and their terrors different. The importance was that both had persevered.

Next her eyes went to Ferus, a question clear on her face, and then to Kitty. She was wondering what she was going through as well. What nightmares were concocted in the head of the feline, and what trials did she have to pass in order to transcend into the ranks of the Sith? Saiah would probably never know. She had to smile a little as the Jawa came to. Whether she smiled because she was glad he had made it, or because she found his first words as a knight humorous, she would not admit even to herself.
 

Kitty

The Attention Seeker
Saiah took the syringe from Kitty and stabbed her in the shoulder with it. The aggressive action put the feline off quite a bit. It shouldn't have surprised her though. Saiah was a sith after all and was shortly after lost in pain. Kitty wasn't far behind.

Kitty was quite unique and most could tell pretty quickly, but only one knows just how unique. It was well known among her fellow acolytes she wasn't a very sithy sith and even by jedi standards she shouldn't be able to make. That was the weird thing too. So many times Kitty shouldn't have made it, so many times she had cheated her own destruction. Right now she should be caged by her parents so that she doesn't harm the citizens of Felacat, but she escaped. She should still be enslaved to an owner who treated her and expected her to act as a pet rather than a slave, but she escaped him too. She should have died in every battle and sith trial she was in, as well as every time she's transformed, but she escaped death each and every time as well. Most of all she should have been consumed by her own mental and emotional anguish long ago. It was the very thing the sith thought made her weak that made her strong though. Her stubbornness in forming and maintaining attachments and her refusal to turn those attachments into sources of hatred and rage and instead using them as sources of love and kindness. Anger was an emotion that was used up very quickly which is why the sith needed to hate everything. Love on the other hand even the smallest reason for it can make it last forever and it always survived in Kitty's many trials of physical and emotional pain.

This particular trial Kitty had been through before not very long ago. The pain wasn't as bad back then but she still had a significant advantage over the other two. She knew she would make it. However Kitty was still fragile and the idea that Ferus would put her through this again only made it hurt more. When it had finally subsided Kitty's mind quickly erased all memory of these recent events. She recovered in dumb founded haze confused as to where she was and why she was here. Ferus and his two other students were here. She could feel something important had just happened, but had no idea what. "What's going on?" Kitty asked Ferus in her confusion.
[member="Darth Ophidia"] [member="Darth Ferus"] [member="Iziz Vei"]
 
Iziz didn't seem to be the only one who was looking around confused at everything that seemed to be happening, the other two acolytes also seemed to be bedazzled by the course of events which had seemed to come to pass, which only continued to confuse the miniature sith more and more... Though, when he heard that he had passed the test he was overjoyed, attempting to stand up quickly in order to almost dance in the excitement for it all, but barely able to stand up and perform a light twirl before the weakness that still lay in his legs got to him and forced him to the ground hard, dust poofing out around him in a cloud as he bit the dirt, coughing as he had almost winded himself and breathed in a lung-full of dirt and other noxious substances... Looking up and around knowing that he was more than likely being watched by all of this at this point...

Not the highest moment in his Career as a Sith.

none the less, after a few more moments he rose to his feet and tested his ability to walk once again, strength quickly returning to the Jawa as he could still feel the soreness of the dark mark on his back. He could not see it past the fur, nor was he able to really identify the scope that it really was over his back, but, he could feel a tingling near-numb sensation where it was, though the sensation was slowly fading. The only other thing which was still lingering was the throbbing pain behind his eye, like a frontal headache which forced him to raise his hand to the side of his face and cradle it for the mean time. Looking over at Ferus, and Kitty as well as Saiah, he hoped that the three of them were okay, smiling at the fact that all of them seemed to be ok, especially Saiah. Waddling over to her as best he could and placing a hand on her shoulder, the single visible eye of his own shining happily as it would soon seem that they had all made it to the next stage of knight.

"Nice to see you're okay Saiah..."

Iziz spoke lightly, his voice... strained, like it had caught in his throat and he had forced it out none the less.

[member="Kitty"] | [member="Darth Ferus"] | @[member="Darth Ophidia"]
 
"What, you expected anything less?"

She was a little put off by the direct reference the Jawa had made towards her, yet she felt a joke was appropriate. She had never been much of a joker before, but there was a first time for everything. She looked at both her fellow apprentices, seeing them rise with anticipation on their faces. She was glad to see them both rise, and glad to stand beside them on the threshold of knighthood before their Master. She too directed her pale grey eyes to Darth Ferus with the same anticipation on her face, and yet a fierce determination in her eyes. Her right hand swiftly palmed the golden coin she kept on her person and squeezed it tightly. It was a reminder to her of the things she had seen, the vows she had taken and the power she craved. The corners of the coin bit her skin as she squeezed it, the pain making her lesson all the more clear.

Now, all that awaited was the verdict, the final words, and their master's acknowledgement as rightful members of the Sith. They had passed his test and emerged from the fire, stronger than ever: Knights of the One Sith.

[member="Darth Ferus"] [member="Kitty"] [member="Iziz Vei"]
 

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