Bad Dream

[Kiln]

Where am I...? Why cant I open my eyes? It burns. I cant move.

As he strenuously opens his eyes, he sees that he is surrounded by millions of tiny worm-like appendages that are burrowing into his skin. He pulls his arms up, grabbing the strands going into his head, and slowly started to rip them out of his skull before waking up in his bed, screaming.

Coruscant Underworld
Apartment Complex
0200 Hours

Kiln stares at his shield leaning against the wall of his room for a while, before getting out of bed and getting dressed. He takes one last look at the shield before putting his hood on and leaving the building. As Kiln wandered the streets of the underworld, he witnessed several crimes taking place out in the open, like no one even cared.

After a while Kiln notices that hes being followed by three shady looking people that are walking up behind him, and he turns into an alleyway, walking toward a dead end.

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Balaya wasn't shady... and she was very noticeable compared to many. The men following were from the purifiers league her darkside hunters who captured for the disguised leader. What better way she had found to recruit talent into the ranks of the sith then use lightsiders to find them. She sat in one of the large speeders while tapping the controls and let the men handle the darksider. Then if he didn't annoy her she would send him to the Dark Lord to see what he believed. "Catch him."

 

[Kiln]

Kiln walked to the end of the alleyway where it would be difficult to surround him, and turned to face the three men coming into the alley. He couldn't remember much from his past life, but it felt like he had done this before.

As the men draw closer, Kiln lowers his hood and starts walking toward them when suddenly the man in front sprints forward and grabs Kiln while the second man tries to go around him. Kiln grabs the first man's arm and the back of his head, pulling him to the side slightly and making room to stomp the second one's knee, stopping him for a moment before slamming the first guy's head into the alley wall. He throws the unconscious guy to the ground and punches the other one in the face before running at the third man and tackling him to the ground. Kiln kneels on the man's stomach and grabs his face, driving his thumbs into the man's eyes until he stopped screaming and went limp.

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Balaya continued to focus now from the speeder and looking up only when she felt that they had been fighting. The feeling of fighting brought her attention around though and now she was interested only because.... disturbing her spells was a dangerous thing. One she was still learning to properly control as a hand went to a comlink. "Send in more men with stunners, I must concentrate to maintain their focus. (in reality false lightside and illusionary disguise." The men from the purifier's league moved to intercept and carried standard issue stun rifles and bataons.

 

[Kiln]

Kiln looks up as several more men enter the alley with stun weapons, and it becomes apparent that these aren't just common street thugs. He stands up and backs into the alley, wishing he had brought his shield with him. Even in its broken state, it still would have made a difference here.

As he steps back and catches his breath, the man he had punched in the face gets up and grabs him from behind, while the men with the weapons quickly move in. Kiln grabs one of the man's fingers and breaks it back, making him loose his grip and giving kiln enough room to whip his head back, breaking the man's nose. Then he turns around and grabs the man, pulling him in front and using him as a human shield to block the incoming stun batons. One of them makes it around him so Kiln shoves the human shield into the crowd of attackers and turns to the man just as he jabs the stun baton into Kiln's side. Kiln screams painfully as he swings his arm around hitting the man and knocking him away, before running in and grabbing hold of the arm wielding the weapon. The man repeatedly punches Kiln in the head trying to get him off so Kiln headbutts him in the mouth and smashes his hand against the alley wall, forcing him to drop the baton. Kiln quickly pushes the man into the others before turning around and going for the stun baton, but one of the men with a stun rifle gets a clear shot and shoots him in the back.

Kiln falls to the ground and his body starts to go numb. He looks at the weapon laying on the ground in front of him and reaches out for it with the last of his strength, but the others are already on him, and they knock him unconscious.

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

"Ahh good" Balaya waited for him to be brought to the speeder in restraints. Letting the men do as needed while she sat there and watched him get thrown in. "Ah welcome." Looking down at him she tapped her fingers and the blade on her hip hummed a little tune to itself. The enjoyment the dark'chyld blade was having more then enough for all of them to go along with. Then the speeder was taking off and the rest of the league were off and heading home, her speeder making way towards the purification ritual or whatever she wanted really. "Awaken"

 

[Kiln]

Kiln awoke with a bad headache and the taste of blood in his mouth. He slowly opens his eyes, bringing his hands up to hold his head when he realized his hands and feet were restrained. As he looks around to see where he was, he spots a large red haired woman driving the speeder he's in and stares at her for a moment before sitting upright to look over the edge of the speeder, examining where they are and spitting some blood out of his mouth.

"... Those were your men?... What do you want?"

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Balaya just looked with amusement in her eyes and spoke. "Yes they are members of the purifiers league, we hunt down darksiders and anyone who generally we don't like. Make the world a better place by taking out the problems." She tapped her fingers on the speeder though and dropped the illusion and aura. "However those with talent I send to a very special place somewhere they can do the most use. Have you ever been interested in the sith?"

 

[Kiln]

"Purifiers?" he said, fiddling with his restraints. "Never heard of them."

Kiln stared at the woman intently as he lowered his eyebrows. Those with talent are sent to a special place where they can do the most use, she said. Was this a slaver? If she wanted him dead it would probably be done. Either way, there was nowhere to go while they were flying through the air at that speed. "Are all sith cowards?"

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

"No not cowardly but time has taught something that all learn. Patience for plans to begin. I waited to become leader of this little group, the sith waited for the moment to bring the shining jewel of the core worlds to its knees. All one needs is to bide your time and energies for the right moment and you can topple the king from the hill. Now we shall see what comes of you, perhaps I open that door and drop you into the street from several stories up or perhaps I take you to a new home. So what shall it be?"

 

[Kiln]

Kiln remained silent for a while, looking down at the streets and pondering his limited options. He wasn't sure what "the shining jewel of the core worlds" was, but there was truth in the woman's words about patience. "... Fine. Lets see my new home... King..."

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Another smile curled her lips while Balaya flicked her wrist to raise up a drink. "Enjoy." The speeder continued towards the ship as she looked on and tapped her fingers for a moment briefly. The enjoyment coming when they arrived and went into the hanger. The purifier's gave way to Blackblades and the elite soldiers of the one sith and personal army of Kaine stood at the ready as she got out. "It is time to go captain, we are going home with another prize." The laugh between the two was more then enough as they walked towards the bridge. "And prepare a drop pod as usual, the boy will need to be tested."

 

[Kiln]

As they walked through the ship, Kiln looked around at all the soldiers, taking note of their weapons. Most of them looked a lot tougher than the men he fought in the alley, and some of them were even carrying lightsabers. He follows the woman silently until they enter the bridge and start to take off. "Whatever test you have in mind, I'll need my hands back for it." He said sternly, pulling on his restraints. "What do they call you anyway?"

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

"I am called Praelior." She had a grin while moving to the escape pods and motioned with her head for him to get in. Leaving a key. "The first part will be getting free in time as you descend towards Vendaxia... for the next two months the world will form you into the subject the dark lord needs. Now get in and I'd quickly find the key these drop pods are notorious for needing manual correction." A small laugh while her men indicated there wasn't an actual choice in the matter now as she moved off towards the bridge.

 

[Kiln]

As Kiln watched Praelior walk away, one of the men shoved him toward the drop pod. The man stared at Kiln with a smug smile on his face and nudged him further into the pod just as Kiln notices a lightsaber hanging from the man's belt. Walking the rest of the way in, Kiln turns around to face the men.

Closing his eyes, Kiln thinks back to the stranger that saved him from the desert on Ryloth. She had shown him he could move things with his mind, and although he didn't quite have hang of it yet, he needed it now. Kiln opens his eyes, staring blankly at the men and focusing on the saber. Feeling it in his hands. Gripping it with his mind. Right when the man activates the drop sequence, Kiln throws his hands back and the lightsaber flies from his belt and straight into the pod, making it through the door just as it seals shut.

The pod ejects from the ship and is sent careening toward Vendaxa at high speeds while inside, Kiln grabs a hold of the lightsaber and figures out how to activate it, cutting through the restraints. But at that moment the drop pod enters the planet's atmosphere and starts to shake violently as it tumbles out of control toward the surface. Kiln screams in agony as the lightsaber jerks out of his grip and slices off his right hand before deactivating and falling to the floor with the restraints, his severed hand still trapped in them.

He clutches his arm painfully and tries to slow his decent, knowing nothing about the controls. He grabs the steering stick and yanks it back with all of his might, just as the pod starts smashing through some trees. The pod descends and smacks into the ground, skipping across the surface a few times before slowly grinding to a stop in the middle of a jungle.

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Oh that was interesting to say the least, she was impressed getting the reports from the blackblades he had taken a saber. Now as she sat there on the bridge and tapped her fingers more of a grin came upon her face. "Set course for home we'll return in two months for him or if he isn't here find a new one." The ship jumped to hyperspace after clearing the gravity of the planet and Balaya left her apprentice to his own fate now one handed on a world filled with very dangerous predators.

 

[Kiln]

Kiln awoke from unconsciousness, thinking at first that it was all just another bad dream, but the deep pain in his arm quickly brought him back to reality. He felt around the pod for the release handle for the door, gripping onto it and trying to pull but the door was damaged and wont open, so Kiln feels around for the lightsaber. He finds it and brings it into view, being careful as he activates it and fills the pod with a crimson red light. Kiln stares at the glowing blade in awe, taking a moment to admire the weapon. This was it the power he had been searching for. The power to slay a giant.

Kiln thrusts the blade through the wall of the pod and cuts out a small opening, Kicking the chunk of metal out into the jungle floor when the head of an Acklay comes out of nowhere and bites at his leg, barely missing it. "FETH!" Kiln screams, backing away from the opening just as the animal outside stomps on the pod, bending the top in. He swings the saber upward cutting through the top of the pod, and the animal lets out a loud shriek. Might have nicked it, but there was no sound to indicate the thing was leaving. Kiln deactivates the lightsaber and stares out the opening in the pod at the chunk of metal he had cut out, noticing the release handle on it. Putting the saber on his belt, Kiln gets ready to run. He sprints out of the pod and rolls onto the piece of metal, grabbing the handle and lifting it off the ground with his left hand while the Acklay crawls after him. The creature bites down at him and Kiln thrusts his arm into its mouth, forcing the chunk of metal into its teeth and jamming its mouth open. Kiln lets go and dives out of the way as it waved its head back and forth trying to get the thing out of its mouth. He grabs the lightsaber from his belt and activates it, running back in and cutting through its front two legs to force the creature to lower its head, and then slices it clean off.

The Acklay fell to the ground with a giant thud and Kiln deactivates the saber, kneeling down to catch his breath. He looks at the burnt stump where his right hand use to be and cringes. He got lucky. There was no way he would survive out here crippled like this. As he slowed his breathing back to normal he looked back at the creatures head with the chunk of metal still in its mouth.

That night Kiln made camp and cooked the Acklay over a fire as he cut out another piece from the drop pod and secured it to the back of his right forearm using vines from the trees. He scratches a notch into a nearby boulder with it, and looks up at the sky. "Two months..."

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

Yes two months and as Balaya went about her work roaming quietly around the One siths territory she barely took the time to acknowledge her apprentice on the planet. Letting him live or die as needed, if he was strong he would thrive, if he was weak well. That was no longer her problem while the One sith went about molding Coruscant to their Dark Lords vision.

 

[Kiln]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgyT9nBwax0
Over the next two months Kiln fought for his life in the vast jungles of Vendaxa, coming close to death almost everyday. The shield he made for himself allowed him to make use of his right arm again and free up his left hand to use the lightsaber. Over time, his right arm became conditioned from having the heavy chunk of metal permanently attached to it, and became incredibly strong. When Kiln wasn't in danger, he would practice with the lightsaber and meditate on the force, perfecting his telekinesis, and even learning to control the saber with it. For every day that passed he made another notch in the boulder, waiting for his ride out. Although eventually he began to feel a certain sense of peace from living here. It felt like home. This was where he was strongest.

[member="Darth Praelior"]

 

[Balaya Praelior Zambrano]

[member="Kiln"]

The months ticked away and Balaya's only indication she remembered while the One Sith's interests continued was the personal reminder of the droid. Him coming day after day to tell her until the final day came and she was on Coruscant with a laugh drinking among the blackblades. Then the reminder came and she groaned but enjoyed it. Letting the night continue for another day and then leaving to see if the boy survived. After the travel time and sitting in orbit Balaya had taken an extra three days before sitting on a large thrown and heading down to the planet. The large ship touching down at a different area then where the drop pod had landed at least another days walk away while the blackblades covered the ramp and waited. The sith master reaching out to announce she was on the planet.