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Objective II: The Cave
The Spiral Staircase swirled down into shadow. There at the base, Lord Tentaus peered with his glowing Blood Orange eyes, there was nothing but utter darkness and without his saber he had no light. Pvt Collin followed, as they walked they heard crunching sounds, which prompted The Sith Lord to reach down and he held up a skull. The floor was made of them. The GA Trooper stopped behind the Titan,
“Is everything alright?”
The Dark Lord discarded the skull after feeling it, there was gashes, like teeth marks.
“
If I told you the truth.. you would be unnerved, would you rather me feign assurance?”
The Trooper shook his head,
“After what we’ve seen.. I need to know.”
Tentaus turned, and spoke in s raspy voice,
“
There is a reason no one has come here in eons.. the floor.. it is made of the bones of thousands.”
The Private swallowed,
“Is it a tomb? Mass grave?”
The Togruta Sith looked at the frightened Trooper, and replied,
“
It would appear so.. but the bones are marked by the signs of a predator.”
Pvt. Collins took a deep breath,
“Surely whatever was here is dead by now right?!”
Lord Tentaus squinted,
“
The dark side is a pathway to abilities some consider unnatural..[1]”
The GA Trooper was unnerved, as the kept moving forward, their feet crunching more bone with each step. They came to a grave wall of black stone with an opening only three feet high, meaning they wouls have to crawl on their bellies. The Sith Lord laid down and began to slither through the opening, Pvt. Collins followed trying to control his panicked breathing, claustrophobia taking hold. The Togruta Sith kept wiggling in the rock as he came to a chamber of close in rock oullara in the sh h of webs, and one meter thick. The Sith looked around,and saw a pack laying on the ground with black stains of dried blood. He opened it to find some supplies, he tested a light which flickered on and off, providing light sporadically, he handed it to Pvt. Collins. Inside was a pick tool for rock climbing and some rope, he handed the pick to The GA Trooper.
“
It will make a useful tool and weapon.”
There was a strange sound that responded to the flickering light, a chirping that sounded almost guttural that rose to a ping sound.
“What was that?!” cried Collins.
The Dark Lord extendes his fingers to make a field of lightning, when ahead of them something stirred at an angle:
It moved around the web of pillars, and black rock, watching and waiting. Lord Tentaus whispered,
“
We are being hunted..”
The GA Trooper drew in breaths as the light strobed.
“Can we make it if we run?”
The Sith Lord held his hand ready to unleash bolts of anythest.
“
No.. we are in the kill box. This is a nest or hive.. prepare yourself..”
The Trooper replied,
“For what?!”
The Sith said in a montone,
“
Death..”
Something swept by, airbourne and as the light flickered off a tail like a line of fishing rod grabbed Pvt. Collins and as it flickered on he was seen carried off into the air. The Sith Lord shot bolts at black creature that had him, two gnarled purple beams of heat hit the creature which shrieked and fell, dropping Collins, who seung his pickhammer widly, cutting into something making the Creature thrash as he fell into cravass, and tumbled with his light flickering on and off down in great chasm which his hammer cut the edge of and held him in place.
“My Lord! Lord Tentaus! Help!”
There was no reply, just a symphony of those chirps that had come before the creature attacked.
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[1] Palpatine, Revenge of the Sith
Photo from The Cave (2005)
Darth Strosius
