Shadows That Turn Up Final Chapter

"Deson! There you are!" Deson heard a familiar voice call out from him as he walked through the temple halls. Deson sighed and turned around. Mara Skywalker ran up to him. " How’d you get out of my room without the New Republic guards seeing you?" She asked curiously.

Deson shrugged and smiled. " It’s a gift." He bowed his head and then turned around. " I apologize for scaring you mother."
He said as he started walking away.

" I need to ask you something Deson." He hear Mara say from behind him. He turned around and leaned against the wall.

" Deson, you said you met the emperor. I just want to know when did he find you?" She asked in a clam tone. Deson raised a eyebrow.

" May I ask what your talking about?" He asked confused. He had know idea what she was talking about. Mara stared at him for a second. " You know when you and your sister escaped, When did the emperor find you?" She asked in the same calm tone.

Deson smiled and nodded his head. " Oh your talking about the cover up!" He said before he started to laugh. " Me and my sister didn’t escape! The Emperor thought you were getting to attached to me and my sister. So he made the Scientist transport us to him and lie to you."

Mara stared at him with a shock expression on her face. Deson patted his mom on the shoulder. " I wouldn’t be shocked, You must by now know that the emperor has lied to you before."

Mara nodded her head slowly. Deson turned around and started to walk away. He was about to turn the corner when Mara called out to him. He turned around and looked at her. " What know?"

Mara jogged up to him and stopped a couple of feet away from him. " Why did the emperor freeze you and your sister in carbonite?" She asked. Deson frowned and sighed. " Me and my sister were joking around about dethroning him and he heard us. He put us in carbonite for are punishment. He said he would release us in a few months but he was killed in the death star." Deson shook his head. " I don’t know what’s worse. Dying or being put in carbonite."

He looked back at Mara and smiled weakly. " I hope I answered all your questions because I’m tired." Deson said as he yawned. " And by the way, Can I get a room of my own. I think I’m alittle to old to be living with my parents."

Mara smiled and shook her head. " I can see you got Skywalker’s sense of humor.. both of you have the corniest jokes I’ve ever heard." She said and she gave Deson a hug.

Deson was a little surprised but returned the hug. He guess he could let his mom hug him once. He pulled away and smiled

" Thank god I don’t got his looks." Mara’s eyes widened and her jaw dropped. She punched him in the shoulder and said she would get him a room. Deson followed her as she led him to his room.

Raynar and Lusa stood at the waterfall staring at the starlit sky. The night was unusually quiet. Raynar looked at Lusa and smiled to himself. God she’s beautiful he thought as he scooted closer to her. He reached into his pocket and made sure that the ring was still there for the 10^th time. It was. He took the ring out and hid it from Lusa. He didn’t want her to see it yet. " Um.. Lusa I have been meaning to ask you something." Raynar said still trying to think of the words to say to her. Lusa looked at him and smiled. " Yes Raynar?" Raynar gulped and took a deep breath.

" Lusa, We’ve been in love for many years. We are about to become Jedi Knights and I want us to be together forever." Raynar paused for a moment and stared into Lusa’s eyes. " Lusa.. will you marry me?"

Lusa stared at him with a surprised look on her face. Raynar stared into her eyes not saying anything. He lifted up the ring and slipped it on his finger. Raynar saw a tear fall Lusa’s eye and she nodded her head. " Yes Raynar I will!"

Raynar leaped into the air and yelled with joy. He then wrapped his arms around Lusa and kissed her.

Jacen and Qorl sat at a table discussing the what to do about the Jedi Academy. Qorl wanted to run and find somewhere else to live but Jacen wanted to fight the Jedi. " We can’t just run away every time we have to fight the jedi!" Jacen pointed out for the fortieth time. Qorl shook his head and frowned. " We don’t have enough people to fight the Jedi! We only have 10 Dark knights and 50 storm troopers left!" Qorl pounded his arm on the table. " We are dead if we stay here!"

Jacen smiled and shook his head. "We won’t loose this time! We will defeat the enemy once and for all!." He stood up and walked slowly towards Qorl. "We have enough men to attack the Jedi and kill everyone in the temple! If we attack tonight we would have the temple in a hour! " Jacen said smiling.

Qorl was about to protest when someone entered the room clapping his hands. " Bravo darling! Bravo!" Kia said as she walked to the table. " I bet we could take the Jedi and there defenses… They wouldn’t expect a thing, I have foreseen us as the winners of this battle."

" We will fight and we will win!" Jacen said smiling evilly. " The Jedi die tonight!"

Kia grabbed a cup from the table and held it in the air. " To the death of the Jedi!" She yelled. Qorl and Jacen grabbed a cup from the Jedi and raised there glasses. " To the Death of the JEDI!"

Deson woke up from his bed soaked with sweat. He had just had the worst nightmare. He had seen the temple being taken over by the his sisters forces. Deson got out of bed and walked to the refresher. He turned on the facet and splashed water in his face still thinking about his dream. Could Kia be on her way here to take the temple? He didn’t really know. He grabbed a towel from the ground and wiped his face off. He walked out of the refresher and walked to a window. He knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep if he didn’t make sure that the dark forces weren’t on there way here. Deson took a deep breath and climbed out of his window. As soon as he left the window he found himself sliding down the temple wall. Deson waited till he was
about to hit the ground when fell forward and rolled. He felt himself hit the ground pretty hard. Not dangerously hard but enough to get the wind knocked out of him. He staggered to his feet and brushed the dirt off his pants. He smiled and then walked towards the docking bay. He hoped that was were the kept the speeders bikes.

Zekk sat near the lightning rod staring out at the starry night. Jaina had been there with him earlier but told him she was tired and she left. So know here was Zekk all alone. He tried to think about Jaina but kept on thinking about one person. Deson.
He knew he was up to know good. That’s when he heard a speeder bike start. Zekk leaped to his feet and ran to were they kept the speeder bikes. As soon as he turned the corner he saw a person on a speeder bike fly off towards the jungle. Zekk knew who the person was. It was Deson. He just knew it.

Zekk cursed some rodian curses and ran to a speeder bike and started it. He hit the gas and flew out of the bay at full speed. **********************************

Qorl didn’t like this at all! Attacking the Jedi was the most idiotic scheme he had ever heard of. He didn’t care what Kia foresaw he still thought it was a bad idea. He sighed and shook his head. Why did he even agreed to help Kia. He didn’t really know he just remembering sounding like a good idea at the time.

Qorl looked up at the moon as he and what remained of the Second Imperial Army walked through the jungle. Qorl suddenly heard a noise. Speeders Bikes.

Deson sped through the jungle at full speed. He stared down at the jungle ground seeing if there was any people down there. Suddenly he felt a trimmer in the force. Deson turned his head and cursed under his breath as he saw Zekk race towards him. He could tell that Zekk thought he was running back to his sister. Deson slowed down and waited for Zekk to catch up.

As soon as Zekk caught up to him Deson acted like he was unrolling a window. He then looked at Zekk and said. " Is there a problem officer?" Zekk took out a blaster from his holster and aimed it at Deson. " What are you doing out here?" He said
with a bit of anger in his voice. Deson raised a eyebrow and looked at the blaster. " Do you always carry a blaster?"

Zekk nodded his head. " Better safe then sorry, know what are you doing out here?"

Deson frowned then looked down at the jungle floor. " I was just seeing if there was anyone out there, Is that all right with you?" He asked. Zekk raised a eyebrow. " And what are you looking for? I doubt you’re looking for animals." Zekk said as he lowered the blaster.

Deson smirked then shook his head. " Nope, I just had a dream and I wanted to see if Kia and them were coming." Zekk leaned against the speeders bike handles. " Kia’s might be coming.. and you just came here to check it out, How nice of you.." Zekk mumbled softly. Deson was about to make a remark when his danger senses went off.

" Look out!" Deson welled as he leaped off his speeder bike and tackled Zekk. As soon as both of them fell off, there speeder bikes exploded. Zekk and Deson fell towards the ground screaming. Blaster fired barely missed them as they fell through trees and vines. Finally they hit the ground hard. Deson staggered to his feet and grabbed Zekk’s elbow. "Come on!" He pulled Zekk to his feet but then Zekk fell on his face. Deson cursed and then lifted Zekk over his shoulders and started running. Blaster bolts hit the trees and rocks as he ran with Zekk on his shoulder. Deson only stopped for a second to look to a place to run. East, West, North, or South… hmm… Lets go west he thought to himself as he started running through the jungle once more. He saw the temple in the distance and he ran as fast as he could. He could still hear people behind him. As Deson
leaped over a rock two figures leaped into front of him. Deson smiled as he got a idea. He lifted Zekk off his shoulders and threw them into the people. The people caught Zekk and staggered back. Deson sensed someone was about to attack from
the back. So he ducked and let the gray lightsaber fly over his head. Deson leaped into the air and sent his left leg up as he twirled in the air. His foot caught someone in the jaw. The person fell to the floor holding his hurt jaw. Deson used to the force to make the person’s lightsaber fly into his hand. He then sent his foot into the teenagers head knocking him out. Deson twirled around and ducked as two pair of lightsabers flew towards him. As soon as Deson ducked he stuck out his foot and tripped one of the students. The dark jedi fell to the floor and hit his head on a rock. He laid there not moving. Deson stared at the remaining student. The dark jedi stared at Deson for a moment then charged him. Deson was about to do some fancy fighting move when a rock flew from the ground and smacked right into the students skull. He fell like a rock. Deson looked over and raised a eyebrow. " So when have you been away?"

Zekk staggered to his feet and glared at Deson. " I woke up about the time when you threw me into those two!" Zekk yelled angrily. Deson smiled then ripped some vines off a tree. " Help me out trying them up."

Kia walked into the clearing with all her troops. It had been five minutes since she had sent her best troops to find Deson
and she knew they were either dead, or knocked out. " Mistress Kia! Look!" One of her followers said as he pointed a
candle towards a tree. Kia shook her head in disgust when she saw he troops tied up. A message was carved into a tree
next to them.

Kia let out a scream of frustration. " DESON I"LL KILL YOU AND ZEKK I SWEAR." She yelled at the top of her lungs.

Raynar and Lusa walked slowly towards the temple hand in hand. Raynar was the happiest man in the world! Who would
have thought a girl like Lusa would say yes. It had taken major guts to ask her to marry him. He smiled and looked at Lusa.
"So, when do we tell the others?" Lusa looked over to him " I think we should wait tell Jacen is found… I don’t want to tell Jaina this is the happiest day I ever had when she has been going through hell." She said. Raynar thought about it for a moment then nodded his head. " I guess your right." He then leaned in for a kiss. They kissed for awhile. Raynar thought it would last
for
ever but suddenly someone behind him cleared there throat. Raynar thought it was Master Skywalker but when he turned around he found storm troopers all around him. Raynar was about to reach for his lightsaber but Lusa told him not too. They both raised there hands slowly. Two teenagers emerged from the crowd and walked slowly towards them. Deson could make out a girls face. She had black hair and looked a little bit like that new guy, Deson. That when it clicked in him. This must be that Kia girl Deson was talking about. The other person walked closer to Raynar and smiled wickedly at him. It was Jacen! "Jace man? Is that you?" Raynar asked stunned. Jacen drew back his hand and smacked Raynar hard a crossed the face. Raynar fell to the ground holding his jaw. He looked up and glared at Jacen. That’s when he saw Jacen do something. Jacen slapped Lusa. Raynar leaped from the ground onto Jacen. The both fell to the ground throwing punches. They fought for awhile. Jacen somehow got on top of him and started punching Raynar in the face. He tried to block them but he wasn’t
doing a good job. Jacen started to get up thinking Raynar gave up. He was wrong. Raynar raised his knee quickly and nailed Jacen hard between the legs. Jacen fell to the ground screaming in pain. Raynar was about to leap onto Jacen when he heard Lusa gasp. He turned his head and found a lightsaber to Lusa’s head. Kia held it. " Stop this now or this centaur b**ch dies," Raynar stood up slowly and held up his hands. Kia signaled for five guards to take them. She then looked at a older man. " Qorl take them to the cliffs and execute them."

Raynar saw that Qorl was about to protest put Kia held up a finger. " I’m the leader and I mean know!" The elderly man nodded then walked towards them. Raynar felt himself get pushed through the jungle as the guards led them to there death.

Luke Skywalker woke up from his bed to blaster fire. He quickly grabbed his jedi robe and out it on. Then he walked to the window and looked out. His eyes caught sight of storm troopers. About 50 of them firing at the New Republic Guards as 30 other soldiers stormed the temple. " Luke what’s going on?" Mara asked from behind him.

" The 2^nd imperial is attacking!" Luke yelled as he ran to the computer in his room. He went through some programs and
then activated the alarm. A second after he did it a huge noise blared through the temple.

Jaina leaped out of her bed as soon as she heard the alarm go off. She didn’t know what was going on but bet it involved the remaining dark knights. She quickly put on her robe and grabbed her lightsaber. She walked slowly towards her door. She
was about to open the door when two dark skinned boys busted in. She immediately activated her lightsaber and took her stance. The boys looked at each other then smiled. The lifted up there lightsabers and swung it at Jaina with full force.
Jaina fell to her knees and let the boys lightsabers fly over her head and into each other. She could tell they weren’t very
good lightsaber fighters.

Lowie leaped from his hammock as soon as he smelled the sent of blaster fire. He reached for his belt and took out his lightsaber. He ignited it and ran to his door. As soon as he opened his door a dark knight ran towards him. Lowie raised his lightsaber and blocked the blow. The boy backed up a little then ran after Lowie. Before there lightsabers crashed into each other, Lowie deactivated his and move out of the way. The boy sliced threw the air and fell forward clumsily. Lowie grabbed the kid by the back of the shirt and threw him out the window. The boy screamed loudly as he fell but finally silenced when he hit the hard ground.

Tenel Ka stood over the tied up boys in her room. The four boys had ran in her room holding lightsabers. They didn’t think a one armed girl was going to be such a challenge. They were greatly mistaken. She had fought all for of them and had kicked butt! Know they laid on the floor struggling to get out of the rope she had use to tie them up with. She walked to each of the boys and took all there weapons. Whatever weapon she found she threw it out her window. When she was finished doing that she walked to her door and opened it. She looked back at the boys and nodded her head. " Have a nice night gentlemen."

Qorl and the five storm troopers stood in front of the two jedi. They had taken there weapons and were ready to execute
them. Qorl raised his blaster and orders his men to raise there’s. They did. He detected a hit of fear from the two jedi. " Ready…. Aim… FIRE!" Qorl yelled. The boys pulled the triggers and….. nothing happened. Qorl suddenly grabbed the nearest boys neck and snapped it with ease. The boys lifeless body fell to the floor. Qorl quickly retrieved the hidden blaster from his boot and fired four stun blast at the boys. All of them fell to the ground. Qorl looked at the two jedi then took out a remote from his pocket. " A little thing that I made… it makes the people blasters that are near me not fire for 10 seconds."
He bowed his head and then took there lightsabers out of his pocket. He tossed it to them and said " Let the jedi bring peace
to the galaxy again," Then he turned around and walked into the jungle. He wanted to retire and live in the jungle with peace. He was getting to old for this,

Jacen and his wife watched from a distance as the fight raged on. It appears there side was doing a good job. The Jedi were putting up a good fight but soon they would loose. He felt Kia lips press against his cheek. He smiled. " This was a good plan," She said with excitement. Jacen nodded his head. He suddenly felt something with the force. He and Kia quickly turned around and stared at two boys holding lightsabers. There in front of them stood Zekk and Deson.

" Kia! So nauseating it is to see you again," Deson spat at Jacen’s wife. He and Kia drew there lightsabers and got ready
for a fight.

" You take Jacen, Zekk, But try to knock him out don’t hurt him," Deson told Zekk as he made himself towards Kia. He hoped Zekk could take on Jacen.

Deson twirled his lightsaber as he made his was towards Kia. " I’m sick of the 2^nd imperials and you," Deson said angrily. His sister smiled at him and shook her head softly. " Deson I’ve always been better then you in fighting you don’t have a chance." She said evilly.

Deson walked slowly towards her and raised his lightsaber. " Shut up and fight."

Kia shook her head and lowered her lightsaber. " It wouldn’t be a fair fight….Here take this," She said as she grabbed her blaster from her belt and tossed it to him. Deson caught it and frowned. " Oh wow.. these kinds of blasters can only fire one shot." He then put the small blaster in his pocket.

Kia shrugged, then raised her lightsaber and swung her lightsaber at Deson. Deson blocked his sister lightsaber with his. He pushed her away and sliced at her belly. She sucked into her gut and sliced at Deson. Deson did a back flip and flew over his sisters lightsaber. He landed softly on a tree branch. He stared down at his sister and smiled. " Pretty good huh?"

Kia wiped some sweat away from her forehead and nodded. " You will lose this battle… and so will your friend Zekk," She said. Deson looked away at Kia and stared at Zekk. Zekk appeared to be okay. That’s when he realized his mistake. He looked back at Kia but it was too late. A huge rock smack right into his chest and sent him flying to the ground. He hit the ground hard and felt acouple ribs snap. He staggered up and held his lightsaber weakly. Suddenly another rock came from behind him and hit him in the back sending him to the ground. He was about to stand up when a rock fell right on top of the hand he was holding his lightsaber with. He screamed in pain and let his lightsaber go. He knew his hand was broken. He staggered up but was immediately was hit by dozen rocks. Deson staggered back and tried to block the rocks but without a lightsaber it wasn’t much help. Suddenly he felt his danger senses explode. He looked up just in time to see a tree limb fly into his right shoulder. He screamed in pain and fell right onto his back. He laid there in pain not knowing how he was going to win. Suddenly Kia was standing right over him with her lightsaber a inch away from his face. " That was pathetic Deson!" She said as she raised her lightsaber. " Know you die!"

That’s when he heard a scream. He could tell Kia heard it to because she turned her head to see Jacen leaning against a tree holding his bloody forehead. This was Desons chance. He drew the small blaster from his pocket and pushed it against Kia’s stomach. Kia looked back down at him with fear in her eyes. The y stayed like that for a moment just staring at each other. Finally Kia spoke. " Deson… this isn’t the jedi way."

Deson smiled and looked into her eyes. " Guess what, your not a jedi." Then he pulled the trigger.

Jacen staggered back holding his bloody forehead. He couldn’t believe this lightsider had struck him. He felt anger rush
through his body. He gripped his lightsaber tightly then ran towards the jedi. He was almost there when he heard a blaster go off.

That’s when the pain came. He fell to his knees screaming in pain holding his head. What was going on! He felt like a
thousand things were being stuffed into his brain. He managed to deactivate his lightsaber before he fell to the ground unconscious.

Jacen and Tenel Ka walked towards the medical bay hand in hand. It had been a week since the attack on the academy but Jacen still had a horrible headache. The medical doctor said it was his memory returning back to him and it should go away soon.

Jacen couldn’t remember much about what happened when he was with Kia. He only remembered how he felt when he was around Kia. He had loved her.

Jacen looked at Tenel Ka and wrapped his arm around her. She leaned her head against his chest. He was glad that he was back with Tenel Ka but for some reason he still felt like he loved Kia. He hoped the feeling would go away.

Tenel Ka and Jacen walked into the medical bay just as Deson started to step out of the bacta he had spent a week in. He wrapped a blanket around himself and looked around. Jacens Aunt, Mara, leaped from her seat she had spent a week in and ran and hugged Deson. Deson returned the hug. Jacen stared at them for awhile and waited for them to finishes hugging. Finally after a couple minutes Deson pushed away and grabbed a towel from the medical droid. Jacen and Tenel Ka walked up to him slowly. Deson looked up and smiled weakly. " Jacen It’s good to see you back to your old self."
Jacen grabbed Deson hand and shook it. " Thank you… Thanks you for helping me." Deson nodded his head. " I got you into that mess I had to get you out."

Deson dried off his wet hair and looked around. " Can a ex-dark jedi get a bite of food around here."

Deson walked towards the landing pad with Mara and Luke. He had told them that he wanted to explore the galaxy before he became a jedi last night. He thought the both of them were going to be mad but surprisingly they understood. He was going to take a transport today when it came to Yavin for next deliveries drop off but this morning Luke woke him up and told him had a surprise for him.

" Come on Luke what are you going to show me?" Deson asked as they got closer to the landing pad. " You’ll see," Said Mara as she wrapped her arm around Luke. He could here them whispering about something. Finally when they got to the landing pad Deson saw Jaina and Lowie working on a transport. He saw Zekk, Lusa and Raynar carrying some tools and bags onboard. He also saw Tenel Ka, Jacen, Leia, and Han clean the ship. What’s going on here? Deson thought as he walked closer to the ship. " Know what it this?" Deson asked as he looked at the ship. He felt Lukes hand on his shoulder. " This is a gift … It’s a old ship I haven’t used in years… Used to be the Shadow Chaser, Deson I want you to have it." Luke said. Deson turned around and shook his head. " You joking me! Your giving me this beauty?"

Luke nodded his head. " Yes I am.. You do know how to work a ship right?" Deson smiled and nodded his head. " Father 12 was one of the best flyers in the galaxy, I bet I can handle it."

Deson stared at the pad and thought for a moment. Then typed in the name and handed it to Luke. Luke looked at it and nodded his head. " The Jedi’s Echo.. I like it."

Deson sat in the pilots seat of the Jedi’s Echo staring out at the stars. He still couldn’t believe he had his own ship. Before he left everyone wished him luck and gave him a hug. Even Zekk. Deson knew he needed money if he was going to see the galaxy. So he had decided to start smuggling. He started to think about where he was going to go first but was interrupted by the computer beeping. The hyperspace calculations were finished. He looked down and grabbed the hyperdrive lever. " Lets rock and roll." Deson said before he pulled back the lever and went into hyper space.

The Shadows That Turn Up

Part Three - Final Chapter