The Dark Lord of the Sith sat silent, thinking upon his enemies.. thinking upon his wife.. thinking upon the time Fearson's daughter had come to him. Indeed, Fearson had now become an enemy.. and in time, he would be dealt with.
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It felt wrong.
Standing in this place - her sandy-brown curls resting on her shoulders, chocolate brown eyes glancing around apprehensively - felt wrong.
Her heart was pounding inside her chest, her arms rubbing against her bare arms as she tried to rid her skin of the nervous goose-bumps. Unconsciously her fingers stopped on a spot on her upper arm, her hand covering the tatto that marred her flesh.
She should leave, Arai knew that. She didn't even know what she was doing here! And yet here she stood.
Waiting.
The Lady Athena stood within the shadows. She watched the child stand and move nervously. With out moving a voice rang outwards.
" Welcome here, child. I am Athena. Mind if I ask why brought you to us? "
Then like nothingness her small figure walked from within the shadows and into the dim light.
Her long blond hair fell around her shoulders. The softness in her skin gleamed from the lights.
The Sith Lord looked at the girl...
There was no stopping the startled squeak that passed her lips as the voice sounded from the nothingness. Arai stood dumbfounded as the woman stepped from the shadows and toward her. With the question she was asking herself was finally placed before her, she composed herself and bowed to the Sith.
" Mistress Athena, I -"
She fought for the words for a brief second.
" I have come seeking knowledge, and a Master. My Master - My former Master will no longer teach me. He will not speak it, but I know he fears the darkness within me. "
She lifts her head to meet the eyes of the Lady Sith.
" And your last Master was who? " Athena spoke.
Her voice rang outwards once more. She looked at the lady before her.
" And tell me what all do you wish to learn? "
" My master was Emperor Chadd Fearsons of the Order of Shadow Jedi."
She shook her head, her hair bouncing lightly against her shoulders.
" He claimed he would teach me to use the powers the Force has granted me, but he has taught me nothing but meditation. For weeks he has degrated me and humiliated me in front of the other Apprentices. I wish to learn everything that is out there, so I can prove to him once and for all that I am not a little girl anymore in need of his protection."
A deep rage flared beneath her dark eyes.
" I want to see him on his knees at my feet and hear him beg for mercy."
The Dark Lord looked down from his vaulted throne, eyes seeming to burn with blazing hellfire.
"He shall be on his knees before me, first. Proclaiming me as master, or begging for mercy."
Arai glanced up at the Dark Lord, the look in his eyes mirrored in her own.
" I would swear my life to you and the Ancient Sith Empire for the chance to see him grovelling at your feet--"
She lowered her eyes away from him and deeply bowed.
"-- My Lord."
"Indeed..." the Dark Lord repliled.
Athena stood there. She said nothing. For when her Master and Husband spoke it was not her place interfear.
Looking at both the Dark Lord and the new comer.
Athena pulled her cloak around her shoulders. Her ice cold violet eyes gleamed as the Dark Lord spoke. She pulled the hood over her head. Hidding her face and eyes from view.
" Shall she be trained my Lord? "
Arai held her place, and her breath, awaiting the verdict of the man that held her future in his hands.
"You will train her." Maim stated.
Athena nodded her head and looked at Arai.
" Follow me, you start now. "
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The girl's training had been brief, but had been long enough to encite the desired response from Fearsons.
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The Sith Lord walked with her new apprentice behind her towards the Squall.
Once reaching the training area she stopped and looked at Arai.
" I know you seek power Arai. Now tell me what power do you wish? "
She waited, then once understand what all Arai needed she could start.
She felt a moment's panic as the Sith Lord - her new Master - looked at her with those piercing eyes that seemed to be able to see right through her. But when her Master asked what she wished to learn, the panic passed and she knew without a doubt she was where she was meant to be.
" All of it. The power to hold a life in my hand and know that with a single thought I can extinguish that life; the power to control and bring those of the light to their knees before the Empire.
I want it all."
The Sith Lord looked down at her aprentice.
" we can learn in the force, sabers, hand to hand, and then after that I shall refine your skills. What do you wish to start with? "
The young woman thought for a moment before settling on a choice.
" The Sabers."
She motioned to her empty belt.
" I was not even permitted to own one, but I would like to learn.
Athena gripped her twin saber hilts and tossed one over to her new apprenice.
" Use mine, later we shall make you one. "
Athena ignited the hilt and with a snap hiss a violet blade erupted to life.
Now seeing she had the violet one she knew the saber Aria had was her blood red one. She had taken the violet one from a Jedi Master when The Dark Lord became her master, the red one was from her father.
" Dont hurt it. "
Athena stood in a defencive stance awaiting the attack.
Arai ignited the saber in her hand, the red glow lighting up her face as she brought the blade up in a salute to her Master. As she lowered the weapon, she turned it a few times in her hand to get a feel of the weight and grip on the pommel.
Gripping it in both hands, she moved toward the Sith Lord, the saber whistling through the air in a strike toward Athena's head.
With an easy sidestep Athena watched as Arai moved past her.
A swift and well place kick sent the child forward.
" dont do something one can move from so fast Arai. Attempt attacks that will challange your foe. "
Retruning to her stance the Sith Lord waited.
Arai nodded.
" Yes Master."
Taking the hilt of the weapon in both hands again, she comes in with an overhead stike. Intentionally, she lets the attack fall short, and as the blade is brought down, Arai steps into a crouching position, twisting the blade and bringing it around in a swiping motion aimed at Athena's knees.
A sweep to the knees it could be a deadly attack if unseen. But Athena was going to make sure Aria saw everything anyone ever did. With little more then a flip over the blade and one of her boots hitting Aria in the face as the flip was manovered. Athena landed.
" Better but keep trying. Soon I will show you some of my moves. Each hard in there own right, but all created to kill. "
Arai stumbled back a few paces, her face stinging momentarily from the blow. She stretched out her jaw, relieving some of the pain, and nodded once.
Shifting her hold on the saber, her fist tightening around the pommel, she came at her Master with a series of criss-cross swipes of the saber. The Lady Athena easily avoided Arai’s borrowed saber. But on a downward swipe of the glowing blade she stepped into the attack, her elbow bending upward as she guided the weapon down. Her momentum changed direction and her elbow came smashing up toward the other woman.
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The training had basically ended there, but the damage was done. Indeed, she had turned fully to the Dark Force, and in turn, sealed her own father's fate. Soon Fearsons would pay for his insolence.. his lack of vision.

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