*The Demon drops out of hyperspace...

[Garrett Felth]

...before a reasonably sized, forest planet, with a chilling aura about it sending sensations through Gav and Garrett as they near the atmosphere for the appropriate landing vector.*

Garrett: You were lucky escaping Temple Avalon like that after all that damage. Was it your plan to come straight here?

Yes, it is part of your training and I wanted to go on this very important quest. The rewards, my apprentice, will be great.

Garrett: I wish you'd tell me why we are going here.

Garrett, make sure these co-ordinates are correct whilst I carry out the landing procedure.

*After Garrett confirming the co-ordinates, the Demon lands on the planets surface near a sprawl of ancient temples and various structures.*

Can you feel it already Garrett?

*As the two Sith exit the craft, there is a thick fog obscuring their view, as they made their way towards one of the larger temples. Gav carrying a thick book at his side*

Once we're at the high altar, we shall begin...

[Nivek Felth]

OOC: No relation.

[Gav Mortis]

OOC: Sorry for the confusion, Garrett is another ezboard user, mine and Garrett Blades IRL friend. Just so that you know, I wrote the post for him because I couldn't get online and he could.

Yes, a concure, he is no relation to you Nivek!

:lol:

[Garrett Blade]

:: The two Sith, walked with a coolness about them across the damp grass, there was a fresh, pine smell in the air and through the thick fog a structure could be made out an behind it an enormous building, the two warriors approached the temple with caution ::

Look at that, who is that?

*Garrett points to a large statue of a man wearing armour and in an angry, battle stance*

Gav: Oh, I believe that would be either Freedon Nadd or Naga Sadow, possibly the latter.

:: As they walk past the statue, Garrett leaps at Gav, knocking him to the floor without hesitation, as they crash to the ground an immense creature leaps over them and lands in front, it turns rappidly with a viscious snarling::

It's a tuk'kata, don't worry, I'll handle this!

:: Garrett stands up, and walks towards the evil creature, it races towards him and leaps, it's mouth opens wide revealing increadible teeth within those powerful jaws. As it is almost on top of him, Garrett, waves his hand before it, and it falls down to the floor unconcious. Gav approaches him looking puzzled ::

Gav: How did you do that?

A basic Tuk'kata training technique, remember I have two as my personal pets, you just have to know how to handle them!

Gav: Oh...right!

:: They walk up to the entrance of the temple, relatively small in size, suprisingly enough there were no doors only a large marble panel of some sort, the rest of the temple was made of another stone, not marble. Gav didn't stop as he approached the wall, he walked carrying the book in his left hand, his black trench coat wafting in the gentle but haunting breeze as he approached the marble wall. Suddenly, Gav began speaking under his breath, almost chanting however Garrett could not make out the words, and as Gav was about to walk into the wall he held up the palm of his right hand. Suddenly his right foot stepped into the wall itself, and ripples were sent throught the marble as if it had changed state, he disappeared into the seemingly liquified wall and through the force Garrett heard "Follow me." Garrett, somewhat startled, looked at the wall in disbelief as it returned to it's flat surface once again ::

Damn it!

:: Garrett runs at the wall and jumps holding his hands infront of his head as he leapt into the wall.... ::

[Nivek Felth]

*Smiles from underneath his Mandalorian helmet.*

OOC: No problem, Gav.

[Gav Mortis]

*Garrett crashes to the floor with a thud, he stands and turns to see the wall return to it's flat surface once again. He reaches out and touches it, but this time it is solid once again*

Hehehe...

*He turns to see an amused Gav*

You will realise what you are capable of with time, come, we have lot's to do...

*The Sith make their way down a grand hallway, illuminated by many burning wooden torches, their steps echoing throughout it's vastness, the Sith make their way towards the end of the coridoor when they come to a large, descending stairway. Gav stops at the staircase and takes a deep breath*

This is it Garrett...

*They both make their way down the stairs and before a large set of doors, approximately 12 ft high and as they approach the huge stone doors began to open, with an increadible rumble as they scraped across the rough dloor*

Garrett: Woah!

Gav: Oh my God!

*The doors open revealing a huge hall, circular in shape, pilars around the outskirts, the ceiling spiraling to a point making an almost pyramid pinacle. There were torches burning on the pilars surrounding the hall highlighting it's gothic glory. In the centre of the hall, was a table, circular in shape, on one side was a small stand next to which there was a large silver goblet, on the other side an great arrangement of candles of varying lengths and positioned randomly. In the centre of this table, a single skull...this was certainly the place he had been searching for...*

Garrett, that is the High Alter and this is the Chamber of the Dark Lords themselves...

[Garrett Blade]

Amazed, Garrett begins to wander around the titanic chamber, weaving in and out of the pillars as if searching for some unknown treasure. He begins to look around the walls. He can see a great number of engravings in the stone walls. Garrett can sense that the carvings on the walls are great sith warriors. He continues to explore the walls whilst Gav remains in the centre by the table. Then, Garrett looks high up on the wall, and calls over to Gav in amazement.

"Master..LOOK!!"

As the Master and the Apprentice stare up on the wall, they both see a rather large engraving, roughly 12 feet by 7 feet, about 20 metres uhigh on the wall.

"Grand master Exar Kun!!".....

[Gav Mortis]

*Gav grins at his apprentica and upon seeing the carving*

Yes, it would be interesting to see him in the flesh once again...

Garrett: What was thet?

Nevermind.

*Gav looks across the table, places the book on the stand and opens it. He then places his hands behind his back and when he brings them forward he reveals two ancient, medievil type swords. They looked like they would break with ease as Gav laid them on the table in front of him, one on the far side, the tip touching the skull as it points towards Gav and the second points towards the centre also, facing Garrett as Gav gestures for him to take his place at the High Altar.*

Now it will begin...

*Gav reveals a small pouch, made from the lining of an animals insides, looking leathery. He takes one of his Sai Daggers and runs it across the side of the bag creating an opening as he holds the pouch above the goblet. Instantly, red, viscous liquid pours from the pouch into the goblet. Garrett looks on with uncertain curiosity. After emptying it of it's contents, Gav places the pouch inside his robing. He pulls the hood up, shadowing his face he places his finger on the open book. As he runs the finger across the page he begins speaking in a moderately loud tone in a dialect alien to Garrett, it was certainly an ancient possibly dormant language regardless of what it is*

.....

*The chant, seems to be arranged into chapters, as Gav came to the end of the first chapter the torches errupted high into the air sending a small swirl of flame to the top of the spiralled pinacle. As he continued, an eeire chill filled the room and the small flames from the candles turned into black fire. Gav then slowly moved his left hand across the wide rimmed goblet and as his hand neared the surface of the red liquid inside it began to boil, he then placed his hand inside the boiling liquid as he continued to talk in the peculiar tongue and he didn't even seem to cringe from the heat. Eventually he removed his hand now covered with it, and leaned across the table as the the altar surface was stained with small drips of the viscous substance. He then places his hand on the skull, staining the surface red and allowing the liquid to run down the front of it, dripping into the eyesockets. Gav continues to chant as the seemingly pagan ceremony continues...*

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett watches the ceremony intently. Then, Gav turns to his apprentice...

Gav: "Garrett, whilst I continue the ceremony here, I want you to capture a Tuk'ata - ALIVE - and bring it back here!!"

Garrett: "Sure thing. You make it sound like thats a DIFFICULT thing to do!!"

And with that, Garrett backs off from the altar..then spins around and makes his way back to the entrance. He finds his way back to the area where he entered the citadel..and as expected he finds the entrance sealed! Garrett closes his eyes and reaches out to Gav with the force...

Garrett: <Master.....the chant!!>

Gav tells Garrett the chant to unseal the unholy temlpe..and then Garrett raises his hand up to the marble surface..oustretches his palm..and utters the ancient words....then....once again, the riples appear in the once solid wall..and Garrett leaps through...

Although this time he lands on his feet.

Garrett: "Now..where the hell am I gonna find a Tuk'ata?? It's not as if they'll just be prowling around..seen as though they only appear when the are not being sought out!! A-ha!!! The waterfall!!! Thats where they'll be. I'd better be on guard..last time I ventured down there I ran into some pretty big ones!!!"

And with that..Garrett makes his way towards the waterfall. The air blows rather violently..filled with the souls of a thousand dead sith. Garrett can sense and almost see them..caught in limbo between death and the force!! He soon realises that he is a fair distance from the temple..and continues into the forest - north..towards the waterfall...

[Gav Mortis]

*Now alone in the temple, Gav continued the ritual, calling out into the vastness that is the Dark Side. He continued the chant, verse for verse, after each verse something peculiar would happen to the environment around him, it was very cold, and there was a heavy mist acroos the temple floor. As he finished the sixth verse, increadibly, there was a slight breeze circling the chamber. Eventually the sklight breeze became stronger and the mist began revolving about the Altar hauntingly. Gav was calling out the chant with power in his voice, the winds became stronger, the mist became thicker and was swirling. Eventually, the winds were becoming increadibly strong, whipping the mist up into the air sending it towering towards the height of the chamber. Suddenly, as Gav continued, now crying the chants with aggression and hatred against the overwhelming winds, a thick, black smoke billowed from the skulls sockets, that also being whipped up into the air, now looking like a thick, swirling storm cloud revolving with increadible velocity. Gav was encased in the storm, as lightning began to streak through it striking the ground, followed immediatley by explosions of thunder almost deafening the enraged Sith who finally brought the ritual to an end as he screamed out the last few words of the ancient chant. Suddenly, lightning bolts exploded from his raised hands striking the revolving storm on either interior side as it spun. Open contact with the lightning, the storm errupted with an increadible blast of heat into a swirling tower of fire opening at the pinicle of the Chamber. Gav trembled with adrenaline and sweat dripped friom his brow. He extended his arms, his eyes widened and burned with a flash of red and orange as the opening turned into some sort of vortex above him and an increadiblr bird cry filled the room, overwhelming the roaring of the fire storm momentarily as Gav was lifted from his feet and was pulled upwards through the centre of the tower into the shadow vortex as it closed behind him the storms velocity decreased, the fire diisipated, the mist settled and the storm died, leaving the room silent and empty...*

[Garrett Blade]

As Garrett draws nearer and nearer to the waterfall, it gets colder and darker, and the winds grow stronger as if working against him with its own mind! Garrett looks up into the sky..up at the stars..which are quickly replaced with black clouds - as black as death itself and looking twice as deadly!! As Garrett navigates the forest trees and dense foliage, he can sense, as well as see, the shadows of rather large creatures. The darkside looms over the area like a plague seeking out its next victim. Garrett knows that the surrounding creatures are Tuk'ata's, but he also knows that they are not the one he is looking for..as if one of them was this one - then the darkside would be completely corrupting this area - the ground, the trees, even the the sky flying directly above!

Garrett can feel the freezing wind blow north against his back. But despite this, he feels excrutiatingly hot. But he just shrugs it off as an effect of the dark presence around him. Little does he know that he is being followed.........

[Garrett Blade]

After a few hours of constant, exhausting walking, Garrett reaches the edge of the dense forest.He has left the comforting near-perfect darkness (pardon the pun!) of the trees and foliage, and steps out into the bright sunlight. The gamma rays of Korriballa's Fire (Korriban's Sun..in the native tongue) all but blind the Sith Apprentice. Now..more than ever..the dark side is all but suffocating Garrett under its immense power!! garrett stops for a moment..and steps back a few feet under a tree, shading him from the light. He leans back against a rather withered looking tree to catch his breath. As he does so..he hears a groan. The noise quickly turns into a crack..then a snap. Then, garrett falls backwards and lands on the ground with a thud. A few seconds later..after recovering from the fall, he stands up again..he looks at the tree as it falls..then lands on the ground as he did moments ago.

"What the hell? Didn't that tree just fall???"

Confused..Garrett stands where he is..looking down at the tree. He then turns..shaking his head. He starts to walk away from the forest now..heading north towards the waterfall. He soon breaks into a run. After a few minutes of running..the ground begins to incline..making it harder for Garrett.

Then...Garrett suddenly grounds to a halt!! The speed behinds him causes him to slightly lean forwards..over a 3 mile gorge!!!

"Oh CRAP!!"

Garrett eases backwards..and breathes out the tention gripping him. He looks over to the other side of the giant gorge. He can see the trees on the other side..about 400 metres away. He can see the gorge meander around to the west. Then it dissapears up north behind the trees opposite. As he looks up above countles trees and rock outcroppings..he can JUST make out the image of the Waterfall. As he looks into the large looking lagune below the Waterfall..he can see the mist-like spray from the water falling down into the turquoise pool.

As he gazes ofer in disbelief..he can hear a growl followed by a hiss coming from behind him. An evil grin begins to form at his mouth. He can sense 12 life forms staring at him..all soaked in darkside energy.

"(Right on cue..here's where the fun begins!!)"

Garrett slowly turns around..igniting his lightsaber as he does so. He turns only to greet 12 hungry, drooling Tuk'ata's posed ready to pounce.

Garrett steps right up to the edge of the cliff face as if backing off..and this causes the Tuk'ata's to slowly edge their way towards him...

[Gav Mortis]

TTT: Garrett, remember to post again soon, this is excellent RPing, keep it up!

:)

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett looks in utter despair as the group of savage darkside creatures continue to move towards him. He almost falld off the edge when his eyes catch the trees several hundred metres south!!

"Thats IT!!"

Garrett relaxes and fells the force surge through his body..and draws upon the power of the darkness all around him. He begins to glow a dark light..then leaps into the air with ferrocious velocity. He screams up and over the beasts and lands 100 metres away from the edge of the forest. Then..he looks back up at the Tuk'ata's near the gorge. Then..he gasps as 12 black energy balls race towards him at a frightening speed. He ducks and avoids the projectiles with ease!! However..the blasts were not aimed at him. Every energy ball hits a tree behind Garrett..and just as before the trees fell EVER so slowly!!! Then...the talon-like antennae on the tuk'atas' heads start to gesture..

"Oh crap!!" exhales Garrett.

Garrett once again looks behind him to see twelve sharp trees hurl themselves in his direction. Garrett then begins to run back towards the gorge..where the tuk'ata's are..

Garrett: "These tuk'ata's ain't too smart....cause they weren't trained by me!!!"

Garrett comes into view of the beasts now..but continues to run at them without losing speed. He comes within inches of the middle two..but before he meets their open jaws he leaps into the air..and looks down below as the two are impaled in the chest by two trees!

"Two down..10 to go!!!"

Garrett lands back on his feet and decapitates three tuk'ata's which pounce at him with his lightsaber

"CHA-CHING!!"

Another 4 tuk'ata's leap towards him. He throws his lightsaber up into the air. As the tuk'ata's reach Garrett he kneels down, then the lightsaber begins to whirl around its bearer in a fury of swings and swipes. The hum of the lightsaber is fast and heavy as it cuts through the creatures with surgical precision. Garrett stands up and catches his lightsaber, and looks at the reamining three tuk'ata's.

Garrett: "Raowr!"

And with that..the tuk'ata's yelp out and run for their lives!!

Garrett: "Don't mess with me!! He he!!"

Garrett once again steps to the edge of the cliff. He then looks down to the river below. Then he looks behind him and at the tree stumps several hundred metres suoth by the forests edge. And finally he looks at the 9 bodies on the ground......

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett looks over to the trees on the other side of the gorge..then takes a step back and hurls his lightsaber over the cliff!!

"I hope this works!!"

Garrett calls upon the power of the darkside all around him..in an attempt to levitate the 9 bodies. He JUST does so successfully. He concentrates his hardest and moves the bodies over the cliff. He almost loses his concentration as a flock of birds fly right pas him..but he JUST manages to keep calm. He moves the dead tuk'ata's out further..evenly spreading them out over to the other side of the gorge. He levitates the last one into place just in time as he loses his concentration!!!

Expecting the carcasses to just fall into the river below..the tukata's remain almost exactly where they are!!

On closer inspection..Garrett concludes his earlier assumption...they are moving at an incredibly slow rate. Garrett doesn't waist a second more. He leaps across the gorge and lands on top of the first body. He leaps again..this time JUST missing the body..but he manages to grab hold of the tail and swing himself under and up onto the 3rd. He makes another succesful landing. By the time he reaches the last one...the tuk'ata's have fallen about 20 metres down from the level of the cliff edge.

Garrett once again draws upon the dark presence around him and makes one almighty force jump up to the cliff edge. He clears the edge by 30 feet..does a somersalu twist..lands on both feet..turns around to looks down the gorge..looks up..and catches his saber in one hand!

"YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to have some fun!!!"

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett is once again back in the dense foliage and trees of the Korriballa Forest. The darkside presence all around him is stronger than ever now as he enters view of the waterfall....

As he gazes up at the plateua above the waterfall..he can just make out the image of something..standing tall and proud atop the cliff face.

Garrett walks forward and comes to the edge of the lagune. His attention is then caught by the water from the waterfall itself. He notices something strange about it..but cannot fully state in his mind what it is. He dives into the lagune to swim over to the waterfall....

To his astonishment..Garrett finds that the waterfall is in fact falling at an incredibly slow rate, so slow in fact that he puts his leg into the water and stands on that leg. To his amazement he does not fall back down..but instead is lowered by the water falling into the lagune. Next..he grips the water like a ladder..and BEGINS TO CLIMB UP THE WATER!! He climbs several feet up..then moves his arms and legs to the edges of the water..and SLIDES BACK DOWN!!

"Where the hell am I ??"

Garrett stares up to the top of the water fall in amazement..with a large grin on his face and a sense of pride in himself..but all of this disappears when he notices the figure that was up there a minute ago has gone!

Garrett enhances his senses through the use of the force..and as he does so he hears an almighty splash behind him. He quickly turns around to see what the hell it was!!

He sees nothing..only the ripples in the water before him.

He quickly ignites his lightsaber..and waits for the unexpected...(so technically..it IS expected!!)

Suddenly..a gigantic creature errupts upwards from the lagune's depths. Garrett looks up in disbelief at the titanic monster - the Great Tuk'ata of Korriballa!!!!!!!!!!!

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett almost loses his breath as he looks up in horror at the size of the tuk'ata. The beast towers above Garrett by 15 feet. Warm breath exits the creatures gaping jaws constantly like an exhaust port outgassing. It lowers its head to meet Garretts. Garrett holds his breath. The beast opens its mouth wide..revealing 5 sets of razor sharp fangs..each one nine inches long and standing proud inside its jaws in all their infamous glory. The monsterous creature hisses at its lunch..when it notices that its lunch is rising. Garrett immediately begines to climb up the waterfall. His progress is slow..and also - the tuk'ata grabs hold of Garretts leg with one of its claw-like antennae.

Garrett ignites his lightsaber and separates the antennae from its head. Then..to Garretts astonishment..he begins to move up all on his own at an incredibly fast rate.

For some reason, the waterfall begins to flow upwards!!!!!!!!

"WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE WE!!!!!!!"

Garrett eventually reaches the top of the waterfall and reveals a small, rectangular device. He activates the control box, pointing south towards the temple.

*At the temple entrance*
The Demon - Gav's Sith Infiltrator - lifts up into the sky, and begins to fly north towards the waterfall..

[Garrett Blade]

The Great tuk'ata leaps right up the waterfall and lands inches in front of Garrett. there is a snap-hiss noise as Garrett ignites his lightsaber. But he does not get a chance to use it as The Great tuk'ata pulls it away from how with the force and tosses it over the waters edge...

Whilst the beast is looking away down the waterfall, Garrett runs up the back of the giant creature. As he makes his way up towards its mouth, it turns its head to face Garrett.

Garrett jumps up and spins around in the air - landing his foot in its jaw. The tuk'ata hisses with pain and makes a bite for Garrett's chest. But it is too late, as garrett has already leap up and over the tuk'ata. The monsterous animal spins around to look down at the lagune - but Garrett is nowhere to be seen!

The creature makes its way to the lagune using leaps and bounds, jumping off rocks. It lands in the water with a splash. It can sense the young sith nearby..but where? Its gaze lands on the waterfall itself...

Suddenly..Garrett bursts out of the water flowing over the cliff edge..and he seems to slow down in the air.

Whilst in the air, Garrett reaches over the back of his right shoulder with his left hand.. to reveal..

A SWORDBLADE

cleaving the darkness, radiant light slicing across gleaming Damascus steel. Words acid-etched in the weapon's fine-tempered surface:

BLADE

[Garrett Blade]

As Garrett leaps down to bring his sword to bear down on the tuk'ata, the monster dodges out of harms way, and Garrett lands in the water with a splash....

The tuk'ata looks blindly into the depths of the water..searching for the sith apprentice..

Then..the tuk'ata inhales the air around it for a full 20 seconds...then..with one almighty leap..dives into the water itself....

[Garrett Blade]

SUDDENLY...

...the great Tuk'ata of Korriballa explodes out of the water and lands smack bang into the waterfalls rockface.
An enraged Garrett follows it..and plants his sword into its chest. Garrett then tightens his grip on his sword, then bends his knees slightly. He then allows the force to flow through him...almost losing himself to it.

Then..Garrett leapt into the air with one almighty force-charged jump..ripping a giant gash in the Tuk'ata's chest. Garrett himself crashed through the stone ceiling above him.

Then..Gav's Infiltrator flys overhead and lands atop the waterfall...

[Garrett Blade]

*Garrett hauls the gigantic carcass over his shoulder. He thinks to himself...*

I reeeeeeeeally should have sealed up that wound in its damn chest! At least these things don't smell bad....on the outside!!

Garrett approaches the infiltrator and as he does so..the ramp lowers automatically. Garrett stops dead in his tracks and drops the corpse to the floor. He immediately ignites his lightsaber with a snap-hiss. He looks into the darkness of The Demon but can sense no lifeforms. Then...a 3PO protocol droid walks out of the darkness.

"Master Garrett..I do wish you would be more punctual in future...your friends are waiting!"

Garrett stares at the droid in confusion

"What the hell?? Where the HELL are we??"

Then, as if by magic, the 3PO droid dissappears into thin air...fading away into nothing.

"O-KKKKKKK!! What the hell is going on here??"

Confused and bewildered, Garrett picks up the carcass and enters the ship.

Within moments, the ship is preppes and the course back to the temple is set in. Garrett just sits back in the command chair and drifts off to sleep..until he arrives back at the temple...

[Garrett Blade]

**As Garrett lies in the command chair - sound asleep - his mind is busy and full of activity. He dreams the dreams of a thousand nightmares. One of his dreams is significant t the others...**

**A cave.....his friends.....running out of time.....cave-ins....."Everybody's gotta die sometime!".....a giant tentacled eyeball??.....an explosion......blackness.....nothingness**

**Garrett wakes up at this point and sees that he has arrived back at the temple*. Garrett hauls the dead Tuk'ata up to the temple entrance..recites the ancient chant once again, and enters the temple to join Gav**

"I sure do hope he can do something about this...he wanted it ALIVE!!!

[Garrett Blade]

*Garrett walks slowly through the temple, partially due to his cautious feeling, but mainly because of the heavy carcass he carried. He slowly made his way to the vast hall where he though Gav would be...*