In Search of Power. (Open)

[Malice]

Thrusters hissed as they slowly sat the space ship down on the dry surface of Korriban, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Said clouds began to settle as a platform lowered from the ships underbelly. As it extended fully, a figure made its way down the incline to set foot on the planet he's heard much about. V'rael felt it was about time he'd travel to Korriban, after catching wind of the temple. A dry wind gripped the fabrics of his robe as V'rael was overwhelmed with a strong feeling of the force.

"The dark side of the force is strong here..Perhaps my travels have come to an end."

He'd proceed to make his way toward the ill aura that surrounded the Sith Temple. It was simple finding the massive temple. After a bit of traveling, the giant temple came into sight. The presence of the dark side was so apparent it peaked V'rael's interest. He'd slowly walk passed the tombs that held ancient Dark Lords of the Sith.

"Power lies within these walls, it will eventually be mine.."

[Foxfire]

During the ceremonies of the new Sith Lords Cho Wroth noticed the in coming ship. He dropped is force --- and directed his force toward the arriving ship.

Another one.

He said to him self. Cho moved silently to the edge of the temple and took the little known stairs to the bottom right front of the temple. These stairs were only seen when coming down the temple and one had to use a great deal of force power to slow one's self down so that you would not fall from the two inch wide steps.

On reaching the bottom Cho Wroth again hid him self in the force showing only a minor amount, like that of a first year student. He took a straight stalking path toward the ship and it occupants. On arriving Cho walked to the left of the ramp toward one of the tombs in case the owner of the ship wanted to fight.

Cho found the catacombs of the tombs to be relaxing tho many were fearful of them. Cho's started to seep a small amount of Rakata force power of calming toward the ships ramp and the new Dark force powered one.

Welcome, may the Dark Will of the force Guide your steps. At current a ceremony is being held for the new Sith Lords. Do not disturb. This way, you may find a room, eat, and meditate until the Overlord is ready to see you.

With that Cho gestured toward the front steps and waited for the new one to move toward the temple.

[Malice]

In an a way, V'rael was relaxed upon feeling the presence of another ill-fated force. It had been quite some time since he was surrounded by such a sinister aura. The thinkness of the moisture deprived air seemingly stung his face as a gust rushed by. A slight bow toward the other was to follow before he spoke.

I see, I think I will take you up on that offer.

He'd proceed toward the temple following the others gesture. As he'd do so, the ramp of his ship would receade back upward. Orbs shifting from left to right for bit before climbing the massive walls that seemed to incline. A feeling of belonging overwhelmed him, finally he had made it to the place he's heard many ancient stories about.

Finally, it's my time to join the Sith Order and begin my climb to power.

His thoughts would be as loud as if he had spoken them. None the less, he'd proceed with the other toward the temple.

I didn't catch your name.

He'd say without offering a glance toward him, there was no need at the moment. V'rael had one and only one thing on his mind, meeting the Overlord.

[Foxfire]

As they were enveloped by the dark power of the Temple Cho let his power slide to be enveloped by it. Doing so would cloak him so none would sense him as any thing but as part of the temple.

I am Cho Wroth, the hidden sword of the Overlord. Be warned do not interrupt the Overlord until the event is over. This not a warning nor a threat it is a factual thing.

Cho Wroth walked past the new one not asking for a name for most that came Cho found them to be nothing more than meat. The thought of that made him hungry. Walking to the cantina of sorts, Cho rummaged through the food stuffs. On finding the small piece of smoked nerf Cho went to a shadowed corner and slowly ate the half raw meat.

While he ate Cho used an odd Rakata force power of searching. This was similar to the dark Jedi's and Sith's way but Cho found it very useful in that it did not consume his Dark Force energies and was mostly hidden in the force. The only thing one would feel was an sense of being watched but if felt as if it came from every where.

Another power Cho decided to try to use was a Rataka Force battle meld. Again it did not require great amounts of energy and it reached further than the regular Battle meld used by any force user.

Besides the hunger for power what else led you here, new one.

Using the Rataka battle meld, Cho contacted the dark new he showed into the temple. Cho did not know of how talkative the new one was not many were. Either they were meditating or training, Sparing with each other or they did not consider the noghri to be much interest. Cho waited to see if this one was like all the rest.

[Malice]

V'rael offered a slight nod as his eyes wandered a bit before he offered a reply..

I'm V'rael Ira, and I have no intention of interupting the ceremony. I can wait until it is completed. As for other reasons I was drawn here, I've always been interested in Sith. I've always felt as if I was being drawn toward them in a way despite my lack of knowledge. I've been wandering the galaxy, gathering as much knowledge of the Sith as I could.

He'd offer a glance as the other passed by him, he'd follow the Noghri into a cantina. He had no other choice but to be as patient as he could until the ceremony was over.

How long do you pressume the ceremony will take?

He'd ask, simply having spent so much time searching for the Sith and finally having found the temple he is force to sit a wait.

[Foxfire]

You should learn that to the Dark Will of the Force time is meaningless.

Cho Wroth pushed the statement with a minor bit of Rataka force influenced calm. Cho searched this ones feelings and found an insatiable need for power. The hunger of power was eating this one up. In a push this one would challenge the Overlord.

Would this one be stronger, or would this one fall as well.

Cho thought to him self. Then he wondered if this one would be willing to try to under stand the other side of the Dark Will. Questions, that would be the key in divining the intent and soothing the hunger of the powerful corpus that stood before him.

Would you care to see another side of the Dark Will of the force? Power with out restraint. Rage with out hate. Revenge with out regrets. Life with out dying.

Fully opening himself up to the full flow of the Rataka Force Flow. The air began to fill with static and the lights grew dark with a blood red tint. The very room seemed to shrink and the power of the force swelled as like a star the was about to explode.

[glow=green,2,300]Do you truly wish to know of true power.[/glow]

[Malice]

It would be the first time V'rales eyes would settle upon the others being. It was the first time anyone had spoke of alternate routes besides the one for power. For some odd reason, V'rael would actually take into consideration what this one had to say.

You speak of power without restraint, another side of Dark Will. Is this what I've been searching for this entire time?

V'rael had no intentions of challenging the Overlord, but if he kept on the route he had been going down for so long, it would not be a suprise if he had eventually. It was odd how V'raels mind was slightly influence by this ones words.

I think this is what has been drawing me here, this is it. The strength that I've been searching for.

[Foxfire]

A noghri's grin was some thing most people would run from because of the unpredictability of his nature. Cho Wroth faded the force power to nothing. As he walked over to the large cooler he said....

To under stand the Dark Will's purpose and gain the 'Greater Power', one must under stand what is the true nature of the Dark power that is around one and how it flows.

Opening the cooler, a massive level of dark force Ora was released. Cho turned around holding a package butcher wrapped paper. The contents being sealed from both air and bacterial contamination.

Come it's feeding time.

Once again that sadistically evil smile emerged of the noghri's face.

Cho walked back out and down the main path toward the valley of the Sith tombs. On entering Cho took the first left away from the main paths and away from the tombs of renown to finally stop at a little known and very little used entrance.

Standing about 20 yards away from the entrance Cho whistled. A reply of bird like whistling came back followed by a great number of reptilian growls and hisses. Then there emerged from the entrance is 10 Massiff. As Cho walked over to them they separated him from V'rael. the closest to V'rael began to hiss and growl. Cho paid no mind to their manners he was more interested in an older and now lame massiff. It's spine were worn and it's teeth missing. Even the reptilian plate skin was turning a light gray. Cho stood and turned to V'rael.

First lesson, to kill and have no mercy or regret for anything, even your own life.

With that Cho in an instant snapped the older massiff neck. The twist was so forceful that the head came off in his hand. Not blinking Cho let the body drop and moved toward the cave entrance.

You coming.

The noghri's words were hard to hear over the now snapping and growling of the other massiff as they ate the corps.



The light in the tomb was sparse, but one could only make out the path at their feet. the further as they went the darker until darkness swallowed them. The unnerving sound of nothingness made most run for the light, for Cho he pushed on sniffing as he went. He finally slowed and through a Rakata style battle meld he cautioned V'rael no to touch the walls or to move with in 10 yards after moving into the void.

Cho started to move forward guiled by the force. Suddenly blinding light hit the eyes. The light was just like a light saber, white and long illuminating only the spot in the middle of the room. Slowly Cho made his way to the column of light to stand with a raised arm of what was left of his meal of half raw nurf. Slowly the room started to grow cold. Was it by temperature? No the feeling of cold was the slowly fading of the dark force that permeated the tomb. Finally not one single thread or speck of dark force could be sensed.

(Whoosh)

A sound so soft that an untrained ear would miss. Then there was a sparrow like chipping high in the upper most part of the domed vault.

(Whoosh)

Once again, but this time a fragment of the creature could be seen. Leathery wings flitted by the light. Then out of nowhere another creature dived in toward the nurf meat this time slowing just enough to try to snag it from the waiting claws of the noghri.

With a flash and a snap hiss Cho's light saber came on and then off. The flying creature fell at Cho's feet dead of a saber strike to the neck. The strike was just a graze, but enough to slice a main artery.

The void of forclessness peeled back quickly. The sound of many claws scrapping and startled chirping receded further to the top of the dome. As the force came back into focus Cho was bending over to pick the dead shyrack off of the ground. A very suttle, almost minuet pulse of the force like a heart beat could be felt.

Change and adapt. That is the way of The Darkness. Their adaptation is caused by environment and careful manipulation. To change a beast, the subject must be headed down that path already. Also to see what is not there one must see through different eyes.

Cho turned and headed down another path this one was danker and by far more like walking thru the valley of hell. Bones littered the ground. The heat was starting to grow. The most disconcerting this was the felling of growing darkness in the force and the sense of being watched thru the stone.

Cho once again started to use the Rakata style battle meld.

(No threat, of no harm. No threat, of no harm. No threat, of no harm.)

Cho quietly and slowly repeated these feelings. Yes feelings. One would start to see what the battle meld was feelings instead of true speech.

They reached another great room but this one was pitch black no light just complete darkness, in both senses of light and force. A hellish hiss with the snapping of reptilian like mouth, a pair of eyes red eyes started to glow with in the darkness.

"Gigantic creatures. Triple rows of teeth, six inch claws, and three horns. They can move on four legs or two, and have two winglike extensions--not functional wings, but poisonous stingers. Very fast.''

The warning was given to all that normally wandered the tombs of the Sith Lords. The Tuk'ata was known as a creature not to be messed with and here Cho slowly walked toward it repeating the Rakata battle meld chant. Stopping with in 20 feet of the creature, Cho Wroth 'The death bringer' revealed the dead Shyrack and the dark ora-ed package. tossing the dead Shyrack 10 feet forward and opening the contents to reveal a savored Sith hand. A hand that was still holding on to some sort of Sith Lord treasure. Cho offered both to the Tuk'ata as to make peace. A smaller Tuk'ata about 4 foot tall slowly stalked over and took the hand and dragged back the Shyrack into the darkness.

Cho then turned walked back past V'rael.

Keeping balance........ is the way of things one must consider. You take power, you must give power or the equivalent. And know when to leave before you can be seen as meat.

Cho left walking back through the darkness to the now darkening blood red sky. Stopping for V'rael Cho wondered if the new one would fully understand.

[Malice]

V'rael remained quiet during most of the 'tour', if it can be called so. Simply trying to soak in everything the noghri said or did. It was odd, the noghri's way of utilizing the dark side of the force. It wouldn't be easy for V'rael to fully grasp this concept so soon, being it so different from his prior way of seeing things.

"Change and adapt.."

He'd mutter to himself as Cho slowly approached enormous creature. It wasn't fear that would grasp V'rael, but interest as Cho proceeded to 'enlighten' V'rael.

"Keeping balance, I take power I must give power."

Something V'rael had a slightly difficult time agreeing with, given his stubborn and power hungry persona. But, this one says it's the True Dark Will of the force, so it must be a better way to become more intuned with the Dark Side.

"You speak of retreat being an option if the odds are against you, no? Live to fight another day?"

He asked, as this went against the training he went through most his life as well as against what he based his life on. As the noghri walked passed him, V'rael would not turn to follow just yet. He would stand there as the sounds of flesh being torn, and bones snapping reverberated off the walls as the creatures devoured the Shyrack.

"What exactly is this method you speak about? I understand the basics of it, but what exactly is it? You said the first lesson is to kill with no mercy nor regret, even for my own life. But, Take power you must give power. Forgive me if things do not fall into place so easily."

He said turning around to follow the nohgri.

[Foxfire]

Advancement this is what the Sith of now are using. The power of what I speak is that of primal nature. It is hard to understand but once under stood is easier to use even if your mind is muddled and slow due to lack of sleep or dealing with great pain.

Going over to a near by ridge to soak up the last fading rays of the sun, Cho Wroth again tried in a simpler term.

As you grew did you not give up some of your youthful power. Broad and wide, for narrow, direct, forceful power. The same if for the dark will's power. It gives up a power for a different power in a different place. In a battle on a cliff would you not give up ground so that you could lure your opponent closer to the edge.

Crouching as a predator who has been backed to the lip of the rim of a ravine. Cho let his persona swap for the recently seen Tuk'ata. Mimicing their force and pattern of their being. Slowly edging away stretching out feeling V'rael. Then unleashing a primal dark force roar over V'rael's head. With the speed of a flying Shyrack and the void in the force Cho swept by him. In the instant that Cho was behind V'rael, Cho raised and turned with a snap hiss of his saber stopping it just a few inches from the left side of V'rael's neck.

Primal force. They do not care where your came from or who you are or how powerful you are. They kill to kill. They gave up their power to reason for the power to hunt and kill. The Rakata's engines for space travel used mass sources of life to pull their ships from one place to an other. Power hungering Sith are drawn to sources of dark power. One can give up power to control the power of others. You your self changed and adapted did you not. You started to see the universe from a different point of view. So have I. I see the force in shades of color, like scents to a hungry massiff. If great power is what you crave you must see it how they see it.

Pointing sky ward as a flock of shyracks flew over head, Cho again hoped another saw the universe as he did.

The rest is just watching and learning from things that are around you. The stretching of the senses and feeling their conection in the force with their effect on life.

Cho turned and headed back to the temple leaving V'rael with his thoughts.

[Malice]

V'raels eyes slowly rolled to the side as the saber rested deathly close to his neck. Soon his ears would open up, soaking in every word the noghri spoke of, it kept a tight grasp on his interest.

"I believe I'm begining to understand what you speak of."

V'rael said has his face became stern as if reflecting ever word Cho had spoken. For a moment, V'rael's mind took a few steps back. From there it ran through memories that led up to the present, how he changed, his power altering.

"It's obvious that you are greatly in tune with this way of the force. This is not something I do, but I am well beyond a simple interest in it. I'm curious if you would consider aiding me in finding my place within the force you speak of."

It was odd, V'rael asking for guidance from another besides himself. He awaited the noghri to lower the saber from his throat, not of fear, but of eagerness to begin taking steps in the direction of power.

[Foxfire]

The force was always stirring in all things. Cho had tried to give the temple the most direct an powerful flow he could discern. Still many of the new Sith were churning the power making rips and eddies in the Force. Only a few had understood Cho and tried to straighten their flow, to better their power, and ultimately to use their new flow with out ripping them selves apart.

This one's flow was starting to correct it's self, but much time was going to be needed. The flow of the force could be corrected and healed, but if the body was to damaged the force scaring would not heal.

If time and the Dark Will allows you and your connection to the force will grow stronger than it is at present. But be warned not all find the path in the Dark Will's force to be easy nor forgiving of past mistakes. Meet me in the multi-tiered training room. It's construction I over saw my self. It's.........unique-ness I think you will find disturbing.

[Malice]

V'rael, for the first time, felt a sense of understanding. He'd offer a nod as Cho spoke.

"I do not fear the hardships this path will bring, if the Dark Will of the force allows me to better my strengths, then down this path I will go with no hesitations."

He'd offer a slight bow after hearing of the training room.

"Disturbing you say. I think I will find it more comforting, rather than disturbing, my friend."

A grin painting hidden lips as he turned to find his way to the training room, eager to set down the path. Anxious to understand what exactly the Dark Will of the force had in store for him.

"No need to tell me where it is, if the room is as you describe, I should have no issue finding it."

[Foxfire]

The Hall of Trials was no ordinary room. The layout and force construction, that Cho Wroth did made many wonder who he really was, or whether he was on their side.

-Description-

A three over lapping tiered training room is designed to look like a cross between an tomb and a arena. The first floor was 120 feet from the center to the furthest circular wall. The second tier's center ring was 100 feet from the center of the first floor with it's outer wall being 140 feet. The third tier's center ring was 120 feet from the center of the first floor with it's outer wall being 160 feet. Three rings with a common center. Each tier was 12 feet in height. The ceiling is 100 feet in the curved center

The force construction was unique in that it had all three areas of the force, light, dark, and the void. The center of the massive room was the void extending three feet below the floor to three feet above the ceiling. Each floor has alternating areas of dark and light force areas. Each floor's force pockets is off set to the lower tier.

The force areas are lit differently the light side are lit from outside light. As for the dark side is completely void of light. The center of the room is lit by the refracted light from the light side sun portals.

-end of description-

Standing in the middle of the void field Cho Wroth awaited V'rael. Time was of no use here in this room and many new ones tested them selves here. Most avoided the center due to their lack of fighting skills with out the force. Cho on the other hand knew that the void was just another field of force that only the masters and those who are looking could see and utilize.

Cho decided to practice some noghri fighting while he waited. Taking a low predator stance he launched forward the blinding speed unhindered by the force. Slashing, spinning, carriage throws, pinning slashes were the norm. The training was long in coming he had put off his natural fighting skills, but the time was coming that he would have to rely on his prowess of the 'silent kill' once again. Many of the new ones who are raising in power have got it in their mind that they had to challenge every one who was stronger. Cho had tried not to kill them for the Overlord's sake, of which he would soon have to discuss. Cho lept back to the center of the void field and released an arc of blood red lightning from his finger tips. The effort was harder and took more concentration than anyone would have known.

Cho dropped to one knee with a heavy and raspy breath from the force release.

More.... I need more! So easy would have been for my race to kill me here and now. What else is missing?

What is it? Why knowledge my young one. You have seen so little of the universe. Knowledge of what is no other planets is required.

The ghostly vision of his former master, Reylin, appeared before him. The twi'lek looking unchanged from the day of her untimely death. Cho raised his head and the questioning thoughts vanished. Time had indeed come for him to do the things need to leave Korriban, search other places, and learn all that he could.

[Malice]

V'rael had made it to the intricate training room just in time to witness Cho and his practice of Noghri combat. It was quite the sight to see, and V'rael took the time to watch the power and killer instict that drenched the style.

"It seems you were not exaggerating about this room, my friend."

V'rael said as his eyes wandered around the room. A slight nod followed as he ventured further into the center where Cho returned. The room harbored an aura that made a person feel a lot more primal, it gave V'rael the feeling of limitless power. As if shackles were taken off.

"This feeling, is this a small taste of the power for which you speak? It feels, amazing." He noted.

V'rael circled Cho, more so walked around the room as he soaked in the features of the room. He tried to figure out what it was exactly that gave him this feeling. Every aspect Cho spoke of was only digging deeper into his mind.

[Foxfire]

Cho did not speak he just soaked up the wonderment on V'rael's face and manner. As Cho looked back to his master he noted that she was gone again disappearing back into the Force. Watching a being's first time in this room lent to how the being favored one power over the other. Whether they would venture into the void to feel their power striped from them, or if they abhorred the very presence of the light side.

You may train your self here at any time. Testing what you already know and your limits of control.

Cho Wroth slowly went over to a darkened force area and settled into meditate. Grain by grain the meditation sphere that Cho was known to cover him self while mediating slowly but surely formed over and around him blocking his view and the view of other's of him.