Darth Duff
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Empress HandEmpress Hand
The night drew in slowly over the sand dunes, shadows creeping past the great statues that surrounded the path. It was silent, save the odd sound of a crack under foot. A dark figure hooded looked to the skies towards the 2 moons. He was weary from his journey, all his hard work in the previous weeks had led him here yet he did not feel excitement nor fear for he did not feel at all. His sole purpose was to act on the empresses wishes.
He drew ever closer to his target, a run down enclave in the middle of the dunes. The darkness had already encompassed ahead and so the lone figure tread softly, taking care not to disturb any potential inhabitants.
The enclave consisted of two separate buildings and several smaller hovel like structures, yet strangely they seemed to be carved out from trees. Trees in the middle of a desert? that is how he knew he was in the right place.
Before he reached the first building he scanned the surrounding's for life forms, nothing of significance showed, some hybrid reptile like creatures burrowed underfoot, nothing that would draw the attention of him away from his mission.
Reaching the building he touched it, a strange sensation hit him as he withdrew his hand, like he missed the touch already. As the figure reached for the door, withdrawing his gloved hand from his jet black robes he hesitated, there was no reason why, the enclave looked abandoned, no life forms showed on his scanners and more importantly he couldn't feel anybodies presence nearby. he carried on reaching for the groove which opened the door, there was a soft creak, the door obliviously had not been used in decades, yet it still functioned. He walked inside, the room was dark, yet an improvement on outside as the ground had some markers that lit as he entered, standard procedure on remote planets like this, as to not waste energy if there was nobody home.
He walked to the centre of the room, where a table seemed to be, it was empty. He started to think that this was another fruitless mission, like many he had seen before, oh could he have been more wrong.
As he walked back towards the entrance he turned back towards the table, he thought that he had heard something, nothing anyone else may have ignored it as a clumped piece of sand hitting the side of the building yet he was started, he placed one hand on his saber and shouted aloud
"Who's there"
Predictably there was no answer, he turned again back to the entrance and proceeded towards it with no real haste. As he stepped outside the first building he heard the same sound again, this time coming from atop the building, yet he ignored it, like he didn't wish to find anything at the outpost.
He knew he needed to return to his ship to send his daily report back, yet he only had the other building to search then he could leave the godforsaken place....
He walked towards the second building, smaller than the first yet it seemed newer, like it had been recently erected. as he drew closer the building looked more and more strange, it wasn't built like any structure he had seen before, it was wider in towards the top yet the bottom seemed to be hollow, like a platform for the building. He could find no clear entrance for the building so he started to knock soundly against it. 1 , 2, 3, 4..... and before he could knock for a fifth time he was swooped on by an unforeseen advisory. lashing the foe off he reached for his belt and withdrew his saber and lit it, as he did more beings turned up, he was surrounded, yet not outmatched, swinging with his saber he look out the first who had jumped on him, the creature screaming in the process, he went for a second but before he could reach he was stuck from behind with a stick like weapon, spiked into his back he ripped his robe off to reveal a silver padded vest. As he withdrew the spike from his shoulder another hit him in the stomach, surrounded by the creatures he called upon the force to aid him, in a flash lightening coursed through his fingers into the air and drifted down towards the creatures, who were cowering in the sand.
Just as it seemed that they were lost one being stood firm and channelled all the power through itself then directed it back towards him, power like this had never been seen by this sith before, especially not from creatures on a remote planet like this, this power rivalled that of some of the top sith in the order, Minious, Shadow even the empress herself....
He slumped to the ground alight with electricity, his face was visible it was Darth Duff the empresses most second most trusted hand behind that of Zero. He had fallen on a remote planet with no means of escaping these creatures. Just before he lost consciousness he thought
"Finally, i have found what i have been looking for"
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