“Hey sea shell it’s nice to see another Nautolan around here.” Tebbo said as he kissed the female Nautolan’s hand “May I learn what your name is?”
Tebbo had been getting as much R and R as he could get from getting back from the mission with Solas. Tebbo would still wince when he remembered how easily Solas put a burning log threw that man’s chest. If Solas could and would do that Tebbo didn’t want to think about how long that other guy would last being torchered. After they learned all they could from the prisoner they would be calling on a Clan to lead a raid on Corvus Tanian.
The female Nautolan smiled and was about to speak when Tebbo felt a tap on his shoulder and the other Nautolan freeze. Looking, Tebbo saw that it was one of Solas’s attendants looking annoyed.
“You are being sommed to meet with Knight Solas.” The attendant started with Tebbo and forced him to start walking down the hall, but not before Tebbo blew a kiss at the female Nautolan.
“Ok, you wouldn’t know what Solas would want by the way, i bet by a gorgeous lady like yourself knows a lot.” Tebbo flirted.
As soon as Tebbo said that he thought the attendant would take his head off with the look she gave him. She gave a short sigh
“I’m busy, Solas will tell you what he wants.” was her only response and turned down a different hallway.
Tebbo quicked his pace after the attendant left him. It wouldn’t be wise to make Solas wait.
When Tebbo got there he gave a quick nod and the door opened to Solas talking with another attendant which he quickly dismissed.
“Tebbo it’s good to see you. We didn’t get to talk much after our patrol.” Solas picked up a data pad and handed it to Tebbo “You have be given the chance of becoming my Acolyte of Nekros. I have found evidence that a holocron from a Darth Sith.If you can retrieve it, you will be rewarded.”
Tebbo looked over the information on the pad.
“This looks really good, but do you know who’s holocron it is?”
Solas sighed ‘It’s Darth Nihilus.”
Tebbo stopped reading and gave Solas a hard look.
“You mean the Sith that could eat the Force of an entire worlds and with the help of the dark side, kept his soul attached to his armor, that Sith?”
Solas gave a nod “How do you know about Darth Nihilus?”
Tebbo sat down in a chair and put the data pad on the desk “I decided to read up on some of the older Siths so I could understand some of the uses of the dark side of the Force and I came up on him. He was interesting even to Force users.”
“Good, then I won't have to stress that Darth Nihilus was a very powerful Sith. Usually I would send someone who was at least force sensitive, but you have proven yourself. If you are successful you will be rewarded. I believe that's all I need to say.” Solas crossed the room and dismissed Tebbo with a wave of his hand.
“Why can’t I go anywhere nice?” Tebbo said as he jumped out of his x-wing onto the dusty sand of Korriban. In the background rose the great Valley of the Dark Lords. The grand monuments of dead Sith gave Tebbo an eerie feeling.
Tebbo began to sneak his way thru the ruins of the valley, because he wasn’t going into one of the graves. The information that Sola’s showed him was that Darth Nihilus’s holocron was somewhere deep within the old Sith Academy. The Academy was located at the end of the Valley of the Dark Lords so it would be safer to walk in then be detected. It took some time to make sure that he was alone here, but Tebbo felt like there was someone watching him. Tebbo made it to the Sith Academy without seeing anyone which made him more nervous.
Tebbo got into the Academy, it was quiet. As Tebbo started to look for the Sith Archives. The Archives were in tatters, there was hardly anything that hadn’t been picked over by raiders and scavengers. Tebbo started to look for anything that had to do with Darth Nihilus. Tebbo found a room that only Nihilus would use for training.
“That’s gonna be my best bet here.” Tebbo whispered. Tebbo picked up his E-11and began to sneak into the lower levels of the Academy. As Tebbo started to the lower chambers, Tebbo began to detect a strange pheromone that he had never knew before. It smelt like a deep hunger.
“May my spirit keep me strong till I return to familiar shores.”
Tebbo counturned till he arrived at a large chamber. It was oval in shape and had only one other walkway at the back of the room to the right. There was a large body of water on the right side that looked very deep. At the left of the chamber was a large door. Tebbo stepped inside to get a better look at the door.
“Hey this kinda looks like the Rite of blood and bone I read about, but I doubt it would work after all this…” The doorway behind Tebbo closed off and the huge door began to slowly open. “I wish I could stop myself sometimes.”
When the huge door opened up a huge Bloodfiend came crawling out on its many legs. It began to sniff around for something to eat and located Tebbo quickly.
The Bloodfiend dove at Tebbo, nearly smashing him with giant body. Tebbo quickly rolled out of the way. Tebbo took out his short vibrosword held it in his right hand while holding his E-11 blaster in his left.
“Why can they never have things hidden on an island guarded by beautiful women who just wanna have some fun?”
The Bloodfiend turned around a screeched loudly, shaking the room.
‘I’ve got to think of something’ Tebbo looked around the room to help him fight this huge monster. That’s when Tebbo remembered the water and a plan started to form in his mind.
“Come on monster, Tebbo has a treat you’d like”
The Bloodfiend charged again. This time Tebbo put himself on the the water’s edge. At the last second, Tebbo fell backwards into the water and the Bloodfiend caught by it’s own momentum couldn’t stop itself from falling into the water.
Underwater, Tebbo had perfect eyesight and could easily swim because he was a Nautolan. It was easy for Tebbo to dodge the Bloodfiend. Tebbo fired his blaster underwater while barrel rolling out of the Bloodfiend’s charge. Soon the Bloodfiend slowed down enough for Tebbo to climb on the back of the Bloodfiend. Putting his blaster over his shoulder, Tebbo grabs his short vibrosword and with both hands and runs it threw the top of the Bloodfiend’s head.
Gasping as he pulled, Tebbo dragged himself out of the water. Tebbo noticed one of the smaller legs of the Bloodfiend had floated to the top. It was about two feet in length and was very thick. Tebbo had a strange feeling to pick it up and did so.
“I’m gonna complain a lot when I get back.” Tebbo grabbed the
Tebbo checked his gear and started for the walkway on the opposite side. Following the map he found in the Archive. The hallway was silent and Tebbo got a eerie feeling again. Tebbo got in front of the doorway that should be for Darth Nihilus. Tebbo licked his lips nervously and entered the room with his blaster trained on anything that could be in the room.
The room was empty, but it didn’t look like a classroom to Tebbo. It looked like it might have been a personal training room at some point but was remodeled a long time ago. The walls gave off the darkest color of black that Tebbo had ever seen. Along the sides of the room where glass cases that looked like to hold Darth Nihilus’s armor, but were now smashed and empty. In the center of the room was a simple basin about four feet in diameter with an engraving of Nihilus’s mask carved into it. As Tebbo neared the basin, he could feel the darkness radiating from the room. This was a spot that should never be used by any living creature.
Tebbo knew that Darth Nihilus feed on the Force of living creatures, so it dawned on Tebbo that life Force might be needed to find his holocron. Tebbo took the leg of the Bloodfiend and put it in the basin. The leg didn’t do anything for a second, but then it began to shrivel and turned black entel there was nothing.
Suddenly, a panel in the back of the room opened up to where a sitting on a pedestal, a holocron sat. It was palm sized and show a red light through its grey and red shell. Tebbo carefully picked it up. The holocron was light and gave off a vibe that Tebbo didn’t like, almost if it was trying to consume him.
Tebbo shook off the feeling and put the holocron in his bag. Tebbo snuck out of the Academy and had a light firefight with a pair of scavengers on his way to his fighter. Tebbo found his fighter right where he left it as he left it.
“I never want to come here again.”
Tebbo put his supplies and new treasure into the fighter, stretched and looked at the Valley of the Dark Lords one more time before climbing into the fighter and leaving the planet.
“You’ve done well Tebbo.” Solas said as he examined the holocron. “This pleases me greatly, with this holocron we can learn everything Darth Nihlus knew and can even talk to him.” Solas gave Tebbo a side glance. “Did you talk with Darth Nihlus?”
Tebbo gave a shrug “It didn’t interest me to learn Force stuff when I’m not Force sensitive and couldn’t use it. You said I only had to return with it.”
“So you have, I will call you if I find anything out from the holocron. Untell then you are dismissed.” Solas sat down and started to closely examine the holocron.