Here it is Chapter 1! Disclaimer: I do not own SWTOR or anything in the Star Wars franchise

CHAPTER 1: The Invasion of Alderaan

The sky's were darkened by the thick black clouds of smoke rising into the once blue heavens of Alderaan as the formerly lush and beautiful world burned.

The shores of the planets beaches were blanketed by the wreckage of House Organa's fallen warriors. Their blasters are left stranded in the ash covered sand which coats the shores.

Mountains crumbled before the Sith assault upon the peaceful world. Forests burn without end as the green of the lush planet is razed. The free flowing rivers and oceans of Alderaan are covered in flames boiling all life within them alive.

Sith Harrower Destroyers blanket the sky's of the once peaceful planet. Red bolts of energy rained down upon the surface of the planet as the Sith relentlessly slaughtered Alderaan itself.

Sith Warriors endlessly marched menacingly through the Capital City of Aldera as they decimate the city. Innocent civilians run here and there trying to escape the Sith onslaught.

The screams of the innocent rang in the ears of all who inhabited the city. Sith Warriors and Soldiers slaughter man, woman, and child alike with no regret.

"HELP! SAVE ME!" A woman cried as she and her daughter were cornered in an alley by three Sith Soldiers. The soldiers raised their blasters to aim at the two. Outside the alley there were several flashes and then the three soldiers ran out of the alley to continue fighting.

"STAY BACK YOU DEMON!" An elderly man shouted as a Sith Warrior approached menacingly Lightsaber drawn and robes flowing in the wind. What happened next ended with the Warrior walking away towards another victim and a body falling to the ground.

The Alderaanean Security Forces were overwhelmed as the Sith forces completely annihilated the planet. Here and there more and more brave defenders continued to be slain.

The Sith cut down civilians relentlessly with their crimson red blades and cold blue bolts of lightning. The Soldiers blasted away at every person not wearing the Imperial Symbol.

One such person is currently racing down the streets to the last remaining safe place on Alderaan. The Palace of House Organa where House Organa's remaining troops have taken up a position to defend the people of Alderaan.

This person is a woman named Nyra Lartus. She has long flowing silver hair with deep sapphire blue eyes that look as though they were plucked from one of those very crystals. She is around 5 feet tall and is rather slim due to constant exercise.

She was carrying a small bundle of cloud white blankets from which a slight wailing could be heard. Nyra hushed the small bundle while constantly glancing behind her and dodging blasts from Sith Starfighters at the same time.

"Shush my darling. Everything will be alright." Nyra crooned to the bundle's occupant causing the thing in the bundle to purr with content at the sound of its holders voice.

"That's right just go to sleep my darling and when you wake up everything will be alright and this nightmare will be over." Nyra used the force to push the bundles occupant into a peaceful sleep so that there would be no trouble with anyone seeing inside the bundle and any Sith would just think that she was taking one of her prized possessions.

It would be considered normal in any case to flee during an invasion but Nyra was running from something or rather someone. The very person who started this attack and a person Nyra never wanted to see again.

'How did he find me? I covered my tracks perfectly.' Nyra thought as she saw a gap in the ground up ahead and knew it was time for a little drastic measures.

'Time to do something a little unorthodox.' Nyra thought as she tossed the bundle up in the air and then just as she reached the edge of the gap she jumped up and used the force to send the bundle speeding through the air to the other side of the road.

Then Nyra used the force to launch herself like a bullet to the other side of the road and expertly caught the bundle and landed safely on the other side of the rode right as a blast from a Sith Starfighter blasted the gap apart even more.

Just then a wail was heard from behind Nyra and she immediately recognized the voice that emitted it. A voice belonging to someone she never wanted to see again because of a great pain in her past.

"NYRA! COME BACK HERE!" The man behind her shouted as Nyra continued her steady but fast pace towards the Palace. She dared not glance behind her now lest the man see what was in the bundle.

A rock went sailing past her and she knew that it was the very person she believed it to be. That was a warning shot and anyone else would have shot to kill.

'He doesn't give up does he?' Nyra thought as she continued to race to safety and away from him. She needed to stay away from the man chasing her or else she may not live to see another day.

"Never! I will never come back!" Nyra screamed and she could feel tears welling up in her eyes as memories began to flood back to her mind. Ones which she had desperately been attempting to forget for the last year.

"WRONG CHOICE!" The man shouted and suddenly Nyra was lifted off her feet and thrown into the crumbling wall of a former office building. The bundle flew out of her hands and landed somewhere a few feet away from Nyra. She soon saw where it was and used the force to push it out of sight.

"At least he's safe from him." Nyra said when she was pushed against the wall by a massive and powerful wave of dark side energy. She felt as if she was hit by a building.

Then all of a sudden Nyra felt the wall behind her begin to give away as small clouds of dust rained down on her and tiny specks of stinetum, the metal which the building was made of, began to coat her in cuts.

Nyra whimpered as the wall gave way and crumbled along with the rest of the building. Nyra tried to use the force to stop the debris from crushing her but she was exhausted from running so much.

"Uh oh!" Nyra shouted just before she was pulled from the spot where she lay right in path of the falling wreckage. She flew painfully fast through the air as the building crushed the very spot where she had been moments earlier.

When she stopped flying she was being held up in the air against the black armored torso of the very man who had been chasing her. She had her eyes closed the whole time from fear. Nyra felt a cold armored arm against her throat holding her up.

Nyra was just starting to think that it was safe to open her eyes when she felt someone breathing down her neck and then heard a cold voice whispering in her ear.

"Did you think that you could get away from me that easily Nyra?" The man whispered menacingly in her ear. His voice was cold and threatening but also smooth and angelic at the same time. And for a second a few pleasant memories returned to Nyra's mind instead of heart wrenching and sad ones.

"No I didn't." Nyra said as she continued to keep her eyes bolted shut while outside the sounds of explosions, screams, crumbling buildings, and destruction continued. However they both acted as if it was a casual conversation they were having.

"Then why do you resist? You will just end back up in my arms like you use to." The man crooned in her ear and placed an arm around her waste causing her to shiver with fear which in turn caused the man to purr as being a Sith he fed off of fear.

"I resist because I hate you. You caused that and I will forever hate you." Nyra said and then she heard a chuckle emit from the man. However as far as she knew he did not know that she secretly had been performing a force technique which revitalized her strength and energy.

"Come now Nyra. To use such harsh words is very unlike you. However I do like your new acceptance of hatred. Let it fuel you." The man whispered in her ear as he felt her shiver once again. He pulled her even closer to him.

"I do not accept hatred. I am not fueled by it. I am fueled by light, compassion, and kindness. I will never submit to the dark side." Nyra said to which the man only chuckled again and pulled her even closer to him as he kept her trapped.

"You know in a few ways, you and I are very alike." The man said as Nyra finished her technique leaving her completely revitalized and geared up to fight.

"I will never be like you." Nyra said as she opened her eyes and then acted extremely fast in escaping his grasp. She dug her heel into his leg causing him to emit a low growl. And at the same time dug her elbow into his ribs causing him to loosen his grip on her.

Then she did a backwards flip in the mans arms and kicked him in the face emitting a snarl from him and causing him to let go of her entirely. She jumped back and reached into the folds of her coat.

"Your going to regret that!" The man shouted just as Nyra pulled a long double ended cylinder from her belt and removed her cloak and coat to reveal a light battle armor beneath.

She had a beige colored torso armor and shoulder pieces for the upper body area. She also had beige colored armbands on her wrist and knee areas. On her belt were two other long silver cylinders similar to the one she held but these were only single ended.

Nyra extended her arm and used the force to rip a piece of rubble out of the debris of the building which nearly crushed her. Then she sent the massive rock straight at her opponent. The rubble collided with his head and sent him spinning back. He landed hard on the ground a few feet from his previous spot.

"Am I? I beg to differ Thyferus." Nyra said as she ignited her Lightsaber, lighting up the two green blades of energy at its ends. Nyra saw that Thyferus had yet to get up and finally got a look at him.

Thyferus had been wearing a cloak which hid the bulk of his armor from sight. Most of the armor was still hidden beneath his cloak but Nyra could see the Sith Empire symbol in red on the torso piece and upon the crown of his mask. His mask was the only other thing which wasn't covered by the folds of his pitch black cloak.

The mask covered his face from his forehead down to his nose. There were red lines surrounding the eye holes and his eyes were closed. The rest of his mask was black and Nyra could still see his mouth and chin area. She could also see a faint blond hair that had fallen onto his eye.

Just looking at him started bring more suppressed memories to Nyra's mind but she just pushed them away so she would not lose focus on her objective. The objective of taking down this Sith Lord and protecting the Jedi Order.

However before Nyra could even approach him she heard what sounded like a war cry and turned to her left to find five Sith Warriors and ten Imperial Soldiers running towards her weapons ready.

"Die Jedi scum!" The leading Sith Warrior shouted as he raised his Lightsaber to strike at her. Nyra quickly sidestepped out of the way and before the Sith could strike again plunged her Lightsaber through him.

Suddenly two of the Imperials were struck by blaster bolts and were sent spinning to the ground. Nyra turned to find a squad of Alderaanean Security Troops coming to her aid.

"General we're here to help!" The Captain shouted as the Troops opened fire on the Imperials and Sith. A huge battle soon enveloped the group.

When it was over Nyra stood in the middle of a mass of Sith, Imperial, and Alderaanean bodies. She was panting heavily as she once again returned her gaze to Thyferus's unmoving body.

'Why hasn't he gotten up yet? He usually reacts immediately to things like a bolt of lightning?' Nyra thought as she slowly and cautiously approached Thyferus and, without even realizing it, allowed the flow of twelve years worth of suppressed memories to run free.

Thyferus almost looked dead and Nyra thought that the blow she landed may have killed him. Normally killing a Sith would be a good thing but Nyra and Thyferus had a past. A past that had eleven years worth of memories Nyra would hate to forget and a years worth of memories she would love to forget.

"Thyferus?" Nyra said as she loosened up and bent down to look at his face and tried to use her special power of seeing someone's life force strength but it was clouded by Thyferus's dark power since if there was a very entity that the dark side resided in, it was Thyferus.

When Nyra first met Thyferus the she had been accompanied by several other Jedi and her master and they all could sense the immense dark side power inside of him. It had flowed out in waves without end. It was as if the dark side itself resided in his very soul. Nyra thought that made sense as Thyferus was probably the most cruel, vile, and corrupt soul in the galaxy.

Nyra once again returned her thoughts to the Sith Lord lying seemingly dead on the ground in front of her. However she just knew he wasn't dead. All those within the range of the planet that were force sensitive would be able to sense his death.

"Thyferus?" Nyra said again as she continued to peer down at the man whom she had once loved and was now seemingly dead. She began to think that he really was dead. Until he spoke.

"Yes?" Thyferus said as his eyes bolted open and he leapt to his feet while simultaneously drawing his own Lightsaber and jumping on top of a nearby fountain which had somehow survived the assault by the Sith bombardment.

He used the Force to rip a Sith Starfighter out of the sky and then sent it flying towards Nyra completely unbothered that he was basically killing his own pilot.

Nyra leapt out of the way as the Starfighter crashed into the place where she had been seconds earlier with a fiery explosion. The two opponents became illuminated by the glow the raging fire the crash had created.

"You tricked me!" Nyra yelled at Thyferus who crossed his arms and smirked as he observed the scene before him. His eyes fell on the bundle that Nyra tried to hide from him but he realized that could come later.

'I will know what she is trying to hide after I get my revenge for her betrayal.' Thyferus thought as his gaze shifted back to the Lightsaber wielding foe below him. His eyes narrowed menacingly as his rage festered.

"Yes now why does that surprise you? If anyone is the trickster here its you!" Thyferus shouted as he pointed an accusing finger at Nyra who allowed a shocked expression to reach her face.

"Me? How am I the trickster?!" Nyra shouted as she lifted a piece of rubble out of the already torn apart plaza ground and launched it at Thyferus but he simply flicked his wrist and the rock spun away and smashed into a building behind Nyra.

Thyferus tore another Starfighter from its path and once again sent it streaking towards Nyra. The dagger shaped Sith craft knifed its way through the sky ready to obliterate the Jedi it was closing in on.

Nyra grabbed the Starfighter from its path and used the Force to push it into a path towards a ruined building. The Starfighter crashed straight through the building with a resounding blast.

"You know exactly what I am talking about! I recall that it involved a certain Corellian named Bax Lotar? Ring any bells?" Thyferus said as he narrowed his eyes at Nyra, the very person he had started an unnecessary invasion of Alderaan to draw out.

Nyra did remember. She remembered Bax and how he loved her and how she betrayed her own love for Thyferus in order to see Bax. She remembered how she had been discovered by Thyferus after leaving him and how he nearly killed Bax. She remembered being hunted for the last year. She remembered how it was the biggest mistake she ever made.

"I don't know what your talking about! Now why did you invade Alderaan? Was is me?" Nyra launched another rock at Thyferus but again it was just thrown aside. Thyferus glared at her with such intensity that Nyra could practically see his soul through it. An empty, barren, desolate plain of nothingness was what she saw.

"Did you expect anything else? I am Sith! Now lets chat!" Thyferus shouted as he uncrossed his arms and leapt off of the fountain while lighting up his crimson Lightsaber at the same time. He launched himself high in the air and then sped down towards Nyra.

"Not particularly. I expected you to do something but nothing this colossal." Nyra said as she cleared her mind and pushed all the memories away before she made her move.

Nyra jumped into the air to meet him and they sped toward each other like bullets and each prepared to bring their blades to cross with the others. It would be a duel which would decide the fate of Alderaan. If Nyra won then Thyferus would retreat and if Thyferus won then Nyra would be either killed or become a prisoner and Alderaan would be decimated.

'So this is how it ends for me, in a duel against my former love.' Nyra thought and she felt tears coming to her eyes but quickly blinked them away before she lost sight of the task ahead.

Time seemed to slow to a stop and Nyra was suddenly able to notice every single thing happening around them. All the chaos, death, and destruction was now open to her and she was able to witness every detail of it all.

She witnessed a squadron of Sith Starfighters streaking through the sky and blanketing the Tram Station in red laser fire blasting it apart, bringing an entire Tram crashing to the ground due to the anti-gravity fields being destroyed resulting in it flying into a building.

Nyra saw a platoon of Sith Soldiers gunning down a group of escaping citizens. The soldiers cut down each of them in turn and then moved onto the next group of fleeing innocents.

Thyferus was having his own thoughts though they mostly were of Nyra's death. He gathered all his rage and hatred into his veins until fury itself became his blood.

'She dies today! She betrayed me and now she will pay for it!' Thyferus thought as he sped towards Nyra blade ready to deal the fatal blow to the person he hated most in the galaxy.

When they met in midair Thyferus brought his red blade crashing against the left blade of Nyra's Lightsaber causing sparks to fly. Nyra and Thyferus both smashed into the ground from the momentum of their leaps. Yet despite the fact that they literally plowed through the pavement on the ground for five feet, neither blade was pulled away from the other.

Thyferus grunted as he pushed his blade against Nyra's left blade. Nyra stepped back and flipped her Lightsaber around causing Thyferus's blade to dive into the pavement of the ground.

Nyra cried out something akin to a war cry as she swung her saber through the air towards Thyferus's head. He pulled his crimson blade out of the ground and leapt back out of Nyra's saber's path.

Thyferus snarled and swung his Lightsaber at Nyra who blocked it with her own saber. Thyferus spun around and scythed his blade through the air and Nyra raised her Lightsaber's left blade to meet it. She stepped back lightly from the force that Thyferus's blade hit hers with.

"Not bad. But also not good." Thyferus said as he swung his own saber at Nyra who raised the right end of her blade to meet it. Once again sparks flew. Thyferus smirked as he pushed on her blade.

Nyra was pushed back again as Thyferus immediately swung his blade in an arc aiming towards Nyra's head. Nyra struck his blade with the left end of hers but he easily circled his blade around so that her blade no longer was pushing against his but rather the other way around.

Nyra grunted as sweat began to form on her forehead from the strain of dueling Thyferus who was one of the most powerful Sith Lords in the galaxy. He was most likely almost as powerful as the Emperor himself.

Unlike most Sith who drew their power from only rage and hate, Thyferus had discovered how to draw his own power from the living Force itself. This meant his power came from everyone, everything, anything which had the living Force inside of it.

Nyra found herself confused. She was the light and yet he was the dark so how could they ever have been compatible? Eleven years she was able to see past his darkness so why did it stop.

She had no longer been able to see past his darkness and cruelty after he slaughtered the Resistance Fighters on Balmorra along with an entire village just to make a point. All for the Empire.

"Why do you keep fighting? You know you can never win." Thyferus said as he easily blocked her blade when she swung it at his head and then again when Nyra tried to slice his leg. With just a flick of his wrist he moved his blade expertly to every spot he needed it to be at right when he needed it there.

"I keep fighting because I am a Jedi!" Nyra shouted as she desperately tried to fend him off. However no matter where she tried to strike at Thyferus his Lightsaber was there to stop her attack. She was not even aware of how she was slowly being drained of her energy.

"I think you forfeited that right long ago after you first left the JedI thirteen years ago! You are mine and you always will be!" Thyferus shouted as he leapt back atop the fountain once more. He deactivated his Lightsaber and raised his right arm and extended his fingers.

Blue bolts of deadly lightning blasted out of Thyferus's fingers and knifed their way towards Nyra who had just enough time to push the bundle even further out of Thyferus's sight but he could see where it landed out of the corner of his eye.

Nyra however had no time to get out of the lightning's path before it engulfed her in a wave of pain and agony. Nyra screamed as she was brought down to staying up by only one knee.

"AAAAAHHHHH! SSSTTTOOOOOOPPP! AAAHHHH!" Nyra cried out as Thyferus began to laugh manically and only continued to send wave after wave of lightning at Nyra.

'Her screams are music to my ears.' Thyferus thought as he blasted her with bolt after bolt of painful and dangerous lightning which only emitted more screams from Nyra.

"PLEASE STOP! AAAAHHHH!" Nyra screamed as she twisted and turned in anguish. Her head was pounding so much she couldn't hear herself think.

"So weak. How the mighty have fallen? Now I will stop this pain on one simple condition." Thyferus said as he leapt down from the fountain allowing Nyra five lightning free seconds. However Thyferus soon landed nimbly on the ground and the assault resumed.

Nyra was once again engulfed in the crackling pain of the lightning as she fell to the ground no longer able to stand or sit due to the pain being launched at her.

Thyferus smirked as she writhed in pain and agony. He felt only pride as he claimed vengeance for Nyra betraying him. He believed that his heart no longer felt any love for her anymore. Yet this was not entirely true.

'I'll do anything to end this pain! AAAHHHH!' Nyra thought as Thyferus towered over her with a smirk plastered on his face. He could hear her every thought so he already now had his answer.

"Good now I'll cease in my torture if you answer me this one question." Thyferus stopped firing lightning at Nyra and then bent down to face level. He smirked and fondly recalled a few memories from the twelve years he spent with this woman. Funny how now he was hunting her.

"What do you want?" Nyra coughed out along with a fair amount of blood. Nyra had become extremely pale and weak from Thyferus's assault by Lightsaber and Lightning.

He grabbed Nyra and hoisted her up in the air by her collar. He narrowed his eyes into slits and allowed his gaze to bore into her soul. Nyra was so weak that she would reveal anything and Thyferus could tell it.

"Where is the Qel-Droma Jedi Temple?" Thyferus demanded menacingly as some of his soldiers surrounded them in order to guard their leader from a possible ambush during his interrogation.

Nyra went even paler than she had been before if that was even possible since she already was white as a sheet before he asked that question and now she was even whiter.

After the death of the heroic Jedi Master Ulic Qel-Droma who destroyed the Ancient Sith Super Weapon the Dark Reaper the Jedi wished to honor him further. They did this by building an entire Temple in his honor.

She couldn't give him an answer or she would be even more of an exile than she was before. But if she didn't give an answer then it was curtains for her.

'I cant tell him! I cant!' Nyra thought unaware that Thyferus was hearing every thought and also he could tell her struggle by the way her face was strained and how her eyes were shut tight.

'Oh how cute. She's trying to keep the information from me. And something else.' Thyferus thought as he searched the depths of her mind to find what Nyra was keeping hidden from him. However it was as if every time he came close to whatever it was that thing just got pushed further and further away.

"What are you hiding from me?!" Thyferus said as he shook Nyra like a rag doll and searched her mind even further. He delved deeper and deeper but something was shielding her secrets from him.

'You'll never find out!' Nyra thought to which Thyferus threw her on the pavement and blasted her with another bolt of lightning. Nyra screamed in pain and what little compassion was left in Thyferus was touched by her screams.

There was just enough compassion left that he stopped the pain by ceasing his assault. Thyferus once again picked Nyra up by her collar and held her up in the air above the ground.

Thyferus was getting tired of this. He did not conquer one hundred star systems, destroy a thousand Jedi, decimate a hundred Republic Armies all to have his final victory interrupted by a spineless Jedi who also happened to be a blast from his past.

'At this point all mercy I may have been offering is gone! Now she is just getting on my nerves! I will find out what she is hiding from me one way or another!' Thyferus thought as he began to think of ways to get her to relent and give up the information. Then he remembered how Nyra was so concerned about whatever was wrapped up in that bundle earlier and that that was her weakness.

"Well, well, well I believe I know how to get you to talk. Captain!" Thyferus snapped and a gray uniformed officer bolted to attention and saluted Thyferus who just glared causing the man to quiver in his boots.

"Yes my lord?" The Captain stuttered out as Thyferus glared at him evilly. The Captain gulped bringing a smirk to Thyferus's face. Thyferus loved striking fear into people.

"Go and get that bundle that she tried to hide." Thyferus said and Nyra began to twist and turn as she fought to escape and retrieve the bundle. However the Captain soon returned to the scene, bundle in hand.

Thyferus suddenly zoned out. He felt as if a new power had been added to the force. One as strong or possibly stronger than his own. He slowly turned to look at the bundle in the frightened officers arms.

Yes he was sure of it. The massive amount of force energy was emitting from whatever was in that bundle. Thyferus had to know what threatened his power so much.

'What could it-! WAIT! I sense something very familiar? Bax!' Thyferus didn't take the bundle out of the Captains arms and instead reignited his Lightsaber. The crimson blade sprang up out of the metal cylinder in an instant.

"Lotar! I know your out there! Come out and fight like a man! But in your case it would be woman!" Thyferus shouted to his old rival whom he sensed was hidden somewhere among the ruins of the plaza they were standing in.

Suddenly three streaks of light emitted from three different places in the plaza with each striking down one Imperial Soldier with one fell blow. The Captain was so scared that he dropped the bundle but Nyra managed to pull it into her arms with what little strength she had left.

Thyferus had not time to ponder this as another volley of laser fire streaked out from a new set of places quick as lightning. Thyferus blocked each and everyone of them and then used the Force to find out where they were hidden.

He detected three people hiding in the rubble of the ruined statues behind him, two concealed within the ruins of a former office building on his right, and four cleverly hidden in the destroyed shrine in front of him. He smirked as he deactivated his Lightsaber and closed his eyes.

Thyferus was like this for some several seconds before he struck at the hidden attackers. He used the Force to crush the two within the building ruins using the remains of the skyscraper it had once been. He then ripped several statues from their pedestals and flung them towards the assailants. One was conked on the head by the head of a statue and fell unmoving to the ground yet the other two were not so lucky. They both were impaled by the golden swords the statues wielded.

'Now for the others.' Thyferus thought as he reignited his Lightsaber and smirked evilly and leapt at the soon to be dead attackers.

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