Star Wars: Nexus Libra

Part 8: Face-off

Omok withdrew his lightsaber and turned it on. The green light pierced the dull gray light. A counselor. The last to draw his lightsaber but his connection with the Force was not to be doubted.

“Will you not turn your saber on?” Omok asked as he approached a manageable fighting distance.

“The saber of the Apostle is not something that is easily wielded.” The synthesis of Raavik Nexus answered. “This saber has the deaths of hundreds of Jedi within its light. The balance is perfected within the sword.”

Omok swung head to toe in a vertical direction and missed. But it was as if the blade was pushed to the side, deflected by the Force itself.

Omok tried again, this time horizontally but, again, the blow was deflected. It was as if Omak had struck a mighty tree with a tiny log. It simply bounced off. 

“C’mon and fight me!” Omok roared. He unleashed a torrent of energy trying to push Raavik out of his position. Raavik Nexus batted away the attempt with a flourish of his hand. Four yellow sabers lit up around the battle area. The four sentinels had remained behind.

“Do you want Raavik to fight you alone, without the assistance of the Force? If so we must sever your connection as well.” Raavik Nexus moved forward toward Omok. For the first time, in this battle, he ignited the Apostles Blade. The Silverlight pierced the dark gray, for what light was produced by the library seemed to be soaked into the blade. Balance was struck at all times within the Nexus. 

The Apostle moved with an inhuman speed and struck quickly and sharply at the Jedi master. Omok deftly moved aside and parried with the utmost skill. The two clashed and traded blows with each other. Each one countering the other, each one moving through the dark and the light of the Library poured more into the saber. The blows of the Apostle became more savage as the blade was absorbing more light. 

The blade was becoming an incarnation of the Lightside of the Force, while Raavik Nexus was becoming more akin to the Darkside. The Force really began to show, for each strike with the white blde lightning strikes would flow out of Raavik. Each blow would tear away at Raavik’s flesh, each hit landed on Omok’s saber began to pierce and shred Omok himself.

After several minutes, all that could be seen in the Library were the four ignited yellow sabers standing at the four corners of the battleground, the singular blade of the Jedi, and then the blinding white hot light of the Apostle’s Blade, all the gray light that had once been in the Library was now focused into the blade. 

“This battle is over.” Nexus Yaan said, his voice was now other worldly, deep, dark and without empathy. Nothing of the man that Omok had met just a few days before was left. “Surrender and remain in the Nexus forever.”

Omok felt his will falter, but nevertheless he rushed forward with one final cry. “My will belongs to the Force.”

Then just as a whisper aside, Nexus Yaan stated, “I am the Force!” And with one final upward stroke an explosion of light and lightning enveloped Jedi Master Glork Omok, and he ceased to be.

*I have to say that this truly has been the first time to write something like this and I have to say that I really enjoyed it, What a fantastic ending to this particular chapter of Raavik Yaan’s adventure. Thank you to the readers that took the time to read it, you guys are the best.