As both Muur and Jason walked into the house, as the door opened, Jason could feel a ghostly disturbance in the house. As if the force inside of it was dying, screaming to be killed. When Jason finally saw the horrors of what Muur was talking about, he couldn't believe his eyes. It was some of the villagers that used to live her. They weren't dark side spawn like the others had been turned into, nor mindless slaves to the force. No, they had been killed, and then brought back to the world of the living against there will. Muur and Pall had discovered a way through there alchemy and the dark side of the force to bring back the dead to life.

When Jason saw these lifeless creatures, the feeling he had was almost like when he first saw Abeloth, as if all hope was gone. "Muur, what have you done? These creatures shouldn't exist" Jason said fearfully to Muur. "I know! Isn't it wonderful! Think about it Jason, the existence of the people means that we are on the track to immortality. We could live forever, we become gods!" Muur said with excitement in his words.

Jason could see the crazed look in Muur's eyes, he had jumped headfirst into the dark abyss of the dark side of the force, and it scared Jason because that could become him if he wasn't careful. But Muur wasn't completely wrong, this knowledge of being able to bring the dead back to life was to good not to pass up. If anything were to happen to Amara, he wouldn't forgive himself. He knew what Muur was capable of, having mastered Sith Alchemy and imbued his spirit into his amulet that he wore, later possessing a Jedi a few thousand years in the future and later reviving again after having been trapped in a force sarcophagus. Muur was not to be treated lightly, he needed to be careful around him or something terrible might happen.

Jason quickly collected himself before Muur would notice his fear, and instead began asking questions about the process of how one would gain this power and use it. Muur merely smiled at Jason "In due time my dear friend" Muur said with cynically. Muur then changed the subject to their plans of conquering this backwater planet. They had conversed for the next hour about everything that was going to happen and possibilities of being discovered by either the Republic or Jedi Order while they were conducting this operation.

After Jason had spent enough time with Muur he decided that he would go find Amara and apologize for his behavior from this morning. Jason headed back to the house they were sharing to see if she was there, but she wasn't. He left to walk around the village to look for her, but after searching everywhere, he couldn't find her. After having spent some time looking, he finally asked some padawans that Amara would occasionally spend time with if they had seen her. A padawan spoke up and told him that he saw her with a few other padawans heading north of the village. Heard that they were going to study this herd of animals that they saw the other day. "I see…. thank you young padawan" Jason said courteously. The young padawan bowed to him and went back to what he was doing with his friends.

Jason looked off into the distance towards the north, trying to decide if he should go talk to Amara or not. Before he could get the chance to decide his comms device chimed with a call. It was Master Muur. "Master Jason, it is almost time and the preparations are nearly complete, will you join me with our group at the south of town?" Muur eagerly said. "Yes, of course. I will be shortly" Jason replied back to Muur. Muur nodded to Jason and ended the call. Jason looked back up to the direction of where Amara was and stood there for just a moment, then turned the other direction to go meet Muur.

When Jason got to the place where he was to meet Muur, there was a large group of people standing around Muur. There were around a two dozen Jedi and double that in dark side spawn miners from Ruusan. As Jason approached the group, Muur took notice of him and raised his hand and motioned for him to come to the center of the group. Jason did so reluctantly and made his way through the crowd and took his spot next to Muur.

"Alright, now that we are all here, I will go over the plan" Muur said as he pulled out a holo-pad that when activated displayed a topographic image of the land highlighting several villages and towns on it.

"The spots highlighted on the map are our targets. They are small villages and towns like this one. Due to the shortage of resources we have right now, we will have to be walking to them at first. If we're lucky, we will come across some land speeders and cargo transport speeders that we can load up the cannon fodder on" Muur said as he looked at the spawn creatures.

"Once we have gathered all the people in these smaller, isolated settlements, we will begin to converge on the larger settlements, just as the star ports and cities. We will capture everybody either alive or dead, it does not matter to me. We will take everything useful. That is speeders, weapons, credits, food, and anything that we can be used to further our cause. Is everybody in accordance with this plan?" Muur had asked the group and scanned around looking for any that didn't seem sure about what we were all about to do. No one spoke out against the plan or Muur.

"Let's get this started then, shall we" Muur said with a sadistic grin on his face, as he motioned for his group to head out east of the village they were staying at. As the group started their march, Muur and Jason were at the fore front of the group leading the way, with the Jedi behind and the spawn at the heel of the group.

While they marched, Muur would spend his time writing in his personal journal, and occasionally ask Jason about thoughts and ideas he had for certain uses of the force. Muur was very interested in finding the cure to the mortal life and becoming immortal. Jason could only imagine what Muur was writing in that book of his. Jason spent his time during there travel talking with his fellow Jedi about how they were handling everything that was going on, making sure that morale between everybody was good.

After having marched all day, they made camp towards the end sun set before it was too dark for them to see. The Jedi had brought tents for themselves while the dark side spawn didn't need sleep or food. After they had got everything set up, the all the Jedi gathered around a fire that someone had started in the middle of there camp. They traded stories about crazy missions they had been sent on, dealing with local pirate gangs to big for local police to be able to handle, to crime lords, civil wars and everything else in between. This went on for hours till the fire had burned out and everyone retreated to there tents to get some sleep.

Jason was one of the last ones to go to sleep, for he was afraid of what might happen to him if he fell asleep. He didn't know if Abeloth would attack him again in his mind or not if he decided to sleep. Right before he started getting up from his seat by the fire, he heard footsteps approaching him. He rose immediately and put his hand down by his side ready for anything. He could see who it was since the moon wasn't out tonight, nor could he sense who it was. It wasn't until the person spoke that he realized that it was Master Muur.

"Master Muur, I didn't realize that you were still up. I thought you had turned in like the others" Jason said to Muur confused on why he didn't sense Muur's presence at first. "Easy Master Jason" Muur said raising his hands to Jason to show that friendly. "No, I was just about to turn for the night though. I was just out wandering around the area. I had heard some animal cries and went to investigate" Muur had said a thin smile going across his face.

"Yes. There was a large cat like creature that had found its prey in a lone Bantha. My guess an old one that couldn't keep up with it's herd anymore" Muur had explained coolly calmly to Jason.

"A large cat you said. Should we go out and look for it? To make sure it doesn't come for us in the middle of the night" Jason said cautiously searching through the force for this predator but couldn't find it. Muur raised his hand to Jason as he could see what he was doing. "No need Master Jason, it has been dealt with. Well goodnight…Master Jason" Muur said with a cold thin smile and eyes narrowed in like he had just been through something that got his adrenaline going. Muur then turned to go to his tent where he turned a light stick on and began to write again in his journal.

As Muur was going to his tent, Jason had look at Muur and saw that his hands were stained with what looked like to be bluish blackish blood, as well as his tunic had stains on them as well. A feeling of dread came over Jason at the sight of Muur, and those eyes, he had the eyes of the devil. Muur was going to be one hell of a problem in the future if me and him ever came to blows. Jason collected himself and then proceeded to head to bed and tried to forget what he just saw this night.

As he drifted off into sleep, he could hear the cries of a woman in pain in suffering, and then suddenly it was gone…

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