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THE ETERNITY BRIDGE

Staring at the dead planet of ziost , Nox peered with his black eyes at a large crevasse in the crust before turning to the bridge commander .

" Stay away from the planet until I order you to lower into the planets atmosphere . There are things down there that must be dealt with before the ship is brought planet side " Nox ordered with the filtered voice through his cultist armor " open my hanger shields "

ZIOST

Dropping through the atmosphere apon entry , His eyes peering to the corner of his helmet as he read the temperature guage . Going through his suits systems , His armor cooling automatically to fight off the danger of being roasted in the sky .

As he neared the crevasse closer and closer , Steam escaping the surface of his armor as he glared at the crust of the world .

With the force growing heavy around him , Spreading his arms as the speed he dropped at decreased drastically as he used the force to control his descent entirely as he flipped his body right side up as he suddenly stopped in the sky , Lowing his arms to the side as he seemingly stood apon air itself .

" So it is indeed still alive " Nox said to himself as his armours temperature returned to normal .

Tilting himself slightly , Nox gazed towards the crevasse before using the force to propel himself the planet once more .

ZIOST SURFACE

Walking through the entrance , Nox slowly stepped towards the towering figure of the collosal monolith as he drew his lightsaber , Purple markings flashing along the hilt as he ignited the blade . A terrible screeching noise heard by any living creature emitting from the blade . Swinging the black and purple blade as he readied himself , The collosal monolith turning in his direction before it recognised him as an enemy . Both combatants starting their pacing towards eachother .

Nox's feet picking up their pace as he applied several force abilities to himself and his environment . With his feet becoming a blur to the monolith slowly followed by the rest of his body , The monolith swept its collosal arm around to mutilate nox .

Seeing the creature prepare its attack , Nox augmented his body strength followed once more by his speed as the creatures arm slammed into the ground and started a wide area sweep . Within moments the arm had reached him .With nothing but a grunt , Nox propelled himself into the air with a summersault , Soaring clean over the appendage as he analysed it's movements . Now being upside down , Nox used his left hand and made a grabbing gesture before swiping said appendage at the monolith , Loud crunching being heard as the nearby wall of the crevasse was dislodged from the wall and propelled into the side of the creature , Causing it to stumble as Nox landed behind it .

Resuming his run at the collosal monolith , Throwing his lightsaber at the creatures head high above him . Nox used a two handed force blast and propelled it at the creatures abdomen , Slamming into the creature as it let out a roar of fury , The lightsaber then slashing against its forehead , Absorbing a portion of its lifeforce before cycling back to its weilder , A glowing scar being left in its hide as Nox caught his blade and continued his fight with the now ancient creature .

Rearing its right foot high into the air , Rock crumbing from its toes as they fell from it , The creatures ensnarled look doing little to phase Nox as the creature attempted to stamp him into paste .

Using fold space just as the creature slammed its foot into his position with surprising speed. Appearing above its right shoulder with his lightsaber in a reverse grip , Nox looked down at the creature as it was sure of its successful kill . Using the force nox started spinning at a high velocity on his fall down . Appearing nothing but a black and purple highpowered sawblade follwed by the terrible screeching of his lighsaber . Nox Tore into the hide of the creature once more as it realised he lived , swaves being carved into it , Deep as the darkside nexus of Nox's lightsaber did its job with not only absorbing the life straight from the monolith But its wounds slowly starting to decay while slowly speeding up as they joined seperate strike zones .

After slicing down the whole right arm of the creature , Slicing clean through three of its fingers as he dropped another hundred feet to the ground , Nox slammed into the ground before shooting off with a shockwave with lightning sparking off of his body in red flashes . stopping just under the creatures left leg , Nox pointed his left arm up at its joint before shooting a concentreated burst lightning bolt , Its red tint singeing the air itself as it struck the rocky skin of his opponent before shooting through the other side .

The beast let out a roar as it was brought to one knee before it used its good arm to strike out at it's attacker .

" Now you die " Nox stated as he deactivated his lightsaber and clipped it to his belt whilst the arm rose into the air .

Reaching his right arm up as the monoliths own arm started to descend , curling his fingers inwards as a repulse was heard outwards , Groaning being heard from the creature as the ground started to shake .

The monolith redirected its falling arm to try to anchor itself as it's collosal body started rising from the ground with several large rocks floating along with it .

Growling lowly as he rose his right hand higher into the air while the monolith rose above the ceiling of the crevasse . Bringing his left hand up closer to his right arm , cracking being heard from the ground as it splintered and broke apart across the entire valley . Crushing his left hand together as the broken crevasse floor flew towards and bombarded the monolith before cycling back and repeating the process as the debris cycled around in a tornado like formation .

With the rocks eventually breaking through tough armor as they picked up in velocity and started shredding flesh .

After a few minutes of the none stop assault , The rocks , Shards and debris slowly rotating around it .

Motioning his right arm to the ground in a pointing gesture , The monolith was slammed into the ground from hundreds of feet in the sky before Nox did the same with his left hand . Watching as the collosal rocks pelted the creature , Burying it under the rubble before he raised his hands to the remaining ceiling of the crevasse before swinging his hands towards the buried creature as the ceiling collapsed , flying at the monolith before skewering it with the serrated edges of the ceiling .

Looking towards the still pile of rubble , Nox turned away from the pile before heading through the entrance of the crevasse . Apon exiting the battlefield , Nox absent-mindedly brought his fist together once as the ground shook , The massive crater like crevasse collapsing into itself as Nox brought his hand to the side of his head and activated the comms system in his helmet .

" Send down ship D-7713 , 7714 and 7715 " Nox ordered as several ships lowered into the atmosphere " Deploy all sky trooper units , Construction crews and all knights . Ziost is ours , Prepare reconstruction of the capital city , And procure a titan class transport cage for a deceased specimen " Nox ordered as he walked slowly towards the ancient decaying city .

WITH NIHILUS - ORICON

With yellow eyes glaring into space as the frigate lurched and dropped out of hyperspace , Nihilus looked at the planet below him with a barely hidden sneer .

" These pathetic creatures defy us , Master wants the dread fortresses once more ... leave no survivors " Nihilus ordered eight fleet vessels moved towards the planets atmosphere " Prepare for orbital bombardment ... specific targets have been highlighted , The fortresses and the islands they are on are to be left alone... begin "

Nihilus watched as the fleet vessels launched everything they had at the planets surface , Recoil from turrets heard as the skies of the planet lit up like fireworks . Torpedos launched from the vessels leaving holes in the clouds , All the while Nihilus watched through his skull like mask with a blank face .

" Deploy all drop pods of sky trooper units , Each knight contingent apon ships will take a foretress each , We deploy with haste " Nihilus ordered as the orbital bombardment came to a halt and his men went to perform their duties .

ZIOST

With heels crunching stone and clanking against steel , Nox walked through the destroyed hallways of an annoyingly long vault passageway which had been rotting for thousands of years .

Feeling through the force as he walked towards his goal , Nox took a breath of air as a smile came to his face . Taking the next right before coming to a doorway which hadn't been opened since the time of the sith empre .

" Found you my sweets " Nox said to himelf as he reached out towards the decaying vault door with the force , And with a flick of his wrist tore the door from its holding to reveal what was within .

A dimly lit room running off of its own power supply , Lit with a series of dim red lights with vents and safety glass seperating the entrance from what it held . And on the other side of the glass , Incased in tubes of airtight glass were the nine seeds of rage acina had attempted to secretly hide .

Sweeping his hand in an arc , Nox watched with satisfaction as the glass keeping him from his rightful property was blown apart with a shockwave from the force , Leaving only the seeds unharmed as the room shook and the walls cracked under the pressure of the crumbled building atop of the room . Reaching out with his hand to the remaining seeds of rage , Nox curled his fingers around the base of the closest one as the rest took to hovering around him in an elipse like formation ' You will not remain here ... my little toys . Acina thought she could hide these from me with the help of the pathetic ex-emperors wrath , How wrong they were ' Nox thought as several skytrooper units walked in , Each carrying rather sturdy looking cases with a unique design , black cases with thick glass with metal claws used to keep the seeds in place .

" You are to store them in my personal vault aboard the eternity in my room , Failure is not an option " Nox ordered as he watched the seeds hover within their specially designed cases as the sky troopers acknowledged his orders and went about their duty .

Placing the seed he himself was holding into its containment carrier , Nox gave it to a black coloured sky trooper unit as it saluted and monitored the other units as they made haste towards the eternity in orbit .

' It's going to take quite abit to rebuild the lost citadel ' Nox thought to himself as he walked through the destroyed city , Noises of construction being heard all around as knight , skytroopers and the like moved with deceptive ease through the rubble , Rebuilding what was once lost .

Closing his eyes as he felt everything around him , Nox waited felt the seeds location emanating from his personal vault aboard the eternity along with the humongous transport carrying the collosal monolith within it as it flew skywards .

" Scorpio , send down the Iokathian war droids , I wand the world breaker monolith subdued and ready for relocation to be put to use while the remains of the collosal monolith are to be shipped to nathema for my personal study " Nox ordered over comms before receiving an affirmative in response .

" Prepare the eternity for a jump to nathema ... my experiments have waited long enough" Nox ordered as he stormed towards his recently landed shuttle his face marred into a frown as his eyes showed deep concentration and thought .

CHAPTER COMPLETE