Sith Apprentice Ceremony Terrogate

**APPRENTICESHIP CEREMONY**

154ABY

IC Apprentice Terrogate

Location- The hand of Feros combat arena.

Knight Deleritas strode down the stone steps to meet the acolyte where he stood, coming to a halt mere inches from his chest. Deleritas had not accounted for the difference in height, but his presence grew stronger. Filling the air with electrical humidity. The torches dimmed slightly. A chill ran down Deleritas’ spine. Deleritas growled, “But only should you choose to accept my tutelage. Acolyte Terrogate, do you willingly submit to me and allow me to teach you in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force?”

Terrogate drops to kneeling, humbled in the dust of the Arena floor looking up at him, this is the moment he wanted, a key defining moment in his life. The means of getting trained in the ways of the force, to amass the power of the dark side. Power enough to get his revenge.

In only his second day in the Sith Empire, he had started a fight with a young Mandalorian and it was only his fellow Ferosian housemate who had intervened and saved what could have been a major incident. How he hated them. Despised them. Terrogate lowers his head in servitude, ”I will not fail you, my Master” he says. The piers seem to regain their life at once and the arena once again is now alive as newly formed shadows dance and flicker over the seating areas and walls. As if the Force itself had heard his oath the darkened skies open up and rain starts to lightly fall across the arena. Terrogate still kneeling is summoned to standing by his new master and he looks into his eyes, his master is smiling. But Terrogate with his enhanced hearing hears something happening behind him, a faint cracking, it grows louder and louder still. He turns his head and sees a concentrated ball of pure energy on the far side of the arena, suspended in mid are only a few feet off the ground, It was slowly growing. Confused, Terrogate turns back to his master, he is no longer smiling but an intense expression is on his marred face, he is looking over Terrogates shoulder at the ball of Power… ”It is time to face your enemy,” said his Master, and pointed towards the ball of power. Terrogate turns and faces the anomaly head-on.

The ball of energy continues to expand, the electric crackling is deafening. Further and further it expands and begins to open into a full circle. The outer was electric purple and blue but the inner as black as the void itself. It becomes larger still now almost as big as the near 7 foot Catharian himself, the backness of the void begins to spin, and a red flame is now seen inside it. Terrogate grips his sabre hilt with both hands and assumes a forward stance in readiness for whatever horrors, whatever foul Sith beasts or nightmares were about to be unleashed on him he would slay and send back to the Abyss. He had been training hard in his short time here and his form 4 was indeed now at a level enough for actual combat. The rain is still falling and Terrogate squints his eyes to focus, 2 forms are now becoming visible. They look human... one tall and one shorter, both with helmets and one wearing a cloak… They…. They…. Terrogate freezes dead still. Scarcely able to fathom what he is seeing. Stepping out of the swirling darkness was Mandalore the Ultimate himself and with him...  ”CASSUS FETT!!” yells Terrogate at the top of his roar. The 2 Mandalorians now stand side by side in their red and gold armour, unmoving and only 20 metres from Terrogate. They appear to hear Terrogate as they look in his direction but remain silent to his words, the now obvious teleportation portal disappears behind them.

Terrogate straightens up and starts to circle the 2 masterminds of the destruction of his homeworld. Terrogates eyes have widened, his heart now races. This was what he was waiting for. The reason he survived… THIS was his time for revenge…Still holding his lightsaber he ignites the blade, he swears to himself the hum and red glow will be the last thing these Mandalorians will ever see. He continues to slowly circle the 2 human conquers he blinks if only for a brief moment of relief from the rain in his face, closing his eyes his mind goes back to his final days on Cathar. Visions of his home tree up in flames, of his parents, burned in their beds, his pregnant sister gutted by neo crusaders before being beaten then having her throat slit. His brother bound in chains and broken, his ears cut off and teeth pulled out, lead into the killing pit with the rest of the remaining civilians. Terrogate hears their screams as if they were standing right next to him. The elderly, the women, the children. And then the voice of Cassus Fett above the screams as he eagerly gives his orders over the enemy com link. ”EXECUTE THE FILTH, LEAVE NO ONE!”.. Then blaster fire… Terrogate opens his eyes and feels his unbridled rage boiling inside him, it’s filling him entirely. His focus is now totally and utterly on his prey, his eyes piercing into the faceless mass murderers as if they were weapons themselves looking to snuff out their existence. The rain has intensified but Terrogate does not feel it on his skin.. he sees his breath but he doesn’t feel the cold, he feels only the force.. rage, anger and a deep hate that burns hotter than the fires of Mustafar. He speaks now yelling over the storm, ”CASSUS FETT! MANDALORE THE ULTIMATE! FOR THE CRIMES YOU HAVE COMMITTED TO THE FREE PEOPLES OF CATHAR, AND FOR THE DEATH OF COUNTLESS MILLIONS INCLUDING MY FAMILY, I SENTENCE YOU BOTH TO DIE! I AND THE REST OF THE GALAXY WILL FINALLY BE FREED OF YOUR TERROR. IF YOU HAVE A GOD, KNOW THERE IS NO USE PRAYING. FOR NOT EVEN HE CAN SAVE YOU NOW!” The hate fueling his every fibre Terrogate explodes in a lightning-fast sprint towards his enemies. Still, they stand silent and unmoving. The energy of the dark side quickens him and his movement is pure lightning. He approaches Cassus first and with a sideways spin he slashes at the neck of his opponent just under the helm, but he does not feel the resistance of blade on steel or even flesh, his stroke moves through Cassus unchecked and unhindered… He follows through and now standing almost behind Cassus he redoubles his efforts, he raises his sabre and jumps into the air, coming down hard he thrusts downwards with the aim to impale Cassus through his collarbone and straight down into his torso but Cassus, right on point of contact dissipates like a pile of ash in a strong breeze. Terrogate Roars with frustration NOOOOO!! He turns to face Mandalore who is stood still as a statue looking towards Terrogate, with his sabre blade still low to the Arenas dusty stone floor he swings hard and upwards at the masked murderer in an attempt to cut him from groin to head splitting him vertically in 2 but the blade once again goes through like he had been swinging into thin air. And again, the same as Cassus had done, Mandalore the Ultimate vaporizes into a million pieces and Terrogate is left alone in the centre of the arena, rain bearing down on him.

Terrogate falls to his knees and screams a roar so loud that Typhojem himself may have heard!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRRR! With his fist he belts the stone floor of the arena floor..His face is wet from a mixture of rain and tears, his ears still full of the screams of women and children as they await their certain deaths. The sound of his almighty roar dains out of the empty arena and he hears laughing.. evil, chilling… He turns and sees his master standing still, at the steps of the winners’ podium a wide grin on his face. Terrogate’s blood boils, ”YOU!!!” he shouts, standing he focuses his rage onto his new target, ”YOU COST ME EVERYTHING! THEY DESERVED TO DIE! I NEED TO AVENGE THEM!!!!!” and with that Terrogate sprints at his new master, throwing his saber to the ground something takes him over. Something old, something primal.. Pure rage, raw and all consuming.. He would rip the flesh from bone and satisfy his bloodlust. Closing quickly on his new target Terrogate protracted his claws on his hands and once close enough he leaps at his master ready to kill.

With the smallest of effort Master Deleritas opens his palms and his mind catches Terrogate mid-air with his telekinesis, still smiling he holds the large Catharian suspended above the ground and begins to circle as he speaks to his apprentice. ”Now my apprentice, while you're just hanging around, how about listening to some truths? Undoubtedly as you 've recently found out, I conjured visions of your sworn enemies for you to confront using the newly installed holo projectors” Deleritas signals to several points around the arena walls, your bloodlust and raw power in the force is indeed impressive for someone with no training. But now you must realise fighting these..” he pauses and curls his lip with the words ”These Mandalorians, are like fighting ghosts. You must realise indeed that these enemies you look to inflict your revenge on have been dead for over 4000 years, Cassus, Mandalore, all of them..” your incident with the young Mandalorian did not go unnoticed and furthermore, the Empire has many of their kind amongst its ranks. It will not do to have dissent and the Emperor will be swift with justice if you are found out to be making trouble”. Deleritas has walked a full circle and now back standing in front of Terrogage. ”No, If anyone is going to kill you my young apprentice, rest assured it WILL be me.” Deleritas looks down towards his belt and lightly touches his mask attached to it. ”Although, there is still one way to avenge your family's deaths.. Yes! Yes! You know of what I speak! The ones who are really at the center of blame, the Jedi! The ones who left you and your people to ruin! To death! Will you now train and focus your energy on gaining the power to defeat the emperor's ancient enemies? YOUR enemies? Focus your rage and hate and malice on the true target!! Together we can crush these weaklings, the liers and ones who seek to deform and warp the force to suit their idiotic ideals… Tell me Terrogate.. will you follow the path that has now been set before you..???” With that he lets Terrogate go and he falls landing hard face-first into the dirt. Lying their eyes closed, the sound of rain slowly fading away but in its place now a faint slow beep... Continuous it repeats again and again but louder with each repetition until it consumes everything else in his ears and his mind.

A low light appears behind his eyes and Terrogate now opens them. He is drawn back into reality as the internal timer display for the meditation chamber flashes and beeps.. 6 hours it reads. Terrogate raises a hand to push the open button but pauses just an inch away from pressing and whispers to the darkness, ”I will follow...my Master..”