Makhai's Emergence

**Deep in the Shadowlands of Kashyyyk, ruins from a bygone empire still existed. Remnants of tall towers and busy factories now lay in ruins and take over by dark and sinister lurking creatures. The old academy now a footnote of what it once was and will never be again. The air was stale and stagnant, heavy with the pungent decay that existed across the shadowlands. Silent the night was, broken suddenly by a loud crack that pierced the night air. Slowly the ground began to shake and rumble, protesting as a dark force began to manifest in what once was an open courtyard to the former academy.
Creatures scattered as the rumbling intensified. A Purple and Teal mist started whirling at the center of the courtyard surrounded by pieces of a broken dais. After a few more seconds, the broken dais suddenly shattered further, and an unseen force sent the stone and overgrowth outward 5 meters in all directions. The mist solidified and an audible gasp was heard, as a 1.8 m tall figure fell to the ground with a thud onto what was left of the dais. The purple and teal energy shuddered outward and sent out a huge Force Pulse as the man materialized from the Void beyond and the energy dissipated in the pulse..
The man exhaled sharply with the fall, and rolled onto his back. He was entirely nude, his body covered with fresh wounds atop old scars.
Opening his Green eyes, he glanced about at where he was. The placed looked foreign, but the sensation…the feeling was all too familiar. Makhai painfully rolled his body over onto his stomach, and slowly onto his hands and knees. He coughed a few times from the dust swirling about due to the forceful disturbance of his arrival. Blood trickling to the ground as he coughed and from several wounds upon his arms and thighs.
Making pushed himself up to his feet and looked around in greater scrutiny while he wobbled a few times and tried to avoid falling backwards. This place…could it be? He thought to himself. Is this really Kashyyyk? He asked himself once more.
Now Makhai was starting to feel the presences more definitively. He looked down and he could feel it now, yes this was it, this had to be it. Feral, Phantom, Sinistra, Vitiosus, Ferinus, Stormro, Rebellious, Sarian, Si’at, Ver’metus, all of them…he could now feel all of them as if they had just been here. This must have been where it had happened.
A renewed anger filled Makhai and his strength started to gather. He could now feel the dark energy caress him and light his being more. Seeing the destruction of the academy filled Makhai with a seething rage, and he funneled the dark energy into a large blast of Force Lightning upward, creating a blinding light that flashed visibly throughout the Shadowlands.
On his own, Makhai walked over to a fallen column, pulling himself up onto it, he surveyed the Shadowlands as his meditation began, and he rested while the dark side refueled him.**

**Makhai felt a looming presence, one that caused a lingering faintness in his mind’s eye to spark up images of an old humanoid with pronounced tendrils protruding from his face. The young man with green eyes and blond hair, did not feel threatened or alarmed by the presence as it was a faint familiarity one with which he seemed to have a bond.

Looking up at the approaching figure, Makhai’s green eyes opened and focused upon the nearby ledge. He was unarmed should this approaching being mean him harm, he was physically weak and exhausted from the recent trials and exit from the void beyond, but Makhai knew the force was a powerful ally. Even though he was a relatively young practitioner, his connection ran deep.

Makhai rose up and now stood atop the shattered pillar, his naked form outlined in faint light that shimmered off the crimson blood that still flowed from some of the wounds he wore. Makhai stepped forward, hopping down and began to size up and kept a watchful eye on the newcomer and a rhythmic connection to the force as it pulsated within and around him. He watched and waited for the familiar stranger make the first move, while Makhai watched with an almost feral demeanor about him.**

**Green eyes studied the being’s approach. It was cautious yet confident, steady and on guard. Makhai realized this person was potentially more dangerous than he had anticipated. He crouched lower onto his haunches to narrow the profile target he created. As he did this, the being’s aura shifted, and suddenly two pieces of rubble were flying at him, Makhai leaned and pushed with his right arm and leg off of the column and sent his body into a horizontal pitched roll over top of the first piece of debris and underneath the second. He landed in a crouch then pushed off to his left and rolled towards the center of the dais in the ruins. As he moved towards the crushed central dais, his eye caught a pair of Sais that had been imbedded into the ground. He grabbed them amongst a bevy of other electronic compnents and Khyber crystals that lay in a smashed pile.

Makhai spun out from behind the dais, and readied himself with a pair of silver colored Sais. The one in his right hand backwards and in a defensive posture, while the left low and out front aggressively. He eyed the being waiting for the next move…for the next attack. Makhai focused his intensity on the being and let his feelings start to churn and bubble within.**