As the two droids appeared, Malice suddeny fell to his knees. The force had rushed out of his body, taking him by surprise. Shaking his head to relieve him of the dizzyness, Malice once again stood and began to back away. He would not fight them now......for he would lose. As long as those droids remained, he was at a disadvantage. Growling to himself, Malice began to move backwards.

*You in this time guards. But you will not always have suc protection. And when i catch you without it......your mine*

With that Malice headed towards the stairs that lead up towards the exit. He would leave for now. But soon.....very soon he would catch the guard whom had disrespected him. Truth be told, the guards master was very much so stronger then Malice. The sith lord from TNSO was also a force to be reckoned with.

These guards would oneday find out.

Times like this made Silk glad the helm mounted holocam carried to recorded just such circumstances for the purposes of statistical analisys. It would be sure to give his brothers in arms a good chuckle and perhaps even the Lord Maim himself.

No chase was to be given, it was enough to let the "demon" dwell on his own failure and incompetence. And indeed, Sovereign Protector Silk could count on seeing him soon. The pathetic creature would soon find that, in fact, no way off planet would be currently available.

In silence, he and his brothers, followed by the droids, departed the hall. Their destination unknown.

Malice finally reached the door leading out of the Castle. Opening it, he found that a raging storm was brewing outside. Then it hit him. The darkside in huge amounts washed over him. That was when he figured out that it was not nature which fueld this vicious storm. It was instead, the raw power of the darkside.

Growling to himself he braved the storm and began seaching for the ship he and Zeta had arrived in. Once found, he would sit and wait for his companion to arrive.

Zeta's gaze did not waver from the Dark Lord's as his thought's caught on Malice for a moment.

He wondered where he had gone, if he had found his way to leave.

As far as Zeta knew, there was no way out, at least not without a price...

He narrowed his eyes a moment, thinking of himself now.

"...Will there be anything more? I am sure you have other matters of importance to attend to?"

"Right now my concerns lay with the Sith. Anything else is trivial at best."

Maim sat, silent, waiting for a reply on this. He had not called them here to be left unanswered. However, that is what appeared to be now in the works. Strange the course things had taken.

"I see..."

The Sith's brow set hard as he trailed off in thought, something the Sith appeared to be doing quite often as of late.

"What would you say if I told you I had no thought of going back to Xa' Fel?"

He paused yet again.

"...that my path is leading me elsewhere, neither here nor there, but just simply somewhere else..."

Malice had been walking around for a good half hour in the storm. And still he had not yet found the ship they arrived in. This enraged the demon sith. And with the abundant darkside energy around, Malice began to soak it up like a spung.....further increasing his anger. With haste he returned to the castle. Looking at the door he had come out of, it swung open violently. Walking inside, the sith lord yelled at the top of his lungs. The darkside dripping from his body.

*ZETA.....MAIM. WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!!!!*

At not finding either of them, his irritation level had dropped to zero. Now, merely staring at a little dust ball would get him angry. So once again he set off through the castle to look for Zeta. And if these guards were to try and strop him again......they would find a rude surprise.

Ahh but the guards where not the ones who would be there to stop Malice. The Sith Master Athena Somir would be. She had exited her meditation chambers not long after Maim had entered them. She was on her way to finish something that had lingered in her mind for a while now.


" Lord Malice, I do think your wasting your time yelling in this castle. The Lord Zeta is fine. Worry not. Now walk with me.... "


She walked past Malice as simply as the wind brushed against your skin. The darkness the Sith Lord had spewing from his skin was nothing like the Darkness the Master raditated from her soul.

" There is a great power afoot, and its not the Dark lords... there is another. "

Malice was confronted not by the guards, but by Lady Athena.

" Lord Malice, I do think your wasting your time yelling in this castle. The Lord Zeta is fine. Worry not. Now walk with me.... "

This had calmed him down some. Not knowing that Zeta was fine, for he could care less about how Zeta was. But for the simple fact that someone did not ignore him.

" There is a great power afoot, and its not the Dark lords... there is another. "

This had put a questioning look on the lords face. Walking With Athena, Malice spoke to her. His voice calmer, and not as loud as before.

*What is this power you speak of. I sense nothing except the raging storm outside....as well as the darkness in here*

He wanted to know what she meant by this.

" Because there is more then just the Dark Lord, there is always more then we can see. "

She walked on.

" you see, there is more to life then just the force and our bodies, and I shall find a way to bring both into one. "

Athena stopped and showed Malice her amulet that wrapped around her right wrist.

" Here there is more power then even you can control. "