Sith Toys are a trap!

[Kyla Foy]

//This will be a thread where I will create a solo story for this character before he's joining the Sith or any other faction =3 It will be updated on a regular basis.

It had been known for quite some time within the universe, the Sith would never be playing fair. The Sith were always out for more power, more chaos and above all more possession on the galaxies. They were never out for old people that were new to the force! They were out for the young ones, that would be able to be molded and shaped into puppets. The young puppets had a long time to be shaped into Sith Knights as soldiers to help with overwhelming the Jedi. They had many ways to convert one to becoming a Sith; some parents of the Empire found it a privilege of having their child to become a Sith. Some were taken from slavery, some were taken away from their parents and some were converted with the use of certain poisons. The final bits and pieces were converted from the Jedi. The dark-side was easier to use, but once fallen...getting back into the light was far more difficult.

Erebus was a young boy that lived within Sith Space. His parents not a fan of the Sith Academy. They both had no knowledge, that their son was a Force Sensitive. He had just turned the age of eight. He wore average street clothes, which were not too fancy. His father was a trooper that was always aiming to making his son a powerful trooper himself. It was from a young age that he had to skin his first shot Vornskr to eat it at the very end, cooked by his father.

His father found the best way to train his son through taking him into the forest many times. Every single time when the season changed new creatures would be at the border, which was quite dangerous already. The forest consisted of many snake type creatures. He was for today being brought deep within a dark forest. The forest had a few rumors. The rumors were about creatures awakening at the night and whenever a person saw it, they would never return. His father wanted to figure out what the heck was within the forest that was this terrifying with a group of soldiers from the area. They went fully geared and his son was taken with him with no weapon other than a pocket knife.

 

[Kyla Foy]

At the early morning the soldiers were readying up and Erebus had to stick between them with his useless pocket knife, "Erebus, don't scream like a baby if you see something, okay?" His father had asked him calmly while speaking through the helmet as Erebus nodded his head, kind of fearfully saying, "Yes dad.." Erebus couldn't think about the adventure but only at that moment about the poisonous snakes. His hands were shaking, in his eyes he showed that he was trembling and his father could only shake his head.

The grown-ups were holding a conversation on their battle strategy to get themselves within the center of the forest towards the big misty lake. The problems were trying to be solved one at a time, forgetting that situations might change on the spot. Erebus was listening and keeping his mouth shut. His father didn't pay too much understanding until...

"Let's move out everyone, Erebus...Center! Cyark, Hawk and Rio, you are our back covers." His father had exclaimed as they all grabbed a hold onto their blasters and went into the forest.

 

[Kyla Foy]

The moment they had gone into the forest it felt kind of strange to Erebus. The thick air made it somehow harder to breath for him, "D...D..a..d" He tried to speak, "Ugh, don't be such a whiner pipsqueak." The man said shaking his head, while wearing his trooper helmet, that helped his breathing.

The moment they had entered the forest it seemed as if they got into an entire different world. The entire feeling of the area was completely different. Erebus looked around, from side to side. He couldn't see much further ahead. "Why is it here cloudy?" He thought for a moment and a sudden dust of wind passed by.

"Do you see anything?" The man in the front said while one of the others at the side wanted to touch some vines with his bare hands, "Don't touch those vines!" He quickly pulled the hand away by the wrist. The vine moved a slight bit. It made a soft hissing noise. The noise wasn't only coming from in front of them, but also from behind. They directly took out their vibro blades in order to slice through the creatures if it was needed.

"Don't let anything inside! Erebus, you will cut down every single snake that comes in our circle!" The troopers went closer to each other and they kept on standing there, looking around to see, what was going to happen.

 

[Kyla Foy]

"Are you afraid? You already know what to do, strike one of them down! Let the snakes feed on that body and you will surely live. Are you going to kill someone to save your own skin? Are you afraid? Are you afraid?"

Those words were being heard as a whisper, walking on the wind into the ears of Erebus. He looked around and said, "I am not afraid!" He trembled and was in a state of a shock. How would an eight year old boy be able to strike someone down.

"See it as a game! You will only survive if you listen to my instructions. I will guide you along the path to what you are seeking."

The voice wouldn't stop, that was a thing that was for sure and his father noticed that his son was showing a strange behavior. He never spoke to himself, he was never in this situation. Was he pushed too far? No! "What the heck are you talking about Erebus? Man up! You are not afraid...Wake up and be ready"

The snakes didn't attack, they just kept on sticking around the area.

"The snakes will never leave unless, they got their food."

 

[Kyla Foy]

"The strongest may only survive within this forest...The strongest will always survive...You will do as I say...Or else you will not survive"

The flow of the wind connected to the force allowed these whispers to flow through the forest. It was unknown to most of the people that entered the forest, these voices were connected to the force. The force-sensitivity that Erebus had allowed him to hear these voices. The Force Sensitive people might have been able to survive, but those who were not connected were to be doomed in the darkness of forest.

Erebus had to say it from the voice. The voice kept on pressuring him into doing what was necessary to survive even if it wasn't the right thing. The people around him were all ready for a fight and they stood ready to all attack at once. They remained very quiet and finally the boy opened his mouth, "Father...it wants, it wants..."

"Say it...Erebus...Tell him, someone has to die..."

"Dad...This voice is saying really bad things. It wants someone to." Erebus was absolutely terrified into telling it to his father. The young child did not enough courage to tell him someone had to die. Animals were suppose to die to be food, but killing people was a complete different absolutely Lunatic story!

The voice was done within playing games. There were different way into taking Erebus to the center of the forest. It could be done through taking something away.

"Above you~" The voice whispered through the winds.

A snake had been quietly awaiting above them at the top of the tree, drops of black colored liquid fell done, straight onto the young Vahla's face. "What is this?" He had exclaimed, as a drop of the black liquid came into his eyes and the snake followed dropping down. The pain was unimaginable as if salt was being poured on his eyeballs. He screamed of the pain trying to rub it off his eyes off his face.

"Run forward and a little push"

"You stupid boy!" His father exclaimed. The man turned the tip of his blade and cut straight through the small venomous snake. The black liquid poured out of the snake as suddenly Erebus ran out of sheer pain.

"Use your anger...Use your pain...Use your fear in order to push someone away! One tiny push.. Hahahaha~" The laughter was heard from the wind and Erebus was trying to wipe away the poison, but it was slowly clouding his vision

Ending in making him see nothing but darkness.

 

[Kyla Foy]

Erebus tried to run forward and pushed against a soldier, "EREBUS! Where are you going?! Erebus!" His father kept on exclaiming as the force shut down that voice and the boy cried out loud, running through the forest, hearing the hissing of snakes all around him over and over. It felt sometimes as if he touched a snake, but nothing was done against him. "Papa..Mama.." He kept on saying.

"Run...Run...Run..."

That moment he was out of the forest and in the center at the lake. The lake was completely clouded, not that it mattered since he couldn't see anything anymore, "Is someone there?!" He exclaimed hearing his own echo as a man sat there on a rock looking object in the distance on the water. "You need guidance young Vahla..You can see if you want...Eyes or no eyes.." The voice said while Erebus was following the flow of the force and tried to locate unknowingly the actual person.

"Sense me or fall down in the water"

That moment he stopped and started to cry. The tears falling of his cheek as he could only think, how stupid he had been in going all this way without knowing what will happen. His father would've most likely died and it is his fault.

"That is not your fault. Millions of people tried to invade my forest. This is my domain and if you had stayed with them, your ending had been painful."

Then suddenly under the pressure the boy had collapsed down onto the ground.

This was only but the beginning.