Snippet #1901469

There was a great comfort to be found within the embrace of the dark side. It was one of the things that Vader long ago taught himself when first truly beginning to embrace the greatest power that the galaxy could ever bear witness to. There was finality, absolute certainty, a greater truth behind it that nothing was able to escape. It gave him focus and patience just like he needed in this moment, he had all the power he sought with the exception of that he sought to have the most.
"You truly wish to believe yourself so safe within the embrace o the dark side?" Almost as if the dead Jedi Master could read his thoughts, Master Ruan inquired the argument that took root in his mind. Vader knew that it wasn’t the spirit of the old man. He had killed him and it wasn’t possible for anyone to maintain their existence after becoming one with the force. This was what the will of the dark side told him as it tried to make sense out of the former foe’s presence.
Darth Vader answered without turning to face him, “I have no one to trust but myself. You have no power over my judgment.”
Ruan asked, “Perhaps that is why you have failed?” Standing to attention from the question, Vader still did not face him and continued to stare into the vast certainty of the darkness. Cowards like those in the Jedi Order believed it possible to escape and even keep at bay from achieving its full power.
Like the great black holes that slowly chewed away at all of existence they were something to only be accepted as part of a natural order. It was the bottomless pit he had thrown Anakin Skywalker down more than twenty years ago. He came to accept long ago that the black holes continued to eat and eat with no limit in its structure. He could however take that beast for himself and with the correct power could be tamed to his own uses.
Vader turned to the Pantoran and offered, “Perhaps it is why the Jedi will all be destroyed.” Reaching out to the force, Vader tried to dissipate Ruan only to find that he no longer existed. His passing was supposed to be welcome, but the replacement of another brought him to attention.
“Mere acceptance stems from fear. It is ones actions that determine if the force bear life or take it.” With this phrase, Vader saw what seemed to be an odd fusion of Count Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn appeared before him. Still unable to decipher which this being was, Vader only took out his light saber and struck at it.
Awakening from the force meditation that he was in, Vader saw in front of him a column fall as it broke at the attack. He was essentially sleepwalking from the apparitions he had seen earlier and seemed to bring him to another realm almost parallel to this one. It was the way of his meditations these days as he continued to delve further and further down the dark path and searched for what he wanted most.
Searching through the force, Vader was displeased to see the four force users were still alive even after their struggle. Even on a planet generous with power for those in the dark side these two could not kill off two simple Jedi. Truly Vader would require his own blood sacrifice by the time this was over if this whole sortie could not conclude. The sith were patient for an outcome, but this one in particular would not allow anyone to deny him of his destiny.