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As he did, his stance fell, becoming completely defenseless, and even as Dooku's body arched and twisted under the touch of Demask's Sith Lightning, Dooku struck back. The tiny wave of Force changed into a flood as he poured out all of his remaining concentration and power, all of his scant remaining life, into one last trick. Busy with torturing Dooku, Plagueis didn't even notice, having believed that Dooku didn't have it in him to speed up the bits of debris his Force Grab had been touching earlier enough for them to be truly dangerous.
And he was right; Dooku could not have sped up the random pieces of the nearby urn his Force grab had found, flailing out almost blindly as he had been. But one didn't have to throw a razor sharp spear as hard as you had a random bit of clay.
Before Plagueis could realize his mistake, dozens of thin spears impacted his body stabbing him through from the back and side. Even that might not have been enough to overcome him, however; Plagueis had mastered Force healing and his body to such a degree that he could heal from nearly everything. The pain from that and the sudden reversal, however, made his Force Lightning cut out. And then Dooku grabbed up his still blazing lightsaber and cut with all the power remaining to his seared, ruined body. Then he fell back, as Plagueis's now sundered body fell limply to either side of him.
As death started to cloud his vision, Dooku smiled, letting his eyes close for the last time as he felt the Force welcome him at last. I'm ready now…
OOOOOOO
Sidious felt it, Felt the Force changing, Felt the Veil's power settle down onto his shoulders. He felt his teacher's death, and knew, knew he alone ruled the Dark Side, as it should always be. Sitting alone in his hidden throne room he laughed quietly, feeling the darkness all around him, hiding him from his enemies, empowering him, and knew that he had taken yet another step towards his destiny. The Jedi will fall, and I will reign as master of the Force for eternity!
OOOOOOO
Deep in the Temple Yoda looked up from where he had been teaching Wulo, feeling a great, all-encompassing sadness settle down on his aged, weary bones. At the same moment the Force everywhere shifted in such a subtle yet powerful manner that many Jedi felt it, even if they couldn't understand what had occurred.
When the Chironian asked him what was wrong, Yoda released a sigh that contained in it all the sadness of a lifetime spent living on as those he knew died around him. "A great Jedi, passed he has. One with the Force is Master Dooku. Yet alone, he did not pass; shifted the Force has. Hope, perhaps, returned it might have, for the Force."
Komari stepped into her former Master's study, gathering her hard won Jedi serenity around her with more difficulty than she had needed ever since Master Fay and Master Unduli had put her back together, body and soul. She knew both would remonstrate with her for the very idea, but she owed the two of them far more than she could ever repay, just as she owed Master Dooku for coming for her in the first place when she had turned due to the tortures of the Bando Gora. Dooku had saved her body and given her a chance to rejoin the Light. Fay had healed her body, and, between her and Unduli, they had helped Komari save her soul. Those thoughts were foremost in her mind now as she entered the room where she knew Master Dooku had left his last will and testament.
It had been two days since Master Yoda had informed her and the others who were connected to Master Dooku in some fashion of his death. Of course, the ancient Grandmaster hadn't outright stated how Master Dooku had died, as he had no idea. All they knew was that, in Yoda's words, "A great light, extinguished it has been. A great darkness, gone too now. Burned each other out, they did."
Of course, knowing her Master, Komari had been able to put that together quickly enough. He had gone after some Dark Side user. Imagine her surprise when Master Yoda had informed her that the High Council actually felt that the Sith, or at least something called the Brotherhood of the Sith, which she had never heard of, might still be out there.
It would be just like my Master to go after him on his own, and just like most Jedi to assume that if you remove the head, the body will die. I could have told him after my experiences with the Bando Gora that that was not the case, but no one asked me… And now I am both stalling and devolving into snark in a manner that is unbefitting of a Jedi. Come, Komari Vosa, remember what Master Dooku would say: fearing the unknown is worse than fearing reality, but both fears must be met and overcome.
With a deep cleansing breath, Komari banished such thoughts and stepped into Master Dooku's study. As she did, Komari remembered the recording her master had left her to tell her to come to his study in the event of his death. It had been mailed to her directly by the Dooku house lawyer, the lawyer informing her that they had not found a will for him yet, but that they had found those instructions, and they had been dutifully observed and found to have been written by Master Dooku. As a Jedi, of course, his being of sound mind did not come into it.
Inside his study, Komari moved around, reaching out with the Force to find the thing that she was here to find. It was a somewhat tough skill to learn, and the more people in an area the harder it became, but it worked very well on small enclosed spaces and on mechanical items.
Seconds later a small hidden compartment in his desk, which you had to be sitting at in the chair at a proper angle to open, yielded up its secrets.
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