Path of the Stars- Chapter 10 (Patreon)

I would love to say there was a grand battle with the terrible Sarlacc, a tale of valiantly fighting alongside Talon, my Sith acolyte failure... But uhhh, we just used the force to yeet large explosives directly into the mouth of the Sarlacc who happily ate the bombs as they entered its hunting zone.

And then a couple of minutes later. Boom! The Sarlacc was dead ,with nasty bits of flesh being shot into the air as the powerful mining explosives went off inside of the thing.

Then came the fun part. "So... Now we need to climb into it's pit and dig through it's body to try to find any dragon pearls if it has at all." Talon said with a dull tone.

I shook my head and then I held out a hand with a green glow of Abundance power filling the air as I forced life to grow in a land where it didn't exist.

The ground beneath us shuddered heavily though nowhere near as roughly as when the bombs went off. 

Then, from below, the Sarlacc was pushed up through the ground with loud cracking noises as the hard but brittle sandstone gave way as a large tree with no leaves but strong branches ripped the Sarlacc's entire form up and out of the ground.

With a flex of my will the tree bent over with a loud groan of wood moving more then it wanted and with a dull thudding noise. The multi-ton mutilated creature was dropped onto the ground a bit away from us.

All the while I was doing this. I had to hold in my gag's as the Sarlacc had fifteen plus different stomachs and all that fluid and undigested ickiness was splattered across the ground and filling the air with a horrid smell.

"There is the smell of Sarlacc digestive fluids I remember... They used to use the digestive fluids of these monsters back on Ryloth as industrial acid when they couldn't get official products." Talon said with her face curling up in disgust as well.

Still, even being in this canyon Mesa area, there was pretty good airflow. So unlike the poor bastards who got swallowed by the Sarlaccs and would often just suffocate. We were only stuck with its horrid smell.

"Let's just get to work... At least the beak is intact, so that's some good money right there as well." I said with a grunt as I took out a plasma cutter and made my way over to one of the large deflated stomach sacs to cut it open and begin sifting through it.

And it was the most disgusting loot box opening sessions I could ever conceive of as the half-digested remains of... Whatever the hell it ate would spread out as the stomach pouches were cut open.

"Krayt Dragons typically eat Sarlaccs themselves, with how they hunt them from the underground itself. Us finding-" Talong began speaking before I cut her off with a loud laugh.

"Ha! I found one!"

See, we ourselves weren't looking for large dragon pearls as the pearls themselves needed to fit into the hilts of the light sabers we were going to build.

So with a laugh, I pulled out three cow-sized melted corpses of very young krayt dragons, and lying in the bottom of the digestive pit were six thumb-sized dragon pearls with various colors.

There was a heavy pause as Talon approached the dragon pearls. I had pulled out and rinsed off with a powerful squirt of water from my water bag.

"Six possible light saber cores... It will take time to attune oneself to the pearl, though. Just like an artificial kyber crystal." Talon said quietly.

There was no disguising the desire Talon had for the pearls I had in my hands, and I saw it almost physically pained her as I put them in a satchel and said thoughtfully.

"Well, let's check the rest of the stomachs. It seems with this being the Krayt Canyon, that a few of the younger dragons fell into the Sarlacc pit." 

Talon didn't complain, and as we looked through the rest of the stomachs, we sadly only found another two such Krayt Dragon Pearls. Leading to us having a grand total of eight such pearls.

With their size, they weren't worth too much. But we were planning to use them as the crystal core for a lightsaber anyway.

And I had no idea the life span of such things, so I wasn't going to chance selling them off and needing to get more.

"Well, let's get going home." I said with a hum as I could feel... A sort of warning from the Force as we got back into the speeder.

With a hum, the speeder brought us out of the mesa canyons without anything of note happening. And then we entered the sandy sea that separated this mesa from the mountainous region, which had Mos Elsey, protecting it from the twins' sun's heat.

Then from over the edge of another large sand dune came the scream of a large speeder who was pushed to it's maximum thrust from our side and behind us.

I whipped around and saw a large, hovering barge-like speeder quickly gaining on our speeder.

And while I saw several mounted blaster rifles on the railing of the barge like a speeder. I realized as we hit a flatter part that they were trying to loot us and not blow up the speeder as the shots they took at us.

They were aimed only at the lower back end of our speeder so they could disable the engines that kept the speeder afloat!

But they were missing their shots wide as I could feel the whispers of the Force becoming a rather unsubtle scream in directions in which to turn at times.

Then with a hiss I jackknifed the speeder to the side as a large spiked harpoon shot over our speeder and missed the edge of the doors on Talon's side.

Talon at this point was also clearly fed up as she took out a large anti-armor blaster and with a loud boom the large blaster bolt slammed just off the edge of their barge speeder making it twist to the side hard.

But I also noticed through the mirror that their barge was only torn apart as the front section of the barge had ALOT of armor plates slapped onto it. Clearly, to deal with the blaster fire from the people they were chasing.

"Take over!" I said to Talon with a scowl on my face, with the Twi-Lek climbing over me as I climbed into the back and faced the barge behind us.

Seeing my standing form a couple of smaller blaster bolts were shot my way, but with how Talon was already weaving our speeder around the bolts went wide.

Still, I took a deep breath as I pulled at the Abundance energy within myself and I held out my hands towards them as a green glow shot in their direction.

The barge went straight through the green glow, seemingly uncaring of its effects , but then the screams hit our ears as I had let out a dangerous cloud of spores that, when hitting living flesh.

Quickly grew into mushrooms that choked airways, blinded eye's and those screams were quickly silenced as the rest of them fell victim to the mushroom growing spores I had left in the air.

I carefully shook any leftover spores off my hands and then rinsed them off to be sure before I took the passenger seat as the barge speeder made a loud crashing noise and exploded in the distance as the pilot drove it off a sharp and tall sand dune and hit the ground.

"Bandits. Pity they ran into us and not just some moisture farmers." Talon said with a snort of disdain.

I myself had no response and I wasn't interested in seeing if there were any survivors anyway.

We sped our way back to Mos Elsey where we paid the light entry fee and, without any fuss got back home to our workshop, were construction was already underway.

Construction was going to add a sort of dormitory line of rooms off the side and behind the main shop building. So in case our group expanded we would have the space to have said people with us.

"So you two returned alive... And rather surprisingly quickly as well. I thought you would both would be gone for a couple of days at least." Kali said with a blink at seeing us enter the shop that had a couple of construction robots at work.

I gave her a dull look before I retorted. "Thanks for the vote of confidence... But we got what we needed."

Adding to that Talon said. "In that vein, Jake please head down into the basement. I will show you how the lightsaber comes together."

As she said that however... I felt the Force scream at me in warning, and I gave her a look before I slowly nodded thoughtfully.

"Alright, I will head down then."

I headed down to the basement, and with a flex of my will, the vines that covered the floor and walls shifted, and it didn't take me long to make sure there weren't any bombs or anything placed down in here.

And then it hit me what the Force was screaming at me for.

'Oh... She plans to kill me if she gets her lightsaber working.' I realized with a wry smile crossing my face.

Well, what else could I expect from a Sith acolyte that was willing to force herself into a Glitteryl-like fugue of mental damage to hide herself.

I gave a thin smile as I gently rolled the Krayt Dragon Pearls in between my fingers, as I realized I was at a crossroads as to what to do now with Talon.

Should I confront her before she even put her lightsaber together? Should I allow her to make the first move and smack her down? 

Could my Abundance branches and constructs even stop a lightsaber? Was a very important question as well!

My deep thoughts were cut off by the sound of Talon's high heels as she strode down the stone stairs into the basement and as her yellow, almost glowing eye's met mine in the darkness of the very dimly lit basement.

Even without the force stabbing my nerves with a niggling finger of warning. I could see the cold light in her eyes. A light of killing me and probably fleeing from Tatooine probably.

Still, I had one thought of confusion in reality.

Talon took a seat across from me, and she laid out a small blanket that had a bunch of parts across it, and I watched in silence as she exhaled with the parts floating into the air and begin coming together.

"I need to pick a dragon pearl now." Talon said cooly with her eyes closed.

I let out a hum, and I took out the dragon pearls and let them roll across the blanket in front of her before I decided to be blunt.

"I am curious Talon... Besides being a Sith, what made you want to kill me?" I asked suddenly.

Talon's form stiffened, and I saw the tiniest of sparks arc between her fingers. But she wasn't stiff only due to my words, she also seemingly just remembered the entire basement was filled with my Abundance constructs.

Including two of the Abundance Abominations that lay in stasis not far from me.

There was a pause as the dragon pearls she was weighing with her meditation stopped and then Talon's eye's opened with a grimace clear in her gaze as she said quietly. "You are perceptive, I suppose... As for why? It should be simple, you are a leash around my neck."

To which I blinked and said flatly. "That's a load of shit, and you know it. What happened to myself being a sensory null in the Force? A void that keeps you safe from the Sith who will be coming for your ass?" 

Talon's grimace turned into a snarl, and she snapped. "And I must bow and scrap to your whims in order to have your protection? Like your two slave girls who have bomb collars!?"

I just stared at her... Then I said blandly. "Ah... So you are just a crazy little Sith bitch who needs to be put in her place. I haven't suppressed you or once ordered you around besides asking you to do some house shopping." 

Talon's face was of stone at my words, and I just said quietly and with deadly intent. "Go ahead then... Put together a death stick. Let me see the power of the Sith."

I could feel something inside of me stirring as I watched Talon look down and then she almost mechanically made a crimson and dark brown dragon pearl float up and be mounted within the containment center of her lightsaber.

And then, with a crackle of violent light a darker red beam of plasma formed from her saber's hilt.

There was a moment of silence as Talon's eye's met my own... A blur of whirling red death was shot at me, and I realized that Talon was throwing her lightsaber at me.

And in slow motion I saw it spinning through the air to slam point-first into my chest with Talon from behind, throwing a haze of lightning at me.

But I roared and threw my arms outwards with her flying lightsaber slamming into the wall to the side, her lightning being destroyed, and her own form becoming a blur as she was smashed into the wall behind herself.

And with a tightness in my chest, I landed on the floor with a grimace. "Starkiller's force annihilation is still beyond me, I suppose," I grumbled to myself as that monster was still beyond me.

Still, I looked over to Talon who coughed as she finally managed to get a brief from hitting the wall so hard, and then with a flex of my will her lightsaber shot across the room and snapped into my hand.

I looked at the pillar of deadly plasma that had a much darker red than typical sith light sabers and I strode over to Talon as a I felt that tingling sensation strengthen over myself.

I walked over and Talon's hazy yellow eye's looked at me with a tired sigh escaping herself. "I figured this was going to happen when I learned beyond that horrid ability tied to life you had. You could also feel the force and barely needed my guidance."

In response, I just kicked her in side making her gag and roll onto her side as I considered whether I needed to kill her right here and now...

Then, as I squeezed my free hand, crackling blue lightning escaped it in my rage which made me laugh helplessly. As it was the reality that it was only in my anger at Talon being such a stupid cunt that I learned how to truly pull on Sith lightning.

And unbidden my clenched fist lowered at Talon's downed form, and then the spark of lightning turned into a gleaming green shower of lightning that made Talon scream as I tapped into the power of Abundance at the same time as I began frying her.

She screamed loudly with the lightning crackling over her form, and in the corner of my eye I saw Kali had came down stairs at the screaming and at my glance, she shot up the stairs without a word.

After a good twenty seconds of frying Talon with the lightning, I pulled it away with the red-skinned Twilek steaming from her experience. Her body was twitching every which way, and as her nerves were completely fried.

Then I leaned down... And I said quietly as I grabbed the Twi-Lek by her Lekku and dragged her head up so she was on her knees. "You forgot one thing Talon. For all that I am a monster who can turn you into an abomination, you have seemingly forgotten that I can regrow entire limbs within but a couple of minutes."

And Talon's fugue of agony cleared as she looked at me in horror, as I squeezed her lekku with a cold smile, as I said with finality. "No matter how I torture you, no matter how I shatter your mind. No matter how much you break... I can put you back together."

I came to a simple realization. Talon was a sith, she was used to pain, she was used to being suppressed, tortured, and put in her place.

I made a mistake in treating her as a... A friend? Colleague, or ally, when I should have put her in thoroughly in her place the moment she flashed some lightning at me back on Coruscant.

Because we WERE not equals, I was her better, and if she didn't know that down to her very soul. Then I was going to have a lightsaber, a bomb, and a force push off of a building waiting for me at every turn.

-

Time passed by all quickly on my end. On Talon's end? Not so much. 

I fried her, I healed her. I fried her again, then I healed her again.

 A cycle of healing and destruction that over hours blurred Talon's mind as, despite her training, her mind wasn't trained for extended sessions of... Chastisement.

And finally, after eight hours of cycling between healing and destruction. Talon, the failed Sith acolyte broke.

Her once rather heavily tattooed red flesh was 'pure' again as I had fried the ink out of her skin. And said skin was replaced many a time over after being fried. Her NEW eye's that had regrown after being fried with so much lightning they popped like fleshy grapes in the sessions looked at me in fearful awe.

I BROKE Talon, I wasn't some Darth or Sith Lord to her now. I was her great and terrible god as her mind shut down as she broke under the pressure she faced.

And as I loomed over the twi-lek I knew it was broken to my will. I felt that sensation that had been hanging over me open.

My vision was filled with stars but then my entire consciousness was filled with HIS form. A man with no lower body, chains crossing and binding parts of his otherwise nude form with large gleaming gashes that poured world-drowning golden ichor into the void.

And his eyes... Those gleaming slitted gold pit's met my own eyes and I knew D̸e̴s̴t̶r̶u̷c̶t̴i̷o̸n̴ in it's truest form. 

My mind filled with the feeling of stars detonating under supernova's. I felt the power of a riot that destroyed a nation. I felt the violence of righteous warriors destroying their invader's own army.

'Nanook... I didn't think I would gain your gaze.' I thought, and the Aeon of Destruction's gaze only remained on me, even though I knew he could hear my thoughts as I was now one of his Pathstriders.

Then the star's in my mind faded. But those gleaming slitted eye's remained burned into the back of my inner eye even as I opened my eyes to the real world as I left the Path Space.

I clenched my hand into a fist as purple quantum energy crackled out, as I felt the power of Destruction in my hands. 'Abundance and Destruction in both hands... If the good guy's of Honkai Star Rail found out about me, I would be hanged by a telephone pole.' I thought helplessly.

Still, I looked down at Talon. I pet her head as I said softly. "Now... Little pet, get to bed, you need your sleep now." 

I was very curious as to how Talon's fractured mind would finish healing itself with a true rest session.

In my mind, I saw two path's for Talon to take at this point. Either she would flee, or she would submit to me wholly... If Nanook the Aeon of Destruction looked upon me and blessed me for my actions in totally destroying the will and Sith mentality of Talon. Then I was obviously being thorough.

-

I made my way up and as I passed by the living area, I saw Kali look towards me but not meet my eyes... And I then said rather blandly. "If you do attempt to take my life... I hope you try a little harder than her. But maybe with that bomb collar you won't be so stupid."

And without waiting for an answer. I made my way into Shmi's room and I climbed into the bed with Shmi, rolling over and pushing her face into my chest.

There was a quiet pause as I finally unwound until Shmi spoke quietly. "I won't disappoint you, master. You won't need to punish me." 

I was quiet and in thought for a moment before I relaxed a bit, and I could smell the almost sandalwood scent coming from Shmi as she had bought some actually good soap and such.

Shmi was exactly what I needed after today... I woke up early and went on an adventure to get my own lightsaber. And I did have a lightsaber, technically, even if it was one that Talon made for herself.

But it was an adventure for someone who also tried to immediately kill me for what? Her pride? Her Sith need to dominate others?

And after spending several hours reducating Talon. Having a soft woman burrowed in my arms was exactly what I needed to reset my raging blood.

'I need to watch my mental state though... Being a Pathstrider pushes a person's mindset onto their Path, especially if they are themselves pushing themselves to follow the Path to become stronger.' I thought with some foreboding.

Becoming a Lord Ravager, an Emanator of Destruction, would not be good for me, as I would be beyond a wound in the force should I become an Emanator of Destruction. To say the least.

I made a simple hum of agreement to Shmi, with her giving me a soft squeeze in reply as she evened out her breath in preparation of sleep.

Though with my raging blood combined with how Shmi slept in rather thin clothes, I was rather worked up and Shmi, feeling my hardness pushing up against her waist, gave it a slight bump with her waist before she asked quietly.

"Do you... Wish for my help master?" 

And you know what. After today's bullshit I exhaled softly before laying on my back and gently patted Shmi's head that was on my chest before I softly gave the head of sun-bleached brown hair a slight push downwards as I said. "Yes."

I saw in the dim light of the night coming through the tiny window in the wall as Shmi took my head push as direction, and I felt her gently strip down my pants before her small hands took my length into her hands.

And Shmi was still very much a virgin, so she took a minute to get started, but soon enough.

Shmi was slowly stroking my cock with one hand while gently sucking the head and upper half of my dick into her mouth and kissing it with all the love a slave could give to her master.

My hand softly but firmly rested on her head, and I watched with interest as Shmi's purple eye's caught the reflected moonlight coming in from the window when she came up from my cock and met my eyes.

And in the depth of my mind... I couldn't help the evil thought of knowing that one day if it came down it. I could easily get a hit on Darth Vader simply by saying your mom sucked my dick with total honesty.

I gently pushed Shmi down lower, and she made a soft gagging noise as my dick sunk deeper. But she didn't resist, only rested her hands on my thighs as she laid between my legs and sucked my dick with my hand, taking control over the milf.

'Yup I am going to be fucking this milf as well in a couple of days. She is just wasted without a new Skywalker on the way... Or should I make her take my last name?' I thought before I shuddered as Shmi also started licking my length as I pulled her head upwards so she could suck the head of my cock more especially.

Then I pushed her back down, and with a soft glugging noise, she swallowed my cock down to the root, and with all the stress of today. I didn't fight my release with Shmi mumbling something as my cock swelled and began shooting my seed into her mouth as I let her up.