Darth Maul and his secrets
On Iridonia, in a small hidden away hut, two zabracks were frantically trying to pack illegal weapons, which they were going to smuggle to bounty hunters on the outer- rim. There was a married male and female with a zabrak son. The boy walked into the room where his parents were working. He had always wondered why they had to move from planet to planet so often. His parents had always told him that they just liked travelling and that's why they did it so much. He had also asked about the big, heavy, metal suitcases they usually travelled with, but his parents told him not to ask too many questions.
As he walked towards his parents the entrance door of the hut suddenly exploded open and a young, dark skinned man walked in.
"In the name of the galactic senate," he proclaimed, "I place you two under arrest for smuggling illegal weapons to the outer- rim!" he pointed to the mother and father. The boy watched as he hid in a shadowy corner and watched as his parents pulled out two blasters and began firing at the incomer.
The man dodged the bolts as easily as a sand crawler would eat people. He drew out a lightsabre and activated it. The boy watched in horror as a purple blade of plasma sliced through his parents.
The man deactivated his lightsabre and looked over to boy who was sitting in the dark trembling. The boy felt something he had never felt before. He was feeling the force inside him. The force in him had been fuelled by his anger and grief and was now active in him. Before he had time to look at the boy properly, a barrier of dark force energy hit the man. He was thrown onto a tree, which knocked him out, unconscious.
Realizing what he had done the boy ran out of the house at full speed. As he ran hot tears spilled down his face.
The boy grew tired but kept running. He was surprised how far and fast he could run. It seemed that he had a new energy that he had never felt before. But even with this new energy he couldn't run any further. He collapsed on the ground. He wondered what he was going to do. He couldn't just keep running. He lay still for a while, thinking. Then it hit him, Iridonia didn't offer many jobs and it wasn't a very developed planet but Coruscant was a very developed planet, it was the centre of the republic and he would definitely find a job there.
The only problem was that he had no way to get to Coruscant. He didn't have any credits to pay for a public starship to Coruscant. As he lay, his red skin started getting tanned from the sun; he started feeling it so he moved under a tree.
And there he found it. There was a dead man lying under the tree holding a small blaster in one of his dead hands. There was a long, burning slash on his chest, which was probably made by a lightsabre.
The boy searched the man's robes for anything useful. Inside one of the man's pockets he found five hundred credits. Yes, this would be enough to get him to Coruscant. The boy also took the blaster and pocketed it, just in case.
The boy walked back to the village, he was nervous because the dark skinned man who killed his parents might still be here. His hand was in his pocket clutching the blaster hard, preparing for the worst.
But he reached the village air station without anybody noticing him. He got to the ticket box and asked the ithorian ticket seller for his ticket. He received his ticket and quickly left to board the starship, which was taking him to Coruscant.
He arrived at Coruscant two hours later and got out to the crowded air station. He still had four hundred and fifty credits left so he bought himself something to eat. There was a man in ripped and screwed up clothes who was watching him. He saw the boy pull out ten credits; this boy obviously had some cash. That boy would be an easy target.
He followed him down the street. The boy was stupid or obviously didn't know where he was going, and he was walking straight into a dark alley where loads of people got mugged. He kept walking deeper into the alley. There was another man in dark robes with a hood talking to a nemodian who was dressed in very high-class robes, which politicians wear. The man thought " Who cares, lots of politicians meet here to receive bribes, this a good chance to get some money and the politicians won't even care." The man walked up to the boy and said, " Give me your credits kid, or I'll kill you!"
The boy suddenly felt the energy again and without even realising what he was doing leapt in the air and landed a kick on the man's head. The man fell down and groaned. The nemodian and the man in dark robes turned and started watching.
The man leapt up and ran at the boy, throwing punches at him. Again without even thinking about it the boy dodged every blow but then one caught him on the chin. He fell to the ground, every thing was going hazy and the last thing the boy saw before he lost consciousness was the man in dark robes raise his hand. There was seemed to be a bolt of lighting erupting from it and instantly killing the mugger.