She was lying face down on the floor, mumbleing something to herself. "Mother! Are you hurt?" Kor'd knelt beside her, and attempted to roll her over. White foam was started to leak out of her nose and mouth. Kor'd frowned at this. She was shooting up again. She spoke, "Kor'd, baby... why do you dream so much?" Kor'd didn't answer her question but said, "Two Jedi knights are outside mom. They came to save us." She looked dead into Kor'd's brown eyes, and managed a laugh. "Son... son there are no Jedi here. I told you that... a long time ago." Kor'd became angry and yelled, "You must stop taking those drugs! I told you that a long time ago!" He stood up, and looked down upon his mother. "Why dont you listen to me"
She looked at him with wonder and frustration.
For years he watched his mother overdose on glitterstem liquid, he watched his father die useing that same drug last year. He had a dream that this would happen also, but now that it is here, he remembered that the dream didn't show him what would happen next. He just stood there watching as his mother coughed up more white foam, and moaned in agony.
Upon the rocky outcrop, the two Jedi Knights looked down upon the rinky dink shack city below them. Somewhere inside of that filth and grim was a force sensitive being. And the power was growing stonger with each second. Andi Vuu-Shik, the Jedi with the long cloak, turned towards her companion. "I sence that the growing power is growing into the wrong direction." Her green eyes were filled with worry. "Suppose this is what happened the last time right before the mysterous deaths here?" Her companion, Jedi Knight Pal Deio, nodded. "I suppose you are right. Let's check it out quickly before something happens." The two Jedi stepped towards the edge, and with the force, backflipped down the outcrop face towards the shack city.
She continued to cough up white foam, and curse her son. Kor'd grew more angry the more she spoke. She started to thrash around on the floor, kicking down chairs and screaming.
"Mother, stop that!"
She spit at her son, and cursed him, "You never going to be anything! You are werthless! Your going to die just like your father! I regret ever having a son as werthless as you!"
So young, so angry, so fragile...
Kor'd Shepard snapped.
He yelled. The yell was filled with anger and pain.
It echoed through the house, into the surrounding area, and finally into the city itself.
He yelled again, this time more powerful. His screams seemed to ripple though the fabric of the force itself.
His arms were raised up to the sky, tears fell from his eyes, and his face turned red. "Mother stop it! AHHHHHH!"
The last scream finally reached the ears of the Jedi.
Andi Vuu-Shik and Pal Deio heard the scream, and then felt the force itself shake. Andi's eyes widened, "Oh No! We're too late!" Pal threw his hood off his head, "No we're not! Let's go!" With a burst of force energy, the two Jedi Knights ran quicker than the blink of an eye towards the city. They entered from the outskirts, people were running around in confusion and terror. "That boy is doing it again"
Andi calmed herself and tried to feel through the force for the sorce of this disterbance... It was like walking into a wind tunnel... And then something was lost... a life. They had to find the source quickly.
"Pal, can you sence where this is coming from?" Pal shook his head, "No, it's too distorted! If only he would stop screaming! That is incredable power!" The scream rang up again, this time it felt weak, and the force became calm again.
Only then could Andi feel where it was coming from. "To the south, come on!" She and Pal ran towards the south side of the city. They past frightened people, old, young... they had no idea what was happening.
They arrived at a dingy shack, more dingy and dirty than the others. The two Jedi dropped their cloaks, and their hands grabbed their lightsabers. Pal looked at Andi, "Are you ready?" Andi nodded, "Always, Pal." They both ran foward, and kicked in the door...
Kor'd was on his knees, looking at what he did. His mother lay on the floor, dead. Blood was all over her body and clothes. But he felt as he was in a daze. He didn't remember touching her for her to have died. "What have I done?"
Just then the front door flew in past his head, and dust flew everywhere. Kor'd ducked, and rolled under a table. "What is that?" He began to get afraid. Entered the two Jedi, hands still on their saber handles. "It came from in here," one of them said. It was a female voice, soothing and calm. The other one spoke, "I sence fear. It's small. Something like..." He lifted up a table with the force, and under the table sat a shivering little boy in a ball. "... like a youngling."
The two Jedi Knights replaced their lightsabers onto the hilts of their belts, and stared at the little boy. The boy didn't move, just rolled up, shivering. Andi could sence the boy's fatigue. "Hello, little one. Why are you hiding?" Pal walked to the motionless female on the floor, and ran his hand over her forehead. "This woman is gone, Andi. There is no life force in her at all." That must be the life she felt fade away in the force. She knelt beside the little boy, and placed her hand upon his head, "Don't worry, we're not hear to hurt you"
The boy looked up into her eyes. He recognized her, the Jedi he saw in his dreams. "I didn't mean to do it! I blacked out! When I came too, she was dead!" He began to cry, and Andi could feel his anguish. She looked at Pal, who had also heard what the boy said. Pal lifted his eyebrows, and turned back towards the dead woman.
Andi looked at the boy again, and pointed at the destruction around the house. "Was it like this before you blacked out?" The boy slowly looked around. Everything was in shambles. There was blood on the walls. And his mother's neck looked out of place. Her eyes were still open, looking at him. They were empty. Kor'd lookd at the female Jedi, "She's my mother." Andi and Pal stopped and looked at each other again, and Pal walked towards the boy. "Boy, what could you have possibly done to do "this"! Her neck is broken! There is blood on the walls and ceiling! How could you pick her up on your own? You didn't do this!" Andi knew better. The force was welling up around this boy's very essence, and it was tainted with the dark side. "Son, we arn't going to worry about it right now. Is there any one around here that could carry out a funeral? It's only right."
The night on Fondor was very cool. A stiff wind blew from the East. In the sky the stars were the background to the giant starship space yards in orbit. In front of the shack where Kor'd Shepard called home, a bonfire blazed with heat and orange light. The citizens of the shack city surrounded the bonfire, on a rack made of wooden poles lay a body wrapped in white dingy cloth. The "mother of the boy with the scream", as the people called him, was burning to ashes. The two Jedi stood behind the boy, watching with him as his mother's body was consumed by fire. The boy gazed at the fire, never looking up at his mother. He seemed lost in another world. He looked at Andi, "Andi, I had a dream that you would come for me. I saw you on the rocks, and you were looking down at me." Andi spoke, "Did you dream about this? This moment... right now"
Kor'd shook his head, "No. All I could see was you."
Pal leaned over to Andi, "We must take him to see master Yoda right away. I feel this boy has dark side potential." Andi looked at him, "I agree with taking him to Master Yoda, but I don't agree with the dark side. His future is clouded, and distorted. I can see that he has a future, but it's like standing in a rainstorm on Mon calimari."