A/N: This story is about a child who has to fight his father, who has fallen to the dark side. I know, big shock, but the difference is the origins of the child. I'm also going to throw it out there that there will be errors. Both in grammar and punctuation. I tried enlisting a beta reader before, but none of the people I asked wanted to help me. So bear with me, and the mistakes I make. Please try to enjoy the story.
On a jungle planet deep in the Unknown Regions of space, there is a battle raging. On one side a group of mercenaries with lightsaber-resistant armor and viborblades, and on the other side fallen jedi. The mercenaries were being overrun, and driven back. The jedi were slaughtering the mercenaries.
"My lord, we have reached the village in question, but the woman in question isn't there." A male fallen jedi said.
"She's there Darth Zant, She's most likely trying to sneak out without being noticed." The leader of the Jedi army said.
"Darth Cauis!" A female Jedi said, running up to the pair.
"What is it Cortana?" Cauis said. Cortana is five feet three inches tall, long flowing blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and pale white skin that hugs her slender frame.
"My scouts have found the woman." Cortana said to Cauis. Cauis is six feet tall, green eyes, and molted grey skin that hangs off his massive frame.
"Where?" Cauis asked.
"See that mountain." Cortana said, pointing off into the distance.
Both Darth Cauis and Darth Zant looked in the direction that Cortana was point. "How did she get all the up there so quickly?" Zant asked.
"She must have had help." Cortana said.
"That's impossible!" Zant exclaimed.
"Not impossible. I sense another jedi nearby." Cauis said. Cauis closed his eyes, and made an attempt to identify who the interloper is. Hello, Lord Cauis. The jedi greeted Darth Cauis when he touched the other Jedi's mind. "I have no idea who the interloper is, but go take care of him Zant."
Both Darth Cauis and Cortana went after the woman in question, while Darth Zant went to take care of the rogue Jedi. Zant found his target first. The jedi was surround by other dark jedi, but he was far superior to them. The jedi systematically killed all the dark jedi around him, and then turn his attention towards Zant. "What your master didn't think it feasible to come himself?"
"To him, you're a nobody, which means that your death shall be quick." Zant said.
"Well then, come on. I don't have all day." the jedi said.
Zant drew his saber, and activated the weapon. The red blade sprang to life, and Zant attacked the jedi. Zant didn't know it, but he was outclasses before the fight even began. The jedi had Zant the defensive as soon as he starting swinging his saber. Zant tried to finding an opening, and when he did Zant went to bring the saber down on the jedi's neck. The jedi seized the opportunity and buried his saber in Zant's abdomen to the hilt. Zant fell over dead, but the jedi was delayed. And it would cost him dearly. By the time the jedi had caught up to Darth Cauis, a woman was sitting on the ground at his feet, mortally wounded. Before Cauis could act there was a scream.
"Mother!"
Cauis and the jedi turned to see a young boy, about nine years old, come charging out of a cave on the mountaintop. "Not only were you unfaithful, but you had a child by one of these mangy dogs!" Cauis growled.
"I turned my back on you because of what you became. And the child is-" the woman said, but Cauis had balled his hand into a fist, using the force to close off her windpipe. Before the jedi could act the child had ripped the lightsaber out of Darth Cauis hand, and threw it at him. Unbeknownst to Cauis the child had Force powers. Through the Force, the child had guided the lightsaber to Cauis face. Darth Cauis tried to dodge the flying saber, but was too slow.
The saber made contact with his face, shearing off skin, muscle, and bone. The jedi could see that the attack had exposed Darth Cauis brain. The attack didn't even kill Darth Cauis. He drew on the Force to heal the wound, or at more appropriately, he feed off the wound, making him stronger.
The jedi could see the wound was beginning to heal, to a certain extent. Darth Cauis drew on the Force to attack the child, but what the jedi couldn't account for was how much raw Force power the child had. The child had flung his hands up into time to block the attack. And to both Darth Cauis and the jedi surprise, the child had rebuffed the attack and generated a Force Push so powerful, it knocked Darth Cauis of the cliff.
"Theseus," the woman wheezed.
After the shock of seeing how powerful the child was, Theseus had come to his senses. He jogged over to the woman, and knelt down next to her. "Don't talk." he said, as he channeled the Force to heal the wound. Theseus is five feet ten inches tall, brown eye, brown hair cut to the scalp, brown skin, and an athletic frame.
"It's too late for that, I need to you to take the boy, and leave this place. If any of the others find out what he did, they will kill him." the woman said.
"How are they going to figure out what the boy did?" he asked.
The woman pointed behind Theseus. When he turned around he saw a crowd of people, with primitive weapons, gathering in the mouth of the cave. Theseus heard another noise. He turned, to see that the boy was crying. "Where should I take him?" Theseus asked.
"Take him far from here. If Darth Cauis gets his hands on him, then it will be the end of everything." The woman said.
"Where should I take him?" he asks.
"Yavin 4." The woman said, and then her head tilted to the side.
Theseus closed the woman's eyes, stood up, and then turned to the boy. "What's your name son?"
"My name… is Ashono Vhett." I say through tears.
"Okay. Where we're going Vhett isn't a popular name, so how about we change it to Katarn." he said.
"Why?" I ask.
"I know we just met tonight, but I'm going have to ask you to trust me. The culture that claims Vhett as one of their own, is a bitter rival of the Jedi." he said.
"The Jedi sat back as my mom and family was killed!" I spit at Theseus.
"True, but are you going to disobey your mom's dying wish?" he asked.
"No." I say just above a whisper.
"Come with me. We have a lot of ground to cover before Darth Cauis' forces catch up to us." Theseus says.
I pull off a piece of my mom's armor, and then followed Theseus. "You know that won't be of any use to you." he said.
"It's not about use, it's about remembrance." I say.
I see Theseus shrug his shoulders, and we continue walking. At the bottom of the mountain, Cortana and some sith troopers found Darth Cauis in mess. "Is he dead?" one of the troopers asked.
Cortana looked up the mountain, and saw that it sloped to a forty-five degree angle. "No. Darth Cauis is meditating. Let's get him to a Bacta tank." she said.
The troopers had pulled out a stretcher. Cortana, using the force, had lifted Cauis' body into the air, and the troopers had placed the stretcher beneath him. Then Cortana lowered the body onto the stretcher. The five of them walked over to the waiting skiff, and then rode it back to their flagship off world. Planet side, both Theseus and I have had a rough time trying to get off the mountain. We had to dodge various traps, and jump down from ledge to ledge. At one point we were attacked by wild animals, but these animals were weak-willed. I used the Force to tell them to leave us alone.
"How long have you been able to do that?" Theseus asked, after the last of the animals had left.
"What?" I asked, when we started walking again.
"How long have you been using the Force to control animals?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. At least four or five years know." I say.
Theseus is in shock that I am able to use a very powerful force technique. On occasion I would see Theseus turn and look at me. After he was satisfied with his knowing I was still right behind him, he would face forward again.
"Why do you keep looking at me?" I ask
"Another question. How did you learn to close yourself off to the Force?" he asked.
"I don't know. I've been able to do it since I was really young." I say.
"How old are you?" Theseus asks.
"Nine." I say.
Theseus stops in his tracks, and turns to stare at me in shocked horror. "What?" I asked
"You're nine years old, and you have that much raw Force power?" he asks.
"So." I say.
Theseus contemplates something, and then we continue walking. And to my great pleasure, the rest of the trip is made in silence. I think on many things. The death of my mom and family. Leaving this planet behind, and the life I've known. These things begin to overwhelm me, and I begin to cry. Theseus stops and lets me cry myself out. "I know it's hard to leave behind everything that you have known your entire life, but you're no longer safe here. So you must leave and go somewhere that's relatively safe." Theseus says.
I give Theseus a blank stare, and continue walking. It takes us half an hour before we reach a tiny star ship. Can't really call it tiny, but its small compared to most vessels that travel the stars. I think, as we are boarding the ship. Theseus hits a button to raise the landing ramp, and seal the ship.
"We're going to be enter cyrosleep because he have a long distance to travel." Theseus says.
"That and a lack of food?" I ask.
"That too." he confirms.
I follow Theseus and watch him as he sits down in the captain's chair, and tap buttons and turn knobs. When the ship lifts into the air, I take a seat as not to fall over. "Sorry about that, she usually isn't that rough when taking off." Theseus says with a chuckle.
"I'm not exactly sure about the fascination people have with giving their ships, or vehicles a female persona, so I won't bother to ask." I say.
Theseus contemplates this a beat. "I… never… thought about that." he chuckles.
I watch as the ship leaves the planet, and enters space. I watch as Theseus' hands become a blur on the console. The next thing I know where there was once blackness, I see nothing but a pale shade of blue, with the occasional structural fragments passing by. "We just entered hyperspace. It will take us a week until we get to our destination." Theseus says.
"What's on Yavin IV?" I ask.
"There's an active Jedi conclave there. Actually the conclave is on the moon that orbits Yavin IV. Our main temple is on planet in the Galactic Core." Theseus says. "If you will follow me, I'll get you hooked up to the machine for cyrosleep."
Theseus and I left the cockpit, and head towards the back. Off the main compartment is a room with the cyrosleep chambers. Theseus enters a command on one of the chambers. "Go ahead and enter the first one."
I lay down in the first chamber, and then glass panel slides into place sealing me in. I start to overreact, but I begin to slow my breathing. A few seconds later my consciousness is being pulled into the abyss. Theseus takes in my features. I have tan skin, an athletic frame, dirty blond hair that stops at my shoulders, and if he remembered correctly green eyes.
B.b.B.
Aboard the Chimera, flag ship of Darth Cauis' forces-
Cortana was finishing up the Bacta tank settings so Darth Cauis could get back to full health quickly, but there has be a small problem.
"Cortana." General Ordona said.
"Yes, general." Cortana said, turning to face Ordona. General Ordona is five feet tall, hazel eyes, pale white skin that hugs her muscular frame.
"The repairs to Darth Cauis body will be complete, but the damage done by the lightsaber cannot be repaired by the Bacta tank alone. We're going to have to use a synthetic metal to complete the healing process." Ordona said.
Lord Cauis never specified what could be used for the healing process. Cortana thinks. "Use the metal."
"Yes, Cortana." Ordona said, and then went to prep the metal for the surgery.
B.b.B.
The Yavin system, one week later-
I wake up from cyrosleep, and I feel sluggish. I want to move fast, but I can't. I think about my new found powers, and I start channeling the force to my muscles.
"Here. Let me help you with that." Theseus say, pulling the glass panel back. "Drink this."
I look up to see some kind of concoction in his hands. Through the Force, I try to understand if this drink is a threat. "If I wanted to kill you Ashono, I would have left you on that planet."
I sense that the drink isn't going to harm me, so I take the drink and take a sip. Whatever I was doing to get my muscles back in shape didn't even put a dent in it. Whatever was in that drink got my body back in shape, and my muscles ready to use. I down the rest of the drink in one gulp, and hand the cup back to Theseus. We make our way back to the cockpit, and I curl up in the passenger chair behind Theseus. I hear Theseus communicating with someone, but my mind is a million mile away. Until a week ago I thought I was a normal boy. Now I find out that I have some kind of special powers, and that somehow something, or someone is depending on my survival.
How did this happen? Why is my mom dead, but I'm still alive? I think, but my thoughts were interrupted by something, or someone else. Why me? Why did I have to harm that boy? I don't have a clue who the owner of these thoughts are, but I get the sense that it's a girl. I watch through the window as we make our descent through the moon's atmosphere.
A/N: This story will have names from the main universe, but any actual known characters will not show up. So I might use the first name Luke, Kyle, Anakin, or even last names like Katarn and Skywalker, but actual characters like Luke Skywalker, Kyle Katarn, or Anakin Skywalker will not show up.