A Sith in Sheep's Clothing: Chapter 1
My whole life, all of my twenty years, I was a slave. I was a slave as a child with my mother to a Hutt named Gardulla then to a Toydarian at the age of three. Then at the age of four, I was sold to a man that was named Darth Plagueis, but publicly his name was Hego Damask.
He was the Dark Lord of the Sith and he sensed the untouched raw Force power within me and started to teach me the ways of the Dark Side of the Force taking me as his Apprentice.
He told me about the Jedi and the Sith, he told me about their philosophies, their strengths and their weaknesses. He told me that the Sith were restrained by the Rule of Two but it had to be that way because of the difference in size between the Sith and the Jedi. He said that if the Jedi found out about us that they would undoubtedly kill us because we scare them and they fear the Sith. They fear our power.
It made sense, he told me about the war between the Jedi and the Sith that happened a millenia ago between the Army of Light and the Brotherhood of Darkness and that was why Darth Bane instituted the Rule of Two.
A Master and an Apprentice, one to embody the power and one to crave it.
Then the Apprentice would eventually fight and try to defeat his Master and claim the title for himself, to claim the mantle as the Dark Lord of the Sith.
The Sith aren't stupid and the Jedi are for thinking they're safe and there is nothing more that I despise than the Jedi and their idiotic beliefs.
Do they really think that there would be a Dark Side, if the Force didn't want there to be a Dark Side?
How could you have two sides of the Force if there was only meant to be one? If the Force didn't want there to be a Dark Side then there wouldn't one, the Jedi just fear their power, they fear the past.
I love reading about the past, it is interesting.
You learn from the past and you learn from their mistakes which is why the Sith record their knowledge and secrets in books in the various Sith temples, in datapads and in holochrons.
Then Darth Sidious, the Apprentice of Darth Plagueis while I was a youngling and still learning, decided that it was time to let the Jedi know that they exist.
He sent his Apprentice Darth Maul to apprehend or kill Queen Amidala to ensure that the Trade Federation successfully takes over Naboo but that was a ploy just to get Darth Sidious into power by having Queen Amidala call for a vote of no confidence against Chancellor Valorum and it worked. Plagueis approved the plan and it worked, he liked Darth Maul but he was only a means to an end and he served as just that.
Senator Palpatine was nominated for the position of Supreme Chancellor and that night he tried to kill my Master but he wasn't expecting me...
It was late and there was a party celebrating the assured victory and the next step in the Sith conquering the galaxy and ridding it of the vile Jedi. Darth Plagueis held the party in his penthouse suite on Coruscant in an apartment building that his company, Damask Holdings owns.
It was only a party of two, Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, Master and Apprentice.
They celebrated with wine and Darth Plagueis made himself appear to be drunk, in reality he wasn't but he was testing his Apprentice because he knew that it would be time for his Apprentice to take over but he found me and determined that I would be the one to secede him, not Darth Sidious.
As a Master, you always look for the more powerful Apprentice and if you find someone more powerful than your current Apprentice then you test them and determine who would be your Apprentice and that would be determined here.
I was only nine and was no match for Darth Sidious but he didn't know that I was here as my Master bade farewell to his Apprentice and walked to his master bedroom to go to sleep for the night and Darth Sidious waited a few minutes to ensure he was asleep before enacting his plan.
He opened the door and snuck in with the cast of light from the hall illuminating his shadow into the room and I made sure that there was no trace of my presence as my mental shields were up and impenetrable and I didn't draw on the Force to ensure my presence was concealed.
He smiled as he saw his Master drunk and passed out and he drew on the Dark Side and the room was instantly freezing, almost like an icebox. It made me shiver but I remained silent hidden in the closet, the door was open but he couldn't see me.
He opened his hands and cast them towards my Master and started to electrocute him with Force lightning and he didn't even notice as I drew on the Force and charged a Force blast at him and it broke his hold on the Force lightning as he was cast into the wall and knocked unconscious.
I ran to my Master, he was awake and alive as he smiled and drew on the Force to check on his former Apprentice and it turned out that he was dead.
I killed him with a simple Force blast, a nine year old killed a mighty Sith Lord.
The only debris that was destroyed was the wall that Sidious crashed through, there were no other obstructions in the path. It was quick, clean and easy.
"See my young Apprentice, he was weak." Darth Plagueis told me as he smiled and looked at me. "He let his guard down and that could be fatal, as he learned. You have to be in control and you can't let your arrogance get in the way of your mission, your goal, your destiny. Now it is only you and I. His Apprentice is dead and he is dead, now Darth Bane's Rule of Two is just us. A Master and an Apprentice, I tried to change that but maybe it should remain this way. I don't have much life left in me, you will be my last Apprentice and I will teach you everything I know and in time you will have an Apprentice of your own and you will do the same. Just remember the lesson of the day, don't let arrogance become your undoing and always be wary of your Apprentice."
...he kept his word. In the eleven years since that day, his health did deteriorate and he was getting old, even for a Muun. He was now on his deathbed and ready for the afterlife and he asked me to kill him when it was time.
He said that Sith don't show mercy but he was my Master and he was already dying, putting him out of his misery and taking what is now mine, it is my duty as a Sith and as a son, as strange as that may sound.
He was wearing his transpirator and I removed it as he gasped for air, I put my hand over his mouth and smothered him, he was too weak to fight back and I was getting weak. I couldn't do this, it wasn't right. Sith are supposed to be strong and killing someone on their deathbed, that is cowardly but he couldn't fight me and he couldn't defend himself but this was how it had to be.
He was at the Muunilinst Medical Facility and within moments they would discover his condition, I had to do this fast to ensure they don't suspect that I killed him instead of his age and obvious medical conditions. He stopped squirming and gave me one last look, it was a look of pride, happiness and then he was gone.
I waited a few more seconds and then placed his transpirator back on but he was already dead and that is when I called for medical assistance, "help! Help!" I shouted and the medical droids and the Muun Doctors ran into the room to try and revive him but after a moment they knew he was gone.
"I am sorry, there is nothing we can do." The Muun Doctor said with a look of sadness upon his face, he looked down and I looked just as sad as he did but on the inside I knew this was the beginning of my freedom. "I am sorry for your loss."
"I understand, we knew this was coming and we already said our goodbyes." I replied to the Doctor while looking at the man who raised me for the last sixteen years, he looked like he was in peace for the first time I could remember.
I left and returned to Aborah which contains the private residence of my now deceased Master on Muunilinst and I walked into what is now my home. I was his sole heir and I was his adopted son, he adopted me legally and I became a Muun citizen because of it. Everything that was his is now mine, and that is a lot.
Until now, I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life.
My life was always learning the ways of the Dark Side and he isn't like most Sith. He didn't want to kill everyone, he wanted to rule yes but he was an architect of the future and that is what he taught me. He taught me to figure out what I want to do and to make it happen, to picture my life in five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years and see that it is done.
But, I didn't do that.
I knew this was coming but there is so much out there and being the Dark Lord of the Sith and the only Sith in the galaxy... wait, there is still one other.
Count Dooku, he wasn't really a Sith yet but he did make mention of his falling out with the philosophy and beliefs of the Jedi Order but he doesn't know anything about the Dark Side and he hasn't been trained, nevertheless he could become a threat. He does know about me afterall, but he doesn't know that I am Force sensitive. I learned to mask my presence long before I first met him with Darth Sidious.
My life will always be different though than every other Force sensitive being. I was brought into the universe by the Force itself, by the midichlorians themselves. I was bestowed the power of the Force and have more midichlorians in me than any other being in the universe.
That makes me special and that means the Force will always guide me as it has been and it'll give me the full power of itself without me even having to ask, as it has also been.
I slept like a baby, I always do and I was woken up by a knock on my door.
My bedroom door.
Only few are permitted into my home without being shot and killed by security droids and various automated defense systems that will fire on any intruder on the property and within the mansion or laboratory.
I threw on my cloak and went to answer the door and to my surprise it was Chairman San Hill of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, he was a close friend to Hego Damask and we knew each other well. My Master mentored him and was responsible for his rise to his position and we had a lot in common except he isn't Force sensitive and he is one of a few people who knew who Plagueis really was and that includes him knowing who I really am.
"Chairman Hill, I wasn't expecting to see you this morning." I said as I looked slightly upwards to meet eye to eye with the Muun.
"I didn't know how to get in contact with you." He admitted as I stood aside and allowed him entry as he entered and held a datapad in his hand, there was also someone else with him that I knew to be a lawyer and he entered as well. "I believed that I had to come here in person to do this, doing it over a comlink isn't exactly personal."
"Do what, exactly?" I asked curiously as he seemed nervous, not exactly odd for the man but that is when the lawyer spoke up.
"I am Olin Kara, the Chief Lawyer for the InterGalactic Banking Clan." The Muun said introducing himself. "As you know the IBC is run by Muun's, with Hego Demask's death and no Muun to takeover for him we have to either shut down his holdings company or it becomes a subsidiary of the IBC."
"Well, I may not be Muun in species, but I am a Muun in citizenship and San knows this since he was asked to get it by Hego before he assumed his position. Therefore as the one on Hego's will and as the sole heir, it falls to me as well as all of this. He told me as much before he passed away." I reminded them, that is the Muun's for you always trying to make the extra dollar even though these two, in particular don't need it. "I want to keep the company along with all of my property. He taught me everything I need to know and I know how he did business and who he did it with and they know me. He adopted me and left everything to me for a reason and if you want to take it from me, I assure you that you will lose and you will lose your positions."
"Is that a threat?" San asked.
"I don't make threats." I informed him with a smile. "I make promises. How do you think the Muun's will feel if they discovered how you came to power and all of the business you did beforehand, which wasn't all legal not to mention the work of your father which you knew of. But I know the both of you know that, I didn't know you by appearance, Olin Kara but your name is on a number of records including my citizenship documents and a number of transactions on behalf of Damask Holdings."
I watched them as they looked at each other surprised that a young human could know this, not many people know what I know about the Muun's and how they do business as well as the Republic since the Muun's play a large role in the affairs of the Republic through the IBC.
"Now that we understand each other, I think you can hand over that datapad and let me take custody of what Hego left for me to continue and we both know what that is." I remind him as I tilt my head sideways with a smile as he doesn't look to be happy about what I know. "San, your greed will become your undoing and if you think that Hego would ever help someone without assuring that they would help him when he needed it then you didn't really know the man as well as you thought. Or perhaps, it is I that you underestimate.
"Regardless, I want you to hand everything over to me and change the name of Damask Holdings to Skywalker Holdings, I was never really a Damask and since I have no real ties here any longer, I will take my birth name." He handed over the datapad and I signed the required e-documents and everything was now in my name including Damask Holdings which would become Skywalker Holdings by tomorrow. "Anything else?"
There wasn't and he smiled as he left, I think I impressed him, them I should say as they left pleased.
"Oh wait, one more thing." I said as they stopped at the door and turned to face me. "Damask Holdings is a private firm that is only affiliated with the IBC, it isn't actually owned by the IBC nor does the IBC own any percentage of the firm. Therefore the IBC and the Muun's have no say in my firm and if you try to seize it from me or try to undermine me from within my own firm, I assure you that the IBC will be in a major financial crisis and a major political crisis as the Holonet reporters will be all over this and your credibility will be gone forever."
With that I smiled and waved good bye as they got the message and left my bedroom, I followed them with the Force until they left my house and made their way back to their private airspeeder.
Maybe that was a test? Maybe they wanted to see what I learned from the great Hego Damask, clandestine business man during the day and Dark Lord of the Sith by night.
Then again maybe it was just so that they could get their hands on that incriminating data that I mentioned, maybe it was that in which they were trying to cover up.
Regardless it didn't matter and neither did they.
I couldn't fall back to sleep and I didn't even try as I decided that it was time to begin my day. I took my shower, brushed my teeth, shaved and got dressed.
I have been wanting to see my mother for ages now, I see her in my dreams and I don't know what happened to her over the years and I want to find out. I called ahead for my personal shuttle to be prepared for takeoff and 11-4D was onboard waiting for me.
I also didn't know the status of Tatooine and now that I am a financier of the Hutt's podracing track on Tatooine, they will be answering to me or losing the status that they now possess. Well that isn't accurate, Hego was a financier but he hasn't been for some time now, regardless we hold sway over the Hutt's especially Jabba since Hego placed him there and Jabba knows who I am but he doesn't know what I am capable of.
Tatooine was always a problem with me since Gardulla owned me and now I own them, metaphorically speaking. She doesn't know that but since Jabba is in charge of Tatooine now and not her, I still hold a grudge against their operations. Slaves don't condone slavery, I may not have been one since I was four since Plagueis never treated me like a slave but I still remember it. I remember my mother being abused by the Hutt's and I remember myself being whipped by that bitch.
If I ever lay eyes on her, Darth Vader will have a few words with her and those words will be spoken in Huttese and they won't be nice.
Smiling as I left my mansion, I made my way to the airspeeder and started to make my way to the High Port Space Center to board my shuttle and visit my mother, if she is still alive...
Of course she is still alive, I surely would've felt it if she wasn't.
I arrived a short time later and cleared customs as I boarded my shuttle and left Muunilinst behind, for now as I set the course for Tatooine on the navicomputer.
"11-4D, contact the Sun Guard." I told the bipedal droid, it was originally a medical droid but it learned much since then over the last decades. "I want a squad to meet me at the Mos Espa Spaceport on Tatooine."
The droid acknowledged the order and did as ordered as we jumped into hyperspace.
We exited hyperspace and entered the atmosphere of Tatooine and I set course for Mos Espa and in no time I touched down in one of the hangars, I had 11-4D remain with the ship and a Squad of Sun Guard mercenaries met us there and a thing with a piggish face approached me.
"You can't just drop in uninvited!" He protested, or she, something... whatever it was...
"Then it is a good thing you invited me." I said with a simple wave of my hand.
"Yes, its a good thing I invited you!" The being replied and I walked past him to the Sun Guards, mind tricks work on the weak minded and if it didn't then I would've shown him or her what I hide under my sheeps clothing.
"Come with me, guys." I ordered them as I liked their services and you couldn't get any better protection, they definitely fit their role and would die just to ensure their task was complete to ensure the survival of their employer which is me in this case. "We're going to be checking on my mother, last time I was where we were both slaves to Gardulla the Hutt then Watto, a Toydarian. We will also be making contact with Jabba the Hutt here, but first I want to find my mother and make sure she is okay."
"Understood, sir." One of the Sun Guard's replied from under his mask and I nodded as we made our way to Watto's shop, if anyone knew about her it would be him. He owned her last.
It wasn't a long trip but long enough for me to remember how badly I wanted off that planet and was glad when I finally did. I was upset that I had to leave my mother behind but I didn't have much choice at the time and the time was well spent and now I am a very wealthy man that owns property all over the galaxy and owns a very wealthy company.
For a former slave, I did pretty well for myself and I am only twenty years old.
We found Watto outside of his shop and he looked like he wasn't doing very well, it made me happy, he is a slaver he shouldn't be happy.
He was trying to fix some broken piece of equipment with an electronic driver and I cleared my throat looking down at him as he sat on a stool.
"No chuba da wanga, da wanga!" Watto shouted at the broken piece of equipment and three of his pit droids, of course I recognized the language to be Huttese, I learned it as a slave and I learned it more thoroughly over the years as well as many more languages. He said no not that one, that one, in case you were wondering.
"Chut, chut Watto." I said to him in greeting as he looked up at me and my Sun Guard escorts.
"Kee booda? Yo bana pee hota?" What, what do you want? He asked rudely...
"Ding me chasa hopa." I offered to help him with his broken piece of equipment and I took it from him along with the electronic driver as I started to fix the broken piece of equipment, it was never his expertise. "Mi boshka, Shmi Skywalker."
He looked at me for a moment, I wasn't paying attention but I could feel it through the Force as he was trying to determine who I was, he speculated I was Anakin but he didn't know me well enough to really know me.
"Ani? Little Ani?" He asked much to my surprise, I must've meant more to him than I realized or he has a good memory considering it was sixteen years ago and I was only four years old.
I confirmed his suspicions when I handed him back the broken piece of whatever it was and he turned it on and it worked like new, he looked at it then back to me.
"You are little, Ani. Not so little anymore, though." He said in basic.
"I am aware, where is my mother?" I asked impatiently, I'd rather spend no time with this lowlife but he is the only one who knows and I am determined to find her, even if I have to go to Jabba to do it.
"Oh right, Shmi." He said as he placed the now working piece of equipment down on the table and scratched his nasty beard, he really fell apart. "She's not mine no more. I sold her."
"You sold her?" I asked as I felt the anger in me grow, I can't stand people selling people, its wrong. People, humans aren't animals, we're not tools.
"Years ago." He said as if it was just parts for a shuttle, not a human being not like it matters to the Toydarian. "Sorry, Ani, but you know business is business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her and married her! Can ya beat that?"
Great, I muttered in my mind as I shook my head in disbelief. "Do you know where she is now?" I asked.
"Long way from here." He said with emphasis on the long. "Someplace over on the other side of Mos Eisley, I think."
"Watto, I am losing my patience and these guys would like nothing more than to use their pikes on your wings or maybe your head..." I replied impatiently as a couple of the Guards approached. I could use the Force but I don't want word getting to the Jedi about me and Toydarians are Force-proof in terms of mind tricks and Force suggestions.
"Let me check my records..." He said as his eyes opened wide and he flew out of his chair and into his shop, we followed. He found his records and they were accurate, they usually were where money was involved and I memorized the location in my mind as I walked out of the shop.
"Thank you, Watto." I said on my way out as we made our way back to the starport to fly over to the Lars moisture farm and I will kill them if my mother is a slave still or was forced to marry him to be 'free'. "Guys, get back to your ship and meet me at the coordinates that I will have 11-4D send to your ship."
They nodded in acknowledgement and we made our way back to the starport and embarked our shuttles and flew off as I had 11-4D send the Guard's the coordinates.
It was a short trip and I circled around the farm before touching down and landing, it was wide open and the farm was quite vast with a lot of open space. There were other farms in the area but there was a good distance between them, the farmhouse though wasn't exactly nice and well it is Tatooine, not a very luxurious planet not like Coruscant or Muunilinst or any other planet where I now own a home on.
I landed the ship on a slight hill overlooking the homestead or farmhouse, either works and I hit the button to lower the landing ramp and disembarked, "stay here, 11-4D." I told the droid as the Sun Guard landed about ten meters to the left of my ship and they disembarked as well. "Hang here guys, I need to do this alone."
They acknowledged my order and I left the ships as a I headed to the homestead and a woman exited the farmhouse, it wasn't mom, she was younger and then a young man joined her, he was about my age. I approached them and figured they were either Lars' or my mother no longer lived here.
"How can we help you?" The young man asked, he had short brown hair, a slight beard wearing Tatooine garb.
"I am looking for Shmi Skywalker." I replied as I stepped closer and made sure my lightsaber was concealed and out of sight, I shouldn't even be carrying it with me but it has become habit and that is why I wear my black cloak everywhere I go.
Just after I said the name, I saw her walking up the steps and she knew it was me on first sight as her reaction gave it away.
"Mom," I said as she raised her hands to her face and started crying, tears of joy, I assume.
She ran to me and hugged me squeezing me tight and I did the same to her. I haven't cried since being sold away from her and here I was, the Dark Lord of the Sith and I had tears in my eyes, I had to make sure my droid and the guards didn't see.
"My Ani, my little Ani." She muttered in between sobs. "I've been waiting for you to find me. I knew you would."
"I missed you too, mom." I replied as she pulled back and placed her hands on my face as she was making sure I was real, I was. "I came back to free you, but it turned out that I didn't have too."
"I can't believe you're here!" She said as if she didn't hear what I said but I let it slide, she was in shock and I kinda was too.
"I am real mom and I am here." I assured her. "I wanted to come sooner but I couldn't. I was freed when I was four and adopted by the Muun who bought me. He raised me as his son and he just died yesterday, he left me everything. I am now a very wealthy twenty year old. I planned on coming here and taking you off this planet, but I don't know if you want to leave now."
She looked surprise, she obviously assumed the worst but looking at her, the only thing that is different is she a little bit older but she still looks the same.
"I can't believe you're finally here!" She said again and I smiled as an older man appeared next to the younger man, probably father and son. "We have a lot to talk about. We haven't seen each other in sixteen years! You have to tell me everything." She insisted and I felt the same way, she had to tell me everything as well.
"I have time, although I would like you to take a trip with me when I leave here." I told her as she turned and started to introduce me to her... clan... I refuse to say family, they will never have the connection we had and they aren't connected to me in anyway.
"Anakin, I would like you to meet my husband, Cliegg Lars." She said and Watto was right, she did marry the man. He was an older man with grey hair, a grey beard, wearing a grey vest with tan colored clothing.
"Its nice to finally meet you, Anakin." The man said smiling, I returned the smile as I shook his offered hand.
"It is nice to meet you, as well." I replied as mom went on to the young man, the son Lars.
"This is Owen Lars and his girlfriend Beru Whitesun." Mom finished as I shook their hands and greeted them as well, I followed them inside and the homestead was worse than the slave quarters we lived in, with all of this land the homestead was small in comparison, tiny infact.
Since I was four years old, I was never in any property that was this rundown and inhumane, the accounting facility in Mustafar was nicer than this even with the sweltering heat.
We talked for many hours and she informed me of what happened to her over the years from her being sold over ten years ago to Cliegg being freed and marrying him as they fell in love. I wasn't sure if it was real, I would have to monitor it closely but I won't sentence the man to death, just yet.
I told her about what I've been doing but it was just a summary, I didn't tell her about the Sith training or my powers or anything like that. I just told her about Hego and Damask Holdings, I didn't tell her anything bad or anything like that, just about the company and the wealth and power and how it is all mine now.
She was overwhelmed as I left a slave and came back free and rich, filthy... filthy... filthy rich.
It was quite a reunion, a very overwhelming one at that.
"Mom, I have to go right now." I told her later that day as I had to attend to business with Jabba the Hutt, I scheduled it earlier and I am already running late but I am who I am and I always keep people waiting, just like Hego did.
"Jabba the Hutt?" She questioned when I mentioned the name and I nodded, she obviously didn't understand what I did but she wouldn't.
"Yep, he is a crime lord, a business man in his own fashion and he owes me." Owes me a lot... "Since you don't want to leave and I won't force you too, I want to make sure he knows who you are. I would train you on how to use a blaster pistol but I know you wouldn't use it and I don't want anything to happen to you. Jabba runs the planet therefore I need him to understand what'll happen if anything happens here."
"Are you really going to threaten Jabba?" She asked with a smile on her face, she didn't believe it but she doesn't know me.
"I don't make threats, I make promises and I keep them." I replied with a smile of my own and I turned around and walked towards the Sun Guards, I turned back around before walking too far away, "don't get in any trouble while I am gone. I am leaving two Guards here though just in case along with my ship."
With that I left her and boarded the Sun Guard shuttle and we took off to the Dune Sea to meet Jabba in his Palace.
We were met upon landing and we boarded a land speeder and we were brought to the Palace, Jabba doesn't like to wait but the fat oversized insect or whatever he was, will wait for me for as long as I decide. My former Master saw to it that Jabba owed him and the debt had never gone away when we helped him dethrone Gardulla from this planet. I was only a boy but I was still his Apprentice and that plan took a few years to undermine her authority and have her removed and replaced by Jabba.
I say it is an occupational hazard with being a crime lord eventually you will be overthrown by one of your lackeys, it is the same with the Sith but I think I am the first Sith and clandestine business man that won't ever have to deal with that.
You see, I don't need people to know my name in order to control what I want to control. I was never big on being known, I was always in the shadows just like my Master. I manipulate things but sometimes I face things head on, I was raised to be a businessman and to think about what I want, what I really want before taking action.
I already own many businesses that we either own fully or funded and are receiving royalties or kickbacks with interest until we are paid in full. We were also lobbyists, we have a number of Republican Senators on our payroll and still do.
I keep saying we even though it is only I, now but he was still involved in those plans and will receive his credit but what he and most Sith want is the Jedi Order dead and the galaxy back under our control like it was thousands of years ago.
I don't care about that though, I just want to be able to conduct business and live my life as I see fit, thus the way of the Sith. I am selfish and I get what I want, whether I have to kill people to get it or buy people off to get it, it will be mine, one way or the other.
Just like I will with Jabba as I met the slob once again, he is even fatter than I remember but that is no surprise since they are always getting fatter with age.
"Jabba, we meet again." That was the best greeting he would get, I also spoke it in Huttese since he doesn't speak basic.
"So we do," Jabba replied slowly. "It is a pleasure to see you again, Anakin."
That surprised me, I only met him two times and never really spoke with him but he still remembered my name. I guess I made an impact on him or he already heard from the grapevine that I am now the Magister of Damask Holdings which is officially Skywalker Holdings as of tomorrow.
"Likewise, Jabba." Being a business man is partially about being civil and I will be civil for now but if this was Gardulla, she would already be leaking all of her fat with a nice wide gash down her front as the lightsaber would've penetrated through most of her layers. "I assume you heard about the death of Magister Hego Damask with that I am now the Magister."
"I heard earlier today." He confirmed, no surprise there. The Hutt's hold a lot of power and are feared by most, I am not one of them but they do hear news relatively quickly. "He was a good Muun, he will be missed."
"Indeed, he will." I agreed, being a Sith, I should've wanted him dead but I didn't. I am not like most Sith and I didn't hate the Muun, he took care of me and taught me the ways of the Force. It wasn't always easy but he gave me lessons and lectures and they only made me stronger. "Now to business, it isn't really business but I am calling in a debt that you owe us and so long as you keep up my proposal, we will be even."
Jabba seemed interested and he definitely seemed interested in being even, they don't like owing debts and I don't blame them.
"I don't know if you know this but I was born on this planet, twenty years ago." I informed him with my hands clasped behind my back as I strolled back and forth horizontally as I felt him watching me. "My mother and I were slaves, we were owned by your relative, Gardulla. If I ever see her, I will kill her but that isn't what this is about. This is about my mother who lives here on Tatooine still, she lives in Mos Eisley on a Moisture Farm. What I want is for you to assure her safety and to keep an eye on her, her husband and her stepson. I don't care for them but I do care for my mother and I want her to be safe and not have to worry about her safety. I know the Tuskens are dangerous out there and I want you to make it clear to them that they aren't welcome around there and so long as my mother is safe, your debt is paid and we are even."
"Is that all?" Jabba asked surprised, he should be considering Hego never asked for something so easy to be done. But he also didn't have anyone close besides me that he actually liked.
"It is, you keep her safe and we're even." I confirmed and I watched him closely, the Hutt's are another species that Force-proof. "Deal?"
"Deal." He agreed, it was probably the easiest deal he ever had to make.
"And let me make this clear, if you try to use her against me or if you allow anything to happen to her whether or not you had a direct hand in the action, I will come for you and I will kill you and your whole species." I let the Dark Side consume me as I know my eyes turned yellow, I could see my reflection in his eyes and they were glowing brightly just like the suns of Tatooine. "Do I make myself clear? I am not afraid to sully my hands."
Jabba didn't like the threat... promise but he didn't make any negative remarks either.
"I understand." He replied and I let the Dark Side go and my blue eyes must've returned since the glow in his eyes were gone.
"Good, here is her information and remember what I said." I reminded him as I handed him a holopad and then looked to my six Sun Guards. "I have a contract with the Sun Guard, a very profitable contract and it works well for both sides. The Sun Guard are much more powerful than your mercenaries or bounty hunters and they aren't afraid to die which I can't say the same about you or your lackeys."
I turned and walked towards the exit of his throne room and left with my Guards in tow.
His version of Palace isn't exactly what I would call a Palace, my mansions and all of my property are nicer than this especially the ones on Muunilinst and Coruscant.
I couldn't wait to leave the place behind and I did as quickly as the Force would allow which forced the Guards to jog with me to keep up.
We reached the land speeder and started our ride back to the Sun Guards ship as we left the ugly sandblasted metal and stone behind.
In the beginning, I wasn't big on the pulling the strings from behind the scenes, I liked action and still do but I had to be careful with the Jedi being on higher alert with Maul out there, he may be dead now but as far as they knew they only killed the Apprentice or the Master.
The Jedi know about the Rule of Two and they must suspect that there is another Sith out there but I won't let them know that its me.
I met them before, Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Count Dooku but they never felt my presence or at least if they did, they never mentioned it.
Over the years I got better at concealing my presence and making it appear as though I am not a Force sensitive being, and I would be putting that to the test as I put myself out there and begin my journey to discover who I am and who I want to be.
Who will that be? I don't know but I will figure it out eventually.
This is the end of Chapter 1!
How do you like the idea of this? I read other stories that are like this but none quite like this. I read the Sith and the Senator, that was good, I read the Boy who would be Emperor and liked it as well but this won't be like either of them. Both he was kidnapped by Darth Sidious but here he was trained by Darth Plagueis and there is no Darth Sidious since he is dead.
Now Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is very wealthy, has his own holdings to continue his own dreams and aspirations as they come about but somehow the Force always sends him towards Padme Amidala. He is also a Sith and the last one known, therefore he may decide that he wants to rule the galaxy, but for now he wants to discover what life is like and he will just check it out before making any long term or short term plans.
Not everything will be completely accurate as things have definitely changed, this is AU and there will be some minor and major original characters since Damask Holdings wasn't really active in the last few decades (in Legends) with Plagueis' midichlorian research and Anakin's training...
I'd like to hear what you think! Thanks!
Note that this may turn to Rated M but for now it'll stay T.