Chapter 1: Lotho Minior

Femke and Zaheer were on their travels through the many galaxies, after they had dealt once and for all with Lord Darkhar, to learn as much as they could about their past lives and the life they had lived before the attack on Voorfield. While on their way to their next destination, Femke gazed at a planet that was black as the night with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"Zaheer…. I think we have to land there…" Femke said, as she pointed at the pitch black planet, looking at it with wide eyes, feeling like something… or someone… was calling for her….

"That planet is called Lotho Minior… on the map it says that it is a trash planet…. Why do you wanna land there?" Zaheer asked with a curious look in his eyes, looking at his wife worriedly.

"I have a feeling…. like someone is calling me from there…" Femke said as she looked from the planet to Zaheer with a saddened face. "Maybe someone is stranded down there and in need of help…"

"If you say so; I will trust your instincts…" Zaheer said with a smile on his face, placing a hand on the knee of his brunette wife, before he landed the ship on the trash planet… Once outside… the two fairies had to cover their faces with handkerchiefs because of the terrible smell that hung in the air.

"Eeeeeew, it smells terrible here…" Zaheer said, holding Femke's hand as she let the way through the trash piles to their goal.

"I know, dear… but whatever is here might be in need of help… and I wanna see what seemed to be calling out for me…" Femke said, sadly looking around to see if anything living was in sight, but there seemed to be nobody here, yet Femke kept having the feeling that someone or something was calling out for her.

"I understand, dear… but I don't see anything… Maybe,—"Zaheer started, but stopped as something slithered around Femke's feet, and before either of the two knew what hit them, there was a big cobra around her, making the female gasp for air as she was constricted.

"What issss thissss…. Vissssssitorrsssss…." the creature smirked as it looked from the brunette to the grey-haired Airbender, who were both too shocked to move.

"Yes, we were drawn here by my powers…." Femke said groaning, gasping for air, as the snake coiled tightly around her.

"Why might that be, Missssss?" the snake asked curiously as it looked from the female to the male, with an interested look on its face.

"A living creature…. most likely looking a lot like us… seen anything like that?" Femke asked as she tried to wriggle free from the snake's grasp, but the creature was too tightly wrapped around her…

"I might have… but I'm not sssssure…" the snake slissed. "Perhappssss if you knew a name…" it smirked.

"We don't know a name… we came here following a feeling…." Femke said, giving the snake a sad look, since she would have gladly called a name, but she didn't know the name of whoever was here… She had just come here because her Voortrix powers had let her here…

"That'sss unfortunate…. But living beingssss we have," the snake said, finally letting Femke go, before he slithered out before her and her husband over the planet surface, showing them the few inhabitants that this planet had, but none of them seemed to be in need of their assistance, because they lived on this planet and were adjusted to the harsh circumstances of it.

"They don't seem to be in need of any help… they belong here…" Femke said as she looked at Zaheer, who nodded in reply. "Is there…. anyone else here?"

"There issss, but I'm not ssssssso ssssssure you wanna meet him…" the snake said in a mysterious tone, while leading the two to a small plot that could be used as a house.

"Why not?" Zaheer asked as he looked at the snake, confused, not getting why they shouldn't meet this mysterious creature.

"They say… that he drags things below…. and that they never come back up…" the snake said with a smirk directed behind himself, observing the pair, who were looking at each other with a shocked expressions. They kept following the snake into the small hut, now interested in what this creature could be.

"We'll be able to defend ourselves, thank you… Now we're really interested in what this is…" Femke said as she nodded to Zaheer, who nodded as well, also curious now as to what the snake was referring to, but they were intercepted by some rain.

"Okay then… but firssssst we bessst take cover…" the snake said, pointing upwards with its tail, "Acid rain… it can melt us down within sssssseconds if we don't take cover," which made Femke and Zaheer both look down at their clothes, which had holes in them were the rain had already hit them, before they ran to the small hut that was nearby.

"Phew, almost melted like chocolate in the sun," Femke panted as she looked at the rain going on outside.

"Yeah, thank goodness…" Zaheer smiled as he stretched, then looked around, noting that the room he was standing in was covered with robots, but when he checked them out he saw that they were all deactivated for some reason. "Creepy hut though…. Wonder who lives here…" Zaheer muttered to himself, while Femke bent down and touched some of the dust on the floor.

"Yeah, though it feels…. odd…. Do you feel that as well?" Femke asked her husband, as she faced him with a sorrowful look in her eyes. He nodded in return and moved to sit with her.

"There is something underneath us…. Something… alive…" Femke said as she glared at the floor sternly, feeling like something could pop up out of it any second.

"I don't sssseeeee anything though…." the snake commented as it looked around.

"I feel it as well… Should we go…. check it out?" Zaheer asked his wife, with one brow raised. Femke glanced up and nodded, then looked around for a moment before she got up and walked to a corner of the room, where a small trigger mechanism was built.

"This seems to trigger something…. Come and help…" Femke smiled, which made Zaheer nod and walk up, pulling over the small-yet-heavy trigger that opened a hatch on the floor exactly where they had been sitting a few moments ago.

"Wow, awesome…" Zaheer gaped as he looked down.

"Ssssssso dark, assss long assss you guysssss don't think I'm coming with you…." the snake said, a shiver going down it's spine as it thought about having to go down there… though this was a trick, because the snake wanted them to go down together, which would make his master attack them… and then he would get the leftovers…

"What do you think is down there?" Femke asked as she came to stand next to her husband and looked down as well.

"I dunno…. And there is only one way to find out…"Zaheer said, before he gently grabbed Femke around her waist, then air-bended their way down, landing on the ground with a soft "thud" sound.

"Okay, we're here… now what?" Femke asked while she lit a small fire in the palm of her hand and looked around with a rather scared look in her eyes, not liking the dark hollow tunnels at all.

"Now, we have to find what we were sensing... Unless you're afraid…" the older Airbender smiled teasingly, seeing that his wife was shaking like a leaf.

"I… I'm not afraid…. I… it's just freezing cold down here… don't you feel it?" Femke said with a trembling voice, even though that was partly a lie, since she was afraid as well… she just didn't want her husband to find this out.

"Yeah, I feel it too… Let's find whatever might be down here and get out…" Zaheer nodded, before the two bending fairies started to move into the tunnels and look around.

"Sooooo, what happened… ever since a few weeks ago you and Li aren't talking…and she and the others didn't want to come along on this trip…" Femke dared to ask as they were walking over the trash planet together.

"Well…. Li and I got in a fight and…. I said some things I shouldn't have said…. So…. We agreed it was for the best we just…. didn't see each other for a while … and what Ming and Ghazan's reason was to stay behind is beyond me…. Maybe they all felt like we needed some time to…. get to know one another more…. I dunno…" Zaheer started, but stopped as the two lovers heard a strange rattling sound near them.

Startled, Femke asked. "What is that?"

"I dunno…. Let's find out…" Zaheer said, before he charged in the direction of the sound, followed by Femke, who was on guard as the two of them ran through a few tunnels, before ending up in a large cave (made entirely of garbage) where the strange sound ended, and they could suddenly hear mumbling in clear English, making the two of them look at each other in shock, before they headed deeper into the cave and hid, peeking over a pile of trash so as to observe and not be spotted. As they did, they saw a creature with long horns pass by them. It had a black and red patterned skin, a long spider-like butt, and legs that made it look more like a wild animal than like a human being.

"What is that…?" Zaheer asked as he looked at the thing in awe. It scurried through the small cave without a real purpose it seemed, muttering something to himself about someone named "Kenobi" all the time as he did so.

"I have seen this in that old television series, 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'…." Femke whispered to her husband, with a shocked look. "But even though this world exists, I never imagined he existed as well…" the brunette said as she looked at Zaheer, with stern consternation written on her face. "Darth Maul, the dark lord of the Sith that was cut in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi on Naboo…." Femke said as she looked at the creature once more.

"That guy whose butt floats one way and his torso the other at the end of 'The Phantom Menace'? That Darth Maul…?" Zaheer asked with a hushed voice as he looked from Femke to the creature.

"Yes… and you and I both know what will happen once that Savage Oppress finds him here…. We have to help him…. Maybe we can guide him to the light…" Femke said as she carefully got up, which made Maul look up at her with a shocked face.

"I dunno… how were you planning on taking care of an insane Sith lord…how do you take care of a Sith lord in the first place?" Zaheer asked as he watched Femke sit down near Maul and hold out her arms for the insane man.

"We'll have to figure that one out as we go…. If I can get him to come over to me…"Femke smiled at Zaheer, before she turned her attention fully to the insane Sith lord…

Femke's POV

"Come here…. Come on… I won't bite…" I smiled as I held out my hand to Darth Maul… who was apparently alive just like in the series… even though it was very unlikely to me that anyone would be able to survive getting cut in half… yet the way Maul looked right now told me that he indeed had… and that the only way we could avoid him going on rampage again until his death was to help him now… guide him… and hope he would find the light buried deep within…

"No, no…." Maul snarled as he backed away from me with a scared look in his eyes.

"You don't have to be afraid… come on…. I'm here to help you." I smiled as I tried to get a bit closer to the insane man so he could see my face better.

"M– Momma…." Maul whimpered now as he looked at me with a cocked head, not understanding who I was or what I was doing here… yet he seemed to be under the impression that I was his mother somehow…

"Which I could use to get him away from here…yet it would be wrong…" I thought as I smiled and kept my hand out for Maul, who again whimpered "Momma" as he scurried a little closer to me.

"Seems he thinks you're his mommy…." Zaheer smiled teasingly as I gently scooped him up and made hushing noises, because he started snorting as I held him close.

"Yes…." I smiled as I rubbed maul over his head. "But…. I think he might need us…" I said as I looked at my husband with a smile on my face.

"I know…. He needs us…" Zaheer smiled as he rubbed Maul over his head as well, looking down at him smiling, while Maul looked up at him, confused.

"I'm Dada, can you say: Dadaaa?" Zaheer smiled as he sat down by us now, stroking him lovingly over his head.

"Dadaaa" Maul repeated as he looked sternly up at my husband's face, still snorting as I held him close.

"We might not be in blood... but we can be 'parents' to him... maybe it will help him..." I said as I gently rocked Maul to ease him up a little.

"It might... It will be fun to give it a try..." Zaheer smiled as he gave Maul a gentle hug, which made Maul look at him confused again, not understanding.

"I'm sure we'll manage..." I smiled at Zaheer. "Hey Maul, would you like to go with us?" I asked, smiling as I rocked Maul a little in my arms, only to see the Sith lord had fallen asleep in my arms, snoring softly as he held on to me.

"I... interpret that as a "yes"... I guess..." I said as I smiled at Zaheer, who smiled as well as he helped me on my feet, closing in for a kiss before we both looked at the sleeping half man, half spider in my arms.

"You know... asleep like this... he looks more like a hurt child than like a crazy Sith lord..." I said as I looked from Maul to my husband with soft eyes.

"I know... maybe he isn't as bad as he seems to be... We read in that book "The Wrath of Darth Maul" he is put through a lot," Zaheer replied with a thoughtful look on Maul.

"And it is like Guru Laghima wrote; a monster is mostly the view of the people who don't see the hurt underneath," Zaheer said wisely, which made me roll my eyes at him in an expression of annoyance.

"Yeah that's what I said... In any case... we should get going now... before he wakes up," I said, eyes on the sleeping Sith lord with a motherly smile, my maternal instincts taking over as we headed out of the cave through an exit we found at the back of Maul's lair and back to our ship.

"Uuugh what a smell... do you think you could give him a bath as I take off... I can't stand the smell..." Zaheer complained as we kept up walking, Zaheer with his arm wrapped around my waist so I could lay my head on his shoulder.

"I'll see what I can do for you... but I won't promise he will allow it..." I smiled, looking at Maul while he groaned in his sleep.

"Kenobiiii, Kenobiiiii!" He growled in his sleep, which made me smile and stroke him over his head, Zaheer following my example when he saw it made the stress and fear become less than it used to be.

"It's okay... you're safe... you're with people who love and care about you... relax..." I whispered to Maul as I used my magic swirl around him and with the help of Zaheer we gave him a new pair of legs that were more human, yet shorter so we could easily pick him up and carry him if needed... I also used a spell that made it where the legs would grow as his mental state improved... knowing that one day he would be himself again... and then he would like to be as tall as a normal adult again.

"We're here... We will care for you... No one will harm you as long as we live..." Zaheer smiled as he closed the hug, which made me smile... he picked up the role of a father very easily... he would be a good father someday...

"Rrrrrrrreveeenge..." Maul whimpered, but he fell silent as he heard our voices...calming down instantly for reasons beyond me… yet in my heart, I felt like it was because he thought that his mother was with him… that he was safe and wanted… which he was… and we wouldn't let anything happen to him… not as long as he was in our care…

"And maybe… just maybe… he will stay once his sanity is restored…. Knowing here he will be safe and wanted… with no Sidious beating him up all the time…" I thought as I carried Maul onboard the ship and made the hatch close. Looking at Lotho Minior once more as I did so… praying with all my heart what we had just done had saved Maul from a fate worse than death.

Just then Maul woke up and started to scream his lungs out as a sign he wasn't too happy with us taking him…. Oohh brother….

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And with that I end the first chapter! I hope you all liked it! Femke and Zaheer are two well-known characters, with Zaheer being the Airbender leader of the Red Lotus and his fairy girlfriend, Femke (my OC), from "the new lotus" and "retemption of the red lotus." Both of them have lived on Earth for a while now, were Femke knows Star Wars from the books and movies we all know and love.

I thought even though both of them might have seen all the movies and read all the books at this point, neither of them had expected it was based on real life events that were yet to happen in the dimension far, far away from earth… which made them run into Maul somewhere before the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" episode "Brothers."

Maul's thinking Femke was his mother is pure because he is completely insane and had no idea who else besides his master would come look for him. This is in NO WAY gonna happen unless you want it!

Thanks for reading and thanks colored0rain for doing such a greath job as a beta reader

So that was all for now… I hope you enjoyed the new story so far! Until next time!

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