1 A changed life.
The bounty hunter was standing out side the door way, listening. He didn't look like a Hunter. His long blonde hair hung a little more than shoulder length. His clothes we torn and singed in some spots. His ice blue eyes were watching every thing, doing more than observing, he was watching the staff. Getting to know their patterns. He sighed. He was in no hurry to kill his marks, he had ten years to do that.
He walked briskly through the halls of the Hospital. He didn't like hospitals to much. All the dying people, they just reminded him of his wife. She had died a little over 5 years ago. He walked out side, looking at the slick and snowy ground. He trekked back to his ship. It was nothing impressive, just a little cruiser with a black, orange, and navy blue paint job. He hopped in side and went in to the cockpit. "Well it's a good thing I've got ten years to kill them." He muttered starting up the ship. "I suppose if poisoning and other things don't work I could just blow the ship up…" He trailed off. He was starting to like the idea of blowing up the Millenium Falcon. He lifted off the platform and shot into hyper space. "After all my employer didn't specify how he wanted them dead." The Hunter muttered, trying to make an excuse.
He piloted the ship to one of the many bars in the galaxy. He landed and got out. He'd look for some clientele, and get drunk at the same time. Now that was what he called multi-tasking. He walked into the bar. He sat down and ordered a drink. He looked around the bar giving a death glare to any one who looked at him. He sat at the end of the bar, not paying much attention to the conversations around him. Until he heard: "Ya see that guy at the end of the bar?" He looked around. He was the only one at that end of the bar. He listened closer.
"Ya Raze I do. So what?" Asked a scruffy looking beast with long dragon like wings on his back.
"So what? So what? That guy is a bounty hunter. A pretty good one to from the looks of it." Raze said looking at the dragon thing.
"Come on Fa-War you can see his light saber, right?" Raze asked.
The dragon-beast named Fa-War rolled his eyes. "Ya Raze I can see his light saber. That doesn't mean he's a bounty hunter." Fa-War said.
"Well he killed a Jedi that's for sure. How many Jedi do you know that will give up there light sabers willingly?" Raze said.
"Fine Fa-War why don't you go ask him if you don't believe me?" Raze challenged.
"No way! Unuh! I'm not gonna walk right up to him and ask: 'Hey did you kill a Jedi to get that Light-Saber?' Raze I'm not stupid!" Fa-War whimpered.
"All right. All right don't get all whiney on me. I just-" Raze started but he was interrupted by an explosion. Dust fell from the rafters as the whole cantina shook. The bounty hunter at the end of the bar was the first one up. He dashed out side, his ship was a ball of smoking molten metal.
"Not again! Oh BLAST IT!" He said kicking the ground.
Raze and Fa-War came running out.
"Hey was that your ship?" Raze asked.
"Err yes it is, I mean was." Replied the hunter.
"Well you could come with us, we're gonna be on a cargo transport. You get paid and free food and board." Raze offered. The Hunter thought about it. After all he did have ten years to kill his mark. "All right, sounds good to me." Said the hunter.
He woke up. He was hanging half in half out of his bunk, and he had a hangover to boot. He looked at his artificial arm. Sighing he sat up. Why in the blazes did I agree to go with them? He thought to him self, running his real hand through his hair. He fiddled with his identification tags. He would read them over and over again to remind him of who he once was. He looked at them now. They read: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master. ddress: room 2276 Coursant, the Jedi temple. He sighed. The "A" of address had been rubbed off. Those identifying tags and his artificial arm were the only thing he had left of his past life. Except, of course, for memories.
Obi-Wan rolled out of his bunk. He was on the middle one. Raze was on the top and Fa-War on the bottom.
"Oh good yer up." Raze said sitting up. "I can't see how you can sleep through Fa-War's snoring! Here, for your headache. The way you drank last night, you must have sommin' to forget." Raze said handing Obi-Wan something for his headache.
"Yes I've got quite a lot to drown out." Obi-Wan murmured, rubbing his head.
Raze swung off his bunk, grabbing a pillow as he went. Raze knelt down and chucked the pillow at Fa-War.
"Wha-?" Fa-War grunted. He sat straight up, banging his head on the middle bunk. "Ouch! What is it Raze?" Fa-War said poking his snout out of the shadows.
"UP ya get! You lazy little Dragon." Raze said starting to pulling out Fa-War. "The Hunter is up, and we need to show him his way around the ship." Raze said dragging Fa-War out all the way.
"My name isn't Hunter. It's Racklen." Obi-Wan said.
It was somewhat true, his Wolfen name was Racklen. Obi-Wan sighed. He needed to find out what his employer wanted him to do now. But that required some privacy. Maybe I'll quit! Obi-Wan thought, suddenly angry at the fact that he had become a Bounty hunter. Oh yes the lord of the Sith will just let me hand in my job certificate. Obi-Wan thought. He grumbled as he realized the irony of it all. Me the great Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi working as a Bounty Hunter for …The Sith! Of all people. Obi-Wan thought. He was mentally kicking him self. He had been stupid, and he knew it. He never should of accepted the job from the Sith lord. Now he was kicking him self for it.
"I'm no better than Dooku!" Obi-Wan muttered, as he changed in the bathroom. He looked at himself in the old cracked mirror. He was wearing a plain white shirt, and faded black pants. He looked different somehow. He didn't feel right not to be in his old Jedi clothes. He flexed his robotic arm. It was attached at the shoulder. The stump were his arm had been would hurt him sometimes at night. But the plus was his right arm was indestructible. The fingers were the same length as his left's but the metal nails were like claws. He didn't were a glove or a cover he didn't care if people stared. Besides it was more and more common for people to be missing arm and legs now in days. It was on this line of thought that brought him back to the Sith. He turned and walked out to where Raze and Fa-War were waiting for him.
"Hey Racklen! Fa and I will show you the ropes. I'm sure the boss won't mind." Raze said looking at Obi-Wan. "Wow, quite an arm you got there." Raze said looking at Obi-Wan's arm. "You could probably kill some one with that." Fa-War muttered. Obi-Wan looked down a little. I have killed people with it… Obi-Wan thought, once again he was angry at him self for becoming a Bounty Hunter.
"All right you two! Come on!" Raze said.
Fa-War looked at Obi-Wan a little suspiciously, Like Fa-War had read Obi-Wan's mind. Obi-Wan followed Raze and Fa-War out. He looked around the ship. It was a standard size Cargo ship. People were bustling every where.
"Down this corridor." Raze said stepping in to a hall way.
Obi-Wan followed Raze as he opened a door. There was a huge loading bay.
"What in the Force? Those boxes must go to the top of the ship!" Obi-Wan said looking down the hundreds of rows of crates and boxes.
"Yep, those boxes go 'bout 60, 70 feet in the air." Raze said.
Fa-War came over with their job assignments. "Looks like we all get top level to day." Fa-War muttered.
"Hey Racklen you're not afraid of heights, right?" Fa-War asked.
"No, why?" Obi-wan said.
"Because, your gonna have to put on a pair of anti-gravity sole liners and float around the top of the crates, loading the crates on to lift platforms." Raze said handing thin sheets of plastic to Obi-Wan and Fa-War.
"Just slap them on the bottom of your boots. But be careful. They're thought activated." Raze said putting one on his shoe sole.
Obi-Wan did as Raze said, using his Jedi training to keep his mind blank.
"Wow you and Fa-War are the only two people who haven't started bouncing around when you put on the anti-gravity soles. Huh weird." Raze said looking at Obi-Wan and Fa-War in shock.
"So what are we supposed to do again?" Obi-Wan asked eager to change the subject. "Well we fly around the crates and load them onto platforms. We do that pretty much all day, but we get lunch off." Raze said floating up in the air.
"You control the soles with your mind. I don't know how those little sheets of plastic do it but they're connected to you. Just think up if you want to go up, and down if you want to come down, same for left and right." Raze explained.
Obi-Wan smiled, when Raze would say "left" or "up" he would go a little in that direction. Obi-wan hovered in the air.
"All right you got it, come on now let's get going before someone gets mad." Raze said. Fa-War was in the air. The three of them went over to a stack of crates and began putting them on to the loading platform.
After 5 hours straight of picking up boxes and moving them to a loading platform Obi-Wan was getting tired. Fa-War was also, he didn't move as fast. But Raze seemed to have boundless energy. Raze managed to keep up the same pace for the entire time. Obi-Wan silently cursed his robotic arm. Because of his arm he got stuck with lifting all the really heavy crates. Obi-Wan was hot. He ran his normal hand thru his damp hair.
"Okay Fa-War when is lunch?" Obi-Wan mumbled as he lifted a large crate.
"In about another hour… Oh dear." Fa-War said as he looked up.
A large strong alien was hovering forward.
"What?" Obi-wan asked, he looked up and follow Fa-War's gaze. "Oh boy." Obi-Wan muttered looking at the alien.
"Well Raze did you pick up another member for your little counsel?" Asked the alien. The alien was looking at Obi-Wan with curiosity.
"Back off him Zend." Raze said glaring at the alien.
"And just because I don't like the empire doesn't mean he doesn't. And no I didn't recruit him for ' my little counsel'." Raze said looking at Zend.
"So who are you?" Obi-Wan asked, he highly doubted that Zend was any thing more than hot air.
"Me? I am Zend Yusle! The son of one of the most feared crime bosses in the galaxy!" Zend said, throwing his arms open wide.
Obi-Wan stopped, put down the crate, and looked at Zend for a moment. "Well if your father is so scary then why haven't I head of him?" Obi-Wan asked, perhaps a little to cocky for his own good.
"You little…" Zend growled.
Obi-Wan dubbed over in pain as he felt Zend's over sized fist slam in to his gut. Obi-Wan looked up.
"You aren't very smart are you?" Obi-Wan said gasping for air.
"Sssss I really don't think your innn a posssition to bbe cocky." Said a snake like alien coming up behind Zend.
"This one's mine Quoi stay out of it." Zend said looking at the snake alien.
Zend went over to Obi-Wan and kicked him in the gut.
"Nnn... That hurt.. nn." Obi-wan looked up and Force threw Zend and Quoi in to a wall.
Obi-Wan stood up. He knew he would have a bruise there soon. He turned and looked at Raze, who was standing open mouthed.
"Where is Fa-?" But Obi-Wan never got to finish his sentence.
He heard the hum and felt the heat of a light saber being pressed against his neck.
"What are you doing here? Sith." Asked Fa-War, from behind Obi-Wan.
"First of all I'm not a Sith. And second of all please remove that light saber from my neck." Obi-Wan said keeping very still.
"Well you can't be a Jedi, I think I'm the only one left." Muttered Fa-War.
"Well you're not the only one left. Here around my neck. My identification tags." Obi-Wan said pulling out the tags.
Fa-War took the tags keeping the saber steady like only a Jedi can.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi? You can't be Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan was killed by Darth Vader Five years ago!" Fa-war said letting Obi-Wan's Tags fall back on to his back.
"How do you think I got this arm?" Obi-Wan said thru gritted teeth.
"I lost most of my life when I fought Anakin." Obi-Wan said, the light saber was starting to become rather uncomfortable.
"I don't know…" Fa-War said. Then with out warning Fa-War turned off his Saber.
"Good to see that I'm not the only one left." Fa-War said laying a hand on Obi-Wan's shoulder.
"But somehow I thought I might meet the great Obi-wan Kenobi not as some drunk in a bar." Fa-War said.
"Uh guys let's get back to work before we get in trouble." Raze said looking between Obi-wan and Fa-War. The two Jedi laughed and got back to loading boxes.