STAR WARS: A HIDDEN FORCE
Chapter 1
In the City Dwells
Akilah-Jinn had spent 25 years on Coruscant in Imperial City (formerly Galactic City). She was orphaned in the battle that ensued after the alliance won on Endor. She was raised as a servant girl by a monster of a man with his shrill little wife. Akilah ran away at eight; the young one managed to join the Travelers Thieves Guild. She was quite stealth and unassuming; that was valued highly. There was something else about Akilah-Jinn that made her an asset to have around. She did not comprehend the power for a year after it flared. The guild used her talent to convince shopkeepers and patrons to hand over valuables with ease.
At 14 the girl left the guild to join the Imperial Research Institute, determined to learn more of her gift. Akilah knew she must hide its existence from those that may sense these things. She researched in the city above, and in the depths of the lower city she honed her skills in the art of the force; taking on criminals and defending the weak.
A darkness burned inside of the girl, and it only flared brighter as she grew. The rage of her youth; the pain and suffering she witnessed and endured. It fueled her. It was that glow Kylo Ren sensed upon his retreat to Imperial City after the defeat at starkiller base.
Akilah had sensed a great pain while meditating late. The cry reached out to her surround her being. Akilah writhed over in pain coming out of her meditative state. She ran out into the dark city; standing on the ledge of the apartment skyscraper, she reached out with her feelings; opening herself. She locked onto the source of the pain and jumped on her skkydriver, "If only I could go light speed!" she cried to herself. Arriving at the skyscraper higher in the city, she enters what appears to be a gambling establishment.
"Let me guide you to," an Alien man begins his gambling spiel.
"Stuff it puppet," Akilah stifles the man, "I need help and you will help me," she states flatly.
"I will help you," the fish man replies.
"I'm looking for a woman, I think. I think she might be new here. Any ideas?"
"Master Kuzo is in charge of the escorts department. Up the stairs and to your right," the fish man gestured to a patio overlooking the game room.
"Thank you," she smirked at the fish, patting its head while he gave a confused look.
Akilah made her way to the balcony and there she faced a square, leathery man. He had at his side the source. She sensed that now. A girl! No more than 12, was shackled to the beast's side.
The creature bellowed, "What do you think you are doing, woman?!"
"I am here to free the girl," Akilah senses the terror in the girl.
"HoHaHa," the creature laughs, "this is mine!" he chokes up on the shackles dragging the girl up the side of his chair; the little voice shrieks.
"You will release the girl," her tone was flat and this time she swayed her index and middle fingers as the old text described.
"I will release the girl," Master Kuzo repeated, unlocking the shackles.
"But boss, it wa my turn!" squeaked a short boney alien.
Akilah's rage flared. She knew what this was. This girl was a sex slave, and she thought about leaving it intact. Not now. She took a breath, walked over to the girl, and escorted her down the stairs and to her skkydriver.
"You stay here, I will be back little one." Akilah walked back into the seedy rat hole with fire glowing in her hazel eyes. She drew her pistol. It was over in moments. It all happened in slow motion. She was there, yet she was not. Akilah swooped around the room placing a bullet between the eyes of everyone. Then she walked away.
Akilah-Jinn helped established and anonymously donated to a mid city orphanage. There are some good souls in the city yet. She dropped the girl at the orphanage with an assurance she would be safe. Then the woman began back to her one room hole in the lower levels.
"With a power like that, you should be far away from the Core woman," the smoky voice penetrated the darkness of the lower city. Akilah's heart skipped a beat and her breath hitched in her throat. Motionless and afraid to exhale she peered through the blackness only to make out a silvery mask.
"Who is there?" she managed to sound steady.
"I could sense your rage the second I arrived in the system. You have been learning," the voice sent a shiver down her spine.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"I see right into you, woman. Do not try to deceive me. You are strong with the force. I could feel your mind light years away. It is obvious you have worked to stay undetected. My master will find you if you continue to be this reckless," he was taunting her.
Akilah-Jinn could feel his power, she was hesitant to reach out more and leave herself exposed. "Your Master?" she felt it was becoming harder to breathe. Something was happening to her. She was struggling against him.
"Yes, anyone who can use the force as you should have a Master," he was distracting her.
"I will have no Master," she lost consciousness then, falling to the ground. Kylo Ren crossed the corridor and took the thin woman in his arms, her light satin hair falling over his gloved hands. She would be his apprentice, and he would be her Master. He smirked beneath his helmet.