One Year Later

A lone storm trooper walked the road. Sky grinned from her alley. This was what she'd been hoping for. She lunged out at him and broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the alley and started eating him.

She had tried to leave Corucaunt before. Unfortunately, with all her friends dead and without money that would be no easy feat. She finished eating, dumped what was left of him into the drain and started back, deeper into the alley. This was more the deserted part of Corucaunt and useful for staying unnoticed. She went to a boarded up hole in the wall and shoved the boards aside. The path was narrow but it eventually widened out into her new home. It wasn't as nice as when she'd lived with Padme, but it was alright, and certainly better than her cave on Naboo.

She went in and looked at things she'd collected. It was something dragons had a tendency to do. Sky rearranged some of her things and went to sleep. She woke up the next morning. Well, time for breakfast.

She went back out to look for storm troopers. There were none in sight. This was pretty normal. She went toward the busier part of Corucaunt. A little closer she managed to find one. She lunged out, then banged against something big a metal. She shook her head and looked around. She was in a cage. Sky's eyes widened in disbelief. She was always so careful, making sure no one saw her, hiding what was left of the bodies, even hunting in different spots each day. But it was for nothing. Strom troopers were the only convenient thing to eat without being seen and someone had noticed the pattern.

"I've got the killer." The storm trooper was saying. He was holding something up to his mouth. "It's a dragon. I'll need some help taking it back."

Sky opened her mouth to say back where, then stopped herself. Dragons weren't exactly common which made it easy for her to become famous. If she talked they could find out she was Sky. She knew that wouldn't be good.

More storm troopers arrived and together they carried her away. She tried to fight, but with the bars they could easily dodge. So eventually she just lay down and saved her strength. They went into one of the buildings, she thought it used to be the senate building, but couldn't be sure. It had changed. They marched her into an elevator across a hall and into the room. "We've found the one killing troops sir." They opened the cage and tipped Sky onto the floor.

She looked up to see who they were talking to. It was a chair. Well, actually no. It was a person in a chair. He spun around. "Good. At last we have Sky. You may leave us." The storm troopers left.

Sky knew who this was, this was, or rather used to be, the supreme chancellor. She recognized his voice too. He was who had talked to her when she'd been taken by the Vice Riod. And most importantly he was the emperor. "You! You're the one who turned the clones!" then she stopped using English and began to insult him in every way she could think of in Dragon.

"Silence!" he hissed. Sky shut her mouth but continued glaring at him. "You have been an unpleasant thorn dragon. Killing off all my warriors."

"They deserve it and so do you. You killed all my friends." She growled back at him.

The emperor gave a sigh. "I see you are as stubborn as always. Sadly you are mistaken. I did not kill all your friends. My apprentice, Darth Vader, was once Anakin Skywalker."

Sky was in shock again. "Y-you're lieing."

The emperor sighed. "Still stubborn. I offered you a chance to join us once. And I was going to give you a chance again, now that we have more to offer. But that isn't what you want is it?"

Sky shook her head, still glaring. It happened so fast Sky didn't have time to react. The emperor stretched out his hands and lighting came out. It hit Sky and she fell over. This was nothing like fighting someone with a gun. This hurt far more. So much. She roared out in pain so loudly the room practically shook.

The emperor set his hands down. "You will pay for your defiance."

Sky knew she didn't have much time before he started torturing her again. And he probably wouldn't stop a second time. She forced herself to jump back up, and straight at the emperor. She landed on him and dug her claws in. This had at first, taken the emperor by surprise, but it didn't last. He whipped out his light saber. Sky instantly realized the danger of that. Oh no not good. She thought. She jumped away but wasn't quiet fast enough. The light saber cut through one of her feet. She let out a roar of pain again and looked down. Her leg was gone! Nothing there at all.

The emperor seemed pleased by this. He reached out his hands again, though Sky noticed with pleasure he had a harder time than before because of the wounds she'd given him. This time she was prepared. She jumped out of the way. The only problem was, with a leg missing, she jumped sideways and smashed into a wall. The emperor shot lighting again. Sky dodged again. Now she was behind him. And conveniently next to a window. She jumped out the window.

Of course, from this high she'd never live if she went all the way down, but she had no intention of doing that. She groped with her three remaining feet and attached herself to the wall. She clambered into one of the windows. Some more people who weren't storm troopers but worked for the empire came by. She scuttled up onto the ceiling so they wouldn't see her.

They were talking. She wasn't paying much attention but she focused in when they said something about a ship. I need to get off this planet. If they're going to a ship maybe I can tag along. So she followed them along on the ceiling.

Sky soon saw the ship they were talking about. It was probably the biggest ship she'd ever seen. She followed them on. Soon she heard storm troopers. There was a door nearby. She slipped in and looked around. It was a closet of some sorts. This'll do. She stayed in the closet and soon felt the ship take off. I'm on my way. On her way where, she didn't know.