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Chapter 22 "Parting Impression."

Coruscant, Galactic Capital, Manarai Hotel.

"Do you have everything ?" Ahsoka asked.

"Yes," replied Deiven. The Firrerreo and HK were ready to leave the hotel and head to the spaceport. Deiven didn't have luggage, only his side pack, so he didn't need much time to gather his things.

"Wait for just a second," requested Deiven, searching for something in his side pack. "This is for you Ahsoka," he said giving the Togruta a white, neatly made lightsaber. "This is a double-bladed Shoto."

When the Togruta examined it she noticed that the hilt was made from a bone, on which it had beautiful carvings. She couldn't imagine how much time and work someone must've spent on it.

"In order to activate it you must use the Force because the on switch is within the lightsaber's hilt," Deiven pointed out. "It will be hard to use it because it's a standard length, but you'll find it very helpful in your battles. And of course, your training will be much more efficient."

"I don't know what to say," Ahsoka said, not taking her eyes off the Shoto.

"Thank you, will be a proper word," Deiven smiled.

Looking at Deiven, Ahsoka gave him a quick hug. "That will do," the Firrerreo chuckled. Smiling, Ahsoka and Deiven left the apartment with HK, who was walking right behind them.

Anakin and Obi-Wan were already waiting for them before the hotel's entrance. The Jedi Council didn't want to risk Deiven's safety and ordered the famous duo to assist Ahsoka in her task. Anakin didn't fail to notice that Ahsoka had a second lightsaber strapped to her belt.

"Since when you have two lightsabers Snips ?" Anakin asked.

"It's a gift from me," answered Deiven, "figured she could use some help. I have something for you to Master Skywalker." The Firrerreo reached to his side pack and pulled out a holorecorder, which he gave it to Anakin. "I'm sure you're gonna be surprised, shocked and have many questions, but it will be a good thing."

"Umm... thank you," Anakin arched an eyebrow and looked at the holorecorder, shrugging he put it in his pocket. When he will return to the temple, he will play it.

"Your ship is ready at the spaceport," stated Obi-Wan, "let's not waste any more time. The assassin may be close."

Coruscant Spaceport.

The trip from Hotel to Spaceport had gone very smoothly without any attempts on Deiven's live, three Jedi and his HK unit made sure of that.

"So far so good," said Ahsoka.

"Think the assassin will risk attacking someone with three Jedi around him ?" Deiven asked.

"Not from a short distance," pointed out Anakin. "Unless he or she is a complete idiot."

"Or very talented and bold," added Obi-Wan.

Despite predicting every worst scenario, they've all reached The Silent Shadow without any problems. The ship was intact and Deiven was sure that it was impossible for anyone, much less an ordinary assassin to board it. Especially with the droids on board.

"Well, that was easier then I thought," said Ahsoka.

"Almost too easy," said Obi-Wan, still looking around and observing the passing people.

"Maybe he want's me to board the ship and then he'll try to kill me on Shili, heh, good luck with that," said Deiven.

HK started to turn his head around. "Statement: A group of meatbags armed with weapons is closing the distance between us. Addendum: There are not the local security."

Anakin and Ahsoka noticed them too. Over a dozen men and none of them looked friendly. "I thought it supposed to be one assassin, not a dozen," said Ahsoka.

"The more the merrier," said Anakin.

One of the thugs fired a couple of shoot into the air, causing a panic at the spaceport. Civilians began to scream and run in all directions. All three Jedi ignited their weapons and HK took off his sniper rifle, aiming at the shooter. Deiven reached for his lightsaber, but he didn't activate it.

The five of them bunched up in order to not get trampled by the panicking crowd. When the number of civilians got a lot smaller, Obi-Wan recognized the symbols and the tattoos on the thugs. "The Black Sun," he said grimly.

"Who ?" Deiven asked.

"An infamous crime syndicate," explained Anakin, cautiously eyeing the thugs. "It's a bold move for them to attack the Jedi like that."

One of the gangsters, a green-skinned Fallen, approached the Jedi and smiled wickedly. "Hello Jedi," he began, "we have a proposition for your friend the ArchKnight Deiven Virlo. Either he will come with us, or you all will die here... and we will take him by force."

"I don't think they're the assassins," Ahsoka whispered to Anakin.

"What business do you have with me ?" Asked the Firrerreo.

"Your life is worth many credits," stated the Fallen. "And I'm sure your friends on Shili will pay a hefty price for your freedom."

"Hmmm... I have a better offer for you," Deiven ignited his indigo lightsaber. "Either you'll lay down your weapons and surrender to the Jedi, or this will be the last day of your life."

The gangsters started to laugh, clearly not taking the Firrerreo seriously. The Fallen smiled evilly and spoke. "If you want to make things difficult for us, then there going to be consequences, my boy. Your Jedi friends are going to die, well, maybe not the girl. I know a few old crime lords that will pay a good money for a young Togruta virgin."

Anakin frowned immediately, trying to control his emotions, but Deiven didn't have to worry about that. Baring his teeth, the young Firrerreo started to talk, slowly and with low, deep tone. "You'll not touch her... any of them ! " Deiven's pupils widened and he started to growl loudly. "HK, activation code 6C4-87B."

The Fallen wanted to continue with his speech, but he noticed that HK's optics started to glow. The Jedi sensed something else, a strong force signature emanating from the droid... the droid !

"Statement: Weapons fully online. Force flowing at maximum efficiency. Assassination protocols activated. I've been looking forward to this."

Deiven tapped into the Force, allowing it to fill up his body completely. The Jedi knew he could use the Force, but the energy that started to ooze from him wasn't the light side... or, not only, the light side. Obi-Wan could feel the dark side from the Firrerreo, but he didn't feel the corruption and cold that always came in line with it. He wouldn't believe it if he weren't sensing this right now.

Ahsoka was looking at Deiven and she couldn't form a single word. Recalling what happened to Ziro the Hutt, she had a hunch what will happen to the gangsters. "The greed has guided you here, and the same greed shall be your downfall," said Deiven.

The Firrerreo began to speak in a strange language, which started echoing around the whole spaceport. No one understood what he was saying. Suddenly the Fallen was grabbed by an invisible grip and lifted up in the air. He reached for his blaster, but the moment he tried to aim at Deiven, his whole hand exploded along with the weapon, leaving only a bloody stump.

His painful scream was heard only for a while because, in mere seconds, his eyes widened and his body started to twitch. Every bone in his body started to bend and crack, making gruesome sounds.

"ArchKnight Deiven, wait !" Obi-Wan yelled at the Firrerreo, but despite hearing him the young alien didn't stop. The gangsters were watching in horror as their comrade was slowly crushed and turned into a bloody ball in a size of a fist. Some of them even turned and threw up from the disgust.

Ahsoka wasn't prepared for such a brutal execution, she turned her face away in order not to look at the bloody mess. Although Anakin wasn't feeling a compassion towards the Fallen, especially since he heard what he was planning for Ahsoka, even he had to admit that this was really brutal.

The deadly silence was broken by HK's sniper rifle. The droid shot one of the gangsters right between the eyes, killing him on the spot. Immediately the minority of them started shooting, the rest just ran away.

The Jedi were deflecting the bolts effortlessly and HK was killing the gangsters one after another. The kidnapping attempt turned into a one-sided battle. In less than a minute, only two injured gangsters were left alive.

Deiven started to walk towards them with a grave look on his face, his lightsaber ignited. Lying on the floor and groaning from the pain, the gangsters were defenseless. Ahsoka ran after the Firrerreo, remembering her task. Anakin and Obi-Wan were right behind her, sensing the intentions of the ArchKnight.

"ArchKnight Deiven," Obi-Wan called. "They had enough, there is no need to kill them."

"Do you always show mercy Master Kenobi ?" Deiven asked, not looking at Kenobi and slowing down.

"That's the Jedi way," stated Obi-Wan.

"No offense Master Kenobi, but your Jedi code is wrong," Deiven stated bluntly. "Those gangsters wouldn't show you mercy. Pardon my language, but they don't give a shit about your being the better one because you're showing them mercy." When they've approached the two males, on of them was trying to crawl away from the golden alien, clearly scared. The other one was just looking with a hateful gaze at them. "Don't get me wrong Master Kenobi," Deiven continued, "I can show mercy, but only to those who deserve it. Definitely not them. And besides, they already had their chance to surrender."

ArchKnight extended his hand and opened his palm, hurling a powerful force lightning at the glaring gangster. Obi-Wan only shook his head, watching as the body of a Black Sun member turns into a charred husk.

"I say, good riddance," Anakin said coldly, drawing Obi-Wan's disapproving look.

"We don't do such things Anakin," reminded Obi-Wan.

"Didn't you heard what the Fallen wanted to do with us and Ahsoka ?" Anakin argued.

"I did," replied Obi-Wan, "but this is overkill."

"I call it the necessary evil," stated Deiven. The Firrerreo used the force to pull the second man towards him. Noticing that he was much younger, probably just reached adulthood, he crouched before him. "Please ! I'm sorry, please don't kill me," the young human pleaded for his life.

"And what you'll do when I spare your life ?" Deiven asked with a serious tone. "Clearly, you have no regard for the life of others."

"No ! Please, they've kidnapped me from my mother, when I was little. I had no choice !" The young human was trembling from the fear. "I will leave the Black Sun and return to my mother, I beg of you !"

Deiven was sensing that he was telling the truth. The ArchKnight leaned towards him and growled, his amber eyes glowing and his ominous voice sending a shiver through the human's spine. "If I ever find out, that you're killing, stealing or even dealing spice, I will kill you in the most brutal way possible. Do we understand each other ?" Not been able to form sentences, the human started to nod frantically.

"Good," Deiven said, putting a hand on the human's injured leg. Using the Force he quickly dulled the pain and closed the wound. "Now scram," he ordered.

Standing up, the human gimped away from the Firrerreo. Ahsoka breathed a sigh of relief. She was happy that Deiven didn't kill him.

"Oh, they're finally here," said Anakin, looking at the spaceport security that was running towards them, "they've arrived when it's all over."

"At least that way they didn't get hurt," Ahsoka pointed out.

"True," admitted Deiven.

"I'll go talk to them," said Obi-Wan.

While the local security was busy gathering the corpses, the Jedi and Deiven were standing by the Silent Shadow's ramp. HK was already inside preparing the ship for takeoff.

"Sorry if I left a bad parting impression," said Deiven.

"Well I'm sure it was original," said Anakin scratching the back his head. "Literally crushing someone to a ball isn't something that we witness every day."

Ahsoka noticed a blue, high-tech looking droid descending the ramp. "This is a TC-9 prototype holodroid," said Deiven. "You can call him... PROXY, I'm going to leave him on Coruscant in order to contact you without any problems. As part of our cooperation."

"It's nice to meet you all," PROXY nodded.

"We'll take him to the Jedi Temple, he'll be safe there," assured Obi-Wan.

"Good," said Deiven. "It was fun and I'm sure we'll see each other again."

"Have a safe trip," said Ahsoka bowing her head. Anakin and Obi-Wan did the same.

Deiven bowed with a smile and ascended the ramp, which closed behind him. After a few seconds, the engines of the Silent Shadow have been activated and the ship launched. When the ship was out of their sight, the three Jedi turned and headed out of the spaceport along with TC-9.

"What a crazy day," said Ahsoka.

"It sure was Snips," agreed Anakin.

"I'll head to the Jedi Temple with the droid," said Obi-Wan. "Ahsoka, you did very well."

"Yeah, good job Ahsoka," seconded Anakin. "Go rest, you earned it."

"Thank you, Master," Ahsoka smiled. She knew a Jedi should be modest, but inside, the Togruta was bursting with pride. Looking at her Shoto lightsaber, Ahsoka couldn't wait until she'll learn how to use it probably.

Some time later – Jedi Temple, Anakin's Private Quarters.

Anakin sat down on his chair at the desk. Pulling out the holorecorder he placed it on the desktop and activated it. A blue, holographic image of a woman appeared in front of him. It took Anakin a moment before he recognized who she was. "Mom ?!" He whispered to himself.

"Hello my little Ani, I'm sure you're no longer little but that's how I've remembered you. If you're watching this recording you should now that I'm alive, safe and no longer on Tatooine. A young boy named Deiven Virlo and his Togruta Master rescued me from slavery and gave me freedom."

Anakin noticed that her mother was dressed differently, her clothes were now fashionable and surely more expensive than her old ones.

"It breaks my heart, but I cannot tell you where I'm living right now Ani, because of the war. The enemies of the Republic could use me to get to you if they'll get to know where I live."

Anakin didn't even notice when tears started to roll down his cheeks. He wasn't sad, only very happy.

"I'm so proud of you Ani. End this war so I can see you again. Take care... and may the Force be with you."

When the holorecording ended and Anakin started to cry with a smile on his face. Too many positive emotions gathered in him. Deiven wasn't exaggerating when he told him that it'll leave him with many questions, but he was happy. When Anakin calmed down he felt lighter on the soul, like a small dark part of him vanished.

Planet Serenno, Dooku's Palace.

The fight in the Coruscant's Spaceport hasn't gone unnoticed. It wasn't a surprise that someone recorded the whole thing and put it in the holonet. All four Sith were watching the vid and they weren't happy with the outcome. Just like last time, only Dooku was physically present, while the three other Sith were transmitting from other locations.

"Why didn't the assassin try to kill Deiven ?" Asked Darth Plagueis.

"He did try," replied Darth Sidious, "the one who got killed by the force lightning was our assassin."

"At least Fett didn't kill him, so we don't have to pay him," pointed out Dooku.

"And the Jedi and the Kingdom of the Force are clueless of our assassination attempt so at least that worked out," stated Darth Plagueis.

"I think I have a much better solution to our problem," said Darth Enigma, "because I've recognized the Togruta that was guarding him."

"What so special about her ?" Asked Darth Plagueis. All three Sith were looking directly at the Anzat.

"Her name is, Ahsoka... Tano," replied Darth Enigma, "and she is Zai'shira's daughter."

Both Sith Master arched their eyebrows underneath their hoods. "But if that's the case, we cannot touch her unless we want a war with the Kingdom of the Force," pointed out Dooku.

"I won't hurt her," said Darth Enigma with a mischevious smile. "I'll show her the dark side and corrupt her, and then we will use her to get Deiven. They are friends, so she can kill him or even pull him to our side if we play our cards right."

"Why you ?" Asked Dooku. "I'm more experienced than you, I should handle this delicate task."

"Oh, please," Darth Enigma rolled his eyes. "If we take all your years with the Force, yes, but I'm longer Sith than you."

Dooku narrowed his eyes and wanted to say something, but Darth Sidious jumped into their dispute. "I have a different task for you Lord Tyrannus," he said. "Lord Enigma will take care of Skywalker's padawan. He proved that he's reliable." Darth Sidious was complementing the Anzat for a reason, he wanted to gain his trust and favor.

"So it's settled," said Darth Plagueis. "You have a free hand in dealing with the Togruta. Do not fail us, my apprentice."

"I never fail Master," reminded Darth Enigma. "This will take some time and effort, but I assure you that Ahsoka Tano will join the dark side."

"And when that happens, bring her to me," ordered Darth Plagueis. "She will be proper instructed in the ways of the Sith."

"Yes, Master," Darth Enigma bowed his head.

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