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Chapter 28 "The Hunt – part 1"

Princess abducted! Ahsoka Tano is missing in action. Captured by the governour of Galidraan and released into a hostile jungle by the Trandoshan hunters, she needs to survive with the help of a small band of Jedi younglings.

Meanwhile Deiven Virlo, Zai'shira Kessen and Anakin Skywalker travel to the Outer Rim after not receiving any response from Ahsoka and the governor Moged Lur.

Dawn - Wasskah – The Moon of Trandosha, Island Four.

Ahsoka slept with the younglings in the cave in the hollow tree until the first rays of the sun began to appear in the sky. In the beginning, the young Togruta wanted to act right away, but she decided to wait until morning. The younglings needed their rest and unlike her, they weren't sated and quenched, which was the only positive outcome of her trip to Galidraan.

The orange-skinned girl woke up first since she already her share of sleep, a forced one if she could add, and she stretched with a yawn. She left the cave and jumped on the long branch, that they used the earlier night to reach the cave.

She could only imagine that her mother was getting worried about her since almost a whole day passed since she last spoke with her and her father during her flight to the Outer Rim.

Ahsoka felt that her dress somewhat restricted her movements. Even when she just ran from the transport ship on the beach, she felt that her tight, diagonal skirt was limiting her actions. She was about to fight heavily armed Trandoshans, so as much as she didn't want to ruin the dress, she needed to protect herself and the younglings from harm.

Grabbing the end of her skirt on her right side with both hands, Ahsoka tore the material and pulled it apart till the tear reached the side of her waist, revealing the red fabric of her underwear. She did the same thing with the skirt on her left side.

When she was done, Ahsoka did a side squat followed by a somersault and a handstand with a split. She didn't feel any restriction in her movements. With a smile, she got back to her feet and nodded.

"I see you're up early," Kalifa said leaving the cave along with Jinx and O-Mer. "Good, because it's time to go."

"Go where?" Ahsoka asked turning to face the younglings.

"We keep moving and keep those disgusting hunters from picking up our scent," replied the human. "I know you said you have a plan but follow my lead for a while. We have experience surviving in this place, you don't."

Ahsoka crossed her arms over her chest and pondered for a short moment. Kalifa had a point and Ahsoka could learn a thing or two from them. "Alright," she agreed with a nod and took a quick glance at Jinx and O-Mer. Just then, she noticed that the Cerean's eyes were glued to her waist and she could guess what drew his attention.

O-Mer finally looked at Ahsoka's face and when he realized that the young Togruta was watching him, he quickly averted his yellow eyes with a blush on his cheeks. Ahsoka only smirked in response.

Wasskah – The Moon of Trandosha, Ubrikkian Floating Fortress.

The Ubrikkian floating fortress was a large, hovering platform equipped with laser cannons and used by Trandoshan hunters as a headquarters for their hunting games on the moon of Wasskah.

Floating above the clouds, the fortress had space for several MSP80 Pteropter hover pods, which were used by the hunters to quickly reach their hunting grounds and to have a better shooting position.

The main room of the fortress was filled with many trophies which were killed and skinned by Garnac, the leader of the group, and his Trandoshan hunters. Among these trophies were wampa and Wookiee pelts; stuffed and mounted heads of an Ithorian, a Gungan, a Gran, a Skrilling, a reek, a rancor, a dragonsnake; an ancient Mandalorian Neo-Crusader helmet; a fully mounted gundark, mastiff phalone and narglatch; and a crystal skull.

The leader of the hunting guild sat with closed eyes in his chair, surrounded by his hunters, who either sat on the two lounges or stood beside them. When the sunlight illuminated his scaly grey skin with yellow-green patterns, he hissed, sticking out his tongue, and opened his orange eyes.

"The sun has risen," he stated and stood up from his chair. "Let the hunt begin!"

The other Trandoshans began to hiss and growl in excitement. They began to approach a table covered with guns and armed themselves while heading towards the door. They left the room, headed down to the lower deck and ran up to the hover pods, boarding and activating them.

Roaring and firing their rifles into the air, they flew down towards the forest to hunt their preys.

The Orbit of Galidraan, Silent Shadow's Cockpit.

The stealth ship of the Kingdom jumped out of the hyperspace and headed directly towards the surface of the planet. Zai'shira paced around the room, glancing nervously at Galidraan from time to time, while Deiven piloted the ship with Anakin acting as his co-pilot.

All three of them worried about Ahsoka with Zai'shira being the most nervous. At first, Zai'shira didn't want to call Ahsoka and patiently waited for her message. She was aware that negotiations, especially of such importance, could take a long time and Ahsoka, as stubborn as she was, could call them after she got a good deal, but after a whole night without a call, Zai'shira decided to contact Ahsoka.

When her daughter didn't answer the holoprojector and neither did governor Moged, the adult Togruta immediately travelled to Galidraan along with Deiven and Anakin.

In silence, the young Firrerreo flew towards the castle and even from the large distance, he already noticed the smoke above it. "This looks bad," Anakin stated.

Zai'shira turned her head and looked at the castle, which grew bigger as they flew closer to it. She moved forward and exclaimed. "Someone attacked the castle!"

"I don't sense the Dread Masters or any sinister presence for that matter," said the young Firrerreo. "And I also don't sense Ahsoka."

Zai'shira leaned forward, narrowing her blue eyes. She suddenly pointed at something and spoke. "That's the shuttle Ahsoka piloted!" she announced.

Anakin spotted the white-yellow plated RX-A at the landing platform, looked at Deiven. "There's no room for us to land," he pointed out. "Hover the Silent Shadow above the shuttle and set the autopilot so we can jump down."

"Already on it," replied the young ArchKnight.

Zai'shira turned around and stormed out of the cockpit. Anakin stood up and left as well with Deiven following shortly after.


The three jumped down from the Silent Shadow and dashed towards the castle entrance. Two dead guards lay in front of the opened large doors, which was a bad sign. Inside the main hall, which's interior looked like a battlezone, they spotted a completely destroyed black-platted protocol droid along with other dead guards as well as the staff members.

Two pair of stairs, of which one was burning, led up to the second floor of the castle from which one could lean over the railing and look down at the people in the main hall. Silence filled the whole hall with the only sound being the crackling sound of the fire.

"What the hell happneed here?!" Anakin asked, looking around the room.

Zai'shira ran up to one of the guards and noticed a burning wound from a blaster. "He was shot," she announced and looked at the other dead bodies. "They all were. I don't see any lightsaber marks."

"The Dread Masters did have troopers in black armor," stated Anakin, remembering their soldiers when they attacked the Citadel. "Maybe they had learned about the negotiations and sent a squad to thwart them."

"We should've looked for Ahsoka via the Eye of the Force," stated Deiven.

"We still can," pointed out Anakin. "I mean we can teleport back the Temple through the teleporter on the ship, find her, teleport back from the Temple to the ship and fly to where she is."

"I think that's the best solution," seconded Zai'shira. "I don't sense her and looking for her blinly will get us..." A sudden creaking sound of opening doors drew their attention and forced the three to reach for their lightsabers. When a figure holding a blaster pistol entered the room, Zaishira immediately recognized the blue-skinned alien, who wore a wide-brimmed hat. "Bane!" she narrowed her eyes.

"Ain't that a surprise," the Duros bounty hunter said with a cheeky smile. "If you were invited for a party, I'm afraid you're late."

"What the hell are you doing here?!" Zai'shira demanded.

"Working of course," he replied simply placing his foot on one of the knocked over chairs and twirling his blaster pistol around his trigger finger. "A bounty hunter has to make a living."

"You killed those guards and the staff!" Anakin said accusingly.

"What a remarkable deduction," Bane replied mockingly. "I also killed the most important person in this castle."

The human's eyes widened in shock. "You killed the planetary governor?!" Anakin asked in disbelief.

"Just so you know, we wanted to form an alliance with Galidraan so you can imagine the trouble you're in," Deiven informed the bounty hunter with a grave expression. His amber, snake-like eyes suddenly noticed something. Two lightsaber hilts were attached to Bane's belt and he immediately recognized them.

Using the Force, he yanked the hilts from Bane's belt and pulled them into his hand. "The owner of these lightsabers, where is she?!" he demanded.

"I have no idea," replied the bounty hunter. "The lightsabers were among the other things that belonged to the kidnapped females."

"What?!" Zai'shira narrowed her eyes. "What are you talking about?!"

"Apparently the governor had a good way to earn additional credits," explained Bane. "He was kidnapping young females from around the galaxy and selling them to the Trandoshan hunting guild. I was hired to 'take care' of the problem and rescue the girls if possible, but as you see there, there are no girls in this castle. I looked everywhere so they probably were taken to the lizards, but I don't care, I'll get a good amount of credits for my kill anyway. If I were to guess, your friend is being currently hunted or mounted onto a wall."

The young Firrerreo didn't believe the bounty hunter, but before he could get violent, Zai'shira suddenly spoke loudly. "I know where she is!".

Anakin and Deiven looked at her curiously. "You do?" asked the young Firrerreo.

"Yes, come on!" Zai'shira ran towards the exit. Deiven and Anakin were dumbfounded, but they quickly followed the ArchKnight.


As they ran outside, Deiven looked at the RX-A and then switched his sight to Anakin. "We can't leave the shuttle here," he stated. "Board it and follow us."

"Got it," Anakin nodded. "Where are we going?"

We need to fly to Trandosha's moon, Wesskah, answered Zai'shira.

While Anakin nodded and ran into the shuttle, Zai'shira and Deiven jumped high towards the opened ramp of the hovering Silent Shadow and entered the ship. "Care to explain?" Deiven asked as the ramp closed itself behind them.

"In one of the visions I had a while ago, I saw Ahsoka, Anakin and Plo Koon on Felucia," explained the adult Togruta as they began to walk towards the cockpit at a fast pace. "Since I can only see the visions from the main timeline, it was a mission during the clone wars. The three split up and Ahsoka was captured by a Trandoshan hunter and taken to Wesskah where she meet the Jedi younglings."

"The events must happen," Deiven said. "The Force always finds a way."

"At least now I'm calmer knowing where she is," stated Zai'shira. "Since the Ahsoka from the main timeline survived the encounter with Trandoshans, our Ahsoka will have no problems with them."


While both ships were prepared to leave Galidraan and head towards Trandosha, Cad Bane left the castle as well and walked towards the landing platform where he spotted the aircrafts turning towards the blue sky. When the ships flew away and became small dots in the sky, he smirked and reached into his pocket, pulling out a holoprojector.

Making a call, he waited for a few seconds until a holographic image of Miraj Scintel appeared on his hand. "The job is done," he informed. "The governor together with all the people working in the castle are dead and the Kingdom of the Force is heading to Trandosha. They don't have a clue that the Hutt Cartel and the Zygerrian Empire were involved in the kidnappings."

"Great work bounty hunter," the Queen said with a pleased smile. "You definitely earned your pay."

"Of course," he said. "When you hire the best, you get the best results. I recommend myself if you need any more problems taken care off."

"We'll keep that in mind," promised the Queen.

Wasskah – The Moon of Trandosha, Island Four.

Ahsoka and the younglings moved through the jungle carefully jumping from branch to branch. Such actions weren't new for the young Togruta since she hunted pretty often on her homeworld. Not wanting to be spotted, the group from time to time and looked around for the Trandoshan hunters. As they moved, Kalifa suddenly crouched and looked towards the other three and gestured them to get down.

Ahsoka went on all fours and moved towards the edge of the branch, looking down at a green-skinned Rodian female and a yellow-skinned Twi'lek male, who passed below them.

"Other captives?" she asked quietly.

"Yes," confirmed Kalifa.

"We should help them," Ahsoka proposed and was about to get up and jump down but Kalifa placed a hand on her shoulder. "No, it's too late for them," she said.

A sudden energy bolt went through the Rodian female, killing her on a spot. Ahsoka turned her head towards the direction of which the bolt came from and spotted two Trandoshans standing on a hover pod. Everyone who walked on the ground was in plain sight and thus an easy target for them.

The Twi'lek began to run, but one of the Trandoshans raised a sniper rifle, aimed and shot. The bolt flew straight towards its target and hit the Twi'lek in the back of the head and came out through his forehead. When the dead body fell to the ground, the younglings got up and moved away from the spot with Kalifa gesturing Ahsoka to follow. The young Togruta stared at the dead bodies with a frown for a few seconds after which she got up and followed the three.

"Why didn't you try to help them?!" Ahsoka asked looking at Kalifa rebukingly.

"We're not saviours here," Kalifa replied as they walked on a large branch. "Here, we are survivors. If they had spotted us, we'd be dead now."

"You're never gonna escape if you kept running away and hiding!" Ahsoka argued.

The three younglings stopped and sat down. "You need to act," Ahsoka insisted. "You need to fight!"

While Kalifa looked at her in silence, Jinx spoke. "There were Padawans here, that once thought as you do now."

"Where are they?" Ahsoka asked.

Kalifa abruptly stood up. "They're dead!" she snapped and turned her head away, folding her arms over chest.

"Just because they failed doesn't mean we will," Ahsoka assured.

"You don't understand," O-Mer said with a sigh. "It's not that we don't want to fight. We're just younglings, they had every advantage."

"Do they have the Force?" Ahsoka asked arching her white eyebrow markings.

"No, but..." O-Mer wanted to argue, but Ahsoka interrupted. "Then you have the biggest advantage. You have the Force, that's the fact they can't change."

The three younglings lowered their gloomy faces and Ahsoka understood that they weren't convinced by her words. So she decided to take actions. The young Togruta turned around and jumped on a lower branch.

"Ahsoka! Get back here!" Kalifa called out.

"I can't do that," Ahsoka turned to look at the girl and replied." I can't hide and run in a situation like this."

"Don't overestimate your abilities," Kalifa warned when Ahsoka turned away.

The young Togruta looked over her shoulder and Kalifa noticed that her eyes turned from crystal-blue to sulfuric yellow color. "I'm not," Ahsoka replied and jumped down from the branch, leaving the younglings speechless.


Ahsoka landed softly on the ground and began to slowly walk through the forest. "Here lizard, lizard!" she called out. "Come and find me!"

Her montrals sensed movement and the young Togruta quickly turned her head, spotting a Trandoshan, who stood on high ground with his blaster rifle aimed at her. Ahsoka instinctively used the Force to push his weapon to the side, making him shoot in another direction and immediately after, she lifted him up and slammed him against the tree.

The Trandoshan shook his head and got up with a growl. He ran up and swung with his long arm to hit the Togruta, but Ahsoka easily ducked under it and punched him in the jaw of his protruding maw. Enraged, the lizard attacked with his claws, but his heavy attacks were too slow to even graze the agile Togruta, who danced around his swings and only felt the currents of air.

Enhancing her speed and strength with the Force, Ahsoka kept punching and kicking the Trandoshan, who got more dazed and weaker with each strike. After a powerful kick to the gut, he fell to his knees and Ahsoka's eye level, but he didn't give up. He swung once again, but this time, Ahsoka caught his hand with her own and squeezed hard, breaking his digits.

The Trandoshan roared in pain, but Ahsoka jumped and kneed him on the maw, knocking him on his back. Another roar was heard when a second, thicker Trandoshan fired at Ahsoka from a blaster carbine.

The young Togruta dodged two energy bolts and zigzagged towards the lizard, who tried to aim. When she closed the distance, she hurled Force lightning at him. Covered in blue bolts of cracking energy, the Trandoshan screamed in pain as his body was slowly burned.

When his scaled skin turned black and a nasty smell reached her nostrils, Ahsoka stopped shocking him and let him fell to the ground. She turned around and looked with her yellow eyes at the first hunter, who got up and tried to run away but was suddenly yanked into the air by an invisible force.

Ahsoka spotted the younglings and smiled. Jinx and O-Mer stood right next to Kalifa, who held the Trandoshan by the neck with the Force and began to choke him.

In the main timeline, Ahsoka stopped Kalifa from killing the Trandoshan because it wasn't the Jedi way, but this Ahsoka wasn't a Jedi. The young Togruta approached Kalifa and spoke to her. "I can sense your emotions Kalifa. Sadness, fear, anger. Don't hold them inside you. Let them out so they can give you the strength you need to survive."

Kalifa was focused on the Trandoshan, but she could hear Ahsoka clearly and felt her gaze on her. With a scream, the youngling smacked the Trandoshan against the tree, then again and again. She lifted him up, slammed his body into the ground and lifted him once again. The lizard's body was covered in dirt and bruises. He was unconscious, but still alive.

The female closed her fist and a bone-breaking sound filled the ears of Jinx and O-Mer. The two younglings were shocked to see their friend being so violent.

When Kalifa dropped the lifeless body of the Trandoshan to the ground, she sunk to her knees. She sobbed as tears trickled down her cheeks. Ahsoka knelt beside the girl and embraced her. "It's okay, let it all out," she whispered gently. "You did the right thing."

Kalifa began to cry and clung to Ahsoka, who looked at Jinx and O-Mer. Her eyes turned to their normal color and the Knight smiled to them.

"What in the world are you?" Jinx asked not wanting to believe what he and his friend just witness.

Ahsoka helped Kalifa up and looked into her eyes with a reassuring smile. "Let's get back to the hideout for now," she said. Kalifa only nodded in response and together with Ahsoka, Jinx, and O-Mer, they jumped towards the branches. While confusion and many questions were in their minds, the younglings felt something new growing inside of them... something that they thought they'd never feel again... hope.


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