Epilogue

Darth Maul had followed his Jedi quarry this far and was not about to quit now that he had slain the older Jedi and still had the Padawan to deal with. In fact, he was not even beginning to enjoy this duel of the millennium and to think that he was the first Sith Lord to have fought a Jedi Knight (never mind a Master and a Padawan) was a thrilling thought. With the death of his Master, the Padawan was beginning to make this duel excessively easy and it disappointed him that that was the case. Darius Othone had been a better match than both of these Jedi put together as had been Claudiate back on Heraklion Prime almost two years before.

The Padawan surprised Maul every now and then with his skill but Maul still managed to propel him into the pit behind him with the Force. After knocking the Padawan called Kenobi into the pit and seeing him hold on for dear life to an alarm light he found near the edge, Maul came across something familiar in his past. He saw the hilt of Kenobi's lightsaber and realized it was the very same one that Ophelia had wielded two years ago during the mission to Heraklion Prime. Just looking at it immediately brought back memories of her death and his vow of vengeance against the entire Jedi Order itself.

So before letting Kenobi gain the upper hand, he kicked the lightsaber over the Jedi and watched as it bounced off the walls before heading for the reactor core to be destroyed. After that, Maul played with him by slicing the edge with his lightsaber and causing hundreds of sparks to fly. However, after a few brief strokes, he became bored and watched to see if Kenobi would make a move to defend himself or attack Maul again. Obi-wan's next move surprised him when he suddenly leapt from the pit, called to his dead master's lightsaber with the Force, ignited the blade and swung it through Maul's waist near instantly.

Before he knew it, Maul's body separated into halves and he watched as his legs left him forever to also be destroyed by the power of the reactor. For several minutes, he fell so as to give Obi-wan the impression that he was dead and he actually hoped he soon would be. But he somehow did not die as his hatred of the Jedi kept him alive but when he channeled his hate against Kenobi particularly, he survived. He found a small opening in the shaft and decided to follow it to wherever it led and that was to a ship a Nubian man said was destined for Lotho Minor.

Knowing that Sidious would have him executed for his failure if he reported it and returned to Coruscant, there was only one thing left for him to do. He climbed down to the ship and boarded it before anyone noticed, hoping that it would remain that way until he arrived to the planet called Lotho Minor. The ship took off and Maul found a place in a dark corner of the ship in which to hide until he made it and since it was a dumping ship, he made his way to the pile of junk and crawled in, knowing that he could land on the surface of the planet when the shaft doors opened to dump out the worthless junk being sent there. The trip wasn't long nor was the fall on top of one of the towering piles of burning garbage on the surface of the scrap pile floating in space.

Upon landing, he immediately sought shelter below the ground and began to carve out a new life for himself in the knowledge that he would likely stay for years. But a decade went by and Maul managed to fit himself with a flawed but effective spiderlike apparatus to replace his legs, Maul's memories began to disappear, madness began to set in and he concluded that he was doomed to remain on Lotho Minor until he met his demise by old age or lack of food. Amongst the memories lost were any of Ophelia, her family, or anything to do with a planet called Nyx nearly halfway across the galaxy from where he presently remained in isolation, darkness and misery. A snake named Morley helped keep him alive until one day, a man of his species came wielding a double-sided lightsaber as Maul used to and claimed that he was Maul's brother.

However, because Maul had never known of a brother to begin with, his broken mind allowed him to deny it with ease. "No, no, you don't know, you don't know anything!" Maul hissed at him maliciously. "I know I am your blood," the man replied calmly. Then Maul began reciting the Sith code aloud and remembering conversations that he had had as a kid with Sidious.

"Jedi! Revenge, I must have revenge," he said when it ended. "I brought you something," the man called Savage Opress told him. "For me… food?" Maul asked inquisitively. "No, something to help restore your memory," Savage answered before handing him the necklace around his massive neck.

Without warning, Maul felt a spark of his memories returning. Before Savage had come to find him, he had remembered only that the Jedi had taken his legs away from him but now he remembered a name: Kenobi. "Come with me brother and I will help you to regain your revenge. Let's go find this Kenobi character and make him pay for what he has done to you," Savage coaxed the next day. "Yes, yes, we must kill Kenobi," Maul enthusiastically replied with a violent nod.

He followed Savage to his ship and was initially skeptical about boarding the massive vessel. "We go in that?" he asked. "Yes brother, we do. This will take you home with me, don't you want to go home?" Savage answered.

"Yes, yes, I want to go home. Let's go home," Maul agreed. Maul boarded the vessel with Savage and watched as it closed on Lotho Minor. "Bye bye, shit pile!" Maul said with a surprisingly high pitched laugh.

Whether Savage heard that or not, Maul didn't know nor did he care as he repeated it aloud. Being insane, Maul's mind was too damaged to know that the planet they were going to was a planet of significance. It was his birthplace, none other than Dathomir itself and awaiting them was Mother Talzin of the Nightsisters. And she would become part of his destiny forever…