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Title: Children of the Sith
Author: ewan's girl
Disclaimer: Please don't sue me, and if you do you won't get anything.
*Author's note: I'm very sorry if this story is going slower than anyone wanted it to go, but I owe this story to my beloved baby and muse wakko, who ever since his passing I have been having problems writing new chapters...this is the first one without his presence I hope it turns out ok....if anyone has any ideas for future chapters you can email me at Drama Goddesss@aol.com. Thanx for everyone's reviews.
Chapter 5
Count Dooku knelt down next to a rock and touched a dried spot of blood. Using his Jedi training he tried to piece together what occurred four days ago in that meadow. Touching the blood he closed his eyes. He listened to the force, trying to get a clear picture. Qui Gon Jinn looked over at his former master, he knew that Dooku had a gift for seeing visions of the past. The more Qui Gon thought about it the more he smile at the realization that his master was very in tune with the past, he was in tune with the here and the now, while his apprentice seemed to see the future. He thought about how he always chastised his padawan for not focusing on the living force, but truth be told he always appreciated Obi Wan's predictions. With the absence of his padawan being almost a week now, Qui Gon began to feel fear creeping up on him. The fear of his apprentice's physical and mental well being, and the fear of losing him completely. Qui Gon had already lost someone dear to him years ago, and he knew he couldn't handle losing another.
'Fear leads to anger...' Qui Gon recited one of the Jedi's oldest philosophies
Suddenly Dooku's eyes flew open.
"Master?" Qui Gon asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
"Your apprentice stood...here." Dooku said, moving to the middle of the meadow. "They came at him from all sides." Dooku closed his eyes again and through the force he could almost see in perfect detail as Obi Wan Kenobi defended against 20 individuals dressed in black cloaks. The padawan fought with such skill that it impressed Dooku. "He fought well, you should be proud." Dooku exclaimed to Qui Gon who was searching the ground for clues.
Dooku closed his eyes again and saw more cloaked men join the battle, they were riding large horse like creatures. He saw one shoot a laser at Obi Wan, who easily jumped over it, but on the way down he slipped on the morning dew that had collected on the rocks . Dooku watched as Obi Wan cried out in pain as his leg buckled under him, then he was struck in the neck by some kind of dart.
"He slipped, possibly broke his leg." Dooku said when he came out of the trance. "I think they drugged him. They had creatures of some kind, I couldn't make out what kind though."
"Lusians." Qui Gon answered kneeling next to a print in the dirt. "It's a rare hoofed creature with two long horns on it's forehead, they are usually wild."
"Are they native to Ragoon 6?" Dooku asked.
"No. There's only one place in the entire galaxy to find a Lusian. An outer rim planet called Honarvar."
"Well, it's a start." Dooku sighed and the two Jedi walked back to their transport.
***
Bryns wrung his hands, he was in a state of shock of what he had discovered. He couldn't believe it, had he really helped kill four innocent children? 'No.' He assured himself. 'Jedi aren't innocent, they kill anytime they deem necessary. Besides they train from birth to be ruthless, soldiers.' He thought for a moment more. 'Besides Dr. Zan Arbor was a great and noble scientist, she would never mean to kill anyone.' Bryns quickly shrugged off the guilt and closed the files and went back to work.
***
Kia Laron stormed through the door of her small homestead, slamming it behind her. Her mother looked up at her from her book.
"Kia?" She asked, concerned.
"Nothing." Kia said, and flopped on the couch beside her. Her mother continued to read, Kia looked at the book and knew it was written by a Sith historian.
"Mom, why are we here?" Kia asked.
"Where?" Her mother asked, not glancing up from the book.
"Here. In the Degradation society."
"Because Kia, it's our home." Her mother finally looked at her. "Your father brought us here because they gave him hope for a future."
"But mom, what future? I don't understand why we continue to live like this." Kia tried to make her mother understand.
"Like what?"
"I feel like my every move, every choice is being judged. I feel that I can't think for myself, that if I don't agree with the elders or the teachings of the Sith then I'm a horrible person." Kia stood up to make her point.
"You father..."
"Dad's dead!" Kia almost shouted at her mother. "And if this was his idea, then why are we still here?"
"Where would you have us go Kia? Here we have a home, friends, a life. Out there is nothing for us. No home, no friends, and no protection from the Jedi." Her mother raised her voice to show Kia she was the authority figure of the house.
"Protection from the Jedi? Why would we need protection?" Kia asked, frustrated.
"Kia, you're young and confused. The force is tempting you. Just listen to the teachings of the elders and read the writings of the Sith Lords and you will see." Her mother settled back to her book, avoiding the question.
Kia didn't argue, she bit her lip and ran into her room, slamming the door. She flung herself down on her sleep couch and screamed into her pillows. She didn't understand why this Jedi was getting to her. Every time she went near him she felt like she could feel him inside her mind, it fascinated and scared her at the same time. She felt sorry for him. No living being deserved to be poked and prodded and abused in the name of science. Sure it helped his cause because he was very handsome, but Kia swore that had nothing to do with it. She knew she had to see the Jedi again, that maybe she would find answers for what she was looking for. She rose from her sleep couch and looked in the mirror as she tied her long golden hair into a pony tail, she then put on her black cloak and after final inspection she then crawled out her window to go see her Jedi.
***
Obi Wan came back to consciences, much to his dismay. The toxin was causing him to have high fevers and the fevers were causing him to have horrible nightmares. He didn't know which was worse his reality, or the dream world. The only difference is in the dream world he couldn't feel his physical pain. Now that he was awake he could feel the beads of sweat pouring down his forehead, drops reaching his eyes and stinging them. His throat burned and craved liquid. He swallowed some saliva to parch his thirst, but he had the worst case of cotton mouth he'd ever experienced. He slowly turned his aching head and noticed two beings also in the room, a young man about his age, and a beautiful young girl with blonde hair. The girl reminded Obi Wan of his friend Siri, and made him realize how much he missed the temple. He noticed that the two seemed to be having some kind of heated argument.
"Bryns, I have to see him." The girl exclaimed.
"Kia, I'm going to get in trouble for you being here, go home." The young man, apparently named Bryns rebutled.
The burning in his throat would not subside so Obi Wan decided to break up the family squabbling. "Water." He spoke as loud as he could, which was about as loud a small whisper.
In the midst of the argument Kia heard a soft voice coming from the middle of the room. "Shhh." She stopped Bryns from continuing his point.
"Kia..."
"I hear something." Kia shushed him again and they both listened.
The low soft voice came again. "Water."
"He doesn't have water?" Kia looked at Bryns with a shocked look on her face.
"Dr. Zan Arbor explained that he has to heal himself." Bryns explained.
"Even a Jedi needs water." Kia grabbed a bottle of water off the counter and walked right up to the Jedi. He looked up at her with tired eyes. She marveled at the beauty of his eyes even though she could see the sickness and pain through them. She carefully lifted his head and poured some cold water down his throat.
Obi Wan felt the cool liquid extinguished the burning in his throat. He looked up at the girl and saw the kindness, yet fear eminating from her. 'Why is she afraid?' He looked into her emerald color eyes and noticed something in them...sorrow. Even in his physical state Obi Wan felt sorry for this girl. The girl moved out of his view, but returned swiftly with a cloth to collect the sweat on his forehead.
"You are my angel." He whispered in a very deep, raspy voice.
Kia looked at the Jedi, startled. Although she couldn't help but smile. As she looked into his deep blue/grey eyes she then felt a strange connection to the Jedi. She felt like he was inside her head again. It startled her so much that she backed into the medical table behind her. Suddenly she noticed the Jedi's eyes seemed to roll into the back of his head and suddenly an alarm sounded through the room.
"What's happening?" Kia had to almost shout over the insesscent noise.
"Damn it!" Bryns jumped to attention, a look of panic in his eyes. "Don't do this." He seemed to plead to the Jedi.
"Don't do what?" Kia asked, holding her hands over her ears.
"He's going into cardiac arrest." Bryns stated as he looked at his computer at the Jedi's failing vital signs. "This wouldn't happen if he would just heal himself."
"We have to do something." Kia felt like she wanted to cry, watching the Jedi as he now went into convulsions.
"I'm not allowed to help him, he has to use the force." Bryns tried to argue over the alarm.
"He's going to die!" Kia felt the tears now streaming down her face.
Bryns looked at his baby sister and felt a ping of guilt wash over him again. He then grabbed two paddles attached to what Kia decided was some kind of generator. As he walked over to the apprentice the alarm stopped and a low, flat tone was heard through the room. Kia looked at her brother with intense fear in her eyes. Bryns then placed the two paddles on the Jedi's exposed chest and charged them until they sent a volt of energy through the now lifeless body. He did this once, twice, and even a third time. He looked over at his sister with sorrow in his eyes. Kia looked down at Obi Wan. She ran her fingers through his short hair and pleaded with him.
"Please. Come back." She whispered. Suddenly the flat tone was replaced with a rhythmic beeping. Bryns checked the computer and marveled.
"He's alive." He caught himself smiling.
The color changing orb suddenly shined a brilliant silver color and a different alarm was sounded. Bryns ran to his comlink to call Zan Arbor. "Dr. Zan Arbor, we got silver." He calmly called into the comlink.
Kia looked towards her brother and then back down to the Jedi who rolled away from her to vomit she noticed the tube in his back drawing out large amounts of blood. Her first impulse was to rip the long, clear hose right out of his flesh, freeing him from his hell, but before she could do anything she was grabbed by Bryns and shoved into a closet.
"Stay here, and keep quiet for once in your life." Bryns commanded, shutting the door.
Kia strained to see through the crack between the two doors, but really couldn't see much. She listened intently as the doors hissed open and Zan Arbor strode in the room.
"I swear this Jedi is almost more stubborn than his master." She complained, sitting down in front of the computer.
"What Doctor?" Bryns raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Nothing." She hissed back. She scanned the information dancing across the computer screen as the blood is drained from her experiment. She squinted her eyes as she stared at the Jedi's DNA codes. "It almost looks as though there is some kind of extra cell inside his blood. Maybe not extra, but more of some kind of cell." She stated almost proud of herself. "I knew it."
"So where do we go from here?" Bryns asked as he checked over all the equipment, keeping an eye on the closet that he shoved his sister in.
"We find a way to extract that extra cell from the Jedi." Zan Arbor stated in a matter of factly tone as she watched the Jedi groan and roll back over and fall into a deep sleep.
At the sound of that Kia had to catch her gasp. Luckily only Bryns heard it. He looked over at the closet then back at the old woman. "And just how are we going to do that?"
"It is a very experimental procedure, and a costly one." Zan Arbor walked over to the Jedi and began to remove some of the different wires and tubes out of his body. She then walked over to the closet that was concealing Kia. As she opened the door Bryns held his breath. Dr Zan Arbor grabbed two smocks out of the closet without even looking inside and tossed one to Bryns. He sighed as he placed his arms through the sleeves of the garment. He then walked over to the still form lying on the metal table and stood across his employer. She counted to three and the two of them lifted and turned the 25 year old onto his stomach. Dr Zan Arbor then began to remove the tubes in his back one by one. When the final and largest tube had be extracted two blue/grey eyes snapped awake and in one swift move Obi Wan Kenobi had kicked Bryns to the ground and had grabbed Dr Zan Arbor by the neck, holding her hostage with a surgical instrument held closely to her throat.
Bryns blinked in confusion as to what had just happened when he saw the man who had just moments ago been all but dead dragging the doctor out the door . He then noticed Kia had escaped from her hiding place, with a look of sheer panic on her face.
"I told you he was still dangerous." He exclaimed as he ran to the comlink. "Now go home."
Kia kept still, not sure what to make of the spectacle she had just witnessed. She was so lost in her thoughts that she barely heard her brother call for the security team.
*To be continued!
Title: Children of the Sith
Author: ewan's girl
Disclaimer: Please don't sue me, and if you do you won't get anything.
*Author's note: I'm very sorry if this story is going slower than anyone wanted it to go, but I owe this story to my beloved baby and muse wakko, who ever since his passing I have been having problems writing new chapters...this is the first one without his presence I hope it turns out ok....if anyone has any ideas for future chapters you can email me at Drama Goddesss@aol.com. Thanx for everyone's reviews.
Chapter 5
Count Dooku knelt down next to a rock and touched a dried spot of blood. Using his Jedi training he tried to piece together what occurred four days ago in that meadow. Touching the blood he closed his eyes. He listened to the force, trying to get a clear picture. Qui Gon Jinn looked over at his former master, he knew that Dooku had a gift for seeing visions of the past. The more Qui Gon thought about it the more he smile at the realization that his master was very in tune with the past, he was in tune with the here and the now, while his apprentice seemed to see the future. He thought about how he always chastised his padawan for not focusing on the living force, but truth be told he always appreciated Obi Wan's predictions. With the absence of his padawan being almost a week now, Qui Gon began to feel fear creeping up on him. The fear of his apprentice's physical and mental well being, and the fear of losing him completely. Qui Gon had already lost someone dear to him years ago, and he knew he couldn't handle losing another.
'Fear leads to anger...' Qui Gon recited one of the Jedi's oldest philosophies
Suddenly Dooku's eyes flew open.
"Master?" Qui Gon asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
"Your apprentice stood...here." Dooku said, moving to the middle of the meadow. "They came at him from all sides." Dooku closed his eyes again and through the force he could almost see in perfect detail as Obi Wan Kenobi defended against 20 individuals dressed in black cloaks. The padawan fought with such skill that it impressed Dooku. "He fought well, you should be proud." Dooku exclaimed to Qui Gon who was searching the ground for clues.
Dooku closed his eyes again and saw more cloaked men join the battle, they were riding large horse like creatures. He saw one shoot a laser at Obi Wan, who easily jumped over it, but on the way down he slipped on the morning dew that had collected on the rocks . Dooku watched as Obi Wan cried out in pain as his leg buckled under him, then he was struck in the neck by some kind of dart.
"He slipped, possibly broke his leg." Dooku said when he came out of the trance. "I think they drugged him. They had creatures of some kind, I couldn't make out what kind though."
"Lusians." Qui Gon answered kneeling next to a print in the dirt. "It's a rare hoofed creature with two long horns on it's forehead, they are usually wild."
"Are they native to Ragoon 6?" Dooku asked.
"No. There's only one place in the entire galaxy to find a Lusian. An outer rim planet called Honarvar."
"Well, it's a start." Dooku sighed and the two Jedi walked back to their transport.
***
Bryns wrung his hands, he was in a state of shock of what he had discovered. He couldn't believe it, had he really helped kill four innocent children? 'No.' He assured himself. 'Jedi aren't innocent, they kill anytime they deem necessary. Besides they train from birth to be ruthless, soldiers.' He thought for a moment more. 'Besides Dr. Zan Arbor was a great and noble scientist, she would never mean to kill anyone.' Bryns quickly shrugged off the guilt and closed the files and went back to work.
***
Kia Laron stormed through the door of her small homestead, slamming it behind her. Her mother looked up at her from her book.
"Kia?" She asked, concerned.
"Nothing." Kia said, and flopped on the couch beside her. Her mother continued to read, Kia looked at the book and knew it was written by a Sith historian.
"Mom, why are we here?" Kia asked.
"Where?" Her mother asked, not glancing up from the book.
"Here. In the Degradation society."
"Because Kia, it's our home." Her mother finally looked at her. "Your father brought us here because they gave him hope for a future."
"But mom, what future? I don't understand why we continue to live like this." Kia tried to make her mother understand.
"Like what?"
"I feel like my every move, every choice is being judged. I feel that I can't think for myself, that if I don't agree with the elders or the teachings of the Sith then I'm a horrible person." Kia stood up to make her point.
"You father..."
"Dad's dead!" Kia almost shouted at her mother. "And if this was his idea, then why are we still here?"
"Where would you have us go Kia? Here we have a home, friends, a life. Out there is nothing for us. No home, no friends, and no protection from the Jedi." Her mother raised her voice to show Kia she was the authority figure of the house.
"Protection from the Jedi? Why would we need protection?" Kia asked, frustrated.
"Kia, you're young and confused. The force is tempting you. Just listen to the teachings of the elders and read the writings of the Sith Lords and you will see." Her mother settled back to her book, avoiding the question.
Kia didn't argue, she bit her lip and ran into her room, slamming the door. She flung herself down on her sleep couch and screamed into her pillows. She didn't understand why this Jedi was getting to her. Every time she went near him she felt like she could feel him inside her mind, it fascinated and scared her at the same time. She felt sorry for him. No living being deserved to be poked and prodded and abused in the name of science. Sure it helped his cause because he was very handsome, but Kia swore that had nothing to do with it. She knew she had to see the Jedi again, that maybe she would find answers for what she was looking for. She rose from her sleep couch and looked in the mirror as she tied her long golden hair into a pony tail, she then put on her black cloak and after final inspection she then crawled out her window to go see her Jedi.
***
Obi Wan came back to consciences, much to his dismay. The toxin was causing him to have high fevers and the fevers were causing him to have horrible nightmares. He didn't know which was worse his reality, or the dream world. The only difference is in the dream world he couldn't feel his physical pain. Now that he was awake he could feel the beads of sweat pouring down his forehead, drops reaching his eyes and stinging them. His throat burned and craved liquid. He swallowed some saliva to parch his thirst, but he had the worst case of cotton mouth he'd ever experienced. He slowly turned his aching head and noticed two beings also in the room, a young man about his age, and a beautiful young girl with blonde hair. The girl reminded Obi Wan of his friend Siri, and made him realize how much he missed the temple. He noticed that the two seemed to be having some kind of heated argument.
"Bryns, I have to see him." The girl exclaimed.
"Kia, I'm going to get in trouble for you being here, go home." The young man, apparently named Bryns rebutled.
The burning in his throat would not subside so Obi Wan decided to break up the family squabbling. "Water." He spoke as loud as he could, which was about as loud a small whisper.
In the midst of the argument Kia heard a soft voice coming from the middle of the room. "Shhh." She stopped Bryns from continuing his point.
"Kia..."
"I hear something." Kia shushed him again and they both listened.
The low soft voice came again. "Water."
"He doesn't have water?" Kia looked at Bryns with a shocked look on her face.
"Dr. Zan Arbor explained that he has to heal himself." Bryns explained.
"Even a Jedi needs water." Kia grabbed a bottle of water off the counter and walked right up to the Jedi. He looked up at her with tired eyes. She marveled at the beauty of his eyes even though she could see the sickness and pain through them. She carefully lifted his head and poured some cold water down his throat.
Obi Wan felt the cool liquid extinguished the burning in his throat. He looked up at the girl and saw the kindness, yet fear eminating from her. 'Why is she afraid?' He looked into her emerald color eyes and noticed something in them...sorrow. Even in his physical state Obi Wan felt sorry for this girl. The girl moved out of his view, but returned swiftly with a cloth to collect the sweat on his forehead.
"You are my angel." He whispered in a very deep, raspy voice.
Kia looked at the Jedi, startled. Although she couldn't help but smile. As she looked into his deep blue/grey eyes she then felt a strange connection to the Jedi. She felt like he was inside her head again. It startled her so much that she backed into the medical table behind her. Suddenly she noticed the Jedi's eyes seemed to roll into the back of his head and suddenly an alarm sounded through the room.
"What's happening?" Kia had to almost shout over the insesscent noise.
"Damn it!" Bryns jumped to attention, a look of panic in his eyes. "Don't do this." He seemed to plead to the Jedi.
"Don't do what?" Kia asked, holding her hands over her ears.
"He's going into cardiac arrest." Bryns stated as he looked at his computer at the Jedi's failing vital signs. "This wouldn't happen if he would just heal himself."
"We have to do something." Kia felt like she wanted to cry, watching the Jedi as he now went into convulsions.
"I'm not allowed to help him, he has to use the force." Bryns tried to argue over the alarm.
"He's going to die!" Kia felt the tears now streaming down her face.
Bryns looked at his baby sister and felt a ping of guilt wash over him again. He then grabbed two paddles attached to what Kia decided was some kind of generator. As he walked over to the apprentice the alarm stopped and a low, flat tone was heard through the room. Kia looked at her brother with intense fear in her eyes. Bryns then placed the two paddles on the Jedi's exposed chest and charged them until they sent a volt of energy through the now lifeless body. He did this once, twice, and even a third time. He looked over at his sister with sorrow in his eyes. Kia looked down at Obi Wan. She ran her fingers through his short hair and pleaded with him.
"Please. Come back." She whispered. Suddenly the flat tone was replaced with a rhythmic beeping. Bryns checked the computer and marveled.
"He's alive." He caught himself smiling.
The color changing orb suddenly shined a brilliant silver color and a different alarm was sounded. Bryns ran to his comlink to call Zan Arbor. "Dr. Zan Arbor, we got silver." He calmly called into the comlink.
Kia looked towards her brother and then back down to the Jedi who rolled away from her to vomit she noticed the tube in his back drawing out large amounts of blood. Her first impulse was to rip the long, clear hose right out of his flesh, freeing him from his hell, but before she could do anything she was grabbed by Bryns and shoved into a closet.
"Stay here, and keep quiet for once in your life." Bryns commanded, shutting the door.
Kia strained to see through the crack between the two doors, but really couldn't see much. She listened intently as the doors hissed open and Zan Arbor strode in the room.
"I swear this Jedi is almost more stubborn than his master." She complained, sitting down in front of the computer.
"What Doctor?" Bryns raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"Nothing." She hissed back. She scanned the information dancing across the computer screen as the blood is drained from her experiment. She squinted her eyes as she stared at the Jedi's DNA codes. "It almost looks as though there is some kind of extra cell inside his blood. Maybe not extra, but more of some kind of cell." She stated almost proud of herself. "I knew it."
"So where do we go from here?" Bryns asked as he checked over all the equipment, keeping an eye on the closet that he shoved his sister in.
"We find a way to extract that extra cell from the Jedi." Zan Arbor stated in a matter of factly tone as she watched the Jedi groan and roll back over and fall into a deep sleep.
At the sound of that Kia had to catch her gasp. Luckily only Bryns heard it. He looked over at the closet then back at the old woman. "And just how are we going to do that?"
"It is a very experimental procedure, and a costly one." Zan Arbor walked over to the Jedi and began to remove some of the different wires and tubes out of his body. She then walked over to the closet that was concealing Kia. As she opened the door Bryns held his breath. Dr Zan Arbor grabbed two smocks out of the closet without even looking inside and tossed one to Bryns. He sighed as he placed his arms through the sleeves of the garment. He then walked over to the still form lying on the metal table and stood across his employer. She counted to three and the two of them lifted and turned the 25 year old onto his stomach. Dr Zan Arbor then began to remove the tubes in his back one by one. When the final and largest tube had be extracted two blue/grey eyes snapped awake and in one swift move Obi Wan Kenobi had kicked Bryns to the ground and had grabbed Dr Zan Arbor by the neck, holding her hostage with a surgical instrument held closely to her throat.
Bryns blinked in confusion as to what had just happened when he saw the man who had just moments ago been all but dead dragging the doctor out the door . He then noticed Kia had escaped from her hiding place, with a look of sheer panic on her face.
"I told you he was still dangerous." He exclaimed as he ran to the comlink. "Now go home."
Kia kept still, not sure what to make of the spectacle she had just witnessed. She was so lost in her thoughts that she barely heard her brother call for the security team.
*To be continued!