YAY!! FINALLY it's done. Sorry it took so long to have this up :( I started my sophomore year of college at San Diego Mesa college in September. I've been trying to work on this chapter but I've been working on homework, keeping up with my friends, trying to get enough sleep, working with a club on campus which I'm the secretary of, and trying to find time to work on the chapters. On top of that, I've had a major case of writer's block. It took me forever to figure out the character's reactions and how to finish it. But along side working on chapter 6, I've also been working on chapter 7, which I finished before chapter 6. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
Chapter 6
Several years later, Mara-Jade had been in the service of the Emperor for about two years and Meki-Jevo had begun work as a merchant a couple months later. Kida had been visiting Sola and her family on Naboo. She had been on Naboo because she was acting as a bodyguard for the newest senator of Naboo, a man named Abeil Magalla.
Magalla had been targeted by an assassin because of his outcries against the war, so he had hired Kida to protect him and find the assassin. While Magalla was visiting the Ruler of Naboo, Kida had been able to visit with Sola and her growing girls for a short time and catch up with them.
One night, Kida had been keeping watch while Abeil slept in the next room when she felt a familiar, yet unknown, presence in Abeil's room. She rushed into his room to find an assassin dressed in Maldorian armor aiming his blaster at the unsuspecting senator, and ran to him. The assassin heard her approach and once he saw her, he jumped out the window to a waiting speeder.
Kida jumped onto the speeder as it began to speed away, knowing who it was by the armor he wore. As they raced above the treetops of Naboo, Kida struggled to both hold on and get in control of the flying vehicle. The man finally landed in a piece of dense forest and was able to knock Kida off.
He also got out and as she tried to get up, he grabbed her and aimed his blaster at her, ready to shoot. Finding herself face to metal with his gun she cried, "Brother, stop, please!" Taken aback at her words, though his shock wasn't visible under his helmet, he let her go, still leveling his gun at her, as he demanded, "What do you mean by calling me brother? I have no family and I have never met you before."
She looked into his helmet covered eyes and replied sadly, "You're wrong about not having a family, Boba. I'm you're sister, Kidakakash, a sister you never met, though I've seen you before." Angry and suspicious, Boba said, "You lie, I have no other family, my father would have told me."
Kida sighed in frustration as she said, "I swear on our father, Jango Fett's, grave, which you made for him on Geonesis, that I'm your sister. Actually I'm your older, half-sister. Our father never told you that he had been married with a daughter, though I don't know why he didn't mention it. And to add to your list of family members, you also have a niece and nephew, my daughter, Mara, and my son, Meki. At the moment, Mara is working for the emperor and Meki is a merchant."
Boba shook his head in confusion and said, "How do I know that you're just saying that to distract me, and capture me or something?" Hearing this, Kida pulled out what looked like a necklace from underneath her clothes and held it out. She looked at it like she was remembering something special about it as she replied, "My father gave me this when I was about thirteen. When he gave it to me he told me to keep it always and that it would be any needed proof of who I was to my family members, whether they were my grandparents, or siblings. I was slightly confused about what he was talking about, but now I understand what he meant."
She then took it off, walked to Boba and let it hang in front of his face. Boba snatched it out of her hand and looked at it closely, after a minute or so he pressed down on a small button which had Kida's initial's engraved on it, and hen he had done so, a small hologram of the late Jango Fett began to play. As they looked on at the picture of their father, his dark voice, which was filled with a special warmth for his children, drifted through the air as he said, "I'm Jango Fett, Bounty Hunter. The only reason that you are watching this recording is because you don't believe that she is who she says she is, in other words, my daughter, and you need more proof.
"Though it may be believed that I had no children I in fact have two, a girl and a boy. The girl wearing this necklace is my eldest child, Kidakakash. She may believe that she is my only child but the facts are that I have one who I never told her about, a younger brother, half brother if you want to be more technical.
"I haven't even told my second child, Boba, that he has an older sister. If he is watching this than I must say that I'm sorry that I never told you about the rest of our family, but it was necessary for my own plans. My second child is actually my clone, a pure clone who will take my place one day. "
As Jango's voice and image faded away, Boba looked over at Kida curiously and as he handed her the necklace he said, "I... I guess I can't argue with that. So you are my older sister?" Kida smiled happily at him and replied, "Yes, half-sister though. You're Jango's clone and I'm his daughter making us half-siblings if you think of him as a father. But all in all, I am your older sister."
He shook his head in shock as everything sunk in and said, "Amazing, all these years I thought I was alone. No one left of my family after my – our – father died. But now I find that not only do I have family, I have a sister and, if I heard you right, a niece and nephew as well. Tell me, why do you carry a lightsaber? I can tell that you are a strong fighter, a warrior even, but I thought only Jedi carried those and they've been destroyed by the emperor."
Kida sighed and nervously chuckled, "Well you see, to understand me you need to understand your family. You see, our father's parents, our grandparents – Amarak and Kabay Fett, were Jedi Knights before they married and had father. My mother was also a Jedi Knight before she met and married Jango.
"With the Jedi power on both sides of my family, my mother, Mitaka Moslee, tested me for a midicloran count as is done to see how strong a child is in the Force. When she tested me, she saw that I had a midicloran count higher than even the Jedi Master Yoda, thus a much stronger connection to the Force. The only person I know of whose midicloran count is even comparable to mine is the emperor's right hand man, Darth Vader.
"Finding the count so high, my mother went to my father, hoping to get him to allow me to be trained to become a Jedi Knight, teaching me to hone and control my abilities. He obviously refused, as you can imagine, and my mother, though a bit upset, decided to personally teach me the ways of the Jedi.
"For the next 19 years she taught me, teaching me whenever Jango was gone on a job, which was most of the time. After my mother died from an illness while Jango was on a job, when I was 19, I left my lifetime home to travel to Corusant to talk to the counsel about becoming an official Jedi Knight. After having followed my father to his Kamioian home and seeing you for the first time, I continued to Corusant.
"During that time, I felt a dark wave of hurt through my connection to the force, which I later found out was because Jango had died. When I arrived on Corusant the Jedi counsel eagerly accepted me as a Jedi Knight. So you see, I'm a Jedi, that's why I carry a light-saber. Since the Jedi have been 'disbanded' as it were because of the emperor, I have become a hired bodyguard, much like Jango was to Darth Tyranus, a.k.a. Count Dooku, on occasion."
After an agonizing minute, which felt like an eternity to Kida, Boba yelled, "You're a Jedi?! A bodyguard as well?" Kida cringed and smiled wanly and replied, "Yes, I'm a former Jedi, but I am a bodyguard. I work for Abeil Magalla right now because of the recent threats on his life, which I know is you right now."
Incredulous, Boba took a step back and tightened his grip on his blaster as he hissed, "I can't believe this. Of all the career choices you could have made, you chose to become a Jedi, knowing what our father was and his feelings towards the Jedi? How could you become the one person that father hated?"
Kida just sighed and looked at him sadly as she replied, "I know that my having worked as a Jedi until they were either killed or disbanded is something that seems traitorous to you but believe me when I say that we were meant to meet this way. It was the will of the Force that I become a Jedi and come in contact with you because of our work. I had hoped that you would have taken the information nicer but I already knew that you would reject any further contact with me or my children and that this will be one of two times that we see each other."
He scoffed at her words and said, "I've heard of the Jedi's belief in the 'Force' but you've got to be joking about this 'Force' having a will of its own. How could you know how many times we will see each other? You make it sound like you can see the future or something, or do you know some thing I do not?"
She just chuckled nervously and replied, "Actually I can see the future. Because of my strong connection to the Force I'm able to see things that have yet to happen like I'm seeing you now. I knew that someday we would meet and that we'd only see each other twice before you died, this being the first. I also know how you will die on Tatooine in a few years."
Still unmoved by her words, Boba sarcastically asked, "Then, may I ask, how? Can you answer that, I wonder?" Kida looked at him sadly and sighed as she replied, "All I can tell you without changing the future drastically, is that you will be killed by a Sarlacc while in the employ of a powerful Hut. The reason you are killed by a Sarlacc will be by the work of the son of Darth Vader, the next Master of the Jedi."
Huffing and a bit upset, Boba turned and jumped into his speeder, ready to leave her for good, at least in his own eyes. As he gunned the engine to go he looked over at her and said, "Farewell, sister. 'Till we meet once more, though I still doubt that." As he left, Kidakakash watched him race off with the whine of the engine. If he had turned to look back he would have seen her smiling sadly to herself and saluting him good bye with her saber.
What he didn't hear was Kida saying to herself, "Good-bye little brother, may your last few years be good to you and what you do. I will see you once more, but I don't think it will be as pleasant." After watching him till he disappeared on the horizon, Kida took out a small button of some sort and pushed it, a couple minutes later a small speeder bike arrived, unmanned andstopping close by. She went to it and got on, heading towards Abeil's quarters to resume her duties.
A few weeks later her prediction of meeting Boba once more came true. He tried to attack Abeil again, this time using the advantage of a crowd to get to him. If it hadn't been for Kida's connection to the Force, she would have failed in her job as Abeil's bodyguard. Thankfully, she was able to avert the attack and launched into attacking her brother, after a while Boba gave up and said so to her. He agreed to quit the job of Abeil's assassination and find work elsewhere. After that day, they went their separate ways and never saw each other again.
What'd ya think of it? I hope you like it. I've uploaded chapter 7 alongside this one so just push the button and continue with the story. - jediprophetessSchag