PREFACE
As anybody who has read the summary knows, this will be a story of the life and exploits of the renowned Jedi Master Mace Windu. This story will have a lot of time lapses in which I will not update for I am also working on two other stories. Besides that, writing this novel will be very hard for though I like the saga of Star Wars, I am not a fanatic of it and I have gone to extensive means to get all the information about Mace Windu and his past and have a 200-page document that has all the information I will need along with other stuff like planets, technology, characters, druids, weapons, vehicles, organizations, species, organizations, etc. Well you get the point-the list goes on and on and half of my 200-page document is mainly just links and directions for those links open other links with additional links…
This story is so far rated "K+" but there is a very big chance that it will go up to a "T". The rating is mostly of violence since Mace obviously had no love life (which might result in graphic funk) and he, or at least I don't think so, doesn't swear (so there probably won't be any coarse language, and if there is it will probably be from the bad guys).
I will try to keep this preface as short as I can and not bore any of my readers but I'd just like to mention that I owe and their Databank a big thanks. I have so much information owing to them. Also, I will try to keep this story as related to the info provided by the movies as much as I can but everybody makes mistakes, and I undoubtedly will. I just hope to keep these mistakes as small as possible. Also, once my story enters the time sequence of the movies I will mainly focus Mace Windu on other exploits that are dimly mentioned. And lastly, I hope you enjoy the story. , Yes I know that was lame, but I couldn't think of anything else!
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The Sith Infiltrator alighted upon a patch of cleared jungle territory on the exotic planet of Haruun Kal. The revolving courier of evil downed to its alien surroundings. As soon as it brushed the top thorn of an amputated vein on the soil, the starship disappeared. No trace of it was left to even suggest of its existence.
Darth Plagueis the Wise lifted his cowled hand from the now-invisible button that had triggered the invisibility field that now surrounded the star courier. He beckoned with a sweep of his ebon cloak to his young apprentice, the newly knighted Darth Sidious whose pale features were illuminated by an exorbitant lust.
"Will I be able to lead the slaughter of those Korun idiots, Master?" questioned the Sith apprentice with a slight whining tone.
The Sith Master beckoned his head in acknowledgement of the request and replied, "Though their grip on their force may not be as powerful and disciplined as ours, but they are still potential opponents. You must be careful and pick off as many as you can before directly engaging them in a melee."
"But, Master, you and I have the power of relinquishing the life in the living-"
"Yes, but we can't bring the dead back to the living!" Darth Plagueis sounded seriously affronted now. " You must understand this, Sidious. If you do not I swear it will be the downfall of you one day!"
Sidious moodily lowered his head and muttered, "Yes, Master."
"Then let us proceed."
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Walking around the ash-bordered outline of the steaming volcano, Darth Sidious glimpsed his first Korun village.
You couldn't quite call it a village since the Korun were a nomadic tribe and spent most of their time on the move. It was more an organized set-up of an otherwise cluster of tents and lean-tos. In the middle were two females chopping vegetables on a tray while a sturdy dark-skinned male flipped some sizzling steaks of reek, on the grill, over, as a pack of akk dogs lustily gnawed on discarded bones in anticipation of the feast.
"Smells good, eh?"
"That meat may smell good, Master, but to me it will never smell as good as freshly split blood."
"Spoken like a true Sith. I think it's about time we show them our calling card before they start getting too happy."
"Let's get this stuff going!"
Twin sounds quietly slithered over the Siths' ears as two blades of red bars, a meter long, of energy erupted from the control studded device they now held in their hands. Their sabers hummed with a scintilitating whir, drawing the attention of all the dark-skinned Koruns in the field.
Sidious let the Force field swirl around him and consecutively be pulled into his essence. He was a black hole, sucking in every particle of the Force into his soul until he brimmed with power. In the Force blob he sensed every one of the Korun's own grasp of the fickle Force, but they were like a gust of wind compared to the hurricane that Sidious wielded. Still, so many gusts of winds could create a hurricane. This, Sidious kept in mind as the dark-skinned humans aimed all their Force muscle at the new intruders.
But Sidious was gone from his stationary prose with a sweep of the hem of his cloak, deciding to battle their attack from the sides then to meet it head-on. From the corner of his eyes, Sidious glimpsed that Plagueis was doing the same.
Sidious neared a pair of Koruns who wheeled around to face him, followed by the depressing thuds that resounded as their dead bodies hit the ground, one choked by a Force grip that Sidious had applied, the other sliced in half by the Sith's glowing saber.
Though none of them alone were a match for the two Siths, in bands they could prove too be worthy opponents. Sidious managed to somewhat slip through cracks in their Force onslaught so he wouldn't suffer the full, frontal consequences, but he saw Plagueis fly back from the power of the Koruns. You are getting weaker, my Master, thought Sidious, and allowed himself a grim smile of content. He would never be one to be subservient to a weaker being. Plagueis's death was approaching, either by enemy lines or his own apprentice's treacherous ways.
Using the Force to blast half a score of those Korun idiots and their devoted akk hounds out of the way, Sidious's lightsaber whistled sinisterly as it cut through sinew, blood, flesh, and bone. The Sith moved on to a group of native's huts from which Koruns kept on coming in waves of reinforcements. They might just lose the battle because of those reinforcements, so Sidious decided not to take any chances. He called on the lightning summons reminiscencent of Sith power with which he struck the huts until they erupted into flames and fell to the ground in burnt debris. A Korun woman came streaking out of a burning hut, but Sidious turned on her and with a Force surge struck her head-on. She toppled to the ground with a mournful sigh, a bundle cradled in her arms. Sidious moved on.
After a few more lightning bolts, the battlefield was cradled with Korun corpses. Sidious zigzagged through all of them until he found Plagueis's, a body wrapped into the ebon cloak he so often wore, a humming, scarlet lightsaber flickering on the ground besides him.
"Sidious…. those scum…I'm dying," panted Plagueis, his tongue rolling out of the corner of his mouth. "Help me…you know the power…of keeping life into…one's body…I taught…you myself!"
"Oh, yes you taught me," acknowledged Sidious, his mouth opening into a devious smirk, "for which I'm grateful. So I'll help you," a red lightsaber brushed Plagueis's midriff, "…out of your misery." And the red lightsaber of death cut cleanly through the body, making one body into two halves of a cadaver. Sidious contemptuously tossed his former Master's lightsaber into the aftermath of the battle and strode towards the Sith Infiltrator that had brought him here…
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The dying woman breathed on her toddler's shaved scalp. Her eyes brimming with tears at leaving her only son defenseless; she fondly hugged the unconscious youngling to her breast. She gave a gasp of alarm as a pair of footsteps stomped behind the tree and walked their owner around.
"Maris," the woman managed to give a shout of recognition. "Are you the on-only one left?"
The middle-aged man gave a nod.
"Then…take my…baby," she struggled to talk but her speech came out in gasps, "and name…him after…his father…Mace Windu."
The male Korun barely had time to utter a "Yes." before the woman collapsed to the blood-soaked ground, dead, her last wish fulfilled.
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Author's Note: Well, how do you like it so far? This is my first time writing Star Wars fan fiction, so I am a bit inept and inexperienced. Hope, all you veterans can give me a few tips! This is unusually short for my standards, since when I usually write chapters they can reach up to 8,000 words. Anyways, I just wanted to point out that I will respond to all reviews in this area, after the story, and I will TRY to return all reviews. Anyways, leave a review!