Chapter Four: Massacre
Koon, Anakin, and Obi-Wan made their way out an emergency door on the ship. Koon's mansion-like ship was completely ruined. There were dark blaster bolts, a humungous dent in the front of the ship, and most of the windows were cracked. At first, Koon was furious about the ship. But then, like a good Jedi should, he controlled his anger and let go of it. "Come on, Masters…" Anakin said, trudging through the hot sand. "I'm coming…" Obi-Wan said weakly. He took a Jawa Juice out of his Jedi robes and gulped it down. "How long until we reach Mos Espa?" Koon asked. Obi-Wan did some quick calculations in his head. "It should take about 45 minutes if we walk quickly enough." He said. "Then let's get moving." Koon replied.
After a walk through the treacherous sands of Tatooine for what seemed like months, the three Jedi finally arrived in Mos Espa. There were many different kinds of alien species wandering around. There were zooming sand speeders, street merchants, gypsies, and more. "So…what exactly are we here for again?" Anakin asked. "Lots of fuel." Obi-Wan answered. "And a ship." Koon said with a smile. They laughed. "So where would be a good place to buy some fuel?" Obi-Wan asked. "We should definitely start with the fuel, yes." Koon said. "Let's just take a look around. There might be some good sellers in the cantina over there…" "Ok, lets head over there." Anakin said.
Anakin, Koon, and Obi-Wan made their way into the cantina. The cantina was buzzing with chatter, both in Huttese and Galactic Basic. There was a band made up of four Bith with clarinet-like instruments. In front of the band there were three female Twi'Lek dancers. Men crowded around the dancers and raised their glasses. In the corner, three Wookiees talked over some kind of red drink speaking Shyriiwook. Anakin walked up to the bartender, who was a Zabrak. "One Wookiee Whiskey, please." Anakin said. The bartender snorted gruffly and grabbed a bottle and a tall shot glass. He poured some of the Wookiee Whisky into the shot glass and gave it to Anakin. "Five credits." The bartender said. He sounded disgruntled. Anakin pulled five credits out of his Jedi robes and piled them into the bartender's palm. "Hey!" The bartender yelled rather suddenly. "Are you a Jedi?" "Yes, I am." Anakin said. "I recently passed the trials—" "Woah, who said I even cared in the first place?" The bartender demanded. "Jedi aren't allowed in my bar." Anakin smirked. He quickly gulped down his drink, threw the glass on the floor, and ignited his lightsaber. "Anakin, no!" Obi-Wan whispered at him. "Control your anger!" "I think we need to try a new cantina, Master." Anakin said. "No, we don't." Obi-Wan replied loudly. "You will let us stay!" Obi-Wan yelled at the bartender. "Not a chance, you damn Jedi scum!" The bartender yelled. Obi-Wan moved his fingers slightly, performing the Force Persuade action. "You will let us stay." "Your stupid little Jedi Mind Trick can't work on me." The bartender yelled. He picked up a bottle of brandy and threw it at Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber and Force Pushed the brandy bottle back at the bartender. The bartender ducked and the brandy bottle hit the wall. The people in the cantina started screaming and rushing out. The band dropped their instruments and ran. The dancing Twi'Lek girls ran for cover. "Everyone OUT!" The bartender yelled. "I'LL DEAL WITH THIS JEDI!" The bartender took a blaster rifle and shot it at a Rodian in the corner of the cantina. The Rodian yelled "Doh!" and slumped over dead. Koon lit his lightsaber. "Your lightsabers don't scare me, Jedi." The bartender said. The three Jedi saw a beam of red energy ignite from behind the bar. "ARGHHHH!" The Zabak yelled. He flipped toward the Jedi with his lightsaber pointed. Anakin lunged for the Zabrak. The two engaged in a fierce saber duel. The Zabrak fought in an intense Form IV manner, a series of acrobatic and confusing moves to disorient your opponent. Anakin used Form V, a series of powerful and deadly attacks. Obi-Wan could tell Anakin was becoming weak. Obi-Wan charged forward and slashed his lightsaber. The Zabrak pulled out a second lightsaber and blocked Obi-Wan's blow with it. The Zabrak focused on Anakin and Obi-Wan, while Koon took his bright orange blade and attempted to stab the Zabrak in the back. No luck. The Zabrak used the Force to flip up and kick Koon in the face while still deflecting Anakin and Obi-Wan's blade blows. Anakin swung his saber full force at the bartender's saber, and one of the bartender's sabers got knocked out of his hand. The hilt was chopped in half. The Zabrak snarled in anger as he put away his lightsaber and he fled the bar. The Jedi chased after him, their lightsabers still ignited. The Zabrak was extremely fast-moving. The Jedi had been chasing the Zabrak for five minutes when Anakin yelled out, "Master! Look!" They were headed straight for a gigantic mob of people admiring a statue of Mace Windu and Yoda back-to-back with their lightsabers ignited. The Zabrak didn't stop. Instead, he took off his black cloak and dropped it. Then he disappeared in the crowd. "He's going to kill all those people in the crowd!" Anakin cried. "No." Koon said. "He went in the mob to hide, not to kill." "I'll find him." Obi-Wan said. He called out to the Force and used whatever strength he could to bust out a Force Lightning. Obi-Wan's Force power was instantly drained completely for using such Dark power. His lightning hit the statue of Yoda and Mace Windu, and it exploded in dust. Obi-Wan really hoped their spirits would forgive him for that one. The people started screaming, panicking, and running. "Now we'll find him!" Obi-Wan said confidently. "It'll be any moment now before he shows himse—" BLAST! BLAST! Two big laser bolts flew up into the sky above the crowd. "That's him!" Koon yelled. Little kids started crying out of fear and ran towards their parents. And then they saw him. The Jedi heard loud cries of extreme pain as people dropped to the ground and red lights flashed. This was no light. It was the Sith's lightsaber. "ARGHHHH!" The Zabrak yelled as he charged through the mob, killing anyone he saw. He slashed the legs off of a man, stabbed an old woman, and cut the head off of a 7-year-old. "Mommy help me!" A kid yelled, running toward his mom. Tears were streaming down his face. The Zabrak laughed and picked up the kid. "Mommy, don't let him kill me!" The kid screamed. The Sith Lord then took his lightsaber and slit the kid's throat. The kid's corpse limply dropped to the ground. "HOW DARE YOU!" The mother screamed. "YOU KILLED MY—" The Zabrak stabbed the woman. Blood spurted all over. "Get him!" Koon yelled, and they charged forward. Then they heard sirens. A Tatooine police force came running towards the Sith, blasters aimed. The Zabrak smiled and used Force Storm, electrifying all the police before they could even fire a single shot. The three Jedi attacked the Zabrak. Every person had now fled the area. It was just Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Plo Koon, and…a sadistic Zabrak Sith Lord. Anakin instantly Force Pulled the Zabrak's remaining lightsaber to him. He snapped it in half and dropped it to the ground. The Jedi moved in on the Zabrak, who was now defenseless. "You can't beat me." The Zabrak said in his creepy, raspy voice. The Zabrak drew a double-bladed lightsaber. "How many lightsabers does this guy have?" Koon asked, surprised. "Quite a lot." The Zabrak said, smiling slightly. He withdrew a second double-bladed lightsaber, and held one in each hand. Obi-Wan laughed at this sight. "That's impossible." He said. "You can't fight with two double-bladed lightsabers! No one can! It's physically impossible!" "Then you'll learn something new today." The Zabrak said. Then, he attacked. He was quite good with two double-bladed sabers. He twirled one in each hand as easily as Yoda could've handled a training saber. However, between the three Jedi, they were able to defend fairly against the powerful Zabrak. But the duel was soon over. Koon Force Threw his lightsaber and it hit the Zabrak in the chest. The bartender groaned in pain as he slumped to the ground. "Did you kill him?" Anakin demanded. "Nope." Koon replied. "Don't worry, I didn't hit anything vital. He'll survive." The Jedi snapped off their sabers. "Who are you?" Obi-Wan asked the bartender. "No one you should've ever met!" The bartender said. "Who ARE you?" Anakin demanded. "My name is Matpro Morjan." The Zabrak said. "I've never heard of him." Anakin said. Morjan yelled. "That's impossible!" Koon suddenly boomed. Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Morjan looked at him. "You can't be Matpro Morjan!" Koon cried. "Well, that's my name." "Why can't he be Matpro Morjan?" Anakin asked, puzzled. "Matpro Morjan is dead!" Koon yelled. "That's Darth Maul's real name!" "What!" Anakin and Obi-Wan yelled. "How the hell did you find that out?" Obi-Wan demanded. "I explain everything to you two later." Koon said. "I am not THE Matpro Morjan." Morjan said. "Then who are you!" The Jedi demanded. "I am related to Darth Maul. I am his son. My mother named me after my father, Matpro. Or, as you call him, Darth Maul. I didn't want to be a Sith at first. I sought out the Jedi and began training with them. But the lure of the Dark Side was too tempting to resist. I killed my master, Yaddle, and fled to the Temple of the Dark Jedi. I am now what you see here." "So that's how Master Yaddle died…" Anakin said, his voice trailing off. "I heard rumors she died in the Clone Wars." "Master Yaddle did die in the Clone Wars." Koon said suspiciously. "She was trying to disable a biological weapon when it exploded on her." "That's a lie!" Morjan screamed. "Yaddle never died in the Clone Wars. She was my Master." "Hold on a second." Obi-Wan said suddenly. "I was a Padawan learner when you first began Jedi training. How come I don't remember any Matpro Morjan on record?" "He's right!" Koon yelled. "I also don't recall any Matpro Morjan in the Archives!" "Use your heads, foolish Jedi." Morjan snarled. "I faked a name while training as a Jedi so people wouldn't refer to me as 'the son of Darth Maul.' Just for being his son I'd be kicked out of the Order. My fake name was Kiong Oolong-Freo." "I remember that name." Koon said darkly. "He joined the Lost Twenty, making the number soar high." "So I did." Morjan said. "I'll leave the rest of my history for you to find out for yourselves. However, I will tell you one thing: The rise of the Sith has begun." Suddenly, Morjan disappeared. He just vanished out of thin air.
"Okay, I am seriously in shock after what just happened." Obi-Wan said. "Darth Maul's son! I didn't even know Maul had children!" "Apparently he did." Koon said. "The Morjan family is a family keen to following the Dark Side." "And to think." Anakin said. "We could've used him as a Jedi. But he just had to fall to the Dark Side." "I'm sure it wasn't his decision to go to the Dark Side." Obi-Wan said. "After all, he wanted to be a Jedi first, right? I think his family history lured him to the Dark Side." "Possibly Darth Maul's spirit was living inside Matpro Morjan II." Koon pondered. "That might've made him defect." "Well, technically the Dark Jedi aren't exactly part of the Dark Side." Anakin commented. "They're like Jedi bounty hunters, usually serving the Sith." "Look, you owe me and Anakin an explanation of how you know Maul's real name." Obi-Wan demanded. "It is a long story how I know the history of Maul." Koon sighed. "Obi-Wan, Anakin…let's go back to the bar…I'll whip us up some cocktails…"
"As I said before, this is a long story, so please excuse me if I don't get right to the point." Koon began, sipping his Bantha Brandy." "It's alright, I just want to hear it." Obi-Wan said, picking up his Rodian Rum. Anakin nodded in agreement, swishing around his Wookiee Whisky. "As you should know, I was born and raised on the planet Dorin." Koon said. "When I was five, Sith killed my family and they took me to the planet Iridonia to work as a slave. I served a Sith Lord named Darth Wind. Wind was a Padawan learner at the time. As I worked for him, I got greatly injured doing severe manual labor. One day, I ran into a Zabrak named Matpro Morjan. He had five horns on his head and red skin. He sounded and looked extremely evil, but he was pretty nice and we became friends. I liked Matpro except for one problem: his entire family was Sith. But Matpro was…well, different. He was very nice to me, but I always got this feeling he was someone evil in disguise…It was one fateful day when Matpro's family was killed in a fire. His entire family burned to death. But Matpro managed to survive. One day, Jedi Master Saesee Tiin came to Iridonia. Saesee noticed my position working for Darth Wind. He also discovered a strong Force connection inside of me. Saesee fought Wind in a lightsaber duel and killed him. He took me to Coruscant to train as a Jedi. As much as I enjoyed my training, I missed Matpro. It was one day when Matpro came to the Jedi Academy. Master Quinlan Vos recently had discovered the Force inside him. I trained with Matpro and we became even closer. But Matpro was acting very strangely. One day we were doing combat training with our master. I was sparring Matpro. I kept beating him in lightsaber duels, and he kept getting mad for losing. Many people thought it was Matpro's double-bladed lightsaber that slowed him, but he loved his weapon and stuck with it. That day, after beating him one more time, Matpro attacked me. I used all my strength to defend against him. He was extremely tough when he fully released his anger. He didn't fight me for long though. He then turned on my master, Yaddle. He brutally killed Yaddle, who wasn't ready for the attack at all, then turned on the students. He massacred some of the students I knew best. He then fled the Academy and went to join the Sith. I suppose that Matpro found a woman, married her, and they had children. When I first became a Jedi Councilor, I went on a mission to Alderaan to remove a mysterious Dark Taint. When I got there, I discovered the Dark Taint was no other than Matpro Morjan controlling a grove. He looked much more evil than he did when we were friends. I tried my best to return him to the Light, but it was no use. He was already too much Dark power. He told me he was now 'Darth Maul.' I fought Matpro in an extremely intense lightsaber duel. He was extremely skilled with his double-bladed sword. I won the fight and cut his arms off. All he said after the duel was, 'We'll meet again, Koon.' Then, he used Force Disappear and he transported somewhere. I returned to the Jedi Council and told them the Taint was removed. We always feared Matpro would come back one day. And he did, 15 years ago. You fought him, Obi-Wan. You killed him. After you killed Matpro, his wife must've given birth to Matpro Morjan II."
"Well…" Anakin said after Koon had finished his story. "That explains a lot." "I am sorry I killed your friend, Master Koon." Obi-Wan said sincerely. "It is alright, Obi-Wan." Koon replied. "He was a Sith Lord working under Darth Sidious's command. He needed to be destroyed. But still, as Dark as he was, I was still sad to see a friend go." "I know how that feels." Obi-Wan replied, recalling Qui-Gon's death. "I'm sorry my friend killed your friend." Koon told Obi-Wan. With all these funny and strange apologies, Anakin was trying not to laugh. "It is alright my friend was killed by your friend." Obi-Wan said. "And I'm sorry I ever sat down on this bar stool!" Anakin said, laughing. a