Chapter One: The Restaurant

A great threat to the galaxy has come in the form of a young woman with mysterious powers.

Calling herself by the nickname LADY DARKNESS, she has swept into the Republic capital of Coruscant in an effort to contact her idol, Darth Sidious.

Unknownst to her, several Jedi Knights have felt the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE a lot lately and by chance Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, now the Master of little Anakin Skywalker the future Darth Vader, caught up with this mysterious woman, believing her to be a dark figure affiliated with perhaps a dark coven or something, and captured her. We join two Jedi in a large, busy district of Coruscant...now...

The fast-food district of Coruscant, known for the many chains of restaurants located there, is the setting of where we eavesdrop on a conversation between two Jedi pals sitting comfortably opposite each other in a tiny booth in the back of a crowded establishment.

"Do you believe it? She expects us to understand and step back. Woah, well, alright, sure come on and trample on our rules..."

"As is the way with dark things. They are too dark to understand the light," Mace Windu replied, sipping Jawa juice from a tall glass. "Master Kenobi, do you know what she is?"

Obi-Wan Kenobi thought back to the moment he first laid eyes on her. Her face was smooth and angelic, her eyes big and beautiful, her long, dark, shiny hair...shiny. He had caught up with her near the temple and captured her, thwarting her plans. He did not know just who she was affiliated with, but she was definitely a humanoid. "Humanoid, Master Windu."

"The girl is flawless," commented Windu, snapping his fingers to get the attention of a beautiful Twi-lek waitress walking by the table. "Two Bantha-burgers and two glasses of water, please."

"Wow! That is amazing! I was just going to ask ya'll if you needed anything else, and...you just read my mind!" she exclaimed, nearly dropping her clipboard.

Windu looked over to his amused peer. "Well I am a Jedi. This sort of thing is expected of us."

The young Twi-lek stood in place, admiring the noble Jedi Master. "Wow! So you guys can read thoughts? Wow! Um, so if there was a conspiracy involving a dark lord posing as a politician in the Republic in the midst of a crisis, an epic war involving millions of cloned soldiers and an overall plan to destroy the Republic and upon the rubble establish an evil Empire, you'd know of that too?"

"Maybe," Windu replied.

"Well, to answer your question more specifically, Miss, I'd say that perhaps we would not know this unless we knew the politician involved, spent time around him, you know. But the dark side does cloud everything, so the true intentions of this politician would be difficult to detect if...we were in that scenerio."

The Twi-lek babe soon left the presence of the two Jedi, making her way around tables and disappearing behind the front counter. Mace Windu and Obi-Wan sat in silence for a few moments; Mace was the first to break it.

"So, this Lady Darkness is a humanoid...," started Mace, drinking the last bit of juice from his glass and setting it gently back on to the table. "Do you know of her affiliations?"

"Well, no, but her code name leads me to believe she is a worker of darkness," replied Kenobi, grinning. "I mean...Lady Darkness?" He shrugged and shook his head. "Could you choose a more obvious name?"

"Maybe her name has its origins in sarcasm, but if not..."

"You want to know her real name, Master?" Kenobi asked in the manner of an eager child. "Mari-Soo." He laughed.

"And her last?"

"She wouldn't tell us."

Mace grinned and looked out the window; it was a busy scene. "Mari-Soo is it? Well, we'll just go pay her a visit later. I've got some questions to ask her, you know, Sith-related."

Kenobi gasped when he heard this. It had been two months since he had slain Sith Lord Darth Maul, and the memories of his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, being pierced through the abdomen by Maul's crimson blade haunted him still, and understandably it should. The word Sith was not one he wished to hear.

"Yes, somewhere out there in the galaxy there is a lone Sith Lord looking for an Apprentice. Perhaps this Lady Darkness has knowledge of just who it is. Do you think this could be so, Master Kenobi?"

"Yes...yes I do, perhaps," answered Obi-Wan, almost whispering. "But I could not detect any dark emotions in her."

"Look, I didn't say she was a Sith Lord herself, but that she may know who he or she is, and where."

That blue-skinned Twi-Lek waitress approached the table carrying in her arms a tray with the food in it. She placed the tray in the center of the table and looked down adorably at Master Windu.

"Thank you, Miss," said Windu.

"You are very welcome, sir." With that, the waitress went on her merry way.

"She's nice," commented Obi-Wan, regarding the waitress.

"Yeah, she's got a booty on her, yeah but I won't think like that. This is business."

Indeed it was business.

Obi-Wan and Mace dug into their Bantha-burgers like merciless savages - beasts. It had been at least twelve hours since they had last eaten; this was clear. When they were finished they used their napkins, stood up, and threw down a few credits.

"Ready?"

"Ready," said Obi-Wan.

It was from this point the writer gets a headache and is unable to go on. So, good reader, please check back really, really, really soon for the next chapter, which will be longer might I add...