Okay, thanks for all the interest in this as it is really enjoyable to write and also this will also be the last for a while that Draco gets injured as badly as he has.

(24/02/22)

(Draco POV)

Finally, time to meet this Jedi council of theirs, though from what I had heard a few of them were stuck up idiots. A few of them seemed like reasonable people, like Kenobi and Shaak, the one to watch though seemed to be Mace Windu, he was very much the traditionalist, the one that would oppose my suggestion the most. Then again from what I heard, he was one of the closer Jedis to the dark side.

Soon the swirling blue and purple colours of hyperspace transferred into blurred stars before finally the republic's home planet... Coruscant.

Soon my room's door chimed, before opening admitting Anakin into the room. "Dead, we've arrived." He said as I turned around.

"I noticed," I said trailing off as Anakin had a thought. "Wait, where are you from, you said that your planet was destroyed?" He asked as I sighed, apparently, they had been paying attention to that.

"I'm from a planet called Earth, the good general invaded it a few months before the invasion of Christophsis," I answered as he looked confused.

"Earth, I've never heard of a planet called that."

"And you won't either," I replied as we left for the hangar.

-o0o-

When we got there several clones were getting on other gunships. Following Anakin, we arrived at a gunship with Rex and Ahsoka as well.

"This will be a nice reprieve General," Rex said as the gunship took off. The ride going in total silence, both Rex and Anakin comfortable with this, Ahsoka looking between all of us with an uncomfortable look.

"So Dead, how old are you?" She finally decided to ask albeit a bit nervous, both Rex and Anakin curious to see if not only I would answer but also how old I was as well.

Taking a few seconds to answer I then spoke. "Nineteen," I said Ahsoka taking a step back at my voice, before gaining a surprised look along with Anakin and Rex.

"Did you say nineteen?!" Rex said in shock.

I just simply nod before Anakin spoke up again. "Wait so what about your family, you said your planet was destroyed, what happened to your family?"

"My family... Is dead to me." I said with such hate that they all backed away a step. All of them not noticing the fact I used the added 'to me'.

The rest of the ride was in awkward silence.

-o0o-

"Are you ready Dead, both Kenobi and Shaak Ti will be present, there are two Council members you know," Anakin reassured me as we arrived outside the council's chamber.

I just simply nodded, through the course of the journey here I had found that less talking made it easier to talk later on and for longer.

Entering the room I saw the council sitting in a semi-circle, a few of them as holograms. As Anakin had said both Shaak Ti and Kenobi.

"Dead Space, at last we meet." Master Yoda spoke, confusing me for a second before understanding his speech patterns.

"It's good to see you again Dead, how have you been?" Shaak Ti asked as I simply nodded making her a bit confused, last she had seen I had always answered.

An awkward silence filling the room while they waited for an answer.

"Master Shaak Ti informs us you would like to be a... Teacher of sorts, educating young padawans about the dark side and how to deal with them, yes." Mace Windu said as the other Master's looked on.

I once again just nodded.

"Discussed this, the council has," Yoda spoke again.

"Yes, although against some strong opposition and with finally meeting you in person we have agreed that you can do so." Mace Windu said as the rest of the council nodded in agreement making me bow.

Turning to leave Shaak spoke up. "Dead, why have you not said a word or even taken off your helmet, last we met you had no problem and your injuries weren't that bad." As she said this Kenobi started to gesture not to enquire the other masters taking notice of this.

Holding my hand up I stopped him. "Very well," I spoke everyone apart from Kenobi recoiling in shock from my voice, although to a lesser degree than others have.

Reaching up I released my helmet, still facing towards the door. "As Kenobi knows I had another incident on Christophsis it... Damaged me a little more since you last saw me, Shaak." I finished turning around to face them.

A couple of gasps were heard as well as a few of the members who opposed my idea, looks had softened, they might not like my idea but that didn't make them savages.

"I-I-I." Shaak Stammered as she tried to think of a suitable response.

"Ssshaak, if you want to learn more might I suggest she be the liaison between me and the council while she is not required on Kamino?" I suggested as the other masters looked at each other discussing this idea.

"We will discuss this and send notification of our decision, later during this current planetary cycle we will have a ceremony to make you a part of the Jedi order in a more honorary capacity." Master Windu said making me nod, putting my helmet back on.

Bowing slightly I left the council chambers, seeing both Anakin and Ahsoka standing outside.

"So how did it go?" He asked making me nod, all the talking in the chambers had started to make my throat sore.

"I see, that's good, Ahsoka please show Dead around here, I have a briefing to attend." He said walking away not leaving any room for argument. Ahsoka holding her arm out to him in protest unable to get any words out.

Looking back at her I saw her get nervous again. I gave her a what should we do now look.

"Let's go meet some of my friends," she suggested as I nodded. "Okay, though you are going to need a cloak, what you are currently wearing is quite noticeable." She added as she looked my attire up and down.

She had quite a good point and if anyone started a fight with me they better hope they are ready to.

-o0o-

After finding a nice black cloak we headed out. Heading towards a massive building that was kinda like a flattened dome.

Looking at her again she seemed to get the message I was conveying. "This where the senate meets and votes on bills and other legislation enacted." She answered.

Nodding we walked until we were stopped by some guards. "Mam, are you with this person?" He asked Ahsoka as I just watched them, my silence making them shuffle uncomfortably.

"Yeah." As she said that they moved away and let us pass, guess being a Jedi had a lot of benefits, at least in the Republic.

Walking through the carpeted halls we arrived at a doorway which lead into a massive open room filled with people.

Walking through it we stood next to a man that looked like a guard, who was looking out watching a woman on a flying platform giving a speech. "Ah, Ahsoka, how have you been?" The man asked noticing our arrival.

"Fine, how has everything here been going?" She asked making him sigh before shaking his head slowly. "The trade federation has been convincing the senate that they are a neutral organisation even though their ships are in almost all Separatist fleets." He finished before noticing me.

"Who are you?" He asked taking note of the fact he could barely see my face and that I was in a cloak.

"He is a friend of mine, I met him when I went to meet my new master, Master Skywalker." She answered making him smile a little. "So you're his new apprentice then huh, he will be a good master to you." He finished as I acknowledged him with a nod. "So what brings you here Ahsoka?" He asked getting around to why we were here.

"I was bringing my friend here to meet Padme, he's new around here so I'm showing him around." She answered as he nodded, taking note of the fact I hadn't made a sound yet.

"Ah, she should be done any second now." He answered, as he did the person speaking stopped and the applause started, a few seconds later the person speaking presumably Padme flew back to this spot and tapped a few more things on a pad.

"My lady, Ahsoka is here to introduce a friend of hers." The guard said making her look over us.

"Ahh Ahsoka, how have you been lately?" She asked as we walked away somewhere.

"Fine, I finally got a master and met someone new." She answered.

"That's good, who's your master?" She asked taking note of my presence but staying quiet about it.

"Anakin Skywalker," she said, Padme gaining a look that said she knew more about him than was letting people know in public.

By this time we had arrived at another door, walking through it we saw more people who appeared to be senators, all of them unfamiliar except one.

"Ah, Padme how did the speech go over with the rest of the senate?" Senator Organa asked making me a little surprised, though he was a senator, not the planet's leader.

"Very well, guess who decided to stop by." She said before anyone else could talk I spoke, the reaction one that would continue to amuse me.

"Organa." Him and Ahsoka the only ones not having an adverse reaction to this. "Dead, is that you?" He asked making the other curious and nervous as to why I was called Dead.

I just simply remove my cloak letting him see my armour. "It is you, how did the meeting go?" He asked as I nodded.

"That's good, what was their decision?" He then continued, Ahsoka answering for me. "They agreed with him and is awaiting their decision to go through initiation and have a master as an exchange teacher of sort." She finished making Organa nod, everyone else wondering what the hell we were talking about.

"Okay, what are you talking about?" Padme asked for the rest making Ahsoka and Organa look at me, I just simply shrugged.

"Dead here had a meeting with the Jedi masters on a teaching position." Organa started being a bit vague about what and why it was.

"Teaching what, is he force sensitive?" Another senator that I didn't know asked, Organa answering, while he did I leaned next to Ahsoka. "Ask about a planet called Earth," I said as she nodded, shivering slightly as I did.

Ahsoka speaking up now. "Do any of you know a planet called Earth?" she asked making all discussion freeze.

"What?" Several asked.

"Do any of you know of a planet called Earth?" She asked again, Padme gaining a look of recognition.

"I have heard legends, a planet inhabited by ancient force users of unknown power." She started as I was intrigued since they were legends it was likely false but there might have been people who had abilities from the force that was stronger than anyone else knew about.

"The location of this planet is lost to the ages." She continued as I noticed Ahsoka eyes light up at this.

"The planet was a convergence of the force, hence why there were people with extraordinary abilities." She finished before asking another question.

"Why the sudden interest in legends Ahsoka?" I then walked over to a chair and tried to focus my mind, trying to find the coordinates to Earth.

The others noticing my state curious about what I was doing. "What are you doing Dead?" I just ignored them, feeling the force around me and where Earth was, if it was a place of convergence between the force, then it shouldn't be hard to find.

Following what seemed to be a stream of the force before something much closer gained my attention, it had a similar feel as the bomb Slick had.

Opening my eyes I looked around the room before a box which had been there since we had entered the room, the bomb was there.

Standing up suddenly I threw everyone out of the room, holding the doors shut and strengthening them with the force as well.

Shocked gasps and exclamations followed, not even five seconds later it went off, though it wasn't like the one that Slick had had back on Christophsis. The second it did it sent me flying out of the building, along with several hundred tons of rubble coming.

A few seconds later we landed, rubble forming a cage around me, debris landing in and on me, this would've caused me to scream but since all the other torment I had faced previously made this little more than a sting.

Blacking out for a few minutes before regaining consciousness, the sound of cracking and groaning greeted me, cries and yelling also reaching me. Turning into my Wraith form I flowed through the cracks and holes in the rubble.

Floating to the edge of the rubble I saw the 501st along with Anakin and the people in the room we were in before it exploded. Turning my attention back to my damage I found my helmet cracked and blood running down it.

Reaching up I felt what could be a horn made of debris sticking out of my head and elbows. Now it looked like I was some kind of devil from hell or something, safe to say whoever had done this, that had tried to kill everyone in that room, Ahsoka, Organa and myself would suffer when I found them.

Stumbling slightly I walked towards them from behind as they still frantically searched to rubble for my body, Anakin slightly less worried about my condition given what I had survived before.

Reaching behind them I spoke. "Death... Befalls... My... enemies." I hissed through laboured breath. Everyone froze and turned around, their jaws landing on the ground when they saw my condition, or maybe my voice, either way, their jaws were on the ground.

Anakin started walking towards me slowly. "Dead... are you alright?" He asked as I grabbed my head, the new horn now starting to give me a headache. "Only you... 501st can know." And with that statement I fell to the ground, my black blood making a pool around me, the world fading to black as the others rushed towards me.

-o0o-

(Ahsoka POV)

Ever since the bomb went off and me and the rest of the people were shoved out of the room we were in shock for the next couple of seconds we were frozen as we couldn't believe what had just happened.

Soon enough though it had got through our head that Dead wasn't with us, opening the door which required some force and the help of several people we managed to force it open. When we saw into what was left of the room, we looked on in horror when I noticed the charred remains of his cloak caught on a piece of rubble.

By the time we got the ground gunships were already there with several more on their way, both Rex and Master Skywalker here as well coordinating the efforts.

"Master!" I call as he looks over at us and sees us all safe and sound he let's out a sigh of relief until he notices the missing person or our group.

"Did you leave Dead somewhere and went to meet your friends?" He asked before he noticed my saddened look.

"No, he was with us, something forced us out of the room a few seconds before the bomb went off, he was left inside the room," I answered for everyone else.

With this, he turned pale if he survived he was going to have even more hatred for whoever had been causing all this pain he had suffered in such a short amount of time.

It had been a few minutes and barely any of the rubble had moved and there was no sign of Dead. That was until heavy breathing and a familiar hissing and demonic voice spoke.

"Death... Befalls... My... enemies." turning around we saw Dead standing with pieces of debris shaped like horns and spikes sticking in his head and out of his elbows, even though I hadn't seen him without his armour on I had heard from Rex that he had some serious damage.

Within a few minutes he fell back to the ground unconscious saying a few more words before Master picked him up and went with Rex into a gunship and rushed away.

At that moment we all just kind of stopped, our energy leaving us after such a stressful situation had just happened.

-o0o-

(Draco POV)

Opening my eyes I was greeted with an ever-familiar white room that was of a med bay. My elbows and right side of my head aching, reaching up I felt the new horn I had gained, reaching around feeling my elbows both had pieces of debris in them.

Sighing I got up, looking around I saw that I had my armour on and my helmet repaired though with a hole in it for the horn.

The time that I had been unconscious had dampened my rage I had felt at the time of the blast. Putting my helmet back on I got up and looked outside the door, the architecture looking like the Jedi temple.

Groaning I walked towards where I recalled the council's room is. Everyone I passed giving me a wide berth as I went to the chambers.

When I reached the chambers I saw both Anakin and Ahsoka talking with the rest of the council. "In a stable condition, however, the debris from the explosion has made it too dangerous to remove from him," Anakin reported, everyone looking a little sad at what had transpired however long ago it was.

"And what of his current condition, his state of mind. Is he going to be a threat to the Republic?" Mace asked providing the uncaring opinion of the group.

"He... Should be fine, we won't know for certain what condition he's in until he wakes up, whether the debris in his head will affect him."

"Strong in stealth he is or weak you are in sensing," Yoda said making all of them wonder what he was talking about.

"Master?" Ahsoka asked before Yoda looked behind them at me thus making them look as well.

"Dead! When did you get up?" Anakin asked shocked people taking notice of my new features.

Holding my up my hand I held up five fingers. "Five minutes?" Anakin checked getting another nod from me.

Suddenly Mace stands up. "I have to be blunt with this Dead, how is your mental state?"

"My... Mental... State..." I start Anakin already seeing where this is going takes a few steps back. "I have been attacked numerous times, what do you think it is," I said annoyed, I didn't think that this Mace fool was that rude but apparently he was.

Yoda seeing this as a good time to move on then spoke up. "Understandable it is, what he is feeling, onto other matters we should." He said giving Mace a look.

"The council has agreed for Master Ti to be a sort of liaison, another matter that we have decided is that you get your own lightsaber, after all a Jedi even an honorary one should." Kenobi continued making me nod.

With there decision, I left heading to my room that was given to me for my stay on Coruscant. Taking off my mask I looked in a mirror, looking at the horror bestowed upon my body by the galaxy. Whoever was responsible for all of my suffering was going to pay.

So that's it for this chapter and just to state again since this has happened in nearly every chapter since I started this story is that this is the last time he is going to be injured for a while.

Hope you enjoyed.

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