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Death's Chosen Knight

Chapter 4

Coruscant, 47 B.B.Y.

Ventress felt like she had been laying in the medical bed for what had been years, even though Luminara had left the room about two hours ago to inform the council of what she had said during her questioning. She was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that she was pregnant. She was wondering not only how she had ended up pregnant, but she was also wondering why she was pregnant. She was wondering if she should keep the child and she was also wondering that if she kept the child, she was also wondering if she would be a good mother.

Asajj was broken out of her thoughts when Luminara re-entered the room with Ky and Yoda. She tried to calm her mind for a few moments when she heard Yoda speak up, saying, "Curious, this phenomenon is. Unknown how young Ventress ended up pregnant, both Master Narec and young Ventress know not."

Ky thought about it for a moment before he looked at Luminara and asked, "Is it possible to determine how far along Asajj is in the pregnancy?"

Luminara looked at Asajj and saw that she nodded that she wanted to know the same thing as well. Luminara nodded and said, "It is possible. But I will have to respectfully ask you to leave the room while I run the test."

Yoda and Ky both nodded and quietly left the room while Luminara had the equipment brought in to run the tests. While Luminara was getting the equipment set up, she looked at Asajj and asked, "Padawan Ventress, I understand you are nervous but there is nothing to worry about. I will be doing an ultrasound in order to determine the gestational age of the fetus."

Asajj nodded and relaxed a little bit as she watched Luminara set the equipment up. Luminara looked at Asajj and asked, "I am unfamiliar with the biology of the Nightsisters of Dathomir. Would it be possible to know more about it?"

Asajj nodded and asked, "What would you like to know?"

Luminara thought about her questions for a moment before asking, "First off, based upon my observations, you could easily pass as a Rattataki. Is there a difference between a Dathomirian and a Rattataki?"

Ventress nodded and said, "First off, Dathomirians are taller than the Rattataki. In actuality, we are a subspecies of Zabrak. While some of the Nightsisters can pass off as Rattataki, like me, they can also have facial markings like the males on Dathomir. The only difference between the males and females of Dathomir is that the females don't have horns."

Luminara was shocked at hearing this information but nodded her thanks as it allowed her to provide better medical care to any future Nightsister that she came across. When everything was ready, she began to run the ultrasound to determine gestational age of the fetus. Once she spotted the fetus, Luminara looked at Asajj and asked, "Would you like to wait until Grandmaster Yoda and Master Narec are in the room to tell you the gestational age of the fetus?"

Asajj thought about it for a moment, before nodding that she would like to wait until the others were present. Luminara looked at Asajj and asked, "Would you like to see the fetus?"

Asajj thought about it for a long moment before she nodded and watched and Luminara turned the screen to show her the fetus. What she saw nearly brought tears to her eyes as she saw her child. Luminara smiled at what she felt coming from Asajj before shutting the machinery down and letting her know that she was going to ask Grandmaster Yoda and Master Narec to enter the room.

Once the two Masters were in the room, Luminara said, "Padawan Ventress wanted to wait until you both were here before I told her how far along she was in the pregnancy."

Both the Masters nodded and Luminara continued, saying, "I have been able to guess that gestational age of the fetus is approximately six standard weeks, give or take a few days."

Asajj gasped while Ky said, "Six standard weeks you say? That is interesting because, around that time, there was a strong shift in the force. We thought it was because of an attack carried out by pirates a few days after we felt the shift."

Yoda closed his eyes and reached out in the force, saying, "Sensed no change in the force, the Council did. More to the story, there is."

Ky nodded and said, "I truly believe that if it was not for the shift in the force, then I would have been killed during the raid the pirates carried out."

Asajj looked at her Master in shock, asking, "What do you mean that you would have been killed during the attack?"

Ky looked at his padawan and said, "I do not know why I know this, but for some reason truly believe that I would have been killed during that raid."

Asajj looked at her Master and was glad they felt the shift in the force. Soon she heard Yoda ask, "Padawan Ventress, your plan for this pregnancy, what is it?"

Asajj froze and began to wonder what she actually wanted to do. On one hand, she was extremely scared and she felt that she was too young to be a mother. But on the other hand, she was extremely happy and excited to become a mother. After what felt like an eternity, she looked at Master Yoda and said, "I want to keep this child. When I was younger, I wanted to be a mother but I felt that I could never be one as long as I stayed with the Jedi. But this child may be my only chance to ever become a mother and I can't let this chance slip away."

Master Yoda nodded and said that he would inform the Council of her decision. Asajj laid back in the medical bed and began to unconsciously rub her stomach and smiled as she thought about the child that was growing within her. Ky was ushered out of the room by Luminara as she said that Asajj needed to get some rest. Deep down, everyone knew that this new development would forever change the Jedi Order. The only thing that was unknown was if this child would change the Jedi for the better or worse.

Hello everyone. Here is Chapter. First off, I feel that if there was a strong enough shift in the force, any force user would be on edge to the point it would almost be impossible to sneak up on them. For this reason, I think that Ky Narec would have survived the pirate attack that led to his death. Please leave a review and let me know what you think of the story so far.