Title: The Jedi Hunter
Author: Rainbowstitches

Author's note: Long time very little writing but here it is chapter 4. it was kinda hard to write and I'm still not happy with how it turned out but I don't think I ever was going to be happy with this one. I may make a more detailed area with some of the info but you know.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than my Oc and any other Oc's I introduce in the future. I won't and never will profit from this. All rights are reserved to Lucas Films/Books/Arts and Disney.

Chapter 4: The missing history

The cold space air had filled the small living space of the living space in the ship. Jedi Kenobi and Padawan Ask'ii were holding a long extended conversation about the whole thing that had occurred on Naboo. Her master, Master Mace Windu, was sat out of ear shot in the cockpit driving as they went on about the mission that had started so simply and become so disastrous. The ship came out of hyperspace with a rattle; this was simply because Mace had decided the ship needed to be refilled soon due to the rust bucket they had 'borrowed' off some cutthroat mercenary on some moon that Ask'ii never bothered to remember the name of.

"We will be landing soon to get fuel before starting back to Coruscant" Mace informed in his usual manner as he took a slice of fruit from a plate on the table.

"Yes master" Ask'ii replied as she stared blankly out the widow. Mace had wandered back into the cockpit when the first ram came. The plate hit the floor with a tremendous clank and the whole ship shook. Eska Ask'ii clung to the table as she looked up into the blue eyes of Obi-wan.

"Obi..." Eska hesitated as their world went dark and the door was suddenly opened behind her. Two warning shots were made as arms snaked around her waist and pulled her back. She bit deep into one of the arms and began to hit at the other bodies. Her master was fighting off others as they became overwhelmed.

Eska with small hope thought she had made it when her hand gripped Obi's forearm and he hers. They stayed like that for a moment that felt like forever till again their attackers forced her away; they were retreating and the pull on her waist was too much. Her hand began to slip away from Kenobi's till their fingers barely touched and one last scream left her throat in protest. An extensive hollowing feeling erupted from her chest as she watched as a void opened up between the two ships.

After being slung away into some area of the ship where she was disarmed and tied up her captures broke off into hyperspace. Day after day she was treated with resentment and a certain kind of hatred. That is if she got contact, she would and could go for days without seeing anyone else. She was fed to the minimum. The four walls were no longer easily coped with as time passed her, they became more like a serpent wrapping around her form squeezing her strength from her.

She had given up fighting and hoping after the first week. Meditating was gone after the second week and keeping calm had all but ceased to exist for the Padawan. She was, by now, less of the being she was. A ghost of a person and without any real fait; it was on the third week and fourth day, she had kept count, that they landed on some planet. She had stood up like a wounded animal and shuffled her way to the only window standing on her toes to peer over and look out onto the desert planet in the outer rim.

Soon enough Ask'ii was pulled fiercely away from the window, she whimpered slightly in the grasp of the fierce looking pirate as she was dragged out of her cell. She was handed into the hands of a man, her buyer by the looks of it, he was a man coated in loose cloth and was rather round. Her chains were handed to him and her weapons hung on his belt like some proud trophy. He was humming to himself as he gave her off to his guards and the much longer journey ensued.

Eska Ask'ii might have well been stripped of everything else she was as she had already been stripped of everything but who she was and that wasn't her name but rather the Jedi she would have become. Ask'ii lived her life surviving whether it meant killing her peers or some helpless predators; every day the arena she now stood brought something new. Yet it was during the driest season they had had in years when Eska was 19. Her body was scarred and her face was already twisted into one that knew too much pain and suffering.

She was no longer a sentient being, like an animal she obeyed and pursued her master's orders. Her cell, had words carved into every wall; they were words every Jedi knew and each one repeated multiple times to. A faint memory and they way she scolded herself for forgetting; who was she becoming?

Yet this season brought a new threat to her life, she was becoming old and little interest was there in her fights. Eska was 20 when she had her lightsaber and whip returned to her, it made her feel weary and as she began to scratch at her transmitter as she waited for the gate to open, the force whispered at her. She walked in slowly to the middle of the arena, it wasn't her fist time on her own but it would be the first she would face the creature in store for her. The gates around her opened and some creature was unleashed off a chain and allowed to run in slightly spooked and panicked.

The creature in question was a Vornskr; they were attracted and prayed on anything strong in the force. Making Jedi very tasty snacks for them, the planet they belonged on was forbidden for Jedi to go to and most did not know there was such a thing. The master of the arena had bought 40 from some hunters and he was sure that the Padawan was not to survive this unless some of his guests decided to buy the girl which was easily done by them using the buttons they had to exterminate the creatures.

One had been released first and it circled Eska waiting for the Padawan to lose her defence. It lunged at her, teeth sharp and cruel with tailing swishing at her. The force told her to evade very quickly and she complied, dodging the tail awkwardly. The tail in not would paralyze her and she would be done for from then on. It was a shiim cut she used first on its flank, the shallow cut causing the animal to whip round. The deep purple of her blade glowing against the ground as she prepared for the next offensive move the animal made.

It ran up to her with a speed enhanced by the force, using her whip she altered its course. A severing cha mok was made at its tail causing the part to fall off as it passed the evading Eska. The animal whimpered and backed off slightly this was time for Eska to play her attack. Quick Ataru allowed her to find her opening and kill the beast. The audience stayed very quiet and only a few claps came about, this wasn't what the master wanted and with 39 beasts left he released three more for the girl to kill.

Every time the number increased by two, the crowd began their uproar as the number got to nine but it wasn't enough for the fight to end. Eska was tiring and her body was aching by the time the last 15 were released on her. It was amazing she had survived so long with the number increasing but at this point people were cheering for the beast and not the girl. The arena was littered with bodies and Eska had grown clumsy and a little heavy footed as she defended herself from the whipping tails and bites. There was four left after an hour and Eska was all but exhausted, the creatures were relentless and she had soon been covered in bite marks.

The four had her caught and they circled her, tails at the ready and teeth bared. She made one long force leap away only to be caught by the tail, the thing felt like a bolt of lightning had shot through her body. She fell meters away and she could no longer move her lower body, the animals knew she was down and they were ready to devour her. Eska was petrified she was to die alone and without anyone to look for her or there to comfort her. It was then when one animal went to strike her dead that it suddenly crippled in pain.

It was a bounty hunter who had found a path of sympathy for the fighter who fought for her life till the last moment. The man had bought the girl her freedom under one simple price. With a darkness looming over her shoulder she was too learn and train to be a bounty hunter under his apprenticeship. With this chapter coming to a close Eska was destined to travel round the galaxy meet Caski once again and team up to become the greatest duo yet seen.

Author's note: Another chapter closing and what should happen now. Well I think Eska needs to get her butt away from the temple but I also want her to reform bonds with little Obi-wan oh well. Any ideas pm me or leave a review and I will see you soon.

Helpful things

The story is taking part between the clone wars and revenge of the sith.

Eska and Caski are 28 I originally put 38 but that's a little old so yea.