Chapter Ten: Kayoa

A.N: Sorry about the long wait. The holidays have been very hectic. But here we go with the tenth chapter at last!

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It had been many years. Boba and Bella had long decided not to work for the Emperor. Palpatine was just way to impatient, and they liked working at a leisurely pace. But this wasn't the only change. They had now been married for three years.

Yes, Boba had proposed to Bella after the two bounty hunters had been together for five years. At first, she was a little uneasy about marrying. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to balance marriage with duty. But they soon found a way to work it out.

One time, after their marriage, they had learned the Vader had more of an interest in Luke Skywalker then the Emperor had. Finding it interesting, and a little suspicious, they decided to investigate the matter. Boba Fett always liked knowing more then anyone else. It had taken a lot of work, but they finally had discovered the truth.

Luke Skywalker was Darth Vader's son.

Bella got very excited about this. She wanted to go after Skywalker, and give him to Vader. Her plan was to demand for more money. Vader was rich, and he wanted his son. It was that simple.

Boba had become fond of the idea, so now they were going about the galaxy looking for the son of Vader…

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"Kid, I really don't think that this is such a good idea," Han said uncertainly.

Luke and Han had done some research by looking through the rest of the stuff in Obi-Wan's trunk, and they'd found a diary. It wasn't Obi-Wan's. It had actually been Luke's moms, and it contained the name of a planet that Luke was determined to visit.

Kayoa.

In the diary, Kayoa was referred to as 'the secret inheritance that may never be found.' This had just been way too tempting for Luke to pass up. But Han wasn't sure that they should leave the planet.

"Oh come on, Han!" Luke pleaded. "Where's your sense of adventure!?"

Han shook his head disapprovingly at Luke. "Kid, looking after you is the most adventure I can take right now."

"Please, Han! Please!" Luke fixed Han with the wide-eyed face that still worked for him whenever he wanted something. "I promise I'll be good."

Han watched Luke for a second, and then he finally gave up. "Oh FINE! But if we get in trouble, it's your fault!"

Luke grinned, and mumbled under his breath. "It's always gonna be my fault."

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There wasn't much for Han and Luke to do to get ready. All Luke wanted to take was the photo album and the diary, and all Han was taking was the ship that they were going in.

The Falcon.

Taking off, they went in the direction of Kayoa. Luke was more excited then Han. Han was just there because he was talked into it, while Luke was there trying to find out about himself, and his parents. The difference in the boys' goals was tremendous.

Kayoa was much closer then either of them would have thought. It turned out to be just a few parsecs away from Riveria, and thus, it only took a day or two to get there. When they landed, Luke was over excited. They had landed on the only landing pad that they'd seen.

The landing pad was in the middle of the woods. From the air, Han and Luke had been able to see a building in a clearing, not far from the pad. Luke and Han decided to go there.

It was obvious that Kayoa was a forest planet. Any clearings were made by cutting away the trees and underbrush. It was pretty, but much different then the open, wide spaces that they were used to.

Now that they were near the building, they could tell that it was actually a very large mansion. Luke actually stood still and counted the floors. All together, there seemed to be thirty floors in the mansion, and it was a very wide house as well, making it almost as large as a small palace. It was bigger then anything Luke had ever seen.

They slowly approached the house, a little intimidated by its large size, and dark atmosphere. When they reached the door, Luke timidly raised his hand, and knocked. They waited a while before someone answered.

It was a man who seemed to be in his early thirties. He wore a leather jacket, and dark pants. He also had dark glasses that covered his eyes, making him look like the secret spy that Luke would watch on the hologram back at home.

"Who are you two, how did you find this place, and what do you want?" the man asked.

Both Han and Luke waited for the other to answer the man. Finally, Luke answered. "I'm Luke Skywalker, and this is my friend, Han." The man seemed to change in mood when he heard Luke's name. "We found the name of this planet in my mother's old diary."

There was a pause. Han and Luke waited for him to answer. Finally, the man spoke. "My name is Mac Matosh. We have been waiting years for you to show up, Young Luke."

"Me?" Luke asked, jerking a thumb at his chest.

Mac nodded. "Yes. This was your mother's secret home that she would visit whenever she could. She told us that if something ever happened to her, the mansion and everything in it would go to her son, Luke Skywalker.

"Whoa, whoa!" Han said. "You mean this place belongs to the kid!?"

"Yes," Mac said. "We were his mother's bodyguards, and now we'll be his bodyguards."

"I like this guy," Luke commented.

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Meanwhile, not far from Kayoa, Boba and Bella were getting alerted of a ship that had passed them in hyperspace twenty minutes ago. Whenever they got altered, the loud, blaring alarm system went off.

"What did you do?" Bella asked.

Boba shook his head. "Nothing. It seems that our quarry has finally decided to come out of hiding."

Back when he had still be working for the Emperor, Boba had been able to put an alert device on the ship that they were chasing, so whenever it came anywhere within twenty parsecs of Boba's and Bella's ship, they would be alerted. Boba never thought it would actually work.

"Where are they headed?" Bella asked her husband urgently.

Boba pressed a few buttons, and looked at the results on the screens. "They're on some planet called Kayoa. That's weird…"

Boba remembered something about that planet. He couldn't quite remember what it was, but just mentioning the name… there was something that he had to remember…

"Boba, are you alright?" Bella asked, snapping the bounty hunter back into reality.

Boba shook his head a few times to organize his thoughts before answering. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Just a minor flashback. Maybe we should contact Vader and tell him about this."

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Vader was on Corescaunt, meditating in his chamber when he heard his comlink beeping. Annoyed that his meditation had been interrupted, Vader was tempted not to answer, but it was his private comlink, and it may be important.

Vader reached for the comlink, and pressed the receive button. "What is it?" he snapped angrily.

"Sorry if this is a bad time," Vader heard someone say. He recognized it as the bounty hunter, Boba Fett's voice. "But we just discovered the location of that kid, Luke Skywalker."

Vader froze with shock. What? After all these years, after all this time, someone had finally found his long lost son? It seemed too good to be true! So many questions rushed into his head. Where was he? Where had he been all these years? What…

"He's somewhere on the planet Kayoa," Boba said, interrupting Vader's thoughts. "That's all we know."

It was just the name of a planet, but it was good enough for Vader. He would leave immediately for the planet, Kayoa. He would find his son and claim him as his own. No one would ever take his child away from him again!

"Thank you, Fett. Come here to Imperial Center to receive your reward."

Vader didn't care how much money Boba would be getting from him. It didn't matter. Nothing mattered. Nothing except getting his son was important to him now.

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"Han, can you believe how big this place is?" Luke asked.

They were sitting in Luke's bedroom which made the largest room back at their house on Riveria look like a closet.

Mac had given them a tour of the first three floors. It was even bigger then they thought, but it was also darker. The walls were all painted a dark color, the furniture was all very expensive looking, but also dark. There were carvings in the walls, and on the stairways that gave the house a dark, forbidding feel.

"Yeah, kid. It's pretty cool, but it sorta gives me the creeps."

Luke nodded. "Yeah, me too. I feel like something bad happened here, a long time ago… You wanna go explore?" Luke asked suddenly.

"Kid, we just finished looking over the house…"

"Not all of it!" Luke said. "I wanna see the higher floors. It could be exciting!"

Han shook his head. "Naw, you can go, but I want to rest, I'm tired." Han didn't give Luke his real reason for not going. He just felt uncomfortable wandering around in a big place like this.

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So Luke went off on his own, looking at the mansion that Mac said was now his. At first his exploration of the house was very boring. There were lots of spare bedrooms and sitting rooms, but finally he came to a room that was worth a look.

It was a library. But not just any library. This one was three stories high. There were catwalks above him, and everywhere he looked, there were shelves and shelves of books. It was the most amazing room he'd seen all day.

Luke began poking around, looking for a clue to who his parents were, and what they did when they were still alive. When he found nothing on the tables, he started pulling books off the shelves. Finding nothing of interest on the first floor, he went to the second, and began going through the books there.

Suddenly, he tried to pull out a book, and instead of falling into his hands, there was a quiet clicking sound, and a section of the bookshelf opened inward to reveal a secret passage.

The Force came to life, speaking to him, singing to him, telling him to follow it into the passage…

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A.N: Hehe! I couldn't resist doing the 'behind the bookshelf' thing. Please review!