SON OF THE CHOSEN.
Sequel to 'Tortured Soul'.
Palpatine kidnapped Rexan to escape when he was exposed; fourteen years later, Rexan Skywalker returns. He is angry, resentful, withdrawn_
Is he just a troubled, tortured, young man? Or is he something more sinister?
Rexan: 3 -17.
Luke/Leia: 14.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN.
He couldn't help feeling a stab of guilt as he walked into the Council Chamber, especially when he saw his Father, Master Yoda, Master Windu and Obi-wan talking - it was like a weird deja vu, the only difference was him.
Obi-wan smiled at him, "Rexan, come sit down."
Swallowing, Rexan moved to one of the seats and slowly sat down. Looking at Master Windu, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm sorry," his voice was guilt ridden as he looked at the Jedi Master again, "for what happened last time I was here."
Master Windu smiled, shaking his head. "It was not your fault."
"Everyone keeps saying that," Rexan sighed and shook his head, "but I still chose to do it." Just like he had chosen to forget the truth, "Palpatine didn't force me to act the way I did, I made that decision myself." As much as they tried to convince him otherwise, he still felt that he was responsible.
Obi-wan chuckled and shook his head, when Rexan frowned at him, Obi-wan smiled. "You are so much like your father," he told Rexan, "you both focus on the negative side of things, and you both seem to have this innate ability to blame yourselves for everything that happens, whether it is actually your fault or not."
Anakin frowned at Obi-wan, before looking to Rexan. "None of this is your fault, Rexan." He told his son, "Palpatine is the only person to blame for your actions."
Rexan bit his lip, "It still feels like it was my fault."
"Blame yourself, you should not." Yoda told him, the ancient Jedi Master cocked his head. "Something important, you had to tell us?"
Rexan nodded, "I've been thinking about what Palpatine said, about having new allies." he said quietly, "And I realised that I might know where he is."
Obi-wan frowned, "How is that possible?"
"Palpatine left me alone sometimes, he always told me it was to get supplies..." Rexan shrugged as he looked at Obi-wan, "... But, if you have 'new allies', you'd have to stay in contact."
Anakin frowned, leaning forward in his seat. "How could you know where he is though?"
Grinning mischievously, Rexan shrugged. "A few years ago, Palpatine was injured during a fight with pirates and he let me pilot the ship while he tended to his wounds."Grinning mischievously, Rexan shrugged. "While he was gone... I went through the ship's travel logs."
His eyebrows raised, Master Windu frowned. "Not that it isn't a good thing, but why did you 'snoop' on Palpatine?"
"Curiosity mostly." Rexan shrugged, "I wanted to know where he went... And I thought if I knew, that he might let me come too."
"Where did he go?" Obi-wan asked, smiling at Rexan.
"Yanibar..." Shaking his head, rexan sighed, "... I don't know why he would go there though." When the four Jedi Masters stared at him, Rexan's frown deepened."What?"
"I'm sorry," Anakin smiled at Rexan, "I keep forgetting that you don't know all the Jedi history."
Rexan frowned at his father, "What does Yanibar have to do with the Jedi?"
"The Zeison Sha," at Rexan's confused frown, Anakin smiled, leaning forward as he began to explain. "Near the beginning of the New Sith Wars many friends and families of the Jedi, numbering in the thousands, fled to form a refuge from Sith attacks." He told his son, "Once the wars had ended, they expected the Jedi to return for them... But they didn't know that every Jedi with knowledge of the refuge had died in combat."
"What happened to them?"
"Because they believed the jedi betrayed them, they abandoned our teachings and created an independant 'order' of their own..." Obi-wan answered, continuing Anakin's explanation. "... After the end of the wars, some Zeison Sha returned to the galaxy..." Obi-wan shrugged, "because the Zeison Sha train their children with their families, when the the Jedi Order took their Force-sensitive children for training and conversion into the Order, they were extremely angry, and when they returned to Yanibar with reports of Jedi child-snatching, the general view of the Jedi diminished significantly as a result."
Rexan frowned, "so Palpatine has sided with a force sensitive community who hate jedi..." Actually, it made sense, in a diabolically evil way. "... What do we do?"
Master Windu shook his head, "we can't send Jedi to talk with them, they're not going to trust anything we say." Which made confronting Palpatine nearly impossible-
"So we don't send Jedi," Anakin shrugged as Obi-wan, Rexan, Master Yoda and Master Windu looked at him. "We could have Kitster go to them undercover to keep an eye on Palpatine," his childhood friend had been working as an undercover agent for the jedi ever since Rexan's abduction.
Obi-wan cocked his head, "That could work."
"If send Kitster to spy on Palpatine, careful he must be."
"Kitster knows how to keep a low profile," Anakin said, leaping to defend his friend. "Besides, we don't have any other options."
"Who is Kitster?' Rexan asked, looking at his father as he frowned in confusion.
Anakin grinned, "he's one of my oldest friends." He told his son, "We grew up together on Tatooine before i left to become a jedi... When he found out you had been kidnapped, Kitster came to me, swearing that he would do 'anything' he could to help find you."
Rexan blinked, staring at his father, slightly shocked. "That's a good friend," He whispered, wondering if he would ever have anyone who was that loyal to him.
