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Chapter 2 – The Battle, Memories and Research
"Come along padawan, I will show you too your room before we organise your training." Master Secura said as she walks out of the council room towards the lift.
"Yes master, good day masters" rose bows to the other council members before following her master.
Once in the lift Master Secura turns and yanks up roses sleeve to reveal a brand with her name written on it. "Well, at least this time its official, but I still need to get your number." She mutters to herself.
"Excuse me master, what do you mean?" Rose tries to look confused and innocent.
"Ha ha, nice try rose but that never did work on Me." master Secura leaned down and pulled rose into a tight hug."God it is so good to see you again Rose, never thought I would see my shadow pet again. You vanished from all records, what happened?"
"Wait, shadow pet... Aayla Angel? Is it really you? What on earth are you doing as a Jedi?" Rose jumps up and gives her a massive hug before giggling and trying to calm down.
"Well I got recruited, it's why I stopped coming to see you, I wasn't allowed. Now, what happened to you? I kept checking on the people who where there and then you suddenly vanish, no address, no name." Aayla stared at rose for a second.
"I got sold, not a normal sale, I got sold under the table, so no record. I was used as I bodyguard, brainwashed, took 7 years for me to break through and get control again, at which point I was left on my own on Dantooine when I was found at the enclave." Rose hung her head trying to calm the emotions thinking about her past life brought up.
Aayla wrapped her arms around Rose while she calms down before the separate and walk out of the lift on the residential floor. "Ok well this is our floor; luckily there is either the spare room in my place or the room across the hall from me, so we are never that far, which do you want?"
"Umm, now that I have found you again I would rather not be alone for the time being so I can I have the spare room in your place?" rose speaks quietly half hoping she wasn't heard.
"No problem, you can have that, I've never had any need for it. So... aside from the brainwashing, what was your work like?"Aayla asks curiously, glancing at her padawan before opening the door to her apartment. "Home, sweet home"
"It's nice, bigger than my old room, and it wasn't too bad actually, my original personality was just suppressed but it would still learn as the new one did, so I still have all the practice from sword fighting and stealth... apparently I was meant to double as an assassin when it was really needed. Luckily I never had to. You know what I'm happiest about? Was the fact I was a bodyguard instead of a personal slave. So I didn't get used and I'm still pure." Rose smiles softly as she looks around the room, relaxing on the couch after putting her bag in her room.
"Alright come here."Aayla said as she pointed on the floor between her legs. "I missed playing with your hair so I'm taking the chance I have now."
Rose grins before settling down between her legs, resting her head on Aayla's knee. "So in the roles we have at the moment, do I have to call you master, or can it be mistress?"
Next Morning – Aayla's Apartment
"Come on Rose, time to get up, we need to test you fully to see if you are able to build your own lightsaber already." Aayla knocked on rose's door before going into the kitchen to get breakfast
A few minutes later a showered and dressed rose came out into the kitchen ready to leave. "Do you think they would notice if I wore a property collar?"
Aayla looks up and licks her lips as rose is testing the collar. "I'm not sure but you will need to be careful. I might be able to keep my hands off." Aayla laughed as rose childishly stuck her tongue out. "Alright, come on then, sooner we get this done, sooner you can make your own lightsaber."
"Wahoo, let's go already mistress." Rose grinned before standing next to the door, waiting for her to leave so she could fall into her place behind her mistress.
"You are way to excitable this early in the morning, obviously I'm going to have to teach you a lesson." Aayla smirks slightly at rose as she said this.
"Should be a good challenge, I'm sure we both have gotten better." Rose replied as they waited for the lift to arrive.
"Yes... ok, so what sort of reputation are you looking to get while training? Because I know you, you love having a different rep than everyone else to make you unique" Aayla looked while smirking at her student.
"Well you know what my position is going to be so I guess I should go with an evil 'don't mess with me' look, that way no spies in our ranks will know me." Rose replied with an unsure tone while pulling the hood over her head to shroud her face in shadows.
"in that case try not to talk to anyone, less people who know what you look like the better... maybe we should get you a mask to cover your face. Let the eyes show though, they can be scary." Aayla muttered to herself as they got on the lift.
"What type of mask did Darth Revan wear?" rose looked at her mistress curiously
"Well, it is said he wore two masks but the one most people remember is a mandalorian mask. I think there are some records of it in the library, we can go look while you're doing research on what lightsaber you want to build." Aayla stopped talking at the lift stops moving. "Alright, remember to keep to the plan. Good luck, shadow pet."
Rose nodded slightly and makes her eyes glow in the shadows of her hood as she walks one step behind and to the right of her mistress.
20 Minutes later - Training room
Rose and Aayla walked into the busy training room, moving through the crowd as people part and turn to look at them.
"Alright, you go into the training room and choose a lightsaber while I get the holo-program set up." Aayla turned towards a room at the side while rose kept walking forwards, silently enjoying the feeling of fear from everyone around her.
Once inside the training room, she picked up a basic mask that just covers her face before taking off her outer robes, leaving only the ones that hug her figure on. She goes to the wall and picks up a pair of curved lightsaber's and attaching them to the back of her belt before picking a saberstaff.
"Alright revan, you have an audience so we are going to put you against some of the Jedi knights... let's go for Qui-Gon and his padawan Obi-Wan to begin with then we will increase difficulty." Rose nods slightly before turning to the door as both opponents walk in and activate their lightsaber's. "Oh and you can use your darkness ability, the people viewing this battle will be able to see in the dark." Everyone shuddered slightly at the feral smile that appeared below the mask. "Begin!"
Rose immediately threw her saberstaff at the two Jedi before pulling out the two curved lightsaber's and holding them so the blades follow her arms. She charged towards the two Jedi, using her abilities to take control of the saberstaff and have it attack them from behind while she attacked from the front.
Observation room
You have been getting better my shadow pet, we should put you against some of the council. I wonder if you have managed to get the mind trick down yet. Aayla thought quietly to herself as she watched the battle, taking a note of the amount of force energy her padawan is using to control the saberstaff. Good girl, you have been working on endurance and stamina.
Training room
"You're not too bad for a couple of Jedi, but let's see what you make of this." Rose closed her eyes slightly as she invaded the Jedi's mind and before making the two see several versions of her, all of them charging to attack. "You are skilled but how can you hope to defeat that many of me?" she gave a slightly manic laugh before glancing at the Observation room.
She attacked every so often before slowly moving away from the Jedi, letting them fight with the mental copies of her.
Observation room
Aayla laughed as she saw what her padawan is doing. Well done little one, you have been busy. Things are about to get very interesting for the Jedi order. "Padawan, you have five minutes to end this match before we head to the archives." Let's see how you react under pressure.
Training room
Rose nods in acknowledgement before turning back to the Jedi before charging forward, making herself vanish and reappear right in front of the two Jedi, thrusting the two sabres forward into the stomachs of the two Jedi.
She turns around and de-actives the sabres and places them back onto the wall but keeps the mask as she turns and walks out of the training room, straight into the speechless crowd that watched the fight.
"Well done padawan, excellent use of abilities and swordsmanship." Rose turned slightly to see her mistress walking up to her before lowering her head slightly in acknowledgement. "Come, we need to head up to the archives to do your research." Rose nods once more and falls into step behind her mistress.
Jedi Archives
"Now, from what I have seen during your battle, you prefer to wield two single curved blades, while using your connection to the force to control a light staff. It's an... unusual combination...but as they say 'to each, their own'." Aayla spoke softly as they passed the meditation rooms. "Since you will be going into the enemy ranks, I would recommend looking at the styles of sabres that the sith use; maybe their fighting styles so you can play the part properly."
Rose kept quiet as she walked next to her mistress, getting a feeling of uneasiness as the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. She moves slowly closer to Aayla. "Mistress, did the council ask someone to follow and keep an eye on me?" she looked around the room without tilting her head too much.
Aayla glanced down at her padawan, noticing that she was using her training that she should always observe a room she enters. "Not that I am aware of, why do you ask?"
"Because someone is following us, remember the feeling I got back in the slaver's palace?" Rose asked quietly as they kept walking.
(Flashback)
"Come on Shadow, we have to move quietly if we are going to get you out of here." Rose aka 'Shadow' crouched as she moved against the cold stone wall, following someone she considers a sister towards the exit of the building she has had to call home for the last 3 years.
"Are you sure this is even the way angel? All these halls look the same and they are bound to notice I'm missing when they come to collect you from my room." Rose glanced back down the hallway before looking at Aayla aka 'angel'. She had a look of concentration on her face as we stopped at a cross section of halls.
"This way, I think... no, I know it is this way." She starts walking down another hallway.
Rose glances back again when the hairs on her neck start to raise. "Angel, we need to move, I think someone is coming." She starts moving towards Aayla slightly quicker.
"Calm down shadow, no one is coming; they would have sounded the alarm if they knew you were missing." Aayla smiled softly at rose as she slowed down so rose could catch up.
The feeling of uneasiness increased as she reached Aayla. "I don't like this, please trust me and do what I say." She grabbed Aayla's shoulders and pushed her into one of the alcoves that were covered in shadows. "please trust me and stay here, do not come out when you hear guards, go to the exit so you will still be able to visit after I'm out of punishment." Rose kissed her forehead and moved to the other side of the hallway.
"What do you-" Aayla quickly pressed herself against the walls in shadows as lights suddenly came on in the hallway.
"HEY, what are you doing out here?" Rose quickly glanced down the hallway, muttered 'love you' to Aayla and sprinted away from the guards to get them out of the area.
(End Flashback)
"Yes I remember, you never did tell me what your punishment for that night was, all I know it was two week's worth of punishment." Aayla shook herself from her memory before glancing at her padawan.
"And I'm still not going to tell you what happened to me. The feeling is back, someone is following us; let me get into the archives and sit down then I will get some answers." Rose sped up slightly as they passed through the doors into the research area.
"Alright, I won't pry as long as you tell me if it scarred you, either physically or emotionally." Aayla stares at Rose as they sat down at a table in the corner.
"Do we really have to talk about this here, my past is a secret that only you know the full story and this is not a private spot to talk. Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to find out who is following me." The lights flickered off and on to show Aayla that Rose is no longer in the seat.
Shadow space – Archives
Rose got out of her seat and walked around the archives to find the source of the uneasiness. Now, where are you? I know your here somewhere, question is on who's orders? Rose kept looking around before spotting the boy from earlier Anakin I think his name was. She walked up so she was sitting in the chair behind him as he was not so subtly trying to listen in before she fades out of the shadow space.
Archives
The lights flicker again to reveal rose sitting in the chair at Anakin's table, not that he notices. She watches him for about five minutes while checking her nails, acting bored. Surely this kid isn't stupid enough to not notice me. I mean come on, he is suppose to be the prophesy child, how the hell is he meant to beat a single person let alone the sith as a whole.
Finally she gives up waiting for him to notice, she snaps at him. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" she glares at him, making her eyes glow through the eyeholes in the mask.
The boy jumps in his chair and spins around to see who it is, only to go completely pale when he recognises that it is the person he was following. "Umm, well you see... I was... you were... I-" he stutters only to be cut off.
"Why were you following me and not with your master?" rose makes the lightning in her eyes move to keep his attention on them so her empathy work at full power, getting flashes of different emotions and thoughts.
Wonder if I can get those eyes... useful scare tactic... need to know what she is learning... fight her to be the best... must not lose... totally a future sith... stupid to train her and not me.
Rose smirked as she listened to those thoughts and slowly raises herself out of the chair and moves around so she is stood behind him with her head resting next to her ear. "And for future reference... I will always be better than you, you can never beat me little boy." She laughs at the boy as the lights flicker, letting her vanish into the shadows and back into her seat next to her mistress.
"So? Who was it?" Aayla watches as her padawan appears back in her chair at their table.
"it was the little boy that came into the council chambers with master Qui-Gon, he was spying because he thinks I shouldn't be trained; he believes that I am going to be a future sith lord and they should spend all their time training him since he is meant to be the chosen one from the prophesy." Rose snorts as she picks up the computer tablet with historical information on Darth Revan.
As rose read the information about revan, images kept popping into her head, like memories, only one problem with that...
They were not hers.
(Memory)
She was kneeling in front of what looked like the Jedi council.
"Rise, knight of the Jedi order, and join the other's in upholding the Jedi code and keeping peace in the galaxy."
(Memory change)
She was in the same room but the sky outside had changed, so had a couple members of the council.
"WHY AREN'T YOU DOING ANYTHING? They are all DYING; I can feel them so I know you can as well. How many of you have had a decent night sleep since this stupid war began? We should be out there helping fight them, we can make the difference." She screamed at them.
(Memory change)
She was standing in the hanger of a ship holding a blaster, surrounded by clones.
"Alright you lot, we have a exile Jedi joining us on this hunting party, remember, no one escapes this base alive, they are either captured or dead, no exceptions we-" she watched as the speaker touched his helmet. "Alright boys and girls, time to go hunting."
(Memory Change)
She was standing on the bridge of a ship, watching the woman in front of her, she had blood red hair with pale skin, purple eyes that glowed like lightning and two sharp pointed teeth poking against her dark red lips that reminded her of the ancient stories of vampires. She was wearing a black dress that hugged her figure and showed off her legs.
"We found it my love, we found it" she was staring out of the window at what looked like a space station before turning around to face rose.
"Yes we did Katherine FireStar, we found the star forge." She leaned forward gently kissing Katherine.
(Memory Change)
She was standing on a large ship staring at the dark red planet below.
"I DONT CARE WHAT IT TAKES! I WANT HER BACK ON THIS SHIP OR I WILL PERSONALLY FEED YOU TO THE HOWLRUNNERS ON KAMAR!" she screamed at them before spinning on her feet, stalking out of the room, down to the hanger.
(Memory Change)
She was in the medical bay on the ship, looking down at Katherine.
"They (sobs) they killed her (coughs) they killed our DAUGHTER" Katherine grabbed onto her lover's body and sobs into her chest. "Make them burn, make them hurt my love." She gently lowered Katherine back onto the bed as sedatives took effect.
She touched the bracer on her arm, activating the comm's system. "Commander, activate the shadow driver, make the planet burn."
(Memory Change)
She looked at the screen to see her fighters destroying several enemy ships before looking at Katherine standing next to her.
"What are you thinking my love?" she gently wrapped her arms around Katherine's body, resting her head on Katherine's shoulder.
"The Dr said that I have 20% chance of being able to have another child, I would like to try it again... I want to have a child." She was gently stroking her stomach as she leant back into her lover's body.
"As you wish, my love"
(Memory Change)
Rose finished getting dressed and glanced at the bed, seeing her lover sleeping peacefully with a small smile on her face before leaving the room.
"Master." She glanced down at her wrist before tapping it and replying.
"What can I do for you commander?" she starts walking towards the battle room of the ship.
"Your presence is needed on the bridge or in the battle room, we are being hailed from an enemy ship that has just arrived, it is the standard class for an ambassador."
Rose tilted her head to the side as she entered the battle room. "I'm in the battle room, patch the link through."
The lights flickered before a hologram activated and the face of a young female appeared. "Jedi exile, you have been summoned before the Jedi council to make arrangements for the dispersal of your army. You wi-" rose cut her off.
"First off, it's sith, not Jedi exile; secondly they have no control over me or my army and thirdly Bastilla Shan (her eyes widen) using battle meditation on me and my crew not only doesn't work but also signed your own death sentence." Rose quickly taps her bracer while the hologram is still showing." Commander, target ship and open fire." She looks at the female once more. "Goodbye Bastilla Shan, enjoy becoming one with the force."
(Memory Change)
She walked into the bedroom again to see Katherine crying softly on the bed, she walks over and wraps her arm around her shoulder. "What's wrong my love?"
Katherine slowly raised her head to show that she was smiling widely before handing rose a tablet, she glanced down before staring at Katherine in shock. "Is this accurate?" she whispers quietly.
Katherine nods her head quickly while muttering "Yes, yes, yes." She moves forward and buries her head into her lover's chest.
"Congratulations my love, I can't believe it." Rose mutters quietly as she holds Katherine close.
"I know, I was in shock, but it is true, we are going to have a child... properly this time, I'm not risking this one." She glanced down to see her lover's eyes brimming with happiness that she was going to get her wish.
(Memory Change)
Rose walks into the hospital room to see Katherine holding their new daughter in her arms, looking exhausted but smiling. "How is she?" rose mutters quietly to the nurse near the door.
"She is physically and emotionally exhausted but nothing time can't fix, she will be hungry for the next couple of days. Unfortunately this birth has destroyed her uterus, she will never be able to have children again, nothing with change that. Overall, she will live to see her daughter grow up."
Rose breathed a sigh of relief at that news. "Thank you, you are dismissed until the check up later." The nurse bowed before leaving the room as rose moved next to her lover's bed. "Hey love, congratulations." She smiled softly at the pair.
"Thank you my love, do you want to meet your daughter?" Swallowing thickly, rose nodded and gently took the bundle away from Katherine.
"Say hello to Aayla Rose FireStar."
(End Memory)
Rose glanced down at the tablet before sighing softly and saving the pages, knowing that she wouldn't get anything down with these memories at the forefront of her mind.
She glances across the table to see Aayla reading one of her guilty pleasures: Romance Stories.
"Shall we head back to our room, I have all the information I need and can keep going over it later." Rose spoke quietly so as not to startle her mistress.
"Very well, let's head back shadow" Aayla smiles softly at her padawan before falling into step as they leave the archives.