Maul sat in the co-pilot seat next to Fury and groaned.
"So I'm guessing things didn't go well?" She looked at him
"No everything is fine, sister. He just needs to settle in." Maul said then he typed in some coordinations
"Where are we going?" Fury looked at the coordinations and was confused
"It's a planet that has no inhabitants so if he tries to run," Maul paused as his sisters mouth dropped in realization of what he was planning.
"I didn't figure you would try to do it so soon." Fury chuckled
"Well I think my dear Jedi will get the picture once we land." Maul smirked looking back at the door as he said it loud enough for Obi-wan to hear.
Once they land, Fury entered Obi-wan's room. She chuckled as she saw him standing up. She walked over to him and quickly pulled his hands behind his back.
"What are you doing?" He asked and struggled a bit, but stopped knowing it was useless. She pushed him over to the door. "Where are we going?"
"I'm dropping you off on the planet below." Fury smiled as he looked around the ship
"Where's Maul at?" He said with a calm voice, but on the inside he was scared. He counted himself lucky that she didn't know how to use the force to tell how he truly felt.
She laughed at him as she opened the hatch and walked him out onto the planet. "He's out there somewhere. I wish you the best of luck Jedi."
"Luck? Why luck?" Obi-wan couldn't keep his curiosity low now, he had to know what was happening.
"Well he didn't say anything about not telling you what this is." She started keeping the smirk on her face. "This is to determine whether you and him should..." She stretched out her last word as she thought of a way to put it. "I guess you would say, whether you both belong together." She took him off the ship.
"Belong together?! And... uh, how is this going to prove it?" He asked calmly even though he was confused and she started to walk back onto the ship. "Where are you going? What going on?"
"He's going to hunt you down! So I suggest that you start running! I dropped him off not too far from here!" Before he could react, he saw the hatch to the ship closing and she took off into the atmosphere.
He started running into the dense jungle that she dropped him off in. He had no clue where Maul could be and he had no doubt that Maul could smell him already.
After running for a long time, Obi-wan found a river and he hoped that he was far away from Maul. He decided to jump into the deep river hoping it would cause Maul to lose his scent. He went downstream a bit before swimming to the other side. He then quickly looked at the trees hoping to find some branches close enough together that he possibly make a shelter out of. When he arrived, the sun looked like it was at its highest point and now it was setting. He had no clue of what kind of creatures lived on this planet. He hoped that being up in the trees it would decrease his chances of being found or attacked.
He soon found two trees that branches intertwined he climbed up one of the trees and laid down on the twisting branches. He took a deep breath and hoped the next rotation he would be able to find some kind of village that had a sort of spacecraft that he could leave in. With that thought he fell asleep.
Obi-wan woke up to some kind of noise around him. He slowly opened his eyes to look in front of him. All he saw was the emptiness of the jungle. He slowly sat up and carefully looked at the ground. He noticed nothing beneath the branches or around the trees. He looked behind him and to his relief there was only the more intertwining branches and other trees. Taking a deep breath to ensure his calm state, he laid back down. It probably was just his imagination, he thought, or a wild animal. Now that he thought about it a bit more, Maul did act like a wild animal at times. He sighed and turned to his side. He thought about the previous battles he and Maul had. How every time they fought Maul would take his lightsaber out first and during the fights how Maul just stared at him. Maul often circled him during the middle of battles as if he was thinking if the next thing to do. Obi-wan often wondered what was going on in Maul's head when he was circling him all those times.
It's been two rotations now since Obi-wan has evaded Maul. Maul has finally picked back up on his scent from two giant trees. It is recent, he has to be close by. This must be where he's been sleeping. Maul thought to himself. He wondered whether he should stay there and wait for his mate to come back or follow his scent with the possibility of losing it again. Maul ached to see his Obi-wan again, he only wished he would stop hiding and running. Maul growled at himself at the thought that Fury must have told him something about it. While he was in deep thought he suddenly felt a change in the force. Obi-wan's mind block was down and Maul could sense he was in danger. He quickly dropped all of his thoughts and quickly started tracking where Obi-wan could be.
Obi-wan looked around him. He was cornered and he knew it. A pack of predators circled around him and had pinned him up against this mountain that seemed to of come out of no where. He cursed this jungle with it's hidden surprises. He jumped up on the mountain, his feet landed on a small ridge. Not to his luck, the predators quickly climbed after him up the mountains like experts. Obi-wan knew he had nothing to fight these creatures off with. No weapon on him only the force. Hating himself for even thinking at the moment, he took down the force that was cloaking his presence to allow Maul to find out that he was in trouble. He quickly tried to get a higher ground then the predators. To his surprise one of the predators jumped down at him and pinned him down. He quickly held the animals head back at it attempted to bite him. One of its large forepaws came out and created a large wound on his arm. He held back the want and need to cry out in pain and he quickly used the force to push the creature off of him and down the mountain. He got up and thought that the mountain side must be filled with ambushes of more of those creatures. He desperately tried to find a safe and quick way down the mountain as he held his bleeding arm.
Maul quickly found himself at a mountain where a large creature laid knocked out on the side of, possibly dead. He could sense that his mate was in dire need of his help and he quickly scanned the mountain side. Soon he found Obi-wan bleeding from one arm and being backed into a corner that's only two let outs where blocked by the creatures and lead off to a cliff with a steep drop.
Obi-wan looked around him and saw three of those creatures had pinned him into a corner and the only way out that was barely blocked was to a cliff. He would be able to go to the cliff jump off but grab onto the ledge and do a force jump. Similar to the one he did when he first encountered Maul, but that required both hands. Even if he attempted it, it would severely damage his already wounded arm by tearing and ripping muscle apart that would take a while to heal. He couldn't take anything for chance right now. All he could do was hold off the creatures with force pushes and hope Maul makes it before he faints of blood loss.
As Maul scaled the mountain to get to Obi-wan several of the pack predators came to attack from both above and below. Knowing it would take too long to just hold them off with the force he pulls out both his and Obi-wan's lightsabers and quickly tries to killed or at least severely injure the creatures. As he fought them he looked up at Obi-wan and noticed that he was quickly losing blood and his will to concentrate. Maul could feel his force slowly slipping.
Maul cut through one more of the predators and he used the force to jump behind the creatures that were attack his Obi-wan. He started fighting and killing the creatures and once he was about to kill the last of them he felt the force push him. Growling he looked at his mate then notice a creature had landed where he was standing. Had his mate, that hated to be near him, really be caring enough about Maul to of pushed him away from an attack? Or did he just push Maul away to ensure that he lives?
The creature hissed and growled at Maul, but it had turned and started walking over to Obi-wan. Maul growled and jumped up. He landed on the creature and stabbed it through with both lightsabers. Once the creature fell the other started making a hasty retreat. Maul, deactivating the lightsabers, looked at his dear Jedi and quickly went over to him he already passed out due to the loss of blood. He quickly turned on his wrist comm.
"Fury, forget about all of this. An accident has happened and we need you to land beside the mountains." Maul spoke into the comm
"Alright. I'll track your transmission and try to land as close to it as possible. What happened?" Fury asked confused.
"Just get down here already!" He growled then heard nothing else from the comm. She was probably afraid of what he'll do if she asked again.
Maul tore a piece off of his robe and tightly wrapped it around the bleed arm. He then carefully lifted his dear Jedi up into his arms and he looked at the sky.
"Damn it Fury, where are you?!" He growled then saw the ship land on a flat part of the mountain a bit further up the mountain. He used the force to quickly jump to the craft. Once he opening was down he quickly ran to the medic part of the ship and a doctor droid came out of a corner.
"I need to step aside so I may work on the patient." The droid said and Maul held back a growl and walked over to the other side of the room than to directly behind the doctor droid. Watching the droid carefully, he scanned every little movement the droid made.
"I am sorry sir. But your presences here is unneeded. Please return to your room and relax." The droid spoke and turned to Maul. "Once I have fully examined the Jedi and stabilized him, you may come back to see him." Maul looked over Obi-wan again. Scanning for any more wounds and injuries that he didn't notice before. When all he saw was the gash in Obi-wan's arm, he took a deep breath and left the room.
"How is he Brother?" Fury asked
"Wounded, but he'll live." He sat down next to her and looked into blank space.
"What happened?" She asked calmly and curious
"He was on his own when he was cornered by predators." Maul started "He was injured, cut open at the arm and he was losing blood fast. By the time I got to him, he was nearly unconscious. I, myself nearly got hurt, but he had pushed me out of the way."
"He was keeping you safe! Maul, don't you understand? He actually wanted you safe." Fury smiled and stood next to him.
"It was a small victory, Fury. I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. He's a Jedi, they do anything in their power to keep others safe." Maul explained
Fury chuckles with a smirk and places a hand on his shoulder. "Whatever you say brother." She walked to the rooms. "I set the coordinates for home brother. Mother wants to see us."
"Mother? Why would Mother want to see us?" Maul asked confused looking over at her
"I'm not so sure. I would imitate her, but I'm sure she wouldn't like it." Fury joked and chuckled "She said something about lost brothers... Have you got any idea?"
"Before when I was hunting down Kenobi, before you came along, I was with a brother. His name was Savage. But my old master had killed him." Maul suggests
"Well if he's dead, he can't be the one she was talking about." Fury thought out loud. "Come brother I doubt you got any rest while you were down there."
Maul looked at the medic bay door then joined Fury in the sleeping quarters to get some rest.