Hello everybody!

First of, Allow me to share "happy" news (for me) with you:

On the 10th, this month, I turned 1year-old as a Fanfiction author on this site. From this occasion, I'd like to thank everyone, who bothered him-, or herself by reading my stories, and esspecially thank everyone, who encouraged me with a few lines of replies. Thank You All! I hope you liked my writings so far, and really hope you'll continue to enjoy them in the future.

Secondly, some bad news (for both you, and me)

Fiiinally finished this chapter...'tho I have a bad feeling, it didn't turn out as well as I hoped it would...I didn't really have time, and I'm afraid I'll have even less in the future. My timetable is horribly stuffed, and if I don't want to be kicked out from the university, I'll have to work really hard. Therefore, I have no idea, when will I be able to update next time.

AldamonBurst, Ahsoka320 and x-men are awesome: I'm glad you like the story. AldamonBurst: Don't sweat it. I'm happy for any feed backs. Still if you notice anything, please point it out.

All right, let's see, what happened a long time ago, in that Alternate Galaxy, far far away:

„Are you insane?" Anakin yelled, jumping up. „Why in the universe would you do that?" Shaak Ti sent him a cold, commanding glipmse, that silenced him. There was something in her eyes, that somehow restrained his sudden anger. Only after that, she answered:

„It is time for her 'Aalch'icti'." the last word sounded really weird: the first syllable was accompanied by a tremor, while the second sounded kind of like a bird thrill.

„Pardon? I don't speak Togruti." Shaak Ti gave him a strange half-smile, that almost looked like she pitied him.

„Let's just wait, until Ahsoka arrives." she said, then sat down on a rock, and started to meditate. A few minutes later she added:

„You may watch it, because, you're her teacher. But I warn you: do not dare to interfere! Master Plo will oversee see it, as judge." she barely finished when the Kel Dor arrived.

„As a judge?" Anakin echoed. „Is this some sort of match?" he asked but neither the woman, nor the Kel Dor responded him, so he decided to wait patiently. Maybe five minutes passed, when finally Ahsoka arrived too.

„You've gotta to be kidding!" Anakin's thoughts cried out, when he saw, that the girl was dressed similarly to Shaak Ti, except the parts of her „dress" were made from black leather. Shaak Ti openned her eyes. She seemed to be annoyed:

„I told you, Youngling: Nothingelse, but the dress!" Ahsoka looked at her in confusion

„Excuse me, Master, but I don't wear anythingelse."

„Is that so?" She moved too fast for human-eye to follow. She covered the fifteen meters between them in blink. As she stood before the younger Togruta, her figure suddenly appeared to be much higher, than she really was. She raised her hand. Ahsoka stepped back, thinking she was about to hit her. But she didn't. Instead she tore the akul-tooth-headress off of her forehead. Then she spun around her, still too quickly to detect, and took Ahsoka's silka-bead Padawan-braid as well.

„No jewels are allowed on an Aalch'icti!" she thundered. Although Anakin had decided to remain cool earlier, at this point his irritation got the best of him- esspecially after he had seen understanding ran through on Ahsoka's face.

„OK, that's it! What the hell is that 'Alsykti'?"

„Aalch'icti." Ahsoka corrected his pronunciation „It literally means 'Fate-dance'. It's an ancient, togrutan tradition. An initiation exam. It takes place during the Shili's summer equinox. All younglings of the village, who turned sixteen since the previous day-night equation, must participate –girls and boys alike. Only those who pass, may join the hunters of the village." Anakin was speechless for a few seconds. Then he shouted at Shaak Ti:

„You want to beat my Padawan half-dead, becasue of a stupid tradition?"

„Do you really have so little faith in your apprentice, Skywalker?" she asked. Anakin saw the waiting, worried look in Ahsoka's eyes. He looked directly in them as he replied:

„No. I'm well-aware that she's fully capable of protecting herself, if she has to. But she was hanging between life and death just a week ago. I don't think she should fight, until she perfectly recovered."

„That would be an acceptable reason, however it's invalid. I asked Barriss' opinion, and she said that Ahsoka is actually in better shape, than she had been, before she was attacked." Master Plo interrupted. Anakin rolled his eyes:

„Who's side on you're? Do you want Ahsoka to get killed?"

„I'm on nobody's side right now. I'm neutral. Otherwise, I couldn't be the judge."

„Master" Ahsoka said „don't worry, I'll be fine. Don't forget I'm good in unarmed fighting."

„Maybe, but Shaak Ti is the best hand-to-hand combatant of the High Council!"

„Oh really?" the Togruta woman looked back at him over her shoulder „I didn't know I've been hold in such high regard. I'll do my best to reach up to the expectations" Anakin raised an eyebrow, and so did Ahsoka. „Is she mocking me, or her?" he thought.

„So, youngling," Shaak Ti turned to Ahsoka „are you ready?" Ahsoka bent her head

„Yes, Master."

„Very well. Skywalker, would you mind waiting next to Master Plo?" it rather sounded a command, than request, so Anakin didn't bother answering. He sent one more worried look to Ahsoka, then walked over to the Kel Dor.

„Why do you let her to do this?" he asked.

„It's easier for a human to breath in the space, than making a Togruta forget about their traditions. Just look at Ahsoka. She was four years old when I took her from Shili, and yet she still remember what the Aalch'icti is. I have a feeling, we would have to tie her down to stop her from taking it, even if she was hardly able to stand. Anyway, she's lucky. When Shaak Ti was in Ahsoka's age, the leader of her tribe came here personally. She was told, she would be exiled from the planet, if she didn't return and take the exam. Besides, do you remember what I told you, about how had I found Ahsoka?"

„Yes, but what does it have to do with this?"

„Shaak Ti has a really wild theory about it. She wants to test it."

„Allright, let's do this." Shaak Ti thought as she took the opening stance of the fighting-style, she developped herself. „I have never used the Ch'icti o akul in a fight before. I didn't know why, but I always had had a feeling I should reserve it for a special occasion. I just hope this really IS that occasion. If she is a Tamer, her body will recognise it, and answer accordingly. Well that's the theory, at least. My style is so incomplete and amaturish compaired to the original, it would be a smaller miracle if it really worked out that easily." Ahsoka raised her fists, and stepped back with her right leg, hoping for support in the wider stance. The elder Togruta couldn't help but smile.

„How naive." she thought. In the next second Master Plo gave the signal. Shaak Ti switched into stand-to, and raised both her arms above her head. Ahsoka launched herself with speed unique to their carnivorus people. She was at halfway, when Shaak Ti sent the massive Force-ball she created towards her. Ahsoka must have senced it, becasue in the very last moment, she jumped up, spinning in the air sideways, getting out of the bullets reach. Shaak Ti barely threw the ball, when she already lifted her left leg, until her knee was inline with her shoulder, proving her increadible flexibility and balance. Then, before Ahsoka could land, she slammed her foot to the ground, causing a powerful shockwave, that caught the girl, and bashed her with her back to a tree. Ahsoka eeked from the collision. She couldn't even make a move, when Shaak Ti was already standing above her, with fists raised to hit. All of this happened in two seconds.

„Nice one, Little Soka!" Plo Koon praised the girl in mind, when she blocked two powerful punches by catching Shaak Ti's wrists. However the Master didn't hesitate to grab the opportunity. Her fingers clenched on Ahsoka's arm. Then with amazing speed, she kicked the girl's legs out from under her body, spin around and sent her flying to the small lake. Ahsoka dove for a second, then came up coughing water.

„I won't let this go any further!" Anakin said, and moved to stop them.

„Don't do it!" Plo said. Anakin turned around

„I will not watch my Padawan die, because of a barbaric tradition!" he yelled. Plo replied calmly:

„If you don't want to see it, go and wait outside!" Anakin was nearly blinded by rage, when he heard this, but before he could say another word, the Kel Dor continued:

„You'd disgrace Ahsoka. Maybe this exam seems to be barbaric, but it's nothing different from the Jedi Trials. Besides, Shaak doesn't want to kill her. She just want to bring out something from her." Anakin sighed, and –'tho still trembling with anger- continued to observe the fight which started to get interresting.

„So is this the Dance of the Akul?" Plo asked himself, as he watched Shaak Ti's movements closely. „Surely I've never seen something like this before. It resembles Mace's Vaapad, but it's much more graceful…and even wilder. It deserves it's name. She avoids Ahsoka's counters and blocks like she was dancing, but her attacks are ferocious like a predator's." Ahsoka was horribly outmatched. She couldn't block more than half-a-dozen punches and kicks, and couldn't score a single hit. Plo glimpsed over at Skywalker.

„If this takes any longer, I don't know if I'll be able to stop him from intervening." he had barely gotten to the end of this thought, when Ahsoka was slammed against a tree again. „What should I do? Shall I stop it? No, it's begun only two minutes ago. The judge can't call off the exam, until at least five minutes had passed, or if one of them can't move for more than twenty seconds." As he watched, Ahsoka slowly stood up. But this time something was different about her. Plo crinkled his forehead. „For some reason, Ahsoka's Force-presence has just weakened, but she seems to be allright, aside from the bruises. Could this be it?"

„Something has changed." Shaak Ti thought, when she looked in Ahsoka's eyes. „She's been numb, since my first hit. But now her eyes are perfectly clear…" in this moment Ahsoka moved. But so quickly, even the Master's increased ability to sense movements could barely follow it. She was able to duck Ahsoka's punch in the very last moment, but didn't have time to respire, because the girl continued her assault. Her kicks and hits were beastial, they lacked control, and were proposed to kill, and yet they were surprisingly elegant and graceful. Almost like…

„No doupt of it. She's mirroring my style…" she blocked a kick, and narrowly avoided another punch, then tried to counter. But Ahsoka easily danced away from each of her moves. Her arms moved like snakes, as she continued to attack. „No, there's more to it. Even though it took me years to reach this level, she copied it almost perfectly, and even took it furter at some point…I was never able to reach the point where no defence is needed." Shaak Ti smiled „So I was right after all. There's no other explanation. Noone, but them could learn the third circle of the Ch'icti o akul barely because it was used against them. She is from the Archtribe…Now to see, if I was right about the other thing as well." she Force-pushed Ahsoka towards an ivy-covered tree, jumped up making a backflip, and collected the Force in her feet. Still air-borne, she waved towards the liannes, which quickly tied down the surprised Padawan.

„Let's test it, if she is a Tamer." she struck both her feet into the ground, just like earlier. However, this time she did it with such power, that the shockwave threw head-sized rocks towards the incapacitated girl!

Then it happened.

Anakin lurched and grabbed his temples. He had never felt anything like this. The Force…the Force itself trembled, just like the sea, when shook by a gigantic earthquake. Something, very deep beneath the deepest he had ever reached into the Force, was awakened, and bursted up to the surface with the power of tenthousand solar flares.

„Can you feel it too?" Anakin gasped the question to Plo Koon, who looked back at him in confusion

„All I can feel, is that I don't feel anything. All of a sudden my connection with the Force was totally severed." Anakin couldn't believe his ears. „There's no way, someone with his powers can't sence THIS!" He closed his eyes, and tried to focus. „It's almost like…Yeah, something warrped up the Force into a gigantean vortex! What hell is going on here?" he heard Plo Koon's astonished voice:

„Skywalker, look!" so he openned his eyes, and saw it. Silver-colored ghostflames incinerated the ivies, that held down Ahsoka, and in the same moment a watersprout erupted from the small lake, and formed a whirling wall between the girl and the speeding stones. But something was really weird about it...(Asides of the fact it was a whirlpool, that came from nowhere!) Just like the fire, the water seemed…otherwordly? And the amount was much, much more, than what the small pod contained. „What's this? I didn't notice it yet, but… in the center of the disturbance in the Force…yes, it's Ahsoka!"

Count Dooku slipped and fall down on his knees in the office of his Castle. The Dark Side had just left him for quite a few seconds, and altough he regained his sences, all he could feel, was the Force being twisted out of it's natural flows, by something he hadn't even heard of. He felt more and more of both Sides being erased by the second, and something emerging in their place. And then, just as suddenly as it came, the unusual phenomenon stopped. No sooner, his Holoprojector signed an incoming call. He activated and bowed in front of his Master.

„My Lord." he greeted Sidious, then looked up. He was surprised to see, that the hood, which he had always worn with extreme care, barely híd his face this time.

„Judging by your expression Lord Tyranus, you have felt it too."

„Off course, Master. But I can't even dare to comprehend, what it was. Do you have any explanations?" Sidious's mouth was distorted by a snarl:

„I have only one idea, that could possibly explain this event: an Essence Tamer has just born, on the Shili. But that's almost impossible. It was said only one would be born in every fived centuries, and only thirteen years ago, one of my henchmen eliminated the latest, and last surviving descendant of the Archtribe." Dooku looked at him in utter confusion:

„Archtribe? Essence Tamer? Those sort of ring a bell, but for some reason I can't remember anything concrete."

„I am not surprised. It took decades of research even for me, to find out any useful information about them."

„Shall you fill me in the details?" Sidious seemed to reflect on the request:

„I don't think I have a choise. But I won't tell you trought the HoloNet. Come to our meeting place, immediately!"

„As you wish, my Lord."

„What did you do to her?" Anakin yelled at the heavily gasping Shaak Ti, while he picked up his unconscious Padawan from the mud.

„I'm sorry, I had to knock her out cold. Don't worry, she'll be fine- if we can keep this as a secret, that is. No, don't take her anywhere!" Anakin looked at her angrily, but carried Ahsoka over to a grass-covered spot, that hadn't been torn up, or soaked by the previous battle, and laid her down. A few seconds later she openned her eyes.

„Hey, how're you?" Anakin asked, but Ahsoka's looked over his shoulder, to Shaak Ti.

„So, did I pass?" she asked silently. Shaak Ti came over to them, and so did Plo Koon.

„Yes, you did. In fact, you did it with flying colours."

„And the most concerning part, that exactly is." the four of them turned around, and saw Master Yoda tumble towards them, from the direction of the door.

„Master Ti, understand the traditions of your people I do, but to stage an Aalch'icti in the Room of a Thousand Fountains, necessary it was? Esspecially with a suspicion like this."

„What did you suspect, Shaak Ti?" Anakin asked with a hard edge.

„Patience, Skywalker." Plo Koon said. „First, it's time for me to reveal everything in front of Ahsoka, about what event's led me to find her."

"The truth?" Ahsoka asked. This took her by surprise.

"Yes. You don't remember everything that occured back then, partially because you were too young. It all started with my former apprentice: Sul Caas."

„Wait." Ahsoka interrupted „I've heard that name before…wasn't she the one, to hold the records of both the youngest Innitiate to be appointed to the rank of Padawan, at the age of seven, and the youngest Padawan to be Knighted, at the age of sixteen?"

„Correct, you are." Master Yoda replied „Definitely, an unprecedented talent, she was. By the time, a Padawan to Master Plo, she became, she had gathered considerable knowledge about the ways of the Force, an ingenious lightsaber duelist she became, AND" at this time the old Master sent a meaningful glance towards Anakin „mature, well beyond her age, she was. At least think so, we did."

„What about her?" Ahsoka asked „I thought she died in a space accident." Plo Koon nodded:

„I was the one, who wrote that report. It's fake. The only ones, who –until recently- have known about what had really happened to her, were Master Yoda and myself." Master Plo replied.

„The end of her story, is the beggining of your's."

Thirteen years prior (2:6:18) Above Planet Shili, Ehosiq sector

„I must stop her! I can't let her release those beasts on that planet." Plo thought as he chased the transport, in which his former apprentice Sul Caas, had hundreds of deadly terentatek waiting to be unleashed on the unsuspecting Shili. „She had so much potential…How, and when did she turn to the Dark Side? And more importantly: why? Why is she planning to attack her own home planet, with the most dangerous creatures that ever existed?" he quivered, and grabbed his left upperarm, where a wide, but not deep wound remained from his encounter with one of those monsters on the Korribban.

„I hope, the universal antidote will be enough, at least to slow down the venom. Sul would be a hard opponent, even if I was in my best shape." he increased the speed of his fighter, but the damaged ship had barely survived the Hyperspace-jump, and the highest speed it was able to produce, was roughly one quarter of it's maximum. „I won't be able to catch up to her, before we reach Shili! I'll have to shoot her down, in the moment I got in firerange!" he gave more speed, and tried to not care about the protestant jarring the fighter replied with. „Even if I die, I must not let her land!" ever slowly the distance decreased between the two ships, but the Kel Dor wasn't satisfied „She'll be in the atmosphere in three minutes! I must act now!" he closed his eyes, and let the Force to guide him. No computer could have aimed the engines of the trasport from this far, not with the fighter's guns at least. But no computer could rival a Jedi's sences either. Plo Koon waited for the right moment, then fired a barrage of laserjets at Sul's ship. Most of the bullets missed, owing rather to the hybrid girl's skills as a pilot, rather than the distance. But not all of them. A few struck the ship, exactly at the engines. A series of explosions followed the hits. They weren't enough to destroy the transport, but they did their purpose: it slowed down, and stopped, drifting without purpose in the void of space, equilibrating on the edge of the gravitational field of the Togruta homeworld, but safely far away from it. Plo closed by the dud. When he reached it, a penstock openned, and the young Twi'lek-Togruta hybrid appeared in a thin-spacesuit. He could see her rusty colored face, with green markings behind the light helmet's window. Her once emerald eyes, had a sick yellow tone. „Why is she wearing such a thin suit?" Plo asked himself, but found the answer almost immediately, as the girl activated her saberstaff. „Of course! That suit will protect her, only as long as my hide could protect me, in space. So, she wants to fight me here, and now. I don't know how much she learnt from those Sith Holocrons she had found. I'm not sure, if I could defeat her. But if I tried to shoot her down, she might would reflect the laser fire with her lightsaber. Even if she couldn't, killing her like this, wouldn't be in accordance with the Jedi way. I must at least try to save her! She hasn't done anything unforgiveable, yet, so there's still might be hope." he prepared himself, degassed, and openned the fighters's cockpit, and in the same moment jumped towards the othership. He used the Force, to he stuck his feet to the hulk, and faced his failed Padawan, who smiled behind the helmet.

„Welcome, Master! I thought my other pets have taken care of you. But you know what? I'm glad you made it to here. At least I can have the pleasure of killing you myself." Plo heard her malevoulent voice from his radio

„Don't do this, Sul! You can still turn back! Don't let the Dark Side to consume you!"

„Hahaha! Still as idealistic as ever, Master. I thought you got to know me better, than that. I want power, and I'll get it by all means! Even if I have to give up my free will, I'll be the strongest in the universe! I never wanted anythingelse, just you, and the other fools in the Jedi Order failed to see it. And since there were nothing left, that you could teach me, I searched for another teacher, and I was succesful! I found someone, stronger than all those clowns you call „Masters" combined! Just imagine it: he agreed to train me, if I did a favor for him: eliminate someone on Shili, and take him a few Holocrons from the Korribban! A small price, in exchange for the knowledge of how to become allmighty, wouldn't you agree?"

„So that's why you came here. To fulfill your end of the bargain. But why are you plannig to use those horrible creatures?"

„Why not? What's the point of a hunt, without some beageles? They're listening to me, and only me! They will find every Force-sensitive, in whichever area I release them. And if they kill some others, who cares? It's all part of the fun!" and she laughed. Plo was thunderstruck. Now he was sure, there's noway he could turn the girl back to the right path. It wasn't really what she said, that convinced him, it was rather how she said it. That insane tone, permanently burnt itself into his memories. He took his lightsaber in his hand, and activated it. „It won't be easy to duel her out here, but I can't let her live." he lifted his left hand, and unleashed a barrage of lightning from his fingertips. Sul didn't seemed to be phased by it. Before the Electric Judgement struck her, she blocked it's way with her lightsaber, then slowly started to walk on the hulk towards Plo Koon. The emerald-colored double-blades were spinning in her hands so quickly, they looked like a firey buzzsaw, from which the Kel Dor's attack was splintered off like blaster fire. „Just as I expected." he stopped the attack. They looked in each others eyes. Then they clashed. Despite the Kel Dor's physical advantage, his decades of experience, and mastery of Djem So, he was quickly forced onto the defense by the vertiginously whirling lightblades. But he wasn't impatient. He knew his former students fighting-style. He knew exactly when he has to push the offence, and where to strike, in order to gain the upperhand. After a quick set of pairies, with one powerful, perfectly carried out twist, he cut down one of the emitters on Sul's sabberstaff hilt. The girl backed off, then attacked with a powerful Force Lightning. Altought Plo managed to block it with his lightsaber, a few of them managed to struck him.

„Allright, if this is how you want to play it…" he switched into a two-handed grip, and launched a ferocious assault. He could feel his anger, his disappointment building up in him, but did't let them to overcome his mind. Stepp-by-stepp Sul was pushed back. Losing one of her blades, was a great setback for her, but her talent was still enough to stand toe-to-toe with Plo Koon's skill and experience. For a few minutes they attacked, blocked, countered, but neither could even get to close to injuring the other. Then they found themselves face-to-face, divided by their weapons, caught in a saber lock. Only Plo Koon could benefit from this situation, it was obvious. Despite all the training, the small girl couldn't hope to resist the Kel Dor's bone-crushing physical strength for a longer period. Even the weightlessness couldn't help her, since she lost as much because of it, as her opponent did.

„You might as well give up!" Plo said, as he forced her onto one-knee. She grinned:

„You're underestimating me, Master!" she released the hilt with one hand, and formed a cramp with her thumb, fore-, and middlefingers. Plo Koon immediately realised, what she was planning, but he didn't have time to react. He felt like a very big, increadibly powerful palm pressed down on his entire neck. blocking the arteries and veins, squeezing his laryngeal, and lifting him up, away from the ship. Then came the shocking pain of the Force Lightning.

„I stand corrected. You're not idealistic. You're simply naiv, Master. Did you really think, I came out here without a few tricks up in my sleeve?" Plo didn't even bother with trying to reply. He knew he couldn't speak. He also knew, he had no hope of breaking the Force Choke. Sul was way more powerful in the Force, than he himself. Instead he collected his remaining strength, and shot a powerful lightning towards the hulk. Sul didn't get the idea in time. The discharge hit the ship, and the metal-platting conducted the electricity straight to the failed Jedi. She tried to jump, but she was too late. The deadly grasp instantly released the Kel Dor, as his attack run through her body. Then the engines came to new life for a mere second, before they exploded, along with the entire stern. The detonation threw Plo Koon and his fighter away from the remainings of the ship, which drifted towards Shili. The Jedi Master watched in horror, as the transport was caught by the planet's gravitation, and started to dive. He could see Sul disappearing in the same penstock, through which she came out.

„I must stop that wrack!" he pulled himself to his ship with the Force, sat in the cockpit, and reactivated the system. He launched the engines, and tried his best to catch up to the meteor. He hoped he could shoot it to pieces. He knew it, if there was a pilot in the Galaxy, who still could land that thing, it was Sul. And he had no intention of letting those terentatek survive. But he forget about what a horrible shape his fighter was in. As soon as he entered the atmosphere, the engines drowned, the shield went off, and just like the transport, it fall through the sky. Through the flames on the window, he saw the little village in the last moment. He grabbed the handlebar, and with great effort, he turned the speeding ship away, barely avoiding the small huts. Then it crashed into the ground…

When he openned his eyes, the first thing he saw, was the canopy of a haulm-hootch. He felt tight bondages wrapped around his arm, and chest. He tried to sit up, but he was pushed back down right away, by a young Togruta woman, who was about twenty years old.

„Stay still. You have broken an arm, and several ribs. You mustn't move for a few days at least."

„I have to! You're…all in grave…danger! I must…make sure, that…those beasts didn't survive!" he gasped. He was shocked when the girl laughed him out.

„Don't worry. Nobody can hurt this village. Not now, when the legend is being fullfilled!"

„Please! Listen to me: nothing can save you from the terentatek, nor from the insane Dark Jedi, who brought them here!" the woman wanted to answer, but she was interrupted by a chirping voice. The woman and Plo looked towards the entrance. A small girl stood there, who couldn't had been older than four years. The woman responded her on the same language. Altought Plo didn't speak Togruti, he did notice the deep respect in the woman's voice. He also noticed somethingelse. That child was quite strong in the Force. He could feel it. And there was something more to her…

The woman's answer seemed to had cheered up the toddler, who spun around and ran away.

„Who is that child? You seem to really honor her. Is she the daughter of the chieftain, or something?" he asked, but the woman shook her head.

„No." she smiled mysteriously „She is the Linarali."

„The Linarali? Are you refering to the legend about Shili's daughter?" the woman seemed to be surprised by the fact he knew about it, but nodded:

„We just call her 'Anakta'o'sho, -which means child of the freeone on Togruti-, or Anakta for short. Yes, she is the one from the legend, but you're the first outsider we let to know it. If anyoneelse learn about this, it would put her, and the entire planet in danger." Plo gulped.

„I've just dropped by, quite literally. You don't even know me. Why are you putting so much much faith in me, in a complete stranger, if this knowledge is so vital for your people?"

„I know you're a Jedi. That's all I have to know."

Later

„We don't know who were her parents. Her mother had already gone into labour, when we found her at the border of the village." Nikana told Plo Koon, as she served an early dinner for him.

„I remember it clearly, because it happened only a couple of days before my Aalch'icti. Since I had been taught healing by my mother, -who was the wise woman that time- I was there the whole time. I have seen hard birthes prior and since, but her's was by far the most complicated. Her mother was about the same age as I'm now, but she was woozily thin and slatternly: it was obvious she had spent most of her pregnancy in the wild. By the time, she finally gave birth, she had exhausted her final energy reserves. She got one glimpse of her daughter, and died. She couldn't even name her." she stopped, and looked at the Kel Dor's face.

„Master Plo, what I'm about to tell you now, is a secret. You seems to be familiar with our mythology, is that right?"

„Not quite. I have studied some of your legends, that're greatly differing from anyother culture's, but strangely enough, bears some resemblence with Baran Do, or Jedi traditions.."

„Then you must know the legend about Shili's daughter?" Plo hesitatingly nodded:

„It's one of the most ancient myth of the Togruta, that's origins are predated to about a million years ago. It's also the only Togruta legend, your people refuse to tell most offworlders."

Shili, the Creator, from whom the planet of the Togruta had been named, foreseen that hir work will be in constant danger, by it's own immaturity, and one day, this could bring about an apocalyps. Hie knew, if this happens, hie wouldn't be able to stop it. Therefore hie decided that, at the werge of that cataclysm, a person will come, who will have the power to pull back the universe from the edge of destruction. But Shili feared, that this person would be just as fallible, as the rest of hir creation. For this reason, a guardian will be sent, to guide, protect and keep him or her on the right path. She'll be hir daughter, and three signs will identify her: first when she's born, four of Shili's serving spirits, will recognise her as their misstress. Then, before she could learn to talk, she'll protect the people around her, from something horrible.

„And the third sign will be an injured warrior, who'll fell out of the sky. He'll bring the news of a great threat, created by someone, he thought to know well. Does that description sound familiar?" Nikana interrupted. Plo shake his head in utter denial.

„No. This is just coincidence. After all, the first two signs weren't fullfilled, right?" when the girl didn't reply, Plo looked up at her:

„Right?" the girl smiled mysteriously, before answering:

„Wrong. They were fullfilled. Your arrival was the final proof."

AN: No, the pronouns refering to "Shili, the Creator" aren't mispelled. Shili is neither a she, nor a he, but since hie is a person in that myth, I don't want to ferer hir as "it".

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