Hello there, I'm finally back!

Sorry about the long break, I've got two excuses, one is worse than the other: 1: I kinda shot myself in the ass with making Sul undead (that idea came totally out of the blue, I simply caught myself typing it down without thinking it over), so it took me several tries until I came up with the sollution you'll be reading in a few moments, and 2: I had exams (on which I miserably failed :( ). But that's the past, move over :)

Thank you all for the reviews!

StarwarsRocksMySocks: Yeah, of course Ahsoka got some bruises, but those aren't significant storywisely. They'll be taken care of later.

Aldamonburst: The Togruta words in this story are completely made up by me. Since there isn't a single official word on Togruti in the EU works I know, you can say I speak Togruti, since I invented it ;P That one sentence in the previous chapter, that Nikana told to Anakta -oh who am I kidding it's pretty obvious who she is, isn't it?- means "Anakta, Master Plo needs to rest. Leave him alone!" or something like that.

I hope you'll like this chapter too.

Now then once upon a time...XDDD

„How could've she turned out of herself like this? And to think, I believed that she might be the Chosen One…Sul…What've happened to you?" Plo thought. The terentateks surrounded the village. The Togruta screamed in terror. Those who had blasters shot at them, but for no avail. The laserjets couldn't hurt them even if they had been alive. The beasts threw themselves at the villagers. Before they could react, three man lost their limbs to the blade sharp claws. „What's going on here? It's one thing that she managed to keep herself alive, eventhough her body received lethal wounds, but how was she able to re-animate those monsters? Their bodies're supposed to be immune to the Force!" Sul was still laughing. Then she attacked. Plo blocked her lightsaber with his. Their faces were inches away from each other. The two laser blades painted Sul's scared face in yellow and green light. She hissed like a feline and flashed her sharp, canine teeth. Then licked her lips. „What kind of nightmare is this?" Plo asked himself. In this moment, Sul broke the saberlock, spun around and with one untraceably quick move she severed Plo's left arm just below his shoulder. Before he could make a move, or even scream, her weapon had run through his chest.

For a moment the world darkened in front of the Jedi Master. He didn't feel pain. He didn't feel anything at all. Then he sensed the Force surrounding and embraceing him, like never before. „So this is what death feels like…It's strange, but not at all bad. I'm just sorry it came so soon. I let everyone down. The village, no the etire planet will suffer, because I failed as a teacher. Sorr…" but in this moment burning pain erupted in his chest. In and out, in and out. Something stuck him repeadetly. He tried to sream, but his lungs had been already completely destroyed. Plo looked up to his tormentor. It was Sul. Wait… Looked? „Am I not dead?" The girl giggled.

„You won't get away from me so easily, Master. I want you to feel the agony I'm in right now. I'll keep you trapped in your body, and I'll continue torturing you, almost sending you to the otherworld, just to drag you back from the edge of everlasting peace, again and again, until you completely crack up and even forget who you were!" she pulled out her lightsaber from his chest, and chopped of both his legs. Plo was almost blinded by the anguish. Both of his arms fliched. Then it struck him: both his of arms fliched! „Wait a minute…She cut off my left, didn't she?" the thought ran through his mind. Then Sul engulfed him in a barrage of lighting. Beyong the buzzling Plo heard Sul scream „I'll turn your remaing time into a real nightmare!"

As she said the word „nightmare", it automatically triggered a memory…

Flashback

„You will tell us who hired you!" Plo said and waved with his hand. The Trandoshan bounty hunter only laughed.

„HrhahraNo, I won'tssh" the Jedi Master sighed and turned away. He and Sul, his eleven year-old Padawan have been interrogating him for three days now, since his failed attempt on the wookie chieftain, Tarfful's life, but the mercenary was strong willed, and even had a mild Force-sensitivity, so their Mind Tricks didn't even faze him. They couldn't even make him to tell his name. The girl stepped forward. Her face reflected determination.

„Master, let me try something!" she said. Plo didn't think she could break him, but nodded nonetheless. He was out of options here. Sul held up her right palm, just above the reptilian's forehead, and closed her eyes. „Is she trying to read his mind?" Plo wondered, but shook his head. They already tried that about a dozen times, but it was in vain as well. For a few minutes nothing had happened. Then the Trandoshan started to shiver. He grunted, and shook his head deniingly. He hissed a few worlds in Dosh. Then his mouth openned to scream, but no voice came from his mouth. His body tensed against his bands, his face was distorted by pain, his eyes gauged, like they could pop out at any moment.

„SUL!" Plo thundered, saturating his voice with the Force. The girl shriekred and stopped whatever she was doing, turning back to her Master. The Transdoshan's body went limp. His limbs were shaking uncontrollably, his breathing was heavy and shallow, like he had indeed been tortured.

„All raghight. I'll tell you everytshsing." he whispered. The cocky self-confidence from earlier disappeared from his voice.

„What in the universe have you done to him?" Plo asked Sul. The already small statured girl had visuably shrunk from the expostulatory tone, but she didn't reply, just gazed the floor in front of her legs. „I asked you a question, Padawan!"

„I…have stimulated his nerveous system through the Force. At first I wanted to make him think we're his kin, by forcing his optic nerves to channel a fake picture, and blocking his memories of us, but it was too diffucult. I got frustrated, and…"

„And you hijacked his pain sensory nerves in his entire body." for a moment Plo was too stunned by the shock of that the young girl was capable such an effort, even to be angry with her. He was thinking furiously: „The fact that she is able to do something like cellular manipulation is increadible, but to use it like this, is downright outrageous. Torturing somebody was the last thing I expected from her." It took a few minutes until he could say another word, and even then his voice was trembling from disappointment and anger:

„Never, you hear me, never again use torment on someone!" the girl sent him a hurt grimace, and tried to argue:

„I didn't do it on purpose! And besides, I didn't lay a finger on him! He just thought he was in pain!"

„No! Maybe he wasn't physically damaged, but the pain you made him feel was real! Using terror and torment to control others, is wrong. It's the way of the Dark Side. Never use this technique again! Understood?" the girl bowed her head, and muttered:

„Yes, Master. I'm sorry."

End Flashback

Plo strained his muscles as the Force Lightning ran through his whole body. He focused, and did everything he could to lock the shoking pain out of his mind. He tried to clunch his fingers together with his supposedly amputed left arm. He made it so the long and sharp talon on his middle finger would slightly cut his palm. And despite he couldn't see or feel his hand where it used to be, he felt the clear sting as his claw tore up his skin, and pierced into his flesh.

„So I was right!" he though and moved his arm, and slammed his talon where his left thigh had been, and broken it into the muscle tissue it found. Altough at first it seemed and felt like he was waving with the stub of his upperarm, the two twinges of real, physical pain he felt, cleared his head, and broke Sul's control over his nerves. He was standing in the front of the tree, where Sul's pushed him earlier. Sul who looked exactly like in the vision, was standing about forty feet away from him. All three of Plo's limbs were in their places, and all the terentateks disappeared. „So she really is dead, but everythingelse was a halucination." The Togruta were kneeling in the dust, screaming in anguish, shooting and flinging in random directions with their melee weapons. Plo shriked.

„I should've expected this now, that you descended so low. Still I can't believe you improved your Nerve Manipulation technique to such a high level, since you left the Temple. You've been developping it ever since you had first used it, five years ago, haven't you?" Sul smiled

„No. I've started to practise with it only one and a half year ago, after we had failed on Akron. Apparently it's not perfect yet, otherwise, you couldn't have possibly break it. How did you figure it out?"

„Paying attention to the small details was never your strength." Plo looked around. „First of all everyone knows terentatek hide is completely unaffected by the Force. So even if you managed to take control of their minds, there were still noway you could've re-animated the carcases." „If the Togruta are kept in this state for long, they'll eventually go insane. I've got to figure out something..." to draw the girl's attention, he asked:

„How did you practise this wicked halucination techique anyway? I mean, you surely couldn't use training droids for that. Who were your test subjects?" the girl smiled, but it was so cruel and cold, it almost froze the blood in the Jedi Master's veins.

„At first I tried to practise on animals, but it just didn't feel right…"

„Feel right? She's talking about a brutal tormenting techique!" Plo though.

„…and I couldn't check the results of the halucination part on them either. So I…" her smile widened into a madman's grin, and Plo suddenly understood what she had done:

„…used it on myself!"

For a moment Plo tried to convince himself, that he had heard wrong, but Sul's expression left no doupt about the opposite. She giggled again. Plo sighed „So that's how it is. That's the only way I can imagine her to become so twisted. That failure hit her very hard. She felt responsible for that tragedy. So she started to work on something that quarantees, that she'd always get the right informations in the future. But by practising it by torturing herself, she sunk deeper and deeper into madness. Her brain couldn't deal with the situation. It must've been a slow process, then before she left Corruscant, she must had stepped over the line. I can't believe, I didn't notice it. That's why she said she had always wanted power and nothing else earlier. She really thinks that's true, because she damaged her brain, memories and personality so horribly. She's a victim of her own guilt."

„It's a pity, I can't use this technique on you. I would've liked to listen to your screams a little longer. But you know what? I'll compansate it with the villagers. Now Master, you will die!" with one wave of her hand, she tore Plo's lightsaber out of his grasp, crumpled it into a small metal ball, and threw the useless weapon out from the village. Then she unleashed a barrage of Force Lightning, more powerful, than either of the earliers. Plo prepared, he hoped he could at least reflect the first wave back to the her, but he was quite sure, he'd be dead in the moment a spark touched him. However he didn't find out about it. Someone screamed over the riot, on a clear, high voice. Plo trembled, and fell on one knee. All of a sudden the Force had abandoned him. But he wasn't the only one. In that same instant, the blue-white energy tendrils of the Lightning dissolved into nothing. The Togruta who until then had been trapped in Sul's illusion, stopped screaming, and slowly stood up, gasping heavily, looking to each other confused, unable to comprehend the situation. A golden light flashed up from the direction of the huts. Plo looked there and saw the glowing figure of an adult female figure, resembling, but not entirely a Togruta standing there. Before he could get a better look at her, a blood-freezing, growling scream of pain and recoil drew his attention to itself. Sul was grasping her head and her arms furiously. Plo's eyes widened behind his googles in surprise. The Dark Jedi's body started to decay rapidly. Plo tried to focus on the Force, and trough his severly weakened connection to it, he felt something very odd: it was like a minatute, but powerful black hole sucked out the Force from around them, and was feeding on it, getting bigger and bigger by the minute.

„YOU!" Sul howled at the glowing figure, while she watched her corroding hands in utter disbelief. „You're the one, I've got to kill!" she collected every drop of strenght she had, and attacked the woman with Force Lightning. However it was entirely pointless. The electrical surge was immediately warped up into a spiral, and sucked in by the strange phenomenon, leaving the object of the attack unharmed. Before Sul even had a chance to surprise, ruby red water erupted from the pod at the village border and flowed over her, tearing out a bluely glowing ghost form form her body, before disappearing into thin air. Then sapphire flames erupted under her feet, incinerating her body withing a moment. A windstrom came, and blew her ashes away, then two rock pillars grew out of the ground, merging into one around her bones, before sinking back to the earth. And Sul Caas, the insane Dark Jedi, who not long ago, had been the most promising member of the Jedi Order, was no more.

The glowing figure disappeared with the rock, now hiding Sul's remains, leaving the fragile figure of a small Togruta child, where she was standing. The little girl collapsed…

End Flashback

„Later we've found out, that the first messanger had been killed by Sul a couple of hours before she came to the village. After that, we've sent another messanger to the other village, to inform Master Yoda about Sul's death, and warn him to come Shili alone, and in secret if possible." Master Plo said „When Yoda had arrived, and heard the story, we agreed on that this should be kept a secret, and that we should bring the girl here. Altought her powers faded away after she stopped Sul, I was sure it would eventually return. Since I didn't want this to happen, before she was ready to try and control it, I used an ancient Baran Do technique, to seal away that throbbing „neutronstar" to the depth of her sub-conscious. I also gave her a new name, to make sure noone ties her to these events. It was Ahsoka Tano."

I think I didn't made the difference between Sul's technique, and Jedi Mind Tricks clear enough in the stories. A Jedi Mind Trick bends the will -the psyhe- of it's subject to the will of the user. Sul's technique uses the Force to control the nerve endings of the body, similarly to how a Jedi or Sith can use Force grip to move objects. So Mind Tricks are psyhological, while Sul's is physical control.

I hope you enjoyed it.

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P.S: I'll try to speed up the story. Thank goodness summer holiday arrived, so I've got plenty of time now, but I can't promise anything. In any case I really hope to finish this fic, before Ahsoka's offical destiny is revealed in the series.