Talon spent the day contemplating what she had heard between the two Sith Lords. She was also curious if Maul had picked up her scent when she arrived on the planet. She didn't know but she decided if there was any chance of him following her back to Dathomir she'd take the longest route there to evade him. She reset the coordinates to pass through a few asteroid fields and pass a dead planet.

"Can't be too cautious if he's still creeping around." Talon said to herself.

She set her mind to moving the boxes of delivery into the nursery and dug out the paint she had ordered. Once the paint was mixed she starting painting the welded areas shut. She laughed with how easy painting was and found herself enjoying it.

Within a few hours she had the training area looking complete with the painted areas blending in pretty well with the walls and floor. She decided to check the ships progress. In the cockpit she found they were near the first asteroid field. She sat down and took the ship off autopilot and began to pilot it herself. She tried her best to avoid the floating rocks, but with the ship's long wings it was hard not to hit a few. The ship rocked a few times with the beating it was taking. Eventually they made it out of the field. Talon sighed with relief, no run ins with space worms. When she came out of the belt of asteroids she expected it to be empty space, but she saw something. Talon squinted her eyes and saw it was another ship. She donned her hood and sat sternly in the seat, still piloting.

"Boss!"

"What?"

"We got ourselves a ship coming within range!"

"Try to stop it! It might got some special spice or something aboard it!"

"You got it Boss!"

A twi'lek pirate rubbed his chin. This was quite the impressive ship. He looked closer and saw it was a Nabooian ship.

"Do not destroy the ship! It looks like it could have someone of importance on it!" the twi'lek commanded.

"Got it!"

Aboard Talon's ship a transmission came through,

"Unknown ship, stop your movement. This is a search stop."

"Ya right past an asteroid field search stop my ass." Talon said under her breath. She continued her trip towards the tanker ship.

"Boss! That ship ain't stoppin'!"

"Idiot! Use the cannons and destroy it's engines!" the twi'lek retorted. His henchman twirled back to the controls and fired a shot.

Talon felt the ship lurch back a bit as the tanker's laser hit her.

"Teach them to mess with me!" Talon said. She hit a button and the deflector shield generator kicked into gear. Talon flipped the switch on her controls and the ship's newly installed guns started firing rapidly at the tanker ship. She flipped another switch and watched the status for the engine gun to reach firing stage.

"Boss. They're getting ready to fire an engine ring at us and they've put up their deflector shields. None of our shots are affectin' them." The henchman said. The twi'lek pirate sat motionless,

"Cease ya fire. Let's see if we can once again get 'em to stop movement."

"Unidentified ship. Cease your fire and cease your movement. All we want is a simple check of illegal items."

Talon laughed,

"How stupid do you think I am? Cease YOUR fire before I blow you to pieces."

The henchman pirate seemed taken back,

"Boss?"

The boss cocked an eyebrow,

"Feisty isn't they? Tell ya what since you've surprised me as a Nabooian I'll give ya the gracious honor as having me personally check your ship."

"Like hell I will. I've got better things to do than toy with obvious pirates like you." Talon retorted. She pressed a button and watched the engine ring gun fire all four engines and the pirates ship's engines lose power. She clicked for more power and zoomed by the fallen ship. 'Let them figure out their own mess' she thought. She had always hated pirates. They thought they were could get whatever they liked because of their reputation for stealing. She puffed, pirates were among the dirtiest scum in the galaxy. Talon lowered the guns, but left the deflector shields up. She went to the back of the ship to look for lunch to eat before returning to unpacking.

Savage woke up and laid listlessly in his cot. He had no idea what he was suppose to do today. He was somewhat lost. He had always had someone to lead him, now for the first time in a long time he was on his own. He sat up and looked around. Verun was gone. Savage stretched and walked out of the clay home. He walked down to the training grounds and found no one there. 'Hmm… It's quite early. There should be warriors down here sparring.' Then he remembered the Nightsisters had been vanquished and there was no need for the Nightbrothers to always be in fighting shape. It then hit him that there was not really a way to hold Dathomir's population. He remembered the stories of how Talzin had brought all the Nightsister tribes together after the Shaman before her finally died. But now with the remaining Nightsisters destroyed… he wasn't sure. He shook himself mentally and sat down on the cold stone to meditate and limber his mind for the day.

A few hours passed and Savage had finally seized the point of peace and rationality in his mind. He stood up and saw there was still no other Nightbrother's around. He shrugged. Savage ignited his lightsaber and practiced a few basic moves before finally being satisfied with his results. He clipped his hilt back onto his belt and walked out of the training grounds for a small slice of food. In the village he found multiple Nightbrothers walking about. 'They should be upholding the warrior way and be practicing their moves' he thought. He picked himself a morsel and quickly scarfed it down. Savage looked around and saw the Nightbrothers building a house, fixing a wall, or skinning a kill. He saw the carcasses hanging over an enormous fire. 'It's been a while since I've been on a hunt for just the good of the village' he thought. He walked out into the forest and reached out with the Force for lifeforms. He found none. He kept walking and noticed a greenish mist mixed in with the red fog. He readied his saber and slowly kept creeping farther into the forest.

"Ah Savage. I wondered when we'd run into each other since your return." A voice said to him. He turned and found Mother Talzin standing before him,

"Mother." He said and gave a slight bow.

"I see you brought a companion with you although they are not your brother." She said.

"Yes. My brother and I had a disagreement on what was best for me and ultimately I decided to part ways with him." Savage told her.

"Was not the point of finding him was so you could learn and become stronger to fight the Jedi?" Talzin asked.

"I've found something more worthy of my life than the Jedi, even for all the trouble they've caused." Savage answered.

"Ah yes. Your companion. Who is she?" Talzin asked.

"She is Darth Talon. She has taught me more mentally than my brother has. She is to become my new mentor and teach me what Maul could not or would not." Savage told her.

"She's not just your new mentor. There is something unseen about her." Talzin said.

"Yes. She has something very dear to me. Something that convinced life has more to it than just revenge." Savage said.

"And what could that be?" Talzin asked him. Savage growled, he did not feel it was safe to let Talzin know of his unborn child,

"That is for me to know."

Talzin seemed incredulous. She rummaged through her brain, looking for the loyalty spell she had put on him. It did not appear to be there anymore. She was somewhat confused, she had thought she had ensured he would be ultimately loyal to her,

"What of Dooku? What do you know of him recently?"

"I do not know. After I defeated my brother I contacted him and convinced him to place Maul into his services. That's the last I know of him." Savage answered.
Talzin seemed unimpressed by his answer,

"That is unfortunate. How do you know your brother will not follow you here?"

"He will not. He does not remember us leaving here for he was too busy planning his little game with the Jedi." Savage answered. Again Talzin seem unimpressed.

"If you could I have one last task for you Savage." Talzin said to him. Savage stood up straighter,

"I'm done playing your games Talzin. I have more important things to do than waste my time serving you. You took everything from me."

And then he left Talzin standing there. She was surprised. The loyalty she had bestowed to him was ultimately gone. She had other ways of forcing him to do his bidding. She disappeared into the fog.

Savage kept walking. He was a little shaky from standing up to a feared Shaman, but he felt with her not having her Nightsister army she would not feel safe blowing her cover too much. He continued his hunt. He walked along a creek and looked into the dark water at his reflection. He had not looked his reflection much, but now he saw how much he had changed. His horns were taller. His face and jawline fuller. He saw how fierce he looked now. He wondered how Talon had the guts to not fear him. 'Probably because she could kick my ass in 10 seconds flat' he mused to himself. He searched in his head for anything of his old personality that remained. All he found was memories of Feral. The memory of them spending the winters together, hunting their first kill together, dragging it back and hoping for approval from the tribe leader, and then Feral passing his tests into becoming a man and how proud Savage was. Then Savage felt the guilt he had carried with him when he saw Feral's pleading eyes and heard his loving words ring in his head.

"Feral I'm so sorry. I wish I could bring you back…" Savage murmured. He may've been connected to the dark side, but he still felt guilt at the memory of his youngest brother. He stood up and closed his mind to all thoughts. He focused primarily on his prey.

Talon stepped back to admire her work. The entire nursery was set up and ready to go. She smiled, now she had that off her mind. She stepped out and took the boxes with her. She set them down in the engines room to get rid of once she landed back on Dathomir. She hopped back up into the controls room and checked her progress. She was halfway back. She was about to leave when she felt a dark presence. Talon scoured the ship with the Force and found no dark lifeforms. She looked on the monitor. It had no picked up any ships following them. She felt confused. Talon sat down and slowly aimed the guns towards the rear of the ship and fired a few rapid shots. Most of them passed through the empty space, but two landed on something. She watched a ship suddenly appeared on the monitor. Her eyes widened in surprise,

"Unidentified ship identify yourself!"

"Sith bitch! You'll pay!" a voice crackled through. Talon gasped she knew that voice.

"Darth Maul. So you've finally found me. Too bad you had to use cloaking to do it instead of being a man and facing me yourself." Talon taunted him.

"How could I? After all you left Coruscant so quickly I never had the chance to defeat you!" Maul screamed through. 'I've got to lose this maniac' Talon thought, 'The dead planet is within view. If I can get him to crash his ship I can make my escape to hyperspace.'

"You want me Maul? Come and get me!" Talon yelled back to him. She pressed the accelerator and her ship zoomed forward towards the dead world. She slowed down upon entering the atmosphere as to not cripple her ship. She checked her monitor and saw Maul was still following her. 'Perfect' she thought. She pressed her boosters and her ship surged forward. She flew upward with Maul following her and then once she was upward she shifted the controls downward. She leveled out and found a series of caves.

"Time to disappear!" She yelled out to herself. Her ship disappeared in the darkness and she dimmed the lights inside. Quickly she cloaked her Force presence and remembered to cloak her baby's abilities as well. It cried weakly through the Force at having been cut off from it.

"It's only for a little while young one." She said soothingly to it. She crept the ship forward very slowly and felt her ship bounce back a little as Maul's ship zoomed by. She gunned the engines behind him and quickly turned the guns forward. She fired them quickly. The laser bullets hit one of his engines but he evaded the rest. She kept firing and continued to hit his damaged engine until his ship started going down.

"So long Maul!" Talon said through the monitor. She gunned her ship up into the atmosphere and put all the power into the hyperspace. She'd had enough space business.

Savage walked back into the village with a rock dragon and a small deer like carcass. He hung them up from a tree and began to skin each. The deer like creature's fur came off easily and quickly. He left it on a boulder for whoever wanted it. He turned his attention to the rock dragon and drove his saber deep into it and began to peel the scales off. A few loose ones fell to the ground. He picked one up. It felt smooth and rough at the same time. He heard noise behind him. He turned around and saw the young Zabrak boys Talon had encountered petting the deer like creature's skinned fur. They saw him looking and hid behind the boulder.

"No use hiding little ones. I saw you." He called out to them. They crept out,

"We like all the gifts you and your lady friend bring!" they told him.

"Well in that case, take these fallen scales as a continued example of gifts." Savage encouraged them. They rushed forward and collected the fallen scales. Each boy looked at his scale with amazement. Savage turned his attention back to skinning the dragon.

"Can you teach us?" one of the boys asked.

"You're much too small to skin anything bigger than a rat." Savage said without turning around.

"Oh okay. Can we watch you?" the boy asked.

"Sure. As long as you watch to learn, not for amusement. A good warrior is always learning." Savage said to them. The boys sat down in a semicircle around him and watched him skin the dragon. They also quickly collected any scales that fell off. Within 3 hours Savage had the whole dragon skinned. The boys looked at it in curiosity. It looked strange without it's scales on. Instead of being red and blue it was fleshy and pink. One boy went to poke it.

"Don't. We don't know where your hands have been." Savage said sternly. The boy pulled his hand back forlornly.

"Now why don't you all go look for one of the tribal leaders and have them teach you something?" Savage suggested. They all looked at each other and ran off. Savage sighed. He liked teaching these kids something useful. He picked up the carcasses and hauled them over a flame to cook. He wasn't hungry, but it felt good to be doing something useful for the village. He was walking back to Verun's home when he heard an engine. He craned his neck to the edge of the village. He saw the black sleek Nabooian ship landing. He sprinted to it and ran up it's boarding platform. He ran into Talon. Savage picked her up and spun her around.

"I wasn't expecting you back for another day!" he exclaimed.

"Well hello to you too. Well it was suppose to actually longer than that, but I got bored in space, so I worked the engines hard to race back home." Talon explained. Savage kissed her,

"It doesn't matter. You're home now and I'm happy for it. You've no idea how badly I've missed you."

Talon laughed and kissed him back,

"I've missed you too! But it actually does matter."

"Savage stood back a little,

"What does that mean?"

"I'll tell you later. First come look inside!" Talon dragged him inside. She showed him her handiwork on the training area.

"Wow it doesn't even look like it's been tampered with much!" he complimented. She nodded and smiled. Next she led him to the nursery. When the door slide open he inhaled hard. Talon had put together all the baby stuff they had ordered. It looked like a modern royal nursery.

"Our child is going to have quite the life." Savage said quietly. He rubbed his massive hand on her belly.

"Yes they are." Talon replied she kissed him, "Come on. I'm bored of being on this ship. I actually missed the cold dampness here."

"Alright. Come on. I've got to report something to Brother Viscus and then off to the hot springs." Savage said. They boarded off the ship and headed to Viscus's building. They walked inside and found him studying the head of the rock dragon Savage had killed.

"Savage. I see your mate has returned. Good kill, with this rock dragon. Not many warriors bring this or a rancor in." Viscus commented.

"I'm not like most warriors. I have something to report." Savage said.

"Oh? What could that be?" Viscus asked, disinterested.

"Mother Talzin appeared to me." Savage said.

"She's appeared to others too." Viscus replied.

"I'm sure she didn't have a conversation with them." Savage said smartly. This caught Viscus's attention,

"What did she say?"

"Nothing about the village. She wanted me to go on a mission for her, but I said no. I'm not playing her games anymore." Savage told him.

"Oh alright. As long as she does not threaten the village I do not care what she does." Viscus said and went back to studying the dragon head. Savage bowed slightly and walked out with Talon following him.

"Sounds like you've had a busy few days." Talon commented.

"That's an understatement. They've been exhausting. The day you left I helped Verun teach a few younglings, then the next day I was assigned to oversee their Ritual hunt and I ended up killing a rancor. And then today Talzin appeared to me." Savage told her.

"I sensed you did not tell Viscus all of what Talzin said to you." Talon questioned.

"No I did not. She asked about who you were and also any news on Dooku." Savage told her.

"Oh. Well I also happened to have a slight run in with Dooku and his master." Talon explained.

"Dooku has a master?" Savage asked surprised, "It seems every Sith has a master to answer to."

"Yes that happens with your time's Sith, the Rule of Two. A master and an apprentice at all times. After they discovered me and I made my escape they sent your brother after me." Talon said.

Savage stopped walking,

"He did not catch you did he?"

"No I lost him among a dead world and forced him to crash his ship." Talon replied. Savage sighed,

"Good."

They reached the hot springs and quickly undressed and slipped into the water. Savage's muscles immediately enjoyed the hot water. He had worked harder than normal and it was taking a toll on him. Talon snuggled next to him and enjoyed the hot water along her spine.

"This pregnancy is taking it's toll on my body. I was lucky to escape the Sith Lords with the extra weight." Talon murmured. Savage turned to her and lowered his hands. He worked them along the muscles on her skin. Immediately she relaxed and moaned in relief. He did that for the next 20 minutes. Talon turned to him,

"Thank you." And she gave him a long kiss. They enjoyed the hot spring together for the next few hours. They had missed each other's company quite a bit. Talon told Savage of how beautiful Coruscant had been and all the strange encounters she had dealt with on her journey back. Soon she started to get sleepy. Savage pulled each of them out of the water and they each quickly dress. Savage scooped Talon up and headed back to the ship. Talon snuggled her head next to his chest, feeling his warmth radiate through his armor.

By the time he reached the ship she was almost asleep. He gently set her on the bed and pulled off her boots. He pulled the sheets over her shoulders. He quickly pulled his own boots, shoulder pad armor, chest armor, and shirt off. He climbed in next her and pulled her into his arms. Savage rested his head on hers and breathed in her smell. Oh how he had missed her. Soon he fell asleep with thoughts of her swimming through his head.

A/N: hey guys! Thanks for reading this far! I know maybe the story has no real point like in a movie, but I'm kinda just doing this for myself and anyone else who wants to read it. So I just noticed something weird and I'm not sure if I'm missing a chapter or what! But if I am PLEASE let me know and I'll try to fix it! But thank you so much for reading this far and the comments mean a lot to me! You guys are awesome! :)