Disclaimer: Disney owns Star Wars, not me. All the characters and places (except for my OCs Analise, Meeka, Gaspar, Myra, Sibar, and Serria) belong to them.

"aaaa"-talking out loud."aaaa" (bold and italics)-talking through a holo or com. 'aaaaa'-inner thoughts. aaaaa-talking through a Bond. "aaaa" (bold)-another language.

AN: Thank you to Count Mallet for the review. I hope you check out the other stories in my Anakin and Analise series:)

Again another short chapter. The first chapters tend to be short as I figure out the pacing and jump into a new story. The chapters will be getting longer though as The Hunt moves forward.

While my story deals with Ahsoka getting her headdress, this chapter introduces a bounty hunter from her past. Like I said, I was inspired by the Ahsoka Tano: Untold Tales panel. If you want to read a really good story about Ahsoka's discovery, check out A Padawan's Discovery by sunnie5:)

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Chapter Two

Men like him made her sick.

Sneering men.

Arrogant men.

Rich men.

Powerful men.

Even the flicking holo, blue and hissing with static off and on because she had never got around to fixing after the last hunt had forced her into a space battle that had damaged her small ship; could not disguise his breeding. Could not hide the wealth and power oozing from every pore and seeping into his very voice.

She sneered again. She had told him years ago that he would come crawling back to her. She might have failed then, but she knew Shili like the back of her hand. In fact she held several villages in her thrall and had for years.

She was after all Meeka Lure, a figure of power to many Togrutas.

"So you come back to me then, just as I said I would."

"Your tongue is still not tempered even after that lesson I gave you years ago. Even with this weak connection I still see the scars, my marks on you." Meeka growled low and run her fingers over the eye-patch that kept her left eye hidden from view. The strap cut across her forehead and check, connecting in between her montrals.

"I should be thanking you for this Count," She hissed, the white markings on her face growing smaller, sharper as she glared at him. "Being blinded by a lightsaber in these eye has only allowed me to gather more followers from the smaller villages where the Jedi are distant myths and figures of uncertainty."

"You owe me then and it is time to collect." Count Dooku's holo folded his arms and all Meeka wanted to do was wipe that arrogant smirk from his face. He was the one who had sought her out all those years ago after hearing rumors of an anti-Jedi movement slowly growing among the smaller, more remote villages on Shili.

That was Meeka's doing. She had been forced to return to her backwards planet after the Jedi had destroyed the successful slaving business she had been a part of. Successful because their slaves were Force Sensitive children that they scooped up before the Jedi got them.

She had wanted revenge. Turning an entire planet against the Jedi Order seemed like a good place to start.

Dooku had come to her then. There was a Force Sensitive child on Shili and his Master wanted that child. Meeka promised to deliver the brat. After all the brat was from one of the villages under her control.

It had all gone wrong. The parents had refused to had the brat over, so she and her followers had attacked only to be pushed back. The parents died, but the brat and its siblings had been claimed by relatives from a bigger village that Meeka dare not go to.

Dooku had been angry and his anger had taken the form of a lightsaber to her face, blinding her in one eye.

"What do you want Count? I would have thought that you had bigger things to worry about." She folded her arms, the many knives on her belt jingling as they knock against each other.

"The child you failed to fetch for my Master all those years ago is returning to Shili. She is have a Akul Hunt so that she can be raised to the rank of Jedi Padawan."

"So that blasted Order did get her..."

"Yes...She is still young enough my Master might be able to bend her to his will and if not..." The holo gave an elegant shrug of his shoulders, "She might be of some other use. Capture Ahsoka Tano and you will be rewarded with all that you need to complete Shili's conversion to a planet wholly against the Jedi."

A jolt raced through Meeka's body at the name Tano. She threw her head back and cackled. "This time I am sure I will not fail you Count." A grin full of hatred crept across the battle-scared face. "Getting the brat will be far easier this time around."