Tempel

Chapter 1

'Dear Gods'.... more he couldn't think as he saw the gory sight.

The corpse of the poor boy had been ripped into pieces. The feet dangled on thin straps of muscles and he didn't even want to look at the face...

Not just the sight. He could almost still hear the screams, feel a tingle run over his skin like blood. He shuddered.

"Everything alright?" His colleague Jasper asked. He just nodded a bit.

They both worked for the republican security, but even after examining two of these places already, sights like this weren't every daily..

And they still had a number of rooms left to look at in this one.

"Call the ME's" he told Jasper, while proceeding out of the bloodstained medical room. The scans had shown no life form in the building, but he was still on edge. "Team Besh, status update"

"Team Besh proceeding to the eastern large hall. Doors are locked, overriding them"

He looked at the map the scan had provided them. Three complexes have been scanned. All under the earth. One small one, two big ones, one of them a big hall, the other many small rooms. He was in the latter.

"Team Cresh?"

"Team Cresh finished Complex three. It's a living area sir. The datapads and all consoles have been destroyed"

Anakin sighed. This was certainly exhausting.

"Team Besh, we got into the hall. It's littered with old blankets, and there are a lot of excrements in a corner... it stinks sir."

"Corpses?"

"One Sir, a young girl"

He sighed..

Slowly he and Jasper went on. The next rooms were medical rooms similar to the first, but at least no more corpses, just blood....

He gulped at the thought what had been done to people in these places

"Sir?" Team Besh was on the comm again "we found something."

"Another corpse?" Was Annatars first intention.

"No sir... but the first corpse breathes...."

He gasped. Until now they had only found corpses, never many. Blood in masses tho. They had tracked the DNA back to hundreds of kidnapped children throughout the galaxy... maybe this one could tell them who was behind it.

"Call a medic. Immeadiatly!" He yelled over to his teammates.

He could barely stand still "You proceed in this Complex. I'll join Team Cresh"

And with that he was already off.

It took only moments for him to arrive at the side. The girl has been laying half under one of the ripped up blankets

A young Togruta, maybe fourteen years old, fifteen at best. She was breathing, indeed.

She was only wearing a ragged dress, that did nothing to hide how crucially starved she was... considering how old the corpse of the boy looked she must have been alone here for a while but even for that time that was a lot.

She had a gun shot in her chest... "how did she..?" he looked to the trooper kneeling next to her

"It appears that the shot has pierced her sideways"

He turned her to the side a little, showing that the shot came out at the side of her arm... it must have barely missed her heart and lung. Probably vaporised much of her rips.

He kneeled down now too. She beside it spotted multiple bruises and some scratches and cuts. Her bare feet were crusted in dried blood.

"How long is the medic still needing?" Anakin asked worriedly.

"A few minutes sir"

He saw the eyelids of the girl flutter a bit and felt like he would freeze.

She was awake?