"You feel empty. You feel alone. Lonely. Almost frightened, but also strong, yes? The name for what you are feeling is freedom. How did you expect it to feel? You are free, and that can be lonely, and empty, and frightening. But it is also powerful...
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She was told to sat and wait for her father to return with informations, informations that were important for her heart. Hands shaking and feet bouncing as she stood on the golden flying chair from Palpatine's apartment suite staring at the view in front her, lights could be seen that were still on Coruscant even if night has already made its way on the planet. She wasn't surprised, after all the capital has always been a busy and stream of people place in the galaxy, she had known that from the tells of her father. "The capital is a busy planet, child" has always been the quote Palpatine gave her when he returned to Naboo once or twice a year. Whenever the girl saw him shivers ran down her spine, his cold eyes and stern attitude were something that made her heart fear. Her mother would take her away into her chamber and put her to sleep assuring Zoraya there was nothing to be scared about. "He is not a monster, my love. He is your father and he loves you very much just as I do" were the words the woman before kissing her good night and let her disappear in her fantasies. But Zoraya did not believe the love of her father was as true as her mother's, just thinking of the man made her feel more insecure. He would not see her much, not because he didn't got time the reason was something else that Zoraya thought it was just in her mind but it was not, he hated her, his own daughter and Zoraya had never understood why. It was always Zoraya and her mother living happily together on Naboo in his retreat that he was kind enough to let them live in. Every morning she would wake up and run to her mother in the kitchen where a sweety salad fruit would wait for her and then they would go outside and play in the gardens while Andromeda, Zoraya's toy droid, would fly and make funny noises as the girl would laugh happily.
The door of the apartment opened up as Palpatine walked with fury and wrath making the little statues from his desk fall on the ground. "Master" Darth Maul spoke with a bow as The Senator turned around to see a little red-head girl who was staring at him in fear as her droid escaped a small beep hiding behind her back. "Where is mama?" Zoraya whispered but regretted immediately seeing that the man in front of her could not control his anger anymore, he took one of the statues that did not fall off and threw it on the wall passing by Darth Maul who sheltered easily. Finally Palpatine calmed a little taking a deep breath and sighed "Your mother is dead, child" he said with a cold voice as if he did not care at all about his wife's death. Then why was he angry? He was angry that now he remained with this child, his child, a girl incapable of anything, no force in her, no strenght, no power, nothing, at least that is what he thought. How could he The Senator and The Sith Lord got gifted with such an awful heir, he hated, he distugted his own kin, it was unreal of a parent to feel like that but he was not meant to be one. Zoraya could do nothing but cry, she was a child merely six years of age, she lost her mother, the only person she loved, she cared for, she trusted and now who will stay be her side no one. The girl knew that Palpatine didn't even think of his daughter and she finished questioning the reason a while ago because she'd always imagined she would live with her mother always and forever but looks like the galaxy was not good with it. She felt not just sadness and anxiety but the more salty tears ran down her cheeks moistening her white dress the more the rage grew in her. For a child so little as her it was unreal to feel like that but she had lost her half that day, her heart broke in two and one of them disappeared, so she had every right to be angry.
Zoraya clutched her fists tightly and closed her eyes sobbing silently as Andromeda beeped in question trying to understand what was happening to her girl. Zoraya's feet detached from the carpet of the apartment and started floating in the air, her fists giving birth to a red light and as she opened her eyes Andromeda started beeping violently at the sight of Zoraya's bloody red pupils. Palpatine raised his head in shock with his mouth wide open as everything in his apartment was flying all around. Darth Maul prepared his lightsabber moving closer to the girl "Put it away, my apprentice" The Senator shoved his hand not breaking his eyes from his daughter staring at her with pride. Andromeda flew away hiding behind the couch shaking all over her microchips. Zoraya opened her fists and an imaginary force came from her as Palpatine and the Sith collapsed on the floor, the glass from the windows broke in thousands of pieces making a little wound on Darth Maul's cheek, Andromeda stroke the wall falling in a little bowl and the entire apartment turned into trash. After the impact Zoraya fainted on the floor unconscious, Palpatine raised up with an evil smirk and walked over his daughter. "It seems I was wrong. You'll have a new colleague, my apprentice" he uttered putting back a lock of red hair from her sweaty forhead.
That was the day in which Zoraya's potential was truly seen and her fate written, no she was not a jedi nor a sith, she possesed an ability no one knew about, except her father who will teach her the ways of the force and his empire will start with the girl who's power many assumed disappeared centuries ago.
So y'all remember when Palpatine tells Anakin about the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise and I thought what if that power did not disappear and my oc will have it?! I really want for you to like this story and bare with me and Zoraya.🫶🏻 Chapters will be posted soon. I have two more fics ongoing and I intend to publish new chapters aswell. I have two or three more weeks of school in which I must get good grades and then I'll be over ( I hope😭) So forgive me I publish this slow.
