Obsession

The unwanted guest

Maul sat on the ground taking deep breathes with his eyes closed, almost tried to mediate with Count Dooku walking around their hideout making sure it was safe.
"You have done well my apprentice getting past those witches and freeing me." Dooku praised Maul who thought he was searching the lands for anyone who has dared to approach them. Dooku looked at his hand. He felt weak and vulnerable, the witches must have shot him with something when he underestimated their numbers. He was grateful, the witches had cast a spell for some reason that hid and disguised a force sensitive's presence. If his apprentice knew of the drug he knew he would have to rely solely on his combat and lightsaber skills if and when Maul decided to attack.
Maul sensed Dooku press a button on his wrist, which to someone who didn't understand the technology just meant nothing. To Maul, it was his new master calling for help. To who, he will have to wait and see. He growled and opened his eyes he tried using the force to see if he could notice if anyone came near, but the spell even blocked him from being able to tell.
"The spell the witches put up is making it difficult to track any force sensitive being and even themselves." Maul reported standing up.
"We must get back to my ship and return to base, but it makes one think who it is they are hiding. They wouldn't go far this to hide me." Dooku thought out loud.
"One would think they would execute you on the spot, Dooku." Maul said laughing in his head knowing Dooku would get mad at such a comment.
"Yes." Dooku stroked his beard thinking. "Maybe it was a trap, my apprentice."
"One would wonder why you would come here of all places." Maul pushed him further. "One would think after training me for weeks you would know when I see Jedi I hunt them down until dead."
"And in doing that you failed your mission, Lord Maul. It was crucial to our plans that we retrieved that clone." Dooku hardly raised his voice, but Maul could hear the anger. "You put our entire plan at risk!"
"A punishment of death, is it not?" Maul looked over at his master. "But you're not going to do that are you?" Maul paused to see if Dooku would give him an answer. He took a deep breath feeling the weight on his chest lighten.
"That clone was of no use to you and Lord Sidious with me around." Maul said and saw Dooku's face twist with anger and he knew it was true. "With me, you know that the Sith can still win the war. Losing that clone was no major piece loss. It was just a pawn. You and I on the other hand are the face of fear in the Jedi's eyes. We are two of the most powerful pieces in the game. However, we are not the top piece on our side we, ourselves, are just pawns of Lord Sidious. Even you fear him. You fear him because you know you can replaced just as easily as he replaced me." Maul couldn't help, but laugh.
"You are weak, old man. You thought by having me as an apprentice would keep Lord Sidious from seeing my true potential. The reason you don't attack me now is because our master would punish you for destroying your most powerful pawn, but you would have done it by now to keep me quiet. From telling Lord Sidious that you had lost me." Maul went on circling Dooku.
"What makes you think that I would let you go unpunished, my apprentice?" Dooku asked his hand itching to grab his lightsaber. His vision was blurry from whatever the witches injected him with, but he could see enough if he had to fight.
"You don't have the strength to. The witches drugged you for this reason. So you wouldn't be any sort of a threat to them." Maul laughed more. "You can not hurt me even if you wanted to, you are weak!" Maul stopped when they heard something from around them.
"Looks like our personal affairs will have to wait, my apprentice." Dooku said and he grabbed his lightsaber preparing for a fight. Anakin and Ahsoka dropped out of the trees attacking both Maul and Dooku.
Excellent kill the old man for me, Maul thought as he fought off Ahsoka. It was too easy for him to kill her, but he knew that Obi-wan would never forgive him for hurting someone so close to him.
Maybe I should wait to kill Dooku, Kenobi just woke up. Maul thought in his head realizing he was rushing his plan in hope to please Obi-wan. He growls as he fights the padawan making his time. He senses something but when he tries to focus the padawan always brings him back with a hard hit when she notices he's only blocking. He wants to see the Jedi kill Dooku before he 'surrenders' to them.
As Dooku fights Anakin he can feel his connect with the Force grow strong again. His eyes start to clear and he fights even more aggressivly and is slightly shocked to see Obi-wan jump into the action. Maul was definantly surprised, was Obi-wan the one he sensed?
"Took you long enough Master." Anakin said as Obi-wan helped him fight Dooku.
"I, well, ran into some trouble." Obi-wan said and the fight stopped when they heard laughter.
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?" Anakin asked looking around with everyone else trying to pinpoint their new enemy.
"Ventress." Dooku hissed as she jumped down from a tree.
"Well. Well. Look at this! I've found a pack of fools! Some Sith and Jedi! Oh lucky me! And here I was looking for Savage and I stumbled on something greater than revenge on him. I will have my revenge on Count Dooku and the Jedi who stole my future from me."  Ventress snarled igniting both of her lightsabers.
"Come now, my sweet, you can't truly hate us that much."
She launched herself after Dooku, Anakin and Obi-wan. The four of them fought in a fast pace until Dooku shocked her with Force lighting. Anakin quickly took his chance and resumed fighting Dooku. As Ahsoka fought to keep Maul away from them. He blocked one of her attacks and whispered to her.
"Jedi, I am not your enemy. We need to protect Kenobi, distract Dooku so I can help him." He whispered quietly and he quickly pushed her away when he saw Ventress push Obi-wan down disarming him. Maul jumped and blocked Ventress final blow on the weak Obi-wan.
"No!" Maul snarled at Ventress. "Kenobi is mine!" He used the force to push her back. "If you want Kenobi, you're going to have to get through me!"
Ventress launched herself into a battle with Maul head on. Both of them worked hard with both of their lightsabers. Neither of them seeming to break their concentration.
Obi-wan summoned his lightsaber back to him. He saw Dooku shock Anakin and Ahsoka. He used the force to push Dooku away.
"Are you two alright?" Obi-wan helped Ahsoka up as Anakin stood
"We're fine Master Kenobi." Ahsoka said and the three of them reignited their lightsabers.
Ventress laughed as she fought Maul.
"I remember now who you are! You the exiled Sith Lord Maul! What are you working with my old master now? How pathetic! Two old men what a couple!" Ventress teased him and Maul snarled and fought at a quicker pace and quickly cut her right arm at the elbow. Maul pointed his one end of his lightsaber at her throat.
"You are not worth my time Youngling." Maul growled aiming to cut the rest of her right leg off at her knee but sliced her leg below it only wounding her leg when he heard Obi-wan scream.
Dooku had knocked Ahsoka out, blasting Obi-wan with force lighting as he blocked one of Anakin's attacks.
Maul used the force push to push Dooku away from them. Maul growled and blasted Dooku with his own force lighting.
Anakin stood there watching with his anger, but looked at Maul realizing he wasn't going to stop.
"Maul!" He shouted and Maul kept blasting Dooku.
"Maul! Stop!" Anakin demanded and pushed Maul with the force ceasing his attack. Dooku dropped to the ground unconscious. Maul glared at Anakin and marched to him.
"How dare you!" Maul growled and stopped when they heard Obi-wan choke out Maul's name.
"I'll be taking my leave now it seems like you boys can battle it all out and Kenobi seems to be a prize. So, he's mine!" Ventress said and she quickly jumped into the trees while keeping Obi-wan in a light force choke not wanting to kill the Jedi just yet even as she used the force to keep him next to her with Anakin and Maul hot behind them. She looked around and saw her ship. She threw Obi-wan inside and she collapsed the tree once she jumped off of it. She ran into her ship as Maul quickly got past the fallen tree with Anakin behind him. She closed the door behind her and quickly took off. She noticed that Maul had stabbed her ship with his lightsaber. She aimed her ship's blasters at him and tried hitting him off. After multiple tries she finally hits him knocking him off along with damaging her own ship and she quickly sped off. (She got a new ship as a bounty hunter)
Anakin caught Maul as he fell and set him on the ground. Maul growls and summons his lightsaber to him and goes to get up than felt the pain of the blaster bolt in his stomach.
"Careful Maul!" Anakin said helping him stand. "We can't go after them, you're hurt!"
"That has never stopped me before Jedi. I've been through worse, this is nothing! We can't let her get away!" Maul snarled looking at where Ventress' ship was.
"We have to regroup." Anakin said and Maul panted looking around as if surveying the damage.
"You're right my plan has failed and now Kenobi is gone." Maul said as he played everything again to see where it went wrong.
Anakin tapped a button on his comm. "Savage, we need some help. We have Maul and Dooku, but Obi-wan was taken by Ventress." Before Savage could reply he turned off his comm., he helped Maul back to where they were to get Ahsoka and capture Dooku again.
As Maul played through the battle he realized that everything was wrong. The entire plan was wrong. It was his fault and he knew it. It broke him when he realized that Obi-wan was right. Everything that he did hurt Obi-wan. He realized that and it hurt him more than anything he ever went through.