Star Wars: The Fallen Slave (On Hold)

Chapter 8- The Mission

Luna sat on the hard steel floor of Mauls ship, legs crossed, and hands resting on her knees, her dark hair was pulled to one side and braided, she had gotten rid of her old slave dress and had found a pair of dark dusty brown pants, some black leather boots that came almost up to her knees, and a dusty black shirt, the sleeves stopped right at her elbows.

As she sat there mediating, many small things around her were levitating; tools, spare parts and old uniforms, which Luna had guessed from her time with Maul that they belonged to the former crew of the shuttle, it had been almost 4 months sense she got her Lightsaber and she grown quite strong, taller and healthier then when she was a slave, she let the things fall with a thud, for months she had been training under Maul, growing stronger and wiser, Maul had given her a hologram of planet systems and told her to study it, on top of her studying and meditating, she would practise her saber skills with Maul, learning new moves and how to deflect blaster shots.

She walked out of the cargo bay which was also her "training spot" as she called it, to go find Maul, he had said when she was extremely good and when he thought she was ready that he would have something very important that she had to do to prove herself worthy of becoming a Sith, she made her way to his quarters and raised her hand to knock but she froze, she inhaled deeply, then bit her lip "Should I really asked if I'm ready?" She questioned, she started to walk away but then heard Mauls deep voice tell her to come in, she opened the door and slowly walked in, Maul was seated on the floor with his legs crossed and his eyes closed.

"I can tell you have something on your mind, a question you've been wanting to ask me for the last two days hmm?"

Luna sat and crossed her legs "Yes master" she replied fiddling with her hands.

"The speak apprentice!" He opened his eyes "no one will ever know what you want unless you speak"

She stopped fiddling and folded her hands "I-I wish to know if you think I am ready to become a true Sith, if you think I'm powerful enough, that you could be proud to call me your apprentice and not just some slave you found on a filthy Hutt owned planet"

Maul raised an eyebrow "No one is truly a Sith until they learn to take a life without mercy, would be able to do that?"

Luna swore she saw a small smirk across his face when he said take a life but she didn't want to upset her master after she had asked him if he thought she was ready, Luna nodded "I would do anything to become a Sith Lord" she clinch her fists, her eyes showing that hate and fire that Maul had seen when he first spoke to her 5 months earlier when she was just a slave serving drinks.

"Good" he rose to his feet "follow me" he walked out and made his way to the front of the shuttle and sat down, Luna followed.

"You studied that hologram of planet systems, yes?" He questioned

"I did master"

"Hmm very good, then take us to Coruscant"

"Yes master" she sat in the pilot seat and entered it into the ship, within a few seconds they jumped into hyperspace.

After what seemed like a few minutes they came out of hyperspace.

"Why did we come here?" she asked

"I have some....business to deal with here" was all he as he got up and walked out, Luna put the ship on autopilot and followed him.

"Jedi?" She asked with a hint of anger in her voice, she had read up on most of the planets and knew Coruscant use to be the home of the Jedi before the Empire took over and had killed most of the Jedi.

"No, not Jedi" he walked to a small storage room "Crime lords" he opened a crate and started rummaging though it until he pulled a quite large black robe out, Luna noticed a look in Mauls eyes as he grasped the robe one she had never seen before, it was like he almost seemed sad, she wondered who that robe belonged to, it was far to big to belong to a woman in fact it was far to big for even Maul.