What if?: One Death

Coming

Obi-wan roughly yanked Maul off Savage after powerful punches landed on Savage's face and body. Maul snarled and roared at Savage pulling away from Obi-wan. Savage wiped the blood that slowly drained from the corner of his mouth and snarled as he stood back up.

"I'm gonna knock the shit out of you for doing that." Savage snapped and charged at Maul and Obi-wan until Feral ran just a bit quicker than Savage, locking his arms around the other yellow Zabrak and his feet dug into the ground as he pulled Savage back.

"Brothers, please calm down!" Feral begged as he struggled to keep Savage back. Before Feral knew it Savage's elbow slammed into his face, breaking the young brother's nose. Feral cried out in pain let go of Savage covering his nose that poured out blood.

Maul kept struggling as Obi-wan held him back as Obi-wan tried to get inside of Maul's mind, that was unusually blocked to Obi-wan. Savage roared as he charged at Maul.

"Enough!" Before Savage could reach Maul, Talzin shouted and used her magiks to push Savage into the house. The force wasn't enough to knock Savage out, but it was enough for him to know that the fight wasn't worth fighting at the moment. Even the only thing breaking the silence now was Maul's continued struggle. But instead of him attempting to just yank and pull away from Obi-wan, he was shaking along with his movements. Along with his movements, he was roaring and snarling that also turned into cries and whines then back into the violent noises. Obi-wan fought hard to break into Maul's mind as Talzin stood in terror watching Maul's struggles and feeling the constant shifts in her son's body. During Maul's struggling, the Zabrak's nail dug into Obi-wan just deep enough for the blood to drain down his arms.

Once Obi-wan found a way into Maul's mind, everything crumbled. Maul's body fell limp in Obi-wan's arms. Quickly pulling his force back to him, Obi-wan was shocked as Maul fell, the second before Obi-wan left Maul's mind he had heard screaming roars, chain rattling, crying and pleading before it was like someone threw a switch and turned everything off.

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Obi-wan paced the hall that had led to Maul's room. Maul had woken up from his unconscious state only an hour ago and Obi-wan tried to go inside his room to figure out what's wrong with Maul, but Obi-wan was met with a locked door. Obi-wan had pleaded for Maul to unlock the door and to let him in, but he was only answered with silence. Maul would not answer him. Obi-wan at moments kept thinking that Maul had fallen asleep, but he would send his force out to investigate to find out Maul was awake and fully alert. Yet Obi-wan could not feel what Maul was feeling like he normally could. Obi-wan checked the bond they had. Fully intact. Nothing was wrong with it. Nothing was different. He couldn't even tell which of the personas were in control of Maul.

Obi-wan needed to know what was wrong. The longer he paced in the hall, the more the sinking feeling in Obi-wan grew. Obi-wan could just tell that something was wrong.

It was hours before Obi-wan sensed something different.

Jedi.

They were found.

Obi-wan went over to the door and placed his hand on the handle. "That's strange. It was locked before." Obi-wan looked into the room after opening the door. The adrenaline to warn Maul was overwhelmed with the nervousness of even entering the room. Obi-wan thought to himself trying to calm himself, but what was he feeling? 

Fear.

Or sensing it? He couldn't tell if it was his or Maul's feelings. It had confused him and he pushed it aside. If it was him, he could afford to be scared. Not of Maul or the Jedi. He had to be calm and collected. Obi-wan took a deep breath calming himself. But what put him off was his lack of knowledge of how Maul was.