An Unlikely Duo: Book 1

2 Souls Tied

A few weeks had gone by since Maul's vision with Ashoka. He was determined to maintain his tie to the darkness, every thing he now did was at night.
One particularly dark evening Maul was hunting for his meal he saw a wild bull that was quite large for him to be taking on alone " perfect" he whispered to himself "something to challenge my strength with my anger". Maul pounced out of the trees charging the animal with his spear head on. The bull turned to him and rushed head first horns in attack position. As the distance closed Maul let out a loud and angry grunt jumping straight into the air, just high enough to avoid the bulls horns driving his spear straight thru the animals skull. He felt the bones crush beneath his angered strike as the animal collapsed sliding thru the the dirt from his momentum. Maul laughed to himself "not so tough now are you". The bull easily weighed 4 times what Maul did, but thats what made it a challenge to him. He grabbed the lifeless bull by the horn and channeled his anger to give him the strength to pull it back to his base. huffing and panting Maul got the animal back to his cave where he prepped it for cooking. The droid went over to Maul "That bull appears to be 4 time your weight sir how did you manage to drag it here?" Maul looked at the droid and responded "anger and hate give you much strength in the dark side.... but you wouldn't understand since you were a republic droid constantly around weak Jedi"..... The droid responded " ahh I see I shall add it to my memory bank for any references I shall need in the future." After eating Maul went deep into his cave where the witches used to perform their magics. " this should help snuff any light that tries to enter my thoughts" he said. As he closed his eyes he took a deep breath of the moist cave air and was immediately taken to his 7 year old self. He found himself watching his mother using force lightning against Palpatine to display her powers to him. But quickly his vision was interrupted again, he saw the silhouette of a Togruta girl standing behind Palpatine in the distance the light illuminated her face once again as she held out her hand. "Maul" she whispered in a quiet small voice. Angry Maul awoke from his meditation he took off running out of the cave ignited the double bladed light saber and went running into the forest "NGGHHHAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"he yelled at the top of his lungs in anger slashing at the trees forcing his own path into the dark forest cutting down anything in his way..... he paused panting from his own anger. "WHY ARE YOU IN MY THOUGHTS!!!....... GOOOOOOOO AWAY!!!!!!" his voice echoed so loudly thru the trees the birds took off from their nesting places. for a second there was silence then he heard it again....."Maul"..... this time the voice was right there in his ear as if Ashoka had been standing right next to him. He let out a yell. "AAAHHHHHH" as he spun and fell to the ground. When he looked up there she was standing there this time she wasn't a vision this time it felt real. She looked at him in Horror "MAUL!" Ashoka said in frustration and anger " why are you in my meditation?".... "why was my force spirit transported to this red planet?" ARE YOU MESSING WITH MY THOUGHTS??!!!!!" .....Maul stood up
In confusion and looked at her..... "I wanted to ask you the same question" he said with frustration in his voice. "Wait this is you, your planet!! Im seeing your background" "can you see mine??" She asked. Maul responded hesitantly "no I can not". Confused they both looked at each other for a moment before Maul angrily reached out for Ashoka's arm gabbing her armored glove. She yanked back losing her glove in which she had now awaken from her meditative state. She quickly looked down at her left hand to see her armor was missing. "AHHHHHHH" she screamed jumping up backwards her heart sunk, panic began to show itself on her face. "What in the galaxy is going on????"...... on Dathomir Maul stood there with Ashoka's armor in his hand looking at it in disbelief. "What kind of magic is this?" He asked himself. Now more questions had filled his mind as he began his journey back to the cave.