//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: The History of Leumai // Story: Star Wars: Among Terror // by RadioBug15 //------------------------------// Company owns product, WHO FUCKING CARES!?!? Vader had felt it, his apprentice was just killed by an outcast Sith Lord and his master was about to visit Kamino for a little 'cleanup'. He looked at a stormtrooper. "I want you to move the cloning facility's operations to the old, abandoned clone factory just a a few thousand miles from here, my master will be here to destroy this one facility, do not question my motives, get it done," he informed the trooper. "Right away sir," the trooper said, Vader turned, receiving a hologram of Sidious. "Your assassin failed, I will personally see to the destruction of Starkiller's clones," he said bitterly. "Yes Master," Vader said, the hologram shutting off. Sidious turned from the stand and walked over to a control panel, he pressed a few buttons, paused, and walked over to his throne, sitting down. Deimos must stay on that planet, he will not be my undoing! he thought in hatred. Blurs were all Deimos could see; he looked to his side, looking at a pony in white with a light pink mane as he was being wheeled in on a gurney, he coughed, the pony looked at him in shock. "He should be unconscious! What happened to him?" the pony asked the pony on the right, a purple-colored pony; Twilight. "It's really hard to explain, but in the short of it, he was impaled by a weapon similar to his own," she said, reaching over and taking his sabers from his belt (Deimos growled as best as he can from the pony's actions), handing them to Maul, who was standing behind her, looking at the Sith Lord in wonder. "I am quite surprised he survived an injury like this, I cannot say the same for my brother," he said, the nurse-pony raised an eye at his statement, as if she had an eyebrow to raise. "Barely alive," Ahsoka pointed out, standing next to Maul. "Be more positive Padawan Tano, at least he's still alive," Sana said, pushing past the Element bearers to closer inspect him. Deimos's vision faded when he suddenly felt the feeling of unconsciousness overcome him. "His vitals are dropping, he needs medical attention!" was last thing he heard before he completely fainted. Day 13 in Equestria Deimos suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes scanning the room he was currently in, a white room, ponies on gurneys, yep, definitely a hospital. The weakened Sith looked down to see himself in a hospital blanket, he lifted it to see his chest completely bandaged up, wearing only his pants. His robes, shirt, and boots, were removed, possibly to provide comfort. "Oh, you're awake," he turned to see a white pony with a light pink mane wearing a nurse's hat. "Who?-" he coughed, his voice raspy, lacking moisture. "Oh sorry," she ran off only seconds later for her to come back with a glass of water. Deimos reached with his hand, the glass levitated to him, he lifted it to his lips, savoring the taste of the water. He exhaled, "Ahem, who are you?" he asked her. "I'm Nurse Redheart, your friends brought you here after your... injury, what happened to you?" she asked him. "Did you see what happened in the sky?" she nodded. "The entire town was afraid of what was going on," she told him. "Well I met a clone of an acquaintance who I then fought with several of my allies, but he gained the upper hand and stabbed me," he summarized the entire fight in just one sentence. "I... have no idea what to say about that," Redheart admitted, she then straightened up, taking the clipboard from a tray, "Well, you're healing pretty fast, but you still have to stay in bed for the next couple of days, but in the meantime your friends are hear to visit, should I send them in?" she asked him. "Fine, send them in," he said, she then trotted away. Minutes later, the Elements and the others had arrived. "(Hello, Sith Warrior,)" Jeyeva greeted. "Greetings Jeyeva," the Sith greeted. "Deimos," Maul and Ahsoka said. "Maul, Ahsoka," he said, turning to the others, "Sana and Cera," Sana nodded at him, Cera just knelt over and kissed him, smiling at him. "Good morning Deimos, how are you?" Twilight asked him, smiling at him, Rainbow kept glaring at him because of his last experience with her, Applejack gave him a slight smile, Pinkie was bouncing around the room, earning an angry glare from the Nurse, Rarity said nothing, but Fluttershy looked at a specific spot on the blanket, where his left hand is. "I'm fine, I guess there are more questions you'd like to ask, assuming you didn't finish all your questions" he then sat up, Fluttershy kept glancing at the spot on the blanket where his left hand is, he raised an eyebrow at her, but then ignored it. "Well yes, with your permission of course," she said, Deimos sighed. "Fine, ask what you want, I have nothing else to do, unless they're personal questions," he said. "Well, umm..." Twilight blushed, giving away her intentions. Deimos scowled at her. "Why do you want to know about me, of all people, why?" he asked her, who looked down at her hooves. "Out of all you guys that we have met, you're the most mysterious of all of them. You served a supposedly evil empire, yet now you fight against it, making allies wherever you go and they know nothing of you, I want to know who you are," she explained to him. Deimos sighed, "I guess so, I'm stuck in bed rest so I technically have have nothing else to do," he put his fingers on the bridge of his nose with his left hand, Fluttershy gasped, annoying Deimos. "What the hell is your problem?! It's just-" Deimos yelled until he looked at his hand, he hadn't noticed that the doctors had removed his gloves as well. Oh, he realized why she was frightened of his hand. A souvenir of Vader, his left hand was a prosthetic, it was sliced off by the dark lord's saber blade during their battle hours before he met Sana, who fashioned it out of several protocol and torture droids. The machinery in his hand softly whirred and clicked as he flexed it, he waved it around, Fluttershy's fear passed a little after she witnessed his passive behavior. "Does it hurt?" she asked him. "It did at first, but the pain has been gone for years. But look on the bright side, I'm ambidextrous now," he said in a flat, monotone voice, he looked at Fluttershy, who seemed to have calmed down. Twilight coughed, politely asking him to start his back story, the mane 6 leaned in closer (except for Rainbow) as if they would hear it better, the others remained, the others just stood and waited to listen. "(This should be good,)" Jeyeva chuckled. "You're not listening," Deimos said. "And why not?" Ahsoka asked. "Because I said so. Everyone out!" he said, the T-Legion were the first to leave, then Jeyeva, Sana, Ahsoka, Maul, who growled at him, and then Cera, who received a kiss and a forced apology from Deimos for yelling at them, Twilight took a mental note that Cera seemed to be the only one that calmed him. "Ahem, how should I start this... my story started with my mother and father, from what I could tell from my birth records, my father was a Tatooine smuggler named Rein Leu and my mother was a Mandalorian bounty hunter named Hana Mai, a former member of Death Watch," he started, earning a surprised look from Twilight, as if it were unexpected on how he would start his past life. "What's a smuggler and a bounty hunter?" she asked him. "A smuggler is a person who illegally transports goods across different locations, a bounty hunter are mercenaries who track down people with a price on their head, usually capturing or killing them," Deimos explained. The looks on their face: priceless, traces of fear across their face at the description of the bounty hunter, but he hid his grin under an emotionless mask. "They had met during a deal, my father worked with the Hutt family, who hired my mother as a bodyguard, but the deal went wrong, the Hutt had died along with several of his guards, but they had both managed to survive with their wits and weapons. They had both went their separate ways, but after several coincidental times, they had begun to take they same missions unknowingly, when they had notices, they decided to work together as a time, mutually working with one another. Over time, they had began a relationship, even going so far as to get married. Neither of them wanted to change their last names, so the name Leumai was created," Deimos continued, waiting for them to ask any questions, none so far. "A few years later a child named Kane was born, the couple were in a bad deal with several gangs, they didn't want the child to be raised in a life of danger, so they sent their child into a pod to the nearest planet with civilized life, hoping that he would find a good home with a good family, but unfortunately, Kane's pod was heading for a planet formerly known as Korriban, the home planet of the Sith," he paused, seeing the look of horror on their faces at the fact that a child was abandoned to a desolate planet. "Korriban was dead, but there were few people that had taken residence on the planet, Dark Jedi and slaves for example. the pod landed near a slave labor camp, two Sith Pureblood slaves that didn't have the Force in their veins had found the pod, they took the child and raised him as their own for the next three years in secret, when the child was three years old, the Jedi sensed the child from Korriban, it was felt as faint change in the force, regarding the amount of Dark energy that enveloped Korriban, they sought him out and when they found him, he was already friends with another Pureblood, a girl named Cera, they rescued the slaves, killed the Dark Jedi, and took the two to the Jedi council, where the boy and girl were to become Jedi," Deimos said. "So you met Cera at a young age?" Twilight asked him. "I can tell you're taking notes of this, but regardless that my history actually matters, yes I had been friends with her when I was three, but please let me continue. Where was I? When the boy became older and Cera disappeared from the Council for reasons unknown, he had never known his actual name, so he was given one: Ky Narec, who had began training by Jedi Grand Master Yoda, he was then granted to build his lightsaber, but had built another due to controversy in it's design; by the time he was fifteen, Ky was commended to Jedi Padawan, who's master was a man named Hedwa Laek. But as the years pressed on, he then became a Jedi Knight after the Battle of Naboo, when he saved his newly acquainted friend Jonothen Doscrid, a practicing Consular. Ky was eager to become a Jedi Master by passing the trials of Knighthood again, which succeeded, granting him the title of Master. Ky was then assigned an apprentice, Jonothen, who was reluctant to learn from him and quickly became a true Consular faster than Ky had become a Master, so he searched for another apprentice, one who was eager to learn, but he was assigned a mission to Rattatak to investigate criminal activity, when he had arrived, he was in the middle of a bloodbath, a battle between Rattatak criminals and Weequay raiders, there he had rescued a young girl who had also saved his life as she was strong in the Force, so he trained her until she was old enough to be a padawan, but she never finished her training, when we were saving Rattatak from crime, Ky was shot in the back, but he used the Force to barely cling to life, but he watch helplessly as his padawan fell to the Dark side and began killing those that had attacked him," Deimos stopped as he saw Fluttershy sniffling, he looked at her. "Did I do something wrong?" he asked Twilight. "I-I never knew you had been through so much," she said, sniffling through tears of sadness. "This is only half the story," he told her until returning to the story, "Anyway, Ky was nursed back to health and had left to the Jedi Council, this time more reluctant to live, but during a meditation he had a vision of his mother and father, so he set out to find out more about himself, he searched any clues of their whereabouts, until he saw that they were in Tatooine, in a peaceful little home, so he traveled to Tatooine, to a home just a few miles away from Mos Espa, the man Rein Leu and Hana Mai were in their old ages, being looked after by droids, so they then recognize their son almost immedietly and tell them that his real name is Kane Leumai, so he stays with them during their final days alive, when they pass, he buries them and returns as Kane Leumai, he then returns to the temple, where he studies and trains vigorously in the ways of the Force, until one day he then thinks about the concept of the Dark side, seeing it as not necessarily evil, but it's users corrupted, he then studies in the ways of the Dark Side, where he is then discovered and flees the temple. Kane then attempts to learn the ways of the Force, so he searches for another Sith, Lord Tyranus, also known as Count Dooku, where they fight until Sidous reveals himself to Kane, Sidious tells Dooku to leave, the Dark Jedi and the Sith Master then talk about Kane's need for learning the ways of the Dark Side, so he is trained personally by Sidious, mentally and physically until the Clone Wars end. So he then becomes a full fledged Sith named Deimos, me. I then begin my days as an assassin just when Order 66 is initiated, carrying out orders until I lose my arm to Vader, rescue Sana, leave the star destroyer and hide, so we hid for years until our story begins with you," he says, his eyes closed, he then opens them to notice that he had gotten a bigger crowd, a group of sick patients from around the place, listening to the story, eager to hear more. "And that's my story," Deimos finally says, the group groans in annoyance and trot away to their rooms. "Well, that was a long story, but ah have to help Big Mac with the farm," Applejack said. "Agreed, I must tend to the shop darling," Rarity nodded. "Wait! There us something I must tell you two," he then gestures for the other four to leave temporarily. "What is it sugarcube?' Applejack asked him. "I don't know how to break it to you but (sigh), do you remember when I left for a while to investigate the Sarlacc incident, but your siblings and Scootaloo were in the bag, they saved my life; they are force-sensitives," Deimo said. Applejack and Rarity's jaws almost dropped to the floor immediately after he said that. "B-but, they don't even have their Cutie Marks yet!" Applejack exclaimed. "Why I haven't discovered their presence sooner was because your princess was hiding all Force presence around her entire country, but now that it was off temporarily, I sense everything that is the Force," he explained to them with excitement in his voice, and for a brief second, they swore they saw his eyes flash from their normal yellow to blue in the blink of an eye before returning to their original yellow color. "So if you were to train them, would they get their Cutie Marks?" Rarity asked him. "There probably hasn't been one for Force abilities, but their's a first for everything." "Would they become like you?" they asked. "I will teach them how to use the basics of the force, neither Dark nor Light, and how to use a lightsaber, but it is their option whether to follow the path of light," he raised his left arm, several quills floating in his hand, "Or the road to darkness," he lifted his right arm, holding a ball of lightning. Applejack lowered her head, Rarity closed her eyes, "We'll have to think about it," they said. "Take all the time you need, I will have to get more acquainted to these lands, but right now, I have to follow a doctor's orders," he scowled, his eyes turning a shade darker, "You four can come back!" he yelled, the others returned with Applejack and Rarity, Twilight nodded to them and they left, leaving her and him. "You have one more question, do you?" he asked her. "Yes, who was your last apprentice?" she asked, his eyes softening and gazing out the window. "A girl named Ventress, Asajj Ventress."