Beyond - Legends Destiny Part I: The Shadowed Past - Chapter 6/10 added 5-31

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Title: Destiny Part I: The Shadowed Past
Time Frame: Post Episode VI, 20 years past
Characters: Luke, Han, Leia, Wedge, Chewy, possibly some others; plenty of OCs though
Genre: AU, adventure/mystery (hopefully)
Notes: Based only on Episodes IV, V and VI. So any new organizations came out of my own little head (and you can probably tell too) and aren't based on any part of the universe except those three movies. Plenty of OCs, a few OPs and OSs too (original planets and original systems), even an original species. Constructive critisim is accepted, though please note that it probably won't be applied to the story until I've completed all three parts and tackle a rewrite. But if you give concrit, it will be taken into consideration. Okay, maybe that covers everything...

Character List:
Special Appearances by: Luke Skywalker, Han and Leia Solo, Chewbacca, Captain Wedge Antilles, C-3PO and R2-D2

The OCs:
Anakin Mateo Skywalker (Mat) - Sixteen year old twin and son of Luke and Maurley Skywalker.
Beru Maurley Skywalker (Maurley) - Sixteen year old twin to Mat, and daughter of Luke and Maurley Skywalker.
Aria (Are - eeuh) Solo - Han and Leia's oldest daughter, eighteen years of age and recently became a Jedi Knight
Sage - a young Wookiee, the son of Chewbacca and Sueathart. He's often found in the company of Mat and Maurley.
Jada (Jay- duh) Solo - Han and Leia's second daughter, an eleven year old that has developed no skills in the Force, but does have talents elsewhere
Aiden Solo - Han and Leia's only son, and youngest child, the nine year old has acquired his father's charm and is destined to be a scoundrel
Tirzin Palo - a young Jedi Knight who is often a tutor
Saria Oda - Mat's Jedi Master
Kalon Peron - Maurley's Jedi Master
Delwood - a Jedi Knight instructor
Maje (Mah- jeh) Stardust - Stardust Clan Matriarch
Margoto Stardust - Maje's oldest daughter
Medina Stardust - Maje's youngest daughter
Metsu Stardust - Medina's nineteen year old son
Mira Stardsut - Margoto's eighteen year old daughter
Ayjah (Aye - joh) d'Whan - an eighteen year old female slave of Sagon Vermilion
Sagon Vermilion - a powerful man on Tatooine

Deceased
Maurley Skywalker - died after giving birth to twins Maurley and Mateo
Sueathart (Sueati) - a Wookiee who owed a blood debt to Maurley Skywalker
Zaron - a young boy killed on Chessa
Jishah - King of the Masters on the planet Chessa


In a galaxy far, far away...


The movements of the Imperial Remnant have been known to the Alliance for over a decade, but their actual location and pending moves are a mystery. For this time they have believed that the Remnant was small and unthreating to the greater Alliance. Unfortunately the Remnant has grown and are in search for a new leader, a new Emperor, who is a servant of the Dark side of the Force. On Luke's former home planet of Tatooine, a threat lurks and his growing in strength and power. In the Caido system where the New Jedi Order makes its home as well as the Alliance Headquarters, twins Mateo and Maurley search for answers to their past and in preparation for their destiny...



Chapter 1
Homecoming

The hangar in Karbola, in the planet system Caido was a place bustling with activity as fighter ships, pleasure transports and hobby aircraft came and went from it's base, or as the vehicles were being repaired or undergoing routine maintenance. It was the latter that brought Wedge Antilles to his station where his own aircraft was kept. He would soon be leaving on a fortnight long excursion to the security check points in the Caido system.

Now days, over a decade after the Battle at Endor Wedge rarely left the system that was now home to the Jedi training school. He still served as part of the Alliance, since he was not among those who could bec

 

Interesting....

I must see more.

 

Thank you for the comment! I was wondering if I should add a character name list to the OP? It might make it easier to keep track of who's who. Just a thought



Chapter 2
Bread Crumbs



"Another one?" General Han Solo rolled asked the droid who handed him the latest messages coming in from the Outer Territories. Things were definitely in a mess. It had begun early in the morning and the bad news had just gotten worse.

He often wondered how he had gotten himself saddled with the respectable position within the Independent Alliance. But he usually didn't have long to wonder for there was another crisis, another detail, another order, another obligatory action that he needed to attend to. At least his job kept him close to Karbola and Leia and the children. He didn't know if he could have handled being away from them as much as his brother-in-law Luke was away. Although there were days, like today, that he missed being out there, doing something. He missed his days in the pilot seat of the Millennium Falcon.

But he couldn't dwell on all that now. Today was a crisis day and the orders were piling up on his desk from the higher ups. That and the bad news. For years, since the final conflict at the Battle on Endor, the Independent Alliance had known of the existence of the Imperial Remnant, but they had not seen it as a serious threat. Sixteen years ago they had made a large attempt and in the process many of the Imperial Remnant had either been killed or captured. So many that the Alliance had made the assumption that they no longer posed a threat to them, as a result those who had escaped imprisonment or death had merely been allowed to go free.

For years both he and Luke Skywalker had warned those in positions above them that the Imperial Remnant would not continue to lie dormant and that it was highly likely they were building up their armies to eventually attack the Alliance when they least expected it. It was no coincidence in Han's mind that their warnings were being proved true on the day before the sixteenth anniversary of their last attack.

Memories flooded his mind and regret surged through him. He could hardly believe that it had been sixteen years since the birth of his niece and nephew. He had been their when they were born. He had been the last one to see their mother alive. He regretted that it had not been Luke by her side at that time, and hang whatever she had said about destiny. He knew exactly how he would have felt if it had be Leia who was dying. But despite words that had been exchanged just after her death, Luke had never seemed to hold it against him. Perhaps maybe he believed it was destiny too.

That was not his only regret about that day. He had been one of the loudest to complain about Luke's wife and the one to distrust her the most. And yet it was he she had confided her visions to in those last moments of her life. She had given the burden of what she had seen to pass on to Luke and to Leia. Luke's wife had been a quiet woman, shy almost in some of her ways, yet determined. Few people had ever been able to see what was beneath the blank exterior she showed. Later Han often believed that Luke had been the only person she had let close enough to see the real her. Except for that day when she had revealed so much to him and for the first time he had truly loved her as a sister.

If only he could have gone back in time. Maybe every thing would have turned out differently. Including her death.

But he had not time for dwelling on the past now. Another droid was bringing him new papers. "More bad news I suppose?"

"Not at all, Master Solo," it was 3PO this time. "That is unless you consider Commander Jacobson activating the majority of Alliance troops and commanders bad news."

"Yeah," Han rolled his eyes and snatched the papers from the annoying little droid that had somehow become a part of his family. "Great, they've just activated Luke. I guess he would be the most obvious pick, but they're

 

I like how you based it off of just the original trilogy. Those movies did the best job of showing what star wars is all about in my opinion. great start.

 

Anakin_Solo_2112 - Thank you for the comment! I hope my story stays true to the original Triology, or at least the Star Wars Universe to some extent.

Chapter 3
A Planet Called Chessa

Beru Maurley Skywalker circled her opponent. Her lightsaber blazed green in the corner of her eye, but she had to remain focused. She remembered the techniques she had learned in concentration class. She focused and could feel the movement of the Force as her opponent swung his lightsaber towards her and she deflected the movement.

"Very good," Tirzin Palo praised. Maurley couldn't help but grin. Tirzin was the most handsome young man she knew and she had the ultimate crush on the nineteen year old. She had been more than pleased when he'd been assigned as her tutor. She often had trouble concentrating on her movements and the Force around her when she practiced, so her Jedi Master had ordered extra hours of practice. "Now, lets go again," Tirzin added.

Maurley didn't mind. It was hard work, and she hated the tedious repetitivity of it, but she didn't mind as much when it meant she could remain here with the tall, dark haired young man. She found herself grinning up at him, only to realize that he wasn't paying any attention to her. She followed the gaze of his green eyes and saw that another instructor had entered the training platform and was waiting at the edge. Tirzin let his lightsaber zap off. "We'll take a short break before we continue," he told her stepping over to the elder instructor.

With a sigh Maurley moved to the bench and took up her water canteen. Taking a long sip she glanced around the room. She had been here many times before to practice, ever since she was a toddler. Her thoughts were focused on her surroundings until she over heard a word between her tutor and the other instructor, Delwood. It was her name she heard and she began to strain her ears to hear what they were saying, but it soon became apparent to her that it was not she they were speaking of.

"That has nothing to do with this," Tirzin replied to what ever it was Delwood had said. "Did you actually know her?" his tone was challenging. "If you did you'd have had to been pretty young."

"Of course I didn't know her!" the older instructor retorted. "But you spend a lot of time with her in training and I figured her Jedi Master didn't tell you the truth."

"The truth? How do you know its the truth? Everyone talks about those kids behind their backs as if they have a sign on their heads that says they're plagued. How can you..." Tirzin and Delwood had moved out of earshot, but it didn't matter. Images and thoughts flashed through Maurley's mind. Her father's words before he had left... "One thing I've never told you is that she gave her life so that the two of you, and many other people, might live. If you're ever told anything negative about her, just remember that." Rang in her ears. Negative? Confusion flooded through her. She could not hear what they had said about her mother, but she could tell it had not been good. What had been wrong with her that could make the instructor fear her?

Tears welled up in her eyes. What did it all mean? Gathering up her things she didn't wait for Tirzin to return, but rushed right out of the training platform. Her eyes were blurred and she didn't know where she was going. She was just going somewhere...away. She didn't see her cousin until Aria Solo grabbed her arm.

"Let go of me!" Maurley demanded, she still did not know it was Aria.

"I will, just as soon as you tell me what's wrong," the older girl said. Maurley stopped struggling and swallowed. She wiped the tears out of her eyes as she focused on her dark blond cousin.

"Oh, it's you."

"Yep, just little ol' me," Aria replied with a smile. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Maurley sniffed.

"Uh huh," her tone was sarcastic. "So I suppose it's just nothing that makes you bawl your head off like a little girl."

Maurley swallowed again and stared up at her older cousin def

 

Interesting story! A LOT of OC's. I might need to take notes.

 

Thank you for the comment PonyTricks, as soon as I post this I'm going to add my character list to the original post. Maybe that'll help with keeping up with who's who .

Chapter 4
Trouble



"Chessa?" Maurley asked unbelieving. "I've never heard of it. Besides, since when did you up and decide to go against the rules like that? Do you know how much trouble we'll be in with our Masters?"

"We'll?" he asked incredulously. "Since when did you invite yourself along?"

"You don't think I'm going to let you go off on an adventure without me do you?"

"Ha!"

"Stubborn."

"Not half as stubborn as you."

"Why this planet?" she asked, changing the subject.

"R2 says it's where our mother was from."

"Our R2-D2?"

"What other R2 do you know personally?"

"Well, how does he know?" she demanded.

Mat rolled his blue eyes skyward. "R2 knows a lot of things."

"We'll need supplies."

"There you go with the 'we' again."

"I am going with you."

"Unlikely," Mat muttered turning back to his bed.

"When are you going?" she demanded, blocking his door.

Mat eyed her warily. "Right now."

"No you're not," Maurley crossed her arms. "And I'm coming with you."

Mat glared at her. "No you're not."

"If I don't, I'll go right now and tell Saria that you're leaving without permission."

"You wouldn't."

"Would you like to bet on that?" Mat winced and dropped his sack.

"All right," he said with resignation. "You can come I suppose. I'm bringing Sage too."

*

It was not long before Mat saw Maurley approaching them. He was surprised, though when he noticed Aria behind her. "What are you doing here?" he demanded, hoping that she was only along to see them off.

"Hmm, well, if you leave the planet without a Jedi Knight and without permision, you're in serious trouble."

"We'll be in serious trouble anyway since we don't have permission to leave in the first place."

"Yep, but at least it will be a little less if I go with you."

"There's not enough room for all four of us on my X-Wing!" Mat protested.

"Then we'll have to borrow Father's ship."

Mat's eyes grew round with shock. Already he was doing things he would never have thought he would do before, and now he could only imagine what his Uncle Han would say when he found out they'd taken his precious Millennium Falcon! "You must really want to get into trouble," he whispered hoarsely.

Aria shrugged. "Well, we may all be thrown out of the Academy after this stunt, so let's go all the way," her words were brave, but Mat could feel a bit of unease in her emotions.

Instead of continuing to argue he and Maurley followed her. "You do know how to fly us to this planet?" Aria asked as they opened the door and entered the ancient spacecraft.

"I have the coordinates right here."

"Okay. Then let's go."

*

With the restored capacities of the old craft, they made it across the galaxy to the Chessa system within a few hours. They orbited the main planet, also called Chessa for a while before Mat chose a location for landing. They entered the planet's field and landed in a desolate, open area surrounded by forest. "Okay, now what?" Aria asked when Mat remained in the pilot's seat.

He didn't answer. "Uh, Mat? You do have a plan don't you?" she asked a little worried.

"Of course he has a plan!" Maurley snapped. "Mat always has a plan."

Mat squirmed in his seat. "Actually," he admitted. "I don't really have a plan. All I know is that maybe there's some answers here about our mother. How we get those answers..." he shrugged.

"Great, I should have known," Aria responded with a sigh. "For the first time in your life you break the rules and you didn't think up a plan to go with it!"

"You make it sound like following the rules is a bad thing," Mat responded coolly. "But at least I didn't spend half my training in detention."

Aria glared at him. Sage trilled a suggestion. Mat's grin was crooked as he looked back at Aria. "He's right, we should start expl

 

Chapter 5
Maje

Mat focused on the young man. He noticed many things in the midst of his panic, the tall, lanky form of the fellow, the sinewy strength of his arms, the dark, chocolate color of his eyes and the shining black hair that was neatly cut. There was an air of familiarity about him that Mat couldn't understand. He knew very well that he'd never seen the young man before.

"I ask why you dare trespass on the Plains of Tet? Who are you?" he demanded, his dark eyes darting from one to the other of them. His eyes rested on Sage briefly with a wariness that Mat felt. "Is he Ser'd'lo?" he asked suddenly, his body contracting.

"Ser'd'lo?" Aria repeated the unfamiliar word and glanced at Mat.

"He's a Wookiee," Mat spoke up. The man visibly relaxed.

A rustle of the bushes made Mat and his companions jump. A girl, not much older than Aria appeared, a grim look on her face as she studied them. "And you told me not to scare them," she threw the young man an irritated look. "My name is Mira," she said, her face still grim as she held out her hand. Mat glanced at his sister before touching the center of her palm with his first finger. She bowed her head in response. "And this lug is my cousin Metsu." She glanced at the young man. "He thinks because he has graduated that he's superior to the rest of us." An easy grin crossed his features, transforming him from the wary young man to a boyish ease. Mat couldn't help but return the smile.

"My name is Mateo, but most people call me Mat, this is my twin sister Maurley and our cousin Aria," he introduced each one. "And the Wookiee is Sage," Sage trilled a greeting at the mention of his name.

"A pleasure I'm sure," Metsu responded. "But may I ask what you are doing here on the unclaimed Plains of Tet?"

"We were looking for the settlement here," Mat spoke for them all.

"That's all very well, but you should have radioed the Command Center rather than landing in the wilderness. It's dangerous in the Unclaimed Plains."

"What's so dangerous about it?" Maurley asked, glancing around them.

"The Ser'd'lo," he said as if the word made sense. "You'd better get your gear together and we'll escort you to the settlement."

"We'd better turn them over to the Jedi," Mira eyed them suspiciously. "I do not think they are under the classification of Knight, yet."

"I am!" Aria retorted. Mira only eyed her with a cool green gaze.

"I don't know..." Metsu hesitated, furrowing his brow. "I think we should just take them to Maje. She may think it's better just to take them back to their starcraft and send them on their way." Mira frowned and glanced over her shoulder at them before whirling away through the underbrush. "Come on," Metsu motioned for them to follow.

They followed their guides through the forest , and Mat felt a little more at ease. He wasn't sure what would happen if they turned them over to the Jedi on Chessa, but perhaps this Maje would listen to them. Mat fell into step with Metsu, "So what are the Ser'd'lo?" he asked after several moments of silent walking.

"They're a creature that look something like a Wookiee, but they are not friendly in any way. They are particularly aggressive to those who are powerful in the Force." Mat frowned. He'd never heard of such creatures.

They soon arrived in a huge village that stretched for as far as the eye could see and was surrounded on all sides by sloping mountains. "This is the Plains of Tet," Metsu told them when they had reached the crest of a low hill that led down towards a main path. "This is where the Kayerdos live."

Mat looked up at the older boy. This place was full of strange things that he'd never heard of before. Metsu laughed. "Kayerdos are simply what we call people, like my family, who are strong in the Force," he explained. "The other people who live on the Plains of Tet are called Tetians."

"Oh," Mat nodded, only partially understanding. It was true, he was told, that the Force ran strong in his family, but that was not the case with all J

 

Uh... the 'borrowed' the Falcon? These kids must have some weird type of death-wish!

 

LOL, PonyTricks, they must! Thank you for reading!



Chapter 6
More Questions

They had long since eaten their soup and had been continuing their conversation with the cousins when Maje and the two sisters finally reappeared. Margoto didn't look to pleased about the course in which their discussion must have taken, but Medina had smiled warmly at the twins when she entered the room. Mat waited with baited breath for Maje's sentence. He leaned closer to his sister and whispered "I sure have a bad feeling about this."

"Don't look so anxious, boy," the older woman's voice croaked. "You'll wear yourself into sickness like that," he realized that his fear and anxiety showed. He wondered that Maurley wasn't so anxious as well, but perhaps it was because he had never done anything like this before in his life.

"I've made my decision about you two," she hesitated and glanced at Aria. "And your cousin. I'm not going to turn you over to the Jedi. I think you deserve some answers to the questions that are bothering you. Unfortunately I can't answer them for you. It's not my place." Mat felt disappointment filling him. "There are two things that I can tell you. One of them no one else can tell you about except your mother herself, and the other I don't think your father can fully explain to you."

"You knew both of our parents?" Maurley asked, a touch of awe in her voice. Maje looked at them both for a long moment.

"Yes, I knew both of your parents, your mother quite a bit more than your father." Mat had the feeling that she was leaving something unsaid.

"The first thing I'm going to tell you, is about your namesake Mateo," Mat had just exchanged a glance with his sister and cousin, but now his attention was fully on Maje. "Let us take a walk." She hobbled out of the hut. Mat and Maurley fell in behind her. When Aria and Sage tried to follow the old woman whirled around with the agility of a much younger person. "No! You stay here," she pointed toward the inside. "I can only speak to these two."

For what seemed like a very long time they followed the woman's slow pace. They followed a different path out of the courtyard than they had taken going in, and Maje finally stopped at a bench and sank down upon it. "Mateo is the name of your mother's brother. He was a good boy, strong, kind. I think sometimes that Maurley was the only one who truly understood him because she had an element of compassion that the rest of her family often lacked. But in those days the Kayerdo, those who could be trained in the Force were taught wrong things. We were taught by using fear, anger, aggression. Since these were considered good things, sometimes what is truly good among those who use the Force was considered bad. Mateo had talents in the Force that were considered evil by our people, so, as a result he was tried by Jishah, our ruler and he was put to death."

The twins were silent for several moments. "Our mother's family," Maurley began. "Can you take us to them?"

Maje shook her head. "No, it is not time for you to meet them," she said simply, rising from her seat. "Come we still have a little way to go." They followed her, but instead of remaining silent, this time she told them of Chessa during it's darker time. "Years before your mother left Chessa, before we were taught the truth, we were ruled by Jishah. He had been ruler for a great many years, but each year a young girl of the Kayerdo was selected for him. For an entire year she would live with him as his wife. If she pleased him he kept her as his wife or made her his concubine. If she didn't, he divorced her and she went back to her family." she paused in her speech. "Your mother was eighteen when she was selected by the Masters and for that year she lived in Jishah's house. And in that year she bore him a son."

Maurley gasped, and Mat stopped still. "We have a brother?" he asked incredulously.

Maje shook her head. "You had a brother," she responded. "When she gave birth to him she was told