Chapter 12

A Pissed Off Prince

Ahsoka POV

All around me, people started bowing before Adas, even Obi-Wan. Eventually, I too kneeled and looked to the surprised boy.

"I'm a prince?" he asked.

Kressh nodded and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Adas, I have watched over you for years and I have never ceased to believe that you would find your way back to Korriban. Anyway, everyone please rise and come introduce yourself to Prince Adas."

All of the Sith walked up to Adas and started chatting away. Obi-Wan and I exchanged looks and just stood there, feeling a little left out.

"Ahsoka, Obi-Wan," Adas said. "Come on. You're my friends and you should introduce yourselves as well."

I smiled and walked toward the large group. "Hello. I'm Padawan Learner Ahsoka Tano."

Immediately, I was bombarded with questions.

"How long have you known the Prince?"

"Who is your master?"

"Are you and the prince mates?"

Adas and I blushed and I said, "Um, I've known Adas a couple of weeks. I'm a Padawan Learner to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. And as for me and Adas being mates…"

"We should let the three rest a little," Lord Kressh said, saving me from having to answer. "It was probably a long journey from Coruscant and they need some time to unwind. Besides, we'll be having a big feast tomorrow in Adas's honor."

"We will?" a woman asked.

Lord Kressh glared at her. "Yes, we will. So I suggest that you and your cooks get on it immediately."

The woman and her cooks scrambled off to the kitchen to prepare the food while Lord Kressh said to us, "Come now. I will show you to your rooms."

He escorted Obi-Wan to a large guest room and took me and Adas outside to what looked to be another house. "The Royal Family never stays in the Palace. That is where we work and train. We need a separate place to unwind, study, and meditate. This is where you'll be staying."

I raised an eye marking. "But why are me and Adas staying in a house together?"

Lord Kressh smiled and said nothing. When we got inside, I observed the house. It had red and black furniture all over, including a couch and some recliners. I peeked inside the dining room and saw that it was made out of a very dark wood. I decided that I would go up to the bedrooms later.

Lord Kressh said, "My servants have gone to fetch your starship so that we might be able to unload your belongings."

I sat down on the blood red couch and asked, "Why are you treating Obi-Wan and I so nicely?"

"You're allies of Adas, are you not? You helped him master his powers… well, at least the Jedi ones. You housed him, gave him food, and trained him. Why would we not treat you nicely?"

He smiled at me and I smiled back. "You're welcome then, Lord Kressh."

He raised a hand. "Please, call me Lameek. Over my two hundred years of ruling over the Sith, I've come to detest my title as Lord."

I nodded. "How could you rule over the Sith for two hundred years?"

He smiled. "Our species retain our youth and don't age so that we might be able to fight better and reproduce."

He looked over to a sun dial and said, "We'll be having dinner in an hour. I trust that it will give you two enough time to get ready. I will meet you at the table and hopefully, we will be able to sort everything out with my other son."

Adas POV

I had left the house so that Ahsoka might be able to get ready and that I would be able to get some answers from my father.

I found him in what looked to be a library and he looked up from a book. "Hello, Adas. What is it?"

I sat next to him and said, "I want to know more about my mother."

I saw a flash of pain behind his eyes and he asked, "What do you want to know?"

"How did you guys meet?"

He leaned back in his chair and a small smile came across his face. "It was about twenty-three years ago. She was on a mission to Saleucami and crashed on a nearby system. I picked up her distress signal and rescued. Of course, she tried to fight me, but I managed to calm her down and she stayed on our planet for awhile. We got to know each other and in the course of a month, you had been conceived."

"She was worried that your Council would find out and she would get in trouble, but eventually, she realized that you were more important and you were born here. Afterwards, she took you back to Coruscant and raised you in a private apartment. I'm surprised that she even managed to keep you a secret for so long."

I asked, "Why didn't she just keep me here?"

He sighed. "Your brother, Prince Maul, wasn't in his right mind. He suffered from a mental disorder and didn't like competition. Placing you near the Jedi Order was the right thing to do so that you would be well protected."

His eyes got a sad look in them. "She died six years after you were born and whoever the killer was got away by the time my scouts and I had arrived at the scene. I miss her so much."

I almost told him about Maul, but decided against it. It would completely break him to know that his own son had killed the woman that he loved. It had almost broken me…

"Father, why did you tell everyone that I was dead?"

"Some people in our society were not happy with Darsha being in our city and when they figured out that she was pregnant, they wanted to use you to push her out of our society."

"Darsha?"

"Your mother," he said and sighed happily, probably thinking of her. "Anyway, when the time for your birth had arrived, I told everyone that you were stillborn so that no one could threaten to use you against me or your mother. It may not seem it, but a few of the Sith aren't happy with me being the Lord."

"Also, why do the other Sith not have marks like me?"

"Only a Sith of warrior or royal status have them."

I nodded and a another question came to me. "What did Mom look like?"

He rubbed his chin. "Long, beautiful blonde hair, sky blue eyes, and she was about the size of your girlfriend, Ahsoka."

I held up a hand. "Dad, Ahsoka's not my girlfriend."

He started laughing so hard that he fell onto the floor. "Not your girlfriend? Well if she isn't right now, she will be in the future."

"What?"

"Our people have a desire to claim what is ours or at least what we think is ours. This Ahsoka, you are obviously attached to her and I don't think it will be too long until your instincts kick in. You two will soon become one body and hopefully produce some heirs."

I didn't say anything, just stared at my dad. He waved a hand in my face. "Hello? Son? Adas? Was that a little too much?"

I nodded and said, "I think that I'll go get ready now."

I started to get up, but I asked, "Father, what are our customs as to marriage?"

He smiled. "When someone in our culture wants to be married, the male must present a token of his affection to the woman. Afterwards, they will make preparations and they can be married at any location that they please. But to complete the marriage, the male must so to speak, 'mark' the woman."

"What do you mean by that?"

"When you mark a woman, it usually consists of a bite mark or something to signify that she is yours and that you are hers. When you're royalty though, you can choose to give her a burned mark."

"A burned mark?"

"Yes, like the ones on your skin. I did that to Darsha." He sighed, as if recalling a good memory. "She bore that mark until the day she died."

"So you and Mom were married?"

He nodded. "Two days after your birth. She had to go back to Coruscant and we decided that we would get married just in case we never saw each other again. I have never met a woman like her in my two hundred fifty years."

I smiled. "You know I remember when I was four that she would talk about you a lot. She always told me that you were brave and important. She also said that you were one of the more compassionate and nice people of your species."

He sighed and said, "Thank you, Adas. You have your mother's way with words. You'll make a great ruler one day, that is, if Prince Maul were to step down. Anyway, we must get ready for dinner. I have a feeling that your mate misses you a lot right now."

Ahsoka POV

Man, he looks so sexy! I thought as I watched Adas talk to his father. They were discussing the Jedi Order and how much it had changed over the past twenty-thousand or so years.

"Ahsoka, Adas," Obi-Wan said. We turned to him. "Have you contacted the Council, yet? They would be interested to know that the Sith are not our enemies any longer.

I looked down at my plate of food. "Um… we sort of forgot to do that."

"How could you forget?"

I was taken back to earlier when Adas was getting ready.

I was walking down the halls, not paying attention when Adas stepped out of the bathroom quickly and we rammed into each other. We fell down on the ground and started blushing like crazy.

"Ahsoka, I am so sorry," he said and I waved him off.

"It's alright," I said. Then I felt something touching my inner thigh and I asked, "What's poking me?"

I looked down and saw that Adas had been wearing a towel and that it had come off when we had fallen. I tilted my head a little. Is it really that big? I thought as Adas began to get up.

He wrapped the towel around himself and helped me up. I ended up smashing into his still-wet chest and he chuckled. "Clumsy much?"

"Only sometimes," I replied and hastily walked back to my room.

"Um… I just got distracted," I said. Hey, at least I told the partial truth!

He shrugged and changed his attention to Lameek who was making a speech. "Dear subjects, family, and guests, our species was and is the strongest in the galaxy. Over twenty-thousand years ago though, we were almost wiped out. However, we proved to everyone that we have courage, intelligence and skill because we rebuilt our society!"

Everyone let out a yell. "We have managed to reconstruct our population, cities, and military! And now since we have our prince back, we'll be ready for anything!"

Another yell. "Let us all raise our glasses to Prince Adas and his companions, Ahsoka Tano and Obi-Wan Kenobi."

Adas smiled at me and I returned it. Everyone said, "Tyûk," and drank from their glasses.

I asked Adas, "What does Tyûk mean?"

He took a swig out of his glass. "It means strength in our language."

"Father," a voice said at the far side of the room. "I'm sorry that I was late. The Sith on the west side of the planet were having difficulties with their communications so I had to help them."

Everyone's head went straight toward the door where I saw a tall man with horns coming out of his head. He had red skin and black marks, as well as a lightsaber clipped to his belt. But the most apparent thing about him was that he two cybernetic legs.

It was Darth Maul.

"It is quite alright, Prince Maul," Lameek said and gestured to Adas. "Though I wish that you could have been here earlier. Your half brother Adas, arrived today. Isn't that great?"

Maul did nothing except glare at Adas and I. I felt a shiver go up my spine when looking into those yellow, merciless eyes. I saw death and pain in them.

Adas started standing up. "Hello, brother. I suppose that it has been awhile." I bit my lip. Even though things had been awkward between us after that incident in the hallway, I had told him to contain his anger because of his father. And he was doing a terrible job at it.

Maul nodded. "Too long, brother."

They both activated their lightsabers and moved towards each other.

Echuta… Adas is pissed off. Well, the next chapter will be about… it's kind of hard to explain what the next chapter will be about. Anyway, the scene in the hallway and Adas asking about marriage means something to review about! And thanks for the other reviews as well!