Obsession

Holocrons of Fates

(AN: Hello readers! I know you came to read the chapter just, please, hold on for a second. As you can see from the title of this chapter, this chapter will be following directly after that episode, so, please, if you haven't seen it in awhile, please go back watch it, than come back and read this chapter! I can wait.

Are you done with the episode now? Okay let's get to the chapter than!)

Maul quickly put his ship into hyperspace. He was overfilled with emotions. He couldn't stop laughing with happy tears in his eyes. Hardly after the moment of feeling happy and grateful, he was filled with anger and the need for revenge. His hand shook as he pressed the auto-pilot button. It was useless since he knew he would be at Dathomir in a matter of minutes. But his hand had shook badly enough to wear he thought it would be a bad idea to manually fly the ship. He put his head in his hands as tears ran down he face. He was so overflown with emotions that he didn't know what exactly to do next.
He was quickly pulled from his thoughts when he heard his brother's voice.
"Maul! Are you alright, brother? Answer me!" Feral's voice had rang through the small ship and Maul wiped his face clear of the tears but it seemed like he wasn't done laughing. He laughed a bit more before answering.
"Feral. I'll be docking immediately." Maul said laughing a bit more.
"By the Goddesses, you scared me brother! Are you alright brother? Are you... laughing?" Feral's voice was completely confused
"No, I am overwhelmed right now brother! There is joyous news! I'll tell you when I'm docked!" Maul said and quickly docked onto the larger ship. He jumped out of his ship, but stepped back to lean on it. He's never laughed like this in his life, but he couldn't help it.
"Brother!" Feral said running into the hangar. "What is this news?"
"Feral! You won't believe it! You won't believe what I saw!" Maul hugged his younger brother
"What? What did you see brother?" Feral asked using his arms to put a bit of distance between him and Maul, he could feel his brother shaking.
"I saw him! I saw Kenobi!" Maul said happily.
"But brother, Obi-wan is dead." Feral said in a sad voice. Was all these years of being alone finally driving Maul insane?
"No! Brother! I saw him! I saw him! He's alive!" Maul said unable to wipe the joy filled smile off of his face.
"Than where is he? Why isn't he here?" Feral asked and Maul's smile faded and he looked like he had became confused.
"I-I-I don't know. I couldn't see." Maul answered his brother and Feral was also confused. He was able to see Obi-wan, but he could see where he saw him?
"Brother, what do you mean?" Feral asked
"My apprentice and I had combined holocrons. And in doing so the holocrons would answer the questions that the people who combined them had! My apprentice wanted to know how to destroy the Empire and Sith." Maul explained and Feral was slightly happy that his brother was no longer affiliated with the Sith now.
"What did you ask for brother?" Feral didn't know why he seemed nervous in asking Maul what he asked for.
"All I wanted was hope and the holocrons showed me Kenobi and he was alive brother!" Maul said regaining his smile than he snarled. "My apprentice pulled way too soon! I couldn't see where he was!"
"Than why don't you go and find your apprentice and join the holocrons again?" Feral asked curiously
"It wouldn't work. Due to my apprentice pulling away it broke the holocrons. We must find another way for my apprentice and I to trade memories. When he pulled away, we had traded some of our memories, but they were tiny bits, fragments. I believe I know where his base is so I can go and get him when ever we are ready." Maul explained
"I am sure the Nightsisters had something." Feral said walking towards his brothers ship.
"Kast, Maul and I are heading down to Dathomir, watch over the ship until my return." Feral spoke into a comm.
"Yes Lord Feral." Last spoke through the comm and Feral got into the smaller ship with his brother and started to head down to Dathomir.

It had felt like hours since they started searching through old Nightsister scrolls trying to find the right spell. Feral was determined to help his brother, if there was any chance that his brother's mate was still alive, he had to help. He remembered all of the days back when everything happened. Maul could hardly go anywhere without him and his mind would constantly torture him with his memories. Feral recalled his brother telling him they all had died in front of his eyes and that it would never be erased from his mind. Seeing his brother today, it was like he stepped into a different dimension. He was laughing and smiling. A very rare sight to see with Maul and Feral knew he could only count the times he saw it with only one hand. It had been 14 years since the beginning of his brother's fall and now he wanted to help in bringing his brother back up to where he was maybe not as high as his brother dreamed to be, but back to where he was.
Feral knew that he had to do most of the reading through the ancient scrolls and he knew that it had frustrated Maul. His brother's reading skills in Dathomiri weren't at their peak. Feral blamed Sidious for not teaching his brother how to read in his home language. It had made him angry , but he pushed it aside. He had to concentrate. As he read through the scrolls he happened upon one that was titled. 'To raise the dead.' Feral could tell that it wasn't in his mother's hand writing, but in the old Nightsister's Old Daka, who was the clan elder priestess. Only one Nightsister was allowed to know how to raise the dead. The scroll started off with how to raise a large group from the dead, than it moved into small groups of 2 or 3. It caught Feral's eye when it moved onto just raising one individual from the dead.
Feral closed the scroll and slowly pocketed it as he looked up at his brother to make sure he wasn't looking. Feral gulped at the idea of raising someone from the dead. As he closed it he noticed a warning on it. Anything that is out of balanced in the individual part of the spell and the person who is raised would just be a shell of who they were, with no memory of their life when they were alive.
Feral was about to open another scroll when he heard Maul call for him. He jumped in his skin thinking Maul had seen him pocket the scroll until he heard Maul call him over. Feral let out a soft sign of relief. It wasn't that he was scared of what his brother would think about raising the dead, but the scroll had been in his brother's hut and if Maul found out that he took a scroll he would most certainly start a fight that his brother would fight to the death for. Everything that he gathered was a sacred part of him and he. Ever wanted to depart from it.
"What is it brother?" Feral asked looking over Maul's shoulder at the strangely untitled scroll and he began to read it.
"Read down here, Feral." Maul pointed at a paragraph at the bottom of the scroll.
"To see and swap thoughts and memories with some." Feral read out loud.
"This one could work, right Feral?" Maul looked back at his younger brother.
"Yes, but with the Nightsisters, you either have to have them present during a ritual or you must give them something in return that they want." Feral said quickly looking at Maul before reading on.
"But they are spirits now, what could they want?" Maul asked his brother and they both quickly took notice of the green mist that crawled from the crystal ball. Nightsister spirits manifested from the mist and crawled across the floor towards them.
Maul quickly pushed Feral back. The younger brother could tell that his brother never saw something like this come from the crystal ball. Both the brother backed up afraid of the spirits.
"Flesh and blood." The spirits groaned desperately crawling and reaching for the brothers. "We want flesh and blood!"
Maul turned to Feral and they both looked at each other shocked. There was no way they could turn back now.

After the Nightsisters disappeared back into the crystal ball, Feral told Maul that he was going to taking a scroll up to the ship, a scroll about medicine. Feral was shaking when Maul told him that it could never leave his side. Feral knew that even if Maul was is brother, Maul wasn't afraid to fight anyone. Although Feral knew Maul wouldn't kill him, he knew that there were worse things that could happen to him than death. The Nightsisters taught that to all Nightbrothers to keep them in line and they were afraid at all to show off their power just like Maul. His raising as a Sith had given his older brother the odd attitude of a Nightsister. Calm and quiet, yet raging and ferocious. A Force that no one, but a few dared to challenge.