A Duel in the Sands

-Outskirts of Mos Espa-

Qui-Gon had just entered the spaceport of Mos Espa with Padme and R2-D2, he was trying his best to detect the force signature of Wolfe but was having little luck. He had noticed when he first met Wolfe, that his force signature was extremely small, more of an outline, easy to miss if you weren't focused. It was around this time that he noticed a small blue alien flying about the street franticly asking and yelling to people. Jinn did not know much Huttese but he got the gist that he was searching for someone. He ignored the Toydarian however, as he did not have time to be wasted on 'side-quests'. Looking past the alien he noticed the form of a man walking around a corner, recognizing it was Wolfe, he sped up to catch up with him before he lost him once again.

Wolfe had just finished 'persuading' a swoop bike dealer to give up two of his bikes and sent off Shmi and Anakin with two droids while the other twenty or so carried off the small number of belongings and drove Anakin's pod racer to the Gravestone. Noticing Qui-Gon had spotted him before he could quickly sneak away to go hunt down a wild animal. Sitting on what appeared to be a discarded wheel of some primitive vehicle, he pulled his Deagle from his holster and went about polishing it while waiting on the three musketeers to catch up.

"Quite the strange blaster you have there, my friend." Wolfe glanced over at Jinn who had surprisingly managed to sneak up on him even when he knew he was coming. "Your skill with hiding your presence is surprising, I almost shot you." Wolfe quipped to the old master, who just chuckled before continuing, "Have you had any luck finding a replacement hyperdrive, Wolfe?"

"No, sadly I have not, but, I have found you a brand new ship, a Star Courier," Wolfe responded as he gave his Deagle a twirl and holstered it and turned to face Jinn as he snapped his T shaped visored helmet on, blue lights blinking on and off. Jinn understood what Wolfe meant by his words and was quick to counter, "You are implying we steal it? I can not do that, I am a Jedi, not a pirate."

Wolfe resisted the urge to chuckle, knowing that he had yet to encounter Maul so he clarified. "This ship belongs to a Dark Jedi who has fallen completely to the dark side, I am going to eliminate him and give you his ship, while I put the Nubian inside the hanger of the Gravestone, and follow you to your destination." Jinn raised his brow to this, a Dark Jedi may not always be killed on-site, but a Darksider is a danger to all, and should at least be imprisoned to be reformed. Giving a nod Jinn said, "Very well, I will trust you on this, how long will it take to reach him?" Wolfe was about to respond when a voice spoke up from behind Jinn,

"And what should I do? Should I follow you while you murder and steal or should I return to the ship?" Padme was shocked and disillusioned at the two Jedi discussing how to murder someone like making a grocery list. Wolfe interrupted Jinn who was about to clarify and said sternly, "A non-sensitive wouldn't understand, but I'll try to make it clear. The dark side is not an ideology or a viewpoint on life. It is a tangible and living thing, the worst drug. It warps the mind and makes everything you do seem right. Want to murder someone? All okay. Want to rape someone? Go ahead. It turns you into a psychopathic and unfeeling person. All that is fair becomes foul and foul fair. When you realize that defending a mad dog killer is useless, I'll arrange a droid on a Swoop bike to come from my ship to pick you and the droid up, until then follow us and be silent, child." She seemed shocked anyone would speak in such a way to her, and dumbly nodded and tried to catch up with the two force users who had already started walking.

-1 hour later: Dune Sea-

Maul was excited, he could sense one of the two Jedi approaching the cave he was in, the fool. He walked out the mouth of the cave to the Scimitar, his modded Star Courier, and went inside to the refresher to relieve himself before they arrived, he would never know what a good idea this would be.

-30 minutes later: Dune sea, minus droid, and pacifist-

Wolfe and Jinn stood upon the crest of a sand dune, looking down at a man in a black cloak standing at the mouth of a cave. Jinn could sense the dark side flowing out of this man, the bloodlust and hate he project was nauseating to him, glancing at Wolfe next to him, who had just finished removing his cloak, revealing the bulky and alien-looking armor he wore and spoke.

"He seems to be powerful, how should we go about this? I don't know how you fight, so we need to coordinate now." Wolfe just gave a chuckle and responded, "Just go ready the ship, ill fight him alone. I've been needing some exercise, playing with a mutt will help." Wolfe made sure to enhance his voice with the force at the last bit, making Maul growl in anger. Jinn just nodded and began walking towards the ship, lightsaber ready. Maul watched the older Jedi head towards the ship he was standing next to before looking back at the large man in blue and red armor, noticing he was missing. He panicked before feeling the force scream at him, quickly igniting one end of his saber he deflected two blaster bolts and went to block the third when instead of the pssh of hitting a bolt, he felt like a million volts of hot sith lightning went through his right leg. Looking down he saw his leg was covered in small holes with blood pooling out. A kriffing slugthrower!

Wolfe gave a laugh at the enraged Zabrak as he ignored his pain and launched himself forward, if he had used a shotgun like the old Mandalorians, this dog would have been put down. Calling his red saber to his right hand he ignited it and intercepted and locked blades with the Sith, who was now trying and failing to overpower him.

Maul was a practitioner of Form VII, and was good at it, after breaking the lock with Wolfe's saber, Maul began an onslaught of strikes imbued with force onto Wolfe. Wolfe was surprised that Maul was actually pressuring him, holstering his blaster he pulled his second saber and began a counteroffensive. Starting off with Form IV, Wolfe force shoved maul to interrupt his onslaught and began a flurry of blows, some seemingly random as he began pushing maul back. Maul, realizing that he was being pushed into a bad position, force leaped backward towards the sand dunes and activated the other end of his lightsaber and falling into the opening stance of Form VI.

Taking a slow stride towards the waiting Maul, Wolfe also combined his two lightsabers and also got ready to use Form VI, holding his saber vertically behind his back while keeping his left hand in front of him, ready to cancel any force ability Maul tried to use.

Maul was incensed, he felt like he had been tricked. When he first saw the man, he assumed he was a bounty hunter with the armor he was wearing, some of them had lightsabers, but the main reason, he couldn't sense the man's force presence until he first shot! With a growl, Maul tried to force pull the armored man towards his waiting blade but he just deflected his telekinesis with ease and leaped forward bringing his saber forward like a spear to stab Maul.

Wolfe could tell Maul was enraged, he wanted this, a mentally distracted enemy is a predictable one. Giving a force leap towards the Zabrak, he thrust his saber forward but Maul parried it aside and went for a riposte towards Wolfe's side. Quickly deactivating the blade next to his side, he flicked the off end up and reactivated it just in time to catch the blade before it reached him. Locked in another contest of strength, Wolfe quickly reached out with the force and pulled the sand out from under Maul's feet causing him to stumble. Not willing to lose this chance, he quickly unhooked his sabers and chopped down on the middle of Maul's saber, cutting it in half and then twirling the blade, severing his right hand. Planting a force powered kick to the crouching form of Maul and sending him careening to the side, he began speaking as he walked to him.

"You are defeated, give up! I can tell you have much potential, but Sidious will not make you his apprentice! You might think you already are, but you are just a shock trooper, a cheap, disposable assassin! Join me, and I can make you strong without the need of the dark side!"

Maul was shocked and incensed, he had lost! How?! Defeated by some upstart Jedi wannabe! He was Darth Maul! Dark Lord of the SIth! Or so he believed. He heard the man's words, he knew his master?! "How do you know that name?!" he screamed.

"I know many things child, you know nothing. Tell me, do you even know Sidious's true name? Or that he is still an apprentice himself!?" Maul couldn't believe it, the force was telling him he wasn't lying, he just couldn't accept it, this meant he wasn't a true apprentice, after all, the Rule of Two made it so! "How?! Tell me how you know this!" He screamed, beyond enraged now, Wolfe couldn't tell if it was blood veins bulging on his face or his tattoos. "I can tell you, but you must accept to join me, as a fledgling in my order. After that, I will even help you kill him, but you must renounce the sith and your indulgence in the Dark Side!"

Maul was conflicted, on one hand, he wanted to kill his master for treating him as a fool, on the other, he wanted to kill this man for telling him! Looking down to his stump of a hand, he remembered all the times Sidious had fried him with that kriffing lightning, he hated the man and couldn't wait to kill him and take the title of master fo himself! Locking eye to visor with the man. He realized through his clouded thoughts this man could help him kill his master...

"I'll do it, but I want to kill him, myself!" Wolfe smiled and deactivated his sabers and walked forward to the Zabrak, "Good choice, Fledgeling Maul."