Obi-wan roughly yanked Maul off Savage after powerful punches landed on Savage's face and body. Maul snarled and roared at Savage pulling away from Obi-wan. Savage wiped the blood that slowly drained from the corner of his mouth and snarled as he stood back up.

"I'm gonna knock the shit out of you for doing that." Savage snapped and charged at Maul and Obi-wan until Feral ran just a bit quicker than Savage, locking his arms around the other yellow Zabrak and his feet dug into the ground as he pulled Savage back.

"Brothers, please calm down!" Feral begged as he struggled to keep Savage back. Before Feral knew it Savage's elbow slammed into his face, breaking the young brother's nose. Feral cried out in pain let go of Savage covering his nose that poured out blood.

Maul kept struggling as Obi-wan held him back as Obi-wan tried to get inside of Maul's mind, that was unusually blocked to Obi-wan. Savage roared as he charged at Maul.

"Enough!" Before Savage could reach Maul, Talzin shouted and used her magiks to push Savage into the house. The force wasn't enough to knock Savage out, but it was enough for him to know that the fight wasn't worth fighting at the moment. Even the only thing breaking the silence now was Maul's continued struggle. But instead of him attempting to just yank and pull away from Obi-wan, he was shaking along with his movements. Along with his movements, he was roaring and snarling that also turned into cries and whines then back into the violent noises. Obi-wan fought hard to break into Maul's mind as Talzin stood in terror watching Maul's struggles and feeling the constant shifts in her son's body. During Maul's struggling, the Zabrak's nail dug into Obi-wan just deep enough for the blood to drain down his arms.

Once Obi-wan found a way into Maul's mind, everything crumbled. Maul's body fell limp in Obi-wan's arms. Quickly pulling his force back to him, Obi-wan was shocked as Maul fell, the second before Obi-wan left Maul's mind he had heard screaming roars, chain rattling, crying and pleading before it was like someone threw a switch and turned everything off.

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Obi-wan paced the hall that had led to Maul's room. Maul had woken up from his unconscious state only an hour ago and Obi-wan tried to go inside his room to figure out what's wrong with Maul, but Obi-wan was met with a locked door. Obi-wan had pleaded for Maul to unlock the door and to let him in, but he was only answered with silence. Maul would not answer him. Obi-wan at moments kept thinking that Maul had fallen asleep, but he would send his force out to investigate to find out Maul was awake and fully alert. Yet Obi-wan could not feel what Maul was feeling like he normally could. Obi-wan checked the bond they had. Fully intact. Nothing was wrong with it. Nothing was different. He couldn't even tell which of the personas were in control of Maul.

Obi-wan needed to know what was wrong. The longer he paced in the hall, the more the sinking feeling in Obi-wan grew. Obi-wan could just tell that something was wrong.

It was hours before Obi-wan sensed something different.

Jedi.

They were found.

Obi-wan went over to the door and placed his hand on the handle. "That's strange. It was locked before." Obi-wan looked into the room after opening the door. The adrenaline to warn Maul was overwhelmed with the nervousness of even entering the room. Obi-wan thought to himself trying to calm himself, but what was he feeling? 

Fear.

Or sensing it? He couldn't tell if it was his or Maul's feelings. It had confused him and he pushed it aside. If it was him, he could afford to be scared. Not of Maul or the Jedi. He had to be calm and collected. Obi-wan took a deep breath calming himself. But what put him off was his lack of knowledge of how Maul was. 

Obi-wan walked into the room seeing it mainly empty until he saw Maul sitting in the corner of the room like a child who had gotten in trouble. Like a child. Obi-wan took a breath of relief as he walked over to Maul and kneeled down next to him.

"Maul," Obi-wan spoke softly, but the break in the silence still caused Maul to jump.

"Master?" Maul's voice was quiet and wondering while his eyes somehow seemed larger as if in search of knowledge and full of innocence. Maul turned slowly to Obi-wan as Obi-wan also sat on the floor.

"Oh, Maul," Obi-wan sighed as he leaned his head back against the wall. When Obi-wan looked back at Maul, Maul's eyes never shifted from him. Obi-wan sat up straighter and waved Maul over to come close to him. Obi-wan wanted to see if this Maul was pure innocence or if Sidious had tainted even a bit of him.

Maul slowly crawled over to Obi-wan and next to and leaned against Obi-wan. Obi-wan couldn't help but chuckle and wrap an arm around Maul.

"Master?" Maul spoke up again looking up at Obi-wan after they were silent for a moment with Maul's ear pressed against Obi-wan's chest listening to his heartbeat.

"Yes, Maul?" Obi-wan spoke up looking down at him.

"Is mother mad at me for starting the fight with Savage?" Maul quietly asked

"No, Maul, no. She was scared that one of you would get hurt or not give each other the chance to like each other." Obi-wan explained to him, "Speaking of the fight, why did it happen? What caused it, Maul?"

"Savage was saying that a Nightsister was going to take me away from you! That I was going to have to be a servant to her!" Maul spoke louder as he turned to Obi-wan fully with tears in his eyes.

"Oh..." Was all Obi-wan could say at Maul's statement. Obi-wan had forgotten the tradition of the Nightsisters and how they use the men as servants.

"I don't want to leave you!" Maul started to cry as he wrapped his arms around Obi-wan. Obi-wan smiled softly as he took a breath then hugged Maul.

"You don't need to worry Maul. I will talk with your mother and I'm sure we can work something out." Obi-wan rubbed Maul's back as the large red Zabrak in his arms calmed down.

"You promise?" Maul sniffled and rubbed his eyes looking up at Obi-wan.

"I cross my heart, Maul." Obi-wan leaned into Maul and kissed his cheek. "No one can separate us, Maul, and if we are ever separated, I will be right there on my way back to you."

Maul smiled back at Obi-wan looking deep into the blue eyes that gave him much comfort and protection. Maul kept his smile, unlike Obi-wan, as they stood up.

"Now Maul," Obi-wan spoke up with a serious, yet soft, tone in his voice, "We need to get you to your mother."

"But why?" Maul sounded completely oblivious to the situation as Obi-wan cursed himself as he could sense the Jedi were closer to Dathomir. No, not closer to Dathomir. They were on Dathomir. Obi-wan, saying nothing else, grabbed Maul's hand and lead him to where he could sense Talzin. As Obi-wan led Maul to Talzin, Maul blinked in complete confusion.

"Master, why are we in such a rush to see mother? What's happening?" Maul looked around the dimly lit village trying to get a grasp on what was wrong. Obi-wan opened his mouth to tell Maul that the Jedi were coming to separate them, but then Obi-wan remembered that he was dealing with Maul as a child. Obi-wan stopped and placed his hands onto Maul's shoulders.

"I need you to be with your mother, so... I can go and talk with Savage. I want him to know that you didn't mean to attack him." Obi-wan lied to Maul, hoping to whatever god or goddess that was out there that Maul would not sense that it was a lie.

"I should go with you then! So Savage really knows that I didn't want to hurt him." Maul said growing a smile at his idea and at how Savage would be happy that his older brother would be able to make a truce between them and hoping that it would set an example for him.

"No, Maul, I want you to stay with your mom." Obi-wan rejected

"But why?" Maul's smile faded

"If Savage is still angry at you for attacking him, he might attack you and I don't want you to get hurt." Obi-wan said rubbing Maul's shoulders comfortingly.

"But what if you get hurt?" Maul became worried about Obi-wan, his eyes filling with tears once again.

"I'm sure I could win in a fight against your brother! I have tricks up my sleeves. There's no need to worry." Obi-wan said feeling a bit silly after saying that knowing that is was any kid who never met his brother would say.

"You promise you'll be alright?" Maul rubbed his eyes with his sleeve.

"I promise Maul." Obi-wan hugged him before returning to his previous goal. Getting Maul to Talzin. If Maul was hurt while there were Jedi on Dathomir, Obi-wan knew Talzin would never trust him with Maul ever again.

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After dropping Maul off with a calm yet knowing Mother Talzin, Obi-wan couldn't help but sense something sinister. He looked back at where Mother Talzin's hut was, but he didn't sense it coming from Maul. Suddenly Obi-wan felt a jolt go through his body as if he had been hit by lighting. He felt weak in his knees and light headed. He sat down on the last bridge he had to cross to leave the Nightsister village. He felt almost sick. He turned to look at himself in the flowing river beneath the bridge.

A sinister chill ran through Obi-wan's body as he saw his reflection. His eyes were corrupted with the dark side.

Jumping in surprise of what he saw, Obi-wan pushed himself away from the edge of the bridge. As he then stood up, Obi-wan didn't feel any more pain in his arm where Maul had scratched him. He checked his arms to see that they were completely healed. Obi-wan looked down at the two hidden lightsabers on his belt. Reaching down for his, he was shocked that the slightly corrupted crystal of Mace Windu's lightsaber called to him instead of the one that called to him when he first became a padawan then ever since. 

Obi-wan quickly left the Nightsister village out of the pure shock of what was happening. Once he thought he was far enough from the village, Obi-wan knew he had to calm down. After taking many deep breaths, Obi-wan reminded himself that Maul could still feel his emotions through their bond. 

He shifted his attention back to the corrupted lightsaber. He picked it up from his belt and looked at it trying to think of a reason at why this lightsaber would be calling him and not the one he made. Igniting the lightsaber was nothing new to Obi-wan. Until the longer he held it in his hands, the redder the blade of the lightsaber became.

Crying out of pure fear and surprise, Obi-wan dropped the lightsaber and ran away from it a couple of paces. He stopped and looked back at the deactivated lightsaber that laid on the ground. Obi-wan thought he was done for. That Maul had sensed his terror and was quickly on his way to rescue Obi-wan from whatever was happening, but there was one thing wrong. Obi-wan still couldn't sense Maul. Obi-wan didn't know if he ever regained it after the fight Maul had. Now that he thought about it, it was out of a pure guess that it was Maul's child persona that was taking control of his body and, even further, Obi-wan remembered that the last time he was in Maul's head, the child had nearly no influence over the other personas.The child only had control of Maul's body before due to Obi-wan pulling him to the surface.

"What is happening?..." Obi-wan reapproached the lightsaber and picked it up with a shaking hand.

"Kenobi!" A voice shouted through the mist that sent more chills through Obi-wan's body. When Obi-wan looked up he found the owner of the voice, who was the true owner the lightsaber that he had completely corrupted now. Mace Windu.