Obi-wan woke up before Maul and looked out of one of the few window as he laid in the bed. Obi-wan felt like he was kind of stuff creature a mother would give their child to help them sleep as Maul's arms were wrapped tightly around Obi-wan's chest and underneath his arms avoiding the scar that was torn open not too long ago.

Obi-wan became self-conscious for his and Maul's sake as Obi-wan remembered that Brother Viscus, who was also Maul's father, was going to come in at any moment to tell Maul to prepare to get ready to travel to the Nightsisters village. The light of the Dathomirian sun spotted the inside of the small hut as Obi-wan tried to escape from the vice that was Maul's arms.

"Maul," Obi-wan whispered wiggling in the tightening grip than a soft growling noise emanated from Maul as Obi-wan kept moving around. Then Obi-wan had an idea, he was in a similar position with Maul when they escaped the Temple. It was a dirty trick, but Obi-wan didn't want Maul's newly found family to shun him for sharing a Jedi with someone they considered a threat to their planet.

"Maul," Obi-wan said softly yet a bit louder than before and tried pushing at Maul's arms. "Maul, that hurts."

As soon as the words left his lips Obi-wan felt Maul's body jump and he quickly moved into a sitting position next to Obi-wan's body. The apologies spilled from Maul's mouth.

"Maul! It's ok!" Obi-wan quickly regretted his trick. He also sat up and took Maul's hand and placed it on his shoulder. "Look, Maul, look! I'm fine. Your grip was just a bit too tight." 

Maul could tell Obi-wan was telling the truth, but he still moved the Jedi Knight's tunic up to inspect the scar. Maul's hand slowly and carefully moved across the scar.

"Maul," Obi-wan spoke the Zabrak's name with a bit of annoyance as Maul refused to stop the inspection. Obi-wan sighed as he felt occasional pressure from Maul's fingers, he was happy that there was no pain coming from the scar at all. 

"Maul." Obi-wan repeated as Maul continued the inspection. Obi-wan could sense movement in the village. Although this was different, it wasn't one of the Nightbrothers he sensed before.

A viscous, bone-chilling roar swept through the village waking everyone from their sleep. Maul and Obi-wan quickly ran out of their hut seeing a Rancor stop through the village and knocking off roofs of huts. The Rancor reached into the hut and ripped a Nightbrother from his hut and it bit the Nightbrother's head off.

"Trapezius!" Vicus shouted as other Nightbrother's left their huts with weapons. Savage and Feral were one of many that came out with weapons.

"A Rancor?!" Savage shouted surprised as he held his pike.

"What is it doing this far out here?!" Feral question as he held his spear that he had customized with more blades.

"Who cares why it's here! Kill it!" Viscus ordered and the Nightbrothers charged at the enormous creature with their weapons in hand.

"Obi-wan do you sense that?" Maul couldn't look away from the Rancor

"It's the dark side." Obi-wan responded, but he didn't need to look around to find out where it was coming from, but what was confusing him is how it was coming from the Rancor.

"Come on, Maul, we have to help them!" Obi-wan said and they ran to the fight until Obi-wan was stopped by Savage.

"Stay out of this Jedi! You have no business with this." Savage snarled pointing his pike at Obi-wan. Maul pushed the weapon away from Obi-wan.

"You're right, Savage, but there is no need to be pointing the weapons at him." Maul snarled protectively. "It's that beast you should be pointing that pike at."

"Savage!" They heard Viscus shout from the battle as they slowly wounded the huge raging beast. Savage snarled back at Maul before he turned and ran back to the battle with Maul following. 

Obi-wan took steps back as he watched the terrifying battle. As Nightbrother's died, Maul picked up their weapons and used them to his advantage. He picked up a mace smashing it against the Rancor's hand as it reached out for another Nightbrother. The monster howled in pain snatching its hand back before swinging it back at Maul. Without moving out of the way, Maul swung the mace at the incoming hand. The Rancor screeched as the sound of bones breaking were clear in the air. It went to crush Maul with its other hand, but Brother Viscus threw a spear into the monster's shoulder. The Rancor stumbled back a few steps then pulled out the multi-blade spear.

The Rancor turned, snatching up another Nightbrother. The Nightbrother had dropped a weapon that had resembled sickles attached by a long chain. Maul ran over quickly snatching it up, he used a force-assisted jump to land on the Rancor's arm. Stabbing the Rancor with both of the sickles, Maul grabbed onto the chain part and jumped off of the massively large arm. The Nightbrother was dangerously close to the monster's mouth went Maul lost slack in the chain causing the sickles to tear deep gashes into the thick flesh.

The Nightbrother was dropped and before anyone else knew it, Maul had removed the twin sickles from the arm of the monster and to its throat. He sliced its throat, and after a moment the Nightbrother's jumped back to avoid the falling and bleeding monster. Viscus and Maul's younger brothers, along with the rest of the clan looked at their newcomer in surprise. Maul had basically defeated the monster single-handedly. They watched as Maul turned and quickly went over to his Jedi companion.

"Are you alright, Obi-wan?" Maul asked and Obi-wan sighed

"By the Gods Maul, you're all covered in blood. I'm fine, are you OK?" Obi-wan could barely tell the dark red color of the Rancor's blood apart from Maul's bright blood red colored skin.

"That was a very outstanding kill there Maul, you have saved the entire village." Viscus spoke with what one could possibly interpret as a smile. Obi-wan could sense Maul's shock and surprise. "No one else could in this entire village could have taken down a Rancor."

"Really?" Maul's voice was so quiet with his confusion that Obi-wan could barely hear him. Then like a switch, Maul's surprised turned into him basking in his pride and soaking up the praises that his new father sent to him. Obi-wan looked around and saw Savage stalking through the crowd of amazed Nightbrother with a Nightsister dressed in red that covered here body, head, and mouth. Her arms were bare as she wore long red gloves and had a bow and magik arrows attached to her back.

"Brother Viscus!" Savage called out as he approached them. "Nightsister Acolyte has come to inquire the reason for our delay."

"Ah, yes. Nightsister Acolyte, please, walk with me as I explain our delay. Savage, have Feral help Kenobi clean up and prepare Maul for the journey." Viscus spoke and the Nightsister had turned her head towards Viscus as he mentioned Maul's name in near surprise. 

"Yes, Brother Viscus."  Savage bit out as Obi-wan could sense Savage's anger and jealousy towards Maul.

"Come, Sister." Viscus spoke and he and the Nightsister started to walk away. Savage turned and called his youngest brother to them and they all walked off in what they hoped for was silence until Feral started praising Maul for the amazing kill that had saved the village. 

With every word that spilled from Feral's young mouth, it only fueled Savage's jealousy of Maul. Obi-wan knew that he had to find a way of dispelling Savage's dark feelings before they led to a battle where Obi-wan did not know if he would be able to stop it.