(Jayden's PoV)
"Master Jinn", I approached him after the podrace, as we left the arena.
"I think we might have a problem", I said, looking around.
"What is it?" Qui-gon immediately went to alert mode.
They are still on the run from the Federation. Until they can take the queen to the capital world, their mission is not considered complete.
"During the podrace, there was a droid probe that watched you for a long time. I could feel that it had its eyes on you only, more than others. Also, I felt that particular probe was different from the ones that the arena used to record the race", I told him.
This made Qui-gon Jinn wary of things. He searched around, but there was nothing at the moment, which could only mean that the enemy already knew what he wanted to know.
"We should quickly leave Tatooine", he said.
I nodded, and we left the arena.
I went straight to where our ship was located. My master didn't come to the podrace. She said she had no interest in such things.
While I went one way, the others headed to Anakin's home, where he was packing his luggage and would soon be on his way with the other party to Coruscant, leaving behind his mother and his invention, C3PO.
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(Maul's PoV)
"I found him", Maul muttered to himself as he saw Qui-gon Jinn, the Jedi who was supposed to have saved the Queen of Naboo from the Federation.
His master has given him the task of eliminating the queen, but when he saw the Jedi on the probe screen, his lust for battling the Jedi rose to the top.
From a young age, when his master took him under his tutelage, he grew up with stories about how dangerous the Jedi are and what they caused the Sith to endure.
For years, he was looking for a chance to enact the Revenge of the Sith, but his master made sure that he didn't, saying that it was not the time for that.
The time is almost near.
Even now, his priority was the Queen, not the Jedi, but a part of him wanted to hunt the Jedi, especially when he saw the young padawan, who seemed to have found his probe watching them.
He has not seen the young one's face.
His master has already provided the faces of the Jedi and his padawan, who were sent to meet with the federation, the ones that saved the queen. That was not his face.
So, he observed them from a distance and quickly understood that there was another master padawan pair here. He wanted to go after them, but quickly remembered his master and the punishments he would face if he failed to complete his mission.
"One day, I will kill all the Jedi", he muttered and concentrated on the Jedi and watched them as they returned to the outskirts, where he found the ship, the Naboo ship that he had been searching for a while.
It was not easy to find them.
Tatooine was huge. Even the cities and habitats were scattered around. He had to search for a while before he found the Jedi at the podrace, and they took him directly to the ship, where he would find the queen.
So, he acted quickly. The quicker he eliminates the Jedi, the easier it would be for him to eliminate the Queen, but things didn't go as he thought.
The Jedi and the group escaped his grasp and left the airspace. His ship was elsewhere. So, even if he moved at his fastest pace, he wouldn't be able to catch up with them.
"Curse you, Jedi", he screamed as he quickly left the area.
His master has warned him that Tatooine is under the Hutt's rule, and even the Sith can't easily deal with them, mainly because Jabba was a good friend of his master's master.
It was why he didn't go on a rampage after he lost the target or else, with how Maul was at the start, he would have killed a lot of people.
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"Who attacked you?" my master asked Master Jinn over the communicator.
We have already left Tatooine and are in space, ready to enter hyperspace, when the communicator lit up.
It was a communication signal from the Naboo ship.
We wondered why he was calling us when we should have been jumping into Hyperspace, and then he explained what had happened a few minutes before they left the Tatooine airspace.
"I can't say for sure, but he was well-versed in Jedi Arts, but not a Jedi. I think he is a Sith", Master Jinn said solemnly.
They were supposed to be dead, buried a thousand years ago. Their return now is certainly not a good thing.
"A Sith? That should be impossible", I wondered out loud, losing my emotions.
Well, it was an act. If I act as if the re-emergence of the Sith in a thousand years is nothing, then someone would surely doubt whether I am me or not. I am just eleven years old after all.
"Sith or not, we need to leave this place. The enemy is already on our tail. So, we need to leave for Coruscant immediately", my master spoke.
"You are correct. We can discuss anything else at the temple", Qui-gon replied.
Seconds later, both our ships entered Hyperspace.