The Legend of Gungan Hollow
Posted by: Darth Danno 10.10.07 12:01am

Sit back everyone and I’ll tell you a tale

That by the time I’m done, it will leave you pale

I’ll start at the beginning, where most stories do

On the peaceful, idyllic, word of Naboo

The events of “The Phantom Menace” have long since passed,

But the residual effects continue to last.

It seems the swamps are now haunted by a rider in black

And all those who travel at night fall under attack

It’s believed the rider is a dead Sith Lord

Whose demise at Theed palace was his final reward.

He traverses the swamps, not trying to impress,

Just looking for a body for his soul to possess.

There are no volunteers up for the giving,

But it’s the only way he’ll ever return to the living.

Now I promise to keep this from getting too gory,

But let’s get on with the rest of the story.

Rather than waiting until the first light of morning,

A lone Gungan traveled the swamps, without heeding the warning.

Now being in the swamp, the rider didn’t want to stay,

But has fate would have it, he lost his way.

Directions were something he did not know best.

His North became South, and East became West.

Then the wind picked up, and storm clouds rolled by

The Gungan felt a chill down his back, yet he did not know why.

Riding his Kaadu, he picked up the pace,

He knew he had to get out of this place.

As he rode along, the swamps did abound

With many a different animal sound.

Each noise was made with a different pitch and force,

Yet he was unable to determine their source

They came from everywhere, and all of them at once.

How did he ever get lost? He truly felt the dunce.

Each passing moment filled him with more and more dread.

From this late night excursion, he might end up dead.

He spurred his mount faster, and faster even still.

For now this became, a sheer test of will.

He forged on, and pressed ahead, but the going was slow,

For he still had no clue which way he should go.

Then off in the distance, a wondrous scene,

For high atop his Kaadu, the grassy plains could be seen.

The night would soon be over, and all would be right.

For the sky began to show morning’s first light.

He focused on the plains ahead, and his caution became lax,

For then he heard a sound behind him, that made him stop in his tracks.

He turned around to look, and the sight nearly made him fall,

For some distance behind him, stood the spirit of Darth Maul.

The Sith pointed at the Gungan, and flashed an evil grin,

Ignited his double bladed lightsaber, and hopped on the Bloodfin.

The Gungan kicked his ride hard, and rode for all his worth,

He wanted to make sure the Sith rider was given a wide birth.

He rode his mount hard, but press on as he might,

His constant glances behind him told him he was losing this fight.

Even though night was fast approaching the morning hour,

He couldn’t outride a speeder of that power.

If he could just make the plains, then the Sith would be at a loss,

For out of the swamps, the Dark Lord could not cross.

The clearing approached, and his hope swelled,

Bet with every glance to the rear, that feeling was quelled.

How much distance was left, he did not know,

But with the speeder coming up fast, he knew he couldn’t slow.

His goal was in sight, he almost had it made.

Casting one final glance behind him, and upon the Sith’s crimson blade.

Not wanting to concede a loss in this fight.

The Sith raised the saber above his head, and threw it with all his might.

The blades became a spinning wheel of death.

The Gungan pushed his ride for all its might, even though it was clearly out of breath.

Then…all went black.

They found his body shortly after sunrise,

And to all his kin it came to them as a surprise.

The Gungan was not struck down by the Sith blade, you see.

Instead he forgot to watch where he was riding and rode headfirst into a tree.

They thought the spirit would take the corpse, and use it as its own.

But now late at night, from the swamps they hear a moan.

They hear a wailing cry, about how life really stinks,

Of all the Gungans that had to fall, this one had to be Jar Jar Binks.

Darth Danno