Second Chance
Hi everyone, so this is my second fanfic, for those of you who read my first fanfic-Battle within-I am going to continue it I promise :)
Anyway enjoy. Please review I appreciate any tips or advice.
Chapter 1
Luke was feeling confused and scared.
During the night 2 cloaked figures had come to the farm demanding he go with them.
His uncle and aunt had been scared of the cloaked figures. The cloaked figures that seemed to be jedi.
Luke remembered it all too clearly...
THE NIGHT BEFORE
Settling down to sleep, Luke listened to his uncle's and aunt's voices that drifted towards him. He couldn't quite work out what they was saying and his thoughts soon changed to his future.
Luke was only 13 but he already knew that he wanted to be a pilot, exploring the universe around him, he also knew that he wanted to get away from Tatooine, away from all the sand and heat.
His uncle was very much against the idea of him becoming a pilot, his uncle had said he was too much like his father, he was reckless.
Luke frowned at the memory. Why did it matter if he was like his father...in fact he wanted to be like him! Luke sighed and shifted position, he folded his arms and placed them behind his head.
It was then when he heard the silence, Luke raised an eyebrow. Listening carefully his eyes widened when he heard thudding and his aunt's panicked voice.
Leaping out of bed, Luke sprinted towards the sounds. His pace slowed as he approached the raised voices.
Peering round the pale wall, Luke saw the jedi. There was two of them.
"Where is he?" The first jedi snarled
His uncle and aunt stayed silent but the colour drained from their faces.
"Pass him over now!" Shouted the same jedi.
Uncle Owen's face turned red with anger "you can't have him!" He took a step towards the jedi "get out of my home".
Both the jedi eyed Owen with annoyance, they started to circle Owen and Beru. They took out their lightsabers.
Owen pulled his wife protectively towards him.
Luke couldn't stand there and not do anything. He walked into the room that held the four adults.
They all turned to look at him as he entered.
"No Luke!" His uncle shouted moving forward, his aunt moved as well.
Both of the jedi swirled back. The first jedi pushed his lightsaber through Beru's heart. She died as soon as the lightsaber made contact with her heart.
The second jedi stabbed Owen, it only just missed his heart. Luke could see though that his uncle was dying, before he died he looked at his nephew. He fell to his knees.
He uttered his last words "run Luke...don't...stop".
Luke watched as his uncle fell to the ground, he then turned and ran as fast he could.
Clawing his way out of the room Luke heard the jedi scrambling after him, Luke felt the cold fear run through his veins.
Stumbling out of his home, Luke ran for his life. Quickly remembering the speeder Luke made his way to where it was stashed.
It was an old speeder and it definitely wasn't the fastest speeder that had ever been made, but it was faster then running.
With shaking hands Luke struggled to get the old speeder started, after two attempts the speeder still hadn't started up. Tears sprung in his eyes when he saw the two jedi sprinting for him.
A strange feeling passed fleetingly through Luke and the speeder started. It sped forward narrowly missing the jedi as they made a desperate leap for the 13 year old.
BACK TO THE PRESENT
Luke had his head in his hands. He felt sick.
He had been riding the speeder for the last 2 hours, he hadn't been able to stop, his hands had only stopped shaking about half an hour ago.
Luke had felt a need to get as far away from the jedi as possible, so strong that he didn't even know where he was anymore.
He didn't even know the direction of his home.
He had also stopped caring.
What was he going to so?
Luke started sieving sand through his fingers absentmindedly, he was avoiding thinking about his uncle and aunt. It hurt too much, he had never felt this alone.
He had to leave, Luke knew this. He didn't know where he'd go but he had to leave before the jedi found him and killed him.
The only problem was that Luke had to go somewhere where the jedi wouldn't follow him.
Luke thought back on everything he knew about the jedi.
Luke had researched the jedi out of curiosity about a year ago, and the main thing that he had learned was that the Empire had wiped the Jedi out to near extinction.
So it was only logical to go somewhere the jedi would never dare follow...like Coruscant !
Luke's eyes widened, Coruscant was perfect. The planet is the heart of the Empire, where the emperor and Vader both lived. Luke just needed a ride to Coruscant. He also knew where he could go, Luke would now only need to leave without alerting the jedi.
He would leave tonight.
LATER
Several hours later Luke was once again lying around in the heated sands of Tatooine. Only this time he was in Mos Eisley in the busiest business spot waiting for a certain smuggler that happened to owe him a favour.
Anyway Luke figured that this guy would help him out.
In his head Luke ran through all the different ways he would approach the smuggler. In his head he saw himself strolling over to this guy and smoothly sealing the deal.
In reality; starting to feel the sand burn through his clothes, Luke jumped up. As he did he somehow managed to knock disfigured objects that were for sale over. Stuttering Luke tried to apologize to the owner of the stall. Angrily the owner shoved Luke backwards who then fell into another strange looking creature , resulting in a domino effect. Every human and strange, weird creature started fighting and falling over.
"Uh oh" Luke stated, he turned, sprinted and collided into someone. When he looked to see who it was he found himself staring at the smuggler.
Han Solo.