Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own most of the character who will be in this, however I do own Ji, Natarie and use Seth with permission.


It was Ji's first hunt, the only other Cathar with her was her younger sister Natarie. Though she was only six and a young Cathar, she had qualities about her that made her different. She could touch the force, and do it with surprising strength. Now, out on the velt of Cathar, she and her sister were going to make their first unassisted kill, it was somewhat of a right of passage. They had camped during the night trying to decide on what to kill and how to kill it, finally deciding to leave it up to whatever they came across first.

It just so happened that they came across the tracks of a large herbivourous mammal first and were fast on its trail. Coming uo to a clearing they both crouched down and peered through the grass to what lay beyond, hoping it was their prey. It turned out to be however and very strange looking humanoid, with red and black skin and horns on its head. It sat with its back to them, they nodded at each other signalling that they would make this their kill. Seperating until they were on either side of the creature, they pushed all of their weight into their legs, concentrated on the target and lept. They were quite surprised to find themselves suddenly hanging in midair, halfway toward their target. Ji wavered in the air, the humanoid's force hold on her wavering under conflicting power, Natarie did the same only not as strongly. They could now at least tell the creature was a male of its species, by its height as it stood and by the sound of its voice as it spoke.
"How dare you insignifigant whelps attack me!" he said in outrage. Ji grew intensely angry at being called a whelp, she knew she was small for her size, but no one called her a whelp! Her anger tranferred itself to the force and was blown outward like waves from an impact tremor. It sent the man reeling backward and she and her sister fell to the ground when his concentration was broken. Natarie ran to Ji's side in fear, she coward there as the man raised himself to his knee and propped his elbow on the other. "Well, well...what have we here? A force adept Cathar cub, or could both of you have done that? We shall see." His smile was sinister and foul, neither of them trusted anything he said. "You'll see nothing from us!" Ji spat at him, she grabbed Natarie and turned to run. They were quick for their age, but he had the advantage of force training and longer legs, he caught them quickly. He bound and gagged them and took them to his ship, "I wondered what had drawn me to this hellish place full of barbarian animals. Looks like I found my answer." He laughed wickedly as he slung them into a cell and left for the bridge.

Ji's sleep was fitfull throughout the trip, but at least she had her sister beside her. They soon learned their captor was a dark jedi, dedicated to the ways of the Sith, and that he would now be training them. They of course refused at first, but quickly realised they had few alternitives. He told them they would be going to Yavin 4 for the training, and that they would arrive in another two weeks.

Except for the Dark Jedi's frequent visits to teach what he could on the ship, the trip was boring. Ji learned easily and quickly without trying, Natarie too learned faster than most. They arrived safely on Yavin 4 and then the real training began.