The Lonüian Scrolls

Sari's Story

In the isolated star system of Lonü, a planet situated beyond the Outer Rim, a hidden Jedi Temple is being attacked by a horde of battle droids and Sith Lords, led by a recently revealed old enemy, Dark, and his apprentice, Black.

The Sith and these old enemies have been in hiding for years, but countless Jedi are being killed by this new threat.

In the Temple, a young girl and her master are trying to send a plea for help to the Jedi of Coruscant, not knowing that one of the two enemies is right behind them . . .

CHAPTER 1

A girl with royal blue eyes and dark brown hair frantically turned on the comm panel and punched in the first frequency . . . *static* . . .

"Hello? Please someone, help!". . . *static*. . She closed that frequency and opened the next one . . . *static* . . . "Please someone answer! Help us!" . . . *static* . . . She waited a couple seconds then changed frequencies again. *static* . . . "Help us! Please answer!"

She thought she heard something. "Someone please, help!" A hologram of a man appeared. The blue image flickered, but didn't cut off.

"Calm down, It's all right we're here." The man said in a calming voice. "Now what is the matter?"

"Please, you must help us!"

"Yes we understand that, now please tell us what is wrong."

The girl didn't understand why he had said we and us, but that didn't matter. "My planet is being attacked!" she said angrily.

"Do you know your attackers?" the man asked, unhurt by her anger.

"Yes," she said, now controlling her anger, "the Sith, they've grown stronger than we could ever imagine."

"The Sith?"

"Yes."

"The Sith are attacking your planet?" The man asked, confused.

"Yes!"

"Are you sure? The last of the Sith were destroyed almost a millennium ago."

"Yes of course I'm sure!" she yelled, again filled with anger. "The Sith have been on Lonü for years!"

"Lonü?" The man questioned. The system she was speaking of was unknown to him.

The girl gasped and quickly covered her mouth. She hadn't meant to tell them the name of her system.

"Lonü? A new system? Where?" Knight Zannic, who was seeing the High Council at the time, excitedly asked. He then saw her covering her mouth and he added. "So we can send help."

"Well . . . the coordinates are –"

A voice came from outside of the current pick up range. "No Sari! You can't give away the coordinates, it's forbidden!"

"But we have to Bow! It's the only way!" Sari said to the voice. A long silence followed . . .

"Fine, you have my permission."

"The coordinates are being sent to your location." Sari said, typing frantically. But before they were sent, the controls exploded when a blaster bolt hit them. "Aggh!" Sari cried, covering her face from the blast. She then realized that the holo-recorder was still working and yelled. "The coordinates are –"

But her sentence was cut short as another shot hit the Comm panel, rendering it useless. Or so it was thought. In fact, the range had widened, and the Jedi Council saw everything that was to go on in the room.

"No." Any hope that help would come was lost. She looked towards the door and saw a hooded figure dressed all in black, along with several Sith warriors. Her spirits fell even more . . .

"Sari, get down!" Blaster fire came pouring out of the open door, as Sari ducked down behind the Communications desk. At the same time, the yellow-furred Rainbowian with white armor drew his lightsaber. He ignited it, it's blade a bright, shining streak of white.

[A white lightsaber, is that even possible? And this new species. It's like a yellow humanoid fox but without a tail . . .] The Council member who had answered Sari's message thought. The Council had never seen a white lightsaber. They had only heard stories about them.

The blaster fire from the Sith warriors didn't stop, even as the hooded figure pulled out and ignited his black lightsaber. The figure advanced on Bow and began to attack.

"Bow!" Sari called out, but then became silent, because she knew that even the slightest distraction could mean the difference between life and death. The deadly dance continued, but now Bow was beginning to look tired while the hooded figure looked as if he hadn't been fighting at all.

•Sari! You have to leave . . . now! : Bow said telepathically through the Force. •No, not without you Master! : was her reply. •You must! You must live! : •But –: •Leave now, don't worry about me, just go! : Sari hesitated, but then dashed from her hiding spot and quickly dodged blaster bolts from the Sith. Now if she could get past the lightsaber duel, she'd be free . . .

The hooded figure saw her coming and swung his lightsaber. Only her Jedi senses saved her. She speedily rolled to dodge the attack, got to her feet, and ran down the hall. She looked back . . . only to see her Master being struck by deadly Force lightning . . .

"Don't worry about the girl." The hooded figure said the Sith that were turning to pursue Sari. "This is the one we need . . . for now."

Sharp cries rang through the hallway that Sari was rushing through. •Bow. : . . . . . . *silence* . . . •Sari . . . Follow the frequency of the comm signal . . . It will take you . . . Someplace safe. : •Bow . . . : •Go now . . . my padawan . . . Sari . . . : •No! Bow! You can't –: *silence* •Bow . . . :

Holding back tears, she turned a final corner and decided that she was safe . . . Well, safe enough to open a teleportation portal. If only she could focus . . . "Follow the frequency." She whispered under her breath. She wept quietly as she reached out her hands and touched the blaster-scared wall of what used to be the Jedi Temple of the isolated planet of Lonü.

"Follow the frequency . . ." She concentrated hard and slowly the portal began to form. It was becoming even harder to concentrate now. She sensed a group of Sith coming ever closer to her position. She wouldn't be able to defend against the Sith and open the teleportation portal at the same time. "Come on." She said impatiently. The portal was almost complete, but now she felt another presence. The hooded figure . . . he was coming too . . .

After what seemed like a lifetime, the portal was finally complete. Sari was about to step through when she heard a lightsaber ignite right behind her.

"Going somewhere?" the hooded figure asked, slightly amused. Sari ducked just as he stabbed at the air where she was only a moment before. She turned and used the Force to push him back, which gave her time to grab her lightsaber from her belt. The figure immediately regained his balance and told the Sith who had just arrived to hold their fire, for the moment. He wanted to see if this child was as powerful as people said she was, if she was stronger than her brother. He had a hard time believing that this child could actually save someone, let alone win a battle. She couldn't be older than thirteen, yet people said that she was one of the most talented Padawan in all of Lonü. Still, she was strong in the Force. To open a portal of space that fast was very hard, but could she fight?

Sari did not ignite her own lightsaber as the figure leapt towards her, instead she rolled forward. The figure ended up slashing at the air where she was a few seconds ago. Sari got to her feet and ignited her lightsaber. Now she was behind the figure, but he was blocking the portal and the Sith were to her back.

[Perfect.] The hooded figure thought [Now she can't escape.] He raised his hand and gave the signal to the Sith for them to begin firing. [Let's see how long she'll last.] The figure laughed, but it came out as a harsh chuckle, which only added to the hopelessness of Sari's situation.

Sari deflected blaster bolts back at the Sith, but she was still having trouble deciding which enemy to attack first. So the figure decided for her. The hooded enemy lunged at Sari who blocked and slashed back.

He could feel the pain and anger behind her attack. This was playing out perfectly for him.

He feinted right as she lunged, then countered with a string of blows. Sari blocked most of them, a few attacks grazing her torso, then quickly changed strategies and brought her lightsaber back to defect blaster bolts. She was discouraged from doing that again due to the fact that the figure would have sliced her in half if she hadn't brought her lightsaber up just a split second after deflecting the bolts. She made some attacks of her own, but they all missed their mark.

After several minutes of exchanging blows and dodging blaster bolts, Sari blocked a slash from the figure, only to be hit in the leg by a blaster bolt. "Agh!" The leg gave, and now pain flared in her left shoulder as the hooded figure stabbed at her, but missed. "Agh . . ." The pain spread through her. It was too much.

"Too easy." The Sith stopped firing as the figure raised his lightsaber to deal the final blow. But Sari, filled with new energy, rolled and leapt toward the unguarded portal . . .

Sari felt nothing, then an unbearable pressure, as she traveled from the far side of the galaxy to the center in only a few seconds. She was fighting to stay conscious, and losing. Sari barely saw the hooded figure coming toward the portal. She wasn't safe just yet. She had to close the portal . . .

Sari reached out her hand and focused on closing the portal. Slowly, she clenched her hand into a fist and the portal closed, just in time. The hooded figure was on the other side of the galaxy, and that was enough for now. Sari looked around before she lost consciousness, and saw tall towers made completely of a glass-like material.

[I hope Bow was right,] Sari thought through the haze of pain and exhaustion, [everything here is so different from Lonü. Can anywhere really be safe?] Then everything went black.

Two Jedi Masters were walking through the same windowed hall, when they felt a disturbance and saw Sari lying on the floor. They ran towards her. She was badly wounded and unconscious, but still alive. "Come on; let's get her to the Medical Center." They carefully picked her up and rushed to get her looked at by the healers, whoever she was. Qui-Gon didn't remember any new padawans coming to the Jedi Temple of Coruscant, and he definitely didn't remember this girl being in Master Yoda's youngling class. Just who was she, and even more so, who had attacked her? No Jedi could have done this, but whom else but a Jedi wielded a lightsaber?