Whoo Hoo! First story I posted in a while here!
As you guys would probably figure, this story takes place during the original Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV-VI). But I'll also put in a couple of extra stories that take place in between each episode, since I'll be putting in more characters in this. Not just the OCs, but also some characters from Disney. So this outta be interesting.
Here are some stuff you will need for the 2 original characters from this chapter (especially for Carina):
Carina Astra:
- Picture: art/Carina-SW-Vers-728295619
- Profile: art/CARINA-ASTRA-STAR-WARS-PROFILE-728457517
Jane Astra:
-Picture/Profile: art/Jane-Astra-728620201
Anyway, here we go! The first chapter of "Call of the Force"!
Long ago on a desert planet in a galaxy far, far away, there once lived a young and beautiful seamstress. But the woman was in great grief and loneliness. For four years ago, the love of her life was taken from her by death, causing her to lose her will to live. When she came to her breaking point, she went to the market to buy poison to end her suffering. But before she could, she came across a baby that was being sold in the black market. For reasons unknown, she felt drawn to the baby. Using all of the money she had, she adopted the baby. And in that moment, the woman's world brighten once more as her new little star shined a light in the dark tunnel.
The little baby brought so much joy in the woman's life. But even so, the rough and chaotic city was no place to raise her new child. So when her daughter turned three years of age, they both moved out of the city and into countryside of the planet. There she bought a small, stone cottage that was a few miles away from a family of moisture farmers that contrived of a young couple and their nephew.
When the woman and her child settled in to their new home, they went to the farmers' home to make new friends. For the woman and the couple, they got along right away. For their children, while they didn't start off right, over time, the nephew and the daughter became the best of friends. And for this, brought much joy to the two farmers and the seamstress.
And the two best friends' names were,
Carina Astra and Luke Skywalker.
And this is their story.
Call of the Force
Chapter 1:
Two Peas in a Pod
12 years later…
The sun was high above the sky and the weather was scorching hot on the planet, Tatooine. For most, it would be torturous to be in this kind of weather. But for Luke Skywalker, now a young man, this is just a typical day on the rock planet he has to call home. Just looking at the sandy plains and the rock formation as he was driving his landspeeder made him wish that he could just leave this planet. But then remembers why he's taking his landspeeder through the countryside. And thinking about his task at hand immediately puts a smile on his face. He soon sees his destination in the distance and he speeds up his vehicle.
He finally reaches the place that he needed to go, which was a small, stone cottage in a rectangle shape with a dome on top. And on top of the roof next to the large dome was a young girl with light sky-blue hair, looking through her binoculars, facing the other direction from Luke. Smiling up at his best friend, Luke gets out of his speeder and runs over to the house. Once he was a few feet away from the house, he notices that his best friend seemed to be very focused on something. What it was, he wasn't sure. But whatever the case, he better get her attention.
"Carina!" Luke calls out to her.
Carina immediately turns around and sees Luke waving at her. She notices that he was wearing his typical clothing, which consists of a short white robe, light-tan loose pants and light-grey long boots. His robe was held together with a dark brown belt with a silver buckle and small pouches that held some of his tools.
Waving back at him, she runs over the roof's edge towards Luke.
"Luke!" Carina said, smiling. "You're here early."
"Ah what? Were you dreading that I come here?" Luke jests, causing Carina to playfully stick out her tongue at him.
He notices that Carina was in her usual outfit, which was similar to his. Except that her short, white robe was a little more open, revealing her light turquoise shirt. What's more, she was wearing loose light-brown pants that only reached up to her knees and cream colored short boots.
Luke continued on. "Uncle Owen needed an extra hand at the farm before the Jawas come by the house today, since one of our droids just broke down. So he told me pick you up as soon as possible."
"Which one of the droids got busted?" Carina asks him.
"Septoid 2." Luke answers her, but Carina could hear the slight irritation in his voice.
Carina rolls her eyes when he told her this. "Go figure."
"So you ready to go?" Luke asks her.
"Yeah. I'll be right down." Carina answers him before she heads towards the door that lead back in the house.
Before she could even open the door, an idea pops into her head. She grins mischievously at the idea before she lets go of the door handle. She takes a few steps back until she feels one of her heels touching the ledge.
Carina calls out to her friend. "Hey Luke!"
"Yeah?" Luke calls back.
"Are you still standing in the same spot?" Carina ask.
Confused by this, it took Luke a second before he could respond. "…I took a couple of steps forward."
"Okay. That'll do." Carina said more to herself.
After she took a breath, she sprints right across the roof and jumps off the edge. It only took Luke a second to realize what Carina did before he quickly prepared himself to catch her. And, as quickly as she jumped off, Luke catches Carina in his arms. But the sudden collide of Carina's body against his causes him to loose balance and both of them fall to the ground.
Once the dust cleared, both of them got up and dust themselves off.
"You okay?" Carina asks Luke, fixing the two loops of her hair.
"Yeah." Luke said as he rubs the sand out of his dirty blond hair before he rubs the back of his neck. "Why would you jump like that, Carina? You could have gotten hurt if I didn't catch you."
Carina just looks up at his sky-blue eyes and smiles at him innocently. "That was the idea. I knew you catch me in the end."
She continues to beat her blue-green eyes at him, who was giving her a cross look. In the end, both of them just laugh it off.
"Alright, you win." Luke said with a smile. "But only this one time."
"That's what you said last time." Carina said.
Both of them continued to laugh until they hear a couple of coughs. They both turn to the source and see a woman of late thirties sanding at the doorway. She had long, red hair that was braided, making out a small bun on the top of her head with the rest of the braid stretching down to her upper back. She was wearing a long, dark turquoise dress, a brown belt, light tan loose fabric jacket and dark brown shoes. Around her neck was a wooden pendant in the shape of a flower. She was looking at the duo with her arms crossed and a strict look.
Carina quickly stood up straight, with her arms behind her back, smiling as innocently as she possibly could. "Hi Mom."
Luke rubs the back of his neck in slight embarrassment before he slightly waves at her. "Morning, Miss Jane."
"Good morning, Luke." Jane said to Luke courteously before she glares back at Carina. "Now Carina, what did I tell you about-"
"Mom, I'm not hurt or anything." Carina said, gesturing to herself. "And Luke did catch me. And both of us are fine. So you don't need to-"
Jane puts her hand up, silencing her daughter. "I want you to come inside the house at once, young lady."
"Yes, Mom." Carina said, begrudgingly before she does as her mother told her.
Jane sighs before she turns back to Luke. "Why don't you come inside, Luke. I hate to leave you in this hot weather."
"Sure, Miss Jane." Luke said before he follow Carina's mother inside the cottage.
"What am I going to do with you, Carina?!" Jane was pacing around the table while her daughter was sitting on one of the four chairs of the dining table. "This is the third time this week that you did something that's dangerous!"
The kitchen that they were currently in was relatively small, with a generator at one end of the room and a stove with a blue-milk dispenser at another end. There were tons of different types of silverware and herbs hanging above the cooking area. There were also cabinets above the cooking area where all of the food is being kept. Carina look at each of the other room entrances as her mother continued to rant on. One of the entrances lead to her mother's workshop, where she did all of her sewing. The other entrance lead to each of the three bedrooms, two being her and her mother's and the last being for any guests that came over. The last entrance lead to the living room and the front door, where Luke was. He was currently sitting on the cushioned stoned couch with his feet resting on one of its arms, flying a miniature size X-Wing around himself.
Jane continued to rant on before she stops and looks at her daughter, clearly stressed. "What will it take for you to keep your feet on the ground?"
"Mom," Carina began, trying to keep her mother calm. "I'm perfectly fine. And I would never have jumped if I didn't think Luke would catch me."
"And what if he didn't?" Jane asks her, further interrogating her. "What if he missed and you ended up breaking your arm, your leg, your neck or worse?"
"But none of those things happened." Carina counters back.
"That's not the point, young lady!" Jane yells at Carina, nearly startling her daughter. "The point is that you could have gotten seriously hurt!"
Luke, meanwhile, was feeling a little uncomfortable with the whole family squabble. He almost wished that he was still outside in the heat.
Jane then took a couple of deep breaths before she took the seat right across from Carina.
"Carina…" Jane began, her voice now much calmer. "I…I just don't want anything to happen to you. I don't want to lose you. Especially after I lost your father."
Carina slowly looks away from her mother, her eyes becoming distant. "Yeah…"
"So please," Jane continued on, her voice nearly pleading. "I just want you to be more careful."
Carina just nods at this, not saying a word.
The room became quiet for a minute before Carina softly speaks.
"…What was father like?" Carina asks her mother.
Luke's ears perks up at this.
Janes gently smiles at her daughter when she asks this. "Carina, I believe I told you about him a hundred times already."
"I know." Carina said. "But…I want to hear it again."
Luke begins to listen in, for this is the first time he has ever heard about Carina's father.
Jane smirks a little before she begins to speak once more.
"You father…Peter...he was a very brave warrior." Jane began. "He was known for his heroic deeds during the Clone Wars among his rank. But to be honest, that's not why I loved him. I fell in love with him because he was kind and compassionate. But he can also be a huge dork. In fact, when I first met him, I could tell he never spoke to woman before for he continued to babble on about tactics, strategy, formations and all that military nonsense."
This causes Carina and Luke to laugh at Jane's comment.
"But," Jane continued on. "That was all the more reason I loved him."
Carina lets out a sad sigh. "I wish I knew him…"
"Oh Starlight…" Jane places her hand on Carina's and gently squeezes it. "You do know him. Through the stories that I tell you about him. And, if he were alive right now, he would have loved you, just like I do."
Carina gently smiles at this.
Luke, meanwhile, looks down in sadness. He wished he knew his father, even just a little bit.
Jane then takes her hand off of Carina's and fixes her with a stern look. "Now, I still feel that I should punish you for jumping off of our roof, along with the other times you've been reckless this week. So as punishment, starting tomorrow, you'll be cleaning up the whole house by yourself and you'll be helping me with sewing all of my customers' clothes without Luke's help for a two weeks. And I don't want to hear any complaints from you. One peep and I'll double your punishment. Am I clear?"
Carina nearly lets out a grunt at this, but nods none the less. "Clear as our two suns in the sky."
Jane, satisfied by this, nods at her response. "Now run along. I don't want to hold you two kids up any longer."
"Yes!" Carina quickly gets up from her seat and runs over to Luke. Luke immediately puts down the X-Wing and gets up from the couch. "You ready to go?"
"Yeah. I've been ready since I got here." Luke answers her, smiling.
"Alright! Let's go!" Carina opens door as the two were to about to exit.
"Young lady." Jane calls out to them, stopping them. "Don't forget your hat. I don't want you to get too much sun."
Carina lets out quiet grunt before she grabs her loose fabric grey hat from the rack and quickly places on her head. "Okay, I got it on. Now can we go?"
Jane nods at this.
"Okay! Bye Mom! I'll see you tomorrow!" Carina said as she runs out the door.
"Bye Miss Jane!" Luke waves at Jane before he follow Carina.
"Give my hello to Owen and Beru, you two!" Jane calls out to the duo.
When Luke closes the door, Jane puts her hands together and places her forehead against them before letting out a sigh.
"Man, I wish she wouldn't be like that." Carina complained as she and Luke were riding across the desert. "I mean, I love Mom and all. I just wish she wouldn't be so protective of me."
"Well, I can't really blame her." Luke said, his eyes focused on the sandy plains. "Even you gave me a scare when you jumped off the roof."
"Oh yeah. Like you haven't done any dangerous stunts, Mr. 'I drove my landspeeder through the dangerous gorge and almost crashing against the rocks'." Carina retorts back at him, mimicking his voice. "And should I mention that Mr. Owen grounded you for two weeks without any supper? When did this happen again? Three weeks? Four weeks ago?"
"Okay! Okay! Fine!" Luke said, stopping his friend. "You have a point there."
Carina smirks at her little victory. "But still…it was fun."
Luke smiles at this. "Yeah. It was fun. So what were you looking at with your binoculars earlier?"
"Oh, I saw something really weird at the Western Dune Seas." Carina answers him. "Something I didn't think would be there."
"What is it?" Luke beckoned her. "What did you see?"
"Stormtroopers." Carina answers him.
Luke was surprised by this. He briefly looks at her before he turns back to the plains. "Stormtroopers? Here?"
Carina nods at this. "They seemed to be looking for something at the Dune Seas. I'm a little worried." She then turns to Luke. "What do you think they're looking for?"
Luke begins to ponder at this. He's not really sure why either. Stormtroopers were the army for the Galactic Empire. An Empire that he, Carina and plenty of people don't really like. Even down right hate it. Tatooine was one of the very few planets that isn't fully controlled by the Empire. So having Stormtroopers here was a little concerning. He just hopes that, whatever it was they were looking for, it's not going to affect the planet.
"…I'm sure it's nothing, Carina." Luke answers her. "They probably just dropped something there and they're trying to retrieve it."
"I sure hope so…" Carina said quietly.
Everything goes quiet between the two before Carina brings up another question.
"So Luke," Carina began. "What are we doing today? You know, besides working on the farm."
"Well let's see," Luke starts with a smile, "After we're done with the chores, we'll be going to Tosche Station to pick up some Power Converters and we'll take the T-16 Skyhopper for a spin."
Carina frowns when Luke mentioned that they'll be going to Tosche Station.
Luke chuckles at Carina's expression. "Come on. I know how much you hate Camie. But it's the only place we can get the Power Converters."
"I know that," Carina said. "But every time I go there and she sees me, she makes fun of my height and how much of a brat I am. That prissy, stuck up twit."
"Yeah I know." Luke said. "But you always fight back with your own biting words. And you usually win in the end."
Carina smirks at this. "You have a point there."
Luke also lets out a smirk. "Besides, today I'm going to let you fly the T-16 this time."
Carina's eyes light up at this. "Really? You mean it?"
Luke nods at her with a smile. "Just know that if you crash it, I'm going to make you pay for any damages."
Carian nearly squeals in delight. She couldn't believe that Luke was letting her drive his T-16 Skyhopper. Now she couldn't wait to get everything done, even going to Toche Station. Then she remembers something. "Speaking of flying, are you going to ask your Uncle about sending your application to the academy."
Luke, all of a sudden, looks at his feet for a bit before looking back up, his eyes looking worried.
Carina notices this. "Uh oh. You're hesitating. What's up?"
Luke sighs before he speaks. "It's just that…I don't think Uncle Owen will let it happen."
"Why not?" Carina asks him, tilting her head to the side.
"Well," Luke began. "Next semester will be the harvest season. I'm sure Uncle Owen will need me at that time. And, I already tried last year. And he said I couldn't because of the reason I told you. Plus, the Sand People have been acting up lately. And he'll need me to fend them off the farm."
Carina looks down at this, knowing that he does have a bit of a point. But she just shakes it off quickly before looking at him with determined eyes.
"Well I say you should ask him, Luke!" Carina said, pumping her fists in front of her. "I mean, yeah, harvest season is coming soon. But you worked so hard on the farm. You deserve to enter that academy!"
Luke laughs at how determined his friend is. Just one of the reasons he likes her.
"And besides, your uncle will be getting new droids for the farm. With more helping hands, you won't have to worry about helping with the farm. And if you're so worried about the Sand People, your uncle can scare them off with his handy blaster." When Carina mentioned Owen scaring away the Sand People, she pretends she is hold a blaster and pretends to shoot with sound effects. "And who knows, maybe he will let you go this time."
Luke chuckles before he spoke once more. "You're right. I'll ask him today."
"That's the spirit!" Carina cheers. "And besides, if you get nervous, I'll be right there to give you my full support."
Luke looks back her and smiles. "Thanks Carina. I'm glad to have you as my best friend."
Carina smiles back before she lightly bumps his shoulder. "That's right, Luke. We're best friend. Two Peas in a Pod."
Both of them laugh before they look back at the plains as they head on to the farm.
End of Chapter 1
Note: While Jane and Peter were never married, she still considers him as Carina's father if they married. And the same goes for Carina.
I hope you guys like this.
I'll try to upload the next chapter as soon as possible.
Also, if I made any misspells, missing words/letters or any grammar error, let me know in the comment section and I'll fix them.