This is the mini sequel (there may be more mini sequels before the big sequel but still) to the Untold Chronicles of the Kenobi's. This story has been edited better and I have practically already written the thing, which are big differences to what happened with the Untold Chronicles. I'm hoping that this story is written better, but that can be left up to debate. It flows better and it felt better while I was writing it, so there is hope for it yet! To warn the unsuspecting reader who has actually read my stuff before, I think this is a different writing style to what has been previously posted by me on FanFiction, so don't expect it to be exactly the same to what I have done. To stop any confusion with the story there are these important notes to add:
'' single high comma thingies are thoughts, internal ones.
What isn't explained now will be explained later, ie. Dante's appearance.
More well known characters will be in it soon, just not this chapter.
Thank you and please review.
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The pirates were running towards their ships now after staging the daring raid on the small Jedi Academy. The Academy had been running for seven years now and there were now 12 students under the tutelage of Masters Aithne and Keitha. The Academy was the only one of its kind to have ever been set up in this far flung section of the universe, past the known outer rim regions. Very few people even knew the Academy even existed, a safety precaution to prevent the Sith Lords Sidious and Vader who now controlled the part of space formally known as the Republic from attacking the fledgling Jedi children. It had been a matter of sheer luck that Keitha, Aithne and Dante had even escaped the former Republic capital of Coruscant and survived to start this school for the Force strong in this place. The Academy was set on a beautiful planet, if you happened to like rocks and wild jungles. The thick jungle prevented people from using that as a way to sneak up on the place, but it also prevented padawans from escaping by running into the dense bushes. Also there were sheer cliffs dotting the landscape, some of which were hard to see. The buildings were on the edge of a cliff on a bare rocky summit. It was great for sight seeing but terrible for running from pirates which leads us back to this story.
When the Sith believed they had eradicated all the Jedi that they knew of they placed a price on the remaining Jedi's heads. They weren't stupid, they knew that while they may have found most, if not all of the Jedi and their students there would still be some hiding in secure locations. Now as time went along its merry course, inflation occurred on these prices until they rose to great heights. Now what was tempting to low level idiots with no skills was now tempting to higher level idiots with some skill because any bounty hunter with half a brain or a memory would remember the tale of Jango Fett, or other stories of beings with indescribable talents and not risk their lives to pick up such a person. That's not to say they didn't need the money, they just valued their lives more.
Because of this contract on all Jedi at large, an Academy with young children in it, Jedi who would not put up a fight was tempting, almost seductively so. This meant that pirates were staging their tenth raid in as many months, only this time with something to actually show at the end of it asides from bodies and limbs cut in half.
Dante looked towards the men carrying the sleeping youth in their arms and the ship they were about to board. The child had obviously been injected with some type of sleeping drug which meant that this lot were better equipped than the last. There was no time to tell anyone anything or to even get help. They walked up the ramp and the teen sprinted across the red-brown stone landing pad, the Force giving him speed beyond that of any normal human. 'No you don't.' He got onto the ship as the ramp closed only to end up face to face with the child's, Kiri's captors.
"Tough luck Jedi."
Dante started to pull his lightsaber off of his belt as the men zapped him with something. As the world began to fade into black he managed to think one last though. 'Keitha's gonna kill me.'
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Kiri woke up, feeling cold. Her head hurt slightly and she moaned as she opened her eyes.
"Mom, what's wrong? Where are we?"
The girl sat up slowly, pain coursing through her body. She was in a small room on a metal slab that served for a bed. The entire room was metal and it was cold. She got up and walked towards the door and examined it. The lock seemed to be controlled from the outside. It would have kept most children stuck in the room but Kiri was no normal child. Ever since she could walk her mother had been teaching her how to use the Force. She was strong in it, something which her mother insisted she got from her father. He was apparently very strong in the Force. Kiri emptied her mind and concentrated on the lock. Soon the door sprung open with a hiss, revealing a metal corridor. The seven year old thought about this for a moment. She was either on a ship or somebody really liked metal.
A cry of pain hummed through the hall. The little girl decided that it would be wise to stay away from there and go in the opposite direction. There would be less people, she reasoned, and maybe she could find the bridge and work out where the kriff she was.
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Dante screamed again as low level electricity struck his 14 year old body. He spasmed and writhed in his bonds. The men above him were gloating or something, through his pain he couldn't work it out. He let go of his body for a moment as pain shot through it again like a hot poker. Suddenly the pain stopped allowing him to collect his thoughts. The men were very angry at a new comer to the room and Dante strained to listen.
"SHE ESCAPED!"
"I have no idea how. One minute she was there and the next she was gone. There is no way she could have unlocked that door."
There was more but Dante tuned out. Kiri had escaped and now it was his turn. He focused the Force on his bonds flinging them off. Next was the machine which had been causing the pain which was sent flying into the wall. The men turned their attention back to him as he sent the table he had been strapped on into the middle of them. All of the men fell into oblivion. Dante vaulted over them and ran out of the door and into the hall to get to the bridge.
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Kiri looked at the site before her amused and dismayed at the same time. The men on the bridge were paying no attention to their controls instead playing with what appeared to be Dante's lightsaber. This was going to be easy, all she had to do was just manipulate the blade but what it meant was that the screams she had heard were Dante. That was bad but she focused on the task at hand sending the blade flying out of one man's grip and into another. This man looked clumsy and she simply sent a small slippery spot under him. The new man slipped impaling one of his friends. There was yells of outrage and then a free-for-all with everyone grabbing blasters and shooting. Kiri turned away and covered her ears as all but one of the men on the bridge died in a blaze of light and burnt smells. She turned back towards the scene as the lightsaber flew through the air under the command of a new master. The blade flashed once and the survivor was killed. Kiri ran in.
"DANTE!"
She hugged the boy as he retracted his blade and began to hug her back. He pushed her away slightly looking up and down her body for injuries.
"Did you get hurt? Are you alright?"
Kiri giggled at the Jedi and looked up at him, blue-green eyes to brown.
"I'm fine. Are you? Where are we?"
Dante broke off from her trying to answer her questions, clipping the lightsaber to his belt.
"I'm fine, I'll just ache for a few days. And on that last one, I have no idea. Let's come out of hyperspace and then I'll be able to answer it. I don't even know how long I was out for."
He moved to the control panel and clicked a few buttons. The ship shuddered and reemerged into real space. Kiri walked up to just behind the now frowning Dante.
"So, where are we?"
"Tantooine."
Kiri frowned as well trying to remember why that name sounded so familiar. Dante's voice came out strained.
"And we have no way of either controlling the ship or communicating. That little fire fight destroyed some of the more important control panels. We're going to crash and I can't tell anyone where we are."
Kiri trembled slightly.
"Can't you control the crash? Even just a little?"
Dante turned to face her.
"I'm no pilot. We need to prepare ourselves for a heavy crash."
Dante pushed her towards a chair as far away from the front of the ship as possible but near a viewport, strapped her in and went to the chair beside her.
"Brace yourself."
And with that Tantooine flooded the veiwports and rushed at them. There was screeching and then both of them were flung forwards into their harnesses as the g-forces changed their worlds to darkness yet again.
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Dante unstraped Kiri and lifted her unconscious form up into his arms as he crawled out of the viewport onto the desert sand. Nothing stretched before them for kilometers. They were stuck with no way of communicating with anyone, without supplies of any kind and very little hope. Dante managed to mutter through the despair creeping up onto him as he looked down at Kiri.
"Keitha's gonna kill me."
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Kiri woke up and noticed she was being carried. She pushed back slightly from the shoulder she was nestled in to catch a full view of Dante's dirty face close to her own.
"Where are we?"
Dante turned slightly to look at her and stopped.
"In the middle of a desert. Can you walk?"
Kiri felt her legs and decided that she should walk. Two suns peered down on them and she noticed that Dante was not without injury. He had a slight gash to his side which normally would mean nothing but out in the middle of a desert could spell even fatser death. She looked up at him.
"Where are we going?"
He squinted, obviously using the Force to enhance his vision.
"I have no idea. We should try to keep up our strength and fluids."
In other words the boy was asking for her not to talk, something completely foreign to the child of Keitha Tanmarson. Kiri looked forward at the dunes before them. There was a long walk ahead of them so for once she decided to keep quiet.
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