Where Is The Hope?

by Jedi Jelsa777

As the galaxy seems to grow darker and darker each day, will the Jedi be able to turn it around? Or is all hope lost? Sequel to my story, Dueling With Danger.

1. Prologue

7 years later

Seven years... seven years since it all started going downhill. Seven years since he had felt her presence, let alone seen her face. Luke sighed as he looked out the window of yet another starship. It felt like he and his Master were always on the move these days. The twenty-two year old could hardly remember the happier days, back before this war with Maul had started. It was twelve years ago that it began after all and he had almost constantly been on the move since then. The only good that had come of Maul taking Leia is that neither of them had been seen on the battlefields, nor was their evidence of any dark Jedi being on the fields, for the numbers of the Jedi had stayed roughly the same since Leia was taken those seven years ago.

Luke looked down at his lightsaber, knowing he should at least feel happy or pleased, for he had just been informed by the Council that he was to be Knighted. But it just didn't feel the same without Leia there. All his life, at least up until she was taken, he had thought they would become Knights at the same time and sharing that with his twin is something he had looked forward to. Now it just felt like the rest of the galaxy, it felt dark. "Where is the hope?" thought Luke to himself, "Where is that feeling I had when I started this war that all would soon be right in the galaxy?" Another generation of Jedi would soon be joining the fight that Luke thought for sure would be just a page in the history data pads by now.

He looked out the front window, watching the lights streak by as they made their way through hyperspace. He mentally counted in his head and with shock realized it had been almost two years since either he or Obi-Wan had personally been back to Coruscant. It would be good to be able to relax for a day or two, not having to worry about being ambushed by Dark Force members or the population of a planet who feared being drawn into the war. Maybe if he could just unwind he wouldn't have such dark thoughts. But for now the question of where is the hope kept circulating in his brain.