Me: So my brain won't shut up so I had to write a fanfiction by myself. Don't know how we're going to do.
Myself: We might do alright. . . . I'm worried about I thought. You know she gets.
I: I can do this! I'll be fine. (eye twitches) We don't need Tala. Right?
Me: Yeah, let's do this.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rebels, I do however own the OC. My OC, you no touchy!
Chapter One
Ezra loved nighttime on Lothal, the moons showering the world in their pale blueish-silver light. Ezra's only job on this mission was to make sure the crew had an escape route if things went sour, easy enough. In the hour they had been in Kathal Ezra had schemed out five different escape routes and was working on a sixth. Something changed; he could sense he was being followed. He whirled around and saw no one there. He turned and began to walk again. Once again he felt as if he was being followed. He turned and once again the street was empty. He began walking again and spun mid step and caught a glimpse of someone ducking behind one of the stands.
"Busted!" Ezra smiled, he could tell by the way they were sneaking around that they were a street-rat. "Come out."
A loth-cat stepped out from behind the stand, but it was not alone. From behind the stand inched out a little human girl and another loth-cat. The girl stared at the ground and the loth-cats took up positions by her ankles.
The girl looked to be no older than four years old. She had long rough-cut red hair and fair skin. She wore a red poncho that covered the rest of her clothing, blue and yellow ribbons could be seen tied to her wrist. She wore strange looking boots that were untied.
"Please don't hurt me. I was just . . ." The child fade into silence.
Ezra took a step towards the girl, meaning to kneel down in front of her to look her in the eye. He was stopped when both loth-cats began to hiss furiously at him. The girl gave a little whimper and backed away.
"She went this way!" Someone shouted.
The girl darted the Ezra and took his hand and stared at the ground, her loth-cats remaining by her ankles.
Three men rounded a corner and walked towards Ezra and the strange little girl. "Bubba did you get lost again?" The girl asked in a joking tone, her hand tightening around his.
It was an unspoken rule among street-rats to play along when another was in trouble. Ezra smiled as he played along. "We're not lost; we're exploring."
"Hey kid!" The men called as they approached. "Is that your sister?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"You don't look like siblings." The second man glared at the girl.
"She looks like mom and I look like dad." Ezra shrugged.
"She looks like the little loth-rat that just stole from us." The third man leaned in.
"Run!" The girl cried pulling Ezra with her. He picked her up and began to run.
If they had been in Capital City Ezra would know exactly where to go, but they were in Kathal.
The men pursued them and cornered them quickly. Ezra hid the girl behind him and the loth-cats hissed. Two men grabbed Ezra and the third reached around him and grabbed the girl.
"Finally caught you Little Red! Freakn' loth-rat!" The man sneered as he held the girl up by the hood of her poncho
"Let me go!" Little red swung at him but her arms were too short to land a hit.
Ezra's arms were twisted behind his back and he was forced to his knees. The loth-cat jumped at the man holding the girl but he merely kicked them in their heads and knocked them out.
"What do ya think Green, should we take her back to the boss?"
"Duh." Green smiled. "And her little friend too. Blue, your thoughts?"
"Personally I think we should just kill them both, but Silver is in charge."
The man holding the girl, Silver, smiled wickedly at Ezra. "Knock 'im out."
Ezra slowly became aware of the sound of an engine, but it was the right engine, this one was louder and that set his nerves on edge. It didn't help that he was blindfolded with his hands bound behind his back and a gang tied over his mouth. He slowly began to remember the events that led him to where he was now. He silently cursed himself for not being able to save one little girl.
One little girl? Crap! Where is she?!
Ezra didn't realize he had move. "He's gettn' twitchy. You think he's awake?
"He might be. Oi! Green! Keep that brat under! We don't want 'er ecaspin' again!"
"Yes boss!"
There was a muffled scream that fell silent. Ezra's nerves were no longer on edge, his nerves had fallen off the edge and were now scattering to the winds.
What have they done to her?! Where is she?! Some! Anyone! Help!
Kanan felt as if someone was pulling at his consciousness through the force. Like a small child pulling him along to find their parents. He glanced at the door for the umpteenth time since the meeting had started. He was worried about Ezra and knew it was nearly dawn. His arms were crossed and he was growing impatient.
Ezra was knocked out again and was regaining consciousness. He could feel something had been draped awkwardly over his lap. He felt the thing move slightly and realized it was breathing and it wasn't a "thing" it was the little girl.
She's alive! Oh thank goodness!
The girl shifted in his lap and gave a pained groan as she moved out of Ezra's lap. Ezra wanted so badly to ask her if she was okay up the gag over his mouth kept him from talking. He felt the heat roll off someone's body as if they were leaning close to him. He felt his blindfold being turned and then it felt as if someone was trying to undo the knot. The blindfold fell free and Ezra opened his eyes and saw Little red standing in front of him with his blindfold dangling from her mouth, her own gag hung loosely around her neck.
Interesting trick.
Ezra scanned her with his eyes in search of injuries. There were none and Ezra sighed in relief. Little Red sat on the floor and scooted over her bound hands, once her hands were in front of her she reached into her boot and pulled out an all-purpose tool.
Clever girl. Ezra smiled to himself and mimicked what Little Red had done to get her hands in front of her.
Little Red reached out until she found Ezra's hands and began working to lock on his cuffs. Once he was free Ezra took the tool and returned the favor. He reached for her blindfold but she stopped him by turning away.
"Here kitties." She whispered and the loth-cats began meowing from a cage in the corner. Little Red followed their meows and freed them. They brush against her ankles and looked at Ezra. "We go now. They be back soon." She looked down at her feet. "Vent kitties."
Ezra watched as one of the loth-cats padded over to under the vent and meowed, Little Red walked over and the loth-cat brushed it's paw up her leg.
"I could probably jump to that, you'll just have to-" Ezra was cut off when Little Red pressed hidden buttons on her boots and scooped up the loth-cats. She began walking up the wall as if it were nothing and stopped in front of the vent.
"You go first. I'll follow."
"How'd- What-" Ezra stammered.
"Later."
Ezra shook off the shock and force jumped into the vent and move aside. He was soon joined by Little Red and her pets. He turned to crawl but was met by a small droid that zapped both Ezra and Little Red until they were both, once again, unconscious.
This time when Ezra awoke, there was no blindfold and Little red was chained to the opposite walls to him. He watched as a gang member grabbed her hair and injected her with an odd clear liquid. She screamed but then went limp.
"Little trat!" The man hissed examining his arm. There was clearly a bit mark on his arm the was bleeding.
She bite him? That's . . . That's kinda weird.
"How'd she get free anyways?" A stern looking woman entered the room.
"No clue boss." The bitten man straightened and looked back at Little Red.
"Than keep an eye on her so we don't have to inject her again.. The boss wants her alive ." The woman hissed, clearly annoyed. The woman turned and looked at Ezra. "And who's this?"
"Don't know." The man shrugged. "She was hiddin' behind 'im when we found 'er."
The woman moved closer and examined Ezra before smiling. "He's a pretty one. If the boss don't kill him, I'm going to keep him. What's your name cutie?"
"Jabba the hut." Ezra said sarcastically.
"Well Jabba, I hope you like pain." The woman smiled and walked away.
Kanan knew he should have sent Zeb or Sabine to check on Ezra. Their young crew member had been missing for two days and there was no sign of him anywhere. Kanan would have sensed if the Inquisitor was nearby so he could cross that off the growing list of questions.
Kallaus? No the kid's too smart for that. Could he have run away? Why would he do that? No, he likes it here and he wouldn't have left without his pack.
"I know you're worried love but if you keep biting your lip like that you'll rip it off." Hera broke Kanan's train of thought.
He hadn't realized he was biting his lower lip until she had said something. He could taste blood but ignored it. "He's been missing for two days and we don't even know if he left or if he was taken."
"I know." Hera sighed. " We have one more day till those blasters are useless to us. The client won't wait any longer love. We need the fuel if were going to look for Ezra."
Kanan sighed and leaned back into the co-pilot seat. "I know."
Ezra glared daggers at the men as they leaned against the wall. He knew he needed to escape.
But how? They took my lightsaber so I'll have to find it. And then there's the kid. How am I suppose to do anything with a little kid?
"Ya think ol' Gray will be 'ere soon?" one of the men asked in a hushed tone, though Ezra could hear him perfectly.
"He'll be along. I just 'ope that serum keeps 'er under till he gets here. Boss'll be pissed if she escapes again." the bitten man.
"'er bother ain't around to help 'er this time. Ya think he'll show?"
Bitten chuckled. "I 'ope he does Green. Boss'll love it if we get both his rotten lil'-"
"Careful how ya talk 'bout 'em!" Green warned. "Ya know the girl can still hear ya."
"Who care? It's not like the boss'll do anything about it."
Ezra looked over at Little Red and was slightly shocked to see a tear glistening on her cheek.
She's crying . . . She can hear them and she's afraid.
Ezra stared at the small child and tried to send her calming feeling through the force only to be met by resistance.
No! Stay out of my head!
Wait! Little Red, you can sense me?
Who are you?!
It's me!
Me who?
Ezra laughed and received glares for the guards. The kid you got mixed up into all this mess.
Oh! . . . Eden.
What?
My name Eden, Never call me Little Red unless we surrounded by meanies. Okay?
Got it. My name is Ezra.
I sorry Ezzy.
For what?
For getting you into trouble with my daddy's meanies.
It's okay. We need an escape plan. Got any ideas?
We have to wait till we get to base. I can get us out of there easy. But . . .
But what? What's the problem?
It not on Lothal. We need ship to escape.
Are you okay? I can sense your pain. What's wrong?
The cuffs too tight.
"Hey uglies!" The guards glared daggers at him. "You think your boss will like it if she loses her hands?"
"No." Bitten glared.
"Than I suggest you loosen those cuffs. She's losing circulation."
Bitten just glared at Ezra whereas Green went to see if he was right. "He's right, we got to loosen 'em." Green loosen the cuffs and Ezra could feel Eden's relief.
Thank you.
Anytime kiddo.
Zeb and Sabine sat in silence in the commoners. They missed the endless surprises Ezra brought on when he joined the crew. Sabine missed his awkward flirting and Zeb missed how the kid managed to piss him off every five minutes, they missed his mood swings and his sarcasm.
The ship felt hollow without him.
When the ship had landed Ezra and Eden were separated. Ezra simply sat in his cell and reached out for her.
I know! I know! Give it a minute!
What are you talking about.
The escape plan. Duh! They have shipment coming in. We're going to ship jump.
Ezra could feel Eden's joy at the idea of being a stowaway. How do you plan on finding me? We need to-
Ezra's thoughts were cut off when he heard a noise in the vents above him. You sneaky little rat! You're in the vents aren't you?
Yeah, how you think I was gonna get out of here?
Eden dropped from the vent and smiled at Ezra, her eyes hidden behind her long bangs. "Did ya miss me?"
"Of corse! What would I do without my little stalker?"
Eden giggled and moved to free him once he was free Eden handed Ezra his blaster lightsaber hybrid. "Here's deadly smiley" she smiled.
Ezra looked at her in confusion. "Did you just name my weapon?"
"Yes and you can't change it." She smiled.
Ezra shrugged and attached Deadly Smiley to his belt. Eden took his hand and dragged him with her. "Come on, we have to find Anarchy and Serenity now too."
"Uhh. . . Who?"
"My kitties."
The Ghost crew waited for their client to show up in the bay they had landed near. Kanan was so lost in thought he had barely noticed anything. An alarm sounded and the whole crew jumped.
"Find them! And this time make sure they don't escape!" a stern looking woman came into the room. "You are late! You're lucky we waited!"
"Sorry." Hera smiled. "We got distracted."
"By what?!"
At that moment a vent crashed to the floor revealing Ezra, a small child and two loth-cats.
Once the loth-cats were rescued and Eden had all her things the gang had stolen from her the two went back into the vents and were making their way through them quickly.
"We need to go left." Ezra whispered as he could sense Kanan nearby.
"Blue or yellow?"
"Huh?"
"Blue or yellow?" turned in the vent and showed him her wrist. The blue and yellow ribbons were still tied there.
She must not know her left from her right. Cute.
"Blue." Ezra tired not to laugh.
Eden nodded and turned back around and went left. "Yellow." Ezra directed as they came to another turn. They turned and began to crawl when the vent shifted.
"Ezzy," Eden began in a sacred tone. The vent dropped and Ezra managed to grabbed Eden and wrap his arms protectively around her.
Ezra hit the floor and was knocked unconscious. Eden wiggled out of his arms and took a protective stance over him.
The woman laughed menacingly. "What are you going to do Red? Send your pets after me?"
"No Silver, I fight you myself!" The child lunged at the woman knocking her over. The child bite into the woman's shoulder and the Silver hissed. Yanking Red off her shoulders, Silver threw the girl across the room. Zeb barely managed to catch the child. Red squirmed out of Zeb's arms and went after Silver again only to be stopped by Sabine.
Sabine grabbed the child and began dragging her back to the Ghost as Zeb got Ezra and Kanan and Hera held off the woman. The loth-cats hissed as they ran up to Sabine and bit her ankles. Sabine released Red and she ran for Silver.
"Silver!" Red yelled and everyone froze. The child had two explosives in her hands. "You let us go, we all live. Deal?"
Silver hissed in annoyance. "Filthy trat!"
"Last warning."
"Fine! Go! Before I change my mind." Sabine moved and gilded Red backwards to the Ghost. once on the ramp the child put the explosives away and smiled at Silver. "You really are a dummy." The child dangled what looked like a wallet as the ramp closed.
"Red!"
Once in hyperspace Hera put the ship on autopilot and left the bridge. Kanan had Ezra in his room as they waited for him to regain consciousness. Zeb and Sabine had been trying to get the child out of the cargo bay since she got on the ship. Her loth-cats made it difficult to get near her without her permission and her stubbornness wasn't helping.
Hera climbed down the ladder as saw Zeb being bitten by one of the loth-cats and Sabine was being hissed at by the other. The child was curled into a corner and looked absolutely helpless. Hera took the loth-cats' distraction as a chance and moved close to the child. She lightly touched her.
"No! Get away from me!" The child screeched and darted past Hera and straight into a wall. The child toppled over and began to cry. The loth-cats darted to her and turned to hiss at the crew again. "Someone help! Ezzy!" The child cried out as she pushed herself against the wall. "Ezzy! Ezzy where are you?!"
"Calm down. We're not going to hurt you." Hera said softly.
"Ezzy!" The child cried as she stood and walked along the wall, her pets following her. "Ezzy! Please!" The child sunk into a corner once more. "I scared. Ezzy, help me."
Ezra stirred and groaned. For a moment Kanan thought his padawan would just lay there a recover, but he sprang up and looked around. "Eden!" Ezra called, ignoring Kanan and darting out of the room. Kanan followed the teenager.
"Ezra! Ezra wait!" Too late the teenager had slipped down the ladder into the cargo bay and vanished.
Kanan rolled his eyes and followed him. "It's okay Eden! It's okay! These are my friends." Ezra had scooped the child off the floor and was attempting to calm her and she clung to him.
"Why didn't you answer me? I was so scared!" She cried.
"I'm sorry, but we're safe now kiddo." Ezra said softly and he lightly brushed the childs bangs out of her eyes. What he saw almost shocked him into dropping her. Staring sightlessly at Ezra was two silvery eyes but that's not what shocked him, across her eyes was what looked like a burn mark.
"Eden," Ezra began carefully. "Are you-"
"Blind? Yes. But it okay, I use the funny feeling to get around and my kitties help too."
"Funny feeling?" Ezra enquired.
"You used it to talk to my head." Eden tilted her head sideways as if she was confused by his confusion.
"You mean the force?"
"I no care what you call it." Eden wiggled out of Ezra's arms, but clung to his hand. "Now who are you people?"
After introducing themselves to her, Eden allowed for the crew to get near her, her loth-cats just followed her ankles. When Kanan picked up the child the loth-cats sat at the toes of his boots and stared up at him.
"Your pets got a name?" Zeb grumbled as he stared at them. He hated loth-cats.
"Anacray." one meowed. "And Serenity" The other meowed, indicating which one they were.
"Interesting names."
"My bubba named them."
"Well Sabine, looks like you have a new roommate." Hera sighed.
"Three to be exact, and two of them are strays." Sabine crossed her arms. She had never been very good with kids, or animals.
"Hey!" Ezra and Eden exclaimed in offensive.
"I a stray too!"
"I was a stray!"
The two spoke in sync and this made Zeb laughed. "Now you'll know how I felt when we brought this stray on board." Zeb messed with Ezra's hair and Ezra pushed him away.
"Don't be mean." Eden glared sightlessly at Zeb.
Ezra chuckled. "He's always mean." Ezra took Eden from Kanan just as Chopper rolled in.
Chopper began angrily beeping and zapped one of the loth-cats. It let out an odd cry of pain and Eden wiggled out of Ezra's arms and darted up to Chopper. "No! Don't hurt them!" She kicked the droid and he turned on her, zapping her too.
"Chopper!" Ezra snapped, kicking the droid over. "You ever do that again and I will tear you apart! Got it?!" Ezra scooped up the crying Eden and held her protectively in his arms.
Hera fought back a laugh and gave Kanan a look. Good luck with that jedi.
Oh great.
After Ezra explained what happened and how he ended up with Eden, Hera landed the ship and the whole crew got some much needed sleep. Eden refused to leave Ezra so she slept in his bunk and her pets slept on the floor in their room.
Hera had come in to check on the youngest crew member and his new friend. She smiled when she saw Eden snuggled up against Ezra and Ezra with his arm protectively wrapped around her. Hera left the room and smiled at Kanan who leaned in the hallway.
"You like her don't you?"
"She pulled out two explosives on whoever those people were, bit Zeb and has Ezra wrapped around her little finger." Hera whispered. "Of course I like her."
"She bit Zeb?" Kanan forced back a laugh.
"You can still see the mark on his hand love."
Kanan looked at the ceiling. "You're going to want to keep her. Aren't you?"
Hera's smile widened. "Who knows love, maybe we won't get a choice. Seeing is how Ezra seems content to keep her around."
"This could be interesting." Kanan smiled.
After having her around for only a few days Eden began to change the Ghost crew. Chopper didn't zap her or Ezra. Sabine began hiding her explosives and paint. Ezra and Zeb didn't fight as often and everyone stored their weapons were Eden couldn't reach them.
Eden's habit of biting became problematic when they introduced her to Vizago. They had left her on the Ghost but she somehow followed them. Vizago barely touched her and she bit him. After that the crew became very consistent with her and tried to get her to break her habit.
She nick-named everyone in the crew and when anyone tried to correct her she'd bit them. Every now and then they'd all forget she was blind and she'd remind them in the sassiest way possible. . . But despite all that, Eden had wiggled her way into the hearts of the crew.
Hera sat in the pilot seat as the crew rested up for an upcoming mission. She could hear Eden's barefeet and the loth-cats paws as they padded into the bridge. The door hissed opened and soon Hera's lap was occupied by a little girl and the co-pilot seat was taken by two every colorful loth-cats.
"Did you paint your pets?" Hera smiled.
"No, Beanie did. They let her so I no say anything."
"You could have told Sabine she wasn't allowed to paint your pets."
"I no care. They look better that way." Eden smiled up at Hera and she laughed.
After a long silence Hera looked down at Eden, only to find her sleeping. Hera smiled and put the ship on autopilot before carrying Eden to her shared room. Hera paused at the door and turned around and walked into Zeb and Ezra's room. As soon as Eden's shoulder touched Ezra he rolled over in his sleep and wrapped his arms around her in a proactive manner. Hera took a moment to adore them before leaving the room.
Hera returned to the bridge only to find Kanan in her spot. She was going to tell him to move but he spoke first. "Get some sleep Hera. You'll need it for the mission." Kanan smiled at her over his shoulder.
Hera didn't argue and just went to rest.
The entire Ghost crew jumped when a scream echoed through the ship. Everyone ran to Zeb and Ezra's room as that was the source of the sudden noise. Eden was sitting, clutching her head and sobbing while Ezra was trying to calm her.
"Shh, shh, It's okay. You're okay. It was just a bad dream." Ezra said softly.
The second Hera entered the room Edn threw her arms out. "Era!" She cried. Hera moved to collect the child from Ezra's bunk and held her and the child cried.
Hera gently rocked Eden and Zeb rolled over to go back to sleep. "You can sleep with me." Hera said softly.
"I wanna sleep with Zebby." Eden sniffled.
"Ah karabast!" Zeb snached the child from Hera and laid her down in his bunk. "Now sleep." Zeb ordered. Eden only nodded and snuggled up against him. The crew exchanged tired and worried looks before departing back to sleep.
The next morning Zeb and Eden were the last to join the crew from breakfast. Zeb had carried Eden in and gently sat her next to Ezra. "Goodmorning." She gave the crew a sleepy grin, her red hair a tangled mess.
"Sleep well next to stinky?" Ezra smiled.
Zeb wasn't awake enough to bother with the insult throw at him. "I sorry I woke you. I had bad dream. Thank you Zebby for letting me sleep with you."
Zeb gave a dismissal grunt before sitting opposite of Ezra. The rest of the crew smiled at Zeb but he ignored them. Eden ate with rest of the crew as Kanan went over the mission plans. Once she was done she crawled into Kanan's lap and fell asleep halfway through his planning.
"What about Eden?" Ezra asked in a concerned tone, looking at her from the corners of his eyes.
"Don't worry about that." Hera smiled at the teenager. "She'll be with me."
The crew all looked at Eden and smiled. At some point she had grabbed a small fist full of Kanan's shirt and was sucking on her thumb. "Looks like the kid's out for the count." Sabine said softly.
"I'll put her to bed." Ezra smiled. He stood and tried to take Eden from Kanan, but the second he touched her she curled away from him and closer to Kanan.
Kanan sighed. "I got it."
Me: Well looky there! We managed to write a chapter of fanfiction without Tala.
Myself: Honestly you're surprised? I know we don't really need her but um. . . The other one is freaking out without Tala here.
I: (Curled into a ball and rocking)
Me and Myself looks at I in concer.
Me: Well you know how she is. She likes having Tala around.
Myself: Too bad she's so clingy. I don't know how Tala puts up with it.
Me: You know the readers will question this little conversation.
Myself: I know, but it can't be help. At some point they would have found out that we, Rozella Michelle, are three different personalities trapped in one body.
Me: Ture. What do you girls think? Shall we get some tea?
I: Excuse me! I am not a girl!
Me: Sorry I. Lady and gentleman, would you two like tea?
Myself and I: Yes!