Luineraugwen: This is my first attempt at a Star Wars fic so be kind if I don't get everything right at the beginning. You're welcome to give me the technological names of different things, names of places and the proper spelling of people's names any time you want.
Disclaimer: I don't own SW but I do own Crystal.
Master Yoda, Master Windu and several other Masters of the Jedi order walked silently down the dimly lit hallways of the Jedi temple. It was well after dark and most of the students were already in bed. They had been spending most of the afternoon and early evening looking for a certain person, someone they needed desperately.
"Master Yoda, what will we do now? We haven't found the child and the Sith lords could attack the crystal temples at any time. They need a guardian but no Jedi can be spared at this time. A child with the skills needed must be found soon" Mace Windu said solemnly.
"Be found, the child must" Yoda echoed the other Master in agreement.
"Perhaps we have been looking in the wrong place? Overlooked a galaxy by mistake?" Adi Gallia asked hopefully.
"Impossible, we checked the whole universe for someone with the skills needed. None were found" Master Kit Fistro replied shaking his head, his yellow-green tendrils waving with the motion of his head.
"Checked whole universe, we have. Nowhere else to check, there is" Yoda added.
"Maybe the child we are looking for hasn't got the specific skills we're looking for but had some that are identical. Would that work?" Mace Windu asked and Yoda pondered this question for a few minutes.
"Work, it could. Redo the check we will tomorrow" he answered, ending the conversation. The Masters bade goodnight to each other and went their separate ways for the night.
Master Kit Fistro lay comfortably on his sleep-couch, his mind adrift. For many weeks he and the other Masters had been searching the universe to find a child with special abilities, abilities that could help defend the crystal temples. They had reason to believe that the Sith lords would try to steal the crystals from the temples and then destroy the buildings. The crystals were the heart of the light sabers. They powered the weapons with unlimited strength and if they were stolen, given to the Sith lords and their apprentices, the new Jedi Padawans wouldn't have their traditional weapons thus couldn't fight in the war against the Sith that was bound to start any time soon. A special guardian was needed to protect the temples from all evil but none had been found. The current guardians were getting old and their skills deteriorating with age but not so much that they couldn't fight.
The master sighed in frustration, a feeling he should not experience but this search was going nowhere and it drained him despite the fact that he really wasn't playing such a big part. He closed his eyes and readied himself for sleep to find him. Kit Fistro planned to have quiet night's sleep but that wouldn't happen. As soon as he was at peace, he began to dream.
A person rode across a sun parched plain on a strange creature. The dirt was a brown orange and cracks ran through it. Very few plants grew on this plain and the few that did were alone a few feet in diameter.
The hot sun beat down on the rider's back and dust as well as clumps of hardened cracked earth flew behind the animal's hooves. They continued to run across the plain, passing dried up plants and rock outcrops until they reached a hidden waterfall. The water was as clear as crystal and it cascaded down a rock formation hundreds of meters high and into a beautiful pool at the bottom.
The person dismounted and unbridled the animal before taking off their wide-brimmed hat. It was a woman. She had short dirty blonde hair, which was braided back so it wouldn't get it her way. Her eyes were bright, serene blue and her skin was tanned slightly. She wore a simple T-shirt and jeans combination.
Despite the growing heat, the woman didn't go swimming but the horse did. She began to feel out possible hand and foot holes on the rock outcrop. Once she was satisfied, she started to climb the enormous formation. It was evident as she climbed that the woman was experienced in what she was doing. Her arms and legs were strong and her mind was sharp. It had to be because of rock climbing was a dangerous sport and without any equipment was down right stupid but this woman knew what she was doing and she didn't slip once.
Once she reached the top of the rocks, the young woman looked out over the land before her. It was vast and dry but she still loved it. A long was off in the distance a windmill was turning slowly in the wind. The windmill was just at the end of the main yard of the home. It creaked and groaned with age and it used to scare her when she was a child but now she just hoped that it wouldn't fall down in the raging storms that rarely graced this land.
"There is no emotion; there is peace
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge
There is no passion; there is serenity
There is no death; there is the Force"
Kit Fistro sat bolt upright, his hand immediately grabbing the hilt of his lightsaber while the words rung through his head. Her words had surprised him. It was the code that the Jedi followed and although he had read them hundred of times before, he was not used to hearing people who had never come to the temple speak them. Sensing that his mind would not let him sleep any longer, Kit Fistro climbed out of bed and decided to go for a walk in the temple's garden.
The magnificent garden with its flowers and water fountains soothed the Jedi Master's mind. He now began to mull over the dream rationally. He knew that he was dreaming of an other planet, one he had never been to and that the young woman he had been was probably a figment of his over worked mind. Kit Fistro would be willing to accept that idea if it wasn't for the fact that he had experienced similar dreams with the same woman in it several times. He'd been meaning to talk to Master Yoda or Mace Windu about it but because of the sudden rising of the Sith and the desperate search for a new guardian, the thought was quickly pushed to the back of his mind.
"Something troubles you, Master Kit Fistro" Yoda's familiar voice rang out through the garden. Kit Fistro turned around to see the eldest master standing behind him. He bowed in respect.
"Yes, I'm afraid so. I've been dreaming of a young woman on another planet lately but I do not know what it means. I've been meaning to discuss this with you but with the current situation, I thought it best to leave it until everything was sorted out, Master Yoda" Kit Fistro replied.
"Perhaps the Jedi code of no attachment is causing you these dreams, hmmm? The simple pleasures in life, you wish for do you?" Yoda said chuckling to himself as he slowly had his way over to a stone bench. Kit Fistro knew what he was talking about. He used to believe that the 'no attachment' rule in the code was harsh but now he knew why it was placed upon the defenders of peace. It was necessary for the Jedi to stay on the one path and not stray. He just wished some of the male students in the temple could understand this.
"No Master Yoda. I have long passed that stage. All I want to achieve now is to rid the universe of the Sith. Nothing will stand in my way of that. I joined the Jedi Order and I will follow the code right to the letter" Kit Fistro answered sitting down next to the other master.
"The dreams may be telling you something then. Listen to them, you should" he advised and Kit Fistro closed his eyes for a few minutes, replaying the dreams in his mind. "What do they say?" Yoda asked.
"The dream says very little but my heart says she is needed in some way. She is important to the Jedi" Kit Fistro replied opening his eyes. Then, he got an idea. "Master Yoda, it is only thought, but perhaps this girl is the person we're looking for" he voiced.
"Plausible, this idea is. Best to check the databanks as soon as possible" Yoda replied.
"Well there is no better time than the present" Master Windu said coming into the garden. The three Jedi masters' agreed on the idea and began to make their way to the databank they had been using all day. Master Windu entered in similar abilities to those of the current guardians and the search soon began again. They only had to wait a minute or so before the results came back. There was only one person in the whole universe with the specified abilities and Master Windu moved out of the way so the other Master could see.
"It's her," Master Kit Fistro said confidently. Finally their search was over. They had found the person they were looking for and she had been under one of their noses for quite some time.
Luineraugwen: I hope you liked the chapter. I've got a few more chapters planned out so hopefully I'll have them up soon. And guess what, I've already thought out two sequels so this story is going to be a trilogy. If anyone would like to add any names to certain things that I may had got wrong, go for it! Also if you don't know who Master Kit Fistro is, I'll put a picture of him up on my bio page as soon as possible. R&R.