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Scanning the event board, looking for anything of interest, Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi made sure he kept up his guard in the dim room. In a daze, he reflected on the bizarre turn of events that stranded him on Tatooine near the notoriously seedy bar, Chalmun's Cantina.
Two fleets of Empire star ships had unexpectedly blocked his path to Naboo. Unprepared for the confrontation, he manoeuvred his A-wing fighter into an asteroid field, his smaller craft dodging the oncoming space rock with much more ease than the larger ships pursuing him. Avoiding their fire, he flew as fast as he dared, scraping the sides of his craft against asteroids in the process, forcing him to make an emergency landing on Tatooine after they lost his trail.
Still in shock, he wondered just where he was going to get the money to pay for repairs to his craft before the empire located him. As if to answer his silent question, a sheet slapped across the board caught his attention.
CHESS TOURNAMENT
CASH PRIZE FOR THE WINNER
TALK TO WUHER TO ENTER
ENTRANCE FEE: 250 TOOINES
Surely Master Qui-Gon Jinn would understand if he had to use the force to manipulate a few chess pieces? After all, if everyone else's money was the profit of the slave trade, so wouldn't separating a few slave-traders from their dirt-money be understandable, respectable even? Walking over to the bartender, he decided that what Master Qui-Gon Jinn didn't know, wouldn't hurt him.
'I have a bad feeling about this.' The room they led him to did not contain a chess board. Sensing a body behind him, Obi-wan instinctively reached for his light-sabre, but the small native merely grunted and, reaching past him, pressed a button with a hairy paw, illuminating a touch screen on the wall.
'Facebook? What is this?' The screen before him loaded, displaying a chess board.
"Oh dear…," he whispered to himself, scratching his forehead.
Electronic chess.
No pieces.
Padawan Obi-wan Kenobi let out a great sigh, "And this is why I hate flying."
Author's Notes:
Hello there.
This is the result of a writing exercise I had to do for a writing class. I had to pick three random nouns from a about one hundred, and write a short story using all three words. The words I picked? Jedi, Facebook, and Chess. I highly recommend you try it. It's fun
Please do leave a review! They make me feel warm fuzzy inside, and I love constructive criticism.
Thanks for reading,
Love, KaKiara.