"We should tell her Bail."
"She'll find out about herself when Ani and Ben get here."
"I still don't feel right doing this. What if something happened to them and they can't get here? What are we going to do then?"
"If they aren't here when we check back from Coruscant we'll come back and tell her. I promise."
Raven yawned and sat up. Today was the first official day of the summer. She climbed out of bed and ran downstairs. Her mom was cooking breakfast and her dad was reading the news paper.
"Good. You haven't left." she muttered.
"Well of course not sweetie," her mom said. "You didn't think that we would leave without saying goodbye."
Her mom laughed and gave her a hug. She sat a plate of eggs and bacon on the table and motioned for Raven to sit down.
"We've already packed our things in the car we just wanted to tell you goodbye." her mom said.
"Are you sure you'll be alright until Ani and Ben get here?" her father asked.
"Yes Daddy. I'll be fine." she assured him. "But, who are they?"
Her mom smiled and swapped glances with Raven's father. He laughed and made a motion with his hands.
"You're mother and I knew Ben when he was just a boy. He and Ani will take good care of you. Now we've got to get going. We'll see you later honey."
With that they walked out the door and down the steps to the car. They waved as they pulled out the drive and disappeared down the road. Raven sighed. She walked back in the house and stood in the empty living room.
"I'm home alone until Ani and Ben get here. So I can do whatever I want!"
"No you can't."
Raven whirled around to see two men standing in her doorway. They were wearing what looked to be…..no….it couldn't be. They were wearing Jedi robes! She slowly looked away from their clothes to their faces. She knew those faces. They were the faces of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi!
"You're Ani and Ben?"
Obi-Wan laughed.
"Yes. But you can call me Obi-Wan."
"And you can call me Anakin."
She nodded too dumbfounded to speak. She shook her head a little to try and clear her thoughts. She looked back at Anakin. He wasn't older than her by much. In fact, he couldn't be older than twenty-two at the most.
"Come on in." she muttered. "Sit down. Make yourselves at home. Do you want anything to drink?"
Anakin turned to look at Obi and Raven could see that he didn't have a Padawan braid. Obi shook his head.
"No, but thank you for offering."
"I don't want anything either, thank you."
"Skyla nodded and sat down in her dad's favorite chair. Obi-Wan and Anakin walked on in and sat down on the couch. Obi-Wan sat on the end closest to her and Anakin sat in the middle. For a moment there was an awkward silence, but Raven quickly used her powers to tone down the tension in the room. At the same time, Obi went to use the force to do the same thing. Their force actions collided causing Obi and Raven both to jump up in surprise. Anakin stood in reaction to their outburst of confusion.
"How did you do that?" Obi-Wan asked.
"I don't know." Raven answered. "I've always been able to do that."
Obi-Wan and Anakin stood in shock at the fact that this nineteen year old girl could use the force and she didn't even know it.
"Well," Obi began. "You've always been very gifted with the force. Plus you were born with magical abilities beyond even Master Yoda's understanding so I guess it's only natural that you were able to learn how to use the force on your own."
Raven's eyes widened and her mouth fell open. She was using the force? But, how? Star Wars wasn't even real. Well, obviously it was because Anakin and Obi-Wan were standing in her living room.
"How did you know I was born with special abilities?" she asked "I've never told anyone about my magic. My mom and dad don't even know."
"Oh they know." Anakin said. "They know a lot more than you've been led to believe."
"Raven," Obi-Wan sighed. "You know a lot about our world don't you?"
Raven breathed out a sigh of confusion and slowly sank down in her chair.
"First of all, it's called Star Wars here on Earth. And yes. I've read all the Star Wars books and watched all the movies. I know who everyone is and I know everything about them. Well, at least everything that's in the books."
Obi-Wan and Anakin swapped glances before Anakin started talking.
"Raven we know about the books. But they're not entirely true. There are a lot of things that aren't in the books. Then there are things in the books that aren't in our world. For instance, nothing in the last three books is true, obviously. And the ending to the third one isn't true either. There are only a few things in the books that are true."
Raven was quiet as Anakin told her this. Her mind was screaming though. She was wondering how this could be real and how it was related to her. Anakin stopped talking only for Obi-Wan to start.
"Most the people and all the places are real but, that's about it. Palpantine isn't a Sith Lord and Padme doesn't even exist. Anakin doesn't fall to the Dark side, obviously, and he doesn't kill innocent people. Here are a few things that are true though. The Sith Lord does exist and the Clone Wars are real and happening right now. There isn't a chosen one though. There are two."
Raven was beginning to see where this was going and she had a felling she knew what they were about to say.
"Raven," Anakin said. "You're one of the chosen ones. But we don't know who the other one is and that is a huge problem. We need you to come back to Coruscant with us and train to be a Jedi. You're the only one who can find the other chosen one."
Raven closed her eyes and tried to take in everything she had been told. She tried to tell herself that this wasn't true, that this was some crazy joke that her parents were playing on her. And even if it was true she couldn't go. She just couldn't.
"I don't know. What about my parents. What will they say when they find out that their daughter has run off with a couple of Jedi that she doesn't even know?"
"Your parents know." Obi-Wan said.
Raven's head shot up and her eyes flew open.
"What are you talking about? My parents know you're trying to take me to Coruscant?"
Anakin sighed and shook his head.
"Do you even know your parents names?"
Raven's mouth hung open. She didn't know her parents names. All she knew was that her last name was Atterra so she figured that her dad's last name was the same thing. She shook her head.
"Your dads name is Bail Organa. He and his wife have been raising you since my mom agreed with the council to send you to Earth. They came with you so someone we trusted would be watching over you until we thought it was safe to come for you. Or in this case, until we had to have you."
Raven looked at Obi-Wan. She wondered to herself why it had never crossed her mind that her dad did look exactly like Senator Organa. If anything in the books was true about Obi it would be his sincere honesty. He nodded in agreement with Anakin.
"I still don't know how you know about me being born. Was I special or something?"
"Actually, yes. You were born with an extremely high midi-chlorian count. It was as high as Anakin's and his is the highest ever recorded in Jedi history."
"That still doesn't tell me how you know about my birth."
"Calm down, I'm getting to that. Now, Anakin's mom was very close friends with your real mom. She and Anakin went to the hospital with her when she went into labor. Your dad died fighting in the war so he couldn't be there. Your mom died in childbirth so Anakin's mom decided to raise you. Since I was Anakin's master he came and told me about you. I decided to come see you and find out why he kept saying you were special."
Raven's mind was running wild. She wanted to believe them. This had been her dream all her life. She wanted to tell them to take her to Coruscant right now but, she wanted to know about her life.
"When I got to his house I saw a little baby sitting in the floor lifting her toys through the force. I was dumbfounded to say the least. I'd never seen someone use the force so easily at such a young age. I immediately went and told the council. They said that you had to be one half of the prophecy."
Obi-Wan stopped long enough to give Anakin the opportunity to jump in.
"He got to the house and you were sitting in the yard making it rain only where you were sitting. He sat and watched you use your powers to make the grass grow and all kinds of other strange things that normal Jedi can't do. He went back to the Council and told them about what you could do and they agreed that you were one half of the prophecy. They also agreed to train you when you were old enough."
Anakin's face clouded and a dark look crossed his face. Obi-Wan looked upset too. Raven furrowed her brow and wondered what was making them so sad and angry. Obi-Wan started talking as if in response to her thoughts.
"But Lord Sidious found out about you. His apprentice at the time, Darth Maul, heard about you and told him. When he started trying to capture you we knew that we were going to have to send you some where far away so that no one would be able to find you. Which brings us to now. The Clone Wars are out of control and we need you to come back with us. If you don't then we may never bring balance back to the force. And we may never find out who else is supposed to fulfill the prophecy."
Raven closed her eyes and thought back to when she first came to Earth. If they were telling the truth and she really was very strong in the force, she should be able to remember the first few years of her life. Sure enough, when she thought back, she could remember sitting in her own rain cloud and watching Obi-Wan watch her. She opened her eyes and grinned from ear to ear.
"Do I need to bring anything?"
