DISCLAIMER: Star Wars and Harry Potter are the property of George Lucas and JK Roweling respectively. Excerpts from the 'Oxford Latin Course' are just that excerpts from the 'Oxford Latin Course'. Full credit to any stories I inadvertently borrow from. I read a lot of fanfics and can't recall the contents of all of them. I will try to give credit if I borrow ideas.
The Force
Ten year old Luke Evans was having a strange day. It started when Dudley was chasing him at lunch. He had suddenly appeared on the roof. Concerned by what the teachers might think he jumped down and ran. He started getting faster and faster. It was like he could feel his surroundings. But it got more and more intense. It started to hurt. He screamed. The last thing he saw before he passed out was Ben.
He woke up later to shouting.
"I told you something like this would happen if you did not let me train him. And don't tell me you care; you keep him in a cupboard!" said one voice.
"I will not be bossed around by FREAKS! Not in my own home!" Luke recognized this voice as his uncle Vernon.
"This has gone to far. It needs to be rectified, whether your willing or not," the person he now recognized as Ben sounded said. Ben continued in a unnaturally calm and assured voice, "You will treat the boy better. You will give him a bedroom. You will let me teach him."
To Luke's surprise they agreed, " we will treat him better. We will give him a bedroom. We will let you teach him."
Ben's voice sounded normal again, "Send him over after school."
"-and another car-crash takes 20 lives. It would have been more but many victims were able to escape through welded holes. Experts-" the news was cut off by Luke's aunt.
"You have to go to Ben's house." she informed him. Luke once again thought back to the mysterious conversation he had heard. He had immediately been given a bedroom and in the morning had not had to cook breakfast.
He left the house and walked down the block to Ben's house. He cautiously knocked on the door. A voice called him in and told him to sit down. He heard some one shifting through a box and the walk down the stairs.
"Greetings Luke," he said, "I suspect you have many questions" He got a nod of affirmation, "listen to my story and then I will answer any questions... I suppose my story starts with the fact that magic is real. There is a whole world of it. Your mother was magical, a witch, and worked for a group called the Department of Mysteries. The have all sorts of objects there. She was working on one and suddenly got sucked into another world."
"In this world there was a group called the Jedi. They were guardians of peace. I was one. One of my students, Anakin Skywalker was your father. He married you mother."
"The Jedi drew their power from the Force. The Force is a energy field that connects all life. Another group, called the Sith, also use it."
"One Sith caused another of my students, Vader, to betray and kill us including your father. He injured your mother as well. The Sith took over and now control my world. Your mother opened a portal back for us because without magic the Sith can not follow. Upon giving birth to you, the injury Vader inflicted took her life."
"This was you father's," he said passing a cylinder into Luke's hands, "it is a lightsaber, the weapon of a Jedi."
"Mr. Ben, Sir... This does not look like much of a weapon..." Luke trailed off.
Ben smiled and pulled another out of his cloak. He pushed a button and a green blade came out of it. "Hold it like I am and press the button. The knob lets you control the length." Luke obeyed and a blue blade erupted out of it.
"You will teach me how to use this?" Look questioned.
"Eventually, there are other things you need to learn first. We will start with your lessons in a minute. First I need you to promise me to not ignite your lightsaber unless you here or in danger. Having it is a responsibility and if you can't handle it I will keep it until you can," he said.
"I promise," Harry promised.
Ben smiled,"Very good. Your first lesson is this: don't feel fear, anger or hate. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the Dark Side. The Dark Side leads to suffering. The force has two sides, the light and the dark. The light is the incarnation of good and the dark evil. Until you can resist these feelings your training can not progress. Come by tomorrow and I will see if you are ready to progress."
It was three days before Luke had progressed to Ben's satisfaction. On the previous days Dudley's 'Luke looking' had always resulted in his failure.
"I am convinced that you are ready. Close your eyes." Luke obeyed and Ben waited a minute before continuing. "Reach out with your mind... Beyond your body... To the Force... Feel its ebbs and curves... Connecting all life..." As Ben spoke Luke began to feel... something. It got stronger and even with Ben, he noticed, shielding him it was overwhelming. And then it ended. Ben's hand rested on his forehead. "It was to much. I have stopped it and now I am going to slowly open your connection." Luke felt it and memorized the feeling. Ben stood up. "Clear you mind. Open it as much as you are comfortable to." Luke cleared his mind and slowly opened copied what Ben had been doing. Normally it would have been difficult for Luke to not think for that long but the Force trickling through his mind aided him. "Good. The technique you are practicing is called meditation." Ben said.
After Luke had worked on it for half an hour, Ben told him to go home. It was Friday and Luke spent the evening practicing. The next day he visited Ben early in the morning. Ben was shocked by his progress. For Luke's, hard work he taught him a new technique. He taught him to use the force without clearing his mind. The technique required him to be calm however. He just opened himself in a calm state. It would ease nervousness and give augmented mental and physical abilities.
That afternoon Luke used his new skill to avoid problems with the 'Luke lookers' and tested what he could do. He was cautious not to open himself to far but found that even so he could do much. It was truly amazing.
When he got home he went to his new bedroom and once more practiced till he went to bed.
He spent most of Sunday at Ben's practicing the two techniques. Ben was pleased with his progress. He spent the evening practicing meditation again. He never realized that he had forgotten to do his homework.
When he went to school the teacher was some what annoyed but Luke used his augmented mind to do well in his classes and the teacher's anger left.
After school he went to Ben's again. Once again he had progressed.
"Your putting a lot of effort into this Luke. I hope you are not neglecting your studies thought." he said.
Luke bowed his head. "I forgot about my homework."
"It is natural that you are very excited about your studies in the Force. Be careful however that this does not happen again," he said, "Your homework is a potential application of the Force however. When you work on it allow the Force to flow through you."
And so he did. The next day there was another development. While Dudley was 'Luke looking' Luke noticed that he could feel where the searchers were and avoid them.
Ben was pleased with this breakthrough. He told him that he was quickly progressing. Apparently this 'Force perception' was something that would improve with time and practice.
After a few weeks Ben gave him a choice. "You've progressed well. There are two avenues that you can study. I can teach you lightsaber combat or more force techniques." The choice was not hard. As much as he liked force techniques he was really looking forward to lightsabers.
He smiled, "The Jedi have seven lighsaber forms. The one I will be teaching you is Shi-Cho. It was the first created shortly after the lightsaber was invented, when it became apparent that we needed set methods for lightsaber combat. is the most simple and that is it's strength. It is good against multiple opponents. I will teach you the technical parts but remember that the most important thing is the Force and it guiding you. All the training in the world is useless compared to the Force."
Ben took him down to the basement and taught Luke a few simple moves. To say that Shii-Cho was simple was a understatement. The blade was always held relatively horizontally. To block it was raised or lowered vertically to bat it away. Attacks were horizontal slashes. Luke supposed that this might be different on the more advanced levels.
He then showed him a device called a 'droid' and blindfolded him. The droid shot at him. The first few times he got hit. Then he dodged one. Guided by the Force he was later able to block one.
From then on he progressed. Not being able to practice on his own he was not able to progress as fast but he was still progressing. He continued to meditate and constantly apply the Force to what ever he worked on. His marks at school shot up. Dudley's gang never found him any more; He ran quickly and could sense where they were.
Within a few day's he was consistently blocking the shots. Ben introduced another droid but within a week he could block shots from both at the same time. Luke also practiced by other methods.
The first was katas. They were boring repetitions of moves. With them Ben introduced foot work. Despite being even more boring than katas, the footwork made sense. Shii-Cho relied on turns and spins. While this provides a weakness against single opponents, against many it allowed one to fight them all at once. The blade was held horizontally so that it covered the maximum amount of the spin.
He also began practicing against Ben. There was sparring where they fought with powered down blades. There was also a exercise called velocities where the sole objective was to avoid making holes in your defenses and cause your opponent to make holes in his.
Summer Break eventually came. With it he was able to study with Ben more. They began working of perception as well as levitation. For perception, Ben would release a mouse and have Luke find it or have Luke tell him what was behind a wall. Levitation was a challenge. It was different from the other techniques that he had learned in that it was not just the force strengthening or informing him but him causing it to do something. He had to reach out with his the force and grasp and lift. As time progressed, however, it too improved.
Having more free time and being able to practice new techniques at home Luke made much progress.
One day, however something very strange happened. A owl flew through the window carrying a letter...
AN: Revamped for the first time. The most notable change is the expansion on Luke's saber training. My review policy is still that I will try to send previews. I will not send previews of revamps because it is mostly stuff that you have already read.