Before we begin I want to clear up a couple of things first:
blah, blah, blah, I don't own Star Wars and blah blah blah
ok let's move on..
This is a rewrite of my first ever fic called The Last of The Forgotten Legacy. For the people that have read the original work I want to say a huge thank you.
Now why the rewrite you might ask (if you're a new reader you can skip this part)?
Well first of all my current style of writing is a bit different and my English has improved overall. After that the paragraphs in the original work were absolutely terrible (multiple lines of dialogue from different characters in the same paragraph horrible), so I wanted to fix that. And the most important thing is the story. I am going to be changing a lot of things in this department. I don't want to say much about the changes but what is going to get changed is some of the timeline discrepancies, certain characters (one particular one is going to get removed completely as I see no use in them) and the last third or so of the work which will be longer, feature more arcs, improved character interactions and development and it will get rid of an ark I personally grew to hate and replace it with a new and interesting one.
Now with that said I hope you will enjoy the new, (hopefully) improved and longer version of my first ever completed work.
Star Wars: The Search For Purpose
Chapter 1: The Awakening (33 BBY)
It was a normal day at the Jedi temple on Coruscant. Jedi were conversing with each other, temple guards were walking around in their usual patrol patterns and Master's were taking their Padawans to complete their lessons. Qui-Gon Jinn was walking to his quarters when suddenly he gets hit by a weird feeling. The force flowed through him in a weird way. It was trying to tell him something, so he went to his quarters as fast as he could to meditate about it in peace.
He entered his small quarters. They were bigger than the Jedi knight quarters but not by a lot. It only had a bed with a small chair by its side and a small drawer, so he could keep his belongings outside of plain sight. He kneeled down to the ground. He began to focus.
He woke up in the middle of a field. By the look of the vegetation around him he concluded that he was probably on Dantooine He stood up and took in his surroundings. He saw a small hill to his south, a camp to his east and a burning village ingulfed in fog to the west. He made his way to the village.
Qui-Gon made it to the village, but he couldn't go through the fog. He was trying to find a way through until he heard crying coming from inside the village.
"Who's there?" he yelled.
But there was no response and the crying continued. He continued to try and find a way through the fog. He was beginning to give up until a small outline of a human child appeared on the other side of the fog. The crying stopped.
"Who are you?" Qui-Gon asked with a concerned look on his face. The boy didn't answer or move at all. Then another outline of a man that appeared to be wearing armor creeped up behind the boy, grabbed him and started pulling him away.
Before the small child disappeared around the corner he managed to let out a scream "Help me, please!".
As soon as Qui-Gon came to his senses, he stood up and headed straight to the landing platforms outside the temple. On the way there he encountered Obi-Wan.
"Come with me now!" he demanded in a very serious tone as he walked past him.
"Well somebody woke up on the wrong side of bed," Obi-Wan thought to himself before he went after Qui-Gon.
"Why are you in such a rush?" Obi-Wan put his hand on Qui-Gon's shoulder and pulled him back to stop him.
"I had a vision, we have to hurry. I'll tell you about it on the ship." They made their way to the ship and soon they were in hyperspace on their way to Dantooine.
"So, what you're telling me is that you think somebody attacked a village in the middle of nowhere on a peaceful planet and kidnapped a child," Obi-Wan said, leaning against a wall with his arms crossed.
"Well that's what my vision told me," Qui-Gon said, sitting in the captain's chair.
"Do you know where the village is?" Obi-Wan asked.
"No, not yet at least. But I'm sure we'll learn the location quickly. Dantooine doesn't have many populated areas. The only really populated areas are the old Jedi enclave and a couple of villages around it," Qui-Gon answered, putting his hand under his chin as if it helped him think.
They landed on Dantooine and not long after that they intercepted a couple of that were about to leave town. Qui-Gon inquired about the village he saw in his vision. Luckily for them one of the two men they stopped knew of the location and pointed them in the correct way.
By nightfall they made it to the outskirts of the village. They went up to the top of a small hill to scout out the area with their macrobinoculars.
"I don't see anything," Obi-Wan said in a confused tone.
The village seemed completely normal. No signs of struggle or anything. It was late so there weren't many people outside but many of the houses were still lit up.
"That's odd," Qui-Gon remarked.
They hopped back onto their speeder bikes and proceeded to the village. As they got closer and closer Qui-Gon started feeling an odd presence – a force signature stronger than any but his and his Padawan's. Whoever he was looking for, they were definitely there.
Stopping their bikes and dismounting them, they continued their conversation. "Do you sense that?" Qui-Gon asked Obi-Wan. He was talking about the powerful Force presence.
"I do," he confirmed with a firm nod.
Qui-Gon reached out to the Force to guide him and in a couple of moments he was able to pinpoint the direction. "Come."
The sudden sound of a struggle quickened their pace. Qui-Gon stopped at a corner of a building, Obi-Wan following his lead. Qui-Gon could make out 4 armored and armed people standing outside the door of a house.
"Just give us the damn kid," a raspy voice demanded. The voice was a bit muffled, meaning that whoever said that more than likely wore some sort of head protection.
"We should intervene," Obi-Wan suggested already shifting his weight forward only to be stopped by Qui-Gon's hand.
"Patience." Meanwhile the struggle continued.
"No!" a woman cried out.
"Lady don't make us hurt you," a different person warned her.
"Why do you out of all people need him?" the same woman screamed at them again.
"A job's a job lady. We don't ask questions."
"Marfri be reasonable," a new voice, this time a completely clear one said.
The woman cried loudly before responding. "You're willing to give up our child? You coward," she screamed at him all the while still crying loudly.
The noise of the confrontation began attracting attention but as soon as the other villagers saw the armed men they ran back home or turned their lights off and probably locked their doors.
"They'll get him anyway," he tried to calm her. "The only difference will be if we live or die."
"Then I'd rather die!" the woman yelled. All of the sudden a flash of red light could be seen with the sound of a blaster firing.
One of the armored men dropped to one knee while the other three raised their own blasters and began firing at the door and a few seconds later the encounter was over, and everything went quiet. The only thing that could be heard was one of the armored men barking orders. Two of them helped their wounded brother up and led him away while the other entered the house and came out moments after, dragging a crying child behind him.
"Master, why didn't we do anything?" Obi-Wan asked a bit too loud for comfort. It was the first time in ages Qui-Gon sensed emotional turmoil within him.
Jinn sighed. "It was as the Force willed. They had a choice and we saw what their decision was. If we got involved do you think anything would've happened differently," Jinn reasoned. "At least now we still have the element of surprise. Come on, let's follow them."
Obi-Wan obviously wasn't happy about the situation but there was nothing Qui-Gon could do about it. If they got involved the situation could've ended in the same way.
The 4 men jumped into a speeder and rode off into the grasslands with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan sticking back just far enough that they could about make out where they were going. The dark nights and many hills that they encountered on the way didn't help their chase but after a grueling ten or so minutes of chasing them a dim light appeared in the distance. Seeing the speeder stop close to it, the two Jedi stopped and got off their bikes and began to make their way to the light.
Back in the village Qui-Gon couldn't make out what kind of armor the men were wearing but after seeing it lit up by the light that turned out to just be a campfire, he could easily make out that the men were in fact Mandalorians. He had dealt with them before – he had even spent a year on Mandalore protecting the now ruler of Mandalore Duchess Satine Kryze from various insurgent groups and bounty hunters who were out for her head. During his time there he had learned that Mandalorians can be the most formidable of opponents.
"Mandalorian bounty hunters," his Padawan whispered.
"And a formidable group at that," Qui-Gon added. The count of Mandalorians grew from four to six. The two that awaited them at their camp had already started taking care of the wounded one. One of the other three put the child in binders while the other two appeared to be talking to somebody over a holoprojector.
The Jedi moved even closer to a tree that was very close to the camp. There they could just about hear what they were talking about.
"Do you have the child?" the man in the hologram asked. His voice was very loud with a clear hint of annoyance in his tone.
"We do. We'll bring him to you tomorrow just like we arranged," the bounty hunter answered.
"I'm afraid that the conditions of our agreement have changed. I require the child now."
"What's with the haste? He's just a kid."
"There have been certain complications I would like both of our parties to avoid," the man said.
"What sort of complications?" the Mandalorian asked.
"A Jedi Master has been seen landing on this planet earlier today."
"That is problematic," he agreed. "Fine. We'll get him to you as fast as possible, but you'll pay us more."
"Certainly. My master is a wealthy man, he will reward you more than handsomely for your services." And with that the holoprojection turned off.
"Well boys let's pack up we're heading out early," the bounty hunter who had been speaking to the man in the holo ordered.
"What do we do?" Obi-Wan asked.
"I'll grab their attention while you go around and disable their speeder," Qui-Gon said immediately starting for the bounty hunters after, leaving his padawan with no chance to argue with his order and it wasn't like Obi-Wan did ever argue against his orders.
"Gentlemen," Jinn called out loud enough to grab their attention. "You seem to have taken something that isn't yours."
"Jedi!" their leader said and, in a moment's notice a flurry of yellow blaster bolts were flying his way. He managed to role away into a small dip in the ground, just about evading the blaster fire. The heavy blaster fire continued for a couple of moments before stopping.
"Get to the speeder!" one of the bounty hunters yelled out loud.
Jinn poked his head out only to be met with a blaster bolt hitting the ground next to him, burning the grass. Then he sat back and waited until…
"It isn't working!"
Qui-Gon used that moment to jump out of the dip and activate his green lightsaber. Catching the mandalorians off-guard as they started to disembark from their disabled speeder, he made up as much ground as possible before they started shooting at him once again.
The first shot that hit him he managed to deflect back at its source, right in the man's abdomen. Him being alone against now five or actually four and a half Mandalorian bounty hunters with no cover around would be a nearly impossible fight to win if he didn't have backup in the form of Obi-Wan who emerged, jumping over the speeder and engaging them from the other side.
Their attention split between the two Jedi, the resulting blaster fire on both sides reduced to the point where it was possible to accurately deflect. One of the bounty hunters seemingly aware of that used his jetpack to get high up but found himself unconscious moments later after Qui-Gon used the Force to propel him straight into the tree he and Obi-Wan were hiding behind earlier. Kenobi in the meantime managed to take out the already wounded Mandalorian from earlier and was on the brink of defeating the other one. And he did just that at the same time as Qui-Gon deflected a blaster bolts straight back at the Mandalorian's head.
With that silence overtook the calm windy plains once again and the two Jedi were left alone with bunch of smoking bodies.
"Where did the kid go?" Obi-Wan asked.
"There," Qui-Gon said pointing at the dip he was hiding in earler.
As the two approached the dip the sound of sobbing became louder and louder. When the boy saw them he began backing off clumsily. He was afraid and in shock, so Qui-Gon used the Force to calm him down.
"We're not here to hurt you," Obi-Wan told the boy.
"Who are you?" the boy asked.
"I am Qui-Gon and this is Obi-Wan," he answered. "And what is your name?"
"I'm Cindo. T-thank you for saving me."
"No thanks are required," Obi-Wan said with a smile while his master carefully removed the braces with his lightsaber. "It is what we were taught to do."
"And it is also what you could be taught to do," Qui-Gon added.
"Me? Why?"
"You are a powerful boy. You posses the ability to use something that not many others can, the Force. We can teach you how to use it if you're willing come with us."
"I don't really have a choice do I?" Tears began forming in Cindo's eyes. The shock and fear he had experienced from being so close to a battle made him forget about what happened earlier but the memories began coming back.
"We're sorry about your family," Qui-Gon said, putting a hand on his shoulder gently. "We were too late to do anything."
"Why did you bring us here?"
"There has been a shift in the Force. Have you sensed it?"
"Yes. We both did."
"Then you know what this is about."
"The boy."
"He is the last of our bloodline and in the coming times I fear that he will not survive."
"What do you wish us to do?"
"The boy needs guidance. Whether it be through good or bad you two need to guide him and teach him lest he falls to the dark side."
"We will not let that happen."