Something I couldn't resist writing.
Disclaimer: Mickey and the Beanstalk belongs to Walt Disney, and Star Wars belongs to Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney, George Lucas, and JJ Abrams.
Luke Skywalker and the Beanstalk
Chapter 1: My What a Happy Day
Luke Skywalker was putting his daughter Rey to bed with his brother-in-law, Han Solo as he was putting his son, Anakin to bed as their wives Mara Jade and Luke's sister, Leia were about to leave.
"Now boys, for once get them to sleep by their bedtime." Mara said with a smile.
"Good night kids." Leia said as she blew the children a kiss.
"Good night Aunt Leia." Rey said.
"Good night Mommy." Anakin said.
"Now go to sleep kids." Luke said.
"Could you tell us a story, Daddy?" Rey asked.
"Well, I guess one wouldn't hurt." Luke answered.
"Yay!" Anakin called out. "Isn't that cool Daddy?"
"Well..." Han said. "Uh... No."
"This is a story everyone should hear." Luke said.
"Yeah, but not everyone should tell it, and you know who." Han said.
"Well I'm gonna tell it anyway." Luke said.
"Alright, suit yourself." Han said with a sigh.
"Now, once upon a time-" Luke began before Han interrupted.
"Funny how nothing happens now-a-days." Han mused before he stopped when Luke glared at him.
"Now, once upon a time there was a place called Happy Valley." Luke began again. "It was called Happy Valley because everyone who lived there was happy."
"Well that makes sense." Han said with a shadow of a smile.
"Okay kids, now close your eyes and tell me if you can picture it." Luke said.
"I think I can." Rey said.
"Me too." Anakin added.
"It's all nice and green with a lot of hills." Rey said.
()()()()()
Happy Valley was often called Nature's garden spots, nestled among green rolling hills. A lovely brook, the laughing brook, flowed through the valley. Winding roads connected the valley with stately trees lining them. They also connected the lush fields and prosperous farms that dotted the landscape, and on a hill top over-looking the valley and shining like a jewel stood a magnificent castle, and two precious princesses lived in the castle. One was the fair maiden Leia Skywalker who made fair rules and kept the country clean. Her fellow princess was Mara Jade. Mara kept the country bright, cheerful, and happy with her excellent diplomatic skills and her beautiful singing voice. Men, women, and children came from all over the world, feeding the country's trade, just to hear her beautiful voice.
My... What a happy day.
What a sunny sky.
Kinda make you sigh
In a happy way.
What a very merry day...
All the world is gay.
When your cares are light.
And your heart takes flight.
And you're swept away.
The air is sweet with clover.
The clouds are turning over.
Oh yes they're turning over
Just to show their silver lining.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
My what a happy day!
When Mara would sing, all the farmers would join in as well, and their work got twenty times quicker.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
Oh me, oh my, what a happy day!
The voice of Mara cast a magic spell of joy and prosperity throughout the land, but it was too good to last, for one day a mysterious shadow crept over the valley and something dreadful happened.
()()()()()
Mara and Leia were talking. They weren't biologically sisters, but they had been raised in the same home for so long that they couldn't have been closer if they were. When the sky got surprisingly dark, they all screamed and tried to run, but they were caught by the creature who had caused the darkness grabbed them, and they knew no more for a long time.
()()()()()
When the shadow lifted, Leia and Mara were gone. No longer was the valley happy, for without the magic of Mara's voice and Leia's wise guidance, all was misery... Misery... Misery.
The grass fields and trees all became a depressing reddish color as the desolation spread throughout the land and everything dried up. The fields of corn turned to dust almost before you could say kerplop. The Laughing Brook flowed no more, and what little water remained fell down the cracks that appeared in the river bed.
To think that this land was once happy valley, and now it was little better than gruesome gulch.
Days passed. Then weeks passed. Then months passed.
()()()()()
A group of humble peasants, three orphaned boys, were hit the hardest. All they had was a cow who had dried up with the Laughing Brook. The three boys were all that were left of three proud families who had tilled the land together. Among them were Leia's elder brother, Luke Skywalker and his closest friends, Han Solo and Galen Marek. The house was so much to handle for the three boys that it was in a derelict state with one of the doors having fallen off very recently. The three poor farmers sat at the dinner table as they were on the edge of starving to death. By some combination of miracles and careful planning, the three were still alive, still breathing, and sharing a pitiful crust of bread between them. Luke made as thin cuts with his knife as he could to save the last loaf of bread they had for as long as they could.
Were their spirits broken? Did they lose hope? Yes. The three teenagers were facing famine and were left only with beans... Well a bean by now. One bean to split between three people. Luke cut it as thinly as possible until there were three semi-thin bean slices that barely made the bread bulge. The only bright side anyone could have found was that at least the bean didn't have any bones. Galen had become gaunt from lack of food already having a thin build made him appear to be little more than a bag of bone and weakening muscles. A true picture of despair, but Galen never whimpered. Galen never gave up.
"SHUT UP!" Galen called out. "I CAN'T STAND IT!"
Galen then grabbed as many plates as he could and attempted to eat them like a sandwich before Luke and Han grabbed him and pulled the dishes away.
"Okay Galen, easy now." Luke said as Han and Luke rubbed his back in an attempt to calm him. "Easy now."
"Don't worry guys." Galen said with a heavy sigh as he breathed hard from the rush of adrenaline. "Yeah... I'll be alright. I'll be alright."
Galen said he'd be alright, but Luke wondered. Galen had suffered too much. Han, knowing how Galen got when he was riled wondered what plan was forming in the mind of the desperate Galen.
Galen meanwhile saw the axe they had used to chop down wood and got a sinister smile on his face as he slipped away and grabbed it.
"GALEN NO!" Luke called out in alarm when he saw the empty space where the axe usually hung.
()()()()()
"Here cowsie-wowsie." Galen said in a raspy, demented voice as he approached the cow. "Nice old cowsie-wowsie."
"Galen!" Luke called out as Galen suddenly shouted out and lunged at the cow with the axe. The cow mooed in alarm and jumped onto a tree as Luke pulled the axe out of Galen's hand, and he then began chewing on the tail before Han and Luke grabbed Galen and held him down.
"But guys..." Galen panted as he began to come back to his senses. "I've just gotta eat. I'm so... Hungry."
Han and Luke brought Galen into the house where he rested on the couch.
Aw, poor Galen.