A Jedi's Path

Chapter One

I took another deep breath as I strangled to suck the air in, my mind spinning in circles as my vision wavered looking ahead, I felt the numbness in my fingers sink in as I strained myself to go forward. The ringing in my ears echoing in my head bashing against the walls of my brain, I roughly brushed my nose as I looked ahead, my father with his slightly grey hair shone in the house light his hands raised up as he aimed them towards my mother.

Her shouts echoed along the tight walls of the room, "m-mom." I pleaded in my tone as I slowly pushed myself over too her, my fathers dark eyes locked over to me as he stopped his attack on my mouth and with a cruel smile trotted over to me. His hands clenched tightly together as he looked down at me, keep an calm mind, I pressured myself into believing, I took a deep breath as I felt his fist connect with my cheek, my mother let out a loud scream as he continued his attacks.

I clenched my teeth as my mother was roughly pushed away from me and onto the ground, "s-stop, you are going to kill her." My mom shouted, "I don't care-let her die." His drunk tone echoed in my ears, I stared at him underneath the heavy locks of my hair. Feeling the awkward positions of my bones and the spotted the sight of my raw blood tainting the ground itself, "die." I repeated as I looked up at him, "y-you it's about time you leave us." I breathed out as I felt him roughly grip an handful of my hair.

He narrowed his eyes, "you damn brat I'll kill yo-" Suddenly the door was flinged opened, the door flew into the wall with a harsh thump I watched in amazement as it hit the wall and fell to the ground. I looked to the source of the sudden power, I spotted two men, one that seemed to be relatively small and green with gray hair and another that stood tall with an good posture and hardened eyes, my mother had stood beside him them as if she had ran a marathon.

The green man spoke, "it's as she said it was." The taller man spoke, "such a terrible man, you are." The green man spoke in disbelief, my father's fingers around my hair loosened as I fell to the ground. He walked towards my mother and the two men his anger on display freely, "I suppose you are going to stop me." He grounded his teeth as he let out an crazed laugh, he glanced over to me resulting me narrowing my eyes at him.

"An useless women and a damn brat, I wish they would just die alread-" I watched as he was flunged into the wall, his voice was cut short as he was knocked out completely, I gasped as I looked to my hands seeing as I was the result of it. I looked at my trembling hand and heard a gasp from one of the men, "we have found another one with great power." The shorter green man spoke a smile drifting on his lips, the other man nodded kindly as he looked at me.

I looked over to my mother seeing as she was shaking but her arms nimbly wrapped around me as she tucked my head into the crock of her shoulder, I felt the wet substance touch my cheeks as I breathed out looking over to my father his body stationed on the ground not moving, I gulped as I watched as another man walked and touch the base of his neck feeling for a pulse. He looked over his shoulder and shook his head, my eyes widened as I recalled my previous actions.

I felt my breath pick up as my heart beated erratically, I killed my father. Some part of my roared with happiness while another had cried and yearned for him, my father had a bad habit within the past couple years I have been born in. He had a gambling addiction which resulted in our family being financial unstable, he had tried to drink away his problems by drinking though it had turned him into another person, he would become violent and hit my mother, though I tried my best to make an effort to protect her no matter what which made me often sustain bruises.

"A-Annora!" I heard the boy shout, I looked over my mother's shoulder to see my best friend. His dusty brown hair was messily on his head as his light brown eyes locked with mine, he rushed over to me with urgency, his eyes widened. I watched his small fists tighten, "what happen?" He asked lightly as he took another look at my face, he brushed away the hair from my eyes as his arms wrapped around me. I smiled to myself as my mother pulled away watching us with smiling eyes.

"I am okay." I whispered, "everything will be better now." I watched as the shorter green man approached me, his hands hidden behind his back. "Annora, is what they call you?" He asked, I nodded as I stared at him silently, I took my best friend's hand in need of reassurance, Zeno. "You have an great amount of force within you, I can sense it." He took another step forward, I narrowed my eyes in him as I gulped.

Throughout all the years of my life I had dreamt of becoming a Jedi and would constantly mediate and pray for the force, but for me to have 'force' within me is seen to be an outright blessing. I heard the sharp tone from Zeno, "what do you mean, you want to take her?" He furrowed his eyebrows at the green man. He nodded carefully, he looked over to Zeno, "she is destined to become a Jedi." The taller man spoke as he looked down at us, I flickered my eyes over to my mother but she hadn't looked shocked.

"Jedi?" Zeno narrowed his eyes, "I would like to take Annora to the High Council." The taller man spoke, "who are you?" I asked quietly. Both of the men answered with light smiles and shown the grace of their respect, "I am Obi-Wan Kenobi and this is Yoda, we are the Jedi Masters." The taller man spoke, my eyes widened as I looked at him. I stepped forward to Yoda seeing as he tilted his head curiously at me, I let go of Xeno's hands and walked forward.

I took a deep breath, "I can become a Jedi." They nodded, "I believe so." I looked over to my mother seeing as she tighten an necklace around my neck, I faced her seeing the small tears run down her pale cheeks. She smiled brightly at me, "I always knew you were special, Annora." I felt my mother's gentle hand brush against my cheek, "I will take care of your child personally." Yoda spoke lightly, I looked over to my father seeing as he wasn't still moving, it was true I killed him.

I took Zeno's hand in mine, "can I take Zeno with me then?" I asked forgetting the pain in my body as I looked to Yoda, he shook his head, I stomped my feet angrily. "Why not!? We are always together." I grounded my teeth feeling the ground itself shake, "keep calm Annora." Obi-Wan Kenobi spoke lightly his eyes directed towards me, I gasped as the pebbles of the roof gently slid to the ground. The shaking was halted as I felt Zeno squeeze me hand in his, he looked down to the ground and gave me a sad smile.

"I can't go with you, Nora." He whispered lightly his voice trembling, I bit the inside of my cheek as I looked at him feeling the tears threatening to spill. "I am not like you." He lowered his voice, "though I can promise you this. I will always be here, waiting for you." He looked up to me with a bright smile, I sobbed lightly making him pull me into a hug. I wrapped my arms around him as I held him close to me, "p-promise me that." He nodded to me and instead had me a small bracelet.

"I been wanting to give you this." I looked at the bracelet, it was colorful with different beads and held a single charm on it, he wrapped it on my hand. He pointed to it lightly tapping it, "whenever you are sad just think about me." He smiled at me.

"We must go." Yoda responded lightly hoping not to break the tight atmosphere between us. An hour passed as my mother had given me an small bag of items and I shown my last farewell to them, I waved to them seeing as they soon disappeared in the distance from black specks to little nothing.

Another hour passed as I was welcomed with an new world different from the one I lived in and shown to an different crowd of people, "what is the meaning of this?" A man spoke, his tone filled with authority and yet anger as he looked at me. Yoda stood beside me as he talked, "I sense great force within her." Some of the people nodded as well, "I can strangely sense it as well." A woman gently spoke, her gentle eyes focused onto me, her green skin lit in the bright light that reflected from the windows.

There was a slight pause, "I will train her personally." He bowed his head, though some narrowed their eyebrows at me. "She should go through the training process with the other young-lings." Another man claimed, "I will train her." His tone was slightly more hardened and filled with determination. The woman sighed and placed a hand underneath her chin, "I see why not." The woman smiled at me, "Master Yoda has a great sense of judgement, I will entrust her to him." She looked over.

I watched the nods fill my view as I looked to Yoda the shorter man looking at me with a smile, "from now on I will be teaching you."