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The True Lisko Kon'ro
Chapter 1: The First Padawan
As I bring my dark-skinned hand down to my desk and pick up my electronic journal, I grab my writing utensil from the side of the journal. I begin to move the utensil on top of the journal to make markings. It has been a year since Ragnos was defeated and I have already attained the rank of Jedi Master. I have only been here for three years, and yet I have done well with this academy. Rosh has even ascended to the level of Jedi Knight not too long ago and has already taken an apprentice. Funny how it is that he gains a padawan before I do. My old master Kyle has been teaching even more students since Rosh and I. Master Skywalker is planning on moving the academy to Coruscant, but he has not set a date on it yet. However, only the Jedi Masters know of this, and each time I see Rosh, I feel bad not telling him the truth. I think he plans on doing this because he is going to rebuild the Jedi Council soon. My electronic pen's orange beam sealed back up within the pen as I begin to hear someone contact me through a screen to the side of me. I turn to my right side to see who is on the screen and notice the brunette grizzly haired man on the screen.
"Jaden, Luke wants to see you in the audience chamber. Head there as soon as you can, alright?" I nod my head up and down to confirm his statement. As soon as I do so, the screen becomes a pitch black. I bring the electronic pen to the side of my datapad from which I obtained the pen from and place it inside there. I soon place the datapad on top of my marble desk and head towards the brown wall which soon has a piece of the wall go up into the air. As I walk through the empty space where part of the wall used to be, the piece comes back down to the spot it was originally in to act as a barrier. I begin to head down the corridor to my left as I head through various areas in which masters and apprentices train, as well as different sleeping quarters.
"Buddy, where are you off to?" I turn around to notice a dark haired man stand before me with tan robes on and brown boots. The clothing that is customary to the Jedi, a sign of devotion to the force itself. It is quite understandable for why he wears this, as he once turned to the dark side, but is now devoted to the light because of his mistake. This man once fought me in order to keep himself alive, but he has fixed his mistake. I give him a small grin which moves my dark lips up and down to show my pearly whites gleam in the shadows of the temple.
"Kyle told me that Master Skywalker called me to the audience chamber. I think he has something important to discuss with me." My good friend begins to nod his head in agreement, and soon a young woman with light skin begins to speak loudly as though she is looking for her master. She is calling out my friend's name so I guess she must be the student Rosh has been talking about for such a long time. He always discusses his student as though she is the greatest Jedi he has ever come face to face.
"Rosh where are... Who's this man master?" She looks at me with an odd, but welcoming look as she smiles just as I do when Rosh first came to ask where I am heading off to. I look at her and give the same gesture of friendliness as I look at her with a smile and bring my hand out in order to greet myself so that the dark haired man does not have to.
"My name is Jaden Korr. You can call me Jaden, since you've met me." She extends her light white arm as to express the same respect as our hands encounter and begin to move up and down in a linear fashion.
"Durii, Durii Lonna." We exchange eye contact for awhile before anything else is said. Soon my dark haired friend begins to realize what is going on and begins to tap his padawan's tunic as to remind her of what she is here for. Not only has Rosh been devoted to the force and the Jedi's force since he has been saved, but he also follows the code to an extreme. Which is why he wants his apprentice to not fall in love, as attachments have been forbidden by the Jedi in one of the first codes.
"Come along Durii, you have to finish constructing your light saber."
"Goodbye Jaden."
"Not goodbye, I'll see you soon." She begins to bring her white lips up even more and turns her body around as to follow her master, Rosh, without bumping into any walls. After hearing what Rosh said about her saber, I begin to feel around for mine. As I bring my dark toned hand down towards my light brown belt, I feel a metallic object on there. Knowing I brought my saber makes me feel lucky, but I know there is no luck, only the force. At least that is what we say and for that I am happy with the force. I begin heading down the final hallway towards the final room which is where my old master and the blonde man stand before me. As expected, my old master is not wearing the Jedi robes as he feels he does not need them to show his devotion to the Jedi. He still wears his clothes that he had the first day I met him. However, the blonde man wears a Jedi garment that is completely black, possibly his father's before he turned to the dark side. I begin to walk up to the outlook of the audience chamber where Luke normally gives orders to his Jedi in cases of investigation to retrieval missions.
"Master Korr, you have been a great asset to this academy and for that I thank you. As you know I plan on starting the Jedi Council very soon from now and once it is built, we are moving to Coruscant. However, there is a rule that keeps you out of being a part of the council. You have to have successfully trained a student to the rank of Jedi Knight." He stops speaking as to see my reaction as I look down towards the ground. I feel that it is somewhat unfair, but in a sense it makes perfectly good logic as well. The thing was that I was looking forward to be a part of the council because of how Luke saw me.
"However Luke and I have been discussing your progress and importance to this academy and we have decided to do you a favor?"
"What do you mean Kyle?"
"Well, we have decided if you take under one of the new students you will be considered for the council. As the force would have it, there is a group of new students coming in today and as you know, we have the Jedi Masters here at this academy go and greet them to show them around the academy." As Luke finishes speaking, a group of Jedi masters are at the entrance of the audience chamber and I head towards them as my old master follows behind me. We head outside to see the ship begin to fly up into the air and notice all of the different types of species standing before us. Some are Humans, there is one Ewok, there is one Wookie, a few Quarren, some Ithorian, some Mon Calamari, and one Bothan.
"Kyle, these aren't normal species that are attuned to the force are they?"
"Not so often, the Humans and Mon Calamari are the most out of this group, but the others are not often seen. I think I have heard of one Ithorian Jedi, but they often do not want to become part of the order based upon their neutral stance." I nod my head in agreement and begin to scan them well enough and soon I feel something around. Something that I do not feel often, not since the force was drained from this temple. However that was too subtle, but ever since the dark side aura began to come back in very small amounts I have begun to feel disturbances just as Luke and Kyle have.
"Kyle, this doesn't make any sense. I feel something wrong with the dark side aura around here, a disturbance." He turns to me as he did when I first met Luke and Kyle. When they checked on me after I was knocked out for such a long time because of the long black scepter. The fiery aura that was being brought into it had knocked me out because I was unprepared for such an attack. I was caught off guard, something I would not allow to happen again.
"You're just like Luke, you always feel a disturbance in the force. Maybe you should have been his apprentice instead of mine, but I feel it too." Both of us reach down towards our belt and grab onto our silver metallic handles in order to get ready for anything that might strike at us. As I begin to feel through the area with the force, my neck begins to increasingly tighten. As soon as I am being brought into the air, Kyle reaches down towards his silver handle and brings it to his side, pressing the red button on it to ignite a light blue light from the emitter of the handle. He begins to look around to see if anyone is doing this to me, but I can tell he sees no one. Instead he sees a student being brought up into the air, just like me and he is also in the same pain as I am.
"Kyle... Tell the masters to get the students inside."
"Of course Jaden. Everyone get inside quickly," As his voice continued speaking with a sense of urgency, many different species began to ran wildly into the temple. Masters began fleeing into the huge building as to let my old master deal with this problem on his own. Considering he is one of the strongest of all Jedi's, it is wise to allow him to deal with it on his own. As soon as all of the masters and students leave, the brown Bothan is left hanging in the air. None of us can see who is choking him and I begin to feel Kyle's thoughts. I can't just swing at nothing, I've got to bring this student away from the person choking him in order to save Jaden and this new student. Within seconds he brings his other hand up that does not hold his light saber and uses the air to push what is holding the new student away from him. Soon the student is let go, as I can feel the grip around my neck completely loosen. Once I am free, I jump towards the student and grab a hold of him in order for him to not get hurt.
"Kyle, do you know what that was?"
"No, whatever it was, it was definitely trained in the force." As I hold the young brown furry dog like creature in my arms I begin to feel through the force if he is alright. I begin to try and feel his thoughts, but nothing comes up. I decide to check his heart beat and I can tell that he is alive, but unconscious. I look up to my old teacher and he gives me the same look and I bring myself up and begin to head towards the infirmary. I soon stop to see Kyle still standing behind me, looking at me with a small almost nonexistent grin. His hands to his side and his saber now on his belt.
"What?"
"Nothing, you reminded me of myself when I was saving Rosh."
"Thanks... Anyway tell Master Skywalker I'm taking an injured student to the infirmary."
"Sure thing Jaden." I bring my unused hand up and wave it in the air to signify me seeing my old master later. I begin heading through the front door and enter the audience chamber. I quickly move towards the hallway on the right towards the infirmary, while Kyle stands next to the front door where the audience chamber is. As he begins moving forward the blonde man begins to motion him to stand near his normal position when new students enter the academy. However he shakes his head and walks over to where Luke stands and motions him to come back a few steps towards the window. He begins to speak to him in a small breathy voice in order for the two not to be heard.
"So, that's why Jaden has his padawan on his back."
"Yeah. Also, we felt a disturbance in the force when we were in front of the temple's front door. It might have been what was choking Jaden's apprentice, but we're not entirely sure as we could not see it." Luke begins to nod his head as Kyle starts to walk toward his normal position when greeting new academy members. However he is stopped by the academy's leader and is motioned to come back up before he heads back down to his position.
"I want you to tell Jaden that the student he was dragging on him is his apprentice. Second I want you to investigate what happened earlier with your new student that you gain today, after your student makes his or her first saber. If you need any assistance, I want Master Korr and his apprentice to investigate it as well."
"Alright than Luke." He moves toward his usual position and looks around for a possible padawan he might be bonded with. As he continually searches through the force he decides that he should tell me of my new student. I stand in front of the blue liquid filled tank, I begin to hear something within my head that I have not often heard for almost a year now. It is my old master who is talking through the force to me. Jaden, you're going to be the master of that new student who you brought to the infirmary.
Thanks for letting me know and may the force be with you. He tells me the same thing and I do not hear the voice for quite sometime. I look over at my first apprentice and think of what could this person be like. As I try delving into the furry brown dog like creature's mind, I hear beats on the floor from behind me. I turn around to see the young padawan of my good friend. Her long blonde hair compliments her blue eyes as she begins to smile her rosy lips. She starts to walk closer to me and grabs a hold of one my dark right hand.
"Are you alright?"
"I could be better, but you're making a bit better." I bring my left hand to reach her other hand that is not touching me already. I look into her eyes a bit more and begin to draw back as I realize the problem to this whole entire situation. She begins to look at me with a cold look as her brows move closer together and in a downward motion. She notices my young student in the blue liquid and looks at him with the same look she gave me when she first met me.
"Who's he Jaden?"
"That is my apprentice. I don't know who he is, but that's not why I drew back from you." She looks at me with a stern look before she gave my student the awkward look.
"What is it Jaden? Tell me what it was for."
"Because I don't know you well enough, and I bet Rosh is looking for you. I don't want you to get in trouble because of me. You better get going." She begins to nod her head in agreement and begins to head towards the door. She stops and looks back at me, as I keep my eyes on her. She soon comes rushing towards me and reaches towards my cheek to bring her rosy lips on there. As she lives a small mark as a token of her devotion, she heads towards the door to see a man with dark hair standing in front of the door.
"Durii, I've been looking everywhere for you." He soon notices that I am standing behind her and begins to give me a cold look, but as soon as he notices the furry brown dog like creature in the blue liquid, his icy look becomes a warm and open look. He opens his mouth in a friendly mood and says, "How are you Jaden? You look a little worried."
It takes awhile for me to answer, but after I look at my student, I turn back to my friend and reply, "Well, my padawan is not alright. Hopefully he will wake up soon, but I don't know when he will. Hopefully he'll be fine, but I'll find out soon."
"Sure thing Jaden. Come on Durii, let's get going." They wave to me as they head out from the door and I wave back to them in order to show my devotion to making sure my apprentice is alright. As soon as I turn around in order to see if my student is alright, I notice one of his eye lids moving upwards. I can now see his brown eyeball well enough and begin to smile in relief to know that he is alright. Once his other eyeball is visible, he begins to go up the tank and jumps outside onto the ground. When he lands onto the ground he bends his legs in order to stop from falling over onto the ground. He brings his brown hand down in order make sure he does not topple onto the ground and soon stands up on both legs.
"Who are you and what are you doing here watching over me?"
"Well, I'm your teacher. My name is Jaden Korr. You can call me whatever you want that is respectable. That's why I was watching over you, because I wanted to make sure you were okay. Now who are you?" He looks down on the ground without saying anything and soon looks back up at me in order to see if he could find anything to answer with. I know that what I ask seems to trouble him, but in this case he should at least be able to answer me on his name. He looks back at me with a depressing look, as if something completely horrible has happened. Due to this look, I can tell he is telling me the truth.
"My name is Lisko Kon'ro of the Ropla clan on Bothawui. I'm an exile because of this academy, can we not talk about this right now because it's depressing enough as it is."
"That's alright. Now, let me bring you to Master Skywalker. I bet he'll have a more personal discussion with you because the other students are already on their tour within the academy. After I show you around the academy, you are to learn how to construct a light saber, but before you go anywhere I need you to put on those clothes." I point towards the brown robes over where his old clothes were at before I took them from that spot.
"Where are my old clothes?" His voice sounded like a thorn in my ear as his anger easily came through his speech. I look at him with a cold look, knowing that this person is not going to be an easy padawan, I realize that he is better off without his old clothes. Considering the way he just answered me, I knew he is far off from the side of the light. I figured it would be better just to give him a straightforward answer.
"Lisko, your old clothes are in your living quarters. The clothes are in your drawer and you can find your old clothes in there." His hands and arms soon loosen as he begins to get in a stance that is more friendly. After he puts on his tan robes I motion for him to follow me by waving my hand back in order for him to come and follow me. The small furry brown Bothan realizes I am being extremely kind and soon begins to act in the same manner as a young child does whenever the child is not challenged or given what they want.
"Who was your master Jaden?"
This is my first post-JKA fanfic so I hope it goes well and please review it as harshly as you can. I want the best criticism so I can make it better for upcoming chapters.