Prologue: A Questionable Vision
Dreams had never came to Ezra Bridger's mind. Until this moment. He actually had what he never thought he'd have again: A dream. Ezra had no idea where he was or what was going on in the real world. All he knew was that he was here, in a mysterious void
made from his mind.
However, something finally happened. Ezra blinked and found himself standing along a path. This path was strange. It was made of complete sand and went on for miles and miles without ever stopping. He could see some curves and sections that spilt up into
opposite directions. It looked...difficult.
Cautiously, Ezra stepped on the path, his foot making a strange noise as it crunched against the dry hard sand. He tried to look as far as he could to see if he could see something on the horizon, but there was nothing. He just saw more of the path. How
far did it go? Was there even an end to it?
Ezra looked behind him, but as he suspected, he just saw more of the path. At this moment, I think it's safe to say that he was rather confused. Strangely, he didn't seem to panic. That actually surprised him because he was sure he'd be creeped out at
being in the middle of a path with no memory of how he even got there.
Yet, he felt calm and focused. He smirked. He never thought he'd actually be focused. Kanan had always told him nonstop to stay focused. And now, right at this moment in this strange dream, he finally was. He felt relaxed.
"Happy you seem, hmm?" a sudden voice asked.
Ezra jumped in alarm and seized his lightsaber. But instantly, he calmed down when he just saw the small green form of Master Yoda sitting there, kindly smiling at him.
Ezra blinked in confusion, "Uh, Master Yoda? How are you here?"
Yoda tilted his head, "Asking me, are you? In your head we are. Asking yourself that question, I believe you should be."
Ezra knelt down in front of the elder Jedi Master so that his eyes were level with his.
"Are you real, master?" he asked.
That was probably a stupid question, but he had to ask just to be sure. Kanan had told him that the elder Jedi was at times unpredictable.
Yoda chuckled, "Real am I? Of course I am real. Live in the outside world in hiding I most definitely do. But real right now in your mind, I am not. Just a vision I am. A thought placed here from your mind."
Ezra nodded, kind of understanding. He got the part that Yoda wasn't real in the dream, but the rest of it his mind had unfortunately went blank on. Kanan had never explained why the elder Jedi always spoke backwards.
Yoda hopped off from where he was sitting and made a gesture with his hand, pointing towards the path ahead.
"A walk, I think we should take, young one," he said with another smile.
He then began to slowly walk forward. Seeing nothing else to do, Ezra followed, keeping his eyes on the master. He then looked around at his surroundings again. He had not even realized that there was grass surrounding the path, which was quite odd considering
how dry the sandy path seemed.
Ezra looked back at Yoda. "Master Yoda, if I may ask, where are we?"
Yoda rose a brow. "Hmm, ask you the same thing I was about to, young Ezra Bridger. After all, created this with your mind you did."
"What?" Ezra asked confused. "I created this? I couldn't have. I don't even know what this place is."
"Maybe not you specifically," Yoda answered with a chuckle, "but the Force might've used your mind to create this. Telling you something, it could be."
Ezra eyed the path again. What could the Force be trying to tell him? It didn't make any sense. All he saw was this path. And it went on forever and ever.
He and Yoda soon came to a steep hill. Without a second thought, they both started to climb up it. Ezra seemed to slightly struggle, but Yoda seemed as calm and relaxed as he always was. Maybe because he wasn't real? Ezra wasn't sure.
As they continued up the hill, Ezra got a better view of what the path looked like compared to the grass. As he suspected, the road had a rather ill color to it while the grass around it was beautiful and sparkling with morning dew. Ezra didn't get it.
How could the path look so dead while the outside was so much alive?
Yoda frowned, "Confusion I sense in you, padawan."
Ezra nodded, "Yes, master." He pointed at the path and the grass. "How is this possible? The path looks like it's been scorched by a very hot sun while the grass looks as fresh as ever."
Yoda examined it himself.
"Indeed," he mused. "Curious, this path is. Agree I do, that no ordinary path we are on."
"How can the Force be trying to tell me something with this?" Ezra asked.
Yoda stopped and looked up at the young Jedi. "Padawan, have visions like these, many Jedi do. But know what they mean, your task that is." He pointed to everything around him. "Many things, this could be telling you. Many possibilities. A simple dream
this could be, or a vision of the future."
That made Ezra even more confused. Was Yoda saying that he might one day find himself walking on this path with no end? Or was this just a simple dream like any normal person would have? He couldn't tell. This dream seemed so...real. This couldn't be
just a dream. There was some sort of explanation for why he had this in his head, so it had to be a vision. But of what?
"It's a vision," Ezra decided to say aloud.
Yoda nodded. "Clever you are, young one. Observant of the things around you I can see you are." He then leaned forward. "But what is it that you see, hmm?"
Ezra shrugged, "I don't know, honestly. None of this makes sense. The road is dead, but everything outside the road is alive and growing."
Yoda rose a brow, "Simple, I think the answer is, Ezra. Although see it you cannot." He began walking up the hill again.
"What is it, Master Yoda?" Ezra asked, chasing after him. "Please tell me."
Yoda shook his head, "Not much can I reveal. But tell you I can, that a road awaits you." He pointed down at the path with his small green hand. "Represent, this road does, of what lies ahead. Follow it, you must."
Ezra blinked. "Follow it? I don't understand."
"Speak clearly, did I not?", Yoda asked with a frown. "Ahead of you, a dangerous path awaits, padawan. Whatever you do, leave it you must not."
The elder master was ahead of Ezra and got to the top of the hill and simply stood there, looking at something the youth could not see yet. Ezra climbed harder and harder until finally, he reached the top too. He wasn't surprised to find more of the path.
However, something had changed.
The grass on the other side of the hill seemed different. Was it Ezra's imagination, or did it seem to be changing color? He looked closely, trying to make out what was going on. Suddenly, it came to him. The grass was dying! Ezra looked behind at the
path he had come up on and was shocked to find that the grass there was dying too.
"Follow it, you must," he heard Yoda say again, "If leave the path you do, then die everything else will.Including yourself."
That got Ezra's attention and he looked down to ask him what he meant by that. But suddenly, he saw that Yoda was no longer there! Ezra looked around frantically, trying to see where the Jedi had gone off to, but there was no sign of him at all.
"Master Yoda?", Ezra called out. "Master Yoda?!"
Suddenly, something else caught his attention. Ezra heard a strange crackling sound coming from the ground. He looked down and saw that all of the grass had turned pitch black, as if it had been burnt by fire. He knelt down and touched one. But once he
did that, it along with the rest of the grass crumbled like ash and fell to the ground.
Ezra stood up again and saw that everything now looked like a wasteland. It was as dead looking as the path. What did this mean? What did any of this mean?! Ezra had no time to think more because all of a sudden, something else happened. The ground began
to shake violently.
Ezra felt a sudden disturbance in the Force. Something dark and sinister was coming. He could feel it. It wasn't the Dark Side. It was something...much worse. What was it? Whatever it was, it made his stomach ache and form goosebumps across his body.
However, once the earthquake ended, that's when Ezra finally caught sight of something in the distance. He couldn't really make out what it was, but there was some sort of strange light. A light that was...moving? Ezra thought he could see the light
moving from one direction to another, as if it were some gigantic eye searching for something.
What was it?
Ezra wanted to walk on to see what the thing was, but suddenly he jumped back. He found himself no longer standing on the path. He was standing on a small circle of land and everything else around it was nothing more than a dark abyss that seemed to go
down for miles and miles.
Ezra turned even more pale when he saw the light start to come towardshim! He didn't want it to. There was some feeling within him that wanted this light to go away. But how could he make it disappear if he was trapped?! Ezra reached for
his lightsaber and pressed the button to activate it. But to his horror, he found that the blade wouldn't activate. He was defenseless!
"No no no no no!" Ezra shouted in both aggravation and fear.
His head shot back up to the light. It was almost towards him, and he got a clearer view of what it was. To Ezra's shock, he realized that the light had moved like an eye because it was an eye! It was lidless and surrounded by flame. Just the pure sight
of it made Ezra want to bury himself.
A loud and terrifying noise filled his ears and he tried his best to cover them, but it was no use. Ezra didn't realize that he was screaming considering just how loud the noise was. The great eye then seemed to pull back for some reason. At first, Ezra
thought that it was moving away, but he realized too late that he was wrong.
Without warning, the eye launched itself at him and engulfed him in a hot and burning flame!
Hey everybody, I hope you enjoyed the prologue of this Star Wars Rebels/Lord of the Rings crossover. This is my first story, and I hope that you enjoy it. Special thanks to the writers of Pirates of the Ring, Once Upon a Ring, and the Arda Campaign. Their stories inspired me to write this. :)