So Starlings Learn to Fly

by ArtistsChild93

After tragedy strikes young Ivy Starling, she is forced to flee to the planet Dantooine. There she meets sisters Poy and Alema Bondara and the tough but influential former Jedi Asoka Tano. One year later, she rescues the Rebellion's golden boy as stormtroopers try to cart him away. Now Ivy finds herself swept up into the Galactic Civil War. Luke/OC. Currently being remodeled.

1. As The Starling Takes her First Flight

I remember the day I left home. Vividly, forever seared into the back of my mind.

My name is Ivy Starling and at one time I had a family. A year ago the Empire invaded my home planet, known as Earth. Forever changing my life and billions of others.

I won't go into details, but I escaped, barely on a ship I didn't even know how to fly. And ended up here, on the planet Dantooine. A day's journey from my home planet, the outer rim of all outer rims.

I lived in small apartment there with a pair of Twi'lek sisters, named Alema and Poy Bondara upstairs, and a Togruta woman named Asoka Tano, of whom we called "Auntie Soka."

She's was teacher, our confidant, and most importantly, like a second mother to the three of us. And taught me the ways of the Force for that first difficult year after I left home.

My trouble, however all started with a trip to the market on a deceptively normal day. Fifteen year old Poy was arguing with her older sister once again as she tried to walk out the door in traditional twilek garb, and Auntie Soka was making breakfast for us in the pre-dawn kitchen, our apartment having an electricity limit which we conserved as soon as there was enough light to see by.

"Morning Auntie." I greeted.

She smiled at me and yawned, "Good morning. Where are you off to?"

"Market, we're almost out of fruit bars." I answered, "I hope Poy decides to change her clothes soon, she's going to be late for school…again."

Asoka rolled her eyes, "I swear, if she is late for school again…I might just have to pound her sorry teenage behind!" I laughed, "You better get going, Ivy if you wanna be back before sunrise, I don't want you running into any trouble."

"Auntie," I said at the door, "I don't run into trouble, I am trouble." How right I was.

This is a new series I'm starting. Don't worry, Episode VIII is not on hiatus I will still be continuing it along with occasionally updating this. This is an alternative to Ivy Starling's New Hope, but made to be a little more accurate to Star Wars the Clone Wars. Since Asoka Tano left the Jedi order, and I'm assuming survived Order 66 because of it, I got to wondering where she would be after all those years. Also if you haven't noticed, I have started re-editing this to make it better, I will be doing that to the whole story to make it better.