"So, it's not that you'll even get this or anything Master K'alin, but if you do, I'd like to share with you some things. I'm stuck. On this ship, half way across the universe, where I don't exactly know, but I'm alive. For now, and Kohl is safe too…. Even if you do get this Master, I refuse to help you in the attack of The Clone Wars. There is a far greater threat here. A rebellion, of the Scarrans."
Chapter One: Fifteen Minute Warning
Axlyn Crichton, a young Jedi Padawan bowed at the waist to the council of Jedi Masters surrounding her. Axlyn's master, Ryly Ozhan had been killed by a rouge clone a week before. Axlyn had yet to be assigned another master, and honestly she didn't want another master. She didn't want him replaced by someone else. She wanted her master, not anyone else. That is why she was brought to the council she thought.
"Padawan Crichton do you know why we brought you here today?" Master Windu asked. His fingers tapped on his knee with every word he spoke. "I believe I am to be reassigned another Jedi Master." Axlyn responded trying her best to keep her eyes level. But in a room where all eyes are on you it is extremely hard to be yourself.
"Not quite." Axlyn looked back up at Master Windu whose stern face could make a grown master Jedi cower away in fear. "I – um. I'm not exactly sure what you mean Master Windu…?" Axlyn muttered. "The council has decided to send you on your first mission alone Axlyn." Master Kenobi spoke up, a small but quite proud grin spread across his face.
"Alone, Master Kenobi?" Yoda chuckled, "Alone? No, a young Padawan will come with you." Axlyn swallowed hard. A mix of confusion and perhaps a bit of anxiety twisted in her gut. "I am confused masters…" she said trying to make her voice heard to the council. Kit Fisto sat up slightly, "We have decided to send you on a minor mission with the Padawan Kohl Oryan with you." Axlyn wanted to ask why but she just nodded in acknowledgment. With that the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker had stood up from the seat beside Master Kenobi and looked to Yoda.
"To the Padawan's quarters you will take Padawan Crichton, Knight Skywalker." Yoda said. Anakin clearly looked upset about it but nodded and turned to Axlyn.
"If – if you don't mind me asking, why exactly am I being sent on a mission with another Padawan?" Axlyn asked, looking up at Anakin. Surprisingly he wasn't much taller than she was, maybe three or four inches at the most. Anakin at first didn't reply, but after another Jedi had passed by the two, leaving them alone in the hall he stopped in his tracks. "They believe that if you are successful on your mission you'll be granted knighthood." Axlyn's heart skipped a beat, "What?"
"You'll become a Jedi Knight; this kid may just be your new Padawan. Don't act surprised, people have been granted much younger than you but I will say that you are on the young side." Anakin continued, a spark of irritation in his voice.
Axlyn, who would be nineteen in the near week new of the other Jedi in the past that had been knighted far younger than she; Anakin himself became a knight when he was twenty.
"Oh…" Axlyn muttered. She couldn't help but be slightly excited about the thought about becoming a Jedi knight, but she wasn't also entirely confident in her self that she could be one, or even train a Padawan for that matter. "Mm. Don't be nervous," Anakin said clamping his mechanical hand over Axlyn's shoulder, "At least you get a warning. I got a ten minute warning, you get fifteen." That made her laugh. She nodded, "Ok, ok, so I win."