A/N: This is a story I wrote a couple of years back (so it isn't that great) which I decided to put up. It'll be a second priority beside my Harry Potter fanfiction (My editor still hasn't edited the first chapter for that one, so I'm going to get someone else to edit it).
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars. The great Lord Lucas does.
Chapter 1: Meet Alessa Varsin
"The myth about the Great Wizard is a very popular one. I'm sure you all know of it. How the lightsider, Skywalker, fell in love with an angel, but then saw nightmares of her death and tried to save her. However, to save his love he had to become a darksider and he loved the Angel so much that he did. Unfortunately, that meant Skywalker was to betray his friends and family and he did. The treachery turned Skywalker into a dark monster and a killing machine." The teacher, Mr Far-Den, stopped talking and looked over at one particular student who seemed to be paying no attention. "Miss Varsin."
The girl's head shot up immediately. Her blue eyes were wide with surprise and completely alert.
"Yes, Mr Far-Den?" Alessa asked.
"Maybe you can tell me what happens next?" Mr Far-Den asked.
Luckily for Alessa Varsin, she had been half listening. She knew it was about the Great Wizard, Skywalker, what had he gotten up to? Not far surely...turning into the monster, right?
"Umm...well," Alessa started, "when Skywalker was turning into the monster, his true love was giving birth to his child and then died because she was heart-broken of what he had become. The child, however, lived and some lightsiders took him away and hid him," Alessa said. She had read about it before.
Mr Far-Den nodded and Alessa guessed that he wanted her to continue.
"Uh...Skywalker became second in command of the galaxy, because his new master was in charge of the galaxy and...yeah. He didn't know about his child, until a battle. His child, who was named Lyte, destroyed a battle station and so the monster Skywalker was asked to find out who had destroyed the 'indestructible' battle station," Alessa paused for a breath, "he found out the boy who had destroyed it was his son and not long after a small self of what he used to be appeared. He wasn't as monstrous as before. His master knew that the boy was powerful and wanted to turn Lyte into a darksider. Skywalker agreed and searched for his son. Once he found him, he brought him forth to his master, but Lyte had secretly been getting training from a lightsider. The monster Skywalker's master found out and then started to kill Lyte with lightning that he formed in the sky. So, the good part still in Skywalker came out and he saved Lyte by having to kill his master. Skywalker turned back into a human. He died not long after because the lightning had hit him when he had killed his master, and his lungs became damaged and he couldn't breathe. So, he died."
"Thank you, Alessa," Mr Far-Den said. "We will be studying this myth..."
Mr Far-Den's voice faded into the background and Alessa put her head down again, wanting to fall asleep. She looked at her chronometer. 1455. Five more minutes and school was out. Alessa watched the minutes tick by, hoping Mr Far-Den wouldn't be asking her to say anything else or ask any questions. 1456...hurry...1457...come on...1458...nearly there...1459...one more minute...1500. The bell rang and everyone stood up immediately.
"Remember to read page 146 to 170 of your myths and legends book." Mr Far-Den reminded everyone.
Lots of people groaned.
"There's not that much writing on each page, guys, it's not that much," the teacher said.
Alessa gathered her things and fled the room; her brown hair flew behind her as she ran quickly. She entered the corridor and went to her locker. Once Alessa had entered in the four numbers to her locker, the door opened with a click. She took out the things she needed, closed her locker and walked quickly to the doors. Alessa went down to the parking lot and got into her yellow, custom built speeder. As she waited for her friend Skess and her younger brother Calon, she decided to take out her book she had to read for her History class.
It was stupid really, the myths and legends. It's not like any of them were real, however some people believe in the great wizards because most myths and legends come from five thousand years ago, rather than two thousand years ago. Alessa never believed they were true. It was stupid, and no one had powers that defy the laws of physics.
As she read the set pages, her friend Skess jumped into the front seat of the Speeder. "Hey," she said, "what are you reading?"
"Myths and Legends book," Alessa replied, putting the book away, "we're learning about the stupid great wizards with magical powers!" Her voice was dripping with sarcasm.
"I for one," Skess said, twirling her shoulder length blonde hair with her finger, "think it's quite interesting."
"Well, you think everything is interesting," Alessa said to her.
"Why did you take history if you don't like it?" Skess asked her.
"It's not that I don't like...and anyway, it's better than Home Economics. Now that is a horrible subject."
Skess rolled her eyes, "whatever you say, hun."
Alessa felt her younger brother, Calon, coming to the speeder. "Calon's coming," She told Skess.
Skess wasn't surprised; she'd been friends long enough with Alessa that she knew that Alessa was a bit strange. Not strange in a bad way, but she seemed to have these strange 'feelings', as Alessa called them. She could tell when people were coming or how they were feeling. Calon had the same 'feelings' apparently.
"Hi!" Calon said as he entered the backseat of the speeder. "How was your day? Today I had mechanics class and I've designed my robot I'm going to make, it's rather simple, but you know, I can manage. Maybe you can help, Alessa!"
Alessa smiled at her brother and reached over and ruffled his hair, "I can't, I have to do my own assignments, but I might have time."
Calon was exceptional at building things; he loved to do it too. He wanted to become a pilot, though. However, Alessa's and Calon's mother doesn't think he'll get anywhere with being a pilot and wants him to be a mechanic, like their father. Alessa started the speeder and they started off to Skess's apartment to drop her off. Calon spotted Alessa's Myths and Legends book in the speeder. "What myth are you learning about?' Calon asked his sister.
"The Great Wizards," Alessa replied in an emotionless tone.
"Awesome! Wouldn't it be cool if they really existed? Some people in the galaxy might actually have super powers and-"
"Don't be thick," Alessa interrupted him, "It's just a stupid story that was told a couple of thousand years ago and some people thought it was real."
Calon opened his mouth about to say something, but decided against it and fell silent. Instead he resided to looking out of the speeder window to watch the world rush by.
The rest of the trip was silent. Alessa pulled into the front of Skess' apartment.
Skess hopped out, but before she walked over to her apartment she whispered, "you coming tonight to..." she trailed off, she glanced at Calon hoping he hadn't heard her.
Skess was talking about the races they go to nearly every night. Alessa nodded her head, "yeah," she whispered back, "definitely."
Skess nodded, "Then I'll see you then," she said and entered her apartment building. Calon jumped to the front seat of the speeder.
"Can I drive?' he asked.
"Nice try," Alessa said. Calon was always asking to drive the speeder, but he didn't have his licence yet, so it wouldn't be a good idea.
After ten minutes, they finally got home. They were just outside the border of the city, living in a more suburban area. Thus, unlike Skess who lived in an apartment, the Varsin's lived in a house. Alessa parked the car inside the garage and they took their bags, and went inside the house.
"Greeting Master Calon and Mistress Alessa," Betty, the droid, said to them.
Betty was what they called her, but her number was B3TY. Betty looked nearly human, apart from the incredibly fake looking hair and red, droid like eyes.
"Hey Betty," Alessa and Calon said simultaneously.
Alessa decided to go straight up to her room, rather than have dinner. She wasn't that hungry at the moment. She went upstairs and put her bag on her bed. She then pulled out all of her datapads before throwing her bag into the corner of her small, dark room. The walls in Aleesa's room were black and metallic which she believed quite matched the grey carpet of the floor. Her room was quite empty having only a bed, wardrobe and a computer sitting atop a wooden table. Next to her bed was a small window, which she tended to open only when she snuck out.
Alessa took out her datapad which she had half of her Science Essay written on it. She had searched up that a normal human reaction time was between .15 to .30 seconds, which made Alessa really worried. They had to test their reaction time for homework once, and Alessa got .12 seconds. She tried it again, the next time with .1 seconds. She decided to say she got .15, and left it at that. She never mentioned to anyone her real time.
Alessa finished her science essay and as soon as she put the datapad down, her father knocked on the door (she knew it was her father from her 'feelings'). Alessa finished her science essay and placed her datapad down in relief. Only a moment later she heard her father knock on the door. Without even realising it, her 'feelings' had picked up who was at the door.
"Come in, dad," she said.
Her father, Taylon, entered the room. Alessa's father was nearly two metres tall, which made Alessa question where she had inherited her incredible shortness from. To add to their differences, Alessa's father had hair that was a few shades lighter than her own brown hair, and his brown eyes were peering at her with concern.
"Aren't you hungry?" He asked.
Alessa shrugged, "not really."
"You need to eat something."
"Why?"
"Or I'll make dinner tomorrow," he replied, and then grinned a boyish grin.
Alessa looked at him in horror, "no!"
"Oh yes. So, come down stairs and have some dinner or your mother and I will start to think that you have anorexia."
Alessa rolled her eyes, but stood up anyway and followed her father downstairs.
"How was school?" he asked.
Alessa shrugged again, "fine, kind of boring. We're learning about the great wizards in history."
Her father laughed, "You know my great, great, great grandfather claimed that we were related to the Skywalker's."
Alessa looked at her father in disbelief, "it isn't real."
He shrugged, "Yeah, I guess it isn't. But he went on about an Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker and what not."
"That does sound fascinating," Alessa admitted.
"Oh it was. He also went on about Jedi and Sith apparently."
"Jedi and Sith?" Alessa asked, confused.
"Lightsiders and Darksiders. I forget which ones which," Her father replied.
They reached downstairs and Alessa got a plate and put some food on it. "Happy?" she asked her father.
"Not until you eat it," he replied.
"I'll eat it upstairs," Alessa said and then felt her father's doubt. "I promise," she added. He felt slightly happier.
Alessa walked back upstairs and into her room.
She scoffed the food down and continued writing her science report, which she finished in half an hour.
Betty came up to the room to collect her plate as she started reading her book for History. Most of the pages consisted of pictures, which Alessa occasionally drew stuff all over when she got bored of reading. Once she did finish the pages she looked at her chronometer which said 1800. Alessa became annoyed. Did time have to go so slowly?
She sat in silence, doing nothing, and daydreaming for about half an hour, when suddenly she saw a blue glow to her right, she looked over, but nothing was there. This made Alessa confused. Maybe it was the light from her chronometer, but that was red. There was nothing blue in the room. She then concluded that her eyes were playing tricks on her and decided to go downstairs to see if Calon needed help.
"Need help?" Alessa asked Calon, who she found in the garage, building his robot.
"Can you get me the hyrdospanner?" he asked, not looking up from what looked like the leg of the robot.
"Sure," Alessa replied and searched around the garage. She looked around for a couple of minutes and finally found it behind a box on the shelf.
"Thanks," Calon said when she passed it to him.
Alessa ruffled his black hair and was about to exit the garage, when suddenly her mum drove in and parked. "Hey mum!" Alessa and Calon said.
"Hello," their mum said and got out of the speeder. She took her long black hair out of the tight bun and took of the sunglasses she was wearing, revealing her dark eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Their mother asked Calon and Calon went on to explain about his robot. Alessa exited the garage, not needing to hear about the subject for the hundredth time.
She went to her room and wondered if she should do any of her other homework. However, she decided to turn on her computer and go onto one of the chat sites instead.
Now she only had to wait till it was 2300 to sneak out.
