Star Wars: Clashing Forces

Chapter 2

See chapter 1 for Disclaimer.

Zaria slipped off the top bunk in Sabine's room. Now, her room as well. Zaria pulled on her boots and headdress. Silent as a shadow crept down to the galley. Hera and Kanan were already up drinking some caf.

Hera startled where Kanan greeted Zaria.

"Good morning Zaria."

Zaria nodded at him.

"I need to go pack up my things and get my Droid."

"You can take the hover bike." Hera offers.

"No, it's okay, I can jog there." Zaria grabbed a brightly colored fruit and bit into it.

"I wanted to let you know where I would be going today."

"Thanks for informing us, com us when you are done." Kanan synced her com to his.

"Might take awhile I have to sort through what I can take and what I have to keep behind." Zaria sighed.

Hera chuckled.

"Never easy."

"I will manage, just have to categorise the right things." Zaria waved a hand goodbye and left the Galley.

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Zaria had one hover box full of her clothes, another full of weapons, and a third of her nicknacks, family heirlooms and ancient artifacts she had collected over the years.

"I am most disappointed to leave the temple, master." TZ-34's voice had a depressed lilt to it.

"It has been my home for ten thousand years."

"We can come back and visit some time TZ-34." Zaria was nostalgic herself.

"I think you will get along with Chopper. And you already know Ezra."

TZ-34 passed air through the vents to pass as a sigh.

"I suppose master."

Zaria was sad to lose the rest of her things but she could fit them in her boxes and so she had to leave them behind.

She had the most important things to her, and that was what mattered.

"Master, my sensors are picking up life forms at the entrance to the temple." TZ-34 perked up.

Zaria reached out with her senses.

"It's fine TZ-34, it's only Kanan and Ezra." Zaria and TZ-34 pushed the boxes to the entrance and Zaria sat down to meditate. This should be interesting. Ezra had never seen where she lived.

But what would the old jedi testing grounds make Ezra see? Zaria own first experience in the temple had been intense.

Zaria snickered.

Ezra would succeed, she knew it.

'So, sure are you?' The withered old voice asks in her head.

'I have faith in Ezra and his Jedi Master. They work well together.' Zaria answered.

'Wild this youngling is.' Yoda argued.

'You jedi are so rigid, this is why you fell. The stick that cannot bend, breaks.' Zaria could feel the old jedi master's sadness.

'Right perhaps you are, see if the faith have you in this youngling is right.' Yoda curiousness about Ezra peaked.

'Yeah, he's just about figured out how to open the entrance. Now, is not the time for one of our interesting debates about the force. I enjoy them though.' Zaria thought fondly to the old master.

'As do I, not so terrible for a sith you are.' Yoda's voice was warm, it hadn't always been that way. The first time they had Yoda had sensed her he had attacked her mentally.

'Same to you, Jedi.' Zaria grinned as Ezra opened the entrance. Prank time, it was too perfect to pass up. Zaria dampened her force signature and hid by one of the old corpses.

The temple shifted.

Ezra and Kanan entered the temple. Ezra looked around and started at the bodies.

"Argh!" Ezra yelped.

"Kanan what's with all the dead bodies?"

Kanan crossed his arms.

"They are masters waiting for their Padawans. Padawans who must have failed. Hey don't do it Ezra!" Kanan scolded as Ezra tried to touch a skeleton.

Zaria seized her chance. Using the force to echo her voice. She whispered.

"Ezra."

"Did you hear something?" Ezra shivered.

Kanan frowned and shook his head.

"No."

"Ezra." Zaria whispered again in her spooky voice..

Kanan narrowed his eyes at her.

Zaria jumped up and tackled Ezra.

Ezra screamed rather high pitched and loudly.

Zaria howled with laughter.

Ezra blinked and glared at her.

"Zaria?!"

Kanan glared at her.

"Zaria, what are you doing here?" Kanan seemed offended that she had been able to find the temple.

Ezra grumbled under his breath.

"This is your home isn't? The one you never let me see."

Zaria nodded.

Kanan gaped at her.

"Wait, you live here?"

Zaria nodded.

"Yep, found it ages ago. The only place that would mask my force use on Lothal. I trained here then I decided to live here because I was sick of commuting back and forth."

Kanan looked flabbergasted.

"Only you Zaria, would live in a creepy old temple." Ezra rolled his eyes. Kanan then took notice of her three big boxes.

"Packed your things?"

Ezra looked around the entrance hall in wonder.

"Yes, I did. I also have my other speeder bike. I was going to ride back on, but after Ezra passes his test I think I will catch a ride back with you guys." Zaria chuckled.

"You think I'll pass?" Ezra asks in a small voice.

"I know you will. It's hard but you can do it. I almost failed when I first came. But you're older and you have a teacher waiting for you." Zaria ruffled Ezra's hair.

"You will make a great jedi." TZ-34 walked up to them.

"Thanks TZ-34, I have faith I will succeed. Faith you guys will keep me on track." Ezra walked a short distance. Stopping when Zaria and Kanan were not following.

"Aren't you coming?" Ezra asks nervously.

"They cannot, Master Ezra. This journey must be taken alone in order for you to succeed. This is how it has been done for since the start of the jedi order. Some paths you must walk alone." TZ-34 answered Ezra's question. Kanan stared at the old updated temple droid with a far away look. Remembering the Coruscant temple droids.

"But what about you?" Ezra looks at Kanan.

"We will wait here for you to return. With the other masters." Kanan nodded at the skeletons.

Ezra looked panicked.

"You putting life in my hands?"

"You put yours in mine. I am just returning the favor." Kanan sits down on the floor in a meditation position.

Ezra swallowed and walked into the hallway to be tested.

"Good luck." Kanan whispers.

The door closed as Ezra craned his head to look back at Kanan.

"What am I looking for?"

"Nothing and everything." Kanan bends down to look at Ezra through the closing doors.

"That doesn't help." Ezra frowned.

"I know." Kanan gave ghost of a smile.

The door closed.

"But that's what my master told me." Kanan says wistfully.

Zaria put a hand on his shoulder.

Kanan turned to look at her.

"A sith pureblood living in an ancient jedi temple. Life is getting surreal lately."

"My mother was a jedi, so it's not so strange ." Zaria countered.

"How old were you when you first found the temple?" Kanan asked.

"Nine, I felt the force guiding me to the temple. And I saw my fears and conquered them." Zaria sat down.

"What did you see?" Kanan was curious.

"I saw myself out of balance, consumed by my light and my dark sides. My parents being killed over and over in front of my eyes. Darth Vader coming to kill me. The emperor experimenting on me. The ancient Sith purebloods ashamed of me." Zaria answered.

Her words did little to distract Kanan. He paced nervously.

"Don't you trust Ezra? Why are you so worried?" Zaria demands.

"Ezra is a good student."

"I know he is." Kanan sits down suddenly.

"Right." Zaria trained her eyes on him.

"Jedi masters are supposed to be patient. Master Ezra will fine." TZ-34 says huffily.

"Ezra is a great student, a quick learner." Kanan says.

"I'm lucky to have him as my student."

"But I sense worry and doubt from you." Zaria looks at him.

Kanan paced again.

"I'm not worried Ezra can't do it."

"Then, why?" Zaria asks.

"I-I..." Kanan floundered for words.

"I'm worried my teachings will fail him. I have no idea what I am doing. I haven't been a real jedi since order 66. Ezra has none of the core jedi teachings. He's too old."

Zaria frowned.

"The old way of doing things is gone. Ezra's talent would have been wasted in the old jedi order. Ezra needs his emotions. They help him connect to others. There's a reason the Jedi were forgotten so fast after the fall. They locked themselves away in their ivory temple. How could the common people ever connect with the jedi?"

Zaria lectured.

"Ezra needs the basics of the jedi but not all of archaic foolish rules. And so do you. Try something with me." Zaria patted the dusty ground next to her.

Kanan sat down reluctantly next to her.

"Now, acknowledge what you are feeling." Zaria orders.

Kanan shot her a look.

"Just do it, tell me what you are feeling." Zaria snapped her fingers.

Kanan sighed but closed his eyes and then spoke.

"I feel nervous... Fear for Ezra... Disappointment in myself... Fear I can't teach... Shame."

Zaria took a breathe.

"Now, accept theses feelings, they are there. Ignoring them isn't helping and it's not going to make them go away. You know know why you are feeling them. Fear because you think you can't teach Ezra because you didn't finish your training. But haven't you noticed teaching Ezra is teaching you?" Zaria continued.

"My mother was in your situation. She said when she became my teacher it helped her finish her training. As a wise Jedi once said good a bond is if both teacher and student from each other learn."

Kanan looked at Zaria.

"You said something to the Inquisitor when he asked if you were sith."

Zaria repeated the first part of what she said in her father's native language.

"Nu sua nenx tsis ax jidai." *

"What does it mean?" Kanan asks.

"I am not a sith or a jedi. I am a Sith Je'daii. To be specific." Zaria answered.

"A Sith Je'daii?"

Kanan looked confused and glanced at the door again.

"He's taking a long time."

'Patience. Remember you nothing of your own training?' Yoda's voice entered Kanan's head.

"Master Yoda? It can't be I'm losing it." Kanan jumped up.

'Losing? Lost yes. But what loss, hmm? The question that is.' Yoda's voice says wisely.

"Master? How- how can this be?" Kanan asks in wonder.

'Be not concerned with how. Know I am here because you are here.' Yoda's words lift something from Kanan.

'Wise words Zaria has for you. Masters learn from their students.'

"Thank you master." Kanan knelt on the ground.

'Thank me? Nothing I have done. Hmm. See you, I can. Before, I could not. Changed you have been. Much to teach, much to learn. Master? Of this decision, honest you must be.' Yoda's old voice is serious.

"I am Ezra's master. He is my Padawan." Kanan states.

'A dangerous time this is for your apprentice, for you.' Yoda warns.

"I know, I can sense it." Kanan agrees.

"I feel as though his abilities are growing faster than I can teach him."

'You sense, or you fear?' Yoda asks.

"I lost my way for a long time, but now I can change things." Kanan confesses.

"I will not let him lose his way not like I did. I have been lost for so long, ignoring what I am. This is a chance to help Ezra and I both find our way back to the force."

'Hmm. Last chance.' Yoda says.

'Always with the one chance. You jedi are too rigid with everything as I have debating with you many times before. Master Yoda.' Zaria breaks in.

'Kanan needs to teach Ezra differently from the traditional Jedi teachers. I know you sense it. Things have changed, Jedi must evolve if they want to survive.'

'Sense this I did. Perhaps right you are.' Yoda sighed.

"How do you know Master Yoda?" Kanan asked dumbfounded at Zaria.

"Oh he contacted me, it was a while ago. We have philosophical debates from time to time." Zaria shrugged nonchalant

Kanan gaped.

"Surreal, surreal." He muttered.

'Strong faith and feelings for ezra bridger, you have.' Yoda directed to Zaria.

'I believe in Ezra. He will be a great jedi, I have foreseen it.' Zaria tells him.

'Not train him yourself? Sense your desire to train him I do.' Yoda asks slyly.

'Ezra's teacher is Kanan. I accept this. But that doesn't mean I have to stop helping him. Now, quit chatting and go test Ezra. I know you want to.' Zaria grumpily walks over to her boxes.

'Do that I will.' Yoda's presence leaves the room.

Kanan joined her.

"You and Ezra are close, so why didn't you train him? You want to train him."

"I have trained Ezra in little things, even some force things. He didn't realize what they were. I trained him to steal, use stealth, listen for information, calm his emotions and mind. To always trust his instincts, some fighting skills."

Zaria sighed.

"I want - I wanted to train Ezra in the force, I was going to but when I meditated on the matter. I had a vision, I saw Ezra dressed as a jedi knight. I knew then I was not meant to be his master. I have trained with both sides of the force, and my goal is to be in balance with the two sides. I am naturally inclined towards the dark side and the light. Ezra could not learn my teachings, the Dark side would not be good for him."

Kanan looked thoughtful.

"You said you were a Sith Je'daii? Isn't Je'daii the precursor to the jedi order?"

"A Sith pureblood named Miarta Sek formed a second Je'daii order after the Je'daii civil war which lead to the creation of the two modern factions The jedi order and the sith order."

Kanan interrupted her history lecture.

"Wasn't the Sith order around before that? And a sith pureblood in the Je'daii order? I never heard that."

Zaria scowled.

"The original Je'daii order was created by a group of individuals Miarta Sek being one of them. And by Sith order, I mean the sith pretenders who took on the name after the Sith species mostly died out or mixed in with other races. Or fled into the space wilds far, far beyond the outer rim."

Kanan looked thoughtful.

"I never had time to study too deeply into the old Republic Era of history or prevent hyperspace war era before the rise of the Empire. I mostly studied to fight in the clone wars."

"History is written by the Victor and many stories are lost by censorship. I listened to my father's stories and have done extensive research of my own on that era. It has always been a fascinating time period for me." Zaria answered.

"Perhaps I can tell you and Ezra what I know later. But we should go, Ezra has passed his test."

Kanan jumped up.

Zaria could sense Ezra just beyond the door. His aura was calmer, smoothed out and different. The force was strong with him. Ezra was ready to step up his training in the force and so was Kanan.

The door slid open revealing Ezra a serene smile was on his face. He reverently held his right hand to his chest.

Zaria smiled and nodded at him.

"How do you feel?" Kanan asks tentatively.

Ezra brightens.

"I feel differently but I also feel the same. I feel at peace, and it's like everything has calmed."

"I know what you mean." Kanan chuckled.

"I found this, it's like it was meant for me." Ezra lifted and opened his hand to show the two his glowing cobalt blue crystal.

"I don't believe it." Kanan looked at the crystal in wonder.

"You choose your crystal well Ezra." Zaria sensed the crystal had history behind it.

"What is it? Its good right?" Ezra looked apprehensively at the two.

"Ezra that's a Kyber crystal." Kanan exclaimed excitedly.

"Oh Wow." Ezra lifted the crystal up to his face, then rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"What's a Kyber Crystal?"

"A lightsaber crystal." Kanan shook his head in amazement.

"Kyber crystals are difficult to cut to be made into lightsaber crystals. The Kyber crystals were used long ago to increase connection to the force, magnification of healing abilities, empower, and energize its user. This one has another property." TZ-34 spoke up.

Ezra ran over to him excitedly.

"What is it?"

"This crystal can be imbued with your force signature and be specialized to you. It must be attuned to you. But if the force chose this crystal for you then you must be strong in the force. Mistress Zaria has collected many useful things to build lightsabers with. Why her own lightsabers both have crystals imbued with her force signature." TZ-34 proudly stated.

Ezra grinned.

"I can make a lightsaber with this crystal?" Ezra looked at Kanan for confirmation.

Kanan nodded, happy to see his padawan so excited.

They exited the temple pushing Zaria's hover boxes to the smaller transport ship.

"I got to admit this isn't what I thought what we would find at this temple. A lightsaber is a big step Ezra. But I'm glad to see how much this trip has helped you Ezra." Kanan smiled.

They all watched as the temple entrance slide back into place waiting for others to once again discover its secrets.

"It's weird to see a Jedi Temple hiding in plain sight on Lothal." Ezra stares at the temple.

"Shouldn't we use it? Like a base? Or a training area? Its your home Zaria."

Zaria shook her head.

"Its just a place Ezra, I make my home wherever I go. This wasn't my tie to Lothal, Ezra you were my tie to this planet."

"But it feels stranger to just let it sit here." Ezra frowns.

"It is an old temple made to stand the weathering of time, it will be here long after we have gone. The past jedi needed temples, we don't need them." Kanan entered the transport.

"Let's head back to the ghost."

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Zaria unpacked her things in her new shared room. Sabine had been thoughtful enough to rearrange the room while Zaria had been gone. Zaria was given the bottom bunk.

Sabine's eyes had bugged out when she saw the amount of Zaria's clothes and admired her ancient relics.

"Are you going to miss your place here on Lothal?" Sabine leans against the wall.

"No… well maybe all the space. The Temple was so spacious. But this is new and different for me, it's exciting." Zaria admits.

Sabine nodded and held out her hand.

Zaria took it.

"I think we will become good friends, we have to spar sometime." Sabine smiles.

"I'd like the challenge, I usually spar against TZ-34." Zaria accepts.

A knock at the door caused the two girls to turn.

Ezra opened the door.

"Zaria can you come join me and Kanan for meditation today?"

Zaria nods goodbye at Sabine. She didn't bother to put on her headdress, the crew all knew what she looked like and they weren't about to be found by anyone,

"I will see you later, lead the way Ezra." Sabine nods back.

Ezra led her out of the ship and up on top of it.

Kanan sat with his eyes closed.

Zaria sat down to his side, Ezra sat down in front of them both.

"Ezra, I want you to meditate on your lightsaber. Let the force guide you." Kanan opened his eyes. Ezra obeyed without complaint and closed his eyes.

"Zaria, I want to spar with you. You've probably noticed I am out of practice, I think it would help me improve sparring against someone with more experience."

Zaria was touched that Kanan would ask her to spar That he trusted her not to hurt him.

"I would be honored. I have noticed you rely on form III. I use many forms for lightsaber combat. I learned Forms I, II, and III from my mother. I learned Jar'kai, TràKata, and Sokan from my father."

"I also have studied forms I, II, III, and V. I know Jar'kai, and some Vaapad." Kanan looks embarrassed.

"Vaapad? You are of Mace Windu's padawan line? My mother was of Plo Koon's line. But my mother knew a little of Vaapad because she was good friends with Depa Billaba. Mother said they were in the same youngling group together. They were close." Zaria told her words cautiously she didn't want to stir up bad memories for Kanan.

Kanan sighed.

"I knew your mother, she was the healer my master always took me to. She also taught me many things, my master was saddened by news of her disappearance. If Jedis in the old order could have had sisters. Master Depa and Master Ymira would have been."

Zaria hung on his every word.

"What was my mother like? How was she in the Jedi order? I only knew her after she left it."

Kanan had a far away look in his eye.

"She was one of the best healers, studied with Master Vokara Che after she was knighted. Ymira was also a crete caretaker before the war. She was alway good with younglings. It doesn't surprise me she became a mother. But she knew how to fight, she was a sentinel. Ymira was talented in combat arts, and the force. Ymira always sought knowledge, my Master used to say when I asked so many questions. I had been hanging around Ymira too long."

Kanan lost his smile as other memories crept up on him.

Zaria stopped asking Kanan about his past even though she wished to interrogate him for every piece of information he had on her mother. Zaria could see it was painful for Kanan to dwell too long on his time with the jedi.

"Thank you for sharing those memories of my mother with me. I will com TZ-34 to bring us my practice sabers. Then, we can get started."

TZ-34 had brought them Zaria's practice sabers.

Kanan held one in his hand trying it out. Kanan activated the saber and sunk into a defensive position.

Zaria didn't hold back, Kanan would need to train hard to keep up with the Inquisitor. It was perfect Zaria was excellent at defending and attacking. Kanan sported several burns from Zaria's saber.

"You are skilled, your Sokan, and TràKata are seamless. I have a long way to catch." Kanan grunted as he forced pushed Zaria's swing.

Zaria spun out of the way of Kanan's strike.

"You will remember your lost skills, but it will take time. But I think you can do it."

Kanan was finding his way in the spar, he wasn't at Zaria's level but if they kept training. Kanan could regain his skills.

Hera clapped as she came out of the ship to watch Kanan get disarmed and knocked to the ground by Zaria.

"It's amazing to see you both in action."

Kanan groans.

"Yeah, it felt good to use my forms again. Even if I am getting my butt handed to me."

Zaria snickered.

Kanan put on a serious face.

"Zaria, I need you to help me train Ezra and me."

Zaria blinked.

"Train you?"

"Yes, I never finished my training as a Jedi. My Master died before I could and then I had to stop using the force to hide from the Empire." Kanan looked ashamed to admit it.

Zaria nodded slowly.

"I suspected, I have a holocron my parents gave me before they died to help me continue my training on my own. You will only want my mother's files, I doubt my father's lessons would interest you. I will help with Ezra's training, but I don't want to do too much. I am not his master, but I could help with training. In exchange I would like to learn some Jedi teachings from you."

Kanan looked surprised.

"I'm not sure what I can teach you but it's a deal."

Hera looked amused.

"This will be interesting. Kanan, I have dinner ready."

Ezra jumped down from the ship.

"I know what I have to do. I know what my lightsaber will be."

"Just in time then, dinner is ready to be served." Hera ruffled Ezra's hair.

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Ezra sketched his design of his lightsaber on a notepad. Ezra shielded his paper from prying eyes. He looked over at Zaria, and Kanan. The two were meditating.

Ezra hesitantly spoke up.

"Kanan, Zaria, can I see how you put your lightsabers together?"

Kanan's eyes snapped open, Zaria lazily blinked hers open.

Kanan gave Ezra a searching look.

"You know, you can't just copy ours right?"

Ezra cast Kanan an annoyed look.

"I know that, I already have my design I wanted to see how you both put yours together."

Zaria unhooked her lightsabers from her belt and held them up for Ezra to examine.

Her long black with gold accents curved hilt glinted in the light.

"This is my gold lightsaber, I found my lightsaber crystals for when my mother took me to Dantooine's crystal caves when I was six."

Ezra sat down expectantly to hear the story.

"My mother waited at the entrance of the caves. I spent two days in the caves until I found the gold bondar crystal and my rubat focusing crystal. I fought off Kinraths to get back to my mother. Then, my mother sent me to meditate in the Khoonda plains to in vision my design."

Kanan had sat down next to Ezra listening intently.

"I rushed back to our ship and made it, but I nearly blew myself up in my excitement. It took three weeks to make it. I have made changes to it throughout the years, made a longer hilt, switched the emitter matrix." Zaria closed her eyes and let her lightsaber float as she took it apart with the force. She explained each piece to Ezra, let him hold her crystals.

"What about your short one?" Ezra pointed to her shorter hilt red shoto Lightsaber.

Zaria reassembled her gold lightsaber and set it down to pick up her shoto.

"I made this one with my father." Zaria traced it down the side.

"My red crystal is synthetic, I made it with the force and melting down a jewel and a Qixoni crystal."

Ezra gaped at her.

"You can do that? Make your own crystals?"

"Its a Sith practice, it can be dangerous." Kanan says diplomatically.

"It is dangerous, and scalding because you need to use a special furnace. But I made it by myself. My crystal can take a lot of power and even break others lightsabers. But I haven't ever done that yet. My focus is lens is a Kunda stone." Zaria disabled her shoto.

Kanan looked at her red crystal with a guilty curious look.

"You can pick it up."

Zaria reached behind her to grab a box.

Kanan carefully picked up the red crystal to examine it.

"Its... I haven't ever felt one this color without an overwhelming dark side to it." Kanan rolled the crystal around in his fingers.

"Both of my crystals can channel both sides of the force." Zaria answered as she opened her box.

"Theses are parts, crystals, lens, power cells, power insulators, energy cells, matrixies, emitters I have collected over the years." Zaria offered the box to the two.

"Take whatever you need, both of you."

"Thanks Zaria!" Ezra looked through the box, Kanan hung back.

Ezra picked things out, he put things back and closed his eyes. Ezra picked out the Krayt dragon pearl Zaria had found on Tatooine, a power emitter, and two lens crystals.

Ezra set his new parts out on Kanan's desk.

Kanan hesitated before closing his eyes and doing the same as Ezra.

He could sense he needed to recreate his own lightsaber.

He felt his hands searching, and he found the items he wanted.

Kanan opened his eyes, he had picked out a blue teal Adegan crystal, an Opila crystal, a Phond crystal lens, a blade emitter, and a matrix.

They grew quiet as Kanan pulled out his Lightsaber and closed his eyes. Kanan took apart his lightsaber and placed the new parts into it. Ezra watched in awe as Kanan put his lightsaber back together again and turned on the blade,

Kanan opened his eyes to stare at the new blazing blue teal blade. His saber felt different, lighter, powerful. It was the Lightsaber he had meditated about but never got close enough.

But now here it was in its glory.

"How did you make your first lightsaber?" Ezra's voice is soft.

Kanan turned off his blade and sat back down. He was in a talkative mood.

"My name was Caleb Dume back then, I was eight years old. It was a few months before Master Depa choose me as a padawan. I went to the Ilum caves with Master Yoda and my crete mates.

Saisk, Panek, Parla, Nirvana, and Vegus, we were close." Kanan paused lost in his memories.

"IIum is an ice planet, it's frozen over for its entire rotation. We went into the cave and we had to make it out before the cave entrance froze back over. My friends were all called to different paths." Kanan picked up his blue IIum crystal.

"I found it, this crystal called through the force. I was walking in circles in the pitch black of the cave. Then, I saw it shining brilliantly on the ceiling, I designed my lightsaber on the ship back to the Coruscant Jedi Temple. I was the first one finished and the first to be thrown into the Clone Wars." Kanan fell silent and closed his eyes haunted by his memories.

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"He's been working on that thing for half a month now, what kind of lightsaber could he build with junk around the ship?" Zeb complained as they waited for Ezra to come down to show them his lightsaber.

"He's being mysterious about it." Hera says amused.

Zaria chugged down her glass of water. She and Kanan had been whipping Kanan back into shape.

"He wouldn't let me peek at his drawings for it." Sabine chuckled.

"I am excited to see it." Hera looked up at the latter.

"I am too." Kanan smiles.

TZ-34 made a smug sound.

"Don't be so obnoxious TZ-34, just because Ezra let you see it first." Zaria rolled her eyes.

Chopper beeped impatiently and rammed into TZ-34.

Ezra slid down the latter and grinned as he presented his lightsaber to them.

Ezra held it out to Kanan and Zaria.

Zaria cocked her head at it.

Kanan turned it over in his hands.

"Its isn't like any lightsaber I've seen, it's different but then it fits you."

"It seems to have something hidden on the hilt." Zaria stared at the strange hilt.

"Show us the blade."

Ezra expressed how proud was of his new lightsaber by igniting the blade.

The room was cast by the cobalt glow of the saber.

They all stared at it with awe.

Ezra gave Kanan a cheeky smile.

"Should we go have a spar?"

"Do it!" Zaria yelled excited to see what Ezra could do.

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Kanan and Ezra stood facing each other, their lightsabers lit and humming. Zaria watched the upcoming fight with a hungry look. She couldn't help it, violence always made her blood race.

Kanan defended as Ezra attacked.

It was easy to tell who the more experienced fighter was. But Ezra kept Kanan on his toes.

Ezra rolls out of the way of Kanan's swing and deactivated his lightsaber. He aimed his hilt like you would a blaster, And a pulsing energy bolt shot out of the nose of Ezra's hilt.

Zaria howled with laughter at Kanan's flabbergasted reaction.

"I am so teaching Ezra some TràKata forms. That hidden blaster is pure genius!"

Kanan was knocked to the ground,

He laughed as he got up.

"I think Ezra's Lightsaber will pair well with trick, feint saber form. I think Ezra would do well to learn the basics first though."

Zaria nodded in agreement.

"It's one of a kind Ezra. good job Ezra." Kanan bowed to Ezra.

Ezra bowed back.

"Your lightsaber is different Kanan." Hera observes.

"Yeah it used to be a sapphire color now its bluish teal." Sabine adds.

"Zaria had parts, and I updated my saber." Kanan tells them.

"Well, I have had enough of laser swords today. But nice work kid." Zeb smirked.

"I see my letting you look at my weapon inspired you."

Ezra blushed.

"Its not that big of a deal."

"Quit being modest brat." Zaria flung an arm around Ezra.

"Your lightsaber is impressive and you should be proud."

Ezra hugged Zaria.

Zaria stepped back her eyes narrowed at the sun.

"Oh bantha shit!" She raced back into the ship.

"What's her problem?" Zeb pointed at the dust cloud Zaria left behind.

Ezra snickered.

"Zaria is a space drama junkie, she's missing her favorite drama about this girl who has an arranged marriage to her family's business rival's son. But there's this other rich zabrak guy who like her too." Ezra trailed off at the looks he was getting from the rest of the crew. Ezra looked at the ground.

"Zaria used to make me watch them with her when i was younger." Ezra mumbled.

Zeb couldn't hold back his laughter.

"Red watches those stupid melodramatic soaps?"

Kanan and Hera looked amused.

"Didn't see that one coming." Sabine shook her head with good humor.

"Come on let's get back in the ship." Hera orders.

They all headed back in good spirits.

End Chapter 2

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Sith Translations:

*I am not Sith or Jedi.