Chapter 2: A New Mission

Everyone woke up late the next morning. Ahsoka was the first. Moving silently as not to wake anyone, she pulled on her daily clothing and went outside, walking through the forest to her special spot. It was where she meditated almost every morning, and not for no reason.

This was where Lexa's ashes were.

Her Padawan had died about five months ago now, saving Lux's life by throwing herself in front of the shot. Ahsoka had moved on by now, though she still mourned the girl. Lexa would have wanted her to be happy. That's why she had made the ultimate sacrifice.

Ahsoka sat cross legged on the soft grass of the spring forest and loses her eyes. She listened to the birds while clearing her mind, relaxing her entire body. And Ahsoka lost herself, completely immersed in the force.

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Lux awoke and peeked into Ahsoka's room, unsurprised to find she wasn't there. She usually went off on her own to meditate in the morning. Nobody knew where. It didn't matter. She'd be back in an hour or two.

He went downstairs and grabbed some breakfast, looking out at the planet, deep in thought. Lux was mostly thinking about his new wife. She was beautiful, and they were so in love, but he couldn't shake the feeling that something was going to go wrong, that they might be ripped apart.

He shook his head, clearing that thought. He was just gonna worry himself over nothing. Plus, nothing could keep them apart. They belonged together. Everything would work out in the end.

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Ahsoka stood up and stretched before heading back through the trees to the Temple. She had been there for hours already, and besides, she had promised to help Maia with her lightsaber. The smallest of them, she had recently come across a kaiburr crystal and needed help to make it work. The little girl had no idea what to do, and Ahsoka had been helping her find materials for a few weeks.

When she got back, everyone was already up. Life moved at a slow pace, this far from civilization, but the Jedi attempted to keep training for the same amounts of time they did at their old Temple, tried to keep their routines. And mostly, they did, unless they went on a mission or something that had to interfere.

Of them all, the only ones who had left the planet in the last few months were Ahsoka and Lux. No one else had any reason to.

As they moved about their daily activities, such as training, Ahsoka had to wonder how long they'd go on like this. It was as if they were stuck in a rut, and things wouldn't be changing anytime soon. She could see it in their eyes; they were restless, all of them. They needed something to do, a mission to go on.

Finding she had nothing else to do, Ahsoka found herself once again searching for Jedi sightings. But, whoever was still out there, they were hiding themselves well. No one had reported anything since she last looked.

She exhaled in frustration. How were they to find the other Jedi? They obviously didn't want to be found, and Ahsoka couldn't blame them; the empire was intimidating. Yet this was making their job much more difficult. Was there even any point to it if they couldn't find more Jedi?

Ahsoka looked up and watched Rilani and Miranda teaching the younglings how to use lightsabers. Katooni and Zatt were dueling using training lightsabers they had found/stolen while Petro and Ganodi cheered them on. Yes, she decided, it was worth it. It was just hard.

She refreshed the results and nearly stopped breathing as something came up. A Jedi Master by the name of Fy-Tor-Ana was spotted by imperial troops and had escaped. She was said to be on the planet Rydonni Prime, one of the core worlds.

Ahsoka felt a smile flit across her face. It was time to go find a Jedi Master.

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In the end, only a few of them went. Rilani wanted to stay behind, and, of course, the younglings didn't all have lightsabers. Zatt and Ganodi also stayed behind. So it was only Ahsoka, Miranda, Lux, Katooni and Petro in the end.

They knew it would be no simple task, but they didn't think it would be THAT hard. But when a sweep of the area she had been spotted in proved useless, they had to face the fact that she might be on a different system by now, lightyears away.

Hey, so, sorry about not updating! I feel really bad! I mean, you guys are such good readers, reviewing all the time, and I should have posted this a week ago! Oh, well, I guess that's life. Oh yeah, I figured out I need a disclaimer, so here goes;

I do not own Star Wars: The Clone Wars. If I did, I would be a multi-millionaire and Lux and Ahsoka would have kissed more than once in the Onderon series. Steela wouldn't have even existed in that sense!

Anyways, review please!

-GraceForever