To make a little bit more of an impression, I'm posting the second chapter of the series today. Chapter 2: First Challenges

Chapter 2: First Challenges

Standing in front of me was a large, ferocious, and deadly Nexu. Its teeth were bared and it looked like it could pounce at any time. I was very scared at this because I knew that if that thing's claws got me…well to put it nicely…I'd be ripped to shreds.

I stood up and nervously smiled and tried something, "Uh…down boy…Oh, Jeez!"

The Nexu charged immediately after and I ignited my saber, jumping out of the way. Ahsoka barely dodged his claws and she jumped next to me, pulling out her main green lightsaber.

"Well do you have a plan?!" Ahsoka asked/shouted at me.

"Nope, you?"

"No."

"I got it!"

"What?"

"Run!" I shouted nervously and ran the other direction while the Nexu was turned the other direction.

"Hey wait up!" She shouted speeding after me. Meanwhile the Nexu wasn't too thrilled that we were leaving, and of course, it started to chase us. The thing was really, really fast and I knew that it was only a matter of time before it was on top of us. Then we would die…

I stopped and Ahsoka stopped a few feet ahead of me, "Come on!"

"I got another idea." I smiled and reached out my hands, grabbing the ceiling with the Force, and pulled it down, right on top of the creature. Its guts splattered around me and it let out a sickening squishing sound. I swear I almost threw up, never had I seen something like that before.

"Uh…T-That was an idea." Ahsoka stuttered behind me.

"Let's go, Kenobi and Skywalker are going to want a report soon and we don't want them thinking that we were goofing off now do we?"

"No."

We nodded towards each other and soon we came to another hanger, it was smaller but it had more ships in it. I smiled as I saw a LAAT gunship on the east side. It got me wondering, what was a Republic Gunship doing in a Droid Cruiser? But that could be solved later.

"Ahsoka." I whispered.

She seemed to not hear.

I tapped her lekku and she turned immediately towards me with a stunned expression.

I felt like I did something wrong, "Ummm…what?"

"You touched my lekku." She rubbed her lekku almost shyly.

"Sorry, I called for you but you didn't answer so I touched your lekku to get your attention." I explained, "There is a gunship over there, call Obi Wan, while I go scope it out." I turned to leave but she grabbed my arm.

"You're not going out there alone." She said firmly, with a hand on her smaller saber.

"Call the General, I'll go out there, I'll be fine…No need to worry about me, Ahsoka." I teased, brushing my hand against the tip of her other lekku.

She immediately let go and I jumped behind a barrel, accidentally making a creaking noise.

"Did you hear that?" One droid asked. Their voices are so annoying!

"No, why?" Another responded.

"It sounded like someone was over there."

"Eh, it's probably nothing; get back to your post, Sergeant."

"Roger, roger."

"Thank God, they stopped." I whispered and then found myself being looked at by two droids.

"Look a Jedi!"

I didn't let them continue. With a swift strike, I sliced their heads off and pulled them behind the barrels before anybody saw.

I peeked through a crack in one of the barrels and saw that there were only four droids out there.

With the Force, I grabbed all four droids and threw them into a ship and then made the ship crush them. All too easy!

"Ahsoka!" I yelled for and she immerged from the shadows with two dead droids and a few more by her feet.

"Aw man, I told you I was going to do that."

"Well I thought you could use some help, Blaze." She smirked and I gave a questioning look. Blaze? What the heck was Blaze? More importantly, who was Blaze?

"Who's Blaze?" I asked, deactivating my blade and hooking it to my belt loop. Don't know why I wore a belt with these cargo shorts but I'm glad I did.

"You, I thought since you take stuff fast and do stuff hard then I thought I'd call you Blaze." She smiled and walked past me.

"Did you call Obi Wan?"

"Yeah."

"Good."

The doors that we previously walked through were opened and out came the Jedi Master and his former student.

"Let's get off this ship before we have anymore…unexpected guests." Kenobi said stoking his beard all of a sudden.

"Master, what is it?" Anakin asked.

"Ventress." He pointed to the Dathomirian woman coming closer out of nowhere. She unhooked her lightsabers and ignited the blood red blades with a double click.

She stopped about two meters away and pointed to me with one of her crimson blades, "Him."

Obi Wan and Anakin ignited their blades and stood in front me. They fell into their respective stances and waited for the next move. I sat there in an uncomfortable silence as we waited. A deep disturbance racked my head and I looked up to see six red eyes looking down at us, to be more specific…at the others rather than me.

"Look out!" I shouted, subconsciously throwing my hands forward and pushing them out of the way as I rolled forward to avoid the impact.

Ventress laughed, "Aw you don't like my pets?"

I took a look at what exactly fell and I was kinda scared.

It was a black lizard creature with some armor across its chest and on its arms. It snarled at us before the three of the creatures drew their blades. Obi Wan and Skywalker were immediately attacked by two of the creatures. They pulled their blades up just in time to block the attacks.

Then I saw one that looked at Ahsoka and I got in front of her, "Bring it, Scales."

"No, you have me on your hands." Ventress spoke from her small silence.

"We'll take her together, Blaze." Ahsoka said and drew both her blades.

"No, Ahsoka," I turned to her, "I'll take Ventress, if she wants to fight me, then so be it."

"But you have no idea how strong she is."

"I do, Ahsoka."

"But-!"

"Focus on the lizard and I'll focus on the Nightsister." I unclipped both my sabers and held them backwards.

I felt the Force flow through my body and it engulfed my chest in light, "Ventress."

I turned on my sabers in a flash and fell into a stance. Ventress didn't bother with theatrics she just charged at me, I ducked the first blow and blocked the second. But she didn't let up, attack after attack she came. I'd never fought a Sith and if she was that strong then I had a long way to go before I could rescue my parents and my brother.

After a minute, I switched saber positions and fought with Djem So style, effectively pushing her back. I swung for her head but she ducked, just as planned. She swung for my legs but I jumped up and kicked her in the face, sending the witch to the ground. She pushed herself up and held up both her blades. Well, the show was right to say that she was persistent.

I locked mine with hers, making sparks fly. She growled and pressed harder but I wasn't about to let her win so I kicked her knee and she fell to the ground again.

She caught me by the chin with the end of her hilt making me stumble a little but I regained my balance in time to deflect her next swing. The red blade hit mine with great speed as I brought my dark blue one up to meet her next one.

I ducked her next attack; with fast reflexes I might add. It was times like this when I thanked myself for working out all summer and going to gymnastics; I gained flexibility and strength. My hand flew forward, Force pushing her a few feet away, throwing her off balance.

Shockingly, Asajj threw her blade at me and I hit it just barely before it took my head. She tried to Force pull it back, but I stepped on it, keeping it where it was. If she thought that I was going to let her regain her fallen blade then she had another thing coming.

"Not this time, Asajj."

She snarled at me and threw a barrel at me with the Force. It hit my stomach hard, knocking the wind out of me, sure it was not as bad as when I fell of the twelve foot waterslide but it still hurt like crazy.

I looked up to see Ventress holding a blade at my neck and my sabers around her belt, "Now you die."

"I don't think so."

I threw my hand forward and she went flying away, dropping my sabers. I called them to my hands and turned back to see Kenobi run the creature through and Anakin cut the head off of another. Ahsoka cut the hilt of the creature but she didn't see his foot. It sunk into her stomach, sending her to the ground.

"No, Ahsoka!"

Her sabers came into the creature's hands and he lifted them high above the air for a final blow.

"Nooo!"

I flung myself and my sabers to her and blocked the attack. The attacker turned to me and bared its fangs. I flinched a little but held on strong.

It broke off from my blue blade and swung at my head, I dodged the yellow blade just in time to run him through the chest with both my blades. He dropped his weapons and fell to the floor, dead.

Ahsoka stared at me wide-eyed at what I had just done.

"I haven't seen something like that since Geonosis, remember Anakin?" Obi Wan asked Skywalker who grimaced in return.

"Yeah I remember."

I shut off my blades and hooked them to my belt, smiling at my work, because fending off Ventress and killing what I think was a Sith assassin wasn't easy…Speaking of Sith…

"Well, what about…" I turned to see that she was gone, "…Ventress."

"How does she do that?" Ahsoka asked as she got back to her feet and called her sabers back to her.

She tapped my shoulder and I turned to face her, "What?"

"Thanks, if it wasn't for you then I'd be one with the Force." She added with a suppressed laugh.

"You're welcome, Ahsoka." I smiled, turning back to the Jedi Master, "The gunship is over there."

We quickly boarded the transport and took off into space. I hung onto the ceiling railings, "So what now?"

"If Anakin can patch us through to the Resolute then we can get out of here, I have a feeling that Ventress was only there to stall." Obi Wan said.

"What gives you that idea, Master Kenobi." Ahsoka asked.

"Well, why else would she bring those abominations? She knew those couldn't kill us so what's her game. Unless it was all her idea and she wanted to see if she could stop us." He replied.

"Heh, we sure saw how that planned out." I snickered followed by Ahsoka.

All of a sudden, a large Republic Cruiser jumped out of hyperspace. I was guessing that that was the Resolute. We quickly docked inside after a few words from the admiral of the ship, which I didn't care about at all.

After we docked, Obi Wan took me to the meditation chamber on the higher levels; my thought was that we were going to see Master Yoda. As we stepped in the elevator, I looked around at all the high tech on the walls and on the computers. They were years past anything in my world, I bet that they were at least forty years ahead.

The elevator stopped with a loud beep and we stepped out. The room around me was pretty plain, except for the waterfall at the end of the room and a small green figure in front of it.

Time to talk to Master Yoda…

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"Until we meet again!" - Blaze Marko