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Chapter 2:

The Force, the sword and the Order

Galactic Republic, Outer Rim Territories, Felucia, 16. 10. 13.

As he was woken up Harry couldn't help but think about what happened yesterday, it was a hectic day to say at least. Ending up in a new world, without a way back, rescuing a woman from the military, and then helping alert her comrades to the coming betrayal. They had also killed a whole battle group of ships, so it was not a normal day even by his standards! What surprised even him even more so was that his magic was acting strange, really strange? Apparating was something he could use to reach the opposite side of Earth and back in an instant (some seconds was spent in a wormhole, but still) and back without problems. A few, hundred kilometers was now a long apparition and that had taken a considerable amount of his magic to achieve. But his other spells had messed up outcomes as well; his blasting, banishing and fire spells seemed to grow in power. While his disillusionment charm only lasted mere hours, something was amiss and he needed to figure it out quickly.

It was a primary concern that; they will need everything at their disposal to survive more than a month after they leave this planet. From what he had heard in the com-room they faced literally the whole galaxy, he highly doubted that this "Sith Lord" Aayla talked about would not hesitate making them a public enemy.

Looking down at the woman in his arms, she seemed so peaceful and serene despite everything that had happened to her yesterday. All of the sudden she started shaking then abruptly sat up gasping for air, Harry wanted to embrace her but she stopped him with a raised hand as she sat on the edge of the bed.

"I'm alright Harry. It was... It was only a bad dream." she murmured barely audibly.

"If you want to talk about it I'm here." Harry replied laying his hand on her shoulder.

She nodded mutely as she grasped his hand. It was more than two minutes before she spoke.

"We should start our day."

"You can have the bathroom first. I will go and make breakfast." Harry offered.

Aayla looked at Harry with confusion "Bathroom is that the same as a refresher?"

"If a refresher is where you go to wash up and relieve yourself then yes and it right through there." Harry pointed to a door on the other side of the room while smiling.

Breakfast was a quit affair, both of them just wanted to enjoy the meal before another tiring day started. After they had finished Harry looked over at Aayla.

"What do you think we should do now?"

"There is an abandoned mining site not that far away from here." she said with a thoughtful expression on her face. "It might be useful for us. If it's in a good enough shape we may use it as a shelter, no offense but I don't particularly feel safe in a tent."

"Well, without the wards it is no better protection than any other tent." agreed Harry reluctantly. "But my wards are better than anything technology could do. Well, what they could do in my world..."

"And perhaps here as well." nodded Aayla "Couldn't we combine the two?"

"It won't be easy, I will have to be extremely precise with my rune work." said Harry with a frown. Seeing Aayla disappointed face he quickly amended. "I will try, but it will take me some time even if it works to figure it all out."

"Thanks." said Aayla. "We should go as soon as possible."

Harry nodded in agreement. They had a lot of work to do, mainly needing to learn the basic knowledge about a whole galaxy. As he sheathed his knife on his belt his gaze traveled to the two guns and the rifle he took from the star-destroyer. When he asked Aayla about it she looked dubiously at him.

"Have you ever used a blaster?"

"Well, I have had a gun before in my hands and shot it." He tried out one gun in Canada on an assignment. He wasn't a marksman, but he was above average which was good enough for him.

"You should leave it here if you don't have much experience with them. I hope there isn't anything that would want to attack us at the site." Aayla reminded him.

"True enough."

As yesterday it was also Aayla today who piloted the speeder. Harry would have loved to sit in the front, but he didn't known the way to their destination. The Jedi was as good as yesterday with the speeder, she seemed to be even better as she focused on piloting it through the forest.

It took nearly an hour to reach the mining site in a valley at about two hundred kilometers from their camp. There were two buildings, opposite to each other. One of them seemed decades old. It was a rusty garage and warehouse combination. The other was the complete contrast of it. It was new if a bit worn out; most of the metal was still glittering as the sunrays hit it. In the background there was the cave in which the mining operated out of with a cliff above it. The entire place seemed deserted, but Harry's sixth sense told him that danger was near.

"This shouldn't be there." said Aayla inspecting a vehicle which looked like a fork-lift that would be built in a hundred or so years on Earth "There wasn't any legal mining operation here in the last decade. That is a T7 loading vehicle, production started only seven or eight years ago. I am pretty sure that it wasn't on this planet longer than a year, It's seems quite new to me."

"Just like this corpse." said Harry pointing at the entrance of the new building? There was the torso of a green skinned humanoid Harry thought that the lack of breast indicated to it being a male but couldn't be sure. It lost one of his arms, his eyes and everything under his stomach. The insects clearly had started to eat it as Harry could see them.

"A rodian." said Aayla as she leaded him into the building "Stay on guard. He died in the last three-four days at the latest. I don't think that whoever or whatever did this is near but..."

"...better safe than sorry." nodded Harry. "Please remind me to tell you about Alastor Moody and his favorite sentence sometime."

"Who was he?" asked Aayla while her eyes roamed the hall. There were several bodies in various states all over the place. Humans, two other rodian's, a twi'lek and two zabrak's as Aayla called the two humans with horns on their head.

"An auror, a law enforcer." replied Harry glancing around the room It was futuristic but not that much more compared to Earth. "One of the best, he caught hundreds of people single handedly. His motto was: "Constant vigilance!" he would say it very loudly and often to recruits."

"He sounds like an interesting person." said Aayla with a half smile "I don't really like it, but we will need to search every room. Should we separate?"

"I don't see why not." shrugged Harry as he cast a spell again "I'm certain that there isn't anyone in our immediately area."

Aayla just shook her head as she started walking to the right. Harry looked after her for a little bit then went to the other side of the building. He wasn't familiar with this world, but it seemed that it was strangely very similar to what was back on Earth. Anything of note was placed in his shoulder bag even if he wasn't sure of its purpose.

It had taken them the better part of the morning to search the building through. At the entrance they went through what was found. There was money, lot of money as Aayla raided the safe, a map of the region and some minor tools like a lighter (which used laser beam instead of fire) and a set of binoculars. What had Harry's attention was a revolver like pistol. There were others but most were in non working condition.

"It will work out better for us with these." said Aayla "We would be pretty flashy walking around with the ones you stole from the ship, and flashy is not what we want."

"Then what should we do with the ones we stole off the ship?" asked Harry.

"Sell them of course." replied Aayla as if it was the most natural thing in the world "Some idiot will want to have military grade weapons to brag about. It won't be hard to find someone in the Outer-rim to sell them to."

"You will have to explain what the Outer-rim means to me later." grinned Harry "But for now we should hurry. I want to leave this place as soon as I can. I found yellowish blood on the walls and floors and it didn't seem come from the corpses."

"It came from the felucians; they are the ones who attacked these illegal miners. Their sacred burial-ground is on the cliff and they won't have it disturbed no matter the cost. That why it become illegal to mine here, but If we leave it alone we should be safe." explained Aayla.

"Should be?" said Harry warily.

They packed up them went to the rusty building; it was as old as Harry thought it would be. There were several vehicles in there some new, some old but most were damaged most likely by the felucians. All the droids were in several scattered pieces, the other side of the hanger there was the miner's spacecraft. It was roughly a hundred meter long, a half drop shape. The underside was open as it was where the cargo went. The GR-75 medium transport's thruster assembly - as Aayla told him was also damaged beyond repair. The only useable things were a few energy cells.

"This was nearly pointless." Aayla grumbled. "The other one was good enough I suppose but this one was just a waste of time."

"Maybe, maybe not." said Harry with a shrug.

"Well, it couldn't be much worse." Was Aayla's sarcastic reply.

"We didn't meet the felucians." said Harry with a smirk as they made their way back to the speeders.

"True." agreed Aayla with a little smile.

As they made their way to the other side of the dig site Harry glanced back and immediately signed to Aayla to stop. She stopped and glanced around

"What happened?" she asked agitated.

"Look back. It maybe just me being paranoid but I'm fairly certain that there was movement back at the mining site." he pointed at the dig site. Aayla looked there with the binoculars and sighed.

"Yeah, the felucians arrived it may be nothing but they could have seen us."

"But you said that they won't attack us." said Harry as he also surveyed it. The felucians were humanoids about the height of a human with dull grey skin that had different markings of red, blue and yellow. Maybe war paints or different pigments, their heads looked to have several tendrils on them. In their arms - was that an extra arm on the elbow? They held pretty primitive weapons. "They don't seem very friendly."

"They aren't vicious, if you don't cross their traditions." said Aayla "They don't really like outsiders though, you see their way is more along the line of: 'Leave us alone and we will leave you alone.'."

"What do they consider disturbing their lives?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You learn it after a time, but it differs from clan to clan. I hope they won't consider our visit here as an offense." Aayla replied with a worried frown. She negotiated with two clans in this campaign alone. At the end they came to an understanding, with one it was fairly simple, the other had taken nearly took a week.

"What should we do? Go back and speak with them or go back to the camp and handle our problems there?"

"I say we go back to the camp. If they come to the camp we can speak just as well there as here. As I said they don't want us disturbing them." said Aayla.

It was after noon when they arrived back at the camp. After having sated their appetites Aayla led Harry to his fighter. There she gave a helmet with a darkened visor.

"It's a simulator helmet; we will see how good you are in a cockpit."

"Do you really think I need it?" Harry asked skeptically "I'm one of the best on my home planet..."

"You said you never piloted spacecraft Harry, and these are the fastest fighters in the Republic. I want to see what you can do before we jump to a conclusion."

"Ok." said Harry in resignation. Aayla just shook her head at him. What he thought she underestimated him?

"Harry, even the best pilots have to train with these "she pointed at the simulator "for three weeks before they go into space with them."

After just five minutes Aayla was speechless, she was observing Harry's progress with a screen connected to the helmet. She had never in all her life seen anyone flying with the ease Harry was showing. He was nearly as good as Skywalker and master Tiin, but both of them had years of experience with fighters. Harry had said he had some experience with Airspeeders but even so this baffled her. After some tests from Aayla, who wanted to know the true extent of Harry's talent, and Harry who wanted to know the limits of the ship, they concluded that they didn't have to work with the ship as much as Aayla thought.

"You have amazing talents and reflexes. I only know a handful of people who can do what you just did." said Aayla with awe in her voice as Harry toke off the simulator helmet "I can't believe this is the first time you flew with this fighter."

"What can I say? I did mention that I am good." said Harry with a roguish grin. Aayla just rolled her eyes seeing it but she had a small smile in the corner of her lips.

"Yeah, you did."

"It's not that different from our fighters." said Harry thoughtfully. "So, when will we leave this planet?"

"I don't think it will be anytime soon." Aayla said it in a strange voice. It seemed almost as if she was frustrated at something.

"Aayla is there something wrong?" enquired Harry.

"No, why?" said Aayla in an even voice. She wasn't bad at hiding or controlling her feelings, but Harry always had a sixth sense about lies and danger.

"If you don't want to talk about it you don't have to, Aayla, but it's obvious to me that you have a problem with something."

"Huh, so you noticed it. I really hoped you wouldn't. It's unbecoming of a Jedi to be ruled by our emotions." said Aayla sitting down next to her fighter.

"I now have a knack for these things, you were tense after we arrived to the mining site." said Harry shrugging his shoulder as he leaned against his fighter. Aayla eyes widened then she stared at the sky a wry smile on her lips.

"So even that... Yes, I wanted to see if I can see the news on the holo-net..."

"To know what happened with the Jedi." realized Harry.

"Yeah, but the felucians had destroyed all of the communicators gear there." said Aayla with a frown.

"Aayla, you did all you could, that woman you notified, Shaak Ti will alert the Order, won't she? So have faith in her." Harry said with a reassuring smile. Aayla agreed with him, but rebuked him for using those words.

"Master Shaak Ti is one of the High Council which led the Order. Please show her the respect she deserves."

"Then you should be assured that she will do all that she can to save the Jedi, and respect is earned not given." remarked Harry, but seeing Aayla's look he quickly amended it "But I will be cordial with her. You obviously respect her and that tells me enough."

"I respect all the council members, but usually don't agree with most of them." said Aayla with a shrug "Master Ti is one of the few I like as well."

"Would you tell me about this Order of yours?" Harry asked with naked curiosity.

"The Jedi Order is old, Harry, If I would tell you everything it would take weeks if not even months. And I don't even know that much about our history!" exclaimed Aayla with a laugh.

"Well, you told me that you are the keepers of the peace, but it can't be that simple." Harry replied with a frown. "Peace after all often clashed with politics and economic interest, ideologies and personal problems were on a different level altogether."

"It's not that simple. That's true. But I always felt that's our creed. Be a healer, a diplomat, a scholar or a warrior, a Jedi works for peace." Aayla said with deep conviction.

"And yet, you were commanders in a war, it's quite a contradiction don't you think?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, but most of us believe that as we defend the Republic we defend the peace as well. The Republic existed for nearly a thousand years in this form, and there was only a handful of galaxy wide conflict in this millennium." Aayla said softly. "But yes, some of us don't think we should participate in the war, at least not as commanders but as diplomats. And some members disagreed with the way the Council lead us long before the war. It's only the most recent reason."

"There were more?" Harry asked not really surprised. There wasn't one organization that large which didn't have some sort of disturbance within it.

"Why can't I hear the surprise in your voice?" Aayla asked back the rhetorical question "Some of us would suggest living a solitary life and spending all of our time meditating and studying the Force. Others don't like the power the government holds over us. There were several clashes within the Order about our teaching as well." Aayla seemed sad at the situation.

"What happened? What was in your teaching that was problematic?" asked Harry with a frown.

"A Jedi must have control of his or her emotions." said Aayla "This doesn't sounds bad, but sometimes it makes us look heartless. What really troubles me is that we can't love. We can't have attachment to anything, be it a person, a creature or even an object. The Council makes exceptions very rarely with those they deem strong enough to not to fall to the Darkside of the Force. I finally understand why: the backslash in the Force... Its must be terrible. Just like... yesterday."

"Can't love? But that's one of the most basic emotion we have. I mean I can't imagine my life without LOVE." exclaimed Harry in shock.

"Yes, but if you can't overcome losing your loved ones..." Aayla just shook her head.

"Wait. You feel the death of others in the... Force?" asked Harry with wide eyes "That's... awful. I can't imagine what it must be like."

"I always thought that most of us would be able to overcome our loss." whispered Aayla with a forlorn expression on her face "I still think that it's true, but I can understand why they fear it."

"I see." said Harry as stood up and marched to Aayla and kneeled so he was eye level with her. As the woman gazed at him with surprise as Harry gently embraced her. "I will help you Aayla. I know what it is like to lose those dear to you. It's all thanks to the people near me, my friends that I could stay sane. At first I tried to do it alone and I nearly went insane. But one of my friends didn't wait for me to come out of my shell. Maybe she was the reason I didn't commit suicide." said Harry remembering Nym after his fifth year. It was hard for him after Sirius' death. He truly didn't know what would have happened if Nym (and later the others) weren't there for him. He did consider suicide a few times after all.

"Truly?" asked Aayla softly with surprise "You... you don't seem like... like someone who would have lost his reason to live."

"It was more than a decade ago." said Harry with a wry smile "I was a teenager and as my friends often said I was a 'moody bastard'."

"So you say that I..." Aayla golden eyes were filled with fear and Harry understood the unfinished question.

"I'm only saying that everybody needs someone to help them sometimes." said Harry "You are far stronger than I was at fifteen. And I will be there for you if you need me."

"Thank you Harry." said Aayla resting her chin on Harry's shoulder.

They stayed like that till Aayla broke the silence. Her lips moved gently and she softly whispered:

"It's weird. I only have only known you for less than a day, but I feel far closer to you them nearly anybody. Maybe Master Vos, Master Tholme and Kit...

"I feel the same." he admitted "It's... There weren't many people who I was that close on my home planet. I don't know it's maybe because we are here for each other for this, I've heard that things like this can forge a deep bond between people.

"I see." said Aayla thoughtfully "Did it happen to you before?" asked she out of blue "Sorry... I don't know what I was thinking...it isn't any of my business." she apologized.

"Its alright." said Harry with a smile sitting down next to her. Aayla snuggled into his side resting her lekku on his shoulder as he wrapped his hand around her shoulder. "Yeah, it happened. As I said at fifteen I lost Sirius, my godfather. He died in front of me in battle which wasn't even supposed to occur in the first place. Nym helped me immensely with my angst over that summer, I felt so close to her and she also had some boyfriend problems. So, I thought why not try it? It was great, but after a while it became apparent that it just wasn't meant to be."

"You mentioned someone. Kit wasn't it?" asked an interested Harry "Who was he?"

"Kit Fisto. He was once my love." said Aayla sadly "We... I don't know. It was platonic at best, then we realized that whatever was between us was no more. For me he changed to be my older brother figure and vice-versa."

"Kit Fisto, Kit Fisto..." Harry repeated the name for a few times, them stared at Aayla in horror "Wait! Shaak Ti didn't say that he was one of those who..."

"...who went to fight Palpatine? Yes." said Aayla in whisper. Under her closed eyes a tear drop rolled down on her cheeks.

"I'm so sorry Aayla." said Harry sadly as he gently whipped the tear away.

"It's alright. I...I know that he wouldn't want me to be like this. He made me promise soon after the Battle of Geonosis. But I can't, I just can't move on." said Aayla in a pained voice.

"You won't. Not for a long time, and the pain will only lessen never truly fade away." said Harry. "It's hard I know, it will be even after years but I know something that may help you with it."

"What it is?" asked Aayla.

"Tell me about him. You must have stories with him. After I lost Sirius I could only think about that second when he died. One of my parents' and Sirius' friend Remus Lupin shared some stories with me from their school life. Nym and I didn't know him that long but we loved him and shared our stories about him with each other." said Harry "What I want to say Aayla: you shouldn't let those dark thoughts in your mind. They can make you crazy. Tell me about the lightest memories you had with him.

"Oh, there is lots I can tell you..." said Aayla with a small smile playing on her face.

The next morning started a lot more peaceful than the previous one. It was again Harry who woke up earlier. He happily noticed the peacefulness of Aayla, like yesterday it started similar. But as he gently held Aayla in his arms her dreams seemed to remain in pleasant nature. She slowly started to wake up. Seeing Harry face she smiled at him sleepily.

"Good morning." Harry said with a grin. "How did you sleep?"

"Morning." she replied with a yawn. "Great. It was a while since I slept that good." Harry smiled as she lazily laid her head back to his chest. He started stroke her back soothingly. He couldn't help but stare at her headtails which moved lazily around.

"Aayla, what are these? I mean they are obviously part of you, but I can't make any sense of them."

Aayla glanced at him and grinned.

"They are called lekku in ryl, the left on is tchun the right one is tchin. Lekku means braintails in basic." she explained in a bit sleepy voice "The part near my head contains part of my brain."

"Ryl is the language of your people?" asked Harry "Can a human learn it?"

"Yes, it's our language. Why you want to learn it?" asked Aayla in a strange voice.

"Yes and I have a spell which will help me out with it." while Bartimeus Crouch Senior was a bastard, he had some very good spells. "It will allow me to learn languages in two weeks."

"Truly?" Aayla was only mildly surprised hearing it. With what she already seen it wasn't that awe inspiring thing to do. Harry only grinned at her.

"What should we do? It's still relative early in the morning." he said.

"I will go for a jog you can join if you want. Then I practice at least for an hour, after that we shall see." said Aayla with a shrug.

"I think I will join you." he nodded knowing he had to start more training.

After breakfast and checking their map they made their way out of the tent and into the forest of fungi. There was a lake at a distance of approximately three-four kilometer from the camp. It was more than enough for a morning workout. Aayla lead the way at first a little hesitant of the speed she run at. Despite of her exception Harry stayed close to her at the pace being quite taxing for even physically fit man like Harry. It also didn't hurt to gaze at her back and bottom. She didn't have an ounce of plus weight on her that was sure. Well, it seemed that he got some and it showed. At the end he sweated and was out of breath. Aayla on the other hand seemed quite alright: she sweated but her breathing was only a little labored.

"Are you alright? It seems that was a little bit too much for you, Harry." Aayla didn't look that concerned for him all things considered he noted with that smirk on her face.

"Indeed. It shows that I hadn't moved around for nearly a month." Harry said between pants.

"You must have been in a great shape. "She said with sparking eyes filled with mischief.

"So, I am not fit enough for you now?" Harry joked with a grin as he started posing for her. Aayla couldn't help it: pearls of laugh had escaped her throat. After reigning in her emotions she gave him some appreciating glance them nodded with a little grin.

"Hum, not bad. It could be better but I will take it."

"Why thank you so much." Harry grinned back at her. He wasn't that egoistic as some other wizard he known as to take Aayla joke seriously. "But all jokes aside, you must have had some heavy training regime to have that kind of stamina.

"You will see it in the next hours." she replied to him with growing concern. Harry looked better but not enough to run back. "We can walk back if you want."

"No, that's not necessary." he declined "You go ahead and I will follow you."

When he arrived back Aayla was already in the middle of doing some form with laser sword. She was graceful like a dancer, but it was the dance of death, Beautiful but deadly at the same time.

"So, these are your weapons?" he asked as Aayla become aware of his return and deactivated them.

"Yes, they are called lightsabers." she replied "Most Jedi only carries one of them..."

"But you have two of them?" Harry glanced at her where the other one was.

"I also practice Jar Kai, the art of using two of them, in addition to the traditional forms." Aayla explained them smiled at some memories "And if one got damaged I would have a spare to use."

"Can I see them?" Harry interest was piqued. He only used one sword in his entire life and it was memorable to say the least. This lightsaber seemed as interesting as the Sword of Gryffindor. Aayla did something with one of the button them tossed him the one in her hands. He easily caught it them activated. He started doing twirls, slashes and stabs with it, at first slowly than faster but still cautious. Harry thought they looked cool, but know that they weren't toys for him to play with. After a few minutes he shut down and gave it back to her.

"So, how was I?" Harry was curious. He felt as he could use it if the situation comes down to it but obviously he had no practice with it or any other kind of melee weapons so it was still a completely new experience.

"You were more assertive than how I thought you will be." Aayla glanced at him with a speculative look "If you want I can teach you how to use them." she offered.

"Really?" Harry asked excitedly.

"Really. But please be careful with It" as she said that, Aayla tossed the other lightsaber to him. "Do you want to start now?"

Despite Harry knowing it won't consist only sparring with each other, learning how to wield a lightsaber was a surprisingly (for him anyway) tedious task. They didn't spar - and from what Aayla said they won't until she feel that Harry was proficient enough with them, and started at the basic: proper way to hold the hilt, stances, both defensive and offensive, the basic attacking and defending moves. After a while he couldn't even keep track of time as he focused entirely on learning it. He was surprised when Aayla stopped them.

"I think for the first day it was more than enough Harry." she said.

"Ok. Was it good, ordinary or bad?" he asked curious on his performance.

"Definitely good Great even." Aayla said with a smile.

"Truly?" he was surprised. It didn't seem that much at first.

"You made enormous progress in only a few hours. You have exceptional muscle memory: you learned what takes most years. Even if they are younger than you by quite a wide margin. "she confirmed with a nod.

"I see." Harry replied "I noticed that you used different movements. Is that some advanced technique or something else entirely?"

"What you learned was the basic of Form I, Shi Cho. It's the oldest way of sword fighting and the basic of all the other forms. It is what you must learn first even if you don't master it." Aayla explained "What I used was Form VI, Niman. It has taken elements from all other froms save the seventh and final, to create a completely balanced lightsaber form."

"So you know six out of seven forms?" Harry asked wide eyed. It was just unfathomable to really train that much as Aayla seemed similar age as of himself.

"No, it would take decades to master all of them if you don't have a ridiculous talent for this disciple." she said "I'm proficient in Form IV, Ataru and Form V, Djem So, and have the basic down from Shi Cho and Soresu which is Form III, but I can only claim near mastery of Niman."

"And Jar Kai? Is it part of the forms or not?" he asked confused. Sue him, he know nothing about swords and fighting with them, let alone lightsabers.

"Yes and no, Jar Kai is something different from the normal forms and yet is the same." she replied " Jar Kai only means that you use two lightsaber for the forms. It isn't the eight form or something like that, only another way of the forms."

"It seems there are more to these forms than what I first thought." Harry said with a thoughtful face.

"All have some philosophy behind them. To master any of them you have to be able to truly understood and become one with the belief of that philosophy." she explained the simplest way she could.

"Are there any other forms?" he asked.

"Well, there are sub forms and variations of every Great Forms." said Aayla" Technically Jar Kai is the name of one sub form in every Great Form, so what I use is Niman Jar Kai. Only truly gifted individuals have some unique style, but mostly even these are just amalgamation of two or three of the Great Seven. Nearly every one added something to their lightsaber training."

"So, what, There are millions of forms? Or personal forms? "Harry asked bewildered.

"No of course not why would you think of that?" she asked back clueless to what led Harry to this question.

"Well, your Order has members in the millions, right? I mean you have to guard the whole galaxy..." trailed off Harry seeing the look on Aayla face.

"No, we don't have that large numbers Harry." she shook her head "We only have the main temple at Coruscant and four other enclaves. If all put together there are only approximately fifteen thousand members."

"Only fifteen thousand how can you keep the peace with that few members?" he asked. Even the auror forces of Earth were in greater number and they didn't have to protect even a hundred million people. The mundane armed forces were a whole other thing entirely.

"We only interfere if it's of great importance, like an intergalactic problem. Like a political debate between two sectors or something like that." Aayla didn't seem happy at that. Harry saw the brief flash of anger in her eyes.

"I see well I don't know about you, but I've gotten hungry. Want to join me?" he asked hoping to change the course of the conversation.

"Gladly."

After dinner they made their way back to where Harry's lightsaber training had taken place and started meditating. He wanted to find out the reason why magic, the Force as Aayla called it was different in contrast to what he was accustomed to. Harry had taken meditating up after the fifth year as Dumbledore taught him and "mastered" it in India after the war. It helped him with more than one problem, like oclumency, legimency, anger issues and so on. But it was also something much more. For powerful wizards like him, Dumbledore and Voldemort it was a way to connect directly the Nexus lines. The Nexus lines were Earth's magical veins. It wasn't completely understood how it worked but the theory was that the Nexus lines created an energy field and magical beings could connect to it on instinct. However exceptional individuals could connect directly to the Nexus lines and to the energy field at will. What he expected to find was something similar to this. What he felt wasn't like that at all. Felucia, the entire planet was covered in an entire energy field, that was true, but you couldn't just point out it's were weaker and more powerful part, but it was like it came from all beings.

Deciding that he at least should ask someone who had some experience with the 'Force' he glanced at Aayla. And his jaws dropped. She was meditating alright but in midair and a half dozen smaller larger rocks floating around her in a circle like a mini solar system. It wouldn't be hard if not for the single fact that she meditated along with it. He had one of the greatest controls over his magic in the known history of Earth but he was sure that he would need weeks of practice before he could recreate it.

"Yes Harry? Can I help you with something?" Aayla asked with closed eyes as she slowly floated down with the rocks.

"Yes, but forget about that... How did you do that? I mean you meditated and floated at the same time. Isn't it something hard to do?" he asked momentarily forgetting about the Nexus lines.

"It's... it's hard for you to do?" Aayla looked at him bewildered. It wasn't easy per se, but a Jedi Knight was expected to be able such a feat with effort.

"Yeah On my home planet it was different. I mean the magic itself was different." Harry was distraught.

"Wait Harry Let's start from the beginning, shall we? What do you mean the Force is different on your home planet?" Aayla raised an arm to calm him down. She didn't like this anxious Harry. He seemed always so calm that it reminded her of the other Jedi and looking nothing like that felt unnatural.

"There were... lines which generated the energy field. That's what we called magic and used it." Harry explained it. "But here, there isn't any. There is an energy field, the Force I believe but it's like as if it generated by all living being.

"That's exactly what the Force is." nodded Aayla who didn't really see the problem with it. "It's not that huge problem, is it? I mean there was an energy field and here is another one as well. I mean, sure it must be different, but not so much.

"I...I see." Harry started to calm down. "You are right. I hope that you are right. It's just different, but I don't know if everything is the same. I am fairly certain that it won't be.

What followed was a series of tryout of the differences between magic and the Force. It becomes apparent that it had different laws compared to magic. If you used it for a blast like a curse or other spell it was even more potent. But something like a disillusment was impossible nearly entirely. The only way to make long lasting spell work was runecraft. It worked as well as it did back on Earth. After coming to this realization he, under Aayla tutelage, he tried to float like her during meditating. It wasn't as hard as he waited as nature of the Force meant as you concentrated to float you also focused on the Force. Simply put meditated just by floating the problems started when he started to add rocks to it. Three was alright, four was problematic and five was impossible to him at the moment.

At the evening when they got comfortable on the bed Harry turned to Aayla:

"I mentioned that I can learn language faster than normal..."

"Yes and that you would like to learn Ryl..." Aayla seemed wary of something.

"I can perform it. But I need you to focus on all you know Ryl. I will need at least eight hours and them two weeks of usage to learn it."

The smile on Aayla face was something different.

The following two weeks gone much like this. Aayla taught him about the Force and what was needed to survive in the galaxy. Species, money, starships, regions, sectors, trade routes, influential people and groups. There were thousands of little things to remember. It was like when he was trusted into the wizarding world and had to learn about it. Honestly he was certain that he forgot some of them but was sure that they were minor things.

They continued their morning routine. Harry still wasn't where he wanted to be, but he was getting there. It would make him sweat but he started to loss the difference at their run in the morning.

His study of lightsaber went much the same. He was nowhere compared to Aayla, and it showed. After learning the basic of Shi Cho Aayla brought out one small floating ball which fired low powered laser at them.

He was nervous. He never tried anything like that. He had one of Aayla's lightsaber in his hand and his eyes were obscured by a cloth. At the first try he couldn't even do anything, one moment anything, the next felt a sting at his shoulder blade.

"You have to move before it fires, Harry!" Aayla scolded him gently. "Listen to the Force and you will be able to do it."

"I know! I know!" he said rather angrily "Sorry." he said after a second. Aayla just waved it away and signed him to try it again.

The second try was the same but on the third he managed to do it. His hope was dashed when Aayla showed her training session with it. And she added two other. She also switched all three to the top speed. When she used them (even without blindfold) she used mastery Harry couldn't hope to mach for months at best.

He also studied the starfighter more. Not just how to fly it, but to repair it and even to modify it if he wanted. Aayla was talented mechanic and she was eager to teach him about it.

Then at the sixteen day of their life coming together when they received visitors it was just after they finished lunch. Harry was the one who first seen them but Aayla sensed them even before that. It was when she pointed in the direction. There was a relatively big, steel grey ship. It was about half the size of the GR-75, but wasn't as slick as that ship. The central part was a tubular form and the two cargo hold on its side was approximately brick shape. At the centre of the front was the cockpit. At the other end were the three main thrusters and four smaller one between the mains, two on the upper side and two on the downside of them.

"It's a YU-410 light freighter." Aayla said. It wasn't surprising that she had known. Harry deduced that Aayla was like those one of those sports car fans who knows everything about a car, when it came to starships.

"Who will arrive on it, friends or foes?" Harry wondered even if he would find it strange if the military used them for this.

"Friends." she replied "Two Jedi and one of them is Shaak Ti."

"I will go and have them fly here we have enough places for them. " said Aayla seeing the ship landing on a clearing near to them. "Please lower your wards Harry."

"Of course." he nodded to her as went to alter the wards.

As Aayla arrived to the freighter she saw that the two passengers had landed safely. Just as she said one of them was Master Shaak Ti. The togruta Jedi master was only a little bit taller than her. She was a feral beauty with lean and hard body, just as beautiful as Aayla even if it was hidden under the Jedi cloak. The other was also female, a petit, delicate zabrak teenager. She had braided jet-black hair and nearly innocent face. She wore clothing similar both in style and material to Aayla's own through her top had no pattern while the Jedi Knight's did.

"Master Shaak Ti!" Aayla couldn't help but cry out at seeing the older woman.

"Aayla!" Shaak Ti wasn't less enthusiasm greeting her back. The usually reserved Jedi Master hugged Aayla breathless. Aayla only hesitated for a moment until hugging her back. After breaking apart she looked at the young zabrak near to them with an extremely embarrassed smile on her face.

"What's your name little one?" asked Aayla the young girl.

"Aayla let me introduce you Padawan Maris Brood." Shaak Ti introduced the two young Jedi to each other. "Her master was killed at the attack of the Jedi Temple."

"My consolations for your lose Padawan Brood." Aayla gently hugged the girl to her.

"Thank you Master Secura." she replied a bit hesitant as if she was never hugged like that. Knowing several traditional masters it wasn't out of question and maybe Harry's habit of giving her hugs whenever he thought that she needed one altered her view on it.

"Let's go back in the ship. I will guide you to the camp." Aayla said.

"Yes, let's go." Shaak Ti agreed.

On their way inside the ship Aayla anxiously asked her question. The question she had since feeling Shaak Ti arriving on the planet.

"What happened after we talked, Master?"

"It was a miracle Aayla. Thanks to your warning we were able to warm many Order members. I also had the children taken just as I told you." the togruta master voice wavered "But even with that we could only take our most treasured artifacts and parts of the Archives with them. To flee with all on such a short notice was impossible, but we tried nonetheless. Until a clone regiment arrived in full force the 501st legion with Skywalker leading them."

"Skywalker No It's not possible." she cried out dismayed.

"It is." Shaak Ti said darkly "I fought him after he killed Maris' master, Master Ken Lass and Master Cin Dralling He calls himself Darth Vader now and the apprentice of Palpatine."

"How how could he fall?" she couldn't fathom it. Skywalker was called the Hero with No Fear for a reason. His sense of justice was absolute and that often got him in conflict with the Council.

"I don't know I really don't know." the older woman seemed lost in thoughts "After the battle. I and Maris fled into the Coruscant underworld. After ten days we came across this ship. The owner was a business man. The live cargo on his ship was apparent of that." she spat the last bit out in disgust.

"Slaver?" Aayla hissed.

"Don't fret Aayla, we taken care of him. He will never cause harm to anyone ever again.

They stayed silent as Aayla piloted it over to their camp. Harry was in the middle of the clearing waiting for them. He looked at the ship curiously. 'Not a surprise.' Thought Aayla 'Everything is new to him.'

"Who is he?" Maris asked looking suspiciously at him. Before Aayla could say anything Shaak Ti spoke up:

"I think he is the one we can thank the warning we got from you Aayla, don't we?

"So you noticed?" Aayla asked with a half smile expecting it.

"That there was more to your story than a vision from the Force? Yes, it wasn't that hard to figure out." replied the Jedi master.

"I'm sorry master Secura..." Maris started obviously ashamed to be that hostile to one who helped the Order and master Secura as well, but Aayla interrupted her.

"It's alright. He won't take it personal. Neither will I." she smiled reassuringly at her, which caused her to look up at her relieved.

"We will need to leave quickly. I sense great danger in the future." said the Jedi master while landing in the clearing

"I sense it as well master." Aayla said "but I thought it was the felucians there is something wrong with them."

"I'm certain Aayla." said Shaak Ti "It's something much more dangerous to us them the Felucians. We need to leave as soon as we can."

As they made their way down on the ramp to Harry the two Jedi looked him over. To them he had seemed that he was a human or a member of a near-human race even from far away. It was apparent that he was fairly tall, muscled and had raven black hair. What they didn't see was his emerald eyes shining with a hidden power. Maris pale skin flushed seeing them and she shyly looked down and even Shaak Ti looked affected.

"Harry, they are my Jedi sisters, Master Shaak Ti and Padawan Maris Brood." she introduced them to each other "Sisters, he is Harry without him I would be dead."

"And all of us as well if I am not mistaken. "The older woman said "I thank you for your help to the Jedi Order."

"It was nothing really." he said obviously embarrassed.

"But it also leaves the question: how did you know about the Sith's plan to destroy us?" the Jedi master asked with a raised eyebrow. Harry eyes were on her hands which were on the lightsaber hilt.

"Wait! It's not that simple." said Aayla who also noticed her movements. Then she turned to Harry "Please show them your presence."

Harry shrugged at this them let his power which he blinded so carefully together free. Both Shaak Ti and Maris Brood whipped their heads to him.

"It's..." started the Jedi master.

"Unbelievable." finished a wide eyed Maris. "How... how can it be? It shouldn't be possible to someone that powerful in the Force remain out of the Order sights!

"Palpatine did it right under our nose." Shaak Ti darkly muttered after getting through her shock.

"It's nothing like that, master. Harry, well..." Aayla looked at him, but Harry just shrugged. How do you say that you are from another world without being? "He is from another world from another reality."

"What?!" exclaimed the two women.

"I can explain it." Harry hurried to placate them.

"Please do so." Shaak Ti seemed more relaxed but still a bit cautious around the stranger.

So Harry started with his story. Well, the short version as they started to pack their equipment up into the ship's cargo holds. It was fairly entertaining to see the two Jedi's disbelief as they progressed in their tale. They nearly finished at the same time with the equipment and the tale. As they were getting ready to take off Aayla asked the question she wanted to ask since they arrived.

"Master, what happened in the galaxy the Republic would not stand to Palpatine being the chancellor now as they know that he is the Sith Lord."

"The Republic is no more Aayla." Shaak Ti seemed tired as she sat down in the navigator's seat. Aayla was the pilot as the most experienced and talented among them. Harry was talented but had no experience with starships. Maris was simply too young and as she confessed not that keen on spacecraft. "Palpatine destroyed it and the Galactic Empire rose from its ashes with Palpatine as emperor at its head."

"But... the core worlds Alderaan, Corellia, and Chandrila... How could they allow it?" she returned with fear clear in her voice.

"How could they prevent it?" the Jedi master asked back "Only Corellia has a military force worth anything and compared to the Grand Army its still could only do so much. Even with the public knowing who he is and what he has done they won't do anything. "

"They know the public I mean?" Harry asked interested. It could change everything if the public know that Palpatine is a dictator and not their savior.

"Yes, we gave everything we had on Palpatine to the media. There are even holos of the attack on the temple." confirmed Shaak Ti.

"And the cowards still allowed it." Maris hissed furiously "They didn't do anything to help us! Just bowing low and..."

"It's not that simple. " Harry interrupted "What will be more important, your family or some people that you never meet? And Palpatine hasn't done anything sans attacking the Jedi he probably hasn't gone against the public yet. He won't for a few years then the terror will begin." Maris seemed ashamed for her outburst but he waved it away.

"It's alright. When I was as young as you I thought the same as well. Why can't they fight back? Because even if they would die for it they won't risk other lives or their family's life for it yet."

"You seem quite knowledgeable on this Harry." the three Jedi looked at him curiously. Was the world he lived in a time similar to this? Was he in the same position as them?

"Well there were two big regimes in the mundane part of my planet The Nazism and the communism. The way you speak about it and the way he accrued power I would say it will be closer to the Nazis." he trailed off" But both used blackmail, spies, money and if needed brute strength to remain in power." he explained to them.

"So we are on our own?" asked Aayla biting her lips in worry.

"Officially yes. But both Alderaan and Chandrila will aid us if they can." was the reply by Maris.

"And Corellia? General Bel Iblis would fight back..."

"Yes, but he escaped with his fleet to somewhere. Probably hiding in the Outer-Rim or Wild Space. "Answered Shaak Ti. "Just as we will."

Harry himself remained fairly quit as they left the planet behind. It was a totally new experience for him. For the first time in his life he was in space. It was beautiful, gigantic and serene. Until the space on their right side wasn't disrupted by six venator class star destroyer and their escorts. A full fleet has just arrived.

They were lucky that the hyperdrive and the navi-computer were ready to jump. In less than ten second they were on their way.

"A whole fleet here?" wondered Aayla aloud.

"Maybe because of that." said the togruta woman pointing to the screen displaying the holo-net. On it was Aayla's portrait with the subtitle 'Alive' on it. Under it was the bounty: six and half million credits. Harry looked there and whistled.

"Well, that explains a lot."

"It's nearly as high as Master Ti's!" Maris exclaimed.

"More than likely because she ruined Palpatine's plan Or at least the end of it." Shaak Ti said sounding pretty satisfied.

"I hide my track the best I could." Aayla whispered looking scared.

"Just as we did." the Jedi master replied "But I think the entire intelligence service of the Empire is mainly focused on the remains of the Order so it isn't that surprising."

"I see." the beautiful twi'lek breathed out.

"We should stop and go on other way. Ossus would be obvious choice for us, but they will expect us there." said Maris to change the course of the talk. The three other occupants of the cockpit were grateful for her.

"Good point Maris Maybe a longer jump to Kessel?" Aayla said as she turned to Shaak Ti. The togruta was silent for a minute them nodded in contest.

"Even with the danger of a longer jump I think Kessel would do better with a stop at Trogan or Boonta."

"I think we shall go and relax a bit." said Aayla as she got up and pulling Harry out of the passenger seat retired to their cabin holding his hand all the way. Maris and glanced after them incredulously then at Master Ti. Maris seemed out of her comfort zone but the Jedi master wasn't like that. She looked amused if nothing else on the surface.

"This will be an interesting journey."

"Indeed, master."


Character info:

Harry Potter: Human. Wizard. Age: 28 (standard year) Main weapons: Magic?

Ripped out of his home world, he wants to start a new life in a galaxy alien to him. He is a fugitive accompanying Jedi knight Aayla Secura.

Aayla Secura: Twi'lek. Jedi knight. Age: 27 (standard year) Main weapon: lightsabers (Jar kai and Niman specialization), Force powers

One of the most promising members of the Jedi Order her headstrong and independent way caused great concern from some members of the High Council. Her main objective is staying alive in the galaxy ruled by two Sith Lords while being hunted down as an enemy of the state.

Shaak Ti: Togruta. Jedi Master. Age 42 (standard year) Main weapon: lightsaber (master Makashi and group specialization), Force powers

One of the twelve Jedi masters who sits on the High Council to decide the fate of the Jedi Order. Famed for being one of the most serene and understanding Jedi Master of the Order she is respected both within and outside the Order.

Maris Brood: Zabrak. Jedi Padawan. Age: 17 (standard year) Main weapon: lightsaber (?), Force

As a young padawan Maris Brood doesn't have much experience outside the Jedi Temple. Her master death also made the shy girl even more withdrawn. After the betrayal she only believe in the other Jedi and suspicious of everyone else.


On lightsaber forms and training: some things are deliberately as they are now. If you confused why I made Jar Kai a subform and not something else.. etc. feel free to ask.