Kanan had no idea what was about to happen. He fought The Inquisitor and won and despite all he put Kanan through, he was willing to put his sword down and spare him. Turns out that the fire had engulfed both of them. So now what?
"Caleb…"
He could still feel alive despite the feeling he felt like being incinerated.
"Caleb!"
Did all of that just happen now? Was he really consumed alive by fire on an Imperial Star Destroyer, presuming that his Padawan and Hunter are now both dead with him?
"CALEB! WAKE UP!"
Something was truly wrong…It's as if Kanan Jarrus was fading away slowly…Something new and yet something of the past had been re-incarnated.
"CALEB! I'M NOT GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN!"
"Huh…?"
Someone was yelling into his ear, calling him Caleb…His original birth name, Caleb Dume. Yet, the memories to that of Kanan Jarrus felt fuzzy, felt like everything was a complete illusion. Caleb feeling and sensing memories that Kanan wouldn't have felt otherwise. He thought different things and it seemed like the worries of the Galactic Empire and Rebellion seemed to have been chipped away in an instant.
"Caleb? Caleb come on, I'm waiting…"
He could finally interoperate who was talking. It sounded like a girl…A young girl.
"What…?"
He opened his eyes and there was indeed a girl looking down at him who didn't even appear to be in her teens but she looked older than ten at least. Brown hair, green eyes, and a casual white dress.
"Are we really going to go through this every morning Caleb…?" The girl asked.
"Who-"
He covered his mouth and noticed that he sounded much younger and yet he felt as if everything that happened between him and the Empire wasn't even real. In fact, it was replaced with more simple worries such as a routine schedule of waking up in the morning to meet a life without fighting or Rebellion.
"Who are you?"
The girl only burst out laughing. "My name is Haura silly!" She giggled.
"What?"
"Please tell me you know your name…" She then groaned, losing her happy expression.
"…Ka…Ka…"
"Yeah go on, you can remember your name Caleb…" Haura muttered under her breath.
"Ka…Kanan."
Angel brought her hand up to her face and slapped herself with a facepalm.
"NO SILLY! Your name is Caleb Dume!"
"Is it…?" He asked, sounding confused. "How old am I?
Haura only growled in frustration. "You're twelve! YOU'RE NOT TWENTY EIGHT!"
"Ma'am Diana-"
"Ma'am who?"
"ARGH!"
"I'M SORRY, I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
"I'll explain from the beginning if you want me to, just like every morning…"
"More I know the better."
"Ok…" Haura started. "For the past few weeks you've been calling yourself Kanan in your sleep and you wake up, you still think you're Kanan. You keep having dreams of having a blue sword in your hand, fighting and rebelling against bad guys who are the law in space."
"I swear that's not a dream…It's so real. I WAS THERE!"
"Well dreams are weird buddy boy…" Haura said, patting his shoulder. "Now come on. We're almost late for the morning session."
Ka- Uh…Caleb…Got out of his bed and looked at himself in a large oval mirror that was near a closet. What looked back at him, was a young face in yellow-green pajamas. His hair was much more shorter than he remembered it to be in the dream, like a crew cut. Lastly, he had no goatee.
The dream he had, depicting him holding a blue sword and fighting back, rebelling against an Empire, was on his mind even if he tried to ignore it. He seemed to feel just fine and nonchalantly thought about his schedule.
"HEY HAURA! I'M FINE NOW!" Caleb called out.
"Just like very morning." She called back. "NOW HURRY UP!"
Caleb had gotten a shower and into his clothes as fast as possible. On that day, he selected to where a green-yellow shirt with gray pants. As he walked around the complex he was in, he started to remember bit by bit where he was.
"That's right…Caleb Dume…I'm in an orphanage, I don't know where my parents are…I just wish I can help more people with what I can do…"
He could hear chatter behind a large door. Caleb pushed the door open and saw many people of his age sitting in rows of tables in a large hall, with food on plates in front of them. They all grew silent almost immediately, as if treating him like a feared authority figure, the boss. The person who broke the silence was Haura.
"Caleb, over here!"
Caleb knew what to do. He went over to the food counters and grabbed himself a tray where he selected the following items to eat for breakfast: An orange juice, a couple slices of bread, peanut butter, and an orange. By the time he sat down, a woman walked into the hall. She was at least five feet tall and had her hair dyed red and was in a light blue dress shirt, tight skirt, and high heels.
"Good morning everyone!" She greeted with a cheery voice.
"Good morning Ma'am Diana!" Everyone said back.
"Now before we have breakfast, does anyone remember what today is?"
"Magic Demonstration Day!"
Caleb thought for a moment and was kind of confused for a moment what the day was about.
"What is that again?" He whispered to Angel.
"NOW! Since I have arranged for a wizard to come to our city and to our orphanage, I hope you will give your best demonstration to him."
"Yes Ma'am!"
"NOW EVERYONE ENJOY YOUR FOOD!"
The entire hall echoed with laughter and cheer and everyone was about to chow down on the food in front of them when suddenly…
"And I want to see Caleb in the afternoon in my office! It's very important! So that means that you're going to miss the demonstration."
Diana left and everyone continued eating. Some at his table laughed at him and teased him about going to her office, again…?
"Guys, be mature." Haura said.
"Okay fine but he's the one who always likes to get in trouble!" A boy retorted.
"I wish I knew, I didn't do anything wrong." Caleb said.
"OH YEAH!"
A boy at his table got up and walked up to Caleb.
"Um…Granite right…?"
"YEAH! You pushed me into the wall and shot back my own rock spells back at me with your telekinesis."
"I didn't do that on purpose. I said I was sorry right."
"YEAH!" Haura cut in for defense. "That was a couple weeks. He's apologized multiple times. Just get over yourself!"
"NO! I mean…Since you're going to be stuck in Diana's office, I won't be able to humiliate you in front of a professional wizard!"
"Excuse me?" Caleb asked, raising and eyebrow.
"Yeah, I wanted to show him the power of rock can overpower your telekinesis that you always your Force."
"The Force." Caleb said. "I call it The Force. An-"
"An energy field that surrounds us, penetrates us, blah, blah, BLAH! You say that all the time! You get that from your dreams! IT'S TELEKINESIS, NOT LIFE ENERGY. Otherwise we would all be able to use it."
"But The Force is different Granite…Not anyone can be connected to it and use its power…" Caleb told him. "Not anyone can learn from scratch."
"YEAH RIGHT."
"Can you two just STOP?!" Haura exclaimed.
"I didn't want to fight, he just…" Caleb sighed. "Can we just be cool?"
Granite only growled then smacked a fist down near his plate and stared into his eyes with his teeth clutched. He loosened his anger and gave a nod before heading back to his seat and continue eating.
The Afternoon came and the Wizard had arrived. Caleb could hear the Wizards deep voice from behind his window in his room as he saw everyone cheering and laughing with excitement and anticipation. He got over his sadness and annoyance and went to see Ma'am Diana in her office. While on the way there, he could feel and hear something…It felt cold but it was filled with comfort to remind him that he's not alone even in the halls. A whisper? A whistle in the wind? He couldn't tell but he could tell, just as many times before as he can remember, it was coming from her office.
His heart rate accelerating at an uncontrollable rate, he opened the door to see that she wasn't present. Caleb sat on one of the chairs in front of her desk. The whistle didn't hault and he could still feel it.
"It's time to see what's really causing this." He told himself.
He went around and this whistle in the power that he named the Force, he put his hand on a cabinet drawer and pulled open the tray…The whistling finally stopped as he saw two pieces of some sort…He didn't know what it was, it could have been anything. It was a partially green, white striped cylinder, along with a tiny round piece that had a small screw at the end of it, and it appeared to have a hole at the top.
"What is this…?"
He put the two pieces together and screwed it to the right so it could make a click sound to indicate that the pieces locked in together.
"My dreams! This thing IS REAL!"
He saw a couple of buttons at the side and pushed it, and made the device extend a bright, round blue laser in the form of a sword.
"WOAH!" Caleb gasped in awe.
He waved the device carefully around and listened to the strange hum effect that emitted from the blade. Enjoying his time holding it, he heard the door open.
"I'm not in trouble am I?"
He turned around, still holding the activated device and saw Ma'am Diana not with a mad or a frown on her face but a warm smile.
"You finally found it Kanan Jarrus."
"Huh…? No, that's just- My name's Caleb, not Kanan."
He turned off the device and held it towards her so she can take it back. Instead unexpectedly, she only pushed back his arm and managed to push it (in co-operation) to his chest.
"This is yours Kanan. This is your weapon. This is you."
"But, how? Who? What?"
He was confused and wasn't sure if she was being serious or not.
"You may not remember but you built it a long time ago…You came from the far reaches of a Galaxy that is far beyond the reach of Earthland."
He gave her a confused look and she responded with a light chuckle.
"The Force is different, you're right. Different than any magic on this planet, despite sharing some similarities."
"I still…"
"Let's sit down."
Diana went over and sat on her desk while he sat on one of the chairs in front of the desk and leaned in closely to listen.
"Does Depa Billaba ring a bell?" She asked.
"THAT NAME?! I've heard it before I…I was Kanan and that was my old Master in a thing called a Jedi order. He- I- Whatever, said that she saved my- he- I mean, his life, running away from hunters and killers. How would you know this anyway?"
"I've been contacted in my sleep…" Diana replied.
"By…?"
"Depa Billaba…The night I took you in and saved you, I found that weapon with you. During your treatment, she appeared to me at night, telling me that the time will come for you to remember."
"Remember what?"
A loud roar echoed and shook the building suddenly and unexpectedly.
"Kanan…You need to go…"
"What?"
"I want you to run…I want you to get as far away from here as possible…I want you to help people in your life, respond to others in need from danger."
"No…"
He started to tear up…He had known her for his entire life as Caleb in the orphanage. She was the only person that she could ever relate to when it came to telekinetic power but now she was calling him Kanan, a name in his dreams, and told him to run with a weapon he also dreamed of to discover his true potential.
"Be strong…"
She cupped her hands around him as the roar was heard once again and it sounded closer.
"One more thing."
Diana made Kanan hold out one hand while holding his other weapon on his right. She placed another variation of the same kind of weapon in his other hand.
"One day, you will teach again. Be ready. Now, GO!"
With his name now being Kanan, he sprinted out of the building so he may have a chance to escape. When he got outside, he could see a large muscular beast with horns on its head and chains across its chest.
"There are some things far more frightening than death…"
