Chapter III: Midichlorians

"Master, sir? I heard Yoda talking about Midichlorians. What are midichlorians?"

Qui Gon looked at Anakin and prepared to answer him.

"Midichlorians are a microscopic life form that resides within all living cells."

Anakin didn'r know how to answer to that. "They live inside me?", he said more as a statement than a question. "Inside your cells, yes.", Qui Gon replied. Anakin looked at him as he continued on. "And we are simbians with them."

Anakin gave Qui Gon a confused look at first. "Simbeonts?" he asked. Qui Gon explained, "Life forms, living together for a mutual advantage. . . . without the midichlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force."

Anakin felt like he was starting to get it now. Qui Gon continued, "They continually speak to us. . . telling us the will of the Force."

Anakin stayed silent for a second. "When you learn to quiet your mind", he went on, "You'll hear them speaking to you."

The boy shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

Qui Gon smiled at him and said "With time and training, Ani, you will."

30 MINUTES LATER

"So, did you tell him?"

Qui Gon was walking into a random room on the Naboo Starship when Obi Wan Kenobi asked him that. He was sitting on a chair, reading a newspaper that read "New study shows one in ten Jedi will turn to the Dark Side in the next decade".

Qui Gon chuckled. "Pfft, yeah, he fell for it hook line and sinker."

He took a seat next to his Padawan and glanced over at his paper.

"I'll tell you, Obi Wan, these padawans just get easier and easier to trick every time."

Obi Wan glanced over at him. "Like the way you tricked me into thinking Midichlorians were real?"

Qui Gon grinned. "Oh come on", he said. "You and I both know that your face was priceless when I told you. You wanted me to take your blood sample, pour it out in front of you, and see them for yourself."

Obi Wan smirked. "Well now I know why you didn't."

They began to chuckle at their old memories Suddenly, Padme (The handmaiden one, not the decoy) walked in. She seemed curious. "Hey guys, what's going on? I heard you talking."

They both looked at her. Obi Wan put down his newspaper for a second to talk to her. He said to her, "Oh, we were just talking about a good old trick we pulled on Anakin not long ago. You want to hear?"

Padme smiled wildly. "Sure." She took a seat (there were 4 chairs in there) across from them an began to talk.

Qui Gon started. "Well you see, many years ago, Jedi Masters came up with a trick to test their padawans as to what they will and won't believe."

Obi Wan continued for him. "It's what we know as the Midi Trick. You see, Midichlorians are something that was made up as a fake explination as to what the Force really is. Jedi try to get their padawan to believe it, and if they don't, they pass it."

Qui Gon went on for him. "The strange part is that some Jedi out there think that they are real. . . that The Force actually is biological."

Padme was listening to all this, and while she was, her smile was out of control.

"So Midichlorians are just a padawan bed time story?", she asked.

Qui Gon and Obi Wan looked at each other for a second. They turned their attention back to Padme. "Essentially, yes. You could describe it as that", Obi Wan smirked. Padme thanked them for the conversation, and then left the room. When she did, Obi Wan and Qui Gon chuckled some more.

"I can't believe some Jedi actually believe in that crap, right master?"

Qui Gon began to laugh louder now. "Yeah. I can't wait to see Anakin's face when we tell him the truth."

Obi Wan smiled. "Yeah, maybe he'll turn to the dark side at the thought of it."

When he said this, he started to laugh out of control. Qui Gon did the same. Little did they know that this would be the last time they could exchange such friendly banter like this before Qui Gon would meet his fate on Naboo.

In the end, Obi Wan did end up telling Anakin the truth about the Force. When he did, Anakin hardly ever came out of his room at the Jedi temple. When he did, Obi Wan found it littered with Playboy and Hustler magazines and "Midichlorians" spray painted on his wall. After seeing how he reacted, Obi Wan decided that if he ever got another padawan, he would give him the real story on how the enery field surrounding all living things works.

Happy 12/12/12 guys! Hope you like the chapter. Review if you did, and don't be afraid to point out any mistakes so I can fix them too