Knights of the Falling Republic
Chapter 3
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"What is your name?" The little green creature stared at Revan a moment. Yoda could sense the conflict of emotions inside of her: fear, shock and curiosity.
The woman was looking around, oblivious to his question and instead asked one of her own. "Where am I?"
Anakin looked at her curiously. So far he had been quiet, but Master Yoda knew that he would love to interrogate her. Anakin had found this woman on the steps to the Jedi Temple while returning from an undercover mission. Thinking that she was a Jedi that had had an accident, he had brought her inside the Temple. She had been wearing Jedi robes and had a lightsaber on her belt.
Yoda had been summoned when the Jedi Healer discovered something through the force inside of her. Once he arrived, he knew she was not a Jedi he'd ever seen before. However, what made it even more disturbing was the fact that she was even stronger in the Force than Yoda himself.
She seemed so very peaceful when he first saw her, and when he reached out with the Force to help heal her, he felt her calm. She was the light side. There was no dark twinge in her being, just passionless serenity.
It had now been a couple of hours since she had been brought in, and despite the fear he could feel coming off of her, she still seemed to be completely calm at the same time.
"Worry, do not. Save, you are, at the Jedi Temple."
"What!?" She shot up from where she was sitting. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Anakin hadn't even moved: which went against everything he had learned about the boy. Normally he would have drawn his lightsaber and would have threatened to kill her.
"Calm, you must. First, what is your name?"
She finally settled her eyes on his and spoke calmly. "Revan".
Yoda's eyes went wide with shock. The Revan? It couldn't be. She'd been missing for nearly four thousand years. No, it can't be. Yoda quickly retreated out of the medical ward.
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Anakin was mesmerised. This woman was beautiful, in more ways than one. She looked stunning. Her long brown hair swept around her face and her brown eyes kept drawing him in.
Not only this, but she was beautiful through the Force. She had streaks of light coming off of her and touching her surroundings. It calmed everything around her visibly.
Anakin then noticed Yoda walk off quickly after he'd heard the girl say her name was Revan. Maybe that name is important. He looked back up at the woman. She was taking in the room with her beautiful eyes.
After a few seconds she fixed her gaze on him. His heart skipped a beat when he saw a small smile cross her face. The Jedi Healer moved beside Revan and said "You need some sleep".
Revan nodded and lied down on her bed.
Anakin continued to watch her. The Jedi Healer walked over to Anakin. "She needs rest. Can you look after her?"
"Err...yes. Yes of course." Once the Jedi Healer had left he sat down at her side. She was lying on her back. In her sleep her eye-lids were fluttering. At first her breathing was steady and normal, but after a while it became more aggravated.
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She was surrounded by light. She was apparently standing on some sought of floor, but because everything was the same colour, she couldn't tell where the floor started and ended.
She looked around for a while, wondering what was going on but then heard footsteps coming from behind her. What she saw shocked her. It was Bastila, but not the Bastila she remembered. She was looked much older and seemed much calmer than before.
Bastila smiled. "Hello Revan. Long time no see." Revan ran over to her and hugged Bastila. "Revan...please... stop. You're crushing...me".
Revan moved away. "Oh, sorry"
Bastila smiled again. She looked around forty, and had a few scars on her face but she still looked beautiful. "I suppose you are wondering why you are here?"
Revan nodded. Bastila sat down and gestured for Revan to do the same. "Okay, firstly you must be wondering why I look like this" Bastila said, pointing to her face.
"Yeah. I definitely don't remember you looking so..."
"...old" Bastila cut in, stating and not asking what she meant. "Well, I am dead and..."
"What!?!?" Revan shouted standing up.
Bastila got up and held Revan's shoulders. "Please Revan, listen". Revan nodded again. "I've been dead for nearly four thousand years. However, this is unimportant. What I have come to tell you is very important."
They both sat down again and Bastila carried on. "You have travelled through time Revan." Revan was about to speak but Bastila held up her hand to stop her. "An age of darkness is about to occur. You have travelled to this time because the Jedi Order needs your help, as does a certain individual."
"Okay, is this that destiny stuff again?"
Bastila smiled. "At least I know it's definitely you. Yes, that destiny stuff."
"What happened to the Bastila I knew?"
"She aged, became a Jedi Master and got married" Bastila replied.
"You got married?"
"Well, yes. Anyway, I've got to go soon. Is there anything else you want to ask me before I go?"
"Yes actually. What in the Force is going on!?"
Bastila shook her head. "I already told you. Seriously, is there anything?"
Revan turned away for a few seconds and then back again. "I know I'm going to regret this, but what happened to everyone?"
Bastila sighed. "Okay. Mission became a tech with the Republic forces, but abandoned them after she found out the truth of what happened between you and Carth. She then helped me, becoming my eyes and ears on the street. She died when I did, freeing children slaves from Nal Hutta." Revan looked down but Bastila continued anyway. "Canderous became Mandalore and helped rebuild the Mandalorians. He also helped your formal general fight against the Sith, five years after your disappearance. Juhani became a Jedi Master, as well as becoming good friends with Yuthura."
Revan smiled at that. At least Yuthura had turned back to the light.
"Jolee went off looking for you a year after your disappearance, and never returned. Zaalbar became Chieftan after you left, although saying that he had failed his life-debt."
Revan looked straight into Bastila's eyes. "And, Carth?"
Bastila stuttered for a second. "He-he tried to look for you after your disappearance. After a few years, he gave up. Dustil found him dead in his apartment on Telos, Citadel Station."
Revan wanted to cry, but found she couldn't. After what he had done to her, she felt like the love, friendship or in fact any feeling relating to herself and Carth, had been ripped from her. As soon as he had pushed her away.
Bastila moved over to her and hugged her close. "There was something I never told you Rev." Revan looked up to her. "Before I go, I wanted to tell you." Bastila took a deep breath. "Our bond isn't due to when I saved your life on that bridge, it's because we are sisters."
Revan's jaw fell open. She was shocked but deep down, she had always known. "Thank you for telling me. Do you have to leave?"
"Revan, I will always be with you."