Space was filled with illuminating stars, which reminded her of when she and Han used to watch the stars together with Ben. Good times...
Leia sensed an object, which was filled with pain, anger, disappointment, in the ship so she told R2 to autopilot the ship, while she looked for the object.
The interior of the Nubian was outstanding and was immaculate (apart from the dead flowers) even though it hadn't been cleaned in 40 years. Leia spotted a bag, which she didn't notice when she came in the ship so the curious general picked it up and there was a diary
Padme Amidala's Diary.
Day 1:
It has been such a bad day today, we are stranded on a planet in the Outer Rim, Tantoonie. Everything had gone so wrong today apart from the little boy I met today. He was so sweet, he asked me if I was an angel however he was a slave and I felt sorry for him. I actually have forgotten his name but I don't know if I will ever see him again.
Day 2:
Anakin Skywalker. That was the boy's name. His mother Shmi let us stay at his house when there was a sandstorm, she was amazingly kind just like Anakin. The Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn made a bet, which was to let the boy pod race and if he won, we would get the part we needed for the ship as well as free Anakin but is he really putting his faith in a boy we hardly know. I mean he is sweet but he could lose which means we will be here for a very long time.
That was her mother's diary when he first met Anakin... Vader. Leia still couldn't believe Vader had been a child or even been that nice; Leia started to sob quietly, she could hear the sadness in the beeps of R2-D2 (He had been listening). R2 was Anakin's droid for many years, they were best friends just like Luke was with him. The general couldn't control her emotions; every time she tried to forgive her father she just couldn't. She cannot simply forget all the sinister things he had done not only to her but Luke too. Her mother died because Anakin turned to the dark side; her heart was broken. Leia felt the same way when Ben turned the dark side, she wanted to kill herself but she remembered that there was still hope just like when Luke turned back Vader from the dark side but she was wrong. Han couldn't have done, she should have done.
The general took the diary and put it inside her pocket, so she wouldn't forget her mother's diary. She wondered if R2-D2 knew everything about The Old Republic, she wanted to study the fall of her father and The Clone Wars but almost all records of it were removed and then she realized that C-3PO could tell her what had happened during The Clone Wars (C-3PO was Padme's personal droid).
"Artoo, does C-3PO know anything about The Clone Wars or the turn of my father?" asked Leia.
The droid responded with: "No, C-3PO's memory was wiped by Bail Organa because the dull droid wouldn't be trusted with information about Anakin or where the location of you and Luke was as infants".
It wasn't a surprise that her foster father wiped out his memory because he could have been captured by The Empire and he could have revealed the location of herself and Luke as well as Obi-Wan.
Leia noticed they entered Jakku's orbit, the desert planet, similar to Tatooine.
They were there.
Leia and R2 landed on the surface of Jakku. It was the hottest place she had been to since she had saved Han and killed that vile Hutt, Jabba. She never regretted killing him. The scorching sun shimmered above the blue sky of the desert planet. Leia did like the sand, unlike her father who said it was coarse, rough and irritating and it got everywhere. In Leia's opinion, it was a stupid reason not to like sand. She could see the small village of Tuanul from far away so she walked there with R2.
When the general arrived, she was greeted by her friend, Lor San Tekka. He used to train Caleb Bridger (the son of Ezra Bridger) before he was disappeared during Kylo Ren's attack on Luke's Academy.
"Good afternoon, Princess," greeted the old man.
She hated the title 'Princess' but she just ignored it.
"Hello, Lor San Tekka," the women replied.
"Where is the map to my brother?"
"Follow me, Princess," he answered, as he began to walk back to his house.
The houses of the village were ancient and traditional; it reminded her of the Ewok's village on Endor in a way.
Lor San Tekka's house had a familiar feel to it like the ruined Jedi Temple, she had seen during a visit to Coruscant. Leia was disgusted that The Empire was that cruel to destroy a temple so sacred to the Jedi. She was extremely happy that The Empire was gone but The First Order existed now. The room was filled with Jedi artefacts, such as kybercrystals and holocrons.
Leia sat down on the wooden chair and placed her mother's diary on the table.
"What is that my darling?" asked Lor San Tekka, curiously.
"It's my mother's diary," she answered.
"I sense great regret and sadness inside of you, Princess".
"What is bothering you?"
"Nothing," she lied.
"You cannot lie to me, I know when people are lying or not. What is wrong, Leia?" he answered.
"I've been regretting declining my brother's offer to become a Jedi as well as, hating my father," Leia told him.
"I would train you, but after Caleb... I can't," he said.
"Oh well, I guess I'll have to live with that regret for the rest of my life" murmured Leia.
"I could tell you about some of the Jedi History thought," asked Lor San Tekka.
"I wouldn't mind that, speak," replied Leia.
"Luke's Academy strayed away from the old Jedi's rules, his students were allowed to have attachments. The students learned basic force abilities such as simply pushing a small object or pulling one, they later learnt how to hide their presence from other force users, which we used when some of us went uncover to search for Inquistors," the man told Leia.
"What happened to the remaining Inquistors?" she asked.
"Me, Caleb, Luke, Ben and some others went to Mustafar to look for the remaining Inquistors, as a spy told us that they were plotting something so we wanted to prevented that, Mustafar was hell, we lost so many to those damned Inquistors, also on Mustafar, we came across Vader's old castle and Ben was fascinated by all of Vader's old things," Lor San Tekka told Leia.
"What else happened after that?" asked Leia.
"One of The Inquistors managed to escape so me and Luke chased him back to Korriban, while the students burnt Vader's castle".
"Korriban?" asked Leia, curiously.
"It's the homeworld of the ancient Sith, but we'll talk more about Korriban another time, anyways me and Luke got the Inquistor and we all returned back to the Academy, mourning our losses but celebrating ou-" the old man was cut off by a loud explosion.
BOOM!
A loud noise was heard from outside them. She and Lor San Tekka went outside to see Padme's ship in flames, and saw R2 rushing to the village away from the incoming troop transports.
Oh sith!
The First Order is here...
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