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STAR WARS

The Lost Episode: Portal to a Distant Past

Chapter 8

"You two are very odd girls," Luke mumbled.

"Yeah, well you're no spring chicken either," Zee blew a raspberry at Luke.

"Oh, that's mature," Dryian rolled her eyes at her sister.

"I know!" Zee laughed merrily as they continued to follow the now silent Luke.

"Hey, Luke, we may call you Luke, right?" Dryian asked.

"Yeah."

"Well, I was wondering if you've heard Ben lately…" Dryian whispered softly.

"You can hear Ben?!" Luke shot Dryian a look of surprise.

"He saved us; Zee, me, and Jacob. He helped me learn to fly a ship, and he's been training me so that Zee and Jacob won't know. I miss talking to him, he's such a nice guy, kinda reminds me of my granddad," Dryian continued to whisper to Luke, Zee happily skipping and humming behind them.

"She doesn't know, does she?" Luke frowned as he glanced back at Zee.

"HEY! What's THAT!" Zee ran forward towards Yoda's hut, leaving the other two behind her to talk.

"She'd think I'm loosing my mind. I'm not sure if she still believes she is dreaming or not. Sometimes it is best to conceal facts from a sibling, to ensure that they aren't hurt," Dryian sighed tiredly. "For all I know, she may think that our parents are alive and she's just having one big dream. Sometimes, I find myself wondering if this is all just some part of my imagination, but I've never seen my parents killed, not even in my worst nightmares. That and I did the pinch test…"

"Pinch test?" Luke raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, you pinch yourself to make sure you can feel pain. If you can, you're awake. Though, there are a few dreams that it doesn't work on…" Dryian followed Luke quietly into Yoda's hut.

"You want Yoda's teaching as well, young one. For you and the other, both."

"If you believe that we are ready, Yoda-sama, and I was wondering if my sister carried the Force."

"Your sister, not like you, is. Have the Force, she does not."

"What, but how am I supposed to keep her safe?!"

"Train with you, she will. Use the Force, she will not."

"Yoda-sensei, thank you for training me and my sister on such short notice," Dryian felt a light sadness fall over her.

"Grieve, you should not."

"Yoda-sensei, she will come to resent me," Dryian stared sadly at the Jedi Master.

"In time, see the truth, she will."

"I hope you are right Yoda-sama," Dryian smiled and hugged the old alien.

Over the next few weeks, Yoda had trained them all very hard, before he sent Luke into the cave. Luke confronted his greatest fear, and then it had been Dryian's turn. She faced the thing she feared most, her parents. They were fighting her along with the rest of her family. It hurt, but she had heeded Yoda's warning of not needing her weapons. Yoda had given her a light-saber, and Luke had given both her and her sister a blaster. Knowing she would face her greatest fear made her in no way prepared to fight it. Finally, she spoke to it, "My family is not here, I love them, but I can not live in the past. I must walk the path taking me forward."

Once Dryian had returned to Yoda, she took her belt, light-saber, and blaster from her sister, "What see, did you?" Yoda asked.

"My greatest hope and worst fear combined. I must continue to walk forward and not walk in the past. Thank you for letting me face my fear, Yoda-sama."

"Focus on the future, see it now, you do," Yoda frowned when Luke fell down from his headstand mumbling about Han and Leia. Luke refused to listen to Yoda and took off in his fighter.

"Too brash, he is! Not ready to face Vader!" Yoda told Obi-wan as his spectral form appeared.

"Master Yoda," Dryian placed a hand on her teacher's shoulder. "It is his destiny to face Vader so soon. And though both I and my sister will meet him, we will stay until Luke returns. We know of the other that could save the universe if Luke fails. And what we learn from both you and Master Kenobi, we will teach to her."

"Do not believe he will survive, you do," Yoda sighed.

"Actually, I know he will Master Yoda," Dryian laughed hollowly. "And it is also when he shall take his first step to understanding his father."

"Know more than you should, you do," Yoda frowned.

"Ah, but once did you not tell Master Kenobi to 'be mindful of the future'? It does not matter how I know, but that I know and what I plan to do with the knowledge. I plan to help Luke and the rebels win. I will not disturb Luke's destiny any more than I already have. He shall defeat Vader on his own. I will help him when he chooses to build the school… if I remain here and have found no way to save my home from the clones' invasion."

"Get back to your home, you will not. Go further into the future, you will," Yoda grinned.

"I will miss Earth, and I will never forget it, but I will make my home elsewhere. Master Yoda, after you depart… will both you and Master Kenobi still be in spiritual form, whereas you can still teach or tell us how to do things, but not physically?" Dryian frowned.

"Wish to know if this old sack of bones will be like young Kenobi, do you?" Yoda frowned, "Possible. Yes. Count on it not."

"Luke will eventually defeat Vader, and the Sith Lord, Palpatine," Dryian stated the future to the little green man.

"Ack!" Zee shrieked as she heard the two names she disliked most from the movie, "They aren't here, are they oneesan?"

"No. And we will not meet them here," Dryian frowned.

"Your sister has too much fear, she does," Yoda coughed.