Ch.7
"Echoes of a City Long Overgrown"

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: Espero que os guste este capítulo ! ahora podemos llegar a lo bueno! mwahahaha !

Taylor Fireheart: I can be very dramatic XD but I just love to be evil at times, Myrna will have bigger role to the story, her time will come.

RedtailHawk19: thank you! I think my story is a bit confusing but I'm working on it, and yes that language is Arabic, I've always found languages like Arabic and Gaelic interesting.

Italic Bold: song lyrics

Italic Underline: Naoise talking

Plain Italic: Jet using telepathy

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Jet's P.O.V

"Jet wake up! Gaina needs you!"

I hissed slapping away the hand and grumbled, "No. Never. Let me sleep forever."

"But it's urgent!"

I curled up and rolled to my side, "M'kay that's nice."

"Ezra is gone."

I opened my eyes and groaned standing up and stretching, "Okay, tell Gaina that I'll look for him." I waved my hand and put on a gray wool sweater (if you could call it such a thing, it was more like a weird cape that Nova knitted) and slipped on semi worn out black boots. I walked straight through the cloth "door" pulling my scarf closer around my face, the cool breeze making my ears numb.

I hate mornings.

Walking through the dull quiet town I looked around, seeing things that I never really saw before. Since, this was one of those rare days when the people wouldn't be up and about, and the children causing havoc.

I saw how different the clone houses actually looked, some looked bigger or smaller, some looked old or new, others had a stone path with moss growing on the old rocks, and others had old creepy fences with the paint chipping off. In sort the town looked old and abandoned, before it looked new and lively. But now it's like everyone's… dead.

But since when do I care about such details? Not like I bothered about them before.

I also noticed the lack of color, before it looked bright and now it's just plain old gray. I'll have to ask that Mando to… liven things up once she fully recovers.

When I walked through the streets music and talking would always fill my ears, but now there is only the eerie silence, to be honest it made me uncomfortable.

I paused and sniffed the air, I had noticed the scent of the teen, it was still somewhat fresh. I whispered ancient words as a flash of black sparked on my cheek for a second and the black marking of a paw vanished and beside me stood a ghostly black husky. It looked at me with its bright blue eyes and asked, 'What is it that you need?' It spoke without movement of mouth or even looking at me, it spoke telepathically.

'We need to sniff out Ezra, you know, the new Beholder for Meallá*.'

Naoise* gave a curt nod with his head and began to sniff around, although he has not met Ezra he recognizes the scent of Meallá, which is Ezra's Spirit Animal and her scent is mingled with him but only Spirit Animals can sense it.

Naoise gave a small bark and nodded his nose to the direction. I followed him until we reached the wall, he stopped by the door and said, 'He has gone to Arrow Forest, I'm sure of it.'

I shook my head, Ezra would most likely be dead by the next hour or sunset if he's lucky. I know how protective Forest Guardians* can be when someone trespassed into their territory, he will either be killed, arrested, or be set free, but chances of that were slim.

I sighed, 'No use tying to look for him now, he must be long gone by now.' I snapped my fingers and there was a black flash, the paw print reappeared on my cheek and I headed back to the hut.

Ezra's crew would not take the news very lightly.

Kanan's P.O.V

How did this happen? How could I have not sensed that he had left? And out of all the places to go he chose to go outside the wall, into a forest, where he could be killed. This kid is going to be the end of me, I swear.

"Love, calm down."

"I'm perfectly calm Hera!"

"You've been pacing in a circle for the past hour."

Zeb interrupted, "Yeah, you been pacing so long tha' I think you started to make a hole in tha' floor."

I paused at looked down, he was right. "Okay okay, but how can I be calm when my padawan is out in the forest, awaiting a possible death?"

Sabine shrugged, "He's lived on the streets for almost eight years, I think he can handle himself."

"But this is the forest! One he is not familiar with! I doubt they had forests on Lothal anyway. "How can everyone be so calm? Ezra could be severely injured right now, or worse!

"Your friend will be fine Kanan," the albino soothed putting her hand on my shoulder, "The Forest Guardians aren't so cruel that they would kill someone on sight. He will be fine."

I brushed her hand off, "How can you be so sure?"

Her eyes flashed a hint of sadness and regret before returning to determined green eyes, "Just… trust me, I just know these things."

Nova added in cheerfully, "Aye! If your crew-mate is as stubborn as you say he is, then he'll be too stubborn to die!"

Her twin rolled his eyes with slight amusement and embarrassment, but Jet seemed doubting.

"If he's not back by sunset I'll inform Fae to send out a search party," Gaina said throwing on her jacket.

Jet looked up, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going look to see if he is hiding somewhere around town."

"I already checked, he isn't-"

The girl cut him off sharply, "No, you didn't, you only followed that little "guide" in your head. I'M going to look for him, you make sure Space Dad over here doesn't go into a panic attack…" she paused and cast a look at me, "Again." And she headed out the door before anyone could convince her otherwise.

Wait… did she just call me… Space Dad?

I turned around to see the others, even Jet, snickering.

"Space Dad…" Sabine snorted putting a hand over her mouth, "Clever."

I scoffed, Hera shrugged, "It kinda suits you."

Nova giggled, "I'm gonna call you that from now on."

I glared at the evil child, "Don't you dare."

Galax hummed, "Sure thing… Space Dad."

Gaina's P.O.V

I have been searching for Amethyst knows how long, and I haven't found a single trace of where Ezra might be. I sighed, might as well go to Faerie and pray she is willing to send out a search party.

Suddenly I hear footsteps thumping on the sidewalk, turning around I see a certain teen jogging on the streets, even though his outfit had cuts and tears in it and his boots were missing and his hair was a humid mess and his bandages were coming off I could easily recognize it as Ezra. I quickly ran up to him, and slapped him across the face, "Where the Kriff were you?! You had us worried! Especially Kanan!"

He gave a yelp in surprise and rubbed his cheek sheepishly, "Okay 1. OW! 2. I'm sorry and 3. That hurt!"

I snorted a mixture of amusement and annoyance, "Oh you think that hurt? What till Hera gets to you, that Twi'lek can go all mother bear." I grabbed his ear and dragged him along with me as we headed back to the hut.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" He whimpered, "Can you please NOT rip off my ear?"

I let go and grabbed his wrist.

We continued back until I heard a small voice.

"Help…"

I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around, "Ezra, did you hear that?"

He nodded, "Yeah, it sounded like someone saying-"

"Help…"

We stopped and I called out, "Where are you?"

"Over here…"

We turned to the direction of the weak voice and headed there, it was at Melancholy Hill, we hiked up the down and looked around for the person. "Where are you now?" I asked again.

"I've got you."

"Gaina look out!" Ezra cried.

Suddenly I felt something wrapped around my neck and a dreadful pain in my side, I realized that I had been held up in the air by the neck, and it was slowly choking me.

Ezra tried cutting through it with his light saber, "Let her go!"

I tried to free myself and punch the vine with all my strength but it was no use.

Suddenly I saw the vine creeping towards Ezra I rasped out to him, "Run!"
But before he could move the vine had caught him into choke hold, causing him to drop his saber.

Suddenly I could breath again but before I could celebrate air again I began to fall, soon I hit the ground with a thud and a snap, sending a strike of pain in my side again.

I tried to stand but I couldn't find the strength and my legs had lost feeling. I felt like I was dying, and by the blood soaking my shirt and jacket and the pool of blood gathering around me I could tell that I was.

"Gaina!" I heard him choke out.

'Come on one more breath my ravage voice betrays me mid-shout.'

I blinked a few times, my eyes started feeling dropsy and my vision blurred to spots of color.

'Will you be able to hear those final words I failed to choke out?'

I wanted to say something, anything, just to let him know I was alive (at least for now) but even my mouth had been paralyzed, and all that could escape from my fragile voice was my final words, the name of the person behind it all.

'I tried to survive by putting all my face in instinct.'

"Faerie…"

'But now I regret - what have I done…?'

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Meallá: pronounced MYEL-a, meaning lightening, this is a Gaelic name

Naoise: pronounced NEE-sha, meaning bond, this is a Gaelic name

Forest Guardians: that is what Myrna's role is

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