From Initiates to Padawans
Spike groaned as he finally got up from his sleep, slowly opening his eyes.
"Daga!" A voice called out. "I think he's waking up."
As he heard this, he managed to open his eyes fully, getting a better look at his surroundings. He was in the medical bay on the ship, He saw Asha and Jedi Knight Daga beside him.
"You had us worried there Spike." Asha said "How are you feeling."
"Not that great..." Spike groaned while scratching his head. "How long was I out?"
"About ten hours." Daga said. "You still look completely exhausted."
"Yeah... but I'm feeling better." Spike said weakly. "So are we still on Illum?"
"No, we are currently on a ship that his heading back to Coruscant. The others are waiting for you in the main training area, you can visit them when you are able move around." Daga said. "But I recommend you to rest a little bit longer."
"Nope, I'm perfectly capable to move around." Spike said, before getting off the bed than standing up, looking at Asha. "Why are you not with the others?"
"Just felt like being with you also somebody will have to watch over you." Asha said. "Let's go see the others."
"Sounds good to me." Spike said.
Turning around, Asha quickly moving out of the room while Spike followed Asha until they reached another door. As they approached, the door slid open, revealing a small room.
In the center of the room, Zuno, Brandon, Briana was busy mediating, trying to keep themselves occupied for the time being.
"Spike's up." Asha said with a slight grin on her face.
Instantly, the other opened there eyes and looked over to Spike.
"Are you tired Spike?" Brandon asked, turning to Spike.
"I am but I can live with it." Spike said with a smile.
"That's good, it's been quite boring without you." Briana said, looking over at Spike as well.
"I am glad that you are awake Spike." Daga said, walking into the room. "But we have already gotten behind schedule. If you could all please place the crystals that you have on this table, then we can begin."
Quickly, they each got out their crystals, placing them on the table next to Daga.
"Very good. Now I would like you to meet Lightsaber designer and architect, Huyang."
As he said this, he stepped back, indicating a small alcove filled with shelves and drawer while a tall humanoid droid stepped into view.
"Huyang's a droid?" Brandon asked in surprise.
"Is that a problem?" The droid asked, it soft masculine voice echoing around the small room.
"Not really." Brandon said. "It's just..."
"I know, not what you expected." The droid said before turning to Daga.
"They have all passed?"
"All of them." The Jedi smiled.
The droid looked at everyone, until he saw Spike.
"Oh yes, Daga spoken about you." he said, approaching Spike. "You are the dragon that I have heard about. Interesting that you are able to wield the force as the only discovered member of your race."
"I didn't ask for it." Spike chuckled.
"Of course not." Huyang said, before straightening up and walking around. "The Light saber has been the Jedi's weapon of choice, and is a Jedi's only true ally, unique to each Jedi who wields them. But how do they work?" He asked, picking up the crystal that belonged to Briana and inspecting it closely. "The crystal is the heart of your Lightsaber, but right now it is simply a rock. To activate it, one must use the force, pouring their own power into it. I will show you how to do that while Daga leads you in meditations. It is my job that before you leave this ship, you will not only have constructed your own blade, but be able to repeat the process if the need arises."
Giving the crystal back to Briana, the droid indicated that they should all pick up their own crystals which they did. Walking in front of them, Daga sat down and addressed the group.
"Sit. Clear your minds. Focus on the crystal in front of you. The act of empowering your crystal shall take many days. Let the force guide you as you attune it to yourself, making it your own."
Nodding, they sat down on the floor, crossing there legs. Focusing on there crystal, they made it rise to his eye level before holding it steady and closing there eyes, emptying there head of all images apart from the crystal. Even the sounds of the ship drifted away, as they slowly entered into the trance like meditation stance. The last thing they felt before slipping inside there own mind was that there bodies lifting just a few feet off the floor before all of there senses became numb to the outside world.
Spike found himself in a perfectly black area, neither standing nor floating, rather, he simply was, a part of his own self-conscious. In front of him, the semi-transparent crystal floated, and he focused his force on it, steadying it as he pushed his force into it.
Thinking about his past life, trying to gain strength from his memories.
Being born
Meeting Twilight for the first time
The first time he had ever eaten a fire ruby
Moving to Ponyville
Meeting the residents of the town
Making friends
than the realization of how he lost everything
As he remembered losing his friends, the crystal began to pulse with a faint blue light, getting brighter and brighter, and the pulses getting closer together, until finally the crystal emitted a rich blue glow.
Opening his eyes, Spike stood up, grabbing the crystal out of the air. Around him were the others, not all of them have finished meditating on their crystals, Brandon and Zuno were talking with Daga quietly.
Quickly walking over to them before Daga looked over to Spike.
"You are done then Spike?" Daga asked with a smile.
"I am." Spike nodded, holding out his crystal for the Jedi to see.
"Blue?" Daga asked. "so you are a protector."
"Protector?" Spike asked in confusion.
"You see, The colors represents the users will." Daga explained.
"But can they be changed?" He asked.
"Done!" Briana shouted, before covering her mouth in shock at the loud noise. "Sorry." she whispered.
"It is no trouble." Daga said. "Now we are just waiting on…"
"Finished." Asha called, walking over.
"Good. Now that you have meditated upon your crystals, Huyang will instruct you on the proper design of your Light saber." Daga said, before turning back to the table from before. "Please place your crystals back on the table.
Nodding, each of the initiates placed their crystals on the table once more and Spike saw the each of them now glowed with a soft inner light. Besides his crystal, there were two green crystals belonging to Asha and Briana, Blue belonging to Zuno and Spike, One Purple belonging to Brandon.
Huyang came into sight, slowly walking towards the crystals and inspecting them, his sensors being drawn towards Brandon crystal, which he picked up to inspect more closely.
"Curious." He said, turning the crystal over. "Tell me, which one of you is responsible for this crystal?"
"I am." Brandon blurted out.
"You... how strange." He said, before placing the crystal down. "Now, please hold out your hand, and describe what you see your Lightsaber will be."
"Well, I want it…" Spike began but was cut off by the droid.
"No no, not what you want it to be, but what you feel inside. What connects with your own force and will make you strong in battle, and humble in retreat?"
Concentrating, Spike half-closed his eyes, focusing on what he could feel in his hand. After a moment's concentration, his hand contracted involuntarily, gripping around an invisible object.
"You want a regular lightsaber handle but slightly more unique?" He asked slowly.
"I do." Spike said.
"I see. Let me see what I have then." Huyang said, walking off and heading over to the shelves and drawers at the back of the room.
Grabbing hold of some of the drawers, the droid began to open them, looking inside them while unfolding the two arms on his back and opening other drawers. Quickly, he searched through numerous drawers, before nodding and grabbing a few pieces and walking back over towards Spike. Placing the parts down, Spike saw that he had brought over both a normal handle and a throttle style activator, as well as various innards of the Lightsaber.
"These are all the parts that you should need for your saber." Huyang said, before the droid moved away from Spike, walking over to Asha and beginning to repeat the process. Scooping up the parts, Spike moved over to a work station, placing the parts down and looking over them. From what he could feel, his Lightsaber was going to be normal but yet unique.
Sitting down, Spike crossed his legs again, focusing on the parts and raising them up. Slowly, they began to circle around each other as the crystal moved into the middle of the swirling mass of parts, quickly slotting in to the primary crystal mount. After that, the other pieces began to slot in to place, slowly covering up the emitter matrix with the outer pommel. It was slow work, but it was work none the less.
Spike breathed fire into the furnace again, standing within the sealed metal room as he continued to heat it up. He had been in there for the past day, trying to remodel the parts of his Lightsaber from the generic into something slightly more unique.
Spike breathed out again, covering the white hot casing of the Lightsaber with flames once more, heating it to temperatures that would be next to impossible with conventional means. The parts that he had been provided by Huyang were good, and he didn't doubt that on their own, they would have made a fine weapon.
Grabbing hold of the soft metal, Spike began to smooth the gap between the primary handle and the main body. He had already welded them together with a blowtorch provided by Huyang, but considering the fact that if it broke he would lose his weapon, he had decided to fuse them in a more permanent state. Now, after hours of in the sweltering heat, Spike was almost finished.
Spike decided that the weapon was as good as he could get it and grabbed hold of it, making sure that he didn't squash it at all. Opening the door to the furnace room, Spike quickly slipped out before sealing it up and activating the coolant system in the room before placing the hilt in a trough of water, drawing a nice hissing sound from it as the hot metal touched the cold water.
When Spike finally pulled it out, the hilt was unrecognizable compared to what it had started as when Huyang had provided the parts just a day earlier. Sighing to himself, Spike made his way back towards the central room, flexing his neck to get the kinks that had been building up in it. Reaching the door, Spike slid it open, walking inside and looking around at the others.
They were all working intensely on their own weapons, putting together various parts of their weapons. Spike coughed slightly, causing the others to look around.
"Have you finished remolding your hilt then?" Huyang asked, walking towards the dragon.
"I have." Spike nodded, holding out his hilt for the droid to inspect.
"Interesting. The design is fluid." He said, taking the hilt, before trying to bend it slightly but failing. "And strong. You have done well Spike. Now, finish building you're entire Lightsaber, and show me your work."
Nodding, Spike moved back over to his old workbench, placing the hilt down, and reinserting the crystal into the emitter matrix. Focusing on the other parts, they began to float around each other, before slowly slotting together.
It took another six hours for everyone to complete their weapons to a standard that Huyang was happy with, but eventually they were all finished, and gathered in the center of the room.
Asha's blade, Was like any other blade, quite standard and quite similar to Spikes blade.
Then there was Brandon's weapon, it had a huge hilt and what looked like two light sabers coming out of two separate directions.
Zuno had a regular blade, the only difference was his was slightly heaver and could strike with more force.
Briana had a completely standard blade, like most jedi use.
Spikes was much closer to a standard weapon, but was still unique, both in design and materials. At the advice of Huyang, Spike had constructed his Light saber from two different materials for his hilt, and with his dragon breath they fused perfectly together and a purple and black color for his hilt.
Looking between the initiates, Daga smiled, before drawing his own Lightsaber.
"You embarked on this ship with nothing. Now though, you return with one of the most valuable item in the galaxy, each one unique to you, and you alone. Now, draw your weapons."
At the command, each member of Darius clan drew their own weapons.
"Ignite your blades, and show me that Huyang taught you well."
Nodding, each of the initiates thumbed the activation studs, causing the room to be instantly lit up by the blades. Smiling, Spike looked to Daga, who had activated his own Blue Lightsaber.
"You have spent and trained as initiates." Daga said with a smile. "Now you are Padawans of the jedi order."
Sorry for the wait, I still hope everybody enjoyed this chapter and thanks for the reviews lately. Next few chapters will by the climax for the first arc so hopefully you don't miss it.
