I have some bad news. Football off-season has started, so my updates might only come on weekends now. Sorry about this, but football comes before fanfiction. Hope ya'll understand. Haha, what am I thinking. Of course ya'll will understand. I have the best fans ever! And finally, onward to chapter 9!
Sabine awoke to the morning before anyone else did. Her eyes flickered open, trying to get a glimpse of the world around her. The first thing she did see was Ezra turned on his side facing towards her. She examined every curve or mark on his face with a smile. She noticed many short hairs growing on his under and on his chin. She giggled at the sight of them. She then decided to just lay there and enjoy the moment.
Minutes passed, the Ezra started to wake up himself. He woke up to the most perfect thing he could've asked for. He saw the girl of his dreams lying next to him, smiling at him. He of course, smiled back. He then laid up, stretching his arms up into the air.
"You know you're growing a beard?" Sabine said lying up next to him and laughing.
He looked at her with a weird look.
"No I'm n..." he paused after he felt his chin, and realized she was right.
"Uggh, I'll deal with it later." He said with a small smile.
She leaned up closer to him and whispered into his ear, "You know, I kinda like it."
He turned his head completely towards her, and then she then moved her head forwards, letting her lips meet his. Ezra returned the kiss strongly, which made Sabine moan softly.
They broke the kiss, still staring into each other's eyes.
"Wow." He said under his breath.
"What?" she asked in confusion.
"You're just…so beautiful." He said
She blushed, as she still looked into his eyes.
"You're just perfect. And I just…wanted to let you know that… I love you, so much" He continued, smiling.
She put a hand on his cheek, and brought herself closer and gave him a light kiss.
"I love you too, SO much." She said with a smile, trying to emphasize 'so' as a joke.
They then got up and got dressed. Soon, everyone else got up as well. They all got their stuff together knowing that today they would be leaving.
Obi-Wan walked up to Ezra during this time to talk to him.
"Hello master." Ezra said with a bow.
"Hello young one."
"I just wanted to talk to you about…you're future." Obi-Wan said
He confused Ezra a little bit.
"Ok?" Ezra said
"You can be a very strong Jedi, Ezra. You must understand this. You hold an unbelievable amount of potential." Obi-Wan told him
Ezra listened in silence.
Obi-Wan put a hand on his shoulder, "There are so many things that you need to learn, and sometimes you will know that. But remember, that the force will be with you always."
Obi-Wan examined Ezra.
"You remind me of myself, when I was younger. You have resilience, will-power, courage, but most of all you have love for others around you."
Ezra was speechless. He was getting such high praise from a Jedi Master, he had only known for a few days.
"Thank you master." Ezra said, bowing
Obi-Wan smiled, "Do not underestimate any of these traits, for they will aid you when you least expect it."
30 minutes later:
Zeb and Hera had left the home and made their way to the ship using the speeder. The plan was for them to finish up the ship, then Hera fly the ghost back to the hut, and Zeb follow with the speeder to return it.
Kanan walked up to Obi-Wan and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to come with us? It would be great to add another Jedi to the group."
"I'm thankful of the offer, but I can't. I have a job to do on this planet, though it might not seem so." Obi-Wan said, looking off into the sand filled desert.
Kanan badly wanted him to come, but he understood his desire to stay. But what exactly was his job? Just as this thought came to mind, he saw the ghost slowly come into view. Joy filled him.
The ghost landed near the home, and the large platform opened.
Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper made their way onto the fixed ship.
Just then, Zeb pulled up with the speeder and exited it for the last time. He too gathered his stuff and entered the ship.
"Thank you Obi-Wan." Kanan said, following everyone onto the Ghost.
"You're welcome." He said with a bow.
The door started to close and only a few words were audible, "And May the Force be with you, always."
The door completely closed and everyone stood in silence. The Ghost then, took off at full speed aiming for Space around Tatooine.
With the crew:
"Well, that was fun." Ezra added, as he walked off into The Ghost. Everyone soon followed, making their way to their quarters.
Ezra walked into his shared room, with Zeb right behind him. The lights flickered on and they saw the damage that had taken place during the crash. All of their stuff was scattered across the room. Their beds were both in different places and the sheets, covers, and pillows were all on the floor.
"Aww rust buckets." Zeb said
"Well this sucks." Ezra said, still looking around the room trying to find something that wasn't out of place.
"Well, this won't fix itself." Zeb said
They fixed their room. Zeb put the beds back while Ezra threw the sheets on.
Once they finished, Zeb laid down in his bed and tried to rest. Ezra decided to see what the plan was so he started walking to the bridge.
He walked through the hallways of the ghost walking towards the cockpit.
He entered the room, which was only occupied by Hera. He looked out of the window, and saw they were still over Tatooine.
She turned around at the sound of the door.
"Hey Ezra." She said
"Hey." Ezra said taking a seat in the cockpit.
"So, where are we going now?" Ezra asked
"Well, Kanan found a small imperial base on Lothal we could steal supplies from. So Lothal if that answers your question." Hera finished.
"Fine by me." Ezra said, putting his arms behind his head in a rest position.
They slowly made it out of Tatooine atmosphere and into space around it.
Kanan then entered the room.
"How we doing?" Kanan asked
"Almost ready for hyper-space." Hera barely finished, before something rocked the ship.
Out of the tope corner of the window, they saw an Imperial star-destroyer. It definitely saw them.
"Oh yea, they probably didn't forget us since we just destroyed a valuable space station." Ezra reminded them.
Hera pushed a button on the dash and spoke into a speaker.
"Get to the guns, we've made contact with an Imperial cruiser."
Ezra ran out and made his way to the upper-deck, manning the turret.
"How much time do you need!?" Kanan asked Hera frantically.
"How about shoot at them until we're in hyper-space?" Hera said sarcastically.
Kanan smirked and ran out trying to man a gun. He saw Sabine already in the lower deck and Ezra above. He also saw Zeb trying to put out a fire with Chopper. This meant the only gun left was the phantom turret.
He ran back and immediately fired at the cruiser. Soon, Tie Fighters left the cruiser and started attacking the Ghost.
Some of the Tie's were shot down, and only a couple remained.
A few more seconds passed until Kanan's head throbbed in pain. The force was calling out to him in warning.
He felt a Dark Presence. He then realized in of the Tie Fighters, was the Inquisitor.
Thankfully for the crew, the engines were prepped for hyper-space. They immediately left Tatooine's orbit.
With the Inquisitor:
"AgggGGHHH!" He shouted in anger as he lost the ghost once again.
"Inquisitor sir." He heard an officer speak over the com-link
"What is it?" The Inquisitor asked in rage.
"We seem to…uhh, have an idea of where the criminals may be going." The officer stuttered.
"Go ahead." The Inquisitor said
"We have a list of systems they might head for…well, at least judging from their trajectory of entering hyper-space."
"Tell me!" The Inquisitor was in rage once again.
"Umm…Well, Lothal, uhh…." The officer said, but was cut off.
"Prepare a couple ships for departure. Tell them to meet me on Lothal. Inquisitor out."
The Inquisitor prepped his ship for light-speed, as he knew they we no doubt heading for Lothal.
On the Ghost a few minutes later:
Everyone was in relief. They had safely gotten away for the Empire, AGAIN. Everyone met in the cockpit to discuss the upcoming plan.
"When is the Empire gonna learn? They need more than cruisers to this group down." Zeb said out loud.
Everyone was packed into the room. Ezra was the only one standing and he was leaning on the door.
They all continued their bursts of joy, until a ship came over the radar. The beeping grew louder, meaning the ship was growing closer.
"Who is that?" Sabine asked
Kanan almost flinched at the pain in his head.
"It's him. Land the ship." Kanan said as he stood up.
"Uhh, Kanan isn't that what he wants us to do?" Zeb asked.
"Yep, so all of you stay here." Kana said with a smirk
"Are you crazy?" Hera asked
"This is my fight. Don't worry."
Just as Kanan was about to exit Ezra spoke up.
"Let me come with you." Ezra said
"No, you're not ready."
"What?! Kanan, I AM ready. Is this not what I've trained for?" Ezra yelled
"This is too dangerous…"
"It's always too dangerous. No one needs to have to do this, but some people have to. Let me fight him, this is what I've been training for." Ezra raised his voice.
Kanan looked around, trying to gather everyone's opinion through their facial expression.
"Uggh, fine. But everyone else, stay here on the ship." Kanan said with complete seriousness.
Hera landed the ship in an open plain, filled with almost knee high grass.
Kanan and Ezra slowly exited the Ghost. A few hundred feet away, The Inquisitor's Tie fighter landed.
They saw the Inquisitor jump out of the ship and land on his feet. He then walked slowly over to them. The crew watched from the ship's exit as the fight was about to take place.
"So Jedi, ready to begin?" the Inquisitor asked as he grabbed his lightsaber.
"As always." Kanan said as he and Ezra both reached for their lightsaber's.
Kanan got into his stance, then ignited his saber. Ezra flicked his wrist from the side as the blade revealed itself.
The Inquisitor ignited both blades of his saber, and waited.
Kanan and Ezra soon attacked him. Kanan struck first followed quickly by Ezra. They backed him up and they stopped.
"Number's do not matter." The Inquisitor smiled.
"I know." Ezra said back in a cocky voice.
Ezra swung his lightsaber form the side and it met the red blade. Kanan then swung soon after. The Inquisitor quickly unlocked his and Ezra's blade and dodged the attack from Kanan, then punched Kanan in the gut. The Inquisitor blocked another attack from Ezra, then kicked Kanan in the face with a powerful kick. Kanan fell back a few feet.
Kanan didn't get back up. At this point it was Ezra and The Inquisitor.
"Oh how I've been waiting for this." The Inquisitor smiled
"Ha, I'm flattered but I don't care." Ezra snapped back
They exchanged a few collisions of their lightsaber's and continued talking.
"I say, you might be a better fighter than your master." The Inquisitor spoke.
Ezra was in silence now.
The Inquisitor then bombarded Ezra with constant attacks. Ezra easily lost his footing and fell backwards.
"But you're still not good enough."
Now, they all saw Imperial gunships fly overhead, landing near the fight.
The crew instantly opened fire on the Stormtroopers exiting the ship.
The Inquisitor smiled at the sight. He then returned his attention to Ezra. He lifted up his lightsaber, then brought it down, quickly met by a blue blade. Kanan had finally gotten up.
"You still think you can win?" The inquisitor said
"Why not?" Kanan said returning his attacks.
Kanan and the Inquisitor exchanged attacks with the lightsaber.
Ezra soon got up and tried to help Kanan but he was bombarded with blaster fire from the Stormtroopers. He tried as hard as he could to block the bullets.
The crew were taking down the Stormtroopers, one by one but it wasn't fast enough. Ezra was hit by a bullet in the shoulder then in the stomach. He fell backwards. He saw the blaster fire decrease as he lay in the grass, woozy from the bullet wounds.
He saw a figure run over him.
"Oh go your hit." Sabine said looking over him.
"Help me up." He said to her
"Zeb get over here and help me carry Ezra!" Sabine yelled across the battlefield. At this point, only a couple Stormtroopers remained.
"NO, help me up. Kanan needs me!" Ezra yelled
She quickly turned her head and noticed the seriousness in is voice. She put one of his arms around her shoulder and helped him up. He regained his balance and grabbed his lightsaber.
He looked up to see The Inquisitor backing Kanan down. He barely had time to move until he saw the Inquisitor block on of Kanan's attacks, which left Kanan defenseless. The Inquisitor jabbed his lightsaber at Kanan.
All Ezra saw was the red blade go through Kanan's abdomen, as Ezra sat their speechless.
"No." Ezra whispered.
Well that was a rollercoaster. And yea I know this chapter probably sucked. I rushed to get a chapter in and I'm tired. It's 11:00PM and yea, I felt I HAD to get a chapter in. Whatever right, Haha. Remember guys, "May the force be with you, always."
