Decisions

After four days of travelling all over the Galaxy, the ships all landed in the Hangar bay of the Jedi Temple practically at the exact same time as the occupants disembarked and were greeted by Master Yoda. From there the children were all taken by the Jedi Padawans to the Council of Assignment where the children would be placed into clans and crèche groups. They were on their way back to the Jedi Council chambers when two of the group broke out into an argument, however it was no surprise to whom these two were. Serin and Treb were at each other's throats as the air between the two of them grew intense and very dangerous.
"Cut it out you two," Daly growled as he looked at them over his shoulder.
Treb had just found out about the twins that were kidnapped from Manaan and he was outraged as to how Serin's Master could lose a set of Force Sensitive twins.
Ashlyn huffed as she stopped walking suddenly causing those behind her to bump into her as she turned to face Treb and Serin.
"Serin, ignore him," Ashlyn warned the other Padawan as he went to grab one of the lightsabers attached to his belt.
"Treb, it is no one's fault. Masters Vos and Olin weren't even there when the incident occurred," Ashlyn said, glaring at her friend.
Ashlyn looked around at everyone and said, "Yes we have lost an overwhelming sixty-three children to whoever is kidnapping them but none of it is our faults nor our Masters."
"Yes twins are seen as very special by our whole Order but this quarrelling is completely and utterly unnecessary," Ashlyn scolded, "But just think about the one hundred and nine children that we have all managed to save from whatever fate has befallen the children who were taken," she added with all seriousness. Then Ashlyn turned and began to head back towards the Jedi Council chambers which was where they were supposed to be right at that moment. When the group of Padawans reached their destination they were sent into complete shock as to the chaos they found. Upon entering the Chamber they saw all the Masters standing up and arguing with each other which horrified Ashlyn and the other students.
"Padawans," Master Yoda greeted who was one of few not yelling at the top of his lungs. In fact he looked most annoyed about the behaviour of the other Jedi Masters. This caused all the Masters to notice the new arrivals and they quickly became quiet. The Padawans bowed and then went to stand behind their respected Masters while Serin and Mayken remained in the middle of the room with their own Masters.
"Collected more children than have been lost we have," Yoda said, "This reaction, silly it is."
The Jedi Masters who had argued now looked slightly ashamed of themselves at behaving the way they had.
"Tano, Vos; dismissed you and your Padawans are," Master Yoda said.
The two Masters and their Padawans bowed and then departed the room while they waited outside the room for the end of the session. That is when Serin bumped into an old friend of his that he hadn't seen since his Master had been ordered back to the Temple a year ago.
"Galen?" he asked as the other boy looked up from the floor and his face lit up.
"Serin, oh man it's been ages," Galen responded.
The two continued to talk and didn't seem to take any notice of Galen's Master who was watching them disapprovingly.
"Galen, come. The Council is waiting for us to give them our report," Master Rahm Kota said as he walked to the double doors.
Galen shrugged as he exchanged a sad look with Serin and then went to stand with his Master.
"Don't worry, we can catch up later," Serin said.
Then the doors swung open to invite the Master and Padawan into the round room which closed shut once the pair entered.
"Master Kota, good news I hope you bring," Master Yoda greeted.
"Yes Master Yoda, the rebuilding of Tython is underway," Rahm revealed.
"How long will it be until we can go back?" Master Windu inquired.
"Sadly my estimate is we won't be able to return for at least another five years," Master Kota replied, "But it might take longer than that as our numbers here at the Temple are high and we will need to do more than just rebuild the buildings but we will also have to build new ones as well," he added.
"How many Jedi did you take with you again to start the rebuilding?" Obi-wan asked curiously.
"Only twelve knights were able to accompany my Padawan and I but the numbers aren't the only problem," Rahm said as Galen took out a holoprojector and pressed a button. An image of some sort of beast appeared and caused some of the Masters to become shocked at the sight of the beast.
"What is that?" Gav asked no one in particular as in his moment of shock he completely forgot that the Padawans were not permitted to speak during the meetings.
"We have no clue, this creature is new to this Galaxy and does not show up anywhere in the Jedi Archives nor any other database I have searched in," the Master answered Gav's question, "And it has set our task back by days not to mention they will probably cause more setbacks in the future."
"Take a few clones with you when return to Tython you should Master Kota," Master Yoda instructed.
"It would be best to also take a few more Knights with you as well as some Padawans if it is necessary," Master Windu suggested.
"We cannot put our Padawans into that situation," Master Unduli said outraged, "Padawan Marek, if I recall, wasn't even meant to go as he had exams to finish," she added.
Galen looked at his feet as his Master tried to make excuses as to why he had taken his student with him to Tython.
"Our Padawans have been through far worse than this," Windu replied argumentively.
Then another argument broke out which appalled both Master Yoda and the Padawans. Then Ashlyn walked into the middle of the room which managed to get enough attention to shut the Jedi Masters up.
"Is this what the Jedi Council has been resorted to?" Ashlyn asked ashamed to even have these people for the Order's leaders.
"How dare you Padawan Dubreas," Master Windu began to tell her off.
"No you listen, fighting amongst ourselves isn't going to accomplish anything," Ashlyn snapped back, "What does it matter that this Padawan went with his Master on a mission? Hell we do it every day," she added as she gestured to her friends and herself.
The room became silent as the majority of the Jedi Masters saw her leadership skills, for some of them it was the first time as not many Padawans had the confidence to stand up against their superiors.
That was when the holoterminal began to beep which Master Yoda answered to find the Smuggler, Eric Tao, on the other end.
"Master Yoda, I need a group of Jedi to come to Dantooine immediately," Eric requested desperately.

A/N: What a bickering mess...

Ashlyn Dubreas.