Chapter 10- Grievious
"Stephanie, would you stop practicing to listen to me for a moment." asked a voice behind her.
"Yes," she turned off her light saber, turned around, and saw Anakin.
"I see you are practicing your swordplay," he said.
"Yes, Mater Windu is teaching me a new form while Taina learns some more basic moves from Cin Drallig," she replied.
"The Troll," he said laughing using the nickname that Drallig received from his learners. "Well, I just want to say that I was sorry that you were passed up on the opening on the council." he said.
"That is ok; I am just getting used to have a padawan to look after me after Geonosis," she replied.
He laughed. "Well I have to go to a meeting."
"The Council calls," she said.
"Yes, the Council calls." he replied turning away.
A Week later,
She was practicing Vaapad in the practice room at the hardest level and she was winning.
"Remember: the state of mind requires that a user of Vaapad be allowed to enjoy the fight and be given over to the thrill of battle and the thrill of victory. The power of Vaapad is simple: it is a channel for one's inner darkness; and it is a reflecting device. With strict control, a person's own emotions and inner darkness can be changed into a weapon of the light. Vaapad is able to take the hatred, anger and rage of the opponent and reflect it back at him. You can use your opponent's own speed and hatred against them, reflecting it back against them and using it as your own power. Vaapad is at once a form of lightsaber combat, a state of mind, and an actual tangible power. To use it requires great mastery, discipline and, above all else, purity of heart and spirit. Vaapad users are intense, focused, and introverted; there are even signs of pent-up hostility in them." You heard Mace.
This is why he is so careful on who he chooses to train this level to, you thought.
"Well, let's wrap up for today. You just about mastered it." He said proudly.
"Master you looked so in control during that exercise. I wish I could do that." Taina said. She had to watch you practice now the "Troll" was teaching some younglings, and Master Windu promised to teach her some more exercises.
She was walking down the hallway when she heard Anakin say, "Stephanie, wait up!"
She stopped and waited for him to catch up.
"Good news, our scouts have found Grievous on Utapu."
"Good maybe now he'll get what's coming to him," she said remembering that fateful day when he shot at her and Dooku saved her.
"Yes, but now I have to go to a Council Meeting again."
She watched him left, but felt in the force that all was not well with her friend. She was getting a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen and Anakin was going to be caught up in the middle of it. She hoped that he would get some rest and try to resolve what was bothering him.
After the meeting, she found out that Obi-Wan got to go and confront Grievous.