Chapter 10

Three hours left

One key remaining

"I don't get it Sabine" said Hera as they followed the angry girl down the hall, "Ezra already hid one of the keys in his sabor, so why-"

Sabine stopped dead in her tracks, and slowly turned to face Hera and Zeb, with Chopper slowly backing up. "Do you guys still not get this, or am I going to have to explain again!" you could hear the distain in her voice, still fuming over what Kanan said, because she knew it has true. When she was met with no answer, she sighed heavily. "Because, when we went to check the sabor there was nothing in the compartment!"

This time Zeb spoke up, "well yea, that's because the kid had it on him-"

she cut off yet another member of her group, "don't you guys get it! This is a game!"

Still met with blank expressions she continued, " him having the key on him, and us finding hidden compartment, that was all part of it!"

"Wait, wait, wait" said Hera stepping in, "are you suggesting that Ezra had a key on him, so that way after we checked the light sabor, we would go looking for the last key somewhere else, then he would put the final key in his sabor, knowing we wouldn't look there again?"

"Took you long enough" Sabine said turning around again.

"That's crazy Sabine!" said Zeb stopping her, "don't you think Ezra could be a little more trustworthy than that? I mean, even when we found the key on him, I could see the guilt on his face" he said looking at Hera, then back at Sabine. "I really don't think the kid would do something like that."

'Can't anyone just be on my side to day!' thought Sabine. She starred at the lasat for a moment before saying, "now was this look of guilt before or after you cracked his skull open and made him get, what was it? Oh right eleven stich's." she said with an icey grin as she watched Zeb's eyes quickly drop. On a normal day Sabine would have never said these things, but this was not a normal day, she was hurt, and what do you do when your hurt? You hurt others. "Come on" she said turning and walking away once more, "we don't have much time left."

'Fine' thought Kanan, 'who cares if I'm alone, whatever's in that box is clearly troubling Ezra, and I'm not about to let a little fight with Sabine stop me from helping my padawan.'

" Ok, so spectour six, six keys, they were right about that part six is an impotent number in all of this" He said talking to himself, "what else could six mean? Let's see, um, oh! His parents! Who were taken from him when he was seven, not six. Hum, wait a minute, maybe seven and six are the key numbers!" He said still talking to himself as he paced back and fouth, still in the main area. "seven and six, seven and six" he repeated. " seven plus six is thirteen." Could that be a key number too? We wounded, "seven and six, seventy-six?" He immediately stopped pacing." Thirteen, seventy-six" he said. "I know where the last key is" he said as he raced down the hall.

Whale that was happening, on Sabine's side,

Hera was starting to get angry now too. Sabine knew Zeb felt bad enough about Ezra even though he wouldn't say it, she knew he never meant to hut him, and yet she brought it up.

"So" said Hera shattering the relentless silence, "do you think the light savor is still in his room?" Asked Hera, and just as Sabine was about to make another smart mouth comment, they herd someone yell from down the hall.

"Think again!" Ezra yelled as he held the light sabor taunting them, much like he did earlier that day with the credits, which had gotten him into this whole mess, and might have just gotten himself in to a new one.

"EZRA!" shouted Sabine, sounding even madder than Zeb had, "GIVE US THAT LIGHT SABOR RIGHT NOW! We figured it out fair and square!" she shouted at the youngest member of their crew, who was still standing at the end of the hall.

"Figured what out?" said Ezra as he turned and ran in the other direction.

"After him!" Sabine yelled, as she began running, but quickly turned around to see that Chopper was already gone, and Zeb and Hera had not moved. "Come on!" she yelled

"Sabine" Hera said in a calm voice, "didn't you hear him? He said figure out what. He knows that we think it's in the light sabor, and he knows that were wrong."

"FINE!" said Sabine in a huff, "I'll call you when I get the key!" she yelled over her shoulder as she began running after Ezra.

An hour passed before Sabine returned to the exact same spot where she had left, where Hera and Zeb still stood waiting for her. They weren't about to leave there friend, who was hurt and taking the game all to seriously. She retuned completely out of breath as she sat down on the floor, Hear and Zeb joining her. "I've (pant) gone (pant) crazy (pant) haven't I?" she said in heavy breaths, a look of remorse in her eyes.

"Just a bit" said Zeb putting his hand on her shoulder.

"I'd say more than that." Said Ezra appearing from behind corner. He looked almost as hurt as Sabine did after her and Kanan estranged those harsh words with each other. He dropped the sabor at her feet then glanced at his watch, "looks like I've wasted enough of your time." He turned away and began walking away, but right before he turned the corner, he looked at Sabine and said "and I heard the plain you thought I made, I wouldn't do something that thought out and dirty, I though you knew me better than that." He finished as he completely tuned the corner.

As he turned Zeb had to turn his head away so he wouldn't have to look at the stich marks on Ezra's head.

'Great' thought Sabine, "now I feel even worse!' Yet, just in case, she still checked the compartment, only to find it to be completely, and painfully empty. "Ok" said Sabine trying to make her voice sound cheery, "don't worry, we've still got," she looked at her watch and her heart sank.

Just then Kanan came running down the hall yelling "I know! I know!" When he finally got to them, all sitting agents the wall. "I know where the last key is!" he yelled in excitement.

"its too late Kanan" Sabine said, not even looking up at him.

"What? What do you mean-" he slowly trailed off as he looked out the window, the orange, yellow and red filling the sky.

Finally, Sabine looked up at him, "its sunset."

Really hope you guys liked that chapter! Sorry to leave you hanging, but have no fear, this is not the last chapter! –Azilia