Haven
"Haven!" Luke woke me up the next morning at dawn. "Come on we have to go look for the R2 unit."
"What are you talking about?" I said, forgetting again what world I was in.
"He ran off last night and we need to go look for him. Now hurry up, I've already told Aunt Beru we were going to town to get their memories wiped." And with that he left. I got dressed and hurried out to join Luke and C3PO in the land-speeder.
I had to resist the urge to give them directions and warnings as we followed R2's tracks.
"Look, there's a droid on the scanner, dead ahead! It might be the R2 unit, hit the accelerator!" He said as he pointed at the gray dot on the scanner. Threepio pressed down on the accelerator and the land-speeder drove faster and faster towards R2.
•••
The land-speeder came to halt right behind R2 and we all jumped out.
"Where do you think you're going?" I asked as I stepped in front of him. R2 beeped an answer and we both looked at Threepio for a translation.
"Master Luke and Mistress Haven are your rightful owners now!" Mistress Haven, I like that. "We'll have no more of this Obi-Wan Kenobi gibberish!" R2 spoke something to Threepio. "And don't talk to me about your 'mission' either! You're lucky they don't blast you to bits right here!" His remark got him an odd look from Luke.
"No, it's alright, but we gotta go." R2 started beeping wildly and spun his head while he did so.
"Now what's wrong with him?" I asked, even though I knew what was coming.
"There are several creatures approaching from the east." Threepio reported with a glance east.
"Sand-people." Luke said as his eyes suddenly became very wide. He rushed back over to the land-speeder and pulled out a very long gun and a pair of binoculars. "Come on let's go have a look." He said, and tossed the binoculars to me as he passed.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" I asked. I did not want to be involved with what happens next.
"Sure, they're probably all down in the canyon." He knelled down behind a rock so that he was unseen by anyone in the canyon. I crouched next to him and cautiously looked around the side of the rock with the binoculars. "Do you see anything?"
I saw two Banthas with giant saddles on their backs, but I knew there was sand-people nearby.
"There's two Banthas and that's all I see." I said, handing the binoculars back to Luke. He looked for himself and I hoped that by some random chance he would see the sand-person and decide it was time to leave.
"There's sand-people alright. I can see one now." I heard a sound below us.
"Um, Luke?" I was silently praying he would listen to me and leave.
"Just a second." He adjusted some of the buttons and I heard the sound again. I reached to yank him back, but I was too late.
The sand-person jumped up in front of us and pumped his staff up and down. He spoke something in sand-language and I heard Threepio scream. Luke grabbed the gun and tried to defend himself while I backed-up and looked for some sort of weapon. Luke couldn't react fast enough and the sand-man hit him in the gut with his staff.
Luke fell and rolled to avoid having his head crushed by the spiked staff. The sand-man got aggregated by Luke's quick movements and pumped the staff in air again with a loud shout.
"Hey buddy!" I yelled as I threw the nearest rock and it hit his neck. He screeched and turned to face me. "Leave him alone!" I threw another, not really thinking at the moment. It was when the sand-man charged me that I realized just what an idiotic mistake I'd made.
I dodged and the sand-man whipped around once he realized I was no longer in his path of destruction. I struggled to lift a heavy rock and rolled out of the way when he charged again. I finally managed to lift it and I somehow gathered the strength to throw it at him. It hit his knee and he went down.
Luke stood and collected his gun. "Good job." He said as we both looked down at the sand-man as he tried his hardest to craw away.
We heard another cry and whipped around to see another sand-man behind us. We didn't have time to react before it smacked Luke with his staff and Luke went down. So it was just me. Against a sand-man. Without a weapon. I'm dead.
I backed up to try to escape it, but I forgot about the ledge. I wobbled for a few seconds before tumbling down the canyon wall. My body seemed to hit every single stone and plant along the way down. Then my head hit a large stone and everything went black.
•••
I woke up staring at the bright sky, but something was blocking most of the sunlight. A hand. It was resting my forehead and it scared me half to death.
"Get away from me!" I screamed as I pushed the hand off my forehead crawled away. Once I was about 5 feet away I saw that it was not a sand-person; it was an old man. "Who are you?" I demanded.
"My name is Ben Kenobi, there is no need to be afraid. I am not going to hurt you." I quickly stood up and searched my mind for Ben. Ben, Ben, Ben. Oh Ben! Of course, how could I have forgotten?
"Haven Lars." I said scanning the terrain for Luke. I spotted him laying unconscious on the ground near me. "Luke!" I rushed over to him and kneeled over next to him.
"Be careful, you're in no condition to run like that. He'll be fine." Ben said as he too kneeled next to Luke and put his hand on Luke's forehead. A few seconds later Luke woke and had the same reaction I did.
He glanced back and forth between me and Ben before remembering what happened. And apparently realizing I was hurt (even though I didn't).
"Haven are you alright?" He asked as he came towards me.
"Yeah, why?" He gave me a funny look.
"You're kidding, right? You have a giant cut on your cheek." I put my hand to my cheek and felt the dried blood.
"I'll be fine." I said, even though now that I actually knew it was there it hurt like crazy.
It was then that he remembered Ben was there. "Ben Kenobi? Man I am glad to see you!" Ben gave a small smile and stood.
"The Jundland Wastes are not to be travel lightly." I stood as well and R2 inched closer. "Now tell me; what are you doing out here?" Ben asked.
"Him." I said with negativity as I pointed to R2. R2 beeped in his defense.
"I think he's looking for his old master, I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. He says he's the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours?" Ben stared off into the distance.
"Do you know who he's talking about?" I asked.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi?" Ben said, still staring off. "Obi-Wan. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
"I think my uncle knows him. He said he was dead." Luke said.
"Oh, he's not dead. Not yet, anyways."
"So you know him?" Luke asked hopefully.
"Well of course I know him. He's me." Ben said with a smile." R2 beeped in surprise. "I haven't gone by the name of Obi-Wan since before either of you were born."
"Oh, then the droid does belong to you."
"I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid." R2 beeped once. "Very interesting." I couldn't tell if he was talking about what R2 had said or the fact that the droid was his.
We heard sand-people shouting in the distance.
"I think we'd better get indoors. The sand-people are easily startled, but they'll soon be back and in greater numbers." Ben head towards our land-speeder
R2 beeped, twisted his head north and began to lean back and forth.
"Oh, Threepio!" I walked over and the first thing I see is his arm. Not a good sign. I picked it up and Ben and Luke began to drag Threepio to the land-speeder as he tried to remember what happened.
•••
"No, my father didn't fight in the war; he was a navigator on a spice freighter." Luke said as he took the screw driver from me and twisted another bolt into Threepio's arm.
"That's what your uncle told you." Ben spoke as if the news disappointed him. "He didn't hold to your father's ideals, thought he should have stayed here and not gotten involved.
"You fought in the Clone Wars?" I asked even though I knew the answer.
"Yes, I was once a Jedi Knight, same as your father." Ben said as he turned back to Luke.
"Wish I'd known him." Luke said as he looked down at the floor.
"Me too." I would kill to meet the unturned Anakin Skywalker.
"He was the best star-pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand you've become quite a good pilot yourself." He was ignoring me as if I didn't exist. I mean I know Luke was one of the main characters, but come on! I thought the Jedi had manners! "And he was a good friend. Which reminds me, I have something here for you."
Ben got up and walked past R2 over to a chest. "Your father wanted you to have this, when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He thought you might follow old Obi-Wan on some darn-fool idealistic crusade like your father did."
"Sir, if you'll not be needing me, I'll go offline for a little while." Seriously? Was I like invisible now?
"Yeah, sure go ahead." He stood up and looked at the lightsaber Ben held. "What is it?"
"It's your father's lightsaber." Ben answered. "This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight." Luke took the lightsaber and inspected it. "Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age." Luke turned it on and began to moved it back and forth and up and down. He moved it faster once he got the hang of it and accidently chopped off a strand of my hair, giving me side bangs.
"Luke!"
"Sorry!" He shut off the lightsaber and I pulled on the singed hair, hoping that by some miracle it would grow back in the next 5 minutes. Ben continued like it never happened.
"For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic. Before the dark times… before the Empire."
At that moment a familiar voice called from another room. "Obi-Wan! I up!" Kari came into the room and was at first surprised to see Luke and I there but then she broke into a smile. "Haven!"
"Kari!" I jumped up off and couch and hugged her. "I am so glad to see a familiar face again!"
"What do mean?" Luke asked from the couch. I'd blown what little cover I'd had.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Here's chapter 11 which (for once) is actually decent sized and not filler! Woo! There won't be too much filler from now on since we're finally getting started. I was actually watching the movie while I wrote this so a lot of it is word for word. I hope this long chapter makes up for the past three short chapters and next probably short chapter. Now (drum-roll please!) time for the Review Responses!
PSDW: I finally got a decent sized chapter! Woo! And I updated soon! Also Woo!
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