Ok guys. I'm going to be reuploading chapter 3 because I've changed the plot a bit and I need to change some things.
Also I'm adding a character in that was never planned until a couple nights ago, so bare with me.
And finally, I've realised that after episode 7, Han, Leia, Lando, Chewie, R2 and 3PO basically disappear. So I'm sorry if it seems like I'm not including them. But I'm going to try to fit them in more.
Luke, Mayla and Amber waited for their padawans in the girl's apartment the next morning. And this morning was one of the bad mornings. It was bad because of the usual 3 problems.
One of the problems was Lena. She always slept in, and it took forever for the other two girls to get her up. And Lena was defiantly not a morning person. So she was not that fun in the morning.
Another problem was a problem you would think Padmé would be the one to have. But it wasn't Padmé who had it, who had it was Taylor.
She couldn't decide what to wear. Why it was so hard was she had to decide whether she was going to change her appearance today, and if so which one. If she was going to change she had to pick a comfortable outfit, that would still fit if she change, and it still had to look good on both appearances (or all three if needed).
And the last problem was Padmé. It always took her what seemed like hours and get ready. She would take forever with every detail of her outfit and appearance. Everything from her hair to her outfit took a long time for her. She would even take 20 minutes to decide how to wear her lightsaber that day.
But today was one of the bad days because the 3 Jedi Masters had a council meeting to get to. And it was very soon.
Then Taylor and Lena finally came to the Jedi.
Taylor was wearing a brown tunic, whose sleeves ran all the way to her wrists. She had dark brown pants that fell to a little ways above her ankles. She had her normal appearance on. Her hair was down without anything done to it. And she had some makeup on (but not much).
Lena was wearing complete black from head to toe. In fact her outfit was very reminiscent of what her father always wore. Lena's hair was up in a high ponytail, and she had no makeup on. But she still looked pretty (but consider who her parents are).
"Morning Master." Taylor said giving a bow to Amber. Then bowing to Luke and Mayla and said, "Masters."
"Luke, Masters." Lena said bowing to all three.
"Morning." Luke and Amber said both giving the two girls a bow.
"Morning." Mayla said bowing slightly, before yelling very loudly, "Padmé Solo! We have to leave now!"
The other 4 grimaced.
"I think they heard that across the hall." Amber whispered to Taylor.
"5 credits said they didn't." Taylor whispered back to her master.
"You're on." Amber said before the girls shook on it.
"Luke, I don't think I've ever congratulated you on your choice of wife." Lena said to her brother.
"Shut up." Luke said.
"Now, now Luke, that's not a very nice way to treat your baby sister." Lena said.
Before Luke could retort they heard knocking at the door.
Taylor answered the door to see Obi-Wan, Anakin, Anakin and Kaymerin standing there.
"Good morning Masters, how can we help you?" Taylor asked.
"We heard yelling and we came to see if you were alright." Obi-Wan explain.
Taylor and Amber looked at each other.
"Damn." Taylor whispered.
"We're fine." Luke said.
"Who was the yelling?" The Grandmaster asked.
"Mayla." Came the ominous reply.
"So that's where you get your vocal cords." Grandmaster said to Anakin.
"What-?" Obi-Wan started to ask.
"Padmé." Mayla said.
"Oh." Came the understanding reply of Kaymerin.
"Do you think I should wear my hair this way or this way?" Padmé asked no one in particular, coming out showing her hair up in a regular bun, and a bun with a bit of hair hanging down. "Or maybe I should wear a braid."
Padmé wore a dark brown tank top, with black pants. And she was wearing about as much makeup her mother and grandmother wore on a daily basis.
"I honestly don't care. Now we have to go before we're late." Mayla said before grabbing Padmé's arm a pulling her out the door.
"But mom always said to pride yourself in your appearance." Padmé explained to her master struggling with walking and putting her hair up into, what she finally decided, a crown roll (if you don't know what it is look it up on Google).
"But did she also teach you not it tick off a pregnant woman?" Amber asked.
"Of course." Padmé said.
"Well take it from me, as your uncle and husband to your master. Apply that lesson from now until the twins are born." Luke said. "Mayla isn't exactly the most fun person to be around when she's pregnant."
"I may be pregnant, but I am not deaf Skywalker." Mayla said.
"Yes, dear." Luke said.
Lena looked at Luke and smirked, which resulted in a small punch from her brother as to say, 'Shut up'.
Then Lena whispered to Padmé, "It doesn't matter how you put your hair up. It still looks stupid with your braid."
The braid Lena was referring to was the braid that every padawan had. The council decided to reinstate the padawan braid. But they (thankfully for the girls) decided that padawans didn't need to shave their heads and have the braid like the original padawans did. They could wear regular hairstyles as long as they kept their braid. And the girls (mostly Lena) liked to tease the guys about this. Surprisingly Mayla every now and again liked to tease her son about it too.
Soon the group got to the council chambers. And of course the padawans had to wait outside.
"Why do we have to get up, just so they can ditch us outside for an hour?" Lena asked.
"No idea." Kaymerin said.
Inside the council chambers...
"Ok, settle down everyone." Anakin said. "I, Anakin Skywalker, the 1st Grandmaster of the New Jedi Order commence this meeting of the 3rd Jedi Council, on this the day December the 7th, in the 21st year After the Battle of Yavin. Now before we get to the main things, is there any new business, not regarding Master Skywalker, his padawan, their latest mission, or the assassination attempt on Leia Solo?"
"Actually I do have something, but I'd rather we discuss it at the end of the meeting." Mace said.
"Ok then, anything else?" Anakin asked. When no one spoke Anakin continued, "Ok, first of all, Leia's attack."
"Ok, I'm sorry but I missed that whole ordeal. What exactly went on with that?" Luke asked.
"Ask your wife, she was there." Amber said.
Mayla glared at Amber.
"You were there? I thought you weren't supposed to be going on missions." Luke said.
"Do you want me to state my case about the whole pregnant thing again? Because I will." Mayla said.
"NO!" The other 10 Jedi Master shouted.
Outside...
"Did you hear something?" Taylor asked the others.
"Yeah." Anakin said.
"What was that?" Padmé asked.
"I think it came from inside." Kaymerin said.
"It sounded a lot like a 'no'." Lena said.
Back Inside...
Everyone looked away, as Luke and Mayla looked around.
Anakin cleared his throat before saying, "No Mayla, there's no need."
"We have heard your case before." Obi-Wan said.
"Several times." Amber said.
The others agreed.
"So what happened?" Luke asked.
The Jedi explained the situation, and they agreed that this once they would not interfere. Then they moved into the bounty hunter incident. And then to Lena's punishment.
"I think a week of temple arrest would be good for her." One of the Jedi said.
"No, that doesn't work for her." Amber said.
"Should we make her do Chore Hours?" Mayla asked.
If the name Chore Hours are obvious enough I'll tell you what they are. Chore hours were a punishment where the one doing them had to do things like holo work (aka paper work), organizing the archives, cleaning the temple, running errands, ect. It was very boring work.
"No, that wouldn't work." Luke said.
All the Jedi were stumped.
"Well, there is one thing we could do." Mace said.
"What?" Luke asked.
"It's pretty drastic though." Mace said.
"If that's what it takes we'll do it." Luke said.
"What is it?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Anakin, you know that mission that you told me about last night?" Mace said.
"Yeah. What about- No! You can't! That's too harsh!" Anakin said.
"It's the only way." Mace said.
"That would kill her." Anakin said.
"She'll have to start doing it sooner or later." Mace said.
"Remember what happened last time?" Anakin said.
"I am aware of that, but I doubt that will happen again." Mace said.
"What mission is it?" Luke said.
"Negotiation mission." Anakin and Mace said.
The other 10 Masters winced.
"That's torture to her." Luke said.
"It has to be done." Mace said.
"May I remind you about the last time she went on a negotiation mission?" Luke asked.
"Now come on, it wasn't that bad." Mace said.
"She fell asleep! Do you know how embarrassing that was for me?" Luke said.
"Look, she's obviously not learning from the other punishments, maybe this will do the trick." Mace said.
"So all in favour?" Anakin asked.
The vote was close, it was 7-5, so it was decided that Lena would go on the mission.
"So when should Lena and I be ready to go?" Luke asked.
"Actually, I don't think you should go." Mace said.
"What?" A couple of the Jedi said.
"Well look at yourself, you're not exactly in the best traveling condition." Mace said.
"Oh, come on. I'm fine, I'm not that hurt. I don't have too many injuries." Luke said.
"2 black eyes, a broken nose, several bruises, a spilt lip, a dislocated arm, sprained wrist, twisted ankle, a cracked jaw and 7 broken ribs." Mayla said.
Luke looked at her and said, "I forgot you were here."
"So what are you proposing?" Obi-Wan asked Mace.
"Well, until he's healed I think that perhaps Master Skywalker shouldn't go on any missions." Mace said.
"Let me get this straight, you want to put me on bedrest?" Luke asked.
"Well that is the technical term." Mace said.
"I second the notion." Anakin said.
"What?" Luke said.
"He's right, you need to recover. You're more useful on bedrest then on missions getting yourself hurt more." Anakin said.
"I concur the notion." Mayla said.
"Mayla!" Luke said.
"Sorry but they're right." Mayla said.
"So Master Skywalker is on bedrest." Anakin said.
Mayla couldn't hold in her laughs anymore.
"What are you laughing at? You're joining him." Anakin said.
"What?" Mayla said.
"Don't worry. The two of you can spend some quality time together." Amber said.
"Amber, last time I checked, quality time was how I got like this." Mayla said.
"Mayla, we understand that you are strong. In fact you are one of, if not the, strongest female Jedi we have." Anakin said.
Amber, Cindra and the other 2 girls (not Mayla) looked at Anakin.
"You all know what I mean. Anyways Mayla should have gone on bedrest months ago. Now that she starting her 8th month she needs to be on bedrest." Anakin said.
"Nice try but you need 2 others' agreement on this matter." Mayla said.
"Actually I second the notion." Obi-Wan said.
"And I concur." Luke said (getting his revenge on her).
"Well then, both Mayla and Luke are on bedrest. Now is there any other business?" Mace asked. "Very well meeting adjourned."
Ok the chapter would have been too long, I've spent a couple weeks on it, plus all day. So I decided to cut this in half. So the bit that's supposed to be here I'll put at the beginning, even if I don't get to end on Amber's joke (you'll see next chapter).
And everyone on the 29th is the anniversary of the She Lived Series. So January is going to be a big update month.
And I've decided to get a beta reader. What is a beta reader? Well the Wikipedia definition is:
A beta reader (or beta reader, or beta) is a person who reads a work of fiction with a critical eye, with the aim of improving grammar, spelling, characterization, and general style of a story prior to its release to the general public.
So I'm looking for one. What are the perks? Well you (in a way) control the story, get credit and you get free previews of the next chapter. So if you want to be my beta reader, tell me.
Now before you go a rush to ask (if that's what you were going to do) to be it I have a few rules.
1. You have to be well verse in the series, shorts and website.
And
2. You have to be one of my avid reviewers. That means you have to have been reviewing regularly for at least one of the episodes.
These are who I'd prefer to be it: StarwarsKPgal71, ILDV, stellergazeller, twisterblake, DanaeMariSkywalker, or (who'd I'd like the most to be it) TriGemini.
Tell me if any of you want to be it.
And Happy New Year everyone. I'll be back in 2008 (which will be here at midnight).
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