A/N: Hello again, everyone!

Important Note: If you read the last chapter right after it was published, go back and re-read the conversation between Obi-Wan and the three girls, because I changed it to be more IC with help from general-joseph-dickson. Thanks!

Disclaimer: If I owned anything, I sure wouldn't be writing fanfic about it, I'd put myself into the story from the beginning! And I don't own Saint Dane, from Pendragon either. Or .

Reviews:

general-joseph-dickson: Ah, okay, I think I finally get it, pardon my being rather slow. It was pretty late when I was writing it. But thank you for all the help!

P.Woods: Haha, thanks so much, I love Wookieepedia, and I also feel the need to inform people that don't really give a care about various aspects of the SW universe. Thanks for reviewing!

VSLDT: No, Anakin hasn't changed yet. Padme's death is bringing that around. The temple moved because there was an attack on it, and yes, passing alg. 2 was rather difficult. Now, no more complaining from you missy! You should have written the story yourself if you wanted it to be all about you, silly!

Libby: -hugs reviewer back mucho lots- You just might be right! -le gasp!-

GuardianXAngel: Haha, yes, I love band, though I am more partial to flutes, since that's what I play. Though, Kayla plays clarinet!

EragonPeep: Haha! I have startled o1ne person, at least! Or... at least I think... Lol, thanks for reviewing!

Fan O' Fanfic: Why thank you! And thanks for reviewing!

x.hardcore.x: Of course you were bored, silly. This is a Star Wars fanfic after all. And someone is a poo-head and won't let me show her the wonderful world of Star Wars!! But thanks for trying to read it!!

And onto the story!

(Kayla)

After getting a refreshing nights sleep, the three of us had to report to the Jedi council after we had breakfast. Hailey, being the morning person that she was, snapped and grumbled at everyone while she piled her plate with everything edible she could find.

I turned to Ray. "Sooo... hows it going?" I said, trying to ignore Hailey stuffing her face. All the food was just going to make her even more hyper later.

"It's going well," Ray answered back, almost lethargic as well.

I sighed. Sleepyheads.

I turned to Obi-Wan. "So what's been going on with the search for the Sith?" I asked.

He finished chewing, then began. "The attack on the temple on Coruscant was the beginning of the terror. The Sith's trail of destruction leads everywhere and countless Jedi teams have investigated, and none have found anything more than a dead-end.

"And with the growing tension between worlds, it looks like there's going to be a huge war on our hands," he answered.

My mouth fell open. "A war?"

He nodded, frowning and thinking hard.

"So it's basically Sith and people under the Sith's influence against the Jedi and everyone else?" I said. The outcome looked good for the Jedi if that was the case. I wasn't sure if that was good or bad.

"Not exactly," Obi-Wan said, frown deepening. "You see, the Sith's influence creates turmoil in the different worlds. He gets in close to the heart of forced peace relations and pushes them back over the edge."

"Like Saint Dane!" Hailey burst out, grinning excitedly. When everyone gaped at her like she was a babbling idiot, which isn't uncommon, her grin faded and she looked and Ray and I intently, as if trying to remind us of something. "You know, Pendragon..." Hailey muttered.

"I never read those books, Hailey," Ray said. She turned to me. "Did you?"

I shook my head. Sure, I had heard Hailey's obsessing over them and tried to tune her out, but sometimes she's hard to ignore.

"Well," Hailey said. "In the books, Saint Dane's like, the bad guy or whatever, and Pendragon is trying to stop him. And Saint Dane goes into the different territories – or, worlds, that is – and gets close to the leaders who are near dispute and pushes them over the edge, creating civil wars. He plans on picking up the pieces of the ruined territories – although, I don't know if he succeeds, the series isn't completed yet. But I'm pretty sure Pendragon wins... cause in all decently written stories, the good guys prevail in the end. Except for this one story I read, where the bad guys really did win and hope was lost, but there was another book after that that I keep forgetting to pick up from the library..." she continued on while Obi-Wan looked like he had found a gold mine or something.

"So, you're saying the Sith Lord could be planning on building his own empire from the pieces of the ruined worlds?" Obi-Wan asked eagerly.

Hailey blinked. "Uh... I was just telling the story of what happens in the books..." She thought for a moment. "Yes!"

"That's brilliant..." Obi-Wan said. Hailey grinned triumphantly. Egotistical, much?

"You mean to say," I knew I was being obnoxious and disrespectful, but I could really have cared less. "That the Jedi couldn't even foresee that the Sith Lord was trying to take over?"

If my question had bothered Obi-Wan, he didn't show it. "The Jedi knew the Sith Lord was planning on taking over, or at least destroying the Jedi Order, but then he began meddling and setting small disputes, sending entire planets into civil war."

"How many planets are fighting as we speak?" Ray asked, worried.

"That, I can't answer. But the number is large, I can assure you." Obi-Wan tugged at the stubble which he probably called a beard. "Even on Coruscant, as you probably saw, the beings who were once at peace are beginning to fight. Riots have broken out on the streets where the Jedi Temple used to be before it was attacked."

"What happened to it?" Ray asked.

"I was away, trying to settle a huge dispute between a couple different planets in the outer rim. But I heard the horror stories of the Jedi. Most were killed. Only half of our High Jedi Council remains with us. The others have become one with the force."

Huh. I wonder who the Jedi were. I know it wasn't Masters Yoda or Windu, because we saw them when we arrived on Ossus.

"But what happened to the temple?" Ray pressed.

It was obvious even to them that Obi-Wan didn't know the whole story. "A group of Dark Jedi and Sith came to the temple at night. With the force, they began destroying it. Most of our Jedi teams were away, settling disputes far and wide. There weren't many Jedi to counter the Sith. Not enough.

"The temple fell to the Sith, and the few that remained were able to escape with their lives. They came here to re-establish the the temple that once existed years ago."

We all nodded, understanding. Or at least, pretending to understand the state that the galaxy fell to in only seven years.

(Ray)

After breakfast, we had to meet with the Jedi council. Obi-Wan came with us to explain the idea that Hailey had. Well, Obi-Wan called it that. Hailey just called it a book synopsis. Oh well.

The council let us go, after grilling us about what we had seen, and what had happened.

Then, we could do whatever we wanted, as long as we stayed within the temple grounds. For protection, they told us.

We randomly walked the halls for a while, then Hailey spotted someone we all knew.

"Qui-Gon!" She shrieked. He flinched slightly, then turned towards us.

Hailey went to give him a hug, but he pulled back harshly. "You," he said, voice full of menace. Hailey blinked, eyes immediately tearing up. She didn't even cry when her favorite teacher passed away after we passed her class, yet she cried when her favorite fish died. His name was Sammy, and I only know that because the whole week she kept crying about Sammy.

And that was in the eighth grade.

So, of course, she immediately began crying when Qui-Gon appeared cold.

He seemed to soften for just a bit when he saw her tears, but then he became cold again.

"What's wrong with you?" Kayla asked, not caring if she was being rude. He just made Hailey cry, he deserved to be disrespected.

"You three are the reason Anakin has turned. You," he turned to me suddenly. "Filled him with lies about Padme and made them love each other. It has been his undoing," he said with a hate-filled voice that was so different from the one we had heard back when they were still a Master-Padawan team.

Before I could respond, Hailey broke in. "Maybe if you had trained Obi-Wan like you were supposed to, and left Anakin alone, then everything would be okay!"

Even though all of us, including Hailey, knew that even without Anakin everything would not be okay, it was a nice fantasy to indulge in for a moment.

He began to retort, but Hailey broke in again. "Think about what it did to Obi-Wan. Being abandoned by his Master, his Father. Just being left alone, Master-less, because you found a new, more promising apprentice!" Hailey basically screamed the last part at him. "Well how do you feel now? You got your new apprentice, and he FAILS AT LIFE!!" Hailey was screaming, tears running down her face. Even Kayla and I had never seen her act this way.

A rather large crowd had gathered to watch the fight. Qui-Gon was a Jedi, for crying out loud! He wasn't supposed to act this way! Where'd his sense of morality go?!

Then, something unimaginable happened. Something that should never, ever, be seen out of a Jedi Master.

His hand raised, and he hit Hailey across the face as hard as he could. Jedi tackled him, restraining him from leaping at Hailey. She lay sprawled out on the floor, just like I had seen her sleep many times, but the side of her face was swelling, turning an angry red color.

She lifted her head a bit to see what was going on. Her gaze held Qui-Gon's for a while, and I might have seen regret in his eyes at the sight of her face, but then again, you never know.

Kayla and I rushed at her and held her tight. Obi-Wan came and escorted us out of the main hall area that we were currently in. He brought us to the healers, where a Jedi Healer immediately began tending to Hailey's, now purple, face.

The healer shooed us out of the room, and we sat to down in the waiting room, impatiently sitting, listening for any sound coming from behind the door.

Obi-Wan said nothing about what Hailey had yelled to Qui-Gon. I could tell he needed to work that out on his own time.

And so we waited.

(Hailey)

I awoke. For a moment, I was able to enjoy being awake. It was a blissful moment of ignorance, before the galaxy's troubles came flooding back to me.

I groaned in pain and tried to sit up.

A healer gently pressed down on my shoulder, forcing me to lay down. I was given medicine to help the pain go away, but it only worked if I kept my face still.

While lying there, I thought about what I had screamed at Qui-Gon. It was brash and extremely mean. But true. He had abandoned Obi-Wan just as he was ready to be Knighted. Luckily he had found other means of getting Knighted.

And because of his training, Anakin was now an agent of the Sith.

But the Jedi don't know that yet.

A/N: Yay! Another chapter!

To be honest, the fight with Qui-Gon wasn't planned in any way, shape, or form. It kinda was immensely sporadic, and I never meant it to escalate into actually hitting Hailey.

So it calls for a vote!

Option A: Qui-Gon relies more and more on emotion, and consequently turns himself towards the dark side.

Option B: He goes into where Hailey's healing, almost starts a fight, but then apologizes for his behavior.

Option C: He goes crazy and begins dueling with other Jedi, and something (I don't know what, yet) happens. Remember, though, a lot of things will be going crazy by the end of this fic and so Qui-Gon won't be totally out-of-the-blue.

So cast your vote! Or, if you have other ideas, let me know! I'm partial to Option C, but you never know.

Surprise me!!