A/N: Your favorite author here! Since I'm back with writing more of this story, I have some fun facts to share with you in each chapter. I don't know how many, but some of them are how I created Kairi, how I created each chapter before the final draft, a fun fact about me and this game I love, or maybe something about Kairi and other OC's in this story!

One or maybe two will be at the bottom of every chapter!

So, let's get back to the galaxy!

Chapter Fourteenth: Loneliness is Her Fear

"How many fingers am I holding up, kid?" Greez asked as Kairi can see multiple Lateros while she tried to keep her eyes still.

"Ahhh…. Mmmm… Eight?" Kairi hummed a bit, before answering.

Greez looked at his fingers which he was holding up 3 of them, before turning to the doctor.

"What can you do, doc?" Cal asked, before Kairi started lifting up her feet and started moving them in a walking motion. "Kairi, put your feet down." He stated after noticing as he turned back to look at the wounded Jedi who was resting her body on a medical bed.

"Weeeee…" Kairi responded to herself in the tone of a quiet but happy Youngling.

"You oughta teach her some manners, Cal." Greez grumbled. "She'd already call me an old man, walking into my ship every time with mud on her feet and even not doing this." He explained as he was talking off topic.

"No, it's normal for her to act like this. I've given her a sedative where she may feel off in the beginning. I can reassure you that Kairi will do just fine after surgery. I just need her to go to sleep… but I can tell she's fighting it." A blonde haired nurse named Skylari who wore her partisan outfit underneath a white coat explained as Kairi kept her tired eyes on her feet.

"I can use a frying pan on her, if that'll work." Greez suggested, as Kairi turned to him.

"Captain, you can't be that serious." Cere responded as she was shocked about Greez's suggestion.

"What? It's a little payback for the way she lifted me up in the air." Greez explained.

"That will put her into a comatose state. And you need her on your Jedi journey right?" Skylari responded, before Kairi felt Cal's hand gently patting the top of her head.

Wincing her eyes closed, Cal moved his hand away, knowing that she was battling a headache from the glass shard wound.

"We do. We need her back in action soon." Cal explained, before Cere quickly took Kairi's lightsaber away when the emitter was pointing towards her face.

"Well, here's what I can do. Cal, you go on ahead and meet up with Saw who is waiting for you. I'll stay here and do the surgery. Once she is out of it, Cere will let you know." Skylari responded before she walked away from the group.

Cal nodded, before he felt a tug on his poncho to see Kairi who was stopping him from leaving.

"Hey… I'm going to be okay. Don't worry, Kairi. I will return. Cere and Greez are here as well. Just stay calm and let Skylari help you get better. Okay?" Cal responded gently as he held Kairi's left hand with his gloved hand.

Then Kairi reached up and gently touched his face while using her thumb to rub his cheek. Slowly removing her hand, Kairi smiled gently before she felt a stinging needle injecting into her left wrist.

"Okay… there we go. There we go." Skylari responded quietly as she kept her eyes on Kairi's face.

Kairi's silver eyes widened as her arm was placed back down onto her side where she was resting on the cot.

"We're here, Kairi. Just stay calm…" Cere's voice was heard as everyone started to get blurry.

"Mhm…" Kairi hummed as her own voice echoed before she saw Cal and BD-1 walking away and out of the medical tent.

Reaching out for Cal with the same hand that she touched his cheek with, Kairi felt her that the world turned silent as her now heavy eyelids were closing…

"If you want to be a Jedi, then you start acting like one instead of being an outsider!"

"Aww, look at her, she's going to cry!"

"She's going to the dark side with the way she is!"

"Ha, ha, she's going to be a Sith!"

Youngling Kairi was standing in front of a group of other Younglings who interrupted her meditation since she was in the gardens of the Jedi Temple.

Kairi was just about to cry as she couldn't take anymore of the constant teasing and bullying until she covered her face with both of her hands. As she started crying quietly, Kairi felt her forehead symbol starting to glow when a nearby tree vine almost swatted one of the kids.

"Hey! Master Sealmar is looking for you three." A boy with ginger hair responded as he ran towards the group.

Youngling Kairi only caught a small glimpse at him, before hiding her face behind her hands once more.

The group's eyes widened, thinking that they were in trouble before they ran off.

The boy with ginger hair turned around to face Kairi, but she was gone.

As he started looking for her, he could feel her presence from the Force before he walked up to the nearby tree. Seeing a small foot sticking out from a tree branch, he decided to climb up. Once he made it up, Kairi immediately started to try and climb again, until she almost tripped, which he quickly saved her by pulling her back onto the tree branch from where he was.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

Kairi nodded as she decided to keep quiet.

She sat down on the branch which she turned around to face him, but kept her face down.

"You're a quick climber. But you have to be more careful. You might hurt yourself…" He explained before seeing that her brown boots were not on her feet which was out of the Jedi dress code. "Where are your shoes? Did they take them away from you?" He asked once more.

"You're not gonna tell on me or pick fun of me, aren't you?" Kairi asked after being silent.

"No, I won't do that to you. I'm not like them." He explained, before noticing her freshly made flower headband which she created earlier. "Kairi Jabami is your name, isn't it?" He asked before her silver eyes looked up at him, which no other Youngling never guessed her name or even called her by it beside her teasing names.

"Yeah… Just Kairi, okay?" She stated before her cheek started to blush.

"Okay 'Just Kairi'. I'm Cal Kestis. But just Cal." He introduced himself, before he had his hand out for Kairi to shake it.

Kairi smiled gently before she shook his hand.

"Don't worry. They're just jealous because you're a great learner with the Force. Don't listen to them. They're very bad at training, you wouldn't believe it!" Cal explained, which causes Kairi to giggle…

As time went on, Cal and Kairi had moments together being friends at the Jedi Temple. Sometimes they even study and train together or maybe just to get fresh air in the gardens to have conversations.

They were both fit together like puzzle pieces.

They stay together with their hands clasping together and even sharing hugs and laughter.

But all of a sudden, their paths have to come to an end.

On the day of the Gathering, they were getting their kyber crystals on Ilum to create their lightsabers, but Cal knew Kairi was in danger as she adventures out into the crystal caves alone without staying with the group.

"Kairi, no!" Cal called out as he saw Kairi climbing up an icy structure, but to the 10 year old Jedi Padawan, she saw her kyber crystal who was calling out to her.

"I got it!" Kairi exclaimed after she managed to pull it out and showed it to Cal from above.

Hearing the ice breaking around her, Kairi accidentally slipped off as she fell onto a frozen ice lake that happens to be a thin layer of ice.

As she tried to get up, Cal immediately stopped her from moving.

"No, Kairi, don't get up. Just crawl to me!" Cal responded frighteningly, before he tried to reach out for her.

With her right hand reaching towards his left one, they were only inches away from their warm touch… until the ice broke around the 10 year old Jedi Padawan as her body sunk down deep until the frozen lake water.

"No!"

Those were the last words she heard from Youngling Cal Kestis before she started suffering from hyperthermia…

It's been a week since that incident on Ilum, Kairi believed that she was unconscious for only one day. The doctors believe that she was confused at first knowing she suffered a broken jaw along with hyperthermia but they believe that she will pull a full recovery within a matter of days.

When she left the recovery ward of the Jedi Temple, Kairi decided to go see Cal and show off her lightsaber which she managed to build. Switching it on, Kairi stared at the purple glowing blade as a smile appeared on her face before looking back at the picture she drew during her recovery.

In front of Cal's room, Kairi knocked before walking in.

As she walked in, the room was empty. Kairi held her picture close, before she heard someone from behind.

"Cal?" Kairi responded before she turned around with her wide silver eyes.

"There you are, Kairi. You should be resting in your room. You will be returning back to your studies tomorrow." Master Deepa responded after placing her hand on Kairi's left shoulder while she got down to her height by one knee.

"Yes, Master Deepa." Kairi replied before looking down at the picture and speaking up again. "Master Deepa? Where is Cal? He's not in his room. And it's empty…" Kairi asked as she was holding the drawn picture of her and Cal holding hands as they had their lightsabers in their other hands.

"I'm afraid Cal is no longer with us here on Coruscant, Young Kairi. He has been chosen by his Master. Cal Kestis had graduated into a Padawan." Master Deepa explained as Kairi gripped onto the picture with both hands before the Jedi Master rested her hand on Kairi's left shoulder. "In a few years in time, you will be chosen as well. Don't worry. Do not live in fear, young one. You must get rid of that feeling." She responded, before Kairi nodded until she went back to her room.

Once the doors closed behind her, Kairi walked toward her bed as she let her picture drop to the floor.

Landing her small body onto the bed, Kairi started sobbing through the blankets and pillows to mask her cries, knowing that she lost her friend…

"Aahh!" Kairi screamed after quickly raising her body upright when she woke up from her sleep. Breathing in and out slowly, Kairi looked around as she was in her private medical tent where her surgery and recovery took place. "Bad dream…" She stated to herself as she felt bandages around her head with her right hand when she gently rubbed it.

Outside of her tent, she can see a fire burning indicating that she was at a recovery campsite.

Slowly getting up, Kairi went outside as she found out that it was nighttime on Kashyyyk.

"How long was I out?" Kairi thought to herself.

As she stood in front of the fire, she found out that her white skirt and her black shirt was taken off earlier when she was left wearing a black tank top, her shorts and her long burgundy thigh high leg warmers.

Rubbing her cold hands together, Kairi had her small hands out towards the fire as she stood there in deep thought.

"Our enemies are getting stronger every second. As my Padawan you will overcome it. Do not let your feelings take control over your Jedi way. You must learn to get stronger. There is no try. It's either do it or fail, my apprentice."

"It's either do it or fail…" Kairi whispered to herself, knowing that Master Rin Sotah's words ranged throughout her head after many years of being in hiding.

Looking up at the moon, Kairi slowly stood up before closing her eyes while balling her hands up into fists.

"I will get stronger, Master. You and others have to believe in me." Kairi whispered, tears ran down her face before she wiped them off.

Looking down at the fire, she noticed something that was around her neck as she saw her kyber crystal necklace. Gently lifting up the small crystal, she stared at it before placing it back down on her chest and headed back inside of her tent to get her lightsaber and her bow and arrows.

"I am a Jedi. Not a scared little girl anymore." Kairi whispered before having her bow and arrows behind her back and her lightsaber on her shorts belt.

Leaving the campsite, Kairi was unaware that someone in a far away distance saw her running off deep into the forest of Kashyyyk.

"This will catch them off guard… We have an enemy running away from those rebel campsites… Yes, I think it's one of the Jedi… Short black hair, pale skin, carrying multiple weapons." A Stormtrooper responded as he was looking through thermal binoculars, before he called it in…

Fun Fact Time!: Did you know that Kairi means (ocean or sea) or (melody) in French?