A/N: Anything in parenthises after foriegn words is just the translation so that you guys don't have to do it yourselves. Thought I'd make it easy on you.

Chapter Twelve: Ninja Training...for Jedi?

Ahsoka wanted to smack Kai. Seeing as she never heard of a doragon before, she most definitely wouldn't have known that Ryū was just the plural word for them. "Kai... I've never been to your home planet!" This was going to be annoying if he kept it up. "I've never even heard of a doragon before. I was I supposed to know you were talking about multiple doragon?!"

Kai swooped low to the ship, the dragon that was carrying them suddenly vanishing without warning. Ahsoka gasped as she crashed into the ship, one of Master Plo's men rushing over to check on her. Kai gave her a weird look, puzzlement flashing across his eyes. "I thought that you knew about the doragon since you're obviously connected to one."

"What!?" Ahsoka blinked rapidly, bewilderment flashing through her.

Kai huffed, clearly uncertain how to explain this nonsense to her. "You're connected to one. Same thing with your Sensei..." Ahsoka made a mental note that was what they insisted that her Master was called. "And that one dude with the beard. It's easy to tell when someone is connected to a doragon, since they're easier to sense when they're close than those that aren't." Kai seemed uncomfortable, as if discussing this kind of thing with people outside of his family, friend group, she still wasn't sure which it was, was not something he enjoyed doing.

The clone that had approached them removed his helmet to reveal that it was Wolf. "What are you talking about there sir?"

"Nothing." Kai shook his head, turning to watch as more Torgutas escaped via ice slide. "Nothing at all." His voice was sharp, making Ahsoka and Wolf both wince at his words. How could Zane stand being so close to him? They were polar opposites!

…...

Zane was mediating when the one that they called Master Plo, another sensei apparently, walked in. "May I join you?"

Zane cracked one eye open, noting his strong connection to a doragon. "Of course. Meditation is the best way in my personally opinion to ensure a strong bond between someone and their doragon."

"I do not have a doragon, though little 'Soka did mention something about your friend mentioning that she had one." Plo sank into a mediation cushion, crossing his legs underneath him. "He got upset and rather... angry, when she expressed confusion on the manner."

"You mean he was surprised that she didn't know." Zane calmly corrected him. Startled, Plo looked over at him, wondering what he meant by that. He must have realized that he was confused, since he offered a wan smile alongside an explanation. "Kai is...unique. Due to everything that he has been through, instead of allowing his true emotions out where everyone can see them easily, he hides them behind anger and distrust. He was surprised, not angry, when she revealed that she didn't know what he was talking about."

"I see." Plo thoughtfully mulled over that information, before speaking up. "I take it that only those close to him actually understands what it is he is feeling and can interpret his true emotions correctly then?"

"Oh yes." Zane nodded, humor briefly flashing through his eyes. "Unfortunately, it also makes it nigh impossible for someone new to get close enough to him to actually learn what it is that he is truly thinking and feeling."

"It took a while then for the two of you to get close enough to consider each other brothers then?" Plo correctly guessed.

Zane opened his mouth to respond to his question, only for the door to hiss open as Kai strolled in. "Yo, Icicle, I want to teach Ahsoka how to summon her doragon."

Zane rolled his eyes skyward, amusement lacing his voice for once. "I see... and being the horrible teacher that we both know you are, you want me to do the actual teaching moments." Pausing, he turned back to Plo, his voice reverting back to the basic monotone that he seemed to prefer. "Would you like to learn how to summon your doragon as well? They are quite handy to have in certain situations, as you have already seen."

"I would love to learn how summon...my doragon, thank you for the offer." Plo blinked, wondering vaguely if Anakin and Obi-Wan would be joining for the lessons as well.

…..

"This is nuts! Fear leads to the Dark Side. Everyone knows that!" Anakin scoffed as he stared at the two foreigners, who had agreed to teach them how to summon something that they called a doragon.

Kai raised one eyebrow upwards, even as he drily responded to that statement. "So... you saying that nothing scares you?"

Anakin blushed hard at that, before shoving his embarrassment to the side. "Jedi are trained to push their fears to the side."

Zane stepped forward, effectively cutting off Kai. "That sounds wonderful. How about you tell yourself that while concentrating all of your energy to your hands." Kai's eyes widened at that, his mouth opening in an attempt to respond to that instruction. Zane once again cut him off, with a small shake of his head.

Anakin rolled his eyes skyward, before closing his eyes and imagining that the Force, he wasn't sure how to do energy, was culminating in his hands... an image of a certain lifeless body caused him to cry out in surprise, his eyes snapping open...in time to see a blue haze disappear into thin air. Zane stepped forward, his expression hinting that he wasn't surprised about whatever that was that just happened. "This is why Kai was telling you the importance of facing your fears. You almost succeeded in summoning your doragon. However, the second your fear started to play out in your mind, a natural part of summoning Ryū. If you can't face, and overcome, your fears, you cannot hold onto your doragon."

Anakin blinked rapidly, his mind turning to when Kai had saved Ahsoka. "How were you able to do it?"

"Do what?" Kai knitted his brows together, confusion etched on his features.

Anakin took in a deep breath, before elaborating. "You saved Ahsoka by summoning your doragon...and from the reports that we have, you and Zane were both casually talking about using them... how do you face your fears like that?"

Kai and Zane glanced at each other, before Kai slowly answered. "Career choice I guess. We have to face some pretty scary things on a daily basis. Being scared is just natural, knowing what to do with that fear in a healthy manner is what allows us to summon our Ryū."

"What do you mean by that? In a healthy manner?" Obi-Wan was definitely perplexed about this whole thing. Surely pushing one's fear to the back of their mind was perfectly healthy. Jedi have been doing it since the very beginning and none of them have any health problems.

Zane spoke calmly, his voice hardening, "Simple. It is degrading to one's health to ignore one's fears. It is healthier for you to face them head on than to ignore them."