As Ezra woke up, the only thing he registered was that he was warm and in his soft bed. At first Ezra was more than happy to stay that way. Then he realized that it was morning, Ezra smiled as he remembered it was time for Jedi training with Kanan. As quickly as he could he got out of bed, without waking up Zeb, and got ready for the day. Ezra then made his way to Kanan's room to wake him up, only to hear someone making noise in the kitchen. There in the kitchen was Kanan standing at the the counter with two mugs.
"What cha doing?" Ezra asked, slightly startling his Jedi master.
Kanan turned around, saw Ezra and smiled. "Oh just making a drink to wake me up this morning." Kanan simply explained.
"Are you making one for Hera too?" Ezra asked innocently.
Kanan thought of what Ezra said and grabbed a third mug, "I am now."
Ezra smiled, "Hot chocolate before training, I like it."
Kanan just smiled as a began mixing the contents of the mugs when he heard a buzzer going off. "Damn fuel tank," Kanan muttered to himself. He knew the tank had a leak after a close call with an asteroid during the last mission.
Kanan turned to Ezra, "Looks like Jedi training will have to wait a bit. Why don't you grab the red mug and enjoy your chocolate while I go check on the tank.
Ezra smiled and nodded as Kanan left the kitchen.
Ezra got the foot stool and saw the mugs, one red, one green and one blue. Ezra personally was not a fan of red. Red was evil!
"Why does it matter? There both hot chocolate." Ezra thought to himself.
So Ezra grabbed the blue one and went to sit at the table. When Ezra first tasted it, he knew something was different with it. He couldn't taste any chocolate in it. But it was sweet and he did like that. So Ezra sipped it for a bit till he waited for Kanan to be done.
"Specter one to Specter six, finished with temporary repairs. Let's meet outside for meditation on top of the ship." Kanan voice spoke in Ezra's comlink.
"Copy that Specter one." Ezra replied happily.
As Ezra got up from the table though, he suddenly felt wide awake and his mind was racing with so many thoughts. Ezra had so much energy and he liked it!
"Focus on your breathing and your connection to the force." Kanan told his padawan for the seventh time now, trying to maintain his cool. Ezra though seemed to be more distracted than usual. Ezra wouldn't stop tapping his hands on his knees as the two tried to mediate on top of the Ghost. Every five seconds Ezra would move his head to look in all kinds of directions to see what was going on around him.
"Kanan, if the force is everywhere, why can't the others use it too? Does the force pick who is force sensitive as random? Why does Chopper hate Zeb?" Ezra went on with a multitude of questions. Before Kanan could answer the first one though Ezra was onto the next question he had.
"I don't have the energy for this. I should have made two cafs for myself." Kanan thought to himself. Now he needed to mediate to ease his mind from his curious eight-year-old child.
"Hey Ezra. Why don't we shorten the Jedi training and you and Sabine go do your lessons early?
"Okay," Ezra simply replied as he quickly got up and ran down the Ghost, "Sabine, SABINE!" he hollered with so much liveliness.
With the kid gone, Kanan just laid down on the Ghost.
"No more sugar in the morning for that kid." Kanan stated, exasperated from having his ear chatted off.
Sabine yawned as she got the math equations ready for Ezra. She had just woken up when Ezra burst into her room to start their lessons.
Ezra had been squirming in his seat the whole time, Sabine was wondering if he was even listening. Sabine just figured she would just have to re-explain it all when he got the questions wrong. Not that she minded, she actually liked her quality time with Ezra.
As she gave Ezra the math problems though, she soon found that Ezra was working on the problems a lot faster than usual.
Sabine knew Ezra was a quick learner, but a lot of the equations took a while to solve out.
"Ezra remember to follow the steps thoroughly and-,"
"I'm done." Ezra replied happily as he handed the completed datapad back to his teacher.
Sabine just looked at the now twitching Ezra. She then looked over the answers Ezra wrote on the datapad. She knew he had to of messed up somewhere, it had only been ten minutes.
Sabine was shocked. "There all right. Ezra how were you able to do these so quickly?"
Ezra just told her "You're a really good teacher! You're always teaching me awesome things. Is it because you're a genius or something? What's next?"
Sabine was still a little shocked. It took her so long to find the answers to the equations herself.
"Um, why don't we end out lessons for today." Sabine simply replied. She needed to figure out if Ezra needed to be given more challenging material.
"Okay!" Ezra then left the room in a hurry.
Sabine was still going over the equations that she had given Ezra when she remembered how restless Ezra had been today in class. He was twitching if he wasn't moving.
"Kanan." Sabine thought to herself. This had to be a Jedi thing.
About a few hours have passed since Kanan ended Ezra and his training for the day. Kanan had finally calmed his nerves from the morning. He had gone to the kitchen to get some lunch. Kanan soon noticed how quiet it was and realized that Sabine and Ezra weren't eating lunch. Normally the two ate lunch together after their lessons.
Just as he was thinking this, Hera came into the kitchen with some grease on her face.
"Well the fuel tank and heater need to be redone before we take off again. Add that to the many problems on the Ghost." Hera explained distraught.
Kanan then noticed the untouched mug on the counter and smiled. It was still warm too.
"Well a hard mornings work deserves some caf then, huh." Kanan said as he handed her the caf mug.
Hera smiled grateful, "Thank you dear."
However, once she took a sip from the mug, she immediately spat it out and went to the sink to rinse out her mouth.
"Kanan, that is so not funny!" Hera shouted, angry at the confused Jedi. "You know chocolate gives me a rash."
Kanan was very confused till he realized the discarded mug on the ground was red.
It all made sense now.
"Karabast!" Kanan simply said as Sabine and Zeb entered the kitchen.
"Seriously Kanan. That is Zeb's word." Sabine replied with a smirk on her face.
"Where's Ezra?" Kanan asked nervously.
"He and Chopper went outside to play. Said something about setting a record for catching the most lothcats." Zeb replied
Kanan immediately face palmed himself.
"Speaking of Ezra, do Jedi learn faster than regular students," Sabine asked Kanan, "Cause today Ezra really caught onto some advanced math problems. Also he seemed to be twitching. Is that also a Jedi thing?"
Kanan just kept hitting his hand onto his forehead.
"Kanan you're going to give yourself a concussion. What is going on?"
"Ezra drank your caf." Kanan replied simply.
It was deathly silent until Zeb bellowed out laughing.
"Aw man, the kid must be a bouncing off the walls!" Zeb was able to say in between his gasp for air as he continued to laugh.
"YOU GAVE EZRA CAFFINE!" Both ladies in the room yelled at Kanan.
"What if he get's sick!" screamed Hera at Kanan.
"What if this stunts his growth?" voiced a concerned Sabine.
"I didn't give it to him. I told him to take the red mug, but he took the blue!" Kanan tried to explain as he was trying to defend himself.
"EZRA HATES RED!" Sabine yelled at Kanan.
This surprised Kanan and Hera. "He does?"
"Whenever he paints, he insists on not using red. Says red is a bad color"
Kanan again face palmed himself. He knew why too. The Inquisitors light saber.
Suddenly he felt the force of a hand painful smack the back of his head.
"Hera, I get it, I should have told him it had caf in it." Kanan admitted as he rubbed the back of his head.
Hera just crossed her arms and gave him the death stare. It was like Hera was trying to set his soul on fire.
Kanan couldn't take it, and began to leave.
"So, I'm going to go find the kid before he hurts himself."
Kanan was about to exit the door when Hera put her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm coming with you." Hera stated.
"I got to see this." Zeb said as he regained his composure from laughing so much.
"Family outing." Sabine cheered in feign excitement.
The crew had a general idea where Chopper and Ezra went. They told Ezra not to go beyond a rock formation in the field, so clearly that is where they had to be at.
Once the crew got there, they found two unsettling factors; that Chopper, upon seeing Hera, wheeled up to her and hid behind her beeping, 'save me from the tiny maniac.' The other factor was Ezra climbing up the rock formation rather quickly. The kid was already twelve meter's up
Kanan felt his heart skip a beat.
"Ezra Bridger, get down from there right now!" Hera hollered to the tiny wall climber.
Ezra, just noticing the crew's presence looked down at them and waved before he let go of the wall completely; quickly come down to the grounds surface.
"OH MY-," Hera screeched as she was about to have a heart attack.
Luckily though Ezra easily landed on the ground, landing in a crouching positon with a smile on his face. Kanan couldn't help but smile in pride, he knew teaching Ezra that would come in handy.
"High guys," Ezra said as he ran up to them and began tugging on Zeb's hand.
"Zeb, look. I caught at least seven lothcats, and now they are all running away. I asked Chopper to chase them into a corner, but he said I'm crazy. Can you scare them into the corner? Can you, can you, can you?"
Zeb just looked at back at the crew confused. Luckily Ezra became distracted by a poor unfortunate lothcat.
"Lothcat!" Ezra exclaimed, "I've got it, I've got it.!" And just like that Ezra bolted after the creature.
He crew just stared at each other in bemusement.
"How do we get him back to normal?" Kanan asked.
Sabine just laughed and replied, "You don't. Like any substance, you got to wait for it to run its course through Ezra's body. After that he will be exhausted from this caffeine high and should fall asleep.
The crew just starred at the hyperactive kid as he ran around in circles trying to find the lothcat that somehow got away.
Ezra then ran back to the crew again.
"Come on guys, we have to find the lothcat. I think it's the daddy cat. That way we will have caught each member of the family once. Come on!" Ezra was now dragging Hera by her hand towards the rock formation.
Hera just smiled and bend down to Ezra's eye level, gently holding his shoulder to look at her so he wouldn't take off.
"Ezra, before we go find the daddy lothcat, can you tell me how much did you drink from the blue mug?" Hera asked, hoping she could figure out how long they had till Ezra crashed.
"I drank all the hot chocolate. But it was a weird hot chocolate, but it was really sweet and creamy I think it had cinnamon in it. Did it Kanan?" Ezra asked as he turned to see Kanan right behind Hera.
Hera turned around and smiled at Kanan, "You made me a cinnamon latte?"
Kanan smiled a bit as he got eye level with his love and padawan, "Yeah, I got the cinnamon on our last visit to Ryloth."
Hera just smiled at Kanan. She was touched. "You know Ryloth cinnamon is my favorite."
Kanan just rubbed the back of his neck embarrassed.
"Well it is the only place you can get any good spices." Kanan pointed out.
Hera just giggled. That was when they all heard a tiny yawn come from Ezra.
Ezra, who still had Hera's hands on his shoulder, began slowly closing his eyes and his head lolling to the side.
Kanan just smiled, "I've got him." Kanan then picked Ezra up, letting the child's head rest on his shoulder.
Hera just smiled as she brushed Ezra's hair out of his closed eyes.
Zeb just laughed. "Now we know what else puts the poor kid to sleep, you two flirting."
Hera and Kanan just rolled their eyes, almost in unison.
Zeb and Sabine couldn't stop themselves from laughing.
The crew made their way to the Ghost and Hera had to take the time to point out the obvious.
"Just so we are clear, Ezra isn't to touch caf till he is at least fourteen."
"Agreed." Replied the rest of the crew.
"What's caf?" asked a tired Ezra as he began to stir from his sleep.
Hera just ran a hand through his hair to help him fall back asleep.
"Nothing that should concern you. Go back to sleep youngling."
Soon Ezra was out again before they made it back onto the ship.
The rest of the crew just giggled as their youngest member dreamt of catching lothcats.
AN: I have had this story set up for the longest time now. A few of you guys have even asked about the idea as well. I thought I would start off the next ten chapters on the humerous side. I hope you all enjoyed it. Also I would like to thank you guys for 400 reviews and over 300 follows. I am so excited this story is liked by so many people. You all are amazing!
