A/N: So, I would love to thank all of my lovely fans and friends both here and on Tumblr for the amazing support I got after what happened. When I started writing fanfiction, I did not think I would be making such great friends through this. I would like to personally thank what-a-strange-little-star on Tumblr and Mistress Malicia for being a huge support for me.

Now I'm actually writing a co-story with Mistress Malicia called "Lighting the Path". I hope everyone enjoys it. Like I said I feel so blessed.

Also, I thought I would do a Q/A in my author notes. So, if anyone has any questions you want to ask me, please ask and I will try to answer them all.

So here is our next tale.


It was a dark night over Lothal. The two moons were full, shining over the grassy fields that were covered in dew. In the far distance, canyons and mountain ranges were scattered for miles. As one looked down, they saw a deep crevasse that went on into darkness. When someone looked up, they saw three scout troopers, one aiming a blaster at him. The trooper shot, sending them down into the seemingly endless abyss.


Ezra woke up in a panic, shooting up in the bed he laid on. The boy began panting for air as cold sweat dripped down his face. As Ezra slowed down his breathing, he looked around and found himself not in his cabin, but Kanan's. However, his Jedi master was not in the room; in fact, he had been gone for almost three days now. The thought made Ezra gloom.

Kanan was at the moment on an undercover mission within an imperial scouting party. Fulcrum gave them the mission a few days ago.

Apparently, Imperial scouts had been located in unusual territories. Normally the scouts go around Lothal in search of criminal's or possible rebel activity. In recent weeks, they have been located to smaller Lothal villages, and seemed to be looking more for land then people. Some villagers even mentioned they would come in and take whatever was worth something, claiming it was to pay for taxes. Fulcrum suggested the theory that they are scouting for something the Empire needs or wants. Kanan was undercover to see what the scouts were up too, so that they could get the upper-hand in retrieving what they were looking for.

Ezra did not like the plan one bit, but Kanan promised to contact them daily with reports, so it made Ezra feel a little better. Ezra had snuck into Kanan's room for the night as it made him feel better about Kanan being gone; like being in Kanan's room was like he wasn't really gone.

Just outside the door, Ezra suddenly heard quick footsteps. The door opened to reveal Hera in her night robe, looking concerned.

"Ezra, are you alright?" Hera questioned as she sat down next to Ezra.

"I think so," Ezra replied as he leaned into the women's gentle touch upon his head, "Just had a bad dream."

Hera though wasn't completely convinced, seeing her youngling pale and shaky, "Do you want to talk about it?"

Ezra was not quite sure, but replied, "It was weird."

Hera smiled as an idea came to her, "How about you tell me about it over hot cholate," she offered. Ezra smiled, he never said no to a warm chocolate beverage.

Soon the two made their way to the kitchen. Once Hera started making Ezra hot chocolate and herself some tea, Ezra elaborated on his night terror.

"So, you think it was a memory?" Hera asked as she handed the boy his drink.

"No, that's why it's so weird. I've never been to Lothal's cavern's. They're only located on the southwestern part of Lothal." Ezra pointed out.

"Hmm…" Hera replied in confusement before she came to the conclusion as she realized where Ezra was talking about. It was about around where they were now. "I think you might be over thinking Kanan's mission."

Ezra knew this was true, "I just don't understand why we couldn't go with him?" Ezra asked.

"I wish we could," Hera admitted, "But Zeb and me couldn't because of our species, and Sabine and you are too young to fit the costume."

Ezra though still seemed weary.

Hera continued to assure him, "We have a general location of where he is. Kanan will contact us with daily updates, and if it seems to be getting too hairy, we pull him out."

"I know," Ezra admitted, "But…I miss him."

Hera was touched by Ezra's words. Hera knew the two human males were close, and that this was the first time since Ezra joined them, that the two would be apart for so long.

"Is that why you were sleeping in his room?" Hera questioned

Ezra nodded his head.

"He'll be back before you know it," Hera assured him, "and we'll be here if he or you need us."

Ezra smiled at the comment, "Thanks Hera."

Ezra took a sip of the hot chocolate and smiled at the taste, "You put cinnamon in it." The boy quickly deduced.

Hera giggled at the boy's clever taste buds, "Always add Ryloth cinnamon to any sweet."

The two giggled as their minds eased in the moment. After she knew Ezra was calmed down Hera asked, "Think you're ready to go back to bed?"
Ezra though seemed uneasy to answer, so Hera got an idea, "Tell you what; why don't I stay with you in Kanan's room till you fall asleep."

Ezra thought of the idea before he nodded his head with a weak smile.

Hera and Ezra headed to Kanan's room. As Hera sat on the bed, Ezra used her leg as a pillow and instantly fell asleep. Despite her concern for Kanan, Hera was calmed by Ezra's peaceful slumber with her in the room. Hera smiled as she too fell into a deep slumber.

SWR

The next morning Kanan and Hera were talking through the holovid.

"So far, I've only been through introductions and basic mission protocol" Kanan reported to Hera, "But they say were heading south for a few investigations."

"They haven't said what you should be looking for?" Hera wondered.

Kanan shook his head, "Hopefully I'll learn that today. I should get going."

Hera shook her head, "not before you talk with Ezra. The kid misses you."

Kanan giggled

"What?" Hera asked.

"Ah, I miss the kid too. It's weird waking up and not having him jump on you while saying 'let go and train'. Honestly, I'm worried If I see him, I'll just miss him more."

Hera looked a bit uneasy at the comment.

"What?" Kanan asked as he noticed Hera's face.

"Ezra just seems… off with you gone."

Kanan sighed before he admitted, "I'm not surprised."

Hera was a little shocked before Kanan explained, "Remember, we have a bond through the force. Force users with that connection so young will feel off when separated from their bonded person. But Ezra will be fine, he's tough."

"Ezra is worried too." Hera pointed out.

Kanan chuckled, "Don't worry Ezra, I'm being careful."

Hera turned to see Ezra standing there right behind her.

"Are you sure?" Ezra asked with skepticism.

"Yes kid. I'll be back in a few day's and we can get back to your training, alright."

Ezra smiled as he nodded, "Okay."

"I'll contact you guys about any more info later this evening."

"We'll see you then." Hera and Ezra waved to Kanan on the holovid.

Once the video turned off Ezra became gloom.

Hera though cheered him up, "We'll talk to him again tonight. Promise.

Ezra though, unhappy about Kanan being gone, went to the booth at the table and laid on it on his back, and let out a sigh of despair.

This was perfect timing as Zeb came in.

"Morning," Zeb greeted Hera before turning to see Ezra laying there.

Zeb looked a Hera questionably before she responded, "Kanan."

"Ah," Zeb acknowledged before he went over to the boy, "Come on kid, you can't mope around all day."

Ezra pouted as he responded stubbornly, "I can and will. Besides it's not like I can do anything to distract me. I'm still grounded."

Hera and Zeb knew that this was true. Ezra was still grounded for two more weeks for almost getting killed during the O'Hilia day episode. But while Ezra was limited with his activities and leaving the ship, he still had training with Zeb and Sabine.

Zeb then smiled slyly before he pretended to be defeated, "Fine, but I guess this means you won't want to do the special shooting practice I had planned today."

Ezra shot up in the booth with curiosity, "Why's it so special?"

Zeb smiled as he explained, "Sabine got some smoke bomb's set up for us so you can practice finding target's in places you can't see." Zeb saw the excitement on Ezra's face, "But if you want to just mope today, I guess we can-,"

"Let's go!" Ezra exclaimed as he raced out of the common room.

Zeb and Hera chuckled at the kid's change of emotion and how quick it was.

"We'll be careful," Zeb assured Hera as he raced out after the kid.

Hera smiled to herself, happy that Ezra was distracted from missing Kanan.


Sabine soon came out with the smoke machines, now her, Ezra and Zeb were doing target practice. Which was the only thing Ezra could really do outside the ship. Ezra still had two more weeks of being 'grounded'. Not that Ezra really minded; but still, he would like to explore the area and see if they have any lothcats like near capitol city.

But in the moment, he was outside with Zeb and Sabine, so he'd settle for that.

"Ezra, it's important to always keep your eyes opened." Zeb pointed out.

"So that way, I know what I'm shooting?" Ezra questioned.

Zeb and Sabine chuckled a bit, "Not even to know your target. When you're out in the field, you have to know where you are, the enemy is, and where your allies are." Sabine explained as she held one of her surprises.

"Today," Zeb began to explain. "We will be behind you while a smoke will scatter over the area, thank to Sabine. Your goal kid is to use your senses to find Chopper and be able to stun him."

Ezra smiled at the challenge and nodded his head and the task.

Soon Sabine lite off her surprise as smoke scattered over the field.

"remember, know your surroundings" Zeb instructed.

Ezra knew what Zeb meant, as he moved forward, he knew Zeb and Sabine were behind him, the Ghost was on the left, and the only factor Ezra didn't know of was Chopper.

As Ezra saw nothing but gray clouds around him, he decided to close his eyes and focus on his hearing. Soon Ezra could hear Zeb and Sabine breathing more clearly than before, and he also heard the turning of treks that had to belonged to Chopper. Ezra opened his eyes, shot towards his right and heard the defeated chirping of Chopper, as he got closer though, he was able to see Chopper falling, but instead of triumph that he had succeeded, he began to panic. Ezra didn't know why but suddenly his heart began racing; and he thought he must be losing it, because he heard several men's mumbled yelling. That was when Ezra saw Chopper become fuzzy, and felt himself hit the ground; entering a black world before images appeared before him.

A mountain range with a broken crevasse leading to it was seen when it flashed to another vision. A group of imperials were surrounding him when one aimed a blaster at him, shooting him. A burning sensation was eating at him as he fell in the canyon. As he tried to grab onto ledges that passed him, he grabbed onto one, only to feel a snap, forcing him to let go. Finally, he reached the bottom, it was a numb sensation of everything hurting, before everything went black.

"AH!" Ezra screamed as his eyes shot open.

As he looked up, he saw Hera right over him with Zeb and Sabine on both sides of her; all of them having panic on their face.

"Ezra, are you alright?" Hera questioned as concern was evident in her voice.

As Ezra sat up, he felt an immense headache, "What happened?"

Zeb and Sabine looked at each other, unsure of how to tell him. Sabine though began,

"We heard you stun Chopper, and we were ecstatic, but as the fog cleared though, you looked disoriented, that was when you passed out."

Zeb went on, "We tried to wake you up, but when that didn't work we got Hera, she just started to shake you when you came too."

Hera helped Ezra to stand as Sabine asked, "Did you feel like you couldn't breathe, lightheaded, or…?"

Ezra, just as confused tried to piece it all together, "I think I had the nightmare from last night, but there was more to it."

"Come on," Hera directed towards the ship gently, "Let's talk about it while we look you over."

The rest of crew followed suit as Zeb gave Ezra a piggy back ride.


As Hera checked Ezra vitals, he told them about the dream; detailing how he even felt pain as it all happened.

As Hera concluded that Ezra was physically fine, she was still worried about him mentally. It was clear that the kid was still spooked, like he saw a ghost. Hera could also tell Ezra was holding something back.

"Come on Ezra, you can tell us. What's going on?"

Ezra kicked his feet back and forth, scared of what to tell them, "You'll think I'm crazy."

"I promise we won't." Hera assured the child gently.

Ezra, though hesitant, took a deep breath as he told them, "I think, in the dream, I was Kanan."

The rest of the crew looked at each other, stunned at the idea.

Sabine asked, "Why do you think that?"

Ezra explained nervously, "Because I was seeing it like it was happening to me, but it didn't look like me, or feel like me. When I reached for a ledge, I saw my hands as kind of hairy, like Kanan's." Ezra then asked what was truly bothering him, "What if it really happens to Kanan?"

The crew was silent in thought, wondering if what Ezra saw, was a probability.


"Ezra saw me falling?" Kanan asked through the holovid as Hera told him what happened.

"More like he saw himself falling through your eyes. It was like he was having a nightmare, but it just happened so randomly. I think you being too far has made him stressed." Hera confided to Kanan.

Kanan though, looked rather serious as he furrowed his eyebrows; indicating we was in deep thought.

"I don't think that's what he experienced." Kanan admitted, before he told Hera, "I think Ezra, may have had his first vision."

Hera was stunned. How could their Ezra of had a vision so young? Kanan could tell this was what she was thinking, "I had my first at fifteen, I heard of other's having them as young as three."

Hera though was still perplexed, "But even you said most visions showed their own perspectives."

Kanan again was silent before he told Hera, "That's why I should stay on my guard."

Hera panicked a bit before she became serious, "We need to get you out of there."

"No," Kanan objected.

"Kanan, if his vision-," Hera began to protest.

"'If' Hera. That is the problem with visons; sometimes they come true, sometimes not. All it is, is the force telling one of a possibility. Besides, I'm close to finding out where the other scouts are locating around Lothal. We need to know what they have planned."

Hera huffed in disapproval before acknowledging Kanan's point.

"Fine, but you call us every evening. Okay?"

Kanan chuckled at the comment, "alright." Kanan though face became stern as another topic had to be discuss, "Hera, just don't mention this vision stuff with Ezra. I want to talk to him about it one on one so he knows not to read too much into them."

Hera nodded her head again in agreement. "Then you better get back soon."

Kanan chuckled, "I will. But I before I go, I should talk to with Ezra; calm him down a bit for you guys."

Hera nodded and went to get Ezra; whom was watching a holo-movie comedy to relax after what happened during their lessons.

"Ezra," Hera greeted happily, "Kanan's on the holovid."

Ezra jumped form where he was and ran into the cockpit. As Hera entered the room, she saw master and padawan greeting each other happily. Kanan then noticed Hera in the room.

"Hate to ask you this captain, but this is kind of a guy talk, do you mind?" Kanan asked hesitantly, fearing the twi'lek wrath. But to both males surprise she smiled.

"Just keep it clean, he's eight" Hera bid them farewell, knowing this was going to be a force talk. But a part of her couldn't shake the unsettling feeling that this whole vision thing will hang over them for a while.

As Hera left Kanan talked with Ezra, "So, Hera told me about what happened today. You okay kid?"

Ezra seemed uneasy to answer but nodded that he was in fact physically fine.

"It's okay Ezra. I'm fine, and what you experienced is normal." Kanan assured the child.

Ezra was puzzled, "Is it?"

Kanan went on to explain, "Ezra, you and I have a bond, so of course your sacred for me. I worry about you when I'm not around."

Ezra, while pleased by Kanan being concerned just a s much as he was for Kanan, he still worried, "But what if it happens?"

Kanan took a deep breath before he sighed, "Ezra-,"

"I think the force is telling me something." Ezra cut in quickly, "the whole dream thing felt like when the force tells me of danger."

Kanan was silent at the revelation. Kanan knew Ezra was very mart for his age, but he wished the boy hadn't realized the familiarity.

Kanan thought for a moment before he offered to Ezra, "Kid, remember what I told you about the force?"

Ezra nodded as he smiled, "trust it."

"That right," Kanan confirmed, "So you will know if it's the force, and you will know if something wrong because of our bond. But for now, nothing is wrong, and if something is you will know."

Ezra didn't really seem to follow the logic, "How will I know?"

Kanan smiled as he told him, "Because I trust you kid."

Ezra smiled at Kanan and smiled back at the holo-image of the man and nodded.

"I got to get back, so try to take it easy till I get back; and remember, you will know." Kanan instructed as he turned off the holovid.

With Kanan now gone, Ezra sat there as recalled what Kanan told him. Ezra wasn't sure if he would know if Kanan was in danger, but knew he had to try if he sensed it again.

Ezra walked back to the common room where the rest of the crew was watching the movie.

"Hey Ezra," Hera greeted cheerfully, "Kanan talk to you about what happened."

Ezra nodded as he sat next to her, "Kanan said that if something was up then I would know. But I'm not sure what he meant."

Sabine, who muted the film, explained to him, "You know how when I ask you a question and sometimes you think the answer is right and hesitate, but other times you know the answer and tell me quickly?"

Ezra thought of it for a moment before he replied, "I guess."

Sabine nodded her head as she told him, "That would be how you'd know. Make sense?"

Ezra thought of it for a moment and the similarity and smiled as he understood, "Yeah it does."

Sabine smiled as she began to unmute the movie, before Ezra asked another question, "You guys don't think I'm crazy, right?"

The crew was silent before Hera told him, "We would never think you're crazy. I think what you experienced was something we don't fully understand; and once Kanan gets back we'll help figure it out, okay?"

Ezra, relieved that the crew didn't think he was crazy, smiled. Finally, the rest of the crew watched the comedy for the remainder of the day, easing their minds after what happened with their youngest members. Not realizing how much trouble one of their members was about to get into.


Later that night, Ezra slept in Kanan's room once again. Ezra slept peacefully for the first few hours, until the dream came back.

The images were not fuzzy, or dislocated, Ezra saw it all so clearly.

The high mountain range scattered over Lothal's land, the top was shaped almost like the top of Hera's head. At the base of the mountain was an open crevasse that opened into the earth. Ezra's vision flew down to the crevasse area, to see a band of scouts heading to the crevasse. One of them got off their speeder, as the other's followed. The leading scout took of his helmet, revealing it to be Kanan. Ezra wanted to run towards him, but his heart skipped a beat when he saw one of the scouts aim a blaster towards Kanan.

"KANAN!" Ezra tried to shout to Kanan. Kanan was only able to turn to see what was happening for a second before the shot was fired.

Ezra felt like his heart had stopped completely as he saw Kanan hit by a shot to the stomach, the force of the shot sent Kanan down into the crevasse. Ezra raced to the side to de Kanan holding himself up on the ledge by one hand.

Ezra then heard the scouts going through the speeder Kanan was on. "Rookie wasn't half bad, but we need the supplies to sell so we don't have to stop trying to find that old temple."

Ezra would have been madder if he hadn't seen Kanan fall from the ledge yet again. It was like Ezra had fallen with Kanan now; he saw Kanan using the force to stop the fall as much as he could, but with a shot into his side, the pain limited what he could do, only by grabbing onto ledges as he fell, helped reduce the impact as he finally hit the ground. It looked more painful than being shot!

Kanan shook as he grabbed onto his side, looking like he was fighting consciousness. His last words before he closed his eyes were silent mumble that Ezra was barely able to comprehend. "Ezra…know." That was everything in Ezra's vision went black.

Ezra shot up in bed, gasping for air. Ezra knew, this wasn't some nightmare, he felt it. It was real, it had happened, and Kanan was in trouble!

Ezra knew it was real, and he knew he had to wake up Hera. Just as he stood up though, a thought occurred to him; what if he was running out of time. If Kanan was hurt now then he couldn't waste time convincing Hera that this wasn't just some nightmare of a scared kid. Hera thought it was all a nightmare caused by Ezra being scared. But he was still grounded; So, him leaving the ship alone and grounded would only lead to furious Hera.

Under normal circumstances, he would have woken up the crew and explained why he knew it was no normal dream…but this was not normal circumstances.

Ezra grabbed the holo-pad on the sideboard and looked up mountain ranges in their area. It was not hard to do, as Ezra immediately found one shaped just like the top of Hera's head, and was even names 'Twi'lek Mountains', that was the mountain range he saw in his dream. Ezra took a holo-map to where Twi'lek Mountain was and found it to be about twenty miles west of where they were. Ezra tiptoed into his and Zeb's conjoined bedroom to grab his jacket, comlink, and his fully packed backpack; a habit he kept from his time on the streets.

Ezra then made his way to the loading dock where the speeders were parked. Since Ezra was the smallest, he could only drive the one that was operated by the handles as opposed to foot mechanics.

Ezra opened the cargo hold doors and hovered the bike far enough. The whole time Ezra's heart was pounding almost out of his chest. If he went back, he could still talk to them. Ezra knew it was the smartest thing to do. But Kanan needed him, he had to go. Ezra started the speeder and headed west, determined to find Kanan.


Hera woke up the next morning to brew some caf, so she could talk to Kanan. But when he didn't call her by their usual time, she knew something had to be wrong.

Hera turned her comlink on to contact Zeb and Sabine. Hera thought it be best to let Ezra sleep before worrying him.

Once Sabine and Zeb entered the common room, she told them of the problem, "Kanan has never missed a check in time so far. Something has to be wrong, his comlink can' t even be tracked. Either it is dead or it's broken."

"Then let's go find him." Zeb suggested.

"That's the problem," Hera began to explain, "Kanan only gave us a general location of where the scouts were going to be and what they had already covered. It is quite a large region and we have no start point." Hera seemed to think of a plan when Sabine spoke up.

"So, Ezra was right then; Kanan is in trouble."
Hera became more troubled by the thought, "That's what we were afraid of." She admitted.

"Wait, knew Kanan was in trouble?" Sabine asked a little shocked.

"Kind of," Hera admitted before seeing the stunned shock, "Kanan think's Ezra may have had a force vision."

Zeb showed the most confusion, "Vison, like the future?"

Hera sighed as she explained, "Yes; But the problem Kanan mentioned is that visions are not always accurate, or don't necessarily mean what the seer thinks."

Sabine understood, "So Kanan didn't want to chance the mission by a possibility that Ezra could of saw nothing."

"The problem now being he did see something. That's why you let him sleep in, so we could figure out how to get him to find Kanan without scaring him." Zeb deduced.

"Also without causing any trauma to him?" Hera admitted

"We won't let him get hurt." Sabine stated firmly.

"It's not about guarding him," Hera began to explain, "Remember when Kanan sensed Ezra getting stunned and kidnapped. He had a massive head ache from it. If Kanan is seriously hurt…This is why I wish I knew how this bond thing worked."

"Bond?" Sabine wondered, "I know the two are close but-,"

"There more than close, the two are bonded by the force." Hera revealed

Both Sabine and Zeb seemed oddly puzzled, Hera continued

"Kanan explained it to me when we first found Ezra. Their force signatures are so similar that they can sense each other's emotions, and thoughts."

Sabine and Zeb looked a little perplexed by it, "That sounds creepy." Sabine admitted.

Hera clarified, "It's not like the two are in each other's head all the time."

"Oh," Zeb and Sabine replied, realizing it wasn't a constant thing, so not as creepy as they thought it was.

Hera continued, "But if the two are in danger or need to talk to them, the other can sense them."

Sabine then understood, "So when Ezra was kidnapped, he connected with Kanan so he could find him."

"Exactly," Hera confirmed, "But the problem is it didn't happen when Ezra saw it, so it has to be a vision; but I don't know how to get Ezra to tell us what he saw."

"Also trying to do that without him freaking out like you are." Zeb pointed out.

Hera sighed in content, "But we do need him if we're going to help Kanan. Zeb can you get him up?"

Zeb seemed perplexed, "Why?"

Hera did not like Zeb's attitude, "Because he's in you guy's room, so it makes sense for you to wake him."

Zeb went right from confused to freaked, "Ezra didn't sleep in our room last night, he slept in Kanan's…Didn't he?"

The crew was shocked into silence, but only for a moment before they all raced to Kanan's room to find it empty.

"Ezra!" Hera hollered as she began searching the rest of the cabins, while Zeb checked the cockpit and kitchen, and Sabine looked into the vents; all missing a blue haired child."

Chopper though who wheeled to the loading dock alerted the others to his location. When they arrived, they found the bay door open, and a speeder.

"I'm going to kill him," Hera stated in contained fury, "We will find him, I will hug him, and then I will kill him."

Zeb, Sabine, and Chopper all seemed worried, now not for Kanan's life, but for Ezra's as well.


Under an hour was what it took for Ezra to reach the mountain range. Ezra parked the speeder and began walking around the base of the mountain range for the canyon Kanan fell into. Ezra tried to see if he could sense him, but felt nothing, which meant Kanan unconscious.

As the sun began to rise, light from the suns began to shine; this helped Ezra have a clearer view of where he was. As the suns rose just beyond the mountain's peaks, that was when he saw the crevasse. The crevasse and the mountain range were exactly how they were displayed when Ezra saw it in that dream. Where he saw Kanan…

Ezra had to swallow the bile the threatened to come up his throat when he thought of it. Ezra raced to the edge of the rife. There on the ledge he saw a discarded scouting helmet, Ezra knew he was in the right place; but it was too dark to see down it.

"Kanan?!" Ezra asked desperately, but got no response.

Ezra realized though the sad truth, he had no idea what to do now. If Kanan was down there, how was Ezra supposed to reach him? The kid couldn't just fly down, and it was too dark to see if he could just jump down. But Ezra had to get down there somehow, Kanan needed help.

After a moment, he looked to the edge of the ledge. It was rocky, but sturdy when he kicked it. Kanan in the dream even was able to grab some before he lost his grip.

Ezra took a deep breath as he knew he had to climb down. So, with his backpack strapped tightly around him, he began to climb his way down. Ezra was able to keep a firm grip on the rocks as he climbed down, his feet finding sturdy earth as well. Ezra supposed that after climbing up wet and slippery rocks on O'Hillia Day, climbing down dry and sturdy ones was no sweat. It took a while, but Ezra recalled his early training with Zeb and Sabine; he was able to use his senses to tell where to place his feet for his safe decent, he was able to understand his environment despite his limited sight at the moment.

Ezra was beginning if it was a kilometer stretch when his foot hit steady flat earth. Ezra looked around, noting but darkness. Ezra took off his bag and found his flashlight. The light immediately illuminated the damp floor of the cavern. As Ezra scanned his eyes, he saw the wall he climbed down, some fallen rocks, and there he was, a man in a trooper uniform, on his side, with no helmet.

"KANAN!" Ezra shouted as he ran towards the fallen man. Ezra turned the man onto his back to find Kanan had a gash on his head, it wasn't bleeding but it still looked bad. Kanan's side though looked bad, it even left a little pool of blood where he had laid.

"Kanan! Wake up Kanan! Please!" Ezra pleaded the man. When Ezra saw the man not waking, he looked to see if the man was breathing. When Ezra saw his chest rising up and down, the boy sighed in relief. Now Ezra needed to contact the crew, so he quickly grabbed his comlink

"He-, um I mean Specter Two, are you there?" Ezra asked into the comlink.

It was silent before Ezra's ears heard the painful loudness of Hera.

"OH, I'M HERE ALRIGHT, BUT YOU AREN'T! EZRA DENISE BRIDGER, YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE YOUNG MAN! WHERE-,"

"Hera," Ezra shouted to get Hera's attention, "Kanan's hurt."

It was quiet on the other end for a bit before Hera spoke again, "Where are you guys, how bad is it?"

"Twi'lek Mountain, it's just south of the Ghost. But Kanan is really hurt; he's a live, but he has a cut on his head. Please hurry Hera!"

Hera hollered to the what had to be Zeb and Sabine, "Close the hanger, were taking the Ghost," Hera then went back to talking directly to Ezra, "Ezra, we're going to be there in less than 20 minutes. Try to wake Kanan up and see if he has any other injuries."

"Okay," Ezra put it down and did as he was asked. As he looked over Kanan, he noticed both the side and head seemed to not be bleeding much, but Ezra couldn't tell for sure.

Ezra knew he had to try to wake Kanan up. Shaking him awake did not seem to work, so Ezra decided to try mentally. Ezra closed his eyes and place a hand on Kanan's head, despite his hand being shaky in this situation. After taking some deep breaths Ezra, focused his energy on connecting with Kanan. It took a moment, but Ezra found Kanan's signature, it was weak, but it was there. As Ezra lend Kanan his own strength, Ezra smiled that Kanan was alive. Ezra opened his eyes to see if Kanan had woken yet when he noticed his own hands were glowing, like a light. Ezra immediately retracted his hand, afraid it was hurting Kanan. But Ezra looked closer and found the gash on Kanan's head was…healed?

"How?" Ezra thought to himself, a little freaked by what he did. Then Ezra realized that if he could do that for his head, maybe he could the same for where Kanan was shot. Ezra hesitated to try this on Kanan, but he had to…Kanan would do the same for him.

With a determined mind, he let his had hover over Kanan's wound. Just like before, he put his own strength into it, into healing it. As Ezra put more of his energy though he began feeling tired, but fought though it for Kanan's sake. After a couple of minutes of it, Ezra began to worry it wasn't helping; that was when he heard a cough. Ezra opened his eyes to find Kanan blinking his eyes.

"Kanan!" Ezra exclaimed as he hugged Kanan, which resulted in Kanan to moan, so Ezra got off him.

"Sorry," Ezra sheepishly apologized.

Kanan though still seemed dazed, "Ezra? How did you…? How did I…?

Ezra began to tell him, "I saw you fall, and I came here, and Hera's on her way, and I think I healed you. Did I?"

Kanan felt his side and smiled as he felt that it was closed, "Did you?"

Ezra was confused, but then remembered what Kana told him, "I know I healed you."

Kanan chuckled, but only for a second before he groaned in pain as he grabbed his arm. Kanan saw Ezra looked worried when the man told him, "Don't worry, I'll be okay. Just some things can't be healed so easily." Kanan placed a shaky hand on Ezra's shoulder and his smile grew with pride, "Told you that you'd know."

Ezra too smiled when they heard the comlink come on, "Ezra, we're almost there, have you woken Kanan up?" Hera questioned with concern.

Kanan took the comlink from Ezra and replied, "Yeah he was able to wake me."

The two males heard Hera sigh in relief before she spoke, "We are getting to the mountain range right now. We'll lower a cable bed down so the Ghost can pull you guy's out."

Kanan replied, "Understood".

Soon Kanan and Ezra heard the Ghost getting closer, relieved that this little nightmare was over.


"Ah, Hera I think it's cleaned." Kanan protested in pain as Hera cleaned up his sore side of blood.

Hera grinned smugly, "I wouldn't have had to clean it if you had been more careful."

Kanan rolled his eyes as he laid on his bed. Despite falling such a length, the force helped him to limit the impact of it; resulting in his worse injury being a broken arm from the ledge he tried grabbing to. Kanan was still badly bruised and his ankle was sprained and swollen, but Kanan would survive it.

"You were sure to tell Zeb and Sabine to smack those scouts hard when they raid their camp." Kanan asked with hope.

Hera grinned, "Oh, yeah."

After Kanan was patched up, Zeb and Sabine were eager to volunteer to go to the camp Kanan told them about. The plan was simple; burn the camp and take whatever they had useful. Kanan told them that the scouts were sent to look for possible kyber crystal mine's in mountains around Lothal. While the scouts had found none, they told the Empire otherwise in order to keep getting credits sent for supplies, that they were in truth saving up for themselves out of pure greed. When Kanan came into the picture, they were scared the 'new scout' would squeal, so they tried to get rid of him; and tried to take his supplies to pawn for extra money as well.

Hera sighed a bit, "At least they didn't find any crystals. Plus, they still had the money at their camp that we can give back to the villagers they ransacked." She pointed out the silver lighting.

Kanan chuckled, "Only you Hera, can find a positive point in all this."

Hera smiled to Kanan, "I know you did." Hera then looked at Ezra, who had been sleeping soundly, curled up next to Kanan; Kanan holding him with his good arm almost like a doll.

Kanan smiled down at his padawan, "Pretty ballsy what he did. Sneaking out, knowing very well of your wrath when you found out, then riding a speeder pitch black, and scaling down a large cavern. We have definitely instilled into him the guts of a rebel."

Kanan was silent as he combed Ezra's hair with his hand. The man was beaming with pride at the kid and what he managed to accomplish; that he saved Kanan's life.

"Yeah, reminded me to tell him he's no longer grounded for saving you," Hera requested as she realized the tiny hero could no longer be grounded after what he accomplished

"At just eight, Ezra has had his first force vision and learned to force heal." Kanan then chuckled a bit, "No wonder he's so tired; he literally put his own energy into the force so that it could heal me."

Hera saw Kanan looking down so fondly at the child, how Ezra in his sleep seemed so much more peaceful then he had been these past few days.

"You two really missed each other." Hera deduced.

Kanan nodded and confided to Hera. "I know what it's like to have such a strong vision and know that it will happen. I never thought someone else could relate to that until Ezra came along." Kanan turned to Hera as he told her happily, "I'm lucky we found him, and today proved so in more way's then one."

Hera smiled as she got up, "I couldn't agree more." Hera then laid a blanket over Kanan and Ezra, "Try to get some rest. When you wake up, Sabine and Zeb will be back with the camp destroyed and some dinner ready."

Kanan nodded as he began to close his eyes. As Hera reached the door, she turned to find Kanan asleep. Both Master and student at peace by each other side. Hera's heart warmed up as she saw how strong their bond was; and knew that it would never be broken.


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