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Sparks of Rebellion
Chapter 31: Exploring on Ilum
On the Ice Planet Ilum...
Lisa carefully walked around the shattered lake of Ilum.
The blonde haired girl wore a dark blue fluffy coat and her hair was tied in her usual ponytail style. Underneath, she wore a dark grey sleeveless top, a grey belt with a silver diamond in the center, a lighter grey knee-length plated trousers with diamond edges on the bottom and white wing-like shoulder pads. She also wore grey boots with white tips.
"Lisa, you will be tested."Hal stated.
"I know."Lisa responded.
"Not just here."Hal commented. "Every jedi faces the dark side and it's very easy to fail."
"Have no worry, Hal."Lisa assured firmly. "I won't fail any of you."
"Don't fail yourself."Hal corrected.
Lisa put away her comlink and started running in the cold area.
The sixteen year old girl notice a path had stone walls that had a mark of the old republic.
"A jedi temple!"Lisa gasped. "I wonder if my dad used to come here as a kid."
Lisa sees a crack next to the entrance causing her to go into it.
"Looks like a way through over there."Lisa commented.
Once she arrived to the other side, Lisa saw a huge blizzard below not far from where she was hiding.
"This is the worst blizzard I have ever seen."Lisa said with a frown. "Seems that the storm and the temple are connected somehow."
Lisa started quickly climbing the icy walls and not dared to look down.
When she arrived at the top, Lisa saw a small triangle like rock with a script on it and scanned it.
"A great jedi mediated here."Lisa responded. "He returned at points throughout his life to contemplate his many adventures and trails."
Lisa notice a device attached to the floor and reached our hand to it.
"Younglings, it's time for the Gathering."A male voice said. "Use your skills wisely."
Inside the Jedi Temple...
Lisa walked inside the ancient room and notice large crystals and orange beams of light sticking out from a few ice cracks.
"Dad said the Gathering was a rite of passage in which jedi younglings must find and harvest kyber crystals for their lightsabers for thousands of standard years."Lisa admitted. "I bet this place was more beautiful during those days."
Lisa rushed to the large entrance and froze when she noticed a large amount of water.
Seeing no other way, the blonde haired girl took a deep breath and dived into the cold water.
Underwater, Lisa saw small volcano like figures on the ground and the area was a little dark.
"I used to go swimming on the Lake Country back home during the spring when the weather was hot."Lisa thought. "But this is just the total opposite."
The young girl swam up and let out a breath of relief when she arrived at the other side of the jedi temple.
Lisa got up on her feet and rushed into the cave entrance.
There Lisa arrived on a room with statue like figures.
"Every path is different, young one."the male voice warned. "Be mindful of your anger."
The sixteen year old girl rubbed her arms.
"The volcano rocks made the water warm, but it's freezing here."Lisa complemented.
As Lisa explored deeper into the temple, she felt like something was calling out to her.
"It's calling me, I must be close."Lisa suggested.
The young jedi took out her torch to look for her kyper crystal.
"Jedi can't pick kyper crystals."Lisa thought."It chooses you."
Suddenly the roof started to go a bit shaky causing Lisa to put off her torch.
"I have to hurry."Lisa said with a hint of fright.
Lisa walked up a snowy roof that lead her to another entrance.
"I'm getting closer, I feel it."Lisa whispered.
The blonde haired girl notice a viper probe droid causing her to activate her blue lightsaber.
"Ugh, I hate those things!"Lisa scowled.
Lisa slashed the viper probe droid in half causing it's remains to drop on the ground.
"How in the world did it found me?"Lisa questioned.
The sixteen year old girl carefully checked an area of the cave surrounded by ice needles and saw a few viper probe droids around.
"My question is answered."Lisa thought with a glare.
Lisa threw her lightsaber to destroy one of the viper probe droids before charging in and destroying the rest.
"I have to find that kyper crystal and fast."Lisa stated.
The young jedi slid down the icy ground before jumping to the snowy wall that prevented her from falling down in the darkness below.
Lisa carefully went through a broken entrance only for the ground to crack and fell into the cold water.
The blonde haired girl notice the temperature of the water was freezing cold causing her to quickly swim to find a way out.
Using her lightsaber, Lisa broke the ice to make an entrance and came out just as she was about to lose her breath.
Lisa dropped on her knees and coughed heavily.
"Thank the Force, I made it."Lisa chuckled weakly and coughed.
The sixteen year old girl's eyes widen when she saw a glowing kyper crystal attached on a few blocks of ice in the cave she was in.
Lisa slowly walked to the small kyper crystal and picked it up.
The colour of the small crystal was yellow.
Lisa took out her comlink with her free hand.
"Hal, I found my kyper crystal and it's yellow."Lisa reported.
"Yellow?"Hal said with a hint of surprise. "The colour yellow indicated a jedi sentinel, a jedi who honed his or her skills in a balance of combat and scholarly pursuits."
"That's amazing."Lisa chuckled. "I've read that Bastila Shan wield a yellow lightsaber herself."
Lisa walked up to a ice chunk that looked like a table and carefully began building her new lightsaber.
For the final touch, she added the yellow kyper crystal inside the new blade.
Once the lightsaber was completed, Lisa activated it with her blue lightsaber.
"Daddy and Ahsoka would've been proud of me."Lisa said with a sad smile.
Lisa deactivated her lightsabers and put them on her waist.
Now it was time for her to leave the temple and get back at the Defender Class Light Corvette.
Suddenly Lisa felt a disturbance in the Force causing her to activate her lightsabers again.
It seemed she wasn't the only one in Ilum.
Lisa went out the cave only for her to come face to face with a few scout troopers holding electric staffs.
"Hold it right there, jedi scum!"A scout trooper growled.
Lisa started fighting the scout troopers using her lightsabers.
The scout troopers tried to hurt Lisa with their electric staffs but they were no match for the young jedi.
Lisa deactivated her lightsabers before using the force to jump to the imperial base.
While carefully peeking her head on the roof, Lisa sees reprogrammed Imperial security droids and scout troopers mining kyper crystals in the icy ground below.
Lisa took out her comlink.
"Hal, the Empire took over this place and they're mining kyper crystals."Lisa stated. "Not only that their viper probe droids spotted me."
"They've broken through and called reinforcements!"Hal warned. "Every star destroyer in this sector are on their way here! If they get here before..."
"They won't."Lisa replied. "I didn't come here to get killed or captured."
Lisa slid down the roof and slashed the scout trooper that was coming out.
"Lisa, your lighting up imperial channels."Hal warned. "They're sending everything they've got at you."
"Are you and Mabeline alright?"Lisa asked.
"We're laying low."Hal responded. "But the storm well clear soon and we won't have any cover soon."
"Don't worry, I'll come soon."Lisa assured.
Lisa rushed to the cave entrance of the Imperial base and jumped into the icy water.
There were purge troopers checking the area causing Lisa to go deep underwater.
"Did you find her?"A purge trooper asked.
"No, let's check outside."Another purge trooper responded.
Lisa continued swimming underwater until she arrived the area she came from before.
The young jedi wiped the streaks of hair away from her face before climbing back up the ground.
"I've scrambled their transmissions, but it won't be long until they're restored."Hal warned. "Hopefully that will buy us some time."
Lisa rushed to the jedi temple entrance and saw a few reprogrammed Imperial security droids in the sacred ruin.
The sixteen year old girl activated her lightsabers and sliced the heads of the droids off causing them to drop down.
Lisa quickly went out of the jedi temple and made her escape through the crack she came through before.
The young jedi climbed down the walls and headed where the Defender Class Light Corvette was.
Out of no where, an AT-ST walker showed up causing Lisa to take cover and activate her lightsabers.
The AT-ST walker started throwing small detonators causing Lisa to jump out of the way just as they exploded.
Lisa rushed towards the AT-ST walker, blocking it's laser blasts with her lightsabers.
The blonde haired girl went beneath the walker to slash it's legs off, sending it tumbling down the icy ground and it exploded.
Lisa quickly used her blue lightsaber to throw back the spinning red lightsaber that was about to hit her.
The red spinning lightsaber went back to the Ninth Sister.
"Are you brave, little pest?"Ninth Sister questioned.
"No."Lisa replied and activated her lightsabers. "But I am alive."
"Your not worth my time, so let's make this quick."Ninth Sister retorted cruelly.
"With pleasure."Lisa stated with a glare.
Lisa and the Ninth Sister started duelling each other.
"Not bad for trash."Ninth Sister mocked.
"I'll make you eat those words."Lisa retorted.
The Ninth Sister activated her second blade and the two continued their fierce duel in the icy planet.
However, Lisa soon slashed the Ninth Sister in the left leg and arm, causing her to cry out in pain and ignite her second blade.
"When you've already lost yourself...a limb's easy."Ninth Sister scowled. "You know, I was a Jedi. It'd be fun to bring you in. Watch you crack like the rest of us!"
Lisa blocked the Ninth Sister's blade with her lightsabers.
"You can't stop the Empire!"Ninth Sister roared. "You pathetic waste!"
"I can as long as I have hope and my friends!"Lisa snapped.
Lisa leapt from behind and slashed the Ninth Sister's back.
"Why you-"Ninth Sister started.
The Ninth Sister continued to advance on Lisa, but the young jedi flipped behind her and pushed her with the Force, sending her tumbling down to the cold hard ground below.
Lisa looked down and saw the Ninth Sister was not moving a muscle.
The female inquisitor was dead.
Lisa took out her comlink that was beeping.
"Lisa, where are you?"Hal demanded. "Why aren't you responding?"
"Hal, it's okay."Lisa responded. "I just took down an inquisitor."
Lisa deactivated her lightsabers and rushed off to head back to her friends.
Unknown to the young jedi, a viper probe droid have been watching her and recorded the whole fight scene.
In Space...
The Defender Class Light Corvette flew away from Ilum.
Inside the Defender Class Light Corvette...
Lisa removed her coat as Mabeline handed her a warm towel.
"You did it, Lisa."Mabeline chuckled. "You made your second lightsaber."
"Thanks to you two."Lisa admitted. "I wouldn't have done it without you guys. Though that inquisitor I fought wouldn't give up until she teared me apart."
"The Ninth Sister was formerly known as Masana Tide, who once served the Jedi Order before joining the Galactic Empire as a member of the Inquisitorius."Hal stated while checking through a data pad. "In the early days of the Empire, the Ninth Sister accompanied Darth Vader, Lady Shade and a few inquisitors to Mon Cala to hunt the jedi padawan, Ferren Barr."
"And Ferren escaped right?"Lisa asked hopefully.
"Vader killed him."Hal responded grimly.
"Oh."Lisa said with a frown.
R2-KT beeped at Lisa.
"Yes, I know I look like a frozen fish out of water, thank you KT."Lisa commented with a fake smile.
R2-KT let out a mischievous beep.
"You know, our mother happened to have wield a yellow blade before she bore Hal and me."Mabeline complemented with a small smile. "But she was killed when the temple on Corellia exploded. You could've learned a lot from her."
"I'm sorry."Lisa apologised softly.
"What happened in the past should never effect our future, Lisa."Mabeline complemented.
"We can't let the sacrifices of those close to us be for nothing."Hal said firmly. "We can't give up. Even at times that are difficult. Do you understand?"
Lisa nodded. "I understand."
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter
Next is 'Steps into Shadows':)