Jedi Stories:
episode #3 The Apprentice and a Friendship
Previously: A shadow has obtained a special book…it is the journal of the
extinct Sith! Frey Corta caught him in
action and the Shadow has confiscated something dear to Frey…his family. He also has gone and sold Frey to someone on
Alderaan.
Now,
two weeks later Frey is standing at the bottom of a large estate. The person who had purchased Frey was Alex
Skywalker. Alex had decided to buy Frey
because he knew that it would be the best thing for Frey. If someone else bought him, they might beat
him and treat him horribly. He had no
way of knowing that Frey had not previously been a slave and Alex wanted to set
him free. He had given Frey the
conditions: that Frey must stay and be
a servant to the Skywalker family. Frey
would receive good food, warm shelter, and good clothing…along with pay. Of course the pay wouldn't be the greatest,
but it would be enough to survive on.
Another word about Frey's family.
Yes, Frey is 60 and Brax is about 20.
Frey kind of had his son at a late age. Anyway, Frey was currently
stacking boxes and crates for Alex when there is a large clatter. It's Elliot, Alex's older son.
"Oh great," thinks Frey. "Here he comes again."
Now even though Alex was taking care of Frey, he didn't really
consider Alex a friend, Frey technically had no friends now, and Elliot is
brutally mean to Frey when Alex isn't around.
Frey didn't really know Lowdun (Alex's younger son) very well, in fact
he'd only caught a couple glimpses of the guy, but Frey assumed that he would
be the same way. Frey wished that he
had someone, a friend that he could trust to tell the Shadow's secret to. But
Frey knew no one the he could tell. Frey sighed as suddenly Elliot ran at
him. He knocked over a couple of piles
that Frey had so carefully arranged.
"Watch out
Slave! Oops, I forgot…servant I
mean. You just watch yourself around
here and stay out of my way! I don't
want a lice-infested scum (servant) in the same room with me. Now move so I can get to my tools."
Frey makes an
effort, but isn't quite fast enough and ends up tripping over the pile that
Elliot knocked over. Frey grabs Elliot
for balance. Elliot glares at him
angrily and punches Frey so hard that he falls to the ground.
"Apologize for
touching me!"
"I'm sorry for touching you," says Frey.
"You better be, old man! In fact, I am a gentleman…get down on your
knees and say it."
"What?" exclaims Frey.
"Get down on
your knees, Sewer Rat."
Frey sees no other way out of it, so he does
as was asked of him.
"I'm sorry,
Apprentice Elliot for touching you."
"My correct title is Apprentice Elliot."
"I'm sorry, Apprentice Elliot, for touching
you."
Elliot gets this smirk on his face and goes
for the bucket of dirty water that's used for cleaning animal stalls with and
dumps it on the surprised Frey's head.
"And be thankful that I was lenient."
Elliot goes back through the door in which he
came. Another person comes out from the
opposite door. It's Lowdun.
Frey thinks,
"No, not AGAIN! I can't take another
humiliation."
But to Frey's surprise, Lowdun didn't act
like his brother at all. He rushed over
to Frey to help him to his feet. Frey
was not expecting this at all.
"I'm sorry my brother did that to you! I've been trying to talk to you because you
seem lonely and Elliot has no right to treat you that way! Here, I'll help you clean off. You can use the shower at my time…I'm
running kind of late as it is. I just
wanted to let you know that I cared about you.
I think it's awful what my brother did to you. I overheard the whole thing.
I could do nothing about it because he treats me the same way…well less
brutal, but he's still not nice to me.
He's a selfish hog."
Frey sees hope
in this and says to Lowdun, "We will talk again sometime. I'll need you to help me get my family
back."
Lowdun looks at him quizzically, but Frey
says no more. He knows he risked a lot
by just saying that…if the Shadow were to find out…well let us not continue
that thought. Lowdun glances at his watch
and is alarmed that he only has about 15 minutes if he wants to see that Force
card….