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….
Until next
time!
Jedi Stories: episode #4 A discovery
Previously: Elliot has
just proved how mean and ruthless he can be to poor Frey. But Lowdun has made a
gesture of friendship toward Frey…one that could make them become close
friends.
Lowdun knew there was
something special about his Force. He
knew it from the look on his teacher's face. His teacher was a strange sort. A little short green creature named Yoda. Yoda had taught at this school for nearly 750 years now. The class he was in was in learning how to
become a Jedi Knight. So Lowdun went
and asked his father about the Force. Since it was known that the Force was supposed to be taught through
school, and Lowdun attended the Jedi Academy, and the instructors there only
wanted them to learn from the school. You see they don't want perspective students to pick up bad habits or
ideas from elsewhere. No one taught or
even mentioned the subject to their children. So when Lowdun went and asked his father about it, he would not tell
him. Lowdun was disappointed, but happy
to go to school the next day. Lowdun
had only one sibling and that sibling was like 5 years older than he was. His brother was a Jedi Apprentice, but there
was something Lowdun didn't like about him, but just couldn't put his finger on
it. He went to go talk to his brother
and the following is what happened: Lowdun went and knocked on his brother's door.
"What is it you want?" In an
annoyed voice asked Elliot (the name of his brother.)
"Can I come in?" asked Lowdun.
"I guess. I don't think I
could stop you."
"You're right, I don't think you could." Lowdun said as he entered the room.
"This is the last day I have to put up
with you anyway," said Elliot.
"What?" asked Lowdun.
"Guess what, I'm leaving. I'm never coming back and I'm glad! I'm going off and joining the maurders!"
"You can't do that!" cried Lowdun.
"Oh, I can't can I? Well
you just wait and see!"
"Is there something special about your or my force?"
"Why do you ask that you dim-witted brother? But, no nothing special about it."
"Oh," said Lowdun as he was preparing
how he would word the next issue. "But
that is not what I came here to discuss…not my main topic."
He pauses to get a reaction from his brother. Elliot just looks at him kind of funny.
Lowdun continues, "Frey is what I came
here to discuss."
"Frey? Frey? That stupid servant?"
"Frey is not stupid! He is
a great man! I am good at telling these
things. I don't like the way you treat
him. Please stop beating on him! You have no right to be treating him that
way!"
Elliot gets red hot. "So
you were listening?!"
"How could I not be…a person could hear
you ten miles away. And you know what,
I'm telling dad."
"Go ahead. He can't do anything to me. I'll be gone soon and it won't matter."
"But Frey is as person…with feelings
just like you and me."
Elliot is no longer listening and storms out of the room, slamming
the door as hard as he can. Then he
goes over to Frey and shoves him over against the trash to spite both him, and
Lowdun. When Elliot had gone off to go
see some of his friends (he thought he was kidding about the joining the
Maurder part.) Lowdun ceased the
opportunity to search Elliot's things. He was looking for a specific something.
"Ah ha!" exclaimed Lowdun when he found
what he was looking for.
He held up to the light as so he could see it better. It was a little note
card with a number scratched on it. -12. He knew it was his
brother's level of Force and knew his must be close to it. Then he checked his watch and saw that if he
didn't hurry up he would be late for school. He had his Jedi class first period and knew that Yoda would not approve
of him being late. He lived on Alderaan
at the time and was somewhat happy for it. As he arrived at school, Yoda was in the midst of just about starting
class when Lowdun rushed in. Yoda
opened his mouth and was about to call him tardy, but Lowdun informed him that
the bell had not yet rung. Yoda explained the Force Scale and the
midi-cholorian scale to his class, saying that the Force Scale is opposite of
the number scale. He said the - sign
was not a negative sign, but the symbol of the Force. -14 is the strongest Force and 0 means no Force. The Midi-Cholorian is another way…the
midi-cholorian count. It uses no Force
symbol. He also explained that they
would be checking their Force levels in a minute, but he side he must warn his
students about something.
"You people are all gifted with the Force, but is a privilege to
use it. Such actions as siding with the
Maurders will make you lose your power. I'm serious. If something like
that were to happen, you would lose your Force forever. It is a fact that is clearly stated on
Dyrnwyn, the great sword of power and the Force Sword. Now even though it is lost, people have
passed this fact down to new generations."
Suddenly Lowdun had a jolt remembering Elliot and what he said.
"I gotta stop him! But how," he said quietly to himself.
To be continued...