Evadne reached the temple and walked in. She ducked into a corner to observe the fighting that was going on. She looked around and saw what looked like a Sith swinging his lightsaber at a woman. She gasped in terror as she watched the fight further advance. She looked around for this Luke person...and hoped that meanwhile she would not be discovered in her observing place. She had her lightsaber on her but she didn't want to use it unless absolutely necessary. She reached out through the Force to touch the minds of the three people that she saw fighting.... Bye doing so, she was able to pick up some of their thoughts. The girl who was fighting was named Jada, and one of the others was named Guage. She was unable to read the third person's mind. The fourth person was definitely a dark sider. She knew that he was a Sith, and that he had probably followed her to Yavin 4.
Guage seemed to be under the control of the dark side of the Force. She watched the fighting in amazement. It appeared to her that maybe she had been mistaken at thinking that Guage was a Sith.
Luke Skywalker rolled out of the way as Guage's saber swung wide at Jada. Out of the corner of his eye he saw her duck. As Luke came up to his feet he saw a girl standing at the door with a saber clipped to her waist. Reacting on instinct. Luke ran headlong at Guage and called the girl's saber to his hand. As it hit his hand it snap-hissed to life, glowing bright yellow. And he brought the lit saber up in front of him and stopped in front of Guage. Without warning Luke flung a nearby storage bin square into Guage's back that sent him sprawling...........
Evadne watched as her saber flew away from her.
Great...she thought...what am I to do if I get attacked now? I am
unarmed.... She ducked out of everyone's sight and into the shadows
from where she would watch carefully to determine what was happening
before she made
her presence further known. She knew that one man knew she was
there...the one that had taken her saber...She didn't want the Sith to
know of her presence.... She
stood very still.... waiting for the best chance to call back her
saber.... She sensed through the Force that the person using it really
needed it at the moment so she wasn't going to call it back to herself
at the moment...
Evie's eyes grew wide as she watched the Jedi ban together and the Sith threaten them with death. Since she was unarmed, there was nothing that she could think of that was in her power to do about the situation so she silently watched as the group of Jedi advanced on the Sith. All of a sudden she realized that this Sith looked very familiar.... it looked like the person that she last saw her mother with before her mother's mysterious death... She tried to clear her mind of that memory in case the Sith could read minds...it had taken her forever to forget that memory and now it had surfaced it could be her worst nightmare...
Evie watched as the lady that stood close to her was attacked by the Sith and given a bloody lip. Since the sith was so close to her now, she had no choice but to call her weapon back to herself and switch on its bright yellow glowing blade. As she did this, the sith kept an eye on her to determine if she would pose any threat to him. The Sith determined that Evadne posed no threat to himself so he promptly ignored her...which would turn out to be his biggest mistake... Evie promptly ran her lightsaber through the Sith's back, and he disappeared. She looked at the place where he had stood only a few seconds ago with a confused look on her face, but promptly dismissed it and turned to the others. She switched off her lightsaber. Suddenly it started to rain. Lightning ripped through the sky outside and cast shadows into the room.
Evie looked around at the people standing before
her. She knew none of them and they did not know her. She walked
up to one of them and said: "I am looking for the one who you
call Skywalker." The person pointed her in Luke's direction so
she walked over there. "Are you Skywalker?" She asked and
the man nodded..."Hello my name is Evadne Darkstarr, I'm from
Corellia...err...Bespin. You may
call me Evie." Princess Evie said as she extended her hand to Luke.
"Actually, I was told that you might be able to help me figure
out some aspects of my past." Evie looked at him expectantly.
"And maybe that you can help me to figure out just who exactly I
am."
"Um..." Luke
stuttered, a little unsure of where to start, or if he had anything at
all that would help her as much as she wanted.
"Let me start with
telling you a little about me. I think that I came from the royal
family of Bespin, if there ever was such a
thing. I've had these strange dreams that led me to that
conclusion. I have a sister. I don't know if she is still alive or
where she is. We were both taken away when we were young.... and they
separated us...I never saw Aidia again... My ship crash-landed on
Corellia and that's where I grew up. That's where I trained in the
Force to become a Jedi. If the Force is strong in my family, it would
do you a great service if my sister could be found... because if she
isn't...the dark side may have already found her...." Evie looked
at Luke.
"That's not a good thing." Luke said.
"Sorry to have to bother you with this, but I was told that you may have something of mine...." Evie said.
Evie followed Luke out of the room that they were in. They walked outside. The wind blew stray strands of Evie's red hair into her eyes and she kept pushing it away with the Force. She rolled her eyes when she noticed that Luke has sensed that she was using the Force to do such a pitiful thing such as moving her hair out of eyes with the Force. She felt ashamed that Luke had sensed that. She blushed slightly.
"Where exactly are we going?" Evie asked.
"We're going to
a clearing in the woods." Luke said. Evie eyed
him curiously.
"What's there?" Evadne asked.
Luke worried that he had seen Guage head out into
the rain in a hurry. He had been through a lot lately, best to let
him be for a bit. Luke stopped suddenly
and bent down and cleared away some brush, "You
wanted to know what's out here?" he said to Evie as he grasped
a handle. He pulled up and a door opened from the ground. Revealing
nothing but a dark hole. Gradually, though, the hole began to lighten
up as a bank of lights illuminating what now appeared to be a tunnel
with steps leading down.
"What is this?" Evie asked hesitantly.
Luke
half smiled, "It's a place I keep all those
things that I never know what to do with. Follow me." Luke let
the door fall back; the small hydraulic hinges caught it from flopping
completely open. Evie shrugged
and followed him down into the humid
corridor. As she looked
around herself it appeared that they were in some sort of grounded
ship. This ship was not evident from the outside at all because it
appeared to be completely buried in the ground as if it had crashed
and the impact had buried it.
As Evie ran her hand along the corridor to brush off years of
rust and dust, she came
upon what seemed to be some sort of emblem. She turned to Luke.
"What's that you're looking at Evadne?" Luke asked. "The thing that I wanted you to see is down here further."
"I'm trying to figure out what it is myself. Hold on for a second. Let me clear this off and look to see who owned this ship. Then we can continue down there."
"Ah, ok." Luke answered as he silently waited for Evie to finish her business. Evie cleared off the emblem. It was a star. Evie gasped and her hand went up to her cheek where she wiped off some make-up to reveal the star-shaped birthmark on her cheek. "What is it Evie?" Luke asked.
"This ship...It belonged to the Royal Family of Bespin. It could possibly be the one that my sister Aidia was on." Evie said.
"You know all of that from an emblem?" Luke asked.
"Actually.... something is coming back to me. Let me tell you something that I remember. Do you see this birthmark on my face?" Evie asked as she pointed to the dark star shape on her right cheek. Luke nodded and Evie continued..."It is called the Empress's Star. It's a mark that identifies the Royal family. Each of us was star-kissed. I can't believe that I am just remembering this..."
"Seeing
that emblem has triggered something in the Force for
you Evadne. Now if you'll follow me, I'll show you what else I've found."
Luke said. Both Evadne and Luke continued
down the corridor.
