It was the middle of the night on Home-1. Leia was sleeping and was woken up by a blue glow. When she sat up she saw an elderly man in a long brown robe, surrounded by a blue light. A moment later, Leia realized who this man was that was standing before her.

"General Kenobi? What are you doing here? We saw you die." Leia said this not in an accusing way, but said it to try and convince herself of it.

"Through the Force, death is not an end of life. Only one chapter. I'm here, because you are the final hope for the Jedi Knights."

"Me? I'm can't be a Jedi Knight. You need Luke, he's the one with the Jedi powers."

"Yes, he's very powerful, but Luke has been captured by Darth Vader and taken to the Emperor. He has fallen to the dark side."

Leia went cold and her face paled. "How could Luke fall to the dark side? That's not possible!"

"It is. And you are our final hope. But he can still be saved. He isn't as far into the dark side as Darth Vader is. You're the only one who can save him."

General Kenobi must me making some kind of big mistake. "Me? How could I save him? Why me?"

"You can save him because...you're his sister."

"...Sister?...Yes, that's it. That's the bond we felt the moment we met on the Deathstar." This explains why I've felt such deep love for both Luke and Han. All this time, I've loved Luke, but I didn't even realize it was the love of a sister to her brother. And it was Han that I felt the intimate love with. But could I actually be a Jedi? I suppose that there's really only one way for me to really know. "Alright, I'll go. What should I do?"

"First, you must begin your training. You must go to the only person left to train you. The Jedi Master Yoda on the Dagobah system. You must go at once. Yoda is waiting for your arrival."

Leia got out of her bed and began to grab things that she was going to need. "I'll leave as soon as I can. Thank you, Gen--uh, Master Kenobi. I won't fail you. I promise."

"I hope so. I'm sorry to put such a burden on your shoulders, but if you fail, everything will be lost. The last small flame of the Jedi Knights will flicker and die out."

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"Mon Mothma, Admiral Ackbar, and other leaders of the Alliance; I regret to have to inform you that I have to take a leave of absence. There is other business that I have to take care of and it cannot wait. I hope that you can forgive my leaving you for a length of time that, at this point, I cannot say. But if I'm successful in what I must do now, then the Empire will finally fall, and we can begin to rebuild the Republic and the galaxy."

This was the message that Leia left in her quarters for the Alliance to find. She couldn't bring herself to just leave them, even though she couldn't tell them where she was going, or how long she'd be gone. Leia was flying in an x-wing she was able to scrounge up in the hangar bay of Home-1. She was just coming out of hyperspace into the Dagobah system.

I hope nothing happens to the Alliance on this "leave of absence." I'm not even sure why I came here. It had to all be a dream. Me? A Jedi Knight? If I had abilities in the Force, I'm sure I would've seen it by now, or maybe Luke would've...Strange. No cities or docking bays or anything are getting picked up on the scanners. Well, accept for life-form readings.

"R5, the fog's blocking my scopes, I'm going to need you to use your scanners to guide me down to a safe place to land the ship." The R5 unit beeped a response and after Leia's x-wing translated it, she replied, "Well, I'm sorry if there isn't much to work with, but there's not much choice. Find something."

After several minutes, Leia managed to land in a relatively safer place than Luke was forced to set his ship down on. Leia opened her canopy and looked out at the world she was on, and wasn't very impressed.

"Not exactly the kind of place that you'd expect to find the last Jedi Master in the galaxy. This is where Luke was trained?" Her mentioning of Luke reminded her of what had happened to Luke. A vision came to her mind of Luke dressed like Darth Vader, commanding Imperial fleets and wiping out what he had dedicated his last three years to helping build.

Leia climbed down the ladder of her x-wing and got out her survival gear from its compartment. She got it all set down onto the soggy soil of Dagobah, and she just stood there, realizing that she had no idea how to find this Jedi Master. Nor would she even know him, if she saw him. Well, maybe he'll find me. Almost like a response to her thought, she heard a voice that seemed to come from nowhere.

"Great strength in the Force, do I sense in you. Like your brother. And your father. Yes. Strong in the Force is the Skywalker line."

Leia looked around for the source of the voice, but saw no one. She decided to just talk out into the air. "Are you Yoda?"

"I am." This time the voice came from right behind Leia, and she spun around to see a short, old-looking creature, standing on a fallen log. She looked at him skeptically, that this small and somewhat ugly creature could be the Jedi Master she was seeking.

"You're Yoda?"

"Not believe can you, a Jedi Knight, one could be, who is so small?"

"Well, I--"

"Soon, will you learn, like your brother, that size matters not. To become a Jedi Knight is why you are here?"

"I came because I want to save Luke."

"To become a Jedi Knight is how to save him."

"Yes...Master Yoda. I'm ready. Teach me to be a Jedi Knight."