Title: The Skywalker Legacy: Guardian of the Jedi (Story 2 in series)
Author: Jedidanny ( danielle_skywalker_jedi@hotmail.com )
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, action-adventure, alternate universe
Time Period: About ten years before the New Jedi Order
Summary: Danielle Skywalker is graduating from the Jedi Academy and her life begins to change. R&R!
Author's note/Disclaimer: Star Wars doesn't belong to me, and these are all semi-original characters, save for those with the last name Skywalker and Solo.
Chapter One:
The Ceremony
Danielle Skywalker blinked back tears as she followed her fellow graduating friends down the aisle and to the stage of the audience chamber of the Jedi Academy on Yavin Four.
In front of her were her boy friend Joey, twin brother Jesse, and her other friends. Now at age twenty-one, she was graduating from the Academy and becoming a Jedi Knight.
Watching in the audience were people Danny had called family and friends for most of her life: Leia and Han Solo, their kids, Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin, Alison and Binx; her foster brother Rei, and her friends Alex, Syria, Dan, Chris, and Mica. There were also families of the other graduates there.
Standing on the stage was Luke Skywalker, the founder of the Academy and her cousin in his Jedi uniform. Behind him in a row stood the Jedi Masters and Knights.
They walked up onto the stage and the graduating students stood in a row as Luke walked to the microphone.
"As the founder of this Academy, it always makes me proud when students graduate to become great Jedi Knights. But it also saddens me when it includes three people who are apart of my family, by blood or not. My two cousins, Danielle and Jesse Skywalker, and Joseph Sanderson, who has become apart of our family over the years, are all graduating from the Academy and I know they will make us all proud as the Jedi Knights they have worked hard to become," Luke began.
Danny smiled at her cousins words, feeling a tear roll down her cheek, and looked up at Joey as he took her hand into his and smiled down at her.
Luke turned toward the students, "When I call your name, you will step forward and I shall knight you. Once everyone has been knighted, you will all ignite the blades of your light sabers and bring them together, followed by the other Jedi Masters and students." He paused, "Jesse Skywalker."
Jesse, Danny's twin brother, stepped forward and walked to Luke's side. He, like all the graduating students, wore his Jedi uniform of a tan color, boots, and a utility belt around his waist. He bowed his head as Luke said, "Jesse Skywalker, you have proven yourself worthy of becoming a Jedi Knight and have passed your tests in doing so." He unclipped his light saber from the belt and put it on Jesse's shoulders, tapping it lightly. "Congratulations, Jesse. You are now a Jedi Knight."
This was repeated for all of the graduates, and Danielle was one of the last to be called. Once everyone had been knighted, the graduates all stood back in line and unclipped their sabers from their belt. A loud bzz from the sabers was heard and everyone brought their blades together, the Jedi Masters and Knights following once the students had done it.
When everyone had designited their blades, the audience began clapping, as did the Jedi Masters and Knights.
Smiling, Danny looked out at the audience and then at her friends. She hugged her brother and then Joey, kissing him quickly. Once she had done this, she lead them down the steps of the stage and toward where her family was sitting, hugging everyone. It had been a while since she had seen them and she wasn't able to talk to them before the ceremony. The last one she hugged was her foster brother, Rei.
Rei was tall, about six feet at least, had brown hair and dark blue eyes. He wore an outfit of complete black and his saber hung at his side from a belt. After hugging him, she looked up into his proud-big-brother eyes and smiled without saying anything to him. Since they had become friends and then brother and sister, they had shared a bond with each other that no one could break. He wasn't a replacement for her brother, Max, who had died to save her when she was eight years old, other than for being there for her in life, but he was her big brother all the same.
She turned toward her brother and boy friend and they began walking out of the audience chamber and to where there was a reception set up for everyone in the dining hall of the Academy.
