A Rose In The Frost6
Author's note: Thanks to my reviewers. Some extracts are straight from the
script of "A new hope."
"Who is it?" Asked Leia from inside.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi, can I come in?" He asked.
"I suppose." Said Leia lazily.
She pressed a blue button on her desk and the door slid open. Obi Wan stepped inside and looked Leia up and down. She was wearing a long blue dress, which flowed out and was decorated with precious stones. Her long hair was up in a tight "no nonsense" bun.
They were in Leia's office, which was full of papers, files, datapads and holograms.
"How did it go?" He asked Leia.
"Fine. I managed to get hold of some highly useful weapon plans. Will you sit down?" She asked, gesturing to a seat in front of her desk.
Obi smiled and sat down. Leia took her seat behind the desk and began to flick through some papers.
"Princess Leia." Obi asked to get her attention.
"Yes." She replied not looking up from her paper.
"I want to talk to you about the force."
"What?" She asked finally looking up. "All that Jedi mumbo jumbo."
Obi felt a twinge of annoyance "mumbo jumbo". But he continued all the same.
"Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi their power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
By now Leia was starring at him.
"What has this got to do with me?"
"Your father was one of the best Jedi Knights. If we train you might be able to help destroy Vader and the emperor. You are the galaxy's only hope.
By now Leia was smiling.
"Oh come on Obi, me the galaxy's only hope."
Obi smiled at her and reached inside his pocket.
"You were meant to have this when you were eighteen." He handed her a metal handle?
Leia took it from him and starred at him again. She pressed a red button on it and a long blue laser beam rose up about four feet. She starred at it now.
"What is it?" She asked Obi, as she moved it around swatting at thin air.
Smiling again Obi-Wan explained.
"It's a lightsaber. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time. For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire."
Leia seemed to be making an internal decision.
"Fine." She said finally. "I'll give this Jedi stuff a go."
Obi-Wan smiled again, internally though. Not letting Leia see. He had completed step one."Luke Vader" strode along the passages of his father's ship making a beeline for his mother's room. He wanted to show her his new "toy". His father had just presented it to him. A crimson lightsaber.
There was a guard stood outside his mother's door. Something unusual.
"Let me through." Barked Luke at the guard.
"I'm sorry sir, but the senator has given strict instructions. She does not want to be disturbed."
Luke grew angry.
"Move you fool. I want to talk to my mother."
"I'm afraid I can't sir."
Luke could hear his master Darth Sidious's voice in his head.
"Channel your anger, use it as a weapon."
Luke obeyed his master. He ignited his lightsaber. The guard attempted to move. To late. Luke bought it down, the man was killed instantly.
Padme's door slid open. She had been disturbed from her rest by the noise.
She saw her son standing his lightsaber raised above his head. The body of a man lying on the ground. Padme fell backwards in a faint.
