***WARNING : This is my minds ramblings. It's how I am and how I think. If you aren't strong...GET OUT NOW! Have a shrink nearby, you may need it. Everything runs together, SO DEAL WITH IT! There are several things that are linked to this, tons of references.
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(..........) tidbit info....things ya might wanna know, or don't....sometimes they run together, things usually do around me anyway.
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"And this is the rose bed. Don't go in it cause of all the nasty thorns." I am just about finished with my tour of the grounds for the 'capture the flag' contest I'm having with a few Jedi. "The wood shed is there and over there is the tool shed. On the side of the wood shed is a huge climbing rose, so be careful around it."
All the Jedi that have been following me nod their understanding and we continue on our tour.
"When do we get our weapons?" Obi-Wan asked.
I raise my eyebrow in surprise. "Getting a little antsy to kick the master's butts?"
Obi-Wan looks back to the masters, then to me, "Oh yeah."
"You know, I really worry about the influence she has." Qui-Gon whispered to the others, but I overheard. "She scares me master."
I stop suddenly in my tracks, and in my best 'scream' voice ask. "Hey Qui-Gon, what's your favorite scary movie?"
"I beg your pardon?" Qui-Gon asks.
"Oh no….. RUN MASTER!" Obi-Wan shouts, just as I pick up a big stick from the kindling pile and get an evil look and start to chase Qui-Gon.
Qui-Gon looks at me funny, then his eyes get wide and he takes off running. (doesn't he know that 'killers' always get their prey?) Suddenly he turns and ignites his saber and glares at me.
"Uhmm… You win!" I say, throwing down the stick, then I turn tail and run as a green blade chases me.
I squeal like a 4 yr old and run around to the side of the house, right where the water hose is hooked up. I grab it quickly and turn on the water, then cower against the side of the house, just as Qui, Obi and Mace come around.
Qui-Gon grins, "You're going to get it now!"
I fake crying, holding the nozzle under my arm, against my body. "You wouldn't hurt an unarmed person, now would you?"
Qui-Gon only takes a second to respond, "YES!"
"Fine!" I jump up, squeezing the nozzle and spraying Qui. Qui-Gon's lightsaber flickers and dies from all the water. I grin wickedly and release my hold on the water hose.
"You killed my saber." Qui-Gon looks stunned and possibly in shock. "You 'killed' my little green saber."
"Obi, If your master suffers a mental breakdown, will you be knighted, or will they find someone else to take over your training?" I ask, slowly backing away from the constantly chanting 'you killed my saber' Jedi Master.
Obi looks thoughtful, then sighs, "I doubt anyone would take me. I'm too old for a new master and not ready for my trials. I'm better off staying with Qui-Gon, even if he does have a breakdown."
"YOU KILLED MY SABER!" Qui-Gon is shaking the handle, trying to get the excess water out of it.
"We kinda established that already Qui." I say in a soft tone. don't wanna push him over the edge he is so clearly standing on
"GET HER!" Qui shouts, then lunges with the other two.
I get pinned down and tickled so hard I black out. I woke up lying on the couch, mud stuck to the side of my face, my tummy hurting, and possibly bruised ribs. geesh they tickle hard
"Welcome back." Obi-Wan beams at me.
"Shut up." I mumble, then stagger to the bathroom to wash my face.
"Not a good sport she is." Yoda adds.
After washing my face, I went back to the living room. Plopping down beside Windu I ask, "How long was I out?"
"For about half an hour." Windu answers. "I didn't think we tickled that hard."
"Actually, it wasn't that bad. You just triggered my asthma. That's why I couldn't breathe and blacked out."
"Will you be ok?" Qui-Gon asked.
"I'll be fine. I'll have plenty of energy to help Obi humiliate you three." I grin wickedly.
"So sure you are." Yoda chided. "Will be your undoing it will, yes."
"Ok, for this game, you said you have to have 'flags'." Qui-Gon started. "I take it you have some flags we can use."
"Well I have some kinds of flags, but I doubt you would want to fly them." I giggle.
"Why not?" Windu asks, his suspicion aroused.
"I have the confederate flag, and banners from hockey arenas, then I have the banners made with you all on them." I say nonchalantly.
"Us? How did you get us on a banner?" Obi-Wan gets a nervous look.
"Remember when I was taking pictures when I visited?" They all nod they remember. "Well I had the pics developed and I had them transferred onto iron on transfer paper, then I just put them onto some material."
"You mind if we look at them?" Qui-Gon was getting a little worried.
I shrugged and motioned for everyone to follow me. I had put everything into a storage container in my closet. We all wandered up to my bedroom and I opened my closet to grab the banners. Opps… guess I forget that is where I hid my Star Wars stuff… Mainly my Obi-Wan stuff.
All of the stuff came flooding at me, burring me within its depths. The Jedi rushed over to help me up, grabbing the stuff and looking it over quizzically. Qui-Gon grabbed the Obi stand up and hit the button that had him to say, "The force will be with you, always."
They all look over at me. I have to think quick. uh oh… I can't think..too painful! I can wing it! I wave my hand in front of them, pretending to whammy them. "You didn't see a thing!"
"A Jedi you are not." Yoda said, holding a Qui-Gon 12" doll.
I sigh, "Please don't make me tell you where I got this stuff. or how much money I have spent Just pretend you didn't see it and let it go. Please?"
They all sigh and agree, even Obi, whose playing with a plastic version of his lightsaber. I put all the stuff back into the closet and grab the container that has the flags, then shut the door.
I open it up and start pulling out the banners I had made, hockey banners and flags. The Jedi open up the banners, glancing over them. One is on baby blue material with council members, with Obi and Qui in the center. The other was steel gray with BIG pics of Obi and Qui.
"These are nice." Qui said, looking the banners over. "I think we will use the blue one, you two can use the gray. Is this acceptable?"
I nod, watching Yoda pulling on the flags to spread them to look at them. He gets tangled up in the confederate flag and topples forward, becoming more entangled in the fabric. I start laughing as he emerges, huffing and scowling. rebel Yoda… go figure!
"Ok, so now that we've figured that out, we need to hide them somewhere around the parameter and prepare for tonight." I say, shoving the container back in the closet. "We need to load our weapons and eat. We won't be able to eat anything after the game starts. And you all can't have ya sabers."
"Why not?" Qui asked, starting to pout.
"So I don't get killed?" I say with a 'preppy' attitude. "If you carry them, you will be tempted to use them, or do I need to remind you about the backyard and the water hose?"
Qui-Gon blushed. "My saber is useless right now anyways."
I gave Qui a big hug, "I am sorry about frying it out. I was just defending myself."
"Let's get going, I want hurry up and get the weapons and rules down before start." Windu said, heading downstairs.
"You need to talk to your team members about where to hide the flag. Don't tell the other team. Remember, something's gotta to be hanging out my bedroom by the end of the game to signal a winner." I explained, heading down after Master Windu.
Obi-Wan grabbed my arm and whispered, "Where are we going to hide ours?"
"Bathroom." I whispered back when the others were far enough away.
"What?"
"The refresher." I sigh.
Obi grinned. "Great idea."
"You hide it in the closet. Put it between some blankets, sheets, towels. Where ever. Make it good!" I instruct. "Be discrete."
"But how am I going to hide it in there with them watching us all the time?" Obi sighs.
"Here." I grab the flag, fold it to a smaller size and pull up Obi's shirt and pull out the waistband of his pants and shove it down. Then pull the shirt down over it and perfectly hide it.
Obi grins, "I didn't think you would do that."
"I'm fairly fearless." I give him a wicked grin and we head into the kitchen where the masters are talking amongst themselves.
The masters quickly hush up when Obi and I enter the kitchen, my guess is they are planning where to hide their flag. They all take a seat at the table while I start to work on some dinner. Everyone talks pleasantly and the masters systematically start to leave the table for a few minutes and wander around the house and Master Windu goes outside for a couple of minutes.
I give Obi a quick glance and he starts to wander around the rooms himself. I asked someone to watch the food quickly while I went to a couple of rooms, already starting the search for their flag.
When the food is done, we all sit around and discuss the rules one last time, and I clarify about 'take prisoners' and 'torture'. If someone gets shot with the supersoakers they automatically give in to the one who shot them, and submit to 'torture'. The force is NOT to be used. This is a game of skill and wits. thank god its not about intelligence, I'd be screwed!
I explained that each group will need a base, for the torture and to regroup, just in case of a surprise attack. Obi looked at me curiously and I grinned. He gulped.
I led them to 'weapons locker', which is a large plastic storage container, that's loaded with 'outside' toys. like supersoakers and other water related toys We take them inside and fill them up and I show them how they are used. They got a few practice shots in, then we refilled for the big game.
Then we separated to talk out our battle plans and strategy. I led Obi to the spare bedroom and shut the door, while the masters went to the other side of the house in the laundry room.
"Ok, this is the plan." I whisper to Obi. "I like to stay at base for the first few hours of the game, wait for brave souls to torture." I grin and Obi gets a look of fear. "Well wait in here for a few hours, then if no one shows up, we'll split up to search for their flag. Did you do any recon while walking around to divert suspicion?"
"What is recon?" Obi shrugged. "I just walked from room to room. Didn't look around some and then came back to the kitchen."
I sighed and put my head in my hands. "Oh man, do amateurs really try my patience." I felt a hand on my arm and I looked up. Obi flashed those baby blues and I temporarily lost my train of thought. go figure!
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you." Obi apologized.
"Its ok. Well, I can tell you what I have learned. I found that the carpet in the living room has been moved, the potted plant on the porch has been moved, someone tampered with a vase, the pillows on the bed have been switched, and the door on the medicine cabinet was slightly ajar when I went in." I tried to remember all the idiosyncrasies I noted earlier.
"Who will be the one to check them out? I don't want you to go out there alone. There could be trouble." Obi's brow creased.
"It's my house and I told everyone else the rules. They won't beat me or anything." I sigh, then look concerned over to Obi, "Will they?"
"Oh no, never! They will follow the rules you stated."
"Let's go. I don't want to take up too much time."
Obi nods and follows.
We wait in the kitchen, and are soon joined by the masters, who look a little too cocky. They are ginning and looking SOOO smug.
After having a nice chat we talked about odd things just to pass the time Qui-Gon rose and noted the time. We had 15 minutes to get ready. Everyone grabbed their weapons and nodded a good luck to each other. I turned out lights all over the house, leaving only a small nightlight on in the kitchen.
Windu looked around, "I thought that no one was to know where the other's base is?"
"They aren't" I clarify. "Obi and I will go up to my room for 15 minutes and you three can go anywhere you want. Remember, no force using!"
Obi nods bye to his master and follows me to my room. As soon as we're up there, I grab my black clothes and quickly change. I hear a gasp of shock and forgot about other room's occupant. I grin and take my clothes to the bathroom to change.
I come back out, check the time, grab a small bag, then the two of us slowly make our way downstairs. I blend in to the perfectly darkened house. We make it uneventful to the spare bedroom, and waited for any prey to come along.
I set Obi up at the doorway, while I took up position against the opposite wall, hiding my body under a small table in the hallway. I could see the hall, part of the living room, and I was just a few feet from the bathroom, where our flag was hiding. I pulled my water gun close and used the black fabric of my clothes to hide the weapon. I looked over to Obi, who made a face at me. I put my finger to my mouth to silence him and both of us lay in waiting for a victim.
After about an hour or so, we heard a slight rustle and noticed that it was centered somewhere in the living around, and coming right towards us. I saw a shadowy figure slowly make its way over towards the hallway. I made a quick motion to Obi to be prepared and crouched down lower, preparing myself for the assault.
Suddenly the figure was sneaking around the corner, making slow, silent progress towards us. I leveled my water gun and with a flick of my finger, squirted the hapless person in the chest. I heard a muffled 'Sith" and slipped out of my hiding place to apprehend the intruder.
Imagine my surprise when I herded Qui-Gon into the bedroom. oh the implications! Obi-Wan closes the door and starts to giggle at hearing Qui's protesting. I push Qui towards the bed and whisper to Obi, "Keep your eyes peeled in case the others are lurking."
He nods and positions himself at the door, watching intensely and giving me some cover while I interrogate the prisoner
Qui-Gon sits on the corner of the bed, his arms folded over his chest in a defiant posture. not to worry, I can break even the most stubborn of men maybe that's why I have a hard time keeping a boyfriend?
"Keep your voice low, and tell me where you hid your flag." I stare down the stubborn master.
"Nope. Not going to." Qui whispers.
"Fine, then you will be tortured." I say, then lean over him, my face merely inches from his, "And I can make this VERY unpleasant. Are you sure you don't want to save yourself the pain and embarrassment?"
Qui-Gon stares up at me, slightly taken aback by my actions and tone of voice.I can get downright evil sometimes. "I will not talk. And you can't cause any kind of pain, that's part of the rules."
"Depends on what you classify as pain." I retort.
I grab my bag from my room and open it up. I take out a small hair brush, and two small pony tail holders. I take out the tie holding back Qui's hair and comb through it a little. God, you have NO IDEA how wild that is! and pull his hair up into pigtails.
"I don't think so." Qui said, grabbing my arm.
"Shut up, you're being tortured!" I grin back. I finish giving him pigtails and hear Obi snickering so hard I think he's about to split something vital. I pull out a quick easy camera and snap a shot of Qui in pigtails. I then grab some makeup, and then start to apply it heavily to the protesting master. Then I snap another shot.
Obi-Wan is literally against the wall, laughing silently at the site before him. I'm standing in front of a pigtailed, blue eye shadow, bright pink cheeks, and red lipped Jedi Master.
I grin at Qui, "Told it ya was torture. Be glad I left the bra upstairs."
Qui's eyes widen and he purses his ruby red lips together.
"Still not talking?"
Qui nods no. Fine, time to bring out the big guns!
I pull out a roll of duct tape that was in my bag and grab Qui's pants.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I need to see your leg." I said, yanking the pant leg up and sitting down heavily on the floor with my legs and one arm wrapped around his calf. I pull off some tape and stick it against his hairy leg. oh this is sooo wicked! I smash down extra hard, just to make sure all hairs are caught.
I yank the tape and he lets out a hellacious scream and starts shaking his leg to get me off. I hold on tight and slap another piece on his leg.
"Ok, Ok, Ok. I'll tell you where we hid it, just get off me and keep that tape off of me!" Qui-Gon said, rubbing the now growing red patch on his leg.
I yank off the other piece, hear another yelp, then grab the roll and hold menacingly in front of him, doing my best "crazy German" impersonation. "Talk now and we may let you live."
"Mace hid it on the swing outside, under the cushions." Qui-Gon sighed.
"Good boy Qui. Now stay here with Obi and DON'T CAUSE ANY TROUBLE!" I say, then give Obi a nod.
Obi opens the door and I venture out, weapon I hand. I wait a few minutes outside of the door, then slowly ease my way through the living room and towards the front door. I wait for a few minutes by the door, then realizing that all is clear, I open the door just a bit and slip myself through the narrow passageway and sit for several minutes, waiting and listening.
Hearing nothing I crawl on my hands and knees over to the swing and slip my hand under the cushion and find… absolutely nothing! The Jedi master lied! I grit my teeth, holding back a barrage of obscenities and then think of other ways to torture him. I'm not only after the location of the flag, but now I'm out for blood!
Suddenly I feel a spurt of cold water running down the back of my neck. I turn and see Yoda with a grin and his hand waving for me to follow him. I sigh, holding up my hands in defeat and follow his instructions.
I lead the way to the back of the house, turn the corner, and burst out laughing. Master Windu is peeing in my bushes! He hears my laughing and turns around with that most adorable look of fear, mixed with embarrassment you'd ever see on a man! He quickly zips up, then makes a yelping noise, nearly doubles over, then resumes his inferior posture.
I'm laughing so hard, I think I'm going to pee myself! I stutter out, "You pissed on my mom's azalea bush! What are you doing? Marking your territory?"
Mace frowns, then his beady little eyes narrow down at me. "You didn't say anything about breaks for the refresher. I didn't want to get caught and tortured, just so I could relieve myself."
"You could have yelled, 'bathroom break' and have safe passages to the bathroom. You didn't need to expose yourself to the plants." I snicker, tears streaming down my face. "And what was the muffled cry for?"
Mace sighs, then looks nervous, "Who ever designed these clothes should be made to wear them! That 'zipper' thing is very painful you know!"
"OH… MY… GOD……" I am literally on the floor laughing so hard I bet I'm turning red. "You….. you…. Caught……. You caught…..in the….. zipper….."
"Are you laughing at my pain?" Windu asks.
"Nope. I'm laughing at your inability to close your fly without doing bodily harm to yourself."
"Enough this is." Yoda says, tapping his stick on the patio. "Missing Qui-Gon is."
"He's not missing. We have him at our base." I grin.
"Tortured him, did you?" Yoda poked me.
I shrug, "Depends on what you classify as torture. I put make-up on him and put his hair in pigtails."
Mace snickers, "I would love to see that."
I grin evilly, 'You will. I took pictures."
"Enough of this. Tell us you will, where you hid your flag."
Like I'm going to give in that easy. "Sticks and stones. Loose lips I don't have."
Yoda looked over to Windu, "Speaking in riddles she is!" look whose talking!
Mace nods and grins at Yoda, "Shall we torture her now?"
I roll my eyes. "I'm stronger than anything you two can come up with. BRING IT ON FLYBOYS!"
Mace and Yoda exchange amused looks, then Mace clears his throat and grabs a small headset and slips it over my head and settles it on my ears. All of a sudden I hear the most disgusting, scariest, horrifying noise the universe has ever cursed the mortal world.
Britney Spears. sorry to all her fans out there, I just personally cant stand her
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I scream and squirm to get away. I rip the earphones off and look menacingly at the two Jedi. "Oh.. that was SOOO low!"
We hear someone laughing and turn to see Qui-Gon standing at the side of the house. He comes over and leans over me. "Don't like your torture huh? I think you deserve a lot worse than this for putting on all that girly stuff and pulling out the hairs on my legs."
Mace looked at Qui with a big grin, "What was that? The hairs on your legs?"
Qui shot Mace a 'shut up' glare and then turned back to me. "I have a few ideas to make you talk. Oh and I just wanted you to know that Obi-Wan already told me where your flag was and its now hanging out your window." He smirked.
"No he didn't! He wouldn't betray me like that!" I yell, then notice movement inside the house. I thrash around as Windu tries to hold me still. "If he did tell you and you did have it out my window, then you would have told your team members about it and the game would be over."
"How do you know that it isn't out there and I'm just going to get revenge for the hair pulling and girly stuff?" Qui-Gon asked.
I see Obi peek out of the window and motion that he's looking, so I struggle to give him time. "Because Jedi don't do such things. Or are you dark-siding?"
Yoda perked his ears and looked over at Qui, "Revenge are you seeking?"
"No master, I was just kidding."
"AHHH HAAAA!! So you lied!" I yell.
"Jedi do not lie." Qui-Gon said, his eyes drawing down.
I cross my arms, "But you told me that Obi told you where we hid our flag and that you already had it hanging out my window. I call that lying."
"Right she is. If told you Obi-Wan did not, and not found it, then lied you did." Yoda reprimanded.
Qui-Gon stuttered, "I was trying to get her to let down her guard to give us any information that could help us."
"It was still lying." I said. "What is the punishment the give Obi when he lies?"
"He doesn't lie. Its against the code." Qui corrected.
I roll my eyes, "Oh please. You just lied and YOU are trying to get out of a punishment."
"Punished he will be, first, give us location of your flag you will." Yoda instructed.
I saw Obi looking out the window again, his arms up in a signal of defeat. I sigh and look at Yoda, "It's in the cellar."
Qui-Gon leans over me, staring me up and down, "I think she's lying."
"Well, I had such a good role model." I glare back at Qui.
Qui-Gon huffs and stalks off. I think I ruffled his feathers Windy leans over me, trying to be as imposing as Qui. I'm barely over 5'….EVERYTHING is imposing to me! Windy sizes me up, narrowing his eyes down at me.
I yawn, and start a chain reaction that gets my captors to yawn to. I giggle, knowing that I can go on and on for hours without sleep, but the Jedi aren't used to being up like this. I yawn again, sending another session through the surrounding captors.
"STOP THAT!" Windu yells at me.
"Why? Getting sleepy? Can't you just feel your eyes drooping? And how your body just groans at every move? And you can just 'feel' that soft bed on your back, and the warm blankets protectively covering you, keeping you all snug and cozy in the nice warm bed?" I notice the more I talk about sleeping, the more their eyes start to close and their shoulders slump.
I take a few steps back, slowly inching my way away from the captors and break into a dead run when all three have their eyes closed. I can hear at least one person pursuing me, their heavy footsteps thumping on the ground behind me, closing in.
Suddenly I'm no longer on the ground. I look around, confused and startled as to why I am now able to fly. I peek over my shoulder and see Qui-Gon catching up to me, with Yoda and Windy still back on the patio a good distance away.
Qui-Gon grabs my arm as I dangle in midair. "Gotcha!"
I make a face at him, knowing that someone had cheated, it was just a matter of finding out WHO the culprit was, and making them pay.
I hear Yoda shout, "Run you should have not. Catch you we can."
"YOU LITTLE GREEN CHEATER." I scream back. "THAT WAS AGAINST THE RULES!! AND YOU REPREMANDED QUI FOR LYING…. AND HERE YOU PULL A STUNT LIKE THIS!"
Qui-Gon has me by the arm as I get lowered to the ground. I glare at him, "I thought Jedi were supposed to be all honorable and chivalrous. Boy was I wrong!"
"We are." Qui-Gon smirked. "We just don't like to lose."
Suddenly, there was a splashing at Qui's chest and Obi stepped out from behind the corner of the house. "Let her go master."
"And what if I don't?" Qui asked.
Obi shot him again, right between the eyes. "You are breaking the rules. You aren't playing fairly and that kind of behavior is unacceptable."
Qui's arm flies up, holding his watergun at Obi and the two exchange water as Windy and Yoda make their way to us. I start firing at them, completely soaking the two masters. Yoda slips and falls on his butt and starts muttering something I guess was a curse.
Everyone is doused head to toe in water, dripping and muttering obscenities from all over the galaxy and still shooting at each other. When everyone's guns were empty, we all just stared at one another for a few minutes, completely at a loss on what to do next.
"Now what?" Mace asked.
"I have no idea." I shrug. "We never had a shoot out before. We can't reload guns, we'll just soak each other again and I'm not liking this soggy feeling in my shoes."
Everyone nods and squishes their boots.
"Regroup?" Obi offers. "Give everyone a chance to dry off and then make a new battle plan?"
"Ok, everyone gets to dry off, then let's just start to search for each others flag. No more hostages, since you all don't play fair any ways, and whoever finds the other teams flag and hangs it out my window is the winner." I try to formulate a new attack plan. Never had to do this before, everyone else I play with, plays by the rules. blasted Jedi cheat like a bunch of 'old west hustlers'
"Sounds good. We just look around and don't attack each other." Qui-Gon nods in approval.
"Just one thing guys," I start. "Please don't trash my house. If you move something, please put it back where you found it."
"Agreed." The four say, heading into the house to dry off.
"WAIT!" I shout, remembering that our flag is in the towels. I make up something to prevent them from finding it. "I don't want wet tracks all over my house. Wait here and I'll go get the towels. If my mom sees the mess, she'll kill me!"
Everyone nods and takes a seat on the porch as I go into the house and collect some big beach towels to dry everyone off with. I see the flag in between a couple of towels and I quickly open up a fitted sheet and hide it deep in the many folds. The only way they would find it, is if someone would open up the sheet and shook it.
I take the towels out to the guests, helping get off the excess water and to get them as dry as possible. I make everyone leave their boots on the porch and we go into the house to regroup.
I take the wet towels and throw them in the laundry room and meet up with everyone in the kitchen, next to the nightlight. Yoda, Qui, and Windy had changed their soaked clothes in for some dry Jedi attire. I threw Obi a dry shirt and waited until he changed.
"Ok, everyone search for the opposing teams flag and when you find it, yell to you team members and try to make it upstairs to put it out my window." I explained.
"Well start in the laundry room." Windu said, heading off with the other two Jedi Masters.
"We'll hit the living room." I said, grabbing Obi's collar and leading him away from the others.
Obi and I looked in vases, under furniture, pillows, cushions, carpets, behind pictures. After thoroughly tossing the living room, we went for the bedroom and bathroom, making it look like we searched everywhere.
I whispered to Obi, "I have no clue where they hid it. Can you use the force to find it?"
"Isn't that cheating?" Obi asked, smirking.
"Like they didn't?" I huffed, running a hand through my hair. "They cheated, so why can't we?"
"Because it's wrong and we won't stoop to that level." Obi said, grabbing my arm and leading me back into the living room, where three Jedi masters were searching all over for our flag.
Obi led me to the laundry room and began to go through all the clothes and search around the washer and dryer. We checked all the racks, hanging clothes, even inside the machines! NOTHING!
We checked out the cellar, though it gave me the creeps. its cold in there
I grabbed Obi's sleeve and gave it a yank. "You don't think they hid it outside, do you?"
"They could have hid it anywhere!" Obi said exasperated.
"I still think you should use the force." I sighed.
Obi frowned, "I don't want to win by cheating. I would feel bad."
him? feel bad? wouldn't you like to know what he 'feels' like? I hide back what I was thinking and say, "Well, you will feel even worse when Qui gloats about how they won. He cheated, and aren't you supposed to 'learn from the masta'?"
Obi grins, "Oh yeah! Ok, I'll see if I can sense anything."
I watched him close his eyes, I guess reaching out with the force to see if he can detect where the masters hid their flag. After a couple of minutes, he opens one eye and looks at me, then grins.
"Well? Don't leave me hanging!" I grab his shoulders and start to shake him.
Obi pulls away from my grip and shrugs, "I couldn't sense anything. The force is everywhere, I can't center on anything."
I pout, then get an idea. "How about where the force ISNT? Check to see if there is somewhere that you can't sense the force. Maybe they anticipated this and used a kind of shield."
Obi sighed and closed his eyes again. I see the first rays of sunlight coming over the hill and realize we have just over an hour left. I tap my foot nervously and glance around to make sure the others aren't watching us or have made any progress themselves. I start biting my lip and worry that we're going to lose.
Obi-Wan opens his eyes and stares at me. "Would you stop worrying?! You are making me nervous. Just relax, we'll win and then WE can rub everyone else's face in our victory."
"You found it?"
"Not exactly." Obi bites his lip then looks away. "I noticed that there is no force perception in the kitchen."
"I'll take it!" I snap and run to the kitchen to begin my search. Something suddenly dawns on me and turn to look at Obi, "Why are you biting your lip like you're worried? What are you leaving out?"
"My master can read my mind and know where we hid our flag. I'm worried that he will use our bond against me, us, and we'll lose." Obi sighed.
"He wouldn't sneak that low, would he?" I ask, starting to search the cabinets.
"He's already cheated. I wouldn't put it past him. He's a very fierce competitor." Obi said, going through the fridge.
Obi's head jerked up, "HE'S DOING IT!"
"What?"
"HE'S READING MY MIND!"
"Block him!"
"Too late! He knows where I hid it!" Obi looks at me with a sad, terrified expression.
"DAMN! KEEP LOOKING. IF THEY TRY TO PASS, TACKLE EM!" I say, slamming cabinets.
After going through ever cabinet, drawer, appliance in the kitchen we stand dumbfounded as to where the masters hid their flag.
"I'm sorry." Obi whispers, putting his head down.
"We still have some time though. I put the flag somewhere else while I was getting the towels." I say, waving my hand around.
"You did?" Obi's head shot up and he smiled broadly.
I start to piece together everything that had happened while the masters where in the house. They all seemed to go around the same places, move things around, try to throw us off. But what one place did they keep coming back too and would give each other knowing stares? What part of this puzzle did we overlook?
Then it hits me. THE TABLE! I get on my hands and knees and peek under the table and see a pretty blue flag stare right back at me. I grab it, and hear 'AH HA!' from the bathroom.
The masters found our flag!!!
"Cover me!" I yell at Obi as I start to head up to my room. I suddenly feel myself being lifted up off the ground and suspend in midair.
Windy and Qui come running in, Qui carrying Obi's and mine flag. Obi jumps in front of his master, knocking both to the ground. I break free from my force restraints and start back towards my steps.
Qui hands Windu the flag and Mace starts up after me. I take the steps two at a time, huffing and puffing, praying my asthma doesn't kick in. Mace's hand wraps around my ankle and I fall to the ground with a loud THUD.
He scrambles over me, crushing me with his weight and heads for my window. I grab his ankle and make him topple to the floor and try to climb over him. Qui grabs my foot, pulling to keep me back. I slip out of my shoe and slide over Windu's back.
Qui and Obi are wrestling on the steps, Yoda is levitating himself over the struggling two, and Windu is hot on my heels. Mace suddenly stops and begins to twist and contort around. I glance over to see Obi sitting on Qui's back, focusing on Windy to give me ample time to put the masters' flag out the window.
Yoda had levitated over to me during the confusion and grabbed for the flag in my hand. I yanked it away, just as Yoda reached over for the flag in Windu's hand. Yoda tried to hold me back with the force as he came to my side as I was opening up the window.
Both of our hands went out the window at the same time, and both flags went flying in the strong breeze that swept by. Bringing in our now empty hands, Yoda and I exchanged looks, then I grabbed him and put him on the windowsill and closed the window.
"WE WIN!" I shout.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Qui shouted, knocking Obi off from his perch on the masters back.
Obi threw his hands in the air victoriously, "WE WON! WE BEAT THE MASTERS!"
Windu stood up, his eyes drawn down in a pissed off expression. "How did you win? You put Master Yoda outside!"
"I said that something has to be hanging out my window for a winner to be declared. And since I couldn't use YOUR flag, I used one of YOUR team members." I grinned, then turned to the window.
Yoda was struggling to stay on the ledge and shouted through the glass, "Funny this is not. Allow me back in you will!"
I open the window and help Yoda back inside.
"Dirty that was. Cheated you did. Want a rematch we do." Yoda said, then gave me a wack to the shin.
"We didn't cheat. YOU THREE DID! Obi and I won fair and square!" I said, rubbing my leg and staring down the three sore losers.
"Not part of the winning I was." Yoda huffed.
"No you weren't. You are part of the LOSERS." I snickered, then went over to congratulate my partner.
"I still think you two cheated and Yoda is right. We DO want a rematch. This time, WE chose the layout and make the rules." Qui said, grabbing my arm to emphasize his point.
I pull away and shake my head. "If you want to humiliate yourselves again, be my guest."
I walked over to Obi and held my hand high in the air. "Give me 5!"
"What?" Obi asks, confused.
I grab his hand and slap my palm with it, then turn over his hand and do the same. "This is giving someone 5. You do it as a celebration, congratulation thing."
Obi looks thoughtful, then nods his understanding. I laugh and give him a big hug, all the time squealing, "We kicked some major master booty."
Obi laughs along with me as the three masters huff and cross their arms, sour expression on their faces. Suddenly I hear a "I'm home!" from downstairs.
"Whose that?" Qui asks, looking over his shoulder towards my stairs.
I let go of Obi, my eyes get wide in horror and I whisper, "My mother!"
TBC…….. I PROMISE!