Chapter 4 - Abbey's Lightsaber
Abbey paced the room. She wondered what would happen tomorrow, if she could maybe finally learn to use a lightsaber. She still worried about what would happen if the Imperials found out she deserted and betrayed them. She flung herself onto the bed, knowing the Third Death Star will be gone in no time at all...
The next day Abbey awoke early, took a shower, then went out into the meeting room. A few Jedi were conversing about the Death Star, while Kyle and Rosh were having a Force Battle, levitating things then throwing them at the other, having to defend themselves with the force. Chris was still asleep. Abbey sat down in an old chair, and was making her blaster pistol zoom around. A few hours later, Chris came in.
"Hi, Abbey, do you want to practice some more?"
"Of course I do," Abbey replied. Chris smiled and led her to their training room that was used yesterday.
"Okay, before you actually become a Jedi, you have to build a lightsaber," Chris said, taking out a few colored crystals from his pocket, "You can pick any color you want for your lightsaber."
Abbey took the blue one. "What about the rest? I need more pieces, right?"
Chris took out a very out-of-shape lightsaber from his pocket, then went to a table in the corner of the room. After a few minutes of dismantling, Chris returned holding many little pieces. He gave her these, and also a datapad.
"The instructions to build a lightsaber are on the datapad. When you are done, see me in the meeting room, and then I will teach you to battle." Chris left the room, leaving Abbey to build.
Abbey found the Power Cell and put that in the empty saber. Then she put the Focusing crystal in it. She slowly assembled it, checking the datapad with every move she made. Half an hour later, the lightsaber was finished. Abbey was very proud of herself. She turned it on, and a dazzling blue beam extended from the top of the lightsaber. She waved the elegant laser sword, that was not at all heavier when it was turned off. She slowly and carefully took a cut at the ceiling, shaping a triangle, and the small shape fell to the floor.
Abbey turned it off, then ran to go show Chris what she had made. When she got to the meeting room, panting, she showed Chris her new lightsaber.
"That's excellent!" Chris remarked, taking out his own. "Now we'll practice."
Extending his beautiful green lightsaber, he spun it around in midair using the force. The giant green wheel cut off a little bit of his black hair. The lightsaber turned off, and before it hit the floor Chris caught it easily.
"You'll be able to do that one day, Abbey," Chris said, going back upstairs with her to the room.
Inside they both turned their lightsabers on. Chris drew two circles in the ground with his lightsaber, very lightly, around himself and Abbey. Then they started training. Chris was actually having trouble defending, Abbey was very powerful when it came to this.
"Okay, okay, let's call it quits..." Chris said, sitting on the floor and regenerating his energy with the force. After a few minutes he stood up. It was very late, and tomorrow the two were going to go to Dagobah to practice the force a little bit more.
Abbey embraced Chris, then after looking into each others' eyes, their faces met...