-Chapter three-
What was that all about?

We just entered the blue planet's atmosphere. It remembered me of my home planet, Corellia; it brought back some happy memories, memories of my parents and my brother. It also brought back some sad memories; those of being captive, leaving the planet with the smugglers that enslaved me to the disgusting Hutt. The planet was amazingly beautiful.

I was astonished by Theed's waterfall. It was bigger than I remembered from my dreams. There it was, Theed Starport. The place was huge. As we approached, I could see hundreds of people at the plaza surrounding the Starport. Suddenly, a red light started to bleep and a female voice shouted.

"Please state your Identification number please." Chadi then replied,

"My identification number is 5600-22197, permission to land?"

"Permission granted. Welcome to Naboo Mr. Soriante." answered the female voice. Chadi then looked at me and winked. He then said with a calming tone,

"Welcome to Naboo, Cel." The simplicity of him saying 'Cel' made me smile. He was a real gentleman. Since then, no one had ever treated me so nicely. I looked at him, giggled and replied,

"Welcome to Naboo Mr. 'Soriante'. I guess I'm better off if I don't ask any questions. Will I get a personal guide to visit the planet?"

"Sure, but now I don't have the time, I need to get to business first." I then glanced at his beautiful eyes; I could not believe how beautiful they were. They remembered me of my mother's. They were as beautiful and as peaceful as them. I clearly missed my family.

We quickly landed at Theed's Starport. The landing was quick and smooth; Chadi really knew how to handle a ship. The place had this nice Victorian feel; marble floors, high ceilings and rich colors. The place didn't seem like a Starport, it seemed more like a palace.

As I unboarded the ship, I was welcomed by a silver metallic droid. He reminded me of C3-PO, a droid I saw a few days ago, except that this one wasn't gold, it was silver.

"Welcome to Naboo." said the droid. It had a woman's voice, so I estimated it was a 'female' droid. Chadi then looked at the droid, saluted 'her' and started walking towards the biggest door I've ever seen, besides the door at Jabba's. Behind that door was a long corridor, filled with all sort of landscape paintings, plants and at the far end, a blue terminal.

"I need to do something here. Afterwards, we will hop on the bike and head for my place. It'll only take a minute." said Chadi while walking towards that terminal. He took a metallic card out of his pocket and swiped it in. As I walked towards him, he was pressing on the screen. Something then suddenly appeared on the terminal's screen.

I did not quite understand a lot of languages, but I recognized Naboo's home language. I could read the word 'thank' and 'transaction', so I guess he just made a transaction to his card.

"Let's go to the garage, we'll take the speeder, I left it there when I left for Tatooine." said Chadi as he took out his card from the machine. He walked out and I followed him closely. We erupted in the plaza. The place was filled with so many different species; I had trouble recognizing some of them.

"Are you hungry Cel?" said Chadi as he pointed towards a restaurant. "We could stop and get something to eat if you want to."

I have never seen a restaurant on Tatooine. We only had Cantinas, and they were always filled up with a lot of people you don't want to mess with. We entered the restaurant. It was filled with nice looking people, not the kind you would see on Tatooine. My mom had a restaurant. Rumors said that she cooked the best Shaak in the entire galaxy.

Chadi seemed nervous as we approached a Clone Trooper leaning on the wall nearby. He was looking at some blue hologram.

"I don't think this is a good place to hang out, it's swarming with Clone Troopers." said Chadi as he turned back as if he wanted to leave the place. I took him by the hand; he turned around and looked me in the eyes.

"Wait. Don't be nervous, I'm the one here who should be nervous. They should be running after me, because I am the one who ran away, remember?" He looked pale, and sweat was dripping off his forehead.

"No, Cel, trust me. I really think we should leave for the garage right now, and head back to my place." he answered with a shaky and unsure voice.

"I feel like you have something to hide? Am I right?" He looked at me as the guard remarked us. He started walking towards Chadi and poked him on the shoulder.

"Excuse me, sir. May I see some identification please?" said the Clone Trooper standing right behind Chadi. A few seconds went by; it seemed as if Chadi was thinking about what to do. Chadi lifted his hand and pointed it towards the guards head.

"You don't need to see my identification."

"I don't need to see you're identification." replied the guard.

"You are sorry for interrupting our conversation." said Chadi with his hand still lifted towards the Trooper's head.

"I am sorry for interrupting you're conversation, sir. Have a nice day." The clone trooper walked away. I looked at Chadi, not realizing what just happened.

"What… What was that all about?" I asked.

"Quick, we need to leave, now. This mind trick won't last long, and he will realize what just happened." said Chadi while quickly walking towards the entrance. "Quick, follow me to the garage; I've got a speeder bike we can use."

I looked at him, then at the guard. I was confused. Chadi exited the restaurant and I followed him to the garage. He took his card and swiped it in a device next to the garage's sliding door. A red light started flashing on the device, meaning that the card obviously wasn't working. I turned around, and saw the guard running towards us.

"Chadi, open the door, quick! The guard is coming towards us!" Chadi then closed his eyes. He pointed his hand over to the sliding door and screamed. At the same time, the door blew open. He opened his eyes as I was getting on the bike. He got in and hopped behind me.

"Are you sure you don't want me to drive?" said Chadi with a sarcastic tone in his voice.

"No, I think I can do that myself!" I quickly pressed on the gas, and left the place in a hurry.

The plaza was still swirling with hundredths of people as I was driving towards them. I looked behind me trough all the people on the plaza, and there was the Clone Trooper coming in full charge with a Speeder Bike of his own. As soon as there was no one in my way, I pressed on it. I started hovering over Theed's river. I was heading towards the waterfall.

"Cel! You are crazy! There's no way you can arrive at the bottom in one piece!" said Chadi while quickly starting to panic as I am leaning towards the edge.

"Trust me; these bikes are amazing!" I then pressed on it. The guard started shooting at us as I quickly approached the side. At just about 2 seconds before the bike started plunging in the air, I made a quick turn to the right, and escaped tough a big forest.

To my surprise, something was still shooting at us. The guard didn't fall into the trap. He was vigorously following us between the giant trees. I pressed on it and tried to lose him, but everybody knows that the clone troopers are well trained at virtually anything, including, speeder bike driving. I looked at Chadi.

"What should we do? I can't seem to lose him. He's really hard to get rid of!" I told Chadi as I almost flew right into a tree. "Do something!"

"I've got an idea… Stay on the bike!" quickly said Chadi as he jumped off the bike. I gasped, turned around as he safely landed on the ground a few meters behind the bike. The clone trooper was still following me when all of a sudden; the guard's bike started shaking and the guard just blew off his seat, landed on a tree, and dropped on the forest floor. I turned around and went towards Chadi.

"I think you pretty much knocked him up." I said while looking at the guard who obviously was knocked out, or maybe dead. "How come you don't have a lightsaber?" I asked with much interest.

"That's because I'm not a Jedi." he answered.

"I thought only Jedi's could handle the force?" I said, trying to get him to confess.

"It's complicated, I'm not a Jedi, but I still have knowledge of the force. You see, when I was 12 this Jedi Master called Quinlan Vos came on Tatooine and found me. Seeing great potential in myself, he decided to show me the ways of the force, but felt that I was too old to be presented to the Jedi Counsil as a new comer, so he kept my training a secret. I now know a lot about the force, but since I've never went to Corellia to expand my knowledge, I stayed on Naboo and became the Guardian of my own town, Tena Vivra. I protect my own people against the clone troopers and the people from the empire."

"Well… that means that you are some kind of Jedi, no?" I added still questioning myself on what just happened.

"I don't like to refer myself as a Jedi; I mostly like to refer myself as a Force Adept. It's kind of like a Jedi, but without all the unfunny stuff." said Chadi. "We have to leave, because I'm sure the clone trooper called for reinforcements! Let's go to my village, and alert everyone of what just happened."