Chapter 2: Fortune Cookie
"That was a nice dinner," commented a jedi. "But it seems to be getting late. I think we all should-"
"Wait, we can't end the party yet!" Cried Mace.
"Yes, eat fortune cookie first we must," ordered Yoda.
Obi-Wan was surprised to find a pile of fortune cookies placed on the middle of the table.
"Those must have come with the Chinese food, right Anakin?"
His padawan groaned as he clutched his stomach.
"I told you not to eat all that food," Obi-Wan reminded the boy. "Let that be a lesson to you next time."
"But food is good," protested the young boy.
"Yes, food is good as long as you do not eat too much," Obi-Wan said. "And I don't think those rotten fish heads helped too much either."
"The delivery man said it was fresh," argued Anakin.
Obi-Wan sighed.
"If I told you toilet water was delicious, would you believe me?"
Anakin instantly shot up from his chair. "What! Toilet water is delicious? Why didn't you tell me that before master? And to think I was drinking nasty fountain water all these years when I had the good old toilet. I must go to the bathroom and try-"
"No, Anakin, I was just giving an example."
"Oh..."
Obi-Wan groaned and placed his head in his hands.
"Why me?"
The jedi then glanced up as Master Yoda placed a fortune cookie in front of him.
"It's all right Master Yoda, I don't want-"
"Eat the fortune cookie you must!"
"It's okay. Really."
"No!" The jedi master bellowed, pounding on the table. "Your destiny, it is! Get the fortune you must!"
"But I don't believe in-"
"Just do it Obi-Wan," advised one of the other jedi from across the table.
Sighing, Obi-Wan broke the cookie in half and fished out the piece of paper.
"See? It's unreliable," the jedi said after reading the slip of paper. "It says, 'You will find that you have lost a huge amount of credits'. No thief would dare steal from a jedi."
Anakin suddenly started coughing uncontrollably when he heard this.
Guess like I should have asked before using all of master's credits to pay for the food. Ooops.
"Master Windu, let's see what your fortune cookie will say."
The jedi master blushed bright red as he opened his fortune.
"Well?" Asked a curious jedi.
"Nothing. All rubbish," he replied uneasily and hid the slip behind his back. "Heheheheee..."
A few jedi exchanged mischievous glances and pounced on the jedi master.
"Ah! Get off! No, it's my piece of paper. I'll sue you all!"
Quickly snatching the slip of paper from Mace's hand, a blond haired jedi read out the fortune written on the slip of paper.
"Oh... 'You will find happiness with a new love.' How cute!"
The whole table burst out laughing, however Yoda looked disapprovingly at Mace.
"Cute it is not. Broken the Jedi Code, you have."
"I do not love anyone!" Cried the other Jedi.
Silence fell over the room as everyone watched the two jedi masters argue with one another.
"Need help, you do."
"No, I don't," snapped Mace, his face growing redder.
"Never lie, the cookie does."
"Well it's wrong! W-R-O-N-G!" Growled Master Windu. "Do you need me to spell it again?"
Yoda gasped and collected the cookie pieces into his small hands.
"Insult the all mighty cookies, you cannot," scolded the jedi.
"Argh!"
To be continued...