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I'm suddenly awakened by a loud blast nearby, and feel something strike my arm even before I open my eyes. When I open them, I see people running through the streets in panic, screaming, with buildings on fire, and explosions. Oh so many explosions. I stand up and wince at a sharp pain that shoots up my arm. I look down, and see that it has been struck by a large piece of blown-up building, and now has a nasty gash going down the length of it.
As a building nearby explodes, I run into the house, calling for my mother, who I can not find. I run back outside into the streets, screaming for my mom, but receive no reply. The people running by ignore me.
"Mom! Where are you? Moooottthhheerr! Mom? Where are you?" I start crying again.
I look into the sky to see one of our air fleet's ships being blown up by an alien one. Figuring standing around is no use, I start running with the people, and head over to my nearest friend's house. But before I make it, I hear another explosion and a sharp pain in the back of my head before blacking out.
Zanni slowly opens her eyes, and starts to sit up. Suddenly she's hit by a wave of pain in the back of her skull, so she falls back again. She looks around at her alien environment, and comes to figure out that it's a hospital or infirmary of some sort.
Remembering her wounds from last night, Zanni looks down at her arm, and finds that it's bandaged. Looking at the person in the next bed, and recognizing them as her neighbor, she makes another slower attempt at sitting up, and looks around the room, searching the beds for her mother. She recognizes various neighbors, one of her school teachers, but not her mom.
An infirmary droid walks by and gives her a shot in her neck, making Zanni fall asleep again.
"Awakening, she is."
"Ah, yes indeed."
"A lot, she's been through. Surprising, it is that she survived, hmm?"
Zanni opens her eyes groggily for the third time in the past twenty four hours, to be greeted by an entirely new sight. Before her is a tall, black man dressed in robes, and short little green man dressed similarly in a small hover craft.
"Greetings, child," the black man says.
"How feel you?" the green man asks.
Zanni rubs her eyes, and yawns. "Tired. And cold."
The two men give each other a concerned look.
"Zandra Cloudbearer, your name is, hmm?" the green man inquires.
"Yeah. How do you know my name?" Zanni finds it less painful to sit up, so she does so to get a better look at the men. Her eyes suddenly grow wide as she spots the black man's light saber. "Y-y-you're Jedi?"
The black man bows his head. "Yes. My name is Mace Windu and this is master Yoda."
All Zanni can do is stare. This can't be real. Why would she be meeting two of the most famous Jedi in the galaxy? In the universe?
"You must be wondering where you are, or more likely, why you're here."
All Zanni can manage is a dumb nod.
"You, as well as the others here, were rescued from your planet, Eleanu, before its destruction-"
Yoda interrupts him, "Wise, is it, to tell her of this?"
"She's gonna find out sooner or later," Mace Windu replies. "As I was saying, your planet was under attack, as you probably know. We managed to rescue most of your population. Everyone in the city anyway, and you have been transported to different bases to recover."
"Did you get my mom? Is my mom here?" Zanni asks excitedly.
"We're not sure. What is her name? We will search for her."
"Shelah Cloudbearer. She has brown hair and brown eyes an-"
"Thank you, her name will be enough. It may take us a while to find her, for there are many of you at many different bases."
Zanni nods understandingly.
"Your arm, how feel it?" Yoda nods to my bandaged arm.
"What? Oh." Zanni runs her hand over the bandage, focusing her energy on it. "There, all better."
"Excuse me?" Mace Windu says with a frown.
Yoda waves his hand, and the bandage comes off from her arm, revealing a completely healed forearm.
"You did that?" Mace asks.
"Yeah," replies Zanni. "What's the big deal?"
"You do realize that very few people in the universe have that ability, and most of those that do have had years and years of training."
"Yeah, I know. This witch-doctor came to our planet when I was around four, and she taught me and Obi how to do that."
"Obi?"
"Yeah, my best... My best friend." Zanni hangs her head. "I guess."
"He was the one that left you to become a Jedi, correct? He left with Qui-Gon Ginn last night. They were the ones that alerted us of the invasion." Mace pulls up a nearby chair and seats himself.
Zanni's eyes turn a bright green for a moment, before returning to their natural brown. "Yeah, he left. He said that I couldn't become a Jedi."
Yoda hovers closer to the girl's head, and closes his eyes. After a moment or two, he opens them again. "Clouded, your future is. A great presence of the force, I sense in you, but complicated, and powerful your emotions are. Danger I sense."
Her eyes becoming green for a moment again, but then returning to brown, Zanni rubs her neck. "Yeah, that's basically what Obi said before he left. That it's too dangerous to train me."
Yoda nods. "Yes, dangerous it is, but possibly not too dangerous. If learn to control your emotions you do, trained you may be."
Zanni sits straight up, almost knocking over Yoda's hover craft. "Really?"
"Yes, but emotions you must control first. If control them you can, a powerful Jedi you may become."
"I will learn to control my emotions, and I will become the best Jedi you've ever seen."
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