Author Notes- This is the next chapter. PLEASE REVIEW and tell me what you think.
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Ben approached Jaina's quarters then knocked four times on her metallic door. As he stood there waiting for his cousin to open the door, Ben began contemplating about everything that had just happened. Although he found out quite a bit about his half-brother Omega, there were still several things left unexplained, like who trained his brother to be a dark sider? Was it this Callista who trained him or was it someone else? And also where did this Callista go? Is she dead? Or is she still alive? But there was, however, one main question that kept floating through young Ben's head and it was the one he wanted answered the most. Why did Omega want to kill him so badly?
So many thoughts filled the young Jedi's mind to the point he needed to talk to someone and that someone was Jaina. Ben smiled as he thought about his dear cousin. Whenever he had something troubling on his mind or whenever he just needed to speak to someone, Ben could always count on going to Jaina. Long time ago when he was 9 years old and his parents went away on a mission, Jaina told him right before she sent him to bed: 'If you ever feel lonely or need someone to talk to you can always come and talk to me, Ben. You can always count on me to be there to listen.' Then she smiled at him, gave him a hug, and added. 'I love you, kiddo'. She truly is a good cousin. Ben thought to himself. And an excellent friend.
After a couple of seconds, Jaina finally opened the door then looked up at her cousin. Ben smiled at her then spoke. "Hey, Jaina."
"Hey Ben." Replied Jaina. " I've been waiting for you to show up. Come in."
Ben entered her quarters then briefly glanced around the large and very tidy room. Jaina's quarters were slightly larger than Ben's but were not nearly as large as Luke and Mara's quarters. The walls of the room were painted white and the room's carpet was light brown. On the right side of the room was Jaina's queen size bed that had a very nice all white bed spread covering it. Standing on the right of her bed was a transparent lamp stand, which had her lamp and holopad on top. A couple of feet left of the bed was Jaina's desk, which had a few data cards and holocubes scattered across it. On the left side of Jaina's room were her drawers and a few shelves. On the wall at the end of Jaina's room was a huge window that lead to the balcony, which offered an excellent view of Mon Calamari's beautiful landscape.
Jaina strolled over and gently laid herself down on her queen size bed. She glanced up at Ben then spoke. "You and I have much to talk about."
"We certainly do." Ben said as he walked over to Jaina's desk and sat comfortably in her desk chair.
Jaina rolled over on her side then looked at Ben with a serious look on her face. "When we last spoke to each other, you said that this whole Omega situation has become a lot more complicated. I presume it has something to do with those DNA results. So, now since we are all alone, tell me, Ben, what was so shocking about Omega's DNA results? Is he indeed a clone as you suspected?"
"Nope, the DNA results showed that he's not a clone of me or my father. In fact, things would be a lot less complicated if he was a clone." Ben said then sighed. "What I'm about to tell you, Jaina, is going to be quite shocking. But according to the results that Cilghal found out in the lab," Ben paused then turned his sad gaze to the floor, "Darth Omega is my half-brother."
"Your brother?" Jaina said in disbelief. She frowned then briefly looked away from Ben. She couldn't believe what she had just heard. If Omega was Ben's half-brother then that would make Omega her cousin. She sat up then turned her gaze back to her cousin. "But how?" she asked.
Ben returned his gaze to his cousin then spoke. "That's what I said when I first saw the results. Omega's DNA structure had a strand of my father's DNA but it also had a strand of another. I didn't know who the strand belonged to, up until I talked to my father. Apparently the other DNA strand in Omega's blood belongs to a woman named Callista. The woman my father loved a long time ago."
"Callista?"
"You know about her?"
"Only a little. I remember my mom and dad spoke about her once. They said she did become very close with Luke. But one day after several strange incidents, she and Luke separated. Since then, no one has seen or heard about her."
"That's what my father told me. But I don't know. I hardly know anything about this Callista. For all we know, she might be the very one who trained Omega in the ways of the dark side."
"Actually my mom and dad said that Callista deeply disliked the dark side. So I guess that would rule her out as Omega's master."
"But if she didn't train Omega, then who did? What happened to this Callista? Where did she go?"
"I don't know. I wish I could give you all the answers, Ben. But as you can see I'm just as lost as you are." Said Jaina. She folded her arms then spoke again. "I still can't believe all this. First this Darth Omega comes out of nowhere and tries to harm you. And now today we find out this dark sider is in fact member of our family. And on top of that, we might all have to face the possibility that the Sith have returned." Jaina slowly shook her head then turned her gaze away from Ben. The two sat in silence for several seconds until Jaina finally broke the silence. "You know just once, just once, I wish our lives could just be normal. Then for once our family and everyone else in the galaxy could be at peace. I mean honestly, every time when it seems like we're all at peace some new enemy comes along and tries to disrupt it. Whether it's some full-scale army or some personal foe like the Sith, they always seem to come and ruin the balance. And strangely our family always seems to be the target."
Ben walked over and sat next to his cousin. He put his hand on her shoulder then said in a sad tone. "I know. I too wish that all these constant wars and all these constant dark side/light side conflicts would end. But sadly they never seem to fully end. The cycle just seems to continue." Ben sighed then looked down. "And as for my brother Omega, I don't know what to do now. I want to find out more information about him so I can try and understand why he's become the way he is, then hopefully I can try to turn him to the light. But, unfortunately, I do not know enough."
"Well logically speaking there is nothing we can do about Omega right now." Said Jaina. "I understand how you feel and what you want to do, Ben. But as you said we don't have enough information. We don't know where he is, where he could be located, nor do we know what he will do next. So basically the only thing we can do at the moment is to stay alert at all times."
"You're right." Ben said with a sad tone in his voice.
"But in the mean time." Jaina said as she stood up from her bed. She walked over to the middle of her floor then stopped. She turned around and looked at Ben. "Come here."
Ben, who now had a confused look on his face, stood up then walked over to Jaina. Jaina smiled then stared into her cousin's eyes. She put her hands on her waist then spoke. "Drop."
"What?"
"You heard me. Drop and give me fifty."
"Oh come on Jaina. This has been a rough day. Can you like just for today reduce the number of pushups?"
"I guess you're right."
Ben sighed in relief but it was short lived when Jaina immediately said. "Drop and give me forty-five."
"Oh man." Said Ben disappointedly.
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Ben slowly walked to his quarters. It was now approaching nighttime and he was absolutely exhausted. Although the day started out hectic with the discovery of Omega being his brother, the rest of the day went the same as usual. After his conversation with Jaina, she immediately began their training session by first having him do half the training in her room then the rest in the courtyard. But before he did his second half of his training, Ben joined Keira for lunch in the cafeteria. Lunch went smoothly, he got to have a nice long chat with Keira. However, Ben felt that it could've gone a lot smoother if Valin hadn't showed up and started stealing Keira's attention away from him. Just thinking about the whole incident infuriated Ben. But after lunch, he went to the courtyard and began the second half of his training session, which to Ben was the most intense half of it. The second half combined intense workout exercises and force training exercises. Boy when Jaina trains you, she certainly trains you. Thought Ben. I'm going to be sore in the morning that's for sure.
He approached his door then entered and immediately washed up and got himself ready for bed. Ben, who was shirtless, laid himself down comfortably on his bed then began to drift off to sleep. In his sleep, Ben started dreaming about kissing Keira. But as he was getting to the good part of his dream, it suddenly changed. He saw the skies of Mon Calamari covered with black clouds. He then saw the Jedi Academy building burning with screams of pain and terror echoing. Soon he was transported inside the Academy and he saw flames erupting everywhere and the ceiling was beginning to literally fall apart. But then he saw the most frightening sight. On the ground were the dead bodies of his fellow Jedi. He saw Auron, Tenal Ka, Zekk, Valin, Kit, Jacen, Jaina, Keira, and every Jedi he knew dead. Suddenly he heard someone shout 'NO!' and he was soon transported to the Jedi Council Chamber, which was absolutely ravaged and ripped apart. He looked ahead and saw his mother, Mara Jade, on the ground dead. Further ahead he saw a figure dressed in black stab his father, Luke in the chest with a red lightsaber. The figure turned his head to Ben then smiled wickedly. Ben knew who that figure was. It was his half-brother, Darth Omega. But then he heard a wicked feminine laugh come from behind Omega. The woman who was laughing stepped from the shadows and continued to laugh. She was dressed in black and had a long black cape that wrapped around her entire figure. Ben didn't know who this woman was but her evilly haunting laugh continued to grow louder and louder. He couldn't take it. Her laugh just continued to grow louder and louder to the point that it was ear shattering. He dropped to the ground paralyzed then began to hear the screams of every Jedi mixed with the woman's laughter and it all continued grow louder and louder.
Ben violently awoke from the horrific nightmare. He breathed heavily then looked around his room. The Academy was in tact and nothing was destroyed. Ben, who was starting to sweat, sighed heavily. It was just a nightmare. It was only a nightmare. He thought to himself. He laid back down then tried to relax himself. But then he began to the think. Was it a dream? Or was it a vision of the future?