A/N: Chapter Two is a lot better and longer. (Ch. 1 was written in haste.) Enjoy!

In a small Coruscant apartment in a tiny room, Maya woke with a jolt. "Wha- wha- where am I?" The slave traders always had wiped the memories of their slaves, and Maya was no exception. They thought they would lose the willpower to get back home if they didn't know where home was. Maya found that she still had her book of inventions and her music bag, which contained her flute and a couple of books of sheet music. This place was very strange, like no other bedroom she'd ever seen. Then, she looked out the tinted window and saw an amazing sight: hundreds of ginormous skyscrapers and thousands of spaceships! All the spaceships were different; Maya wished she had more eyes to see them all.

But, the one thing she noticed was something, something she really couldn't explain at all. Maya knew it existed; it wasn't just her imagination. She had very slightly sensed it before, but never as strong as this. "What in the world is this…. thing? Is it a thing? Is it living? What's it made of? " Maya sighed. Maybe when—if—she escaped, she could discover what it was.

"I think I'm just kidding myself, but this place also looks familiar.Anyway, I need to start forming an escape plan." Maya found that people constantly guarded her, and the window was sealed shut. "I'm gonna need a miracle for this, might as well draw this place, if I ever manage to get back home," she muttered.

Days went by, and Maya thought she'd never get out. The only reason Thuron and his cronies were keeping her was that they were waiting for the next slave auction. Poor Maya didn't know what to do, she just kept trying to remember more about her past, but she couldn't remember where she had come from. She only remembered her own name and age, and that she had had family and friends back home. Maya also remembered that she definitely didn't live anywhere near here. The things she noticed as means for escape were that the sliding door was only opened when they gave her food, and she couldn't open it from the inside. Another weird thing was, it (that's what she'd named the presence) seemed to be gathering up inside her; she was absorbing it somehow.

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But one seemingly normal day, Maya heard someone coming to the door. She couldn't see out the window who it was, but she could hear them talking to Thrulon. Maya strained to hear what they were saying, but couldn't. She only heard fragments of the conversation.

"…you are a suspect of illegal slave…"

"There's no one here but me!"

"…about that."

In between fragments she had only heard mumbling, but then again listening through a door it was not very efficient. But, it sounded like the person was going to arrest Thrulon! That meant escape! And none of the others were here; it was only Thrulon on guard duty. Maya couldn't wait to get out of that apartment. "Help! I'm in here!" She banged on the door as hard as she could. "Over here! Please help!" Maya heard running, and a good deal of ruckus when they heard her.

"CODE RED! WE GOT A JEDI, BOYS!" Thrulon yelled. Suddenly, Maya heard the others coming out of the back rooms! She'd forgotten about those! There was a lot of gunshot and fighting; but the good news was, THE DOOR OPENED! Maya saw the slave traders and a woman with brown robes holding a glowing sword thing! "Hey… I know what those are called," Maya thought. "I know! It's a lightsaber! How the heck did I know that?" The Jedi was doing fairly well; one time she even saw her flinging the slave traders into the walls! "It's coming back to me now, he's using the Force!"

Maya saw the door was open but she didn't want to run straight into all the fighting. The Jedi managed to disarm most of them and injured the others, but the non-injured ones had pinned her down. Maya saw the Jedi's lightsaber near her foot.
Maybe, just maybe, she could use the Force, too. Maya tried to sort of grab the lightsaber, but failed. "Who am I kidding?" she thought. But the Jedi pushed her lightsaber toward her.

"Save yourself!" she yelled. Maya pressed the little button to see the florescent green blade emerge, and she cut a hole in the wall. "Hurry! While you still can!" One of the aliens (she had classified them as humans and aliens) was coming to grab her. But Maya wasn't about to leave the one person here who had at least showed her kindness.

She had sheer determination to use this Force, she knew she had no chance, but somehow Maya had the will to simply try. "I've got nothing to lose; might as well try to help." She relied simply on her emotion, her desire to help this Jedi. Maya concentrated with all her might; naturally, she was squinting, and didn't notice anything happening. But, as if by magic, Maya saw that from her hands came a flicker, then a small sphere of… light.

"The girl's magic!"

"I told ya we shouldn't have gotten her from a strange planet"

She's probably got alien powers!"

After that remark, Maya had lost her concentration, and in her shock, was silent. But at that moment an idea popped into her head. "Yea, you better watch out, I could blast y'all to outer space if you don't watch out."

"Oh yea? Well, why didn't you already do that right after we kidnapped you?"

Maya slyly retorted, "Exactly."

"Exactly…. what?" Thrulon was getting nervous.

"I have been trained in the ways of my people, we are far more superior than you may believe. I'm on a roll!"

"Well, why did your people run and scream when we landed?"

"Exactly. Ha, this is fun!"

A henchman whispered to Thurlon, "I'm betting we should get out of here…"

"Leaving so soon?" Maya sparked her light again.

"Yes! You're free! Goodbye!"

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"Your people are very interesting, I've never heard of them."

"Y'all actually believed all that bogus?"

"Bogus. I see. Clever. My name is Jedi Master Adi Gallia. And you are?"

"Maya Lavelle, my name's basically all I can remember. But I remember this place I saw once in a movie."

"A movie? What might that be, young one?"

"Y'all don't know what a movie is? Sheesh, where've you been your whole life?"

"I've been across this entire galaxy, and never have I seen or heard of a movie."

"Whoa."

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"Now, about that little episode—"

"I don't know what I did! Seriously! I just concentrated really hard and those light things just… happened!"

"You are strong in the Force, Maya. I was going to take you to an orphanage if you couldn't remember where your family is, but now, you're coming with me."

"Where?"

"You'll see."

A/N: More of Maya's true colors will begin to show in the following chapters. Please Review! »Molly