Maya soon learned that if you press one of the buttons at the library, a little tray sort of thing will slide out and a hologram will come on. So she went to the library almost every day and tried to learn everything she could about the galaxy she now called home. Her Master quizzed her sometimes, and Maya would usually do very well. She would spend hours at the library; everything was so new and different to her. "Soon we will go to Ilum where you will construct your very own lightsaber."

"Ilum! The… icy mountain planet with the cave! Crystal cave!"

"Right!"

"So I get my own lightsaber now?"

"Yep."

"What color will it be?"

"That depends. You have to let the Force guide you when choosing a crystal, but they are clear. Only when they are in bunches will they give off a faint glow in their color."

"What colors are there? I've only seen blue and green. Oh yea, and Master Windu has purple."

"That's because that's all there is. Except the Sith used red."

"Oh. This'll be fun, I get to build something!"

"You've built things before."

"Something that legitimately works."

"Ah."

The next day, Adi and Maya flew off in what Maya believed to be Master Gallia's really-awesome-super-cool-Jedi-starfighter-that-she-should-paint-green. When they reached Ilum in their very warm fuzzy coats (Maya had commented that her planet didn't make coats nearly this warm) Maya began to meditate. They had noticed a while back that when Maya meditated, she glowed. She glowed with a soft yellow light, the same light as her light balls (well, by now Maya could make any shape out of light). Maya felt the Force telling her where in the intricate cave to go, and she sped off into the tunnels.

A while later, Maya hadn't returned. "I know I found mine a lot faster that that. Maybe she's dillydallying."

Deep inside the caverns, Maya finally reached her destination after much climbing, running, crawling, and scrambling to get through certain places. "Alright, Force, you made me come all this way, this better be good. She was in a small hollow with only one crystal inside—on the ceiling. "Here goes nothing." Maya jumped and jumped, then finally was able to grab hold of the crystal, but was hanging from the top and the crystal was embedded in ice. "I wish I had a lightsaber to melt the ice for this crystal use to make a lightsaber." Maya started swinging and pulling, but it was no use. She jumped down to give her arms a rest. She called to her Master telepathically, "Help. The crystal is stuck in ice. Can I borrow your lightsaber?"

"Try and free it yourself. Use the Force. Try pushing the Force and cracking the ice. Trust me, you can do it."

"Ok." Maya called on the Force and pushed with her hands at the ice around the crystal. It cracked a little, but it wasn't enough. She tried harder, used more Force around her, absorbed it, compressed it all together and pushed. Suddenly a flash of light blinded her and there was a big blast.

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Master Gallia heard a rumbling. "Uh oh. Better see what's up." She ran toward the noise to find that a small section on the cave had collapsed! "Maya! Where are you?" Then out of the snow, a gloved hand popped out, holding a small crystal.

Maya climbed out of the ice and snow. "Brr! I got it!" She looked back and realized the damage she caused. "Whoops. I'm in big trouble, aren't I?"

"If you have a legitimate explanation, then no. But I'd like to find out how in the galaxy you managed to collapse a solid ice structure."

Maya explained what she did to try and crack the ice. "And then there was this big flash of light and it collapsed."

"After I told you to push the Force. Can you do it again?"

"I think so. But it's pretty destructive. I'll do it on that rock over there." Maya repeated what she had done the last time, and she created a beam of light that blasted the boulder into smithereens.

"Whoa!"

"Awesome. But can I go build my lightsaber now?"

"Oh yes, go right ahead. It's warmer in the cave."

Maya sat down and spread out all the parts she had. She had gotten a large variety, and was mostly experimenting and seeing what she could build. Adi watched her Padawan work, her wondering green eyes engulfed in the creation of her new weapon. Maya took a very, very long time, but her Master had patience and understanding that this was not only Maya's first time building a lightsaber, she had never even seen this technology.

"I'm almost done!" Maya just had to put the crystal inside and the two halves together. "Like it?"

"But Maya, you didn't put an ignition button."

"I know. I'm going to use the Force to ignite it. That way, people who can't use the Force can't use it."

"That's a great idea! Why didn't I think of that? Anyway, now you can see what color that crystal is!"

Maya held her saber out in front of her and ignited it. Her master gasped. "Dude! It's like, pink!"

"Never, in all my years have I ever seen a pink lightsaber. You never cease to amaze me, Maya." Maya was swinging her lightsaber around.

"I want to do tricks with it. It looks really cool if you swing it fast."

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They reached the Temple again, and while Maya returned to her quarters, her master returned with news of Maya's lightsaber color and the light blast incident.

Maya found that somebody had moved in the room next to hers. "I got a neighbor!" Hopefully it was someone her age.

The Council was planning for Maya to demonstrate all that she could do and determine how powerful she really was.

A/N: Sorry for not updating before, I'm working on something else pertaining to this story. Thanks for all the reviews! »Molly