CHAPTER 5
MASTER OBI-WAN KENOBI
I always thought that if I ever was ever a Jedi I would have a hard time becoming a Knight or Master because of my temper. I bet I'd stay a Padawan forever because of the way I am. I know I'm right about that. I bet if I ever ran into Anakin Skywalker, "The Hero with No Fear", and we got to talking we'd become the best of friends. Not that I'd want to really.. he's kinda paranoid and acts like a spoiled brat sometimes...
Well, I didn't run into Anakin as I stormed out of the Jedi Council Chamber but I did nearly fall into Obi-Wan Kenobi, "The Man with the Friendly Beard", as my sister calls him.
Here's what happened;
I was walking out of the Council Chamber muttering to myself when I suddenly found myself slipping on the floor. I flailed my arms and I began to fly forward and screamed at the top of my lungs. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Further down the hall, a Jedi with blondish brown hair stood in the hallway with his back to me. I didn't even shout out a warning to him. He just moved. I guess the Force was with him today.
Anyway I ended up falling forward just as I got near him and slamming face flat on the floor. This caused the air to be knocked out of me as well as a sore nose. "Ow!"
"Are you okay?" a voice above me asked.
I looked up. I saw the Jedi I'd almost slammed into me leaning over me with his hand out stretched as if to help me up. I also noticed his face. It looked awful familiar...
"OHMIGOD!" I exclaimed scrambling to my feet.
He looked at me confused. "Ohmigod?" he said.
"You're Obi-Wan Kenobi!" I shrieked, all fangirly.
"Yes, I am," he said. "Is there a problem?"
"No!"
Well that's how I nearly fell into him. Now to go on ahead to where I was just now...
For a minute or two we just stood there like idiots staring at each other.
"Ohmigod!" I couldn't stand it any longer. I was having a rabid fangirl attack. I threw myself into a glomp and knocked him onto the floor.
"What!" he was totally confused now and from the look on his face, scared.
"Oh, Obi-Wan, you're so awesome!" I exclaimed, acting all huggy wuggy. "You're such a great Jedi! It's too bad you're stuck with Anakin as your apprentice. You don't deserve all the crap he's going to put you through."
"Wha-What?"
I stopped myself before I said something totally weird and freaked him out. "I, um, I heard about you from, Padawans," I stammered totally off topic.
"You heard about me?" he asked more confused than ever. "Where have you been?"
"Uh.. I've been off world until recently," I said. It wasn't a lie. I had been off world for about eighteen years.
"Oh," he said nodding. "That explains it. Now, could you do something for me?"
"What?" I asked.
"Could you get off of me?"
That's when I realized we were on the floor. I was also on top of him. "I.. okay," I said. I looked up. I saw a bunch of little Younglings standing around gaping at us. "What are you looking at?" I demanded.
The little kids mumbled some excuses then ran off.
"Perverted brats," I mumbled.
"Perverted?"
"Yeah," I said. "They all looked like they were thinking dirty thoughts."
Now Obi-Wan was getting a case of the 'gapes'. Really, these Jedi need to learn to not stare at people like that. They could catch diseases that way.
I got off Obi-Wan and stood up. "Never mind," I said. "Sorry."
He stared at me as if I lost it. I think I'm scaring them all. "Cut it out," I snapped.
"S-sorry," he said. "Uh.. who are you?"
"My name's Stephanie," I replied folding my arms and looking up at him. "I am a human."
"I can see that," he said. "But where did you come from? I never saw you around here before."
"I just got here like yesterday with Jedi Kit Fisto," I replied. "I was trained off world but I was sent here because of the uh, war. They said it was getting too uh.. dangerous."
"Oh, so that explains it," he said nodding. "No wonder you act so..so.."
"So what?" I demanded.
"So.. much like Anakin.."
I raised an eyebrow. "Anakin?" I said. "Darth Vader?"
He gave me that confused Jedi look again. "Uh.. Darth Vader?"
I stopped. What are you thinking, you dork? a voice in my head yelled. This is the Clone Wars, stupid! Anakin isn't Darth Vader yet, moron!
"Uh.. never mind," I said. "It's not important."
"Darth Vader..." he mused thinking the name over. "Is that a new Sith?"
"No," I said quickly. "It's just a...a person.. a nightmare person. It's not anything to worry about."
"Jedi don't have nightmares," he told me flatly. He sounded like a mindless robot.
"They do too, you liar!" I shouted. "Mace had nightmares when he went to his home planet! He dreamt of the fall of the Republic!" (If you don't know what she's talking about I'd advice you to read the Clone Wars Novel Shatterpoint)
"He did?" Obi-Wan said surprised. "Why didn't he say anything?"
"Because he's so prideful and big headed that he felt that if he said anything he'd ruin his perfect reputation," I said.
Obi-Wan gaped at me.
I decided to end this conversation before he gave me the eye scan too. "Never mind," I said turning from him and walking away.
As I walked away from him I began to feel like a total dork. Here I was stuck in the middle of the Clone Wars and I was telling them weird things and mouthing off. Just like I do at home, I thought, feeling retarded. Why can't I ever keep my mouth shut for a change?
I stopped. Wait a minute! Nobody had tried to tell me anything. My shoulders sagged. Who could blame them? I was acting crazy and rude.
I angrily punched the wall. "I AM SUCH A JERK!" I screamed. "A BIG FAT JERK! WHY CAN'T I EVER-"
A hand slapped on my shoulder. I jumped a mile. "Oh sorry. I didn't mean to startle you," a familiar voice said behind me. "I just wanted to ask you if you were all right."
I know that voice! I swiveled around and found myself staring up into the extremely hot, sexy face of Anakin Skywalker!
A/N
Yeah. I got this done in a hurry. Someone wanted me to update fast so this is it. Her encounter with Obi-Wan and the beginning of her encounter with Anakin.