The Daughter of the Legend Chapter 2, a star wars fanfic

Thank you if you are now reading the second chapter. This means you have decided to stick around. It continues… What more is there to say? Oh, and that I love the weather. 38 degrees Celsius all the way. I loooove summer.

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It had been a week, a very long week of walking through the desert with still no civilization in sight. Kiri had rested some of the nights but that was only in Dante's arms as he kept walking. Dante had not slept at all, something which was catching up with him and was now forcing them to move slower by the hour. Neither of them had had any water or food and now their only supplement was the Force itself. Dante was becoming very weak and Kiri was afraid he was going to die before they could make it to safety. They needed a miracle and soon.

Obi-Wan Kenobi sat in his small cave like dwelling which he had converted into a home. The Jedi Master spent most of his time meditating and drawing on the Force's infinite wisdoms which had been opened to him through the words of Yoda and the spirit of his dead master Qui-Gon Jinn. Weeks would pass before he would come out of these meditations and then it was only because his body demanded it. During the last few days his body had demanded a break for food and drink but now that he was well fed he decided to enter another deep meditation. Before he could fully enter the depth of thought that he sought, ripples of distress flowed through him, ripping at the fabric of the Force ever so slightly. A familiar Force presence screamed at him tired, hungry, thirsty and slowly yet surely dying. He reached for it franticly only to see not that far from him.

The hermit that he had become in the past few years was shaken off in an instant and the former Jedi Master and General of the Republic was reborn. He gathered himself up and attached his lightsaber to his belt, rushing off to save his friend.

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Kiri had been walking at the time when it had happened. They had been walking just like they had for the past week when finally it had gotten to him, the lack of food, lack of water, lack of rest and hope, and his injury bringing it to his body faster. She had felt frustration through the Force as he realized that they were going to die before he could save them, as he realized that he wouldn't save her. Kiri had turned to face him just as Dante collapsed, unconscious, leaving Kiri alone in the hot desert afternoon. Kiri had stopped and fell to her knees beside him, shaking him slightly. She managed to croak out of cracked lips to him, trying to will the boy to wake up.

"Dante… get up… I'm afraid… I can't go on… help me Dante, help me!"

Dante didn't even groan. Kiri sobbed her last few drops of water loudly and buried her head in his back, waiting for the darkness to claim her too. It was quite some time, as in hours before finally she too fell asleep.

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Obi-Wan scanned for the Jedi with no luck. Night was falling and the presence was fading fast. Then he saw it, a small black lump against the yellow sand. He spurned his ride on towards the dark lump hoping that this was the being he was searching for. He reined the creature in as they finally reached it and jumped off of the beast, running before he even hit the ground. There were two people lying there near death, both looked young and one looked like she was barely a child, far smaller than the other small person. The smallest was resting with her blond hair on the others back. He lifted the her first and placed her on the very front of the saddle. He returned for the other one turning the shape over. It had been some time and the boy had grown in the seven years which had passed since he had last seen him, but there was no doubting it. This was Dante, the apprentice of Aithne who was best friends with Keitha, his former lover. 'The boy has certainly gotten larger as he had grown,' mused Obi-Wan as he lifted the boy to place him across the front of the saddle just behind the girl. He sat up in the saddle pulling the children into his arms as he rode back to his home.

Kiri woke up on a soft couch. For a moment she had forgotten everything that had happened and thought she was back home after a nap on the sofa in her mother's quarters. But as she looked up at the ceiling she realized that it was not the handsome dark wood of the Academy above her but rather stone, smooth, painted white stone. She sat up in a rush wondering what new trouble she was in when a male voice spoke to her from across the room.

"So you're awake now. Do you want some water?"

Kiri looked across to the owner of the voice surprised to see a middle age man, a straw blonde beard with some white streaks appearing in it sitting off to the side. His voice had sounded more commanding and gentle, like a mediator or someone with a lot of wisdom, not a middle aged man. He got up and went over to a kitchen to get her some water. He returned offering her a cup. Kiri eyed it warily but soon thirst overtook her and she took it, sipping it slowly. He smiled at her and she felt safer than she had been in a while.

"Who are you?"

Before he could answer her a voice from across the room cried out and the man turned towards it suddenly. Kiri looked over to see Dante sitting up in a bed trying to pull out a non-existent lightsaber. He croaked wildly.

"No. NO! KIRI! Keitha will kill me. Keitha's gonna kill me."

Dante began to calm down lowering his body back to the bed, his voice turning from a shout to a mumble and the man got up to sit next him, lifting a cold wet cloth to Dante's forehead, dabbing it gently. Dante's eyes began to focus as he looked around his surroundings, questions bubbling to his lips.

"Where am I? Where's Kiri? Who are you?"

The man laughed lightly and spoke with pure amusement in his voice. Kiri fancied that she could hear him smile and started to smile herself. Whoever he was, his humour was infectious.

"Aithne would be laughing at you right now. Then she would be smacking the back of your head for asking questions before assessing the danger."

Dante sat bolt up right again staring at their savior's face.

"Obi-Wan?"

The man nodded slowly and Dante looked ecstatic.

"Master Kenobi!"

Dante flung himself while still sitting onto Obi-Wan, hugging the Jedi Master with the strongest grip a boy who had just been wondering the desert could manage. Obi-wan simply held onto the boy back smiling at his young friend.

"It's been a while since you were being chased around an apartment by a pregnant Keitha, hasn't it?"

Dante pulled back.

"Yeah, it's been a while Master Kenobi. Loads of things have happened but what I want to know is what happened to you?"

Obi-Wan's face slipped slightly but it soon recovered.

"That's best left for another time. You're friend is over on the couch."

Dante's face slipped at that but it soon regained its former mirth.

"Kiri! Come over here."

Kiri got up form her seat and set down her cup carefully on a table, walking over to Dante. She climbed onto the bed and Dante pulled her into an almost bone crushing hug. Kiri felt it was appropriate to mention that she had been good and not left his side while he was unconscious.

"I stayed with you the whole time. I didn't run away, I just stayed with you. Even when you collapsed."

Dante pulled the girl back and kissed her on the cheek. His brown eyes were full of relief and pure happiness.

"I believe you."

Kiri turned to Obi-Wan her blue-green eyes flashing towards his, questions reaching her lips at what had just transpired.

"What is your full name?"

"Obi-Wan Kenobi. May I ask why?"

Kiri poked on feeling that she was coming close to a conclusion.

"Were you once a Jedi Master of the Republic?"

Obi-Wan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Yes."

Kiri felt a peculiar feeling, a sort of a cross between bile rushing her throat and total euphoria. But before she placed her heart totally on the line she had to ask one more question.

"Did you know Keitha Tanmarson?"

"Yes."

That had been the final answer and her heart screamed with happiness, wholeness. She turned towards the only source present who could confirm the truth.

"Dante, is he my dad?"

Obi-Wan looked stunned and turned towards Dante. Dante now being the subject of heavy stares from the other occupants of the room lowered his head and spoke quietly.

"Yes Kiri. He's your dad."

With that final statement in the open Kiri jumped on the Jedi Master hugging him in the same fashion as Dante just before. Obi-Wan looked down at the girl and saw something he should have realized earlier. Her hair was golden blonde and she had his eyes. He closed his eyes against the tears that were coming and just held her tight. He had dreamed of this day for years and now Dante had appeared out of the blue with a gift greater to him than anything in the universe, his daughter, the child he had always wanted to meet but thought, no knew it would never happen. Kiri continued to hold on as Dante spoke to the pair, filling them both in on important facts.

"Her name is Kiri and she's seven years old. Keitha, Aithne and I safely made it to Aithne's and my home world. We run an academy in a sector not far from there for all the Force strong children in that sector. Kiri is becoming quite the Jedi. The last I saw of Obi-wan was when he was saying good bye to your mum. She never totally recovered from that day. What happed after the ship Obi-Wan? What happened?"

Obi-Wan separated from Kiri reluctantly.

"I'll make us some food and then I'll tell you what happened."

That sat in a small circle eating their food, Dante still lying in bed and Kiri and Obi-Wan on chairs. The food was some type of stew and Kiri thought it tasted weird, but she still ate it. 'When on Uasina…' Obi-Wan started his tale from just before where Dante had asked. Kiri was finding herself amazed and bewildered at the tale of the old Jedi and the rise of the Sith.

"Anakin had killed everyone at the Jedi Temple, even the younglings. There was only Master Yoda and myself left. I tricked Senator Padme Amidala into leading me to Anakin, something which killed her ultimately. I managed to spare a moment to say good bye to Keitha and then I had to leave to get aboard Padme's ship."

"What did Senator Amidala have to do with Anakin Skywalker?"

Obi-Wan looked up at Dante to answer his question.

"Senator Amidala's full name was Padme Amidala Skywalker. She had married Anakin a few years before and was pregnant with his children. Once she landed on Mustafar I let her try to reason with Anakin at first, gathering up my own courage to try to kill my former apprentice. It was obvious he was a Sith. After a short while I got out of my hiding place and stood at the top of the ramp of the ship. He tried to kill Padme and after he failed we fought.

"It was fierce and it ended when I cut off Anakin's arm and legs. He began to burn as the lava set him alight and I left, positive that he would die. He has become Darth Vader now and I fear that there is very little if any of the former man left in him. I took Padme to a medical ship where she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. She died shortly after.

"You cannot say that to most people, probably only Keitha and Aithne, and I can't tell you where one of the Skywalker offspring is. I now live here watching over the other one. That is all I can tell you. What happened to you?"

Dante looked thoughtfully at the man and began to speak a familiar tale.

"After we saw you we escaped with a little difficulty to our home world, Uansia. Once we got there the king and queen gave us leave to have a small colony world for an academy we have set up. What led to us being here though is quite different. There was a small pirate attack, people trying to steal padawans. I was walking through the square when I saw a group of them carrying Kiri and I ran after them. There I did a very bad rescue attempt which ended up with me being tortured and Kiri escaping on her own accord. We got control of the ship shortly after she got loose and I managed to crash it. We than walked through the desert for around a week till you found us."

Kiri piped up to defend her protégé.

"You don't fly ships normally and the controls were wreaked. I'd never seen a ship like that before and we had no way of communicating with the outside world. It's not like you meant to crash the ship and make us wander through the desert."

Dante looked at her smiling slightly and Obi-Wan reached over to tussle her hair.

"They'll find you. Don't worry; things have a way of working out."

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