CHAPTER 9

What is it Master Kenobi?

He can sense our aura Ahsoka.

I know. It is a good sign. He can teach Leia about it and she will train him in lightsaber battles. The two can be strong faces of the new Jedi order.

One will be the grandmaster and it won't be the girl.

We shall let them decide it. I am just happy and surprised about the fact.

Leia needs to forget her force sensitivity.

WHAT? Master Kenobi what are you saying? She is way more skilled and experienced than Luke. There is no necessity.

Ahsoka if the two are trained together than He shall come to know about it.

I do not CARE. The two should be trained together. You need to train Leia in Soresu. I need to train Luke in basic combat.

There is no need for Leia to train anymore.

You are delusional.

Maybe. Ahsoka the girl is conflicted, she doesn't know whose daughter she is. She will fall to the dark side quicker than her father.

SHE is Leia Skywalker. And do remind me why her father fell to the dark side?

Ahsoka, I –

SHUT UP. He fell because you failed to train him. He failed because you were irresponsible. He fell because of your dog headedness, because of your blind devotion to that fucked up council, because you chose that fucking council above everything. Above Anakin, above me, above Master Qui-gon Jinn and above Duchess Satine Kryze. Now you want to choose a dead council above the twins, above the only hope of the galaxy. You are lost then.

Ahsoka, I –

DO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD. I called you Master but I realize you are too low for that Kenobi.

Ahsoka I, let me speak.

You think you can talk me into your venomous plan. I refuse. I will call Leia and you can tell your indigenous plan to her, Kenobi.

The conversation which followed replayed itself time after time in Ahsoka's mind. It had been a month since Leia had gone. Luke was training under the two force users. He was weaker than Leia. He needed someone of his age to help him. He needed a person who understood his trouble. That person was Leia. It was night. Ahsoka was staring into the vast nothingness of the planet. She decided it would be better to meditate. She sat to meditate and closed her eyes. As she closed her a presence which she once worshipped but now was disgusted of was felt. "What?" she snapped back at the person behind her.

"He still needs time to learn. If we are more-"

"More what, Kenobi? Softer? No we can't because we are already soft to him. We are treating him like a three year old child who has just held a lightsaber. If SHE was here by now he would be learning lightsaber combat."

"Ahsoka."

"Get lost, I need to calm myself. I can't concentrate with your type around me."

Obi-wan left Ahsoka in her own comfort. He still remembered the last words Leia said, bastard who let down the Skywalker family. It still hurt him. Luke's training was growing horrible day by day. He couldn't hold a lightsaber and swing it properly without dropping it or falling off balance. He couldn't lift a tiny rock using the force, leave the larger substances. His force meditation was disturbed by any sort of tiny sound. In a word, he was becoming hopeless.

Luke was awake in his bed. He was in the Lars residence. His training as he felt grew more ruthless day by day. He was exhausted in the end of the day. He wondered how Leia had managed to do it. He enquired Ahsoka about Leia and she told him everything. After that Luke felt as though he had to carry the heaviest weight in the galaxy all alone. He enquired further more and discovered the fact that the Lars were not even his family they were the step-family of his father. And that his mother was a strong senator and his father was literally the strongest Jedi ever. That Leia was his twin sister, he had a maternal family on a planet called Naboo, he and Leia were separated at childbirth after their mother had died. He even boasted to Ahsoka that he could tolerate it but he fainted the moment Ahsoka finished his birth story. The next week when Ahsoka told him that his father was alive and was Darth Vader, Luke fainted again. The next day when he asked whether Leia knew about it or not, Ahsoka replied that she did know about it and had yet accepted to be trained as a Jedi. When Luke asked at what age Leia started training, Ahsoka replied that she started her training when Leia was of age eight. At this Luke fainted at the fact that he, a sixteen year old male, who fainted every time he heard his life story, was outdone by his sister who had heard to it when she was eight. Now he was lying on his bed looking back at his training. He felt that it grew more ruthless but he knew from inside that he was growing more and more hopeless.

Inside the imperial senatorial academy, Leia and her friends were seated in a room. Leia took a deep breath and exhaled, being a senator was way more tiring than any force exercise. It was night in Coruscant. She and her friends were discussing about the lessons they had learned and boys. They would pick any topic and bring it back to boys. It was as though they came to the academy just to see and talk about boys. The boys in the academy as Leia noted were a bunch of monkeys with donkey brains. Only a few in the entire academy were decent. The rest were the whole circus. Boys were the pure form of mess. And the girls in the academy, almost all of them were future hoes. Leia was exhausted by the chatting of the girls' more than the exercises. It was fun indeed. They taught the imperial rules and pact along with the clone wars treaties pact and everything. It was only a month since Leia was there and she was excelling in almost all of fields. The only field where she was struggling was politics. It was a dirty game, one made by the devils of the galaxy. She excelled in combat, strategy, tactics and everything but the dirty game of politics. She often wondered how her mother had managed to succeed in politics. Her name was even there in the list of the top ten senators of the galaxy. She stood first. Leia was proud and she knew she had to reach her mother's status. She had to. So she struggled day and night, trying to master the game. She read about her mother's philosophies. She learnt something new every day from the Organas, the Chanderian senator; Mon Mothma and her aunt Sola.

She struggled and was excelling. She stood at the fifth place when it came to politics. She stood first in the rest. She was exceptionally good in hand to hand combat. She was staring at the beautiful night sky of Coruscant. Even though everything in the planet was controlled, she had to admit that the city looked as though the stars had settled down. She was about to leave and go for meditation when one of the future cunts started talking to her. "Well Leia you have remained silent from the moment you entered her. Sit down, let us talk."

"No thanks I was just tired a bit and was on my way to bed."

"Oh you always say that. Is it so difficult for a princess of a core world system to talk with her peers?"

Damn that cunt, she had to prick the 'core world princess' thorn. To Leia's misfortune she was the only female member of royalty from the core world systems. The rest were children of some governor or something.

"I think I have to sit then."

"Of course, Leia, you should." Said another cunt. The Corelian cunt as Leia loved to call her. Leia proceeded to sit besides the Corelian cunt. "As I was saying, the candidate from Chanderi is so hot. I mean have you seen his locks, they are so golden. They are so curly. He even speaks so sweetly."

"He speaks sweetly because he wants to make sure that nobody can defeat him in politics. He tries all his tricks to get others to accept defeat against him." Leia said.

"Anyways." The Corelian cunt continued as though she had not heard what Leia said. "The other day when I was walking with Amelia of Naboo, I saw him. Guess what he did? He winked at me." At this point all the future cunts started laughing in high pitch shrieks. Leia sighed as she realized that she had to tolerate this shit for an hour at least. Next the cunts spoke about some Zygerrian candidate and his riches, and then about some Pandoran candidate and his face which looked like a blue monkey to Leia and so and so the list went on. Nothing academic pure bullshit. They then turned to the other Alderanian candidate and Leia had lost it. That guy was a pure insult to the name of Alderaan. Leia got up. "I am sorry ladies but I need to leave." She said as she left.

"Well well, looks like Leia cannot handle a competition. Don't worry your highness we can understand."

"Look I am clearly uninterested in mundane conversations which are operated by future cunts." This response was taken with a large gasp.

"Excuse me, do you know who I am?"

"Oh of course, a bitch who talks about nothing but men. Why don't you start a cunt business? I'm sure you would do good."

"Leia I am the daughter of the governor of Corelia. You probably wouldn't have heard of it as your nose would be smelling the riches of the core worlds which come from the outer rim."

"Isn't the governor of Corelia arrested for a sex scandal? Anyway I just wanted to let you know that Alderaan is a self sufficient system. We try to be as independent of the empire records as your system tries to indulge in sex slavery and rest." Leia said before walking away from the room which was full to the brim with crying and gossiping.

"Wow that was extraordinary." A voice called behind Leia before she entered her room.

"Thanks I guess." Leia said before turning around to be greeted by the hot talk of every single girl.

"Kane Ya'lksi. I am the Chanderian male candidate."

"I know who you are."

"Why don't you introduce yourself? We can be friends."

"Why don't you find it out as you are so curious to be my friend?" Leia said before shutting the door to his face.

"Well, well we have a challenge. I accept it." He said before heading to his own room.

The next day Leia got up early so that she could meditate. She went to the garden and seated herself on the grass. She closed her eyes and felt her surroundings. She let the force fill her with the energy she always liked. She felt her body and continued feeling her surroundings. She then revisited the vision she had on Tatooine. The vision kept on repeating itself. She saw a lady of age forty or something. She was in pain. She kept on repeating a name Leia couldn't catch. She didn't know who she was. Leia wanted to know who she was. But she didn't know where to start. She proceeded to meditate and felt someone in the garden. Before she could see who it was she felt a painful darkness, in which she felt comfort; Vader. She opened her eyes in surprise. She felt a comfort in his coldness. She felt comfort in a monster. She turned to see who the disturber was. To her disgust it was the hot talk.

"Were you meditating?"

"Is there a problem with that? I say it is rather too early to get up, isn't it?" she had a good look at the person who stood before her. He was in a tight sleeveless shirt and a tight pant.

"Oh I usually get up at this time. I practice at this place you see."

"And?"

"The place is occupied by a princess."

"Are you sure that I am a princess?"

"Of course, you are princess Leia Organa; a trusted aid gave me the information."

"Hmm I see you have aids already."

"Well not everyone is born with a silver spoon."

"Says the one who is the next in line to be the ruler of Chanderi." Leia commented as she got up.

"I see you have information."

"It is not that difficult to gain information on a guy who technically is the only thing the girls talk about."

"And yet you don't."

"I am uninterested in those topics."

"Well they say that you are an excellent hand to hand combater."

"Oh I don't know."

"Why don't we check it?"

"I don't want you to break your handsome nose. It would disappoint the others." Leia said before turning towards the door. As she left Kane held her arm and stopped her.

"How about we just test your abilities?"

"You don't want to."

"Oh you have no idea." He said as he came closer to Leia. Leia grasped his arm and twisted and pinned him to the wall.

"I will give you one more chance." She said as she kept him pinned. He then freed himself and shoved Leia to the back. Leia got up and started attacking him. She blocked all of his strikes and kicked him in the midsection. He fell back. Before he could get up Leia had already grabbed his hand and twisted it to his back therefore pinning him to the ground and defeating him.

"Okay I accept defeat." Kane said with exasperation. Leia let him go and left. Kane was surprised to find that she had not even sweat a little. He lay there on the ground panting. She is different. He thought. Well that makes things way better