A/N: Mesa back!
Chapter 3
The next morning, Kinsa woke to the smell of breakfast, her stomach growling so loudly that the nearest youngling, an Andorian female, giggled softly as she stretched, her red face, though tearstained, happy and relaxed. Kinsa glowered at her, and then threw a pillow, hitting her target directly in the face. The girl emitted a high-pitched scream, but was not long to retaliate. Kinsa ducked, then used the force to hit make the pillow hit a still sleeping human boy, the same golden haired angel from last night. He snapped up, grabbing his own pillow and flinging it blindly, hitting a Naboo boy with dark hair and eyes squarely in the back. The dark-haired boy instantly turned and flung his own pillow towards the golden haired boy, who ducked, and turned to grab the pillow, which had clipped a Wookie male with soft chocolate fur. The Wookie reached the pillow first and returned fire. Needless to say, for the next five minutes high screams and happy giggles emitted from the sick room.
It all stopped when a very young Jedi Knight named Talisin poked in his head and yelled. "What's going on in here?" Kinsa and the children who had pinned her to the ground stared at him for a minute, and then a pillow made contact with his head. "Hey!" he screamed. "Who did that?" Everyone pointed at everybody else. "Oh, then I suppose I'll just have to punish all of you!" With this, he joined in the fray, initiating another full ten minutes of pillow fighting, which was finally halted when a very, very big man lifted Talisin and the children off a screaming Kinsa. Master Dunya was trying very, very hard to keep a stern face, but his eyes betrayed his merriment. Kinsa, on the other hand, did not help matters by bursting into peals of laughter at the sight of the big Knight easily holding a near grown boy, and four younglings, without even trying.
"Enough play! Breakfast!" Everyone's face fell for one moment, they hadn't eaten since the massacre. The children snapped out of it quickly though, and started squirming and squealing to be put down, and a much deeper voice protesting that he was 'much to old for this' destroyed the melancholy mood completely. Master Dunya simply shook his head, and, still holding the fivesome, exited the medical bay. Kinsa, once she caught her breath, scrambled to her feet, and followed.
After breakfast, eggs, fruit, and some kind of meat, the children trundled off with a medical droid, and the elder Jedi got down to serious business. Master Gha appeared on the hologram projector in the middle of the bridge.
"The Temple has been destroyed." She said gravely. Kinsa looked away, absorbing the shock of what she knew, but couldn't quite grasp until now. "But" Master Gha continued, "Master Yoda and Master Obi-Wan Kenobi are still alive." A cold thrill washed through Kinsa as she and her elders started pounding Gha with questions.
"How?"
"Any others?"
"Will we meet them?"
"What has happened?" Gha chose to answer the final question.
"The emperor and Anakin Skywalker have taken control of the Senate. The republic is no more; the Empire has taken it's place."
"Was Palpatine the Sith Lord?" Raul asked.
"Yes." Kinsa clenched her hands, Anakin was supposed to have been the Chosen One!
"Are we going to meet Obi-Wan and Master Yoda?" She asked.
"Yes. After they deactivate a beacon that has been set up to summon any surviving Jedi."
"Surviving Jedi?" Master Dunya whispered (or rumbled). Master Gha took a minute before answering.
"Yes, the clone troopers turned on the Jedi all over the galaxy."
"No." The word used by Talisen echoed how they all felt. They were truly alone now.
A/N: Okay, so the action was a pillow fight! Sue me! I plan to get more into the kids next time. Ciao!