DISCLAIMER: Don't own, don't sue.

After having trouble with random uploading errors, I hope you'll forgive me for the slowness of the past chapter, as well as this one. And I'm not sick anymore, thank the Force. Also, people say that they liked the random skit at the end...guess what's at the end again...it's not as good, sorry, and this whole chapter kind of is the same way, but I tried to create a comedy-type chapter here because we're getting ready to skip ahead a little bit.

Okay...still need a few names, but a few characters will be introduced today. Calix might be thrown in there as a guy's name eventually...it's a Greek name that means 'very handsome', but dunno. It's in the running. Chiara and several other characters get introduced soon...but here's random bios for now.

Liam: 6 years old, human male. Has chestnut hair (very short), hazel eyes, tall height, and somewhat tan skin. Likes to cause mischief, randomly spar with people, and swim. Definitely an extrovert, but less than most people.
NAME MEANING: 'determined guardian'
NAME ORIGIN: Ireland, primarily a Celtic name
PROVIDED BY: Yavië Jinn

Enya: 4 years old, human female. Has dark brown hair (cropped and short), green eyes, short height, and tanned skin. Hides behind people a lot; very shy and introverted.
NAME MEANING: 'little fire'
NAME ORIGIN: Ireland, it's a Gaelic/Celtic name
PROVIDED BY: My own pointless imagination

Nûniel: 7 years old, Mon Calamari female. Has silver hair (long), sapphire eyes, average height, and typical salmon skin. Good athlete, excellent student, even better at piloting.
NAME MEANING: part of the meaning 'isolated'
NAME ORIGIN: Elvish, from LOTR
PROVIDED BY: Chiara Sholuk

Oh. Just to clarify a few things.

Imaru Anij: 6 years old, human female. Has brown hair (short), grey eyes, tall height, and tanned skin. Excellent combatant, relatively skilled healer; enjoys playing pranks and other random activities including swimming, building, and pilot training.
NAME MEANING: 'falling fire'
NAME ORIGIN: Aviin

Alcanar Yavië: 6 years old, human female. Has brown hair (long), grey eyes, average height, and tanned skin. Exceptional healer, enjoys swimming, writing poems, reading, and learning.
NAME MEANING: 'autumn leaves'
NAME ORIGIN: Aviin

Thanks to those who have provided names so far including Chiara Sholuk, Master Kenobi's Apprentice, and Carey Ann Lupin. Please, continue by all means.


Of Mischief, Mayhem, and Dye

Skipping off, both girls realized suddenly something that they had not noticed before—they had no idea where they were going...

Looking around at all the younglings, they began to wonder if they would ever truly fit in; this was a totally different environment than the one they were used to.

:Kai. Imaru. Whatever you call yourself. Where's the big Jedi and his padawan:

:I don't know. Why don't we find them? I know you can... you can sense the Force in different people as easily as I can breathe. You find them.:

Immediately following Imaru's instruction, Alcanar sought out the Force signature of the Jedi Master and Xanatos. She found that imagining different signatures as colours was the easiest way to go about doing it. The Jedi Master, Qui-Gon's, was an emerald-green. Xanatos's was a light grey. Finding them quickly within the swirling colour schemes, she led her twin to them by instinct and feelings alone.

So eager were the twins to reunite with the two that they bumped into another youngling on the way.

"Watch it!" cried the boy, no older than they. Curiously peering at them for a moment, he continued. "I've never seen either of you... where did you come from?"

"I'm Alcanar and this is Imaru," the older girl hastily explained. "We just got here, and we don't know anyone. We're both six and we're going to be Jedi!"

"So 'm I. I'm six and my name's Liam. Wanna be friends?" he asked, his face lighting up at the prospect.

"Sure!" cried Imaru, excited as well.

"Oh. Yeah. This-" Liam said, carefully tugging a tiny youngling from behind him, "-is Enya. She's four and really kinda annoying. But she follows me everywhere, so I can't do anything about her." Nodding at the blushing four year old, Alcanar smiled as the shy, brown-haired child buried her small face in Liam's robe.

:She's so cute, Alcanar! She reminds me of that girl we knew at Hajja's, you know, Talla:

:I remember, sis. Promise.:

Pulling the clingy child away from him, he grinned mischievously, revealing a recently lost canine tooth.

"Wanna help me with something? Enya helps sometimes, too. This time we're gonna try to dye Master Yoda's robes purple. Then he'll look kinda like Barney. So, wanna help? It's gonna be fun!"

Enthusiastically smiling again, Imaru nodded, the quest for Qui forgotten.

"Sure. We can help!"


Roughly one hour later, Enya was hiding behind Liam, Liam was retrieving purple dye, Alcanar was helping retrieve dye, and Imaru was keeping watch.

"Here ya go. This is pink, this is light blue, this is lime green, this is yellow, this is cerulean..." sorting through the shelves of dye, Liam began to inventory everything aloud. "And...here we go. Here's the purple."

Tossing some down, Alcanar caught it and placed it in an inconspicuous bag. Since Liam was already known for dragging a sack of extra pillows to his room every night (for little Enya, who liked to sleep there), it wouldn't really be a problem to get the dye. The problem would be getting some robes, and replacing Master Yoda's... But Liam, young criminal genius that he was, had already figured it out. If they just stole the robes from the Jedi's wardrobe and dyed them all purple, then put them all back, then the short Master would have two choices: one, go around in his pajamas all day, or two, wear the purple robes. And Liam had already voiced that he seriously doubted that Yoda wanted the entire Temple knowing that he wore spaceship pajamas.


By that night, both Alcanar and Imaru had agreed to 'sleep over' in Liam's room, with him and Enya. They still hadn't bothered to go find the Jedi Master, and were actually relatively comfortable having no adult around. By the time the computer announced that it was midnight, three of them had already left for Yoda's quarters. Enya was asleep, and they all opted not to bother her.

"Shhh..." Imaru whispered to Alcanar, who had almost tripped.

Rolling her eyes, Alcanar obeyed silently and tiptoed down the hallway again.

Finally motioning that they were there, Liam crawled into a somewhat cramped access tube that went directly above Yoda's rooms. Reaching a small hook down through the ceiling of the closet, Liam snagged all of the robes and handed them to Imaru, who handed a few down to Alcanar. Backing up and closing the panel to the tube, Imaru pulled out a few tubes of dye and smeared them all over the robes. In less than twenty minutes all of the garments had been re-coloured.

Sneaking back into the access area, this time Alcanar put the garments back in when all of a sudden she heard Master Yoda's footsteps, coming towards the closet. Looking at Liam and her sister, she mouthed,

"what the hell is he doing up at THIS hour?"

Liam shrugged as Alcanar turned back and hastily replaced the robes to their original areas. Withdrawing the hook at exactly the right time, they heard a sleepy Yoda begin to curse loudly, disturbing the quiet. Giggling almost silently, the three ran back to Liam's room immediately.


As they entered, the saw a very distressed Enya. She had wide, saddened eyes, and tears leaking out and dripping down her young face. Not even bothering to explain, Liam rushed over and began to softly sing to her, a captivating and beautiful melody ranging from high notes to low ones.

"Althair ar a neamh...
tria ke la, dian tle...
Sparra mat ash de lanië...
Kesh toi la carrah metandii.

Repeating this a few times, using different combinations of notes for each repetition, he calmed Enya down as he held her close. Finally, he sung quieter and quieter, until the small child dropped off to sleep. Gently setting her down, he explained softly.

"She's afraid of being alone. And of the dark...I can sing her something that I write and then she's happy." Having provided this simplistic observation and truth, Liam curled up under the covers of his bed and fell asleep. Talking quietly amongst themselves for a few more minutes, the twins eventually nodded off as well.


Eating breakfast the next morning, Alcanar, Imaru, Liam, Enya, Qui-Gon, and Xanatos all sat in a group, chatting around as they contentedly munched at the random food objects they had grabbed. Alcanar had some wheat cereal, Liam some fruit and a cup of yogurt, Enya was picking random objects away from all of the people at the table, and the two oldest Jedi both had an assortment of breakfast foods. Imaru didn't eat breakfast, it had never been to her liking.

Master Yoda walked in just in time for Imaru to turn around. She saw him and immediately began to giggle helplessly. Everyone but Qui-Gon soon followed suit. Master Jinn didn't laugh, but he had an amused twinkle in his eyes, laughing to himself mentally. He looked like a certain purple dinosaur...and then someone waltzed right past Yoda, singing the theme song to Barney! At this point, everyone laughed harder. It was Padawan Bultar Swan, renowned for her wicked sense of humour and occasionally good jokes.

"Funny, I think it not!" exclaimed the short Jedi as the padawan danced out the door and away from Yoda. The master shook his fist at the now-closed door, muttering things under his breath and hobbling over to the food line.

About a week after what came to be known as the 'Barney incident', the troublesome three thought up a new trick: what if the Room of One Thousand Fountains were to become the Room of Cherry Soda? They certainly had enough... though it would take a while to pump that much through the system. In the end, it was Alcanar's suggestion just to add red dye to the water, and it was decided from there. All they needed were about two hundred dye tubes. And THOSE were easy enough to get to...


Returning to the dye room, Liam sent Alcanar to get carbon-dioxide releasants, which would immediately release CO2 into water. It was used in certain training activities and for fun by a good number of padawans... and Jedi, for that matter. Alcanar was to get a bagful of the marble-sized capsules, and drag it back to Liam's room. In order to escape any suspicion, Enya trailed behind Alcanar absentmindedly, eventually climbing on top of the sack and falling asleep on the way back to the room.

"I got the dye," said Liam, revealing a sack full of dye and some he had stuffed into his pockets. "There 'r about...well...a lot." Nodding towards Alcanar, he asked, "You?"

"Yeah, I got it. Padawan Bultar Swan helped me get to them by diverting all the Jedi away from the storage area for about ten minutes," the six-year-old reported.

"You sound excited. Now can we just get to work, please?" commented Imaru from the bed. She was sprawled out, eyes closed and her shirt had come up a little, revealing a spot where they could...

"TICKLE!" yelled her twin, lunging over and causing Imaru to laugh so hard she started to cry. Even the Jedi that were passing the room could hear her delighted and childish giggles and laughs.


The next morning, sleepy Jedi Masters who went to the room to meditate were rudely shocked awake. The waterfalls in the Room of One Thousand Fountains were red... and bubbly? When people saw that they all just knew it wasn't good...

In the heated Council debate afterwards, it was decided that the troublemakers would be at least given adequate punishment, but a debate had ensued and finally become so boring that Mace Windu pulled out his book again and more Masters fell asleep rather than debate with the three that managed to stay (somewhat) focused. Needless to say, by the time that was over, many Masters had better than a full night's sleep, and a certain Master Windu had managed to finish another three chapters in the book he had been reading. And Master Yoda had found out the simple joys of poking other nearby Jedi with his cane. So everyone was somewhat happy and totally insane.

It had eventually been decided that the Jinn Corps. (as everyone had begun calling the small three- to foursome) would simply be allowed to exist as it was. It added spice to the life of the Temple, that was for sure, and it most definitely made it an amusing game to play. Because who had ever said that people couldn't play pranks back?

Answer: no one.

Therefore, Yoda immediately took it upon himself to bestow a small...erm...favor. Have a good time soon, the small Jedi would.


Meep.

Yeah. I like meeps. Maybe, just maybe, I'll have the Jinn Corps. Go around randomly meeping at Jedi... fun. I like this idea already...

And a special thanks for all the names submitted! I've decided on a few to use, will give you the finalists next chappy! I promise I'll update quickly!

And for your entertainment...since people seemed to like it and I have Del'Cera Osirin sitting here to read over my shoulder and laugh his head off at this... ENJOY!

Me: QUI! YOU'VE BEEN IN THERE FOR A DAY! GET OUT HERE!

Qui: (whines) Do I have to? My head hurts...and I'm on sleep meds...my parents made me go onto them because of random insomniac habits.

Me: Well it's not like it's my fault you were drinking...

Qui: ...

MW: (turns corner and sees author) THERE SHE IS! GET HER!

Me: (starts getting run after by angry townspeople with pitchforks and torches) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

MW: WELL IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I GOT MY HEAD DYED BLUE!

Liam: (defensively) It's not her fault...we all decided on it.

MW and townspeople: (skid to halt)

MW: What now?

Liam: Me 'n Imaru and Alcanar decided on it.

Me: You know that's not exactly the best thing to tell him right now...right?

Liam: Yeah. (whispers) Don't worry, we got a big surprise for 'im.

Imaru: Oh, c'mon Windu! Stop chasing the nice little author or else we'll tell the world that you adore your fuzzy bunny slippers!

MW: HOW DARE YOU!

Alcanar: Maybe this isn't the best idea, guys... AAAAH!

MW: (lunges for Jinn Corps.)

Liam, Alcanar, and Imaru all run down a hallway, Windu follows.

Liam: Did you set it up, 'Maru?

Imaru: Yeah, Liam... he should see it like two seconds before he hits it.

Liam: Perfect.

Alcanar: (giggles and runs faster)

MW: WHAT IS SO BLOODY FUNNY?

Liam: Trust me, Master, you'll know in a minute...

MW: (runs towards now stopped younglings, gets tangled up in large covering of Senatorial curtains and bedsheets) &#$! #$&! YOU LITTLE...! (gets large tub of water dumped on him)

Me: Wait...where am I in all this? Oh. Yeah. Back to get Qui. (turns around and thwacks into Qui)

Qui: With all the fun, I had to come along...

Me: (sighs and begins to laugh at the reaction of the three troublemakers)

Liam and Imaru: (singing) We did it! We did it! We got Master Windu! (collapse in giggling pile on top of Alcanar)

MW: THIS IS WAR AGAINST YOU!

Yoda: Hear of something funny going on, did I? Came to fetch me did little Enya.

Enya: (nods head and smiles shyly, running to Liam)

Yoda: (laughs quietly and tries to slink away)

MW: I'LL GET YOU, TROLL! YOU TOO!

Me: (sighs and scribbles pictures for self)