The secret mission

Chapter 1

Where should I begin? I don't know. So many things have happened to me. It's getting harder and harder to sort out the events that have happened to me. My name is Matt Weaver and I have been stuck in this place for longer than I can remember. I long to see the outside world. I was sent here on assignment by Luke Skywalker. I am a Markib, or a padawan whose completed training under a master.

I am a human with blue eyes, brown hair, I'm about 5'10" tall, I am 16 standard years old and I have an orange double bladed light saber. I am the only one in the Jedi order who has a double bladed light saber. I am also the only one who has an orange blade. Where am I and how did I get here? Stick along for the ride and I will answer your questions.

I have been part of the Jedi order since I was eight standard years old. Before I was discovered by the Jedi order, I was an orphan living on the streets and doing what I had to do to survive. I'm from the outer rim planet of Horace, a beautiful blue industrial planet with many species of people. The planet's main source of income for its economy and for its trade with other planets is manufacturing. Our democracy is much like Coruscant before the old republic fell and became the Empire.

I should clarify, what I told you is true, at least from my point of view. I was not always an orphan before I came to the Jedi order. I did have a father (not my real father, but a father nonetheless) his name was Lihp Weaver. He found me on the streets when I was four. He was a strong, muscular human being that looked to me to be very old probably about 80. He was a Jedi who had left the order when his actual son had died. The day he found me he was walking home from a cantina and I bumped into him. What happened next I'll never forget. He took me home and gave me a place to sleep and food. He said I could stay there for as long as I wanted. Little did I know that I would end up staying there forever. He and I became father and son. He sensed great force ability in me. So when I became five years old he started to train me in the ways of the Jedi. He gave me his son's blue light saber for training. He trained me for two years from sunrise until sunrise the next morning. We trained like this for six days a week, on the seventh day we could rest. I mostly slept on the days of rest.

I was seven years old when he died. He died in his sleep. I was heartbroken, this man cared for me like his son and now he was gone. I had one thought after he died and that was to join the Jedi order and become a Jedi master. I took his orange double bladed light saber and set off. I went to the cantina so I could find out some information. I found a man who was talking to some four eyed creature. I overheard him say, "I will take you to the planet of Yavin where the Jedi Academy is located, if you pay me enough money."

I knew this was my chance. After the alien creature had left I came over to the man and said, "Excuse me sir, did I hear you say you were going to the planet Yavin where the Jedi order is?

The man turned to look at me. To my surprise it was Han Solo. I had heard his name and seen his face on Horace's news holograms.

He asked sarcastically," Why , you wanna go to the planet?"

"As a matter of fact I do." I said with a little bit of discussed in my tone.

"Alright, fine with me just pay me a little bit of money and I will take you there."

"Hear is something I can give you, which you can sell and get money for." I took out my training light saber and handed it to him.

He took one look at my training light saber and laughed saying " Your a Jedi aren't you, I should have known. We'll leave in an hour."

That was nine years ago. I was officially part of the order on my eighth birthday. I was told that I was the most promising student from my generation. Ben Skywalker, Luke Skywalker son and I became pretty close friends. Luke had selected me for this mission because I was the best one qualified for the assignment and the assignment took place on Horace

The order had intercepted a partial message about their being a group of dark Jedi on the planet, along with a crime boss that was smuggling in equipment for the dark Jedi to build something. Luke had told me not to tell anyone else about the assignment.

"Why?" I asked him when he told me this.

"Because...um because it would make the other Jedi jealous"

I sensed something weird in his response, but accepted the assignment, even know it was unclear. Three things are clear I thought to myself as I walked out to the ship bay to get ready for take off.

·Find out if the rumors are true.

·Find out what the dark Jedi are planning to build.

·Stop the dark Jedi and the crime boss.

As I came out of hyperspace in the Horace system I had no idea what I was about to get into.

To be continued...

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