We're Wizards, Not Warriors

Chapter 38: The Temple

It was now the next day….

The Jedi and Rouge Coven were now studying the Jedi temple in the cave.

"This Temple seems to be filled with puzzles", Luminaria said.

Shaak Ti said, "and it appears we must solve them in order to get in."

Leon said, "luckily, I hired someone extremely skilled in this department."

Aayla asked, "wait, you don't mean…?"

Barriss said, "indeed he does."

"And he'll make a quick stop at the Owl House and Scarlet House first….", Leon said.

Luminara said, "this is gonna be awkward."

Barriss asked, "why do you say that everytime?"

Luminara said, "because…. He's devious…. Hes cunning…. He's a bounty hunter…. He's…. He's…."

….

"Cad Bane, at your service", he said as he stood before the Jedi later on.

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A few hours earlier….

Galen asked his fathers, "can we go with you dad's?"

Sam said, "I dunno, this could be very dangerous."

"Besides, we need a few of you to babysit the kids", Hordak said.

Marek said, "understood. I'll happily watch the kids."

"I'll stay too", Beru said.

Alastor said, "thank you sweeties."

"Take good care of my little one", Ahsoka said as she kissed her son Ani on the forehead.

Ani giggled.

"We'll be back in a few hours", Prime said.

Hordak said, "hold the fort down until we get back."

"Roger", Marek and Beru said.

And with that, the group set off….

They were waiting outside their house.

Aiden asked, "so who are we waiting for Papa?"

Sam said, "Leon and Barriss have hired a very skilled Hunter to help us get into the temple."

"And he's a close friend of theirs", Prime said.

"Leon told us he would be going to the Owl House first to pick my father and Aunt Eda first", Sam said.

That's when they began to hear the sound of a staff flying through the air.

The family all looked up to see Eda, Anakin and Case Bane on the staff.

Luz was on Eda's staff as well.

"We're here", Luz cheered.

Sam said, "good to see you all."

Ahsoka asked, "is that Cad Bane?"

Cad Bane spread his arms out and said, "in the flesh."

"Well, we should get going", Hordak said as he took out his staff.

Sam said, "agreed."

The family all then took off to their location.

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Present.

"And so here we are", Anakin said.

Eda asked, "so you say this temple is filled with Puzzles?"

Shaak Ti said, "indeed. And so, we need an expert on these kinds of things for this."

"And that's where my old friend Bane comes in", Leon said.

Bane tipped his hat.

"I'm an expert on puzzles, and I will be able to solve it in no time", Bane said.

"That's all great, Bane, but just be careful. When you really get into something, you tend to shut everything else out", Leon said with a wince at the thought.

Barriss said, "yeah, you don't wanna risk anyone's lives in there."

Sam asked, "what do you mean by that, guys?"

Leon replied, "when Bane gets into a job, he REALLY gets into a job."

Ahsoka asked, "and what does that mean?"

"You'll find out in a minute", Leon said.

The group were then led to the entrance of the Temple.

Ahsoka said, "this is the entrance, but we haven't been able to find out how to actually get in. There's gotta be some sort of secret door."

"There seems to be a puzzle somewhere around here", Alastor said.

Bane pointed to the wall in front of him and said, "this rock here looks like it can be pulled out of the wall."

Bane then pulls out the rock.

"It's the puzzle", Bane said as he inspected it.

Luminara asked, "and how do we solve this puzzle?"

"I think I can solve it by moving the pieces into place", Bane said as he moved a piece of the puzzle block.

"Uh guys…. Do you feel something…. Shaking….", Galen asked, a bit nervous.

Everyone then felt the place moving! Like it was turning! Bane activated his jet boots as Sam and Eda activated their harpy forms!

"Woah", everyone shouted as they fell to the ground.

"I feel…. Like throwing up", Aiden said.

"Me too", Hordak said.

Leon shouted, "Bane! Can you at least let us know what you're gonna move before you try to move it!?"

But Bane didn't seem to listen as he once again moved another piece of the puzzle.

Everyone was sent flying again!

Sam grabbed his husbands and kids as Eda grabbed the others!

Bane moved yet another piece.

"Watch out", Luz shouted.

The room turned yet again!

Bane then moved another piece.

A pillar flew at Sam.

"Ahhh", Sam screamed as he flew out of the way.

Hordak yelled, "watch it!"

Bane then moved another piece.

Eda was sent spinning by another pillar!

Bane moved another piece of the puzzle yet again.

Alastor yelled, "this is anything but entertaining!"

"Got it", Bane said as he completed the puzzle and the entrance to the temple opened.

Everyone fell to the ground.

"There must be more puzzles up ahead…. And if I can solve them…. Then the Jedi will have access to the temple", Bane said as he ran into the temple.

Sam groaned and said, "well then, let's get to it."

"Wow Leon, you weren't kidding when you said about him getting into a job, he really gets into it", Anakin said.

Leon nodded and said, "indeed he does."

"Well, "let's go after him", Padme said.

The others nodded and followed Bane into the temple.

"Well let's hope the next puzzle isn't that dangerous like the last one", Prime said.

Barriss whispered to Leon, "why do I get the feeling he jinxed us?"

Leon shrugged his shoulders.

Soon, the group caught up with Bane.

They were in a new room.

Eda asked a bit nervously, "so what's next?"

Bane's eyes started roaming about the entire room.

Ahsoka asked, "so what's the next puzzle?"

Bane held up a finger.

Alastor asked, "what's wrong?"

Bane said, "I'm thinking."

Bane grabbed a rock and threw at the ground below them. This triggered something!

Something came down and crushed the rock!

Their eyes all widened.

"Some of these tiles on the temple floor have different symbols on them", Bane said as he grabbed another rock.

He tossed it on a different symbol.

One that had a fire symbol and as expected.

Fire hit the symbol!

"Oh", Sam winced.

"Just as I suspected", Bane said.

Luz pointed at a symbol of a duck and asked, "and what does that one do?"

Bane hut it with a rock, and a duck suddenly flew into the symbol before flying off.

"So okay the gray one gets you crushed to death", Hordak said.

"The one with the fire symbol gets you killed by the fire", Anakin said.

Barriss said, "and the duck symbol summons…. Ducks."

Sam pointed at six symbols of the Jedi leading as he said, "those must be the safe ones to stand on."

Bane looked at the symbols for a moment before he jumped towards one of them.

"Bane", Leon shouted.

Bane landed on the tile with the Jedi Symbol.

He said, "you were right on the money with that one."

"Now we need a few people to stand on the other tiles", Bane said.

Sam turned into his harpy form and said, "I'm on it."

Alastor asked, "what are you…?"

Sam jumped onto another Jedi symbol.

"Okay, we need 5 more people", Sam said.

Bane, "four. We're already standing on two of them, kid."

"Whatever", Sam said.

Eda then turned into her harpy form and jumped onto one of the tiles.

Eda asked, "who's next?"

Alastor said, "me next."

Alastor then jumped and landed on one of the tiles.

Bane said, "we need two more, and then we can continue forward."

Everyone looked at each other.

Luz said, "I'll do iit"

Aiden said, "me to!"

"No way you kids are not going to put yourselves in danger", Anakin said in a stern tone.

Galen had an idea to distract his grandpa and yelled, "look, a giraffe!"

Anakin turned around with his saber ignited as he yelled, "HOW DID ONE GET "BACK TO THE BOILING ISLES!?"

"NOW", Luz shouted.

Luz and Aiden jumped on the remaining symbols.

"KIDS NO", the adults shouted.

They shouted back, "kids yes!"

Luz and Aiden landed on the remaining tiles with the Jedi symbols.

The symbols all glowed!

The doors then opened.

Bane shurgged and said, "and that's jenga."

The others looked at him in confusion.

Bane said, "it's an old phrase my uncle would say when things fell into place. Bow let's continue on."

Bane then walked forward.

"You two are in so much trouble for putting yourselves in danger like that", Prime scolded Luz and Aiden.

Aiden said, "no-one else wanted to jump down."

"So we took the chance", Luz said with a giggle.

Bane said, "I like these kids. They take risks."

Aiden said with a smirk, "see?"

Anakin rolled his eyes.

"So this looks to be the final room", Bane said.

Sam said, "that means one last puzzle."

"Please let this one be safe", Hordak whispered.

Leon said, "don't jinx it."

Bane then saw what the final puzzle was.

He muttered, "you gotta be kidding me."

The Jedi looked to see what the puzzle was.

Sam said, "it's…. A giant chessboard?"

Bane remarked, "and I'm guessing you can't move the pieces without the force. And there ain't enough pieces for a full game, so you probably gotta move them around into a certain way."

"Hey look, there are symbols on the tiles", Ahsoka said.

Leon said, "good eye. We must need to move the pieces over the symbols."

"I'll try to move one of the pieces with the force", Anakin said.

Anakin thrust his hand forward and began to move one of the pieces.

One of the pieces moves and lands on top of the tile with the Jedi Symbol.

It glowed for a second as Bane said, "that just leaves the other pieces."

"I'll do it", Barriss said.

Leon said, "me too."

Leon and Barriss thrust their hands forward and moved the pieces with the force.

Ahsoka soon joined in, as did Sam.

Soon, the pieces all moved into place. They were positioned to look like the Jedi Symbol from a top down perspective.

Eda asked, "is that all of them?"

Hordak said, "it looks like it."

Then the ground started to shake.

A large door began to open up.

Then some writing began to appear on the walls.

Prime asked, "what does it say?"

Anakin then read what it said and then said out loud, "this temple may only open for those smart, brave and strong enough in the force to make their way past these trials and into this sacred place."

Galen asked, "so that means we can now enter the temple?"

Luminara said, "it would appear so."

"Well then let's go", Ahsoka said.

The group nodded and made their way inside.

"Woah", Galen and Aiden said in awe.

The others said, "amazing…."

There were old broken down statues.

Faded murals all over the walls.

"From the looks of these statues…. No one's been in here for thousands of years", Sam said as he looked around.

Shaak Ti said, "those murals also make that evident."

"Woah", Luz said in awe.

Galen said, "this is amazing!"

Ahsoka, Padme and Luz ran forward to see more of the temple.

"Kids, be careful", Eda shouted.

"Hey; Careful is my middle name", Ahsoka said.

Leon said, "I thought it was Leslie?"

Barriss muttered, "you always love making that home about middle names, don't you?"

Leon shurgged and said, "my favorite joke from that movie Luz showed me."

Before Ahsoka could reply to anything, the floor under her, Luz and Padme broke free and sent them falling into another room!

The three girls screamed.

"PADME! AHSOKA", Sam and his husbands shouted as they ran to the spot.

"LUZ", Anakin and Eda shouted.

The others looked down the hole to see what happened.

Aiden asked, "you three okay!?"

"Not really", Padme shouted.

Luz said, "I think I'm gonna cough up my spleen."

"Uh, guys, look", Ahsoka said as she pointed to the walls.

Padme and Luz looked to see more ornate murals of Strange looking orange skinned beings.

The others soon made their way down, albeit with some stairs that led down there.

Hordak asked, "you kids okay?"

Luz said, "we'll be fine in a little bit."

"Hey, look at this", Bane said.

Everyone turned to see Bane looking at a large statue of the strange orange creatures.

Prime asked, "what are these?"

Bane read out, "the legend of the Zeffo."

Luz asked, "the Zeffo? Who are those?"

Sam began to read, "we, the Zeffo, hereby pass down our ancient teachings on the life force of the world down to those who can succeed us after we are long gone."

"Woah, that sounds cool", Galen said.

Prime asked, "I wonder what happened to them."

"Look here", Barriss said as she began to read some texts on the walls.

Leon read, "as we face extinction, our species growing weaker and weaker, we must pass on our teachings to those can carry it all on."

"The Jedi", Sam said out loud.

Alastor said, "these Zeffo must have been the precursor's to the Jedi order."

"And they passed down their teachings to the order", Anakin said.

Shaak Ti said, "their way of living on."

"That's actually pretty amazing", Aiden said.

Luminara said, "very amazing indeed."

Luz asked, "so is that all this temple has?"

Alastor said, "it appears so."

Galen asked, "well now what?"

The others weren't sure.

….

Later….

The Skywalker Family all went back to their homes.

The babies were happy to see their parents and siblings return.

Marek asked, "so how did it go?"

Sam said, "pretty well."

"Other than the fact that Bane put us in danger a few times", Hordak said.

Sam said, "indeed he did."

Beru asked, "really?"

The others nodded.

"Man am I hungry", Galen asked.

Padme said, "me too."

"Well then we will make the food", Prime said.

Hordak said, "bring your appetites!"

"Pizza and french fries", the kids all yelled.

The men looked at one another. That was an odd combination.

Padme asked, "is it wrong to eat french fries with Pizza?"

Sam said, "no, it isn't. It's just an interesting combination of foods."

The kids smiled. They were excited!

The four men head into the kitchen.

They began cooking for their hungry children.

Prime and Sam began making the Pizza.

Alastor and Hordak handle the fries.

It took about two hours to make the food. But when it was done, it smelled absolutely delicious.

"Kids, dinner is ready", Sam called out.

The kids all ran to the room to eat.

The four father's placed the plates in front of them.

The kids were smiling ear to ear.

"And here are your drinks", Prime said.

Glasses of water and blue milk were set down at each plate.

"Thank you daddies", the kids said.

The father's smiled in pride.

"Now dig in!"

The kids immediately did so.

"This is so good", Marek said.

Galen said, "perfect!"

"Thank you, little imps", Sam said.

Hordak said, "we appreciate the compliments."

Sam was about to take a bite when he clutched his head in pain!

Hordak, Prime and Alastor were instantly at his side!

Sam fell to the floor as he started to have a vision….

….

He saw a figure in a white suit with disheveled blond hair.

The figure had claws…. And wings!

The figure then cupped Sam's chin and said, "what did you think of my hotel?"

"It looks beautiful", Sam said.

The man said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it."

Sam blushed as the figure leaned towards him further.

Their lips were inches from one another.

But then….

….

Sam was brought out of his vision!

"Sam!"

His husband's were all kneeling above him.

Hordak asked in concern, "are you okay?"

Sam said, "fine now. Just another vision."

Alastor asked, "another Vision? What did you see?"

Sam said, "a man…. Dressed in white…. Blond hair…. Wings…. He owned a hotel…."

The men were then in deep thought.

It sounded like another person who would be joining the harem….

Ahsoka asked, "is papa okay?"

Sam said, "oh, I'm fine sweety. Just another vision and all that. Why don't we finish our meal?"

Aiden asked, "are you sure papa?"

Angela and Junior whimpered.

Sam got up and said, "don't worry kids, I'm fine. No need to worry."

"Well if you say so", Marek said.

The family sat back down to finish their meal.

But little did they know…. They would meet this person Sam saw sooner than expected….

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Reviews:

SuperSentai199: glad to hear. And yeah, same here. I'm glad we made him more of a good guy on the wrong side in this story. Hopefully the show goes that route with his character...

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