Authors Note: This fanfiction is a pre Episode One romance between Obi-Wan Kenobi and an Original Character. It has been done before and will continue being done because it's interesting and easy fluff. This will not be a Mary-Sue ridden fluff...I will try and make the romance as realistic as possible as love between Jedi's would not come easy.
Bear with me, this is my first attempt at a Star Wars fic and I'm not the most die-hard fan. If you spot anything wrong, please alert me but there's no need to get all arsey over any mistakes I make. I am human after-all.
Disclaimer: Star Wars equals George Lucas' - not mine. Come on people, it's obvious.
Heart of a Jedi.
Prologue.
"Ariana! Go child! Move yourself!"
Ariana stared at her Master with wide innocent eyes. The young twelve year old shook her head, making the long brown plait down her back quiver as she refused to leave her beloved Master.
Another droid appeared, raising its sleek silver-grey arm and pointing its matching laser gun at Ariana.
"Get down!" Aurelia cried to her young Padawan and Ariana threw her small body onto the rubble covered ground. She felt a rock of rubble graze her face and the familiar hum of her Master' light sabre. She heard the glowing green laser sword bite through the droid's frail metal body as easily as a knife through butter and it collapse onto the floor.
"Master!" Ariana cried, her voice alarmed as a small fleet of droids rounded the corner and filled the small room they were trapped in.
Aurelia rounded on the machines, lightsaber raised and a calm look on her attractive, young face.
"Go," Aurelia urged her Padawan, turning her head to give Ariana a desperate look. She needed to leave and leave now. Aurelia would not let Ariana be taken today, like this.
Ariana swallowed back the tears that prickled her eyes. Jedi's don't cry. Jedi's don't cry. A painful lump had formed in her throat and she felt her fear slid over it as she gulped once more.
Aurelia had begun a mighty attack on the droids, various body parts crumbling around her. Torpedoes of light shot past her head and legs. One burned straight into her upper arm, another in the thigh but Aurelia carried on, fighting boldly.
A droid head rolled to Ariana's feet and she kicked it away forcefully just as the building's foundations began to creak and quiver. Flakes of ceiling danced down and dropped by Ariana's head, settling in her hair and on her round cheeks.
"For the last time Ariana, GET OUT! Do not disobey me," Aurelia roared at her Padawan, taking the legs clean off another droid.
Ariana glanced about, looking for an escape. She must listen to her Master but she did not want to leave her side with such unfair odds.
Aurelia batted back shots with her lightsaber, destroying droids as quick as she could.
Ariana attempted to run past her Master and the droids but she caught her foot on a droid head and stumbled forwards, grabbing and reaching for anything to steady her body. Instead she fell face first onto the hard marble flooring, feeling her chin collide with stone.
The young Padawan looked up, pain creasing her eyes and her small mouth quivering in shock just as a faceless droid delivered a fatal bullet of laser fire to her Master.
Aurelia stumbled, faltering slightly, her face a mixture of shock and surprise. She took another hit. And another.
Ariana watched in horrified slow motion as her Master slumped down onto her knees which buckled under her weight, her lightsaber falling from her grasp and clattering onto the floor.
Aurelia took a small breath as she closed her eyes and fell backwards, landing on her back with a hard thump. Her body relaxed with death, her mouth slightly parted.
"Master!" Ariana cried, her voice thick with grief. "Aurelia."
Ariana buried her face in her hands as she lay still on the marble, the walls threatening to fold.
"Ariana!"
Someone called her name, a somewhat familiar voice that was strict and rough.
Looking up, Ariana saw through sorrow filled eyes Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi whom she knew quite well from Jedi training.
Qui-Gon immediately began destroying droids whilst Obi-Wan rushed to his fellow Padawan, dragging her up roughly and pushing her toward the way he and his Master had entered.
With one last look to her dead Master, Ariana turned and fled with Obi-Wan as the building began to crumble magnificently around them as they ran hand in hand, Master Qui-Gon following behind.
