Luke watched as his mother spoke on the Senate floor, his eyes shifting around to see the different Senators listening in on her motion to add more funding for humanitarian needs such as energy and clean water. While some were impressed, it was clear some were looking at her with distaste and suspicion.

His temple throbbed suddenly, and he massaged the bruised area lightly.

"Are you alright?"

"Oh, I'm fine!" He whispered, blushing in embarrassment as Sabé looked at him in concern. He didn't want everyone worrying about him. They had worried about him enough for one lifetime and he was only 8.

He was only…

He glanced back at his mother, sighing and resting his head on his forearms.

He wanted to help everyone like his mother tried to do everyday too. He just wondered what he could do.

He was only 8...what could he do?

"Did you hear…"

"...rebel cells attacked another shipment?"

"Inconceivable."

Rebels?

Perking up Luke looked over his shoulder to see some dignitaries whispering to each other. The rebel cells?

Despite the logic in him, the part of him that listened to the teachings at school, was saying that they were bad, and not trusted...a part of him couldn't help but feel pleasure that the rebel cells had tried to disrupt something of the Empire.

But wasn't that bad?

He looked back at his mother, frowning in deep thought.

Maybe he should learn more about the rebels.

He didn't know why his heart seemed to skip a beat as he thought about that.

Leia was sure of two things.

One, Lothal was pretty empty. And two, if her connection to the force had pulled her to this random rock formation, perhaps she should have it checked.

Though why her father looked immensely proud was confusing.

"What are you smiling about? I brought us to a pile of rocks."

"No it's not just rocks."

"Something does feel weird here." Ezra muttered, looking at them curiously. Leia blinked and then looked back at it, before glancing at her father, who was smiling.

"Let's see if we can figure it out, hm?" He said teasingly and she glared at him suspiciously before nodding, closing her eyes and slowly exhaling, focusing on that pull she had grown used to.

The ground shook as Leia felt the familiar pull of the force, only opening her eyes when she heard Ezra gasp. She stared at a long building that had appeared in front of them, the door slowly opening. She looked at her father.

"Is this…?"

"A Jedi Temple? Seems like it."

"Wow…" She whispered, suddenly giddy feeling. She had never been to an actual jedi temple before.

Ezra's expression was that of pure shock, his mouth gaping open as Anakin turned back around. He looked at Ezra as though analyzing him before his attentions turned to Kanan and Hera. Ezra slowly shifted away from the group, watching them as he backed away.

"Leia and I will be back in a little bit. If you hear anything from Fulcrum, tell them that we're inside an old home."

"Right."

"Old home? We've never been…" Leia trailed off as Anakin began to walk forward and she hurried after him. "Wait up!"

"Kanan?"

"It's alright. It's something that the Jedi used to do with their padawans. A step towards knighthood."

"Oh I see. So a big milestone for Leia?"

"Mhm."

"Well, I'm sure she's happy that you're here to celebrate with her." Hera teased earning a blush from Kanan, who looked away. He then glanced around.

"Wait...where's the other kid?"

"Keep concentrating, Leia. This is going to be your test."

"Okay…" She muttered, following him through a door and entering a long hall. She looked around at how vast the place was, still concentrating, flinching a bit when she saw the mummified corpse. Those were...strange decorum.

"Woah! A mummy!"

She squeaked loudly, and spun around to see…

"Ezra?" She called out in surprise before wincing as she heard grinding, doors shutting and then her father chuckling.

"You lost focus."

"It was his fault!" She muttered, embarrassed.

"Hey, there are corpses here!"

"Why are you even here?"

Ezra shrugged.

"I could probably get some stuff to buy food…" He muttered childishly as Leia glared at him.

"You…" She growled.

"Leia."

"...fine…"

"So who are these people?"

"These are master jedi who waited for the padawans to return but didn't."

"Oh...I mean, I don't think-!"

"Didn't return?" Ezra asked and Leia paused, before looking at her father.

"Wait, so if I fail at whatever I'm doing, we're stuck here forever?" She said nervously, eying the bodies of the past jedi masters.

"WHAT?!"

"You'll be fine." He said with a grin, though it wasn't exactly comforting as Leia continued forward, looking around. Ezra however spun to look at Anakin in a panic. Anakin merely shrugged, sympathy on his face.

"Why didn't anyone tell me I would die?!"

"You shouldn't have followed us then." Leia countered, glaring at Ezra who glared back and began to follow Leia, arguing with her as they began to walk through an open corridor. It was only a moment later when a rock began to slide close and she turned around to see her father knelt down to the ground.

"Dad?"

"You have to do this on your own."

"You tell me this now?!"

"You'll be fine."

"Well-well what am I supposed to be looking for?" Leia called out.

"Everything and nothing."

"I'm beginning to hate these Jedi proverbs, Dad!" Leia's voice said before the door closed and Anakin knelt down, staring at the door with a shaky sigh and chuckle. She would be alright. She would be alright.

He just needed to keep telling himself that, and maybe he would believe it.

"Great, I have to navigate through here all by myself!"

"I'm right here."

"Like I said, all by myself!" She replied, clearly annoyed.

"Hey!"

She stormed down the corridor, Ezra following her as he stormed after her.

"Ezra…"

He froze mid-step, turning to his left at the sound of the voice.

"Mom?"

"Ezra…"

He looked back towards Leia, who was still ranting, and then back the corridor.

"Ezra…"

He turned and followed the voice, rushing after the echo and the hall closed.

"You have to be careful around here or you'll get lost. And you really shouldn't have followed us in here, but I guess having you around isn't so...bad…" she trailed off as she turned, and saw he was gone.

"Ezra?" She called out, but received no answer. "What the heck?! Ezra!" She snapped, storming backwards down the hall. "Where the heck did you go?!"

No one answered.

"Okay, that isn't funny!" Leia snapped. "Ezra! Ez-"

She yelped when she collided with someone taller than her, which Ezra wasn't and looked up.

"Dad?"

"Hey Leia. Giving up already?"

"What? No! I was just...just looking for Ezra."

"You lost him?" Anakin said slowly and then snorted. "Well clearly you can't be trusted to watch over people.

She blinked at the jab, stung and hurting as Anakin walked past her.

"Let's go find him."

"I thought you said I was doing this myself." Leia asked.

"Changed my mind." Anakin replied coolly, and she huffed in annoyance.

"So much for trusting me…" She muttered under her breath and followed her father. "Anyway, we need to find Ezra t-"

His walk seemed faster and she was beginning to have a hard time following, stumbling a bit on the rocks.

"Hey! Dad, wait!"

"Don't leave my side, Leia."

"Well I wouldn't if you weren't walking so fast!" She snapped, tripping and falling to the ground. Looking up, she saw her father hadn't even slowed down. "Hey! Dad!"

He didn't answer.

"DAD!"

He was already gone by the time she got around the corner and she groaned under her breath.

"First he says I need to this myself. Then he says not to leave his side. And now I have to try and find my way out and back to him without him by my side." Leia grumbled as she scrambled up another rockledge. "Can't Dad just make up his mind!"

"Talk to yourself often, do you?"

She spun around, looking all over to find the location of the voice.

"Hello?"

Silence greeted her and she frowned. Was her father playing a trick on her?

"Leia, you are losing your mind."

A chuckle rang out.

"Such a waste, losing your mind is, isn't it?"

"Okay, what is going on? Who are you?!"

"A friend."

"That seems unlikely. I don't know who you are."

"Ah, but I do. Better than you, it seems. Know who I am, I do. Know who you are, you do not."

"Hey, I know who I am! I'm Leia Skywalker, daughter of Anakin Skywalker." She snapped, looking around for the voice.

"Know what you are, you do. But not who you are."

Leia blinked as coughing echoed through the cavern.

"The path, rocky it is in front of you. Far. A difficult quest lies ahead of you. Full of danger."

Leia looked around, trying to find the location of the voice again but to little avail.

"Wish to know who you are, do you?"

"I...guess…" She replied, earning a raspy chuckle.

"Guess, do you?" The voice called out. "No or yes, there is no guess, if one truly wants to know who they are."

Leia frowned.

"I just want to know if I'm doing the right thing. I'm not my father, or Ahsoka."

"Know that do you? Good, good."

"How is that good? People look up to my father and Ahsoka!"

"Look up to you, they shall one day. But in the moment, much learning you have."

"But how? I-"

"Voices all around you. Guiding you. Comforting you. So many are there, but important it is to listen those closest. Fathers, teachers, the force. All around you they guide you."

"Well...then how do I know who I am?" Leia asked and a chuckle sounded in the air. She stopped as came across three doorways. "Which one?"

"For you to choose, not I."

"That's not very helpful."

"The path, different it is between you and me. Decide, only you can do."

Leia paused for a brief moment, glancing at the doors slowly, before entering the middle door and disappearing into the darkness.

Ezra scrambled over another ledge.

"Mom? Dad?" He called out, almost in desperation, looking around.

"Ezra...Ezra!"

He spun around.

"MOM?!"

Silence answered him now and he swallowed roughly, falling to his knees as his eyes burned as he tried to stifle his sobs. He was scared.

He just wanted his family. His parents.

But he was alone.

He was-

"Ezra?"

He spun around to see Leia standing there, confusion on her face before sympathy traveled over it.

"Are you alright?"

"Fine...I'm fine." He snapped, rubbing at his eyes. Whether she knew the lie or not, she decided to not ask and chose to look around.

"How'd you wind up here?"

"...voices, I guess."

She looked at him, almost in surprise and he snorted.

"You must think I'm nuts."

"Well considering I was just following a voice into here, not really."

"You actually did that?"

"Coming from you?"

"Right."

"Are you really alright?"

"...I heard my mom." He finally muttered, sitting down on the ground. Leia blinked, before sitting on the ground as well next to him. "Calling out to me. Like she was in pain." He continued.

"Ezra…"

"It was my fault."

"Your fault?"

"I should have protected her. Instead I ran like a coward when the Empire broke down our door."

"Why did they do that?"

"My parents made speeches about their dislike of the Empire...the higher ups finally got fed up with them." Ezra muttered. Leia was quiet.

"It's not your fault."

"Oh come on. Your dad is the leader of the rebellion. You've got bravery in your genes."

"I don't know. I mean, I lost my mom...I couldn't protect her. And my dad...my dad's the hero. I'm not. And the Empire cheats. It's not your fault that your parents are fair people. And maybe you'll find them again. They might not be dead."

Ezra was quiet as Leia stewed over what else to say.

"And...until then, we can be a family."

Ezra looked up at her sharply, blinking several times as she blushed.

"Really?"

"You don't have have to if you don't want to. But yeah. A family."

"...that'd be nice."

She looked over and then smiled. They were quiet for a few minutes.

"So...what did your voice say to you?"

"Just some weird Jedi sounding mumbo jumbo."

"Jedi mumbo jumbo you say?"

Both children jumped up, looking around.

"Okay, now that….that is spooky."

"I told you!"

"Where is he coming from!?"

"I don't know!"

"Here, I am...there, I am. Hhhmmmmm! One with the Force I am."

"Oh good grief." Ezra muttered.

"Ah...a new padawan, you are. Big fears you have already faced, I sense young Ezra Bridger."

"You...you know my name?"

"Yes. Watched over you, I have. As I have done before."

"I see…" Ezra muttered, ducking his head down as Leia nudged him with a smile. Then the area around them began to light up and the looked up to see balls of light float around them.
"For what lies ahead, ready are you?"

"Yes." They both replied simultaneously and there was a chuckle

"Come. See more clearly what you could not see before."

"Who are you?" Leia asked again

"A guide. Come."

The two children looked at each other, staring for a moment, before walking into the shadows, following the light. They continued to follow the light until they reached a hall with three doors and looked around.

"Which way is the right way?" Ezra asked

"The wrong question that is…"

"I'm sorry, I don't understand."

"You'll get used to that feeling." Leia muttered and the voice laughed roughly.

"A better question, this is."

"My father said I would be tested...but he never said how or what for. And Ezra clearly wasn't supposed to…well follow me. Was he?"

"Your masters tell you everything does he?"

"...no…"

"And I don't have a master."

"Yet." Leia countered. "I'm sure we met for a reason."

"...maybe."

"Your path, you must decide."

The two looked at one another again, silently conversing with one another before they held hands and, closing their eyes, let their feelings guide them. They entered a large room with intricate designs glowing on the ceiling. They turned around to see the door they had just entered in slide shut.

"Tell me…" the voice asked and the looked around, "why must you become Jedi?"

Leia thought about her answer.

"My father thinks I can."

"Ah...Anakin thinks you can. And you?"

"I…" She trailed off, biting her lower lip in nervousness.

"Well...if I was to become a Jedi...it'd be to become stronger. Powerful." She glanced at Ezra.

"Ah...power is what you seek, Ezra Bridger?"

"I...I'd make the Empire pay for all the pain it caused. For others...for my parents…I don't want to be helpless anymore!"

"Jedi way is revenge, is it?"

"I don't want revenge!"

"Yet…Inside you, much anger. Much fear."

"I just want everyone I know to be safe…" Leia said gently. "Where families aren't torn apart by the war...I just want to...to…"

"Protect myself and my friends."

The two children looked at one another in surprise.

"And this is why you must be Jedi?"

"And not just for our friends, but...but for everyone." Leia added.

"It's the right thing to do. To protect everyone."

"Hmmmm...Ahead of you both, a difficult path there is padawans. Jedi, you may yet be."

The room around them began to grow dark, almost disorienting the two, before in the distance they saw two blue glowing dots floating towards them. They reached for the orbs as they slowly drifted lower and lower to them.

"What are these?" Ezra said in confusion, looking at the glowing crystal in his hand as Leia stared in mute shock. "Leia?"

"Kyber crystals…" she whispered in awe, "these are kyber crystals."

"And that means?"

"...That we're on our way of becoming Jedi." She said and looked at Ezra in excitement. "Come on. Let's go find my dad! He is going to flip when he sees this!"

Ezra blinked and then looked at his crystal for a moment, before he was dragged away by out of the room, something warm blossoming in his chest as they finally turned the corner and exited the room they had been in.

A Jedi.

Maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing after all.

Woah did not realize I hadn't updated this since November. Time flies I guess...Now why is Ezra getting his kyber crystal early? Well in the tv show, he went there unaware of the temple and got there through his use of the force. And I thought, why not a different way for Ezra to get his lightsaber crystal but also his new family?