Visions and Wisdom
Makapu
While meditating on the subject of Prince Zuko has left me slightly confused. Aang and I agreed on keeping it a secret from Sokka and Katara for the time being. While Aang is busy trying to show his affection to Katara with a necklace. Sokka is running into the creek next to us to get a fish for lunch that has taunted him. It is quite entertaining watching Sokka bumble around for the fish. However, I sense someone who is getting attacked by a platypus bear. I get up and start to run towards it in which the rest of them hear it. I connect with the force feeling it and open up and make a connection with the beast. However, the beast is consumed by its hunger and other natural urges. It is surprised by Appa dropping directly behind it for which it lays an egg and runs into the creek next to us. Sokka runs over and picks up the egg and turns to the man," mm Lunch, You should be more careful."
" I was advised by a local fortune teller, Aunt Wu, that if I met any travelers I would be alright. To give them a gift," the man says though I look at him with a questioning gaze. In which Aang has opened the package the man gave him which reveals an umbrella. Which I question for a minute then hear the sound of rain hitting the ground. For which I grab the umbrella and Aang alongside Katara gets underneath it. Katara bends some water to prevent herself from getting wet.
"That proves it she can see into the future," She remarks to Sokka who answers.
"No, it doesn't," Sokka and Katara go back and forth over this Aunt Wu. While Aang is concerned over his feelings, Katara on her future, Sokka in disbelief, and me accepting it. Sokka ropes me into the conversation, " Ezra you are from an advance society, doesn't science and reason disprove Fortune telling as utter nonsense."
Katara turns to me," Oh sure what do you think of Aunt Wu, Ezra. Do you really believe in it?"
I look at both with a smile that displeases both," I agree with you Katara because even I can see the future but also the past. Though Visions in the force often lack clarity! I also agree with Sokka if my Datapad could hook up with any orbital satellites. I could show you the next weather pattern but the weather is highly unpredictable. So there is truth in both but always remain a skeptic about such because the Truth is often what we make of it." They both look more displeased about my speech over their debate with Aang carrying a slight smile about my words on the subject as we arrive in the town of Makapu a man stands outside a building.
"Aunt Wu has been expecting you," He says with a stoic demeanor. The three of them sit down as I stand. A little girl speaks to them as she finishes a woman exits talking about how she will meet the love of her life. As the woman left a woman in ornate robes enters in which Katara follows her as I take her seat Sokka as normal is shoving his face full of food. Aang sneaks away as I sit there to listen in on Katara's session. When he returns I don't show any knowledge about it. Followed by Katara and Aunt Wu, asking," Who's next?"
" Let's get this over with," Sokka says full of disbelief
"Your future is full of struggle and anguish most of it self-inflicted," She says with me cocking an eyebrow in which.
" But you didn't read my hands," Sokka stammers out.
" I don't need to read your hands it's written on your face," She says this with such a jab that I laugh at Sokka's expense. In which he gives me an icy glare over it. While Aang goes back there to get his palms read.
"So was it everything you expected it would be Katara?" I ask Katara with a look of a smile on my face and a questioning look in my eyes.
" It is I learned so much including who I would marry and bits of my future," She says with joy, " Though I can't wait to hear your experience." I look at Sokka with a look of fun but also seriousness.
" You weren't the only one who heard your fortune, Aang snuck away and listened to it," I tell her with a semi-coldness to it. Which she has a knowing gaze mixed with exasperation at the fact.
" I know I just thought he would give it up by now seeing how I view him as a good friend not in the way he views me," Katara states with exhaustion.
" He may in time win you over I know it worked for me and Sabine," I say it with a few memories flashing before my eyes of our moments together. In which I pull out a hologram of the two of us before I came here.
" Why is she wearing armor, and why is it so colorful?" Sokka and Katara ask in practical sync.
" Sabine comes from a culture of warriors, the Mandalorians, the greatest warriors in the galaxy who fight a civil war once per century. All people in Mandalorian society are trained to fight from a young age," I state thinking of Sabine and so many others." Sabine is an artist who every time she feels it repaints her armor to show a change on the emotional and cultural level."
" How great of warriors are they because nothing can beat a Water Tribe Man," Sokka proclaims with great arrogance and pride.
" There was a joke I once heard Fenn Rau say, a Journeyman Protector, a guard for Mandalore's leader Mandalor, A Mandalorian party ends only one way in a drunken battle of warriors. Of course, I didn't believe him until after we liberated Mandalore from the Empire when I saw it with my own eyes." I say with a joking laugh about the party in which I attempted to stay to the side avoiding Mandalorians for multiple reasons: I am a Jedi, Mandalorians hate Jedi, and my mother's reputation with other Mandos.
After finishing up Aang walked out less of the joy he had a little while ago. However, as we are escorted out so Aunt Wu can do something for the town I stay near the building waiting for her to return to her place as the others walk off. Aang and Katara are joyful with Sokka complaining about fortune telling to them.
When she finally returned from it I follow her in to get my fortune told to me," Ah I see you have been waiting while your friends went to see the cloud readings, but you want your fortune told to you." I nod my head in affirmation to her.
" However, I somewhat believe you because I am a Jedi and sometimes I have visions of both the Future and the Past. Though I am a little skeptical on some of it so just mind that from me." I say with a calm tone as I enter the room she points to the bowl of bones which I summon one to my hand.
She explains," This is what I found to be the most accurate way to read one's fortunes." She stops as I put the bone onto the fire. It cracks with such sound that I thought the world had cracked open leaving her speechless."Your destiny like your friend the Avatar is so great a path of war and peace of great love and hardship that you must stomach at times with only the force or friends it is a path of…" She stops speaking for a moment then I look at the smoke twisting into the shape of a mask in the style of Mandalore with the smoke going into her.
Her eyes shift to two different shades and address me with a voice that is not hers but a man's voice," Hello Ezra it is good to see you in a sense, For I am Revan!"
" I have so many questions but so little time. First, will the Empire send an Inquisitor after me, second will the Rebellion succeed against the Empire, and lastly what will happen to Sabine?" I ask these questions with such curiosity he contours her face into a grin of the sharpest Lothfox in imagination.
" I am not a genie but the Empire is sending someone from your past to hunt you down who has forgotten who he once was. Though the fate of the Rebellion is uncertain, I do not fully know its fate. Sabine waits for you as Bastila once did for me Sabine will wait for you to return but beware if you don't. She will hunt you down." He says this with a sense of finality then changes to a final statement," My hold on this form is slipping but you find what you seek in a Great Library buried underneath the Si Wong Desert."
" Thank you, Master Revan," I say as he finally leaves Aunt Wu's body who sputters.
" Of Balance between Peace and Violence?" She states as I begin to get up.
" Thank You, Aunt Wu, You have given me more answers than I originally had before this sorry about an ancient being possessing you though," I say which she realizes with shock and awe about it as I leave going to find a place to meditate on this whole realization. I see Katara at the door with a look of shock and confusion. Which she leaves going into Aunt Wu's for another time and follows me." What is it Katara?"
" So what did she say about your future," Katara asks with a smile. Which I return and spook her greatly over it.
"Nothing that I didn't already know though she did serve as a conduit for someone else to speak through her whom I had more important questions for," I state with a sense of joy and coyness to my voice. " I was able to communicate with Revan speaking through her and answering my questions. One of the answers reminds me of the need for honing my Lightsaber Skills because the Empire is sending someone after me but it is someone I am supposedly familiar with."
" How dangerous will it get for us with this other person, are they worse than Zuko, and should we tell Sokka," Katara asks a string of rambling questions.
" I am not certain as always the force leaves me with more questions than answers, However, wait to tell Sokka he is already very paranoid since what happened with Jet," I explain to her," I will tell him in time. Though I don't know when that will be." We both continue walking through the town when she realizes her wish to ask Aunt Wu about many different things surrounding her future. The area I found is perfect as I sit. I begin to meditate on so many things floating about.
Then I feel a shake as the Volcano has erupted with Aang and Sokka helping the town. I focus my energy on projecting a force barrier around the town that stops some of the debris. Which allows for Aang to quell it though with much energy and strength. Aang had prevented the vast amount of damage from Mt. Makapu. While we gather in the town center Aunt Wu scolds the three of them for it. She then says," Well young Avatar I lied you form your own destiny but you Master Jedi yours is so much more than any can imagine yours will help in reshaping a galaxy. May the Force be With you." Her statement made me think she could see things through a form of Force Sight to allow her visions.
I don't own either Star Wars or Avatar the Last Airbender both belong to their respective owners. Critique to your heart's content but be polite. Sorry about posting two Chapters back to back again, but last month was very difficult for me so here you go. In which the next several chapters may take a lot longer and come out slower so be patient.
