CHAPTER 1
"They only glow like that when they're about to…. Ezra get out of there!"
"No, I have to see this through!" Ezra spoke to his teammates as the light around him started to brighten. The Purrgil's tentacles wrapped tighter around the Star Destroyer and the Imperial officer around him. Suddenly everything turned white in Ezra's sight as the Purrgil, the ship, and everyone in it were sent into lightspeed.
"That's the last time we saw Ezra," said a short, purple haired girl to a group of rebels around her. First she had lost Kanan, a mentor, a friend, and family. Now she had lost one of the people she was closest to. Ezra had been like a brother to her ever since he had joined the small crew of the Ghost four years earlier, and without him around everything just felt wrong.
"I can always count on you," that was the last thing he had said to her, but what did he mean by that. After the liberation of Lothal, Sabine decided not to join the rebellion, and instead stay on the newly freed planet to look after it for Ezra. That's what she thought he had meant by saying he could always count on her, at least until she realized that the imperial attack they had predicted would not be coming. Those six words still haunted her. "I can always count on you." They kept her up at night sometimes, trying to figure out what he meant. Than, when Ahsoka Tano suddenly reappeared on Lothal, looking for the padawan, she finally figured it out. He was counting on her to find him and bring him home. The problem was, there was no way to know where he was or if he had even survived unprotected in hyperspace. Although she had no idea where she was going, or how long it would take, Sabine had set her mind to it. She would find Ezra and she would bring him home. That was her mission, no matter what.
As Ahsoka's spacecraft landed outside of the tower, Sabine went to the wall on which she had painted a mural of the Ghost crew. She touched the wall where she had painted Ezra's face and faintly smiled, then knelt down and opened the bottom of the wall. In it laid one of the most important things that Sabine had ever come to possess, the lightsaber of Kanan Jarrus. She had been able to quickly retrieve it before the imperial command center on Lothal had been destroyed and she had hidden it just in case Ezra did return one day. She picked the lightsaber up and turned to face the Togruta standing in the doorway.
"I found it, and kept it, in case Ezra wanted it when he returned, or ya know, Kanan's son becomes a Jedi one day."
Ahsoka laughed,"you don't have to explain anything to me, Sabine, I think it's a good thing you have it. I wouldn't want it to fall into the wrong hands."
Sabine held the lightsaber a little tighter, remembering how Kanan had trained her to use the darksaber, and how she had never stopped to cherish the days she had had with some of her most trusted friends. She remembered being so annoyed with Ezra as he taught her the basic sword fighting forms. How she had gotten even more angry at him when he tried to help her through her frustration at not being able to train properly with it, and how she had yelled at him, regretting what she said the instant she said it. She clipped the saber to her belt and looked up at Ahsoka with more determination in her eyes than ever before. Sabine grabbed her helmet and bag and headed towards Ahsoka's ship. She looked over her shoulder and said, "Let's go find Ezra."