Not much to say, except for two things. HUGE shout-out to Taylc Verda. The help and support has been truly unbelievable. BTW, if anyone needs information on Star Wars, Taylc Verda is the person. Secondly, I know Kanan's real name is Caleb Dume, but it's too late to do anything now. Anyway, on to Chapter 8! (Oh, and I also recommend listening to my story with cool music. That's what I do when I write this. You could say it 'Inspires' me. Haha)

The hut was slowly getting warmer, as the morning went on. Everyone was still asleep. That was until Zeb's eyes opened. He woke and felt the need to stretch and yawn.

He then made his way for the bathroom. He walked out of his room and looked down the hallway.

"Ugghh…where was the restroom was again?" Zeb said to himself in a whisper.

He slowly made his way to the end of the hallway, looking through open doors to see if they were a restroom.

He kept searching 'till he remembered, it was an out-house outside. "Bantha Fodder." He mumbled, dreading to go outside into the heat.

Zeb walked into the living room making his outside, till he noticed the only two people inside the room.

Zeb stared in disbelief as he saw Ezra and Sabine, laying under the same covers, with Sabine lying on top of Ezra, with both of them still asleep.

Zeb kept staring, with his jaw dropped in confusion. He thought about waking the boy up and making an embarrassing scene, but his bladder made him think other-wise. Zeb walked quickly out the door, to the restroom.

The two teens however, were still asleep in each other's arms. Their cheeks were pressed together. Ezra's arm was around Sabine's back while the other was lying against the ground, and both of Sabine's arms were around Ezra's neck.

Seconds after Zeb closed the door behind him, they woke up in near unison. They both were a bit startled about whom they woke up next too, but they eventually didn't care.

They looked at each other for a second. This ended when Sabine leaned her head down and gently kissed Ezra.

She broke from the kiss and then Ezra spoke, "Well, time to get up."

"Ugh, I've always hated that saying." Sabine smirked.

"Yea, so have I."

Sabine got up and began putting on her clothes, followed by her small pieces of armor.

Ezra leaned up and stretched, then grabbed for his top.

He got up, and then realized their blankets and pillows were still together.

"We might need to separate our blankets." Ezra told Sabine

She examined the cloth on the floor, "Why don't we just fold 'em up?"

"That does sound like a better idea." Ezra said back

Once they were dressed (Which took a couple of minutes to do) they folded the blankets and put the two pillows on top.

Once that was finished, Kanan walked through the door from the hallway.

"How long have you been up?" asked Kanan as he rubbed his eyes.

They looked at each-other and were about to answer until..

"They've only been up for a few minutes. When I walked through here the first time, they were still asleep." Zeb told Kanan, walking in from outside almost unnoticed.

"Alright well Ezra, I need to talk to you about something later with Obi-Wan."

Ezra nodded, still a little surprised by Zeb's entrance.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get something to get from my room." Zeb said as he walked towards the hallway. Just before he exited, he looked at Ezra and gave him a smirk.

Ezra gulped in nervousness, but decided to try and forget about it

Ben and Hera shortly made their way to the living room. Then, the crew then ate a small breakfast with small conversations here and there.

Obi-Wan, who didn't eat, motioned Ezra over to him.

"I've talked to Kanan. He told me he wanted me to train you today."

Ezra was a little discouraged, but he knew this kind of stuff had to get done.

Obi-Wan put a hand on Ezra's shoulder and gave him an encouraging smile. This made Ezra feel better about this.

"We'll also be alone. I think it's best if we do it that way." Obi-Wan said

"Where will the others be?" Ezra asked

"They will return to your ship and start its repair. Your pilot said it would be a quick fix, since I'm letting them use the speeder to get there.

Later, Hera, Sabine, Zeb, and chopper all piled into the speeder with the parts needed to repair the ship. Hera was gonna pilot the speeder with Chopper in shotgun, and Zeb and Sabine in the back.

Kanan walked up to the side of the speeder, to speak with Hera.

"When will the ship be done?"

"It actually might get done today, but if not today most likely tomorrow. From what I saw back on the station, all we will have to do is just replace the metal pieces of the engine. No wiring involved, so that's good."

"Yea." Kanan said with a gloomy smile.

Hera put her hand under his chin, and moved his head to where their eyes met.

"Don't worry, we'll be back before sun down." Hera said, relieving Kanan a great feeling of worry.

Later outside, the three jedi met. Obi-Wan wanted to see Ezra fight. He wanted to see his potential. Kanan had told Obi-Wan earlier that Ezra had really grown in the lightsaber arts.

"Soooo, what are doing?" Ezra asked.

"You are about to spar with Kanan." Obi-Wan told him

"Alright." Ezra said, thinking they were gonna fight with their own lightsabers.

"With these." Obi-Wan said as he held out two very simple looking lightsaber hilts.

"These are sparring Sabers. They can't cause serious injury, but it can leave a scar if the blade meets your skin."

He handed Kanan and Ezra each a sparring saber.

"So we can each go 100%, no holding back like a real fight?"

"Yea." Kanan said as he ignited the saber.

Ezra had a large grin on his face.

The blade was a light blue color, it was almost white. Ezra ignited his saber, and set his body into his stance.

Ezra's strategy was a 'wait and see' kind of strategy. Of course he had sparred Kanan many times and he had an idea of what he was gonna do, but you could never tell.

Kanan struck first, with a low strike. Ezra blocked it with ease. Kanan tried to overpower Ezra with constant strikes, thinking that this would work. Ezra kept blocking the ongoing strikes from the blade.

Obi-Wan watched every small move, every little detail.

Obi-Wan's full attention was on the fight. Many more minutes passed and Ezra had only attacked with his saber a couple times.

Kanan was finally tiring from the fight. Ezra saw this as his perfect time to strike. Ezra kept striking high, beating down on his master. Kanan finally dodged one of the strikes, and this made Ezra stumble forward.

Ezra quickly looked up, watching the blade come towards him. He immediately lunged his own saber to block it. Their sabers then were locked, fighting for dominance.

With the crew:

Hera was speeding through the desert with no hesitation. It was so far a quiet and calm trip, until Hera spoke up.

"So, how did everyone sleep?" She asked trying to spark a conversation.

Zeb laughed, "I slept fine! How did you sleep Sabine?"

She was confused, until she realized the purpose of his question.

"It was uhhh..fine." Sabine said, blushing.

"AGhahGaHAGha", Zeb let out a very loud and disturbing laugh.

"What's so funny?" Hera asked

"Awww, nothin'" Zeb replied as he smirked at the mandalorian girl.

She crossed her arms and legs with an angry look on her face, then she elbowed Zeb in the rib-cage.

He let out a grunt, then Chopper started beeping and spinning, showing his laughter.

"Shut up rust-bucket." Zeb said rubbing his side.

Sabine joined in, letting out a giggle or two.

Zeb frowned knowing the comment had indeed backfired on him.

They eventually made it back to the ship. Surprisingly, it hadn't succumb to any damage from the desert.

"Well, let's get started." Hera said confidently

Hours later and back with the Jedi:

Kanan and Ezra had fought two times now. They had split the series, and the third fight was coming to a close.

Kanan and Ezra exchanged hits for a long time, until Ezra saw the one opening. It was at Kanan's knee. Instead of blocking the incoming attack, he dodged it and this gave him enough time to swing his saber at Kanan's left knee and striking it. This caused Kanan to fall on his knees, which meant Ezra had won the series, 2-1.

Ezra smiled and extended a hand to his master.

Kanan looked up and smiled, breathing heavy with exhaustion and excepted the hand for help.

Obi-Wan walked over, "Amazing job young one.", directing his word to Ezra.

"Thank you." He said

"How long have you been training with a lightsaber?" Obi-Wan asked Ezra

"About 6 months, give or take?"

Obi-Wan gave a large smile.

"He really has grown. He'll be a powerful Jedi with proper training." Kanan said

Obi-Wan examined the sky.

"Your friends should be back anytime now." He said

Just as he finished the sentence, they heard the zoom of a speeder approaching.

"Well, look at that." Obi-Wan said

The entire crew had returned safe, of course.

"How was it?" Kanan asked Hera.

"We are nearly done. All we need to do is just finish screwing some of the bolts and make sure all the parts work well." Hera finished as she and the rest of the crew got out of the speeder.

Hera then noticed the cut on Kanan's knee and one on his shoulder.

"By the force, what have y'all been doing?" She asked

Ezra walked up beside Kanan and put an arm over his master's shoulder.

Ezra and Kanan were now easily the same height as each-other.

"Ahh, nothing. Just a fight here and there. But, don't worry I went easy on him." Ezra said jokingly.

"Oh, you did?" Kanan said with a smile.

Everyone got out a good laugh from this.

"Well, it's getting late. You all need rest." Obi-Wan said

They all walked towards the entrance.

"Uh, master Kenobi?" Ezra asked walking up to him

"Yes."
"Would it be alright if, you could help me train through the night? I'm not feeling tired, and I think this is a perfect time to polish my saber skills." Ezra asked with hesitance

"Of course." Obi-Wan added

Now, the rest of the crew had gone back to their sleeping arrangements from the night before.

Outside, were Obi-Wan and Ezra. Obi-Wan had given Ezra a blinding helmet, so he couldn't see. Obi-Wan was testing his force connection. He let small droid fire laser bullets at Ezra. Not yet, had Ezra let a bullet hit him.

Inside, everyone was asleep, except Sabine. She couldn't sleep. She kept closing her eyes, but they just kept opening. All she could hear were the laser bullets reflecting off of Ezra's lightsaber.

She finally decided to get up and just watch.

She put on her armor for the maximum warmth and thin blanket over her, and walked out into the cold. She saw as the gleaming Green light from Ezra's saber blocking incoming red lasers.

She watched for a few minutes until Obi-Wan saw her.

"Oh, did you need something?" He asked kindly and quietly so Ezra wasn't distracted.

"No. I'm just here to watch. I couldn't sleep." She said

Obi-Wan gave her a smile and nodded. A couple minutes passed, and he said something to Ezra and then he walked over to Sabine.

"Your name is Sabine, am I right?"

"Yes." Sabine said smiling and shaking her head in confirmation.

"Beautiful name." he said

He examined her armor.

"Mandalorian armor. Are you Mandalorian?"

"Yes, I am." She told him

"Ah. A very proud race. Strong too, if I do say so myself. And a beautiful planet."

"You've been to Mandalore?" She asked

"Of course. I've been to many planets during the Clone Wars. Mandalore, was one of my favorites I do say."

A smile slowly changed to a gloomy, blank stare on his face.

"But sadly, it was a planet thriving with corrupt."

"What do you mean?" She asked, since she did not know much of the Clone Wars.

"A group, by the name of Death Watch overthrew the monarchial government set in place. Or at least they tried. A fallen Sith came back from the dead and tried to kill me, and then took over Mandalore WITH the help of Death Watch." Obi-Wan continues

"That sounds like an adventure." Sabine said smling

"Oh it was. I had actually defeated the sith a time before that, but that is a whole 'nother story."

Sabine laughed a bit.

"How did you acquire that armor? " He asked

"Well, I actually stole it from the Empire. I joined the Empire Academy when I was 7. Well, they really took me from my home, but when I was 13 I saw what the Empire does to innocent people. They insult them, hurt them, and..and I just couldn't take it."

"One day, I just decided to escape. The Empire of course had this armor locked away, so I took it. I also colored the armor to my liking. And couple months later, I met Hera, Kanan and Zeb. I helped them get away from some Stormtroopers, and they kind of took me in, like their family." Sabine finished

"A family bond is strong. That's something, not a lot of people have anymore. Don't take it for granted." Obi-Wan said

"Don't worry." She said as she looked back at Ezra, still training.

"I cherish it everyday."

"Well good. We're almost done here. Why don't you go back inside, we'll be in shortly?

"Ok, thank you." Sabine told him.

"No, thank you." He said back.

"For what?" she asked.

"For keeping this old man company." Obi-Wan said with a smile.

Sabine nodded, and made her way back into the hut. She took her armor back off, and was back into her sleeping clothes. She closed her eyes, not excepting to fall asleep, which is exactly what she did.

Yea I know. Not the best chapter. I just had to get something out. Well, here ya go. And I liked kinda skimming over Sabine's past life. Of course, there is still MUCH more to uncover. Just remember, "May the Force be with You!"