Chapter 3

20 hours left.

Five keys reaming.

You could see the fear and surprise appear on Ezra's face instantly as they dropped the key on the table and then took off one of the locks. Only five locks remained on the box, and they nearly had 21 hours left to find the remaining keys. Everything he had tried to hide, all the pain that he tried to keep away under the floor, well, they were just one step closer to finding it."Not to bad eh, kid!" said Zeb, ripping him away from his thoughts. "Uh, ya." Said Ezra, trying to show as if nothing was wrong, trying to pretend like all that was in the box was nothing more a little trinket or something, even though it was much, so much more. "But good luck finding the next one" Ezra glanced at the clock. "Almost 20 hours left, better hurry" he said trying to sound as non-worried as he could. "come on" said Sabine, "let's go find those keys!" she said as they walked out of the room, leaving Ezra alone with his thoughts. And five more locks.

"Ok," said Hera, "I'm drawing a blank here, anyone got any ideas? The ghost's not that big" she said gesturing the room. "Well maybe that's just it" said Kanan getting many puzzled looks. "well" Kanan began, "Ezra hid the first key in the air vent, who wants to bet that he hide the other one in a small space as well?" Zeb looked like he was starting to understand. "A place that we don't ordinarily go" Kanan said, "like the air vent?" asked Zeb. "Exactly" said Kanan. "So now what" said Zeb, "check every nook and cranny of this place? That would take forever!" "well" said Sabine, "There are four of us" "right said Kanan, "Zeb you check all the closet's, and Hera you look around, see if you can find any other place's it could be, look for the unexpected, the kid did weld the floor." "What about you and me?" asked Sabine. "you and me can look around the phantom." Said Kanan already leading the way.

"Why me?" asked Sabine. Kanan look at her as if she should have already known the answer. "Because, the phantom has lots of moving around room, I am not putting you in a confined space anytime soon." "Kanan" said Sabine as they entered the phantom, "I'm fine!" "Yup, suuure" he said rolling his eye's "Sabine less than one hour ago you where unconscious in a vent, now come on will you just look and try to find the key, you start over there" he said pointing towards the control panel. "There's bound to be some kind of secret drawer or something." Said Kanan.

They began searching and after a few minutes Sabine shattered the silence with the one question that has been in scratching the surface ever sine's the beginning of the 'game'. "So, uh, oh for goodness sakes! What do you think could be in one box that could cause someone to go to all this trouble for?!" she practically screamed. Kanan looked at her for a long time, never breaking stair, he wanted to tell Sabine to calm down, that she was over reacting and this was nothing more than a game. He wanted to say those things so badly, too bad he didn't believe a signal word of it.

"Well Sabine, you know Ezra, he doesn't really talk about his feeling's, he tries to bury his feelings, maybe this time he really did just that. Tried to make something go away, but couldn't make it so he couldn't get to it, he needed to know it was still there." Sabine finally broke stair, as if she felt guilty. "I mean, well..." Sabine started, before she trailed off, " it's just that he's such a closed book. Guess it would just be nice to see one of the chapters." All Kanan could do was smile. He couldn't have put it better himself.

"Hey, said Sabine looking at one of the painted on designs on the wall. "This isn't my work!" They looked at it for a while before Sabine started dragging her hand across the wall. "What are you-" Kanan started before he was interrupted by Sabine. "Got it!" she said excitedly as she pulled off some of the wall, only it wasn't the wall, she ripped off the key tapped to it; it had been painted over to look like it was part of the wall. "Camo" said Sabine, "forget how clever that kid really is." She said.

The moment was cut short by the ship jostling, which didn't make any sense seeing as they were docked on a small uncharted planet for the past few days until thing cooled down a bit with the Empire. They have been hot on their tail ever since Sabine paint bombed agent Kalles's TIE. "Kanan, Sabine!" Hera yelled through their com's, they knew it was bad, seeing as she didn't use their Spector's. "We need you to get to your post's they found us and they've already secured the perimeter and their closing in." "got it on our way!" Kanan yelled into the com, though he and Sabine were already half way down the latter.

Hera's voice came through the com once more as they ran to their posts, Sabine tucking away the key into her pocket. "I just need you to keep them busy until I can take off and make the jump to hyperspace; we are low on fuel so we'll be landing on lothal."

Ezra immediately began to worry and before he knew it he was yelling into his com, fighting agents something that had already been decided, "wait we can't uh, I mean, does it have to be lothal?!"

"Ezra" said Hera "we don't really have time right now to argue about destination, man you post, I've almost got the jump to hyperspace."

He knew she was right and there was no point in arguing. He along with the rest of the crew fired the shots at the bucket head's, but they had brought in TIE's and they ship began taking a beating, they had not moved, they were like sitting ducks.

" Don't worry Hera" said Zeb through the com, "Take your time!"

"Give me a second!" she responded back, growing more frustrated, the TIE's and bucket heads weren't helping her mood either. "Got it!" she yelled as they made the jump to hyperspace. They were on lothal in a matter of minutes.

" That was a close one" Sabine said sitting down in the main area of the ship. Zeb glanced up at the clock, "well, we still have about 17 hours left."

"Not exactly" said Ezra, no one was not looking at him. "Where on lothal now" he said as if it were obvious, "ya, so?" Sabine said, not likening where this was going.

"So, the sun sets in about 10 hours here." "WHAT!" they all said almost simultaneously. "So we need to find five keys in 10 hours!" said Hera, with a hopeless look in her eyes.

"Well" said Sabie, "four keys." She said pulling out the key from her pocket. Everyone congratulated Sabine before all going off to find the rest.

Ezra began to worry, even with the time delay they were still finding the keys to fast, and Ezra just couldn't open that box. Like Zeb said, all they need to do is find the keys by sundown, didn't say anything else. So if that meant he had to cheat at a game where there were no rules, so be it.