Chapter 9

4 ½ hours left

One key remaining,

Ezra glanced at his watch for about the tenth time in a minute. He wished he could just take the last key and chop it up into a million little pieces with his light savor and be done with this game forever. He wished everyone would just quit whale they were ahead and never even think about that stupide box ever again. He rubbed the back of his head where the stich's had just been put in, he had been watching the crew slowly collect the keys all day, even though they hadn't seen him. He was even listing to Kanan and Sabine's 'talk' in the phantom. "see one of the chapters, what's that even supposed to mean?!" he mumbled to himself ,but he had to leave before they saw him, so he was very suppressed to see that they had found the key.

"Hurry" he heard Hera say from down the hall, "we've got to find that light sav- "he couldn't hear the rest, he was to busy running in the other direction. If Hera saw him walking around the ship, she would send him right back to bed. 'Thanks Zeb' he thought. Just as he was turning the corner he smashed right into Zeb, sending them both falling to the ground. Hard. The second time for Ezra today. Zeb hit his hand right off of the whit brace on Ezra's leg. "GAH" he yelled as he grabbed his hand in pain. "Why do you even have the stupide thing on your leg in the first place!?" Zeb yelled. Ezra eminently dropped gaze. That was when Zeb realized he really didn't know. Ezra had managed the live on the ghost this long without anyone asking, Then without warning the guilt started to fill Zeb for hurting Ezra.

"Well, uh," Ezra started, but was quickly cut off by Hera. "What's going on over here!" she said looking at Zeb on the ground, then turned her attention over to Ezra, "Ezra Bridger! What on Lothal are you doing out here? Your going to burst you stich's!"

"Zeb did you try to kill the kid again?" Sabine said sarcastically.

Zeb, out of wanting to turn the topic of conversation around, and genuine curiosity suddenly bursted out ,"Hey anyone know why the kid has that brace on his leg?"

All eyes tuned to Ezra, who was just now getting up. He glanced at his watch and cleverly tuned it around once again, "only four hours left! Better get moving!" he said standing up and quickly existing.

Why'd we let him go?" said Kanan turning to the crew, "we could have asked him for his light savor!"

"Are you nuts?" said Sabine, disagreeing with him once again. "Like he's just going to hand over the last key." She said rudely. Kanan was getting real sick and tired of Sabine shooting down his ideas and acting like she was so smart for looking in the wrong place!

"Are YOU nuts?!" he yelled all to defensively, "your wasting all of our time looking in the wrong place! Can you just listen to what someone else's idea for one second!" He didn't even know what he had said until he had said it. Sabine's eyes were wide, but refused to cry. "Well then what do you suggest caption" she said sarcastically, clearly holding back tears.

"Sabine, I just, well, I didn't mean," he was at a loss for words, which he deemed pretty ironic.

"I said what do you suggest!"

He figured it would just be easier to answer her. "I still think the key could be hidden in something from his old life."

"And what exactly would that be" she said rolling her eyes, still hurt from the harsh words he had said to her only seconds ago. "He's not exactly a big conversationalist when it comes to his life before us." She finished with quite a bit of attitude.

"Well, he did grow up in the streets of Lothal, and we are on Lothal, so-" he was cut off by Sabine.

"So we just walk through the streets of Lothal all day looking! Great idea boss! Why don't you go check there and I'll stick to looking where we actually have a lead!" she said with a big fake smile that quickly dropped. "I'm going to go find the kids savor, anyone who want to come, can, or you could stay here with Kanan and wonder around Lothal for a while, carful though, he's a little short tempered to day." She finished and turned around and walked in the other direction.

"sorry Kanan" Hera said, turning to follow Sabine, "us girls got to stick together. Right?" you could hear the guilt in her voice as she turned and walked down the hall, Chopper close behind."uh, sorry 'bout this mate" said Zeb slowly turning to follow the girls, "I, I just think she might be on to something." he said, trying to fake smile through his real frown, then turned and followed the rest down the hall.

And Kanan stood completely alone in the hall way, with less then four hours left, and an idea that had left him abandoned. He had never felt this alone In a long time. Although he was not completely alone, for up through the vent duct were to bright blue eyes poking through the darkness.

'so' thought Ezra, 'they think the last keys in my light savor,'