This chapter is a bit longer than the last, so therefore there should be more reviews, don't ya just love my logic!
Aayla Secura tapped her finger impatiently on the bench outside of the council chambers. She had been waiting there for sixteen minutes for the council to adjourn so that she and Kit could begin their search for the Golden Lightsabers. Aayla glared menacingly across the room at Anakin. He too was waiting for the council to adjourn, Obi-wan was his partner, and Aayla was certain that the moment Obi-wan came out of the door, Anakin would throw him over his well muscled shoulder and go sprinting down the hall on their own search for the Lightsabers.
Aayla narrowed her eyes and snarled at Ani. She was not about to let a barely knighted, blonde haired, shallow excuse for a man rob her of a three-week trip to Anadona Alpha. Aalya's eyes glazed over at the thought of that beautiful planet.
She was sitting on one of the beautiful beaches of Anadona Alpha, sipping on an exotic drink. Then, a battalion of ripped males in tight leotards paraded in front of her. Aayla took another sip of her drink, and thanked the force that the Jedi code said absolutely nothing about looking.
" Aayla!" The blue Twi'lek jerked up and glared at Kit, angry at being brought out of her reverie. " WHAT!" Kit gestured at the empty bench across from her. " Anakin and Obi-wan are already gone, I thought you said you wanted to get a head start on them?" Aayla swiftly looked down the hallway, and was horrified to see Anakin with Obi-wan thrown over his shoulder disappearing through a door at the far end. Aayla jumped up and grabbed Kit by one of the long green tresses upon his head and used it to pull the helpless master along as she stormed down the hallway.
Anakin dumped Obi-wan onto a small chair located behind some very large Statues in the Archives. Obi-wan, who was by now slightly disoriented, sank into the chair and murmured, " I need to check my life insurance." Anakin knelt down beside to chair and said in a loud stage whisper " So where are the lightsabers?" Obi-wan sighed before answering, " How should I know?" " Uh, I don't know, maybe because you're on the council!" Anakin snapped. " Yoda organized this whole thing." Obi-wan explained as though Ani was a three year old. " Neither I nor anybody else in the on the council, excluding Yoda of course, knows anything about these trials." Anakin banged his head on the arm of the chair before swearing viscously. Obi-wan patted his friend's head sympathetically, and then pulled out a glistening new digital notepad. Putting on his best getting down to business voice, Obi-wan said, " Now, Yoda posted the first trial on his blog this morning. It's a riddle, and I think it best that we worked it out together." Anakin's head shot up at the last sentence. " This is not bonding time!" Suddenly Obi-wan found his shoes amazingly interesting. "I know that!" Anakin snatched the notepad out of his friend's hands. "Can we just get started?" Ani turned the notepad on and scrolled to the riddle.
When you're at the east in the west
And the sundown can be seen
Beneath the star three bases are found,
On word toward the gold.
Obi-wan scratched his head. " Well this is horrible."
Anakin nodded. " I know, I can't make heads or hindquarters out of it either." Obi-wan looked at him as though Ani had grown a second head. " No, there is absolutely no lyrical creativity. I mean, it is just as very poorly written riddle! There is no word play or anything!" Anakin stared at Obi-wan before erupting " This is no time to be criticizing Yoda's poem writing ability!" Obi-wan raised a finger " It's a Riddle, not a poem, a riddle." Anakin glared at him " Whatever!" He stood up " How can you be at the east in the west, it's hypocritical!" " Not to mention badly written." Obi-wan added under his breath. Ani gave him the evil eye before continuing, " And if you in the east, how can you see the sunset? It makes no sense."
Obi-wan stood up. " Or maybe it refers to the crematorium, where we have the funeral of dead Jedi, so it is kind of like the sunset or sundown of their sprit." Anakin stared open mouthed at Obi-wan, who continued to talk at a super fast speed. "The crematorium is also on the east side of the west tower, thus fulfilling that part of the riddle. The beneath the star line is obviously a reference to the previous line where a dying sprit is referred to as a sun, a sun is also a star, so to go beneath the sun would mean whatever the sun is lying on, so the bier would be an obvious choice. So therefore beneath the bier in the crematorium we should find three bases for something that will lead us to the next clue."
Obi-wan turned to Anakin triumphantly, only to see that his former apprentice had his mouth open and was drooling slightly. "ANAKIN!" Ani whipped his mouth before squeaking " And you figured this out in the five minutes we have been sitting here?" Obi-wan shook his head and pointed at the clock. " Six minutes. Besides." He crossed his arms defensively. " Its not a very good riddle."
Aayla paced anxiously in front of Kit. " What could it mean? East in the west, its bloody impossible to be in the east and west at the same time!" She turned to Kit. " You had any epiphanies yet?" Kit looked at her " Do you think this will work?" Aayla made a face " What will work." Kit waved his hand in the air. " This, this game where all doing, do you think it will really raise the morale?" Aayla shrugged " I don't know, but something really needs to be done about the morale. I mean, nobody whistles in the hallways anymore. Well, except for Master Boryst but he's crazy." Kit nodded at that. Aayla resumed her pacing "Now can we get back on subject the riddle says-"
" NOOOO! THE MADNESS IS SPREADING!!!!" Kit and Aayla turned to see a small brown haired padawan who had let out the earsplitting cry pointing down at the hallway below them, then he turned and ran running down the hall screaming " Why does this keep happening to me!"
Aayla and Kit walked over to the edge and looked down on the hall beneath them, in time to see Mace Windu, with his right leg tied to Ki Adi Mundi's left leg, sprinting down the hallways. Kit stared at the odd sight before saying, " I always knew it was only a matter of time before they cracked." But Aayla wasn't listening, she was looking at Obi-wan and Anakin, who had his man on a mission face on, strut down the corridor. "Kit look! They must have solved the riddle!" Kit looked to where she was pointing. "That's a bit of a leap of faith isn't it?" Aayla once again grabbed on of the tentacles protruding from his head. "Come on, we'll follow them." "Ow! Aayla that hurts, Aayla, ow! But maybe there just going to the refectory, OOOOWWW!!!"
The plot thickens, Please, please review!!