5
Zeph's Mission

The four students walked out of the training room. Kye and Storlon turned left. Zeph and Vendalla went straight. "So, how did it work?" Zeph asked.
"I loved it! This is my new style of lightsaber fighting! I'm thinking about asking Master Xata for private lessons. You are welcome to come to."
"Yeah, that would be good. What do you have next? "
"Force Healing Practices. You?"
"Force Concentration."
"Okay. I'll see you later then."
Zeph turned down another corridor and left Vendalla. He headed towards his second lesson. He had a slight limp. The last battle had been physically hard on him. As he walked he focused on the pain. It slowly melted away and he continued walking normally.
His Force Concentration lesson was next. He entered the training room and Alecsander Bancott walked in behind him. There were 14 large boulders lined up across the room. Master Despi Mithlin waited until all of the students were in the room. There were 13 students standing in a circle around him.
"Can everyone please line up along these boulders? Good." Each boulder had a platform hovering a foot off the ground in front of it. The students stood in front of each platform. "Now, everyone stand on their platform and follow." Master Mithlin stood in front of his own boulder and summoned the Force. The boulder in front of him began to rise.
The students did the same. Most of the boulders were shaky but all of them went into the air. The rose higher and higher until they were over the heads of all of the students. Everyone was focused.
Master Mithlin Jumped straight into the air and landed on his boulder. Zeph was one of three to land up there on the first attempt. The boulders continued rising with the students on top of them. They reached the middle height of the room. Master Mithlin's boulder stopped. The student followed suit. Then they slowly began to spin. Then they circled the room.
They continued patterns like this for nearly half an hour. Then they returned to the ground. Everyone was breathing heavily. Except Master Mithlin. "Miss Intik, what is required to lift these boulders?"
A girl in the front answered, "Complete focus and concentration on the force. Having a picture in your head of the rocks rising."
"Good. You are dismissed."
Zeph walked out of the room. He made his way towards his quarters. The entire day had been exhausting. He planned to stop by his friends' rooms and leave them a message. He had to get some rest and heal.
He stopped at his friends' rooms and wrote messages for them. They had each other's access codes for times like these. He continued on to his room.
He entered and knew immediately that someone had been in there. Nothing was out of place or missing. He didn't know how he knew, he just did. He went to his cot and saw a datapad laying on it. He picked it up and read:

Mr. Mardone
I am assigning you to go to Corellia with Master Moltes. A group of unidentified bandits is creating mayhem all over the capital city. We think they are planning to create enough chaos to direct the attention of the people and government from their selves so they can kill the governor. They do not pose much of a threat to the Jedi but they must be stopped. Your transport leaves tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon be at the main hangar. Good luck.

Master Luke Skywalker

Zeph sighed. Every once and a while the younger students, like himself would be sent on a mission like this. The people would ask for help and usually the older students, who where in their twenties and up, would go with a Jedi Master. The younger students didn't go near as often but it was good training.
If he had to go on this mission tomorrow, he needed to get his sleep.

Luke was in the hangar bay. Upon request the New Republic had given him five x-wings for times like this. He hoped into the cockpit of the one on the far left. Wedge entered the hangar and ran to the x-wing next to his. Luke flipped a switch and the x-wing came to life. He tapped a few more buttons and it lifted off of the ground. Wedge's did the same. He flew it carefully towards the opening of the hangar and pressed another button. The foils closed as he exited. Luke kept the foils open so they were ready for attack in case of emergency. He angled up towards the sky and was off. Wedge was close behind him.
"Alright Wedge, let's get there as fast as we can. Prepare to make the jump."
"Yes, sir. Ready."
"3...2...1, mark!"
The x-wings' engines glowed blue and the ships shot out faster than the speed of light. They were in hyperspace. "Luke, what do you think it is that Leia left out of the message?"
"I'm not sure but we are going to find out."
About an hour later the ships slowed dramatically. They fell out of hyperspace. "Okay Wedge, let's keep our eyes open, the sith may already be here."
Ahead the capital planet of the New Republic came into view. The only system which was made up of one city, spanning the entire planet. Coruscant.