Week 20: Jedi Torch
96. a light in the dark

Scientifically, darkness did not exist; it was merely the absence of light. Likewise, cold was the absence of heat, or energy. Toq was, as far as he knew, the last of the galaxy's Jedi. After all of Luke Skywalker's hard work, it all came down to one man against a tribe of crazed Sith. Could he activate his weapon and use it to fight them all?

There was only one answer, for Toq knew that he had to. He was the galaxy's light in that dark hour. His shaking hand moved towards the hilt, but then was not the time.

97. steer by the stars

"Steer by the stars," several ghostly voices whispered into Toq's ear as he settled into the new starfighter's cockpit. His pale, brown eyes widened as he realized that his predecessors, whom the Djos hunted to extinction, were guiding him, but it couldn't be! As far as Toq knew, it was a Hapan saying.

"Who are you?" asked the young, Bothan Jedi as he fired up his engines.

The ghost of a tall, handsome young man appeared and spoke over the welcoming roar, "Prince Reil. Please save what's left of my family. Help me, you're my only hope!"

He was pleading.

98. shake the heavens

The acoustic energy, which translated into vibrations that seemed to shake the heavens, poured into the Bothawui hangar as the new starfighter model took off. The Jedi pilot gave a fanged grin as he gracefully navigated past the scattered asteroids of his home system and punched Ossus' coordinates into his navicomputer.

He may be a Jedi, but he was also a young, hotshot pilot and for the moment, he was going to shake the stars out of the heavens.

"Be careful. Mother…. I mean Darth Regia's planted sentinels there," warned Reil.

"Heh. I bet that old technology's obsolete by now."

99. beneath these hands

"What are you hiding beneath these hands of yours?" asked the young Bothan as he spoke to the dead prince.

"Well, I suppose I may as well tell you. They're lightsabers. I was with the Sith for a while and I killed a few Jedi. Thought that'd impress Mother. What a fool I was to even suspect that I had any excuse to do it!"

Toq gasped and his extremities grew cold despite his warm fur.

"I shouldn't have told you. You convinced me of how wrong I was and I was around you Force-sensitives enough to learn this trick."

100. the path and the walker

"You have a difficult path ahead of you." Toq heard the voice as he collected the last few datatracks from Ossus. This time, it wasn't Prince Reil. No, this time, it was his mother, who fell during the last cycle of the Jedi Purge.

"Not going to stop me," muttered Toq as he packed everything into the empty spaces at the back of his starfighter.

"Then you're a brave walker."

"No, Mom, I'm the only walker left," corrected Toq as he started his engines again, this time heading for the Coruscanti underworld, where he agreed to meet the other Rebels.