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Prence Atoma sat up with a groan, his dark, emerald colored eyes cracking open for the first time in about 6 and a half hours. His memory was a bit blurred, and his thoughts scattered, but from what he could remember, he had taken quite the beating, and exhausted almost all of his energy in his last fight. Yet, despite his efforts, he still lost, quite easily. "Ugh…who WAS that? When I find him again, I'm definitely arresting him…sith, or not…" he grumbled. Prence then suddenly realized that he was no longer laying on the hot, desert sand, as he last remembered. But instead on a medical cot, inside a very familiar ship. "This is…master's ship…my R4 unite must have sent out a distress signal when I did not return…" he thought, getting up off of the cot and stretching. Prence was a well-built young man, with crimson red hair, dark green eyes, and pale skin. He had only just been given his first solo mission as a padawan, and he failed it miserably.
Prence was definitely not looking forward to getting lectured by his master, but he knew that he would have to speak to him sooner or later. Besides, he had a lot of questions for his master, that he would like to ask sooner, rather than later. "That boy…he definitely wasn't a sith…but he wasn't a jedi either…yet, he had so much power…I've never seen anything like it…what was he?" pondered the young jedi, as he made his way towards the cockpit. After a short walk, Prence finally entered the cockpit of the ship, where he found his master piloting the craft, along with a clone trooper.
His master noticed him, and switched the ship to auto pilot, before standing up and facing him, with a rather serious expression on his face. Prence swallowed hard and let out a deep sigh, before speaking. "Master Windu…I understand that you must be angry with me, but you must believe me, when I say that there is a reason to why I failed my mission…" he choked out, barely keeping eye contact with his rather intimidating master. Mace Windu didn't break his serious expression, rather, he actually gave him an even more serious glare, if that were possible. "Prence…you were sent to that planet to do a simple, routine check up…all you had to do, was go to the village, ask them about their recent troubles, then report back to me. But what do you do? You go to the planet, you get defeated, and manage to lose every single one of the villagers! Prence...what happened out there?" Asked the jedi master.
Prence felt a lump form in his throat, as he attempted to retell everything that had transpired on the desert planet, to master Windu. After he had finished, the master seemed to have a distant look in his eyes, as if he'd seen or heard something troubling. "Master…you must believe me…it wasn't my fault! I tried my best, I really did! But I just couldn't catch the cloaked boy…nor did I find out what happened to the inhabitants of the village…they are all most likely dead, because I didn't arrive fast enough…if I had only arrived an hour earlier, I may have been able to save them…" he said, hanging his head in shame.
Mace Windu gave the worn out, guilt ridden paddawan, a long look, before eventually sighing and placing a hand on his shoulder. "It doesn't matter…there was nothing more you could've done…it was likely that even if you were to have arrived in time to confront whatever it was that attacked them, you would have died anyway…you tried your best, Prence…just go get some more rest, you'll need it." He said. Prence, looked up at him, narrowing his eyes. "Why? Where are we going?" he asked. Master Windu sat back down in the other pilots chair, and resumed manual control over the ship. "We're going to Coruscant. I have set up a meeting with the jedi council. They must hear of this, and you will be the one to tell them. Now, go get some more rest." He said bluntly. Prence was concerned at hearing this, but attempted not to show it. Instead, he simply nodded and bowed his head curtly. "Yes master…" he said, before quietly exiting the cockpit, and returning to the medical room, where he sat on the cot.
The padawan felt sad, ashamed, frightened, and angry, all at the same time. Sad, for failing to save any of the innocent lives of the desert planet, ashamed, for failing what was meant to be a simple mission, frightened, of what he might consequences he might face when they arrived in Coruscant, and angry, because he lost so easily, to that mysterious boy, with that strange weapon. "If only I had been just a little bit stronger, then maybe something might have gone different…I might have been able to defeat that boy, and discover what happened to those people…I almost won…if I had only I knew how to use that lightning attack beforehand, I just might have defeated him!" he thought, looking down at the palms of his hands. "How was I never able to access such power before? Was it…because I had never fought such a strong opponent? Maybe because of life being threatened?" he mused.
"Or…was it the extreme amount of rage I felt towards that boy?" he thought, somewhat afraid of being right, yet he didn't know why. He then sighed, and reached into his robes, pulling out his lightsaber. Rolling the polished, silver colored rod in his hands, and running his fingers across the many brass colored notches, located on the lower shaft of the hilt. "To think, that such a powerful weapon, would be matched by the hunk of metal that, that strange boy wielded…it's funny, it almost looked like…a key…" he thought, before dozing off.
Notes: Sorry about the boring chapter, I just wanted to get some of the more boring parts of the story out of the way. Anyway, this will be an ongoing series, taking place between the Star Wars universe, and the Kingdom Hearts universe. And the chapters will switch between Prence's and Sole's POV's, and will sometimes crossover, but that might not happen again for a while. Also, yes, that was Mace Windu, and yes, he is Prence's master. Please, don't anyone strangle me if that seems like a Star Wars NOOB move. This will all take place in between the clone wars, and the revenge of the sith. Please, comment and give your opinions, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
