Chapter 2: The day the Ninja met a Jedi

Yuffie Kisaragi no longer felt any strange sensation or saw any blurs, but everything was black! What could possibly be wrong? Her back felt unusually warm and strange wind blew across her ears. Her thoughts were: Am I dead? No, I feel alive, but if I'm not dead then...I'm blind! "Help!" she screamed.

Actually "Help!" was what she meant to scream. What came out was an inaudible "Hmmmph." Yuffie felt her mouth fill up with something hard and granulated. She closed her teeth on it. It felt unpleasantly gritty. Yuck! Sand!

She looked up. Sand dunes were as far as the eye could see. She spat the sand out of her mouth in globs of sandy drool. "Yuck," she said to herself. On the horizon, she saw small dots moving. People perhaps? Now Yuffie, being herself, figured that they might know where she was or how she could get home or, better yet, had something worth stealing.

Yuffie began to run at the dots in the distance. The sun beat down on her head but she was a ninja, she could handle anything that would be extreme or taxing on a normal persons body. As she ran, she noticed a blue light begin to glow. As she got closer, she saw it knocking down the dots. Closer yet, there was an old man wielding a blue glowing sword. She also saw the dots were in fact people wearing strange masks and goggles, among other strange apparel for the desert.

The old man looked as though he should not be fighting, but he moved with impressive motion for his age, but Yuffie felt compelled to help the elderly nonetheless. She ran closer.

"Hey, old guy, don't over do it!" shouted Yuffie. The man looked over at her, but he barely lost his concentration on the fight. "Flee from this place!" he shouted. "No way!" she responded. "I can help!" She drew her four-pointed shuriken. One of the strange dressed men let out a strange holler "E-e-e-e-uh-uh!" "Uh, cat got your tongue?" pondered Yuffie. The strange man, or creature, as she now classified it, ran at her with his pointed weapon raised.

He was about ten feet away from her when she finally threw her weapon it spun through the air and hit the creature in its heart. It shrieked in agony and then fell over. "Loser," said Yuffie. She grabbed her shuriken and threw it at the two creatures running at the old man. It had such momentum that it grazed the base of the closest creatures neck and stabbed the second in the side of its head. "Haha, yes!" she exclaimed. One more remained. It ran at the old man who raised his sword and slashed the creatures weapon in half. He then brought it up across the creatures neck, which cauterized instantly as its head fell.

Yuffie looked over at the old man, whose sword's blade disappeared. What the heck? she thought.

"Thank you my friend," said the old man. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Ben Kenobi, but you may call me Ben." "Yuffie Kisaragi." Said Yuffie as she energetically shook Ben's hand. "Well you certainly are brave to be able to stand up to those Sand People like that," said Ben with a smile. Yuffie wore a puzzled look. She really didn't know what was going on. "Um, gramps, what the heck is a sand person?" Ben smiled, "It's understandable you don't know. What world do you come from?"

Now Yuffie was really confused. Humans had never left their own planet, Gaia, much less been to others. Yuffie was really puzzled. "I see you're confused. Come, we best get to my home before more sand people arrive."

"Are we there yet gramps, this desert is going to make my feet fall off!" Yuffie whined. Ben looked at her calmly. He still had a warm look on his face; he was amazingly patient with her considering most people would be annoyed with her by now. "Patience young one, it is just over that dune." Yuffie sighed. This was the most fatigued she had ever been in her life and it didn't help that she felt as if her dark clothes were trapping every ray of what appeared to be two suns. She was supposed to be tolerant of most anything; after all she was a ninja! How on earth could that old man stand it? Yet another question to add to a growing list.

After reaching the summit of the sand dune, she noticed a small building made of brown stone, or at least what looked like stone. "Is that it!" Yuffie asked excitedly. Ben nodded. Yuffie ran towards the house. There were so many things she wanted to ask this mysterious old Ben, and she could finally rest. She burst in through the front entryway and collapsed with exhaustion on the floor. She had been through such a day that her energy was drained.

Ben walked and held out his hand. Yuffie, though sleeping soundly, was levitated. Ben gently moved her into a bedroom and placed her on the bed. "Sleep well," he said as he walked out of the room. "You and I have much to discuss tomorrow."

Author's note: Special thanks to my friend, DementedDementor, for his constant feedback and helping me with some of the Star Wars nuances.