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Chapter Three: The Beginning Of An Apprenticeship

As they made their way through space, Soreka was in the cockpit and River and General Grievous were left alone sitting across from each other. And as you would expect it was dead silent. River leaned back into her set and curled her legs up to her chest. She rested her head on the headrest and sighed as she spaced out. Grievous just sat there looking at her, and when she shifted poses her hair covered the side of her face so he couldn't see her face clearly. He just sat there thinking to himself how small and fragile she was, yet she could put up a good fight even when she didn't know how to use a lightsaber.

She sat there not moving, and he wondered if she had fallen asleep not like he didn't blame her if she had. He slowly got up and stretched his neck toward her face, stopping barely a centimeter away. River felt someone watching her, but she didn't think that someone was in her face. She opened her eyes and what did she see? General Grievous of course. When she looked at him he didn't move, even when she cleared her throat, so she finally decided to say something.

"What are you doing?" she asked, with a clearly annoyed tone.

He sat back down, fairly annoyed because the answer was clearly obvious. She chuckled. Was she chuckling at him or herself? Pretty soon his curiosity got the best of him.

"What are you laughing at?" he growled.

"Oh nothing-I just had a pretty ironic idea as to why you were in my face."

At this he shot up and put his hands on the arms of her chair. His face was so close to hers, that her nose was practically touching his faceplate.

"What." he growled.

That scared her; but she would die before General Grievous knew it, so she stayed in the same position. Said without flinching,

"You were curious General Grievous! You're curious because of the way I look, that I am a warrior. I could go down an entire list, but it would take forever for me to finish. So making a long list short, you're just too plain curious for your own good!"

General Grievous knew this. She had gotten it right on the dot, but he wasn't going to let her know it. He sat back down, not showing that she won even though she knew that she had. He had known her for only a few hours and he could tell that he didn't like her even though he was curious about her past. The reason he didn't like her was because she didn't seem to be afraid of him even if she was he had no way of telling. It was like she completely knew how to wrong the saying "Eyes are the windows to the mind." He did not like that. Even Soreka was afraid of him sometimes, even though she was extremely bold.

For the rest of the trip they sat in total silence. The General's curiosity unnerved River. It was like her every movement was being watched. She just hoped that she would never have to serve directly under him. As the shuttle landed, they got up and exited. Soreka was totally oblivious to what had happened during the flight. As they got off the ship an old man that had a smug air about him came up to them Soreka bowed so River did the same just to be on the safe side.

"What have we here?" he asked more to River than Soreka but waited for Soreka to reply.

"Count Dooku this is River I want to take her as my apprentice." was Soreka's reply.

River wasn't surprised as to why Soreka had asked that was part of the reason she said she would join because she had a pretty good idea as to why Soreka wanted her to.

"You may take her as your apprentice, but don't think that will keep you from doing missions with the General. And after you take care of what you need to do I would like to see you for your next mission."

"Yes sir," said Soreka and General Grievous in unison.

"Well first things first, River do you want to go by your warrior name or your healer name?" asked Soreka as they departed from the General and the old man.

"I think I'm not quite ready to use my warrior name again, in fact I don't think I ever will," said River with a sigh.

As they turned down a hallway they came to a stop in front of a fairly large door as it slid open they walked into a room, it wasn't a big room it had a closet on one wall and on the wall beside it was a bed that was more of a bunk they wall in front of the bed was all glass with pull shades for privacy and to the left was a bathroom with all the things you normally find in a bathroom.

Soreka helped River unpack, in the bottom drawer she put her daggers along with the four swords and cloak in it and closed it, it was like closing the door to the old life and embracing a new life on a unfamiliar ship with a cyborg that gave her the creeps and she was an apprentice go figure at the beginning of the day she had no idea as to what she was doing now.

"Well I'll have a droid bring you something to eat and then you best get to bed, and that is not a request.'' said Soreka gently.

"Yes Master," and with that Soreka left.

Those words sounded strange coming from her mouth she had never had to comply to anybody except her chief, and her chief had been somewhat more than a best friend. Once she got to bed she left the shades open and drifted to an uneasy sleep watching the stars.

After Soreka left River she went to find Grievous and she had a good idea as to were he was.

After General Grievous left Soreka and River to their own business he had taken care of some of the things he needed to attend to then he headed to his favorite spot in the observatory room as the door slid open he switched the light off and walked over to the window. He began to pace up and down the length of the wall just thinking about different things all at once but not about the girl. When she came into his mind after great length he stopped pacing and stood there he knew he had seen her before but couldn't quite grasp were, he reached into the depths of his memory but couldn't find a thing.

At that moment the door slid open and Soreka came in with Count Dooku.

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Oh they are already at eachothers throats uh oh. REVIEW PEESE