Chapter Twenty-Three: Leassons and Techniques

"Master Yoda told me that I was going to teach you something's about lightsabers with my apprentice who I'm sure you've met him." said Obi-wan finally recovered from the shock that the droid had given him.

"Yes I have met Anakin and I found him... oh whats the word... skilled in more than one way."

"Ah... well Anakin is going to be waiting so we should go."

"Yep."

They turned around and walked back into the room, River switched Z10 on and told him to come on.

Z10 beeped and followed happy to be included. They walked through a series of halls and came to a room. They walked in to find Anakin practicing. When he saw them come in he smiled and turned his lightsaber off.

"Mornin River!... Master." be bowed to his master in greeting and Obi-wan the same.

"Well I'm going to observe you and River duel so that I might have a idea at what she needs to learn and you also Anakin."

Anakin didn't seem to pleased that he had to duel her because he knew that River was not as skilled as he.

They took their positions with lightsabers ignited River just one end. Both Obi-wan and Anakin looked at the color of the saber in astonishment for they had never in their life seen that color before.

"I made the crystal," she said in answer to the suprised.

"Go!" said Obi-wan telling them to begin.

River was the first to make a move, she attacked at Anakin's leg but he easily blocked it. Things weren't going to well for her but when she started to get tired she as usual brought it up to a higher level and dished out attacks when she was supposed to and blocked when she needed to.

They spun and dodged and jumped and attacked and blocked until River had knocked Anakin's lightsaber out of his hands and picked it up before he could use the force to bring it to him.

"And there Anakin you would be dead." said Obi-wan seeing that River was better with a saber than Anakin who he had trained since he was nine.

"River tell me what was your previous life like?"

"I used to be a warrior and my father taught me when I was nine in the skill of a lightsaber every time I saw him until he died which was when I was twenty."

"That would explain your ability to be able to defeat any opponent whether Jedi or not correct?"

"Depends on the level of which the opponent is with a weapon."

The whole time they were talking Anakin was standing by the window sulking.

"Then I would like to duel you if you don't mind River."

"Just as long as I can use my saber to its full ability."

"Sure." he said shrugging it off as if it was just a one blade with nothing special about it as he pulled out his saber and ignited it.

River ignited the other end with a satisfied air when she saw both Obi-wan and Anakin's faces.

"Oh did I forget to mention that it was double bladed? I'm sooo sorry." and she lunged.

She found Obi-wan to be somewhat of a challenge and she was feeding off of her weariness at a high-speed creating more energy for herself.

She got a few wounds here and there but nothing major. Obi-wan was trying to read her movements to see what she would do next, but she was so fast that it did him no good he finally decided to give up on that notion and just do what was best when he was attacked or attacking. She knocked his saber from his hand also and brought her saber to a stop just an inch away from his neck.

She shut her saber off.

"Well I can see that your father taught you well and that I think Master Yoda and Master Windu could teach you more than I could."

River felt pleased that her experience in being trained under General Grievous was paying off in more than one aspect of herself. She couldn't wait to tell him about this ordeal and thank him for letting her be his apprentice.

"Clear you're mind you must." said Yoda sitting cross-legged on one of the seats in the meditation room right across from River with his eyes closed.

River tried to clear her mind of all things that she could possibly think of. But that was the problem she was thinking, and she wasn't supposed to be thinking. River had been at this for an hour and it appeared that Master Yoda was not tiring at all. But why should he? He was a natural at this. I'm mean this is all he ever does.

"There you've got it. Now feel the force and try and pick up this little pebble. You have to feel it, become one with it, learn its curves and concentrate you must for only then that is how you will accomplish this. But warned you are that difficult it will be."

She nodded her head in clarification and started to feel a tingling sensation flowing through her. She could see and feel the pebble even though she wasn't holding it, she knew its weight. She concentrated on the pebble for a long period of time doing as she had been instructed.

She finally started to lift it and found that it wasn't the pebble that was the crushing weight she felt. The weight felt like she was trying to lift up her master with her bare hands but of course she knew it was her inexperience with the force that was causing the unexpected weight.

She had only lifted it up a centimeter and it was slowly but surely rising. When she had got it a foot high she was so exhausted but she kept going. She was relieved to hear the little midgets voice.

"Good for first time you have done better than any youngling ever has on their first time you have. Practice with pebble and tomorrow we will see how high you can get it at faster speed we shall. Dismissed you are." he said with a wave of his hand and a smile of satisfaction.

River smiled as she got up and made her way out. River made her way back to her room and when she got there she found that Z10 wasn't. She shrugged and laid down to take a quick nap, and after she did that she was going to use the personal fighter that she had been given and do some sightseeing.