I closed my eyes, bracing for impact, wanting to see nothing. I gasped when I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist, than yelped when I suddenly found myself in the air, than on the ground. Did he just throw me?! I will murder that idiot. I flinched as I heard a loud crash and opened my eyes.
I turned my head, finding Ezra face down next to me, apparently he jumped too. I slowly got up, wincing from the pain in my back. I opened my cloak, seeing if the books were still inside. Yup, still there.
I froze when someone gripped my arm from behind me, and spinning me around to face him. Damn it, I thought he was knocked out. "Nali?" Ezra's eyes widened, as mine did too. I reached up to touch the top of my head to see if my hood was on, it wasn't.
"Um, hi?" I nervously laughed, trying to back away buy Ezra had a firm grip. He must've gotten stronger these past few months. "You were the one that stole, uh, whatever was in the crate?!" Ezra hissed, than shook his head. "You know what, I don't care now. Just hand it over Nali." Ezra held out his free hand to me, expectantly.
I glared daggers at his outstretched hand, and if looks could kill his hand would've been long dead by now. "Did you forget the rules Ezra? First come, first served." I spat at him, the stupid idiot, and yanked my arm away. "Nali, Kanan needs whatever it is, so give it!" Ezra lunged at my cloak, knowing that I hid the items in my sewed pocket.
I jumped to the side, letting Ezra land on the ground, rather ungraceful if I might add. "Did it ever occur to you that I might need it also?! This is about survival Ezra, and right now you're no longer on my list of 'Lives I Treasure Above My Own' so bye!"
I turned around, ready to run somewhere, but ran into what felt like another brick wall. I stumbled back, dizzy as I saw everything spinning. I felt myself being lifted over someone's shoulder. "Zeb! What are you doing with Nali?!" I could hear Ezra's voice in the background as my vision started to grow darker.
"Kanan asked me to bring her in, he needs to speak with her about the crate."
I looked up, my vision still blurry, and saw a medium sized rock. I would give anything for that rock to hit Zeb, I don't want to go back. I started struggling, while screaming at Zeb to put me down. "Stop struggling girl, it's just a few questions you'll live." Zeb gruffly grumbled as he started walking somewhere unknown to me, but most likely the Ghost.
Then, I got an idea. I'm out of options right now, but Kanan mentioned something about 'The Force' and it rippled when I had visions. Does that mean I can control it? If Kanan could sense when I had visions, does that mean he has 'The Force' also? Maybe that's how he can hover things, and Ezra did the same thing.
I focused my attention on the rock. Maybe if I concentrate enough, it'll move? I'm asking myself a lot of questions. I held a hand out towards the rock, my palm facing it as I concentrated on it. Move. Move. Move and hit Zeb in the face!
"What is it kid?" Zeb stopped walking and turned a little to his left. Ezra must've been walking next to him. "I-I feel something, something in the Force." Ezra breathed, just as the rock started to hover. It works! I raised my hand, which raised the rock as well. Now time to give Zeb a little present. I quickly brought my hand back, leading the rock which hit Zeb in the back of the head straight on.
Zeb gave a startled yell as he tumbled to the ground, and not wanting to go down with him I quickly got out of his loosened grip and used him as a launching pad. I landed on my feet, stumbling a bit, as I turned around to see Zeb standing up rubbing his sore head. "You're going to get it Ezra!" Zeb growled at Ezra as he tried to grab him. "It wasn't me!" Ezra ducked Zeb's attempted grab, running away. "Who else could've done it?! I saw that rock float! It was the Force!" Zeb chased after Ezra, forgetting about me.
I put up my hood, after I made sure the books were still in my pocket, and started walking down the abandoned street. Since Zeb said Kanan needed to speak to me, he might be waiting at my tower. I blinked as I saw water starting to fall. Great, rain. It fits my mood though. I felt depressed, and with nowhere to go, I was now at a loss of what to do now.
The streets were now empty as the rain started to fall harder. I wrapped my cloak around me tighter, as I felt the coldness sweeping in. I looked up at the gloomy sky, seeing blinking lights in the clouds. Off world merchants always leave during rain like this one, to travel to a nice sunny place for a better chance to sell their goods.
No one was on the streets, but me. I never admitted it to Ezra before, but he was the sun to me. He brightened my days after we met two years ago, on a rainy day like this one. I was about to do something drastic, something that would've haunted me for the rest of my days, than I met him and I changed for the better.
I was a cold-hearted person, never trusting anyone. I also had secrets that people wanted, so they hunted me down endlessly.
"Excuse me?"
I whipped my head around, seeing a boy behind me. He was wearing something similar to a pilots garb, but more tattered. He also had black hair, drenched from the rain, and light brown eyes that seemed to glow in the dark. He looked around my age, but skinny.
"Do you know a place I can stay at miss? I'm new here and got a little lost." The mysterious boy sheepishly rubbed the back of his head with a closed eyed smile on his face. No doubt he's new, otherwise he wouldn't be asking strangers. He'll get robbed easily like this.
I shook my head, and turned around continuing on walking to nowhere in particular. "Wait! Miss, can I stay with you perhaps? I got money for the night. I-I really don't want to stay out on the streets for the night." He jogged up to me, walking next to me as he looked around, shyly if I might add.
On closer examination, he was rather cute. I guess it wouldn't hurt to go back to my tower, they wouldn't be looking for me in the rain right? I nodded my head towards him, then picked up my pace waving a hand towards him.
"Y-You want me to follow?" He stammered, surprised. I just nodded to him and turned onto one of the main streets, connected to the exit. "T-Thank you so much!" I could hear the smile in his voice as he followed closely behind me.
I knew this was a bad idea, but he reminded me of myself when the Empire kicked me and my siblings out of our home. I kept on walking out of town, and started walking off the road into the tallish grass. I could feel confusion echoing off the boy behind me.
"Um, where exactly are we going miss?" He asked, now a little cautious. I could see the tower coming into view, and pointed towards it. "That tower?" The boy looked towards me for an answer, which all I gave him a nod for it. When we finally arrived at the tower, I motioned for him to go up first. If they're still there, they'll see him and ask who he is which will give me enough time to escape. I waited for a couple of seconds as I heard the door open, then when I heard no voices I made my way up.
I entered my home, and saw that the boy was nowhere to be seen. The room was also dark, which was weird since I always kept a lamp on. I looked towards the shelf that held some of Ezra's collection of trooper helmets, where I also kept my lamp, and saw that it was turned off. I froze as I heard movement somewhere in the room. I turned around, ready to dash out, when a big hand covered my mouth from behind.
Damn it Zeb!
I struggled as Zeb wrapped his other arm around me, to keep me from escaping. "We got her Hera, bring the Ghost down." I could hear Ezra said, into his comm. I couldn't hear a response, but I did hear a humming sound outside. "Who are you people?!" I could hear the stranger I escorted here cried as I heard some struggles a few feet behind me.
"No one important." I heard Sabine said, she must've been the one that detained the boy. I bit Zeb's hand, which to my pleasure he pulled away with an angry cry. Then it felt like time slowed down. My vision was getting dark in a familiar way. Great, I'm going to pass out now? Best timing ever. I slumped forward, and felt the world escape me to be replaced with darkness.
This time, I seemed to be in a cell of some sorts. It looked oddly familiar, but before I could rack my brain for answers, the cell door opens. In walks a figure wearing a brown cloak that reached the floor. I saw the cloaked figure walk up to something huddled up in the corner of the room.
Then, I realized that it was a human girl when she lifted her head to glare at her captor. Then, my vision stopped before I could see the girl's face. The only thing I saw was her brown hair that seemed to frame her face.
I jolted awake, feeling dreadfully cold, and sat up. I wasn't wearing my cloak anymore, which caused panic to raise. I know that I was finally caught by Zeb, before the vision took over. I could only assume I was now aboard the Ghost, but I wasn't in the med bay this time. It looked like a bedroom, since I was on the lower part of a bunk bed. The walls were covered with sprayed on pictures.
I stood up and examined the pictures. I could assume this was Sabine's room, since her armor was similar to the designs of the graffiti on the walls. Since I also didn't have my cloak that meant that my stolen prizes were taken by the crew. I cursed as I exited the room, I need to find out why Kanan needed those books about the old religion.
I was actually curious about the old religion. The only thing I knew about the Jedi was that all of them were killed during the Order of '66 and none have been seen since if any of them survived. But from all my years on the streets, never have I heard anyone whisper about whatever the Seers were. That pricked my curious nature even more, to discover the unknown about everything I don't know about. But, curiosity killed the cat. I stopped as I heard voices coming from the main room.
"For the last time, how do you know Nali?!" I could hear Zeb roar, the impatient Lasat. I walked down the hall, opening the door and saw the crew crowding the table. They all turned towards me when they heard the door opening, which let me see what they were looking at. The boy was sitting, obviously terrified, in the seat in front of the table. "You're awake Nali!" Hera smiled at me from the spot she was at, between Sabine and Kanan. "Boy, come here." I pointed to the boy, who was glad to bolt for me and stood behind me. "W-Who are these people?!" He whimpered behind me.
"Hera is the Twi'lek over there. Zeb is the grumpy Lasat. Chopper is the astromech. Sabine is the Mandalorian in the colorful armor. Kanan is the man with the ponytail. Ezra is the boy over there next to Kanan." I pointed them all out with an emotionless voice and a guarded face. "Now that the introductions are done. Where is my cloak?!" I hissed at them with my pissed off face on. I could see Ezra flinch slightly, since he knew I only let my anger show when I was very angry.
"Tell us what you were doing with the books first Nali." Kanan asked as he crossed his arms. "Nothing you need to know about." I snapped back at him. I turned to look at the boy behind me. "What's your name boy?" I said soothingly, with a gentle smile on my face. He seemed surprised at my sudden change of mood, than grinned back. "My name is Krenis Natas, and I guess you're Nali?" I nodded. "Well you certainly have a beautiful name." The boy, Krenis, smiled a little shyly as a blush dusted his cheeks.
I could feel my cheeks heat a little at his compliment. A loud coughing erupted behind me, surprising both of us. I turned around to see a rather annoyed Ezra looking away with his arms crossed. Sabine looked amused as she chuckled, than winked at me. I raised my eyebrow at that. What's going on? Kanan interrupted my thoughts. "Follow me Nali. Ezra and Sabine will take care of Krenis." Kanan added the last sentence as I hesitated, then turned around and started climbing the ladder that was in the room.
I shrugged, then started to follow him. After following Kanan for a while, we finally arrived on top of the Ghost. The Ghost was going slow enough so we'll be able to stay up here without being blown off. I smiled slightly as I felt a nice breeze on my face.
"You are force-sensitive Nali." I froze when I heard Kanan say that. "I have felt ripples in the Force for a while ever since we saved you from the Empire. But I don't recognize the way the Force interacts with you."
I glanced over at Kanan to see he had a thoughtful look on his face. "You're a 'Seer' aren't you?" Kanan looked at me. "You see visions, and when you do there's a ripple." I froze, he guessed the visions. I guess I can't hide from it now. "I-I do have visions. That's how I knew about the lava erupting." I mumbled as I looked down at my feet.
"That is a powerful gift you have Nali, you have to be careful. The Empire doesn't know about you so it's best if this is kept a secret." Kanan informed me. I looked up at him with widened eyes. "Even from the crew?" I gasped.
"We'll tell the crew when you're ready to tell them." Kanan nodded towards the hatch. "I will give you the book that has history about the Seers to help you, but my knowledge of them is limited. The book is in the med bay."
I nodded at him, then turned to leave. "Remember, tell me when you have another vision." Kanan reminded me. I nodded without looking back and entered the Ghost again. I made my way towards the med bay, to finally get some answers. But, I bumped into Sabine right outside the room I woke up in.
"There you are Nali! What did Kanan want with you?" Sabine leaned against her doorway with her arms crossed. "Nothing you need to know of." I replied as I tried to keep on walking but Sabine's voice stopped me.
"You know, Ezra's jealous of Krenis." I stopped and turned around, with disbelief written all over my face, along with a light blush.
"No he's not, you're just imagining things Sabine."
"He was the one that coughed when he saw you blushing at Krenis."
"He's my best friend! I would think anyone would cough when someone was flirting with their friend."
"Well, off the topic, what do you think of Krenis?"
"Well, he's pretty cute. He's also shy, which is adorable." I could feel my blush deepening to a scarlet red color. Sabine smirked at me before saying goodbye and entering her room. I stared at her closed door for a second before moving on.
Why does it feel like someone's watching me?
I stopped and turned around, but no one was in the hallway. I just shrugged and continued on my way to the med bay. I managed to get to the med bay without running into anyone else, well except Chopper but he just rolled right by me. I looked around the med bay, and saw a book on the bed I usually slept in when I had a vision.
I picked it up and read the title. The History of the Seers. I sat down on the bed and opened the book. I felt my jaw drop. It was written in a language I didn't understand. I groaned as I slammed the book shut and threw it onto the chair next to the bed.
Great, now I can't get my answers. Whatever that language is, I need to find someone who speaks it or I need to learn it.
I looked over as the door opened. Krenis walked in, looking a little lost but beamed when he saw me on the bed. "There you are! Sabine and Ezra, well mostly Sabine, showed me around. I just ran into Kanan and he said you'll be in here." Krenis sat down next to me on the bed. Now looking closely, he was taller than me by an inch. Which means he might be the same height as Ezra.
"Why were you looking for me?" I looked over at him curiously. He blushed a little as he glanced away. "W-Well, you're the only one that I know so, um, yeah." He whispered. I smiled slightly at his shy behavior. He's like the complete opposite of Ezra. "Well then I guess you're stuck with me Krenis." I teased him.
"I don't mind being stuck with you." I raised an eye brow at him. "F-Forget I said anything Nali!" He got up and dashed out of the room, with a red face if I might say. I giggled slightly at his silly behavior. I glanced back at the book, and sighed.
I guess I better find someone who knows this. Is there a chance one of the crew understands this?
I rubbed my eyes as I yawned. I looked at the bed I saw sitting on. Now, it looked so comfy. I guess they won't mind if I take a little nap. I laid down in bed, then without putting the sheets on, I fell asleep.
This time I didn't see anything but darkness.
Happy Holidays! I wanted to thank everyone who commented, it really brightens my day. I always check every couple of hours to see what was posted. Thank you and I hope you enjoyed this new chapter. Also tell me what you think of Krenis Natas? Comment about the new OC.
