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Chapter 6: Welcome to Yavin! Please watch out for Stintarils.
Alessa drove Calon back home after the funeral, and started to pack her bags to go to Yavin.
"What are you doing?" Calon asked as he watched his sister pack.
"I'm going to Yavin, I talked to Brak and his brother earlier."
"Do mum and dad know?"
"They probably didn't think I'd leave today, but I'm allowed to go."
"Can I come?" Calon asked. He sounded normal, but Alessa felt his worry through the force.
"No," she replied, "but don't worry, I'll be okay."
"I don't know…I keep feeling like something bad is going to happen," Calon said, "I don't know what."
Alessa frowned. She didn't feel the same. There was silence for a while until Alessa went over to give her brother a hug, "don't worry, the ship isn't going to blow up or anything."
"It's probably just nothing," Calon said.
Alessa released her brother and then went back to packing.
"When will you be back?"
"Maybe a couple of days," Alessa replied, folding one of her favourite shirts and putting it in her bag.
"Okay. Just…come back safely."
Alessa smiled at her brother, "How many times do I have to tell you not to worry?"
"Probably about a billion."
"Don't exaggerate," Alessa said and playfully punched her brother.
He laughed and then left the room.
Before Alessa headed to the docking bay she had something quick to eat, and then got some money to take a bus down there instead of her speeder.
"Docking Bay 94," Alessa said to herself when she arrived.
She stared at the freighter for a while before saying, "Wow! Awesome!"
"Meet the Sandstorm," Baven said. Alessa noticed he had been fixing something on the ship.
"Need help? I'm good at fixing things," Alessa said.
"Nah, it's fine," Baven said.
Alessa looked more at the ship. It was white and very smooth. No dents on it at all. It looked like it had just been painted.
"Alessa!" It was Brak, closely followed by Skess.
"Hey," Alessa said.
"I'll show you inside, then once Baven finishes with that we'll take off," Brak said.
Alessa followed him inside. It was small, but still fairly cosy.
"This way to the cockpit."
They went through a door and found the cockpit could hold four people in it at once.
"Okay, ready for lift off," Baven said as he came into the room. He sat in the pilot's seat, Brak in the co-pilots.
"I haven't been out in space for ages," Alessa said.
"Me too," Skess said, "Not since mum died."
"For me, not since mums parents went wild and told us to get out or they'll shoot us…or something like that. I was only five, so I don't remember," Alessa said.
"Sounds like your families are dysfunctional," Baven said.
"Can't be any worse than yours," Skess shot back.
"Too true," Baven said with amusement.
Brak laughed.
They got out of the atmosphere and into hyperspace a few minutes after that.
"How long does it take to get to Yavin?" Alessa asked.
"About 5 hours," Brak replied and stretched, "so if you're tired I can show you where you can sleep."
"No, it's okay," Alessa said, deciding that if she was sitting down she wouldn't fall asleep, and thus not have any more visions.
"I'd like to sleep," Skess said.
Brak got up, "Come on," he said.
Skess got up and they walked out of the cockpit.
"You tired?" Alessa asked Baven.
"I sleep in here," he said, putting his feet up on the controls (Alessa thought that would probably be dangerous, but didn't say anything).
Alessa sat back and decided to rest her eyes, but not fall asleep. That was the last thing she wanted to do…
"It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!" It was Obi-Wan, it was back on Mustafar.
"You under estimate my power," Anakin said.
"Don't try it," Obi-Wan said.
Anakin then jumped off the platform his was standing on and Obi-Wan cut of one of his arms then his legs. He tumbled down near the river of lava.
Alessa was horrified.
"You were the chosen one!" Obi-Wan cried, "It said you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness."
"I hate you!" Anakin cried.
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you."
Alessa became even more horrified when Anakin became too close to the river of lava and his clothes caught fire, and he went up in flames. Obi-Wan walked away. Alessa wanted to help him somehow, but she knew it was just a vision. She wanted to call out to Obi-Wan, what was he doing? Help Anakin! Obi-Wan-
"Obi-Wan!" Alessa sat up straighter and looked around. She was awake, back in the cockpit.
"What the Kriff were you goin' on about?" Baven asked her.
"Anakin? Obi-Wan? Who are they?" Brak asked. He had arrived back in the cock-pit at some point.
Alessa was silent for a while and realised she must have talked in her sleep. "No one, no body," she answered.
"You sure you're okay?" Alessa heard Skess say. She hadn't noticed her friend had finished sleeping as well.
"I'm fine," Alessa assured her once more.
Your parents called by the way," Skess said, "wanted to know if you were all right, I told them you were."
Alessa nodded, and then asked "When do we arrive?"
"We're there now," Baven said, "So strap in for landing."
Once they landed they got out of the ship and all Alessa could see was forest. Lots and lots of forest.
"The Massassi Temple, or what's left of it, is that way," Baven said, pointing to the North-West.
"Straight that way?" Alessa asked.
"Sure is," Baven said.
"Let's go then," Alessa said and started heading in that direction.
"Hang on," Brak said, he came out of the ship with three blasters and gave one to Skess, another to Alessa and kept one to himself, "You never know what's in there."
"I don't think we'll run into trouble," Baven said, "Unless you count the locals who live nearby."
"Never mind that, just, come on," Alessa said and headed in the direction Baven had pointed to earlier.
"Shouldn't someone stay with the Ship?" Skess said.
"Nah," Baven said, "It's got a shield. Nothings gonna bother her."
Alessa had stopped and turned to face them, "Come on!" she said and turned around and continued walking.
Skess came right behind her, followed by Brak and Baven taking the rear. However, all three caught up to her.
"What's so important about this holocron?" Brak asked.
"I want to know what it is." Skess asked, "And what's it called. Holo…what?"
"Cron," Alessa said, "C-R-O-N. And I need it to become a Jedi."
"And what's a Jedi?" Brak asked.
"You know those Great Wizard stories?" Alessa asked them.
"Who doesn't?" Baven replied.
"Well a Jedi is a lightsider," Alessa said, not sure how they'll take it. Skess already knew, of course.
"What? You're saying those hocky myths are true?" Baven asked.
"Sure are," Alessa said.
"Got any proof of it?" he asked.
"You will soon," was all she said and they kept going.
Everyone was silent the rest of the way, apart from Skess and Baven getting into an argument at one point. They finally got to the temple in half an hour.
"That was a long walk," Skess complained.
"No it wasn't," Brak replied.
Alessa stared at the temple. It was four stories high and, well, just really big.
"We're never going to find it," Skess said, "I think I need to sit down too."
"Of course," Baven said, "Because her royal highness lets everyone else do the work."
"Shut up you nerf herder! I said I need to sit down, not that I was going to!" Skess said, "Come on!" She walked ahead of them to the temple, Alessa quickly caught up with her. She felt the boys following them.
They entered the temple and looked at the wide, open space.
"Looks like a hanger," Baven said.
"A very old hanger," Brak added.
"Search the place," Alessa said and walked to the other side of the temple hanger to see what she could find.
"What does a holocron look like?" Brak asked.
"No idea," Alessa replied, "but hopefully we'll know it when we see it, might look old and strange."
"This whole place looks old and strange," Baven said.
They looked around a bit, but Alessa had a feeling it wasn't on this level. She wondered how they could get to the higher levels when she spotted something – elevators. Perfect.
Alessa was about to shout for everyone to come over when Skess screamed.
"Skess?" Alessa asked and ran over to her friend. She didn't seem in great danger.
"Ew! Ew! Eeewww!" She said, frantically wiping her arms.
"What happened?" Brak asked.
"Just a bug," Skess said and made herself calm down.
"Okay, good," Alessa said, glad it wasn't deadly, "I found some elevators," she decided to add.
"Great," Baven said, "Let's hope they work."
Lucky for them, the elevators did work, but only after a bit of tinkering by Alessa.
They searched the next level together. It appeared as though it used to have many rooms, but some of the walls had corroded away and collapsed.
"Nothing here either," Skess said after an hour of thorough searching.
"Yeah, the only things here are some little residents," Baven said and shook off a small bug that was climbing up his foot, "and lots of plants."
"It's here," Alessa said, "we just have to keep searching."
"We'll search the next level," Brak said, "which is probably smaller than this level."
"Great," Baven said sarcastically.
"Okay, if it is, you guys search the next level and I'll search the top level by myself," Alessa said.
"Sure," Brak said and they all took the elevator up. Just as Brak said, the next level was smaller, but still with what looked like quite a few rooms.
"Tell me if you find it," Alessa said and went up to the top level.
She looked around. There were two big doors in front of her. There was one door to her left and a collapsed wall to her right, which revealed a small room. She went over to have a look, but nothing was there. She then went through the two big doors, and when they opened there was only a whole pile of rubble, and no roof. It had obviously collapsed. Hopefully the holocron wasn't under the rubble in pieces.
But there was still one more room to look in.
Alessa went over to the door and attempted to open it, no luck, so she tried again.
'Use the force,' Luke said.
"Yeah, I never learnt how. I only figured out how to use the force for lightsaber fighting," Alessa said, annoyed. However, she tried to do it anyway.
After a few minutes of not being successful, she couldn't help but get angry, "I thought I was powerful with the force!" She complained to herself, "So why can't I open a stupid door!?"
She tried again, even though she was feeling angry. The door finally opened and some of the wall collapsed. "Thank you," she said to herself.
She went into the room, which was pretty dark and Alessa allowed her eyes to adjust to it. To her surprise, in the corner of the room were not one, but two objects. A small box and a cylindrical object.
Alessa carefully walked over to them and picked them up. Once Alessa picked up the pearly white box, it lit up and a small hologram of a woman with black hair and red gown appeared.
"Welcome my children. How may I teach you today?" the woman said.
Alessa was dumbstruck for a moment, the found her voice and said, "Is this…a holocron?"
"Why yes, this is. I am the gate keeper, Jedi Master Asli Krimsan. Holocron is short for Holographic Chronicle, where data about Jedi and the Force can be stored. There are many different lessons stored in this holocron and if there's anything you wish to learn about just say so and a lesson will start," The woman, Asli Krimsan, said.
"Oh…umm…okay, well, I just want to know how to turn this off?" Alessa said.
"Just say so," Asli Krimsan replied and then disappeared. The light of the holocron dimmed slowly and then turned off.
Alessa stared at it for a little longer, speechless. She then turned her attention to the silver and black, cylindrical object. There were a few buttons on it and she saw a red one and pressed it to see what would happen (knowing through the force nothing bad would happen). A blue blade came out of it and Alessa realised what it was: a lightsaber. She got really excited. A weapon of a Jedi! This was better than the holocron! She then turned the blade off and attached it to her belt and put the holocron in her pocket in a position so it wouldn't fall out.
Time to tell the others of her discovery.
"Guys!" Alessa said when she got off the elevator onto the level Brak, Baven and Skess were on, "I found it!"
Skess appeared from behind a wall and came over to her, "let's see!"
Brak and Baven came running over too. Alessa took the holocron out of her pocket.
"That's it?" Baven asked, "A box?"
"It's not a box," Alessa said, "It's a holocron, short of holographic chronicle."
"What's it do?" Brak asked.
"It keeps data of Jedi teachings and stuff and then teaches it to other wannabe Jedi's," Alessa explained.
"Wow, that's pretty cool," Skess said, "and what's that on your belt?"
Alessa realised Skess was talking about her lightsaber, "This, my friends, is the weapon of a Jedi! A lightsaber!"
"Yeah looks incredibly deadly," Baven said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
Alessa gave him a death glare, "I never said anything about it being deadly in the first place."
"Uh…let's go back to the ship, shall we?" Brak quickly suggested, "Have something to eat."
"Great Idea," Baven said, "I'm starved."
The group exited the Temple and went back into the forest, heading back to the ship.
They walked through the forest quietly for a few minutes and Alessa started feeling strange.
Something was coming. It felt like a lot of something's, actually. She stopped walking and the other three stopped too when they realised she'd stopped.
"Something is coming," Alessa whispered.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Baven said, taking out his blaster.
Brak and Skess took their blasters out too. Alessa followed suit, but also unclipped her lightsaber.
Suddenly, a little creature appeared from behind a bush. It had whiskers, a long snout and had a strange, hairless tail.
Skess smiled, "it's so cute!"
Alessa agreed, though she didn't quite fancy their large claws which she just spotted.
Baven, on the other hand, looked worried, "Oh crap," he said.
All of a sudden, more began to appear. They were all around them. There appeared to be hundreds.
"What are these?" Alessa asked.
"Sintaril," Baven answered, "They travel in packs and eat whatever moves. I've never seen them travel in a pack this big though."
Alessa could see what Baven meant. The Sintaril's eyed them all hungrily.
Then, they attacked.