...And a billion years later.
A/N: *sheepishly* Hi, how's it going? So I'm just trying to update my fanfictions since it's been a while (a long while). So I'm updating this one first since I finished it ages ago. I just had to go through and edit it and there were only two more chapters left to edit (this one and the next one). I've already started the second story to this a while back, and it's probably half way through or something (I need to check). So hopefully I'll be able to publish that some time soon. I really need to update my Harry Potter fanfic though, which includes re-writing and editing and not just editing like with this one. So enjoy the rest of this fic (and I swear this one isn't that great, but the second one that follows this will be better...I hope).
Disclaimer: Does...does George own Star Wars anymore? It's Disney's now right? It happened a while ago...it's been a while...what.
Chapter 7: Attack of the Stintarils
They all started shooting simultaneously at the stintarils. Alessa had many of them jumping on her and attempting to bite her. Before she could even activate her lightsaber, it got knocked out of her hand and after killing quite a few stintarils with her blaster, one of them destroyed it by biting it. She then had so many around her feet that she fell over.
She could hear Skess scream and the other blasters firing. Alessa started whacking, throwing and strangling the creatures before they could bite her.
She then spotted her lightsaber nearby, and stretched out her hand and it came flying to her. She didn't have time to ponder how she managed to do that and activated it immediately. Using the blue blade, she sliced the creatures in half and stabbed them through their bodies. Many of them then started to run away, realising it was a losing battle. She deactivated her lightsaber when they were all gone.
Alessa had blood dripping down her right arm where one had managed to bite her pretty hard there, but it wasn't too deep. She then looked at the others. Brak and Baven were standing up and looked absolutely fine. Except for Brak's cheek which was bleeding and his whole face was smeared with blood. She then realised Skess was on the ground, groaning in pain.
Alessa ran over to Skess and realised that she had some pretty deep bites in quite a few places. "Hey, it's gonna be okay," Alessa said to her friend.
"I'll carry her to the ship," Baven said, walking over and lifting her up, "We have some medical supplies there. Nice scar by the way," he said to Alessa.
"Scar!?" Alessa exclaimed, "What scar? Where?"
Brak walked over to her, "looks pretty deep, probably won't heal…hope you're okay with that."
"Where is it?" She asked.
"It runs right across your right eye," Brak explained, "you can't feel it?"
Alessa shakes her head, "no. Come on; let's get back to the ship."
Brak nods and then says, "That lightsaber is one hell of a weapon."
"Sure is," Alessa replied.
They arrived at the ship and Brak went to get the medical supplies and Skess refused to let either of the guys to put a bacta patch on her, so Alessa had to do it.
The two brothers decided to get food, whilst Alessa helped Skess and made sure she was alright.
"I'm so weak," Skess complained.
"No you're not," Alessa said, "you were just scared, and everyone gets scared."
"Those creatures were so cute though. I don't think I'll ever judge a cute little creature again."
"Me neither," Alessa agreed.
"Maybe you should call your parents," Skess said, "They might worry where you are. You have to call them, don't you?"
Alessa nodded, "right after I finished looking after you."
"I'll be fine," Skess said.
"No," Alessa said firmly, "you won't be."
"You're so stubborn," Skess said.
"Runs in the family," Alessa replied, remembering what Luke said about everyone in the family being stubborn. "Maybe when we get back to Coruscant we can have a peaceful life again."
"I don't think so. Especially if we're going to be going on wild missions like this," Skess said.
"I've been through worse," Baven said, entering the room with a plate of sandwiches, Brak followed him with drinks.
"You alright, princess?" Baven asked Skess.
"Why must you call me that?" Skess asked him.
"Call you what?" he asked innocently.
"Princess," Skess answered simply.
"I don't remember your name," he said, again, innocently. Alessa knew Baven was lying.
"It's Skess."
"Sure thing, Skess," Baven said. He put the sandwiches down and left the room.
"I think he likes you," Brak said as soon as he left.
"How old is he?" Alessa asked.
"22," Brak replied.
"That's…oh…like 5, 6 years older than me," Skess said.
"Yea, but when he's 25, 26, you'd be 20. It's not that much of a difference just seems like it now," Brak said.
"Are you trying to make me like him?" Skess asked, "'cause it's never going to happen."
Alessa and Brak started laughing.
"What?" Skess asked, but they wouldn't reply, "What? What?"
Alessa just shook her head.
Skess crossed her arms, annoyed, "You think I'm lying?"
"No, no," Brak said, also shaking his head. He then got up "Baven and I are going to start the ship up. The earlier we get you home, the better, right?" He then left before they replied.
"I will kill you. Jedi or not," Skess said to Alessa, "one day."
"Sure, sure," Alessa replied, "I think that's enough bacta patches. I'm going to call my parents."
Skess nodded and Alessa went to get her comlink from her bag.
Once Alessa called her parents to say she was okay and saying the scar was from falling over (They seemed skeptical to believe her at first), she went to the cockpit.
When Alessa entered the cockpit, they only just started to come out of the atmosphere and into space. They then went into hyperspace.
"Finally, peace," Brak said.
"Yeah," Alessa agreed and took a seat. Skess wasn't in the cockpit, so she was probably still lying down.
"So, you gonna become a Great Wizard now?" Baven asked.
"Jedi," Alessa corrected, "and yeah, I will, because my ancestors were."
"Really?" Brak said, "Who were your ancestors?"
"The Skywalkers," Alessa answered casually.
"The Skywalkers…how original," Baven said rolling his eyes.
"I'm being serious!" Alessa said, annoyed, "I've had visions of them. Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader and there's Luke Skywalker who's his son and also Padme's son. There's Obi-Wan and there's that stuff on Mustafar and some wrinkly, old guy."
Baven put his hands up in defeat, "okay, okay, whatever you say. Jeez."
"So do you need any special qualifications to be a Jedi?" Brak asked.
"Force sensitivity," Alessa replied.
"What's that?"
"Basically you have powers that defy the laws of physics."
"Got any examples?" Brak asked.
Without saying a word, Alessa stood up, unclipped her lightsaber and put it to one side of the room. She went to stand over the other. She closed her eyes and reached her hands out. After a few moments, it was in her hand. Brak and Beven only stared at her in awe.
"That's…Wow," Brak said.
"It is," Baven agreed, "can you teach me to do that?"
Alessa laughed, "You're not force sensitive, sorry."
"Damn it," Baven said, "Would come in handy."
They sat talking for a while, nothing too important. Alessa said that she was born in Coruscant and she found out that the brothers were from Corellia. They then went on to play a few games of Sabacc, Skess came into the cockpit when they were in the middle of playing their tenth or eleventh game and just watched.
Alessa kept winning and Baven complained it was because of her scary wizard powers. She pointed out it wasn't her fault he broadcasted his thoughts so loudly because she couldn't control that.
After a couple more minutes arguing, they realised they had come out of hyperspace and arrived at Coruscant.
"Freighter Sandstorm," they heard over the ships comm, "please stop for scan of ship."
"Do they usually do this?" Skess asked.
"Only in the core worlds. That's why we get more money smuggling around here, real tough," Baven said.
"Freighter Sandstorm. We have picked up something unusual on our scanners. Prepare to be intercepted."
Skess glowered at Baven.
"I haven't smuggled anything!" He said. Alessa stared at him for a moment before coming to the conclusion that Baven was telling the truth. So what have they picked up?
The two ships connected and the space police entered their ship.
"What's the problem officer's?" Brak asked as they entered the cockpit with scanners.
"The signal seems to be coming from in here," one of them said. They put their scanner near Alessa, "that thing attached to your belt," he said, "and something in your pocket. Give them here."
Alessa gave her lightsaber and holocron to them, slightly worried about what would happen to the objects and her. Would she be thrown into jail?
"What are these?" The man asked.
"They're family heirlooms," Alessa said, thinking quickly, "they bring me good luck, so I carry them around."
"We'll have to check these out in the hall," he said and walked out of the cockpit, Alessa followed.
"You're not going to, like, pull them apart or anything, are you?" she asked worried.
"No," the man replied. He gave the lightsaber to one of the other men and inspected the holocron himself.
"This is a sort of box?" the man asked Alessa.
"Yes, but it's never opened," she said.
"What's your name?" A police woman nearby asked.
"Alessa Varsin," she answered.
The woman searched something up on a datapad, "no criminal record," she said as she looked through Alessa's records, "Just a witness to a recent crime."
Alessa's stomach did a flip. She knew she was talking about Dayne's death.
The other man, who was inspecting the lightsaber, found the on switch and the blue blade came to life.
"Be careful with that!" Alessa said and snatched the lightsaber off of him.
"Is that a weapon?" the police man, who had the holocron, asked.
"No," Alessa replied quickly.
"Let me see it."
"It's not a weapon!" Alessa said loudly.
"It's not a weapon," the man repeated.
"So you can all get out and forget this happened," Alessa said, a little surprised.
"We can get out and forget this happened," the man repeated. They gave the holocron and lightsaber back to Alessa and left the ship.
The other three were standing at the doorway to the cockpit.
"What was that?" Brak asked, amazed.
Skess stared at her in deep thought, "You know…" she said, "Every time you managed to tell those creeps at the races to go away, maybe you were using some sort of force power? Like mind control or something."
"The police ship should have unattached itself by now," Alessa said wanting to change the subject. Personally, she thought mind control was kind of freaky. "Let's get out of here quickly."
They all went back into the cockpit and headed to the surface of Coruscant.
They landed back in docking bay 94.
"I'll get our stuff," Skess said, so Alessa got out of the ship, followed by Brak.
"You know, it's only been about a day since you left to 'go on holidays'," Brak said, "maybe you and Skess can still stick with me and Baven for a little longer. We could do some normal stuff or something."
Alessa stared at him for a moment, "like a double date?" she asked, confused.
"Not what I meant," Brak said quickly.
As soon as he said that Skess and Baven came down the ramp. Skess was carrying her own and Alessa's bags in her hands, which she was gripping onto tightly. Alessa could sense a wave of anger from her friend.
"I don't know who you think you are," Skess was yelling at Baven.
"I think I'm Baven Dagachia," Baven interrupted, "I don't know who you think I am, but I guess I can be anyone you want me to be," Baven grinned mysteriously and winked at her.
Skess' expression turned from angry to disgusted, "you…you pedophile! I could go to the police you know!"
"You should see my criminal record," Baven said, being cheeky.
Skess sighed in annoyance and stomped over to Alessa and Brak, "He's gross," she said to Brak before passing Alessa her bag.
"We were just talking about how the four of us could hang out, maybe get some ice-cream or something," Brak said.
"But I guess that's out of the question," Alessa added looking back and forth between Skess and Baven.
"I will not tolerate that maniac," Skess said, "Let's just go home."
"You're not going home with bacta patches all over you," Alessa said quickly, "what would your father think?"
"Good point," Skess said, "maybe we could go to the comic store or something?"
"I would like to have a look at the holocron and, well, learn to be a Jedi," Alessa said.
"Let me get this straight," Baven said, "A friend of yours died only, like, yesterday or something, we nearly got eaten by tiny, man-eating creatures," Baven did pincer actions with his fingers, despite the fact stintarils don't have pincers, "and nearly got in trouble with the law…and you want to play with your laser sword and tire yourself out using these wizard powers?"
Alessa sighed, "You obviously don't get it. This is important."
"I don't get it either," Brak said.
"Jedi's were the peace keepers of the galaxy, defenders of people, they helped people all over the galaxy, regardless of species, gender and age," Alessa explained, "how many war-torn countries can you name?" Alessa asked. Luke had said there were many, but she couldn't remember any.
Baven shifted uncomfortably, "a few…" he answered.
"Jedi help stop that," She continued, "and if I bring back the Jedi order, I will bring peace to the republic!" Alessa felt uncomfortable at those last few words, she had heard them before. She remembered Calon telling her about the vision he had of Anakin and Padme on Mustafar. Hadn't Anakin said he had brought peace to the republic? Or to be more accurate – hadn't Vader said that?
"It sounds like the right thing to do," Brak said and nodded.
Skess was also nodding, "Absolutely. Is there any way a non-force sensitive can help out?"
"You guys already have," Alessa replied, "with coming with me to Yavin to get the holocron and lightsaber."
"Need to go on any other crazy missions?" Baven asked.
"Not yet," Alessa said, "But would it be okay if I can somehow get in touch with you guys if I do?"
"Here," Brak said, passing her the Sandstorms com number.
"Thanks," Alessa said and put it in her pocket. She then noticed a ghost in the distance. "I'll be right back," she said and went over to Luke.
"Congratulations," Luke said, "you managed to get the holocron and Obi-Wan's lightsaber."
"This is Obi-Wan's?" Alessa asked, unclipping it from her belt and turning it around in her hand in complete awe.
Luke smiled, "Yes it is. I also came to tell you not to expect me to be the only force ghost to come and talk to you. Obi-Wan, my father and Yoda have expressed interest in meeting you."
Alessa's eyes lit up at that, "Other Jedi want to meet me? That is so cool!"
"Dayne also said that he was very proud of you and to keep on going," Luke told her.
Alessa smiled sadly, remembering her friend, "I will keep going," she replied.
There was a moment's silence.
"It seems as though your friends think that you've gone crazy talking to yourself over here," Luke said, looking behind her.
Alessa smiled, "I guess I should stop 'talking to myself' then," she said.
"Very well," Luke said, "I shall perhaps speak to you later."
"Bye," Alessa said as Luke faded and she turned around and jogged back over to her friends.
"What was that all about?" Brak asked.
"Just talking to Luke," Alessa replied and laughed at their confused expressions.