Hello everyone, welcome to chapter 15 of Relationships! I want to say thanks to everyone! You guys have been so supportive, we are at 60 reviews! WOW! Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Padme' sat on her sofa looking at pictures of the burnt-to-a-crisp hangar. She scrolled threw them examining each of them closely. She finally reached the list of deaths and body counts. Expecting to find Lux's name, she read through them closely. His name wasn't on the list.
"What!?" Padme' gasped as she began to read threw the names again,"He's not on the list, and the number of bodies amount to the number of names! He's alive!"
She stood up quickly and ran in the other room to fetch her holo projector. She had to tell Ahsoka.
Ahsoka sat in the cockpit of her ship just about to fall asleep. She had told R7 moments earlier to take control while she rested.
The beeping of her holo projector shook her as her eyes popped open wide.
clicking the button to answer she said," Ahsoka here."
"Ahsoka, Lux is alive!" Padme' blurted quickly.
"What?!" Ahsoka gapsed.
"Lux is alive!" She said again in even more excitement.
"How? He was in the hanger when the bomb went off." Ahsoka said in confusion.
"I thought the same thing, but I checked the deaths list and his name was not there!" She said as a tear of joy ran down her face.
"How do you know they weren't able to identify his body?" Ahsoka asked thinking she had just proved she was right.
"Because the number of names matches with the number of bodies found after the explosion! Ahsoka, he is alive!" She said wiping away another tear.
Ahsoka's eyes began to grow watery and it grew very hard to see,"R7 take control of the ship for minute "
"We must go look for him!" Padme' said expecting to get a quick 'yes'.
Ahsoka groaned lightly.
"What is it?" Padme' asked.
"I was told to meet a man by the name of Sage Ornate because I would supposedly put the mission at risk with my emotions as sloppy as they are!" She said as her checks turned slightly red in anger.
"Well why don't you do as you always do?" Padme' asked smiling to herself.
"And what is that?" Ahsoka asked with a side grin.
"Skip out and go on to do something else!" Padme' said with a laugh behind her voice.
Ahsoka laughed too, if only she could.
"I can't, obi-wan has already informed Master Sage that I am coming " She said quietly.
"Blast!" Padme' said in a louder tone.
"You can go on with out me! I'll catch up as soon as I am done here!" Ahsoka replied.
"I know! I'll go down to the hangar and look for clues! Surely there is something there that can get us started!" Padme' said as she grabbed her shoes.
"Ok, but call me as soon as you find anything!" Ahsoka said smiling.
"Ok, Ahsoka!" Padme' said smiling and then their call ended.
Ahsoka smiled to herself. Lux may be alive! The thought alone brought joy back into her heart. She wished she could tell Anakin, but the fear that he would think she was only trying to get out of meeting Master Sage crossed her mind.
"Blast!" She yelled to herself.
Why did things have to be so difficult?
"R7, how much farther?" Ahsoka asked leaning back in her seat again.
R7 beeped his reply sending the translation to the ships computer.
"Good! I'm ready to get out and walk around to stretch my legs!" Ahsoka said sitting up now.
The blue tunnel came to an end revealing a very green and brown planet. Ahsoka thought it was the ugliest planet she had ever seen! Ahsoka groaned, she regretted not turning around to help Padme' look for clues as to where Lux had vanished to.
"Who would want to live here!? Especially a jedi master!" Ahsoka said to herself.
As the ship flew closer and closer to the planets surface, the sky became covered with fog! The fog was to thick for Ahsoka even though her torgutian eyes were built for stuff like this, she had to let R7 take control of the ship.
R7 flew slowly threw the dark, merky Dagobah atmosphere when suddenly a tree seemed to have come out of nowhere!
"R7 look out!" Ahsoka screamed to him, but it was too late.
The ship fell out of the sky landing in a big pile of mud and moss covered water. Ahsoka could not see a thing, the glass that covered the cockpit was fogged up from the moistness of the air and the colder temperature of this swamp-like planet.
"R7, are you still there?" Ahsoka asked rubbing her head after hitting it on the control panel on impact.
R7 beeped in a low tone.
The cockpit opened slowly. When she stood to get a view of the landscape, all that visited her eyes were multiple pools of mud and dirty, green water.
Ahsoka was discussed!
"I sure don't want to be expelled if this is where they send you to for exile!" Ahsoka said to R7 as he popped out of his cubby hole,"I don't sense anything It's strange "
"Then you are unfocussed " An old scratchy voice said from the bushes.
Ahsoka turned quickly taking hold of her light saber. She hadn't ignited it for she didn't intend scaring the thing . away.
"Who's there?" Ahsoka called into the thick patch of vines and trees.
When no-one replied, fear sent a tingle up her spine. Ahsoka shivered at fears touch.
"I'm warning you!" Ahsoka said igniting her saber now.
"There is no need for weapons such as that here " The same scratchy voice said from behind her again.
Ahsoka turned to find a very old, scruffy, dirty, poorly clothed Zabrakian male.
"Who are you?" Ahsoka said readying herself in case of an attack.
"First I must ask you to put that away.." he said waving his hand in the air de-activating her light saber.
Ahsoka was shocked, the only other time she had seen force powers like that was at Mortis.
"What, and who, are you?" Ahsoka asked, tilting her head in curiosity now.
The old Zabrak hobbled over to a tree stump and took a seat.
"I am no-one .or at least, now I am not " He said in an old feeble voice.
Ahsoka was unsure what to think. Could he be trusted? Was he Sage Ornate?
"I'm sorry to barge in, but I am looking for someone " Ahsoka said walking over to face him.
The Zabrakian man closed his eyes and began to stroke his beard,"You seek a jedi master "
Ahsoka was in even more shock now, this was obviously not your average Zabrak.
"Yes, do you know where he might be?" She asked sitting on a log across from the old man.
The man nodded slowly and said,"Yes yes, I do but he is no longer a jedi if you wish to seek training from him "
Ahsoka became discouraged at hearing this. Had she really made a wasted trip?
"I was sent by Jedi Master Obi-wan Kenobi to meet him here " Ahsoka said narrowing her brows.
The old mans eyes brightened up at hearing the name "Obi-wan Kenobi".
"Obi-wan Obi-wan that's a name I haven't heard in a long time ." The man said staring into the mud puddles.
"How do you know him?" Ahsoka asked.
"I served with him in my younger years .but that has been many years ago ." The Zabrak said looking up at her.
"Master Sage?" Ahsoka asked tilting her head and narrowing her eyes.
The old man looked up to her, staring her dead in the eyes.
"I am he " Sage said calmly as a tear came to his eye.
The naming of Obi-wan and calling of his name brought back many memories, some good, some bad.
Ahsoka had never seen a jedi master cry before besides Anakin who was only a jedi knight.
"I was told you could help me " Ahsoka said getting up and moving over to sit beside him.
"I am afraid you are too late ." Sage said standing to his feet making his way to the woods again.
"What!?" Ahsoka said standing as well.
"I am no-longer a teacher or a jedi for that matter.." he said as he turned his head slightly so he could see her from the corner of his eye.
"Yes you are! You just don't serve any more!" Ahsoka said making her way towards him.
Sage closed his eyes in deep thought before he spoke.
"Follow me " He said walking slowly into the forest.
Ahsoka hesitated at first but decided following him was better then staying in this horrid place.
"R7 watch the ship." She commanded him.
R7 beeped a positive response and watched as the two dis-appeared into the jungle.
Lux sat in the corner of his cell. The singing of a now crazy prisoner was beginning to sound good to him as he himself sat there beginning to go mad.
"Oyh! Knock it off! It's bad 'nough we have to go with only one meal a day!" another prisoner shouted across the cells.
"Don't do wrong you won't get caught!" The crazy old hag shouted back laughing uncontrollably.
Lux hated it here! The shouting of the other prisoners, the green slop known a food, wonderful dreams which turn out not to be real - All this was too overwhelming to him.
"I have to get out of here!" Lux said to himself.
Quickly looking around for something to pick the lock with, he saw a bone laying in the corner. He ran to it in high hopes that he could pick the lock like in all the stories.
He shoved his arm between the steel bars and began to wiggle the bone around in attempts to unlock the door.
"Aye! What do ye think yer doin?" Shouted another crazy old man.
"I'm not going to sit around waiting for my death! I would rather die trying to escape then die in this cell!" Lux shouted.
The crazy old man took a swig of wisky and fell over on his back as drunk as a jawa.
"Come on!" Lux said giving the bone one last good twist when all of a sudden the door made a snapping noise.
Lux gently pushed on the door. It slid open!
"Yes!" Lux shouted then immediately covered his mouth with his hand.
Lux looked down the hall to make sure the coast was clear. It was.
He quickly jogged down the hall when all of the other prisoners began to yell at him shouting,"Don't leave us! Get us out!"
Lux thought for a moment. If he went alone he would have a better chance of remaining unseen, but if he had the rest of the prisoners with him, they could swarm the base and capture Dooku - or so he thought.
"If I help you, you must swear to help me take Dooku's head!" Lux demanded walking down the hall looking into all the cells.
"We will!" shouted the old crazy man who had been singing earlier.
Lux thought for a minute and decided it would be best.
Unlocking all the cells, the prisoners gathered in a group trying to come up with a plan.
When all were released Lux climbed on top of a crate.
"Listen up!" He shouted just loud enough to be heard amongst the prisoners,"I helped you all, so you are all under my command! We will move in groups, group A, group, B and group C, group A will move first and take the east side, group B, will go down the middle while group C clears the right hall, understood?"
All the men looked at him in disbelief.
"You expect us to follow your orders! You are only a boy!" one man shouted.
"Yes but I have escaped Death Watch and Dooku and I believe I can do it again!" Lux responded.
"I think we should listen to him!" Another man said getting many agreements from the prisoners.
"Good, now lets move out!" Lux said and jumped off the crate.
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