Chapter 3: Memories.
"Yes, you are right Padawans, the Exile has returned." Master Kavar said
"Good to hear this news about the Exile these are, Padawan." Master Vandar said.
"Do you think she has something to do with Peragus destruction?" Revan asked concerned.
"We don't know yet, that's why we want to talk with her and her companions." Master Atris answered. Revan was relieved when he heard this, in the past year he had barley recovered part of his memory. The only things he could remember were part of his training, part of his childhood and small pieces of the Mandalorian Wars.
"Is that all Masters?" Revan asked minutes later.
"With you, yes. But we want to talk with Bastila in private." Master Kavar said.
"As you wish Master." Revan said and bowed in front of the masters, before he left the Chamber, he turned to Bastila and gave her a smile. Once Revan was outside the Chamber, the doors were closed. Meanwhile, Revan was lost in his thoughts…
A small girl about five was looking for someone, with so many apprentices; she couldn't found the person she was looking for.
"You were looking for me?" A voice said behind her.
"Revan! Where were you? I have been looking for you everywhere." Meetra answered worried.
"Relax, Meetra. I was with Master Kreia; she asked me if I could be your 'older brother' for a while." Revan answered.
"Really?" Meetra asked excited. Revan nodded. "It amazing, I always wanted an older brother." She said happily, Revan smiled and the two walk off to the courtyard.
Revan's thoughts were interrupted by a voice. "Revan!" Bastila said smiling. She ran towards him and jumped into his arms, he twirled her around.
"What did they told you?" Revan asked curious after seeing his love very excited.
"They are going to give me my knighthood the day after tomorrow." She answered happily.
Revan was surprised, after two years, the Council finally made the decision to give her the knighthood; she deserved it after all they have been through. They gave Revan his knighthood first because they thought that she wasn't ready. But after many trainings and lot of effort, the Council finally decided that she was ready.
"Those are good news, sweetheart. I'm very happy for you." He answered. He kissed her and she returned the kiss. They were so concentrated in each other, that they never realized someone was watching them.
"Sheez, get a room, will ya?" Mission said in a disgusting tone as she rolled her eyes.
The two broke apart quickly, trying not to seem embarrassed. Bastila had a pink color in her cheeks and Revan rubbed the back part of his neck. "So, do you like the Temple?" Revan asked after a few minutes, trying to change the topic of the conversation.
"It's amazing; I never thought the Jedis had many histories in the walls of the Temple." Mission answered surprised.
"Where's Juhuani?" Bastila asked looking around. "She had some things to do, so she told me to meet you in the main hall of the Temple." Mission answered trying to leave out the part when she encountered Revan and Bastila kissing.
"Hey Revan, can I stay in the Ebon Hawk while you are here before the Jedis give you another mission?" Mission asked.
"Sure Mission, you will be always welcome." Revan answered smiling. Mission returned the smile and hugged Revan. "I promise I will not give you any problems." She said.
"Mission, why you don't head to the Hawk first? I need to talk with Revan in private." Bastila suggested Mission nodded and turned to leave, before she could go out through the door, Revan called her: "Mission!" Revan exclaimed. "Make sure HK hasn´t killed anyone yet, and tell him that I gave you permission to aboard the ship." He said.
Mission nodded again and went out of the Temple. Bastila grabbed Revan's hand and led him to the gardens of the Temple.
"So, what you want to talk with me?" Revan asked as they were sitting on a bench.
"I am curious about how you met the Exile. You seem very worried back at the reunion with the Council." Bastila said.
"Oh, yeah, I think I should give you an explanation." Revan answered nervously.
"Yes." She answered feeling a little upset.
"I was a kid about six years old when I met Meetra; she was a year younger than me. The first months we became very good friends, my master saw this and tell us that we were like siblings, so she became my ¨adoptive sister¨. The years passed and we always had the typical relation brother-sister, she was my family, if you can say that. After the end of the Mandalorians Wars, I never saw her again. That was three years ago." Revan explained. His voice filled with sadness.
"That's why you always treated Mission like a younger sister?" Bastila asked.
"Yeah, even I never first realized who I was; I considered that she needed an image of an older brother after her own brother left her behind. When we found out who I was, she didn't care; she told me that I've been doing an excellent work as an older brother, something his brother never did." He answered.
"Anyway, I curious how you met Meetra too."
"I met her at the enclave back on Dantooine, she was four years older than me, so I guess she was nine when we first met." Bastila answered. "She talked very much about you, she always said that you were always training to become a great Jedi knight."
Revan chuckled; these memories were the most important for him after his old memories were returning back.
"Wait" He said rising a finger. "What you really wanted to know if we had something, right?" He said with a cocky smile.
Bastila's eyes wide, she blushed and said "At first yes…but after you told me this I…" But she was cut off by Revan who put his finger on her lips.
"I was joking." He answered smiling.
"You will never change." She answered returning the smile.
They went out of the Temple and took a speeder to go back to the hangar where the Hawk was. When they arrived, they found HK guarding the ramp.
"Statement: I'm glad that you had returned master, I assume that the female meatbag is going to stay with you tonight." HK said.
"That's right HK, keep guarding the ship." Revan answered.
"Answer: As you wish master." HK said.
They aboard the ship and spent the rest of the afternoon speaking. Later that night…
The forest was humid and foggy, the only sound that could be heard, was the sound of the insects and the animals that lived there, it was midday, but it was too cloudy to saw the sunlight.
Bastila was walking through the forest with her double-blade lightsaber, she arrived to a cave and went inside, she ignited her lightsaber for light, the only thing she could see was darkness around her, she followed a path that lead her to a door. She opened it and saw a tomb, like the ones in Korriban but this was empty, there wasn't a sarcophagus inside it, the only thing that was inside it was a trunk made of stone and many statues.
She opened the trunk and found a small holocron.
Bastila opened her eyes and saw that it was only a dream or maybe it was a vision, she couldn't know. Why the force was given her these dreams and why Revan's presence wasn't there?
She got up and put on her robe and left her dormitory. She went to the small kitchen that the ship had, there she found Revan sitting at the table, he was drinking something.
"Revan!" She said. "What are you doing up at this hour?" She asked facing him.
"I couldn't sleep, and I see that you couldn't sleep either." He answered smiling.
"No, I had a strange dream." She answered sitting in front of him.
Revan stayed in silence a few minutes. "What did you saw?" He asked.
"A forest, then a cave, I walked through the cave until I reached a door, I opened it and I entered inside a tomb, but it was empty, the only thing it had was a trunk and many statues. Inside the trunk was a small holocron." She answered and explained every detail of the dream.
"Did you saw the holocron?" He asked.
She shook her head and said "No."
Both stayed in silence few minutes until Bastila spoke.
"You think this have something to do with the dream I had one year ago?" She asked.
"I hope not." Revan answered looking at her eyes. He took her hand which was on the table. "Don't worry, I won't allow that dream come true." He said.
She only smiled, she got up and went to the food dispenser and prepared some tea. Revan stood up and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hey, I was thinking…if you're afraid of those dreams…maybe I can spent the night with you." He said.
"Really?" She asked curious.
"Yes, well, if you agree with it, of course."
She leaned up to him and whispered something to him, which earned a smile from Revan, then Bastila took her cup of tea and started to walk to her room, but before she could leave the kitchen she turned around. "I'll be waiting." She said and winked at him. Revan's smile only grew wider and he followed her.
The next morning, Revan, Bastila and Mission were at the Temple waiting for the arrival of the Exile. An hour later, a small group of Republic soldiers arrived.
"What we have here?" A voice very familiar said.
"Carth, I mean, Admiral Onasi, is that you?" Revan asked after seeing his friend.
"Yes, it's me." Carth answered. "Hi Bastila, hi Mission."
"Hi Carth." Bastila answered.
"Hi old geezer, how have you been?" Mission asked.
"Fine. And you?"
"You know, exploring, lowering down force-fields." Mission answered.
"So, I heard that you are commanding the restoration of Telos." Revan said.
"Yeah, it's true. It has been difficult, even now after losing Peragus facility, we need more help." Carth answered.
"I see, how's your boy?" Revan asked.
"Dustil? Following my steps, he wants to help other people like me." Carth answered.
Revan chuckled, then three people was heading to the doors of the Temple. A group of Jedis were already in front of the door to receive them. When they passed beside Revan and his companions, the Exile, who was walking in front of the other two, put down her hood.
"Revan? It's really you?" Meetra asked.
"Yeah, it's me Meetra." Revan answered. The Exile hugged Revan.
"They were a couple?" Carth asked.
"No, the Exile is like Revan's adoptive sister." Bastila answered.
"Adoptive sister?" Carth asked almost laughing.
"It's a long story." Bastila answered.
"I'm glad to see you again, come I want to show you something." Revan said and took Meetra to his friends. "Meetra, I'm sure you know her." He said pointing at Bastila.
"Of course, Bastila Shan, much time without seeing you." Meetra answered.
"Good to see you Meetra." Bastila answered shaking hands with Meetra.
"And she is Mission Vao, I found her in Taris." Revan said.
"Nice to meet you Mission." Meetra said.
"Nice to meet you too." Mission said. Meetra smiled, she had blond and green eyes. She was a little bit taller than Bastila. Suddenly, one of the companions of the Exile intervened "Hey babe, what's going on?" A young man of Meetra's age asked. He had brown hair and hazel eyes; he looked like a pazaak player.
"Babe?" Revan asked surprised.
Meetra sighed and said "Revan, he is Atton Rand, he was in a cell when I met him back at Peragus."
"Why you were in a holding cell?" Revan asked.
"The people that worked there, thought I had sabotage the facility, so they put me in a cell, until she came around." Atton answered.
"I had to free him; he told me that he could take us out from the facility." Meetra said. "And after escaping Peragus, I told him to set course to Telos, there, we could found some help." She said.
"That's good to hear." Revan answered. "Come, the Council is waiting for you." He said.
After saying goodbye to Carth, the group went inside the Temple; there the Jedis escorted Meetra and her companions to the Council Chamber. The only one admitted was Meetra and her companions.
"Bas, can I talk you for a second?" Revan asked.
"Sure, what is it Revan?" She answered.
"Do you remember about the holocron you saw in your dream last night?" He asked.
She nodded her head. "Well, I've been thinking about it all morning and an hour ago I remembered something." He said.
"What did you remember?" She asked.
"I was the person who made those holocrons." He answered.
"What?" She asked confused.
"I made those holocrons months before taking part in the Mandalorians Wars." He answered.
"Why? What did you recorded in them?" She asked more confused now.
"I recorded my thoughts about the situation, I felt angry towards the Order, because they hadn't done anything about the menace." Revan answered. "The Republic needed help and the Council said that it wasn't our war, that's why I started to record my thoughts."
"What else you recorded?" She asked.
"Military tactics; how to infiltrate in the enemy's army; how to use their own weaknesses against them. Even how not to look like a sith and infiltrate in the Order." He answered.
This shocked Bastila; she couldn't believe what Revan was tilling her. "Where are these holocrons?" She asked.
"I…I really don't know, I can't remember where I hide them." He answered.
Minutes later, Meetra, Kreia and Atton exited the Council Chamber. They met with Revan and company and told them that they were out of suspicion about what happened in Peragus. Revan entered where the Council was, he told them about the holocrons he had made, he feared about the Siths, if they found at least one of the holocrons, they would have information about the Republic and the Jedi and how to defeat them.
The Council decided to speak this new information in private, so they told Revan to leave until the have made a decision. An hour later, the Council informed Revan that he needed to recover the holocrons. He agreed and told them that he needed to make preparations before going to look for the holocrons.
Revan and his companions said goodbye to Meetra and her companions, they were spending the night in the rooms that the Temple had.
"Why you never told me about this part of the plan?" The voice of one of the Dark lords said very angry.
"Because we need the element of surprise. The will never suspect that there is a sith between them." The other Dark Lord said.
"My Lord." A soldier said.
"What do you want?!" The Dark Lord asked angry.
The soldier remained silence few minutes; he was scared about the reaction of the Dark Lord. "Look me in the eyes and tell me what do you want sergeant." The Dark Lord said.
The sergeant lifted his head and look into the Dark Lord's eyes, one of them was white, without the brightness that his other eye had. "The assassins are ready, my Lord. As soon as you give the order, they will prepare the tramp for Revan." The sergeant said.
"Good, give the order sergeant."
"As you wish, Darth Sion." The sergeant said.
A/N: Well I made some changes in the other chapters of the story (This has nothing to do with the reviews I had received).
These are the ages of the characters:
Revan: 20, when he entered to the Mandalorian Wars; 24 at the end; 25-26 capture, redeem and quest for the Star forge. 27 right now.
Bastila: 20-21 when she captured Revan, quest for the star forge. 22 right now.
Meetra: 23 at the end of the war; 26 right now.
Atton: 26 right now.