Welcome back my children to a new chapter of the Christmas Story. We are closing in on Christmas aren't we? Well I hope many will be ready for it and I hope what you get is okay with you. Don't get mad if you didn't get the gift you wanted, it's the thought that counts right? At least that's the way I believe.

All right time to begin shall we? I don't own anything of Star Wars or DC universe. I don't own anything of General Herbison as well. He owns his own OC's and he doesn't own anything from Star Wars or DC universe. So shall we begin then? All right enjoy this next chapter everyone.

Crystal Search Part 2

Cave (Liana's pov)

We made it inside the cave as I stopped waiting for the others. Petro stopped as well as the others caught up, "So this is the cave huh? Looks pretty dark,"

"What? Scared Liana?" Petro said as Liana punched him in the shoulder.

"Watch it Petro or I'll be kicking your butt so hard you won't be able to sit down for months," Petro backed away a little scared of Liana.

Katooni snickered as this was the first time she saw Petro afraid of someone, "So does anyone know how we're going to find our crystals in a place made out of ice?"

"Mom told us we would need to focus and remember all we learned in order to find our crystal," Barriss said remembering what mom taught us.

Jake nodded, "She's right, let's remember our training and we'll find our crystals before the ice covers the exit. If we can't find them in time then we can spend a day in here till the sun melts the ice away,"

"Um Jake from my calculations (sniffle) taking into account the planetary movement of the system (sniffle) the sun only rises on Ilum every 19 days," Zatt explained.

"Oh," Jake was surprised by how long it takes for the sun to rise, "Well I guess we better go looking for our crystals before we turn into icicles huh?"

"Well I don't know about you lot, but enough with the chatter. I'm going to be the first to get my crystal and get out of here," Petro said confident he'll find his crystal first.

"Petro wait," Katooni said stopping Petro, "Maybe we should stick together?"

"No thank you," Petro said as he turned to the others, "You're on your own,"

Liana sighed, "So selfish, hey I'm going to keep an eye on him you guys go on ahead,"

"All right, but be careful Liana," Liana nodded and followed Petro while the others headed the other way.

The kids entered another room and saw three pathways that led to different caves, "Which way now?" Ganodi asked.

"We can go innie minnie miny mo," the others looked at Barriss confused.

"I don't think we have time for that, we may need to split up," Jake suggested.

"What? No we should stay together, what if one of us gets lost?" Ganodi didn't like that suggestion.

Katooni knew Jake was right, "Jake's right, we don't have time to go to one cave then another if we don't find the crystals,"

"But what if we get lost?" Barriss said a little worried.

"Hey, are we Jedi or cowards? On the count of three we close our eyes and point to a door," Zatt suggested, "The door you choose is the direction is where you'll go,"

The others nodded and counted to three. They all pointed to where they were going to go. Jake, Zatt, and Katooni in the first path, Ganodi, Barriss, and Ganodi in the middle, and Byph chose the last one alone.

"Oh sorry Byph, looks like you're on your own," Zatt felt bad that Byph was going down the cave alone.

Byph didn't like this and wanted to go with the others, "Byph your instincts told you to go that way. You have to follow your instinct," Byph was scared and didn't want to go alone.

"You shouldn't be scared Byph, you're a Jedi, you can do this," Jake said trying to help Byph.

As the others took off Barriss approached Byph, "Here," Barriss gave Byph a flashlight, "My dad gave me this and told me if I get scared I can use this to make all the bad monsters go away,"

Byph took it and thanked Barriss. Barriss kissed Byph on the cheek and left. Byph was a little surprised by the kiss and looked at the flashlight. Byph soon found his confidence and turned on the flashlight as he headed down the cave.

Soul Society (Hanako's pov)

I was in the kitchen getting things ready for the party at Katalia's place. I baked a lot of gingerbread cookies, made non-alcoholic or alcoholic eggnogs, and some the cake ready. I enjoyed being a soul reaper, but cooking has always been something I love doing, especially when it comes to baking.

My mom used to bake a lot and she taught me how to bake. I sighed when I remembered my mom wasn't here anymore. I looked out into the garden where Hayami and Kei were playing. I smiled as I was glad I was here for my daughter. I didn't want her to grow up without a mother like I did. Heck maybe when she is ready I can teach her how to bake.

"Is everything ready?" I turned around and saw Byakuya entering the room.

"What do you think?" Byakuya looked around and saw the table, counter, and half of the floor in the kitchen had trays filled with baked goods.

"A little too much don't you think?" Byakuya asked not responding like many husbands would if they saw how much sweets their wives made, "After all didn't Katalia say she was going to make the food?"

I looked around and didn't see any problems, "There is no such thing as a little too much and she said she was making the meal, not the deserts. I told her I would bring the deserts,"

"I don't remember her saying that," Byakuya didn't remember Katalia being okay with that.

"Just tell me you brought help to carry the food," I put my apron away and cleaned my hands.

"I did," I saw Retsu coming into the room.

"Hello Hanako," I smiled and hugged Retsu.

"Hello Retsu, I'm glad you came, and I see you decided to take up on my invitation huh?" Retsu nodded.

"Yes I have and I brought someone who wanted to see you," I saw two kids with black hair and blue eyes entering the room.

"Hi Hanako!" The kids were my grandpa's twin children, Gabriel and Luna, in a way they were my uncle and aunt, but they saw me more as an older sister.

A few months after Grandpa Ronin died, my new grandmother in law Retsu gave birth to the twins Gabriel and Luna. I was happy for Retsu since she never had children and was now a mother. I was sad though that she didn't have Ronin to help raise them, but after convincing her to move in with me and Byakuya we managed to help raise the kids together. Plus it was nice for Hayami to help out too as helping the kids made her mature a little.

"So, you two ready for the party?" The kids nodded, "Good, also Hayami is outside with Kei if you two want to play with them.

The kids got excited and nodded, "Thank you!"

I smiled as I was glad those kids were doing well despite their father not being here, "So you think it's time?"

Retsu nodded as she held in her hand a wrapped cloth that was wrapped around a long sword shape form, "I think it's time for Gabriel to take up this sword,"

"Do you think it will accept him?" Byakuya asked knowing who the sword belonged to.

"I hope so, at least with it he will be close to his father than before," Retsu had a sad expression on her face.

I walked up to her and hugged her, "I miss him too, but I know he's looking down on us happy that we're alive,"

"Thank you Hanako," Retsu thanked her granddaughter-in-law and her expression turned to happiness again, "Now let's get the food ready to go, okay?"

I nodded as we worked on getting the food ready for the party.

Meanwhile (Liana's pov)

Petro and I walked down the dark cave looking for anything that looks like crystals. I know my mom told me to be patient and concentrate on where my crystal would be. As we walked I could tell Petro was really full of himself. Like he was going to actually find his crystal so easily than the others and make it out of the cave first.

"Are you always this confident in yourself?" I asked.

"Why shouldn't I be?" Petro asked wondering why Liana asked him that question.

"Gee I don't know. Maybe it's because you told everyone you'll find your crystal and took off without them?" I said as Petro just smiled, which made me mad.

"We're in here looking for our crystals. Not looking for one. It would take too long if we stayed together, just like it is for you staying with me," Petro explained.

"The only reason I'm with you is to keep you from getting killed," I could tell Petro didn't take me seriously.

"Thanks, but um I don't need help okay I can take care of myself," Liana rolled her eyes and helped Petro up. Petro then spotted something shining, "That must be my crystal,"

I saw the crystal and wanted to say something, but didn't bother, "Yeah, must be it,"

Petro carefully got the crystal and smiled, "Looks like I got mine first,"

"Yeah, say why don't you go up to my mom and show her the crystal," I suggested knowing what it was.

"Sure you don't want me to stay and help?" Petro said in a mocking tone.

"No no go on ahead big guy," Petro shrugged his shoulders.

"All right, good luck then," Petro took off and I shook my head.

"That guy is such a dork," I then saw something shining and smiled when I saw what it was, "This is going to be good,"

(Jake's pov)

Katooni, Zatt, and I continued looking for our crystals as Zatt used his device to try and find them. While he did that I decided to try talking to Katooni again, "So um Katooni how did you join the Jedi?"

"Oh well, I was on my planet ten years ago when the Forever Empire appeared. My family managed to find some safety thanks to Master Adi Gallia who was the same species as me, but she died defending us," I saw Katooni's expression turned to sadness as I felt bad, "Master Drallig found me and my friends then took me back to the temple. My parents were okay with this and figure I would be safe there than at home. I guess they didn't hear what happened here huh?"

I remembered my mom telling my sisters and I the truth about what happened at her home world. How Uncle Mark was once an evil emperor that killed off almost all the Jedi and the non-human species of this galaxy. Liana has since then disliked Uncle Mark and Aunt Katalia, but if mom forgave him, then I should too. Though I shouldn't tell Katooni who my uncle and aunt are just yet, if they knew the truth it would be very bad.

"So Jake how did you become a Jedi?" Katooni asked.

"My mom asked my sisters and me if we wanted to become Jedi. She trained us and told us if we still wanted to be Jedi then we can continue training," I looked up at the ceiling and smiled, "It wasn't easy, but we got used to it and chose to become Jedi. That way we can protect people like my parents and grandparents have done,"

"Your grandparents, you mean your grandpa?" Katooni asked.

"Yeah, but again that's a story for another time. Hey Zatt how we doing on the crystals?" I asked wondering how Zatt's device was working.

"It doesn't seem to be working well, (sniffle), I don't think we went the right way. We better go back," Zatt sniffled again as the cold was getting to him.

Katooni was about to follow her friends when she spotted something bright," Wait, look up there. Something's flashing,"

Zatt and I looked up, but we couldn't see anything, "I can't see anything,"

Katooni turned to Zatt, "Why can't you see it? Jake do you see it?"

I shook my head and then remembered something my mom told me, "Wait maybe it's because that's your crystal. My mom said that only we would know which is our crystal and the crystal would know who it's user would be,"

"Really?" Katooni asked as she looked up to see how high it is.

"Yeah," Zatt understood what Jake was saying, "He's right, you'll have to climb Katooni,"

Katooni sees that it's up high and it might take too much time, "All the way up there? But it's just so high. I can't do that,"

"I believe in you," Zatt said trying to help his friend.

Jake placed his hand on Katooni's shoulder, "You can do it Katooni. Have faith in yourself and you'll succeed. If you want I can stay and help you,"

Katooni looked up and sighed, "No, I need to do this on my own, and I wouldn't want you guys to lose time to find your crystals. I'll be fine and thanks guys,"

"Good luck Katooni," Zatt took off as I waited a bit.

"Stay safe okay?" Katooni nodded as I followed Zatt.

(Barriss's pov)

Gungi, Ganodi, and I continued walking down the cave as we looked for our crystals. As we walked I decided talking to them would be a good way to pass the time. I asked some questions about themselves and they asked me about where I was from. I know my mom told me not to tell them too much, but I told too much.

"No way, you mean to tell me your mom defeated two Sith lords at the same time?" Ganodi asked in disbelief that my mom defeated two Sith lords.

Gungi spoke next as he was in shock too, "And in your world there are people with super powers?"

I nodded, "Yep, it's pretty cool. Though my parents said during my grandparent's time they had some cool heroes,"

Just then Gungi heard something. It sounded like some kind of whistling sound. He followed it as the others followed him. They entered into a large cavern where the sunlight was piercing in. There was also some kind of lake where it was partly frozen. At the end of the lake there was some kind of rock that connected from the ceiling to the lake.

Gungi could hear the whistling and approached the lake, "I hear something. Some kind of whistling sound,"

"A whistling sound?" I asked wondering why we couldn't hear it.

Gungi pointed to near the end of the lake where Ganodi figured it's where Gungi's lightsaber crystal is, "You think it's your crystal?"

Gungi nodded and tried to go get the crystal, but he almost fell into the water. Ganodi and Barriss helped him, "Gungi no, you'll never make it you'll freeze to death if you fall in. You need to be patient,"

"She's right look," I pointed to the dark side of the cavern where the water was frozen, "Remember when the sun pierced the ice waterfall? It melted, but when the sun was setting it froze over. Once the sun sets away from the lake and it freezes over you'll be able to get your lightsaber crystal,"

Gungi didn't like to wait and knew he wouldn't have time, "But what if it doesn't freeze over in time?"

"Just be patient and it will," I said trying to help Gungi.

"She's right, anyways Barriss and I should go look for our crystals. Good luck Gungi," Ganodi began to leave.

I knew I had to leave myself, "Remember what I said and you'll be fine," I left with Ganodi and I hope that Gungi would be okay.

(Normal pov)

Meanwhile Byph walked down the cave a little scared and cold. However, he held the flashlight Barriss gave him and remembered how she believed in him. He sucked it up and walked through the cave. He then spotted something nearby. It was bright and figured it was his lightsaber crystal. He walked towards it and stopped when he saw it was some kind of monster.

Byph ducked away and hid behind an icy rock as he peaked over and heard the creature growling. Byph soon got scared again, but then he noticed something shiny in the mouth of the creature. It looked like a crystal. Byph found his lightsaber crystal, but was too scared to get it. He accidentally moved the flashlight to his eyes blinding him a bit.

He recovered his sight and saw the flashlight. He picked it up and spoke in his native language, "If someone as young as Barriss can make it through this cave. Then so can I,"

Byph approached the creature carefully. He got a little scared, but kept his cool. He approached the creature and saw his crystal. He hesitated, but soon quickly grabbed the crystal and then. The lights went out as the creature turned out to be nothing more than some ice that looked like a monster. Byph shrugged it off and was happy that he got his crystal, thanks to Barriss.

(Barriss's pov)

Ganodi and I continued walking down the dark cave as it was getting colder. I kept my cool and focused on finding our crystals, but Ganodi I don't think was handling this whole test thing so well.

"This whole thing is ridiculous. I don't think there are any crystals,"

I shook my head, "Of course there is. We just need to find them,"

"We have been searching for what seems like forever. We won't fine them," Ganodi was starting to lose her patients and was losing faith.

I stopped and grabbed Ganodi by the arm, "Hey, look I know it seems like things are not going well. But we shouldn't give up so easily. If my mom and other Jedi could find their crystals, then so can we,"

"Why are you so confident we can find them Barriss?" Ganodi asked.

"Because," suddenly the ice under us began to crack and we fell through it. We landed on the ground hard and I shook my head, "Ganodi you okay?"

Ganodi coughed a bit and nodded, "I'm fine," we looked around and were in awe as we saw so many bright shiny crystals, "Whoa,"

"Yeah," I've never seen so many of the crystals. One problem though, "So um which one is ours?"

Outside the cave (Ahsoka's pov)

It has been half an hour since the kids went into the cave. I was getting worried. I was worried that something happened to the kids. I wanted to go inside, but I knew it wouldn't be right for me to do that since they had to go through with this whole thing on their own. Still I wish it didn't take so long.

"You shouldn't worry so much Ahsoka. They'll be fine trust me," Isamu was nearby making some ice sculpture animals. Lions, tigers, and bears sculptures, some big and some small, some life size, and some you can carry around.

"I can't help it. I'm a mom I have a right to be worried," I soon heard footsteps coming out of the cave. I turned around and saw it was Petro.

Petro ran up to us with a confident tone as he spoke, "Looks like I'm the first one back with my crustal, that wasn't so hard,"

"And the others?" I asked as Petro laughed.

"Who knows, I didn't want to gloat since I found mine so quickly," Isamu smiled and walked towards us.

"Show us then kid," Petro took out his crystal, which melted in his hand, "It seems your crystal somehow turned into ice. Gee I wonder how that happened?"

"That's impossible I was sure it was my crystal," Petro couldn't believe that his crystal was a fake.

Isamu decided to explain to the kid, "There's a difference between crystal and ice. Crystal are not found in obvious places, while ice,"

"Is found in obvious places," we looked behind Petro and saw Liana and Byph coming out of the cave showing off their crystals.

"Now that's a crystal," Liana and Byph showed their crystals to Ahsoka.

"Well done you two," Liana stuck her tongue out at Petro as I spoke to Petro with my arms crossed, "Well Petro looks like you're not done yet huh?"

"But the door is already half closed," Petro saw the ice was halfway done.

"Then you better hurry kid," Petro hesitated, but soon ran into the cave.

"Mom, did the others make it back?" Liana asked as she didn't see her siblings.

"Not yet, but hopefully they'll find theirs soon," I looked back at the cave and sighed, "Hopefully,"

(Jake's pov)

Zatt and I continued looking for our crystals as he used his device to find his crystal. So far it wasn't working as well as he thought it was, "That's impossible,"

"What is?" I asked wondering what Zatt was saying.

"It says there's crystals everywhere, but I can't see anything," I looked around and couldn't see the crystals neither, "Where, which way?" Zatt got frustrated and began banging his device against the wall, "Stupid useless dumb thing,"

I grabbed Zatt's arms and shook him carefully, "Zatt, relax it's okay look maybe the device is right. The crystals are here, but the reason we can't see them is because they're not for us,"

"Huh?" Zatt asked confused.

"Think about it. Katooni's crystal glowed for her and she only could see it. Ours isn't glowing because maybe it doesn't want to reveal itself to us," I explained as I figured why our crystals weren't revealing themselves to us.

"So how do we find them?" Zatt asked.

I released his arms and looked around, "We need to stop relying on technology and rely on the Force," we closed our eyes and began to focus on the Force, "Concentrate and feel through the Force where our crystals are. Only then will we find them,"

Zatt concentrated and felt something, "I feel something, it feels like," suddenly a bright light appeared behind Zatt.

We looked over and realized our crystals were there, "Whoa, both our sabers in the same spot. Who would have thought it huh?"

Zatt smiled, "Yeah, that's awesome. So um how do we get them?"

I looked around and picked Zatt's device, "Think you can use this to break the ice?"

Zatt nodded and began pressing some buttons as the device began to overcharge. We took cover as the device exploded destroying the wall and freeing our crystals. We grabbed them and saw them shining.

"Thanks Jake," Zatt said thanking me.

"No problem, high five," I had my hand up and Zatt looked at me confused, "Um just slap your hand on mine,"

Zatt did as I said, "Like that?"

"Yeah, heh we'll work on it," Zatt nodded as we took off for the exit.

As we did I couldn't help, but sensed something was up, "Um hey listen go on ahead I want to go check if Katooni got hers,"

"You sure?" Zatt asked.

I nodded as Zatt took off, while I went to check on Katooni.

(Barriss's pov)

Ganodi and I looked around the cave. There were so many crystals and they looked so beautiful, but none of them were the ones we were looking for, "There are so many, how are we supposed to know which one is ours?"

"I don't know," I don't know how we were going to find them, but doesn't mean we should give up.

I saw Ganodi fall on her knees as she was giving up, "It's hopeless we'll never find them," Ganodi began to cry.

I kneeled down and did what I could do. I wrapped my arms around Ganodi and hugged her, "Don't give up Ganodi. We're Jedi and we never give up,"

Ganodi sniffled and looked at me, "How can you still believe we'll find them?"

I smiled at Ganodi and wiped her tears, "Long ago my mom was turned evil by a mean man. The man tried to make my mom do bad things and tried to have her hurt my daddy. But my daddy didn't give up. Even when things looked bad he kept on fighting to save my mom. He managed to get through to her and save her from the darkness,"

"How?" Ganodi asked surprised by Barriss's story.

"Hope, he didn't give up saving my mom, and my mom didn't give up protecting my dad when the bad man tried to hurt daddy," I took Ganodi's hand and smiled, "Don't give up Ganodi. Jedi don't give up, Jedi don't get scared, and if a Jedi needs help then a friend will be there to help the Jedi. Ganodi I'm your friend and I will help you not give up,"

Ganodi smiled and hugged her friend, "Thank you Barriss,"

I nodded, "You're welcome, now let's find our crystals,"

Ganodi nodded and the two closed their eyes. The two outstretched their hands and used the Force to try to help them find their crystals. Two crystals began to shine brightly as the two continued to focus. The crystals flew out of the ice and landed in both girl's hands.

'"We got them!" The girls shouted together as they hugged each other.

"Thank you Barriss I couldn't have done it without you," I shook my head.

"No, you had faith in yourself and you did it," We got up and found a way out, "Let's go home,"

As we got out of the cave we ran into Gungi who had his crystal, "I found my crystal,"

Ganodi took hers out, "So did we. Good job Gungi,"

"Let's hope the others made it too,"

Meanwhile (Normal pov)

Katooni soon made it to the top and found her crystal. She carefully grabbed it. The light illuminating the cave disappeared as Katooni looked in her hand her crystal. It was small, but it was her crystal. She looked down and knew there wasn't time to go back down.

"Well that's going to take too long," Katooni found a path down and took off running.

Katooni ran down the came as she made her way to the entrance. She then slipped on the ice falling on her back and realized the ice was breaking beneath her, "Oh great," Katooni fell through the ice and fell into small cave room, "Oh no it's a dead end,"

Katooni realized that there was no way out. She approached an icy wall that allowed her to see through it. She recognized the other side and knew it led to the exit. She tried to break it, but it didn't work. She then tried calling out to someone, but no one was around to hear her.

"Great I have my crystal, but I'll never get out of this place,"

Outside the cave (Ahsoka's pov)

Isamu and I were outside the cave with Liana, Byph, and Zatt as we waited for the others. As we waited we saw Gungi, Ganado, and Barriss came out of the cave as they ducked their heads. They ran up to me and showed me their lightsaber crystals. I smiled at them as I was glad they succeeded.

"Excellent work you three. Still three more remain," I wondered why Jake hasn't returned yet with Katooni.

"Mom, where's Jake?" Barriss asked worried for her big brother.

"Don't worry Barriss, he'll come out," I didn't want Barriss to worry.

"Will they make it?" Zatt asked as he too was worried for his friends.

"We should go help them," Ganodi suggested, but Isamu stopped her.

"You need to have faith in your friends. They'll make it, trust them," Isamu sat down and closed his eyes.

"Is he serious?" Zatt asked.

I nodded, "He's right we need to have faith that they will make it," I sat down next to Isamu and closed my eyes.

Liana and Barriss sat down next to me and did the same thing. The other younglings nodded and sat down then closed their eyes. We had to have faith in the others that they will make it through this. To them this is their challenge and they needed to make it through with it on their own, at least without people getting involved from outside the cave.

Inside the cave (Jake's pov)

I kept looking for Katooni when I saw she wasn't where I left her. I was worried that she either got lost in the cave or worst. I knew she didn't make it to the exit since I could sense she was still in the cave, but I couldn't sense where she was. One of the many things I learned from my grandpa is how to sense spiritual energy. It comes in handy, except here somehow I can't sense Katooni's spiritual energy, at least as well as I could back home.

I then saw Petro running by and I shouted at him, "Petro!"

Petro stopped and turned to face me, "Jake? What are you still doing here? Did you find your crystal?"

I showed him mine, "Yep, but I'm looking for Katooni. Didn't you find yours?"

Petro shook his head, "No and we're running out of time,"

"Petro! Jake!" We heard Katooni's voice and saw she was behind an ice wall. We ran towards her and saw it was her, "Guys I'm trapped, can you help me out?"

"Sure don't worry we'll get you out, right Petro?" I turned to Petro who looked like he wasn't going to help, "Petro!"

"I'm sorry guys I haven't found my crystal," Petro was conflicted on what to do.

"Petro, you can't leave," Katooni pleaded for Petro to help.

"I have to go," Petro took off running.

"Petro!" I shouted at him and sighed in frustration, "Damn it,"

I turned to the ice and tried to break it free. Nothing, I tried using the Force, but it didn't work either. This ice was very strong and I couldn't break it alone. I looked at Katooni who looked worried. I wasn't going to let her die and I sure as well wasn't going to leave her here.

"Katooni listen I'll be back. I'm going to find Petro," Katooni had a look of fear in her eyes.

"No don't go Jake please don't go," I turned to Katooni and placed my hand on the ice.

"I will come back, I promise," Katooni looked in my eyes and placed her hand on the ice, "I'll be back don't worry,"

I went after Petro and I saw him stopping as he looked conflicted. I tackled him to the ground and slapped his face hard, "You're friend is begging you to help her and all you care about is a dumb crystal?"

Petro got me off him, "It's not a dumb crystal. It's my chance to become a Jedi,"

"You won't be a Jedi if you leave your friend behind. My grandpa says that those who break the rules are scum, but those who leave their friends behind are worst," I could see Petro's expression changed to feeling guilty, "She needs us and we can't leave her behind,"

Petro knew Jake was right and couldn't leave a friend behind, "Let's go,"

We ran back to Katooni and she was happy to see us both, "I knew you would come back,"

I nodded as I turn to Petro, "Got any ideas on how to break the ice?"

Petro examined the ice and knew what to do, "We don't have much time, put your hands on the ice, and together we'll break it,"

We did as Petro told us and closed our eyes. We then began to concentrate as we focused on using the Force to break the ice. We could feel the ice cracking as we concentrated harder. Soon the ice shattered and Katooni broke free. She wrapped her arms around Petro and I for a hug.

"Thank you both," I blushed when Katooni hugged me.

"You're um welcome," Katooni broke the hug and got out of the ice.

"Come on the doors are closing," Katooni and I began to run when we noticed Petro wasn't moving, "Petro?"

"You guys go ahead, I think I see something," Petro could see something glowing underneath the shattered ice.

"But it's too late," Katooni knew they didn't have time.

"Trust me, go!" Katooni didn't want to leave, but I knew what Petro found and put my hand on her shoulder.

"Trust him he knows what he's doing," Katooni nodded as we ran towards the exit.

Outside the entrance (Normal pov)

The ice wall was soon freezing over again as the Jedi waited for the three kids to make it out. Katooni and Jake ran towards the entrance and slid under the ice that almost covered the exit. Barriss and Liana ran up to their brother and hugged him. Katooni was greeted by her friends who were glad she made it.

"We found our crystals, but Petro is still inside," Katooni explained.

"What do we do mom?" Jake asked wondering what they should do.

Ahsoka looked at the cave and smiled at the others, "Don't give up he'll make it,"

The younglings turned to the ice and wondered if their friend will make it. Just then Petro broke through the ice and revealed his lightsaber crystal. Jake walked up to his friend and extended his hand. Petro shook it as Liana punched Petro in the arm.

"What was that for?" Petro asked.

"For being the last one out," Petro smiled as he shrugged it off.

Ganodi though looked confused, "How did he break the ice? I thought you said we would be trapped in there if we didn't make it out?"

Ahsoka smiled and explained to the kids, "The ice is easy to break if you have the will and yes I did say you would be trapped, but not by the cave. But your minds,"

The kids looked confused as Isamu explained, "The cave was a test. You all needed to find your crystals, but as you noticed it didn't reveal itself until you passed through a test," Isamu turned to the kids, "Byph you were scared, but once you found your courage you made it through,"

Ahsoka spoke next, "Gungi you were patient and thanks to that patient you were able to get your crystal,"

Isamu turned to Ganodi, "You lost hope, but once you learned to believe, and not give up. Then you were able to find your hope in the form of the crystal,"

Ahsoka turned to Zatt, "You trusted technology, but you needed to trust in yourself, and you achieved that goal,"

Isamu turned to Petro and Katooni, "Katooni you had doubts, but once you found your confidence you got to the top, and found your crystal. Petro, you're selfish," the others all nodded, "But once you learned that friendship is more important than a crystal you were able to overcome your selfishness and saved your friend,"

The six younglings all smiled as they passed their test. Ahsoka turned to her kids as she was very proud of them, "Liana you looked out for your friend and despite what happened you stayed focus, and got your crystal. Barriss you didn't give up and helped another not surrender. You helped give hope to your friend and that hope helped you find your crystal,"

Ahsoka turned to her son, "Jake, you're like your dad. You never give up and help others without thinking of yourself. You helped someone rely on their skills rather than on a device and you helped someone see there is more at stake than a crystal. I am proud of you all and I am honored to be your mother,"

The kids all smiled as they were glad they made their mother proud. Isamu smiled as he approached the kids, "Now then let's head home with your crystals, you're next step is coming soon, young Jedi,"

"Hey that was my line," Ahsoka said remembering how she told Isamu she was going to say that.

Carlac (Normal pov)

Meanwhile on the snow planet of Carlac near an empty village three hooded figures appeared as they approached the village. As they did another hooded figure appeared aiming a blaster at the figures and spoke in a woman's voice, "Hold it, who are you, and what brings you here?"

"We have an invitation," the middle figure who seemed to be the shortest of the trio revealed a holo-card as the female figure put her blaster away.

"You're late, they were going to start without you," The young figure put the card away and headed into one of the village huts as he was approached by another hooded figure.

"Boba Fett, so glad to see you again," the young figure removed his cloak revealing himself to be the son of Jango Fett, Boba Fett.

"Pre Vizsla, why have you summoned us here?" The figure removed his cloak revealing himself to the leader of Death Watch.

"I have a proposition for you. One that will lead us to destroy the Jedi and bring the Republic to it's knees," Boba looked interested as he saw more familiar figures in the hut.

Boba had a sly smile on his face and removed his cloak, "What's the plan?"

Uh oh Boba is back and it looks like Pre Vizsla is back too. How? Well remember the Forever Empire attacked non-human species. So Boba was safe, for now of course. But now what are they up to? And will it involved our Jedi friend and the kids? Maybe it does. Guess you'll have to wait till next time huh?

Please leave some reviews, just nothing negative. If you didn't like it then don't leave a review. Also check out some of General Herbison's stories too in case many of you don't remember who the Forever Empire is and how there is less Jedi in the galaxy, plus on how Ahsoka came to the DC earth. Take care everyone and see you all next time.