Jedi Temple, General Purpose Training Room, 20 Years Later

Nirri sat in the middle of the room surrounded by Younglings of all ages and species, some with assigned Masters, some without. She finished speaking, ". . . And that was how I came to join the Jedi. That day I was presented to the Jedi Council and Ryu Jayks was officially designated as my Jedi Master."

A teenager, one of the slightly older Younglings said, "If I can ask Master Nirri, what happened to your father, Xoran? Did he change his path and join the Jedi too. Master Skywalker says that even a Sith can change, can be redoomed."

Nirri said, "You mean redeemed?" Giggles broke out among the assembled Younglings. Nirri said, "That's enough Younglings. It's a fair question. Don't be mean over a misused word." When the giggles stopped, Nirri continued, "To answer your question Padawan Riker-Troi, though Xoran may have been my father by blood, I again chose to have nothing to do with him from that day on. Though I have long since forgiven him what he tried to do, since the ability to forgive is very powerful on its own, I will not forget. When Master Jayks hit him with the kinitite hadoken, it not only won the fight for him, but it severed Xoran's connection to the Force . . . permanently. According to the Tedryn holocron and its Gatekeeper, the ancient Jedi Master Odan-Urr, to sever a person's connection to the Force, even one who chose the Dark Side, is the most devastating attack possible with the powers of the Light Side and is a terrible thing. Xoran will never get to decide if he wants to learn of the Force."

Another Youngling, a Bothan, raised her hand and asked, "What about that group that wanted to turn humans into second class citizens?"

Nirri turned to the girl and said, "By the terms of the wager that Master Ryu made with Xoran, when he won the fight, he got the datacards and the lightsaber. The information on those cards helped a joint Starfleet Security and New Republic Peace Officer task force, no pun intended, to move in and take down every cell that had been involved in active, criminal efforts on behalf of the movement. Each cell that was captured turned over more information until the leader of the entire H.A.T.E. organization was exposed and captured. As it turned out, it was the Bothan Senator, Borsk Fey'lya. He was arrested, tried, convicted and in accordance with Bothan tradition, his entire family was dishonored. For those of you familiar with the Klingons, think of it as discommendation. But for the fact that the spice mines of Kessel were turned into a legitimate mining operation many years ago, Fey'lya would still be there, working in darkness day after day, and so would Xoran. As it is, both of them are in penal colonies on opposite sides of the New Republic. Xoran may get paroled in a few more years, but Fey'lya will be incarcerated for the rest of his natural life. A few of the smaller chapters of H.A.T.E. still exist as a fringe group devoted to the removal of humans as a power in the galaxy but are harmless. As is so often the case, the actions of a few, create a bad reputation for the group as a whole. After the trial of Fey'lya, Michelle Karú performed another Psychometric reading and as it turned out, the lightsaber did indeed belong to the Jedi Master Yoda, one of the greatest Jedi ever. Yoda also trained Ryu's father, Ronin Jayks and well as Master Skywalker."

Still another Youngling raised their hand, "Did you learn the kinitite hadoken like your Master? How come I've never seen him?"

Nirri smiled and said, "Master Ryu trained me for ten years. In that time he taught me everything I know about the Force and Teräs Käsi, including his special techniques, the hadoken among them. Five years after I was made a Knight, he and Master Shaznia moved to the Federation Homeworld with a cross section of knights and masters and built a Jedi Temple across the bay from Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. But before he did, he passed ownership of his dojo to be held jointly by his son Kenod, his daughter Gabrielle and their respective spouses. His Cousin Michelle Karú accompanied them and introduced them to the rest of her family. Kenod and Gabrielle went with them just long enough to meet their distant cousins but returned to Coruscant. Five years after he and Shazi left, for a total of ten years after my Jedi Trial, I was made a Master and have been helping teach Padawans like you for about a year now. Any other questions for now?"

Padawan Riker-Troi raised his hand again and said, "If Master Ryu taught you all of his techniques, but passed his dojo over to his kids, what does that make you?"

Nirri said, "That makes for another story for another time and makes me end this group right now and send you back to your other classes."

A collective groan of the type that only children can make was heard throughout the room to be replaced with more giggles as the Younglings left the room. As they did, Nirri was by herself for a moment until Kenod entered the room, took Nirri in his arms and kissed her soundly. "They'll figure it out sooner or later wife o' mine. Especially Padawan Riker-Troi; he's as sharp as they come at that age. His younger sister will be just as quick I imagine."

Nirri answered, "I imagine you're right husband of mine but there's no point in boring them with how we came together, over a two hadoken backblast double knockout, just yet. Let's go to the Nursery, pick up the twins and then go home."

Kenod smiled and took his wife of five years by the hand and said, "Where you go Master Nirri Jayks, I follow."

Nirri answered back as was the way of their inside joke, "And where you go Master Kenod Jayks, I'll follow you."