I immediately rose from the bed, standing up. Rooda opened her eyes and sat up as I reached for my loincloth, to start wrapping it tightly around my waist. Rooda did the same with her loin straps and cloth. We both looked at each other in confusion, picked up our weapons and darted outside.

We saw the entire herd of Zan-Deer in the village gather as we all saw a large metallic craft landing near the outskirts of Randin. Rooda and I walked through the crowd to the front, to see what was happening.

"Eyt, what is it?" Rooda looked to me.

"It's one of those large starships, from space." Tzano came up from the crowd on his hovering chair. "We may have a visitor."

Something big was happening. A change in our routine. But how? I couldn't have brought this- or could I? I never thought I was going to get a sudden change.

"Rooda, do you think this is the change?" I turn to her.

"Maybe?" She held her light spear in her hand as the door began to open.

A figure began walking out of the ship. He wasn't a Zan-Deer. He was human. He had a green jacket over a white holy v-neck shirt, with big black boots over gray pants. From his shirt, his strings of black hair over the front of his head, the noticeable lightsword hanging from his belt, and the massive scar from his right eyebrow down to his collarbone, he was a fighter of some sort. But why has he come here?

"Who are you, strange visitor?" Chief Tzano asked the traveller.

The stranger coughed, then spoke.

"My name is Rakine," he looked at his weapon. "Rakine Cerivian. I am a rebel fighter from the Yavin system."

"Yavin?" Rooda looked at him in confusion. "Is that your home planet?"

"It is," He nodded. "I have come here to seek your council." He looked around. "Is their a leader or chief?"

"That would be me," Tzano strolled closer with his chair, lifting a hand in the air. "What is it you need, Sir Rakine?"

"Please," he chuckled, "just Rakine will do." He turned to look at all the huts and homes of the village.

"If you seek council, then follow me to the village Chief Hall." Chief Tzano started his chair and moved into the Chief Hall, a small building, built from hardened mud and sand. He motioned Rakine to follow, then he motioned me and Rooda to enter. The chief stopped in one spot at a table and Rakine pulled out a bone chair, upholstered in desert spider leather, to sit down. Tzano beckons us to sit as well.

"Now," the chief looked at Rakine, "What brings you here?"

"The Galactic Republic has fallen seven years ago," he said with a sigh. "The shroud of the Empire still grows throughout this galaxy. I'm worried that the Empire will find this system and either assimilate you into joining them, or kill everyone and take this planet for themselves."

The chief stared in disbelief and started letting out a hearty chuckle, shaking his head.

"The Republic didn't exist way out here. I don't think an "Empire" is going to find out about the Zant system." He looked at me and asked. "What say you, Eyt?"

I don't even know what to say.

"If there is an Empire, we should prepare for their arrival. If their as hostile as he says, we defend this land. And if not-"

"You primitives won't stand a chance against the Empire." Rakine started laughing. "Your weapons can't stop against, say, blasters and lasers and even a lightsaber." He pulled out his weapon and pressed a small button. A large, red blade struck out of its base.

"Eyt has one like that." She turned to me, "Show him."

I held my weapon in my hand and ignited its blackened blade.

"A darksaber." Rakine looked in disbelief. "How did you get your hands on one of those?"

"I have something too." Rooda lit both ends of her light spear.

"So you do have technology down here. That darksaber, the lightspear, that chair-" he looked at Tzano's hovering chair, "how did you get all of this technology?"

I pointed out a hole in the wall in the direction of the starship ruins and debris, where we built our chair and our lightsaber technology.

"There is a ship." I looked to Rakine.

"Interesting. You built these yourself?" He pointed at the chief's chair and our light weapons.

"We did," Rooda nodded.

"And the crystals to power the blades?"

"We found them in a bag of smuggled crystals," Rooda told him. "Near the dead pilot."

"You're not as bad as I thought," Rakine brushed his hand over his sweaty forehead, brushing his bangs of black hair as his hand moved along. "But you still won't withstand an attack from the Empire."

Tzano began to rub the top of his head with his hand.

"But what can we do to survive if the Empire does invade our peaceful world?"

"Well we can't do anything now. And the Empire is most likely hunting for me at this moment."

"Why?" Rooda asks concerned.

"Because there are some people who oppose the oppression of the Empire. Rebels." Rakine sighed.

"You said you were a rebel?" I asked him.

"I am." He turned off his lightsaber and put in back on his belt. "I must hurry off. I came here to warn you of the Empire's intentions." He walked out and readied his ship.

"Wait." I couldn't help but get up and follow him. "Can you help us with the Empire? Can you- teach us your ways of combat?"

"Eyt." Rooda and Chief Tzano both blurted simultaneously.

"What?" I looked back at them. "He's a rebel. He can help us."

"Oh, Eyt." Tzano shook his head. "Always so protective of this village. Much like your father."

"I have to protect the village. I am a warrior." I folded my arms. "It's part of the Zan-Deer Warrior Code."

"And another part of the Code is that warriors know when is the right time to talk. Learn to control when to speak." Tzano rubbed his right eye, groaning, then turns his attention to Rakine. "But, Rakine, will you help us?"

"I guess I can. But not here. We may have to move to the outskirts of this village. We don't want to cause any damage here, do we?"

Rooda and I both just shook our heads.

"Now, you two." He turns to me and Rooda. "Come with me to the outskirts. I will teach you how to fight."

"We can fight. We hunt too." I glared slightly.

"But can you fight the Empire?" He looks back at me.

I sigh and mutter. "No."

"Then training begins. Come." He walked out of the village toward the cliff

"Now, Eyt. If you want me to teach you to fight, there is one thing that you must know." He kept walking toward the cliff, just beyond the outskirts. This cliff leads down to our neighboring village, Kakariko.

"What is it you must tell me?" I looked at him in confusion when we stopped walking, reaching the cliff.

"This is going to sound strange but-" he stopped, hesitating to continue.

Rooda and I looked at each other, then back to Rakine.

"But what?" I asked.

"You are Force-sensitive." He glanced at me. "I can feel it."

"What? What Force?" Rooda took a step forward, to Rakine.

"You really have no idea what the Force is?" He asked.

I shook my head.

Rakine sighed.

"Oh, we have so much work to do," he sighed. "Well, if you must know. The Force is what keeps the universe in balance. The Force is what creates life and everything that sustains life. The Force is inside you, Eyt."

"In me?" I put my hand on my chest, to feel this Force.

"Tiny living organisms called midi-chlorians live inside everyone. They form a mutual symbiotic relationship with us and they give us the Force. Enough midi-chlorians in one being can make one Force-sensitive. And you are, Eyt. You can use the Force." He sat down, crossing his legs, closing his eyes, silently sitting.

"How do I- use this Force?" I set my darksaber down on the ground and stood at the edge of the cliff.

"Feel the Force around you. It speaks to you. Use it. Harness it. With the Force, you can pick up objects with your mind, move things, and learn to use other powers of the Force."

I just stood there, closing my eyes. Waiting for something to happen. Nothing.

"You must empty your mind of everything, learn to stay calm. Then the Force will be in your control."

I tried. I tried emptying my mind. To see what the Force is and what it can do. I kept my eyes closed but I saw a figure. A long, black, hooded figure. In one hand, it held a lightsaber. It took off its hood with the other hand, and revealed itself. It was a Zan-Deer. I can tell from its large deerlike ears and it's long muzzle. But it didn't have antlers. Instead it had metallic stubs from the base of the head, where our antlers grow. They looked like metal wedges with four emitter ends of a lightsaber. But from these stubs grew long red bars of light. And it looked like it had a lightsaber in its hand too, ignited its red blade. I slowly returned back to consciousness, I opened my eyes in fear. I started gasping at what I saw.

"What did you see, Eyt?" Rakine stood up and stares at me in shock.

I stop gasping and clear my throat, returning to my calm state.

"I saw a figure. It had lightsaber a on its head and one in its hand."

"Was it Zan-Deer?" Rooda asked.

I nodded.

"Interesting." Rakine put a hand over his chin. "The Force is already with you. It's trying to tell you something. An evil Zan-Deer is coming, I think." He thought for a moment, then continued. "I think it was a glimpse of the future."

"The future?" I stayed still. "But how? Is that normal?"

"For those with the Force, maybe." Rakine sighed. "Then we shouldn't worry about it anymore." He stopped, then looked back at me. "Do you wish to continue training?"

I knew whatever the Force was telling me, wahtever the figure was, it was bad. But I couldn't let one vision stop me from training. From learning to use the Force. So I knew what I wanted. I nodded.

"Continue, Rakine." I looked at him.

"Excellent," he stood straight as he set his lightsaber on the ground.