I woke up to a soft, gentle press on my lips and nose, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Rooda pulling her face away from me, a weak smile forming across her face. I looked at her then to Rakine, just standing up from the chair.

"Where am I?"

"We're on Polis Massa. A hospital for your wound. You blacked out and we took you to get fixed up."

"Is it over?" I asked them.

"Yes. You've been fixed up." Rakine walked over to me and pulled a blanket off my stomach. "Take a look." He removed the blanket from my stomach and showed me a big metal plate wrapped over my stomach and around my back. The pain in my body was gone after.

"When I was stabbed, what happened to my body internally?"

"You were treated very carefully and your body has been stitched up. The metal plate should protect your abdomen from further damage." Rakine zipped up my white uniform just above my metal plates up to my neck and passed me my Sith outfit.

The medical droid walked in.

"You were very lucky that none of your internal entrails were damaged. Further operation would have taken place and you would have to stay in operation longer."

Rooda nodded and helped me up on my feet.

"I'm so glad you're okay, Eyt. I know a lightsaber stab isn't easy to get through, but look at you." She stood me up straight. "Look, you're fine. It's nothing a Sith couldn't handle."

Rakine chuckled as he walked to the door.

"Your Roo was so worried about you. She was afraid you wouldn't wake up, so she gave you that kiss." She tried to hide her face from me. "And that's when you woke up and you were fully functional again." He clapped slowly. "I must say I never knew you two were that nuts for each other. I knew it but wow, you've taken it up a notch. Warriors or not, you two are stuck together like glue."

Both Rooda and I look at each other nervously and look at the floor.

"See? You're both still in denial over your feelings for each other." Rakine chuckled and walked out to the hall. "Now we should get back to Coruscant. To finish your training, if that's what you want."

"I don't know if I need anymore training. I killed Lord Sorin, remember? I think I'm good just as I am."

"Fine." He looked at the floor shaking his head. "But that was one Sith Lord. An old man. You aren't ready for anything else that is coming. He was a coward. He never fought. We were just lucky to even be alive. He stabbed you for God's sake. And you're done with training?" I felt a slight anger in him, but he cooled it down. "I don't think you're ready is all."

I thought of what he was saying. He was right. Sorin wasn't a fighter. I was lucky enough to survive his attacks. I looked down at my stomach and groaned.

"Maybe you're right. I was lucky was I?" I looked to Rooda as she slowly nodded.

"We should go."

I thought of it and made my decision.

"Let's go to Coruscant then. Hopefully the Jedi Temple is still intact. And we weren't spotted."

"Unlikely. When we fought in the streets of Coruscant from the Jedi Temple, there were crowds of people watching. Some suspicion may have grown concerning the Jedi Temple. We might now have people searching for us now."

"Perfect," I grumbled under my breath. "Anywhere else we can go to finish the training?"

"I suggest somewhere quiet and empty. Free from any suspicion." Rakine started thinking quietly. "I'd say the calm and quiet lake country on Naboo, or the sandy, desolate deserts of Tatooine."

Rooda and I looked at each other and I shook my head.

"I've had enough deserts for now. Too much memories of Randin back home. I'd say Naboo probably." I looked at Rooda.

"Naboo sounds nice. I would like to see the calm lake country." We both looked at Rakine.

"Naboo it is. Take us there for the rest of our training." We followed Rakine out of the room to the Zant's Nightmare and entered. Rooda and I sat down as Rakine sat in the pilot seat to start the ship for the Naboo system.

As the ship starts, Rooda sits by me and looks at me shyly.

"I- I know we're Zan-Deer warriors, or- well- you know-"

I sighed.

"But back there, we weren't allowed to show any signs of attachment or love." She looked away embarrassedly.

"We were warriors there. Now we aren't with them." I grinned weakly as she slowly turned back to me. "Now were free to do what we want. That's why I've been training in the Force." She began to grow a smile and she leaned her head against my forearm. I felt a sense of comfort and I put my hand up on her should and held her close to my side. We sat there quietly, so quietly not a word was spoken, and as the Zant's Nightmare sailed to Naboo. I see Rakine look back at us and smirk.

"Told you. I told you two you were crazy about each other."

Rooda and I looked at each other with a smile, and I shrugged at Rakine.

"Okay." I chuckled. "You were right. But only you should know about this, okay? We might not want word of this to hit Zant."

I saw Rakine rub his fingers across his lips, keep his mouth shut, and give me a thumbs up gesture, before turning back to the front to continue flying the ship.

"When we get to Naboo," Rooda looked up at me, "I hope everything there is as quiet and safe as Rakine says."

"I hope," I looked to Rakine as he nods, while deactivating the antler-sails as we neared the green planet, Naboo.

"There it is. And that's where we're landing."

He flew toward the large, empty, green pastures of the lake country. The ship reached down to the grassy plains and I thought now of what would happen. I would be trained here, but if Rakine is to teach me, would it be the Light Side, or Dark? Or both? I felt like what Sorin taught me wasn't enough. I still felt like there is so much more I can learn about all aspects of the Force. I know it sounds wrong, and greedy, but I think maybe, by learning all of the Force, I could be unstoppable. No harm could come to me or anyone else I care about. It might be the stab in my stomach, but I don't think I should be damaged or messed with anymore. I want to keep to my promise to protect people. A strong temptation swirls in my mind.

"Rakine. I can't help but wonder, if you are taking your place again as my mentor in the Force, I thought, what if you taught me all that you know. So I could learn all aspects of the Force, both Light and Dark. Would that be alright?"

He stared at me in complete confusion, rubbing his forehead.

"Mentor? Why are you asking me this now?"

"I feel like there is so much more in the Force that I can learn and if I want to keep to my wish to protect the ones I care about," I see Rooda turn and smile to me, "then by learning all of the Force, I can protect anyone. Nothing will ever harm me or anyone else anymore. It sounds wrong but it's what I want." I knelt down to Rakine once again in the grassy field of Naboo. "I ask you to teach me everything you know about the Force." I watched Rakine as he looked at me, fear starting to show itself in him.

"You're sure you want to learn everything just to protect the ones you care about? Becoming a powerful Force user in both Light and Dark?"

I nodded.

"Yes."

Rakine nodded and motioned me to stand up. He began to mention to me other tricks about the Force, and the more things he told me, the more afraid he was. He was afraid of my request to know everything about the Force. But it's for a good cause. Saving the lives of anyone who is under any oppression or attack.

"There are a great many forms of power that the Force provides to a user. The simplest is telekinesis, moving objects without directly touching them." Rakine lifted a pebble off the grass. "Like so." He sets it down in Rooda's hand. "You have already learned much about it. Other techniques test your acrobatics, your agility. Like the Force jumping and how quickly you move in combat."

"What about moves I don't know?" I asked slightly impatiently.

"Then you have your own strength in the Force. How large and heavy things are lifted by telekinesis or how strong you are in general with the Force. All three of these apply to you now, Lord Venison. But let's go to the Dark Side. Name power in the Dark Side you have earned or you know."

I am stumped. Sorin never taught me the Dark Side itself, he only mentioned it a lot.

"That lightning trick you do." I pointed to Rakine's fingertips.

"Force lightning," he nods. "It, like most Force tricks, is difficult to learn straight away. The Force mainly has three methods to learn first. The first? Control."

"Control?" I asked him.

He nodded. "Control is internal. It is the Jedi or Sith ability to recognize the Force in oneself and to use it to his or her benefit. With control, you can use the Force at a much easier method than you do now. You rely on your strength, and strength in the Force isn't a bad thing. It just needs control."

I nod, in respect to his teaching.

"Control is a vital instrument in the ways of the Force."

"Next. Sense involves the next step, in which the Jedi or Sith recognizes the Force in the universe outside themselves. It appears you've already proven efficient at that fro our earlier training back on Zant and Coruscant. But with sense you can enhance your natural senses or use the Force as a sixth sense all in its own. All the better for improving your connection to the Force."

I nod again.

"Sense."

"Alter is the third and most difficult area to master, for it involves the student's ability to modify the Force and redistribute its energies. It is mostly only trained traditionally to Jedi Knights since it is so difficult. Few people have stumbled into this area by accident, consequently some sort of disaster strikes after."

"One small thing would lead to that much trouble?" Rooda looked worriedly at me.

"Boom. Butterfly Effect." Rakine chuckled.

"What is in alter, Rakine?"

"Alter consists of pieces of a small family of tricks. Telekinesis, affecting the mind, the ability to manipulate people's minds and thinkings with the Force." Rakine chuckles. "One of my favorites." I watched Rooda shrug. "Then alter environment is the last member of this family. In it you learn many new techniques, such as animal friendships." I turn to Rooda as she lifted her hand from the grass, a ladybug on her finger. "Battle meditation, Force jumps, Force light, Force confusion, combustion, deadly sight, disabling droids, and Force lightning, however I believe you must have organic limbs." I pat my forearm with my left hand.

"Organic. Not a problem."

"Very good," Rakine nods and lays back in the grass. "Try to focus on all that I have told you. Try meditating to exercise your abilities in the Force. Remember what I taught you, and soon the Force will make everything for you-" he rolls to his side and rubs his fingers across the surface of a clean pond, "-crystal clear."

I sit down in a meditating position and focus my energy to the Force, memorizing all that Rakine has taught to me. It takes time, but I see the Force with me. I hear its whispers about everything I have learned and everything I have done. I reflect on my last horrible doings. I killed my chief, my Sith master. Here I ask for more power in the Force. But it tells me there is something about me. I can change a great many things. There is but four things in my way. The three keys, control, sense, and alter. Then the Force tells me of another one will reflect myself and my peers much later. Choice. I can keep training and become a really powerful figure in the Force. Or I can stop training now, and go to a faraway place, with Rooda, where we can be together and hide from the world and our troubles. Now my choices haunts me. I awaken back into the physical plane holding my head.

"What is the problem?" Rakine walked to me. "A vision?"

I nodded weakly.

"I have two choices." I looked at Rakine. "I can stay here to train to be a powerful Force user." I turned to Rooda. "Or Roo and I go somewhere faraway together to hide from all out troubles." She looked at me in both confusion and a slight smile on her face.

"She turned so soft since we left Zant," Rakine shrugged. "Now you two are both forming a strong pathological and physical bond. Ven, if you wish to be trained then you have to put Rooda aside and focus on what I teach you. It is a rule of the Jedi."

I looked at Rooda and she came over to me, looking at Rakine while holding my hand.

"He's not training to be a Jedi. It's just the ways of the Force. Now he can be with me whenever he wants. Nothing should stop that."

"Fine," Rakine sighed and shook his head. "You Zan-Deer are very persuasive and stubborn."

"We're known for that." I nod.

"So, Ven, for your training, do you want to begin?" Rakine asked me impatiently.

I looked at Rooda and she nods.

"Yes, we'll begin now." I stand in front of Rakine as Rooda backs up. Rakine and I stand in the flat grass field, focusing on our energy on the Force.