I was reading a story on TTH by FireDragon titled "The Chosen One" and was so inspired that I felt I had to write my very first BTVS/Star Wars story. In my teens, I owned over a hundred Star Wars books that started with Timothy Zahn. I read them ALL except for the X-Wing series. However, I never watched the Clone Wars nor have been very excited about the new movies even though I did really love the last one Rise of Skywalker. I don't read much Star Wars fanfiction, but I have enjoyed several BTVS/SW crossovers. In FireDragon's story, it was not completed, but he/she wrote about a Buffy/Qui-Gon pairing. I found the idea so intriguing that I wanted to write my own. "The Chosen One" was set far after season 7 of Buffy as it was after Buffy's only family died of old age as she was immortal. I'm not going that way.

For this story, it is after the end of season 5. Although I have not read a single prequel Star Wars book, I am setting this story in the Star Wars world a few years before Phantom Menace. Although I LOVE Star Wars and read so many of the post Return of the Jedi novels, I am not a SW geek like Andrew from Buffy. I don't follow rabid news and gossip about whatever SW thing is coming out. I don't worship Mark Hamil or consider myself an expert although I have watched the 3 original movies more times than I can count. Please forgive me if something in the SW parts is messed up.

Disclaimer: I do not own BTVS or Star Wars or any of the characters.

Chapter 1: The Vision and the Fall

*****Jedi Temple on Coruscant*****

Qui-Gon and his sixteen-year-old padawan, Obi-Wan, had returned from a mission. He was quite pleased with how well his student was learning. The young man was serious about his studies and committed to the Jedi Code, and Qui-Gon couldn't help but feel a strong sense of pride and affection for his student. He went to bed feeling good about where things were going. Then he was hit with a Force Vision.

Two women were engaged in a fierce battle. Somehow, Qui-Gon knew that the one with her hair pulled back was a warrior for the Light, and the woman she fought was evil although she was fair to the eyes. The Light Warrior kept yielding a very large hammer as her weapon and hitting the other. It was clear that the evil woman was feeling the effects as she finally fell to the ground from the blows the Light Warrior kept reigning down on her, and then the evil woman turned into a man. Then there was a young girl with another older man, who stood on a high tower and cut the girl, who glowed green, and a voice said, "She is the Key. You must protect the Key." He heard another voice say, "Death is your gift."

The young girl cried out, "Buffy!" The woman below raised her head and moved quickly up the strange looking tower. The girl's blood seemed to be opening a rift of some kind as monstrous things began making its way into the world.

"It has to have the blood, Buffy. If the blood stops flowing, the portal will close," the young girl said.

The older girl, who must be her sister, hugged her. "Dawn, I am not going to let you die. It is my job to protect you. Our blood is the same. You will live and love for me. I am the Slayer—this is my job. I am the big sister."

"You're not really my sister, Buffy. They just made you think you were. The world needs you—it doesn't need me," Dawn struggled with her sister and knew that Buffy would jump if she didn't jump first. Qui-Gon wondered how he knew what the girl was thinking? What kind of Force Vision was this?

"They made you out of me, so our blood is the same. I need you to live, Dawn. I love you. You are the only family I have left," Buffy said.

Dawn peered below and made out Xander and Giles and gestured toward them. "They are your family, Buffy, and they need you. I don't need you to do this for me—it's my turn to save the world. I must do this, and you have to let me. I love you, but I am not going to live in a world without my mother or my sister. You can't do that to me!" she cried. Then she yanked herself from Buffy, who tried to snatch her back, but the girl moved too quickly. Then she jumped.

Qui-Gon woke up, his heart pounding. What in the world was that? The dream was so vivid. However, it wasn't of anyone he knew or any place that seemed familiar. Both girls pulled on his heart strings so strongly. Why? He did not know them, but for some reason, they felt extremely important to him.

The dream so disturbed him that after he and Obi-Wan ate breakfast, he left his student to study while he sought out Master Yoda. After Qui-Gon finished reciting the dream to him, Yoda looked thoughtful.

"Strange it is," he said.

"I didn't recognize anyone in the vision, and it was so clear," he said.

"Hmm, Force Vision it most definitely is," Yoda said. He was often known to see the future when others could not. However, this was the first time it had happened with Qui-Gon.

"Do you think I should look for these girls? Has this already happened? Am I supposed to save the girl, so she doesn't have to jump?" Qui-Gon asked.

"Not from this universe are they," Yoda said. "Come to you they will."

Qui-Gon looked astounded. "What? If they are not even in our universe, how will they get to me?" asked.

"Reveal soon it will be," Yoda said. The two walked out into the courtyard, both considering the implications.

"Is the Living Force wanting me to help them?" Qui-Gon asked.

"Feel something for them when you looked at them you did," Yoda said, knowingly as he paused and looked up.

Qui-Gon didn't know what to say. The Code forbid attachments, yet when he remembered the vision and what he felt, he knew that the two were important to him for some reason. He didn't understand why or how as he did not know them.

"I don't understand," he admitted. "They are not people I know, but I felt a connection."

"Meant to be it is," Yoda said, nodding.

They continued to walk, watching some of the younglings playing. Then one of them shouted and pointed. The sky above opened up and a body fell out of the hole that appeared.

Yoda raised his hand to slow the body's descent. As the body lowered, they could see it was female. After Yoda gently lowered the body to the ground, Qui-Gon realized that the girl was from his vision.

"That's her!" he exclaimed. "That's the young girl who jumped. I think her name is Dawn."

When Dawn opened her eyes and saw a small green demon looking down at her, she screamed and punched it in the nose as she scrambled to her feet.

"Ow! Hurt my nose you did!" Yoda said, frowning at the teenager.

"It is all right," Qui-Gon said. "You are not in danger here."

Dawn looked at the human male in relief. "Where am I? Why is the demon with you? What kind of hell dimension is this?" she asked, still looking scared.

"Demon I am not!" Yoda said, giving her a thoroughly disgruntled expression.

"This is Master Yoda," Qui-Gon said. "We are on the planet Coruscant. It is not in a hell dimension."

"I'm on another planet?" Dawn said, looking around at the younger kids who looked at her in curiosity. Some of them did not look human. Alien—they were aliens. OMG! She was trying not show what a geek she secretly was as she considered how Xander would be so jealous—Willow, too.

"You are," Qui-Gon said. "I am Qui-Gon Jinn, and we are Jedis. I had a vision of what happened to you, and we thought you would come in my path. However, this is still a bit unexpected."

"Told you I did," Yoda said, looking smug.

"Where's Buffy? Where's my sister?" Dawn asked.

"She did not come with you," Qui-Gon told her.

Dawn felt a stab of pain and disappointment. However, she was alive, which was more than she expected when she jumped into the portal. She looked down at her body and didn't see any injuries. The blood where she was cut on her stomach was no longer bleeding, but her dress was cut. "What do I do?" she asked Qui-Gon. "I have no one, and I don't know how to live in this world."

"Help you we will," Yoda assured her.

Qui-Gon held out his hand to her. "Come, Dawn. Let's get you checked out for injuries and into some clean clothes," he said.

When her hand grabbed his, he felt a slight charge and looked puzzled. There was something very different about her. In his vision, she had glowed green. However, she looked entirely human.

An hour later, she had been cleaned, fed, and examined. The medical staff was giving the results of the tests on Dawn to Yoda and Qui-Gon. By this time, Mace Windu had joined them.

Windu found the entire situation astounding and was convinced as Yoda that Qui-Gon was meant to keep the girl close. When they discovered that Qui-Gon's new charge was strong in the Force, however, it complicated things.

"He cannot have two students," Mace said.

Yoda was silent a long moment. "Be more than a student to him, she will be," Yoda announced. "Daughter she will be."

"The Code forbids such things," Mace said. "The rest of the Council will not be easy to convince."

"Convince them I will. Dwindling Force user numbers are," Yoda said. "Spoken the Living Force has. Obey we must, no matter the Code." Unlike all others, he remembered a time when there were more force padawans than masters. Several students did they have at once.

Mace nodded, understanding what he was saying. The Code was sacred because it did an excellent job keeping Jedi from falling into the Darkside of the force. However, it was a tradeoff. The Code's forbidding of attachments had kept strong force users from having families and growing their numbers, which has made them stretched thin. Keeping up with the demands of the Republic on the Jedi was hard as their numbers did not allow them to do all they needed to do. Slavery was still strong in the Outer Rims, and lawlessness and disregard for the way things should be growing.

"I will inform the Council of this exception," he said. "Qui-Gon will need to give a testimony of his vision and recount with you what occurred today. Let's hope it satisfies them. Obi-Wan may actually benefit from another student to work so closely with. In ancient times, Jedis did train more than one learner at a time, so there is precedent for this."

Yoda nodded. "Know this I do," he said. Leave it to Qui-Gon to know what so few did. "Dark times ahead of us, I fear."

Mace frowned, not liking Yoda's words. "What about the other girl in his vision?" he wondered.

"See her one day, we will," he said.

When Qui-Gon found out that he would be allowed to keep Dawn with him and even teach her the ways of the Force, he was shocked and overjoyed.

Dawn didn't know what to make of the strange new world she was in, and she missed her sister desperately. However, Qui-Gon was so kind and wanted her to live with him. Although he did not remind her at all of Hank, she felt safe with him. He was wise like Giles, but he was a warrior like Buffy.

Soon, she became caught up in her new life as a padawan learner and finding new ways to annoy Obi-Wan, who was entirely too serious for her taste.

At night, though, she dreamed of Earth and wondered if her sister was trying to find her.

Would she ever see Buffy and her friends again?

*****Chapter End*****

So far, I have about 4 chapters written. I do not know enough about prequal times to write specific Star Wars centered storyline, but I DO have some BTVS centered ideas for this that might cover a dozen chapters or so. I hope there's some interest in it. Reviews are very welcomed! Thanks!