Star Wars: Anakin's Guardian/Book 1: Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Obi-Wan....Obi-Wan... Everything is hazy as I make out Qui-Gon's face above me. I blink a couple of times and sit up. My head feels woozy, and I immediatley sit back. "Easy there." Adi says gently. I look around, and see the pilot slumped over on the controls. "Is he....?" I ask Qui-Gon. He nods and say, "Neck broken." I nod. I sit up and say, "Where are we?" Adi looks outside and says, "In the middle of a battle field." I look outside and see blaster fire erupting from both sides. On one side was black droids rapidly firing blasters from their arms, and the other side is men and women in dusty outfits firing blasters against the droids. "We should go before they figure out who we are." Qui-Gon says. Adi nods and pulls out her lightsaber. Qui-Gon turns to me and says, "Are you feeling well enough?" I nod and stand up. I feel a little woozy, but not that much. Adi activates her lightsaber and starts cutting through the door that has welded shut. Qui-Gon joins her and I follow. We finally get it open, and look for a way so that we will not be seen. I see a cave just on the other side of the battlefield. "Master! What about there?!" I yell over the blaster fire. Adi and Qui-Gon both nod. Adi says, "Hey, I have a couple of smoke grenades." Qui-Gon nods to her as if saying, Do it. She pulls out four smoke grenades and throws them in our path to the cave.

The blaster fire ceases as both sides can't see where and who they are blasting at. Qui-Gon runs foward and Adi and I follow. Adi dives into the cave just as the blaster fire starts erupting. I dive in after her, but not before a random blaster bolt hits my shoulder. "Ah!" I yelp in surprise as I hit the dirt floor. Qui-Gon rushes over by me and leans down. "Let me see, Obi-Wan." He says. I carefully peel away the blackened fabric, and he leans down to see. I look away as he carefully probes it. His face is unrecognizable as he says, "I won't lie to you, Obi-Wan. We need to get you some medical attention." I nod knowing it must be serious. "But don't worry. We'll get you someone as soon as we can." He says reassuringly. Suddenly we hear the cock of a blaster. "Don't move." A commanding voice says.

"Turn around slowly." The voice says. We all turn around. I instinctivly reach for my lightsaber, but all I grasp is air. Confused, I look up at our captor. It's a human female with light brown hair and hypnotic blue-green eyes. She astonishingly seem to be only about my age. She has a simple brown tunic and pants on with her long hair back into a braid. Qui-Gon raises his hand in a peace gesture, saying, "We come here only in peace." Adi pipes up, "Where is our lightsabers?" I notice her other hand is raised high as if using the Force... I look up and amazingly see our lightsabers floating way above what we could jump, even using the Force. "Your weapons are where you can not get them." She says. The lightsabers fly to her hands at an astonishing speed, that we don't have time to even blink. "Now." She says, "Why are you here, Jedi?" Qui-Gon stands up and says, "We are here to meet with the Prime Minister of Ansarra. We have come to make peace on this planet." She smiles sadly and says, "Well, I'm afraid you're a long way from our capitol city of Sanioa." "Then where are we, exactly?" Adi asks her, looking impatient. She looks to Adi and says, "You are a long way from Sanioa. You're at one of the many entrances to the Alliance to Restore Peace's base." She suddenly notices me with my hurt shoulder. "What is the damage?" She asks Qui-Gon, pointing to me. "He was shot in the shoulder. Pretty serious." He says to her. She looks at me, and says, "Come on. We can heal that when we are safe in the base." I stand up and cradle my shoulder. Qui-Gon asks, "What is your name?" She turns around and says, "Ranjita. Ranjita Day. But you can call me Rain."

We follow Rain deeper into the cave. Finally Adi asks the question that's on everybody's mind. "How can you use the Force when you are not a Jedi?" She asks her. Rain stops suddenly and turns around. She takes a deep breath and says, "I was supposed to come to the Jedi Order, but the Civil War started, and the Jedi never came. Five of the force sensitives on the Kyber Crystal were erased. They were all from Ansarra. Five of them were found. But only four were the real ones missing. The goverment knew that I was foce sensitive, but since I was a rebel. They gave the Jedi someone else. I have learned to control the Force through a datapad that a Jedi left behind with my parents after they determined I was force sensitive." There was a sudden boom outside and a couple of rocks fall from the cave's roof. "Come on." She says, "We need to hurry."

After a couple of miles of pitch black with the only light being the flashlight Rain has, we finally get to a big metal door. I think that we will just go through the door, when she turns right and dissappears through a crack I didn't see before. She pokes her head out of the crack and motions us through. We follow her and step into a room lit only by a dim light. She walks across the room and pulls out a plastic card hidden in her utility belt. She slides it along a crack and a door opens that once looked like rock. We follow her inside.

The room is a large one with several halls and doors leading to one another. By then I am stumbling a lot, because my arm hurts so much. "Don't worry." Rain says, "We will be where my dad is soon." She goes down one hall and into another hall, through a door, down another hall. All dimly lit by lights overhead. Finally we get to where it looks like an entertainment room. There are men and women sitting at tables, drinking, talking, laughing, and eating. There are pool tables, and a video game console. Everyone looks up as we enter, but only a few keep an eye on us. The man named Baran Day, who is Rain's dad, is at a pool table taking a shot. We come over to him. "Dad." Raid says, "These Jedi have come to see you." He looks up from the pool table and says, "Welcome."