Star Wars: Shadows Creeping

Star Wars; Shadows Creeping is a fan-fiction of Star Wars detailing Kasz's life as a Padawan. It takes place in 7,559 ABY. It is written with quotation marks marking dialouge in semi-usual paragraph manner.

Chapter One: Where It Begins
"THAT WAS CHEATING!" The Zanari shouted, pulling himself out from the water and onto the swampy land.

"No it wasn't, you said nothing about Force Pushes being against the rules. Therefore, I did not cheat." The Nautolan responded, pulling some seaweed out from the Zanari's hair and flicking it away. "Ah, that was a good game of bress ball!"

"For you." The Zanari muttered bitterly, sitting down on a large cluster of fungi. "Master Valuna... you... cheated. Whatever, I'll win next time. I can't believe I lost to a female in bress ball!"

"Haha, no worry Kasz! I'll just beat you, again... and again, and again, and again, and again-"

"Okay! I get it!" Kasz, the young male Zanari, spat. He stood back up and cracked his neck, rubbing the pale flesh. "So, when is the Republic or Assignment Council going to send us on another difficult mission?" He looked at the female Nautolan and crossed his arms.

"We're going to Coruscant, Kasz." Valuna said, stepping through the mud towards her Padawan. "The Knights, not the Assignment Council, want to assign us to bodyguard duty."

Kasz cocked an eyebrow at his Jedi Master, putting his fingers into his mouth and chewing on them, an awful habit he had developed. "Bodyguard duty? To whom?"

"I don't know, I was just given the transmission last night. I believe it may be a Senator though." She said, before moving towards the small hut she and Kasz shared. "Come on, we leave tonight, and I don't want to hear you complain about not having your eye shadow." Valuna said, before flashing Kasz a grin to assure him she was just kidding.

Coruscant, the sparkling jewel of the Azul Republic, grew larger and larger in the window of the transport starcruiser that he and Valuna were passengers of. "Coruscant... it's nothing like Tesaki or Glee Anslem." Kasz sighed. "You know, maybe after this we can take a 'vacation'?" He suddenly suggested, sitting up in his seat.

"A vacation?" Valuna looked at Kasz, her face marked with curiousity. "To where?"

"Tesaki! We could go to Slaasz, the city is right by the Ocean of Gray! We could go swimming in it!" Kasz said, his yellow eyes brightening. "Doesn't that sound great?"

Valuna, however, was looking outside the window at the great buildings that reached out to them. "Huh? I wasn't listening." The Nautolan remarked, pretending to be clueless as to what Kasz was speaking about.

"Master Fisto, we've arrived." One of the pilots said.

"Good. Thank you for the ride." She said, nodding to them and standing up. "Come on, Kasz." Valuna pulled her hood up and gestured for Kasz to come to her side. The hatch-door opened slowly, and the stairs slid out, allowing Valuna and Kasz to walk down to the landing pad where a small crowd of people waited.

"Yes Master." Kasz said, following his master to the people.

One of them, a dashing young man with dirty brown hair and deep gray eyes walked out to meet them, followed by a young woman with light red hair holding onto the hand of a small boy while her free hand rested on her somewhat bulging stomach.

"Are you Jedi Master Valuna Fisto?" The man asked, rather nervously eyeing the seven foot five Zanari.

"I am. And you are...?"

"Senator Deavon Pelli of Senora." The man said, then gestured to the woman. "This is my wife, Anit Solo, and my son, Kevon Pelli." He nodded at his son, who beamed a bright smile at his father. "We petitioned for-"

Kasz coughed a little looking at Valuna, who nodded to him, before he looked at Deavon. "Senator Pelli, with all respect, I don't think a landing platform is the best place to speak about this. I suggest we move somewhere... less open."

"I don't believe I was talking to you." Deavon said, shaking his head.

"Senator, my Padawan brings up a good point, and I would ask you to treat him like you would treat any other Jedi... or Knight of the Azul Republic if you will. His opinion is as good as mine." Valuna said, a tone of finality in her voice.

"Deavon, let's take them to the apartments, we can speak there." The woman, Anit, said, looking a little faint. She smiled somewhat then, turning to her husband. "Anyway, it is quite warm today."

Deavon nodded, then gestured to his airspeeder which he began walking to, his family soon followed, and then the two Jedi went inside after Kevon Pelli hopped inside, much to his mother's dismay.

Kasz sat beside the little boy, staring outside the window at the many lanes of air traffic.

"You're tall." Kevon said, looking up at him. "You're a pretty girl." He seemed oblivious to the twitch Kasz's body had.

"I'm a boy, like you." Kasz said, trying to keep his voice even. He disliked kids, mostly because they questioned him too much. It was always talk, talk, question, question, question, stupid remark, talk talk talk, atleast, that's how the Zanari took it. "How about you bother Master Valuna instead, she looks weirder then me."

"She's a Nautolan! They aren't weird!" The boy giggled. "Are you really a Azul Knight?"

"I'm a Padawan."

"Wow... that means you aren't good enough, right!?"

Kasz shook his head and looked out the window, trying to keep himself from saying something rude to the boy. "Kids..."