Star Wars - [Junior Jedi Knights 03] - Promises (by Nancy Richardson)

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Star Wars

Junior Jedi Knights

Promises

by Nancy Richardson

OCR: Ãîëîäíûé Ýâîê Ãðûçëè

upload: 29.XII.2005

The figure loomed above him. Anakin tried to shield his eyes from the

brilliant glare of the golden globe. Tried to see the being whose body was

outlined with a shimmering blue line.

"Young Anakin Solo," a voice whispered, a hand beckoned.

Anakin followed the glow of the being away from the globe. As he

walked, he felt darkness pulling at the loose cloth of his orange jumpsuit.

Fear fluttered in his belly, but he followed, using the Force to calm the

racing of his heart. The figure stopped before carvings in the crumbling

stone walls of the ancient Massassi Palace of the Woolamander. The hand

flickered with pale blue sparks as it swept over the message. Anakin's eyes

scanned the symbols. He and Tahiri had finally been able to read them after

returning from Yavin 8.

Anakin read their message out loud.

"Peace to all. We are the Massassi. Our children have been imprisoned

by the evil Jedi Knight Exar Kun. Locked deep within this palace, hidden in

the glittering sands of a golden globe, they await. The crystal that holds

them prisoner can only be unlocked by children, strong in the Force and

dedicated to the battle of good over evil. If you are the ones, enter the

globe and lead our children to freedom."

The figure nodded, then fell to its knees before Anakin, head dropped.

Anakin sensed its torment.

"Tahiri and I are the ones," he heard himself say. "Don't be afraid-

we'll fight this battle."

The pale blue line around the figure began to spark and flicker until

it faded into the darkness. The being still knelt before Anakiin, unmoving.

Anakin bent down and reached out his hand. The figure slowly lifted its

black hooded head and let out a roar filled with hatred and darkness.

Anakin leapt away as it began to laugh in rolls of icy thunder. Eyes the

color of blue gray burning coals fixed upon Anakin, held him with their

power. The figure rose, unfolding into a creature twice its original size.

It continued to laugh, and Anakin felt swallowed by the darkness of

its hollow cries. He ran, not knowing which way he traveled in the cavity

of the palace. The black-robed being followed, howling in mad glee. Anakin

reached the secret room that housed the golden globe he and Tahiri had

discovered months earlier.

They had instantly sensed its evil, and pledged to understand, unlock,

and free the prisoners that cried from its core. His back to the globe,

Anakin watched as the black-robed figure approached, once again fixing him

with those burning eyes. He backed up until he couldn't move any farther

without touching the globe. There was a powerful field around the crystal

sphere. Tahiri had tried to touch it and had been thrown against the stone

walls of the room. Anakin wasn't going to make the same mistake. He held

his ground.

"I'm going to fight you," Anakin shouted. "Tahiri and I will use the

Force to break the evil curse. We're the ones the Massassi wrote about:

`strong in the Force and dedicated to the battle of good over evil'! You

can't stop us-"

"Why would I want to stop you, boy?" the figure laughed. "I am you!"

The creature threw back its hood, and Anakin stifled a scream that

welled up from the very core of his being and threatened to escape his

trembling lips. He stood looking at his own face. Only his eyes were

different. Instead of being a pure ice blue, they had been replaced with

burning gray coals that smoked and sparked.

"Didn't you hear me, boy?" the figure snarled. "I'm you, you fool. You

knew, you've always known that you were meant to serve the dark side - to

use the Force for evil. It's in your blood. Your grandfather served us

well, helped us defeat the Jedi Knights. You were named after him, after

Anakin Skywalker who became Darth Vader. Stop fighting us and embrace the

dark side...."

"It won't work," Anakin said calmly, summoning up the Force to control

himself. "I know who you are."

The figure hissed, recoiling from the power in Anakin's voice.

"You're a follower of Exar Kun, the evil Jedi Knight who enslaved the

Massassi race thousands of years ago by imprisoning its children in the

golden globe. You're not me, and you never will be," Anakin went on,

walking toward the robed figure. "Tahiri and I are going to fight you, and

break the curse of the golden globe."

"This is not over, young Anakin Solo," the figure said angrily. Then

its form began to waver in the golden light of the globe. Moments later, it

had completely disappeared. Anakin turned back toward the globe. He

listened to the cries of the children from inside its swirling sands. Soon,

he thought. Soon Tahiri and I will come to this place and attempt to enter

the globe and lead you to freedom.

"Soon, soon, soon..."

"Soon what?" Tahiri asked as she shook her best friend awake. "Anakin,

wake up, you've been dreaming."

Anakin stared groggily up at Tahiri. Her green eyes were impatient,

and he struggled to sit up.

"What time is it?" he asked.

"Time for us to have a serious talk," Tahiri replied. "We've got a

problem. I've been called to see Master Luke Skywalker. And I know why.

I've been at the Jedi academy for six months, and it's time for me to make

my decision about whether or not to return to my tribe or remain here."

"I thought you'd already decided to stay," Anakin said. Not only was

Tahiri his best friend, but they were a team. A team pledged to solve the

riddle of the globe.

"I have," Tahiri replied. "But it's not that simple. Master Luke and I

agreed with Sliven, the leader of my tribe, that I'd return to Tatooine to

make my decision. I've got to figure out a way to persuade Master Luke not

to make me return. Right?" Tahiri didn't wait for a reply. "I mean, we've

finally translated the ancient symbols in the Palace of the Woolamander.

It's time to enter the globe-I can't go to Tatooine now! Aren't you going

to say something?" Tahiri asked.

"I was just waiting for you to run out of breath," Anakin explained.

He swept his long brown bangs out of his eyes and met Tahiri's questioning

look. "I don't think it's going to be as easy as you think," he offered.

"If you gave your word, and Uncle Luke did too, he's going to want you to

return to Tatooine."

"I'll take care of it," Tahiri said. "Don't worry, I'm not going

anywhere." With that, she strode out of the room to meet Luke Skywalker in

the Grand Audience Chamber.

Anakin felt a sense of unease as his friend left. His dream had left

him feeling anxious. The idea that someone might know about him and Tahiri,

and their plans to enter the globe, hadn't occurred to him before. If Kun's

evil followers knew about them, it would mean that the battle in the depths

of the Palace of the Woolamander would be all the more difficult. He

thought about that first time he and Tahiri had found the palace, They'd

snuck out of the academy and rafted the river. A storm had forced them to

abandon their raft and seek shelter. They'd found the palace, its strange

carvings, and then a hidden spiral stairway that led deep into the

crumbling site. As they'd descended, evil had coated the stones like thick

black fungi, and dark whispers and threats had streamed through the dank

air.

And then they'd seen golden glitter, speckled along the walls and

seeping from behind a secret doorway. Anakin shook off the memory. Tahiri's

right, I've got to stop daydreaming and focus on what's happening now.

Anakin hoped that Tahiri would be able to persuade Uncle Luke to let her

remain on Yavin 4 while making her decision. The time had come to break the

curse. A moment of worry reached out with fluttering yellow fingers and

touched Anakin's mind.

We are the ones, he thought. But are we strong enough to enter the

globe?

Luke Skywalker studied the look of defiance. Green eyes flashed, and

white blonde hair surrounded a stubborn nine-year-old face. Luke's blue

eyes didn't falter as he waited for the child to speak. It would not be

long. Tahiri was rarely lost for words. Luke thought about the time she and

his nephew, Anakin Solo, had snuck away from the Jedi academy. They'd

returned to the Great Temple in the middle of the night. Tired and dirty,

Tahiri had immediately begun chattering, trying to take all the blame for

the adventure, trying to keep Luke's punishment from extending to Anakin.

What Luke hadn't told either of them was that they were two of the most

promising students he'd ever seen. There was no way he would expel either

student. They would make great Jedi Knights one day-if they could keep out

of trouble long enough to learn to use the Force.

Trouble seemed to find Tahiri and Anakin. Only last week they'd

returned bruised and battered from Yavin 8, where they'd gone to help

another candidate, a Melodie named Lyric, survive her changing ceremony.

While on Yavin 8, the two candidates had fought giant black rodents,

vicious snakes, and a red-bristled spider that trapped its prey in thick

black webs and consumed it alive. Luke Skywalker believed that experience

was the best teacher in the use of the Force, but Anakin and Tahiri always

rushed headlong into dangerous situations.

That worried Luke. Still, their ability to use the Force to control,

alter, and manipulate the energy field generated by all living things was

impressive.

"I won't go," Tahiri said defiantly, stamping her bare foot down on

the cool stones of the Great Temple. She'd refused to wear shoes since

she'd come to Yavin 4. On her home planet Tatooine, gritty sand and a

burning-hot desert were a daily reality, and foot coverings a necessity.

"You won't make me go," Tahiri said again, although this time her

voice faltered.

"You're right," Luke replied. He moved to the large open window in the

Grand Audience Chamber. Beneath him the lush jungles of Yavin 4 steamed in

the midday sun. Majestic Massassi trees, their bark a rich purplish brown,

reached up toward the pyramid-shaped Great Temple. The temple was the home

of future Jedi Knights, beings from across the galaxy who studied at the

academy in order to one day use the Force for peace and knowledge, and in

the battle against evil.

Tahiri walked over to Master Luke and stood beside his brown-robed

form. She stared down at the jungle, at the greens, purples, and reds that

made up a landscape she'd once dreamed about. Dreamed of in the heat and

endless sand of her planet. Luke Skywalker understood Tahiri's frustration.

He, too, was originally from Tatooine. He'd spent eighteen years working on

his uncle and aunt's moisture farm. The boredom had threatened to suffocate

him. But there had been something else, too.

"I never knew my father," Master Luke said softly to his student. "At

least not the man he was before he turned to the dark side to serve the

evil emperor Palpatine. I never knew my father, Anakin Skywalker, when he

was a Jedi Knight, determined to use the Force for good. And when I finally

met what he'd become, Darth Vader, it was too late. It's true that he did

turn from evil in his last moments, but there wasn't time for us to develop

a relationship before he died."

Luke paused for a moment.

"Do you understand what I'm saying to you?" he asked Tahiri.

"You were an orphan in a way, too," Tahiri began slowly. "But the

difference is that I won't ever have the chance to meet either of my

parents. The Tusken Raiders said they're both dead."

"What about Sliven?" Luke Skywalker asked.

"He's the leader of my tribe," Tahiri answered evenly.

"Nothing more?" Luke asked.

"I guess he's the only family I'll ever have," Tahiri replied softly.

"Returning to Tatooine may be the last chance I'll have to see him."

"You owe that to yourself, and to him," Master Luke said. "Still, it's

your decision. I'm certain you'll make the right one." He turned and strode

out of the chamber. It's not so simple, little one, he thought as he left.

Not so easy to give up the only family, the only father, you've ever known.

That in itself will test all of your power, and your ability to control

your own inner Force.

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