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I didn't understand then, and I still don't think I understand now, why Master Winsten had offered me to come with him. It was strange, for once I head felt I was useful. It was a good feeling, but it didn't last.
I ran away to my secret spot. It was where my friend and I use to go to when we felt sad or angry. Once of us would always be there to comfort the other, but that day, it was only me. For the first time since my friend died, I had cried. Tears had just started to run down my face when I saw that spot, when I remember those memories of her and me sitting next to each other talking about our famlies, school, and even boys. I wiped the tears away as I sat down and looked over the view. My village was really beautiful. To think I was going to leave it, I guess that was what made me run. Or rather that I didn't want to leave my friend's death overlooked, neglected, and push aside. I wanted to get my revenge on the sith scum that did this to my family.
"Yes, that's it. Use you rage" That voice came out of nowhere. It was creepy, and it felt dark. I turned around and around, trying to look for who said it. "Who are you? What are you doing?" I asked outloud, flusterd. The voice just laughed. It echoed around where I was. "You want to kill me right? Then find me. Use that anger, use that rage, use that hate and come after me!" The voice now had said.
I couldn't remember what happened next because I blanked out. When I woke up, it was already night. The stars were shining brightly overhead and when I looked at where my friend used to sit at, Master Winsten was there. I jumped back, surprised again. He didn't turn around or anything like that, but he did say, "I got worried when you ran out of the barn. I was out all afternoon trying to look for you. I was even more concerned when I found you on the ground unconscious." I couldn't say anything after that so I remained silent. "I also felt a dark presence here." He added. With that comment, I started to get scared. Was he starting to think I killed my friend and her family? Did he start to think, even with my force powers, that I would be able to do such a thing? "It's gone now," He said afterthe silence. His head tilted as he looked up in the sky. "I like this place." He said. "You can see the stars quite nicely out here." He added. But after that he tilted his head towards me, though he still wasn't facing me. "Are you alright? Are you ready to go back?" He asked.
I stood silent for a few more minutes. I stared at the ground below me. I didn't want to see his face. I didn't want to see his smile. I felt really mad for some reason. It was as if I had done something wrong. But truthfully I was just scared. Master Winsten then stood up and walked besides me and hugged me. I don't know what came over me, but I started to cry again. I guess I was just letting go of all the emotions that I had surpressed when my friend died. Softly, Master Winsten whisphered into my ear, "There is no death, there is the Force." I didn't know it at the time, but that was my first lesson given to me as a padawan.
A few more minutes we stayed in that position when I heard an explosion. Master Winsten stood up as well and looked over the view. My eyes widen as I saw a fire coming out of my house. "MOM, DAD!" I yelled with all my might. Without any hesitation, Master Winsten left my side and headed back. I on the other hand still did not know how to use Force speed, so I ran as fast as I could. Once I came down and came close to my house, Master Artemis held me close. "What's going on?" I asked her. She looked beaten and wore out. It was as if she had been in a fight or something. "Where are my parents?" I asked her, but she just looked away and stood silent. My heart dropped. I couldn't feel anything but grief and sorrow. Her silence said to me that my parents were dead. That they too are now part of the force. That got me really angery. I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to them and they were just gone.
I sensed the Sith apprentice in my parent's house. It was all clear to me then. It was a he indeed. I broke from Artemis' grasp and ran into the my burning house. It was definitely hot. It was a tempreture I have never felt before. The whole place was burning. Fire had spread everywhere, but yet I felt the Sith. I dodge and walked briefly, trying to head to where the Sith was. "Manta stay back!" I heard from behind me. It was Master Winsten. However, I did not listen to him and I kept looking. It was in the kitchen where I saw him. The dark figure was looking straight at me. His yellowish eyes scanning deeply within my soul. Below him, on the floor, lay my parents. They had been chopped up and slice the same way my friend and her family had been. That was when I lost control.
I Force push him against a burning wall. But he just got up and laughed. "Yes, that's it. Use your anger against me. Use the hatred you have for me. Seek revenge for your parents, for you friend and her family." He professed to me in the most mocking way. That only got me angrier and again I Force Pushed him against another burning wall, this time, he went through into the living room. I headed there, but when I was at the entrance, he was not. Suddenly I felt a powerful tug and I dived into the middle of the room. There I saw him, his crimson blade out of it's metalic sheath, raised into the air and about to give me a deadly blow.
That was when Master Winsten intervened. As the Sith apprentice slashed down, Master Winsten orange blade deflected against his crimson saber. "You have done enough damage to this girl." He said in the most serious way I ever have seen. His demenor was very different. I saw no smile, no joy, no happiness. Instead I felt his justice, his light, his vengence. "You are too late Jedi scum, she has fallen to the dark side. Soon she will be ours." The apprentice lifted his saber and aimed to get my Master's head. However Master Kyle ducked and slashed transversely, wanting to cut him in half. The Sith apprentice however deflected, and my Master used that opportunity to Force Push him back to the ground.
"Move Manta, now!" He said furiously. I on the other hand was still hardheaded and didn't move. Instead I stood up and waited for the Sith apprentice to stand up. When he did I Force hold him up into the air. "Manta, you shouldn't!" my Master cried outloud. However I chose not to hear him. Instead, I wanted to hear the crack of the Sith apprentice's neck. "Yes....that's.....it..." The sith had said. "Do it....kill me....and...fulfill your destiny" he continued to say. "Manta!" my Master said again. "Why should I?" I finally answered back. "He has taken away everything from me. This would only make it even--" "NO! It will not make things even!" My Master interrupted me. "It will only make things worst! You parents did not die in vain, not until you kill this man."
Those words stuck to me for a moment. I had lost everything. I had no more friends, no more family, I was left with nothing. But something inside me told me to let go. It was a soothing feeling; a calm, serene feeling telling me that it's okay to let go. Okay to be scared, okay to have lost everything. After that feeling past, I let go of the Sith right before I choked him to death. He fell onto the ground, panting, wanting air. The roof was about to collapse.
"Foolish girl, you should have killed me while you had the chance!" The apprentice said as he got up after getting the air he needed. "Now both of you will die here by my hands!" My Master stepped in front of me and smiled. It was him again. The same guy that had came on the first day, the same guy that started to make me feel good.
The Sith apprentice charged at both of us, but before I knew it, Master Winsten had already made his move and cut the apprentice into two. Both parts of the body fell opposite of each other. "Sorry that you had to see that," He said as he carried me in his arms out of the house.
Oustide, firemen had came and started to water the house, but I told them to stop. I said it was the memorial I gave to my parents, it was the last thing I would remember before leaving Dantooine.
That night Master Aretmis, Master Winsten, and I stayed in a spaceport hotel. I had chosen to go with them since I have no where else to go. The only clothes I had were the ones on my back. That night would be inscribe in me forever. That night, no, that week change my life. A chapter had just ended, and a new one was about to unfold, well that was the way I thought about it anyway.
Grim_Hashi88 · Wed Sep 20, 2006 @ 07:03am · 0 Comments |
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