Chapter 1

“ Yes, Obi-Wan. I will be at the Council Chambers, first thing in the morning, when I land at the Temple.” Anakin rolled his eyes, as Obi-Wan lectured him on what he needed to do, when he gets back to the Temple in five days’ time.

“ Now, do not give me that tone and stop rolling your eyes at me.” Obi-Wan had a very stern tone in his voice, as he scolded Anakin.

“ Sorry, but you do not have to tell me that I have to see the Council and tell them what went on, when I was on my mission.” Anakin huffed his answer to Obi-Wan, because he gets so tired of Obi-Wan telling him what he has to do.

“ Well, there are times that you do need to be reminded what you need to do. Sometimes you have your mind on other things. Do you remember what happened the last mission that you went, on all by yourself.” Obi-Wan laughed at the face that Anakin was making again.

“ Yeah, well, that time I had a very good reason, why I did not go straight to the Council Chambers. I was covered in blood, guts and other bodily fluids, and am sure that the Council Members did not want to smell all that nasty stuff on me. I went to the refresher and got all cleaned up, before going to the debriefing.” Anakin steered his ship around a huge rock, as he entered the small asteroid-field.

“ I know. You were really lucky that Master Yoda and the other Members did understand that. It was also a good thing that Master Windu was not there, because we all know that he would have giving you an earful.” Obi-Wan laughed, when he remembered that day.

“ Yeah, I am very glad that he was not there too. Yes, I do know that we would have gotten an earful from him and I was way too tired to listen to him . I may have said something to him that would have gotten me into trouble . . . What the!” Anakin felt a shutter coming from the back of his ship and there were a few sparks came from his control panel.

“ Anakin, what is it?” Obi-Wan asked, as he saw a worried look come across Anakin’s face.

“ I don’t know, but something just hit my ship. It was not a rock, and now, my electrical system is failing and I also just lost my engines. So now, I will try turning on my tracker, just in case I have to crash the ship.” Anakin moved out of the asteroid-field and made a move closer to the planet.

“ Ok. Can you give a clue, as to where you are at, so that way, I can come and find you? Keep safe and I hope to see you soon, my friend.” Obi-Wan noticed a scared look came across Anakin’s face, just as the ship was hit again.

“ The planet is called Thalassa. Damn, I cannot see what is firing at me. Great, I am in the gravitation pull of the planet. This may be very messy.” Anakin felt the ship start falling downwards towards the planet.

“ Great, Thalassa. It will take me awhile to get there, just be fine and May the Force be with You, my young friend.” Obi-Wan did know that it would take him almost a month to get to the planet, because it was located in the Unexplored Territories of the Galaxy.

“ Thanks and I hope to see you too, Obi-Wan. May the Force be with You . . . .” was all Anakin said, before his ship hit the ground hard and the ship broke into pieces, before exploding into fire pieces.

Thank goodness, Anakin had told Obi-Wan his location, because when the ship exploded, Obi-Wan had lost the tracking signal. The crash did not go unnoticed. A small group of hunters had seen the huge ball of fire streaking across the night sky.

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“ My Lord, we are all packed up and ready to move on. We found the tracks of the herd from yesterday.” one of the hunters came up to his Master.

"Good. First, I want to check out where that fire ball that fell from sky last night. I want to see where it hit.” the Master got up from the log that he was sitting on, drinking his morning coffee.

“ Yes, Master. I will tell Waine and your horse is also ready to go.” Jake bowed his head and went to where the other hunter was putting his bed roll onto the pack animal.

Two hours later, after tracking the herd, the hunter party came across the wreckage site of the ship.

“ Spread out and look through the wreckage, so that way, we can see if there is any survivors. Look, over there is a droid.” the Master looked over to a part of the ship that looked like a wing.

Two of the hunters went over to what was left of the wing and found R2-D2. He was badly damaged from the crash. They put the droid on a pack animal, before they continued their search through the pile of wreckage.

“ My Lord, I found someone.” a young boy called out, as he stood by what was left of the cockpit of the small ship.

“ Hurry and make a stretcher, so we can take the person back to the village.” the Master told the four hunters that were standing close to him.

The four hunters bowed their heads and went into the forest, so that they could carry out their Master’s orders. Four hours later, the hunting party had Anakin out of the wreckage and on the stretcher. Then, they began heading back to the village. As they came out of the forest and down the road, they passed a small field that had wild mushrooms growing. One of the field hands that was there, was picking some mushrooms had stopped picking and just watched the party pass her. The young girl followed the hunters into the village, but she did not go unnoticed either. Lord Melrey saw her following not too far behind him. The young girl went to the kitchen, so that way, she could drop off her full basket of mushrooms, while the hunters took the injured person to one of the guest huts. Lord Melrey came into the kitchen and saw two young ladies rolling out dough.

“ Master!” one of the girls stopped rolling the dough, when she saw her Master standing in the doorway.

“ I need you to take care of the wounded guest.” Lord Melrey pointed to the girl, who he had seen following the hunting party from the fields earlier.

The young lady bowed her head and made her way to the hut, where she began to take care of the badly wounded Anakin