Star Wars - Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Forgotten Jedi ❯ One-Shot

Rivera, Jennifer

Per. A

Barraza

The Forgotten Jedi

The day that my master cut off my Padawan braid was one of the happiest of my life. I became a youngling at age 5 and trained with some of the best Jedi's in the galaxy. At age ten, I met Yoda the Jedi Master, he said that I was destined for greatness. My master was Bultar Swan, one of the 200 Jedi Knights taskforce that landed on Geonosis with a mission to rescue Jedi captives from the Separatists.

When I became her Padawan, the first thing Bultar told me was that I must let go of my fear. She sensed that I missed my mother and father and that I was afraid to become a Jedi. I had been told that I possessed the power to restore balance to the Force, that I could destroy the threat of the Sith forever. Of course, this was before Anakin was discovered. Anakin was far more powerful than I could ever hope to become and after Qui-Gon took him as a Padawan, Bultar took the pressure off me. That was how I became one of the few Padawans who never used passion. Once the pressure was off I became an expert at letting go of my feelings. My feelings were used to sense disturbances in the force. I once caught Bultar bragging about me to Obi Wan after he took over as Ani's master. Anakin was always too emotional, after all, he had three years of extra time with his parents. He could sense that his mother was suffering as a slave on Tatooine. My mother never suffered, so I never had to worry.

Anakin was one of my good friends, he told me about how he only survived so long because he was good at building stuff, like C-3PO and how the podracer won him his freedom. He told me how Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and himself got away from Tatooine. He told me of his squib love for Padmé, and how he couldn't stop thinking of her.

We always were together when we had free time. Were I not so happy for having a burden lifted off me, I would have become jealous of the attention he always received. He had over 20,000 midi-chlorians, a higher concentration than even Master Yoda. Three years before Ani arrived, the Jedis would talk about me in place of Anakin. I have over 19,500. Only few more than Yoda, but they would still talk. I thank the Force for Anakin in that sense, I was always uncomfortable in the limelight; Anakin seemed to thrive on it.

He was too reckless; he always wanted to do things his way. I spoke many times of this to my Master and also to Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan thought that his recklessness was part of the charm. I remember telling Anakin a number of times to stop being so careless, that it would lead him down a wrong path. He always said that I worried too much. I recall his exact words, “Worry leads to fear, fear leads to the dark side.” I guess he was right…but not about me.

After the clone wars, after all of his heroics, and after he befriended Chancellor Palpatine, he betrayed the Jedi Knights. He sentenced us all to death and he almost succeeded, were it not for Yoda, Obi-Wan, and the twins… and me. I did not answer the message to all the Jedi to go to the Jedi Temple. When Chancellor Palpatine made himself known as Darth Sidious and executed order 66, I was on my way up to see Yoda who was overseeing matters with the Wookiees. When the storm troopers turned on us, I was forced to take cover. I met Yoda on his way down from the tower and we managed to escape together. He told me of his plans and insisted that I find a place to live, away from the war and away from harm.

So I fled to the mysterious planet, Roon in order to escape the fate of the Jedi Knights. I spent most of the remainder of the dark times during the rule of the empire on Roon. I also kept in contact with Leia's parents, the king, Bail Organa and his wife, the lovely queen. During some of my exile period, I was on Alderaan, watching over Leia, hoping that perhaps her Jedi legacy would emerge in her. It did, but only slightly, and the king and queen felt that it would be useless to train her in the ways of the Force; they were afraid she would be discovered and killed. So I said farewell and left her to be raised as a normal human. Leia always seemed to believe that she had early memories of her mother and voiced her concerns to Luke soon after she found out that they were twins, but what she really has are memories of me. What Leia doesn't know is that her mother, Padmé, died after giving birth. Anakin, in his rage and in his betrayal to the Jedi Knights, was the cause of her death. She lost her will to live and did not survive childbirth. Leia remembers me as sad and beautiful, and I wish I had been able to tell her the truth before she set off on her mission to destroy the Empire.

After she joined the Rebellion, I did as well, and I reemerged as a recruiter for the Force. After Yoda took Luke as his apprentice, I began my search for mine. I built a new Jedi Temple on the light side of my new home planet, Roon. I found huge numbers of children with the power of the Force. I trained them all in the ways of the Force, when Obi-Wan, became a part of the Force, I requested his help in training me and the new younglings. After the Rebellion overthrew the Empire and justice and diplomacy resumed, the Senate was reinstated and the war finally ended. Yoda, Obi-Wan, Luke, and I trained pupil after pupil and started the new Jedi Council. After Yoda met with the spirit of Anakin, Anakin joined the Jedi Council. It was as if the years of Lord Vader had never happened. Ani and I joked and laughed again. We introduced him to Leia and I told him the story of his little girl. He was happier than the day he married Padmé and Leia finally met her father, Jedi Knight: Anakin Skywalker. Leia immediately forgave her father for betraying us, for she understood that the Dark Side had killed Anakin long before he became Darth Vader. Luke found this difficult to understand. He always was saying how he knew his family had suffered but he hadn't turned to the Dark Side. We explained many times that circumstances were different for each individual. Luke eventually forgave him and they became best friends. Father and son were always together.

Soon after the reinstatement of the Council and the Republic, we tried to persuade Leia to start training in the ways of the Force, but she refused. When we asked her why, she explained that she was in love with someone; it was no secret when it came to who. Han Solo married her in front of all members of the Rebellion and the Council. Han Solo went on to become a very lucky gambler, and although many bounty hunters were always after him, Han had the protection of Luke and Leia. Han was well taken care of. Leia and Han, soon after their marriage, had three children: the twins Jaina and Jacen, and the youngest, Anakin. All three of their children went through Jedi training; Jaina went to her Uncle Luke's Jedi School on Coruscant, Jacen went to mine and then rejoined his uncle in order to help subdue the threat of the former Empire, Anakin went to his uncle's school and shared more than just his grandfather's name.

So I, Yenri Casan, Areaccord formerly of Coruscant, currently of Roon, was a huge part of the story of the Rebellion, the Republic, and the legacy of the Jedi Knights. But my story was never told, my memoirs were never shared, for I did not train anyone to fight for the Rebellion. But I'm proud of what I accomplished for the republic and for the Jedi. I was Ani's best childhood friend, his confidante, his sister, and I made him the Jedi Master he'd never achieved during his allegiance to the Light Side.