The Mandalorian Jedi

Chapter Eight

I had carefully laid out everything in front of me, just as Master Windu has instructed, in the precise places that would let my lightsaber form a connection. I had been left alone in a plain room, nothing too distracting and built to help with what could be days of meditation. I kept thinking about what Norah had said, about the mythosaur necklace that hung at my throat. I sat there for a good few minutes thinking and then, slowly as if any movement could somehow break the peaceful silence of the room, so unlike that silence in the caves, I unhooked the chain from my neck and placed it in my hand, gently touching the metal skull of the mythosaur and then ever so carefully I lifted it off the chain, letting the force guide it into a position amongst the metals that would make up my lightsaber.

I must have sat there for hours, contemplating those pieces of metal, trying to calm the raging storm in my mind. Eventually I stopped thinking. I stopped doing anything, I didn't let myself worry, I let some ancient part of my mind do the work for me. Let it shape the pieces in front of me. I did not look as it shaped my weapon, I kept my eyes firmly closed, channeling all my focus into that small part of me that held the ability to do this very particular job.

In the end I was in that room for 16 hours and I somehow managed not to get incredibly bored. I don't know how I knew when to open my eyes but I did and I couldn't help the enormous grin that bloomed across my face when I saw the weapon in front of me, it was a double bladed saber, metal curved up and slightly over the edge of the hilt and directly in the centre a line ran through the hilt allowing me to snap it in half, creating two dual sabers, the chain that had held my pendant had sunken into the hilt, creating an intricate, twisting pattern that collected around the base of the hilt, encircling the mythosaur, it had somehow been cleanly cut in half, the line almost invisible as it sat on either side of the hilt so that when turned into dual lightsabers they were easily recognisable as a pair. Two silver buttons sat on either lay just above the slightly indented rest for my hand and I paused for a second before simultaneously pressing them. The saber came to life, humming with pure energy, glowing a colour not unlike my masters saber but lighter, much lighter it could almost be mistaken for white but for the light purple that rested in the centre of the blade.

In truth I had never been prouder of myself and I admired the double sabers then carefully took them apart, holding one in each hand I spun them round, testing them out before I pulled them back in, not wanting to accidentally cut myself or something.

Master Windu was waiting outside, probably having sensed that I had finished. His lips were slightly upturned and that was about the most I'd seen him smile, ever. "Well let's see then," I carefully handed them over and my master nodded approvingly, "Well done, very well done indeed," He put the two lightsabers together to form a double one and nodded again, "An interesting design but one I am sure will prove useful in the future." He then pressed the button and the sabers came to life and he nodded again before retracting the blade and handing it back to me. I had begun to learn that if I got a nod out of Master Windu I was doing very well, "We will start training tomorrow, you are free to do as you please until then." I bowed, smiling and turned towards the corridors that led into the quieter parts of the temple.

Anakin wouldn't be back from training with Obi-Wan for a while and Norah was most likely with Master Plo-Koon or still putting her lightsaber together so there only seemed to be one place to go.

Grogu's room was empty, whichever master or droid that had been caring for him having left before I arrived. The little green guy was awake and babbling to himself in his crib, Master Yoda had given permission to visit him in my free time as long as it never got in the way of my learning and I had found myself spending rather a lot of time with the mischievous green goblin, although still tiny he had a massive personality and seemed to find no joy in any of the toys provided for him, preferring to babble to anyone who happened to be with him.

I lifted him out of his crib, sitting him in my lap as he squealed happily and I stroked his enormous ears, smiling at the baby, "I finished making my lightsaber little guy, you wanna see it?" His little hand reached out towards where it hung at my hip, and I let him look at it, careful to keep his fingers away from the buttons that would activate the blade. He stroked the mythosaur and babbled away, probably sensing something through the force. I stayed there for a while, playing with Grogu and talking to him about all sorts of things, I don't know if he listened or even understood but it was nice to have someone to talk to who wouldn't judge me, or I wouldn't know if he was judging me.

Whew that took a while to write. I'm thinking we will have maybe one or two chapters of training and then I will skip to Attack of the Clones, I don't know how many chapters that will take but we'll see and then I might do a chapter for life day and I will do a few chapters for the clone wars then move on but I will come back and write more chapters  on her training and on the clone wars when I finish watching it, also nearly 200 views! Thank you so much! Xx