The Mandalorian Jedi

Chapter Twelve

Norah was waiting for me outside of the room where Master Yoda was training a group of younglings, this particular class would be becoming padawans in the next few years and I was seriously wondering what the hell I was meant to be teaching them, with Norah apparently.
"Do you have any idea what we are meant to be doing? Master Windu said to come here and he would explain."
"According to master Koon said that we were to dual each other so the younglings could study how its done or something, I remember watching it happen when I was a youngling and I still cannot work out what the rules are." I laughed a patted her on the back,
"Yet you are one of the best fighters we have, although I'm surprised they didn't have Anakin come in and do it before he left seeing as he thinks he is better than Master Yoda." Norah snorted and said,
"Well Anakin, You and I are the best padawan fighters, we are pretty much equal but rivaling Master Yoda? That is a slight stretch."

"I would have to agree with you there young Norah," Master Windu was standing behind us and before I could even ask he began explaining what we were to do, "It is customary for the best padawan fighters to show the older younglings how a dual works, it was a choice between you two and Anakin but seeing as he is away at the moment you will be going against each other using a training saber," He saw the look on my face and carried on before I could complain, "Contrary to your belief my young padawan I have scars from where you have accidentally hit me with a real saber during our practices," I winced at that but couldn't help be slightly proud that I had managed to hit him, "We did not tell you until now because we want you to be as... unprepared as possible as if this were a real fight." We nodded and moved into the room, Master Yoda ordered the Padawans to one corner of the room and was probably keeping some sort of barrier around them just in case, Master Windu handed us a training lightsaber and I grumbled quietly, I was far better with two sabers than I was with one and he knew that but he glared at me and I sighed. Norah and I took off our robes and layed them on the chairs, unbuckling our belts as well, I was slightly annoyed not to be fighting with our real sabers but ah well, and I would have to think of a way to get another saber, they were stored not far from here and I could probably get one to come to me, I put my hand out behind me, half focusing on Norah who was getting ready to attack me and half focusing on bringing a training saber to my hand. She knew that and launched into a swift attack. I was defending immediately because I had no option, if I was going to win I needed to have two sabers and luckily I was good enough to only half pay attention and still be able to defend myself for a short period of time. I could see the younglings wondering what the hell I was doing and wasn't I meant to be one of the best fighters? But Master Yoda was nodding in approval and Master Windu was sighing but gave me a tiny nod to say it was okay, Norah knew she was screwed as soon as I was holding another saber so she tried her best to defeat me in that minute and she nearly, several times but I managed to push her back again and then I heard the sound of a few shocked screams and another saber flew into my hand and I grinned. I bought it up and attacked. It had been a while since I had properly fought someone or something and lord it felt good. I was moving freely and for once I could breathe. Yes I had a weakness when I only had one saber but when I had two... Norah was on the ground in thirty seconds, we were both breathing hard and we were grinning like maniacs, "Well I guess we better start planning your funeral. That was pathetic." I held out a hand to help her up and she sighed,
"I could easily beat you if you didn't spend half your time training with the force. I swear I hardly ever see you, you're always off training." I let out a light laugh, making a note to myself that maybe I shouldn't be visiting Grogu so often if people were starting to notice, but it was doing wonders for my control of the force,
"You're just jealous that I'm better than you." She gave me an unimpressed look and we turned to look at the younglings, they looked beyond impressed and one, a small Togruta female, was subtly copying the movements I had made with the dual lightsabers and doing rather well at it, I walked over to her, handing her the two lightsabers I had been using and correcting her stance slightly. She smiled up in satisfaction and I winked at her.

We stuck around for a while, the older class eventually left and the younger ones came in, Master Yoda had them put helmets on and practice deflecting tiny fire from a little orb that floated around. It was sweet seeing them all learning and Master Yoda was an incredibly good teacher. Just as Norah and I were about to leave Obi-Wan walked in, giving us a quick nod of recognition and moving on to ask Master Yoda something. We left them to it and I dragged Norah down to get some food with me, she was looking at me funny, in fact for the past few months she had been looking at me weirdly but I decided to ignore it, cheerfully flicking her shoulder as we walked away.

This is basically a filler chapter while I wait for enough time to pass for everything to happen on Geonosis and the next one will probably be one too but I hope you are enjoying this and I'll try to get another chapter out soon Xx