A Jeweled Rose In Clone Wars

Part 20

I got my story stolen by NovelHD, LOL. But I am back! I am so sorry that I did not post in a while especially on a cliffhanger.

A young lady in a cloak walked the world of Stewjon, and she was all alone as she walked. She then felt something, that thing, no it was a person, pulled her in another direction. 'Who could it be?' the woman thought as she walked faster, and then she felt it, pain, not her's, but another's. She started to run to see what was going on and started to smell smoke. She heard cries and screams as people ran away from a burning town. She passed through those people to find a slightly older woman laying on the ground holding a young child, this child was a young boy, and he was where the disturbance was coming from. She ran to the lady and picked her up along with the child. When they were safe, she put down the woman who was coughing.

"Are you okay?" the younger lady asked the woman, she knew the answer, but she always had hope.

"They are gone..." the older woman cried, "My husband and older son are gone." The woman put a hand on the lady's hand. "Please get my son to safety," she cried before coughing some more, "I will soon be with the rest of my family, but I don't want my only child left to come with me." She was referring to the child in her arms who was asleep. The woman started coughing and her breathing stopped, nothing the lady could do would help.

"May the force be with you," the lady said and she looked at the kid who was now awake. The child cried for his mother, and the lady crouched to his level.

"Your mommy is one with the force now, and there she will continue on," she said, "My name is Summer Rose, what is your?"

The boy sniffled out his name. Summer had no idea what she was getting into, but that didn't matter opening her arms to that child. That boy was me, Obi-Wan Kenobi...

Years later the two became close, Summer was a mother figure to me, and she taught me how to fight. Apparently today I was going to meet Jedi Master Fay who taught Summer the ways of the force. The Jedi was a nice lady, but her ideas were quite different from Summer's.

"Is he your padawan? Fay asked looking at me.

"He is my student, not an official padawan," Summer replied, "The rest of the Jedi don't even know of him."

"Why not?" Fay asked, "I sense that you are conflicted by this choice."

"I wish for him to be taught the best, but the Jedi order is a cult... I want him to train as a huntsman." 

"I know that you are a proud huntress, but you need to do what is best for him, and that isn't always what you want," the Jedi Master stated.

"If I put him in it... He won't ever be able to leave!" Summer cried.

"You made your own choices," Fay responded.

"I never left, and I am still their puppet!" she responded, "I will not be ever able to free myself from this curse! I wish to provide the most opportunities to Obi-Wan without worrying about his safety."

"I respect your wishes, but I know for a fact you can't keep this up," Fay responded.

(LATER)

I stood with Summer as he met with another Jedi. Summer was being given the title Jedi Master, and they managed to convince her to let me train there. Summer was so kind and carrying to everyone, and many admired her for this trait. However, it wasn't meant to last forever.

One day, Qui-Gon Jin, Summer, and I had a task relating to the Queen of Naboo. They had to protect her, but Summer seemed on edge the entire time they were there. My master had recently gone on a mission, but when she came back she was different. They found a small kid named Anakin (writer's note: he is going to be much younger than originally) who she showed kindness to, but when she stared at the boy she looked disturbed.

The boy became part of the Jedi order and he was believed to be the "Chosen One" by the masters. However, this is when everything changed, no, when Summer changed. She was afraid of something, but only I seemed to notice this. I asked her many times if she was okay, but she didn't give me a clear-cut answer. Months passed, I thought everything went back to normal, but I was wrong. The war began (writers note: the war begins sixteen years before this story takes place), and Summer wanted nothing to do with it. She believed the Jedi were in the wrong for not staying neutral, that everything was a trap to rip this galaxy apart for someone to shape it into their evil image. 

She decided that the Jedi Order was corrupt and left. She gave me a chance to leave with her, but I refused to let go of what was important. I knew I was doing the right thing for fighting for the Republic. She gave me one last hug as she smiled showing me that she supported my choice, and said goodbye. However, as soon as she let go of me and turned around, I could sense her pain as she walked away. She had left everything that she knew because of her not understanding the situation correctly. I never saw her again... A few years later I felt a pain in my chest, and I could guess what happened. It was only confirmed when you came and told us she was not in the realm of the living. This makes me wish that I could have just said bye or anything of the sort. That is a choice that I regret more than anything else. I wish that she decided to come back when you were born, but this is the will of the Force.

(AT THE JEDI TEMPLE COURTYARD)

"Now that you heard the full stor-" Obi-Wan was stopped when a hand slapped his face.

"YOU DISGUST ME!" Ruby yelled, "YOU TARNISH MY MOTHER'S NAME BY SAYING HER UNDERSTANDING WERE WRONG WITHOUT GIVING THEM A THOUGHT?!"

"Ruby I-"

"ALL YOU PEOPLE DO IS SACRIFICE THE LIVES OF BOTH SOLDIER AND CIVILIAN FOR WHAT?! AN UNWINNABLE WAR?!"

"I know how you feel about the deaths, but you mustn't form strong bonds. That can lead to the Darkside of the Force!" Obi-Wan's words made Ruby take a deep breath.

"Hate, despair, sadness, love, happiness, and so many more emotions..." she turned around to look at the sky as her former teacher was at the right of her. "Why do we have them if we are not meant to use them?"

"We are meant to control them to be deemed worthy to use the Force," Obi-Wan responded.

"So you are bending the will of the Force to serve your own needs? Or are you servents of this strange energy? Make your choice," the girl responded.

"We follow the Force's will-"

"So nothing we do matters because it is the will of the Force. Every accomplishment that we make and every life we save was just the will of the Force. Everything that involves any form of emotion is against the will of the Force, do you know why?"

"Because it leads to the Darkside of the Force," the Jedi Master explained, "As I said before."

"Really? If everything should follow the will of the Force, how could there be a Darkside or a Light?" Ruby responded, "Here is a hypothesis! You people just decide everything that you don't understand, and most likely cannot understand, as evil." Ruby paused for a second, "You said it yourself, you USE the Force. If you really wanted to follow the Force's will, why do you bend and break it? Here is an idea! Why just leave the galaxy alone? After all, that will be much closer to this supposed will than what you are doing!"

"I-"

"I didn't say I was finished!" Ruby said, but she continued using the Force to not say it out loud, "I came to the same conclusion as my mother, but YOU were given to you with a pretty little bow, but your empty head can't understand anything! The Separatists could've crushed us on so many occasions, but they didn't! Someone is pulling the strings, but you already knew that, didn't you? So maybe you should've thought about my mother's warning?!" She turned her head to look at him. "While doing research I found something interesting. We can end the war, but you need to keep your mind open along with those other foolish Jedi Masters."