A Jedi's Grace

Chapter I: The Jedi Padawan

"Hivall?"

"Hivall, are you here?"

"Uh, in here!" The young girl rushed to hide the ancient papers she previously had in hands and hid them behind her back. Yvir, her closest friend, who was also a padawan like Hivall, entered the room with a suspicious gaze. "Hello, Yvir."

"What are you doing?" She made her way in Hivall's direction, and the padawan didn't need to read her mind to know Yvir knew she was hiding something.

"Nothing." She moved a bit farther, hands clenching to the papers.

Yvir sighed, crossing her arms. "You're studying them again, aren't you?" Hivall didn't reply, just stared guilty at your friend as she slightly bit her lip. "Master Skywalker told you not to do it, Hivall! What if you get caught?" She aggressively whispered, afraid of someone else hearing the conversation.

Hivall sighed annoyed, placing the documents down on the table again.

"It's not like it's forbidden..."

"It is forbidden! Why study ancient Sith lords when you can study about Jedi masters? Master Yoda, for example." Yvir approached her, looking down at the documents and frowning, like the mere sight burned her eyes.

"I'm just curious, that's all." Hivall replied, looking down at the texts and picking them up. Yvir was the only one who knew about her curiosity of the dark side, and even though she didn't support it, she promised to keep it a secret, for now. "I found something."

"What?"

Excitedly, Surike grabbed the different orange stones, looking for the correct one.

"It's a planet, a very old and abandoned planet, called..." Hivall raised her eyebrow, trying to pronounce the name, "Moraband...Korriban? It's a Sith planet. Or it was."

Sighing again, Yvir stared at the written stone.

"How did you even find this?"

"This, my dear friend," The padawan proudly smiled as she waved to the mountains of maps, papers, tablets, anything that can be written upon, shuffled on her table and bed. "Belonged to a Sith called Elyir. I've been tracking her story for a while now, trying to know who she was."

"And this?" She pointed to a drawing of a mask.

"It's a long-lost mask that belonged to Darth Nihilus. It is imbued with dark energy and allows any who wore his mask the power to wield the Force as if they were a Sith apprentice! Isn't it amazing?"

Yvir blinked, obviously not expecting her friend to take this research so far. She had stood by her side as she spoke about the First Order and its generals, including one that got her attention, General Armitage Hux, but investigating so deep like this? It's beyond obsession.

"Wh-Why are you studying this?"

Hivall stopped to look at her better, shrugging her shoulders in indifference.

"It's interesting."

"Master Windu was a very interesting Jedi as well."

Hivall rolled your eyes at Yvir, she wasn't expecting her friend to understand anyway. While she looked through other maps, Hivall didn't notice her friend investigating the room and noticing the backpacks made in her bed.

"Where are you going?" She picked one of them up. "Hivall."

She turned around nervously.

"Ahem, well, I... I'm going to Korriban."

Yvir nearly screamed but held back since it would draw attention to both. Oh, she was more than shocked with her.

"Have you lost your mind?! It's a Sith planet! I understand your research, but you can't go there, no way."

"I'm not asking you to come with me, Yvir." Hivall furrowed her eyebrows, arms crossed in front of her. "Look, I can take care of myself, plus I'll bring Bee-Bee with me."

"Your droid can't shield you from the dark side." Yvir accused and sighed, disappointed. "Forgive me, Hivall, but I'll have to tell Master Skywalker about this."

Hivall immediately moved to stop her friend from walking out, a desperate look on her brown eyes. "I can't let you do that. You promised!"

"I promised to keep your curiosity and research in secrecy, not your crazy idea to travel to a Sith planet. I'm sorry." Yvir stepped forward, but the padawan didn't move. "Hivall, move out of my way, please."

"No."

"Hivall."

"Please, you don't understand." Hivall begged, her eyes searched Yvir's face for some sigh of forgiveness or understanding, but all she saw was disappointment.

"Then explain it to me." A soft and worried gaze painted over Yvir's blue eyes. Surike's mouth opened but no sound came through, the words were stuck in her throat. Yvir sighed and shook her head. "You'll understand this is for your own good."

Hivall was pushed to the side as her friend left the bedroom, leaving her with her own thoughts. Master Skywalker would be so disappointed in her, but they didn't understand, nobody did. She had probably to one hour or lesser to leave the Jedi Temple without being seen. Hivall looked to Bee-Bee, who was staring at her, probably waiting for her next move. The padawan inhaled and quickly rushed to organize everything and pack it up.

"Bee, go get our ship ready. We're leaving."