Stepping In (Star Wars AU)

Chapter 13

Third Person

Yoda looked at the sunset on Dantooine, thinking of the Jedi.

"Failed you, I have, Master Gormo. Let the Sith destroy the Jedi, I did. Deserve to be Grand Master, I do not." Yoda says mournfully to himself.

"No one could have stopped this, youngling."

No one has called him a youngling since...... since his days as an initiate. Yoda lifts his head.

"Master Coven. Expect you here, I did not. Master the key to immortality, you did?"

Fae Coven's blue form nodded.

"Come, why have you?"

Fae smiles

"To see my old student, of course."

Yoda frowns.

"A lie, that is."

Fae mimics him.

"You do deserve to be a Grand Master. You deserve to be a Jedi, Yoda. You lead the Jedi Order for hundreds of years successfully. No one could have stopped the Sith from rising again. The Jedi Order was in shambles and you did all you could to preserve it. Because of you, the Order has a chance to survive and flourish. Because of you, the Jedi have learned there lesson."

"I too, became arrogant. Forget that, you should not. Learned my lesson, I wonder."

"You have learned your lesson. Now you have to let the past be the past and move on."

Yoda slams his grimer stick down.

"Forget the fallen Jedi, I will not! Died because of the Sith, they did. Give them justice, I will!"

"Justice or revenge?" Fae asks softly.

Yoda doesn't answer. He knows she's right.

"It's alright to seek revenge but you cannot act on it."

"Master Coven is right."

Yaddle appears beside Fae.

"Master Yaddle. Warms my heart, it does, to see you again."

"Haha! Get rid of me, you will not."

Yoda smiles.

"See you again, I hope I will. I thank you for your advice."

The two Jedi spirits smile and disappear.

"Master Yoda? Who were you talking to?"

Yoda turns to An'ya Kuro more known as Dark Woman.

"Old friends."