Star Wars: The Jedi Chronicles:Enter The Shadows (Books 1-4)

Chapter 5 The Dawn of a New Age

Scene: Four of the Jedi sent to Glade - Shain, Eve, Cody and Willie - are in the Council Chamber, reporting the result of their failed mission to the Jedi Masters.

Windu: Where is Katy?

Eve: (angrily) That guy you sent us to fight shattered her legs - she can hardly stand!

Yoda and Mace share a look of concern.

Willie: Eve!

Eve: I’m sorry, Masters.

Willie: (sadly) Master Yoda, we’ve failed.

Yoda: (shaking his head) Then the worst, yet to come, it is.

Shain: He’s here…

Cody: (bursting out) I can’t believe you jerks sent us to fight that monster! We were nowhere near ready and you knew it!!!

Willie: Cody!

Cody ignores him and storms out of the council room.

Obi-Wan: Does anyone else feel that? That strange Force presence?

Suddenly, an explosion rocks the room. The council members stand up and everyone runs out of the room. Cody stumbles back in, looking startled, then shakes the rubble and dust out of his curly hair.

Windu: (to the young Jedi) Stay here; we’ll handle this.

Willie, Cody, Shain and Eve look at each other, shrug their shoulders and run downstairs. The four are standing on the second level above the main hall way looking down into the main hall way where they see Censes and a small army of smoke-like shadows with red eyes fighting off Jedi. The shadows alternately disappear and reappear, confusing the Jedi, and bringing them down.

Cody (frantically) Anyone see the rest of the Earthlings?

Eve: No.

Suddenly, Elena,D.J.and Nathan Ingram come flying down the main hall. ElenaandNathan flip sideways over one of the shadows, slicing it in half. As they land, they slice another one, running their blades up its back.

While they are doing that, D.J. drops to his knees, doing a three hundred sixty degree spin taking out two. He pops up and pulls his custom hilt around his back, taking out another, then he pulls it out in front of him and lets the blade run though another.

A fourth tries to sneak up on Elena. She spins her red lightsaber around and stabs it through the shadow's chest. As soon as the shadows hit the ground, they form into a normal shadow and head toward the closest dark spot in the room A moment later, they reappear in humanoid form and rejoin the fight.

Elena: (muttering to herself) Not good.

D.J.: I’m up to four!

Nathan I.: You won’t be winning by the time this is over.

Elena: You’re right, Nate; I will be.

Willie: Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s get down there and kick some butt!

Cody, Shain, Willie, and Eve jump down into the hall and start fighting. Jedi are dropping on all sides; screams of pain fill the air.

Shain: Is it just me, or are they avoiding us?

Cody: What do you mean?

Willie: I think he means that these shadows keep laying the other Jedi out cold, but leaving us kids.

Eve: Why do you think that is?

Michael: Don’t worry; reinforcements are here.

The rest of the Jedi from earth - excepting Dudley Fry and Katy - run into the hall and join the fight.