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

Chapter Six: Shain

Cassandra and Jordin finally get to earth after traveling for several hours. They land their ships in the hanger underneath Shain’s house. They walk down the narrow hallway, which abruptly opens up into a humongous narthax made of brown marble.

It has two levels and looks like the Jedi archive hallway... just without the archives. At the end of the hall, there is a narrow passage, then a huge, blue holographic computer screen. There are columns going down the hall to support the upper level.

Jordin: (shouting) Hey, Shain, are you in here?

Cassandra jumps a bit. Shain’s voice is heard but he isn’t seen.

Shain: Who’s down here?

Jordin: It’s Jordin and Cassandra.

Shain comes out from the right hall way covered with grease from working on the 1969 Camaro he just bought.

Shain: What’re you kids doing here?

Cassandra runs down the hall and hugs Shain.

Cassandra: (tears in her eyes) You have to come back. Please... you’re the only family I have.

Shain: Family...

Jordin: Shain, we need you now.

Shain: I can’t.

Jordin: You believe in God, don’t you?

Shain: Yes.

Jordin: You believe He is sovereign?

Shain: Yes...

Cassandra: How about “God never gives you more than you can handle”?

Shain says nothing and lowers his head, realising where this is going.

Jordin: How about “you can do all things though Christ, who strengthens you”?

Cassandra: How can you believe He is sovereign if you doubt that He doesn't give you more than you can handle?

Jordin: God put you in charge of the group for a reason,and now He’s testing you. Look, bro, you got a family out there and you left them hanging, ‘cause you were scared of what you thought God couldn’t do. You really gonna leave them sitting in a galaxy where Satan thrives? Is that fair to them? God wants YOU to retake that galaxy for Him!

Shain: (frustrated and confused) I don’t know! I just know I’m not coming back! Ok?! Now get out of here!

Jordin looks at Shain in disgust and Cassandra starts crying.

Jordin: We looked up to you!!! Every single one of us! I’ll bet you Jacklinea, Daviel and Sara do, too. You’ve let each and everyone of them down, including your family. I hope you can live with that... Come on Cassandra. Let’s leave him here. We can talk Dudley into coming back...

The two padawans turn around and walk out. Shain turns around and leans up against the wall. He runs his hands though his hair. He takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly.

Shain: Should I really go back?

Cassandra and Jordin walk down to Dudley’s house. Before they even get to they even get around the cars parked in the backyard, Dudley comes out the back door.

Dudley: S’up, Jordin; how’s it goin’? What you guys doin’ out here?

Jordin: Hey, not so good. Shain came home and isn’t comin’ back. We just came over from his place and well... It wasn’t good.

Dudley: You can’t possibly expect me to believe that Shain, out of all of us that went to the Star Wars universe eight years ago, came home and isn’t coming back.

Jordin: Well, if you were Shain under the pressure he was under, I think you would cave too.

Dudley: What is going on, anyways?

Jordin: This guy Censes took over the whole galaxy in like twenty minutes and he used the whole group besides Shain and Anthony to do it.

Dudley: Then how are you here?

Jordin: Shain freed us. There’s at the least two of your group saved so far, not counting anyone born in the star wars galaxy.

Dudley: Well, who all does he have?

Jordin: My master, and Eve so far at the least. At the most, Willie, Aria and DJ.

Dudley: Shain needs to quit bein’ a pansy and get over himself.

Jordin: Cassandra and I already tried to get him to come with us. I even tried scripture, but he’s not comin’.

Dudley: Fine, let him be a sissified-mother-blubber-sandwich - we can do it ourselves. Let’s go. I’ll

give you a ride to your ship. Just one sec; let me get mine.

He runs inside and hits a button, opening the hanger bay door for his ship. There lies a Dark Phoenix. The ship has two engines on the left and right side of the ship with wings sticking out the side and the back of the engines. The middle of the ship is thinner and more aerodynamic. Dudley has it painted chrome black.

Dudley: She’s only a one-man fighter but if you hold tight next to the engines and I fly slow, I can give you a ride to your ships.

Cassandra: (timidly) Thank you, Dudley.

The two hop on the the front of the wings with there legs hanging down and Dudley gets in. Dudley flies slowly over the jumps. Before he can get over to the road to land, Jordin has pulled his legs up and rolled backwards, letting himself fall into the wooded area below.

Cassandra waits for Dudley to land. She hops off the wing and runs into the woods where they hid their ships. The three of them head off to help their friends.