Standing Alone

Chapter 25

Ahsoka's POV:

It has been 2 weeks since Seventh Sister kidnapped Ezra and you could see on everyone's face that we missed him. He joined the rebellion 3,5 months ago and since then he became our family. And our family needs to be together! And I'll arrange that!

"With me."

"BARRISS! Stop reading my mind!!"

She laughed and took my arm so I would follow her to the cockpit.

"There you are! Chopper thinks he found Ezra!" Hera cheered

"What!!!? Chopper, if this is a joke I'll dump you on Mustafar." I yelled at the droid.

"*beeping noises*"

"Then show us!" Barriss said.

Chopper showed a map from a prison.

"Where is this?" Sabine asked.

"Lothal. Do you have a list with prisoners, Chop?" Hera answered.

Chopper showed us a list and it counted 1.022.002 prisoners.

"Search Ezra!" Kanan ordered

"*beeping noises*"

"What do you mean nothing!? He has to be there! We checked all the other prisons and star destroyers!" Zeb yelled at the astromech.

"Search Arze."

We all looked at Barriss, who stood calm, waiting till Chopper told the result.

"Match." Hera yelled, making me deaf.

"That's him! He's there! B-but? How did yo-"

"Ezra never wanted to call himself 'Ezra'. He hated himself, because he killed his parents."

"He what?" I asked silently.

"No. he didn't really kill them. He just blames himself..."

"Can you tell us the whole story, while Chop tries to find more information?" Hera asked.

"Sure... I would sit down if I was you..."

Everyone sat down. Kanan, Hera, Barriss and Sabine sat on the chairs and Zeb, Rex and I sat on the ground and we waited till the story began...

Barriss' POV:

"Like you know, he was Mira and Ephraim's son. They fought the Empire with transmissions, other people and with hope. But that didn't last. When Ezra was 7, the Empire found their house. They surrendered, but asked Kallus to let Ezra go. And take a guess... he didn't want to. They started firing at the family and all three deflected the shots with their lightsabers... but they were with too many. Mira and Ephraim wanted Ezra to run. He had to prove that he loved them... by running away from them... to the city. He didn't want to... but he did anyway. "

I paused and then continued.

"He told me that since that day... he changed. He said he wasn't the same Ezra like he was before. Since that day he started calling himself Arze. He never liked his name and he never said it. He lived on the streets since then. We met each other when he was 8. I took care for him and was the friend he needed. He still lived in his tower, but he came to me every morning. I always protected him. But I failed on his 10th birthday..."

"What happened?" Ahsoka asked curiously.

I looked away from the ground and saw them all looking at me like children who were listening to a fairytale... I wished this story ended like a fairytale... but it doens't.