Star Wars / Two Halves

2 : Initiation

*10 Years later, Arek is now 16 years old*

(Location : Jedi Training Facility;
Planet : Unknown)

"Yo Markus, wake up"

I shook him as hard as I could but to no avail. He was always a grumpy sleepy type but today was definitely not the day to be like this. I kept shaking until he finally opened awoke and raised himself up off his bed.

"Why the hell are you waking me up? It's only 8 AM we don't get up until 11 AM!"

His sleepiness and grogginess must have also blurred his memory because today was the one day me and him had been waiting for ever since we joined the Jedi cause.

"Today's our initiation dumbo, don't you want to finally have your own lightsaber?"

His eyes instantly shot open in surprise.

"Initiation is today!? Really!?"

With that he bolted out of his bed and hurried to put his clothes on. Once he was done we walked side by side down to the facility's main center for training. Once we reached the center, there were only the other few teens ready for initiation and none other then our master Luke Skywalker himself.

"Took you boys long enough, I was thinking on sending them off without you". Luke said with a sly grin on his face.

"Sorry master we won't do it again" I said jokingly, knowing full well it would happen again.

Me and Markus stood by each other in line as we waited to hear instructions from Mr. Skywalker. He looked around the room as if he was observing and deciding who he should pick.

"Listen everyone, as you all know, today is the day you will set off to forge your own lightsab--"

Mr. Skywalker was cut off by the cheering of some of the jockey force users from another training facility, he could tell just by the look of them that he didn't like them.

"As I was saying, you will be getting your lightsabers in the near future and this is how it will be done"

Everyone was tense waiting for his words as if they were the only thing that mattered at that moment.

"I will send you all off in groups of 3, each to separate planets containing different materials and kyber crystals, once you are there you will work together and become one with the force to connect with the lightsaber and even the kyber crystal itself in order to forge your lightsaber."

Some kids were confused, as was I, everyone had the impression that we would all go in one trip with Master Skywalker and get our crystals all at once. Now he was saying that we had to go alone...

"Master if you don't mind me asking, what will be have to defend ourselves in case anything happens?", I asked worryingly.

He looked over my way and gave me a stern look.

"You will have no weapon, the force will guide you through your journey, you need not worry".

Markus looked over at me with a look of confusion and worry. I couldn't blame him, everyone was just as worried and confused as he was. Luke started to speak and we all stopped mumbling and listened.

"Now that I've done all the explaining it's time to assign groups"

Luke started naming off people's names as he went down each line, it took him a while to get to ours but when he did he made sure to take his sweet time.

"Arek you'll be with Markus and Kira".

Just as he said that a dirty blonde girl turned around and ran up to greet us.