Visions of Destiny

Depa Billaba pov:

I was very much aware of my surroundings. I knew exactly where I really was & why. I even know what was going on around me, the events that put me here keep replying in my head. I was unconscious in a beta tank in the med of the main Jedi temple. My last battle was a great defeat & I had lost many of my men. I didn't want to wake up. It had been three months since I was brought back here. I could sense everyone who came in. I could sense a youngling coming in. As he walked in I suddenly saw a bright light. Instead of the usual battle I normally saw I saw something different. It was more peaceful. For a second I could see the kid that had just walked in. Then I saw him years older. I could already tell this was some time after the war currently going on had ended. He was with another male youngling. There were others too but most of the picture were of my future padawan and his padawan. Caleb is what I call him in the first image I saw but the the other boy keep calling him Kanan. Caleb wasn't dressed like a Jedi in the images of him and the boy. He looked more like a bounty hunter. The boy who he often called Ezra wasn't dressed like a padawan ether. The kid was dressed like the residents of level 1313. I wondered could they be undercover or something. Why where they dressed like that? I saw them talking to master Yoda in a temple and then the flash of light returned. The droid was forcing Caleb to leave. I had to wake up and stop him. That's exactly what I did.

A little over a month had gone by & I had been watching Caleb the whole time. He was smart & always questioning everything. He understood everything & always wanted more. Today He was attending a lecture on the emergency signal and then training. I watched him closely during Obi-Wan's lecture and even talked to him afterwards about his questions. I even walked him to the training room. I didn't plan on seeing him again later that day. The force had other things planed. I was meditating in my room. That's when the visions of older Caleb or Kanan came back. I had only seen them one other time since I woke up. That vision had Ashoka in it. I had asked the rest of the Council about her and even gone to talk to her about the visions. Once I found her she became the only one to know about my visions Kanan & Ezra. I feared that if I took Caleb would leave the order after that. It made me hesitant to train him. However this visions change that. Yet again it was Kanan and Ezra but this time Kanan was telling Ezra a story. Kanan looked upset as he spoke. The story was about me and how I protected him. It was about how he never left the order but how the order had fallen. It was about how I died in battle to allow him to survive. He didn't give much details about it or even why he changed his name. Something told me I didn't want to know. Then there was a knock on my door. My vision was cut short by the noise. It was Caleb. I was beginning to wonder if Caleb was Kanan something was telling me that they were one in the same. He had come to me for advice & questions he had. The other padawans had been talking about me & roomers about me were spending around the temple. He wanted to put them to an end. We sat there and talk for a while when he heard a noise and we both sensed something. We went to investigate it. Someone was bombing the temple. He tried to stop it himself & I tried to stop him. We ended up stopping it together. I even protected him. This event confirmed that Caleb was in fact the man named Kanan I saw in my visions.

Once I had started one on one training with Caleb my visions of Kanan came nightly. I could tell by Caleb's behavior every once in a while that I wasn't the only one having visions at night. Caleb's visions were apparently darker and he never talked about them nor did I question him about it. I could tell that they had something to do with the clones. Sometimes he would wake up scared to death of them despite the fact that many had become his friends and were quite fond of him. I felt like I should question him about it. However my visions told me I might not want to know. Something told me that his visions answered the question I has about my visions. I felt I needed to give him something to help interpret them. We had been injured and we were once again at the main temple. I designed to check out a holocron to give him after our next mission. This mission was to Kaller. We where leaving later that day.

The battle was over quick. He had accomplished our goal and had some time before we had to return to the temple. I had informed the council that we would remain on this planet for the night and in the morning I wanted to check out something on the planet Lothal. The council was hesitant about it but allowed Caleb and I to go alone. I was going to leave Styles & Gray here with the rest of my platoon to keep an eye on things until We returned before heading back to The temple. We were all camping outside and I had just given Caleb the holocron. He played with it until we both fell asleep. He was sleeping quite peacefully & clearly not having visions. I wish I could say the same about myself. The clones were all up. There was a disturbance in the Force. Caleb couldn't feel it but I could. My visions that night where about two things. The first being Ezra being born. The second was about the clones turning on us. Now it was all making sense. Yes, the Jedi order was going to fall. I way going to give up my life so my padawan could live to find Ezra. Ezra was about to be born on Lothal. Caleb would have to change his name to hide. The war would end & we had lost it. Our own troops would turn against us & it was all happening tonight. I woke up and immediately woke Caleb up. We were going to have to fight the clones. They had already turned. Caleb woke up but stood there almost in shock. I don't blame the poor kid. Then I noticed that his shock wasn't in the way I would have suspected. This was a shock that something he had seen was coming true. He could see not just what was going on around us but all over the galaxy. This was his visions and they were coming true. However this wasn't the time to focus on visions. We were fighting for our lives. At least I was he was just standing there. I yelled at him to ether fight or run. That seemed to wake him from his daze. Then he fought hard. Every kill taking it's toll on the kid. I knew if my visions were true exactly what I was going to have to do. I had to get him out of here no matter what the cost. We fought together for some time before I saw his one chance of escape. I told him to "Run". I thought that maybe I could follow later. After a few attempt he finally listened to me & ran. I still thought I could follow him later but the clones were turned and focused fire on Caleb. I used the force one last time to protect him. Styles was going to kill him and this was his only chance of surviving. As I force pushed Styles so he would miss Caleb, Gray had shot me repeatedly from behind. As I fell I heard Caleb screaming and saw him run off. I was dead. He had watched me die but he survived. I wouldn't have blamed him if he never trusted anyone ever again.