Star Wars: The Jedi Twin

Ch: 36

It was the night of the ball and everyone was getting ready, I was in my room waiting on the person who was supposed to bring me my dress. The was a knock at the door, and I opened it up using the force which showed the girl who came in to measure me when I first got here. This time instead of having a tape measure, she was holding a dress, a white and light blue dress.

Once I had the dress on, it looked different to when she was holding it. It's a white dress that fades to a bright icy blue as the dress goes down to the floor, the dress stops once it gets to my ankles. It has a light blue cape that goes down to pool at the floor but only a little. It's also one of those dresses that twirl out at the bottom when you spin around. The sleeves came down to my writs on both arms but the dress has no shoulders. The girl also had some icy blue high heels that she had hidden underneath the dress, the heels where about an inch high. After I had the dress on, I was yet again wearing a silver tiara around my forehead. When she left my room, I went over to my dresser, and yet again put the belt around my upper leg before putting my lightsabers back onto the belt.

After a while, Padme had came into my room to see how I looked. Padme was wearing a bright red dress with golden trims on the dress which has a sparkly gold see through cape that pools to the floor, she also had on her golden crown that goes over her forehead. Once Padme had put some make-up on me we went to get Kala, who was in the bedroom across from me. When Kala came out, she was wearing a solid bright orange dress that has one strap on it where the sleeve comes down to her wrist. She was also wearing orange high heels, a bit darker than the color of her dress.

We started heading towards the ballroom once Kala had made her way out of the room she was staying in. "So, you know the plan for this evening?" Padme had asked me.

Kala had ran me down on the plan yesterday before dinner. Padme's first plan was for Kala and I to preform a duel for everyone's entertainment but Kala and I had already dismissed the idea. Then Padme had another idea, instead of Kala and I having a duel in the middle of the ballroom, we where to levitate flower petals into the air and then drop them on the guests as they entered. I think that Padme had already went through the guest list to find out which flowers her guests could be allergic to so we don't have those flowers in stock.

"Yeah." I told Padme. "Drop flower petals onto the guests as they enter." I don't know why Padme wants us to do something Jedi-y now all of a sudden when she didn't want us to wear our Jedi robes through the palace as we would stick out like a lake on Tatooine.

"Yes." Padme tells Kala and I. "Can the two of you manage that?"

"Yes, we should be able to." I told Padme. "After all flowers are light and you can barely notice you're levitating one petal. A hand full of petals for the both of us should be manageable but holding out more than a couple can really start to drain us, though it's slow and not noticeable at first."

Kala and I were situated besides the only entrance that the guests will be coming in from, there are servants holding baskets of flower petals who stand besides both Kala and I. Padme gives us a head start so we can start to levitate the petals into the air before the guests start to enter the ballroom. As the guests trickle in, one by one, both Kala and I gradually start to release some of the petals, a few at a time. The released petals then fall to the ground, falling on top of some of the guests. As the guests came in, the smaller children where in awe of the petals falling from the air from seemingly no where. Padme was standing right besides me, greeting guests as they came in. None of them seemed to realize that Kala and I were the ones making the flowers fall as we were hiding the fact that we were even doing it. The only indication that we where doing it where the petals that were flying up out of their baskets before falling back down to the ground. If anyone thought that we where making the flowers fall, no one dared to comment it.

Once all of the guests where inside the room, Kala and I stopped with the flowers and let them rest on the floor, we or someone else would clean them up later. Padme grabbed my and Kala's hands and dragged us towards the front of the ball from, where there was a small stage that could probably fit a band and some dancers but that was it. We left Kala close to the front of the stage, in the audience, while Padme dragged me up onto the stage. At us coming up onto the stage, the whole room just up and becomes quiet.

"Hello." Padme calls out to the guests. "I would like to welcome you all to our taking back the planet ball. It took some time to work out when and how to do it but it's finally here." Padme then gestures to me. "Most of you probably don't know who is standing next to me, so let me tell you. Everyone knows that I have a sister and this is her, Nova Amidala." Padme continues with her speech as everyone listens to her, interested in what she has to say. "She was here to help us take back our planet from the Trade Federations control along with two other Jedi. It is regrettable that Qui-gon had died to help us. We shall never forget his sacrifice for us." At the end of Padme's speech, everyone clapped before going about their night. Padme and I had stepped off of the stage so that the band Padme got as live music came up onto the stage and started up one of their classical songs. It had no words as it was an instrumental song, like all the songs Padme told them to play.

After what felt like an hour into the ball, but it was actually half an hour, I started to get a bad feeling, like something bad was going to happen any second from now. "Hey?" I asked Kala. "Do you-?" I was too late as we heard windows breaking before some men, four of them with blasters, had cut me off.