Chapter 6: The Grand Master
One day, Master Annon was extremely late. We had been waiting for 30 minutes and decided to do some training in the mean time.
“How about a match?”, Rolg
“With our training sabers?”, I said
“Yea, we can do the best out of 3”
We had never had a match before. The academy discouraged duels or lightsaber fights for first years because it was too dangerous.But, I reasoned with myself saying that a little combat experience wouldn’t hurt. After a fighting myself a bit I finally agreed.
“Let’s do it”, I said
“Ok! Here are the rules. Fight until someone surrenders, you lose your saber, or if your lightsaber manages to strike a vital zone. Force assistance is allowed.”
“Yep, let’s go!”
We took 10 steps away from each other and took out our training sabers. There was complete silence and all you could here was the murmur of the training sabers. Then as if it was intentionally coordinated, we both ran and hit each other’s blades. The way the lightsabers clashed was so satisfying. We literally just stood there with our saber’s locked together for a whole minute just trying to beat each other with pure strength. After we both realized that this wasn’t going to work, we separated and backed off again. This time Rolg came at me with enhanced force movement. I quickly reverted to Form III:Soresu, but the attacks seemed like they were coming from all over the place. I could tell Rolg was using Form IV:Ataru.
During training, we had learned all three fighting forms to a certain degree. Many masters and students were surprised because learning the basics of the forms usually took 2 years, but Rolg and I were already as competent as the 3rd or 4th year trainees. Rolg was better at Form IV:Ataru while my best was Form III:Soresu. This meant I had the advantage in this fight because all I would have to do is wait until Rolg would get tired. And that is exactly what happened. Even though Ataru was a highly effective and offensive form, it was at a disadvantage in prolonged fights.
Rolg was extremely tired now, I could see it in his face. But, all of a sudden he got even faster. Rogl came down with a vertical chop, and then used the force of our blades clashing to jump over me. I knew he was going to try and get my back, so I quickly positioned my lightsaber for a blind block. When I felt our light sabers clash I quickly pushed him back, ducked, and executed a low sweep. My feet connected and he fell to the ground. I kicked his lightsaber away and positioned my blade to his neck.
“I win this round”, I said with a smile on my face.
“Yea I knew I lost in the middle of the fight. That’s why I made the desperation attempt for your back. should have known better than fighting a Form III with a Form IV.”, Rolg replied
“Good fight, Let’s go again after a little break.”
“Sure”
So after a 15 minute break we started up again. Rolg was more patient this time and waited for me. Because, I was still excited because of my first win and didn’t want to wait, I went on the offensive this time. I used force movement to make myself faster and started to go for a horizontal strike. But then, I felt Rolg release his buried pressure, which confused me and made me hesitate for a second. Realizing my mistake, I quickly tried to resume the attack. But Rolg capitalized on that second and deflected my attack to the ground, which unbalanced me. As I stumbled backwards, Rolg jumped and kicked me in the chest making me fall and drop my saber.
“You got me.”, I should have been sour, but this was too much fun.
“I knew releasing my pressure would get you! You should have seen your face. I was like duh” Rolg showed me the ugliest face I had ever seen.
I couldn’t keep it in and rolled around the ground laughing. After a few seconds of catching my breath I said, “Yea, yea. Whatever. Let’s go again. This one’s the tie-breaker.”
He nodded.
There was no rest this time, it was getting too good. Like the first time, we came at each other at the same time, but instead of locking our swords in a power struggle, we exchanged quick and calculated blows with each other. As we were fighting, Rolg suddenly spun around and aimed three blows at me. I could tell he used the force to make himself spin faster, anyway the quick 3 hit combo surprised me. He tried to unbalance me again, but this time I let myself follow through his movements. I effectively regained my balance.
“That won’t work a second time,” I stated
The fight had been going on for 30 minutes now and we were getting tired. Sweat started to fly of my face and I heard an occasional sizzle when my sweat hit my saber. We both knew the end was coming. Rolg did the same spin move on me, but this time I was more prepared for it. I waited and deflected his third strike away from his body. I kicked him in the chest and sent him flying for a good 5 ft. I quickly used force movement to jump and land on him. I hovered my blade over his heart and smiled.
“You lose”, I said
“Think again, Pups,” Rolg said
I looked at his hand and followed the blade to my stomach.
“I guess it’s a tie then”, I said
I stood and helped him up.
“We should do that more often.” Rolg said
I heard someone speak in a weird accent.
“Well fought, it was.”
I turned to see a small green figure.
“Who are you?”, I asked
“The question is who you are.”, he replied
“Pups! Don’t you know who that is?”, Rolg had his eyes wide open, “That’s The grandmaster Jedi.”
“The what?” I said
“Grandmasters are the highest rank of Jedi . All the other planetary councils report to the grandmaster council. That is grandmaster Yodal, one of the oldest and respected members of the council.”
When I found out who he was, I realized I was being disrespectful and bowed down in respect, “Forgive me Master Yodal, I am tired and didn’t recognize you.”
“Alright, it is” The grandmaster replied, “Master Annon had to go on an important mission and will not be back for a while. Replace him, I will.
I couldn’t believe what I had just heard. We were going to learn from one of the grandmasters. This was a once in a lifetime chance.
“This is a privilege.”, Rolg said
“Master Annon asked me, he did. Travel to a secret location, we will.”
“Why not just train here?” I asked
“Train freely. No Buried Pressure”
“Really? How about the gravity bands?”
Master Yodal nodded and waved us forward, but instead of taking them off, he doubled the gravity. Each individual band now increased the gravity by 25%
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“More gravity needed.” He said
Rolg elbowed me in the gut and said, “smooth move dofus.”
“Will send info later. Leave tomorrow, we shall.”, Master Yodal said as he walked away.
“I can’t believe our luck.”, said Rolg
“I know”, I replied. “But master Yodal sure is amazing.”
“Yea! He saw right through the Buried Force”
“This is going to be awesome!”
We later received a Hologram with two intergalactic travel tickets that left next week to a place called Dalria.
I popped open the hologram and picture of President Loi appeared.
-Transmission start-
To Padawans Pups and Rolg,
Grand Master Yodal will meet you at the Dalria Transport Station. Don’t worry about finding him, he will find you when you get there. You do not need to bring anything other than basic necessities. Try to fit everything in a small travel bag that can be worn on your back. Enjoy your time and learn as much as you can. This isn’t an everyday kind of opportunity, make every second count.
May the Force Be With You,
Jedi Academy President Loi
-End Transmission-
---Next Day---
We arrived at Dalria Transport Station (Dalria is the name of the planet that the Academy is on) packed and ready to go. I made sure to pack my bag with lots and lots of oreo balls, my robe, toothbrush and paste, a water bottle, a notebook, and my training saber. Rolg’s bag was filled with similar things except he had a lot of meat instead of oreo balls.
It wasn’t long until we saw Grand Master Yodal waving us to come to him. As we walked up he started to explain what we were going to do.
“Transport, we shall ride”, he said as he pointed to a jedi transport.
Somehow as we were looking at the transport he made it to the bottom of the ramp
“How is he so quick? Isn’t he like 600?” Rolg said
He waved at us a second time and said, “Older than 600, I am. Slower than me you are.”
He seemed to be amused. Embarrassed, we quickly got into the transport.
I was weary of space travel because the first time Rolg and I did it, we both threw up. Hopefully this time wasn’t going to be as bad though.
We heard the pilot speak over the intercom, “All systems are a go. Lift off initiated.”
Here we go again…
---After the ride----
This time we were able to hold our puke until we made it outside.
“Good for trees, it is”, Yodal commented
“What is?”Rolg asked
Master Yodal just pointed to our puke.
“I see…”
After finishing regurgitating our breakfast, I had a better look around. From what I could tell, this wasn’t Dalria anymore. It had a lot more plant life and was a bit swampy. The trees were gigantic. They soared over our heads seemingly endlessly and the trunks were about 100-200 ft wide. Long vines hung down from the trees and looped around lower branches and plant life. I think I saw a few snake-like creatures blending in with the vines too.
In fact, I know I did because all of a sudden I heard a lightsaber being activated and something hit the ground. When I looked down, there was a scary winged snake lying on the ground with its mouth opened like it was going to bite something. Following it’s long body I saw it was cut in half.
“Alert, you should be. Welcome to planet of Entan”, Yodal said
I simply nodded and he started to talk again.
“Carry me, you will.”
“What?”, I said quite confused
“Old, I am. Carry, you will.”
He quickly jumped into my bag.
“Mhmm, Good snacks, you have.”
“Wait! Those ar--”
“Good, I agree.”, Yodal said as he stuffed 5 into his mouth.
Rolg was laughing at my misfortune when Master Yoda said, “Share meat, you shall”
He quickly shut up after that
We started to walk according to Yodal’s direction. After walking for about an hour we ended up in the middle of a clearing with a decent sized hut in the middle.
“Here, we will stay”, Said Yodal
I took that as my cue to let him down. I was starting to take off my bag when I asked,
“So when will we start the training?”
“Patience, young padawan. Rest now, train later.” Master Yodal went into his hut.
“I guess we should sleep then.”, Rolg said
“You go ahead, I’m going to meditate a little.” I said
“Ok, good night.”
I was tired but I had to try something that was on my mind. I didn’t have time to practice Force Lightning these days. I had to be extremely careful, thus I hadn’t even really touched it at all. I started to do some warm up exercises just to make sure I had maximum control, I didn’t want to accidentally blow up Master Yodal’s hut. I wanted to see if I could shoot lightning out of thin air instead of it always coming out of my hands. I pictured a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky and tried to focus my energy onto it. For some reason it didn’t work.
I tried different methods and picturing different thing, but nothing seemed to be working. I would have to figure this out. On the bright side, I found that I could control the spread of lightning by adjusting the position my hands were in. For example, if I put my finger’s together in cone-like shape, I could create one powerful bolt of electricity. But, If I spread my hands open like I was going to claw someone in the face, the lightning would be weaker but it would spread out and cover a larger area.
Satisfied with my progress, I went into the hut to sleep.
Force Lightning Beginner 9 (23%)
You can adjust the electricity that comes out of your hands to fit your needs
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Author’s Notes
*I’m pretty creative with names I know :P
*First decent fighting scene
*Force Lightning isn’t going to be the only offensive ability that Pups will have. More coming up.
*Got a comment about additional characters. Unfortunately, Yodal will be the only new one for a little bit.
*I changed their ages. Rolg and the MC are now 9. It just makes it easier to write if they are older.
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*Thanks for reading