„Come on tell me were we are going!“

„Not a surprise it would be, if tell you I would.“

At the moment I was walking down a corridor with Yoda again. It had been a few weeks since my second birthday and Yoda said, he had a surprise for me, so now we were walking toward the surprise. It didn’t take long to get there, only a few minutes and we stood before a door Yoda blocking me from going inside with his cane.

„Advanced for your age you are, therefore agreed that you begin with this earlier the council has. Begin your basic education will today.“

Why that was a surprise? I had pestered Yoda about allowing me to begin my education early.

My reaction was hugging him tightly,  all the while thanking him vigorously.

Chuckling and when I had finally let him go he pressed the button on the side of the door and it slid open to reveal a room closely resembling a classroom from my past life, only way more advanced and bigger in size. Also there were more students, at least a hundred by my estimate. Their age seemed to be around five to six years, though it was hard to tell for the more alien looking children.

All their eyes shot to us as all the previous talking and laughing stopped. Yoda led me to a seat in the first row, were all the kids of smaller species sat and gave me a smile before continuing to the desk in the front of the room. I was quite giddy to begin.

Like anyone sane I didn’t like school in my first life. But now it was different: I now had a way more mature mind then last time and I had to succesfully go through this teaching program in order to become a padawan. I had already begun with the practical training, but a jedi also needed an extensive education. It was an intense program lasting a whole seven years after which the younglings would either be chosen as a padawan or, if they chose not to continue their training as a jedi (which almost never happened), continued their education in any area they wanted to go on and live a normal life.

Though even those who didn’t become jedi were banned from taking a political position or using the force for their own advantage within their position. It was rare for something like that to happen, almost all younglings were at some point in their training chosen by a master.

Another reason why I looked in anticipation at school here was interest in their education. What would the children in an technologically more advanced dimension with an interconnected galaxy learn? It would have to be more than the children learned on earth and I was curious about the didactic methods used to accomplish the needed high speed eduction. I was studying to be a teacher in my past life after all.

When I had taken my seat I looked to the left and the right to see, who my neighbors were. On my right sat an Ugnaught. That was bad, I always got a headache if an Ugnaught began to speak. I don’t have anything against them, but the sounds they made weren’t good for my ears.

On my left was a curious creature, she kind of looked like a fairy, a pretty girl with long, glowing blond hair about as big as an average humans forearm, with four translucent wings on her back. The name of this fairy species was Nirvya (plural: Nirvyaei), this specific nirvya went by the name of Salêrah or Lêrah, as I like to call her. She was one of the younglings I befriended. I might even call her my best friend.

She waved at me, recieving a happy smile in return.

That was the moment I heard Yoda’s voice from the front of the room: „Younglings, happy I am to welcome you to school. Learn here you will every thing that necessary you might find. Teach you I will about jedi philosophies. Begin we will with the Jedi code. Know the Jedi code everybody does yes?“ There was a confirming murmur througout the room. „Good, good, then Youngling Salêrah, tell us the code you can?“

Without hesitation Lêrah answered in a cute and high pitched, though not too high pitched, voice (one of the reasons I liked her so much): „Yes master,

There is no emotion, there is peace

There is no ignorance, there is knowledge

There is no passion, there is serenity

There is no chaos, there is harmony

There is no death, there is the force“

„Yes, right you are, understand what it means somebody does? Yes, youngling Furnier?“

This time the voice of a boy came from somewhere behind me: „It means, that jedi aren’t allowed to feel anything and are always calm so we can use the force with justice, right?“

Well, you couldn’t expect much from children after all, even if they were raised in the order.

„A common belief among the people and of many jedi that is. You disagree, youngling Shira?“

That geezer really was able to read minds. I sighed silently and explained: „Yes master, in my opinion Furniers statement stands in direct contradiction to the code. If we try to destroy all our emotions, to me it seems equal to fearing them.

A life without emotion is not possible for a sentient being. Emotions can be suppressed, concealed and calmed, but living an entire life suppressing your emotions as if they were a danger just builds up those emotions until one day they burst forth, sometimes causing someone to lose him or herself. Instead jedi should accept their emotions.

By searching inner peace, calming ones emotions through meditation the jedi connects to the force. In order to calm ones emotion and use the force in a controlled way, the mind must be strong. The jedi tempers his or her mind with knowledge.

The three last lines represent the goals of the jedi order: Inner peace, the harmonic coexistence of every sentient being in the galaxy and the eternal connection with the force, transcending even death.

There are few jedi who succeed in fulfilling the last goal of the jedi. I think there are two ways to do that: Remaining concious while becoming one with the force in death, thus living on as a force spirit, or becoming one with the force while alive, like grandmaster Skywalker, master Rey, the former grandmaster Yoda and you master Yoghurt.

But of course I could be wrong, it is after all for everyone to decide, how they interpret the code.“

There was a heavy silence after that. Looking around I saw that almost none of the other younglings seemed to get it. Though I could see a look of contemplation on Lêrah’s face. Another reason I befriended her: Of all the younglings I met, she was the smartest.

„Popular since the rise of the new jedi order that interpretation of the code is, correct it seems, in the new order better connected to the force the jedi are. A question you have, youngling Kemir?“

„Yes master, what does that intretation mean?“ That caused Yoda to chuckle again, he did that a lot.

„An interpretation, how something you understand it is. What saying youngling Shira is, only applied while using the force the code should be.“

Now I wasn’t so giddy anymore. Explaining complicated philosophies to first graders? I could imagine more interesting things.

The rest of the mornings were similar, maths, grammar, science, history, typical schoolwork. The good thing was, that all the younglings seemed already capable of reading and writing, It would be even worse watching first graders learning to read and write than learning philosophies with them. Oh and in the future the more than a hundred younglings would be seperated into courses depending on their learning speed in the different subjects, so I would be with the genius class.

Force sensitive children were generally smarter than normal children, so the highest class would be one consisting of true geniuses, while the lowest class would still have an above average learning curve.

After the regular schoolwork was done, there was a lunch break, followed by the after lunch meditation. Meditation was an important item on the daily schedule of a jedi, it was the first thing we did in the morning (exceptions could be made, for example an early visitor), there was a time after lunch, when no jedi moved a muscle, and it was the last thing to do before going to bed.

The younglings learned how to meditate in school, meaning I sat on the side meditating alongside another few of the more intelligent of the bunch, who had figured meditating out themselves, while Yoda and other jedi masters tought the others how to properly meditate in order to find inner peace and connect to the force.

When every youngling had meditated for at least ten minutes, we were lead into one of the training rooms, were other masters began teaching us the way of the lightsaber. The meditation teachers went to meditate.

After the lightsaber training was done, we were left to do what we wanted. There was one day every seven days free, sunday was still popular.

That was my official schedule. In reality I did a whole lot more than that. After I finished my morning meditation and had done my morning ritual every day, I would use the force to actively press against each of my movements. Each. Single. Movement.

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I had begun with that when I was one and a half years old, it was really exhausting, but it began to inflate my physical stats and my force telekinesis. During schooltime I only listened if there was something I didn’t already know, if there was nothing new I meditated while working on my micro manipulation. When school was out I would play with a few of the other younglins until dinner, after which I went down into the culture center, were I would make music.

After school began I had a new idea, of how to make music which required more than on instrument: I would use the force to play them. I had the idea while longingly staring at my old violin, wishing I could play it. My old violin? Yes the exact violin I owned when I lived on earth, it wasn’t the best of violins, but it was still a very good one, valuable enough to cost as much as a new car.

Then it had struck me that I could use the force to make music on the different instruments. It was hard. Very hard. From the moment I tried playing the piano and the violin at the same time, it felt like using twenty arms to do twenty completely different things, which basically was exactly what I did.

In other words a way to insanely train my force telekinesis, even more than the thing with the water I did in the shower, my dexterity and my intelligence.

I did train the other force abilities too, for half of each day I would close my eyes and plug my ears and nose in order to train my force sense. I was still able to hear enough to converse, but not enough to be able to orientate my self using sound.

And during the whole day I would use force mind manipulation to prank anybody who wouldn’t notice me messing with their thoughts and actions. Was that okay? Of course not, I was constantly in conflict with myself about it, but I wouldn’t make them do anything too out of the ordinary or something they wouldn’t do. Sometimes it was even helpful to them. I slowly learned to sense the emotions of most people and even a little of the surface thoughts of those with low intelligence. I didn’t want to invade in people’s privacy like that, but being able to read my opponents mind during a fight would make me a very hard to fight opponent.

Of course I also began to try and build up heavy shields around my own mind. It wasn’t just others mind I could manipulate, I was even better at manpulating my own, though I didn’t have a mindscape like some fictional characters tended to have in my old world. At least not yet.

Before my evening meditation I would talk to my parents over the holo every day, they were really busy with getting settled on Dubrillion and all the work that had tob e done in order to rule it, but they always had time for me.

Oh and on sundays I relaxed. I didn’t want to have a burn out. All I did on Sundays was meditate, eat, play, meditate, read, meditate, eat again and meditate. Relaxing in it’s purest form. Nighttime was busy too, I didn’t have as much alone time with Luna as before, I had to care for Ces now after all and Bob would come by most days to play mario kart. And other games. Even he had to admit that mario kart wasn’t able to be fun for an eternity without playing anything in between.

This is how four years passed and my time in the school came to an end. I had skipped a few grades in between and now it was time for me to get a master.

How that was done? The eligible younglings went by a long row of masters who didn’t have a padawan and where willing to teach one. The masters had their eyes closed and sat in a cross legged meditation position until they felt the possibility of a connection with one of the younglings.

In the old order the masters would observe the younglings in a sword fight, but with the new method the compability of master and student was guaranteed. There was no maximum age to become a padawan, after all in the new order all force sensitives were welcome to be trained as jedi, even if they were already grown up.

Though it was commonly agreed, that the earlier the training begun, the more likely it was for a jedi to reach his or her full potential.

That said there wasn’t a minimum age limit either, though I was probably the youngest candidate for becoming a padawan yet.

I was really nervous, looking at the two rows of jedi masters, each sitting on a podest and connected to the force, building up an immense pressure. I was the last in line to go through this corridor between the masters, the oldest would go first and the youngest last, while we would pass the masters first and the knights after that. There were more candidates for this test than in the youngling class, if I were to guess, I would say about onehundredfifty people, about onehundred of us were first time applicants (ranging from the ages 10 to 13 and me with my 6 years), the others were either grown ups, who started their jedi training at a more advanced age, or teenagers, who until now didn’t have the luck of getting a master.

It took a while for all the people in front of me to be done and when the time finally came, I was relieved. Not because I had to wait, any jedi had to master the trait patience after all, no I was relieved because the two boys who waited in front of me were gone. They had constantly chatted animately, annoying the hell out of me.

I waited a few seconds in order to calm myself and folded my hands in front of me, before entering a meditative state and slowly beginning to walk in between the masters. It took a whole lot of ten seconds, before I was already stopped by the master sitting on the third seat of the left side, luckily a woman.

She was a master I had never seen before, considering there were more than tenthousand jedi it was understandable that I didn’t know her, but I was sure I had never even seen her in the temple before, but she must be quite wise and powerful to sit this near to the beginning of the row. The first twelve seats on each side were known as the candidate seats. They belonged to those masters, who were in consideration for the next free position of the council, should one of the members die or retire.

This time only nine of the council candidates were present. The woman who seemed to have chosen me was a Voss, with the for her species typical markings on her red skin and the blue eyes without any white she looked positively creepy. Even more with that smile. It wasn’t a creepy smile but a friendly smile, it just looked creepy if a Voss smiled.

„Hello little one, I am master Vo‘Tann, I am going to teach you in the coming years.“

Her voice was nice and she had that calm demeanor, that lets you relax immediatly, well would have, if she didn’t look so creepy. Overall I had a good first expression of her. Creepy yes, but I was mentally twentyfive years old, I could stomach a little creepy.

„Hello master, I am Shira Drayen, it’s an honor to be your new padawan.“

 „The honor is all mine, you are quite famous in the order, even among those like me, who prefer to live away from the temple. One of, if not the most talented person in the jedi orders history, it will be really interesting to teach you. Now padawan, do you know the first thing a jedi padawan must do, when he or she has been chosen by a master?“

„Yes master. First a new padawan goes on a journey with his or her master to find the most fitting lightsaber crystal for them.“

That too was a change brought by the new jedi order. In the last few centuries, more and more planets with natural cybernetic crystals had been discovered. The jedi had stopped getting all their crystals from Ilum as a youngling and had chosen the crystal search as a kind of bonding ceremony of master and padawan.

„Right you are, Shira, shall we go then? We will search for your crystal in my room.“

The search was done through linking the mind of master and padawan together in order to create a force connection strong enough to sense the faint bond to the crystal the padawan was destined for. Though I wouldn’t need that.

„But master, I already have my crystal.“ I said and showed her my pendant.

She looked really surprised at that.

 „Really? It looks like one, though I have never seen one with this colouring, where and when did you get it?“

„It was a birthday present from my father on my second birthday, it’s an ancient family heirloom, destined for the first female force sensitive in the family, who happens to be me.“

Her reaction to that was stroking her chin and thinking, an unreadable expression on her face.

„Mmmmh, so we won’t need to go on the journey, but we still should do the bonding exercise, it is important for a master and a padawan to connect their minds, enabling us to talk to each other telepatically and find each other, no matter were we are in the galaxy, a really useful bond, though it is very difficult to establish, complete trust is needed. So first come along we are going to my quarters to get to know each other over a little game of chess alright?“

Of course chess, the game of kings, wouldn’t ever become unpopular with sentient life , so it was no surprise jedi liked to play it very much, it after all needs high mental abilities, something we jedi pride ourselves in.

But this really put me in a problematic situation. The bond between master and padawan required trust and that would mean we couldn’t have secrets from one another (at least while we are establishing the bond). That didn’t mean we would need to know everything about each other, but during the bonding exercise, random memories would be exchanged and seen by each other.

In other words I would need to either tell her of my reincarnation or keep it a secret on the risk, that memories of my first life would be seen by her, thus making her wary of me and stopping the bonding ceremony, as well as creating an endless amount of questions.

Thus the best course of action would be to tell her. She would be the first and probably only person I would tell of my reincarnation.

Though first we needed to get into a private environment, so I exclaimed cheerily: „Yeeess, I love chess!!“ which caused her to giggle.

Our walk to her quarters didn’t take long, though she explained me that I would have to move into her quarters, where an extra adjacent room for her padawan was, something every knights and masters quarters had.

When we were there, the first impression I got was, that her room looked really tribal. With all kinds of traditional decorations around the room, rugs hanging on the walls and everything. Ther was only one bed, a really large and comfortable looking one. In the middle of the room was a low round table with comfortable looking pillows lying around it and a chessboard already prepared sitting in the middle of the table.

Master walked towards it and sat down on the black side, leaving me on the white side.

I sat down and she opened her mouth, but before a sound could leave her lips, I interrupted her by letting my childish facade fall off my body, looking at her completely serious before saying in a just as serious voice: „Master, before we begin, there is something really important I need to tell you.“

„We have time, you can tell me of a million important matters before we begin the bonding exercise if you want to.“

„Thank you master, so, ehhm, this is the first time I tell this to somebody, but I think it is necessary for you to know this before we attempt linking our minds.

The truth is, I’m not really a six year old girl. I remember my past life.“

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Sorry I'm a little late.

IMPORTANT

So, I really was conflicted whether or not to mke a time skip like that and leave the character Lêhra undeveloped, but I wanted to come closer to the main plot since I don't plan on writing a fiction about the training of a jedi. All in all, I don't want to make this story too long. I don't think I would be able to keep it interesting if I were to write a large story.

Anyway, I again want to just thank you guys, did you know, that this story is on rank 920? Within the top 1000 fictions of this website? All because of you, you are awesome.

NOT IMPORTANT

I'm really thinking of stopping this important, not important thing in the author's note, it's just way too hard to think of things to write here, I find myself thinking about it every week.

Now I'm going to tell exclusively to the people, who read the NOT IMPORTANT part of my author's note, that the main plot of the story is approaching, or at least what's probably going to be the main plot.

I started this story with just three set facts about it: The MC would be reincarnated as a girl and a participant in a divine tournament, the MC would be reincarnated into a star wars verse and the outcome of the tournament at the end of the story, though I'm right now considering changing that last one.

In the weeks since I began writing this fiction I have thought of the outline of a main plot for her second life, and that is what's going to come next. Until now I just wrote what came to mind and am really surprised that so many people liked it. I hope to improve myself while writing this story, so I hope I will be able to make the main plot part as good as I hope it will be.

Well that's it for today, like always I would really be happy about a few comments and reviews.

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