13 Chapter 13: Standstorm

"Are you an Angel" Anakin was asking Padme.

"Excuse me?" she looked amused by him.

"An Angel, they live on the moons Lego, I think"

"Your a funny little boy, no I'm not an angel but I do know of one" she took a glance at me as she said to the now starry eyed boy.

"Really?" he jumped up off the counter and asked her. I could swear he had stars in his eyes he was so excited.

"Yes, in fact here" she took my feather from her hair letting it flow down past her shoulders. Passing over the feather to Anakin "This is a feather from his wings, beautiful isn't it"

"Whoa, it's amazing" He held the feather give it a few strokes.

He reached back towards Padme, trying to pass it back to her.

"No it's ok you can keep it, I'm sure I will be able to persuade the Angel to give me another" she looked over at me, as if asking me if she would. I shrugged at her words. I wasn't really bothered by it, my feather grew back quite fast I wonder if it was accelerated by my force heal skill.

"Really? thank you" he quickly stored the feather away in clothes, I suspect trying to hide it from Watto.

"It's ok, so how long have you lived here?"

"Since I was very little, three I think. My Mom and I were sold to Gardulla the Hutt, but she lost us to Watto"

"You're a slave?"

"I'm a person and my name is Anakin" he look rather offended by Padme's question.

"I'm sorry. I've never been here before, it's a strange place to me"

I left Anakin to continue their conversation and wait for Gui-gon to arrive which didn't take long as per the cannon Watto wouldn't take republic credits.

"We're leaving" Qui-don announced as he hurried us to leave the shop.

"It was glad to meet you Anakin" Padme said walking out the door.

I could faintly hear Anakin call out "It was nice to meet you to" as we left.

"Republic credits no good huh" I asked. Qui-gon shook his head slightly.

"Hmmm, it looks like we will have to find another form of payment" He pulled out a communicator "Wait here for a moment and I will talk with Obi-wan" He quickly entered a alley to have some privacy.

"I think you gained an admirer" I said teasing Padme was quite fun, a blush spread across her face.

"He's just a kid, besides, I think he would be more interested in you if he knew where that feather came from, right, Silver Angel" She put a lot of emphasis on the end.

"Silver Angel? is that what I look like?" I started to pull my hair to look at the shinning silver. It's not the worst nickname I could have.

"You didn't know? that's what all the maid's in that palace were calling you" she let out a small giggle.

"I didn't pay much attention to them" I said shaking my head, but Padme seemed to just find it amusing.

I noticed that Jar Jar had stopped before a stall full of dead... I want to say frogs, but they are too big to be frogs. Space frogs. Jar Jar looked around and stuck his tongue out to get a hold of one of them and pull it in to his mouth.

The merchant suddenly started shouting at Jar Jar causing him to spit the Frog out making it land in the soup of Sebulba.

I let the scene play out as Sebulba started to threaten Jar Jar. knocking him down and grabbing him by the throat.

"Careful Sebulba, I'd hate to see you die before we race again" Anakin was annoying Sebulba as he left to go back to his seat.

"Thank you my young friend" Gui-gon appeared and said to Anakin

"Your friend was about to be turned in to orange goo by an especially dangerous Dug called Sebulba" Anakin kept taking sneak peeks at Padme as he was talking. I don't think anyone without Jedi reflexes would have noticed though.

Padme was giving the young boy a small smile.

"Storms coming Annie better get home quick" an elderly lady in one of the stalls called out.

"Do you have shelter?" Anakin asked concerned for our safety, looking at him you wouldn't think that one day he would be capable for murdering millions.

"Our ship is on the outskirts" I let him know.

"You'll never reach the outskirts in time, trust me. Sandstorms are very, very dangerous. I know, you can come with me, you can stay at my place" He was looking at Padme as he spoke, it was kind of cute to be honest, reminded me of myself when I had my first crush.

Qui-gon gave me a quick look as if he was asking me what I thought, I gave him slight nod in agreement. I could probably get us back in time, but I was curious about Shmi Skywalker.

Qui-gon seemed to have already sensed Anakin's massive connection to the force. He had the strongest connection that I felt besides myself. If we were to put it down to levels, 10 being the max then I was at a 10 and Anakin was probably at a 9. I don't think that he has linked him to the prophecy or not but as soon as he finds out about Anakin's father I don't think he will stop until he takes him with us.

"Mom, I'm back and I've brought company" Anakin called out while the rest of us started to walk through the door shaking the sand off our clothes.

"Annie, what's going on? who are these people" Shmi walked in to the room eyeing each of us. She looked as she did the movies only slightly more skinny and few more grey hairs.

"These are my friends mom, I invited them to take shelter from the storm"

"I am James, this is Padme, Gui-gon, Jar Jar and R2-D2"

"Your son was kind enough to offer us shelter, I apologise for the intrusion" Gui-gon gave her a very small bow in apology.

"Come on Padme let me show you C3PO, I built him" Anakin had grabbed Padme's hand a started to drag her off to his room, she looked back and me with an amused smile on her face. She was obviously finding this funny, as was I.

"Let me get you all something to eat" Shmi said leaving me, Qui-gon and Jar Jar together.

"You felt it too right?" I looked towards Anakin's room as I spoke. I could see C3PO start to walk around unsteadily.

"Yes, he is strong in the force, as are you. I didn't expect to meet two people so powerfully connected to force in such as short amount of time" he re-examined me with his eyes. "You said that the force was your master? You don't feel as though you are using the light or dark side of the force?"

"That's right, it showed me how to use the force in many different ways, while maintaining the balance between the two, allowing me to draw on pure force between them, I am more like a Gray than a Jedi or Sith"

"A Gray, hmmm, I have heard stories of them from the time of the old republic, they were very powerful, very dangerous"

"I consider myself more of a balancer though" I had the thought a while ago, to create my own group of force users, who wouldn't draw on either side, I just wasn't sure if I would be able to stop them from drawing on the light and dark side.

"Hmmm a balancer, interesting, I look forward to hearing more about it my young friend" Qui-gon looked rather amused and gave me a small smile.

'Ding'

[Quest - Create your own group of force users - Reward: ???]

'Ding'

[Quest - Gain an apprentice - Rewards: apprentice, guild function unlocked]

I looked over the new quests and looked away from Qui-gon hiding the excitement I had on my face. 'I can create my own group and created a guild, this is awesome' I thought.

'Si, if I unlock the guild function can I create force users like myself? ones who rely on pure force power rather than the light or dark side?'

[Correct, if James can unlock the guild function you can start to recruit force users in to your guild, these users will be given access to the 'Pure Force' and unaffected by the light or dark side of the force]

'That's amazing, maybe I should steal Anakin from Qui-gon, or better yet I could try recruiting them both' I thought. Kill two quests with one stone, Gain an apprentice and stopping Anakin from falling to the dark side.

"He would make a good apprentice" I said looking at Anakin's room.

"Do you intend to train him?" Qui-gon asked with a frown.

"Possibly, I would take him if he was willing to learn my way of the force. I would welcome you as well, if you were interested in learning the true way of the force, rather than the narrow view of the Jedi" I said looking Shmi come back with a few plates of food.

Qui-gon looked a little surprised by my offer, but I didn't see any hostility from my comment about the Jedi, he didn't say anything else and took a seat at the table.

Name: James Silver

Species: Hybrid (Human/Diathim)

Title: The Gamer, Machine Master, Fire User

Level: 7

HP: 700/700

FP: 7000/7000

ST: 39

END: 30

AGI: 35

INT: 38

CH: 58

Skills

[Pyrokinesis - Lv 4]

[Mechu-Deru - Lv 7]

[Lightsaber forms 1 - 7 - Form 1 0% - Form 2 0% - Form 3 0% - Form 4 0% - Form 5 0% - Form 6 0% - Form 7 0%]

[Pistol Mastery - Lv 4]

[Force Telekinesis - lv 8]

[Force Push - Lv3]

[Force Pull - Lv4]

[Meditation - Lv 8]

[Force Jump - Lv 4]

[Force Whisper lv 2]

[Force Stealth lv 3]

[Force Healing Lv 2]

[Force Speed Lv 3]

[Force Listening Lv 4]

[Force Smell Lv 2]

[Force Meld Lv 1]

[Force Sense Lv 5]

[Precognition - Lv 1]

[Force Telepathy Lv 1]

[Force Lightning Lv 3]

[Force Choke Lv 1 - Force choke, a variant of and, at times, synonymous with Force grip, is a dark side Force power where one would use the the Force to choke or strangle a victim, oftentimes with a grip-like gesture. It is a technique of telekinesis that is frequently employed by the Sith and other users of the dark side of the Force, although there are some cases where Jedi or other users of the light side would use the technique.]