KIRA: A Star Wars Story Part 2: The Webnovel - Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Kira looked at the horizon with some regretfulness and frustration. In the morning, the exercise had come out terrible because of her stupid pride. Who had to show that she could knock on her Master when he was not looking.

She felt silly and immature, and from across the way, stood her master, he looked at her, something sad by the state in which his daughter and his student were found.

"Kira! Are you okay?"

She walked to his voice, listening to it and turning on her way toward him to see her father and lowering her head she said, "I'm sorry …" He looked at her with a smile and breathed deeply. He said, "It's a nice day why don't you take a walk! We can finish the lesson some other day."

She tried to identify how she felt and smiled. She nodded. The young Jedi got up and, handed the practice lightsaber to the old Jedi master, for a moment she stared at her hands, questioning what happened earlier. Kira looked up at your master and said, "I'm sorry about the morning, Master! I promise that I will control my emotions better."

Tyrbus smiled and nodded. She began to walk following along the side of the creek. Kira enjoyed the warm sun on her face as she tried to forget her terrible dreams and the incident from this morning. Walking calmly she arrived at a small village, there were not many people, but all those who were in that place were friendly and united.

She smiled and returned the greetings that people gave while walking through the village. As she travel the Village, Kira came across the Market section. The young Jedi spotted a necklace, at the jewelry shop. Kira ask the shopkeeper how much the necklace was, "Wouldn't like these necklaces better? Very popular with the young ladies." Kira decline the offer, her mind was set on this specific necklace. The shopkeeper and Kira exchange the necklace and coins. As Kira put the necklace on the shopkeeper asked, "if you don't mind me asking, what made you want this necklace?" Kira holding the necklace adorning it, smiled, "It's just that, it reminded me of an old friend." The medallion was in the shape of a small creature with pointy ears, it resembled her friend, Yoda.

The young Jedi travel forward until she arrived at the town's harbor. She could see the fishing villager working hard and many transport ships when she, in the distance, heard the laughter of some children.

She did not have a childhood equal to that of the other children, not only for training. Her life was submerged in chaos since she was born, and seeing children being fun gave her tremendous joy.She smiled, decided to go down to see more closely than she was, what the children were doing, and saw a young girl sitting on the ground trying to repair her kite, which was broken. Kira looked at her and approached with delicacy, and asked, "Are you okay!?"

The little girl at the edge of crying shook her head. Kira approached and, and sit down next to the girl, "Can I help?"The little girl handed Kira her kite. The young Jedi took out a small tool from her utility belt and began to repair the child's toy. After a few moments, Kira hands the kite back, "I think it's ready to fly. What do you think?"

Despite Kira fixing the kite the little girl was still sad and said, "No matter how much I try, it never flies!" Kira got the little girl to look up at her and then Kira wink one of her eyes when she said, "You must not give up! If you truly believe in the Force, the kite will fly..."

The girl looked at her with an incredulous tint on her face when Kira, with all confidence, got up and offer her hand to the little girl to stand and say, "Here I will show you how to believe in the force"

The girl smiled, nodded, and Kira was smiling as she comes one with the Force. Her handling of the Force was sublime and calm. She raised the kite quickly and exceedingly high, the wind currents raised the kite even higher, and it began to rotate in the air without stopping.

Kira, smiling, handed the kite's string to the little girl, who, began pulling hard on the string and ran with the kite everywhere. A few kids sitting on a wall watching the little girl smiling, running from side to side, and Kira, seeing the happiness she gave to the child, gave her so much inner peace.

The little girl was overjoyed and ran to Kira and hugged her, saying, "Thank you very, very much!" Kira shook her head and, caressing her hair, said, "Do not worry, little girl! Enjoy it"

Many other children saw what was happening and timidly approached Kira, asking her to use her powers to raise their toy starships towards the sky. They all smiled without stopping when one of the young children watching Kira, with surprise, said, "You do it... like a Jedi!" She smiled and, nodding, said, "Yes!"

All the excited children gather around the young woman watching her with wide-open eyes when she took three rocks in her hand and said, "Do you want to see a trick?"

The children instantly nodded when Kira launched a rock at the sky, then another and then another, and between her two hands, they began to juggle. The children smiled, Kira does a fake sneeze, she moves her hands to cover her face, but the rocks kept turning in a circle above her face as if she continued to pretend to be sneezing.

All the children surprised began to laugh. Kira returns back to juggling when she spots a familiar ship above coming out from the sky. The young Jedi has seen this spaceship one too many times. The mysterious ship hovers above them that felt like an eternality. Suddenly the ship's doors open and clocked figure appears. The figure jumps and lands on the ground some distance from Kira and the children. Dread swept through Kira as the figure remove their cloak revealing a Knight of Zur'por, his deadly cyborg assassins.

"Children run!", screamed the young woman, ready to fight, when the assassin who fell from the sky activated their double-bladed lightsaber. Kira turned back to make sure the children are safe. She activated her lightsaber and Force pushed the cyborg with her Jedi power. The Knight of Zur'por flew back until it crashed against the wall.

When it crashed against the wall, it caused very little damage to the assassin. In a split second, the cyborg jumps and attacks the young woman. She activated her saber laser and jumped. Both collided swords in the sky to land one in front of the other.

They both firmly looked when Kira said, "You need to leave. I will not have you destroy another planet."

But the enemy did not stop. Again the assassin attacked her, and she spun on the floor, firmly evaded, and quickly began to fight against the cyborg. She used her saber to repel attacks and her agility to look for a better field and move the battle from the children, but the amount of that attack was too much, and she was fully trapped and tried to defend herself, although every time she managed to eliminate one, another one appeared in combat.

On the cliffside not far from their hideout, Master Tyrbus reads ancient Jedi scriptures, and felt the anguish of his student, without wasting a second, the Jedi Master came out of his mediation and ran at full speed, jumping on his speeder ready to reach his student to help her. He did not understand what was happening, but it was clear that she was in trouble.

While Tyrbus races to reach Kira on another planet, Yoda was captured completely in a cell that absorbs his Force power and weakly shouts so that they let him out. His anguish became even greater when he thought about the cruel destination that his friend was about to suffer, he needed to help her and squeezed his hands around the chains praised by Force, but it was impossible to break them. With a huge pain in his heart, the young Jedi said, "Master! Hurry, save Kira!"

In the village, things did not improve. Kira jumped on her axis, dodging the attack of another Knight of Zur'por, she managed to reach the roof of the cabin trying to escape, but another of the enemies used its power to shed a huge amount of stones at her.

The young woman spun in the air doing her best to dodge them, causing her to crash onto the ground and fall in front of one of her enemies. She took out her lightsaber, cut the assassin's legs, and was meek to leave her helpless on the ground just when another assassin kicked her in the back.

She turned on the floor sore and raised her hand, using her Force to send the cyborg flying back. However, another enemy was close. She was exhausted, her sweat was present, and breathing heavily, she said, "How is it you keep multiplying?!"

The assassin attacked, and due to the fatigue, the young Jedi just could repel it. She jumped and ran to avoid the oncoming attack. The young woman tries to move the battle away from civilians but the Knights of Zur'por kept moving her back to the center of the park, where she played with the children. Although she was surrounded and exhausted the young Jedi still manages to fight her enemies.

Her lightsaber cut through the robotic limps of her enemies when one of them cornered her, she raised her hand towards him, and she used the Force to prevent any attack that he would like to use. In the distance, her Master was approaching at full speed, trying to reach the village in time. Kira looked away for a second, and a laser sword came down toward her head.

The young woman blocked with her lightsaber and stopped the assassin forcibly, then, turning on her back, she put her knee on the floor and pierced her enemy's chest with a perfect lunge. She could breathe with some relief.

She raised the saber to end her enemy. Her teacher shouted firmly, "Kira, do not do it!!" In prison, away from that place, Yoda moored with the chains and shouted without being able to do anything. "Kira, do not do it!!"

But in Kira's mind, she could hear the sinister voice of the Sith Witch from her dreams whispering, "Kill her!!"

Kira, fiercely lowering her lightsaber, crossed the chest of her enemy in an instant, trying to finish the threat. But so soon, her saber was just in front of her eyes, and her enemy was transformed.

Far from away on an Outer Rim planet, Zur'pur and the Sith Witch watch Kira through the crystal shard. The leader of the Purifiers turns to the witch and nods, giving her the signal. They deactivated her illusion and Kira's mind began to dissipate.

All the illusion in which Kira was submerged, sank, and came to light the truth. She looked around, and the blood and terror that seized her were immersed in an illusion. The members of the village were everywhere massacred. She looked at her lightsaber and the blood on her hands which had finished the life of these innocent villagers.

In her mind, they looked like enemies to her, but in reality, they were the people who lived there that were the victims of her lightsaber, and, looking up from her hands, she saw the little girl with the kite.

Her eyes open, looking at her judging her actions, and Kira feeling the weight of her lightsaber in her hand, threw it to the side, disgusted by her actions. The young Jedi fell her kneel and held the dead child close to her. Kira begins to cry as her Master arrives.

The young woman looks up at her Master, and with sadness, pain, and fear in her voice, says to him, "What have I done!!" Her Master lowered his head, and place his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

Zur'por congratulates the Sith witch for a job well done. Now they were closer to his goal, and Kira was immersing herself in the darkness of remorse. His victory was surely inevitable.

The End