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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 3267465" data-attributes="member: 10079">Chapter 428: Do I Know You?The Jedi Academy was a truly amazing place. Though that might not have meant much coming from Tobias, who found most everything that wasn’t the Palace to be amazing, there was no one around that would bother telling him otherwise. In fact, Tobias quickly found that most everyone he encountered was rather friendly, no matter their age or species...both of which were things he was finding to be amazingly diverse. There were beings of all shapes, sizes, and colours, most of which Tobias could not even begin to put a name to...and he loved it.    It had been only a day since he’d first arrived on the moon of the gas giant, Yavin, but he had already begun what was a surprisingly strict regiment of training under an Omwati Jedi Master named Corentan Ral. Currently, though, Master Ral had given Tobias a break from the tedious and almost mind numbing exercises that had dominated the entire day. He had told Tobias to rest and meditate for an hour before coming to find him again...from the way the Jedi Master spoke, though, Toby had a feeling that the finding part was another test meant to hone his skills.    Ten minutes later and Tobias was not actually resting or meditating. He had attempted to...walking outside of the hangar area that was being used as a rather large training area and into the clearing that surrounded the Great Temple before the jungle took over...but...well...he’d gotten distracted.    The source of this distraction was in another apprentice. A young human boy, who looked a few standard years younger than Tobias was supposed to be(as he was doing the smart thing and staying human while in the open) with dark brown hair and wearing a simple tunic that Toby found most of the students had a similar version of. But this young student stood out from all the others, currently standing in a calm pose with a violet-coloured lightsaber held in front of him as five remotes slowly circled around him.    Tobias did notice he wasn’t the only one who stopped to watch, and then he quickly understood why. All at once, the five remotes fired and began to dart around, firing their low powered lasers again and again. But somehow, the young human was dodging and deflecting every single attack. In the blur of motion, two bright flashes suddenly appeared as the lightsaber cleaved through two of the training devices, and a second later the form that was the wielder of the weapon flipped up and over the others, which tried to spin around and follow, but were for some reason unable to.    When the student landed, it was obvious why the remotes were not moving. His free hand was off of the lightsaber, extended out to the remaining devices, and Tobias could feel the Force flowing strongly. He was...holding them there! Holding them so strongly that he was able to slice through all of them with one simply stroke, ending the exercise after only a few seconds.    With the flash of energy ended, many of those that had stopped to watch went back to whatever they were doing...mostly training exercises that didn’t come close to the flashiness of what they had just witnessed. Tobias, however, didn’t walk away, and simply stood watching the young man, swearing he had seen him somewhere but unable to pinpoint just where.    His staring didn’t go unnoticed.    After deactivating his lightsaber, the young Jedi hooked it to his belt and, as he was turning to head back towards the Great Temple, caught sight of Tobias. He shifted slightly before changing direction and curiously approaching the now-worried Tobias...who was starting to wonder if he’d done something wrong.    And so, when the other student was close enough to negate the need to yell to be heard, Tobias said, “That was amazing.”    A very unique looking smile appeared on the young man’s face, “Thank you...” when he trailed off, Tobias kept quiet, sensing that there was something else there. Perhaps that was why he was seemingly examining Toby so carefully, both with his eyes and through the Force, “Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?”“Um...” Tobias looked down at his feet then back to the slightly shorter student, “I don’t...think so. This is my first day here...”    “No...no...” the human shook his head, a look of concentration on his face. Then, suddenly, it faded into realization, “Wait a moment...were you on Ithor?”    The words hit Tobias hard, as he did not like to think about what had happened to that planet. That planet that reminded him so much of Alraxia...    “Y-yes...” the words escaped Tobias before he could stop to think whether that was even a good question to answer or not. But now that it was out, he decided to attempt to alleviate his own confusion...or part of it, at least, “You were there? I...I thought I’d seen you somewhere, too, but...well...I don’t know...”    The smile returned to the young man’s face, “My name is Anakin Solo.”    The way that Anakin said those words made Tobias think he should know that name. Or at least, he was expected to...which meant that, because the name meant nothing at all to Toby, he went slightly red and said under his breath, “I’m uh...sorry but I...I don’t...that doesn’t really mean anything to me.”    And somehow, the smile grew, if not in a slightly lopsided way. A laugh even escaped the young man, which was the last thing Tobias would have expected, “You can’t imagine how nice it is to meet someone who has no idea who I am.”    Slightly uncomfortable with the situation he’d gotten himself into, Tobias simply tried to do his best to pretend he had the slightest idea of how to deal with other people. Admittedly, he was better than Marix had been at his age, “I am uh...Tobias...BlueIce. Hopefully that, um...doesn’t mean anything to you...”    Another laugh escaped Anakin and he extended a hand, a gesture which took Tobias a moment to recognize. He extended his own hand and found it gripped tightly, then shook a big too vigorously before being released, “Its good to meet you, Tobias.”    “Good to meet you, too...” he trailed off a moment, then felt odd and added, “..Anakin.”    Anakin nodded with that same smile on his face, but then a feeling of disappointment washed through the Force so noticeably that even Tobias picked it up without too much trouble, “I’m sorry for this being so quick but...I have to get going.”    “Oh...that’s alright...” Tobias shuffled his feet in the dirt, somewhat happy that this was ending as he truly felt he was missing something very important that should have been plainly obvious.    With a bow, Anakin turned and started towards the hangar, but he stopped himself after only a few steps and turned back around to look to Toby again, “If you’ve got time later today, track me down. I’m leaving the planet tomorrow, though, so if you can’t just tell Master Solusar that I wanted to ask you a few things. He can get you in contact with me, probably.”    Ask him a few things?!    The look of panic must have been as obvious on his face as it was in the Force, as Anakin laughed again and shook his head, “Don’t look so worried! Its nothing horrible. Honestly, I was wondering who you were when I saw you on Ithor. That’s not too much to ask, is it?”    “No...not at all,” Tobias managed to nod.    This time, though, when Anakin waved and turned to leave, he didn’t turn around again. In a few more moments, the young, dark haired human was inside the Great Temple and out of sight, leaving Tobias to stand where he was and feel even more lost than before.    Anakin Solo.    He would remember that name now, mainly because that had been the longest he’d spoken with anyone close to his ‘age’ since arriving. Part of him wanted to consider this Anakin kid a friend, but, truthfully, Tobias had always been a bit isolated when it came to things like friends...so he wasn’t quite sure what qualified as a friend and what didn’t. Tobias had always considered himself more like Jyren than Marix, but experience usually proved the reverse to be true.    Pushing those thoughts aside, though, he decided he couldn’t mediate or rest or anything like that. Just seeing what Anakin had done fueled Tobias’ desire to be a Jedi even more! So, quickly drawing on the Force as Master Ral had told him to, he decided to simply go looking for his new Master...even if it was an hour early still.    That was something new he had found in himself in the last few days...the ability to put everything aside and focus on a task directly in front of him. He was really a lot more like his mother than he liked to admit...((Random note...I've been working on a Timeline of sorts that can give some reference on what happens when compared to other major events not related to this story hour. Only thing is I originally did it by just labelling the SH parts as the Part # as they're divided up here.I'm going to go back through and change this slightly, though, adding in more detailed things for important events(battles, etc) while keeping the basic(Part 1 occured on this date).Will try to get it at least mostly together and up in the next couple of weeks.))</blockquote>

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