Introduction

Tenel Ka, the heir to the throne of the entire Hapes Cluster, sat at the top of one of the tallest Massassi Trees on Yavin 4. From this spot she could see almost every thing for miles and miles. She could see the temple that her teacher, Luke Skywalker had converted from an abandoned rebel base, to a Jedi Academy. She could see the place that her friends, Jacen, Jaina, and Lowbacca, had found the wrecked Imperial TIE Fighter; which they had tried to repair. She remembered, that before being able to take it out on the first test run, Jacen had found a camp near the wrecked Fighter. Within minutes, they were kidnapped by the Fighter Pilot Qoorl, who had crashed in the TIE Fighter nearly twenty years before, at the Battle Of Yavin. She thought back on how she, and Lowbacca, both managed to escape, but the twins were left alone. Qoorl forced the Solo children to finish repairing his ship, and install the hyperdrive that Jainas father had given her. When the ship had been fixed, Qoorl left the children alone in the forest and took his repaired ship. He went to the last remnance of the Empire to report for duty. Everyoneat the academy thought that was going to be the last time they heard from Qoorl... Unfortunately she was wrong! In the days following that event Jacen, Jaina, and Lowie had gone to their good friend Lando Calrissian's Gem Diver Station. Gem Diver Station was another one of Lando's money-making schemes. The station orbited around the planet Yavin, and it's sole purpose was to mine for the rare Corusca Gems deep in the planet's atmosphere. Tenel Ka remembered the stories that the twins had told her. During their stay at the station they were kidnapped by none other than Qoorl. He took them to a secret Imperial base, deep in the galaxy's center. This base was called The Shadow Academy. It was a place where the Dark Jedi named Brakiss, was secretly training Dark Jedi to help with the rise of the Second Imperium. Master Luke and Tenel Ka mounted an operation rescue them. She remembered feeling good about being able to help. The two of them posed as a pair of smugglers. After getting the information that they needed, they disguised them selves as two people with the potential to become powerful Dark Jedi. They were accepted into the Shadow Academy. When they arrived at the Academy they found the twin had mounted their own escape. Before leaving, Tenel Ka kicked one of the leaders of the Shadow Academy, Tamith Kai, in the knee. She remembered the sounds of the bone being crushed under the force of Tenel Ka's foot. She hopped aboard the ship. She remembered that her spirits dropped when she saw the shield doors closed, making it impossible to exit. Then as if just teasing her, the door slid open slowly. They never found out how exactly it opened. After that, things were pretty normal. All of the kids went to Coruscant to visit The twin's Parents, Leia Organa-Solo and her husband Han Solo. During there stay, they met up with their old friend Zekk. She remembered Zekks green eyes and dark hair. Zekk was what was called scavenger. He would hunt the underworld of Coruscant to find thing that he could sell. On one of his many trips down the underworld, he met Tamith Kai. She offered Zekk and a gang of abandoned Teens, the chance for great power in the Second Imperium. Never having the chance to achieve great power over anything, Zekk accepted the offer. Later he found out that he had great Force Potential. He was a fast learner and quickly passed up everyone at the Shadow Academy. Meanwhile on Yavin 4, The students of Master Skywalker's Jedi academy were building their lightsabers. Tenel Ka, who had often relied on her wits and physical strength and only used the force when it was totally necessary, believed that it was not the weapon that made someone great, but the person who controlled the weapon. Even now, after four months, she still thought from time to time why she made that judgment. During a practice duel with Jacen the two had been trying hard to push one's lightsaber down and out of the way so that they could make the final blow. Since Tenel Ka's weapon had been put together quickly it extinguished during the battle, leaving Jacen nowhere to go but forward. Jacen, who had been putting all of his might toward Tenel Ka's body, fell forward and accidentally sliced Tenel Ka's arm off at the shoulder. Tenel Ka refused to get a prosthetic arm because she felt that since the blood of her ancestors flowed through her, it would not be right to replace a part of her body with something that was fake. She managed to make it back to the academy despite many attempts on her life. Tenel Ka shook her head as if she was trying to wipe away the memories. She got up and pushed her long red hair to the back of her head and straightened her scarlet and emerald athletic suit made from skins of reptiles from her native planet Dathomir. The outfit left her legs and right arm free, her left stub of an arm she kept covered most of the time. Her new lightsaber hit her thigh and she looked down at the weapon carved out of a rancor tooth. When making this one she was very careful. Quickly climbed down the tree, even lacking an arm she still was quite strong. She got to the bottom and took off running. She had to run seven kilometers to get to the old temple that was now a Jedi Academy. Seven kilometers was not that far of a run for Tenel Ka, she ran ten kilometers every day for her morning exercises.