The Jai Never Die Nature Cherishes Them

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Summary: There exists an element of the Mysteries in everything we know and sometimes in people that exist only in the shadows of Time and Space.

The Sith traverse paths the Jedi fear to tread. –Exar Kun to the Masassi

“He will learn to deal with the darkness soon enough, he is no longer your concern. The Covenant awaits, Milady.” She watched him still, standing out there on the balcony, she wondered what he could be watching, specially since he seemed to be not looking outward at all but inside himself instead. She turned to face the acolyte sent to her by the mysterious Covenant. The representative had been there when she’d arrived from Geonosis, it seemed like the Covenant had already known where she’d be going. They were sitting in one of the meeting rooms, shielded from being overhead by a strange device the acolyte had brought with her. Even the arrangements regarding this little meeting had been confusing to her. Ever since the war had officially begun and she had recovered, Padme had been getting many well-wishers and consultants wanting to speak with her. She had halted all incomms because she had needed time, how this one woman could have bypassed all protocols was beyond her.

The acolyte was very mysterious, cloaked in a dark hooded robe, but Padme caught glimpses of bantha-hide covered legs through the openings of the robe. The only features visible were the eyes, and even as her mind cautioned her to be wary, her sense told her that the stranger could be trusted. “What is the Covenant and what does it want with me.’

“I like you, you’re blunt when you need to be. The Covenant are the bodyguards assigned to your protection. They have been waiting for you to awake for a very long time,” came the vague reply.

“My protection? Does that mean you’ve been watching me, then you must have known about the attack on my landing party on Coruscant. Why didn’t you stop that?” Padme asked angrily.

“It was not our place to intervene, time is a delicate thing to balance the scales of space on, we couldn’t come to your assistance until you had been prepared for us,” was the calm reply. “You are tired and you are confused, I understand that. So I will explain this as quickly as I can. The Covenant are the protectors of the Jai, the only masters we serve. But the Jai ofcourse, are few in numbers and far between. When they are awakened to their destiny, it becomes our job to make them face the Trials, just to make sure that they are ready for what is to come. You know who you are, or you wouldn’t still be here. You might even be outside, enjoying some private time with the young Jedi, but that’s it isn’t it? You made the choice to take the harder path and that’s why we are here.”

“The Trials, like the ones Jedi Padawans have to go through?”

“No, nothing like that. Though the Force may flow through your blood, you are nothing like the Jedi, but you already know that as well. The Trials I speak of are those of fate or as we call them, Trial By Fire. You must go through the Crucible of Destiny and come out on the other side stronger than when you went in. That is what the Covenant does.”

“Why do I have the feeling there’s more to it than that.”

“You’re right, there is. The Jai are the Chosen and must always be beyond reproach, the Trials are not that simple, very dangerous and very difficult. The rituals are not to be taken lightly. If you believe that you can’t survive them, you can back out at this time. Otherwise, we continue, with the warning ofcourse that if you don’t survive the Trials, well, survive being the key word, you die.”

“That’s comforting, but I’ve already chosen my path, death might just be it.”

“I knew you would, no potential has ever shirked from the Trials and you’ll be happy to know that not one has died.”

“Oh,” replied Padme, relaxing her stance a little and turning to follow the acolyte with her eyes.

“Ofcourse, there have only been a couple of Jai since the beginning, so low rate of failure that way.”

Its strange how the Force works, always striving for balance even when there is none to be had. The gem had been created by the being now regarded in history as the Mother, in her was the concentrated blood of her ancestors and through her blood lines came the first sign of a single life-form that played the most pivotal role in the Galaxy, midi-chlorians. She did not know of them, how could she, but she knew of her surroundings, knew of the little changes and the tremendous ones, knew of the things yet to be and those that had come to pass. She knew of many things, but she knew many others not at all. Because of her the blood spread farther than ever imagined, reaching out across the immensities to the stars and extending towards the future.

From the Mother came the first realization of the presence of the Force and its first Vergence, an accident that only took place four times. The number is important on its own, all the elements that make the Force what it is, water, wind, fire and earth, the basic ingredients for all life forms.

Her name is unknown but many know what she stood for, the surging life of the earth, the purity of growth and that is how she is remembered in history, a tree that bore the purest fruits and gave the galaxy its first Jai.

Vima Sunrider is known as a Jedi but the Force knew her as the wind of change that brought a new layer to life and resurrected a long forgotten whisper of the past, the Jai.

In the times ahead when much evil and cruelty would come to pass, a soldier rose from the ashes of ruin to bring about a new order that purged all ancient ones of their sins, the fire that would forever burn in the heart of one Anakin Skywalker, the Force’s own progeny, would avenge all crimes and bring eternal peace.

The last element, the soothing water, the birth of life, the healer of all pain never knew her true worth nor her ancestry or even the import of her bloodline until fate sought to intervene and direct her on a path none before had trod and none after would dare to follow. She was the wild variable, the only unknown in a foreseeable future, she came into play only at that pivotal point on which rested the fate of the Force itself, and for this purpose alone did she know of her place in the Galaxy. The nexus would recede into her memories; become just a dull ache and an idle exploration into the other paths that her life could have taken. That one element that made the Force what it was; was the only unknown in the great cradle of life and the only one with the power to be the ultimate culmination of the Force, was a Jai known as Padme Naberrie Amidala.

Sorry about the really long wait but this story is in my head, it just won't come out!