The Force Within

Inner Lesson

A sigh is lengthened out, from the cause of annoyance, from her. Her light brown hair pulled behind her in a messy bun shakes as she tills her head to her right while glaring at Nute Gunray from over the shoulder of her Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. A string of hair flows over her line of sight and she crosses her arms while she shifts her weight to her left foot giving her hair sway to the left.

"Naona..." he mumbles with a strict deep tone that makes her expression turn neutral with such quickness before Master Windu peers back at her with a serious stare.

"Why did you bring her along? She is no longer your Padawan to be called apon." Windu states with a hissed whisper towards Obi-Wan's right ear while shifting his eyes to him.

"She decided to come along herself. She wouldn't take 'No' for an answer. Besides she needs to get the hang of things as a Jedi Knight." he smiles at Windu then peers over his left shoulder at Naona.

"Jedi Rohou is fine without coming here. The tension is high enough. After this we will meet outside this lone city." Windu mentions and faces back towards Gunray listening and staring at unusual looking battle tanks.

The ships glide along the wide flat rock landing area. The most strange thing that catches Naona's attention is that they seem to be alive and thinking on their own. The hugeness of them makes it the ration of a Armored Assault Tank that droids normally pilot for Gunray. They are the shape and built of a giant scorpion. Four eyes blink within it's middle and the pinchers move as if it is indeed a living species. The curve of a stinger is sharp and moveable just as a real scorpion would have. At the base of the curve of the tail is an opening where a tank shot is demonstrated.

"As you can see we out date your Naboo Starfighters." Gunray's red eyes stay unblinking.

The twin guns placed by the left and right side of the eyes shoot red lasers out of each twin barrels. One nearly skins Naona, leaving a burn mark on her upper arm through her white sleeve, which makes her twinge. Her left hand holds out and a shake ripples through the left of the plating of the set of twin barrels making it crush inward and chatter off and fling far left away from it. Surprisingly a loud shriek echos from the living machine, or cyborg scorpion, causing everyone to shroud their ears with pulsing hands. It's eyes blink rapid and the pincers squrim. Naona looks to the far left at the yellow and silver Naboo Starfighters then back at the brownish shade of red and glimpses of green and blue on the scorpions side shift constantly until it halts and begins to hover backwards.

"I shall...go...now." a hint of fear wavers in Gunray's voice as he and his fellow Neimoidians behind him shift away with their robes trailing behind them like mice tail's.

The Jedi Masters turn back to look at her with totally opposite looks. Windu with an angered but shifting to a settled look. Obi-Wan with a deviant smirk suddenly shifts to a worried gaze toward her left arm. She looks down seeing no blood but just burnt skin.

"Nothing I can't handle Master." she mumbles and steps back with a widened smile.

He just shifts his gaze to her grey eyes and warmly smiles back making her heart flutter. Naona had always had a love no one knew about. Only her sister had known before she had been accepted as another Padawan to train under Obi-Wan. Her sister had never accepted the love she had for her mentor, ever since he had taken her from home. That was 9 years ago. Now Naona stands ready and head strong, at age 19, for whatever is to come after her action of using the Force.