"Fantastic!" Cere smiled with great affection as sparks flew from the clashing sabers and your blade spun back into your hand. "Once more." Your master called from across the room, with great might you launched your weapon at her again. "I'm lucky to have a padawan who grasps the force so quickly, the council will grant you the rank of master before you know it." Informally yet with the aura of a natural leader Cere strolled towards you and took your hands in hers.

"You are a fantastic teacher Cere, but I think it will be a good few years before Master Yoda and the rest of the council even consider me for the rank of master." Her eyes slowly drifted and her mind ran absent from your mentoring session. "Cere, are you okay?" She let go of your hand, pushed you behind her and rested a hand preemptively on the handle of her lightsaber. "Cere." You shook her shoulder, enough to bring somebody back into consciousness but instead her eyes ran back and forth, and the emerald glow of her blade filled the room.

"Stay focused, something isn't right." She crept ever so slowly towards the entrance to your training room and pressed her ear against the harsh, metal door. You stuck closely behind her and it was not long before the unified clanking of clone trooper boots against the metal grates that lined the floors. "Stay... here." Vainly you tried to protest your master's orders but after only a few words she had silently slipped through the door but was immediately met by a barrage of plasma bolts which she luckily managed to strike back before retreating to the dojo.

"We need to get out of here... NOW." Using her saber as a welding tool she sealed the door shut and pulled you over to the other side of the room. "The clone troopers have turned against us." She carefully used her blade to create a new exit to escape through. "I don't know why, we just need to leave." She darted through the newly made gap as the sealed door became the victim of wave upon wave of blaster and rifle shot, the walls shook and more troopers joined them.

"Come on." She grabbed your stunned hand and pulled you through, just as plasma bolts began to cascade from the now hole-ridden door. "Go left, that should take you to the escape pods. These are not your friends anymore Y/N, trust in the force and do everything you have to in order to escape."

She pulled you in closely and tightly wrapped her arms around you before pulling away and heading the other way.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to distract them."

"You'll die!"

"The force will look over me, as it will for you, good luck y/n."

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Written by Aaron.