Act 3: Fights and Fun
Claire's P.O.V.
"Though the night is dark and the wind is cold, the warmth of my heart stays strong," Serenity said after reading the script for some play Ahsoka wrote.
"The scars I wear are not the scars of pain, but the path to joy!" Larry exclaimed.
"Oh, how long must we walk this path without love in our lives?" Destiny asked with pleading eyes. So this is acting...
I felt a hand grab my wrist and I instantly wrenched my hand away.
"UNHAND ME!" I turned and saw Max covering his ears with one hand and wringing his hand because it was in pain. "Sorry. Too loud?"
"Too Neolian," he said, a smile growing on his face upon me asking.
"Stop." I walked out of the room to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
"I'm with Claire on this," I overheard Aera say. "This play is pretty stupid."
"Aera, you know that's not what she meant," Jersey said.
"Well we all know she was thinking it."
"AERA!"
"People, please!" Max yelled. "Claire's probably had a rough time being queen. It's not our place to be discussing her like this. We don't know what she's been through or what has changed in her life since we last saw her on Earth."
Thanks, Max... but you don't have to defend me and my life like that... I'm just gonna go for now...
The next day, Serenity's P.O.V.
"I'm off. Bye girls!" I said as I left the house, like how Max and the others did earlier.
"WAIT!" I saw the little girl with white hair catch the door. "I wanna come too!"
"What? Why?"
"Mama told me that I will get really smart and grow up if I go to school, so I want to listen in on your class!" she exclaimed.
"You'll have to listen through the open windows, but I guess you could come along."
"YAY!"
"Take care of Destiny, Ahsoka!" I told the remaining one at the house.
"Understood, captain!"
Captain... I like that.
"So... uhm..." I tried to start a conversation while we walked.
"What's your name?"
"I'm Serenity."
"That's my name too!"
"Wow! That's amazing!"
"Yeah... Mama really liked that name. She told me she knew my name before I was born."
"That's nice."
Ahsoka's P.O.V.
"Let's go outside!" Destiny begged me.
"But Destiny-"
"I know of the dangers! I just want you to have some fun with your life that you can remember!"
"Wha- how did you know that I didn't remember half of my life?"
"Uh..."
"Destiny... you're not an ordinary girl, are you?"
"Gotta go!" She then ran for the door.
"Wait!" I grabbed my coat and boots and then ran after her as she darted outside. "We're not supposed to be outside!"
The mischievous girl kept on running until she came to a stop in front of some dojo.
"Ahsoka! Do this thing!" she exclaimed, pointing at a poster.
"Free for all fighting arts competitions - open 24 hours a day." I turned to the teen. "You think I can survive in there?!"
"JUST DO IT!" She pushed me in and almost instantly I was thrown into a match. "You can do it!" Destiny cheered.
I sighed before going into combat with the stranger.
"You're pretty good at this," I heard him say.
"Uh... thank you?" We fought some more and then I got an idea. "How well off are you with swords?" I flipped two fencing swords off the shelf, catching one and him catching the other.
He was still crazy awesome at this.
"Do you study all the combat arts?" he asked me.
"No. Do you?"
"Also no."
About an hour or so later with a complete tie, we decided to just stop.
"I'm Ahsoka," I said, holding out my hand. He took it.
"I'm Edric."
"You were pretty good at that fighting madness." I put the nunchucks that we were last fighting with away.
"You did really well yourself. I'm surprised that you aren't Rosaline in disguise because SHE can fight REALLY well."
"Rosaline?" How come that name is familiar?
"Ahsoka!" Destiny interrupted our conversation and ran up to me. "You did AMAZING!" She high-fived me.
"Oh! I should introduce you," I said to Edric. "Edric, this is Destiny. Destiny, this is Edric, that really cool opponent I was fighting for an hour."
"I know. I saw from the audience stands."
We eventually decided to get some funnel cakes and head to the park to talk, mainly because Destiny was going to become quite the extremist if I tried to go back to the house.
"So Edric," I began after swallowing a bite. "Where are you from?"
"The Dwarf Observatory, but I later moved to the multiverse core and then I was forcefully taken to the Planetary Children Assylum."
"Assylum?"
"It's not really that, but it really feels like an assylum at times because of how EVERYONE hates me... EVEN DONOVAN HATES ME!"
"I don't hate you."
"Thanks... you know, you remind me of someone." I could see Destiny acting very strange out of the corner of my eye... she must be on a sugar rush.
"I don't know who. But if we met before, I definitely don't remember you. But you do kind of look familiar..."
"If your hair was longer and styled differently, I'm pretty sure you'd be Neyo's identical twin."
"Neyo?"
"She was an old friend. While I was living at the multiverse core, I spent my life helping her use her senses through the atmosphere around her... she died saving everyone when the core collapsed..."
"I see... I'm really sorry for you." I saw Destiny facepalm. What is her problem?
"There you are, Dragoness." Now that is not a familiar voice.
The three of us turned our heads to see a floating man in the sky.
"THIS IS NOT NORMAL!"
"NOTHING EVER IS!" I looked at Edric, obviously confused.
"WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!"
"I DON'T KNOW! IT JUST SOUNDED NICE WHEN I SAID IT!"
"I'VE BEEN TO ANOTHER PLANET BEFORE BUT THIS IS CRAZY!" I yelled.
"STOP TALKING! JUST RUN!!!" Destiny yelled, jumping up and running away.
"But the funnel cakes!"
"EDRIC!" I ended up dragging him as we ran.
"DO EITHER OF YOU HAVE MYSTICAL POWERS?!" Destiny asked us.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! I JUST FIX THINGS!"
"AND I JUST BREAK MYSELF!" I look at Edric.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR LIFE?!"
"EVERYTHING POSSIBLE!"
I grabbed Destiny's wrist and dragged the three of us into the sewage system.
"Sorry about that," I apologized, mainly to Destiny. "It's just we needed to do something like that to avoid the blasts and that crazy floating guy."
"What blasts?" Edric asked.
"Did you not know why we were running? Do you care about funnel cakes that much?!"
"Uh... they were tasty... I never had them before..."
"I don't know how you live when you're so distracted..."
"Well I'm sorry if that confuses you, but I can't help but be distracted when I'm a half-fugitive."
"WHAT?!" Destiny and I asked in sync.
"Yeah. I couldn't stand living without a real life... having nothing but the hate... and being ignored by Rosaline because she just won't forgive me... so I ran away... It was hard, so I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to leave, but that was the price I had to pay for a real life."
"So this Rosaline girl... is she the one trying to keep you in that assylum place?" He nodded. "And that's why you looked so relieved earlier..."
"This is a really sweet moment. Really," Destiny began. "But right now, WE ARE ALL ON THE RUN HERE."
"Right. Got any ideas?"
"Nope."
Eventually, I decided to check up on the surface, and I saw some mysterious girls fighting a monster that the floating guy made. She beat it and then it was safe for us to come out of hiding.
"Well, I guess I have to go back to my personal run now..." Edric said as he turned to leave.
"WAIT!" I grabbed his hand. "I have an alternative." He turned back to face us, a spark of I think hope in his eyes.
"Really?"
I took him back to the group home and had Destiny distract him with a pillow fight. I prepared a room for him to stay in with my strange mechanic powers that allow me to do things in record time.
"It's finished!" I had Destiny bring him in and he instantly dropped his jaw at how fast I got a room ready... or maybe how he got a room here at all.
"How-?!"
"Just a bit of tinkering. That's all."
"Girl, you've been holding out on us!" Destiny exclaimed. "I'm gonna make you work on my room!" She grabbed my arm and dragged me down the hall.
"DESTINY!"
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Yes.
There is a play.
And Claire is sensitive.
Edric is back.
And there's an Ahsoka title card.
Take that, peoples.
I just really felt like we should get to know the mysterious Ahsoka and her hobbies.
There's a lot more that needs to be discovered about her in this book.
And yes, there are two Serenitys now.
Comment down below what nickname you think the younger Serenity should have!
Bye!
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