Luna Khaylia

Luna Khaylia is a Human Jedi Padawan to Jedi Knight Bant Eerin. She was born on Coruscant in 35 BBY, and immediatly taken for Jedi training, then being apprenticed to Bant Eerin when she was 13. She was a close friend to Jaylen Kos during the Clone Wars.

Being Discovered.
Luna Khaylia was crying in her cot. "Shhh!" her mother, Marine, said gently, trying to calm her daughter. But Luna kept on crying. Suddenly, the door burst open and her father fell through onto his face, with a burning hole through his back. "Galen!" cried Marine, and she rushed to her husband, who breathed his last breath in her arms. "Help!" she screamed, "Anyone!" Luna cried louder. Then, a man with a hat and a blaster stepped lightly over Galen and raised the blaster to Marine's head. There was a moment of silence, even Luna stopped crying, and then there was the unforgivable sound of a blaster shot, and Marine fell to the floor with a dull thud. Luna tumbled from her mother's arms, bonked her head on the floor and blacked out. She didn't see it, but another man stepped through the door and ignited an amethyst-colored blade.

Learning.
"Concentrate, you must!" Yoda's words pierced Luna like knives and she screwed up her eyes in attempts to be the best in the class. Her blade swung, and she felt a pain in her arm and knew that a droid had got her. It hurt. But she didn't stop.

These days, at age five, she couldn't remember anything of her mother and father's deaths, even though she know knew Mace Windu had saved her. She had developed a bond with him inside her, but shared it with no one. "Let the Force flow through you, you must," Yoda said. Luna felt a course of anger. If it was so easy for the Masters, why was it so hard for the younglings?

A friend
Not many days later, Luna was in a lightsaber class with Master Drallig and numerous other younglings. "I'm going to pair you up," said Master Drallig. "And you can practice against your partner." Luna looked to her sides. Would he pair her up with the people next to her? Or would he pick someone else?

Someone else was the answer. "Luna Khaylia, come here," Master Drallig instructed. Luna walked towards him. He then put his hand on the shoulder of an Iridonian Zabrak that Luna knew by appearance, but not name. "This," said Master Drallig, "is Jaylen Kos. He will be your sparring partner today." Luna, though slightly put off, smiled and said,"OK." Jaylen smiled nervously back at her.

It was a good match. They got along easily, and they were about the same level as each other. By the end of the lesson, it was clear they were going to be friends.

Ahsoka's Padawanship.
"Have you heard? Ahsoka was made Padawan!" "Yes, I have!" snapped Luna. People were talking about her Togrutan friend so much that she was in a very snippy mood. She was sitting with Jaylen in the Jedi Archives, where they were supposed to be silent, but everyone would not shut up about Ahsoka Tano, top of her class and lightsaber dueling and Force-sensitivity alike. Ahsoka was already on her way to meet her new Master. And not any Master, but Anakin Skywalker, barely shed of his Padawan braid and already a legend on the battlefield. Luna was proud of her friend, and a little bit jealous, perhaps. Jaylen was taking things a bit more seriously. "It's not fair!" he cried, drawing glances from a nearby patrol droid. "I'm three years older than her, and I'm a better pilot!" "Shut up," said Luna, equally annoyed. "And cool your jets, when you get angry, your face goes all red and you look like Darth Maul!" It was true. Jaylen was as red as a Mandalorian beet. "Besides," she added, "Master Yoda wouldn't've assigned her if he didn't think she was ready." There. That stumped him. But their argument had drawn a droid to their table. "Young masters," it said, "Need I remind you that in the Archives, you need to be quiet." "Yeah, yeah, go find somebody who cares, why don't you?" snapped Jaylen. Luna gave an annoyed sigh as the librarian, Jocasta Nu, came over and put her hand on the droid's shoulder. "I will deal with the Padawans," she said calmly, and it scurried away quickly. Luna glared at Jaylen. It was his fault that the droid had came over in the first place! "I know you are excited," said Jocasta, interrupting Luna's thoughts, "but the library is a place of silence." "We know!" said Jaylen quickly. "It's just that - " Jocasta cut through his words. "You are excited," she said. "But please remain quiet while working." "I'm sorry, Master," Luna said quickly, before Jaylen could say anything. "We will." Jocasta smiled. "Thank you, Luna," she said, turning and beginning to walk away. But then she stopped abruptly and turned quickly back to them, sparing Luna the need to say anything mean to Jaylen. "Oh, I almost forgot! Master Yoda wants to see you in the gardens!" Luna and Jaylen looked at each other. Yoda didn't often see the younglings. Could this mean...?

First Mission.
TO BE CONTINUED...

Notes.

 * I don't know if you noticed or not, but I took Jaylen Kos, along with the first mission, from a book called Decide Your Destiny: The Way of the Jedi. DON'T BE MEAN ABOUT IT!