Fighting in the Clone Wars meant that almost every single Jedi’s time was being taken
up commanding Clone Troopers on the front lines of battle, rather than their more traditional
role of teaching young students.
Despite this, the Job had to be done my someone and frequently rotated around.
For this training journey, Anakin Skywalker was chosen to lead a group of younglings into
the dark forests of a remote world.
So lets find out how this training mission went horribly wrong, leading them to save
anakin’s life…
We all know how Anakin repaid them at the end of the war!
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The story begins in a forested world near Ilum which is said to be strong in the force.
Anakin, and the Jedi council understand that Even in the middle of war, the training of
the Next generation of Jedi cannot be overlooked.
As Anakin and his group of youngling students begin marching through the thick treeline,
Anakin calls out to them and warns to make sure they stay together, and that it won't
be long before they reach the campsite.
One of the younglings however calls out to Anakin and tells him that they're group ins’t
tired, like Anakin was suggesting, but savagely throws one of the other younglings under the
bus and says “except for ammon -- *he’s* tired.
Ammon is so upset by the other’s saying this that he doesn’t watch where he’s
walking, and trips, almost falling face first into a poisonous viper planet.
Anakin tells him that he needs to watch the path he’s chosen and be aware of every step,
pulling the kid up moments before his face impacts the plant…
Obviously advice that Anakin himself failed to follow towards the end of the war.
The youngling then thanks anakin for saving his life before getting up rejoining the rest
of his youngling clan.
For those of you who don’t know, Jedi younglings with the rank of Initiate are split up into
clans and are led by very senior Jedi Masters, including Master Yoda and Terra Sinube.
The known clans included the hawkbat clan, the heliost clan and the one that Master Yoda
was training in Attack of the Clone Wars called the Bear Clan.
So make sure to tell me down below what you think a good name for this Jedi initiate clan
would be.
After this story, also let me know who your favourite youngling from this group is.
Who would have had the most potential to sit on the council one day… if Order 66 never
happened.
After this, one of the other younglings walks up to the plant and notices that it’s thorns
are broken, meaning that something else must have stepped in it, and more creepily, meaning
that something must have followed the group.
The group of kids go crazy after realizing this, but Anakin tries to calm them down,
and tells the young girl Tryla that he hopes whatever it was that stepped in the bush,
has been put out of its misery and isn’t suffering with the painful poison from the
plant.
As Anakin says this however, the clan of younglings hear some rustling in the bushes, sending
them into a craze and spooking them badly, wondering what it is.
Anakin tries to calm the younglings again, telling them that it’’s probably just
a local Tannor, which is basically an Akk dog, but much more venomous.
Once they get their camp setup, it shouldn’t bother them any further.
As the clan of younglings is setting up their sents, Cryle walks ver to Ammon once again
and begins teasing him, by saying “A local animal?
Local *beast* more like!.
You’re not *afraid* are you, Ammon”.
Ammon however defends himself and says that he is not afraid, but was just startled by
the noise.
While Anakin is lighting the fire, Tryla asks him “master, after we’ve set up camp,
will you tell us again how master qui-Gon saved you from Darth Maul”.Anakin knows
that the kids love hearing that story, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that Anakin
has bragged about it many times.
Anakin also admits that he loves telling the story adding, “well, soo do I!
And I wasn’t much older than you when it happened”... just as he says this though,
the youngling Crycle jumps out from nowhere and pushes Ammon, completely trolling the
poor kid and pretending that a Wild Tannor was attacking him.
Ammon tries to pretend he knew all along that it was just another youngling, but cryle continues
teasing him and putting him down.
Once Anakin sees this, he moves over to the two boys and tells them to cut it out.
He tells Cryle that what he did certainly wasn’t the Jedi way, and the two younglings
immediately apologize.
Anakin continue to scold the two boys, but his attention is quickly grabbed by something
mysterious in the distance.
All of the younglings and Anakin himself feel a deep disturbance in the force.
As Anakin moves to investigate this, a massive Tannor Beast roars and flies through the air,
attacking Skywalker before he can get a hit in.
The younglings are shocked, calling out to Anakin, but there is no response.
Anakin is completely knocked out because he was grazed by the Tannor Beast’s claws,
injecting just the tiniest amount of venom into his veins.
The clan of younglings immediately know that they need to get Anakin to the medical droid
aboard their ship as soon as possible… but since it’s night time, they also know that
it’s going to be extremely dangerous to trek through the dense forrest.
The younglings then try to carry Anakin back to the ship, but he’s far too heavy for
them, so Ammon suggests that they build a stretcher to carry him all together, sharing
the load around, which would be the Jedi way.
Cryle however is not going to stick around, and instead steals Anakin’s lightsaber,
telling the group that it will help him cut branches far faster than their training blades.
After Cryle gets back and delivers all of the branches for the stretcher, Ammon offers
to take the lightsaber, because Master says “in inexperienced hands, a danger a lightsaber
is”, knowing that he has far more experience than Cryle with the blade.
Cryle however is not going to hand over the plade to him, and tucks it away on his belt.
The younglings then band together and begging hauling Anakin’s nearly lifeless body through
the thick forest, but unfortunately the ominous growl of the Tannor beast rings through the
area, terrifying the young children.
The beast is so fast that it knocks Anakin’s stretcher to the ground, without the younglings
even noticing what hit them.
The clan then argue about what to do next with Anakin, but Cryle can’t shake the feeling
that something is still out there, lurking in the shadows.
While this is happening, Tryla is terrified and asks Ammon what will happen if they can’t
get Anakin to safety, but he warns her not to think about it, before another chilling
scream rings through the areaa.
This time, the Tannor beast shows itself and charges towards the Jedi initiates, with Cryle
igniting Anakin’s blue lightsaber, hoping to stop it.
Unfortunately however, the young Jedi initiate is paralysed with fear and can’t do anything
against the Tannor beast, left just to stand there as bait.
The Tannor beast then charges at the youngling, absolutely terrifying him and leading him
to climb a nearby tree, which happens to be a good distraction for others to take Anakin
to safety.
Ammon however, the boy that Cryle was literally teasing for this whole trip, stands up for
him and says that they can’t just leave him here.
This leads Ammon to race up to the top of the tree, before unfortunately tumbling down
to the bottom, putting him right in the line of sight of the beast.
Ammon then pulls a thorn out of the beast’s hide, before curling up into a ball and begging
the force to save him from the savage creature… but surprisingly, the creature just is overjoyed
and begins licking him instead of tearing his face off.
The others then rush over to the youngling and wonder why the beast didn’t kill Ammon,
but he tells them that the poor thing had a thorn stuck in his hide, which must have
been driving him mad with pain.
Tryla is very proud of Amon, while Cryle is annoyed that he’s not getting any of the
credit…
Some time after, the group eventually return to the ship with anakin, and he finally wakes
up after some time, praising his younglings clan, telling them that they did very well.
Anakin then sits up in his recovery bed and says that he’s especially proud of Cryle
and made the right choice by putting him in charge.
Surprisingly however, Cryle humbles himself and thanks Anakin for the compliment, but
points over at Ammon and gives him the credit for the daring rescue.
Anakin then smiles as the group of younglings realize they saved their master together,
with the force as their guide.
They worked together as a team and showed Anakin that they are true Jedi.
This clan will certainly not be sent to the Jedi agricorps base on dantooine any time
soon, and will very likely be picked up by Jedi Masters in
the next years.
So that was the group of Jedi younglings who saved Anakin’s life while out in a dark,
creepy forest.
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