An Unlikely Pair?

[Jannik Morlandt]

[One day after this mission to Zeltros...]​

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LOCATION​

Jedi Temple​

Ossus​

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- [member="Steve"] -​

For once, a visit to Zeltros didn't leave him vowing to not return... this time the vow was shaky at best, thanks to the Sil-Alert Stims that Knight Eden had brought along for the lot of them. The results of the mission, what information was gathered, and what actions were taken would be discussed were discussed with the right people, and Jannik was left only with his thoughts of the conversation he'd had with Avalore, and forward thoughts as to his duty as a knight.

It was time for him to take a student, perhaps even more than one. Not only was the contact with more than one student that he had through teaching his peers beneficial to his continued reacclimatization to life here, but the simple fact was that students presently outnumbered available instructors by a large margin. Thus, he felt duty bound to do what he could, despite the things he knew he needed to accomplish. Without a doubt, how his future students would factor into this was a very present thing in his thoughts.

So, the evening he'd returned to the temple and debriefed from the mission, the seer set about accessing files on the students that were waiting, and spent the rest of his time that night taking in a meal and considering each one. After a great deal of deliberation, he settled on the one with which he would start while still preparing for the next stage of his own journey. Was he influenced by the relationship he had with his own master, [member="Kira Liadain"]? Perhaps. The fact was that she could not help him with the one thing that determined his Jedi path, but without the tools she had provided to him, would he really have gotten to this point, and remained in the Light? Would he have lived?

There was no knowing, and after that meal, he had drafted up a message, and sent it to one short, yellow-skinned hopeful whose name was a mononym: [member="Steve"]. In that message, he gave a time, and a place - this morning at 0700hrs, on the front steps of the temple where he had now been sitting for some time, watching the horizon over the jungle.

 

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[member="Jannik Morlandt"]


Steve waddled along the pathways in the Jedi Temple on Ossus. He happily ate his breakfast burrito stuffed with meats and cheese. He hummed to himself as he chewed and walked. Eyes fluttered down to him as he walked, not many in the galaxy had ever seen a Milenici, nor would they have expected to see one in the Jedi temple.

He walked through the doorway to the open air of Ossus, down the steps, sat the man who would train him to become the Jedi Steve hoped to be. Hopping down the steps as his legs weren't quite long enough for the normal sized steps. He hopped in front of the Master.

Wirh a mouth full of burrito, "Bello!!" Steve smiled with his whole face. The goggled eyes closed to complete the image of possibly the happiest creature to walk the temple grounds.

 

[Jannik Morlandt]

[member="Steve"]

Eyes on the horizon, the morning was peaceful at least until something yellow with goggled eyes popped up and obscured his vision with a hearty sort-of greeting for half-a-moment, before landing on its - his - feet again. After another moment of a blink or two, the seer looked down just a titch to see before him the very individual whose presence he'd been expecting... stuffing his face full of breakfast burrito. When was it he last ate? Oh, just a couple hours before.

"G'morning, ah... Padawan Steve, is it?"

This was indeed his first encounter with a Milenici, and there was no way of knowing if there was only one in the whole order, or if there were more and this was simply some random Milenici instead of the one he'd messaged. Jannik offered the little yellow guy a wan smile, hoping that he'd finish chewing and swallowing before he opened his mouth again.

"Ye're a happy-looking fellow, aren't ye?"

 

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Steve nodded as he chewed. When he swallowed, he put out a little hand to attempt a normal person's handshake.

Hello Big Boss. Bell-apo Steve. Ya. We train now ya Boss?

He went back to eating his banana, finishing the fruit in one bite. Steve was a hungry fellow, eating all the time. Now he had a master, he could train to help protect his people.

[member="Jannik Morlandt"]

Bell-apo* My Name Is

 

[Jannik Morlandt]

Jan carefully took the little hand and gave it a shake.

"Big Boss?" he queried, giving a mild smile, "Ah'm Knight Morlandt, orra... hm."

He watched the little guy hork down the banana in one go, which caused him to blink in mild surprise.

"Ah understand ye ken call me Master, iffin tha' jives wi'ye," and then he just stared at the little guy, thinking. "May'aps ye ken tell me a wee bit about yeself first, [member="Steve"]?"

He rose, smoothing out his robes, and taking one last glance at the horizon.

"Then we ken talk about training. Come on, then."

And he turned to head back into the temple compound, expecting the Milenici would follow.

 

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Steve jittered with excitement and followed his master.

"Oki Big Bo...Mista Mordlan," Steve struggled with the name. "Meh a Milenici afom Cito Vaal. Meh Big Boss Neeos send meh a be Jedi. A meh, no sabe Force, but," Steve chuckled at but,"meh want to learn."

"We start now ya?" Meh be Jedi, ya?"

His little legs moved quickly to keep up wih the long strides of [member="Jannik Morlandt"]

 

[Jannik Morlandt]

Well, the Milenici's way of speech was as strange to him as his was sometimes incomprehensible to others, but In both cases it couldn't be helped... though he had to wonder if he could change that for himself, given certain factors having to do with his apparent lineage. All these thoughts as they made their way back into the temple, wasting no time in getting a start to their lessons together. Seeing that [member="Steve"] was having a little bit of a challenge keeping up, he shortened his paces enough to ease the forward progress for his yellow-skinned padawan's benefit.

"Yes, Steve, we'll be starting wi' a wee bit o'something now," he emphasized, direct to his student's excitement, "but ah'd like to know something, first."

He glanced at the little guy toddling along with him, unable to keep a broad smile from cropping up on his face at the sight, as he steered himself and the Milenici around a corner in search of an empty training room - most of which were empty at this hour, much like the entire temple felt like something of a ghost town before the bulk of the residents were awake and active. That wasn't to say they were the only ones up and about, as there were others here and there to which short nods were given and morning greetings were uttered.

"How'd ye see yeself as a Jedi? Whar d'ye feel ye strengths lie?"

 

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Steve followed Jannik into the training room, and was asked about his idea of what he'd be like as a Jedi. Steve placed a hands in his 'chin' and pondered a moment. Then, after a moment, he jumped into the center of the training room and started doing martial arts. Kicking, punching, jumping, rolling. All accompanied with 'hi yahs' and 'Yyaaaas'.

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After a few seconds of this, he would roll over to Jannik and bump into his foot, stalling out his little show.

[member="Jannik Morlandt"]

 

[Jannik Morlandt]

Okay, that gave him a little laugh. He watched the little guy roll right up onto the toes of his boots.

"So, a warrior an' protector, then. A Guardian, perhaps? A'right..."

He couldn't very well teach the diminutive padawan to fight, but he could definitely give the yellow-skinned being an education in things that would help him along the way. Though... given his size, there would be lightsaber forms he was ill-suited to.

"...pick yeself up. We'll begin with th'same foundation tha' e'ery Jedi receives."

With that, he went to one side of the centre and lowered himself into a cross-legged position, gesturing across from himself.

"Take a seat, [member="Steve"], an' we'll get started."

 

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Steve picked himself up as Jannik spoke of educating the Milenici. He waddled to be opposite Jannik and plopped down on his backside. Feet straight out, arms hung loose to his sides, Steve was ready.

"Bokay, yoo teech meh beh Jed-eye."

Steve looked on with his big eyes and expressionless yet happy face.


[member="Jannik Morlandt"]