Ask Yavin IV Thirteen Candles and Thirteen Pranks

[Maura Starwalk]

If someone were to ask Maura what the best part of having a birthday was, it was one hundred percent the cake. Her favorite bit, just before getting to dig into the sweet, chocolatey goodness, was to blow out the candles one by one! For this birthday though, she had a really big idea. It was as big as thirteen!

"C'monnnn!" The rainbow-haired gremlin could be found desperately trying to push a heavy box down one of the hallways, putting her full body weight against the object. Her heels dug into the hard floors, and her face was strained with effort. Many of the knights who passed her conveniently ignored her, not wanting to get involved with whatever shenanigans the girl was up to. "Ugh, why are you so heavy!"

The box was filled to the brim with everything she'd grabbed from a storage room which she thought could be used in a series of thirteen pranks she had planned out. Her big idea was this: what if instead of a cake and thirteen candles, she pulled off thirteen pranks? It was gonna be so fun!

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[Atias Zaldreell]

While he walked through the corridors of the Temple, Atias happily hummed the tune of one of his favourite musics. Anyone that walked next to him would think that the Padawan was only going back to his run after having received a package from outside of Yavin IV. There was nothing suspicious there.

However, behind happy and innocent face, Atias was hiding his true intentions. The Padawan was planning all the pranks that he was going to do during an entire month and all of them would only be possible due to the package that he was carrying. See, the half-Morellian was someone that was very interested in the noble art of doing pranks. Beyond studying about the secrets of the Force, the boy loved a good and old prank.

Being an aficionado in doing pranks, Atias had signed up in a magazine called "GalacticPranks" which would occasionally give to its readers a kit full of items that could be used to make pranks. The Padawan couldn’t wait to arrive at his room and open the box to see what he had received. There would be infinite possibilities for him to use them.

He was so distracted making plans for future pranks that he didn't notice that a small girl was coming from another corridor. Atias would collide with her, nearly dropping his box on the floor. The half-Morellian would sigh in relief after having been able to avoid his precious cargo from falling.

He would turn to the girl and the first thing that he would notice was her rainbow colored hair. "Hey, sorry about that. I wasn't looking where I was going." an apologetic smile appeared on his lips. Then, he noticed she was also carrying a box. "It seems heavy. Do you want help carrying it?" Atias felt bad for colliding with someone so small, she could have got hurt. He thought that perhaps his help could compensate for it.

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[Maura Starwalk]

"Hey— oof!" Maura caught sight of the older padawan coming towards her a moment too late, and before she could say "watch out!" he collided right with her. As he scrambled to keep ahold of his box, Maura tumbled straight forward into hers. It tipped over, spilling out its contents onto the smooth temple floor. The young teen hurried to sweep the objects back inside, pushing spools of wire, glitter tubes, unfilled balloons, and all sorts of stuff into the cardboard box just as he apologized and offered to help. She was a little frustrated with him running into her, so she denied his offer to help.

"Nope!" She pushed the top back down, then braced herself against the box to start pushing again. "I'm thirteen now! That means I'm strong and I can do things by myself!" The rainbow-haired kid began to push her whole body weight against it, pushing it along the floor in a very awkward way.

Before two seconds passed, she would suddenly stop and spin around to grin up at the demi-human mischievously. "Unless you wanna help me with what else I'm doing, 'cause its my birthday and you just ran into me!"

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[Jade Hart]

“WACKA WACKA!”

As Maura and Atias were cleaning up their mess, a slightly older girl creaked open the door to her room. Awakened by a shrill cry, she was groggy and criminally under-caffeinated. This girl rubbed her eyes and yawned, stepping slowly into the hall. The floor tiles were cold to her bare feet. She wore her trademark gray robes and scarf. A slow-mover with sand in her limbs, she almost slipped on some glitter and mumbled something incoherent. Then she saw it and froze. A tragedy had occurred.

“Oh my god.”

She slammed her door and covered her mouth in shock. Tears began flowing. Throwing up her head to the ceiling the girl wailed with such fervor it was like her cries pierced spacetime, breaking into some higher plain of existence to petition the gods as a new force power.

“What have you idiots done!” She shouted.

On the floor, amid the confusion and general disarray, there laid a Kowakian monkey-lizard. It didn’t move. It didn’t breathe. Its fur was brown and blue, sparkling with red and green glitter. A wire wrapped around its neck like some cultish Christmas tree turned animal sacrifice from a B-grade horror movie. Its eyes shut, arms and legs an X, sprawled on its back, tongue lolling out, saliva foaming. Unblown rubber balloons fenced in rolling glitter tubes around the carcass, giving the scene a bizarre ceremonial effect where everything is properly placed in some pagan ritual. But the fine details of the murder could be worked out later by the Sector Rangers. The girl hurriedly rummaged through her pockets and retrieved a large metallic coin with a picture of a fat slobbering Hutt on it. She placed the Hutt coin on the left eyelid of the monkey.

“This will help ferry him through the underworld safely, right?” She looked up at Maura and Atias, her face switching between angry-Mom and 10-year-old-who-lost-their-first-pet. “Your stupid pranks killed my pet monkey! You have turned the Jedi Temple into a Jedi tomb. It is forever desecrated."

She shook her head and stomped her foot. Then, after a big sigh, the girl stuck out a beckoning palm towards the killers. “Make it right.” The girl wiped her tears. “His right eye still needs a coin. Pay up.”

 

[Atias Zaldreell]

”Ok, Ultra Wee! I’m not going to help you.” he made some effort to not laugh with what the girl had said. If she didn’t say that was thirteen, the boy would have thought that she was ten. The rainbow-colored girl was so small. He was surprised that she was able to carry this box alone.

However, being thirteen doesn't mean that she was able to do everything alone. The half-Morellian was older than her, but he knew that sometimes you needed help. She would probably learn it during her Jedi training.

As she had asked, Atias didn’t help her while she moved the things that had spilled on the floor back to the box. The boy looked at her, while a smile appeared on his lips. He recognized these items, with himself having used some of them to make pranks. When she invited him, the half-Morellian didn’t even think twice in giving her an answer.

“I’m down, Ultra Wee!” he showed the box that he was carrying to her. “I have things inside it that maybe can help you with what else you are doing.” Atias was prepared to follow her, this was going to be fun. “By the way, happy birthday! My name is Atias. What is yours?” the half-Morellian could continue calling her Ultra Wee, but he wasn’t going to do that if she felt offended. He could be playful, but the older Padawan knew his limits.

Their conversation was interrupted by the sudden arrival of another Padawan. Atias crossed his arms while watching her start to cry. Only when she kneeled on the floor did he notice the Kowakian-lizard monkey on the floor. Apparently it was the girl's pet. The poor thing probably was walking nearby when the two collided.

“You know that some Kowakian-lizard monkeys can faint to fake being dead when they get too scared, right?” Atias raised an eyebrow, while watching the girl preparing some type of funeral. “They even foam through their mouths.” when he said that, the little animal moved its tail. “See? It’s going to wake up soon.”

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[Maura Starwalk]

It all happened so quickly that Maura couldn't really even process what was going on. Before she could catch what Atias was saying, a girl screamed and full down over the body of a Kowakian-lizard monkey wrapped up in wire and covered in glitter. She pointed an accusing finger at them, demanded something, then held out a hand. Atias seemed much more apt to respond to the situation, and just as quickly as the situation had tensed up, he relaxed it. Once he commented on the species' tendency to faint, the lizard monkey began to move, and it wasn't long after that its eyes popped open and it began to struggle to get itself out of the wires. Maura's face remained in a bewildered expression.

"Anyways... I, uh-" How did she respond to this? Wait, didn't Atias ask her a question? "I'm Maura." The kid reached out for her box and struggled to pull it away from Jade and her monkey-lizard.

Turning to Atias, she would add, "Uh, yeah. That sounds fun." The mood for the girl had been killed, but there was a glimmer of excitement that began to build its way back.

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[Jade Hart]

As the monkey resuscitated, Jade’s breathing returned to normal. “Oh my god,” she cried. “Oh my monkey. Ha, back from the dead.” She knelt down and pat it on the head, smiling and cooing at it like an infant. The furry ball of play-doh jumped up and danced around. Jade rose up, drying her tears. Prank-bits littered the ground.

“Sorry about that,” she said. “I guess he was playing dead. My name’s Jade. Jade Hart. I’m a Padawan here at this institution.”

 

[Atias Zaldreell]

As he had said, the monkey soon woke up. The panic that the other girl had was unnecessary. In his opinion, if someone wanted to have an exotic creature as a pet, they should know all about the behavior of it. This would avoid such panic attacks and accusations of murder.

“Nice to meet you, Jade. My name is Atias.” he said, before turning to look at Maura. The excitement that she had early seemed to have disappeared. The half-Morellian felt bad for her. No one deserves to pass through such a melodramatic debacle on the same day of their birthday.

“Happy birthday, Maura!” he said, trying to cheer her up. “ As a birthday gift, I’ll teach you some of the pranks that I know. What do you think?” Atias smiled at her. He could also show her what his Master taught him. Crix was a great prankster. He would turn to walk with her out of here. “What are you planning to do?”

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[Maura Starwalk]

"New pranks?" That's what she'd originally wanted to go off and do. "Yeah, sure!" She did her best to sound like she was looking forward to it even though she was kinda just...eh now.

"Well, I was gonna set up thirteen pranks since it's my thirteenth birthday and no one made me a cake to blow out candles for."

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[Jade Hart]

Jade wiped the tears from her face. The girl bent down and whispered something in its monkey's ears in some inscrutable monkey-ese. The thing hopped up, plucked the coins from its eyelids, and scampered off.

She looked to Maura. "I forgive you. Did you want chocolate or white icing?"