‘Now it’s time to go back, but… where is the exit?’ looking around he couldn’t help but curse out loud. He doesn’t even know how he got here, unfortunately, he can’t use the force to literally predict how to get out of the cave, sighing he chose randomly and started to walk while humming a song from his previous life.

The first 30 minutes of walking as pretty boring, he didn’t find anything out of the normal. However, as time flowed by he started to get worried, no matter how much he kept going forward this place didn’t seem to have an ending.

Soon he arrived at some sort of chamber made entirely of crystals, there wasn’t a single piece of rock around if someone found a similar cave like this in his previous life they would get really rich.

Seeing it was a dead end, he was about to return when he heard something, turning to see, he found Anakin sitting on the floor, sweating and pointing his new lightsaber at ... nothing? However, he was really scared considering the way he was behaving.

“Anakin, are you alright? Do you need help?” Garrod approached but kept a safe distance in case he was hallucinating or something similar to what happened to him.

Anakin turned to look at Garrod and blinked his eyes, he seemed confused.

“Are you… real?”

“Hm? Yeah, why? Did you had weird visions as well?”

Anakin nodded and sighed a breath of relief. This time Garrod truly approached and helped him to get to his feet.

After Anakin returned to normal, he looked at Garrod for a moment and gasped. "Since when did you wear masks?"

"Oh, that?" Garrod touched his mask. "Well, you can say that it is proof of my vows."

"Did you bring it with you?"

"No."

"Then?"

"We can talk about this another moment." Garrod shook his head. “Let’s go, the others should be finishing their lightsabers soon if they hadn’t finished it yet.”

Anakin nodded and followed behind him.

One hour later they arrived at the same junction from before, however, they didn’t stop and continued to the entrance, soon they arrived at another dead end.

Seeing this Anakin furrowed his brows. “Wasn’t this supposed to be the entrance? Did we take the wrong path?”

“Hm…” Garrod touched the wall and after a few seconds, he shook his head. “No, we are in the right direction. Step back.”

Nodding he stepped away from Garrod a little.

Breathing a mouthful of air, Garrod brought his right hand back a little, concentrating part of his energy, he formed a sphere of energy from the force, then he pushed forward sending a wave of force energy that destroyed the thin ice wall in front of them.

On the other side of the waterfall, Master Yoda and the others were waiting for them. While the kids smiled and greeted them, Yoda and Obi-Wan had a weird look on their faces the moment they saw the mask Garrod was wearing.

The kids didn't care much about it, thinking of it as some sort of fashion or style thing. However, how could Master Yoda and Obi-Wan not notice the peculiarity of the mask? How many artifacts one could name that was equally strong in both the light and dark side? Although they couldn't say much about its purpose, they definitely knew it was meant to have immense powers.

"Young Seafair, this mask... Where did you find it?" Yoda asked as he placed his hand on his lightsaber.

Anakin was beside Obi-Wan by now, he looked at the scene, and was once more reminded of the day he first saw Garrod.

While he was lost in his thoughts, both Obi-Wan and Yoda seemed to be preparing to fight, Garrod looked at them and sighed in his mind, how come they are so afraid of the dark? It's a pity that the order ended up like this, what is worse, although one could say that the darkness around me is stronger than before I didn't do anything to attract this cautious side of them, no wonder the Jedi and the Sith never came to terms, they have so much prejudice towards the dark side that they can't look at it from any other point of view that isn't 'the evil dark side'.

"While I was looking for my Kyber Crystal I had a vision, and after that not only I subconsciously created my own lightsaber I also found this mask, I can only say that I'm connected to it."

Not noticing any lies in his words, Master Yoda and Obi-Wan relaxed a little but were still prepared and the case he tried anything against them.

Shaking his head, Garrod went to talk with Hameic and Esob'seci.

"Hey Garrod, what's up with this mask of yours?" Hameic asked innocently.

"Yeah, I never saw Master Yoda so tense before," said Esob'seci.

Sighing Garrod said. "Don't think too much about it, I promise I'll tell you guys when the moment is right, for now, let's go back to the ship we should rest a little."

They nodded and didn't ask about the matter anymore, they trusted him to talk when he was ready.

The next few days, using the materials available in the starship, Garrod managed to create three Holocrons, each one of them had his understandings of both the dark side and the light side, while it wasn't something profound it was enough to help someone who wanted to reach the state of balance in the force.

He also made sure to insert the code he thought that best described the path that all force users should take.

FLOWING THROUGH ALL,

THERE IS BALANCE

THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT

A PASSION TO CREATE

THERE IS NO PASSION WITHOUT

PEACE TO GUIDE

KNOWLEDGE STAGNATES WITHOUT

THE STRENGHT TO ACT

POWER BLINDS WITHOUT

THE SERENITY TO SEE

THERE IS NO FREEDOM IN

LIFE

THERE IS NO PURPOSE IN

DEATH

THE FORCE IS ALL THINGS AND

I AM THE FORCE

Seeing his work, he smiled. ‘Now I should give this to Hameic, Esob’seci, and Anakin.’

As they disembarked, Garrod ran in front and catch up to Anakin and Obi-Wan, they turned to see and had surprised looks on their face for different reasons.

Obi-Wan didn't know what to think of the boy, the darkness in hin made him wary, but the boy's actions and his fighting style made him remember of himself, he didn't know how he should consider the boy.

Anakin, on the other hand, was surprised because of the weird-looking white Holocrom in Garrod's hand.

"Hey Anakin, can we talk for a moment?"

He turned to Obi-Wan and asked for permission.

"Alright..." Obi-Wan sighed. "I will be waiting for you in the canteen."

After Obi-Wan was gone, Garrod turned to Anakin and whispered so others wouldn't hear.

"Anakin, please remember what I'm going to tell you today. If one day death is imminent and you don't have any other alternative, use this Holocron and try to learn it's content as fast you can if this day never comes..." Garrod paused to count how many years until the events that will truly start him on the dark side. "Only open it 8 years from now, maybe you won't remember the specific date but let me tell you something, the day you need to open this is the day I'll leave the Jedi order."

Startled Anakin was about to say something, but Garrod literally disappeared as if he was never there, only his last words resounded. "Take care Anakin, and don't trust anyone blindly..."

Anakin simply stood there without knowing what to do, he looked at the Holocron without knowing where to store it until the date Garrod spoke about, however, he didn't have to worry. The Holocron transformed into a white ring with some extremely detailed patterns in one of his fingers, sighing he went to the canteen where Obi-Wan was waiting for him.

...

Clan's dormitory.

Garrod entered the dormitory and looking around found his two friends that were taking their belongings since they now had to leave this dormitory.

"Hameic, Esob'seci, can I talk to you, it's fast I promise, I still have to see my master."

They nodded and went to see what Garrod wanted.

He gave each one of them a Holocron and said. "Keep this a secret, I want you to open this Holocron 8 years from now, on the same day I leave the Jedi order."

They looked at each other, Hameic was about to ask something when Garrod interrupted him. "Better not ask questions, for now, in the future everything will be clear."

Having said that he left them alone.

After walking for some time he arrived at the starport where all the starships were stationed, arriving there he saw her master talking to a blue and gold Android that made him remember of C-3PO.

Seeing her padawan approaching, Shaak Ti smiled and said.

"So my young padawan, are you ready for our first mission?"

It could have been Garrod's lack of understanding of her, but he could swear she had a motherly aura around her.

"Yes master, I'm ready to go. This droid is?"

"Ah, yes I forgot to introduce you," she introduced them at the same time. "E-3PO, this is Garrod, and Garrod this is E-3PO. He is a protocol droid that will assist us in various missions. There is also another droid, R2-D3 but he is inside the starship, let's go. I'll show you the ship."

She then proceeded to walk to one of the closest light freighters, it was a customized starship of the Hawk series, based on his knowledge on ships, just from the surface, he could say that this one had much better defenses than the common ships of the same series, while also having much better weapons and engine. All in all, it was the perfect starship for those who want good and comfortable transport while also having good firepower, if he had to guess he would say that this beauty cost more than 200 thousand credits.

She stopped in front of it and said. "This is a limited edition HWK-310, there are only three of them, and mine is personalized, to beat this beauty they would need extremely heavy firepower otherwise we will be able to go anywhere we want in the Galaxy."

"Wow, this is really amazing master! How much did it cost?"

"300 thousand credits." She said a little dejectedly. "Had to save for some time in order to buy this, anyway, let's go inside."