Shooting Star: The Journal of Luke Skywalker

A Star Wars Fan Fiction

Summery: Get ready for excitement and adventure! The Legend of Myrtha? The Sorceress of the Dead? Anakin's mother? Padme? Young Obi-Wan? The whole Jedi Council? Luke and Han as Master Pranksters? The Rebel Alliance, Captian Piett and the whole Jedi Order working together!?!?!?! This is something you gotta read!

Chapter One

Journal,

My name is Luke Skywalker. I'm eighteen years old, I live on Tatooine, and I want like heck to get off this sorry excuse for a planet!

Now that you know everything you need to know about me, I'll talk about the other things.

I think I'll call you Shooting Star. That's what me and my friend, Biggs called ourselves before he left.

Biggs went to the academy. I wanted to go too, but as usual, Uncle Owen said that I couldn't and that I was needed here on the farm. I want so much to get off this dust ball, and become a pilot!

I'm a fairly good pilot, I guess. I beat Fixer one time, but he just said that he was going easy on me. He lied. I don't know how I knew, I just had this feeling that he was lying.

Uncle Owen hates it when I get this feeling, so I never tell him when I get it anymore. He once told me that my father was a navigator on a spice freighter. I got one of those feelings again that he wasn't being entirely truthful. But when I tried to get him to say anything else, he's like, 'shut up, Luke. It doesn't really matter since you father's dead!'

That really made me mad. Yes, I know my father is dead. But I hate it when he keeps reminding me! Aunt Beru is nicer though. She told him to stop it. (It's not like it really helps, but I appreciate the effort.)

I have to get up and have breakfast now.

Luke

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Shooting Star,

We just bought some new droids. I think they're called R2-D2 and C-3P0. I should be cleaning them right now, but I want to take a little brake. (Again.)

When we have dinner tonight, I'm going to ask Uncle Owen if I can transmit my application to the academy this year. I don't think he'll let me though.

Oh, by the way, I saw Biggs today! He was at Tochie Station when I went there earlier today! And you won't believe what he told me, he's going to try to join the Rebellion! I told him that he was crazy, but he said that the war is spreading, and he wants to be on the side that he believes in. Maybe he has a point.

I better go clean those two droids before I get into trouble.

Luke

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Shooting Star,

Oh my gosh, so much has happened since I talked to you! I'll start at the beginning.

First, I started cleaning the droids. Then, the astro droid starts playing the last bit of a message with a beautiful girl in it. And when I say beautiful, I mean, she's the most delicate, gorgeous thing I have ever seen! I wonder if she's and angel? She may be and angel. She looked like one, in that long, flowing white dress, and her brown hair, and those eyes, ah! I'm going crazy just thinking about her! I wish I could actually see her, but that's impossible.

Anyway, after that, I had dinner. I asked Uncle Owen what I told you I'd ask him. He said no. I also told him about the girl in the message, and the guy she mentioned in it, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Of course I thought that she might have been referring to Ben Kenobi, the crazy wizard. But Uncle Owen said that he was dead. Oh well, it was worth a shot.

After that, I went to finish cleaning the droids, and guess what? That blasted R2 unit ran away! Are you wondering how it could escape? Well this is how; when it was playing the message, it said that it may be able to play the entire message if I took off it's restraining bolt. So I took it off and forgot to put it back on!

I can't look for R2 tonight. It's too dangerous. So I'm going out early tomorrow and I'll try to find it then. It can't get to far.

I better turn the lights off before Uncle Owen finds out that I'm still awake.

Luke

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Shooting Star,

You won't believe this! I'm going to Alderaan! And here's another thing that you won't believe, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru are dead! They were killed by storm troopers. I hate the empire! Oh, I forgot to tell you how all this happened.

Well, I went out early like I told you, to look for R2. But right when I found him, me and the droids were attacked by sand people. I would have been killed if it hadn't been for Old Ben. He came and saved me. We got the droids and went to his house.

Artoo showed him the message, because it turned out that Old Ben really is Obi-Wan Kenobi. I knew it!

So, the pretty girl turned out to be the princess of Alderaan. Now I know that I don't have a chance with her.

She was captured by the empire, and she wants Old Ben to take the droids to Alderaan, and that's why we're going. I wasn't going to go at first, (I know, I sound like an idiot, turning down a trip to Alderaan!) But then, I found out that my aunt and uncle had been murdered, so I decided to come.

Old Ben says that my father was a Jedi.

A Jedi! My father was a Jedi! I knew that my father was more than a navigator! Old Ben gave me my father's lightsaber. I actually have something that belonged to my father!

Ben is taking a turn at piloting the speeder. I got tired.

We are going to Mos Eisley to hire a pilot to take us to Alderaan.

Ops! It's my turn to pilot.

Luke

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Author's Note: Please review and let me know if this story is any good. I know, it doesn't sound like much, but the plot will change during ESB when Vader gets a hold of Luke's journal! But I promise that I won't finish it if you tell me it's no good, or if I don't get any reviews!