The Council speaks

It was hard for Belda to hide her feelings from the council. She was feeling a bit nervous.

"Nervous you feel?" Yoda asked.

Belda nodded. Then asked. "Am I in trouble again?"

Obi-Wan looked at Belda in surprise. Ce Ce raised an eyebrow as she waited for the council to reply.

"In trouble you are not." Yoda said with a sweet smile on his face.

“Youngling Belda,” Master Windu slowly started to say then looked at Ce Ce then Belda before asking “What makes you think your in trouble this time?”

"Because the only times we are called into the Council chambers is when we have done something to trouble the Force" Belda said softly.

"Trouble the force?" Master Luminara lightly said "Don't you mean when one has caused a disturbance in the force?" she asked Belda.

Belda nodded and looked back at Ce Ce Denowai. She began to tremble slightly.

Ce Ce saw that Belda was trembling before she turned her eyes to Master Yoda before say "If it would please the council, I'd like to talk to Belda alone before we go on." Ce Ce saw Master Yoda nod before she said "Thank you Masters." Then turning to Belda "Come with me, Belda."

Belda agree's to go with CeCe Denowai. Belda follows CeCe out of the main Chamber room into a more priviate room.

Ce Ce turned and looked at Belda "What has you so scared in there?" she lightly asked as she waited for answer.

The other night two Sith Females came into the Temple... and well Master Kenobi and Master Skywalker came in to stop them from taking me..." Belda said in a scared frightened voice.

"Are you alright?" Ce Ce worriedly asked.

"They came for me. They wanted me to follow them. If it hadent been for Master Kenobi or Master Skywalker, I probibly would have been taken?" Belda said with a wide eye'd expression. "I'm ok now though."

"Belda is there something your not telling me?" Ce Ce quietly asked.

Belda began to cry. "I think Master Kenobi and Master Skywalker weren't all to impressed with me."

"They are both part of the council but I'm sure they don't mean to make you feel less inportant." Ce Ce said as she waited for Belda to go on.

Belda covers her face in her little hands. Tears fall uncontrolabibly from her deep blue eyes.

"You have a great role to play in the order as does everyone else." Ce Ce lightly stated. "Please Belda there's no need for tears." Ce Ce said as she tried to calm Belda down.

Belda wipes her eyes with her sleaves. "I was for certian Master Kenobi was upset with me. I nearly began to accept the lies I was hearing from them. They kept telling me that the Jedi have been lieing to me..."

Belda knew Master CeCe Denowai was right. "Yes, Ma'am"

"You would make a Master very happy." Ce Ce said as she looked deeply into Belda's eyes.

"A Master, but I don't...." looked sad becuase she knew the truth she had no Master.

"I know you do not have a Master Belda." Ce Ce quietly said.

"I would like one, oneday. I know if I dont get one soon I'll be sent to the Jedi Corps. Thats where the send all the rejected padawans." Belda responded.

Ce Ce looked at Belda hard before saying "And just where did you hear that from?"

"I heard it from another one of my friends." Belda admitted.

"The Jedi Corps are just a place that padawans are placed without master but they still get training as a Jedi." Ce Ce lightly stated then added. "Besides I was trained by the Jedi Corps."

"You were?" Belda inquired. She did not want to be nosey because that was highly frounded upon.

"Yes, I was trained at the corps." Ce Ce lightly stated as she waited for Belda to go on.

"Oh." Was all Belda could say about the subject.

"Yes," Was all Ce Ce would say about the subject.

Belda smiled there was something she was beginning to like about Master CeCe Denowai.

Ce Ce smiled then said "There are other matters that we need to talk about."

"Yes? I am a good listener. so I have been told..." Belda said her deep blue eyes starting to twinkle.

Ce Ce smiled then placing her hand on Belda shoulder said "Many of the group Masters have said same. And so has a few even said that they would consider taking you as a padawan." Ce calmly said as she waited for Belda to respond.

"Really?, Take me as their Padawan?" Belda was taken a back at what Master CeCe was saying. Was this why she was being called into the Council Chambers? Was this the Day she would become a Padawan to a Master? Belda thought...

"Yes but not everyone can be a Master to one padawan, it's unheard of." Ce Ce lightly stated.

Belda wondered if Master CeCe had read her thoughts. "Unheard of?" Belda questioned because she truely didnt understand.

"Always two, no more no less." Ce Ce said then lightly added "But that only true when your not in the corps. Which you my young friend will not have to worry about."

Belda breathed a sigh of relief. She knew she was going to get a Master. "Master CeCe Denowai? I must know why I was asked to stay in the Council Chambers?"

Ce Ce smiled as she lightly stated "The council has agreed to allow me take on a padawan." She then stopped and smiled.

Belda did all she could do to keep herself from fainting. Her little hand went for the chair right next to her. She braced the back of the chair for balance and support. "Me, Take me? Oh I dont know what to say..."

"Calm yourself Belda," Ce Ce lightly said, then asked "You do want a Master correct?"

"Yes, Master CeCe, I do want a Master." Tears of joy filled her heart. She had never been so happy in all of her life.

Ce Ce nodded as she walked over, and knelt before Belda. "Listen to me closely Belda. I wish to be your Master but for us to be paired together we must go before the council to do this correctly. That is why you were asked to stay, and so you could choice if you did or didn't not want a me as a master." Ce Ce said lightly as she waited for Belda answer.

Belda nodded in aggreement. "Yes I want you as my Master, Master CeCe Denowai."

"Then we should do what is right then." Belda looked at the door and began to walk towards it.

"Well then," Ce Ce started to say when Master Yoda came in unannounced.

"Yes your right we should." Ce Ce said as she followed Belda to the door.

Belda looked at Master Yoda and wondered what he was going to say? "Hello there Master Yoda" She bowed politely.

"Hello Padawan Belda. Late am I?" Master Yoda asked Ce Ce.

Belda walked past Master Yoda and back into the Council Chambers where she been only several minutes ago. This time she was no longer nervous but excited.

Belda watched as Master Yoda went back to his chair. "Master CeCe, Begin you may."

TBC