The Tickles

Disclaimer: The original Star Wars char. sadly aren't mine, but the others are.

Chapter 1

The Beginning

It all started on a small planet called Waterlace; in a small underwater town a little boy was born to the Tickle family.

"I love you, Ivey," stated a tall man with light blue skin, dark blue short hair, silver eyes, and webbed fingers and toes; which was common for his people, "and our son, Typhoon, is a handsome young one."

"I love you too, Squid," said Ivey, a woman with light blue skin, dark blue long hiar, and purple eyes as she looked down at their new born with a small smile. She leaned down and kissed her son before she fell asleep with the babe resting on her chest.

-4 years later-

Typhoon; now four years of age, was playing in the backyard. He looked up because he heard a loud splash from above. There he saw a man and a woman who looked like they were Waterlace people, but little Typhoon had no clue as to who they were. Scared he stood up from playing in the sand and ran to his mother crying out her name, "Toema, Toema! (mother, mother)."

Hearing the fear in her son's voice, Ivey ran out of the house and caught her son before he ran into something, "Typhoon, baby, what's wrong?"

In answer he pointed up at the two strangers heading straight for them. Ivey followed her son's small wevved finger to see the two strangers; she rushed to the door with her son to go and get her husband.

"Squid!" Ivey called, "It's the Jedi!"

Squid ran out and stood next to his small family. The Jedi landed in front of them. It's been a while since the Jedi decided to visit their small planet. He wondered what could be up this time. The female Jedi stepped forward and gave the family a small bow as she said, "Hello, I'm Jedi Master Linta and this is my aprintice, Padawan Jaylorn." The male Jedi bowed as his master introduced him.

"Toema (mother), they came to take me away," Typhoon said as he tugged on his mother's brown dress sounding so sure, "I don't want to leave."

"Oh, you don't know that for sure, sweety," Ivey said looking down at him.

"Master..."Jaylorn started.

"Yes, I feel it too, Padawan," Linta interupted as she turned to the couple, "what my aprintice and I was talking about is that we feel your son is Force sensitive. Do you mind if we test him?"

"Ummm...it's up to you, Squid," Ivey turned to her husband unsure as to what to do.

"I don't see any harm in doing it," Squid stated.

Ivey nodded and motioned for the Jedi to enter their home. The small family nurvously followed them in.

A couple hours later Typhoon and the Jedi finished with the testing. They walked out of Typhoon's room and over to the worried parents. The Jedi pulled up a seat and sat in front of Squid and Ivey.

"Well?" Squid asked nurvously.

"I'm going to come right out and say it," Linta said, "Typhoon is in fact Force sensitive. Now you two have the difficult desition of..."

Before Linta could continue Ivey inturupted in a whisper, "Take him. Raise him as if he was your own."

Linta and Jaylorn looked shocked seeing the they knew what the decition was and that the parents did not even give themselves time to think. That's when Squid spoke up to explain, "We've seen Jedi come and go from here without the Force sensitive children, but we also saw those children go crazy because of the wrong decition their parents make. We don't want that to happen to our son, so take him. Teach him."

"You are doing the right thing," replied Linta, "we will leave tomarrow. He will have a good life."

Ivey stood up and offered, "You can stay with us...we have extra rooms available."

"Thank you," Linta bowed her head, "we will be honored to stay with you."

Morning came too soon for the Tickles family. Before they knew what was going on Squid and Ivey were on the topside saying goodbye to their only child.

"Bye, Toema (mother); bye, Toepa (father)," Typhoon said as he gave each of his parents a hug before he climbed into the ship.

"Goodbye, sweety," Ivey and Squid replied in unison with tears in their eyes.

Typhoon climbed into the ship and with a final glance at his parents the hatch closed. Typhoon was off to begin his new life at the Jedi Temple.