Ezra heard and felt nothing he didn't hear Kanan, or Zeb, or even Chopper he only focused on the large man in front of him.He had found his target and prepared to strike, but then he felt a large fist collide with his face as the man lashed out at him and Ezra fell "where is the challenge you promised me lasant!!"said the man directing his words towards Zeb, "give me a challenge, give me something worthy of my time" the man then released a long loud laugh. Zeb watched the man beat stormtrooper after stormtrooper as imperial officers watched and talked among each other they placed bets in the favor of the man, that's when Zeb stepped in, he put Ezra up against him he was doing good until he lost his focus and over in the corner of the ring Zeb talked to Ezra "listen Ezra let him boast let him think you're down for good and then give him a good uppercut to the chin, he's big he'll hit the ground hard then raise your hands to show him it's over and if he gets back up head with everything in you towards his chest and he will fall down again, remember Ezra i'm betting on you don't let me down okay boy?" Ezra slowly nodded his head to show he had been listening to at least the important parts as he got back up and headed towards the man limping Zeb palmed his face as he realized that Ezra was hurt he watched as Ezra walked up to the boxer poised and ready, the man simply bent down and laughed, saying "you don't really want to do this do you boy?" Ezra slowly smiled, he had the man right where he wanted him he put weight on the "hurt" leg as he punched the boxer hard underneath the chin causing an instant knockout. Needless to say, Zeb was very happy with the outcome

Skip forward night

Sabine slipped into Ezra's room while he was looking out his window, it was very easy to see new scars had replaced the old ones

"Hey" said Sabine, Ezra quickly turned to face Sabine, then he smiled "hey Sabine" said Ezra "what're you up to?" "not much just trying to find some way to go to sleep tonight without having to use a sleeping draught" replied Sabine. At this point they were face to face Sabine reached up to Ezra's face to feel of his cheek and noticed how he recoiled when she touched, but then settled his face into her hand. That fool!! she thought to herself how couldn't she have noticed before!? his face was swollen, his lip was cracked, and his eye was black! She cursed herself for not noticing earlier she decided to take this problem head-on "Ezra? why are you so hurt?" asked Sabine, Ezra looked at her, he knew he had been caught "the truth is I was boxing earlier with a man much larger than myself, Zeb put me up to it because no matter how many stormtroopers fought this guy nobody succeded, many credits were bet in his favor Zeb bet high on me and I won, so that's the basics of it" Sabine listened through the whole story sitting with Ezra, after a brief moment of thinking she said "so you took all of the punishment he took all of the bets?" "well when you put it that way it sounds real bad like he took advantage of me but he didn't, so let's just go to bed okay Sabine?" "okay" Ezra climbed into his bed followed up by Sabine, which Ezra was not expecting "ummm Sabine I meant..." Ezra stopped speaking when he realized that this time he had met his match. "goodnight bine" "goodnight Ezra"

Zeb wasn't at the outpost that night he was out gambling and drinking, it was a sad thing to see, Chopper saw it all and was disgusted with how Zeb behaved when he had won one bet, he gambled, and when he gambled he was foolish, making large bets and then drinking to forget about it when he lost, eventually he ran out of credits, but not before Chopper could snatch a few in order to put them away for the others to use when they needed them, by the end of the night Zeb was black-out drunk and couldn't make a single rational decision as he slowly trudged towards home with some hard liquor.

Ezra felt better than ever when he woke up in the morning, he woke up before everyone else and was happy to see Sabine beside him. He sat up and continued towards his bathroom to change into his daily routine clothes when he heard a bottle crash on the ground in the room across the hall, which he knew to be Zeb's room. Slowly Ezra walked towards the door and opened it to find a still drunk Zeb lying in the floor with a bottle in hand. He then said "Ezra my boy how about a drink?" Ezra noticed how groggy his voice was and decided to play along, at least for a little while "how's Sabine doing? I bet you guys really hit it off last night?...Am i right?" Ezra was quite confused with what Zeb had said he thought he meant one thing, then he thought again. Ezra decided to forget about what he had said and sit down for a "drink" being smart payed off "sure i'll have a drink with you" Ezra then sat down and took a large glass from the cabinet and held his cup to Zeb, who missed the cup completely and let it all run into the floor. Ezra was happy with this outcome, it meant he wouldn't have to let it all drip down his chin in order to stay sober Ezra then continued to "enjoy" this fine drink that was making a stain on the floor. Zeb started to speak "you know Ezra you might be too young to drink anything, but who cares now your here now, let's enjoy this quality time together as we further discuss your boxing career, kay Ezra?" Ezra slowly nodded "listen up Ezra you could be a great fighter with your natural abilities and all, but we need to talk big money, know what i'm sayin'? we have to get you out there and recognized" Ezra had enough of this already and he knew only one way out "hey Zeb?" Zeb grunted inquisitively "I feel pretty sick after that drink I should go to the bathroom" Ezra then got up and left the room. Sabine was already awake and was sitting on her knees stretching her arms. Ezra took one long stride and grabbed Sabine by the waist and brought her to the floor with him causing her to laugh, Ezra was on top of Sabine at this point, he kissed her on the cheek, then on the lips, Sabine realized what Ezra was doing and kissed back intensely. Sabine then threw one of her arms around Ezra's neck, and the other went around his back, she knew Ezra was about to sit back up and she wrapped her legs around his waist and was brought up with him when he sat up, he kissed her more and more the makeup on Ezra's face from Sabine's lips made him look red and Sabine laughed. Sabine couldn't tell what had made Ezra like this, but she knew he was doing it for her, and so she enjoyed it while it lasted, Chopper enjoyed it too, he stayed silently in the cabinet taking a nice video, which he was going to use later to blackmail them. So he let them have their moment and he had his video he would have his fun yet, they would soon see....

thank you for reading this story i'm sorry to leave it on such a cliff-hanger like this but soon Ezra will meet some influential people there will be battles these stories were just a moment of peace you will see new loves and friendships be born as well as other things that will leave you waiting for more.

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