Laced with darkness chapter 1
(Yes yes I know I have two other stories to finish but I just keep getting good ideas for new ones and just start typing, hope you enjoy the beginning of this one I do not own Star Wars or anything pertaining to it)
It started off as a spark the unconsciously it grew it to a small flame and now it was a fire a raging fire inside of a young padawan, a Jedi padawan who had been touched by the darkside. The padawan fought hard to hide the growing darkness inside of her and strived to serve the light but it was proving to be a difficult task, her nights were plagued with memories of Mortis not the entire time that the padawan has spent there, no instead it was only a fraction of the trip a part she would have rather have forgotten; a part that made her want the power that the darkside offered. This padawan was Ahsoka Tano the Jedi apprentice of the great Anakin Skywalker but she was becoming unfocused and torn as the darkness continued to call to her, it wrapped itself around her in her slumber and she was forced to fight it back when she awoke and through out the day. This is not what she would have expected to happen to her, she did not ask for this nor did she want the darkness that was in her but still it was there. It was like a viper that coiled itself around her core and laid waiting for her to fall asleep before it would reek havoc within her and sink its fangs of darkness into every part of her being, she could feel its power threatening to consume her this very moment but she fought it back, only one other knew of her predicament the only one she trusted with his secret which was her master. Through he tried to help her fight her darkness she could tell her master was also fighting his own demon inside, his own inner darkness and evil. She awoke inside the temple in her room that her and her master shared, she was immersed in the darkside but she quickly reeled it back inside of her before her master could sense it coming from her. The darkside brought a unexplainable hunger for more power and no matter how hard Ahsoka fought her demon back she could feel it changing her slowly.
Ahsoka sat up in bed rubbing her eyes and got up silently hoping that the darkness radiating from her a moment ago had not awoken her master but she was not bless with such luck as her master walked up to her from his room through the common area and into her room. "Snips are you ok?" Anakin asked concerned, Ahsoka looked up as the last bit of yellow faded from her eyes leaving only the crystal color of blue in its place "It happened again didn't it?" Anakin asked though he didn't need a answer as he felt the darkness lingering in his padawan, but she only nodded in response. "It's getting harder master, I can feel it in me it calls to me all the time and I would be lying if I said I didn't want to grab it" Ahsoka replied looking down ashamed. Anakin sent waves of comfort through the force to his young apprentice "Ahsoka no one could have know that what the Son did to you would have a lingering effect but we have to fight through it, you are strong and brave so I have no doubt you can win" Anakin replied embracing his padawan who he saw as a younger beloved sister. Ahsoka sighed and returned the embrace allow the light to wrap around her and comfort her raging mind and help her push back the darkness. When the two broke apart Anakin looked down at her "we have a mission today Snips, the counsel want us to meet them in a hour let's get ready" he said. Ahsoka nodded again and went to the refresher to get ready for the day.
When the two were ready to go they made their up the elevator to the counsel chambers Ahsoka was very quiet and this concerned Anakin as Ahsoka was normally a very cheerful and happy girl but he guessed today the dreams must have gotten to her more than usual. He couldn't help but feel sorry for his apprentice knowing that she was struggling to fight her demon inside while also trying to keep it concealed from the other Jedi. It was also saddening that a girl at such her young age was touched so deeply with the darkside, he to had brushed with the darkside when his mother died roughly the same age but a couple years older. It some strange kind of way he had noticed that this had only strengthened their bond as master and apprentice and not hindered it like he had originally thought when the dreams first began and Ahsoka told him what was going on. It started about a week after they had returned from Mortis and they were back at the Jedi temple doing saber training. It wasn't just that she was dark…she seemed playful almost when she went all dark.
-flashback-
"Come on Snips focus" Anakin said as he swung his saber at his apprentice which was deflected with ease from his padawan. "Widen your stance a little more this will insure proper balance" he continued striking again and this time his apprentice parried and kicked Anakin in the chest which caused him to stumble back. "You should do more fighting than talking Skyguy" Ahsoka replied laughing and lunged at him swinging both sabers to cut across his midsection then out of no where Anakin tripped back over his own footing and fell to the ground. Ahsoka jumped on him quickly knocking his saber away and held a saber to his throat "I win" she said. "You made me trip that's not fair" Anakin said back getting up after Ahsoka got off of him. "Oh falling for me now are you" she purred as she walked past him letting her finger run across his chest and she strolled by. Anakin looked at her for a moment confused but then felt a darkness inside of his apprentice, it was a steady flame that was slowly growing; how had that gotten there he wondered.
-end flashback-
"You are to meet up with three republic cruisers that are currently engaged with the Separatists, they are out numbered and running low on supplies. We must break through the blockade they have set up around the planet so we can aid the civilians down below, once you have broken through you and Ahsoka will lead a ground assault and push the Separatists off of the planet" Mace Windu said. "When do we leave?" Ahsoka asked eagerly, Anakin glanced down over at her, she seemed to have brightened up excited for the up coming battle. "Immediately, the Resolute is being loaded and armed as we speak" Master Plo said. "We will return when the blockade is down and the Separatists are pushed off the planet masters" Anakin replied bowing and turning on his heel leaving the counsel chambers. Ahsoka walked next to her master with a smile now present on her face "ready Snips?" Anakin asked, "yes Skyguy" she said as they headed to the Resolute.
When they arrived on the Resolute and walked aboard the bridge they were greeted by Admiral Wullf Yularen "the ships ready to go sir" he said standing in front of Anakin and Ahsoka "very good, lets take of immediately" Anakin replied, Yularen nodded and relayed the orders and the ship lifted took of into hyperspace, it would take almost five hours to reach its destination so Anakin and Ahsoka had some time to kill. "Master when do you think this war will end?" Ahsoka asked as she followed him through a corridor of the ship, "its hard to say, with Dooku and Grievous still at large I don't know how long this war will last; we can only hope that it will end soon" he replied. "What do you think will happen when this war is over, I mean once the Sith are destroy what will happen?" she asked curiously. "Peace will reign and the Republic can start to heal from the damage the Separatists have caused" he replied. Ahsoka nodded and followed her master through the hallway, they both walked in silence till they reached the hanger; they both looked over their fighters to make sure they were filled up and ready to go for when they arrived.
When the Resolute dropped out of hyperspace it opened fired on the five Separatists ships while its fighters flew out of its hanger "General, one of the republic ships have been heavily damaged" Yularen said from the bridge of the Resolute, "I can see that Admiral, tell the cruiser to pull back while we cover its retreat" Anakin replied as he left the ships hanger in his fighter followed closely by Ashoka and four squads of clone fighters as well as two squads of bombers. "Echo 5 Echo 6 cover the bombers while they strike at the flag ship" Anakin said through his com channel. "Yes General" a clone replied, "ready Snips?" Anakin asked glancing out his window to Ahsoka's red fighter "lets do this" she replied pushing her throttle forward and her fighter surged ahead. Vulture droids banked hard left and met the Jedi head on firing their blasters, Ahsoka barrel rolled out of the way and unleashed her blasters on her fighter the green bolts of energy hit two incoming fighters blowing them to pieces. "That's two" Ahsoka said "hey don't get cocky Snips plus you still in second place" Anakin said as he blasted three droids from the sky and rolled out of the way of the shards of metal.
"A Republic cruiser just dropped of hyperspace in sector four and has engaged" a command droid said. "Yes I sense Skywalker and his pet have arrived" Ventres said staring out the window aboard the flag ship "send the fighters out" he continued. Ventres turned and walked off of the bridge to his ship boarding it and flew toward the battle, she had a surprise for Skywalker and his apprentice when they arrived on the planet but first she would have to get them away from the battle and alone on the planet.
As the battle raged the Republic was slowly pushing back the enemy but not with out heavy losses, several squads have been destroyed and the retreating cruiser had it hyperdrive knocked out so it could escape and was now a sitting duck. "Sir our shields are down and we cant hol-" was all that was said from the crippled ship before it exploded. Ahsoka heard it over the com in her fighter and looked over at the ship as it blew up, her breathing quickened as she thought of all the lives that were just lost. Deep within the girl the flame grew bigger feeding on her anger how could they just destroy a crippled ship, all those lifes lost she thought as she pushed the throttle forward pushing her fighter to the max speed. "They couldn't fight any more and tried to pull away and they just…died" she said as the flame continued to grow, she wanted revenge for all those who just died and the darkside within her was calling to her urging her to use its power to get revenge. Anakin must have felt it through their bond "Ahsoka" he said but she didn't respond, he looked over at her fighter which was headed directly for the enemy flag ship. "Bombers direct your fire at the bridge" she said as she open fired on more droid fighters destroying them with deadly accuracy.
One by one the Separatists ships were destroyed and Anakin let out a long breath, this was almost too easy of a battle he thought. Anakin looked around and from the corner he saw a fighter screeching toward him at max speed, he recognized the fighter immediately it was a Ginivex class starfighter the one used be Asajj Ventress the fan shaped ship open fired on Anakin's fighter. Anakin pushed down on the control stick making his fighter dive deeply, Ventress flew right after him continuing her assault on Anakin's starfighter. He pulled back up and tried to get out of the way of the blaster fire that was coming dangerously close to clipping one of his wings "Ahsoka I could use a little" he said spinning out of the way from another volley of blaster fire.
Ahsoka looked around and saw Anakin's fighter being shot at by another single pilot, she banked hard right and lined her guns up with the fighter that was attacking Anakin. When her ship came in to range one of the blaster bolts from the enemies had struck Anakin's left wing causing his ship to shake and spark leaving a smoke trail where his fighter went behind him. "Snips!" Anakin said loudly as he tried to avoid being shot out of the sky, Ahsoka's heart raced, her only thoughts were saving her master and killing the person who tried to destroy him; she unleashed a volley of blaster fire at the fan shaped ship. How dare someone try to take my master from me, no one is going to hurt him she thought angrily, once again the darkness was crawling its way up to the surface of Ahsoka but she was to concerned about her master's safety than the darkside at the moment. Her anger increased her shoots accuracy as they came closer to hitting its mark, the fan shaped ship spun out of the way but Ahsoka was hot on its tail. Ventress fired one more round at Anakin's fighter striking a critical fuel line which broke and his fuel sprayed behind him. Ahsoka pushed her fighter faster and faster quickly gaining distance on her target while never letting off the trigger; she was seething now as her master had been struck a second time and now she was determined to destroy this fighter. Her bolts from her fighter met their mark as it clipped the side of Ventress's ship causing it to buckle and start to smoke. "Ahsoka I don't have the fuel to make it back to the Resolute, I am going to head down to the planet" Anakin said but again no response was given "Ahsoka?" he said again and looked over as her fighter was racing toward the planet after Ventress. "Blast" he muttered and turned his fighter toward the direction of the other two fighters.
Anakin crashed on the planet only meters away from Ahsoka who was furiously engaged with Ventress, he felt the darkness coming off of his padawan the pure anger and hatred. He hit the release on the hatch to make the canopy pop open but it wasn't responding. He used the force to blast the top off and he jumped out racing toward the two to help Ahsoka. Ahsoka was fighting with her anger and hatred, revenge is what she wanted right now and she planned on getting it No one hurts my master she thought as she slashed viciously at the assassin. Ventress blocked her blows but even she was surprise at the ferocity coming from Skywalker's apprentice "my master will be so pleased when I bring Skywalker's head to him on a silver platter" Ventress taunted. Ahsoka let lose a force induced scream of rage which caused a ripple in the force and her attacks ramped up in speed and power "you wont touch him!" she screamed pounding away at the assassins defensives.
Ventress was forced to defend herself as she was being pushed back stepping back again and again. She saw Anakin approaching and used the force to push him all the way back to his fighter that had just caught aflame. Anakin hit his fighter throwing up a force shield as the fighter exploded. Ahsoka looked back and saw Anakin being thrown a hundred feet away from the battle "Anakin!" she screamed in anger and agony at the thought of her master being harmed she turned toward Ventress who was smiling. "I kill you!" Ahsoka screamed hamming at Ventress with all her rage breaking Ventress's defensives quickly and blasted her back with the force. Anakin looked up and saw Ahsoka cut down Ventress in rage. Ahsoka glared at Ventress with yellow eyes as she had fallen into her hatred and rage "die Sith" she said pulling her sabers out of Ventress's chest. Ahsoka turned and found Anakin she ran up to him to check up on him "I need medic now" Ahsoka said into her mic. "The troops have taken the base we are send a med unit your way stand by" said the other end of the mic.
Back aboard the Resolute Anakin woke up in the med bay, he sat up slowly "General are you alright?" Rex asked, Anakin looked up at him "never better Rex" Anakin said with a dry laugh. "Where's Ahsoka?" Anakin asked, "ah, sir that's the problem. She brought you aboard and went straight to her room and haven't left since" Rex said. Anakin recalled the battle that had happened and remembered the rage coming from his padawan "I need to get to her" Anakin said. Rex helped Anakin up putting his arm around the Jedi and helping him from the bed and to the room where Ahsoka was at.
Ahsoka had locked herself away in the room for over three hours, she was trying to calm herself down but her anger was a raging inferno at the moment, all her emotions were running wild in her head my masters safe that's all the matters. No one will hurt my master she thought. Her eyes burned yellow with hatred against Ventress for hurting her master, the knock on the door drew her attention from her dark thoughts. "Ahsoka?" Anakin said from the other end of the door way. Ahsoka got up and ran to the door opening it, she saw Rex and Anakin "master" she said hugging him. Anakin looked down at her and sensed her anger fade immediately being replaced by relief "hey Snips" he said putting an arm around her "thanks Rex" he said nodding to him. Ahsoka took Anakin's arm and led him inside and helped him sit down in a chair. "I'm glad your ok" Ahsoka said smiling, Anakin looked up at her and saw a slight yellow ring in her eyes "I am glad to" he replied.