The Yuuzhan Vong surrounded him, and more kept coming every time, but he felt light, light and graceful

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Bender of the Force

Prologue

The Yuuzhan Vong surrounded him, and more kept coming every time, but he felt light, light and graceful. The Amphistaffs of his attackers barely scratched him, but he felt no pain, and every time he was hit he felt more and more what at first wasn't there, and he could also feel much more than he was once able to.

He felt his brother as he pursued the dreaded beast that had been hunting him and his fellow Jedi to extinction. He felt his sister as she ran to him and watched as he was assaulted by yet more enemies, and at her side he felt the person that he felt the most for. She was watching as well and he could feel her pain, and was his only regret yet he felt right, everything felt right to him.

He stretched his new found senses as far as he could and felt his parents as they fought for their lives, their sadness and their pain at sending their children on this seemingly suicidal mission. He felt his uncle as he too struggled against the darkness that became clearer and clearer every time he killed his enemies, and at the same time moved through time.

He saw his mother as she watched her planet be destroyed in front of her very eyes. He saw master Yoda as he fought against the Emperor and felt as the Jedi where being killed slowly all over the galaxy. He saw a young Anakin as he met a robed man, who befriended him and offered to save him. He saw the history of the whole galaxy, all that was and all that would be, and he saw much much more, places that he could not describe, terrible pain in some of them, great loss in others, hope in many and struggle in all.

The more he fought the clearer they all got, all of them came to him, but he was confused or even overwhelmed it was all natural all was as it was meant to be and as he finally understood what he was really meant for all of it became darkness, it threatened to engulf him, threatened to devour him, but just as it seemed to win he fought back, he saw a vision for a few seconds, a vision of great tragedy and great pain, but also of great hope and a choice for the future, and he followed his vision and left the darkness, and fell for what felt like an eternity.

He fell until he hit ground on a strange place. For a few seconds Anakin Solo saw a great plain, but just as fast as he had seen the light Anakin fell once again into darkness.

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In the distance Iroh sees a light for a brief moment and begins to wonder what it means even as he walks with his nephew. "Did you see the light over the mountain Zuko?" asks Iroh catching the attention of the shamed prince.

For a brief moment Zuko does not respond, being too absorbed in his own thoughts to realize that his uncle is speaking to him.

Iroh once more grumbles as to why his nephew cannot let go of his past and embrace his future. But he is saved the trouble of thinking it over when Zuko answers.

"Sorry Uncle, you where saying?" says Zuko in a calmed tone of voice, a more and more common trait on him in as the day go by.

"I asked if you had seen the light over by the mountains?" asked Iroh once again wondering what the prince was thinking to be so calmed, when normally he would be much more confrontational.

For a moment Zuko looks over at the mountains that Iroh had pointed to and tries to remember. Yet he is unable to remember the event that his Uncle was talking about "Maybe it was just someone setting up a fire Uncle, no reason for us to worry" says Zuko, with a condescending tone as he considers such events beneath him.

"We should investigate though, maybe we will find something good to eat" say Iroh, and water begins to drool from his mouth as he wonders what he may find.

Annoyed Zuko lashes out at his Uncle. "All you think about is food, nothing else. Have you seen how we are, we have nothing, food is not going to magically materialize out of thin air, much less from a beam of light"

Iroh looks at Zuko with tears in his eyes, and Zuko begins to mumble with irritation "Fine!, we'll check it out, but you will see that we won't find anything" finished Zuko and irately began to walk towards the place Iroh had mentioned.

After several minutes of walking and climbing they got to the plateau, where Iroh had seen the light, and what they saw astonished them. There on the plateau a young man in a dark cloak lay dormant, with hundreds of small cuts and a weird metal tube in his hand.

TBC