TRUE DARK.

When Anakin was accepted into the Jedi Order, Palpatine abducted him, refusing to allow him to be trained as a Jedi. Raised in darkness, Anakin resists Palpatine's attempts to sway him to the Dark Side at all costs... Ten years later, he escapes. But will the Jedi heed his warning about Palpatine's true nature? Or will they too lock him away forever?

PROLOGUE.

He couldn't allow it, could not let the Jedi train the boy in their ways. Which was why he had taken him. No one would know where to look for him, and no one would ever think to look for him in The Temple of Exar Kun, on Yavin 4.

Here, Anakin Skywalker would stay. Until he embraced the Dark Side of the Force. Only then would he be released from the tiny, pitch black cell. Only then would he be free.

He had set up security cameras so the he could watch the boy. Palpatine smiled as he saw Anakin stirring, he had knocked him out with a short burst of Force Lightning, only now was the nine year old regaining consciousness.

Now his torment would begin.

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Anakin groaned, sitting up, he hissed in pain. Opening his eyes, he froze. Darkness surrounded him. Thick, impenetrable darkness. Shaking fearfully he stood, he walked forward, with his arms held out in front of him...

He only walked a few steps before his hands met hard, cold stone; a wall. It took him less than ten seconds to walk around the cell, following the wall. There was no way out. "Help!" He pounded on the wall, sobbing with fear. "Help me!"

"No one will ever help you." The voice came from all around the cell, echoing off the walls. "This is where you will stay, until you join me.

Anakin's frantic pounding stilled, "please..." His voice had dropped to a low whisper in the presence of that evil voice, "... let me out of here."

"Not until you have turned to the dark side," the evil voice offered no comfort as Anakin sobbed in terror, "until you join me and become a Sith, you will never leave this place."

x

Palpatine watched as Anakin began pounding on the door again, he smiled at the boy's fear. Soon that would turn to anger, then he would be his.

"Let me out!"

"No," his reply was blunt. "I am afraid I have to leave now," he couldn't allow anyone to notice his disappearance_

"No!" Anakin cried, sobbing, "don't leave me here!"

Palpatine smiled evilly, "I will return in a week." He couldn't come too often, and after a week in darkness, the boy would do anything to get out. No, this would not take long. Soon Anakin would join him. Soon, he would be his apprentice. And with 'The Chosen One' on his side, the Jedi would be destroyed.