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Visions of Hope

By: Flame

E-mail: Vileplume3000@hotmail.com

AIM: KingRyken

Summary: This story is an adventure that Anakin gets caught in, along with his Master Obi-Wan that takes place in the ten years that remained a mystery to all. It has its adventurous and angsty moments. R/R (Incomplete) This WILL be a long one!

Authors Notes: I know some things aren't exactly as the movie is and everything, but your gonna have to trust me when I say that nothing major is going to be changed!
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Chapter 1
Mother

Naboo was filled with the abundance of neon lights and late drivers, keeping the weak sleepers restlessly maneuvering in their beds. Loud noises and other distractions were common in the large city of Naboo, as well as many other unpleasantness and deceptions.

But for one boy, he could only wish that the noises would wake him from his stressful slumber. Nightmares filled his dreams. Dreams of the boy's mother suffering and calling for him. Every night he would wake up in tears, yearning for someone to comfort him, but he hid his yearning carefully.

The boys name was Anakin. Anakin was a boy with curly dirty blonde hair and mysterious blue eyes. He was a apprentice Jedi in training. His master was a skilled and famous Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Anakin was in a great hurry to grow up and become a Jedi master. Every Master Jedi that spoke with him assured him that he could be the most powerful Jedi the galaxy has ever seen. But Anakin's only problem was that his emotions were to strong for him to ignore.

Anakin was forbidden to see his mother. It was one of the Jedi laws that ordered Jedi to hold no emotional attachment to anyone or anything. But out of all strangeness, the Jedi encouraged the apprentices to love...

Anakin woke from his nightmares, his face and bare chest drenched with cold sweat and breathing heavily. He rose quickly from his bed and wiped the dripping sweat on his face. All he could say was whom he feared most for... "Mother".

He stood up from his bed and went across the room to stare into the mirror. He saw the fear in his face, the stinging fear that his mother was dying and he wasn't there to save her. He quickly wiped the fear from his head for the Jedi weren't allowed to fear. Sometimes Anakin stated to himself that Jedi weren't allowed to be human. That they weren't allowed to be individual and care for others.

Anakin's room wasn't ver large, but very suitable to what he had to sleep in the past years he had undergone with Obi-Wan. It had a glass wall to the far side of his room where he could view the city. Plants were set everywhere for decoration and lamps were hanging from the ceiling, giving dim light. Obi-Wan was in the room across the hall from Anakin. They were staying in a hotel near the Naboo palace.

Obi-Wan was ordered to take Anakin and search for an assassin that was attacking Jedi Knights and their apprentices. It wasn't any major deal because no Jedi's were hurt yet, but they only wanted to be safe. The only description they had of the assassin was that it was female and carried two guns around with her. She was chalk white and bald except for the ponytail she kept held up in the beck of the very back of her head.

Anakin's door opened and his master walked in. "Nightmares again, my Padawan?" Obi-Wan asked.

"Of course not, Master," Anakin replied, giving his master the best smile he could produce, even though he had nothing to smile about. "I am fine."

"I have been around you to long to except that answer," Obi-Wan said with a laugh. "Was it about your mother again?"

"Yes, Master," Anakin replied turning to face the window, staring at the neon lights.

"It's only something inside of you that is giving you these nightmares, Anakin," Obi-Wan told the youth. "You must destroy the emotion that is giving you this fear that could cost you everything."

"And how would you know what I feel, Master?" Anakin sneered calmly, but effectively. "Have you ever had someone so dear to you that you would lose everything just to see them?"

"No, but if you would follow the Code of the Jedi you wouldn't have to worry about it, Padawan!"

"I have heard this lesson before, Master," Anakin told him.

Anakin then gave a heavy sigh and surrendered the battle he just started with Obi-Wan. "I apologize to you, Master. I agree that I am only bringing this upon myself..."

"Good, Anakin. Now go wash up and we will go searching for this assassin." At that, Obi-Wan left Anakin's room and entered his own.

Anakin nodded to himself and walked to one of the two doors in his room. He walked in and removed the little clothing he bore under his torso and poured himself a warm bath to calm his nerves. He needed to forget his mother....

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TADAHH! How was it? Don't fear to Review! Cuz fear just leads to the Dark Side! ;o)
I'll just mention that I just "sorta" got into Star Wars. I didn't like the original three that came out, but I like these. But I'm avoiding the title of "Star Wars Nerd", so don't expect lots of Yoda talk =o)