I DO NOT OWN STARWARS IT IS PROPERTY OF LUCAS FILM AND DISNEY, I ALSO DO NOT OWN THE SONG LOVE IS BLINDNESS IT IS PROPERTY OF U2. I RECOMMEND LISTENING TO THE JACK WHITE VERSION.

Dark Padmé and Suit less Vader/ Anakin

They are both 24

They did not meet until recently.


Parry, block, parry, slash, block, block, parry. This continued for a short time in the Jedi temple training room between Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker and Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. With the duel coming to a close Anakin acted quickly.

He whirled, spun and slashed with his blade, two-handed strikes that were faster than most could follow, Obi-Wan blocked every single blow became a wall, a wall of defense that would not yield. Anakin stretched out his hand. Obi-Wan stared in surprise as Anakin used the Force to pry open his hand, forcing him to drop his lightsaber. Anakin called it to his hand and he deactivated it.

"Another fine duel master" Anakin said as he handed Obi-Wan his lightsaber.

Obi-Wan smiled and responded "Yes it was."

The two had recently have returned from the Outer Rim Sieges braving the many battles of the clone wars.

The pair had been fighting since the first Battle of Geonosis. It is turning out to be one of the most devastating wars the galaxy has scene in nearly a thousand years.

Over the past five years the Jedi Order has lost nearly a third of their Masters, Knights and Padawan are. The retention for younglings has come to halt with the many Jedi needed around the galaxy.

The only solace this pair has seemed to have been being called to rescue the Chancellor from Darth Tyranus. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were ordered to Coruscant from the ruined world of Tythe.

The pair eventually found Palpatine, bound to a chair in the General's Grievous's quarters. On his flagship, Invisible Hand. Before they could rescue him, however, Tyranus appeared and the three of them dueled.

Obi-Wan was rendered unconscious while battling Tyranus. Anakin continued to fight.

When Anakin sliced off the Sith Lord's hands and had him down on his knees with both Tyranus' lightsaber and his own crossed at his neck, Palpatine was ecstatic at this display. So he broke his silence, and encouraged the young Jedi to kill Tyranus.

Anakin argued that he should not murder a defenseless prisoner in cold blood….it was not the Jedi way.

Palpatine continued to goad Anakin to finish Tyranus off, telling him that the galaxy was not safe if he was alive.

Anakin hearing this his felt hate swelling... with the grip on his right mechanical arm.

But also felt conflicting thoughts. About his teachings and principles, he dedicated himself too.

Palpatine was undeterred. He continued to push Anakin to give in to his hate.

His power.

Anakin feeling that dark power building up inside of him...finally gave into his hatred.

The young Jedi sliced off the Tyranus' head, and his body fell lifelessly to the floor.

The victory was almost short lived, because the Invisible Hand had sunk into the atmosphere of Coruscant. Only Anakin's quick and improvised piloting skills saved the doomed vessel with Palpatine.

After Obi-Wan and Anakin successfully saved the Chancellor the Jedi council had ordered the both of them to Coruscant to await their next orders.

A beep from Obi-Wan's Comlink broke the silence between the two.

"Your presence is requested in chambers immediately Master Kenobi" Said the hologram of Mace Windu

"Yes Master Windu" Obi-Wan replied as he ended the call "Duty calls Anakin"

Anakin flashed a smile to his master as Obi-Wan left the training room, concealing his disappointment that his master was consulting with the order without him.

Anakin knew he was being petty, an emotion unbecoming of Jedi but he would have thought at least after his latest success he would in the position be considered for the rank of Master.

Granted 24 years old could be young for a Master but Anakin has proven time and again he is a capable man for diplomacy. His record on the battle field has been more than exemplarily- especially the successful rescue of the Chancellor.

His temper has been quelled for the most part-a few mishaps they did not have to know about. The more he thought about though he remembers his Jedi teachings and resided his fate to the will of the force.

The young Jedi Knight gathered his thoughts and made his way over to the Room of Thousand Fountains to mediate. It was not something he would normally do but it feels like the first time in a very long time he had some peace with his thoughts.

Anakin who has been exposed to many hardships for his young age. Born into slavery and with the force on the harsh dessert planet Tatooine. While Shmi Skywalker had been great mother for their circumstances of slave life, it was still something that had harden part of the soul. That no amount of Jedi training could have help him. The meditation, fighting, or just peace of the Jedi could not get part back.

He was seven when Master Qui-Gon Jinn had discovered him along with his recently Knighted Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi. They stumbled upon him at Watto shop looking for some parts for their ship on transport back to Coruscant.

Anakin had raced in the podrace that following day to win his freedom and enough credits to fix their ship. Qui-Gon had also given Shmi her freedom as well.

All though it broke the young boy's heart, to leave his mother Anakin still continued on the journey to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to pursue his dream to become a Jedi master. He arrived to the Galactic Republic capital with a sight he would never forget.

He was overwhelmed at the sight of the Jedi temple and gained control of his fear as he went up to meet the council as they decided his fate.

When the three arrived at the council chambers Council began to question him almost immediately. Testing his memory, knowledge and ability with the force.

Mace Windu then began to test Skywalker's abilities by asking him to determine what images were appearing on a screen that the Jedi was holding but that the boy could not see. The blonde force user found his mind filled with images of what appeared on the screen, and he was able to name them all with perfect accuracy.

However, when Windu and Master Yoda began to question him about his feelings and his mother, he asked how that was relevant. Yoda explained that fear was the starting point on the path of the dark side. Staying silent on the subject, the he put aside his fear and continued the examination.

The three of them were called before the Council. The Jedi Masters acknowledged Anakin's great power, but refused to train him on account of his age—causing Jinn to declare that he takes the boy on his own apprentice.

This caused some friction on Obi-Wan's part on losing his master so soon after being Knighted. It was petty even for Obi-Wan but it over the course of the first years into Anakin's training the tension had dissipated and Obi-Wan had become a sort of big bother to Anakin.

Anakin despite him missing the first few years of training had grown into exceptional warrior. His skill with the lightsaber has developed unprecedented rate with his preferred Djem So stance, even excelling at his master's stance Ataru. His force wielding skills that was developing at an amazing rate. He even constructed his lightsaber at a young age.

His diplomacy and meditation skills is where he needed some work. But that is where Obi-Wan had become mentor, a friend and bother to Anakin.

Anakin looked to Qui-Gon and saw him as a father figure more than ever.

This bond had been put to the test when Anakin confided in Qui-Gon about nightmares he was having about his mother dying on Tatooine. What surprised him was his nonchalant attitude toward the manner. He got the same response when he went in front of the Jedi council. "Shed your attachment…. release your fear into the force" was what the answer he kept getting.

It was not the best timing either because his master and Obi-Wan had been called to assist Queen Amidala with The Trade Federation crisis.

Skywalker was still troubled by dreams of his mother in suffering.

So being put off by his maters need to keep him at the temple, prompted him to leave Coruscant to for Tatooine.

On Tatooine, he located Watto, who revealed that she had left to be with a moisture farmer named Cliegg Lars.

Anakin then visited the Lars farm only to discover that Shmi had been abducted by Tusken Raiders about a month before his arrival, and they feared she was dead.

Determined to save her at all costs, Skywalker took the swoop bike from his stepbrother, Owen Lars, and went looking for his mother. Though he managed to find her in a Tusken camp. She was so badly beaten by the raiders she was able to say that she loved and then died in his arms.

Midst the grief Anakin was suffering a whole new power gripped him simultaneously.

The Jedi Padawan allowed his anger to consume him. Enraged, he slaughtered the entire village of Tusken Raiders—men, women, and children.

Anakin in that moment felt the power that his rage, his passion and unlashed on those creatures.

Part of him, the harden part of his soul felt in control and powerful for the first time in his life.

That day he vowed would become so powerful in the Force to stop the people he loved from dying.

The loss of Qui-Gon Jinn had been hard on Anakin too. After the Trade Federation crisis Anakin received the news of his death. It was only a short time after his mother's death.

Qui-Gon Jinn had been to be the father he lacked. The person who had put him on the path of his destiny.

"Grief is a natural part of life." Obi-Wan murmured, as though recalling a lesson. "But do not let it take over. Celebrate his joining with the Force, for he is now at utter peace."

Anakin sighed.

"There is no death; there is the Force."

That lesson stayed with him as Obi-Wan became his Master to finish his training into his Knighthood. Where Anakin was pushed into a never ending raging war.

Now the Jedi are more fragile than ever.

Anakin was drifting more and more from his once close confidant Obi-Wan, the rest of his Jedi companions and the council.

Though nor Anakin or the Jedi realize it.

Once the passing of Qui-Gon Jinn Anakin was trained by newly Mastered Obi-Wan Kenobi. His training in diplomacy had introduced Anakin to the new appointed Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

The Chancellor took an instant liking to the fourteen-year-old and became another father figure in Anakin's life. But Anakin found him enjoying the Chancellors visits more as the years started to pass.

The galaxy will come to see how this was only the beginning of what would lead to Anakin's fall to dark side and the dawn of the new Empire.


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