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I have the next several chapters to The Scroll II ready to go, but I am going to finish this story first. There is only one more chapter after this one. Personal I haven't gotten as much work done, I want to, but with school I'm either busy or if I have time, then I'm too tired.

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Chapter Two

Obi-Wan

"Vill barely moved a muscle," Mace said as he ended his tale.

Obi-Wan stared at Mace in disbelief. That was all he could do after Mace helped him into one of the chairs of the Council Chambers. Stare and sit, and nearly collapse somewhere in the middle of Mace's tale.

What was to come next?

The previous days… how long had it been since he killed the cyborg, Grievous? Three days? A week at most, maybe? Returning home to Coruscant after hearing the Chancellor was dead, it was soon revealed to Obi-Wan that the leader of the Republic was also the Sith Lord. And Anakin had admitted everything- including his marriage.

Yes, these last several days had been full of revelations. And Obi-Wan always hated surprises.

That Obi-Wan killed the Commander of the Droid Army, General Grievous, wasn't a shock to his troops or to his fellow Jedi. Apparently everyone but Obi-Wan knew he could do it.

Hours after the General's death, during whatever was left of the Battle of Utapau, Obi-Wan received a message. The Jedi beacon from the Jedi Temple. The message stated: Chancellor Palpatine is dead. And to return to Coruscant as quickly as possible. Obi-Wan did so, not as a Jedi, but as a friend. Knowing how such a thing would affect Anakin.

Obi-Wan returned home less than a day after slaying Grievous. He knew Anakin would be heartbroken. He and the Chancellor had been very close. Maybe too close. But the friendship was dear to Anakin, so Obi-Wan never stood in the way of it. Now he wished more than…anything right now that he had. He wished he had fought against Anakin's friendship with the Chancellor. Fought harder against putting Anakin in the situation he had been put in as the Chancellor's representative.

Obi-Wan was informed as soon as he stepped foot in the Jedi Council Chamber that Anakin killed Palpatine. That Palpatine was the Sith Lord, the one they had been looking for.

Anakin also confessed he was more than friends with Senator Amidala, but that was hardly a surprise to Obi-Wan. The Council agreed to make a decision on Anakin's future as a Jedi another time. Though a few disagreed, it could wait. Others seemed conflicted about what to do with Anakin. To Obi-Wan's surprise and Anakin's disbelief, one of them was Mace.

Now, no decisions had been raised or discussed, but Obi-Wan could see the Council making an exception for Anakin. They had done the very same thing for fellow Council member Ki-Adi-Mundi. But Anakin had broken several rules throughout the years, and Obi-Wan knew he couldn't protect his friend this time. Anakin could always join the Altisian Jedi, a splinter faction of the Jedi Order headed by Master Djinn Altis. They held several percepts frowned upon by the traditional Jedi Order, including the taking of multiple Padawans by one master and the allowing of families. However, Obi-Wan also knew the Council would want to take the unborn younglings of his friends. That the offspring would with no doubt be strong with the Force, but Obi-Wan knew Anakin would never allow that to happen. And Obi-Wan worried such a subject would easily get out of hand.

Yes… There were even longer days ahead than the present days.

The details being revealed of the Palpatine's double life, and the hand‑ both sides of him- had in the Clone Wars. Both out in open and behind the scenes.

Obi-Wan could only imagine how the Galactic community would handle that one. Even he still had a difficult time swallowing the newly discovered information as well.

The voting of a new Chancellor. One that was not corrupt as many in the Senate were.

Hopefully the capture of the Separatists. Then their incarcerations. Then the trials, but the courts were corrupted too. Viceroy Gunray had already escaped sentencing several times. It was very likely it would happen again.

And now this new information‑the truth of the Clone Wars…

Obi-Wan wasn't certain he could handle any more.

Neither could Mace. He continued to rub his swollen knuckles.

"A dark time it is," said a voice at the doorway of the room.

Yoda.

End of Chapter Two