Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, and George Lucas does.
A/N: I have no idea which members are on the council, so any Jedi's name I do know, I'm making them masters, such as Aayla Secura, Ki-Adi Mundi, and Kit Fisto. If you know who is on the council, please tell me so I can correct it. Thanks! PS- On my last authors note when I said about 80 Jedi were left, I meant 80 percent. Sorry!
CHAP 3
Coruscant
Obi-Wan wearily left the labor room to take the call from Master Windu. Because of the recent events, it was probably important. As he walked through the doorway he thought he saw someone in the corner, slumped against the wall, but chose to ignore it.
He found his hololink on the front desk blinking rapidly, and pressed the button.
The small blue figure of Mace Windu appeared, with a look on concern on his face, something not normal for the composed Jedi Master.
"Master Kenobi, we have just received information on the whereabouts of the Emperor. He has escaped temporarily to a stable fortress in Mos Eisly. Master Yoda has engaged him. Have you located Skywalker?"
Obi-Wan hesitated, but opted to tell the truth.
"I spoke to Senator Amidala, and she refused to tell me where he was."
"What does Senator Amidala have to do with Skywalker?"
Obi-Wan realized he was the only one who knew not only of Anakin and Padmes' children, but of their secret marriage.
"It is a long story, and I don't have the time to explain. I followed her to Anakin, and found him on Mustafar."
"Are you there now?"
"Not quite. I went there and tried to reason with him, but it was hopeless. He has pledged himself to the Emperor. He believes he had good reason to, but he has become dangerous." Obi-Wan hesitated slightly, reliving in his mind what had happened. "I engaged him and gained the high ground. But he escaped, and I…I haven't seen him since."
Master Windu raised a curious eyebrow.
"Anakin Skywalker backed down from a fight? That is highly unusual of him. Well, if you locate him again, contact us before you engage him. We have found Master Aayla Secura and Master Ki-Adi Mundi. We are still searching for many others, and Kit Fisto has been located at the Temple. That is all we have for now, but they wish to help you with young Skywalker. Thought I am very displeased with his actions, I can admit he is the Chosen One, and will be very difficult to defeat by just one Jedi member."
"Yes Master, I understand." He switched of the hololink.
As Obi-Wan turned to face the hall leading to Padme's delivery room, he thought of the other members, and how they had all had taken a disliking to Anakin similar to Master Windu's. But over time his selfless work and determination as a Jedi had won their hearts over. Would the Council so willingly kill one of their most trusted Jedi?
Maybe trusted was the wrong word for Anakin.
He was too impulsive, too rebellious, and too cocky. But he was a good person, and an exceptional Jedi.
And, he was a hero. The Hero with No Fear. That was his nickname to the entire Republic, who saw heard of his Jedi accomplishments on the holocasts in the morning. News reporters had made the team of "Kenobi and Skywalker" the most famous Jedi team since the creation of the Order thousands of years ago. The whole galaxy seemed to be watching the Chosen One and his master, waiting to see what they would do next.
And inside the Temple, Anakin had earned himself quite the name. The Jedi were all supposed to be treated as thought they all had equal strengths and capabilities, but everyone had their own style of fighting. And, they all had different midichlorian counts.
Inside the Temple, gossip spread among padawans, and even masters. Of course everyone knew that Anakin was a different case from the moment he had entered the Temple 13 years ago. He was 9 years old, and the only Jedi to be trained at that age. He wasn't anything like the orderly children who were begin trained with him. Even at their age, they were serious and well-behaved, and took in everything they could. They did nothing but study, meditate, and practice with their training sabers, eagerly awaiting the chance to finally use a true lightsaber once they were at the age.
Obi-Wan remembered with pride how Anakin had taken only 3 months of intense lightsaber training by Master Windu and force/meditation training to catch up to his class of padawans, who had been learning it for 9 years.
After the training, Anakin had been officially given to Obi-Wan to train, and Obi-Wan had gladly cut his scruffy head of hair into a neat padawans braid.
And after that…all hell seemed to break loose.
The class that Anakin was given basic studies in was full of very promising Jedi, quickly budding into powerful beings of the force. Obi-Wan had been worried about how Anakin would be received, about whether or not he would be accepted. Anakin wasn't just accepted, but he had become the most social person in the while group of padawans.
He was the only person who had been on any planet besides Coruscant. He could speak 2 languages. And unlike most beings from Tattooing, he wasn't greedy and selfish. He was a skilled pilot, and had raced in the infamous podraces. And, he had won. He had been a highly skilled mechanic, exceptional for his age. He had not only built his own podracer, but his first lightsaber. Obi-Wan remembered how angry Mace Windu had been when Anakin had built his own lightsaber a year before he was supposed to have even HELD one.
As Anakin got older, his reputation only got worse. He was becoming increasingly more powerful, and proved it very well. He liked to show off on occasion, but was too modest to challenge any other padawans to a duel. But boy, they loved to challenge them. And it was simple. Anakin would walk in, face his opponent, bow, defeat them, and graciously walk away.
Soon, defeating Anakin Skywalker became a right of passage to the padawans.
Along with becoming more powerful, though, he was becoming more and more defiant, especially to Obi-Wan and the Council. Talk of his love for getting into trouble was growing rapidly. He reached a new high when he stile a Jedi fighter and crashed it somewhere on the forest moon of Endor, and had no way of getting back. He was missing for three days, until Aayla Secura stumbled upon the fighter while doing a routine check on the planet.
Obi-Wan chuckled when he remember how the females began to act around Anakin around the age of 16, when he had truly began a handsome Jedi. That wasn't the truly funny part, though. What made Obi-Wan laugh was the fact that Anakin failed to notice it. He practically had half the females at the Temple following around praising him, and he didn't care one bit.
Obi-Wan now realized he was probably to busy thinking of Padme, who he had met about 7 years before that time.
Force sake that I never figured that out. I should've known.
Obi-Wan couldn't help but wonder why Jedi such as Master Yoda and Master Windu had never sensed anything between the two. He had to admit though, they had hid it very well. Anakin never let his guard down in her presence, and she had acted as the impenetrable senator when she was in his.
Master Kenobi realized how long he had been standing by the counter, deep in thought over Anakin as a young Jedi.
Will we ever have that again? No, of course not. Anakin was a sith now and nothing more.
He became ever moody remembering that he had an unfinished mission to attend to, once he was finished with Padme.
I have to go find Anakin.
Obi-Wan's head snapped up, and he turned to face the direction of Padme's delivery room. Whatever figure he had thought he imagined in the corner when he had left the room earlier was real. He had heard the figure move, temporarily waking him from his thoughts.
A dark-cloaked figure stood, and his large height and frame was towering, in a menacing robotic posture. But the size of the man wasn't what disturbed Obi-Wan the most. Neither was the large amount of rage-filled darkness that surrounded the figure, like smoke swirling around someone, choking them to death. No, it wasn't that.
He…or whatever that is…is so…familiar.
Obi-Wan's eyes instantly caught on to the gleam of a lightsaber hilt on the waist of the person. Now Obi-Wan was more than just a little curious. He was suspicious.
How would a Jedi know to find me in a hospital? Or maybe…maybe he's looking for Padme. But what Jedi would want to find Padme? Or a sith…or…
The realization dawned on Obi-Wan's face with a look of horror.
Anakin.
