This chapter takes place between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 Christmas
It was a normal day in the Temple. Well, at least for a while. In a couple of days a major holiday was to occur and every Jedi was waiting for it to happen. They all liked Christmas but especially Anakin who had an opportunity to spend the evening with Padme all alone.
Anakin was sitting on his bed, waiting for the boring days to pass quickly so that the holiday would arrive soon. But the quite atmosphere in the room was destroyed when Ahsoka flew in the room and upon landing in her place most of the objects were lying on the floor.
"Ahsoka, look what you have done!"
"I am sorry Master, I am just very happy on what is going to happen. I love Christmas. I like hanging out with my friends."
"I see. Snips, just try to be more quite."
"What do you want from me? I am a teenager and I have a lot of hormones raging in me. Plus Christmas will soon happen"
"I know, just please don't do anything you will regret"
The two started cleaning the room; the job took a while to complete but in the end they all were very happy and soon the two Jedi were resting on their beds. Sometime later Obi Wan Kenobi arrived.
"Hello Anakin, I came to inform you that Yoda wants you to be in the Temple's party. Since your heroics, most Jedi will now go see their families. There will be few Jedi in the Temple and Yoda really requested for you to be here."
"But Obi Wan, I promised Padme to be with her on Christmas Eve!"
"Well, I cannot do anything. You can invite her to come in here."
"Ok, although I have a bad feeling about it. Who will be in the Temple?"
"Well, Master Yoda, me, Siri, Mace, hopefully you and Master Ti."
"You can tell Master Yoda that I will be there but I am bringing the girls with me."
Obi Wan left and Anakin looked at Ahsoka.
"So Snips, you would be staying with me this time. However, I allow you to bring one guest."
"Thanks Skyguy, I already know whom I will invite"
The days passed quickly and soon it was the Christmas Eve, five hours before the midnight. Padme already came to Anakin's quarters and the two had a moment alone for awhile, which they both enjoyed. In an hour after Padme came, Ahsoka arrived with Captain Rex.
"O, hey Rex, what are you doing here?"
"Well, General, today I was hanging with my men and your padawan came. She asked me to come to your Jedi Temple to spend Christmas."
"All right. I think we are all set and so we can go to the Council Chambers, where the party will take place."
The four people went to the turbo lift and pressed the highest button. The lift accelerated upwards and ran until it came to a stop at the destination level. The group then went to the Council Chambers and saw that everybody except Yoda was there. And since the number of people in the room was small, they were sitting in the Council members seats, which were moved to the front of the room. There was a Christmas tree in the center of the room.
Yoda arrived soon and everybody saw that he was carrying two bodies with him. If that was not strange enough, the identity of those people surprised the group. Right in front of them were Dooku and Ventress.
"Found them in the snow I did. Unconscious they were. A bag they had. Crashed they did. Keep freezing them I could not. Too much snow there is outside and I could not find a taxi for them. Decided I did that we keep those two with us tonight."
Dooku and Ventress awoke in two hours and to group's even bigger surprise, the sith were not aggressive. They acted very friendly and it clearly seemed that they wanted to be friends.
"Greetings, my former apprentice"
Dooku looked at the speaker and saw Master Yoda standing next to him. At first he got confused but then he understood where he was.
"Hello Master Yoda. We were going to attend your Christmas Party but our ship got damaged and we crashed."
After one and a half hours later, people were sitting and waiting for the midnight to occur. The presents were already under the tree and some were very eager to open their presents. The thirty minutes passed and the clock showed that it was midnight. The Jedi, the Senator, the Captain and two Sith went to get their presents from under the tree.
Among the presents, a couple were very interesting. Mace Windu saw his present and opened it. It was a book with a title "How to be funny and make people like you" The book came from Ahsoka. Another of Mace's presents was a book from Anakin with a rather interesting title "How to attract, win and get the girls". His other presents were a bag of cookies from Yoda and a bunch of everyday objects from other Jedi.
Obi Wan opened his present and saw a bottle which had a label "the best shampoo for the beards and the hair". Obi Wan smiled and he did not even need to read the sender's name. Only Anakin would make fun of his beard. His second present was a letter from Siri, where Obi Wan's love expressed her feelings in a very strong way. Yoda gave the cookies again and Ahsoka's present was a funny picture of Obi Wan.
Ahsoka checked her presents and among them saw an interesting book from Master Ti. Its title was: "The memoires of Togruta Jedi and the Ti-Tano lineage". Ahsoka opened the book to the first page and was surprised when she saw that she was actually related to the Jedi Master.
Siri Tachi opened her presents which were all normal everyday stuff. But, there was a little box among them with Obi Wan's name on it. She opened the box and found the ring. It was very pretty and Siri was very happy.
Anakin received many presents but they were all similar to what he got last year. He had two interesting presents. The first one was a letter from Mace Windu and Yoda. It stated that now Anakin was granted the rank of Master and a seat on the Council. His last present was big. There was a box with Dooku's name on it. Anakin opened it and saw a costume with a mask, a cape and a red lightsaber. He got confused. In the box there was a small letter where Dooku told that this was a sith costume for Anakin.
Everybody liked their presents. After everybody opened their presents, they went to eat in the lunch room and had a delicious meal. The party was perfect. Siri said that she will marry Obi Wan, both Dooku and Ventress returned to the light and Mace actually tried to make his first joke in his life.
