CHAPTER FOUR: DEVASTATED


Suven walked nervously through the door and entered the meditation room.

Masters Yoda and Kenobi looked at him worried and nodded when Suven bowed "Take a seat," Suven sat down on the meditation chair Obi-Wan Kenobi had pointed at.

"Suven, as you know, the disguise of Sidious has fallen…" a quick nod as answer "Know you are the Chosen One you do, if not misread the prophecy is, a safe era create you will…" "What are your thoughts on this?" A shiver run down Suven's spine "I… I don't want to be that person…".

Yoda produced a sigh that usually came before a long explanation and opened his mouth, but Obi-Wan was the one to talk "You know of the Sith lord, Sidious, and that he had apprentices?" a nod "Well, Dooku was killed by my old padawan-Anakin Skywalker, Asajj Ventress returned and has attacked on Kashyyyk , Etain Tur-Mukan killed her in a brief duel, and on Utapau Grievous was defeated just now, by Master Shaak Ti. His apprentices are dead…" he stopped talking "You didn't say 'All'?" the Master fiddled with his beard "Your insight serves you well, no, we're afraid a new apprentice seduce Sidious will," the green old Jedi master said with a partially hidden concern in his voice.

"Anakin, is that possible apprentice, he… is married to Padmé Amidala, he believes she will die and does everything to prevent it…" Obi-Wan's face showed how bad he felt "Told him Sidious has, save her he can, through him…".

"But Anakin won't fall for that, right?" Obi-Wan closed his eyes "He will do anything to save her, we need you to end Sidious' reign quickly, before he'll get Anakin," "Where is he now?" "Here, in the temple he is, as is senator Amidala, for their own safety, but fear he'll accept Sidious' offer we do, nearly broken he is," "We need to take control of the Senate before it's to late…" Suven was suddenly scared "Arrest the Chancellor?" "No Suven, arrest not, end him as the Chosen One you must…".

"NO!, I don't want to be called the Chosen One, you think I chose this? Couldn't you just treat me normally?, I've never even had a Master, know what?, I'm not even a Jedi!" he stood loudly breathing before the two Jedi Masters.

"I'm sorry, I lost control for a second, I-" Yoda raised his hand in protest "No, we know the pressure on your shoulders kill you it does, and a Jedi, nor padawan are you, not since your eighteenth birthday anymore you are, your own path you choose now…" Suven wanted to say Master? But Obi-Wan was earlier "Master?" "The six years past they have, something you need to know there is…" he swallowed discomforted.

"Six years, Sith, Hand and Jedi you've been, your own choices you make now, but to unleash the true Chosen One, one last element is needed, like the fourth key it is," "And what is this 'key'?" "Know that, we do not, but find it we will, person to turn to Masters Kenobi and I will be until then-" he was interrupted when the wall communicator beeped.

"Yes?" "Padawan Devina here, I had to inform you Masters Windu, Tiin, Kolar and Fisto have left to the Chancellors office, Skywalker left just ten minutes ago to aid them, we think…" Yoda's eyes were wide-open "Padawan, get a ship to bring us to the Chancellor's office, hurry!" Obi-Wan looked at Suven after saying that "You have to come with us," "I understand why, I'll follow you Masters,".


They passed the library, Suven stopped for a second watching something, he'd seen Fay, talking with Madam Jocasta Nu, he smiled, if only I could be like you… accepted by at least one person, he thought still feeling the distance between him and the two Masters "Hurry!" he followed the Masters quickly.


It was silent except for the sound of footsteps and humming in the distance, the three Force-sensitive looked at each other and exchanged worried expressions.

As soon as they reached it the door opened automatically and they rushed into the Chancellor's office.

Immediately Suven saw the four Jedi corpses, Agen Kolar's and Saesee Tiin's lay at their feet in the entrance, Kit Fisto's corpse a few meters away from the broken window and Mace Windu's lay at the feet of Sidious, the Chancellor.

Obi-Wan and Yoda had their eyes fixated on Sidious and Anakin, who were now circling around each other with Anakin having his blade pointed to the Sidious' head.

"Oh Anakin, can't you see the Jedi tried to kill me, me, your supporter from the very beginning?" Palpatine said disturbingly easy "You killed Master Windu!" "He attacked me," he nearly whispered, noticing the Jedi Masters watching the scene.

"Skywalker, anger leads to the dark side, a clear mind you must have, before ready you are!" Yoda's words were carefully picked "Anakin, you have the right to be angry and confused, I trust you with my life, he is trying to deceive you, step away Anakin, please…" the words begged him "I can't let him go, not after all he's done to me!" his eyes moved swiftly to Suven.

Slowly a few words came to him "Anakin, I'm sorry, for what ever it means to you, I'll help you, but if you kill him here, you're no better than him, he's unarmed…" Sidious had dropped his blood-red saber to show he tried to help Anakin (even though he'd fought Anakin) "He has the Force!" "Anakin, only I can help you save Padmé, if I'm dead I cannot…" a vile smile crossed his slowly deforming face.

"Anakin, please, I may not be able to fully understand how much Padmé means to you but I'll choose your side!" he knew Yoda, Sidious and Obi-Wan were watching him and felt weird, am I really saying this?, it was like someone talked through him, like he was the messenger.

"Obi-Wan, Yoda, Suven, I… I… I am sorry…" he deactivated his blue lightsaber and Suven could see the tears running over his face.

"YOU!, do you know what you could've been under my guide?" Sidious called the lightsaber to his hand and swung it from the side to Anakin.

The blood-red blade stopped it's move, Anakin's blade had blocked it so he had Sidious exposed, he punched him in his face and by the time Sidious used to recover the blue blade had pierced him, the blade had entered the body where the heart was placed.

For a minute Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin and Suven all thought Sidious was actually dead, but then the body became an little explosion of black smoke.

"A decoy!" Anakin hissed through his front-teeth, he stumbled back and fell on the ground "What have I done?" Obi-Wan came to him and put an arm around him "You did the right thing, brother,".

But Anakin pulled himself up and wrestled himself out of Obi-Wan's grip "Order sixty-six!" "What?".

"Artoo found a list of contingency orders, order sixty-six will kill all Jedi…" he said saddened "The Temple will fall…".

"Away we need to go!" Suven looked to the three men, all older than him "No, Fay is there, Padmé is there, we need to safe them!" "Padmé is there?" Anakin stood up confused "I'm with you," "Fay? Young Dara, a chance you like her there is?" somehow Yoda had found a way to tease him, even though that might not have been his intention.

"It doesn't matter, Suven is right, there is too much that will be lost," "Aiming for a girl you are too Obi-Wan?" somehow Yoda allowed himself to laugh "Yoda!" he said warning.

"All right, assist you I will, but careful you must be, if to survive we are," they ran of immediately.


For the second time that day Suven arrived at the Jedi Temple with a bad feeling, but this time the Temple was smoking and in flames.

The ship they had 'borrowed' landed on a platform just outside of the Temple and the group left the ship.

The back entrance, of course, Suven looked at Anakin and felt his fear, fear for Padmé and Obi-Wan, he feared too, for Fay, because she was the only one who had treated him normally, that was what he kept telling himself.

The loud sound of the path behind them crashing down didn't bother Suven now, he could only hear blaster fire and the buzzing of lightsabers, and the screaming, the screaming of falling Jedi.

Then somehow he got split up from the others, he was following his instinct, or maybe he should just have paid attention to Yoda who had been telling the way to go for them, but there was only one thing on his mind: make sure Fay is safe.

He now reached the library, there he saw two clones with blue markings, the five o first ,the elite!, Suven thought startled, the clones wereshooting at a target he could not see because of a bookshelf, the dark colored blue and white holobooks made the scene look even sadder.

Clearly the target was a Jedi, since the blasterbolts were deflected back at the clones, Suven recognized the sound of the little higher than usual humming of the lightsaber, though he could not remember the Jedi.

The clone nearest to Suven was the first to be killed by a deflected blasterbolt and fell on the ground screaming in pain, the other clone looked at his comrade for a second and then put his focus back to the Jedi, which, Suven could now see, was an exhausted and struggling to stand Fay.

Suddenly Suven's vision was white, a flash grenade!, it took an infuriating long time beforevision returned to him, and he could see what was going on.

The clone with more commander-like blue markings, kama and pauldron stood behind Fay now and knocked her in the back with his rifle, put the barrel to the back of her head and pulled the trigger…