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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Star Wars.
Spoilers: PS/SS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OotP and HBP. Star Wars Ep I, Ep II and Ep III.
Summary: An incident in space causes Anakin and Obi-Wan to land on a planet in the Unknown Regions. There they will discover a whole different way of using the force, and secrets long kept from both the Jedi and Sith Orders. Will eventually be an AU ROTS.
Brackets are a master-padawan bond.
(Padawan speaking) - Anakin in this case
(Master speaking) - Obi-Wan.
'Thoughts'
The past or dreams (the past is usually in a flashback but not always.)
"spells"
"Intercom"
This is slightly AU(apart from the obvious reasons) because Anakin still has both of his arms. Dooku used a force throw to chuck him into a wall, knocking him unconcious. Also, Harry has no glasses. For some reason I can never picture him with them.
This chapter: Training and a row with Mace.
Chapter 6 – The Order
As Harry was getting into bed, he couldn't help but think that tomorrow wasn't going to be easy, especially since the training rooms were public.
How very right he was.
The Temple was burning. Dead bodies littered the area, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh and the screams of children. White armoured Clone Troopers kept marching, killing jedi and youngling alike. No compassion or mercy could be seen in their stances. Marching ahead of them, heading straight for the main building, was a cloaked figure. Their hood was pulled up so their face was in shadow and could not be seen, and their presence was filled with a malevolent evil. Two jedi charged at him. (A.N the figure is called him for the sake of convenience, they could be either gender.)One was cut down in seconds. The other, a young woman with short black hair and two green lightsabers engaged him. They fought for a few moments, then the figure snarled and made a gesture. The woman began choking, clawing at her neck. The figure took advantage of the jedi's distraction to behead her. Suddenly, Harry's viewpoint zoomed in to just behind the figure, who's head snapped around to face him, their eyes glowing yellow and full of hate.
"Aargh!"
Harry shot out of bed.
"What was that?" he asked of no-one. He was surprised to get a reply.
"That is what will come to pass, if you should fail." The force told him.
Beepbeep! Beepbeep!
He switched his alarm clock off.
After a quick shower, he got dressed and made himself some breakfast. Ron walked in half-asleep, drawn by the smell.
"Morning Ron."
He just grunted, then began to eat. Hermione walked in then with a book under her arm.
"Morning Harry."
"Morning. Do you often read at quarter to seven in the morning?"
"I haven't read it yet, it's for research. It's about soul spells. I figure there's probably at least something to do with Horcruxes in there."
"That reminds me. We'd better contact the Order and tell them the situation, at least the trustworthy ones. I'll contact Remus after breakfast."
"Remus Lupin."
There was a pause, then Remus' face appeared on the mirror.
"Harry. What's the matter?"
"I need you to set up an Order meeting for tonight at seven please. Only the very most trustworthy of members though, we cannot afford for Voldemort to get his hands on this information."
"Just the core members then. I'll see to it."
"Thanks. Don't forget to bring your mirror along. Bye."
The mirror went blank.
"All right. Let's all do our own usual warm-ups first."
Harry began with stretches, then a couple of weapon less katas, watching the other two out of the corner of his eye to see how good they were.
"Okay. What forms do you tend to use, so I know which techniques will work best for you."
(A.N. I know absolutely nothing about the various forms, so it's all made up.)
"Form IV." said Obi-Wan.
"I use a mixture of form III and form V."
"Hmm, that's good, you both use a mixture of defensive and aggressive types. Okay then. I think I know what to use. I'll teach you the most basic Sith and Irú katas for the corresponding styles, and then we can run through them all at once."
Harry's style of teaching was slightly different than what they were used to. He showed them the precise positioning of a step, then how to flow smoothly into the next step. He would make them do that until he was satisfied, then demonstrate the next step.
"Okay, lets try the whole thing at quarter speed."
After they had done that, and Harry corrected a couple of slight mistakes, they then ran through it at half speed, then at full speed twice. They repeated this process for the Irú kata.
"Great. Now to do all three. See if you can go through that kata with the mindset that you are duelling with an opponent. That's what I was advised to do. It helps you improvise."
"You aren't supposed to improvise with katas." Obi-Wan said unhappily.
"However do you use the force whilst fighting then?" asked Harry.
"What do you mean?"
"Well…for example, this is a Sith kata." He proceeded to show them. "The slight gaps are to incorporate force moves. Most sith that use this form tend to use force throws or choking, sometimes both. You will need to allow freedom for certain moves as well, even if all you intend to do is counter the effects. Otherwise the sith will have the advantage."
"I have fought two sith. Neither has used force moves whilst we were duelling, just during pauses."
"Perhaps the technique has been lost then. Better safe than sorry though."
He proceeded to show them how to adjust their moves at the last minute to allow for force techniques in case the enemy did something unexpected, and then made them run through the three katas.
"A good warrior can combine several styles. A great warrior can create their own." Harry said, in an I-am-imparting-wisdom tone when they had finished. More jedi had now showed up, as it was about 12 o'clock. (Harry is a perfectionist.)
"Okay, two new force techniques. Do either of you have a specific one in mind that you have seen a sith use or that you have heard of?"
"How about force lightning?" asked Anakin, thinking back to his battle with Dooku.
"Ah. That's actually one of the very few Sith techniques that we never utilise."
"Why?"
"Two reasons: One, you have to be completely immersed in the dark side, with practically no hope of redemption in order to use it, and two, the Irú have our own, much cooler version. I'll teach you a couple of other things before that though, it's quite hard to control. If it gets unstable, it can result in a massive explosion, killing the wielder."
"Ouch."
"Still, you've given me an idea for the Irú skill I'll show you today. Okay, first of all is the most simple of Sith techniques, but it is very effective and is one of the showiest, along with the force lightning. This has resulted in it being quite frequently used, especially when they are 'making examples' of people. It is called the force choke. Excuse me!" he called to a knight that was just stood watching them, "Can I borrow you for a second?"
The jedi approached, looking slightly apprehensive.
"Do you mind if I demonstrate a technique the Sith commonly use on you? It won't do any damage, and I'll stop before you fall unconscious."
"All right." He replied nervously.
"Great! Okay you two, open yourselves to the force whilst I'm doing this, so you can see exactly what I'm doing so we can keep it short."
Harry then made a slight pinching gesture, and the knight began to struggle to breathe, clutching at his throat.
"See?" he said, releasing him. The jedi pulled in great big gulping breaths of air. "Are you all right?"
"Fine." The knight croaked, rubbing at his throat.
"Good. Do you want to spar later? I've never fought an opponent who uses a lightsaber before, but Dooku and Grievous both do, and I'm sure there are several other dark jedi and so on out there that also use them."
"All right. Say an hours' time?"
"That should be fine. Okay," he said turning to his two pupils, "now, why don't you try on Obi-Wan, Anakin? Don't worry, if it looks like something is going wrong just stop." He watched as Anakin proceeded to force-choke his old master. "Okay that's enough. You seem to be a natural at this Anakin. No mistakes at all. Your turn Obi-Wan." It was Anakins' turn to choke, however… "You need to squeeze a little harder. Don't worry about him, he'll fall unconscious a long time before death, so you'll be able to stop then if worst comes to worst. The death would actually be a lot more agonising and prolonged, the way you are doing it. Able to get air, but not enough to sustain the whole body. Try again. That's it."
Obi-Wan released the younger irú. "Well that was interesting. Why does your Order learn that? It can't exactly be used with noble intentions."
"Well…if you were a sith I suppose it would be the most humane way to get someone unconscious, however we have our own, kinder technique for that. Still, it will be easier for you to defend against it now you know how it's done." He paused. "Okay, the next technique has been used by jedi occasionally, but usually only the older, more powerful ones who have had time to discover it… It is the ability to absorb force lightning."
"Oh! I saw Master Yoda use that, against Count Dooku."
"Yeah. He sent it back somehow as well."
"Yes, that's the next step. We'll start with absorbance though. I'll give you a quick demo then you two can practise, without the lightning at first."
"How will we learn without a sith handy?"
"The lightning can be simulated." Harry reached for a comlink. "HK, come to training room 107 please."
"The droid can shoot lightning?" Obi-Wan asked incredulously.
"He was designed to take out Jedi." replied Harry.
'Hmm, that's given me an idea…it wouldn't have much point for Threepio though…maybe I can persuade Padmé to swap for Artoo. I could use an astromech anyway.'
"Anakin are you in there? HK has arrived."
"Oh sorry I was just thinking. How did you learn this by the way? HK was powered down when we met you."
"There was a couple of special remotes in the annex, but there's no linkage box for remotes so HK will have to do. That's why I want to make sure you are definitely ready before you try. There is no half-strength, HK was created to kill." He turned to the droid. "I want you to shoot lightning at me for ten seconds, okay?"
"Affirmative: Yes Master. I will start now."
A streak of lightning shot across the space between Harry and the droid. All the jedi in the room stopped what they were doing to watch. The bolt surged towards Harry, who reached his hands out and caught the lightning, absorbing it. Soon HK stopped, and the irú knight snuffed out the last of the glow.
"Okay?" When they nodded he continued. "Now, it's fairly simple. Imagine your hand to be covered in a glove made of the force. A black, insulated glove like mechanics use when they're working on live power couplings. Nod when you've done that."
After a moment, Obi-Wan nodded. Anakin took a little longer, but soon nodded too.
"Right, when the lightning goes towards you, you catch it in the glove. Since the glove is made of the force, you are able to disperse the energy along it until all you are left with is a small ball of energy in your hand that is easily snuffed out. Okay Anakin, can you do that? Visualise the lightning for now."
Harry then shut his eyes to better see through the force how Anakin was doing. "Good. You're pushing a little too hard though. Be careful or you'll end up with an actual glove on your hand. That happened to me the first time around. I was pretty confused. That's good, you should be okay now, but I want you to practise visualising every night, the both of you, actually, until forming precise pictures in you head is second nature to you. Your turn Obi-Wan."
After a minor fault had been corrected, Obi-Wan was good to go too.
"Okay. HK, five seconds please." Both the irú absorbed the lightning with no problems. "Great! Okay, sending it back. There's two methods, one is used by the Sith. I'll show you that one tomorrow. They also use the sametechnique to deflect blaster bolts. What we tend to do, is a sort of reverse to what you just did. Instead of snuffing the ball out we feed it energy from along the glove and push it towards the opponent. Five seconds towards me please."
The bolt shot at him, but he gathered it just as before, then pushed the ball towards a blank spot of wall. Lightning shot from the ball and burnt a hole through the wall of the room.
"Oops." Harry took his wand out and flicked it "Reparo. That's better. Your turn Anakin."
Neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan had any trouble with reversing the process.
"All right. You can either spar or cool down now. I'm going to ask that knight for the duel he owes me."
"Spar Master?" asked Anakin innocently, however there was a wicked gleam in his eyes.
Obi-Wan shook his head ruefully. "I'm going to get my arse kicked aren't I?" he asked.
"Yep!" said Anakin, grinning openly now.
sigh "Try not to humiliate me too badly please."
Meanwhile, Harry approached the jedi.
"Hi, I don't think I got your name."
"Sigma Zennet."
"I'm Harry. Shall we spar then?"
"Let's"
They got into their two stances. Sigma's lightsaber was behind him, angled upwards and forwards. Harry, who was using two lightsabers, was in a sort of twisty state. (A.N. For all those who have seen the Narnia movie, picture the White Witches' stance when she has two swords.) Harry made the first move by bringing the back 'saber around to attack whilst parrying with the other one, before switching and so on. Sigma was hard-pressed to keep up, let alone find a way through Harry's defences.
Suddenly the door to the training room burst open.
"POTTER!" Mace screamed.
Harry sighed and deactivated his 'sabers. "Yes Master Windu?" he asked calmly.
"Padawan Mikhail here says that not only did you throw force lightning at the wall, nearly destroying it, but he saw you force-choking Knight Zennet here!"
"Calm down Mace." If anything, he got even angrier at hearing Harry address him so familiarly. "First of all I can't throw force lightning, to do so requires you to be one with the dark side. I merely returned it, Anakin says he saw your Master Yoda do the very same thing. Secondly, yes, I did force-choke Sigma here, but not for more than a few seconds and I had his full permission to do so."
"It is a technique of the Sith."
"I'm not denying it. Members of our Order are taught how to use the force the same way as the Sith, the only difference is we do not use the dark side to do so."
"I will not permit you to teach this around the jedi."
"I suggest that you get us a private training room then, I will not stop teaching. They need to know these things. If you want to keep your people in ignorance, then so be it, but I will not allow my two pupils to suffer the same fate."
"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge." Mace stated quite firmly.
"What?"
"That's the Jedi Code." whispered Sigma.
"…don't you mean 'There is ignorance, yet there is knowledge'?"
"That's the old Code." Obi-Wan, who had come to see what was going on, put in.
"You can't honestly mean you follow a Code like that? 'There is no ignorance'! How arrogant you must have become to believe that! No wonder the Sith have been running rings around you. If you don't believe in ignorance, how do you expect to learn new things, to grow? I shudder to think how the rest of the Code has been mutilated."
Mace gradually got more and more angry during that speech.
Harry sighed. "Look, do you want to fight me or something? Because if you don't find a way to deal with that anger, you run the risk of turning to the dark side, remember? I heard that you're a user of Vaapad, so you're allowed to use emotions and passions in lightsaber duels."
Windu thought about it for a moment, then agreed. They got into their stances, then began. Mace was able to match Harry much more easily than Sigma, but the irú was still better. The jedi master got angrier, and pulled out a unique move that he had invented himself. It wasn't completely successful, he didn't manage to disarm Harry, but he did throw him across the room. The moment he landed Harry was on his feet and jumping. He span in midair with his blades extended, spinning so fast they appeared to become a shield before him. Only the two irú and a couple of others noticed that there was in fact a shield. It blasted into Master Windu, leaving him knocked down and panting. From there, Harry was able to disarm him. There was a brief silence, broken by a clapping sound, which came from the door. It was Master Cin Drallig, one of the best swordsmen in the temple.
"I'm impressed. I've only ever seen two people able to pull off that move. The other one is my old padawan, Serra."
Harry inclined his head, then turned to Mace. "Feel better now?"
"Yes, actually," he replied calmly, "we will have to continue this discussion of the Code at some other time – with Master Yoda present. He is after all the only jedi still living to have sworn by it." He turned on his heel and left.
Anakin approached Harry and muttered in his ear "He thinks he's won, because if the old Code was better, why has Yoda never requested it to be changed back when he was on the council?"
"We'll see." he replied.
Hermione read the spell again, to make sure. "This is it. I've found something. This could save us all." She got up, grabbed Ron by the arm, and took off running to the empty conference room where Harry should be. ("Watch it 'Mione, I'm going to fall over!")
She opened the door and saw Harry and Teethree working on some sort of mechanical contraption, hooked up to three chairs and the mirror.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Modifying this holoprojector. I'm almost done. The people at headquarters will see us if we are sat in those chairs, and life size holograms of the people on the other side of the mirror will appear here." he paused. "Hopefully." He stood up. "It's time for the meeting, are you ready?"
"Yes. I've just discovered a spell that could be the key to finding the Horcruxes, so we can tell them that as well."
"Great."
"Before you dragged me up and through the corridors, I also found something that could be pretty useful."
"Cool. Okay let's start. You need to sit on the chairs. Remus Lupin."
A giant version of Remus' head appeared.
"Aargh!"
Harry started laughing. "Chill. Remus, can you put the mirror on the ceiling or something, so we can see everyone sat at the table?"
"Hold on." He used a temporary sticking charm. "Better?"
The hologram now showed a round table, with the Order sat around it.
"Much. Okay, you go first. What's been happening on the Voldemort – " several people shuddered " – front?"
"Just the usually muggle killings, a few witches and wizards have died. Of course, he's probably up to something, but we don't have a spy anymore."
"Right. I know this is going to be hard to believe, but we're not actually on the same planet as you anymore."
There were startled exclamations from the people assembled.
"Those two men who came to the wedding needed our help. Voldemort – " They shuddered again " – isn't the only Dark Lord, y'know. But the point is, some of you lot will need to handle the behind the scenes stuff. I don't know how many of you were told this, but my private sessions with Dumbledore were mainly information-gathering. We found out that Voldemort – has several Horcruxes."
There was a gasp from the Order.
"Horcruxes?" asked Remus. "Are you sure?"
"Definitely." Harry replied. "Anyway, at least two, possibly more, have already been destroyed. One by me, one by Professor Dumbledore, and any others by someone with the initials RAB. Hermione, do you want to take it from here?"
"I have recently discovered a spell that can pinpoint pieces of soul, which is basically what a Horcrux is. You'll need a map of the world and several other, smaller maps as well. Point your wand at the map and use the incantation Invenire fragmentum de anima, then you insert the name. I'm not sure whether it should be Lord Voldemort – or Tom Marvolo Riddle; you'll have to try both. You finish the incantation by saying pertinére. So, for example: Invenire fragmentum de anima Remus Lupin pertinére would show you where all of Remus' soul is on a map. This means you can also use it to find where Voldemort is hiding, unless he has a secret keeper, which I doubt,as you are looking for a person not a place, and you can't make a person or an item unplottable."
Ron began to speak "Once you have determined where they are, you'll be able to use a spell I found. It determines what trap and protections there are around an item. According to the book it used to be used by several thieves that were renowned for being able to steal anything. You need to be within one mile of the Horcrux, then chant aperire tutela de Horcrux and you will have a vision of the protections. You can then store that in a pensieve so the others can see, and work on ways to break them safely before you go to actually destroy them. I suggest you collect the destroyed Horcruxes, then you can cast the spell again to make sure there's no soul left."
"We've got to go now," Harry began, "so why don't we meet again next week, I'll arrange it with Remus. And don't worry, we'll help with Voldemort. – We'll come back with Ben and Revan after all the Horcruxes are gone. Hopefully we should have finished by then, but if not we'll put it on hold for a bit. Bye all." He switched the holoprojector off. "C'mon, let's go and find the others."
TBC
Invenire fragmenttum de anima(Bob) pertinere - Find the pieces of soul belonging to (Bob).
Aperire tutela de Horcrux - Reveal protections of the Horcrux.
(Translations may not be 100 accurate).
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Next Chapter: Weddings, wands and Voldemort (otherwise known as the filler chapter). After that, I'll be starting on the ROTS storyline.
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Shawn Pickett: Actually, that would be really interesting. Hmm... About Mace, a year of pranking and being ganged up on should cause him to lighten up...that or go insane. Thank you very much! 8D
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