Hi guys, me again (obviously). I need your help on something so please comment the answer. In a lot of stories, I see a faint line that normally divided POV or scenes. How do you get that line there? I use Pages, is it possible to make that line with Pages. Thanks and here's the next chapter.
Obi-Wan POV
I open the doors and walk in the room, slowly. There I see many chairs in a semicircle, just like the normal Council room, with people sitting down. They wear capes with hoods, but I can distinguish some of them. To my left, I see Yaddle, who saved Anakin and I's life right before the Clone Wars. Close to her, I see Adi Galliea, who was murdered by Savage Oppress right before my eyes. I recognize some others, but most are unfamiliar and probably died decades before me.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi," a deep voice bellows from an unknown chair. "You come before us. Why?"
"I come to ask if I can begin to fulfill the Prophecy of the Galaxies. My side, of course." I say. "I am confident I am ready to begin my half."
"This Council believes you are ready as well," a lighter, but bellowing voice says. "However, Skywalker is not ready. Soon, but not at the moment.'
"Even so," a voice chimes in with the same bellowing tone. "We can begin now."
"But the trial, it will be extended." A voice argues back.
"Good, let young Kenobi prove his worth," a different voice bellows. Young Kenobi, I haven't been called that it quite a long time. I haven't been Young Kenobi ever since the was a Teen Skywalker.
"So are we in agreement?" Adi Galilea says in an alike bellow tone. There is no response, only the doors slightly to the left of me opens and a bright light in the dark room opens. I guess I'm supposed to go in, I don't know. I'm just going to wait.
"May the Force be with you," all the voices eerily bellow at the same time while all their hand motion towards the door. I guess I'm supposed to go. I bow my head down and slowly walk towards the light rectangle in the dark. I get to the doorway and remember one thing.
"Adi?" I ask.
"Yes, Kenobi?" Adi Galilea responds.
"I couldn't save you Florrum. I promise, I'll make up for that this way." I just had to say it. It's one of those things that you just have to get out as you go. Sort of like telling Satine I loved her on Mandalore, I had to tell Adi this.
"I'm certain you will, old friend." Adi says. This is my signal to go through the doorway. I do so and the Council doors suddenly close behind me. Even the doors are confusing here.
There is nothing in the room. Absolute silence. The room is dark for the most part, only with light coming from the roof. There is an eerie buzz coming from somewhere in the room. The next thing I know, there are three lights of different colors falling from the roof. To the right, blue. The left, red. In the middle, grey.
I move back a little, hoping to make room for the slowly descending lights. As the lights hit the ground, the room suddenly grows lighter, but the figures lose their light. Then I recognize them. The Father in the middle, the Daughter to the right, and the Son to the left. Guess even they come here to.
"You?" I ask in slight shock.
"I might ask the same question." The Father says. "Although we were able to know that Skywalker was the Chosen One, we never suspected you would be the Bonder."
I liked the term Savior better, but Bonder is fine.
"I never even knew of that prophecy. It is unknown completely to the Jedi and I don't believe the Sith know of it either." I respond.
"Correct, but soon they will." The Father says. "The only remaining current Sith; you know him as Dooku, will sense this. His late Master, the one called Sidious, will tell him through the Force."
"Then what?" I ask. "What will happen?"
"Nothing of serious concern for the living galaxy. However, it will benefit you. After telling his apprentice of what is happening and what the apprentice should do, he will have lost all power of the Force. There, you will be able to use your powers to make him give you the Keys. You will know more as you go on." The Sister says. I nod my head in response.
"Son, give him the Sword." The Father says as the dark Son comes forward and hands me the same sword used to kill the Daughter. The sword, like a lightsaber, spins out from the blade, as it did on Mortis.
"Whatever you do, don't use this until you return to life. Understood?" The Father asks. I nod in response and the lights once again shroud the Father, Son, and Daughter as they slowly move up through the roof and another door magically opens.
Damn these doors.
Padme POV
It's hard, just standing there after all this. It's been almost three weeks and I'm not over it. I don't think anyone is. I know Anakin isn't. At least he'll be coming here, to Naboo, with some good news to hear.
When we found out about the clone chips, the Republic Medical Association wanted to check that all Senators and Representatives were not bugged as well. Turns out that just a day before Anakin left for that cruiser patrol, I was bugged. By Anakin.
Yup, I'm pregnant.
Looking on the one positive side of this whole ordeal, at least it's legal in the Order for this to happen. I know that the Council knows, Master Windu contacted me asking me to confirm the truth. At least he didn't sound mad.
I stand on the balcony of a smaller, but beautiful, Naboo palace. Far from Theed, this place has so many waterfalls and the arts of Naboo were born here. From where I am, I can see were the ceremony is being prepped for. The ceremony is public at begins at small lake formed by ten waterfalls. Then, the coffin, accompanied by his close ones, which I guess includes me, go in a boat while other line up on both sides of the river. The boat end at a small island formed when the river separates into two, where there will be a shrine for Obi-Wan.
I look over the balcony and get memorized in thought. A child, my child, Anakin's child, inside my stomach. I press my hand and feel nothing. The only physical sign I've had is the my waist line grew an inch. We'll raise the baby here, on Naboo. The Order allowing, of course.
I then think of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Or, what was Obi-Wan Kenobi. I know Anakin would do what Obi-Wan did for Satine for me in a heartbeat. I hope it doesn't come to that for us.
In the middle of my reflections about Obi-Wan, I see a Jedi fighter land on the small landing pad and a larger ship pass over, probably to the docks on Theed, where the passengers can take a train ride here. In the fire colored lights of dusk, I see a blue astromech come out first, followed by a tall figure dressed darkly. Anakin.
His head is bowed down with his cape on. I don't need to be next to him to know what he's thinking. He's thinking about Obi-Wan. I've dealt with a lot of Anakin drama, but this is way up there with his mother's death. Probably at the same level as that.
"Anakin!" I yell from the top of the balcony. He hears me and looks up. I begin running down the many levels of stairs, but he jumps up to the third highest level just as I get there. I run towards him and jump in his arms. He holds me so tight, probably because he needed someone.
"Oh Ani…" I begin to say in his ear. I can feel him trembling. "I…I don't know what to say. I just…just…" I don't know what to say to a man who just lost it all. I'm not going to come straight out with a baby bomb, it's totally wrong.
"I'm… I'm… I'm glad your okay." Anakin says with severe somber in his voice. "I just…um.. I don't know Padme. I don't know how to…"
"How to what Ani? Ani, is there I don't know about." I say as I remove myself from his arms and grab his sleeves. Something else is going on, I feel it. I don't have to be a Jedi to know when something else is going on with my Ani.
"Please Ani. Tell me what's really going on in here." I say and press my hand against his chest. "Ani, I love you. I can help you. Just tell me what's really going on. I know something else is going on."
"Padme, I can't stay here." Anakin says in an even sadder tone than before.
"Where, Ani? Where is here?" I ask.
"Alive." Anakin says. "I don't know what to do from this point. Padme, i can't." He isn't actually considering taking his life. Why, why? I just…
"Anakin no!" I yell with tears forming. "Anakin, I need you, our child needs you. The Order, Ahsoka, the galaxy. What would Obi-Wan want?" I lose it and start hysterically crying. I can't live without him. I put my hands around his neck and cry into his shoulders. I can feel his silent tears on my neck.
"You're pregnant?" Anakin asks with a gleam in his sad, wet eyes.
"Yes. Remember, right before we left." I say a little quieter, but still talking loudly. "We're going to have a family, a child. Our child. Our baby needs us. Not just me, but both of us. Ani, don't do this." I say, looking straight into his teary, navy colored, beautiful eyes.
Instead of a response, he moves his face close to mine and puts his forehead against mine. We stand on the platform and we don't move. The only thing between us is the warm air coming out of our mouths.
The Next Evening…
I stand behind Anakin, who is standing in front of the group of main mourners in the boat. Anakin left knee is touching the casket that holds Obi-Wan. Sabine is standing next to Anakin. I feel the boat begin to move. It has been said that this is the largest crowd for a funeral on Naboo ever, with people from almost every neutral and Republic planet.
As the boat moves, I become aware of the mass amounts of people here. On both sides of the river, people hold candles. The crowds of people on the sides goes farther than I can see.
Flowers and candles have been placed in the river. The boat slowly rips through them, causing some to move to shore where people push them back in. The sunset makes the water glisten like rubies. The moon makes the water look like diamond. Combining all in the river, it's beautiful.
The Jedi where there capes, but not their normal uniforms. Anakin told me that for something as big as this, ceremonial uniforms are in order. Usually only worn in the Temple, the uniforms have silver armor with the Jedi symbol painted on the shoulder pads in red. The armor padding color is based on the color of the Jedi's normal uniform color. Anakin's is a deep blue. The armor is on both the Jedi's tunics and leggings. Their boots are black.
Satine is wearing a pure black dress with a black veil. Her hair has black flowers with Mandalorian pigment colored middles. You don't have to be able to see to know that silent tears run down her face. They, like the water, are a mix of colors. I wear a silver dress that goes down to my ankles with a black cloak that goes over the back of the dress. The cloak is connected by a silver pin. My hair falls in curls to my side.
The boat moves in the river for about an hour. Surprising, it's not boring. I've been taking this time to take it all in; the death, Mandalore, the funeral, my legal marriage, pregnancy.
When we get to the island, I see five states in colored stone of Obi-Wan that form a semicircle, each about ten meters tall. Each statue here represents a time in Obi-Wan's life. On Stewjon, the statues will represent major achievements. The first statue is of Qui-Gon taking a teeny tiny Obi-Wan as his padawan. The second is Obi-Wan standing with Qui-Gon and Satine, representing his year on Mandalore. Secretly, he is holding Satine's hand in the statue. In the middle is a larger statue, as least 60 meters, of Obi-Wan as we knew him before he died, with his beard and red hair. He stands with his usual uniform, lightsaber on his belt, and one hand extended forward. Next to that, is a statue of him in his battle uniform with a trooper standing next to him. It's the last one, the one most to the right, that kills me.
It's Obi-Wan and Anakin.
The statue is obviously meant to represent their relationship before the war. Anakin looks about three years younger before we were reunited. Obi-Wan has his arm wrapped around his shoulder. Anakin, shorter than Obi-Wan at the time, looks up at obi-Wan in the way only a son or younger brother could.
The casket leads us off the boat. One hand squeezes Anakin's. The other holds a candle, which I, like everyone else, will place around a quartz stone that reads in beautiful, metallic black writing:
In Memoriam of Obi-Wan Kenobi; Honorable Jedi Master, leading Council Memeber, General of the Republic, Leader during all his life, Negotiator of the Clone Wars, Padawan to Qui-Gon Jinn, Master to Anakin Skywalker, Lover to Duchess Satine Kryze, Friend to many, Protector to all, and a hero whose sacrifices will never be forgotten. May he forever live in peace with the Force.
The stone, which is about seven feet long and rectangular, is surrounded by a small moat, where flowers lie in the water surrounding. We are supposed to put our candles in this moat. We line up without words, Satine first, and place our candles. Anakin and I go second.
"Live in peace, Master. Live forever." Anakin whispers after placing his candle in the moat. I place mine right after.
Holding hands, Anakin and I go to the bridge connecting the island to the main land. We walk off into the sunset, looking back countless times.
Count Dooku (Lord Tyranus) POV
It kills me. All I can do is sit and wait. Wait for what? To be captured, killed, injured, imprisoned? All of them mean the same thing.
The Republic, the Order has won.
Master is dead. The droid army in chaos. Don't worry, their pain will end soon. My Force powers are vanishing slowly with Master. Seems as though Qui-Gon's absurd ideas finally make sense, Skywalker is the Chosen One.
If I am to die, at least I will die knowing I tried. Tried to destroy the Republic, the Jedi. I knew little of Master's final plan for us. I now know that it is a failure.
"Padawan?"
I open my eyes from meditation. Master? That sounded just like Master. He's dead though. He's gone. It can't be.
"If it is truly you, move that candle." I say, motioning my hand to this beige candle on the table. I can't believe I'm doing this. It's ridiculous.
The candle does move.
"The Sith are over my padawan. There is no chance for the Sith. Not now. However, I do have a task for you."
"Tell me, my Master."
"Wipe Grevious' brain. In my quarters, there is a purple button. Press it and Grevious will die. His brain will be ours. Hide it in the Sith Temple. Maybe one day there will be another. Go to the Jedi and surrender yourself with the Droid Codes. They will not kill you if you do so."
"And if I don't do this Master, what will happen?"
"The Jedi will kill you and obtain every trick of the Force of the Sith. If there are to be others, you must do what I say. This is the last time I will be able to communicate with you. You will live forever, along with everyone else. Don't fear the future."
I stand and do as my Master has requested. Twelve hours later, I am back at the place I left all that time ago. I am taken, but I will live forever. In power or not, I still have what I wanted.
I have forever to change.
Just so you guys know, I will not be writing these chapters actively. I am doing an Obitine collab with EwanMcGregorIsMyHomeboy12, so check it it. Also, after writing this fanfic, I will be doing a Star Wars fanfic. The plot: After the honorable death of Anakin Skywalker, he finds himself in a alternate universe were all those who have died are living their dream lives. However, some of the dream lives of others are not possible because what Vader/ Anakin has done. Qui-Gin Jinn, Shmi Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan Kenobi advise Anakin on how to reunite with the person he killed the most, Padme.
