LEGACY OF THE NEGOTIATOR PART VII: IS THIS THE END?


The wolf and the gargoyle crashed through a bridge that connected two of Coruscant's skyscrapers, neither of the two creatures seemed to notice. Citizens were watching the event in awe, a white wolf and a gargoyle fighting in the streets of Coruscant. Both creatures emanated an aura, the wolf a light one, and the gargoyle a dark one, sides were pretty clear.

The wolf snarled and threw himself at the gargoyle, who screeched in pain, and crashed into a building. This didn't faze the wolf, much less shake him off, but it did stop him from biting right through the gargoyle's neck.

The gargoyle seemed to be no match for the wolf, who was a Jedi about as strong in the Force as one could be, and an excellent fighter with any weapon, be it lightsaber or fangs.

The wolf leapt to the ground and when it had fully turned around it was a Jedi again, with a lightsaber as bright as the skies of Naboo. Eyan stretched his arm and looked at the gargoyle.

Instead of fleeing, as it probably should have, it stormed towards Eyan, who produced a Force-push that whipped it through the skies, and eventually slammed it into the ground, Eyan hurled through the air and landed on the gargoyle, stabbing his lightsaber into the gargoyle's head.

He looked at the gargoyle, it wasn't over.

With his sharp teeth suddenly coming towards Eyan's face, the gargoyle rose. Eyan ducked to avoid the mouth and brought his lightsaber through the gargoyles body, it didn't hurt it in the slightest.

The Gargoyle's tail slammed Eyan into the wall, then he picked Eyan up by his shoulders and started to crush the bones in them. A powerful blast of the Force got Eyan free, and his lightsaber stabbed the gargoyle's heart, then again, and again. It did nothing but enrage the creature.

It's just a picture, a form, it's not a being. I can't hurt it like this!

Eyan screamed in pain as the gargoyle smashed him into the ground.


Anakin's lightsaber missed Sidious, and he used that to slash at Anakin, or rather the space where Anakin had been, since he had leapt over Sidious' head and Force-pushed half of the room they'd moved into down on him. Sidious, who now appeared to be a shadow, send the debris flying towards Anakin.

Almost casually, the chosen one caught it and send it back at the shadow-

-who wasn't there any longer.

Sidious' blade snarled violently as it locked with Anakin's. The shadow smiled, alone against Anakin was much better. Anakin became determined to prove him wrong.

Forcing Sidious backwards through the halls around the Senate Arena, Anakin thought of why he'd turned to the dark side for help, he felt regret, and sorrow. Doubt.

Sidious made full use of the distraction and blasted Anakin with Force lightning. The Force turned the lightning back to the shadow, and the shadow send it back to Anakin, the hall started collapsing, but the Force energies clashing against each other propelled the debris into the night sky. The building, the metal and the electronics were being blown away around them, creating a large Force-filled space. Two lightsabers activated and the Force energies that were clashing dissipated.

In a straight up Djem So march of powerful attacks Anakin began to force Sidious to give ground.


Eyan crawled up, he'd lost count of the amount of times the gargoyle had picked him up and smashed him into buildings. This couldn't go on, he would die if this was to continue. And as the Gargoyle returned for another attack, he figured out the only thing he could do.

"Perhaps the first time wasn't enough, perhaps… I need to do it AGAIN!" With a roar that chilled every watching citizen to the bone a white wolf leapt for the gargoyle. He jumped through the gargoyle, which caused him to explode into a million little sparkling pieces.

The gargoyle was gone, and Eyan landed safely on the ground. Breathing heavily, he watched the pieces dissolve and bowed his head in respect as, with a final howl, the wolf dissolved as well.

Eyan blinked "Thank you, Obi-wan, for showing me what to do.".

"I did nothing, my friend, you did this yourself. Not in anger, fear, or passion, but in love, in its purest form, this, is the true power of the Force." Jedi Master and friend Obi-Wan Kenobi said.

"Of course you did something, that bedtime story on that memory card you gave me was a pretty clear hint." Eyan didn't smile, his mind wandered to Ahsoka.

"I wasn't aware that it was going to help you. I thought you would want it, it is a good story. But the battle isn't over, Sidious must still be destroyed, and Anakin will need your help to do that." Obi-Wan told him.

"You're quite well informed…" Eyan tried to joke but he couldn't mask his concern for Ahsoka whatsoever.

"You should go now, Anakin needs you." Obi-Wan said.

"I can't sense Ahsoka anymore…" Eyan stated grimly.

"Anakin needs you now, you don't have time to-" Obi-Wan started with a raised voice.

"So what do you want me to do? Just let her die?" Eyan started in Ahsoka's direction.

"Eyan…".

He stopped and turned around "You're right Obi-Wan, no matter how hard it is, I can't do that now, Sidious has to die first…".

"Well, you're a lot easier to convince than Anakin.".

Eyan was already gone.


Another pass of the blood-red blade that could've easily take Anakin's live. And another pass of the sky-blue blade that saved Anakin's live. Fighting without anger to drive Anakin was harder than he'd thought, and to resist the temptation to just give into it was even harder.

But he wasn't the only one to start to tire, and despite and simultaneously because of the mess of it all Anakin could stay focused. There was still the one intention in his mind: kill Sidious.

He sensed Eyan was remembering that just then, and seconds later, Eyan came hurtling through the sky and slashing down at Sidious, who hadn't seen him coming. The blue blade grazed through Sidious' left shoulder. Just in time too, 'cause Anakin cringed, suddenly feeling what Padmé was feeling.

"Anakin!" Eyan shouted and forced Sidious to get away from Anakin with a kick in the gut.

"It's Padmé." He replied painfully.

"I know, and I felt Ahsoka…" Anakin looked up. Yes, Eyan actually understood him.

"We can't let them distract us, we don't have time for that." Eyan now stood next to Anakin, blade poised.

Anakin nodded "Together then." "Together." With that they moved.

Sidious now faced a haze of blue plasma, he wasn't aware of who was guiding the blade he blocked anymore, that would be distracting. But being unaware also caused him to fall for a series of simple kicks and punches, and an occasional elbow to the face.

The fact that his left arm was now pretty much useless wasn't helping things either, facing the barrage of power attacks from Anakin with one arms was tough going, even with the Force. And as for Eyan, Soresu served him well on the offensive side too, as every form of offense Sidious sent his way was returned with not only twice the energy but also with some sort of stab or swing that caused Sidious to have to temporarily stop blocking Anakin's attacks to stop Eyan's.

And Anakin's attacks were constant, there was no temporarily stopping blocking his attacks, nor fleeing, since they had him caged in. There was only blocking both slashes at once, which meant that he'd have to guide his and the opponent's blade to the place where the other opponent landed his strike. This meant blocking two attacks, thus about twice the power, at once, from a person who stood in front of him, and another who stood behind him. Which became considerably harder when his opponents started to move around him.

There was, of course, the option of going up.

Sidious jumped out of the way of two horizontal slashes that hit each other. And hard as it is to stand rooted in the Force in the air, the Force-push Sidious thought had come out of nowhere blasted him into the ground, in seconds he'd crawled up again.

Just in time to see Anakin with his arms spread like a bird, smash his hands together. It stopped raining, and a fog deeper than any he'd ever seen clouded the area.

Sidious reached out with the Force, what he saw there surprised him, according to the Force, there was no one around anymore.

He raged and blasted the fog away with the Force, but the fog was back before Sidious could see anything.

He swallowed hard, he couldn't actually be defeated, could he? He was deep in the dark side, deep enough to surpass any Jedi or Sith known to him in power and prowess.

Eyan suddenly appeared from the fog and used the Force to push him to the ground, Sidious had no defense. Only offense, he summoned lightning to kill Eyan.

"Anakin!" Eyan yelled "NOW!" the Force restrained Sidious as the fog began to clear a bit, just enough to reveal the sun above Sidious, and to show the Chosen one leap through the air, summoning a second blade and activating it to parallel his own blade.

Nanoseconds from the moment itself, Sidious saw Anakin's eyes, clear, without anger, fear, passion, doubt, just the act of ending the life that need to be ended.


A/N: Exciting? I sure hope so, now just for the last bits, right?

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