~Obi-Wan
Haha I can't believe the council actually got Xanatos to say yes to this mission. They probably bribed him with more vacation time XD
And they also convinced him to bring Anakin along, just for some reference before his actual training with Grand-Master Jinn begins.
To be honest I'm pretty impressed with the kid. To find his way under such a man's tutelage so easy is pretty damned lucky.
Well I mean Xanatos got it pretty easy too but Anakin….this kid's been getting really lucky since he came here.
First the council sides with him, and then he gets a master with the blink of an eye.
I'm happy for the kid.
Speaking of him, Xanatos and I are waiting at the dock for him and the queen to show up.
And in a few minutes Anakin comes tearing in running towards Xanatos.
He runs over and launches himself onto Xanatos, who crouches down to his height to meet the hug.
"Missed you guys a lot!" He grins looking up at me. I smile.
Honestly I'm really not too comfortable with him stealing the little hug space I have on Xanatos, but come on.
The kid's so cute and innocent it's impossible to get pissed off at him.
Sure he's a little shaky but really all he needs is the right guidance, and we might as well do that while we're here.
"We missed you too Anakin" Xanatos says pulling away from the hug.
And just then the queen walks in. Xanatos casually ruffles Anakin's hair, stands up and walks over to the queen, and her party of handmaidens and captains.
"Hey do you see Padme?" Anakin says suddenly.
I raise a brow and look around in the crowd of people. And after a while I spot her making her way over to me.
"Yeah" I smirk down at him "She's coming here."
His eyes go wide and he immediately bolts away towards Xanatos.
"Hey, hey! Where are you going?!" I yell after him.
"Can't stay!" He calls back.
"Why not?!" I yell after him.
And as he runs past Padme, he looks back at me, points at her and lipses "H-O-T!!!!"
Then he runs off.
I completely crack up. Little hotshot here has a crush on the handmaiden who has a crush on my master XD!!!!!!!!
Oh geez the laughter almost kills me until Padme walks over to me and raises a brow "Oh cause you weren't already crazy enough."
"Oh force, it's nothing really. Believe me I'm just a crazy guy laughing all to myself." I say quickly before breaking out in laughter again.
I look over at Anakin and see him staring back at Padme.
It makes me laugh even more. To the point where I seriously am at tears, and holding my stomach in pain.
"Ok, ok, Obi-Wan, calm down. Relax." Padme says putting a hand on my shoulder "You're loosing it. Your master is a hell of a lot better looking than you, we know. We also knew it was indeed going to drive you mad one day, but just relax" She says barely able to keep in her laughter.
"Alright….alright I'm good." I grin, calming down slightly.
Oh geez that was awesome. I haven't laughed like that since me and Xanatos where in Hoth and he dropped his ass in the ice and practically broke his back XD
I straighten my posture and attempt to wipe the grin off my face as the queen, and company (XD) along with Xanatos walk by towards the ramp of the ship.
I here Xanatos say something along the lines of "Rest assured your majesty, that nothing of that sort will be allowed as long as my apprentice and I are around."
He glances over at me as he says the word apprentice.
Then he says something that makes me start laughing….again:
"And that it is our deepest honor to continue to serve and protect you."
I just burst out laughing again. And this time so does Padme.
"Oh god how could he live with himself, saying that after what he did back at your apartment!" Padme gasps.
Xanatos interrupts our laugh-till-you-die fest by calling:
/Come on you two. You look like a couple from love affairs gone horribly wrong. /
/Shut up. Me and Padme are just friends. /
/Ok….what where you dying over anyway? /
/Ok, ok check this it's hilarious….Anakin. You know our little 8 year old blonde haired fluffy Anakin is in looooove with Padme!!/
/Freaking hell…..are you serious???/
/Absolutely/
/Force, does she know?! /
/Hell no! That's why it's so funny! /
I look over to Xanatos as he and the other walk up the ramp of the ship and I see him clearing his throat, and putting a fist in front of his mouth to cover a smug grin.
/Haha I told you it was hilarious. /
/Hell yes it was. Heh, alright you two come on and get on board before you get left behind. /
"We gotta go," I say looking over to Padme.
She raises a brow "How do you know?"
"Xanatos is calling" I see her open her mouth, probably to ask how so I add "He and I share a mental bond. He told me through that."
Padme gives me an "ooooh….." look.
We start to walk towards the ramp when we hear a very familiar voice scream behind us:
"OBEEEE!!!!!!!
We spin around and see….Jar Jar.
But before either of us could say anything Jar Jar flings himself at me and gives me the most tight and uncomfortable hug of all time.
"Oh meesa going hooooome!!!!!!!!" he screams before he finally lets me go.
I look to my side and see Padme covering her grin with her hand.
"That's great Jar Jar. Now come on, before we get left back." I say resuming the walk towards the ramp.
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Oh my force…..the journey was so booooooring.
Xanatos actually decided to go do something in the cockpit so I was locked in a room babysitting after Padme, Anakin (who kept a safe distance from Padme), Jar Jar and R2.
So me and Padme spent half the journey playing holocards. And I spent the other half (under Xanatos's suggestion) training Anakin.
He's actually pretty good. He catches on fast. And he's got skill. All he has to do is harness it and this kid could be indestructible.
But for some reason that thought makes me unusually uncomfortable.
And then there was about a half an hour where Jar Jar gave us a lesson on gungans.
Geez you think you know everything about a race until you really meet them. I mean Xanatos taught me a lot about gungans but this is like a whole new world!
But anyway, at this moment we're all gathered in the cockpit and the queen has resolved that we're going to use the help of the gungans to fight the Trade Federation army.
We land near the swamp that leads to Gunga city, and everyone pours out at the bank of the swamp.
Xanatos and Jar Jar are going to head down there to have a word with Boss Nass.
And as cruel a man he is, Xanatos handed me his robes, his belt (just cause his lightsaber and comm. link are on it) and used an incredibly strong force suggestion on me and instructed me to stay back.
Obviously when I snapped out of it, I got in his head and screamed at him for a while. Then with nothing better to do, I went under a tree (a couple of feet away from the others) and practiced my katas.
With 2 lightsabers. Xanatos's and my own.
And I keep my mind off the fact that Xanatos isn't around by furiously working with the 2 sabers.
So furiously that within minutes there's sweat dripping off my chin and I feel as though I'm about to collapse. It's probably not the smartest thing to do when you're about to fight a war.
And it doesn't help that during one of the steps I messed up and ended up stabbing myself in the chest with my own hilt. Hard.
And then I dropped Xanatos's saber in the pain and almost chopped off my own leg.
It's the most careless and stupid thing a Jedi could possibly do.
But I did it. And when I feel my legs physically shaking, I lean against a tree in an attempt to catch my breath.
"Wow Obi-Wan, that was real cool."
I look up and see Anakin staring at me with an amused expression.
"Thank you." I mumble under my breath as I collapse under my own weight and slide to the base of the tree. I manage to push myself to sit up, leaning on the tree. I latch the two sabers to my belt.
Anakin runs over and sits next to me "You think I can do that one day?"
I take deep breaths. So often it hurts. God I wish Xanatos was here.
As I mentioned earlier…..just his very touch calms my nerves. And I could use that right about now.
"You….you can probably do better." I smile with much difficulty.
"Cool." He grins.
But after a while the grin disappears off his face and he asks slowly "Are you ok?"
I shake my head "No….this kind of training has its effects."
"Oh…" he mumbles "Would you be ok if Xanatos was here?"
The question surprises me to a degree. Why would he ask me that?
"Yeah…." I reply simply.
"Why?" He asks. What the hell, is he doing diving into my inner psyche?
"Because he's my master that's why." I grumble, rubbing my forehead. I feel so unsettled right now, it could kill me.
Along with the crazy pain in my chest, I'm finding it insanely hard to breathe, and now there's this stupid unsettled feeling. Just great.
"You're really close to Xanatos aren't you?" Anakin mumbles.
"Yeah." I reply.
"Like a father and son?"
"Yeah. You should know. You actually know your family."
"Nah….I never knew my father…."
"Oh…."
There's a significant silence between us for a while before he finally asks "Do you think me and my new master can be like you guys?"
Heh, like me and Xanatos?
I doubt anyone can be like me and Xanatos.
But still, can't crush the kid's dreams can I?
"Yes. Yes you will." I smile despite my pain.
Suddenly I hear a more than familiar voice that makes me want to jump with happiness (if I could at the moment that is….)
"The gungans aren't there. The city is empty."
I look in the direction of where everyone is.
And there he is. Xanatos.
He had removed his tunic and now was drying off his hair with a towel that someone (was that Padme?! I bet she just went over to see him without a shirt!) had just handed him.
But I really didn't care.
The pain in my system was definitely getting out of hand and I needed him (at least, more than Padme needed to see his 6 pack)
I forced myself to stand and run over to him.
And believe me it wasn't even much of a run. It was more like a couple of steps, stumbling over like 4 times a few more steps.
"Jar Jar and I suspect they went to-" Xanatos is cut off as I launch myself onto him, throwing my arms around his torso.
He lets out a nervous laugh and begins to stroke my hair "Obi-Wan what's wrong?"
Yeah, yeah people are probably staring. So what?
I really don't care right about now.
"It hurts." I wince. Force, I sound like a freaking 9 year old.
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"Obi-Wan, you know you suck at double-sided combat." Xanatos mumbles as he applies bacta to the huge cut on my chest. As well as the nasty bruise around it…
"I don't suck. I just keep missing that one step over and over. It's not my fault it's hard." I say lowering the inhaler from my mouth.
He looks up at me and gestures to take a couple more shots out of the inhaler.
I comply.
I feel absolutely disgusting right now.
I really do.
I don't know where he gets it from but Xanatos knows enough to be like head healer in the temple.
He figured out that by smashing that hilt into my chest I fractured one of the bones in the mid section of my ribs.
Which put pressure on my lungs, and triggered my breathing problems, or in other words my shitty asthma.
Having asthma makes me a pretty crappy Jedi.
I mean I have exceptional skills, and I can beat any senior Padawan in a saber duel any day.
And I've saved Xanatos's ass in a couple of serious missions (just as much as he has saved mine XD) and yet I can't get past these simple routines without killing myself.
So now everyone is out to some secret gungan hideout that the gungans apparently evacuated to, to try and negotiate with Boss Nass.
And Xanatos is supposed to be one of the main speakers.
But no.
Now we're in our room in the queen's ship, I'm lying on the couch and he has to play doctor to his good for nothing apprentice.
Do you know how stupid that makes me feel?
He probably hates me right now.
"Obi-Wan I can't believe you just said-er…..thought that." Xanatos says. He walks away from me, to the bed where he left the first aid kit "Do you honestly think that it's possible for me to hate you?"
"Maybe" I mumble.
"I'll be dead before the day I hate you Obi-Wan. You know that." He says pulling out a roll of gauze.
I look down…for some reason the first half of that sentence makes my blood run cold. He's says that kind of stuff all the time but here….now for some reason it makes me uncomfortable.
"Don't say that…it gives me a bad feeling." I mutter.
"Hm?" He walks over and starts wrapping the gauze around my upper body.
I hear the ship's ramp being lowered, and people rushing in.
I don't bother repeating what I said, knowing someone was going to barge in like a second.
And as if right on cue Anakin runs in and the first thing he screams when he does is:
"PADME'S THE QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!"
Both me and Xanatos look at him as though he's insane. But for some reason I…believe him.
And at the same time, both of us let out a shocked:
"WHAT?!"
wow that was long....hmm. oh and u guys can expect the darth maul vs obi vs xan battle in the next chapter so keep ur heads up ^-^
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