Chapter 21: The Calm Before The Storm

The Next Day

Anakin stood true to his word when he said he was going to rest. He slept through the whole day laying next to his mom's grave. Not even the harsh rays of the twin suns could wake this vigilante up. But Anakin wasn't a vigilante anymore. The Nightstalker was dead. The man behind the mask wasn't. He will never die. Not until the mission is complete. No one not even the most powerful force user was going to stop him.

"Mhmm", Anakin groans sitting up. He watched the sand pour off his body and fall onto the crater he dug for himself. He stood up and wiped his dirty tunic. Anakin needed a new identity. He had to disguise himself to easily fit between the ranks of the organization. But how?

"Ahah", Anakin says. He played with his hair rubbing all the small particles out of it. He gripped his infamous lightsaber and hid it beneath his tunic. He knelt before his mom's grave.

"Mom this is for you. Whatever happens just know that I will be alright. Everyone in the galaxy will be saved. I will kill that man whoever he is. He will experience the worst pain anyone in the galaxy has ever been through. And I will be the one to cause it", Anakin says in a determined tone. His mindset is different now. Prior to this moment, Anakin was at constant odds with his two personalities. His vigilante side and his normal side. While doing his ruthless acts he always had the thought of Sophie and Padme in the back of his head. Now he didn't even think of them. It's like he doesn't know them anymore. All he now knows is whoever is behind this mess, will wish they could fix everything they fucked up. Anakin was coming.

He left his mom's grave and hopped into his starfigher. He flew to Mos Eisley. Anakin softly landed in one of the docking bays. He exited the ship and instantly hated where he was. He had flashbacks of walking through this shitty town. Thugs, criminals, and bounty hunters littered the streets. Poverty and slavery was a common sight. The dust and sand blowing around causing everything to feel dirty and disgusting.

He walked through the city with his hood all the way down covering his true identity. Anakin headed into a nearby black market. He needed something to somewhat conceal his face but not fully. Luckily he found a half black mask. Anakin bought it and quickly put it on. It had scratches all over but that didn't bother him. The mask covered the whole right side of his face. He needed to cover his right scar so no one will act suspicious of him. If he somehow comes across Padme and Sophie they wouldn't recognize him. He needs them to still believe he is dead. If they figure out he is alive then they will try to do anything to see him. Anakin can't let that happen.

"That stupid bitch", he responds to himself. He had a flashback to when he received the scar. How the lady laughed at him. How she wanted to have him fuck her. That only angered him as he thought more deeply about that fateful day. Anakin left the black market. He headed to the local cantina that was located in the heart of the city. Anakin needed to find a recruiter to this organization. He entered the cantina and carefully glanced around the room. Using the force he read the people's minds till he found the man he was looking for. It was a middle-aged man. He had black curly hair with green eyes. His beard was long and scruffy. He carried a black robe with a cape that dangled around his feet kicking sand up in the air everytime he walked.

Anakin took a deep breath and approached the man. He sat down across from him and stared deeply at him. He turned to face Anakin, staring him up and down like he was pathetic. Anakin's anger was raging inside of him. "How dare he look at me like that? Just wait till I'm done with you", he shouts to himself. Nevertheless he kept his composure. He can't do anything stupid. Not yet. He needs to get into this group or everything falls apart. His dream of starting a family and leaving this life as a vigilante will never end.

"What do you what", the mans says irritated. He grabbed his drink and loudly sipped on it in front of Anakin. He put it down and wiped the liquid off his beard. His eyes were bloodshot red, he must've been on some drug

"I want to join the group", Anakin says vaguely. The man leaned in looking at him carefully. He thought that maybe Anakin was a spy, so he had to make sure. He grabbed out a holoscanner to see his identity. He pointed it at Anakin and he watched the green luminescent light trace his skin. As the man looked back down to check the reading, he was appalled. There was nothing. Anakin was a nobody. A ghost. The man lifted his robe and placed the scanner in his pocket. Anakin glanced and noticed the man holding a blaster with force restrained cuffs. Anakin used the force to concentrate and guide him. He wasn't going to lose his guard and become a prisoner again.

"Before I let you join. I need you to prove your worth. My boss doesn't like inviting just anyone. He wants the best of the best. The ones who will succeed in fulfilling his request", the man whispers. "Got it.",

Anakin nods. "What's the puck", he asks. The man only hands him a tracking fob.

"You need to locate a Twi'lek woman for me. She should be a nice sexy girl around 30 years old. She is blue and wears a skinny tight dress. If you succeed then you are in", the man says. Anakin doesn't say anything. He gets up and walks out of the cantina. He spots a speeder and steals it.

"Hey get back here", a Rodian screams. Anakin uses the force to send crates at the Rodian knocking him out unconscious. Anakin looks back and let's out a small grin.

"Pathetic", he mutters. He slams the throttle all the way down causing him to fly through the city. People jumped out of the way cursing at him. He flew through several food stands destroying them in mere seconds. He checked his fob and noticed it was beeping faster and faster. He was getting close. He pulled the speeder to the side and climbs off. He fixes his mask back in place and walks down the dark alley. Looking left and right he didn't let his guard down. Whoever thinks that they could jump Anakin, is wrong. He will cut them down without hesitation and move on like nothing happened. As he walked farther down the dark alley he noticed a woman backed up in a corner surrounded by masked people. He placed his hand on his lightsaber just in case things got ugly.

"What are you doing here", Anakin questions. A woman turned around and faced Anakin with disgust. She pulled out her blaster and aimed it at Anakin.

"Leave now. This doesn't involve you", she says coldly. Anakin was amused. "Does this bitch think I'm afraid. She wished she never said that. Oh the irony", he laughs to himself. He slowly walks closer with his hand still hovering over his lightsaber. At any moment the woman could fire and Anakin had to be ready. A second to late and he will get hit.

"It actually does involve me. That woman is coming with me and if you try to stop me than it won't turn out well for you. She is my ticket into the group", he responds. The lady took her mask off and Anakin can see the anger in her eyes. Her accomplices also turned around and aimed their blasters at him.

"We got here first. She is ours. Leave now or you will die", the woman threatens. Anakin lifted his robe and gripped his lightsaber. He wiped the sand that brushed along his face. He stared at her with utter hatred. Yellow was burning through his eyes. Anakin let out an evil grin and cackles.

"I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for", Anakin announces. He whips out his lightsaber igniting the beautiful elegant white blade. With the swiftness of the force flowing inside of him he jumped onto the wall. Running across he deflected their blaster fire with ease. He jumped into the air and pounced onto one of them plunging his lightsaber through the man's skull. He sent a heavy strike at the group slicing their heads off in seconds. Anakin turned off his lightsaber and clipped it to his belt and threw his robe over it. He spat the piece of sand that made it's way onto his tongue. He sighed as he stepped over the corpses of the group. "Should've been nice to me", he whispers.

Anakin turned to the Twi'lek who sat frightened out of her mind. She felt the end was coming. She was going to get slain by a ruthless maniac. His eyes quickly changed to deep blue as he approached her. He placed his arms out and touched the woman causing her to scream and cry.

"Don't hurt me", she shouts. Tears flew down her cheek as he laid his hands on her. Anakin quickly took his hands off. He felt that it was wrong to touch her. She thought that he was probably going to hurt her but that wasn't the case. He had different plans.

"I'm not here to hurt you. But I need your help so you have to trust me okay", he says slowly hoping she understands. "I don't work for these people, or tolerate what they do to the common folk. I'm a spy trying to get into their organization and destroy it from the inside", he continues. The woman slowly starts to calm down as Anakin softly talked to her. She wiped the dried tears that stained her face.

"How can I trust you", she asks curiously. Anakin lowered his head and stared at the ground beneath him. He had no answer. He can't tell her who he truly is.

"You can't. But if you want a life of freedom and peace then come with me", he says calmly. He reaches out his hand hoping she accepts. After a few seconds the lady shakes her head and grabs Anakin's hand. He helps her up and walks her to the speeder. They fly back to the center of town and Anakin orders the man to come out back. The man comes out and grins at Anakin's accomplishment. He claps out loud and walks up to Anakin and shakes his hand in joy. He handed Anakin a ring. It was a black ring with a red cross on it. This is what they used to know who is in the group. Anakin takes the ring and slides it onto his finger. He beamed at the man and slowly started to walk away. He could sense the betrayal on the Twi'lek. She believed Anakin lied to her but he truly didn't. As the man rubbed his dick against the woman, Anakin turned around and lifted the man up with the force. He turned the piece of shit to face Anakin. His eyes were wide open in horror as he watched the man who he just initiated into the group turn on him.

At that brief moment the man realized that he was a spy. Anakin used him to get initiated so his usefulness is now over. "Don't worry. Hell welcomes you", Anakin laughs. With a quick pull Anakin sent the man straight into his blade piercing his heart. Anakin watched in happiness as the man's eyes slowly faded away taking the life out of him. Every cunt he killed made Anakin feel great. He knew he was doing something right and to feel that excitement inside of him, it was justified. He threw the man into a nearby dumpster and lit it on fire causing a huge flame to erupt behind the cantina. Anakin approached the woman who felt relieved that he kept his word.

He pulled out his vibroblade and handed it to the woman. She stared at it confusedly then looked back at Anakin who had a serious look on his face.

"What's this for", she asks nervously. Anakin reached his arm out, signaling her to cut him.

She refused however and dropped the blade.

"I can't. I don't believe in violence", she replies. Anakin was dazed. He literally forced her to go with him against her will. The least she could do is slash his arm for payback. But he had a valid reason for making her do it. He needed to show the superiors that something went wrong and he was ambushed. Anakin would then say that the recruiter died and that he barely made it out alive. He would then show the scars to deceive them into his lie. Pretty intelligent coming from a boy who lived as a slave for most of his life. Even though Anakin didn't go to school, the force gifted him vast knowledge more than any senator or philosopher. He knew more things than anyone in the galaxy. Anakin knew how to fix almost everything except a shitty relationship or a broken marriage. Those were out of his jurisdiction.

He placed the blade in her hands once more and pleaded to her.

"Please I need you to do this. I need it to look like I got into a intense fight which led to the death of that son of a bitch over there", he mutters pointing to the burning dumpster. The woman stared at the shiny vibrating blade and glanced back at Anakin who looked desperate. She finally gave in and raised the blade slicing a small piece of Anakin's arm.

"AH", he grunts quickly placing his hand over the fresh cut. Blood began to pour from his arm onto the sand creating a puddle. The woman dropped the blade and scurried off leaving Anakin by himself. He used the force to stop the bleeding. He honestly didn't care about getting slashed, because he could easily heal it later. He grabbed the man's comlink and stowed it into his robe. He stared at the blazing fire and grinned once more. Anakin hopped onto the speeder and sped back to the docking bay where his ship was located. Inside his ship he grabbed the comm link and called the headquarters. He sat there silent and listened to the man on the other side talking. When he heard Scipio, Anakin turned off his comlink and turned on his ship.

He was going to Scipio. Without a second thought of what he was about to get into Anakin left Tatooine and when he entered space he punched the coordinates for Scipio. He looked down at his controls, with a press of a few buttons he pushes the throttle down watching the area around him disappear as he entered hyperspace.

"They believe that they are safe because they are the light of the galaxy. They believe they are protecting the republic by ruthlessly murdering helpless people. Well let me get one thing straight. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it. I am that darkness. I'm not walking into their compound, they are walking into me. If there is one thing I know that I wish I can tell any poor soul that is inside that building is that, YOU NEVER WANT TO BE IN MY PATH. I am the angel of death and the guardian of justice. My eyes burn with the bitter hatred I feel for those dykes. My blade creates the sweet sound of justice as it impales every single one of their minuscule hearts", Anakin shouts to himself. Blood was pumping through his veins, Anakin was ready. He has been waiting for this moment. Where it will all be over. This is it. The last few hours of peace before all hell breaks loose. When he enters that building no one will make it out alive. Anyone who is wearing that ring is dead to him. No matter how hard they try to plea it will not change his mind. Anakin is the landmine and they are the mindless soldier about to step on it.


Padme woke up snuggled between her blankets. Her hair was a mess and her hands were full of sweat as she still had a firm grip on the necklace. Anakin meant so much to her that it was hard to let him go. She doesn't want to believe he is truly gone.

She realizes that Sophie isn't in the room. But she knew pretty quick that she is probably having breakfast with the others. Padme decided that she needed a breath of fresh air. All this grief caused her to feel dead inside. She needed something to wake her up and calm her down. She lazily walked over to her suitcase and put on a simple nightgown. Padme was too tired to put on anything fancy, plus she wasn't going to be outside for too long.

She yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes. As she walked out to the royal gardens, she run her hands through her hair trying to make it look less tousled. Padme entered the gardens and leaned on the railing staring at the beautiful blue sky. It was gorgoeus and she grabbed the necklace and brushed it against her heart.

"Ani, I hope I get to see you again. Your soft touch, beautiful smile, captivating eyes make me want to fall into your arms and never leave. You are my true love and no man will ever replace you", she whispers into the still air. Suddenly a voice called her name. It sounded so familiar to her, but she couldn't figure out who. Intrigued she turned around and immediately dropped to her knees. "He's here. How did he find me. No, No this can't be happening. This is a dream, isn't it" Padme asks herself. She placed her hands over her face not wanting to meet his gaze. She tried to get up and run but she couldn't move. Padme was too bewildered at the sight. Clovis was there right in front of her.

"Hey baby, I missed you", he says seductively. He chews on his bottom lip and approaches her.

End of Chapter 21

Hey Guys pretty short chapter. This was just a filler for what is going to happen next. I just wanted to provide a small chapter where we follow Anakin on his quick initiation into the group. I wanted to end it on Clovis appearing to Padme, I didn't feel like dragging the chapter out for no logical reason. Sorry if this chapter's dialogue seems lazy than the other ones. School has been a pain these last few days and trying to think and write something good while doing school work at the same time is difficult. But don't worry I promise you next chapter will be better. Hope you enjoy. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.