Amari stood in her room and looked at all of her things. Her light saber hung on a hook next to her bed. She grabbed it and placed on the hook at her hip. Her door opened and she instinctually flicked the switch and held her light saber out at the person who walked in on her. She sighed when she saw it was only Anakin and hit the switch again and it retracted. He smiled when he saw her. She sat one the bed and looked at him.
"Are you ready to go leave Mistress Amari" He said as he watched her pick up her extra robe and toss it into a bag. She nodded and looked into Anakin's eyes.
"I suppose so" she said as she grabbed her bag and looked at the door it opened and they walked out.
***
Obi-wan saw them off as they boarded the small passenger ship to Naboo. Amari was restless as they said in their small room. Her hood had to be kept up at all times she was out side of the room. Anakin often sat by the door and watched her as she slept or read for she wasn't one to talk. One morning she woke suddenly and just staired at him in the pale blue darkness of the room. Her breathing was rapid and she just stared at him. He started over towards her and touched her hand to calm her,
"Are you all right Mistress Amari" he spoke softly as she surprisingly wrapped her arms around him.
"Don't call me that now, here I am simply Amari," She spoke as she smothered her face in his shoulder. She was warm in his arms, she seemed to calm him in a way. he let his arms wrap around her it was only then that she pulled away. She shook her head and stood. She shed her robe and Anakin watched tentatively as she now watched him. She smiled slightly and then shook her head.
"Why did you pull away?" he said as he shook his head slightly confused at what just happened, he then stared at her and tried to ascertain the reason with the force. Suddenly he felt his own power swatted back to him by a force much stronger than his own.
"If I had wanted you to know I would have told you" She spoke as she stood up and sat down next to Anakin again. She crossed her legs and faced him. "do you?" she spoke as she looked down at her hands and then up at his eyes again.
"Do I what?"
"Have dreams that seem real enough to be true?" he shook his head
"No, I can't say I have Mis-Amari"
"Then I guess it wasn't anything to worry about, Anakin my dream was about you,... Never mind" she said as she laid back and sighed. Anakin stood up and went back to his chair. She rolled her head to the said and looked at him.
"Don't call me Anakin call me Ani," he said with a smile as he sat back in his chair.
"Ani..." she whispered as she smiled and sat up. Her pale gray eyes smiled for the first time ever since he had met her when he first became a Padawan. She bowed her head again and laid down. "In the morning, we should have reached Naboo, You are aware your master is not going to Tatooine are you not?" she spoke as she looked up at him. He paused and looked at her.
"No Obi-wan would have told me"
"Obi-wan lied only so that you and I would be safe, he went to Endor, they suspect something, they went to confront someone, though I do not know who," She looked at her hands "Surely you need to sleep as well?" she said as she propped her self up on her elbow. He nodded and walked over. He laid down next to her and gazed at the ceiling. She closed her eyes and his gaze fell to her back and how the white shirt didn't quite cover all of her back and the small was slightly exposed. He fell asleep gazing at the soft skin.
Morning came quickly and Anakin awoke to find Amari gone and for an instant he thought it was all a dream except for when she entered the room and pulled the hood of her robe back. her hair was snaked into a bun on top of her head. Her full lips were unnaturally read and her skin was flawless and tan her eyes were frighteningly gray.
"Good morning, We have arrived by the way," She spoke as she picked up her bag and looked at Anakin who smiled sheepishly.
They left the ship and continued to walk to the place where they were to stay. A small villa in a valley near a waterfall. She walked cautiously with Anakin behind her.
"Do you trust Chancellor Palpatine?" She asked as she continued to walk, her feet making no sound on the stone street.
"I trust the Chancellor, he is a good man- for a politician, he has done much for me why should I not ..." it was then that he noticed that Amari had stopped walking. "Amari? What's wrong?" he said as he watched her.
"Quiet" she said as she slowly turned around to see her sister on a Swoopbike with a grin on her face. She sprang from her bike and at her sister. Amari pushed Anakin to the side. Lamari pushed Amari to the ground and pressed her knee into her sisters throat. Amari then used the force and her sister flew off of her and into the swoop bike. Lamari shed her robe to reveal a black fighting suite much like what Amari wore. She then took out her light saber and smiled.
"You cannot defeat me, I will prevail" Lamari said as her light saber glowed a menacing red at her side.
"I cannot allow that to happen" Amari spoke shaking her head as she shed her own black robe and took out her light saber which glowed yellow. The sisters stared each other down in the middle of the day as Anakin laid on the ground unable to move. The tension in the air was so think it could be cut with the light sabers in their hands. The force crackled around them and for the first time ever Amari was terrified and her knees shook as she prepared for the best fight of her life.
