Anaikin arrived at the Jedi's meeting place the next day like his
master Obi-wan had promised him. It was late in the day and the Jedi
masters were packing up their work and returning to their rooms to sleep.
Anakin ran down the hallways and stopped at Padme's door. He reached out and tried to jiggle the handle but it angrily bounced back with out the door opening.
"Looking for someone Anakin?" Windu asked as Anakin turned around.
"Master Windu I have to find her, she's in trouble! Cyu is not what you think." Anikin tried to reason.
"You were not what we thought boy, I'll make a deal with you right now Anikin. If you leave right now I won't tell the council that I found you here again." Windu bargained. Anakin looked at Windu and replied, "I am sorry but I can't leave until I know Padme is alright."
"I assure you she's fine." Windu replied annoyed.
"I assure you she's not." Anikin snapped using the force to break the door open. Windu stepped inside to find the room disheveled with tables overturned and furniture upside down. "What.happened?" Windu asked stunned at the room's appearance.
"Most likely Cyu made Padme go somewhere with him so he could finish her off and then return here and frame me." Anakin though out loud to himself. He walked over to the closet and checked over the clothing.
"What makes you think that I will believe you?" Windu asked as Anakin threw something at him from inside the closet.
"Take a look at that, Cyu's light saber which happens to look a lot like mine. Isn't that strange?"
"You make you point clear Anikin. I know this light saber isn't yours by the sheer shape of it."
"Exactly, but where would Cyu be taking Padme to kill her? Probably somewhere easy to frame it on me." Anakin thought.
"South garden, no one ever goes there and it's far enough away from the main buildings that he'd never be discovered." Obi-wan suggested coming in the room and taking a look around.
"Master? Have you come to help?" Anakin asked. "This is your battle boy, I simply have come as backup." Obi-wan insisted.
"Fight well Anakin, I know you will." Windu encouraged as Anakin walked to the door.
"I will Master Windu."
"Also, I am sorry for being against you. We were right all along, you did show us great things." Anakin smiled and ran down the hall after Obi-wan towards the south garden.
~
Anakin and Obi-wan arrived in the south garden minutes later to find that it was completely empty and very still. The wind rustled the long fingers of the trees and made the flowers bend to it's will but there was no sign of one disturbance.
Anikin's mind started to rattle off all the things that could have happened, and his anger rose. "WHERE ARE YOU!!!" He called as his voice echoed off the marble columns surrounding the garden.
"No need to shout." Came Cyu's answer, his voice seemed to be everywhere mocking Anikin.
"Show yourself." Anikin snapped taking out his light saber and turning it on.
"Oh you're going to finish me off once and for all huh?" Cyu asked laughing.
"What did you do to Padme?" Anikin growled.
"Padme? Oh Padme.I'm afraid you just missed her. If you got here a little faster maybe you would have been able to save her." Cyu informed him.
"I don't believe you." Anikin replied as Cyu appeared in front of him like some hologram picture.
"Well that's too bad cause that tells me you haven't found her dead body yet." Cyu snickered turning on his own light saber.
"You're lying." Anikin yelled charging at him locking light sabers with Cyu's red beam.
"Maybe I am Anikin but that's just what you want to believe. You don't know the truth and so you choose to believe what you want." Cyu snapped shoving Anikin away with his light saber. Cyu took a swing at him but Anikin locked sabers with him again.
"You'd never kill Padme because you love her and just the though of her blood spilled because of you would make you sick."
"Stop talking about yourself Anikin, only a Jedi would think that way."
"You're a Jedi just like me Cyu so there is no difference."
"That's where your wrong boy." Cyu smirked shoving Anikin away again with his foot this time. Anikin stumbled backwards but caught his balance and stared coldly into Cyu's eyes. "I was once a Jedi until I converted into the darkside, now I have such powers that no Jedi could ever stop me. I have changed, I use to be a sap like you but the dark side has changed me."
"That's why the masters turned against me, you clouded their thoughts. I could read your fears like a book yet they couldn't." Anikin thought aloud.
"That's right and I was worried you'd figure out that I worked for the dark side but you never did. Now Padme is dead."
"That's not true."
"You should have seen the way she screamed as my light saber cut her pale sweaty skin Anikin. One slash and she was on the floor begging for mercy holding her side that was becoming red with the crimson blood. I cut so deep that it came out in pools around her. Her salty tears never made me stop once; her brown eyes were overflowing with tears of pain. No one could save her at the point because she'd lost too much blood at that time and her little fragile heart broke and bled with her body because her husband wasn't there to protect her." Cyu taunted.
Anikin's blood started to boil as his teeth clenched together with anger. He focused on Cyu with such concentration that Obi-wan was even surprised because he was never that focused. Anikin charged again but this time ducked when Cyu went to lock sabers with him again and swiped his saber at Cyu's stomach. Cyu jumped back before it hit his skin and kicked Anikin's feet out from underneath him.
"Poor Padawan, still not done with training. I think your going to go and join your girlfriend soon." Cyu joked kicking him in the stomach.
Anikin looked up at Cyu with pain and hate as he cackled at him lying helpless on the ground. When Cyu went for another kick to the stomach Anikin used both his feet to push off the ground and flip backwards back up to his feet. Then he outstretched his arm to catch his light saber that he had lost. "Well that was cute." Cyu sneered as he charged after Anikin.
Anikin blocked Cyu's saber on the right and left continually not moving and inch but what he didn't sense was Cyu's ability to lift and throw objects behind him. Cyu had lifted a large rock and it was hurtling at him from behind.
"Anikin! Look out!" Obi-wan yelled seeing the rock.
"I got it master." Anikin yelled back thinking he was talking about the saber.
Obi-wan jumped and rolled right in the path of the rock and clicked his saber on. Right as the rock passed above him he lifted his saber up and cut the rock in half so the two halves flew right by Anikin not touching him.
Aanikin was still fighting intensively trying to become the offensive side of the saber duel. Cyu was still dominating the offensive with his complex until he locked sabers with Anikin their faces inches away from each other. They both stared into one another's eyes with such hate. Sweat was now brimming both their foreheads but neither one showed weakness.
"I tire of this saber duel Anikin, what do you say we spice things up a bit?" Cyu suggested taking his saber away and stepped back.
"What do you mean?" Anikin asked not lowering his saber one inch.
Cyu laughed and started to vaporize into thin air along with his red bladed saber. Anikin looked frantically around trying to see Cyu but in an instant he felt a saber rip through his arm leaving an ugly gash but his arm was still attached.
"Anikin! Try to sense him with the force your eyes are no use here." Obi- wan called to Anikin seeing the situation.
"I am trying master, but he's using some kind of side of the force that is hard to sense." Anikin cried swiping his saber through the air but hitting nothing. Anikin was knocked to the floor as Cyu's laughing could be heard.
"Anikin get up!" Obi-wan encouraged.
"I can't!" Anikin told his master as he was trying to push himself up by his hands.
Obi-wan closed his eyes and walked forward with his light saber out. He sensed Cyu's negative energy and could see him with his foot on Anikin's back. With his eyes still closed Obi-wan swung his light saber at Cyu so that Cyu was forced to doge it by bending backwards. This allowed his foot to be removed from Anikin's back and Cyu was on his back with out his light saber. "Go Anikin! Get you saber and finish him!" Obi-wan commanded as he stepped back and opened his eyes again.
Anikin instantly sprung back into action and was on his feet. Anikin closed his eyes and sensed Cyu on the ground. He walked over with his eyes still closed and kicked Cyu in the chin so that he flew backwards a few inches. Cyu used the momentum to roll backwards and get on his feet again.
"So you can sense me now? Seems like I pissed you off enough so that your jedi powers finally kicked in." Cyu taunted.
"Trust me Cyu I have wanted to rip you in half with my saber ever since I first met you." Anikin growled swinging his saber at the air again but Cyu leaned the opposite way.
"You have such a temper, seems like you'd be perfect for the dark side." Cyu pointed out catching Anikin's hand while he was swinging his saber at him again.
Anikin opened his eyes and his temper flared again he let go off his saber so that it floated in the air where Cyu, still invisible, held it. He flipped backwards twice and landed on his feet. Cyu stood stunned with the saber in his hand.
Anikin stretched out his hand and his saber started moving towards him fast bringing Cyu along with it. Anikin kicked Cyu in the chest when he was close enough and took caught his saber before it hit the ground. He then shot out his other hand to catch Cyu by the collar before he hit the ground so that they were face to face. Cyu re-materialized so that he was a solid human again.
"So this is the end for you, a pity no one will miss you." Anikin smirked.
"I'm not dead yet boy, don't ever think you've won until your opponent is dead." Cyu cried taking his arm with his saber in it and swinging it at Anikin's head. Anikin used his other hand with the light saber to stop Cyu's blade and then twisted his saber around in his hand so that he cut off Cyu's hand with the saber in it.
Cyu's face became an instant prune as his mouth yelled out in pain. Anikin laughed a bit looking at Cyu's expression of pure pain.
"Sucks doesn't it?"
"Anikin, why are you doing this? Think of everything you could have on the dark side! My mission was to kill Padme and make you an outcast so that you would join the dark side. My master has noticed that you are a great fighter and it would have been an honor to fight along side of you." Cyu wheezed through his jolts of pain. "Tell your master to get another Jedi cause I am never going to join the dark side. As for Padme, tell me where she is." Anikin demanded.
"I.killed her, I told you." Cyu replied
Anikin's face went into a scowl as spots began to blur his vision. His face heated up as flames danced in his eyes. His heart instantly melted and splashed down his ribs to his stomach that churned it with acid hate.
"Then this is for her." Anikin told Cyu as he let go of his collar and stuck his light saber right into his stomach. The saber cut the skin as blood started to gush out of hole. Cyu fell to the ground and couldn't even bring his hands up to hold his wound. He was already dead with his eyes rolled back into his skull and a trickle of blood down his chin.
Anikin stood over Cyu's dead body but didn't feel at all relived; he still had his heart churning in the acid of his stomach. He fell to his knees and covered his face with hand hands. He didn't want to cry but the tears kept coming, he longed for Padme's touch her feeling her taste. Now she lingered around in his memories never to become real again. Only in dreams could he ever see her again.
"Anikin." Obi-wan began placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. "She's gone.I couldn't save her master. I promised her I'd protect her and now she's dead!" Anikin snapped getting up, his face red and eyes puffy.
"It's not all your fault Anikin besides."
"No it is my fault, it's all my fault!" Anikin yelled storming off in the other direction.
Obi-wan lowered his head and sighed, "I can still sense her but she's scared. I don't know where she is but she's still alive."
"Sense her I do too Obi-wan." Yoda replied hobbling up behind Obi-wan.
"Yes but Anikin has become so overcome with hate that he can't sense it."
"Show him to look past his anger you must, otherwise death of him their will be." Yoda warned resting on his cane.
Obi-wan sighed and answered, "I am afraid he's too far into his anger already.nothing will be able to stop him but Padme." ~
"Oh.I underestimated that boy." hissed the master in the hood as he sensed Cyu's death by Anikin. He looked over at Padme who was chained up against the wall. She was tugging at the chains that held her leg tirelessly.
"Anikin will come and rescue me, he knows I'm not dead!" Padme yelled at the hooded figure.
The man in the hood wrapped his long bony fingers around her chin and made Padme's brown eyes look up at his yellow ones that gleamed in the darkness. "Has it ever occurred to you that I want him to come here and get you?"
Padme shook her head no not knowing what the hooded man meant. He let go of her chin and walked back over to his desk and sat down again. "I want him to come here to he will convert to the dark side. With him I could be a supreme ruler."
"He'll never convert." Padme assured the hooded man.
"We have way to make him convert Padme." The hooded man laughed as Padme gasped finally understanding his plan.
Anakin ran down the hallways and stopped at Padme's door. He reached out and tried to jiggle the handle but it angrily bounced back with out the door opening.
"Looking for someone Anakin?" Windu asked as Anakin turned around.
"Master Windu I have to find her, she's in trouble! Cyu is not what you think." Anikin tried to reason.
"You were not what we thought boy, I'll make a deal with you right now Anikin. If you leave right now I won't tell the council that I found you here again." Windu bargained. Anakin looked at Windu and replied, "I am sorry but I can't leave until I know Padme is alright."
"I assure you she's fine." Windu replied annoyed.
"I assure you she's not." Anikin snapped using the force to break the door open. Windu stepped inside to find the room disheveled with tables overturned and furniture upside down. "What.happened?" Windu asked stunned at the room's appearance.
"Most likely Cyu made Padme go somewhere with him so he could finish her off and then return here and frame me." Anakin though out loud to himself. He walked over to the closet and checked over the clothing.
"What makes you think that I will believe you?" Windu asked as Anakin threw something at him from inside the closet.
"Take a look at that, Cyu's light saber which happens to look a lot like mine. Isn't that strange?"
"You make you point clear Anikin. I know this light saber isn't yours by the sheer shape of it."
"Exactly, but where would Cyu be taking Padme to kill her? Probably somewhere easy to frame it on me." Anakin thought.
"South garden, no one ever goes there and it's far enough away from the main buildings that he'd never be discovered." Obi-wan suggested coming in the room and taking a look around.
"Master? Have you come to help?" Anakin asked. "This is your battle boy, I simply have come as backup." Obi-wan insisted.
"Fight well Anakin, I know you will." Windu encouraged as Anakin walked to the door.
"I will Master Windu."
"Also, I am sorry for being against you. We were right all along, you did show us great things." Anakin smiled and ran down the hall after Obi-wan towards the south garden.
~
Anakin and Obi-wan arrived in the south garden minutes later to find that it was completely empty and very still. The wind rustled the long fingers of the trees and made the flowers bend to it's will but there was no sign of one disturbance.
Anikin's mind started to rattle off all the things that could have happened, and his anger rose. "WHERE ARE YOU!!!" He called as his voice echoed off the marble columns surrounding the garden.
"No need to shout." Came Cyu's answer, his voice seemed to be everywhere mocking Anikin.
"Show yourself." Anikin snapped taking out his light saber and turning it on.
"Oh you're going to finish me off once and for all huh?" Cyu asked laughing.
"What did you do to Padme?" Anikin growled.
"Padme? Oh Padme.I'm afraid you just missed her. If you got here a little faster maybe you would have been able to save her." Cyu informed him.
"I don't believe you." Anikin replied as Cyu appeared in front of him like some hologram picture.
"Well that's too bad cause that tells me you haven't found her dead body yet." Cyu snickered turning on his own light saber.
"You're lying." Anikin yelled charging at him locking light sabers with Cyu's red beam.
"Maybe I am Anikin but that's just what you want to believe. You don't know the truth and so you choose to believe what you want." Cyu snapped shoving Anikin away with his light saber. Cyu took a swing at him but Anikin locked sabers with him again.
"You'd never kill Padme because you love her and just the though of her blood spilled because of you would make you sick."
"Stop talking about yourself Anikin, only a Jedi would think that way."
"You're a Jedi just like me Cyu so there is no difference."
"That's where your wrong boy." Cyu smirked shoving Anikin away again with his foot this time. Anikin stumbled backwards but caught his balance and stared coldly into Cyu's eyes. "I was once a Jedi until I converted into the darkside, now I have such powers that no Jedi could ever stop me. I have changed, I use to be a sap like you but the dark side has changed me."
"That's why the masters turned against me, you clouded their thoughts. I could read your fears like a book yet they couldn't." Anikin thought aloud.
"That's right and I was worried you'd figure out that I worked for the dark side but you never did. Now Padme is dead."
"That's not true."
"You should have seen the way she screamed as my light saber cut her pale sweaty skin Anikin. One slash and she was on the floor begging for mercy holding her side that was becoming red with the crimson blood. I cut so deep that it came out in pools around her. Her salty tears never made me stop once; her brown eyes were overflowing with tears of pain. No one could save her at the point because she'd lost too much blood at that time and her little fragile heart broke and bled with her body because her husband wasn't there to protect her." Cyu taunted.
Anikin's blood started to boil as his teeth clenched together with anger. He focused on Cyu with such concentration that Obi-wan was even surprised because he was never that focused. Anikin charged again but this time ducked when Cyu went to lock sabers with him again and swiped his saber at Cyu's stomach. Cyu jumped back before it hit his skin and kicked Anikin's feet out from underneath him.
"Poor Padawan, still not done with training. I think your going to go and join your girlfriend soon." Cyu joked kicking him in the stomach.
Anikin looked up at Cyu with pain and hate as he cackled at him lying helpless on the ground. When Cyu went for another kick to the stomach Anikin used both his feet to push off the ground and flip backwards back up to his feet. Then he outstretched his arm to catch his light saber that he had lost. "Well that was cute." Cyu sneered as he charged after Anikin.
Anikin blocked Cyu's saber on the right and left continually not moving and inch but what he didn't sense was Cyu's ability to lift and throw objects behind him. Cyu had lifted a large rock and it was hurtling at him from behind.
"Anikin! Look out!" Obi-wan yelled seeing the rock.
"I got it master." Anikin yelled back thinking he was talking about the saber.
Obi-wan jumped and rolled right in the path of the rock and clicked his saber on. Right as the rock passed above him he lifted his saber up and cut the rock in half so the two halves flew right by Anikin not touching him.
Aanikin was still fighting intensively trying to become the offensive side of the saber duel. Cyu was still dominating the offensive with his complex until he locked sabers with Anikin their faces inches away from each other. They both stared into one another's eyes with such hate. Sweat was now brimming both their foreheads but neither one showed weakness.
"I tire of this saber duel Anikin, what do you say we spice things up a bit?" Cyu suggested taking his saber away and stepped back.
"What do you mean?" Anikin asked not lowering his saber one inch.
Cyu laughed and started to vaporize into thin air along with his red bladed saber. Anikin looked frantically around trying to see Cyu but in an instant he felt a saber rip through his arm leaving an ugly gash but his arm was still attached.
"Anikin! Try to sense him with the force your eyes are no use here." Obi- wan called to Anikin seeing the situation.
"I am trying master, but he's using some kind of side of the force that is hard to sense." Anikin cried swiping his saber through the air but hitting nothing. Anikin was knocked to the floor as Cyu's laughing could be heard.
"Anikin get up!" Obi-wan encouraged.
"I can't!" Anikin told his master as he was trying to push himself up by his hands.
Obi-wan closed his eyes and walked forward with his light saber out. He sensed Cyu's negative energy and could see him with his foot on Anikin's back. With his eyes still closed Obi-wan swung his light saber at Cyu so that Cyu was forced to doge it by bending backwards. This allowed his foot to be removed from Anikin's back and Cyu was on his back with out his light saber. "Go Anikin! Get you saber and finish him!" Obi-wan commanded as he stepped back and opened his eyes again.
Anikin instantly sprung back into action and was on his feet. Anikin closed his eyes and sensed Cyu on the ground. He walked over with his eyes still closed and kicked Cyu in the chin so that he flew backwards a few inches. Cyu used the momentum to roll backwards and get on his feet again.
"So you can sense me now? Seems like I pissed you off enough so that your jedi powers finally kicked in." Cyu taunted.
"Trust me Cyu I have wanted to rip you in half with my saber ever since I first met you." Anikin growled swinging his saber at the air again but Cyu leaned the opposite way.
"You have such a temper, seems like you'd be perfect for the dark side." Cyu pointed out catching Anikin's hand while he was swinging his saber at him again.
Anikin opened his eyes and his temper flared again he let go off his saber so that it floated in the air where Cyu, still invisible, held it. He flipped backwards twice and landed on his feet. Cyu stood stunned with the saber in his hand.
Anikin stretched out his hand and his saber started moving towards him fast bringing Cyu along with it. Anikin kicked Cyu in the chest when he was close enough and took caught his saber before it hit the ground. He then shot out his other hand to catch Cyu by the collar before he hit the ground so that they were face to face. Cyu re-materialized so that he was a solid human again.
"So this is the end for you, a pity no one will miss you." Anikin smirked.
"I'm not dead yet boy, don't ever think you've won until your opponent is dead." Cyu cried taking his arm with his saber in it and swinging it at Anikin's head. Anikin used his other hand with the light saber to stop Cyu's blade and then twisted his saber around in his hand so that he cut off Cyu's hand with the saber in it.
Cyu's face became an instant prune as his mouth yelled out in pain. Anikin laughed a bit looking at Cyu's expression of pure pain.
"Sucks doesn't it?"
"Anikin, why are you doing this? Think of everything you could have on the dark side! My mission was to kill Padme and make you an outcast so that you would join the dark side. My master has noticed that you are a great fighter and it would have been an honor to fight along side of you." Cyu wheezed through his jolts of pain. "Tell your master to get another Jedi cause I am never going to join the dark side. As for Padme, tell me where she is." Anikin demanded.
"I.killed her, I told you." Cyu replied
Anikin's face went into a scowl as spots began to blur his vision. His face heated up as flames danced in his eyes. His heart instantly melted and splashed down his ribs to his stomach that churned it with acid hate.
"Then this is for her." Anikin told Cyu as he let go of his collar and stuck his light saber right into his stomach. The saber cut the skin as blood started to gush out of hole. Cyu fell to the ground and couldn't even bring his hands up to hold his wound. He was already dead with his eyes rolled back into his skull and a trickle of blood down his chin.
Anikin stood over Cyu's dead body but didn't feel at all relived; he still had his heart churning in the acid of his stomach. He fell to his knees and covered his face with hand hands. He didn't want to cry but the tears kept coming, he longed for Padme's touch her feeling her taste. Now she lingered around in his memories never to become real again. Only in dreams could he ever see her again.
"Anikin." Obi-wan began placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. "She's gone.I couldn't save her master. I promised her I'd protect her and now she's dead!" Anikin snapped getting up, his face red and eyes puffy.
"It's not all your fault Anikin besides."
"No it is my fault, it's all my fault!" Anikin yelled storming off in the other direction.
Obi-wan lowered his head and sighed, "I can still sense her but she's scared. I don't know where she is but she's still alive."
"Sense her I do too Obi-wan." Yoda replied hobbling up behind Obi-wan.
"Yes but Anikin has become so overcome with hate that he can't sense it."
"Show him to look past his anger you must, otherwise death of him their will be." Yoda warned resting on his cane.
Obi-wan sighed and answered, "I am afraid he's too far into his anger already.nothing will be able to stop him but Padme." ~
"Oh.I underestimated that boy." hissed the master in the hood as he sensed Cyu's death by Anikin. He looked over at Padme who was chained up against the wall. She was tugging at the chains that held her leg tirelessly.
"Anikin will come and rescue me, he knows I'm not dead!" Padme yelled at the hooded figure.
The man in the hood wrapped his long bony fingers around her chin and made Padme's brown eyes look up at his yellow ones that gleamed in the darkness. "Has it ever occurred to you that I want him to come here and get you?"
Padme shook her head no not knowing what the hooded man meant. He let go of her chin and walked back over to his desk and sat down again. "I want him to come here to he will convert to the dark side. With him I could be a supreme ruler."
"He'll never convert." Padme assured the hooded man.
"We have way to make him convert Padme." The hooded man laughed as Padme gasped finally understanding his plan.