Title: The Purge
Author: ewan's girl
Disclaimer: Blah, blah, blah.don't own anything, making no money.
Chapter III:
"Good, feel the force around you. Let it guide your emotions." Yoda sat on a moss covered log in the swamp lands of Degobah, watching his colleague perfectly execute the highest level of Kata stances. In the two months that Obi Wan Kenobi had come to stay with Yoda, he had been going through the most rigorous training that he had ever been through. Not even the trials had prepared him for what Yoda threw at him. Obi Wan cleared his mind of all thoughts and listened as the force guided his body through the exercises.
Yoda watched carefully, ready to scrutinize his mistakes. He was very impressed with Obi Wan's dedication and ability, he knew the Jedi master was conditioning himself to take on the entire Empire, this concerned Yoda, but he kept his concerns to himself. He watched as Obi Wan began to do a series of back flips. "Hold it." Yoda commanded Obi Wan to stop mid back flip, and hold himself upright on his hands.
Obi Wan's arms cried for a rest, his body was being pushed to the limit, but he continued to hold the position. He could feel the beads of sweat dripping down his nose to the ground. He then closed his eyes and continued the exercise, He balanced himself and then lifted one arm off the ground and held his entire body with one arm, using the aid of the force. His arm began to shake under the enormous pressure it was being placed under, yet he held the stance. Through the force he could sense Yoda moving towards him, he then felt the feeling of a walking stick poking him in the back, a feeling he'd come to know all too well. "Concentrate." Yoda commanded. "Use not your body, use only the force." Obi Wan relaxed his muscles and called to the force. He then felt as if his body was light as a feather. Yoda then went back to his home, leaving the Jedi to hold his position for one standard hour.
***
Ferus Olin looked around the holding cell that he and the team of Jedi he had been instructed to take to Naboo were now being held in. He felt responsible for bringing other Jedi with him on this mission, when he was the one who offered to go in the first place. He had asked his former master Siri if he could go investigate the disturbance on Naboo, he didn't inform her that the reason he wanted to go was because of a personal vendetta against the Sith lord known as Darth Vader. He knew the secret that Obi Wan Kenobi was keeping from everyone else, the secret of his failure to the Jedi, and the Republic. Ferus didn't blame Obi Wan however, no he knew who was to blame, he knew who had failed the Jedi, who had turned to the dark side. He knew all along that Anakin Skywalker was trouble, and now everyone in the entire galaxy saw it as well.
He looked over at the other Jedi knight Darra Thel-Tanis, who was trying to keep her young padawan calm, as well as herself. He tried to give her a look that showed he thought everything was going to be ok, but he himself had his doubts. Suddenly the door to their cell opened and was surrounded by storm troopers, holding binders to place on their captives. They took the Jedi prisoners down the long hall of the star destroyer. They brought them to a round, grey room and stood all four in the very center. They then heard a sound that ran chills down each and every one of their spines, the sound of loud, labored breathing. Ferus tried to hold his head up high, to show he wasn't intimidated.
"Now we will discuss the whereabouts of these rumored rebel forces." Darth Vader stood in front of the four Jedi captives with his arms folded.
"What rebel forces?" Ferus snapped.
"Ah Ferus Olin, cocky to the end I see." Vader remarked. "If you will not tell me the whereabouts of the rebels, then perhaps the location of the Jedi?"
"There are no other Jedi." Darra piped in.
Vader looked over at the woman, and walked up to her. The dark man towered over the small framed Jedi, it took all over her training not to cower in fear of this man. "Then tell me.where is Kenobi?" Vader hissed.
"Kenobi is dead." Ferus almost shouted. Vader walked back to Ferus and stared at him. Ferus stared back at the cold, black helmet and almost felt sorry for the being inside.almost. Vader then grabbed Ferus by the neck and held him off the ground.
"Stop it!" Ferus' young padawan cried.
Vader turned his head towards the 11 year old boy. This boy stood about as tall as Vader's hip, his dark brown eyes held both determination and fear. Vader remembered what it was like to always try to be the perfect padawan, to always have to please his master. He felt sorry for this apprentice. 'The Jedi crush so many promising beings in this galaxy.' He thought to himself, then shook off the thought and returned to the mission at hand. The sith lord, still carrying Ferus by the neck stood over the padawan.
"You want to save your master young one? Then tell me, where is Kenobi hiding?" Vader insisted.
"Ma Zourek, don't be frightened, listen to the force." Darra insisted.
Ma Zourek felt like he wanted to cry, but he attempted to calm himself. He then looked at his master, then to the floor. He shook his head. Vader grew impatient, he then lowered Ferus to the ground, still holding him by the neck and with his free hand he grabbed the padawan by his neck and held the young boy high above the floor. Ferus' eyes widened in terror as he watched tears stream down the boy's young face.
"Enough!" Ferus gasped under Vader's strong grip.
"Then tell me what I need to know." Vader insisted. "If you want to save the boy then you will tell me where you are hiding Kenobi."
Ferus tried to give his helpless apprentice a supportive look, he then glanced back at his teammate who was in a state of shock herself. "Let him go, he is just a boy." Ferus begged. He tried to calm himself, to remember the Jedi code for guidance, but his heart was breaking at the sight of his young charge turning blue due to lack of oxygen.
"Alright, I'll tell you what you want to know." Ferus finally gave in, and Vader dropped the padawan to the ground. Darra ran to the boy who was gasping for air. Vader tuned his attention back to his old rival, it was giving him a dark pleasure knowing that he held this man's life in his very hands. "Tell me." He commanded between mechanical breaths.
Ferus looked down to the ground and then back at Vader. "We don't know where Kenobi is, he abandoned us two months ago." Vader then grabbed Ferus by the throat again and lifted him high above his head then giving the knight a violent shake. Ferus felt darkness creep up on him as the dark lord's grasp tightened. Vader grew impatient at the silence and then in one swift move broke Ferus Olin's neck, the Jedi slumped in his arms he then threw the body to the floor. Darra felt immediate fear enter her body, and she looked down at the children who were both trying to hold back tears. Vader turned back to the remaining Jedi and asked the same question one last time.
"Where is Obi Wan?" Silence filled the room with the exception of the sound of crying coming from Ma Zourek.
Vader then held out his wrist, causing Darra to choke on thin air. "Spare the children, and I will tell you where the Jedi are." She struggled to say. Vader stopped his onslaught at the sound of this proposal. Darra looked at the two padawans who were huddled together, trying not to cry. "The Jedi are on Alderaan, Kenobi is not with them." "Fine." Vader began to walk to the exit. "Commander. Execute them." With that Vader ignored the protests from the woman and left the Jedi to their demise.
******
Siri Tachi stood motionless on one of the many balconies of the palace on Alderaan. She could feel the tears threatening to spill over her lids and down her cheek. She felt the life force of her ex padawan being extinguished as well as three other Jedi. No one had officially told her they were gone, but she knew. The few remaining Jedi were very connected with each other, and knew when something happened to one another.
Siri was never very good at dealing with her emotions, and once again she didn't know how to react to this. If she still believed what she had when she was young, she would've just told herself to not let her personal feelings get in the way, she would've told herself it was the way of the force, that the Jedi are always prepared for death. She still believed in the Jedi code of course, but as she's grown older and seen everything she's seen, especially in the last three years she's learned that the code doesn't have all of the answers.
She also knew that the now six remaining Jedi that she found herself in charge of would look to her for guidance, and she didn't know exactly what to tell them. She found herself looking down at the ring on her left hand and shaking her head. She then felt a quiet presence behind her.
"I already know." She softly said to Padme, who had come to bring her the news of the execution of the Jedi.
"I'm so sorry." Padme didn't know what to say. "It was my home planet, it should've been me."
Siri almost chuckled. "Don't be ridiculous Padme. We are servants to the Republic, we know what is at stake."
Padme still felt so incredibly sorry for the constant loss of life that seemed to be inflicting the Jedi. "I'm just very sorry." She said lamely.
***
He kept his mind clear of distractions, listened to the force as he continued to hold his stance. The weariness of his body was now going unnoticed because he was completely in a meditative trance. Suddenly he felt the disturbance through the force, felt white hot pain, then nothing. He snapped awake, and fell to the mud beneath him. He closed his eyes, trying to sense what exactly had happened, but he knew. He looked around the swamp and noticed Yoda sitting on a rock, with his ears down staring at a spot on the ground. Obi Wan shakily rose to his feet and walked over to the tiny green master, sitting next to him.
"Keep this up, we cannot." Yoda looked off in the distance.
"I know." Obi Wan simply answered.
"End this we must, but be patient too we must." Yoda replied.
"I intend to end this master." Obi Wan exclaimed, putting his now very long ginger hair into a pony tail.
"Learned nothing in these two months have you? Listen to the force you must."
"I'm listening to the force master, I know what I have to do." Obi Wan looked at Yoda.
"I will face Vader, I will end this."
"Believe you I do that end it you will when face Vader you do, but face Vader yet you should not." Yoda tried to reason with him.
"I have to stop him master, I can't let him do this." Obi Wan tried to defend his intentions.
"Reckless have you become. Reckless before have you been, remember not Melida/Daan? What happens when reckless you are?"
Obi Wan nodded, he knew what Yoda was getting at. "Yes, I lost someone important to me."
"More at stake this time there is." Yoda remarked and Obi Wan nodded. Yoda looked at Obi Wan, he knew about the visions, he had tried to help Obi Wan release his fear of those visions into the force. "Go to her you should, need you they do."
Obi Wan reluctantly nodded. "What about you master?"
Yoda looked down at the ground again. He said nothing, and Obi Wan knew he couldn't press the issue more. Yoda had become somewhat of a hermit, claiming he didn't want to put the other Jedi in danger by the dark side sensing him. Obi Wan had thought Yoda was being overly cautious, but now he understood. He too wanted to hide away from the dark side, but knew he had no choice.
Obi Wan sighed, and stood up feeling every muscle in his body ache from the exertion he had put his body through. He then bowed to his master and walked to gather his things to go back to his duties, to go back to the purge, to go back to his nightmare.
*To be continued! I hope you are enjoying this.
Chapter III:
"Good, feel the force around you. Let it guide your emotions." Yoda sat on a moss covered log in the swamp lands of Degobah, watching his colleague perfectly execute the highest level of Kata stances. In the two months that Obi Wan Kenobi had come to stay with Yoda, he had been going through the most rigorous training that he had ever been through. Not even the trials had prepared him for what Yoda threw at him. Obi Wan cleared his mind of all thoughts and listened as the force guided his body through the exercises.
Yoda watched carefully, ready to scrutinize his mistakes. He was very impressed with Obi Wan's dedication and ability, he knew the Jedi master was conditioning himself to take on the entire Empire, this concerned Yoda, but he kept his concerns to himself. He watched as Obi Wan began to do a series of back flips. "Hold it." Yoda commanded Obi Wan to stop mid back flip, and hold himself upright on his hands.
Obi Wan's arms cried for a rest, his body was being pushed to the limit, but he continued to hold the position. He could feel the beads of sweat dripping down his nose to the ground. He then closed his eyes and continued the exercise, He balanced himself and then lifted one arm off the ground and held his entire body with one arm, using the aid of the force. His arm began to shake under the enormous pressure it was being placed under, yet he held the stance. Through the force he could sense Yoda moving towards him, he then felt the feeling of a walking stick poking him in the back, a feeling he'd come to know all too well. "Concentrate." Yoda commanded. "Use not your body, use only the force." Obi Wan relaxed his muscles and called to the force. He then felt as if his body was light as a feather. Yoda then went back to his home, leaving the Jedi to hold his position for one standard hour.
***
Ferus Olin looked around the holding cell that he and the team of Jedi he had been instructed to take to Naboo were now being held in. He felt responsible for bringing other Jedi with him on this mission, when he was the one who offered to go in the first place. He had asked his former master Siri if he could go investigate the disturbance on Naboo, he didn't inform her that the reason he wanted to go was because of a personal vendetta against the Sith lord known as Darth Vader. He knew the secret that Obi Wan Kenobi was keeping from everyone else, the secret of his failure to the Jedi, and the Republic. Ferus didn't blame Obi Wan however, no he knew who was to blame, he knew who had failed the Jedi, who had turned to the dark side. He knew all along that Anakin Skywalker was trouble, and now everyone in the entire galaxy saw it as well.
He looked over at the other Jedi knight Darra Thel-Tanis, who was trying to keep her young padawan calm, as well as herself. He tried to give her a look that showed he thought everything was going to be ok, but he himself had his doubts. Suddenly the door to their cell opened and was surrounded by storm troopers, holding binders to place on their captives. They took the Jedi prisoners down the long hall of the star destroyer. They brought them to a round, grey room and stood all four in the very center. They then heard a sound that ran chills down each and every one of their spines, the sound of loud, labored breathing. Ferus tried to hold his head up high, to show he wasn't intimidated.
"Now we will discuss the whereabouts of these rumored rebel forces." Darth Vader stood in front of the four Jedi captives with his arms folded.
"What rebel forces?" Ferus snapped.
"Ah Ferus Olin, cocky to the end I see." Vader remarked. "If you will not tell me the whereabouts of the rebels, then perhaps the location of the Jedi?"
"There are no other Jedi." Darra piped in.
Vader looked over at the woman, and walked up to her. The dark man towered over the small framed Jedi, it took all over her training not to cower in fear of this man. "Then tell me.where is Kenobi?" Vader hissed.
"Kenobi is dead." Ferus almost shouted. Vader walked back to Ferus and stared at him. Ferus stared back at the cold, black helmet and almost felt sorry for the being inside.almost. Vader then grabbed Ferus by the neck and held him off the ground.
"Stop it!" Ferus' young padawan cried.
Vader turned his head towards the 11 year old boy. This boy stood about as tall as Vader's hip, his dark brown eyes held both determination and fear. Vader remembered what it was like to always try to be the perfect padawan, to always have to please his master. He felt sorry for this apprentice. 'The Jedi crush so many promising beings in this galaxy.' He thought to himself, then shook off the thought and returned to the mission at hand. The sith lord, still carrying Ferus by the neck stood over the padawan.
"You want to save your master young one? Then tell me, where is Kenobi hiding?" Vader insisted.
"Ma Zourek, don't be frightened, listen to the force." Darra insisted.
Ma Zourek felt like he wanted to cry, but he attempted to calm himself. He then looked at his master, then to the floor. He shook his head. Vader grew impatient, he then lowered Ferus to the ground, still holding him by the neck and with his free hand he grabbed the padawan by his neck and held the young boy high above the floor. Ferus' eyes widened in terror as he watched tears stream down the boy's young face.
"Enough!" Ferus gasped under Vader's strong grip.
"Then tell me what I need to know." Vader insisted. "If you want to save the boy then you will tell me where you are hiding Kenobi."
Ferus tried to give his helpless apprentice a supportive look, he then glanced back at his teammate who was in a state of shock herself. "Let him go, he is just a boy." Ferus begged. He tried to calm himself, to remember the Jedi code for guidance, but his heart was breaking at the sight of his young charge turning blue due to lack of oxygen.
"Alright, I'll tell you what you want to know." Ferus finally gave in, and Vader dropped the padawan to the ground. Darra ran to the boy who was gasping for air. Vader tuned his attention back to his old rival, it was giving him a dark pleasure knowing that he held this man's life in his very hands. "Tell me." He commanded between mechanical breaths.
Ferus looked down to the ground and then back at Vader. "We don't know where Kenobi is, he abandoned us two months ago." Vader then grabbed Ferus by the throat again and lifted him high above his head then giving the knight a violent shake. Ferus felt darkness creep up on him as the dark lord's grasp tightened. Vader grew impatient at the silence and then in one swift move broke Ferus Olin's neck, the Jedi slumped in his arms he then threw the body to the floor. Darra felt immediate fear enter her body, and she looked down at the children who were both trying to hold back tears. Vader turned back to the remaining Jedi and asked the same question one last time.
"Where is Obi Wan?" Silence filled the room with the exception of the sound of crying coming from Ma Zourek.
Vader then held out his wrist, causing Darra to choke on thin air. "Spare the children, and I will tell you where the Jedi are." She struggled to say. Vader stopped his onslaught at the sound of this proposal. Darra looked at the two padawans who were huddled together, trying not to cry. "The Jedi are on Alderaan, Kenobi is not with them." "Fine." Vader began to walk to the exit. "Commander. Execute them." With that Vader ignored the protests from the woman and left the Jedi to their demise.
******
Siri Tachi stood motionless on one of the many balconies of the palace on Alderaan. She could feel the tears threatening to spill over her lids and down her cheek. She felt the life force of her ex padawan being extinguished as well as three other Jedi. No one had officially told her they were gone, but she knew. The few remaining Jedi were very connected with each other, and knew when something happened to one another.
Siri was never very good at dealing with her emotions, and once again she didn't know how to react to this. If she still believed what she had when she was young, she would've just told herself to not let her personal feelings get in the way, she would've told herself it was the way of the force, that the Jedi are always prepared for death. She still believed in the Jedi code of course, but as she's grown older and seen everything she's seen, especially in the last three years she's learned that the code doesn't have all of the answers.
She also knew that the now six remaining Jedi that she found herself in charge of would look to her for guidance, and she didn't know exactly what to tell them. She found herself looking down at the ring on her left hand and shaking her head. She then felt a quiet presence behind her.
"I already know." She softly said to Padme, who had come to bring her the news of the execution of the Jedi.
"I'm so sorry." Padme didn't know what to say. "It was my home planet, it should've been me."
Siri almost chuckled. "Don't be ridiculous Padme. We are servants to the Republic, we know what is at stake."
Padme still felt so incredibly sorry for the constant loss of life that seemed to be inflicting the Jedi. "I'm just very sorry." She said lamely.
***
He kept his mind clear of distractions, listened to the force as he continued to hold his stance. The weariness of his body was now going unnoticed because he was completely in a meditative trance. Suddenly he felt the disturbance through the force, felt white hot pain, then nothing. He snapped awake, and fell to the mud beneath him. He closed his eyes, trying to sense what exactly had happened, but he knew. He looked around the swamp and noticed Yoda sitting on a rock, with his ears down staring at a spot on the ground. Obi Wan shakily rose to his feet and walked over to the tiny green master, sitting next to him.
"Keep this up, we cannot." Yoda looked off in the distance.
"I know." Obi Wan simply answered.
"End this we must, but be patient too we must." Yoda replied.
"I intend to end this master." Obi Wan exclaimed, putting his now very long ginger hair into a pony tail.
"Learned nothing in these two months have you? Listen to the force you must."
"I'm listening to the force master, I know what I have to do." Obi Wan looked at Yoda.
"I will face Vader, I will end this."
"Believe you I do that end it you will when face Vader you do, but face Vader yet you should not." Yoda tried to reason with him.
"I have to stop him master, I can't let him do this." Obi Wan tried to defend his intentions.
"Reckless have you become. Reckless before have you been, remember not Melida/Daan? What happens when reckless you are?"
Obi Wan nodded, he knew what Yoda was getting at. "Yes, I lost someone important to me."
"More at stake this time there is." Yoda remarked and Obi Wan nodded. Yoda looked at Obi Wan, he knew about the visions, he had tried to help Obi Wan release his fear of those visions into the force. "Go to her you should, need you they do."
Obi Wan reluctantly nodded. "What about you master?"
Yoda looked down at the ground again. He said nothing, and Obi Wan knew he couldn't press the issue more. Yoda had become somewhat of a hermit, claiming he didn't want to put the other Jedi in danger by the dark side sensing him. Obi Wan had thought Yoda was being overly cautious, but now he understood. He too wanted to hide away from the dark side, but knew he had no choice.
Obi Wan sighed, and stood up feeling every muscle in his body ache from the exertion he had put his body through. He then bowed to his master and walked to gather his things to go back to his duties, to go back to the purge, to go back to his nightmare.
*To be continued! I hope you are enjoying this.
