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Once again, based ont he trailer. Yes, I tweaked a few details and stuff, but hey, author's liscense. Yes, there are spelling mistakes, because the dang spellcheck went cablooy. Live with it.
Chapter Two
By The Blood Of This Slain Child . . .
Obi-Wan stared in horror at the dead bodies littering the building. They had died at the burning tip of a lightsaber, and had been left where they had fallen, bloody and burned. The blood and burned flesh had cooled by now, whitened for lack of blood now flooding the floors. Men, woman: even a child. And a Jedi, slain! His eyes fell to the body of the small, fallen female child, no more than five or six, her skin white and her hair matted and soaked with her own cold blood.
Sickened, he turned away, and faced Yoda. "Who could have done this?" he managed to ask through the tightening of his throat.
Yoda turned to look at the dead bodies, his eyes sorrowful. "He who was once a Jedi?"
"Who?" anger coursed with grief for the fallen civilians, sparking hateful flames in Obi-Wan's eyes. "Who murdered these innocent people? Who . . . who could have killed an innocent man, woman, child so brutally?" he turned away from Yoda and fell to his knees beside theslain girl, stroaking back her bloody hair from her cold skin with a hand that trembled in grief and anger. And hate. Hate for whoever had done this.
"Skywalker." Yoda replied, his eyes going to an alien, hacked mercilessly apart.
"Anakin?" Obi-Wan turned to Yoda. "No . . . how could it have been Anakin? Anakin, my padawan, would never kill . . . " his voice trailed off into a sob.
"Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become." Yoda informed Obi-Wan.
"I should have seen this." Obi-Wan snarled bitterly. "How could I have missed this? All those hours with Palpatine, that cursed traitor! Anakin, a Sith?" his eyes went to the body of the dead Jedi.
"It is so." Yoda mourned.
Obi-Wan stared at the slain child. "Then let it be so. I trust you, Yoda, but how can I accept this? I will confront Anakin . . . Sith or no. I will ask him."
"And if he is guilty?"
"If he is guilty of the deaths of this home, and guilty of the deaths of innocents, I will have no choice but to kill my padawan. If Anakin is truly a traitor - if he truly has crossed over to the Dark Side - than I will deliver the killing thrust."
Obi-Wan's eyes fell once again to the child. With a burst of anger, he slammed a fist into the pool of blood, the cold blood, the child's blood, and slammed against the cold iron floor. "By the blood of this slain child, I swear it!"
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