Sorry it took so long for me to get the next chapter up. I was grounded from the computer for a while. Anyway, why don't you just read this next chapter and tell me what you think?
Chapter Seven
Confrontations
Carissa rose from her bow at the bidding of her Master. She had taken a few minutes to clean up and make herself presentable for Sidious after her return, but she wore her black stealth suit. Her silky black hair flowed down her back, and she began to speak. "Anakin Skywalker has been Knighted," she began. "Before the Knighting, however, he ran into some trouble in the form of a scientist by the name of Jenna Zan Arbor. She seemed to terrify him. She got a hold of him, but I used the Force to push her away. She got away, so Skywalker's former Master Obi-Wan Kenobi ran over, and he and Skywalker went back to the Temple. That is when I ran into the Temple, pretending to be the sole survivor of a disastrous attack on a village in Tatooine. I pretended to have been sent by one of Skywalker's former friends. Skywalker and Kenobi promised to help me and left for a few minutes. That is when the boy was Knighted.
"We left for Tatooine at dawn the next day. On the way, Skywalker told me of when his mother died there at the hands of Tusken Raiders. And for his part, he seemed genuinely sincere the entire time. Kenobi tried to keep his expressions and emotions masked.
"We landed shortly after. I had made arrangements for a man to come and pretend to be my father. The two Jedi, my fake father and I stayed on Tatooine a few more days. My fake father pretended he had been away on business in the other side of the galaxy but came as soon as he had gotten word. I then contacted you on the last day we were to be on Tatooine and asked for a pilot of yours and a transport to be given, and you gave it to me. We left the man and the two Jedi on Tatooine, and then I came back."
Sidious seemed to be thinking. "This is most interesting," he finally said. "Now I have another mission for you. But first, did you wear that suit around the Jedi?"
Carissa was excited, but she kept her cool. She couldn't believe that she was getting another mission so soon! "No," she replied calmly. "I wore a white gown."
"Good," Sidious said with an evil sneer. "I want Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. You'll have to keep your hair out of sight and keep that suit on, so that they don't know it's you. Now go and prepare yourself. You leave as soon as you're ready."
Carissa bowed and started her walk to her chambers. She couldn't help but smile. This was more like it. She wasn't a reconnaissance person. She did things with force. She was an active person and good fighter. Even as she was getting ready for the mission, a malicious grin crept across her face. She knew she was going to like this.
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Anakin walked into his quarters slowly. He and his Master had just returned from escorting Carissa off of Tatooine. Carissa's father had decided to stay on Tatooine for a few more days on business and catch up with his daughter. Carissa was to go to one of her father's many homes. This one happened to be on Naboo.
Anakin plopped down on his sleep couch. He was exhausted. It was late at night, and everything they had been doing the past few days had gotten to him. His tunic and hair were both tousled, and he threw his boots and shirt off. He ran a hand over his face and through his hair as he recalled one of the first events after meeting Carissa. Their ship had been attacked, and he and Carissa had jumped into the pilot and co-pilot seats. How had she known so much about ships and handling them, especially in a situation such as that? It had to be a special person to know that much. Anakin had to admit that she was very helpful and almost as good a pilot as himself. How?
Anakin was too tired to dwell on that thought much. He tried to keep his eyes open, but his eyelids were so heavy. The past days' events finally took their toll, and he fell into a deep sleep, still in the same disheveled state.
The door slowly opened, and Obi-Wan walked in. Obi-Wan had expected Anakin to fall asleep, but the sight that greeted him was rather comical, and it took all of Obi-Wan's strength not to burst out laughing. Anakin was flung across the sleep couch, his tunic wrinkled and his shirt and boots thrown carelessly on the floor. One of his arms was off of the couch, and the other one was draped across his stomach. His hair looked like someone had just spent hours running their hands through it. His mouth partially hung open, and the rhythmic up and down movement of his chest made him look so peaceful. His face was lined with exhaustion but still somehow peaceful.
Obi-Wan picked up Anakin's boots and shirt. He put the boots next to a chair in the room, and he draped the shirt over the same chair. He took the arm that hung off the end of the sleep couch and placed it next on the sleep couch. Anakin stirred slightly at this but did not wake. Obi-Wan gave a silent sigh of relief at this.
Obi-Wan slowly and quietly walked out of Anakin's chambers, closing the door quietly behind him. He would wake Anakin later. Hopefully, Anakin would be able to sleep until then. The nightmares of his mother in distress had passed, but new nightmares of his mother when he had found her and everything that he had done had appeared. That was one of the reasons Anakin was so tired. He hadn't been getting a lot of sleep lately.
Another reason was that Anakin had been the one doing most of the work. Because Obi-Wan didn't know Tatooine too well and Anakin did, Anakin had been the one to do a lot of negotiations. More than once, it had come to physical ways; and Anakin had had to figure a quick way out of it. But every time, he had. That was one thing that Obi-Wan admired about Anakin, his quick mind.
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A few hours later, both Anakin and Obi-Wan were wide-awake and fully prepared for anything; or so they thought. They walked through the corridors of the Temple. Obi-Wan seemed uneasy. Anakin finally couldn't take it anymore. "What is wrong?" he asked, stopping.
Obi-Wan also stopped and turned to look at him with a confused expression. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"You've been uneasy about something ever since you woke me," Anakin replied. "Now what is it?"
Obi-Wan sighed. There was no fooling Anakin. "All right," he said. "We received a threat from Jenna Zan Arbor."
Anakin stumbled a little bit. Zan Arbor? He thought she was gone. "Wh… what… did she say?" he finally managed.
"She's back in business," Obi-Wan replied. He watched as Anakin tried to cover his fear. Obi-Wan was also scared, but he was able to mask it a little better than Anakin. The memories of what Qui-Gon had endured in the hands of that psychotic woman were still freshly burned into Obi-Wan's mind, and he gulped. He definitely did not want the same thing to happen to Anakin. He couldn't bear it. He couldn't and wouldn't be too weak to save them both.
Anakin was actually very terrified. It seemed that this woman would not or maybe could not quit or be caught. She refused. And now she was after Anakin. "Do we have any idea where she is?" he asked, trying to remain calm and keep his cool.
Obi-Wan shook his head. "No we don't," he replied sadly. "Don't worry. We'll find her."
Anakin smiled a little bit. The sunshine and breeze assailing him coupled with Obi-Wan's words made him fell better. He and Obi-Wan had just walked out of the Temple to take a short walk out on the streets of Coruscant. Jedi always encouraged other Jedi to occasionally get out and check out their surroundings just to keep up to date or to make them feel better, and it usually worked.
Obi-Wan suddenly began to feel uneasy, and he stopped. "Master?" Anakin asked curiously. Even though Anakin was a Jedi, he didn't need to stop himself from calling Obi-Wan Master.
"We're being followed," Obi-Wan said quietly through clenched teeth. Anakin glanced behind them and tuned into the Force. Sure enough, he could feel another presence about forty feet behind them. "Let's go as we were," Obi-Wan said. "We'll try to trap them in the alley."
Anakin followed Obi-Wan through the winding streets of Coruscant to a less popular area of the city. There was nobody around, and the two Jedi walked into the alley. They knew that the person was still following them. They had felt them all the way.
The two Jedi hid and waited. They waited and waited and waited. Did the person know that the two Jedi had caught on to the fact that they were being followed? Had they given up? Is that why they weren't appearing?
Suddenly, something dropped down from above. It landed right next to Anakin. Anakin quickly figured out that it was a person as he was shoved up against a wall, an arm covering his chest and holding him against the wall. The figure grabbed Anakin's lightsaber and clipped it onto their own belt.
Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber, ready to fight whoever held Anakin. He prepared for the figure to come to him, but it stayed with Anakin. Obi-Wan slowly moved forward. He could see that the figure's eyes were trained on him. This might give Anakin a chance to break away. He could also see that the figure was wearing all black. There was even a black mask that covered their hair. But he could see that it was a lithe body. He couldn't really tell whether it belonged to a man or woman. It was too dark. But he did think that it was a woman. It couldn't be...
Anakin could see that Obi-Wan was walking toward them. He could also see that the figure was looking at Obi-Wan. He thought about escaping, but the arm holding him against the wall was too strong. Suddenly, the figure did something very surprising.
Obi-Wan had continued walking toward the figure and Anakin until he was only a few feet away. Suddenly, the figure's right arm grabbed the right side of their mask. The figure slowly pulled the mask off, revealing the face of…
Sorry it was so short of a chapter. The next
chapter is going to be longer. I promise! But I thought it was best
to leave you with a HUGE cliffhanger. (Don't ask me why.) Maybe
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