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Obi-wan: o what hell as that one put us threw i wonder...
Anakin: it cant be as bad as this writer here, master
Obi-wan: i guess...still i fear for both our safeties...maybe our lives even
Anakin: o that piper one cant be that cruel...only the peanut one is THAT cruel...
Obi-wan: i hope your right, anakin...
Me; YES I AM THE CRUELEST...not really hahaha...
Obi-wan: Not really! 'winces at the thought of crueler writers'
Anakin: O dont worry, master, im still here
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Chapter 15: FlashBack Part 2
"The Supreme Chancellor is the Sith lord!" Anakin was shocked at this.
"Yes" Obi-wan sighed, he had known this for four years and yet said nothing to the jedi. He knew the jedi were no match for Darth Sidious. Not even Master Yoda.
"But...how could we not know!" Anakin asked starting to pace the room slightly, uneased the sudden surge of information that he had just been given.
"The darkness clouds everything, Anakin" Obi-wan said sitting down in one of the vacant chairs.
"But...how...i still dont understand, if the dark side is that powerful how were you able to come back?" Anakin asked, he was very confused on the whole thing.
"Well...if you hadnt interupted me just then i would have gotten to that!" Obi-wan said sarcastically.
Obi-wan had been learning the dark side of the force from Darth Sidious for nearly a year now. Obi-wans' feeling of weakness was fading, but coldness started to take over. Darth Sidious had just sent Obi-wan to meet up with General Grevious and Count Dooku.
Darth Sidious had ordered them to attack this small planet to take over, but the Jedi were protecting it heavily. There was a total of 16 jedi on the planet at the time, and Sidious wanted Obi-wan to take them all out, to prove his loyalty. Dooku would oversee the operation just incase it would backfire.
"Here are the exact locations of all the Jedi on this planet..." General Grevious was explaining to Obi-wan. Obi-wan had refused to be within sight of Dooku. He feared his want for revenge would take over at the meer sight of Dooku.
"Ok...I shall start this immediatly" Obi-wan answered, taking once last look at all the locations, then pulling his hood over his head and leaving the under ground base.
That night he quickly took out 15 of the 16 jedi, by going into their quarters and slitting their throats as they slept. It was quick and fast as he had wanted, he didnt want to get into the mess of them waking up and starting some ruckus, exposing himself, though right when he had slit their throats, their eyes had opened wide. Each one had a good look of his face before they had died, a few of them had screamed, the rest just stared in utter shock. He set these unsettling images in his head of each of their deaths aside for the time being, keeping focused on his mission.
Nearing dawn He had made his way to take out the last one, He quietly entered the small quarters of the Jedi knight. Not knowing who it was until he had reached the bed where the jedi was sleeping. The face was away from him. Good. He thought, he couldnt handle another jedi looking straight at him as he killed them.
He hated this path he had chosen, but he couldnt escape it. He hated himself now for failing the jedi. He hated himself for going down the path of the dark side, a path he was sure he could never return on.
Just as he was about to ignite his lightsaber, the sleeping jedi turned over, his face was in view. It was Garen. Garen, his best friend. No, he couldnt kill his best friend. He just could not, it was impossible, even if he had fallen to the dark side, already had murdered several jedi mercilessly. Garen was different though, he couldnt kill Garen. He stumbled back bumping into the wall. Garen had to be a light sleeper, he awoke instantly from the noise. He sat up looking straight at Obi-wan, though it was just a dark figure to him.
"Who are you!" Garen asked grabbing his lightsaber in defense. He then sensed the being, knowing it was Obi-wan, but not the Obi-wan he had knew for so many years. This Obi-wan was different, he was dark, cold, filled with anger and hatred, suffering. He only had a small part of his old self left in his being, it was trapped in by this new being, trying to fight its way back.
"Obi-wan?" Garen asked as Obi-wan had not answered him. Obi-wan sunk his head, staring at the floor coming towards Garen slowly.
Obi-wan looked up at Garen, anger radiated from his eyes, his anger towards the jedi that Sidious only made grow over the time with him. He glared at Garen without speaking, and just igniting his blue lightsaber.
"Obi-wan, Dont, please!" Garen pleaded igniting his own lightsaber, which was green. He held it up in defense.
Obi-wan struck without warning, luckily Garen was an extrodinarily talented swordsman. He rivaled Master Windu in his abilities, maybe even surpasssed them. Garen was indeed a great Jedi Knight. Garen locked his saber against Obi-wans. They stared at each other in the eyes for a few seconds in silence and then broke apart. Obi-wan swung again, only to be in the same locked position of stalemate with Garen again.
"Obi-wan, I still sense the good in you, The conflict between your true self and this new self that you have...you can come back, please, come back to the light side Obi-wan!" Garen pleaded with his friend.
"The dark side is more powerful then youll ever know!" Obi-wan retorted pulling back from the lock and swinging mercillessly again. Garen jumped back just narrowily missing the swipe. Obi-wan pushed forward and swung again. Garen forced Obi-wan and himself to lock sabers again.
"Obi-wan! Come to your senses, return to the Obi-wan I once knew!" Garen continued to plead. Tears were rolling down his eyes as their lightsabers pulled apart and locked again.
"That One is gone now!" Obi-wan hissed. The true Obi-wan was not gone yet though, he was trying to come back, fight against this darker side, but it was powerful. He knew if he returned he would be filled with the same feeling as before as well, and he would be forced to exile. He would never be able to return to the jedi order, after what he had done.
"I dont believe it, Please Obi-wan, I still sense good in you!" Garen continued to plead, as their sabers unlocked and locked again several times. Garen was growing tired. Obi-wan was as well, but not as quickly as Garen.
"Why should i? Just to live a life of exile! I wont be able to return to the order after what i have done!" Obi-wan panted.
Garens' moves were slowing down, as well as his own. Both fighters were wearing down quickly. Obi-wan finally had gotten the upper hand, he used a very cheap trick and spin kicked Garen to make him fall to his back. Before Garen could react he was on the ground looking straight at Obi-wans' face, and his lightsaber just near touching his throat.
"Obi-wan this will only lead to more suffering. I sense your suffering, come back to the light side! Your suffering will end, I promise you!" Garen pleaded. His pleads were starting to soften Obi-wan, he hesitated.
"You Lie!" Obi-wan retorted after a second of thinking preparing to deliver the final blow.
"No! The Sith are deseving you!" Garen reliated, swinging his lightsaber upward before Obi-wan could come down slitting his throat. Garen's lightsaber made contact with Obi-wans' face, creating a large gash and burn through his skin just clearing slightly over his right eye, the burnt flesh around his eye and on it forced his eye to close automatically, the nerves in his eye caused him perminate blindness in that eye. He screamed in agony letting his lightsaber drop to the ground, he immediatly rushed his hands to his face, trapping the already free running blood from the wound. His hands didnt do so well to keep the massive blood ammount from pouring out it ran down his face and neck, and threw his hands.
"See what the sith has done to you, Obi-wan! Please come with me, I will help you, end the suffering, the pain" Garen said deactivating his lightsaber and putting it away, walking towards Obi-wan.
"You want to take me back to the temple! they will just throw me out again, garen, im with you but i dont have that many options..." Obi-wan had returned, but was fearful of what the jedi would do to him. The traitor.
"We dont have to go to the temple, I will leave the order, Go with you to wherever, we can take new names, Disappear!" Garen encouraged.
Before Obi-wan could answer, he collapsed, the blood loss was massive. Garen didnt think he had hit Obi-wan that hard, but apparently he had.
Garen pulled him to one of the nearest non-jedi treatment centers and the healers' took care of him. The healers said he would out for a week at least. This gave Garen enough time to fly back to the temple.
He did so and told the Jedi he was leaving the order, for good. They were sad that he was leaving, but he pulled off a good enough bluff on them to make them believe he was leaving for a good cause, the real cause was a good cause, but Obi-wan didnt want to be discovered by the jedi.
And Garen respected his wish for that, of course he knew of Obi-wan was found, by the jedi, he would be put on trial, for the murder of 15 jedi. Propably be sentenced to death. Garen figured Obi-wan could redeem himself better if he lived, then maybe he could finally find peace. Garen was determined to help Obi-wan find peace within himself again.
Garen grabbed his own stuff as well as Obi-wans', without anyone knowing he had taken obi-wans' stuff. Newly Appointed Jedi Knight Anakin was off on his first mission so he wouldnt be caught in an ackward situation thankfully.
He left the temple heading back to the planet, and unnoticeably taking Obi-wan off again. Secretly they both fled to the planet Baskarn. They took new names. Garen being more creative took the name Yukal. Obi-wan chose, Ben. It would be easier to remember his name if it was short.
Yukal laughed at his unoriginality. Saying things like "We both have new lifes here, Come on you gotta have a better name then that!" He joked with Ben.
"Garen is Admiral Yukal! Wow...we at the temple all thought he was dead. None of he Council members knew why he left, they knew he was bluffing with his reason he gave them, but this is unreal!" Anakin said shocked by everything. Garen was a great lost to the temple, to the jedi, everyone thought he was dead since no one had heard from him.
"Yes, call him Yukal infront of everyone here, They all believe us to be Yukal and Ben, the two wanderers with a talent for battle. We are heros to them." Obi-wan replied.
"This is unreal, all of this, i cant believe so much has happened within the last 4 years" Anakin said sitting down in the vacant chair next to Obi-wan.