Longest Chapter so far

Chapter 4

Qui gon sat and listened to Obi Wan's story, he related everything from when he became captured to that day, the only thing he left out was the strange warrior he had seen several years ago with a light sabre.

"How did you get the force inhibitor off then?"Qui gon asked.

"Anakin managed to get it off several years ago." Obi Wan said, "Something about the energy flow, or power coupling, I'm not really sure."

"And you've been training Anakin all this time?" Qui gon asked as they sat at the table. Padme and JarJar had already gone to bed asleep, and R2 had shut down. Anakin was falling asleep next to Obi Wan, listening to the story that he had heard so many times before. Obi Wan looked at Anakin, fast asleep, before he answered the question.

"When I first came here, the one person who helped me adjust was Shmi, Anakins mother. She was kind and gentle. She had a mothers heart." Obi Wan started, looking at Anakin fondly. "In the womb I could already tell he was extremely powerful, and that without training, he would be dangerous. He would be arrogant, too sure of himself without the knowledge of the living force. I took it upon myself to train him. My thought was that, even if we were never found, he would never use it for the dark side. I thought it would help him. He was extraordinary, even Shmi new it. We had to work hard to hide his gifts. As a babe he talked telepathically with me. That was when I started the training. I taught him the principles behind the living force. How he must remain calm, and the path towards the dark side. I knew I should not, but I had to, without training he would have been too dangerous." Obi Wan stopped to pick Anakin up and took him to bed and tucked him in. When he came back, Qui gon was looking into space, obviously searching his thoughts as to what to do next.

"Do you think he could be trained at the temple?" Qui gon finally said to the quiet room.

"Yes," was Obi Wan's unequivocal answer.

Qui gon looked on, thinking about what he had to do, and what to do about Obi Wan Kenobi.

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Walking through Mos Espa, Padme turned to Qui gon, "Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know. The Queen will not approve."

"The Queen does not need to know." Was the reply

"Well, I don't approve." Padme said, sitting down in a huff.

Qui gon walked into the shop, seeing Anakin and Watto arguing in Huttenese.

"Patta go bolla!" Watto said.
"No batta!" said Ani.
"Pedunky. Maa kee cheelya." was watt's reply.
"Bayno, Bayno!" answered Anakin.

Qui gon walked over to them, interrupting the argument.

"The boy tells me you wanta sponser hi insa race. You can't afford parts. How can you do this? Not on Republic credits, I think." Watto said to Qui gon, laughing.
"My ship will be the entry fee." Qui gon said, holding up a transmitter, with a hologram of a Nubian spacecraft. Watto looked at it studiously. "It's in good order, except for the parts we need."

"...but what would the boy ride? He smashed up my Pod in the last race. It will take some time to fix it." Watto said annoyed. He also didn't really want anything to do with the race. It could cost him a good slave boy.

"Ahhhh...it wasn't my fault really...Sebulba flashed me with his vent ports. I actually saved the Pod...mostly." Anakin put in, looking abashed.

"That you did. The boy is good, no doubts there." Watto said more to Qui gon than the boy.

"I have...acquired a Pod in a game of chance. 'The fastest ever built'" he replied

"I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it." Watto said, as if it made no real difference to him really. "So, you supply the Pod and the entry fee; I supply the boy. We split the winnings fifty-fifty, I think."

"Fifty-fifty! If it's going to be fifty-fifty, I suggest you front the cash for the entry. If we win, you keep all the winnings, minus the cost of the parts I need...If we lose, you keep my ship." Qui gon said, trying to barter a better deal. "Either way, you win." He said, when Watto looked unsure, Anakin nervously standing by.

"Deal!" He said to Qui gon eventually. "Yo bana pee ho-tah, meedee ya." (Your friend is a follish one, methinks.) He said to Anakin, Anakin didn't looked impressed by that statement.

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Qui gon talked on his receiver at Anakin's house to Turut Mi, explaining the plan to him.

"What if this plan fails, Qui gon? We could be stuck here for a long time." Turut Mi's voice said from the transmitter.

"A ship without a power supply will not get us anywhere." Qui gon returned, "And we've got to try get the boy and Obi Wan out." Qui gon put the receiver away and watched Anakin and Padme work on the pod racer below with R2 and JarJar.

"You should be proud of him, you've done a good job of raising him. He gives without any thought of reward." Qui gon said to Obi Wan as he came out of the house.

"He knows nothing of greed." Obi Wan replied, "He deserves better than a slaves life."

"The Force is unusually strong with him, that much is clear. Who was his father?" Qui gon said, not yet comfortable with the young adult, who had seen so much and become so wise, when he was used to a unsure young teenager, not yet come into his own.

"There was no father, that I know of... I was there around the time he would have been conceived. I slept in the same room as her, I never noticed her being raped, I never saw any marks and there was no man about whom she was close to. Do you think he is who I've always thought he is?"

"I don't know," Qui gon replied honestly.

Qui gon watched as a group of children arrived to see Anakin. They looked to be around his age and of similar station in life.

"Padme and Jar Jar, this is my friend Kitster, and seek, Amee, and Wald." Anakin said, introducing them. Everyone replied in kind.

"Wow, a real Astro Droid...how'd you get so lucky?" a little human boy with dark hair and tanned skin called Kitster asked.

"This isn't the half of it. I'm entered in the Boonta Race tomorrow!" Anakin said, excitedly.

"What? With this?" Kitster said disbelievingly.

"Ani, Jesko na joka." (You are such a joke, Annie.) said a little green alien called Wald

"You've been working on that thing for years. It's never going to run." one girl said pessimistically.

"Come on, let's go play ball. Keep it up, Ani, and you're gonna be bug squash." said a ginger haired boy.

All the children ran off leaving Kitster and Anakin to continue working on the pod.

"But you don't even know if this thing will run." Kitster said, he wanted to believe in Ani, but the realistic side of him, tended to be cautious about Ani's chances.

"It will." Ani said, whether to convince Kitster of himself, Ani didn't really know.

" I think it's time we found out. Use this power charge." Qui gon said, handing over the battery.

"Yes, sir!" Anakin said, climbing into the pod and putting the battery in. As Anakin got everything set up, everyone stepped back, waiting for it to start. When it did everyone gave a loud cheer. It worked.

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That night Anakin sat outside watching the stars as Qui gon looked at the cut on Ani's arm. "Sit still, Ani. Let me clean this cut." He said, wiping antiseptic on the cut.

"There are so many! Do they all have a system of planets?" Anakin said, staring up at the sky wonderingly.

"Most of them." Qui gon said, amused by the boys endless questions.

"Has anyone been to them all?" Anakin said, never stopping.

"Not likely." Qui gon said, laughing.

"I want to be the first one to see them all." Anakin said with conviction. "Ouch!" He cried, when Qui gon pierced his skin with a device.

"There, good as new…" Qui gon said, looking at the blood sample.

From inside the hovel, you could hear Obi Wan shouting to Ani that it was time for bed.

"What are you doing?" Anakin said, looking at the device.

"Checking your blood for infections." Qui gon said untruthfully.

"Ani! I'm not going to tell you again!" Obi Wan said. Qui gon and Ani looked at each other in amusement, Qui gon knowing what a mother hen Obi Wan could be to those younger than him.

"Goodnight." Qui gon said, as he watched Anakin go into the hovel. Anakin only looked back with a smirk. "Turut Mi," Qui gon said into the receiver.

"Yes, Qui gon?" came the reply.

"Make an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you." He said.

"Wait a minute…" Turut Mi said, moving to the computer.

"I need a midi-chlorian count."

"All right. I've got it."

"What are your readings?"

"Something must be wrong with the transmission."

"Here's a signal check." Qui gon said, sending a code.

"Strange. The transmission seems to be in good order, but the reading's off the chart...over twenty thousand." Turut Mi said disbelieving. "Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high!"

"No Jedi has."

"What does it mean?" came through the com.

"I'm not sure." Qui gon said as he looked at Obi Wan standing in the doorway watching him, and noticing the results, but not being surprised. Qui gon just looked at obi Wan and nodded.

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As the twin suns rose, R2 painted the pod I pretty colours.

"I hope you're about finished." Padme said, looking at the droid. R2 whistled positively in reply. Padme just shook her head and smiled at the strange droid.

As she looked in the distance, she could see Kitster coming along with two eopie. (like a camel, you saw them in the film) Padme walked over to where Anakin was meditating to prepare for the race. Padme thought he looked vulnerable, and didn't want to disturb him, but when she touched his cheek to get him to notice his surroundings, he just calmly opened his eyes and looked into hers. "You were in my dream last night. You were leading a huge army into battle." He said as if he had dreams like that every day.

"I hope not; I hate fighting." she said, not really thinking it was prophetic as the boy seemed to think it was. "Obi Wan wants you to come in and clean up. We have to leave soon." Anakin stood up and stretched. He walked over to Kitster who had just arrived.

"Hook 'em up, Kitster." Anakin said, used to knowing what to do for these events. He turned to Padme, "I won't be long. Where's Qui-Gon?"

"He and Jar Jar left already. They're with Watto at the arena." She replied.

Anakin went into the hanger to clean up for before the race.

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What do you think? Podracing next, should be exciting, but will also prove how bad i really am at writing.

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Now, should i wait to put the next chapter up? or should i lput it up now considering it's finished?