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Title: Anaké
Author: SilSolo
Time: At least 20 years after TUF
Notes: For CRPA challenge. I guess you can count this as a continuation of Kiss #2
Characters: Jacen, TK, Isolder, Anakae (Hapan version)/Anaké (Basic version), see Dramatis Personae for full list
Dramatis Personae
Alyssia; Princess, first cousin of Isolder (female human from Hapes)
Anakae; Princess (female human from Hapes)
Ionari; Princess, escaped prisoner, Chelik's daughter (female human from Hapes)
Isolder; Prince (male human from Hapes)
Jacen Solo; Jedi Master (male human from Coruscant)
Remmina; Queen Mother, Jedi Knight (female human from Hapes)
Tenel Ka Djo; Jedi Master, former queen (female human from Dathomir/Hapes)
Ulic; Prince, Jedi Knight (male human from Hapes)
Yfra; former Ambassador, escaped prisoner (female human from Hapes)
"AAAANNNNNIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!" The shrill scream of a teenage girl echoed through the palace.
"ANAKAE!" The incensed person screamed the full name only seconds later!
"ANAKAE! This isn't funny! Get yourself out here right this moment! The future of Hapes depends on that datacard, you little brat!" Glass shattered as the girl screamed for the third time. The young woman would have made a wonderful soprano had she not utilized her voice and breath for screaming so often.
Jacen sighed as he heard his eldest daughter scream for her youngest sister. The tension between the girls of the family was almost unbearable, even though the second daughter was training with Saba Sebatyne on Coruscant and the third was away at the Jedi Academy.
How he missed the good times that he foresaw when Tenel Ka gave him that second kiss. But years had passed and with them the jolliest of times in the palace. Since then, the influence of Hapan society had transformed the sweet, little girls into self-centered and sometimes deceptive women. In that vision, Jacen had lost count of his children because Anaké and Kalié, near-identical sisters who were less than a year apart, were responsible for many optical illusions. Kalié was sent to the Jedi Academy the year before and her 'twin' would soon follow.
The children may be away, but Tenel Ka was always there, even when she was not with him. Even after twenty painful years on Hapes, Tenel Ka was still the strong woman Jacen had married right after the Yuuzhan Vong war. In all those years, it was the deep bond and Jacen's ability to embrace pain that kept the pair sane.
"Princess Anakae, please come out. The Queen Mother demands your audience."
"Princess, are you here?" The servants aided in the search for Princess Anakae.
"Where in the Force is she?" The voice was filled with frustration as the speaker stomped against the mosaic tiles on the floor.
Jacen paused the hololetters from the three children in the Jedi Academy and shifted his focus to the hysterical, young woman who was rampaging through the palace.
"My grandson, you are a male and a Jedi. For your own health, do not stay here." Isolder admonished.
"Grandpa, look. I know I'm on the bottom of the food chain here, but I have to stay at least until at least one of my other siblings is knighted." The eldest child of Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka Djo responded.
"The assassins are rampant, and they will target you." The prince warned his grandson.
"Better me than the Queen Mother. She's not a warrior like Mother and you know what happened the last time she was attacked; she needs another Jedi Knight, as much as she won't admit it." The current Queen Mother was a Jedi Knight, but unlike her predecessor, she devoted almost no attention to combat training.
"Alyssia talked Remmina into such arrogance. Ulic, you still have more to say." Isolder noted.
"I do. I am to oversee the midi-chlorian testing that Mother has instated before she passed the crown, and for that, I may have to stay in the cluster for years to come. Grandfather, my parents aren't always here and the Queen Mother is in no condition for an additional job."
"Ulic, if you stay, you will have to marry if your sister continues to refuse."
"If there is a woman who is willing to take a man whose first duties are to the Queen Mother and the Jedi, then I will give myself to her."
"Those are important jobs and you are dutiful, grandson. Since I cannot stop you, be careful, and don't overwork yourself." iStubborn Solo./i Jacen caught his father-in-law's thought.
"Thank you, grandfather. Those are my obligations as a Hapan Jedi. There is a disturbance in the Force! We must return to the palace. ANNIE!" The young man was forced to drop to one knee as a sibling's pain rippled through his body.
"Anakae is in pain." Tenel Ka flashed her steel gaze as she and Jacen used their bond to calm their numerous children. As shock slowly transformed into confusion, the former Queen Mother found her consort drawing upon skills learned under Yuuzhan Vong captivity to eat away the pain of the six older children. The Jedi Master had not drawn on the skills for more than twenty years, but his technique was flawless because he was once a pure conduit of the Force.
"Jacen, Tenel Ka! Princess Anakae has been kidnapped. She has a copy of the plans for the new Battle Dragons. Your son is leading the investigation and this is the information he has thus far." Isolder broke into the scene and handed Tenel Ka a datacard.
Jacen lowered his head as he absorbed the news. His youngest child, the one who was named after Anakin for her beautiful, blue eyes and chocolate brown hair, was in terrible pain. The beautiful Anaké, whose name the Hapans had respelled, had been nabbed on the day her parents had dropped by Hapes to take her to the Jedi Academy.
Princess Anakae lifted the scarlet veil from her face as she examined her surroundings. The speeder that she had borrowed for her sister's errand seemed to have a mind of its own and the next thing she knew, she was in some cage and the veil meant to cover the lower half of her face was over her eyes.
"I demanded the Queen Mother and you brought me this nine-year-old girl!" A familiar and unpleasant voice scoffed.
"Princess Alyssia, the speeder I programmed belongs to the Queen Mother and I did not expect a girl half her age to ride it." Anakae clenched her fists as she heard the name of her kidnapper, who was none other than her grandfather's cousin.
"Half her age? I believe Tenel Ka Djo is forty-five years old." A third person retorted. Unlike the other two speakers, the woman appeared to be in her forties.
"My dear Ionari, Isolder's daughter had just stepped down and crowned that eighteen-year-old Jedi girl." Ta'a Chume's niece then turned to the oldest woman in the group. "Ambassador Yfra, I'm sure you can do better than grab just one nine-year-old girl, or have you lost your touch since you and my niece broke out of prison?"
"Princess Alyssia, do not underestimate this child, for she is a daughter of Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka Djo. For me, she is part of the revenge I wish. I never expected two of the people who put me in prison to marry and breed seven, four of whom are daughters!"
"Then we have to remove three rivals and three pesky slaves who don't know their place." Commented the youngest of the three kidnappers.
"This is easier said than done, princess. Three of those children are in the Jedi Academy, which is impossible to penetrate, one is with a Barabel, and every assassin I have sent against the Queen Mother and her older brother had been executed."
Flashback
A dark figure leaped off the roof of the palace and aimed something sharp at the unsuspecting Remmina. There was a quick snap-hiss, and the head of the assassin, along with the top half of his weapon, hit the floor almost instantly.
"Clean up that mess." Remmina ordered her bodyguards. She then to Ulic. "Thank you, brother and Jedi bodyguard. I have the feeling there are more."
End of flashback
"Yfra, that would only make the task easier. We just have to take the Queen Mother and the brother who decided to play bodyguard and the throne will be open to us." The person who attacked Prince Isolder years ago pointed out.
"That gives me an idea. We may not be able to best the Jed in combat, but they will not resist the lure of a captured princess. Since we cannot risk broadcasting, run some power through the cage." Alyssia ordered. "Yfra, prepare the traps!"
Anakae screamed through the Force as the currents jolted through her. What had she done to deserve being captured by the villains from her parents' stories? The girl tried to tighten her grip, but her lack of training in embracing pain caused her fingers to loosen their hold on the datacard.
"Ooh, what's this?" One of the women halted the torture and reached between the bars of the cage to retrieve the information Anakae was to convey to one of the admirals. With no more pain to stop her, the girl grabbed the card simultaneously as Ionari. Anakae used the Force to aid her, but one of the women saw it and revived the torture in order to disrupt Anakae's concentration.
As Anakae reached into the Force, Anakin Solo reached out to his niece. No one was going to mess around with any of his ten nephews and nieces and get away with it. He tried to show her the flaw in the design of the cage, but the girl was too distracted to understand. Anakin came closer to his niece as he guided her hands in disassembling the cage.
By the time Annie had leapt out of her cage, her uncle saw what she saw. The princess named Ionari yelped in surprise as she grabbed at the girl. Anakin wanted to withdraw, but the call of combat forced him to deepen the meld with his niece.
Ionari was stunned upon contact with the captured princess, for she could not withstand the currents that the girl, with the help of her namesake, channeled into the touch. By the time the one named Alyssia was taken down and the datacard returned to its rightful carrier, Anakin found himself so deeply melded that he was unable to withdraw. The thoughts of a child mingled with his own thoughts and Anakae's senses provided him with the visuals that he had not been able to see for two decades. In helping Annie escape, Anakin Solo had merged with his niece and returned to the land of the living.
iWell, now I'm rid of both you and Tahiri./i Riina's voice seemed to say. Tahiri Veila had been killed years ago, but the original Tahiri returned to life almost immediately after when she helped a boy survive a fight.
"Mother, you will truly visit the colony yourself?" Ulic seemed incredulous. He hopped off the palace and landed gracefully beside his red-haired mother.
"Your mother wishes to confront Ambassador Yfra." Tenel Ka replied.
"May the Force be with you, then."
"And with you as well, my son."
Yfra was forced to drop to one knee as she felt an inexplicable pain in her chest. Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka Djo were approaching the fortress, and none of the traps were functional. The escaped prisoner tried to stand, but the worsening pain put her flat on the cold, metal floor. Things were not going as planned, for some strange pain had hit Yfra the minute she was told of the unexpected arrive of the two Jedi.
"Yfra is dead." Tenel Ka commented as she and Jacen walked past the half completed defenses of the fortress.
"Hi Jace, hi Tenel Ka!" Anakae appeared before the couple with a broad grin. "I need to get these plans to Admiral Izumi."
And so Anakin Solo lived as a Jedi princess for eight decades.
Endnote: I hope this counts as a surprise ending. Somebody on one of these boards suggested that Jacen had an affair with Tahiri and Anakin returned by possessing the child. Since I hate J/T, I decided to make Anakin reincarnate himself as Hapan royalty. The living as a girl part came from the show Ranma ½. If anybody wants to this to be continued, PM me for permission to write more of this (working on two fics, so I can't do anything right now).