Live or Die
Allie Helms
Chapter Eight
If It Should End in HellHumans are the only species capable of endless evil and cruelty, but also endless compassion and endless love.
I looked down the slope of ash to Anakin. He had no legs and now no arms. He was clawing with his robotic hand to inch up towards me. Just then his tunic caught fire, and he burst into flame. Tears flew from my eyes as I screamed his name. "I hate you!" he shouted. "No!" I screamed. He was dying and I couldn't do anything I then felt a hand on my face. Then my eyes opened.
"November, are you all right?" Obi-wan asked.
I shook my head, "I'm fine."
"You were having a nightmare," he said.
I looked at him, "I'm sorry I thought I was having a dream about lollipop's and sugar canes."
"I can understand your bitterness, but you have to clear your mind. We need a plan before we land," he said.
"I want to talk to him first. When I think I'm done I will give you a signal," I said.
He shook his head. "No, he is dangerous. You should not go alone," he said worried.
"Obi-wan, he did this for me. Do you really think he will kill me? No, maybe I can be of some help," I said.
He nodded, and I walked back to meditate.
! AN HOUR LATER
I was taken out of my meditation by the alarm of the hyperspace drive. We were approaching Mustafar, so I made my way up to the cockpit where Obi-wan was pushing buttons and controls. I looked out across the red planet, and I felt the evil rise up to meet the spacecraft. We landed on one of the landings, and I looked out across the lava pits. I then saw a figure on a walkway take his hood of his cloak off his head. I saw it was Anakin. I got up and rushed off the landing of the ship to meet him. When I was outside the ash filled air reached my lungs. Anakin ran up and hugged me. The he kissed me deeply. I would never forget that kiss. "Anakin!" I said.
"It's all right you're safe now. What are you doing out here?" he asked.
"I was so worried about you. I know everything," I said.
"What do you mean know everything?" he asked.
I looked down at the ground, "I know you turned to the dark side. I know you killed younglings."
"Those are just rumors," he said.
"I saw them with my own eyes, Anakin. I knew what you were going to do ever since I met you. I knew what was going to happen," I said.
He turned towards the river of lava, "You knew. You knew everything. You knew about my mother, and you knew about this."
I nodded. "Yes, and I know what will happen from here on out," I said.
He turned around in rage. His eyes were flashing yellow, "You knew about my mother, and you could have stopped it all!"
"Yes," I said.
"I lost my mother for nothing! I'm here for nothing!" he said.
I shook my head, "There was a reason for my deception, Anakin. This all has to happen for a reason. If I went and destroyed the Chancellor before we even got together then it wouldn't have turned out like this. It has to be like this whether you like it or not."
"You are a traitor to the Empire!" he yelled. "I hate you."
"Are you going to kill me love?' I asked.
He flung off his cloak, "Yes."
Just then I felt Obi-wan's presence beside me. "Anakin let go of the dark side," he said.
"You turned her against me!" he yelled.
I shook my head while reaching for my lightsabers, "No Anakin you did when you decided to take the path of those who don't deserve to live. Anakin you were deceived by a lie. You won't be able to save me because I am beyond saving at this point. Palpatine tried to kill me Anakin."
"You lie," he said igniting his own saber. Obi-wan followed suit. Anakin paced across the platform, and stopped before the edge. "I will kill you both if I have to." Then he did some jumps, and landed right in front of us. The battle had begun.
I noticed Anakin was more aggressive now. He lashed with rage, and almost certain doom.
The air was hot as we fought our way on the landing platform. We were all in perfect harmony to each other. I still loved Anakin, but I wasn't fighting Anakin I was fighting Darth Vader.
Anakin had dyed and I know that now. It was foolish of me to try and talk to him back. Power and evil consumed him. His bright loving blue eyes did not show that anymore. They were taken over by the sithly yellow that only had hate and anger.
We now moved into a small hallway. It was dark. I was in front of Vader, and Obi-wan was in back.
I now thought about what I was going to do after this was over. If I even survived this I would not be grateful. I came here on a mission to get Anakin back, but if I survived I know there would be no Anakin only a Darth Vader.
The ironic part of it all was Anakin did this to save me, but I was going to die anyway. If I hadn't of made that wish three years ago then maybe this wouldn't have happened. Was I blaming myself? No, but in secret I was.
Should I regret my wish? No, I shouldn't. If I hadn't of made that wish then I 'd living a horrible life. Since I made the wish I am here living a life I wanted instead of back home in New York wishing I had a better life. If it hadn't had been me it would have been Padme. So, either way it would have happened, but this was Padme wouldn't die. I would die instead. I liked it better that way. I was glad to know I was saving someone I loved.
But it wasn't Anakin I was saving. Most of all I wanted to save Anakin. I had never fallen for someone so hard before, but slowly I was dying for him, ever so slowly.
Now we moved into the control room where the dead bodies of the Separatists lay. Anakin put his hand up to Force choke me, but I blocked it with my own hand and the power of the Force. We held our hands like that with the Force in between them. Then we let go, and I flung over to one of the control panels. Anakin then looked at Obi-wan. "Don't make me destroy you, Master. You're no match for the Dark Side," he said angrily.
"I've heard that before Anakin but I never thought I'd hear it from you," Obi-wan replied.
I then Force leaped over to them where they resumed fighting. Our lightsabers were a blur of black, white, and blue. Obi-wan and I were on the defensive side. Anakin attacked us with every fiber of his being, and I asked myself where my loving husband had gone.
I yet answered myself with the same answer as I did last time. He had died, but then I thought about it. No, no he didn't die, because I would have died along with him. Maybe I was dying. I didn't know then, but I knew that there was good in Anakin or Darth Vader. It was there and I felt I deep within the confusion, and the angst.
We ended up knocking each other's lightsabers to the ground and went to hand to hand combat. I went and kicked Vader in the stomach. He got back up and took my legs out from under me. I quickly called forth my lightsabers as Obi-wan and Vader began to fight. When they both had their lightsabers we began again.
We made our way to one of the balconies of the lava planet. "The flaw of power is arrogance," I told Vader.
He looked at me, "You hesitate . . . the flaw of compassion."
We continued to fight down the narrow balcony to the end. Obi-wan was trapped at the end. He looked down around him, and saw a small pipe. He took a risk, and leapt. Vader and I followed after him. We tight-roped walked until Obi-wan jumped down to a thick pipe of superstructure. We followed.
We moved down the pipe, and I could feel the lava on my feet. When we made it to the end a spray of lava came and landed on the supports of the superstructure. Vader, Obi-wan and I ran for cover at the shelter on the end as the lava came pouring.
The lava was hot on my black and white jumpsuit. "Are you doing okay?" Obi-wan asked.
I shook my head. "Yes, I'm fine. Trust me I would let you know if I wasn't," I said.
When the rain of lava stopped we went back out to fight. As we were fighting the superstructure broke off, and I could hear the metal snap and break. Obi-wan quickly climbed as far up as he could get. Anakin followed after him getting hits in with me and Obi-wan. I had to put away one of my lightsabers to be able to climb. I felt the hot lava river run under our battling bodies.
With little swings of our lightsabers here and there we floated down the river. A little ways down I could see a lava fall. I looked up, and could see that Obi0wan saw it too. He grabbed onto a chain, and jumped gracefully off of the substructure to a small platform. I saw one too, and I grabbed the same chain, and did a double back flip to it. I was just glad I made it. Anakin followed after.
Anakin leaned so that his droid platform came close to ours. We continued the fight for a while then we stopped as I spoke. "I have failed you Anakin," I said.
"I should have known the Jedi were plotting to take over," he said yelling his hatred filled voice at us.
Obi- wan looked at him, "From the Sith! Anakin, Palpatine is evil!"
"From the Jedi point of view! From my point of view the Jedi are evil!" he yelled back.
I shook my head, "Then you are lost! I wish I could have helped you Anakin. I wish you could have told me, but you wouldn't. You had to be so damn worried about who to trust. I love you, Anakin, but my place is with the Jedi, and with the Rebellion!"
"This is the end for you my master and my love!" he yelled back. Obi-wan went, and jumped off his platform onto a bank, and with a small whisper of so be it I followed suit.
"It's over Anakin. We have the high ground," Obi-wan yelled.
Anakin's eyes shown with rage, "You underestimate my power!" Anakin then leaped with all his might, and as he did Obi-wan cut off his legs, and one good arm. He fell below us.
I saw my dream in front of my eyes. I looked down the slope of ash to Anakin. He had no good limbs now. Just then Obi-wan spoke, "You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!"
"I'm sorry Anakin!" I yelled. "I loved you, but not enough to save you. You are not totally a lost cause yet. One day you will redeemed, and I will wait for you in heaven, but if you do not show up there then I will go to hell to be with you!"
Just then his tunic caught fire, and he looked up to us. I felt tears coming from my eyes. "I hate you!" he yelled. I nodded. I knew he hated me, but I still loved him, and I knew he wasn't telling the truth. I knew he still loved me. I just wish I could see it. I grabbed his lightsaber, and walked back to the landing platform with Obi-wan.
We boarded, and I looked out the window to what was now the burnt flesh of Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker the man I loved. I looked out across the ash plains of Mustafar, and I saw the hell it all ended in. "He doesn't know," I whispered quietly.
Obi-wan came up behind me. "Know what?" he asked.
I turned towards him. "That I'm pregnant."
A/N: There you go guys. November is pregnant. Please review. I actually cried writing this chapter. I hope you guys like it.