Author Note: Ok guys, I understand there's a little confusion over the characters again, so I'll make it simple.
Count Dooku Ajax, the huge guy with the axe.
Sidious and Grievous aren't brothers in this because I just felt like making them father and son, just like Boba and Jango aren't cousins, like Achilles and Patroclus were. I said at the beginning that I was going to change the story a little so that it wasn't copyrighting, and these are just the first few little tweaks. Don't worry. I don't stray from the story too much, although I do cut out a scene here, add a scene there etc.
And yes, Anakin has loved others aswell as Padme because before he met Padme, Anakin did apparently have a girlfirend anyways (in the real movies), so I'm just sharing that little bit of knowledge with you coz...I feel like it I guess. Must be all the great reviews. KEEP EM COMING!
Anakin paced about his room that evening. Padme was standing in the archway looking out to the dark sea. The wind blew through her hair.
"They're coming for me. The wind is bringing them closer," she sighed, causing Anakin to stop pacing and stare at her.
"What if we left? Tonight, right now, what if we went down to the stables, took two horses and left. Ride east, keep riding --"
"And go where?" Padme asked.
"Away from here. I could hunt deer, rabbit. I could feed us."
"This is your home --"
"You left your home for me."
"Endor was never my home. My parents sent me there when I was fourteen to marry Grievous, but it was never my home. I am a true Nubian by birth, so really this is my home."
Anakin, too excited with his new-hatched plan, barely listened.
"We'll live off the land. No more palaces for us, no more servants. We don't need any of that."
"And your family?" Padme asked as she turned to regard his frantic pacing.
"We'd be protecting my family! If we're not here there's no need for a war."
"Grievous won't give up. He'll track us to the end of the world."
"He doesn't know these lands. I do. We can lose ourselves in a day."
Padme walked over to him and kissed him on the lips.
"You don't know Grievous. You don't know his father. They'll burn every house on Naboo to find us. They'll never believe we've left -- and even if they do, they'll burn Naboo for spite."
Anakin considered her words and finally nodded.
"Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine."
Padme wrapped her arms around Anakin and rested her chin on his shoulder.
"You're very young, my love."
"Only four years younger!"
"You're younger than I was ever allowed to be."
Anakin suddenly felt sorry for her and returned her hug warmly.
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The next morning, soldiers prepared a series of fortifications on Naboo's largest landing platform, which stretched along the beach. Men carrying torches ignited giant pumice urns filled with burning pitch. Others hammered long spikes deep into the sand around the platform to hinder enemies rushing off the platfrom and up the beach. Others dug a long trench for the soldiers to protect themselves in.
There was little conversation and the men looked tense because everyone was touched with an air of extreme urgency.
Two sentries stood in a guard tower on a corner of Theed's city walls, sipping hot broth from bowls. A large flag, emblazoned with Naboo's royal emblem, flew above the tower. One sentry blew steam off his soup and raised his eyes, blinking and squinting into the distance. His soup bowl crashed to the floor and shattered, sending boiling soup about his feet.
The second sentry followed his partner's gaze out to the sea. A thousand ships clogged the horizon, flying straight for Naboo.The second sentry grabbed a long hammer and began to hammer the brass gong that hung beside them. The first sentry still stared at the swarm of ships. No Nubian had ever seen such a force.
A few minutes later, sentries in other guard towers hammered their warning gongs aswell.
Obi-Wan was sitting on a rug by his bed, beside his wife Sabe, watching his son. The boy was playing with the wooden lion Obi-Wan had carved on the journey back from Endor.
The city bells begin to ring and Obi-Wan looked at his wife, before walking to the balcony, where he could see over the city walls to the ocean.
He saw a thousand enemy ships sailing towards them. For a moment he stared at the armada before hurrying back into the palace.
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Panic was flooding the streets of Theed. Merchants quickly packed away their goods; mothers ran into the streets looking for their children; young men hurried to the armory.
Outside the city gates there was a mad rush to get safely inside the city walls as the armada drew closer to the platform.
One ship flew far ahead of the rest. It was an odd blue and grey ship that looked like it was flying on it's end. No-one had ever seen anything like it before.