The Empress, Jedi, and Sith 1: Luke and Leia Discovered

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AN: Thank you very much for the reviews! I appreciate them very much. Guys. I'm sooooo sooorrryyy for not updating! I was soo busy and I a little time to type this out, so enjoy this chapter.

GreenTeaandHoney: Wow, that was the longest review I ever got, but thanks anyway. Yeah, you are right, I should ask myself if they speak that way. I think I always get my tenses mixed up.lol. Nobody ever said they are proud of me. Thx. Lol. :

Tasuja: Really? I had tried to make Luke's dialogue and thoughts less stiff when I was typing the chapter. Do you mean I should make his dialogue and thoughts more informal? And colorful, do you mean I should let him swear? Something like, "banthaspit", "Sithspawn", "Sithhell", & "Sithballs"? That was really funny. Lol.

Jedi X-Man: Thanks ya again! You are still too kind.lol. Cuz of your name, you like X-men too? I watched the movies and I think they're cool.lol.

Este: Thanks girl! Please keep reviewing! Don't forget to enjoy this chappie.lol

DarthGladitor45: Hmmmm..Maybe it's because of its brown color that the Dark Lords like so much. I guess the Jedi like milk chocolate or white chocolate cuz its colors associate with the light side. Lol. I wonder do Vader ever eat, piss, and sleep like everybody else…. or eat chocolate chips in secret? Lol! Enjoy this chappie.

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Summary of Tatooine: (Last chapter) Vader had gotten information about the rebel site on Tatooine and went there. On Tatooine, Luke was sent by his uncle to get the parts for the vaporators by meeting the Jawas, but he decided to visit Ben Kenobi, the hermit. Ben was dying of a disease and before he died, he gave Luke's father's lightsaber to the boy. Ben warned Luke of the dark side and he'll stay beside Luke after his death. However, Luke doesn't want him to go, but Ben died in his arms anyway. He had created a grave marker and a burial site for Obi-wan. Soon, he went to sleep in Obi-wan's house, but after a while, he felt a heavy presence and a pair of eyes staring back at him.

Chapter 6: Luke and Vader

There was a pair of eyes staring back at him. The color was deep, cool blue, very much like Luke's. It belonged to a very tall man with powerful build. There was a small vertical scar on the right side of his face, probably from an accident. His brownish-blonde wavy hair nearly touched his shoulders. The outfit was all black and dark brown. Not a good color to wear in Tatooine. His presence was dark and strangely…. seductive.

Luke quickly got up from his lying position and hesitantly inched away from the stranger in the front of him.

The handsome man opened his mouth, and asked, " Did Kenobi die?"

Luke, staring at the man, is now not really frightened by him at all, replied, " Yeah, he just died a few hours ago…."

Luke's expression became painful and sad. The mentioning of Ben again made him want to weep more, but he can't weep anymore. His tear ducts were all dried up.

The strange man just nodded, like he knew that Ben already died. Then he turned his head to face the boy directly. His ice blue eyes were locked on Luke's eyes.

"Who are you? How is this man related to you? Is he your master or did he train you?" His voice became darker and a little more menacing. His presence seemed to heighten the man more, making him look more powerful and a little deadly.

Luke stammered, a little frightened by the sudden change in the strange man, " Uh, h-he is just an old hermit I knew him since I-I was a little boy. I, uh, am Luke. "

And then he said after pausing for a moment, "What do you mean that he trained me? Trained me in what?"

Vader said, " Did he teach you about the Force?"

"What? The Force? No, I don't know much about it."

"Don't lie to me! It's obvious he knew you and you probably trained with him!"

Luke shrank and stammered more, "I-I, uh, don't know, sir. Please! I'm really telling the truth! I don't know what this whole training thing. Please sir!"

Vader sensed the truth behind those boy's words and felt resigned that the damnable Kenobi didn't train him. That would probably give him an excuse to get rid of more Jedi. But he still can't help feeling something different about this boy and that this boy is…special and shone so bright in the light side! It almost stung him. It's very obvious that this boy is untrained and very powerful in the Force, even untrained. What an asset to the dark side….

The stranger still stared at him, " I see. Whom are you living with?"

"My Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru."

Mentally, Vader reeled.

/The Lars! Owen and…/

However, Luke added a new piece of information that would shatter Vader's life.

"…. But I don't have their last name. I took my surname after my father, Anakin Skywalker…. but he died when I was a baby… Anyway, who are you?"

The expression on Luke's face was sort of wistful and respectful when he said his father's former name, namely the man in front of him. For the whole life, he had fantasized his father is still alive and living with him. They would do father and son things together, but his father is dead, or his uncle said so. He looked downcast and his eyes were lowered to the floor.

Vader reeled mentally more. Except this revelation was more shocking than the last revelation about the Lars.

/What? Skywalker? A son? T-this means Padme survived giving birth to my son! I thought the baby died with her/

Suddenly, Luke's face was snapped up by the chin to face the man.

He said in his deep and darkish voice, " That will not concern you now. You must come with me now."

But then he trailed off, "Too bad Kenobi wasn't here…. I would like to…" His eyes were facing in the direction of the old Jedi's grave.

Luke began to wonder how this man knew the old Jedi.

/Were they old friends? Or enemies/

"Sir, how do you know Ben?" He wasn't scared of this man anymore, because something told him this stranger would not hurt him, and believed it in it.

Vader stared at him again and exclaimed, " He took away my life! My family and wife! He betrayed me many years ago and he was too blind to see the truth!"

The boy was nearly taken back by his outburst and shocked at Old Ben's "betrayal". He can't believe it Ben would betray somebody, because it doesn't sounds like him. He seemed very kind to Luke all those years. Why would he betray the stranger?

"Um, sorry, sir. I didn't know that. He was very kind to me all those years."

Vader let out a humorless laugh.

"Luke, he can be very deceiving and likes to twist truth around. Appearances can be deceiving."

Luke is getting more puzzled about this man, this guy is definitely an enigma, and he doesn't know his name yet.

In out of respect of the old man's memory, he did not say anything, but just kept quiet, or simply doesn't know how to answer to that remark.

Abruptly, Vader dropped his leather clad hand and said, "Come, we must go."

The boy doesn't like the way he said the last sentence, somehow it sent a chill up in his spine.

/Okkkkk…This is getting weird…/

So Luke slid out of Ben's bed to follow him. However, before he left the adobe building, he took one last look at his surroundings. The nightstand was standing next to the small bed, a shuttered window was open, a 'fresher was at the other side of the room, and a table was located at the opposite wall of the 'fresher.

Despite the shocking revelation of Ben's "betrayal", Luke will remember and hold him to his heart for the rest of his life. Ben's last gift to Luke, the lightsaber, was safely tucked away in his tunic, where nobody can see it. Then, he left, never looking back.

At outside, there was this black-clad man leaning against his sleek, black speeder, waiting for him. He looked a little impatient, like he had to be somewhere more important.

His speeder looked sleek, advanced, and Luke even bet that the stranger's speeder would outperform his batty landspeeder.

Luke but can't help commenting on it, "Wow! That speeder is so cool! Where did ya get it?"

The stranger just gave him a small smile and said, "It's the Hyper X-1, the best speeder on the market. I just simply got it as a gift."

Luke just nodded, his eyes wide. However, the stranger abruptly said, "We must go now." Vader had put the Force into his words, because he is out of time and needed to go back to his Star Destroyer, and he just want to see how well the boy responds to his Force-induced command.

He didn't. Luke just resisted it and began to blabber some questions, " Cool! Who gave it to you? What does it do? What is this little silver button?"

Amazingly, the boy is very strong in the Force and a bond is forming between them. But this still doesn't prove that he is his son; when Vader goes back to his flagship, he will use a blood test to verify the match between him and the boy. He half hoped it would be a match and not a match. He must be starting to get soft…must not let that happen…