-1Chapter 6
Reckless

Luke's POV

Another day of training found me upside down again this time the training to move thing with the force came easier then before. Sarda meditating a little ways off and Yoda instructing me.

"Han, Leia." then the ground comes up fast.

"Friend they are?" Yoda asked.

"They were in pain."

"It seems the future you see."

"Will…. Will they die?"

"Do not know the future is very tricky always moving it is."

"I have to do something I have to go to them."

"Go if you will." Yoda says. "If you leave now, help them you could. But you would destroy all for which they have fought and suffered."

At around dusk I had on my fighter suit and walked towards the X wing, when Yoda's voice broke through my thoughts.

"Luke"

"I'm sorry I have to go." I reply.

"You have to finish your training. Can not go"

"They'll die if I don't go."

"You don't know that." Ben says trying to help.

"Luke it could be a trap" Sarda added.

"Luke the emperor wants you and the abilities you poses that's why your friend suffer."

"And that's why I have to go."

"You will risk what everyone is fighting for to save them, when you barley understand what it is you are learning here. You would walk right into the Emperors hands, would let the people who died to have died in vain because you want to save a hand full of people. They know what it is they do they now what is they fight for and if the need comes die for." Sarda almost yells at me.

"Sarda control your anger this not the time." Ben says "And it is the fact that I lost Vader to the empire and I don't want to lose you to that path ether. You are far to important."

"You wont." I reply.

"Stopped they must be. On this depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his Emperor. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil." Yoda says

"You must have patience Luke if you are to be a Jedi." Sarda adds.

"But what about Han and Leia? Are you will to sacrifice them"

" If you honor what they fight for...yes!" Yoda says with a hard edge to his voice.

"If you choose to fight Vader I can not interfere." Ben said sadly.

"If you fight him I can not…. no will not help you. Promises be damned." Sarda said "It's bad enough you want to fight that monster."

"I understand, R2 fire up the converters."

"Luke don't give into anger…. That leads to the dark side."

"Strong is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can."

"I will. And I'll return. I promise." I say as I get into the ship to take off.

Sarda's POV

As Luke fly on I hear Yoda say, "I told you. Reckless he is."

"Go after him." Ben said.

And I did. I went with Luke to cloud City to save the others.

"Are you sure there here?" I ask. "I don't feel them."

"Yeah" once inside he looks left and then right then points one way "I'll look this way and you look down that way." he say pointing the other way.

"Luke don't do anything that will get you killed." I said and take off.

A 2 hours later I was ushering Leia, Lando, Chewie, R2 and 3po onto the falcon. They had explained what had happened to Han on the way. Looking back out for Luke right before takeoff but he wasn't there. I sent out with the force but all there was, was dark feelings.

"Where's Luke?" Leia asked

"I don't know." I said "but I had a bad feeling about this."

"You lost him?" She asked loudly.

"No. Just misplaced, this damn city is so big and there is another on board that is force stronger then me and is blocking me from finding him." I said.

"So in other word you lost him." Leia said sitting down.

"Why did I even come ugh." I said sitting too.

As we moved away from the Cloud City I search for Luke's force signature. I tried to move throw the dark waters I could since him but where.

"Luke…..We've got to go back!" Leia all but yelled "I know where he is."

'It can't be.' I thought.

"What?" Lando says.

"We've got to go back I know where Luke is."

As we flow under the city we found Luke under the flouting city on one of the antennas. Lando and I went up to get him down. I had blamed myself for him looking like he did. I had told him not to go and fight him I had told him and now he.

I looked down at Luke. He seemed very beaten both emotionally an physically. I picked up a cool cloth and put it on his face. I tried to look into his head tried to see what he had seen, but he was in such a battle with himself that I couldn't figure out what was what.

"He's feverish he needs to see a healer. I can only do so much to help him." I told her as I moved over to the cot.

The ship lurches and Leia whispers something to Luke before getting up and leaving.

"Father…..(moan). Why, Ben Why didn't you tell me?" Luke asked.

After a few hours we landed on Interior star cruiser and Luke was rushed to the medical center. I had left on a fighter ship to a planet I told Luke I had to check on some things with my old crew. After about 2 hours I walk into the medical center I see Luke getting a new hand. He had fought his father for the first time and lost. He had also found his father was Darth-Vader. I know Obi-wan was trying to keep this from him trying to keep him sheltered is what I think. I can't think that he foresaw this that he know that the time to know that he had to find out on his own.

"I'll meet you at the rendezvous point on Tatooine." Luke said into the comlink.

"I see your better." I said as I got closer.

"When'd you get back are your old crew alright?" Luke asked.

"I've been back only a few minutes and there fine." I answered adjusting my cloak.

"Chewie, I'll be waiting for your signal. Okay" He said after a minute.

Chewie's wail comes over the comlink.

"Take care, you two. May the Force be with you." Luke said.

"Yeah try to come back alive. May the force be with you always." I said into the comlink a few seconds later.

Luke looks down at his hand. A metalized type of bandage has been wrapped around his wrist. The medical droid makes some adjustments in a tiny electronic unit, then pricks each one of Luke's fingers.

"OW!" Luke got out.

"What I had to go though that twice." I said rubbing my arm, "You know you and I have something in common now."

"Why didn't he tell me?"

"Tell you what?" I ask.

"My father is Darth Vader the puppet to the empire."

"Leia could you excuse us for a moment." she nods and walks away. "I don't know. I know he knew what happened but I wouldn't think he wouldn't tell you." I said as I adjusted my clock as I sat back down.

"Will you tell me something?" He asks and I nod "How was he turned to the dark side?"

"sigh I don't know the whole story. That's why I didn't tell you. At the time I was on my own missions with my master, but what I do know is he got to an age when the anger in Anakin your father, had gotten to much for him. It clouded his judgment. He befriended at the time Chancier Palpaten who is now the empire. He had on top of his anger a deep manipulated." I paused. "It had started when he had been on a mission to protected your mother kanda Padme back to her home planet Naboo…. You know it's pretty this time of year with the wild flower, cheery blooms, and trees." I smile.

"What happened after that?"

"Well from what I heard he and your mother stayed there for many mouths so as to keep her safe while there, they had left to help with a fight later on they married, it wasn't till after we had know about the clones. If I remember right it was the first battle with them. Anyway he gave into his feelings of hate and anger at a time when he should not have something a Jedi must not do, and in the time after he and Kanda Padme spent time together after that. She had became pregnant with you and your sister."

"I have a sister."

"Ani as many of us who know him called him had become more and more angry. He had been manipulated so much by Palpaten that he didn't know up from down. The day he killed my master he had also been sent to the Jedi temple where I was at the time, my master had said that I couldn't go with him to get Palpatine. He said I had to stay at the temple I didn't know why when he know I might have died that day too. Well at he temple he…. He killed children he killed my friends, my master the only family I ever know."

"How did you escape? I mean I fought him and he's had years to practice. He must have been one of the top of his group."

"He was he could beat every padawan in our level I was the only one who could wind him but I still lost. Well I had a vision of an attack on the temple of the day that my master was going to go talk with Palpaten. I didn't know that he was going to be the leader of the attack. If it would have been any one but him or a master I could have taken them. Well I went through the temple and got as many of the others as I could to take them to a secret storage compartment that lead to tunnel system under the city. The tunnel lead under the temple and a lot of the other buildings had these tunnels to get ceniters at the time in and out of the buildings without people knowing or if the building was under attack they could be used as a quick exit. Well later on he went to the volcanic planet Mustafar. He had been told to kill the separatist that were there but were working for Count Dooku who had been killed mouths before. Count Dooku had been under ordered by his master Palpaten to kidnap him. Dooku was the first that he killed….. the first person Anakin killed with anger. Once done he started down the road to the dark side with no way he could be stop or swayed."

"What else happen?"

"Well while he was on Mustafar he fought his master he fought Obi-wan. He fought him and lost but I don't know the details of it I just know that. After he lost Palpaten found him and saved him. Obi-wan never did tell me what exactly happened. After about a year a spy that I had in the ranks contacted me and we meant and he told me that Anakin was had become more machine then man and had been so brain washed that nothing could get him back."

"What happen with my mother? Why did I have to go live with my uncle?" he asked

"I don't know why she died but something Anakin said or did something killed her. She barely had enough strength to give birth to you two. After that your sister was sent with Bail Organa, and you to your uncle. You had to be separated to be kept safe." I pause and look at him as he pulls his shirt sleeve down "I hope this helped."

"It did sort of." He said and smiled a little.

"Here I brought you something." I said pulling out a pair of gloves.

"Why did you…."

"I felt it would be something that might remind you."

"Remind me of what?"

"Remind you to not to be like your father. It's a fine line between light and dark many find it hard not to sway to the dark or to twist the teaching of the light. It takes a strong person to understand what you know is right and doing it. The dark side may seem like it holds all the answers but it doesn't."

"I will try." he says turning to look out the window.

"That's all we can do." I smile turning too "That's all we can do."