I hereby dedicate this chapter to all faithful reviewers out there. This is because this is the next to last chapter. Yes 11 chapters with an Epilogue though and I promise these last two will go out with a bang! ( Literally, hint, hint)

Chapter 10: Xen

Xen came at them like some ferocious cat leaping at an annoying dog. She landed between the two and stabbed her blades both ways. Obi-wan responded to this by leaping onto the table behind him. However Anakin parried the strike and the next that was sent at him.

Obi-wan jumped down from the piece of black metal he had landed on and came right behind Xen. Quickly he swung his lightsaber at her back. She sensed the disturbance in the force kicked Anakin in the groin and made a soaring back flip and landed behind Obi-wan.

He barely had enough time to turn and block the thrust to his head. After that though he quickly began to lose ground. Xen had him backing towards the control consoles. Her attacks were literally to fast to see and Obi-wan had a very difficult time in deflecting them. She was just like Count Dooku, never letting anyone get on the offensive.

Anakin on the other hand was just getting of the ground, Xen kicking him in the wrong place had actually given him new strength out of his anger. Quickly after seeing Obi-wan's position he did a sort of diving roll in the air and landed to Xen's left side.

Before she even had time to register what was going on his light blue blade sliced right through Xen's saber hilt. In a growl of pure rage she kicked both Jedi in the face in one spinning leap and ran out of the room to the opposite door the Jedi had come in. The two arose together Obi-wan favoring a very bloody nose.

" She's running!" Cried Anakin.

" Yes, obviously." Obi-wan snapped clenching his nose.

" Master can you fight with that."

" Yes."

" Does it hurt?"

" Yes!" Obi-wan snapped. Anakin smiled despite the fact his opponent in a battle had just run off. One who had sent an assassin to murder his wife! Banishing the thought from his head he gestured Obi-wan to follow him through the door Xen had vanished through moments ago.

It opened into a dimly lit hall since Xen appeared to have sliced all the lights to her right. The half lit hall was quite dim but Xen's presence appeared to be in the room beyond so neither Anakin nor Obi-wan worried.

Seconds before they reached the door to that room Anakin's comm. chimed for about the thousandth time this day. Swearing loudly he answered it.

" What!"

" Master Skywalker. We have reached the shield generator. We're blowing it up and we're getting out of here."

" No, don't go yet! Wait for further orders."

" Yes sir."

With that Anakin deactivated the stupid thing and inserted it into a pouch on his belt.

" I see why you don't carry one of those anymore." Anakin muttered to Obi-wan who smiled. This moment of happiness was short lived though as they came into the room beyond which turned out to be a hallway leading down to a few turbo lifts. Xen stood right next to an open one both lightsabers still active.

" If this fight is gonna continue we're going to my turf." Xen snapped and entered the turbo lift as the door slammed shut and the thing was pulled away. The two Jedi approached it and looked at the screen above. Numbers were changing rapidly and they finally stopped. At the topmost floor. Xen was going to her throne room.

Anakin sighed. It seemed like everyone wanted to fight in their throne room. Sidious, Xen, even Dooku did even though it was Grevious's. But it was still a throne room nonetheless. There was only one Sith, come to think of it, that Anakin had faced that did not fight in a throne room. That was Asajj Ventress. Grevious to although he wasn't a Sith.

Literally shaking the though out of his head Anakin stepped into the turbo lift as it came back down, Obi-wan too. He pressed the top button on the thing shot up, faster than any bullet.

Some sort of stupid elevator music began to play which made Anakin laugh. He knew of course it was Xen playing it to annoy them though it wasn't working to well. The lift stopped about thirty seconds later and opened into a vast room. It was somewhat like General Grevious's throne room. It had a situation table in the middle huge windows to the back and also the same coloration. The chair was the same to though it was on a raised platform. There was really only one major difference. Above them rose a long series of catwalks, some cut in half others with long scorch marks. It must have been something like and adrenaline pumping training course. Perhaps used when Sidious trained Xen or when Xen trained her assassin.

It seemed to go on and on without stopping. A red bar of energy suddenly appeared at the top though. It lit the whole place in an eerie red glow and revealed how tall it was. It must have been at least fifty feet up maybe more but the catwalks stretching winding slanting as hanging made it difficult. As soon as the red bars appeared they faded away with a hiss and a huge laugh.

" Now what's the plan?" Asked Obi-wan quietly.

" We split up, that way when the first gets into a fight the other will be able to see and kill the enemy."

" Very nice."

" Its in all the holonet action programs."

" You can tell me about them later."

Obi-wan then squatted slightly and propelled himself into the air landing on one of the catwalks and jumping further. Anakin jumped up seconds later landing on a broke walk completely engulfed in darkness. Tapping into the force he tried to locate his enemy. She was nowhere, Obi-wan was several feet above him though. He searched through the whole room. Nowhere.

Baffled he stood brainstorming for a moment failing to notice the dark figure walking up behind him. There was a loud snap hiss and Anakin quickly activated his lightsaber after hearing it, turned around and parried a strong uppercut from one of Xen's sabers.

There was a small arch behind her and it seemed to lead to a staircase. Quickly tapping into the force while still parrying Xen's blows he found that there were hundreds of there little doors all along the catwalks. That's why he couldn't sense Xen, he was only looking in that room.

Xen struck again as Obi-wan landed behind her. She kicked Anakin for about the tenth time in the stomach and sent him flying to the end of the broken catwalk. His lightsaber slipped from his hands and miraculously fell to the floor below him, missing every single catwalk on the way down. Anakin cursed as he jumped down from bridge to bridge in order to retrieve his weapon.

Meanwhile Xen was quickly gaining the upper hand on Obi-wan. She did only have one lightsaber but now he wished she had two. It seemed she was more deadly with one. She was using a combination of two forms, a thing rarely heard of. Ataru as well as Djem So, there were some Makashi stances in there two but Obi-wan didn't have time to pay attention to them. His main focus was deflecting blow after blow sent his way. He was tiring out. Xen was completely aware of this to.

It was just about getting to be to much for him to handle, even with the aid of the force. An older man fighting a young woman was not an even match. Weighing in favor for the young woman who seemed to be a very seasoned fighter. Or maybe she wasn't so young but she sure looked like it. These thoughts made Obi-wan drop his guard for about a millisecond. Xen took the opportunity thrown at her and pulled her fist back. It came in contact with Obi-wan's face making is nose bleed once again renewing the dried blood. As he put his hand up to his face a round house kick was thrown at him whacking him in his shoulder and sending him flying off the catwalk. Quickly he tried to gain control of his fall but his efforts were futile and he was nearing the floor. Instead of hitting that though one of his spread out legs bumped off the guard rail of a lower catwalk and it sent him spinning out of control.

He landed on his stomach on the situation table and rolled off. He was not dead but the wind was knocked out of him and there was no way he could continue the fight. As he struggled to regain normal less painful Anakin jumped back up to Xen.

Their dance came off of hold and they began striking at each other furiously. Anakin was gaining the upper hand though because now it appeared Xen was tiring out. She drew back her sword for a powerful strike but Anakin did not prepare to block. Instead he extended his hand and pushed the woman off the walk with the force. She landed on her arm with a sickening crunch and Anakin landed on his feet beside her. She looked up at him her eyes not yellow but pure fire red.

" You! The chosen one, kill me now! Fulfill your stupid destiny." She spat.

" You are not a Sith." Anakin casually said.

" How dare you! I'm as much of a Sith as Sidious."

" And insane."

" KILL ME NOW! Come on stab me in the back like my assassin did your wife. Take your revenge!"

" Revenge is not the way of the Jedi."

" But you are not just going to let me live are you? You would be a fool to."

" Oh no, I'm going to kill you, but not in revenge."

At this Xen began to laugh maniacally.

" I sent an assassin who nearly murdered your wife, bested you in space combat and made you go through hell and beyond to defeat me. And now you tell me you aren't going to kill me in revenge!"

" No." Said Anakin calling Xen's saber to him. " I'm going to kill you because you're a threat."

" Good." Xen snapped. " I'd like to go out as a danger."

" Mark my words…" Anakin said activating Xen's saber. He flipped it in his hand and raised it upwards. Then he brought it down and it went right through Xen's neck. Her red eyes looked upward in pain and then her head rolled away leaving her body limp and motionless. " you will."

There you have it! This is not the last chapter you know. I struggled to make this battle unique and I think I did. This is probably the longest action sequence I have ever done. As well as the most thought about. Everything you have just read, every aspect I thought about. And so Xen died. It killed me to do it because she was such a great villain but, well just review!