The Water Dragon's Pearl Chapter Two
When Anakin Skywalker became a Knight, he decided to woo Palpatine. Unfortunately, the Clone Wars take up most of his time while the Healing Halls take up the rest. The war also keeps the Chancellor busy. Until tonight.
His message said to come to his penthouse alone. Maybe he's going to confess something. Why else would he invite me into his personal sanctum? But what is he going to confess? It can't be war-related because he could've gone to the Senate or the Council. Oh! He's probably going to confess he loves me! And not in the paternal way!
So Anakin joyfully keys in the one-time passcode for Palpatine's door. The Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, and his latest Naboo crush, is draped in a crimson shimmersilk. His pale skin glows from the false embers of the electronic fireplace, while his silver hair catches the red-orange embers. There's a bow around his lithe waist keeping the robe closed, and Anakin is certain that just one tug would undo it. Anakin uses his immense willpower to ignore the bow.
"Ah, I was afraid my message wouldn't reach you in time, my dear boy."
"Nothing can keep me from you." Palpatine raises an eyebrow, and Anakin quickly adds, "What I mean is this must be serious business."
"It is, and it has to do with Senator Amidala."
Anakin stiffens. Lately, the Senator of Naboo, his former crush, has been rather affectionate with him. She would lean into him when they were in a turbolift. She would hug him far longer than it would be considered polite. Once, she sniffed him. All this gives him the impression that she's interested in him, but he cannot respond because her lake creature would rip his manhood off with its monster teeth.
"What's wrong with her?"
"She's pregnant." Palpatine pauses and drops the other shaak-leather boot. "I'm the father."
"W-What!?" Anakin splutters. And before he can process his sexual confusion, Palpatine continues.
"There's also another secret I've been keeping." Palpatine pulls at the knot of his bathrobe and it comes undone. Anakin doesn't see the cock of his dreams, but a very familiar slit. He looks up and sees the lake creature.
"Oh." It–he?–has hair just like the Chancellor. But it's all curly! Maybe he really does use product on his hair!
The lake creature narrows its golden slits like an apex predator seconds away from tearing out an upstart's throat.
"What happened to your penis?" Anakin blurts out, and the lake creature kneels to pick up his discarded robe. He saunters away to a nearby room, while Anakin watches those red and black cheeks move up and down until they disappear behind a finely-crafted door. Seconds later, Palpatine reemerges in his human skin and more conservatively dressed than before.
"To answer your raw question, my male genitals become retractable in my Water Dragon form."
"Water Dragon?"
"Shiraya, the Goddess of the Moon, had a tryst with Chaos and birthed twins: one a human and the other a monster. Sol, the God of the Sun and her Divine Consort, was furious and demanded justice for this unholy adultery."
"I thought Shiraya was the goddess that was above everyone in the Pantheon." I think she is because the Naboo religion is about as complex as their fashion!
"She is, but even she is not above the sacred laws. Thou shall not be unfaithful to thy spouse unless thou obtained thy spouse's consent."
"That's a very specific law, sir."
"It's the most common translation from the original Futhark text to Basic." He waves a spidery hand dismissively. "She didn't obtain his permission for this infidelity, so she was put on trial and judged by the rest of the Pantheon."
"All of them were her judges?"
"They were quite democratic that way." He smiles with a strange glint in his eyes. "The punishment must fit the crime, so Chaos had to be Sol's lover for as long as he was Shiraya's."
"Wait, I thought Shiraya was on trial. Why does Chaos get punished?"
"Because he didn't ask for Sol's permission, so he's just as complicit."
"How does Chaos's being Sol's lover punish Shiraya?"
"Because it's equal to her crime. Sol gets Chaos as his lover for a few centuries, while Shiraya has to be celibate during such time."
"What happened to the kids?"
"The human would go out amongst the stars, mingle with the humans on other planets, and his progeny would come back to inherit Naboo."
"I thought the Gungans were the true natives of Naboo."
"They are, but the early human colonists liked to tell themselves that the planet belonged to them through divine right and that the Gungans were merely caretakers."
"What happened to the monster?"
"The monster never went out in the stars like his older brother. He dwelled in the murky waters of Naboo, preferring not to incur the derision of the Gungans or, later, the wrath of his brother's progeny. After Chaos served his sentence, he decided to help his ill-begotten child. He magicked the monster a human form that he could take, but there was a catch: he must spend an entire night every month in his monster form, or he'll lose his newly gained humanity."
"Let me guess, he broke it."
"No, but there were more catches that Chaos omitted because he's the Father of Lies. The second catch is that the monster is no longer immortal like the Pantheon because of his human side. The third catch is that his true form is hereditary, but he didn't realize this until the birth of his granddaughter. He had to kill all the witnesses, including his son and daughter-in-law, to save her life. Eventually, his lineage would find their way into the Royal Houses, or House Palpatine to be precise.
"So does that mean you're a descendant of Chaos?" Anakin feels his pants tighten at Palpatine's whimsical smile.
"It's just a myth, my boy. Most likely, there was another native race that lacked the strong immune system of the Gungans and were nearly wiped out by the diseases that the human colonists brought to Naboo. However, one, possibly with a mutation for shape-shifting, survived and bred with a colonist; I am a descendant of such a union. I am a Water Dragon."
"Water Dragon? Was that the name of the monster in the myth?"
"No, I gleamed it from ancient scrolls that I found holed away in my family's wine cellar. There hoped that after centuries of breeding with only humans diluted the Water Dragon blood. My birth was a rude awakening to House Palpatine." There's a darkness that turns the calm waters of his eyes into an unforgiving tempest. He wisely decides not to inquire about Palpatine's childhood.
"You mentioned earlier that your male genitals are retractable."
"My Water Dragon form is hermaphroditic. I can theoretically become pregnant in that form, but I doubt I ever will unless Padmé magically turns into a fully-functioning male." He snorts at such an impossibility, while Anakin tucks it away in his sex fantasies.
"If you only have sex with Padmé."
"She is the only one I can have relations with; she is my pearl." Warmth fills his voice, while serenity returns to those blue eyes.
"Like the gemstone?"
"Yes. On Naboo, the word for pearl can also be translated to chosen one. I cannot ever be unfaithful her, not without dying. That is the final catch."
"B-But how!?"
"Perhaps, this extreme genetic pre-deposition towards monogamy also contributed to the death of the pureblooded Water Dragons." He muses lightly in face of his own possible mortality.
And there goes all my hopes for a threesome! Anakin manages not to blurt this particular thought aloud, but he pouts all the same.
"Why reveal all this to me?"
"We need your help. One of the twins–"
"Twins!?"
"My Water Dragon form is quite virile apparently." He smiles slyly. "And bloodthirsty, but I can sustain myself on fish when I'm in my Water Dragon form. Yet, there's something about your blood that calls to the baby and no other blood satisfies it."
"So the baby needs my blood for nourishment?"
"Precisely, but I only need a sample so I can have it synthesize. It wouldn't do for our Hero With No Fear to faint in battle. Will you help us, Anakin?"
"Of course, sir."
I would do more for you and Padmé, but that won't ever happen now. At least you two have each other, and I have the both of you. Just not in the way I want!
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Needless to say, there will be no Skywalker Twins in this universe. Instead, there will be the Amidala Twins, which I will get into in the next chapter. Also, to no one's surprise, Palpatine was fibbing a bit about his Water Dragon form. The "mating for life" bit was to get Anakin off his back because he does not want to ever get knocked up, particularly by Anakin. We all know how well that turned out for Padmé in canon! Oh yeah, all that stuff about the Pantheon, Shiraya's trial, and other Naboo stuff are just my ideas and has no bearing in Legends/EU or the New Canon.
The next chapter will be the birth chapter, and, boy, is Anakin not ready for it!