Chapter 4
Introducing another OC in this chapter, I know, late in the game but you know how writing happens - this one is another witch called Alwina and her face claim I'm using here and if I can make a trailer, will be Adelaide Kane
The skies around the kingdom were black and now thunder boomed in the sky, with flashes of lighting in the sky and for the first time since he had been captured by Shira and Thalia, Jacen felt alone - his uncle had gone off to find his parents who were trapped somewhere. He felt his little sisters Kiara and Lily clinging to him. Lily was asleep but Kiara couldn't sleep.
"I'm scared Jacen, I want mommy and daddy" she sobbed "Where's uncle Anakin?' She adds as Jacen shrugs "I don't know but I said I'd protect you and I will" he promises before he heard footsteps coming towards the cell. Jacen kept his arms around his sisters tightly before he saw a shadow on the wall before a figure approach the bar, however it wasn't his parents or uncle, but their parent's friend Breha, looking broken and worn. "Where's my mom and dad?" Jacen asks her slowly moving over towards the bars as she knelt before him, one hand on the bar. "I'm sorry Jacen, but it's dangerous here and your parents want you all to come back to our home. You'll be safe I promise" she insists. Jacen tilts his head. He steps back
"No, uncle Anakin said to stay here, he'll be back" he argues. Breha gives him a small but sad smile. "I'm sorry Jacen, but I don't think he will be. This witch has complete control and you'd be safer with us" she assures him. Jacen stepped further back in his cell, as Kiara remained quiet, close to her little sister. "No!" Jacen cries angrily "Uncle Anakin will find our parents!" He cried. Breha shook her head.
"I'm sorry Jacen, but…." She was then cut off by Anakin's voice "Enough!" He cried "You've already caused enough trouble when you lied to me about Thalia" he snaps stepping into the light - his face was bruised and bloodied but his eyes were glaring at her. Unknown to Breha, he had managed to escape his captives once more.
Breha shook her head "She had my heart, Bail and I felt helpless, we hated lying to you but she could have killed me. I was only trying to protect the children away from her" she insists. Anakin steps towards her "Except I know how you and Bail want children and you think you can take these children because Thalia's going to kill their parents, you're wrong" he informs her. Breha looks worried "What are you going to do?" She asks
"Padme and Obi Wan will not be pleased that you tried to kidnap their children" he points out as Breha, fighting tears in her eyes, shakes her head "I thought I was helping, they're as good as dead. Thalia wants them dead" she cried as Anakin shook his head once more
"You don't know them like I do" he tells her "Thalia's not going to win" he assures her. "You can't give up on Padme and Obi Wan so soon" he adds sighing "I'm sorry I have to do this" he regrettably says "Sabe!" He calls out seeing Padme's best friend and maid stepping into the light, sword in hand and dressed in her battle armour. Anakin looks at her "Sabe, I'm going to need you to get Breha to safe house through the underground tunnels to avoid being seen" he explains. "And the children?" Sabe asks
Anakin looks back at his nephew and nieces "Thalia wants them close, if we take them now, she'll take it out on Obi Wan and Padme and since she has their hearts, she'll just crush them" he explains. Anakin kneels down as Jacen, Kiara and Lily came up to the bars. "You'll see your parents again, I promise" he assures them.
"I believe you uncle Anakin" Jacen tells him. He smiles as Kiara sniffs "Is mommy and daddy okay uncle Ani?" She asks as Anakin touches her hand "They will be" he promises her before without another word, they watched Sabe leave with Breha and Anakin head off back through the castle.
Alwina wasn't always evil. Sure, she had become one of Thalia's closest friends since she lost her mother, but Alwina didn't always want to hurt. She had a love hate relationship with the Jedi, for her father had been a Jedi and her mother caught him trying to take Alwina away when she was a baby. She grew up with Thalia and although she was two years older than her, she treated her like a sister and followed her.
Now Alwina watched her fellow Nightsisters torturing the Jedi King in front of her as she smirked -
His wrists were suspended above his head, held by electric cuffs. However it wasn't the cuffs that hurt, it was the strange torture devices the witches had used on him causing him to cry out in pain. He noticed one of the witches, dressed in black with shimmering long brown hair glaring at him.
"You're all fools. My wife is stronger than she looks and my brother will stop you" he warns as Alwina walks towards him. Her fingers trailing down his chest. "Thalia, believe she can finally bring your precious queen to her knees and your brother will fall to her. This kingdom will belong to the night sisters" she warns him as Obi Wan shook his head "Padme won't allow them and neither will the Jedi" he warns. Alwina then grabs his face, her dark eyes glaring at him
"The Jedi aren't even aware of what is happening here. Thalia's magic has grown since you last encountered her. She has blocked anyone from entering or leaving this kingdom, no one is going anywhere" she grins. Obi Wan pulls back "You won't win" he tells her as Alwina grins a finger on his cheek "We've already won" she grins before she shocks him by kissing him!
Alwina then grins as she steps back "I can see why the Queen loves you" she insists before she waves a hand and watches her fellow night sisters continue with the torture of Obi Wan.
Meanwhile, forced out onto the balcony, Padme had been forced on her knees, her eyes dry from crying as she saw her kingdom burning as Thalia stood beside her grinning. "Look at what you've caused by not surrounding to me" she informs her. Padme, through her tears, watched her city burning and people screaming in fear as she sees Thalia smirking.
"Why are you doing this to us!?" Padme cried "Your parents were monsters, they murdered my father and tried to turn my brother in law and son!" She argues as Thalia glares down at her before she harshly slapped her across the face. "My parents were good people. The Jedi forced my father aside when your father married you to one of them, my mother told me how broken he looked when the King kept turned to the Jedi for help and listening to you for advice more than his royal advisor!" She scoffs
Padme then gets to her feet, still showing her strength despite trying to not break over the cries of her people once more "Your father wanted power and would have brought darkness. He had no right" she explains "I am sorry for what happened but if your mother was aligned with him and she confessed to murdering my father" she points out "And burning the kingdom down will not make the people love you when you try to claim the throne" she scoffs.
Thalia tilts her head before she raises her hand, she uses her magic on Padme pushing her back into the room straight into the wall where two witches appeared to grab her, tying her hands together and securing them to the post above her head. Thalia grins as she enters the room. She then moves across to a small chest where she opens up to reveal four, medium sized yellow slug like creatures. "Ysalamir. My mother used these on Jedi that the witches had captured even if they stumbled into our camps. These creatures are why the Jedi haven't come to save you" she explains picking one up and moving over towards Padme. "They block the force from Jedi so they are powerless" she goes on
"Shall we try it out again?" She asks "On your son perhaps?" She asks. Padme's eyes widen "No, please, he's just a child!" She cried however her pleas fell on deaf ears as the door to the room re opened revealing another witch carrying a struggling fighting Jacen in her arms. "Mommy!" He cried fear in his voice as Padme cried "Jacen!" She sobbed "Please, don't do this!" She cried seeing the witch carry the child over towards Thalia who held the Ysalamir towards him. "Go on little prince" she smiles "Show us some of your abilities" she tells him. Jacen is silent shaking his head as he looks over his mother before he closes his ears remembering what his father and uncle had been showing him
Flashback - Two years ago
"Reach out Jacen and try to lift the sword into your hand" Obi Wan instructs him as Anakin laughs "Are you sure we shouldn't be using a different type of weapon brother?" He asks him "I'm sure your wife would love to see him with a sword even if he's learning. She only just allowed his Jedi training" he reminds him
Obi Wan looks over at his brother sighing "This is how father taught us and I promise that no one will get hurt" he assures him as Anakin shrugs, folding his arms across his chest. "Alright, but as Head Royal guard, I would hate to alert the Queen about her husband's special training methods" he grins. Obi Wan shakes his head before he turns back to his son
"You can do it Jacen, just close your eyes and focus" he instructs seeing Jacen slowly close his eyes, stretch out with one arm and concentrating hard, the sword doesn't move and instead a lone piece of shurra fruit that had been left on the nearby table. Anakin sniggers as Jacen slowly opens his eyes
"I'm sorry father" he admits as Obi Wan places a hand on his son's shoulder "It's alright, it's not always easy, at least you caught something" he points out making his son laugh "Father" he giggles before they then resumed their training.
End of flashback
Jacen closed his eyes and focused on using his abilities even if they weren't strong still, but something was wrong. He could sense nothing and there was no force to concentrate on. "I can't" he softly replies "I can't even find father or uncle Anakin" he cries. Thalia smirks over at Padme "Ysalamiri are strong and they will continue to make your family sick and weak unless you surrender to me" she warns her.
Padme struggles shakes her head "Never!" She cried. Thalia tilts her head "Pity" she says before the two witches beside Padme grabbed the rope that had been above her head pulled her along after Thalia along with the witch carrying Jacen as Padme wondered where what was going to happen next.
Anakin silently and stealthily made his way through the hallways of the palace keeping alert but knew something was wrong because he couldn't use the force to find his brother or know if his nephew and nieces were still safe. He hoped his father and the Jedi were coming but wondered if they would make it but since his encounter with Thalia, he knew she was strong and perhaps this time they would fail.
Anakin ducks up against a wall seeing a small group pass - his eyes widen as he saw Padme, her wrists tied together as she was pulled along and Jacen in another witch's grip. Anakin remained silent as the group stopped as Thalia met with another witch, this one tall and with long dark red hair. "Alwina, how goes our interrogation with the King?" She asks as Alwina smirks "He's strong but with the Ysalamiri, he's growing weak" she grins as Thalia grins. "Bring him to the throne room along with the two other brats where we crush this family once and for all" she grins moving along before she stops "And Alwina, find the other Jedi before he ruins everything" she instructs
Alwina nods "Of course Thalia" she replies before she heads down the hallway as Thalia leads Padme and Jacen towards the throne. Anakin then decided to follow Alwina knowing she was going to lead him to his brother and they'd save the family and the kingdom.
