Chapter 6
Shira smirks as she saw the throne room doors open revealing their friends with the King, Queen and little Princess. Thalia, who was sitting on Padme's throne, looks up at her mother. "She's the Queen mother?" she asks in disgust "She's too weak" she scoffs as Shira places a hand on her daughter's shoulder
"Do not take her lightly my dear. She stood up to your father and forced me to flee from the kingdom" she warns her. She then took out Anakin's heart squeezing it causing him to cry out falling to his knees. Jacen was holding onto him worryingly
"Uncle Anakin?" he sniffs just as they heard Padme's voice
"Jacen, Anakin!" she cries as they brought towards them. Jacen looked to his mother's scared, frightened face then back to his uncle. His words echoed through his head once more about his parents. He saw the heartache on their faces but then again, they let him go to be tested at the Temple and would they have let him go to be trained?
Jacen remained by his uncle's side as Shira looked over at Padme and Obi Wan. "At last, we meet, your majesties" she scoffs moving towards them. She then roughly slaps Padme across the face.
"Mommy!" Kiara cries out as Shira laughs grabbing hold of Padme's face forcing her to look into her cold, dark eyes
"I've been wanting to do that for years, since the day you killed the man I loved which saw me flee for life" she snarls. Padme remained strong. She wasn't about to be intimated by this woman.
"If you were aligned with Palpatine, you deserved what happened to you. Palpatine killed my father and he tried to have my husband and brother in law executed" she reveals looking over at Anakin on his knees, breathing heavily as Padme went on "What have you done to Anakin and my son?" she demanded as Shira grins
"He was defiant but he's now mine to control and as for your son, he knows the truth" she informs them "The truth that you both sent him away from the palace and hoped he would remain with the council for training" she scoffs
Padme and Obi Wan both gasp "No!" they cried as Shira and Thalia exchanged glances before Thalia moved over to lift Jacen into her hands
"Don't touch my son!" Obi Wan angrily snaps as Padme shook her head
"Jacen, don't listen to them. We both love you. Kiara loves you" she sobs as Jacen looks over at his little sister who was quiet now but tears still fell down her cheeks. Thalia sits back down on the throne with him in her arms
"Jacen, what did Anakin say about your mommy and daddy?" she asks as Jacen was silent. Shira glared at him, holding Anakin's heart in her hand then at his distraught parents.
"Uncle Anakin said you lied about wanting me to come home" he sniffs "You don't love me" he sniffs as Padme shook her head as Obi Wan glared over at Shira
"You evil Sith witch. He's a child and you took advantage of him!" he exclaims as Shira coldly stared back at him before she raised her hand and sent Obi Wan flying into the wall to the right knocking him out.
"Obi Wan!" Padme cries out as Kiara sobs
"Daddy!" she sobs slipping from the grip of the witch who was holding her and runs over to her father's unconscious's body. Blood dripped from a wound on his forehead as Kiara threw her arms around him, sobbing "Daddy!" she sniffs as Shira laughs once more
"You don't have to lose your family your highness" she explains "You can walk away with your husband, children and brother in law now if you give up the throne to me" she reveals as Padme gasps
"Never!" she screams "And you will not take my family from me!" she informs her as Thalia places Jacen down on the throne before she moves over to take the heart from her mother. She didn't want to do this but she had to prove to her mother she was here for her.
"You foolish woman" she tells her squeezing Anakin's heart as he cries out once more "They will die and you will be alone as my mother and I finish my father's wish" she explains as Padme shook her head
"Palpatine was horrible. He hated my husband, the Jedi and me. He deserved to die but you will not take my family from me" she warns them just as she heard another voice call out to her
"Padme!" they called out and Padme, Shira and Thalia turned to see Sabe, Dorme and the royal guards running into the throne room. Shira turns around towards Anakin, heart in hand
"Take them down!" she orders as Anakin slowly pulls himself to his feet, lightsaber in hand and moves towards the guards as the other witches begin to fight them. Shira places Anakin's heart back in the bag as Thalia moves over towards Obi Wan as Shira grabs Padme's arm.
"And one more thing, Palpatine didn't really kill your father" she points out grinning "I did" she reveals as Padme's eyes widen
"You monster!" she cries angrily shoving her as Jacen watched from his seat. He loved his parents but Anakin told him they willingly sent him away and what would have happened if he was ready to be trained and Anakin left him there. He remained in his seat even when he heard a soft voice toddling towards him
"Jacen!" Kiara calls out in her sweet tearful voice. Jacen sat there, ignoring her and didn't know she now beside him shaking him
"Jacen, we need to save mommy and daddy!" she sobs as Jacen pushes her away
"They don't love me! They have you!" he snapped. Kiara fell back, tearfully looking up at her brother. She didn't know why he was being so mean and she have only been little but she was small and she was going to do something and it started with getting uncle Anakin's heart back from the evil mean lady.
Too young to understand what was going on, Kiara used her small height to her advantage, running in between the fighters towards her mother who was handling herself against Shira. Padme was relying on her training she had been given back when she was a young princess with a sword against Shira's Sith training and witch magic.
Padme was backing Shira into the wall. She was able to block her magic from touching her as Shira smirked "You're strong your highness but we, witches are stronger and this kingdom will be mine" she informs her "As it rightful should be" she adds as Padme scoffs
"Palpatine had no claim to the throne and neither do you and you are trying to destroy my family which I cannot allow!" she exclaims raising her sword, Shira prepared to counter back except Padme aimed for the small bag on her shoulder which contained Anakin's heart. She cut at the strap sending it to the ground. Shira angrily screams attempting to reach the bag only to have little Kiara catch it from the side
"Got it mommy!" she cries. Padme smiles
"Go find your father and give it to him" she tells her watching her run as Shira erupts once more, using her powers, Padme was thrown back towards the throne knocked out as Jacen looked down at her but remained in the seat. Shira scans the room for her daughter
"Thalia!" she cries however she was in a fight with Obi Wan who was struggling with his injury from being thrown before "Get the girl!" she tells her as Thalia then saw Kiara running across the room. Thalia saw she had her mother's bag as Obi Wan gathered what strength he had, raised his weapon which he picked up from a fallen guard
"Don't even think about harming my daughter!" he warns her, he strikes her in the side causing her cry out in pain. Thalia raised her weapon striking him in his thigh bringing him to his knees just as Kiara stood meters away, clutching the bag in her hands. Thalia smirks as she moves towards the little girl. She screamed
"Uncle Ani!" she cried. Anakin suddenly turned seeing his little niece holding Shira's bag in her hands with Thalia looming over her. Anakin felt a rage and runs towards her, lightsaber in hand. He raised his lightsaber ready to stab her in the back when he then heard another cry and saw Shira, with the lightsaber through her stomach. She cried out as Thalia turns seeing her mother impaled
"Mother!" she cried catching her in her arms. She could hear her struggling to breath as she tried to heal her. She glared up at Anakin "You foolish Jedi!" she snaps "You may have saved your family today but my parent's work is not over!" she cried as their remaining sisters rushed to help her where using all their powers disappeared from the throne room completely. Anakin looked to his brother who smiled at him then looked at Kiara who grinned holding the bag.
"I help" she giggles making them both laugh before hearing Jacen, now not afraid of what Shira and Thalia could do, had leapt off the chair and knelt beside his mother.
"Mommy!" he cried as Anakin helped Obi Wan to his feet and over towards Jacen
"Padme!" Obi Wan cried however she was unresponsive as then went on "Guards!" he calls out seeing Sabe and Dorme rushing over with four guards. Obi Wan, holding onto Anakin, goes on "Take her to the doctor's quarters now!" he orders as Anakin looks over at him "That includes you brother" he adds watching the guards pick up Padme and carry her out of the throne room before they followed
"You had us worried brother" Obi Wan admits "I thought I'd lost my son and my brother" he admits as Anakin laughs
"But then, who would be there to taunt you, your highness" he grins as Jacen and Kiara followed their father and uncle. Anakin cringed slightly then hearing a small giggle
"Uncle Ani!" she grins cheekily. She had gently touched his heart in the bag after his taunt to her father. Anakin turned to look back at her shaking his head but the children only laugh. Shira and Thalia had almost succeeded it destroying the family and taking the throne from them but in the end, the love within this family was stronger for the witches.