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Chapter Fourteen: Barricade
Vader finally found Luke and Han again but this time, they weren't alone. Boba and Bella Fett were here as well!
"What a surprise to see you here," Vader said, addressing the bounty hunters.
"We had to come so we could warn you," Boba said, getting annoyed that he kept having to repeat this.
"Warn me?" Vader said, stepping next to his son and gripping his shoulder in a protective manner. "About what?"
As Luke tried to get free of Vader's secure hold, Boba told yet again the story of the Shadow People, and then Han added in his own sarcastic way that they were almost completely positive that all the servants and inhabitants of this household were also Shadow People as well. Thankfully, they weren't here right now.
"We must leave this place at once. Fett, do you still have your ship?"
"Yes, we've hid it in a cave. There's no way the Shadow People can find it."
Vader was about to suggest that they all get to the bounty hunter's ship as soon as possible. Vader could just com his ship and tell them to send a shuttle, but that would take too long. But right as he opened his mouth to speak, he felt a sudden stab of warning through the Force.
He finally let go of Luke and went to investigate. The others, curious as to why he suddenly just left without a word, followed him.
At the front door, they saw what they had hoped with all their hearts to avoid.
It was a whole band of shadow people!
"Quick, back inside!" Vader commanded. Everyone obeyed immediately. Vader closed the door and locked it. "Everyone spread out and find all the doors and windows. Lock them!"
They all saw what Vader was planning. It wasn't the best idea, but it was the only option they had left. Everyone went in a different direction, locking all the doors and windows they saw. Once they had barricaded all the doors and windows on the first and second floors, they met up at the front door again.
"What now, your Lordship?" Han asked with a slight sarcastic tone. "You can't be stupid enough to think that we'll be safe by simply locking the doors."
Luke, Boba and Bella murmured their agreement, and Vader explained, "I am using the Force to reinforce any place where the shadow people can enter. It won't last forever, but it will last long enough for me to com my ship and have them send reinforcements."
"Great," Han said, whispering to Luke. "Just what we need; more Imperials."
But Han didn't need to worry about that, for when Vader tried to use his com, he found that it didn't work.
"They're blocking my signal," Vader said. He glanced at his son worriedly. "This comlink is useless now."
"What do we do now?" Luke asked, addressing everyone.
"You know, kid," Han said, turning to Luke. "When you first talked me into coming I said, 'if we get in trouble, it's your fault.' And so now I'm gonna say… Luke, this is your fault!"
"It's always my fault," Luke muttered.
"Petty arguing will not get us anywhere," Vader stated.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Boba asked.
Vader wished he could think of something, but there wasn't any plan that he liked. If Luke wasn't here, he would suggest that they go out and fight them off. But the fact remained that Luke was here, and he wouldn't ever put his child in danger.
The only other solution there was would be just to stay here and depend on the barricade they had made to keep them safe. And until someone could come up with a better idea, that was what they were going to have to do.
…
All five of them agreed to finding a room near the middle of the house where they would all be safer. Vader knew that with the Force reinforcing the barricade that they would be safe for tonight.
It was Luke who had suggested the library. When the others saw it they agreed. The room was shaped like a circle. The first floor of the library (remember, the library is three floors high) started on the third floor and ended at the last floor of the house, which was the fifth floor.
In the middle of the floor on the first floor of the library, you could look up and see the ceiling on the fifth floor. But then when you drew back near the shelves of book cases, away from the center of the room, the ceiling stopped where the first floor of the library ended so right above your head, if you went through the ceiling, you would find yourself on the second floor of the library next to some more shelves.
The middle of the second and third floors of the library where open so you could see all the way down to the first floor of the library. There were fancy carved railings on the second and third floors of the library to keep anyone from falling. The whole library was located in the very center of the house.
When everyone voted for the library, Luke smirked at Han as if to say, 'I knew that it would pay off to explore the house.'
Everyone agreed to the bottom floor of the library, and they all got comfortable, for there was a long night ahead of them.
They knew that it was smart to stay in one little group. They sat between the bookshelves in a little place that was set aside for reading. They all sat on the floor, and used the chair's cushions to make where they were sitting more comfortable.
No one wanted to sleep. Instead, they all tried talking. Han and Luke found Boba's stories to be most interesting. He told of his own adventures through the Clone Wars when he had been a child, how he had become a bounty hunter, and also how he'd met Bella. It was then that Han realized that he had been the one responsible for Boba and Bella meeting, for if he hadn't crashed into her ship, causing it to explode, they never would have met.
After that, Boba said that it was Han or Luke's turn, so they decided to tell about some of the times when they had gotten into the most trouble. (Han always claimed that it had been Luke's fault.) Though they didn't think their stories where half as cool as Boba, the others found their stories to be very entertaining.
After that, it was Vader's turn. Surprisingly, he agreed and told some of his own adventures when he had been a boy. (He stayed off the subject of Shmi or Padme. Instead he told them about when he had won a pod race even though others had said it was impossible for a human to participate in a pod race and live.)
Everyone already knew that Luke was Vader's son, and therefore that Vader's real name was Anakin, for you remember that Boba and Bella had found out through research, and Vader had told Luke and Han himself.
After all the stories which had carried on past midnight, everyone finally got tired, and each one slowly drifted off to sleep. Vader stayed awake longer than the rest of them, but finally satisfied that they were in no danger, he too allowed himself to sleep.
A/N: Aw, look! The Sith lord, the teenagers, and the bounty hunters are all bonding. Ain't it cute???
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