A/N: After much thought and careful thinking, I have finally decided where I'm taking this story! I promise you guys, there are so many surprises in store for you! You cannot even begin to comprehend what's going to happen!

Now that I know where I'm taking this; I've gotten very inspired, and now I've got this long update for you guys. It's full of action and mystery, and it'll make up for that short non-action chapter that I gave you yesterday.

Chapter Fifteen: Darkness In the Air

When Vader and the others barricaded the mansion, they overlooked one tiny detail. They forgot that the Shadow People knew more about the house than they did. For you remember that the household servants are a part of the Shadow People, and therefore, they know everything about the house. One of those overlooked places in the house was the trap door on the roof that lead right down into the library where Vader, Luke, Han, Bella and Boba where sleeping.

In the dead of night, while the small, unassuming people were all fast asleep, a group of twenty Shadow People all dressed in dark robes that covered their faces opened the trap door and used ropes to lower themselves silently to the first floor of the library.

Once the intruders were all down, they crept toward the sleepers. If Luke, Han, Vader or the bounty hunters hadn't been asleep, they would have heard the Shadow People arguing over who they were going to kidnap.

They knew all about Darth Vader. He was a dark lord of the Sith and very powerful. One awakened, he may gather himself up in a furry and kill them all. No, they couldn't risk taking the Dark Lord.

They came to the same conclusion with Boba Fett. They remembered quite well when they had caught him once before, but somehow he had escaped, killing some of their people in the process.

It took a great warrior to escape from their lair. It was heavily guarded with only the best of the best. Any less than they were taken for intense training until they too could also become a Shadow Warrior.

No, they couldn't risk this Boba Fett escaping and killing more of their highly trained warriors. But Bella, Luke and Han were not as lucky as Boba and Vader. Bella was a petite woman and she didn't look so dangerous as she usually did with a blaster in each of her hands while she stood in attack position. Though she could look very ferocious when she was awake, the same could not be said for her while she was asleep.

Han looked easy enough to handle, and Luke, still just a boy, obviously didn't pose any threat to them.

The group of shadow warriors went up to each of the five sleeping people and held a gas up to their noses. This was a sleeping gas. It would cause Vader and Boba to stay asleep so that they would not be able to wake up and come to the rescue of their companions, and Luke, Han, and Bella now couldn't wake up during the trip to the Volcano Lair…

His senses came to him slowly. Vader couldn't understand why it was taking so much effort for him to wake up. He sat up and opened his eyes, forcing himself to stop feeling so sleepy. With the Force, he cleared his mind, then did a quick survey of the room. When he felt only one other presence in the room, he stopped his survey and looked around at where the others were sleeping.

He saw only Boba Fett. Bella, Luke and Han were nowhere to be found. He wouldn't have been so worried if he had been able to feel their presence somewhere in the house… but he didn't. They were nowhere on the premises.

"Fett, wake up!" Vader said urgently, giving him an unkindly hard shove with the Force.

"What? What is it?" the bounty hunter asked sleepily. Apparently, he too was having some difficulty waking up.

"Luke, Han Solo and your wife are missing."

This got Boba up. He sat up so suddenly, it even surprised Vader. Boba then began looking around frantically. But as Vader already knew, they were nowhere to be found.

"What happened? Where did they go!?" Boba asked, almost in a desperate voice. Vader had never seen the legendary bounty hunter react this much.

Vader meditated for a second, trying to figure out what had happened last night when they had been asleep. "I'm afraid that they have been kidnapped by the Shadow People," he said at last.

"But how?" Boba asked. "We barricaded the first two floors. There's no way that they could have gotten in."

Vader nodded absently, searching around the room for an answer to the question. "I don't know how they did it. But that is not important right now. We must find them before they kill Luke, Bella, and Han. Do you remember the way?"

"No," Boba said regrettably. "I was drugged the whole way there. But then I may be able to find my way. When I escaped I think I remember where I went. All I've got to do is re-trace my steps."

A throbbing headache woke Han up. He groaned and held his hand to his head, wondering how he'd ended up with a headache so early in the morning. When he opened his eyes, he suddenly noticed that he wasn't in the library anymore.

Instead of the spacious, three-story high library, he found himself in a small square room with old stone walls. The floor was all dirty. At second glance he realized that the floor was hard packed dirt. Opposite of the wall that he was sitting up against was what appeared to be a very thick, solid door. Near the top of the door was a tiny window five inches up and five inches across with metal bars.

He didn't know whether to be happy or upset when he realized that Luke was also in the room. But he knew for sure that he was upset when he realized that Bella Fett was also imprisoned with them. That woman was the very definition of annoying.

Luke and Bella were still asleep, so Han reached out and shook them. "Hey guys, wake up. Quick!"

Hearing the urgent tone in his voice, the other two slowly woke up and began looking around, then back at Han as if for an explanation.

"What happened? Where are we!?" Luke demanded of his friend.

"Yeah, what'd you do?" Bella asked.

"I didn't do anything!" Han declared, glaring at the woman bounty hunter. "But I think we've been captured by the Shadow People."

"What!?" Luke yelled in a rather high-pitched voice. "How!?"

"I don't know," Han said, shaking his head. "They must have taken us last night when we were asleep."

"No kidding?" Bella said with a mix of calm and annoyance. "I blame you."

"How could you blame me?" Han said. "I was asleep, just like you. How was I to know that they were going to make it through our barricade. If you want to blame someone, then blame Vader! He's the one who had the bright idea about the barricade."

Bella rolled her eyes, and quieted down.

Meanwhile, Luke still had an argument left in him. "Han… why didn't you stop me from talking you into letting us come here?"

Han opened his mouth, but no sound came out. Luke was blaming him? "Hey kid, I wasn't the one who wanted to go through Obi-Wan's stuff. If you hadn't done that, then we wouldn't have ever found out about Kayoa, and we never would have come here!"

"Whoa, so now it's my fault!?" Luke cried, standing up.

Han stood up as well. "Yeah, I think it is!"

Bella stood up as well. "Well I think it's both of your faults! 'Cause if you hadn't come here, then Boba never would have wanted to come after you guys to warn you about those stupid Shadow People!"

Luke and Han turned to face her. "Stay out of this!"

Suddenly, the cell door opened and a few dark cloaked figures came into the room. "The Shadow Queen has expressed complaint over the noise that you are causing here. Until your Redeeming Ceremony, you will have to be put into separate cells."

Han stepped back, his hands held out in front of him in protest. "Whoa, 'Redeeming Ceremony?' 'Separate cells?' Why!?"

The Shadow Guards continued to move forward. "In separate cells, you will not be able to argue and cause disturbance to the Shadow Queen's tranquil silence."

Two of the shadow guards grabbed Luke and began dragging him out. Han rushed forward, but two other guards held him back. "Luke!"

Luke kicked and struggled in vain. "Han!"

"Luke!"

Soon Han found himself locked alone in the cell. Bella had been taken to her own cell and so had Luke. Han regretted arguing with the kid now. It wasn't his fault. Han should have known better than to let him come here. Now all there was left to do was wait. Wait and puzzle over the definition of a "Redeeming Ceremony" and who this "Shadow Queen" was.

Luke was thrown into a cell not unlike the first one he had been in with Han and Bella. But now he was alone, and this was much worse. At least with the other two, he had people to be with and talk to. Now he was alone. There was no one to talk to.

No one but himself.

His mind kept drifting back to yesterday when Vader and his troops first showed up at the house. Luke had tried to get to Han, but instead he had run right into Vader.

"He is my son."

That was what Vader had said. Up till now, Luke had been able to keep his mind busy with other things but now… now there was nothing but silence. And silence wasn't very good at distracting someone.

He didn't want Vader to be his father. Back when they had first settled down on Riveria when he was little, Luke still remember those nightmares he had had of Darth Vader finding him and killing him without mercy. Those nightmares had slowly drifted away, and he thought no more of them.

But today, they came back to haunt him. Vader was his father? His father?

Suddenly, something triggered Luke's memory. He was in the hidden room behind the bookshelf in the library. He had grabbed hold of a small silver handle and one of his father's memories entered his mind.

"It's a mini-lightsaber…"

The lightsaber! He had put the small, knife-sized lightsaber in his pocket! Luke reached into his pocket, and sure enough, it was still there!

"Yes!" Luke whispered in triumph.

Pushing a small button, he activated it, and a small blue blade ignited in his hand. Luke smiled and cautiously made his way toward the door. Looking through the small, five-inch window, he made sure that there was no one around. Once he was positive that the coast was clear, he dug the lightsaber knife into the door lock until it completely melted away.

He tried it. Yes! The door opened with ease. Grinning at his good luck, Luke crawled out and closed the door once again so anyone passing by his cell would think he was still in there.

Luke tip-toed down the dark dungeon, looking for Han or Bella's cell. Just when he thought he'd spotted it, a hand clamped over his mouth, and strong arms belonging to one of the shadow guards pulled him back. Luke's muffled cries were lost in the big gloved hand.

"You will soon learn the consequence of attempting to escape from redemption," a mono-toned voice said.

Luke was pulled toward some stairs and on two floors up. The next hall he found himself in was much nicer than the dungeon halls. Dark, black marble floors stretched out ahead of him. Great, giant pillars of the same black marble extended to the ceiling. It gave a dark and despairing feeling.

At the end of the hall where to double doors lined by two more pillars and a guard on either side of the door. At Luke and the shadow guard's approach. The door was opened to reveal a large rich looking room.

Their was a pillar in each corner of the room. Tapestries hung all over the walls. Straight ahead at the far end of the room were two stairs. At the top was a lush looking throne…

… and standing up from it was the Shadow Queen.

A/N: Cliffhanger! I hope this chapter was satisfactory. More surprises in store, but you must review!

So ready… set… go!!!