Dreams Pass

Chapter 8 - Struggle for Power

Summary- Obi-Wan has been having a horrible dream for a long time. Can Qui-Gon help him find out what it means before it's too late? What happens when the dreams come when he's awake and he can't control them? They'll have to enter his mind. R&R.

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The struggle for power had begun. Obi and Wan drained each other of their soul slowly with each blow. Obi had Garen and Bant on his side though. He coulddo more damage. However Wan had sucked out part of Garen 's soul making him stronger and Garen weaker. Bant would tackle and claw him. Garen would punch him and Obi would do the draining.

However Wan was draining as well. He lashed out and grabbed Bant's ankle as she went to swim by. He drained some of her soul. She kicked and squirmed fianlly he let go and took his claws and clawed Obi in the face leaving large gashes. Obi loosened his grip slightly and Wan took advantage and kicked him in the abdomen causing Obi to choke.

Obi's eye's spread the black through his pure white face. He lunged forward and grabbed Wan. He brought his head back and then forth and slammed it into Wan's head causing him to disorient. Obi felt something familiar. A feather passed by him. The cloud. He turned and saw her reach forth. He hesitated but he knew what she wanted now. She was after Wan. She took his hand and reached out and grabbed Wan's. The cloud enveloped them. Wan tried to fight but he was still disoriented. The other bodies came forth with both colored eyes. They grabbed Wan and Obi and the two began to separate. Obi felt numb his legs. He looked down they have become pure white feathers and joined the cloud. The rest of his body was disentigrating into feathers as well. The disintigration was to his face when he looked over to Wan to see he was also disintigrating into black feathers and becoming part of the cloud.

Bant and Garen backed off when they saw the cloud. They swam up to The masters and watched. The three were still concentrating on combining the two.

The cloud began to shrink in a few minutes. Then exploded and spread through the entire bit of water. Causing it to begin to disappear. When they opened their eyes they were floating upward towards the surface. They looked below them and fund nothing but whiteness. Nothingness. They spranng out of the water and entered nothing. They landed on hard ground that was white. All around them there was nothing but white.

"What happened?" Bant asked as she looked around.

"I'm not sure." Mace stood and looked around. He spotted the door not too far off. It was wide open waiting for them. "We should go."

"What about Obi-Wan?" Qui-Gon asked stopping Mace.

"I don't know what happened. He isn't here as you can see." Mace said looknig around.

"Go we must." Yoda was already heading for the door. Bant and Garen followed unwilling. Qui-Gon was the last to follow but stopped when he saw a feather blow by and land in front of him. It was white with black spots. He picked it up and left the room.

Mace shut the door and it immediately fell to pieces. The door fell off the wall leaving a hard wall behind it. There was no going back in or out of that door.

Walking down the halls and crystal corridors they finally came to mirror. They stepped through separating from their reflection.

Obi-Wan wasn't with them.

"What do we do now?" Bant asked.

"I don't think there is anything we can do except leave." Mace said placing a hand on her shoulder.

They all nodded solemnly and bowed their heads to concentrate. They merged their minds to get in now it was time to separate them. They focused they suddenly felt themselves being ripped out by some force that wasn't them. Had Wan won the fight and was he throwing them out? or destroying them?

They felt hard floor beneath them. The opened their eyes and saw Obi-Wan looking at them curiously.

"Obi-Wan?"

"What took you guys so long? I've been waiting for nearly an hour. I already made breakfast." Obi-Wan bent over looking them square in the eye. "Were you looking into my personal memories?" he was dead serious.

Garen was the first to break the silence by laughing. Bant followed then the masters.

"You did didn't you." He placed his hands on his hips. "Alright fine, no breakfast for you. You can make it yourself." He turned to leave obviously insulted.

"No...no." Qui-Gon said taking the boy's hand. "It's just we didn't know what happened. We were wandering the corridors trying to get out then once we were we came straight out. Honest!" Qui-Gon was still chuckling.

Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? you don't know what happened? You were there."

"You turned into a ball of feathers then exploded.. both of you..." Garen said standing up. Boy oh boy was he stiff.

"Oh that... Well it turns out she was trying to help me. She was the link between us. We joined the cloud of feathers and then combined. And the explosion was the destruction of the dream. I wont ever have it again. That dream gave him power actually. With it gone he can't come back out. She was in the dream but she was trying to drag him back down into the water and make him join back with me.. and he did so in a way he's dead.. but he isn't .. you know what I mean?"

Garen and Bant just stared at him... if someone could destroy an explanation it was Obi-Wan. "uhhh... sure...." Garen said nodding his head. "And who is 'she'? Where does 'she' come in? I don't remember seeing a girl... well aside from Bant..."

Obi-Wan sighed. "Never mind. It's over and I'm free. And it's all thanks to you guys."

"I thought it was the girl." Garen said confused and immediately got a tackle out of Obi-Wan.

"If that's how you''re going to act then...Tag you're it?" Obi-Wan said sitting on Garen, pinning to the ground.

Qui-Gon lifted Obi-Wan off of his friend and placed him on the ground. Mace lifted Garen to his feet and sighed.

"I'm glad things worked out Obi-Wan." Bant said happily giving him a hug.

"You guys are talking like you didn't do anything. You did Everything! You fought with me and you sealed us together and you gave me strength! She only came because you were there!" Obi-Wan said getting annoyed.

They stared at him and smirked.

"Alright what's going on?" Obi-Wan said placing his hands on his hips.

"Nothing..." Garen said side stepping to the kitchen.

"You did look at my memories didn't you!" Obi-Wan blushed madly.

Garen started laughing and began to run when he saw Obi-Wan storming after him.

Qui-Gon laughed and looked after them as Obi-Wan chased Garen down the hall way. "Should we tell him what we saw?"

"Nah..." Mace said waving his hand dismissively.

"Make him suffer we should." Yoda said chuckling.

Bant shook her head and ran after the boys to attempt to separate them.

The three masters began to laugh. Qui-Gon tucked his hand inside his pocket and felt something. He pulled out and found the feather he had taken from that room in Obi-Wan's mind.

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