Chapter 10

Disclaimer: Its Georges story and it always will be

Tenth chapter milestone.

Anakin found Riley sitting on the window ledge with the window opened all the way. You could just as easily of guessed that there was no window there at all, a fully grown man could jump out of it with ease. Riley was dangling his legs over the edge and muttering words to himself, Anakin knew a way to cheer him up. There was a cloud of smoke rising from just below where they were and smoke was very easy to shape and change, Anakin had an idea of what he could change it into for Riley's amusement.

"I'm sorry that no-one remembered your birthday Riley." Anakin said as he joined him on the window ledge.

"That's alright, nobody ever remembers." Riley replied with a sniff.

"Well, I think I know what will cheer you up." Anakin told him with a smile.

Anakin raised his hand towards the smoke which began to twirl around in a circle; it began changing form into something with a triangular shape. Anakin focused hard and the smoke changed into the form of a Jedi star fighter.

"Whats that? It looks cool." Riley asked

"It's a Jedi star fighter."

"It doesn't look like a star fighter that I've ever seen."

"Wait, I remember this from my past!" Anakin exclaimed with glee.

"Really, you remember your past! What was it like?" Riley asked. The sadness of his birthday being forgotten vanished from his face in an instant.

"My past...my past is the future! I...I was sent back in time by a force wielder! Oh no, how am I going to get back now?" Anakin asked in despair.

"Just ask another force wielder to send you home, there are still some left on Thython if you know where to look."

"Do you know where to look?"

"No, but I'll bet Nick and Annabeth will! Annabeth always obsessing over them and she keeps talking about them with Nick."

"Great! I can go home! But, how did I remember all this from the image of my star fighter?"

"Well, amnesia can disappear after short or long periods of time. I suppose with your strength in the force you were able to recover your memory quicker, especially since we're on a force sensitive planet."

"This is great I have my memory back! Are you feeling better now?" Anakin turned his concerns back to Riley.

"About my birthday, yes. But I've suddenly realised that we don't have smoke rising from our temple normally."

"Oh...no." Anakin said as he looked downwards. Something had attacked the temple and now several things in cloaks, suits of armour and uniforms were duelling the Jedi with red lightsabers. "How did the sith find the Jedi?" Anakin asked.

"The Jedi originated from this planet, it was obvious we were here. They were just too stupid to see it at first, we should get down there." Riley moved to jump from the window but Anakin held him back.

"No way are you fighting the sith, stay up here and out of the way. I may not have had my memory before but not I do, you are not going down there."

"I don't think I have to..." Riley said whilst looking over his shoulder. Anakin turned around to see a sith standing in the doorway with his lightsaber pointed at Riley and Anakin. Anakin leapt of the ledge and ignited both his sabers. Wait, why did I pick up this saber? Anakin thought to himself as he shifted his white saber around in his hand. The sith smirked as he approached.

"So, this is the famous chosen one of legend. You're no more than a boy!" He mocked Anakin as he drew nearer.

"I am so sick of being judged by my age." Anakin told him through gritted teeth. As he spoke he tried a slice at the sith's head, but it was parried with skill. Less skill, though, than Anakin had originally thought the sith had.

Anakin duelled the sith with what he had learned from Obi-Wan, not what he had remembered. The sith had never fought a person with Anakin's fighting style and was taken aback by it. Suddenly lightning erupted from the sith's hand and Anakin managed to duck under it and slice the sith in half. The sith looked at Anakin and laughed, he threw his lightsaber but Anakin merely side stepped it. A yelp was heard from behind him and Anakin turned around to a vision of utter horror. Riley sat on the ledge still but with a saber through his heart, he looked at Anakin and fell backwards out of the window.

"Riley! NO!" Anakin screamed as he rushed to the window in time to see Riley's body fall through the hole in the temples ceiling and crash on the floor beneath it. Rage boiled in Anakin's ears and he rounded on the almost dead sith. "You son of a sith." He told him angrily. The sith laughed at Anakin's rage.

"How does it feel to have rage inside of you? Jedi of Thython, you are a boy."

Anakin reached out with the force and began choking the sith to death. "I-am-not-a-boy and I-am-not-a-Jedi of Thython." Anakin spoke through gritted teeth as the sith choked and choked until he became limp and dead. Anakin threw him out of the window and shouted out with rage, he was doomed. Riley was dead and the only people who could help him get back to his time where about to be murdered by sith. Anakin jumped out of window and flipped to absorb the impact of landing on the ground floor, everywhere Jedi were fighting sith. Riley's body lay forgotten on the floor and the hatred and rage rose up within Anakin again. He found the nearest sith and marched up to him; he was too busy fighting Jedi to notice Anakin. Anakin's anger masked him from the sith who believed him to be a comrade, but that was soon to be corrected. Anakin thrust his lightsaber through the sith's back and sliced him in half with the other. The Jedi fighting him were surprised at Anakin's actions and what Anakin said afterwards shocked them further still. "Filthy sith." Anakin muttered under his breath before turning towards the remaining sith in the temple, they would all die.

Anakin ran through the temple and cut down any and every sith he saw. They were too preoccupied and those that did notice him barely stood a chance against him and the fighting style that they had yet to face. The Jedi were now pushing back the sith at a very fast rate and it helped that Anakin was now taking on four of them at once. Slash. One down three to go. Duck, stab. Two down two to go. Parry, duck, slash, stab. The third one fell to the floor and the fourth one backed away quickly. Soon he was fleeing from Anakin with much speed, but Anakin simply flicked his wrist and a pile of rock encased the sith and killed him instantly.

The only remaining sith were two that Anakin recognized as Darth Malgus and Lord Vindican. Satele and some Jedi masters were pushing them back when force lightning erupted from all four of their hands, torturing the Jedi and forcing them to the ground. Anakin lifted up a bunch of crates that were piled in the corner and held the in a wall in front of the Jedi to block the lighting with the force.

The duo immediately rounded on Anakin and the smirks on their faces faded when they saw his lightsaber with the pure white blade. "What is it with these people and the colour of a blade?" Anakin whispered to himself. They charged at Anakin who let the crates fall as he parried both of their attacks with difficulty. They, like the others before them, had never experienced Anakin's fighting technique before and were slightly surprised by it. Anakin duelled the two with his full concentration which was usually halved with part of it on what was happening and part of it on his friends.

Anakin disarmed Malgus and parried Vindican. But as he did so both of his lightsabers were knocked out of his hands. He used the force to push the sith away from him, but his lightsabers had been thrown out of view by them.

They laughed at him for this. "What can you do now? You will not run, but you have no weapons?!" They mocked him. Anakin was still fuming slightly from his rage, but then an idea occurred to him.

"Not every weapon." He told them with a grin crossing his face. They looked at each other in confusion and Anakin used the force to push them again, this time further, back towards their ship.

He pushed again, and again, and again. They could not stop him as they were too busy being thrown across the platform. Whenever they did manage to get close enough to try and hit him, Anakin would push with such force that they would need a moment to gather themselves. By the time he had pushed them back to their ship, they welcomed the retreat. Running into their ship, they took off and departed the planet with haste and quickness. The Jedi were all watching Anakin, he had taken on both and survived, and no matter how close to death he had come.

"Skywalker, are you alright?" Satele asked with concern.

"Fine. Why do you ask?" Anakin asked.

"We can sense your anger, your rage is...overwhelming." She paused as she watched him. Anakin sighed and took a second to collect his mind, which was currently in lots of different places.

"I saw Riley die, that's what made me angry, alright? To make matter worse, I just got my memory back and I need to find a way home." Anakin explained. The Jedi risked glancing at each other.

"But, you realise why we would want you to refrain from leaving?" Satele asked. Anakin noticed several Jedi kept their sabers ignited.

"Of course I understand. I need to find Nick and Annabeth if you don't mind?" Anakin retorted. His patience was wearing thin, he had to get home. There was Obi-Wan, Ashoka and Padme. Oh how he missed them all.

"They are up in their quarters, they are waiting for you. Remember that you are not allowed to leave."

"Of course, wouldn't want to throw of the balance of the force now would I?" Anakin mocked as he pushed past the Jedi and marched up to their quarters as loudly as possible. He spied a Jedi that was dying by not dead, that had been left by the Jedi healers. Anakin knelt beside him and comforted him.

"You...you're the..."

"No, I'm not. Really, I don't know where these prophecies come from." Anakin silenced him. This prophecy had just about ruined his life, he'd had enough.

"I never thought much about death." The Jedi changed his topic of conversation.

"Don't worry. I was always told by my master that when we die we become a part of the force." Anakin told him.

"Your, master?"

"Since you deserve to know I'll tell you my past. I'm from the future, I was sent here by a force wielder who was out for revenge. I accidently ruined his life and killed him. He returned in ethereal form to send me back here as payback." Anakin explained.

"Wow, good luck getting back."

"I intend to, may the force be with you."

"And you, my friend." With that the Jedi closed his eyes and passed away in Anakin's arms.

Anakin lay the Jedi back down on the floor and continued on his way back to Nick and Annabeth; no doubt they would be mourning the loss of Riley. Anakin could not bear to tell them of how stupid he had been. Too busy fighting a sith to even think of the possibility that Riley could be a target for the sith as well. As he came up to the door he held his breath and used the force to sense inside. He felt pain, sorrow and grief. But no anger, the body of the sith lord must still be on the floor inside. Anakin bit his lip and entered the room.