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Chapter 5- The Journey of a Padawan begins

(23 BBY)

One day, a while after the previous month's event, Anahita was called down to the council room. When she came in, she was surprised to see Kit standing in the middle, waiting for her. "What's going on?" she asked in confusion, standing next to Kit. "Master Fisto has requested you to be his padawan. We've thought this over and come up with a decision." Mace said to her, with little choice but to let this happen. Her body tensed up, as she said 'Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes!' over and over again in her head, waiting for their answer.

"The council has decided to let you be his padawan. Anahita, now that you're Kit's padawan, I hope you prove me wrong about letting you become one." Mace said almost jokingly, as she couldn't believe her ears. A smile spread across her face, as she seemed to light the whole room with her happiness. "It is an honor to be chosen as Master Fisto's padawan. And I'll definitely prove you wrong, Master Windu!" Anahita said proudly, goofing off like she normally did. "Let's just wait and see Anahita. You can both go." Mace replied, the two of them bowing and then leaving the room. Immediately after Kit and Anahita left, Mace sharply looked at the rest of the council members who knew what he was going to say.

"We're going to have a lot of trouble on our hands now that she's a padawan. Again I ask, why did you all say yes?" Mace asked, sitting lower in his chair, hands rubbing his forehead from a slight headache. "Anahita is ready to be a padawan; you're just not seeing the whole aspect." Plo Koon said to him in defense of the youngling. "She's barely had any training, let alone she doesn't understand the Jedi code. If we had waited until later in the year" Mace told them, when he was interrupted by Ki-Adi- Mundi. "Master Windu, Anahita is capable of many things. All of us have seen her either studying or training in the temple, she meets the requirements to be a padawan. The force has clearly given her the opportunity to become a great Jedi." Ki-Adi-Mundi said back to him, as many of the other masters all shared the same view he did. Yoda then looked at Mace; his words were well needed at the moment. "Worried you are about her, but you should believe in Anahita more Mace, for she is full of surprises. I think your eyes will see it happen and that is when you'll accept her as a padawan." Yoda said to Mace, giving him a little bit of insight on the girl's future."Alright," he said, leaning his head down a bit, and looking at the council, "I'll wait to see how she turns out as a padawan." The council was satisfied with this answer, leaving it to go onto other subjects of matter.

Back in the meditation room, Anahita and Kit were sitting across from one another, focusing on each other closely in the force. "Anahita." Kit called his new Padawans name, as she opened her eyes quickly to look straight at her Master's face. "Yes, Master?" she asked politely, anxious to learn something from the famous Jedi Master. "You need to relax. Meditating like we are now doesn't require you to be so… uptight. This is specifically meant for understanding one another through the force." he told her with a calm voice, his tendrils moving a bit, sensing the younger's anxiety.

"Relaxing is kind of hard for me, Master. I can't help it; my body's just stayed uptight because of the way I've grown up. Though I do understand what you're saying." Anahita replied with honesty, grinning a bit sheepishly. "Well, when you put t that way, it makes some sense, but not entirely. Good. This is going to be a very nice relationship." he said, thinking about it for a moment. They resumed meditating, as the force guided the two closer in their partnership. When they had been at it for a while, Kit stopped and asked if she would like to go and eat lunch. Her stomach rumbled a bit loudly, answering his question."Yes. Are you coming with me, Master?" she asked as she stood up from the cushion. "No. But go ahead and find Ahsoka. I believe she's looking for you right now." Kit told Anahita, dismissing her. "Okay, thanks! Goodbye, Master Fisto!" Anahita said, bowing and then jogging out of the room. He waved to her without her noticing he had.

Outside in the hallway, Ahsoka was running around looking for both her master and Anahita. "Why do they have to both disappear?" Ahsoka said out loud, as Anahita stopped in her tracks at the top of the hallway and looked behind saw Ahsoka, and went back down the hall to meet her. "Looking for me, Ahsoka?" Anahita asked stopping besides Ahsoka, who turned to her right. "Anahita! I've been looking for you everywhere! Have you seen Sky guy?" Ahsoka said happily to her friend, relieved to have found one missing person. Now she just needed to find her master. "I was meditating with Master Fisto; he said you were looking for me. Looks like he was right. And no, I haven't seen him. Wanna grab lunch with me?" she answered her, as Ahsoka nodded. They started walking towards the way to the cafeteria, when they ran into Luminara. "Master Luminara." Ahsoka politely said to the woman with a head bow. Luminara returned it, and then looked at Anahita. "I heard you're a padawan now Anahita. Congratulations. Who did the council choose for your master?" Luminara said with composure, bringing up the subject of her new rank. "Yes, I am. The council chose Master Fisto." Ahsoka and Luminara's mouths hung open in shock. 'They chose Master Fisto who she has a big crush on? This is so news to me!' Ahsoka thought in her head, before recovering a second later.

"I see. That's very interesting." Luminara said, and then left the two girls. "Why didn't you tell me? This is great! Have you told anyone yet? We could be on the same missions!" Ahsoka cried out happily, hugging the girl tightly. "I was waiting to tell you and everyone else. Only Kit, the council, you, and Luminara know I'm a padawan. That will most likely happen sooner or later!" Anahita said in reply to her questions, as Ahsoka let go of her. "Maybe Sky guy will show up at lunch. Let's go!" Ahsoka suggested, pulling Anahita along by the arm. Kit stood nearby the girls, watching them with interest. He felt a presence in the force behind him, and turned his head around to see Luminara standing there with an angry look (clearly meant for him) on her face.

"Hello, Master Luminara. Is there something you want to talk about?" he greeted her in a cheerful mood, but immediately his tendrils twitched. 'She's not happy. And knowing Luminara when she's angry isn't the best thing.' Kit thought after a second, as he understood what emotions were there from the Marilian women. "Yes. It's come to my attention that you've taken on a padawan. And I want to know why you chose Anahita. She's not the easiest girl to talk to. Even trying to get her to listen is hard enough!" Luminara said in a dark tone, folding her arms across her chest. She didn't like the fact that her own daughter was being allowed training as a Padawan, and not to mention that she hadn't been paired with a Jedi knight, even a Jedi from Mirial.

"I have taken her as my padawan, it was made official this morning. The reason why I took her as my padawan is because she is more than old enough to be one, and it will be better for her to learn with a Jedi Master rather than a Jedi Knight. Anahita is just shy, Master Luminara, and doesn't get along with some people. She is a wonderful listener, willing to talk and offer advice to younger children. You needn't worry; I will make her a fine padawan." Kit explained, placing a hand on her right shoulder. "I hope that you can, otherwise, I will ask the council to replace you with someone else. She isn't really shy from when I've talked to her, more like stubborn and rude. But be careful of Anahita's fighting skills. If she gets too powerful, it could provoke a whole set of events that would be a disaster if they happened." Luminara replied, as he looked at her in confusion. He felt worried over what she said.

"It seems to me that you care a lot about Anahita. Although you have disagreements with her often, you do show it. But what do you mean if she gets too powerful?" Kit asked, focusing on clearing up what Luminara had said. "Master Fisto, Anahita has a lot of secrets she has to keep. You'll most definitely deal with a situation where she is acting strange and hiding something." Luminara said in a lower voice, stepping closer towards him. "I don't believe she would do that to me. Could you explain to me what would provoke Anahita? And what kind of events would come from it?" he asked, as she moved back a bit from him, and closed her eyes in a way to think about the answer for her next move. 'How am I to answer Kit without revealing too much? This is not good! I have a feeling that the prophecy will begin to move forward again as planned. For now, I'll keep the information limited and keep both of them in my sight.' Luminara thought to a conclusion, as she opened her eyes and looked at the Nautolan; who waited patiently for her answer.

"Anahita is very sensitive to the force, she is special. Or more specifically, she has a destiny. I'm just looking out for her since few know of that, and it won't be long before she has her full powers back. I would think she would be provoked by anger, being broken and fed up, hurt, sad, helpless. Something negative enough to send her into the rage of a powerful Jedi." she began to explain, Kit's tendrils moved again, sensing… worry? "Anahita has good intention towards people, except the Separatists. What destiny does she have? If she were to feel like that, Anahita would stay out of any fight, unless it was unavoidable." Kit said in defense of his padawan, as she shook her head no.

"It's not that simple, Master Fisto. She's too emotional, which is something you should work on with her. The destiny is actually a prophecy. Everything is starting up again; it will be within this year or the next one that it will happen. And she would do that, it's in her nature. Losing a close friend perhaps, or a comrade, would be the key to the disaster." Luminara continued, and then paused to let it sink into his head. "What Anahita has to do is very terrible. I don't want you to worry about it, though it's good to be with her often. There would be many events that would happen, depends on how she feels she should handle her emotional pain. Don't tell Anahita about this, she doesn't know about the prophecy." Luminara said, as Kit nodded and she walked away.

Kit began to walk the other way, heading towards the hall to the archives. He thought over what Luminara had said to him about Anahita and her destiny. A prophecy that was to occur within a year or so. 'She seemed to know a lot more about Anahita than she was letting me know of. I wonder… how did Anahita ever end up on Coruscant? No one has ever figured that out. Maybe there is information here in the archives that will give a clue as to what happened.' he thought, briefly greeting Jocasta Nu before going off into the many rows of holobooks the archives held.

Ahsoka and Anahita had just gotten their food when Anakin came up to them. "Master, where have you been? I was looking all over for you!" Ahsoka asked her master in annoyance, as Anakin held up his hands in defense. "Whoa! Sorry Ahsoka, but I was kind of busy. It looks like you're in a good mood unlike Snips here, Anahita." replied Anakin, trying to change the subject over to Anahita, who he noticed was standing next to her. Ahsoka pouted in frustration, to which Anahita smirked at. "I am. And you'll never guess what happened this morning." she said, as they chose a place to sit down to eat at. "Let me see. What could have possibly happen that's got you so happy?" Anakin said in a dragged out and teasing tone. Anahita chuckled, putting her hand over her mouth lightly, as Ahsoka just rolled her eyes. "The Jedi Council assigned me to Master Fisto and now I'm his padawan." boasted Anahita, looking at Anakin proudly. She had her head held high, with her eyes sparkling. Both Ahsoka and Anakin noticed how she held herself as if she were someone very important.

"Okay reactions, please?" asked Anahita after he hadn't replied for about thirty seconds. "How did they agree to you being a padawan when you're only thirteen? You've only been trained for four years. Not that I'm not happy for you, but it's a bit too soon. I just think you should be trained more before you start going out on missions when we're still in a war." Anakin said, as Anahita relaxed and nodded at his opinion. "I know that I might be undertrained due to circumstances, but there's so much that I've learned, which is in my favor. I'll still be going on missions, it's a war, and the Jedi are needed more than ever. It also has to do with age concern. You sound like Mace. He was totally against me being a padawan, so you're not the only one." she replied in understanding. Ahsoka had finished her lunch, and Anahita had too.

"Master Windu's never liked the fact that you get shortcuts, and that you've done pretty bad things." Ahsoka told her, which she laughed at. "I'm sure that's it Ahsoka. And they're not all that bad!" Anahita said in reply to her, as she objected to have done anything really bad. They kept discussing this and were unaware of someone watching them from a few clicks away. "There she is, Mistress." said a battle droid commander to a very famous and well known bald Separatist woman. "Good." she said, contacting Count Dooku through her holocam. "Master, Anahita has been spotted. I am ready to proceed on your command." Asajj Ventress said to her master, Count Dooku, sith lord of the Separatists. "Make sure you get her without injuring her too much in the process, Asajj. You can go ahead and attack. Do not fail me." Count Dooku warned his assassin from another location, aboard a ship hovering in space.

"She will not be harmed, Master. I won't fail." Ventress promised in a lower voice, as she clicked the holocam off. "Prepare to leave for the Jedi temple! We're going to be taking our little… guest, away to the Separatists." she commanded to the battle droids, who began to go to work. They filed into lines, filling up a captured Republic ship. Ventress was the last to walk into the ship, taking her place behind the droid piloting the ship. The ship doors closed, so that they would not be recognized by anyone of the Republic. As the ship neared the Jedi temple, Ventress felt a shiver of excitement run down her spine. She smiled deviously, her mind focused on the upcoming fight. 'This girl will be no match for me! And if my Master is right about who or what she is, I'll have her in the grip of the dark side before long!' Ventress thought, concentrating as best she could. Just as the ship hovered in the air right by the glass windows, many Jedi going about life as if it were normal.

"Commander, we're approaching the Jedi temple." said the piloting droid, as he turned closer to the temple, right against the windows. Ventress pulled a long, button type trigger out of her pocket, and then nearly seconds later, she pressed it. All of a sudden, the ship shook, as glass broke and Jedi looked to see a Republic ship outside. A Republic ship had just attacked them! "What's going on?" Anakin cried, as another part of the Jedi temple was blown up. "Someone's doing this on purpose! Maybe it's the Separatists behind" Anahita said before she was suddenly grabbed from behind as she gasped. A hand immediately prevented her speaking, the woman's hand clamped over her mouth. A twisted, red lightsaber was pointed right below her neck. She could feel the heat coming off of it, as Anakin and Ahsoka stood still, glaring at the evil woman.

"Ventress!" Ahsoka spat out angrily, as she reached for the lightsaber on her belt. Anakin put his hand out in front of her to stop her before she could do anything else. He gave her a look of 'don't do it'. She took her hand away from her lightsaber, felling helpless in the current situation. "Skywalker, so good to see you again." Ventress said mockingly to Anakin, as he gave her a very angry glare. "What do you want from us, Ventress?" Anakin asked slowly, keeping his eyes on her closely. "This girl is coming with me. If you attempt any type of rescue, your little Jedi will die!" Ventress said, as she started to walk away from them, as Anahita tried to stay calm under the pressure. Many other Jedi watched silently as Anahita was taken out of the room and into the awaiting ship. As soon as they were off, many Jedi Knights and Masters ran into action. "Why do you think Ventress wants her Master?" Ahsoka asked, as they stood looking outside the broken windows.

"She's caught their interest. But we're going to get Anahita back Snips! I won't allow the Separatists to have her in their plans." Anakin said to Ahsoka very seriously, a dark look showing in his eyes. Ahsoka felt a little reassured, but then a thought came to her. "Uh, Master?" "Yes Ahsoka?"

"What about Master Fisto finding out his new padawan was taken by Ventress?" she asked him, as his eyes went wide. "Oh, god! I forgot about that part! This probably won't be good." he said in realization, putting his hand to his forehead. "You forgot? Master, you'll know he'll want to find her immediately!" Ahsoka said as he looked at her sheepishly. "I know, but let's just see if we can catch her first." Anakin told her, waiting to hear from Rex. Rex's squad had been sent out to search for the ship and try to track where it was headed to. "We've found their location. Ventress is still holding Anahita captive, so we have to figure out a way to get her attention off of her. Contact the Jedi temple and relay this information." Captain Rex said in a low voice, instructing one of his men to contact the Jedi. "Yes, sir!" the clone replied, immediately going off to talk with them out of hearing range.

Rex peered around the corner, the battle droids had disappeared inside the abandoned factory. And no one- human or machine- was in sight. Turning his head back towards the group, he motioned a couple of hand movements, and they all got ready to move out. The clone had contacted the temple and re-laid everything to them. "Quickly we must move if we are to recover Anahita." Yoda said to Obi-Wan, as Kit came in. "What's going on in the temple? I heard that Asajj Ventress attacked and took a padawan with her as a hostage." Kit asked, totally unaware of whom the padawan was. "She attacked us to capture one padawan. Ventress distracted us by exploding one of the other towers, and threatened to kill her if we didn't cooperate." Obi-Wan answered in reply to Kit, and he dreaded what question he knew was coming. "Who was the padawan that Ventress took?" Kit asked immediately, as Obi-Wan frowned. Kit knew something was wrong when Obi-Wan didn't respond right away. Obi-Wan took a deep breath and let it out to calm himself before he told the Nautolan the identity of the hostage. "Ventress took your padawan, Kit. Anahita's being held in an abandoned factory." Obi-Wan said, as Kit stood there, shocked.

To be continued…

Author's Notes: Yes, I left you with a cliff hanger! Don't worry, I will work on this! I totally promise! It's just my notebook is a regulaur sized one and so typing it is a bit of a challenge. Luckily, this came out to six pages from it's original of 12 written pages. Also, Anahita Unduli II is mine so do NOT steal her! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, reviews and comments are very welcome and appreciated!