Well, once again here I am updating when I said I wouldn't for a while! This chapter was really fun to write and I think it is one of the better one's in my opinion! This time Anakin see's really far into the future, but I guess you'll just have to read to find out just how far :)
Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex and all the other clones sat in silence as the ship flew in the blue space tube known as "Light Speed"
Ahsoka started drumming her fingers in a little tune she had come up with.
Anakin noticed her boredom and wanted to entertain her but he didn't know how, he himself was getting bored too.
"Well we have a couple of hours till we reach Carlac, might as well get some rest." Rex said taking off his helmet setting it aside as he propped his feet up getting in a relaxed potion.
"I believe I'll go in the back and take a nap. Snips, you might want to do the same" Anakin suggested as he got up and headed toward the door.
"Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm fine." She replied smiling at him.
"Alright.." Anakin said turning to walk out the door. Why didn't she want to sleep if she was so tired before? So he thought it was just her trying to prove her strength.
When he finally made it to the resting area, he noticed the only place to lay down was on the sofa like piece of furniture. He was so tired he didn't care where he had to sleep.
He lay there listening to the other clones talk and cut up threw the wall in the room next to his and only moments later that he was fast asleep.
There was a handless boy, probably the age of 17 or so it looked. He was out over a deep hole that looked endless holding on for dear life.
On the platform next to the pole the boy was standing on was the same dark suited man he had seen in one of his past dreams. The man walked closer to the boy with the missing hand.
"There is no escape" The masked man said as the handless boy back away from him," Don't make me destroy you! Luke you have not yet realized your importance! You have only begun to discover your power! Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this constructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy!"
"I'll never join you!" the handless boy screamed.
"If you only knew the power of the dark side! Obi-wan never told you what happened to your father…" He said with a clutched fist.
"He told me enough!" The boy yelled falling onto a smaller pole just right beneath the one he had been crawling on,"He told me you killed him!"
"No, I am your father." The masked man said.
The boy could not believe what he was hearing! A look of fear, confusion, and hate covered his face as he stared at the masked man in awe.
"No…NO…Thats not true! Thats impossible!" The boy screamed.
"Search your feelings! You know it to be true!" The man said with power booming in his voice.
"NOOOOOO! NOOO!" He screamed once more almost in tears. His father, whom he assumed was dead, was alive and standing right in front of him but was consumed by the dark side.
"Luke, you can destroy the emperor, he has fore seen this, it is your destiny! Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son!" The masked man said with his hand reaching out for the boys.
The boy looked down at what appeared to be a never ending hole of darkness, then looked back up to see the masked man as he said.
"Come with me! It is the only way!"
Then once more he looked down, and let go falling into the hole as the masked man watched.
"Sir! Sir! Wake up! Your having a dream!" Rex shook him trying to awake the moaning jedi.
Anakin gasped as he sat up seeing Rex along with the other clones and Ashoka standing around the couch like furniture piece with fear and worry filling their eyes.
"Are..you, alright sir?" Rex asked after a few seconds of nothing but heavy panting from the scared general filling the room.
"Yah…I'm….Alright…" Anakin said as he lay back down putting a arm over his head.
Ahsoka looked at Rex and gave him a 'let me talk to him' look.
Rex nodded and motioned for the other men to leave as well.
Ahsoka sat down on the sofa and looked down at her hands as she tapped her fingers.
"You know…When I was at the temple as a young padawan, I often had nightmares of my parents abandoning me.." She started, sadness filling her words as she had flash backs of her parents leaving her," I was scared half to death. I didn't know who to trust or who to believe. Master Plo helped me though… He said when I have nightmares that I shouldn't panic and fret, but that I should awake the next day and think of things that make me happy and to talk to people who bring joy to me when I'm around them…" She finished.
"Please, Master, talk about it. You can never overcome fear alone." She said looking over at him. He still laid there, arm over head.
"Luke…" He said in a mumble.
"Luke?" She asked confused.
"That was the name of the masked mans victim…He tried to turn him, but he gave his life before he could even think about saying yes…" He said taking the arm off his head.
"Masked man?" Ahsoka asked slightly excited that she was finally getting something out of him.
"Yes…He is a Sith, with power like I have never seen before…" He said sitting up now as he bent over putting his face in his hands.
Ahsoka scooted over beside him and slowly patted his shoulder bringing comfort to her shaking master.
"Don't worry…It was only a dream.." She said trying to catch a look at his face to see wether or not he had been crying.
"Thats what I thought before!" He said screaming at her. He was facing her now revealing the anger the spread across his face making it appear blood red.
"I'm sorry…" She said looking away from his red tainted face. She was really curious now! What did he mean, "Before"? I guess thats a question I'll have to asked later, she thought to herself.
"I since your curiosity.." He said, his eyes closed, trying to relax himself.
Ahsoka didn't say a word. She tried shielding her thoughts.
"I had dreams of my mother…I dreamt of her…dying at the hands of tuskin raiders.." He said, making his words fast for he didn't want to remember that horrible day when his dreams had come true.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry.." She said embarrassed that she had thought something like that without shielding her thoughts
"No… as my padawan, it is your place to know… I traveled to Tatooine in hope that my dreams were wrong…I was to late…She died in my arms in the camp of the animals that had captured her…" He said grimly.
'I'm.." She started but was cut off.
"And then…I killed them….Every single one of them! And not only the men…but the women..and the children too!" He said, anger filling his voice again.
Ahsoka's eyes were wide open. She felt like she had let her jaw drop to the floor. She couldn't believe what she was hearing! How could the chosen one use his anger so violently? Jedi aren't to use their anger at all and he had used his to slaughter an entire tuskin camp.
"Ahsoka, It was the worst mistake I could have ever made…Please promise me you won't do anything like that" He said looking her dead in her fearful eyes as tears ran down his cheeks.
"I promise," She said nodding her head and putting a hand on his knee.
"If I could only go back to that day.." He said unable to continue his sentence.
"Anger is just a part of life, every jedi has used anger in some form before." She said trying to take away some of the guilt he was still engulfed in.
"Yah, but are the other jedi the chosen one!" He asked with anger in his voice once again.
Ahsoka hadn't thought about that.
"No, but just because your the chosen one does not give you any less reason than it does the other jedi.." She said encouragingly.
"Thank you" He said looking at her again.
"For what?"
"It is because of you that my vision is now clear, it is because of you that my guilt isn't a burden to me.." He said.
"It's only from your teachings, Master" She said nodding her head meaning it in a bow," Lets go, we should be arriving at Carlac any minute now." She said standing up.
As he did the same, they walked out the door both a little stronger than they were just moments before.
I honestly think this is the best chapter! We hear about Ahsoka and her past problems and Anakin's present problems and master padawan bonding time and..I just love it! There's so much in this chapter! I hope you liked! PLEASE REVIEW! :D
