A/N Duh, I'm not GL. Also, thanks for all the wonderful reviews. reviewing is foro for my stories, hehe. Don't worry I'm not killing off my beloved Ani...just making him suffer abit.

Chapter Nine

Dagabah

Anakin looked down, he should be one with the Force by now but his blade went through his throat and he was alive. What's more there wasn't a drop of blood anywhere. On closer inspection he found the figure of Qui-Gon holding his blade back.

"This is not the answer, Ani. Do you think I would have brought you back so that you could commit suicide. That is not the prophecy of the Chosen One."

"It will end all the suffering and pain."

"No, it won't. You are the only one who can stop the Emperor."

"I created the empire. All those Jedi. I murdered younglings."

"Not yet you haven't. Darth Vader did that but you haven't yet."

"Not a chance you are here to send me back is there?"

"Not yet, Ani," Qui-Gon said disappearing, as Anakin's lightsaber tumbled to the ground. All the destruction he had caused with his lightsaber.

"Anakin, are you okay?" Obi-Wan said reaching him. Anakin smirked, Obi-Wan could have arrived to find his body disappearing and Vader snuffed out. Luke was at his side.

"Dad, Ben says we should go ahead and find Master Yoda."

"Did you know that Obi-Wan was on the Jedi Council," Anakin asked with a smile. "But that didn't stop him from having a mere Jedi Knight save his life when he got them both in trouble."

"There was never anything mere about you, Anakin. Your father was the youngest Knight ever appointed to the Jedi Council. It was no less than he deserved."

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Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Luke quickly said their goodbyes and wished the Alliance good luck. With the Death Star destroyed it should be awhile before they were needed now. Artoo insisted on accompanying Anakin to Dagabah so Artoo bid Three-pio farewell as they made their way to Dagabah. Anakin hung back in the ship with Obi-Wan as Luke went exploring.

"I'm looking for a great Jedi Master."

"Looking for someone, are you? Found someone you have. Come, I will take you to Yoda."

"I'm looking for a great warrior."

"Wars not make one great," Yoda replied, as Anakin was meditating and Obi-Wan stepped out.

"Hello, Master."

"A long time it has been, young Obi-Wan."

"Not so young, anymore, Master Yoda," Obi-Wan said bowing in respect.

"When nine hundred years you reach look so good you will not."

Anakin cautiously joined them, to be hit with Yoda's walking stick.

"Hey, Master." Anakin sidestepped and then leaped as Master Yoda kept swatting at him.

"Deserve this, you do. Come here, Skywalker."

"Not until you put that thing away," Anakin replied as he force leaped to a nearby hill and Master Yoda old as he was followed suit.

"Destroyed the Jedi you did, deny me this you will not."

"Vengeance is not becoming a Jedi," Anakin replied cheeky, as the starship sunk.

"The ship sunk, we are never leaving Artoo," Luke stated.

"Master Yoda, this is not the same Jedi we saw all the security holocrons," Obi-Wan said to Yoda. He didn't want Luke to learn what had really become of his father.

"To blame he is, Obi-Wan. For now, stop I will. Eat we must eat. A Jedi needs strength. Hesitate I do to invite the older Skywalker."

"You can trust me, Master Yoda," Anakin replied.

"Ha! Trust you I do not!"

"Yes, Master," Anakin said.

"Don't you 'yes Master me.' Obedient you have never been. Serve another Master you do."

"I don't."

"Discuss this later, we must."

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"Too old, the boy is too old to train."

"But I've already learned to much."

"The fate of the galaxy could rely on your ability to train him. Do you doubt your abilities, Master?" Anakin suggested.

"I am ready."

"Who say you are ready? My own council will I keep on who is ready."

"But you are wrong," Anakin said, "About a great many things."

"Long have I watched your son, adventure he craves. A Jedi does not crave these things."

"I'm not afraid," Luke said bravely.

"Oh, you will be. You will be."

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"Help to train the boy, you both must."

"I'm not a Master," Anakin replied.

"No more about the Emperor and his temptations you do. One finer in lightsaber techniques I will not fine. Obi-Wan is right, out of practice he is. You are not."

"I will do all I can."

"You have alot to make up for."

"The Jedi do not believe in killing their prisoners. No one deserves execution, no matter what their crimes," Obi-Wan said looking at Anakin.

"Right, young Obi-Wan is. Better Jedi than I, he has become."

"Even Darth Vader?" Luke asked.

"Yes, even he deserves mercy. Remember that when you finally face him."

Luke began using the Force to lift rocks, training under Master Yoda while Anakin and Obi-Wan talked.

"Do you really believe that?" Anakin asked.

"Yes, I do. Savior, conqueror, hero, villain. You are all of these things, Anakin.. and yet you are nothing. In the end, you belong to neither the light nor the darkness. You will forever stand alone."

"I don't want to stand alone, Master. I want to stand with you at one side and Padme at the other with Luke behind us and Leia I want her there too."

"Even with that, you are different than any other Jedi. This is not my fight Anakin. My destiny does not lay along the same path as yours."

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"Come on, boy, let's see what you've got," Anakin said igniting his lightsaber. Luke ignited his own and they parried. Anakin was going easy on him, Obi-Wan knew it wouldn't have taken him two minutes to disarm the boy but Anakin was enjoying sparring with him.

"Never lower your defenses, "Anakin was advising while attacking. "Darth Vader will take advantage of it."

"I know, Father."

"Then stop defending and attack me. Come on, take off an arm," Anakin taunted. "I've already lost one. Attack me as if I were Darth Vader," Anakin said trying to get the kid to fight harder. He was afraid of hurting his father, he knew. "Luke, I can't die, not yet. Come on, show me what you've got. Darth Vader will not be so easy on you." Luke fell back in his Jedi meditation and felt the Force flowing through him as he broke one of Anakin's defenses. Anakin put his lightsaber away. "Good."

"Father, I've got more where that came from."

"I know. Go meditate with Master Yoda."

"Meditate he won't. Into the cave he must go to face himself. Why bring lightsaber do you?"

"I'll need it."

"only need what you carry with you."

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Luke entered the cave gripping his lightsaber to him. He saw Darth Vader and he fought him, slicing off his head. Luke bent down picking up the mask and as he turned it over it changed. First it became his father's face and then it became his. "No!" he said shaking his head. He could never become Darth Vader. He left the cave after constructing a new lightsaber, a lightsaber of his own. One of an emerald green stone, it suited him better than the blue blade of his father's. He drew his Jedi cloak over his head as he turned to see Anakin, Yoda, and Ben staring at him expectantly. He began meditating and the three watched as the rocks lifted into the air. He heard a scream. "Leia," he said and Anakin tensed as he let himself flow into the Force. He could see what Luke was seeing, his princess was in pain, in trouble as was Han Solo. They had to save them, but Anakin sensed something Luke didn't.

"It's a trap, Luke. Darth Vader's there."

"It's you and your powers the Emperor wants, that's why your friends must suffer."

"I must go to them."

"No."

"I can't let them suffer."

"If you value what they fight for you must."

"Obi-Wan, even if the Council wanted me to leave you, I wouldn't have. I would do exactly as Luke is going to to save Mom, or you, or Padme."

"Or the Chancellor?" asked Obi-Wan.

"We're going," Anakin stated.

"Then you go alone. I cannot interfere. I will remain here with Master Yoda."

"the ship's sunk."

"Use the Force, "Master Yoda suggested. "Learned you have."

"Moving rocks is one thing this is something different."

"You must unlearn what you have learned. Not different, only different in your mind."

"But it's so big."

"Size matters not. Judge me by my size do you? As you should not, for my ally is the force and a powerful ally it is."

"I'll try."

"Do or do not, there is no try."

The ship began moving but Luke let it go and Anakin picked it up using the Force setting it safely on land.

"I don't believe it," Luke said awed.

"That, my son, is why you fail. Cloud City here we come."