Chapter 23
There will be numerous spoilers for my other stories in this chapter. I also made a new story called It's all Love and Dreams.
Adenan Kornen, Jedi Padawan to Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Balancer, was going to Chameta, to visit his first best friend.
Adenan felt that his and Bethrona's friendship evolved, and he decided that he won't waste anymore time. He racked his brain and became very nervous at what he was going to do, despite the blaring rock music he was playing on the ship.
Adenan turned a knob on the controls, setting the volume of the music down a bit as his Jedi Starfighter reached the planet Adenan went to many times, Chameta.
Adenan was treated as a hero in Chameta, almost like how Anakin was treated as a hero in Naboo. Adenan opened all transmissions as he muted the music in the background. A crackle came through the speakers inside the starfighter.
"Jedi Starfighter 119557, where do you want to land sir?" A masculine voice asked, in a serious tone
"The palace's back landing pad, please tell Princess Bethrona to meet me there" Adenan requested politely
"Hello Adenan, Bethrona'll be delighted to meet you there" The man told Adenan
Adenan smiled, as he got landing permit, as always. He started going to the back landing pad. He was here for two reasons, the first one was to get his citrine lightsaber crystal, which he left with Bethrona after Cherenya.
He remembered of a time when the Jedi Council and the Senate had told Faro, Master Chi and him to go to Cherenya to solve the mystery of a distress message that had came along.
But that adventure had taxed more than he expected, even getting a new lightsaber crystal in the process, a yellow one that produced a special, yellow metallic blade.
The crystal was Dathomirian, so that's why Master Chi had told Adenan and Faro to leave the crystals with someone they explicitly trusted. Adenan had chose Bethrona. Adenan went into atmosphere and saw people repairing the nature-high planet, which Adenan presumed was a bit deterred from the battle between Balancers and Traditionalists that took place in the planet. He slowed down a bit to look at the people repairing the town the palace was in. People looked up to see the starfighter of their hero.
Adenan then saw the sandstone palace and smiled, liking the fact that Bethrona's parents decided to build the palace far away from the capital city, which was very crowded, judging from the last time Adenan visited that place. Though it had beautiful buildings and nice roads.
Adenan went to the back of the palace and saw Bethrona waiting there, alone. Adenan spun and landed quickly. Adenan felt a feeling of both eagerness and fear. He opened the cockpit and jumped out of the starfighter, stretching a bit.
"Adenan!" Bethrona happily exclaimed, and rushed to Adenan, wrapping both of her arms around him. Adenan was taken aback by the sudden hug. Bethrona realised that and stepped back a bit, "Sorry, I don't know why I'm hugging you so much lately" she apologised
"No no… it's okay!" Adenan assured quickly, and to prove that, Adenan enveloped Bethrona into a hug. Bethrona just decided to stay near Adenan for now.
Anakin Skywalker sensed love permeating in his apprentice, Adenan Kornen. For some random reason, he still had the force bond with his first apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. Anakin deduced it was a cruel joke from the Force.
Anakin was back in his bounty hunter armour, and he was sitting on a white chair, beside a white table, talking with his apparent aunt, the big sister of his mother, Kyra Jykes.
"You seemed a bit spaced out there" Kyra noted with genuine concern, pulling herself close to Anakin
"I was thinking about my… current Padawan, Adenan" Anakin answered, coming back to reality, then he added without thinking "He's like my son"
"How many children do you have?" Kyra asked, curious
"Three. Me and my wife adopted Adenan just recently, and our birth children, Luke and Leia" Anakin gave his own version of the truth, yes, Anakin and Padmé considered Adenan their son after Padmé was rescued from the hands of Mace Windu
Flashback
Anakin and Padmé were in the Resolute, Anakin's cruiser. They were both lying down on the bed.
"So, what do you think of Adenan?" Anakin suddenly asked
"He's a good kid. Calm, has a good heart, and cares for others" Padmé answered softly
"I think of him like my own son" Anakin confessed, his tone also soft, then he continued with "From the short time we've known each other, Adenan and I are destined for each other. Even if we hadn't met, we'd be in each other's destinies in some way, completing each other's prophecies"
"Well, Adenan does look up to you" Padmé commented, in a half-sly tone
End Flashback
Anakin had decided, that when his uncle woke up, he was going to go out of this planet and reunite with Adenan. He smiled, knowing that the Traditionalists really didn't suit him.
Kyra's husband, Taren, was selling something in the main town of this planet, so it was up to Anakin to keep charge of the house. So when both Anakin and Kyra heard echoed moaning. Both of the Skywalkers ran for Talimer.
Talimer slowly opened his eyes to see Kyra. He did a double take at how the woman looked much like a combination of himself and Shmi. Talimer ran his hands down his hair, which was exactly like Anakin's, but curlier.
"Wh-Who are you?" Talimer answered, voice quivering in fear
"No need to be afraid, I am Kyra Jykes" Kyra tried to comfort Talimer
"Hey uncle" Anakin came beside Kyra and greeted, happy that his uncle was conscious
"Ani! You're a sight for sore eyes!" Talimer exclaimed, becoming happy
"I know. Anyway, we're in a outer rim planet named…" Anakin realised he never got the name of the planet, so he looked at Kyra
"Betse" Kyra answered softly
"Anyway, let's get out of here" Talimer exclaimed, and tried to stand up, but to his horror, his left ankle was hurt
"You've injured your left ankle in the crash" Kyra told Talimer, a bit apologetically
"Dammit!" Talimer angrily exclaimed, throwing his arms down and stomping his right foot once, and he also frowned
"I know" Anakin agreed, annoyed
"Anyway, do you know Shmi Skywalker, Talimer?" Kyra asked, daring to try it
"How'd you know Shmi? She's my twin sister" Talimer answered, a bit baffled
"She's my little sister." Kyra revealed, lowering her head, Talimer gasped in surprise
"That's my reaction!" Anakin laughed
"It was." Kyra chuckled at the little statement, then continued "You are Talimer Skywalker, twin brother of Shmi. I saw some people take you from mother's arms"
"They were Jedi." Talimer briskly told Kyra, nodding his head, motioning Kyra to continue
"You were lucky. I was 4 back then. During my 12th birthday, the Skywalker family" Kyra started, but Anakin interrupted her by raising his arms slightly
"The non-powerful ones" Anakin added, knowing that no one in this room knew what he knew
"Non-powerful ones?" Kyra became confused at that statement
"We're all descendants of Sean Skywalker. The most powerful Jedi, after Master Yoda of course, Sean and his wife made two children that sparked two lines, a powerful line that had gone missing just a century ago, and us" Anakin explained, almost like he read it, which he did
"Where'd you read that?" Talimer smiled at bit, wanting to know
"Jedi Archives, apparently Master Yoda and the librarian before Master Nu, who was a Balancer, created a secret section in the archives specifically for information on our family" Anakin shrugged, answering that in a dismissing tone, he already knew that Master Windu had always wanted to destroy all information on the Skywalkers… even the living data after Talimer left the order.
"Anyway… the non-powerful Skywalker family… as you put it Anakin" Kyra briefly glanced at Anakin, then continued "We went on a space trip"
"And you were captured by pirates and sold into slavery. I heard that from Shmi" Talimer noted, slowly
"How many Skywalkers are still alive?" Kyra asked, changing the subject
"We don't know, there might be millions of Skywalkers in this entire universe and we will never know" Talimer dismissed the subject
Adenan and Bethrona finished hugging, and even cuddling a bit from instinct of both of them. Both of them released each other. Adenan checked a chrono on his wrist.
"We hugged each other for half a minute. Great" Adenan told in a half-joking tone, on the inside, Adenan was ecstatic, since they had got the mood for Adenan to reveal one of his best kept secrets, one only known by Master Chi.
"Why did you come here?" Bethrona asked, leaning forward a bit
Adenan hesitated and then sighed "I came here for the citrine lightsaber crystal I gave to you, and for… you" He told Bethrona softly
"Why me?" Bethrona answered, not getting Adenan's statement
"Bethrona… I know we've been friends all these years, but I want to be something more with you… I love you" Adenan pressured the words out of his mouth
Bethrona was taken aback by Adenan's sudden forwardness, knowing Adenan to be really shy about these things, she then replied with "Adenan… I… love you too, just recently I started feeling towards you". Adenan gasped at her reaction
"So… our friendship isn't ruined?" Adenan asked, shocked by Bethrona's reaction
"No… it's evolved into something more" Bethrona answered, in a flirting tone, then kissed Adenan in the cheek.
Adenan smiled, as great happiness came to him. He saw snippets of the future, a blonde man who looked like kind of like Anakin, a brunette woman who looked kind of like Padmé, a brown haired woman who kinda looked like Bethrona and a black haired man who kinda looked like himself.
Luke… Leia… Relilia… Jantren the names flashed in Adenan's mind, as he realised that himself and Bethrona were destined for each other. The vision cleared out of Adenan's mind, as then held Bethrona with his arms.
"Yes… it has" Adenan told Bethrona, his tone coming down to a whisper, making Bethrona shiver
The two sixteen year olds leaned to each other, and gravity worked for them as they connected lip to lip. Adenan and Bethrona sealed their relationship with a kiss.
This kiss made love burst into the force, making anyone even weakly connected to the force sense love everywhere. Despite being far away, Anakin and Talimer Skywalker sensed it very strongly.
"It happened Anakin" Talimer smiled at Anakin
"Adenan and Bethrona fell in love. I can sense it through our bond" Anakin firmly stated, proudness in his voice
Padmé also sensed it, but couldn't distinguish it. She decided to go to Chameta, to seek Adenan for help of what this could be. Mace Windu was walking through the corridors of the temple, being flanked by Obi-Wan. That's when both Traditionalists sensed the burst of power and love.
"How is this possible?" Obi-Wan muttered to himself, rubbing his chin with his left hand
"Kornen has grown more powerful… I don't know how it's possible" Mace curled his hands into fists
"He's a mere Padawan. And now, his presence, though cloaked, is showing that he has… more power in his midichlorians." Obi-Wan told Mace, confusion quivering in his voice
"This is very unusual indeed. We need to double our efforts to track Kornen" Mace told Obi-Wan, giving him an implication of an order.
"I'll see to it immediately!" Obi-Wan exclaimed in a serious tone, straightening himself and going to tell all the Traditionalists about the unusual event
"Kornen has done much unusual things anyway, he managed to win second in a pod-race, despite being human, solving a mystery through only force powers and winning a battle against me by only bombers." Mace reassured himself, but for some reason, he couldn't. He realised that this unusual event caused by Kornen is much different than the other unusual events he did, or caused
Adenan and Bethrona pulled away from the kiss, and both of them sensed the burst of love. Bethrona due to her having 6,540 midichlorians, almost enough to be found by the Jedi, but a bit lower.
"That was some kiss" Adenan noted, smiling
"Padmé's been telling me that love is worth it, whenever I looked at you with a romantic feeling" Bethrona told Adenan, slipping her right hand into Adenan's left hand
"Anakin's been telling me that too when I thought about you romantically" Adenan replied, realising what his Master and his wife were up to
"They've been trying to pair us!" Adenan and Bethrona exclaimed in unison, realising it
Yup, Anakin and Padmé had hidden motives all along! I realised that I asked the reviewers that if I should add Adenan into this story, so if I decided to not add Adenan, I really don't know where this story would have headed.
About the names, Relilia and Jantren. When I grow up and have a son, I wanted to name him a name starting with the letter J (I don't want to give even a slightest hint of who I actually am), so I thought of something similar to that name, because my name is similar to 'Adenan', so came up Jantren. Relilia because it's similar to Bethrona.
Anyway, this funny event happened just recently (two days before I posted this chapter), me and my friend… the one who I got inspired to make Bethrona from, were playing Tomodachi life, actually, she was playing Tomodachi Life and I was watching. So she put me and her in a compatibility tester in that game, a machine that tests how much of friends or lovers we could be, so me and her have a 86% chance of being lovers! And it all happened the same day I was writing this chapter, and planning the romantic moments of this chapter… coincidence? We're still friends though. NEXT CHAPTER: REUNION