Chapter 29
Anakin Skywalker was fighting Traditionalists, adrenaline pumping through his body. The Balancers and Traditionalists were apparently equal by this stage
He hadn't felt like this since Ahsoka left the Jedi Order, and this feeling made him feel good.
He took advantage of this adrenaline, as he swished his lightsaber, cutting off limbs, and even heads. This was regrettable, Anakin thought so, but it was the Traditionalists who were trying to run into him with their lightsabers.
"Anakin Skywalker, I had faith that you would pick the right side" Anakin immediately turned to the source of the voice, Adi Galia. She continued "I guess I was wrong."
"Galia. The Traditionalists are not the right side. I am more powerful than you could even imagine, it won't be wise to fight me." Anakin said, calmly, but passionately, he didn't want to kill anyone unless they charged at him. It was true, he was now using both the dark and the light, his eyes glowed a shade yellower, giving a gold tint to the blue colour of the eyes.
Adi charged at Anakin, who immediately blocked an incoming attack from her. He decided to attempt to toy with her for a while, before he unleashed his true powers and his full wrath upon every Traditionalist.
In the prison, Bethrona and Dogma had already escaped, only to be escorted to a speeder by three Clones, all of whom Dogma had recognised.
"Welcome back, Dogma!" Jesse exclaimed, happy to have him back, despite the fact he was wound up tight the last time they met.
"Thank you, but Commander Kornen, I think it was, is still in the building." Dogma reported, Kix and Echo widened their eyes in concern.
"The new Commander's still in the building?" Kix asked, horrified
"General Skywalker's gonna be mad at this. I'm going in!" Echo confidently said
"Me too." Bethrona agreed, the Clones all nodded, except Dogma.
"We need to get outta here! They're gonna figure out where we are!" Dogma objected
"Sorry, majority vote." Bethrona apologised
"That's why I like politicians!" Echo laughed
The speeder was swerved to the prison building. The building where Adenan was still duelling Pong Krell. Adenan was gaining energy from the Force, how Anakin taught him, his eyes were… animated. The colour of his eyes were moving, like electricity jolting around. There was no way he was going to lose this duel. He felt a jolt on his hand, as he summoned some of that power and redirected it to the air, in the form of lightning.
The lightning hit Krell right on the centre. Adenan needed to let go of that excess power, and it was as if the Force was granting him the power, for now. He smiled, he was so focused, that he didn't notice a speeder crash through the wall.
"Hahaha. Now, you shall see, who is the true Dark Sider!" Adenan exclaimed sadistically, Krell couldn't handle the sheer power, as he screamed in agony once. Adenan's animated eyes became normal brown again, but with glitters of yellow on it.
"Such… power, worthy of a Sith Lord." Krell muttered, knowing his life was over once again.
Dogma ran, and saw Adenan lifting one of Krell's lightsabers, and activating one side, while smiling, not a happy smile, the smile had a air of coldness, of very cold-blooded fury.
"You know, most dark siders think that hot-blooded rage is the best way, but I know, thanks to the knowledge of Vader, I know. Vader was born out of an ineffective Master, but grew to be an effective Sith in his short time, you, Krell, I can see your memories, your acts on Umbara have been converted to stories told among the Clone ranks. I hated them, I hate the murders of other people! The Clones were innocent in all of this, yet you murdered them mercilessly!" The Padawan slashed Krell's arm off, all while smiling. The alien resisted the urge to scream in pain at the burning sensation "But you are no Sith, a true Sith would never have such short-sighted plans. Remember, wherever you are, your kill was neither Dogma's fault, nor Adenan Kornen's, it was of… Darth Cameus." Adenan had found that piece of knowledge through Dimension Sightseeing, in a dimension where he became Sidious's apprentice, and another where he became Vader's. Now, it was Cameus that lifted Krell's lightsaber.
A swift stroke of the blue blade of Krell's swiftly beheaded the four-armed alien. The darkness left his killer, as the Grey Jedi Padawan's eyes quickly turned back to brown.
"Darth… Cameus?" Bethrona asked, confused
"I'll explain on the way." Adenan breathed, trying to recover from the pull of the Dark Side. He walked towards the Clones energetically, much to the confusion of the other four.
Anakin and Adi were duelling, when they both sensed the spike in darkness, Anakin immediately recognised it to be built by Adenan. The darkness swirled against Anakin, attempting to pull him once again, and this time, instead of pushing against it, he embraced the power it gave, not the darkness as a whole.
He closed his eyes and then opened them, and they were fully yellow. He pushed his lightsaber forward, making Adi tumble back at the raw strength. She seemed surprised at Anakin's yellow eyes.
"The Dark spike was you, wasn't it?" Adi asked accusingly.
"No. It was not me. I merely am embracing the Dark Side. So did Master Windu you know." Vader chuckled evilly, then snarled as he decided that the time for toying was done, he made a strong slash that took off both of Adi's hands, she screamed in the pain, as Vader used a Force Push/Lightning mix, making her hit a wall. Adi was dead, by both broken bones and electrocution.
The Dark Terrors were felt throughout the galaxy by Force Sensitives, Darker Traditionalists became more aggressive, force-sensitive babies all around the galaxy began to cry and scream, while parents and Jedi Masters tried to all frantically calm them down.
Saying that this battle was like all the others, that was something that would be considered a wrong answer, this wasn't a just any battle during the entirety Clone War, this was the battle that waged options all across the galaxy.
The only place where the war wasn't going so fast, was the Senate Rotunda, where politicians were squabbling on which side was going to win and if to actually support the Jedi anymore, or to force them out of Coruscant, but the trouble was that the Clones belonged to the hands of Tarkin and Anakin.
The Chancellor's office was one of the places where time seemed to go still compared to the outside. Padmé wiped sweat off her brow, as she frowned, preparing to speak.
And she did, her first word to shout, was "Draw!"
Blast shots were fired everywhere right then, as Tarkin began shooting at Padmé and vice versa. Bail tried to walk away from the chaos. Padmé took cover behind a pot, as Tarkin took cover behind his table.
Adenan felt something in his bond with Padmé, like she was warring. Adenan widened his eyes at that, as he looked at Jesse, who was driving the vehicle, because of an earlier event on Umbara.
"Jesse, go to the Chancellor's office." Adenan quickly ordered.
"The Chancellor's Office, sir?" Jesse asked, confused
"Someone's in trouble, I sense it." Adenan clarified his motives, as Jesse quickly switched gear.
The speeder, since it was near the Senate rotunda, was quickly able to get there through the emergency lane, which Bethrona paid for. Jesse then crashed through the window, glass sparks came, as Adenan prevented them from hurting any of passengers of the speeder by stopping the glass shards with the force, and then making them fall.
"Adenan!" Padmé exclaimed the immediate moment she saw him jump off the speeder and activate his yellow lightsaber.
"This place used to be the home of some of the worst scum, you, Tarkin, are no exception." Adenan coldly stated
"Scum? You call me scum? I fight for a better cause! A cause that will end the corruption of both the Jedi and the Republic!" Tarkin truly believed that, as he snarled "It is you who is the Jedi scum"
"Jedi are not scum, I heard you were against Ahsoka at the end, you should have not done that, you know. I know, that you were against Ahsoka, and were with the Sith, that gives me more than enough knowledge of your motives. I can choke your life out right now… unless…" Adenan paused, glaring at Tarkin. It was very hard to keep his anger at the guy.
"Unless what?" Tarkin asked, intending to humour the Padawan before he killed him
"Unless you hand over the Republic to Senator Amidala and abandon your plans for takeover" Adenan answered, Tarkin growled and ran to Adenan
"NEVER!" He exclaimed, but before he could shoot, Adenan's hand shot out, and the life force was quickly taken out of him through a simple force choke
"Pathetic. A pathetic end for a pathetic man." Adenan sneered at the dead body of Tarkin. He then glanced towards Bail and bowed "Senator Organa.", he greeted, then he turned to Padmé, and waved goodbye, "I'll see you later, mother" Adenan smiled, as he jumped onto the speeder, and started the speeder.
Padmé recognised the sound, and started running towards Adenan, screaming "Adenan!"
The Padawan quickly zoomed out of the building, leaving Bethrona, Padmé, Bail and the Clones dumbfounded. He was going to help Anakin win the war… the final war on Coruscant, against the Traditionalists.
Honestly, writing Darth Cameus made me feel cold on the inside. Adenan Kornen is a person is normally calm and dispassionate, no more than that, but is attached to people all the same and tries to help everyone. Cameus still lacks anger and passion, but in the place of attachment is an icy sadism and disregard for others entirely, though both hate the murder of the innocent.
Sorry for the On-Hold, though, and at such a climatic stage, I'm really sorry. But inspiration just left me for this story, but I'm back now and ready to finish this story. There's only a few chapters left, but it'll go over 30 chapters. Well, I'll stop rambling, for now, and expect slow updates, but then, there's only two wars and an epilogue left, so there's a few chapters left.