Chapter 32

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Sorry for not updating in ten weeks! Many bad stuff happened to me, for example, I lost my MacBook Charger, and to get my mind off that, I got into the Harry Potter series, which actually made me lose inspiration for many of my stories, including this one. So, very sorry for not updating!

I'm guessing that with all the events that happened in this story, I really haven't marked how much time has passed from the beginning of this story up till now, so I'll say about a year had passed, making it 18 BBY (Revenge of the Sith took place at 19 BBY)

Metallic yellow and blue clashed against each other, the duel between Adenan Kornen and Solace Jelaino had started, with Caleb Dume helping the former. Trees were falling everywhere, as flames formed off the heat of the lightsabers all around the planet.

Slash, Slash, Jab, Slash, Defend. That was the pattern Adenan was following, as Solace attempted to strike at her opponent. The duel was going slowly, for now. Adenan's gaze was kept on Solace, defiance in his eyes.

Then, Adenan had an idea, he smiled, as he jumped backwards, and used Force Speed to hide behind a tree that was pretty far off the duel. Caleb mimicked Adenan, and went to another tree.

Solace became mad at that, she wasn't going to allow the Balancers to escape! In response, she shouted, "Come out, coward! You want a duel, well, I'll give you a duel!"

Adenan and Caleb both cloaked their presences, making sure that Solace could not find them.

"She's mad." Caleb commented, from the tree he was hiding in, which, was just beside where Adenan was

"I know. She always has been." Adenan nodded sadly, as he picked up his comm. link, and contacted his Master, Anakin Skywalker.

The Jedi General Skywalker was on the bridge of his cruiser, the Resolute. With Commander Appo and Admiral Yularen at his sides, suddenly, his comm, which was connected to the front panel of the cruiser, rang. Anakin immediately knew it was Adenan, so he eagerly ran up and responded. The other Jedi on the ship also sensed who it was, and ran, eager to confirm whether the Traditionalists were on Shili or not.

"Master, I can now confirm that there are Traditionalists on-planet, could you come as fast as possible, there are Tongrutas beheaded over here." Adenan seemed… annoyed.

But Anakin replied in his most serious voice, "We are coming from the shortest hyperspace route! Those Traditionalists won't dodge us!"

"Oh yeah, by the way, The Traditionalists only came to Shili for revenge, not for a strategical takeover. Bye!" The call was hung up, by Adenan.

Everyone was shocked at that comment, Everyone's thoughts were among the lines of 'Why revenge?', it seemed that the Traditionalists were more insane than originally thought.

But, the Balancers didn't blame them, the Traditionalists have been using an aspect of the Force which was very unbalanced and detached from the True Force.

"Revenge… if revenge then, why Shili?" Master Chi asked, the Pantoran coming up to Anakin

"Wait a minute… Shili… my home planet…" Shaak Ti sighed in sadness

"Ahsoka…", the Chosen One remembered, his former apprentice was seen outside of Shili before the Chancellor was kidnapped and the Traditionalist-Balancer part of the Clone War had started, but then, for the past year, many things had happened.

"That's why! The Balancers have a big history with that planet, Me and Faro went on a peace-keeping mission there and made friends with some Tongrutas, and that planet was also the location of Adenan and my apprentice's biggest argument!" Master Chi exclaimed in realisation, as Faro came up and groaned at the memory.

Back then, The Rodian and Adenan had gotten onto a huge argument on what it meant to be a Jedi and the worth of the missions, during an mission with Bethrona Da'atarka to negotiate with pirates who were attacking numerous planets in the Mid-Rim, including Chameta and Naboo. The rest was history.

Suddenly, knowing the Traditionalist's motivations, and the idea of it made all the balancers more determined to get to Shili as fast the ship could go. Anakin madly smiled, as he arrived at the front, and reprogrammed the hyperspace route for all ships.

So, they reduced the time by 30 whole minutes, and Anakin wondered why they didn't do that before. Everyone cheered in happiness, while Anakin was not cheering, sensing trepidation in the bond he had ben Adenan.

Adenan, meanwhile, was still hiding away from Solace along with Caleb, who was panting while sweating in half-fear, explosions rang around the two, but the elder Jedi knew that running into the duel would do nothing.

"Boo!" A voice whispered, startling both Adenan and Caleb, as they saw another Jedi Traditionalist about Adenan's age.

The two Balancers activated their lightsabers, but in the process, walked back and exposed themselves to Solace, while duelling the other Traditionalist. That duel was quick, mostly the Balancers trying to defend themselves from the rapid attacks of this other Jedi's blue lightsaber.

"Thank you Drenco", Solace told the Traditionalist in a sweet voice, the dark-skinned boy who was referred to smiled, while duelling the two Balancers

"Your welcome love!" Drenco happily replied, as Caleb blanched at that entire conversation

But Adenan smiled, in both happiness for his former friend and freedom from being the brunt of Solace's obsession, he ran away from the duel between Caleb and their new opponent, "You finally got someone else to chase! Finally!", and then calmed, turing to Solace, "Why did it have to be Voxer though?"

"He was there for me when you were with Bethrona!" Solace roared back, charging at Adenan.

The 16-year old boy wanted to wish Solace and Voxer best, but then decided against it, as he realised that he had friend-zoned the former, and that was always sad for whoever was the one with the attraction, so it wouldn't be the best thing to say. The Padawan would have reacted the exact same way if Bethrona had friend-zoned him and chose another, well, he wouldn't have chased after Bethrona, rather, he would have accepted it and stood out of the way.

Just like he would now, hope they have a nice relationship, because it was clear they were.

"By the way, when did this start?" Adenan asked, as Solace slashed her lightsaber at him, her hits quickly defended.

"Just after you left… jealous?" Solace asked, venomously smiling

"Nope. I had Bethrona weeks before that", was the reply, the duel continued.

The duel continued, but Caleb, who was faced with a skill-level way beyond his, had a hard time facing Voxer alone. Adenan attempted to block one such attack at Caleb, but that was a mistake.

When the boy spun, Adenan felt a hard push on his back, flinging him towards a tree. Caleb moved out of the way as his friend hit the tree, losing consciousness. The 12-year old gasped, the two Traditionalists went forward towards him, both had their lightsabers raised, both blue.

But then, all went black, as Caleb felt something on his neck, something… flat, a circle shape! Then everything went down, and down, and down…

As everything was fading, a 'snap' sound was heard, then another, and the cooling, yet warming feeling of metal force-binders. Then, there were a flurry of voices.

"So, are the two ready to be apprehended?"

"Yes Master Kenobi!"

"Very good, I want them to be bought towards the-"

After that, absolutely nothing.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, the scanners on Commanders Kornen and Dume are… not responding!"

"We better tell this to the Generals!"

Two Clones ran across the main hub of The Resolute, both armed with only their blasters and some news. It was all a flash, as Anakin marked their final destination, Shili. They were only two planets away. Only five minutes.

"Generals!" The clones stood, as all the Jedi turned.

Anakin was the first to talk to the Clones, "Kix, Dry, what is it?"

"It's Commanders Kornen and Dume, they're scanners are not responding!" The Clone named Dry responded

Every Jedi responded to that, with replies on the line of, "What? How did that happen?!"

"Not responding… and that only happens when…" Anakin started

"Everyone is known to take scanners off their prisoners." Master Chi finished sadly

"I should have known that there was a flaw in those plans!" Shaak Ti exclaimed, now annoyed beyond measure. Her home planet was being invaded by the same forces that took two of their best and most lovable Padawans!

"I'll save them, no one takes my son and gets away with it!" Anakin growled, Faro frowned, coming up to the Chosen One

"And no one takes my friend, and gets away with it", Faro darkly stated, as Master Chi nodded in agreement.

It seemed that they had a new mission. To rescue the two that were apprehended by Traditionalists. The two originally sent to fight off the invasion, but two against dozens… that had been a bad decision.

That's when the ships arrived at Shili, every Traditionalist cringed at the reinforcements, as Tongrutas around (that weren't Traditionalist), cheered in happiness, they knew that their cries for help had been answered.

What they didn't know was the somber environment their heroes now held, no one ever did except for the heroes themselves, or their friends.

Obi-Wan looked up with his robotic eye, which had many improvements to his real eye. He could see everything more clearly, and could see through stuff if he wanted, though seeing through stuff as far as a Republic cruiser hurt his head due to the excess eye-strength needed, this was still connected to his real nerves.

But, he didn't need his new eye to figure out that Anakin was in the Resolute, a ship he could easily identify.

"Come along now Padawans, we need to quickly get to Traditionalist camp before the Balancers find us with their beloved Padawans!" Obi-Wan sneered at the Resolute, before the three almost ran, carrying the senseless bodies of Adenan and Caleb

It seemed that the battle got a lot more interesting.

Yup, Adenan, after years, figured out the true sadness behind a friend-zone, but then, how would he know, he never was friend-zoned (Well, I was, and he's based off me… lucky bloke!). Anyway, the next chapter you guys can already guess. I can clearly say that there are about 2-3 chapters left.