Chapter 33
The feeling of electricity and plasma wrapped around his hands was the first feeling Adenan felt when he woke up, and inwardly groaned, he knew what had happened to him…
Not again…
The 16-year old boy opened his eyes, to see that he was in a tent, which was nearly empty, but it was clear that the tent was firmly stuck to the ground, and there was no floor, only plain grass.
Adenan looked to his right, only to see Caleb Dume suspended in air next to him, also bound with plasma beams. As always.
He looked around to see the environment around, there were a few sparse furniture, the tent looked as if to be black- intimidation factor obviously -that was all that was there, Adenan groaned, knowing that there would be nothing fun in the makeshift 'cell'.
There never was.
Also, Adenan looked down to notice that he lacked the lightsabers that were supposed to be on his utility belt
"So, one of you woke up…" A voice called, as Obi-Wan Kenobi entered, along with Solace… who Adenan hissed at loudly at, making the girl jump back, being startled.
"What the force, Adenan?" Solace asked, making the other Padawan smirk
"I just wanted to scare you… imitating a cat is pretty easy."
"Kornen. Now that… that action… is done… I was going to let you know that the Balancers have invaded this planet as we speak, but your Master Skywalker would never know where you are. I will tell you that." Obi-Wan chuckled, wiping his right eye for a 'tear', before remembering the fact that said eye was bionic.
"You know what Kenobi?" Adenan asked angrily, making Obi-Wan jerk his head up, "You were his brother! You were her best friend! Padmé and Anakin Skywalker, and you betrayed them, kriffing traitorous son of a Sith!"
"I was once, until I learned more." Was the reply from the Traditionalist Master
"Learn? Learn? Hah!" Adenan laughed, as if that was the funniest joke ever, "You never learned truly from Master Windu… it is truly that the Traditionalists know… nothing."
Before the Padawan could say more, a fist, belonging to Drenco Voxer connected to Adenan's face. Drenco's dark-skinned face was scrunched in anger, accentuating his very dark blue eyes.
"You always did belittle everyone, Kornen, ever since you became Masterless Padawan… you became arrogant!" Voxer exclaimed
"Arrogant? Since when?"
"Since you started arguing against the Council, remember the Turquoise Robes scenario?"
Adenan gulped, remembering the first time he argued against the Council, for authorisation to wear turquoise Jedi Robes, which Bethrona's parents had given the then 14-year old Masterless Padawan for warding off a Dark Jedi from Chameta.
It had been, ironically, Obi-Wan Kenobi that made the final argument, which allowed Adenan to wear the robes.
"I just wanted to wear robes that my new friend, second friend ever, had given me… what's wrong with that?" Adenan asked, "Also, all the arguments that happened after that were due to the Council just being… wrong… about things, I mean, who'd suggest leaving a young boy whose parents just died in the Temple Creche when it was obvious that the boy's godfather wanted custody of said boy? That was cruel!"
"Yet, the boy improved by leaps and bounds in the Temple, and sympathised with the Traditionalists" Obi-Wan replied that time
"He missed his family probably… and there is such thing as the Stockholm Syndrome." Adenan smirked after saying that comment
"Watch what you say, Kornen! Or worse things will come to your friends!" That threat was given from Voxer, who was now pointing his unactivated lightsaber hilt at the unconscious Caleb Dume.
"Fine. I'll stop talking if that's not an empty threat… otherwise…" Adenan started smiling as he went to say extra words designed to taunt, when Voxer activated the blue blade of his lightsaber, nearly burning the skin on Caleb's chest, making Adenan lose his smile, "Ok, ok! I'll stop!"
"Good. And make sure you don't start again." Voxer deactivated his lightsaber, as Obi-Wan smiled patronisingly
"Jedi are not supposed to have attachments."
And with those words, the three left, leaving Adenan alone once again, as they were leaving, he wondered where his citrine three-bladed lightsaber was, along with his orange normal lightsaber and Caleb's blue weapon.
The boy looked around, boredly. It was the only thing to do when enemies got to him, it had been a universal question for many Unorthodox Padawans as to why enemies didn't give their prisoners anything fun to do.
Meanwhile, outside of the tent, there was a battle going on, as many Balancers and Traditionalists fought many miles away, the war scattered across the planet, as all the Balancer and Traditionalist forces were on-ground, the air battle was similar, as there were streaks of yellow (from explosions), green (lasers from new Balancer model ships) and blue (lasers from Traditionalist ships) scattered around the air.
The tent that held Adenan and Caleb was located in a very secluded part of the forest, which the battle hadn't reached yet. But Anakin Skywalker, attached as always, was attempting to scour the entire planet, killing any enemy that stood in the way.
The battlefield was a pandemonium for sounds, voices barking out orders, explosions booming out, the thumps of dead bodies hitting the ground, buzzing of lightsabers as they slashed many, the blasting of blaster bolts which sailed across the ground and even the footsteps.
Anakin ran forward until he spotted a fellow Balancer, it was Yoda, twirling his lightsaber around and killing many Traditionalists that dared to fight the elder Master. The younger Balancer reached out to the Force, and pushed back all Traditionalists trying to run towards the elder.
"Master Yoda, what brings you here?" Anakin asked, genuinely interested on why the Master was at the Resolute Command Station.
"Here for you. Sensed your frustration, I did. Calm, you must." Yoda advised, making Anakin glare at the small sentient
"Calm? Calm! My apprentice is arrested, along with our former primary spy! And this planet probably contains my former apprentice! How do you expect me to be calm?!"
"Focus… on the love you feel for Padawan Kornen, not the hatred you feel, for his captors" Yoda advised, making Anakin calm down a bit, after hearing the advice.
Anakin nodded, running up to the battle to find his apprentice again, who was still tied up next to Caleb.
Meanwhile, the latter boy woke up, snapping his eyes open once he had control of them. He looked around, on his surroundings, he saw the tent, and the near-emptiness of it, Caleb started to slump when he heard a familiar voice.
"I do suggest not slumping, you'll probably get nauseous after a while."
Caleb stood straight (Or at least, as straight as he could be while being trapped), and quickly looked sideways to see Adenan, who was slightly angered… mostly bored, the other Padawan's eyes were dulled, so they looked a deep black rather than brown.
"Adenan! What… where are we?" Caleb asked, confusedly
"I dunno. All I know is that we are at a Traditionalist bunker, nothing else really." Adenan answered
"Great… this is going to be a long wait, isn't it?"
"Yep. Long… Boring…"
"Agreed."
"Hey! Couldn't we just play a game?" Adenan asked, as Caleb raised his eyebrow
"Like what?"
"Hmm… maybe… ok, the rules are that I say a word, and then you say a word related to my word and so on, I used to play this with Faro."
Caleb thought of a word, Adenan glanced at the younger boy attentively, before he found a word.
"Lightsaber"
Adenan smiled slightly, before his response to that word was, "Katana"
Caleb smiled back, saying the word, "Metal"
And, the waiting game was played by the two, as Anakin Skywalker angrily searched for his apprentice and his friend, who was probably the new Masterless Padawan. And, the Chosen One was determined to do so.
So, that's the end of the chapter! Sorry for taking so long to update, my school teachers gave me so many assignments, along with that, two tests, so I was very busy with school work, thus couldn't update. Also, loss of inspiration contributed to that. So, sorry!
Anyway, goodbye until my next update on the next story of mine that you read!