Welcome to Chapter 5, from here on out, not only will the story finally take off and get interesting, but I'll be making sure the chapters are longer than 1K words.

Also, as for the story and its elements, Anakin and Vader MIGHT be two separate characters in this story, for the sake of mystery. In terms of weapons and powers, Anakin has two lightsabers, (his and Vader's) and a VibroKnife (TBB style). Powers, aside from The Force, Anakin can supposedly use elemental powers from Teyvet.

As for other characters, I'm sure there are some characters in Genshin Impact that can sense energy and emotions, and around Anakin, it might cause some, uncertain consequences.

Lisa POV - Mondstadt(KoF Headquarters)- The Next Day

*sigh* "Very tiresome" I say to myself, looking over another wave of books for any clue to our current crystal conundrum.

"Any progress, Lisa?" Jean asks, walking over to me, book in-hand.

"No" I answer, turning a page as I do so "I understand now that it's a product of StormTerror's pain, but on how to purify it without causing myself strain is-" *"pahhhh..."* "Eh?" I stop mid sentence, looking for the cause of my interruption. "That sound..? What on..?"

"...Lisa? Lisa are you alright?" Jean asks, speaking up as she moves to my side, concern coloring her charming blue eyes.

"I.., yes, I'm fine, Jean. Just slight dizziness is all" at least, I'm sure that's it. "I've made progress, the crystal DOES react to elemental power but-"

"But?" Jean questions, raising an eyebrow.

"Buuut, it IS also triggered by energy, or to put it simply, energy within one's self" I explain to her carefully, "Bad to good, good to great, and..."

"Bad to worse.." Jean finishes the sentence, placing a hand on her chin. "So the Traveler purified the crystal, which is a mystery on its own but, it doesn't explain why it behaved so chaotic up until he got here.., unless..." she pondered.

"Unless someone else has been effecting the crystal, someone powerful. But how?" I speculated, to effect a crystal like that would require a lot of elemental power, and more so to do it far away. "...Jean, yesterday, did you happen to hear anything unusual? Say...an explosion?" I ask my friend.

"An explosion?" Jean replied back, taking in a few seconds to think. "...Yes, I did actually, that morning right? Why do you ask?" She questions.

"Oh! Just, curious, that's all. Needed to know if I was dreaming or not" That was a lie, but I can't tell her that exactly.

Taking a deep sigh, Jean heads over to a window before looking back at the shelves. "Lisa, you're my friend and everything, but dreams aren't really the main topic right now. Between The Fatui and StormTerror, everything seems to be at a tipping point right now" *sigh* "I need a break" She sits down.

Leaving Jean to herself, I turn back to the books, piecing more clues together. "So I wasn't the only one. That explosion, the dream, the crystal, they couldn't possibly be connected right?" I thought to myself. "Hmm...those prisoners Kaeya and the Knights arrested, are they here now?" I ask.

"The Treasure Hoarders? Yes, what about them?" Jean looks up, eyes in curiosity.

Looking out the window, towards the young sky, and think this carefully, "I'm just speculating, that if all this chaos is happening now, then whoever is causing this.., is here in Mondstadt"

Aether POV - Mondstadt(Cathedral)

"There's something you didn't tell them" Paimon speaks up, taking my attention. "The dragon and the crystal weren't the only things we saw".

"I don't think he's a bad guy" I told her, after all, he didn't really look like the kind of person that screams 'dangerous', or anything.

"So you DO remember him, that green guy! He looked just like that guy down there!" Paimon declares, looking over the wall and onto the people below, especially that green fellow running past everyone.

"The exact same shade of green, what a coincidence" I say, watching with a growing suspicion that things are about to get interesting.

Minutes Later

"Wait, you guys are..? Oh, that's right! You're the ones who scared Dvalin away" The green fellow announced, making things clear after we've caught up to him.

"Dvalin? Who's that?" Paimon asked.

"That's Stromterror's real name, remember?" I answer my flying friend, still unsure on how she forgets these things.

"Huh? ...Oh, right. Most people seem to call him "Stromterror". Why do you call him that... are you two meant to be close or something?" She questions.

"Oh, so close..." the green guy answers?

Turning to me, Paimon is evenly confused "Hey, Traveler. Paimon thinks this guy has a screw loose..."

"I'm sorry, you are..?" I ask for a name, not really taking her words into consideration.

A smile grows on his face, and he answers with pride "I'm Venti the bard. Three-time winner of the "Most Popular Bard of Mondstadt," to be precise" Venti continued. "So, what do you need from me?"

"Given that you recognize us, Paimon doesn't believe we need to explain any further. Of course it's about Stormterror!" The fairy girl shouted.

"Storm..?" Venti pondered.

"Hey! Cut it with the amnesia act!" She demanded. "Traveler, show it to him"

Going along with her request, I take out the teardrop crystal, but to our surprise, it's been purified? And seemingly out with being worked on to add to the fact.

"Oh! Isn't this-"

"What!? The crystal has been purified!? When?" Paimon cried out, cutting off Venti from finishing his sentence.

"The last time I checked, it was full of impurities" I said to them. "Strange, now that I've noticed it, those voices I've been hearing have stopped" I thought to myself.

"The hero, he...'sigh' The anguish he feels...has brought him to tears..." Venti mutters.

"Tears..?" Paimon questions.

"Hero..?"

"A friend, from afar" Venti continues "He was once such a gentle child. Now so full of anger, hate, and suffering..." the bard finished spoke. "I also came across a Teardrop Crystal. Can you purify it?" He asked.

Without a word, I do simply that, extending my hand to the blood red crystal, letting float above my palm.

(echos): "..Me..Join me..join me..join me...Join me...*mechanical inhale*"

"What the-!?" I yell out, looking around for who said that.

(echos): "..my master..! Admitted that you are weak! Cannot run... I see through... My enemy..!"

"-Traveler!" Paimon yells, snapping me out of something.

"Huh?! What?" I ask, still in a state of confusion, unaware of the now-purified Teardrop Crystal. "The crystal...it didn't just...speak to me, did it?"

"You...really do have some wonderful abilities. Someone like you is going to end up getting written into a bard's poem. "Oh, a hero so bright, should he stand in the light. Though stand in the shade, and you'll be met by a blade..."" Venti sang out.

"Am I really getting ignored?!" I thought to myself.

"Alas... I've really not the time to compose a melody for you at this moment" The bard apologized. "Anyway, even if Dvalin is not taken down, his life will still wither away in the breeze... He'll burn himself out in the flames of anger..." he spoke sadly.

"Wait, is there anything I can do to help?" I ask, almost out of hesitation.

"I really must thank you for purifying the teardrop crystal, it has helped me greatly. But I've already come to devise my own plan." Venti announced.

"Oh? And what plan would that be?" Paimon asked, in a teasingly manner.

Placing his hands on his hips, our new bard friend explained "Seeing this tear has brought to mind a friend so dear"

"Friend?"

"Heh-heh, one must be going" he joked, giving a heartfelt laugh.

"Hey! Where're you running off to!?" My small, flying friend demanded.

"To the "Symbol of Mondstadt's Hero." Bye-bye!" And with that, he ran off, waving at us as he did so.

Standing here, I'm left with only my thoughts "...There, is no way I'm the only one who heard those voices...right?"

"Huh... Traveler, what do you make of that?" Paimon asked me.

"Hmm...This 'weirdo' as you put it-we need to keep an eye on him..." I suggested, still looking around this place.

"As far as he's concerned, you're a weirdo too ya know..." she replied, though I didn't really take that to heart.

"You know..."

"Know what?"

"His voice seems familiar..." I said, remembering his voice from somewhere, the voices perhaps..?

"Familiar? I don't know... You're alone on that one..." my friend said back, spinning slightly before disappearing.

"...Alone again, great... But why do I still feel a sickening feeling? The Voices? The red crystal? Could they be connected somehow?" Without a clear answer, I can't exactly explain to myself what happened earlier, what I do know is this, something unexpected is about to happen.

Anakin POV - Mondstadt(Prison)

(echos): ...my master...admit that you are weak... Run, Obi-Wan...not fear the Darkside...had the chance...my enemy...!

"!??" Opening my eyes and shooting my self forward, I feel my heart pounding without rest, and my mind... "my mind..." It stopped, those voices.., those memories.., they've stopped.

"...What...in the suns of Tatooine" I mutter, becoming aware of my surroundings, or more, my current situation.

"The prisoner is awake!" A male voice called out, taking me by surprise.

"What?" I question, seeing who I can assume is a guard. "What is this now?" I ask, standing up and walking over to the door.

"Nothing major" A new voice calls out, along with footsteps closing in "Just to keep you here, for questioning only" the new voice explains.

Seeing him come into view, it's easy to tell that he must be the leader here, "Questioning? Riiight, that's what they all say" I say, crossing my arms and looking around my excuse of a 'cell'.

"I take it you've experienced this before?" The strange man asked, signaling the guards to leave. "You don't seem like the troublesome kind" he adds.

"Hmm.., depends on what you call, 'trouble'" I answer, staring intensely at the man.

"...Kaeya, that's my name. I have a feeling that's what you're wondering" the man, Kaeya, says.

"Not really, just on where I am, not the prison, but this...world?" I reply, taking in my surroundings. "Kaeya, mind doing something for me?" I ask, still keeping an eye out.

"Really?" Kaeya said, taking a step forward "And what would that 'something?', be?" he finished.

"Nothing major, just..." Taking a page out of Obi-Wan's book, it was time to pull out an old trick. "You will open this door.." I told him, Kaeya, waving my hand in-front of his face.

He keeps himself calm, but I see it in his eyes "I will.. not! Open this door.." he shakes his head. "What did you do? Who are you?" Kaeya demands.

"A use of The Force, and if you want me to be specific, keeping you distracted" I tell him, looking over his shoulder.

"What?" He says, turning around and watching a spear float and streak towards him, jumping out of the way as it impales the door lock, breaking it.

"Freeze!" Kaeya yells, freezing the door, yet not fast enough before I kick it down. "Halt!" He commands, taking out his metal sword? And moves into a defensive position.

"No thanks" I say to myself, Force Pushing him into a random cell and slam the door shut. "Stop!" I turn around, "Stop right there!" two guards, they mean well but, not really trying to stay here. "Surrender yourself and-Whoa!!" They yell in panic, both of them throwback by a mysterious force onto the second pair of guards, knocking all of them out.

"That Hondo guy would be pretty useful now" I think to myself, ignoring the shouts of the Kaeya guy.

Minutes after taking walking around, I feel it, that familiar pull, a calling.

"Stop right there!" Another guardsman calls out "I said stop-" using the force to pull on a door, it breaks off its hinges and slams against the guard, knocking him cold.

Taking a few seconds to look down on him, I look back up, the control room of this place, and home to what I'm looking for. Entering the room, I notice the people in here, scared or pressed against the wall, "...Leave" I simply say, and that they do. Now alone, I look towards a large glass cabinet, outreach my hand, and call them back.

The glass shatters and explodes, and a metallic silver-like cylinder flies to my hand. Examining the hilt, a few memories replay in my mind, so I drown them out, and ignite my lightsaber.

"Pshhhh!!"

A warm blue light fills the room, calming my heart, just before looking back at the broken glass cabinet, staring at my knife...and second saber. Looking at my saber I wonder about the voices, "...The twins... Aether...I understand". Knowing what I must do and who I must find, I clip my lightsaber back to my belt, and leave the room.

But not before extending my hand, and call back my other weapons, knocking out another guard before leaving this prison.

And End. Anakin is on his first quest, finding Aether and Lumine, as well as MAYBE help them along. Oh yeah, the guards aren't dead, just unconscious, and Kaeya got locked up. Do the TearDrop Crystals affect Anakin? Who knows, will Anakin react to the Archons? Maybe, stay tune for Character 6!!!