Chapter 17.
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Are you in or are you out?...
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Time set: Attack Of The Clones
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(Y/N) POV.
I started to rapidly fiddle with the pin in my hands and looked around nervously. Padmé seemed to have the same idea as me since she was looking up at the restrains rather than the beasts. Suddenly one of them unlocked and I grinned to myself. Anakin and Obi-Wan were having a conversation of their own so I decided to try and unlock the other.
"Come on..." I mumbled and looked around to see the creatures coming even closer.
Padmé suddenly grabbed the chain and started to pull herself up to the top of the pole.
"Take the one the left. I'll take the one on the right." I heard Obi-Wan tell his padawan.
"What about (Y/N) and Padmé?" Anakin asked.
The two of them looked over to us only to see me try to get the other lock undone while Padmé was already standing at the top.
"It looks like she's already on top of things." Obi-Wan shrugged.
I chuckled for a second but got distracted by a person up at the crowd. He was dressed all in black but I could recognize him immeadietly from the sandy blonde hair. Jaster slowly paced around looking down at the scene but continued to stare at me. I furrowed my brows when I saw that he was hiding a lightsaber and nudged his head towards it.
I caught onto what he has planned and a small smirk drew itself on my face. He nodded to someone on the other side of him but quickly turned his attention back to me. I however glanced back at the now very close nexu who was glaring at me and gulped.
"What are you waiting for..." I muttered in annoyance.
Finally he threw it towards me obviously with some help of the force and I caught it in my free hand. I could tell it wasn't mine but atleast I had a weapon to protect myself. This action went unnoticed by the three around me since they were working on their own ways to escape.
I positioned the lightsaber in a way that if I ignite it, it would cut the chains in half. That's exactly what I did and a blue beam erupted from it freeing my other hand. I chuckled to myself and stared at the nexu infront of me. The crowd started to throw lots of confused shouts at eachother as to why I had a lightsaber with me.
"Now this is what I'm talking about!" I said to no one.
"(Y/N), where did you get that from?" Anakin asked in a hurry.
"A...uh..." I stuttered but got cut off by the beast.
It roared as it got close to me and I stood into a fighting stance. It was going to take a long fight to kill such a beast but I will manage. I could tell the three of them were confused but thats a talk for another time.
I quickly jumped out of the way when it threw its paw at the place I was standing. I continued to dodge its attempts to hurt me. The nexu glared at me and suddenly started to charge at me. I jumped up just in time and landed on its big head. It started to run around in circles to try and throw me off but I grabbed onto it and stayed on it. The others have also started to deal with the ones they got 'assigned'.
Padmé was hitting the other nexu with the chain, Obi-Wan was rolling around with his hands still bound while Anakin got ahold of the other creature.
The nexu started to get mad and ran around faster than before. I grabbed the lightsaber once more and pushed it deep into its skull. It screeched in pain and fell to the ground with me rolling off while it slowly died.
"(Y/N)!" I heard someone yell and saw Anakin charging towards me while he was on the back of the other creature.
He put his hand out for me to grab which I did and he pulled me up behind him. I quickly wrapped my arms around his torso so I wouldn't fall off.
"Oh, my hero." I laughed and gave a small peck on his cheek.
"What can I say, I can do some heroic acts. Especially for you." I could hear the smile as he spoke.
"Hey, look! We should help Padmé!" I told him as I caught sight of the nexu standing up.
Anakin nodded and made the beast run at the other creature making it fall back to the ground. We both looked up at Padmé who stared back down at us unsure of what to do.
"Jump!" I yelled to her.
She nodded and with a little hesitance she landed right behind me. Padmé wrapped her arms around my torso for the same reason as me. We could see Obi-Wan not exactly winning the fight against the green animal and we took off towards Anakin's master.
Obi-Wan also jumped up onto the back of the creature and now there was barely any space left.
"Now we are all cramed up on here." I said which made Anakin laugh.
As we enjoyed this victory it didn't take long for droids to appear and surround us. I sighed from frustration and looked around the stadium.
"Great, now what are we going to do." Obi-Wan's voice asked from the back.
"I don't know, master." Anakin replied.
I glanced down at the weapon in my hands and thought about my favourite thing in training.
"Uh, could you guys maybe pull your heads down." I told them and the three of them did as I said.
I let out a sigh and ignited the lightsaber and threw it away towards the droids. Using the force I moved it around in a circle making it cut all of them into half and caught it in my hand once more.
"Impressive." Obi-Wan muttered. "Why couldn't you learn that, Anakin."
"Believe me, master, I tried. I tried." Anakin rolled hid eyes.
The next thing that took away our attention from eachother was the lightsabers ignited from all around the stadium. We turned a around in shock and watched as the green and blue, and a purple, lightsabers started to clash against the geonosians. The winged creatures flew away in a hurry while a bunch of battle droids piled into the arena.
Two jedis threw two lightsabers to Obi-Wan and Anakin. The creature we were on got scared from the battle and ran away making us all fall off. Padmé went to grab a gun from the ground and now we were fully into the war.
I slashed a few droids in half while dodging the shots fired in my direction. There was already a pile starting to form around me from the ones I've already slayed. Sadly there were also a few jedi who have been shot and killed but as I already knew life goes on for the ones who stayed alive.
The droids were slowly able to surround us all from every direction. I stayed back to back with Anakin, the two of us holding eachothers free hands in secret. Us jedi were in a circle in the middle of the arena while still fighting off the thousands of droids. I could see Master Windu run over to us and help fighting off our attackers while talking with Obi-Wan.
"Someone's got to shut down these droids." Obi-Wan yelled over to him.
"Don't worry! It's being taken care of!" Windu shouted back while slashing a droid.
As I was about to raise my lightsaber to stop one they all freezed. I looked around stunned at what just happened. The thousands of droids just all suddenly freezed in sync.
I looked around only to spot Jaster motioning at me from a dark corner. Judging by the look in his eyes he was really in a hurry. I let go of Anakin's hand and turned back to the dark hole in the wall. Taking a deep breath I sprinted through the army of freezed droids hearing him call after me.
After I stopped I took in a few breaths and saw that I was standing in a small area under the arena's stands. It was pretty dark but I could still see his yellow eyes frantically looking down at me.
"What is it?" I asked in a hurry.
"I was talking with Dooku a while ago and he told me something..." Jaster rambled, I've never seen him in such a state.
"Okay, well what was it?" I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Father...he was-" He took in a deep shaky breath. "He was a sith."
My heart dropped to my stomach.
"A sith? No he couldn't have been-"
"I found these in his office a few days ago." Jaster told me holding out two lightsabers which obviously were used by the darkside. "You can't tell me it isn't true, all the clues lead to this."
"Is that why he sent you with them?" I asked with a slight of confusion.
"I figured he would've sent you too if it wasn't for me killing him and the jedi finding you." He said anger creeping up his voice. "He was a friend of Dooku."
"That can't be true. This is crazy. This is crazy!" I yelled in frustration. "How did you find all of this out."
"I have a trusted friend." Jaster replied looking down at the lightsabers he was clutching in bis tight grip.
"I'm going to talk with him." I stated grabbing onto my lightsaber.
He snapped his head up at my statement. "With who?"
"Dooku." I spat in confused anger. "I'm going to get the truth out of him."
I was about to walk away up to the stands were I saw him when Jaster stopped me. He grabbed my free hand putting one of the lightsabers into it and wrapped my fingers around it.
"I won't stop you, just be carefull." He told me as I nodded.
I glared back at the small staircase and heard the battle starting outside again but I was too occupied with my anger. I stomped up the stairs igniting the two lightsabers in my hands. One of my side was illuminated with blue and the other with a red.
I slashed a few droids in my vision making my way to the place I could sense Dooku. Working my way up a few more steps I glared at the geonosians in the doorway and slashed them in half. I glared up at the sith with the red lightsaber infront of my face. I could feel the stares from the jedi in the arena right at the back of my head.
"Ah, young Kothari." He smirked amused by the sight. "What brings you up here?"
"Tell me. Tell me everything!" I yelled at him my fury taking over.
"Jaster has told you hasn't he? To your dissapointment I have to say every word he said is true." Dooku smiled at me. "Anger is not very jedi like of you, I can just sense it flowing off you."
"You don't know me." I spat glaring at him while I stood in a fighting stance.
"You could've been great as a sith. All that bottled up rage--"
With a short yell my lightsaber clashed with his which caught him off guard for a second. He continued to taunt me as I continued to attack him with slightly sloppy movements since I was filled with nothing but fury.
We continued to clash our lightsabers together as the battle under us continued. I saw a few ships fly down with an army of masked people and my master was there. The second I wasn't looking a sharp pain snapped me back to the duel. I hissed in pain as I closed my right eye and stared up at the grey haired man.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk...that's going to leave a scar." He said giving me a fake look of pity.
"I despise you! What the hell did you do?" I shouted the pain feeling like a huge burn across my face.
"It's just a cut, a big one." He nodded and smirked once again. "You put up a good fight but it would be a pity to just kill you like this, you have a lot of power inside you, (Y/N)! The only question is what are you going to use it for!"
I yelled at him as he walked away from the scene and I grabbed the lightsaber Jaster gave me and buckled it to my belt. I saw a ship rising up to the stands where I was and watched as Anakin held out a hand for me. Holding one to my eye I grabbed his with my own and he pulled me up.
I grabbed onto one of the leather straps from the ceiling so I wouldn't fall off as the ship flew away. Anakin stepped over to me with concern on his face and gently grabbed my hand pulling it away from my face.
"Oh..." He cringed and I gulped nervously.
"Is it that bad?" I asked in worry.
"Well, I'm sure it's going to leave a scar." Anakin said. "But it's a cool one."
"A cool one?" I raised an eyebrow but cringed from pain.
"Yeah." He smiled and leaned closer to whisper. "(Y/N), you're still as beautiful as you were, if not even more."
I blushed at his words and saw Obi-Wan walk over to me with a look of worry and confusion. Anakin quickly stepped back from me so it wouldn't seem suspicious as his master turned to face me.
"That was very reckless of you, (Y/N)." He scolded. "The rage was overwhelming, I could sense it from the other side of the arena."
"I'm sorry, Master Kenobi." I replied looking down at the ground.
He was right. I couldn't deny that. A jedi shouldn't let rage consume them, but all the information I got in that little time really shook me up. I glanced back up at him and saw him inspecting my wound.
"Once we get back to Coruscant you should get that looked at by somebody." He answered and stayed beside us.
Padmé soon came up to the three of us as we watched the sand dunes all covered with the troops fighting with the droids. There were a bunch of explosions from all sides but we suddenly saw a smaller ship fly past.
"It's Dooku, go after him!" Anakin shouted.
The pilot was about to comply but by a large explosion the ship rocked really hard and Padmé tumbled out of the ship. Anakin and I yelles after her and told the pilot to stop but Obi-Wan put a hand on our shoulders.
"No! Forget her. We have to go after Dooku." He tells the two of us.
"Forget her? She's my friend we can't just leave her there!" I told him.
"Don't let your personal feelings get in the way. We've got a job to do." Obi-Wan stated.
We stared down at her but Padmé motioned us to follow the speeder Dooku was on. I felt relieved when I saw some troopers go over to her and help her on her feet again.
"Follow that speeder!" Obi-Wan shouted over to the pilot.
The gunship flew past the terrible scenery and followed the speeder to a tower. It landed there and we could see the small ship parked by the wall. Obi-Wan and Anakin stepped inside with me following and we drew our lightsabers. The droids saw us but didn't attack as I turned to Obi-Wan.
"We move in together, you two slowly on the-" He started only for Anakin to walk infront.
"I'm taking him now!" He shouted and I looked at him dumbfounded.
"Anakin, no!" His master called after him.
"You'll pay for all the Jedi you've killed today, Dooku." Anakin stated.
Anakin charged at Dooku who just watched in amusement but at the last moment threw him into the wall with the force.
"Anakin!" I yelled and rushed over to him.
He was thankfully still alive but he was barely concious. I shook him trying to get him to wake up but nothing. I could see from the corner of my eye Obi-Wan and Dooku start to duel. Anakin groaned and sat up straighter and looked at the scene. He glanced at me and having a reckless idea I handed him his lightsaber. Obi-Wan was thrown to the floor with Dooku about to kill him when Anakin's lightsaber clashed with his. I stood behind him to help him out and saw Dooku looking at us in a curious way but the amused smirk never left his face.
"That's brave of you, boy, but foolish. I would have thought you'd have learnt your lesson." Dooku taunted.
"I'm a slow learner." He stated.
The two of us attacked him and nicked him in a few spots but sadly nothing more serious.
"You two have unusual powers, young Padawans. But not enought to save you this time." He said and ignited his lightaber once more.
"Don't bet on it!" Anakin replied.
I attacked Dooku once more but I was too worried about something happening and I was thrown into the wall with such force it knocked the air out of my lungs. My vision blurred and all I could see was spots clouding my vision. I heard a pained shout and Anakin landed right beside me. My ears started ringing and I could hear him asking if I was okay but I couldn't answer. I could see Master Yoda enter the room but as soon as he ignited his green lightsaber my vision went black.
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