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Science Fiction » alt.fan.starwars » Alternative Ending to "Revenge of the Sith"
| Alternative Ending to "Revenge of the Sith" [message #188118] |
Mi, 21 Dezember 2005 07:26 |
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I have always been interested in the idea of the "psychic warrior",
very similar to a Jedi, hence my interest in Star Wars. I was
disappointed in the portrayal of the Jedi in "Revenge of the Sith",
especially in the way they failed to defend the children --
constituting the darkest aspect of the film.
I wrote the following piece as part of my fantasy of how it might have
played out differently if a warrior BETTER than a traditional Jedi were
to have been involved. I hope it is enjoyable ...
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Star Wars: Guardians of the Children
Being an alternative ending to "Revenge of the Sith"
by David A. Caruso
There was a lush, remote moon called Ruan. It was far away from the
galactic capital of Coruscant, where the Jedi warriors together with
the Galactic Senate were waging war against the army of droids. Ruan
was home to a lesser-known sect of the Jedi. These did not consider
themselves primarily to be warriors, but that only as a secondary
nature; instead they quested for knowledge of the peaceful arts and
mysteries of the higher, more subtle universe. As children, they had
been raised and trained as Jedi like the rest, but at a certain age had
been quietly chosen by Ruan elders for special training in a peaceful
and bright area of the galaxy near to its center. Most of the elders
lived on Ruan, but some lived on Coruscant, and kept council with the
other Jedi, but chose to avoid being involved in day-to-day campaigns.
The training of the Ruan Jedi differed from the warrior class in one
primary way: whereas the warrior Jedi became adepts of the material
world, focusing on telekinesis, sword tactics, and the art of war, Ruan
Jedi would enter into the subtle realm of the mind and of the
transcendent universe -- a pure, living world of consciousness alone.
It was known among the Ruan that this realm was much larger and was
perceived in a different light than the physical realm, and its ways
were more complex and mysterious and far more beautiful. But they
spoke not often of their knowledge, being of the understanding that it
was only suited for those who sought it purposefully, for such
knowledge without direct experience was prone to create delusions among
the weak or weary-minded who sought quick refuge from the stresses and
fears of physical existence.
On Ruan, there was a young Jedi called Van Amyly. He was a bright and
noble-minded youth, and he loved Ruan its community of elders and Jedi
apprentices. He had no desire to follow in the ways of the
worldly-minded warrior Jedi, and by and large dismissed any impulse to
get involved in their wars. He had recently been sent out alone by his
teachers on a six-month quest in the mountains, to sit in silent
concentration, and to partake of the ethereal waters that flowed from
the golden-white peaks of Ruan. But by the end of his sojourn there, a
subtle disturbance had crept into his heart. He felt a strange desire
to travel to Coruscant, the reason for which was beyond his direct
perception. He surmised his urging had probably come from his desire
to consult with the Ruan masters who stayed there, and to visit his
friends whom he had left, before he was invited to enter into the
bright, central area of the galaxy and take specialized Jedi training.
And so after having been given leave by his master, Van Amyly stepped
aboard a space vessel en route to Coruscant and departed there. His
master did not give any hint that he knew of the true purpose of his
pupil's desire to leave, or his inner seeing that in just twenty days
time the warrior Jedi would be faced with possible annihilation from
the power of the dark Sith Lord, who had made many plans and
preparations against them.
Soon Van Amyly arrived on Coruscant, and took up quarters near the Jedi
temple. All around him was the noise and the buzz of the urbanized
lifestyle of the warrior Jedi masters, political personages, diplomats,
business people, and many others beings from various areas of the
galaxy. Almost immediately, however, a disquiet fell over his heart,
like a great shadow. He felt an imminent, omnipresent danger. Not
wishing to underestimate the import of this intuition, Van Amyly took
time to sit in solitude and concentrate and find his way inward to the
center of the perceived darkness.
Much he sensed at this time, and much he knew was beyond his power to
change. But he also sensed something else which seemed to hold a
special role for him alone, and soon he realized the real reason behind
his urgings to come to Coruscant. For around the young child Jedi
apprentices he sensed an encircling shadow, a menacing shape, a dark
cloud of death. And yet he also perceived that the warrior Jedi
masters were blind to this specific threat to their young prot=E9g=E9s,
being engrossed in the complex chess-game of politics and war, and also
having part of themselves assuaged into sleepiness by a larger more
powerful form of darkness. Van Amyly sensed that in the height of
their anxious fervor in war, the other Jedi would not be able to offer
him much aid, each being too engrossed in his own duties to take up the
uncertain quest of a visiting Ruan Jedi.
Now the Ruan were well-respected among the other Jedi, but also in some
ways subtly scorned and feared. Some Jedi thought the Ruan were
timid-hearted for their love of peace and their abstaining from war.
Others thought them fools for shunning warrior-training in favor of
what appeared to be only idle contemplation. Yet all held a secret and
subtle jealousy and resentment of the Ruan Jedi, because of the special
favor that had been shown for them from the benevolent and mysterious
Ruan elders who lived on Coruscant. Many simply had no time to look
into what they did not understand, their hearts spellbound by the glory
and honor of their worldly quests. And so by and large, Van Amyly was
left to his own devices.
As time drew on, the threat to the children loomed ever-more in Van
Amyly's mind. What he concentrated on primarily was the exact time
the threat would materialize. It would be pointless for him to warn
the other Jedi about this specific threat, because he felt an inner
directive not to get involved in their war, and secondly, he knew the
cloud would only be lifted from the children if that threat were
allowed to materialize openly and then confronted outright. Van Amyly
thus decided it would be wiser on his part not to openly declare his
quest, preferring to silently maneuver in the complex layers of shadow
he perceived in the collective mind, in order to remain hidden from the
awareness of the Dark Lord, whose deep shadow loomed greater over the
Jedi temple each passing day.
There was another reason for Van Amyly's stealth. The figure who
would materialize and who he predicted would try to destroy these
children was unknown to him. But he did sense in this figure very
peculiar traits. Namely, that he was a Jedi, and had been mishandled
in his training by the Jedi masters, that he had a severe wound of pain
and anguish that was festering in his heart and distorting his
thoughts. He sensed this figure was inwardly yearning for help and
comfort, but that in receiving no true understanding or solace, was
groping desperately for illusory solutions that yet seemed to be within
his grasp.
The only clue to this figure's identity Van Amyly perceived in the
Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. He ran into the warrior master one afternoon
while he was exploring and becoming familiar with the Jedi temple where
the children were trained. He sensed in Kenobi a dualistic nature,
intelligent and resourceful on the outside, but inwardly, being lulled
along to fulfill some fateful destiny, and that his mind was not aware
of the dark force that accompanied his heart. He sensed in this
darkness of the master a close connection to the figure who would
eventually emerge as a direct threat to the children. Master Kenobi
was friendly and affable with Van Amyly, having remembered him from
many years ago as a student. He invited Van Amyly to play a role in
the warrior Jedis' campaign, and did not understand Van Amyly's
refusal.
Day by day, Van Amyly crept in between the revolving corridors of
darkness and mirrors of the collective mind that had been created in
the immediate environment of the Jedi temple by the mental unrest that
dominated there. And as time drew on, Van Amyly moved closer into the
great shadow, all the while remaining secret and invisible to its
master's perception. The Dark Lord's mind traveled along certain
tracks that had been slowly formed, corridors of which the warrior Jedi
had become somewhat blind to. But there were corridors within
corridors, places of light that Dark Lord could not perceive, and it
was within these folds that Van Amyly hid his mind and his intent. And
day by day, the shadow of death ripened around the children, and soon
would emerge into open manifestation. By this time Van Amyly had
prepared his plans.
On the day of the appointed hour, Van Amyly began to make more open use
of the special skills he had learned on Ruan. Utilizing a period of a
half-hour for concentration, he cast a psychic cloak around himself
that would render his presence undetectable to other Jedi, camouflaging
him against the psychic background energy by mixing in with his own
energy compensating and opposite energetic effects, thereby effectively
cloaking his presence. And also, he created one protected room in the
temple, near a landing platform, by concentrating on and amplifying the
particular resonance of the room, so that anyone who entered that room
would suddenly become invisible to any other minds in the area. It
would be there he would eventually send the children.
Once cloaked, he moved cautiously towards the room where the children
had gathered in order to study the history of the Jedi republic and
later receive a lesson in telekinetic effects from one of the warrior
masters. He had acquired a light-saber, and looking at it and seeing
in it the essence of the warrior class, he smiled and thought to
himself, "Although I have not been trained to use it, I have. It
will not be a problem."
Upon entering the children's chamber, he found them studying quietly,
with the typical discipline of Jedi training. They had been left
alone, presumably for only a brief period, but Van Amyly knew their
guardian would later for some reason be unable to protect them,
probably captured and imprisoned by some other force and unable to
return.
"Good day, children," Van Amyly said, smiling at them warmly. The
children looked up, and, recognizing him as a Jedi, said in a gentle
clamor, "Hello, master Jedi!" Some were surprised, and a little
taken aback, because they did not have any sense of his presence, just
before he arrived, or even now. One child spoke up, "Master Jedi,
who are you? I can't feel you."
"My name is Van Amyly, and I am a Jedi who comes from the moon of
Ruan near the center cluster of the galaxy. On Ruan, we study to be
Jedi like you, however, our training is a little different. One of the
Jedi powers we learn on Ruan is how to make ourselves invisible to the
mind. But here, I will show you." With that, Van Amyly caused an
energetic wave that disrupted the psychic camouflage, and all the
children caught a inner glimpse of him. To them, he was shining bright
like many suns, yet cool and soothing, for suddenly they had felt in
their hearts the ethereal waters of Ruan.
The children appeared relieved and little amazed. They noticed that
Van Amyly carried a light saber, but did not have the traditional
clothing of the warrior Jedi. Instead, he was adorned in a white cloak
and deep yellow attire underneath. Instinctively, Van Amyly did not
like the idea of carrying a light-saber in front of the children. Even
though most of them would be wearing them later in life, he would have
rather been an example of Jedi who were confident with no physical
weapon. But under the circumstances, it was unavoidable.
Van Amyly approached the children. "Children, something has
happened. Soon, you must go to another room and there wait for your
teacher. It is very important." With that, Van Amyly in his mind
suddenly amplified the vibration of the dark force that was
approaching, and the children caught a glimpse of the import and
meaning of his words. The clarity of their feeling of this dark force
motivated them to obey the unusual Jedi. "Children, soon a man will
be coming from behind that door. Once he is there, you must
immediately go to holographic chamber room on Level Six. There you
must stay until a master comes and gets you. You will be safe as long
as you are in that room. Do you understand?"
The children silently nodded. "But what's happening?" one
asked. He had sensed that chaos that flitted just above the horizon of
his mental thought, and registered fear. "Do not be afraid," Van
Amyly comforted him. "Just do as I say, and everything will be all
right. Okay?" And with this, Van Amyly radiated a vibration of
calmness and security, and continued to emit it. The children nodded
in relief and put down their books.
Van Amyly then sensed a great force approaching the temple, lead by a
dark storm of fury, and hidden inside of it was a brutish force of
primitive but powerful violence. "Children, the time approaches. Be
ready." Van Amyly was forced to keep the children here for a given
time, in order to draw the dark Jedi out into the open, since they
would be sensed by this Jedi no matter where they went.
In his mind, Van Amyly went out to the corridors between the room and
the holographic chamber, and sensed the way would be clear for the next
several moments -- enough time for the children to move about. While
doing so, Van Amyly perceived the presence of a subtle being who
occupied the temple, whom he sensed was anxious but full of goodness.
He communicated to this being in his mind, requesting he move with the
children and help protect them, and alert him and any other Jedi in the
area if they should come into need. Also, he felt the subtle psychic
radiance of this benevolent being would unconsciously repel those
driven by darkness and gain some added time.
Just then, Van Amyly and the children sensed someone behind the door.
He motioned for the children to begin leaving. Immediately, they got
up and went to the back of the room. An intense swirl of fury and
hatred and blind vengeance lurked just behind the door, and then it
opened.
Anakin Skywalker stood there, and then looked across the room and saw
the last child depart. He then looked at Van Amyly in the eyes. Van
Amyly then let go of his psychic camouflage, and Anakin perceived that
he was a Jedi and was fully aware of his purpose, and his rage
intensified. "Master Skywalker," Van Amyly said, "You have come
here as someone else."
"Who are you?" Anakin said, not at first remembering their
childhood acquaintance, but then suddenly flashing in anger. "You
won't stop me." Anakin immediately drew his light saber and flew
forth in a blind rage. Van Amyly drew his light saber. He then
surrendered to the vast currents of super-consciousness, and gave up
conscious control of his body. Without effort, he continued to block
Anakin's blows and movements one by one with sparks and flashes of
light, and gradually, his mind detected a blind spot, a spot of light,
and he honed in on it. He sensed Anakin's desire to destroy him, but
he did not return that desire and thereby fuel his rage. Van Amyly
could never conscience the tactic of slicing through someone's limbs.
Such an act was of darkness alone, and only fit for Jedi who grew
desperate or who were blinded by obtuse rage. His aim instead was the
top of Anakin's light saber, and soon he found it.
When the subtle opening appeared in Van Amyly's mind, he drew his
saber forward and deftly cut Anakin's sword into two, destroying it.
There was a split second when Anakin's mind registered surprise and
shock and began to seek towards other tactics. Van Amyly quickly
exploited this lack of focus, and putting his hand up, he caused a
massive burst of nullifying life energy in Anakin's heart, which
immediately caused him to slump over into a state of unconsciousness.
Just at the moment Anakin collapsed, Van Amyly felt an eye turn towards
him in the inner darkness. The Sith Lord had suddenly become aware of
what had happened, and with horror Van Amyly realized that Anakin had
been ensnared by the Sith Lord himself. Demons circled around
Anakin's mind like hungry bats, slowly penetrating back into his
heart, upon which he would awaken with renewed furor and deeper
insanity in a violent response to his perceived helplessness. Van
Amyly also saw that soon many clone soldiers, who were obviously under
the control of the Sith Lord, would be descending upon the room.
Van Amyly then reached out in his mind to two companions who were of
the race of the Treekin. They were a noble and non-interfering people,
gifted in many strange psychic arts, but choosing to avoid totally the
politics and wars that plagued the galaxy, and avoided contact with the
warrior Jedi. They were a wise and peaceable people, and they made
ready friends with the Ruan Jedi, who in turn did not reveal much of
the Treekin ways. These two of Van Amyly's friends had waited in
their shuttle for his signal. Van Amyly then touched Anakin's body,
and it became light-weight. He pulled it quickly out of the room, and
then up a ladder, and then shot up a lift-tube to the roof of the Jedi
temple. There, his Treekin companions were waiting. They helped put
Anakin into an enclosed ray chamber, where he could not escape, and
beyond which his telekinetic power would not reach.
"Quickly, we must also bring the children to safety," Van Amyly
said. Soon, they flew out near to the holographic chamber where the
children waited anxiously. No masters or other adults had found them
yet. Van Amyly detected the peace-emitting presence of the subtle
being he had communicated with earlier, assuring him all was well. The
children quickly then came out the door, around a corner, and then to
the outside onto the landing platform. There the children filed into
the ship, and soon they were off. Just as they had cleared the area,
there was an explosion in the Jedi temple. Van Amyly looked towards
the temple and shook his head, feeling pity and sadness. 'Such is
the way of things,' he thought. 'And yet this darkness, too, shall
pass.'
Safe in the ship, the children were taken to a remote planet, a planet
full of forests and peaceful farmers. There, parents were contacted,
each in turn, and one by one, they came to collect their children. For
a while, their Jedi training would be interrupted -- until at least the
Jedi masters could stabilize their situation.
Van Amyly then took Anakin to the moon of Ruan. The elders examined
him, and with great sadness, perceived everything that had happened to
him. By the decree of the elders, Anakin's accumulated Jedi powers
were stripped from him. Though stubborn at first, he eventually
relented to cooperation and began to talk openly of his internal plight
and his conflict between the seeming inadequacy of his Jedi masters and
the solution apparently found in the dark Sith.
Finally, Anakin spoke of his beloved, Padm=E9, who was contacted and
sent for by the Ruan elders. When she arrived, their re-union was a
joyous one. Anakin gave up all hope of Jedi power, feeling that
because of his misdeeds, the elders in their power had taken his
forever, hearing no word otherwise from them. Anakin resigned himself
to a life under their auspices, whom he began to trust due to their
wise understanding of his inner nature. His fate was surrendered into
their hands, those who would become his healers.
One elder said to Van Amyly, "You must communicate with his former
teacher, the warrior Kenobi. He is not to be allowed to see Anakin, he
whose own blindness would be the cause of Anakin's danger, having
separated him from his mother too early, trained him in great powers
without the balancing effect of emotional or spiritual considerations,
and leaving Anakin's silent pleas and cries for deeper sympathy
unanswered. The young Jedi's fear since childhood had remained
unabated, and it would have led to a great catastrophe, which
thankfully has been avoided. Kenobi will understand that the young
Jedi will remain with us for a time. He will not interfere with our
work here."
In the interest of the health of her unborn children, Padm=E9 gave up
her political career, and chose to remain with Anakin on Ruan. Less
than a year after their arrival, children were born. Anakin settled
into and learned the joys of being a husband and father, and eventually
would heal from the emotional rift left by his early separation from
his mother. Under the gentle and wise care of the elders of Ruan, he
forgot his desire for power, and healed the emotional fracture within
himself.
After some time, the elders saw the time was right, and they released
the block on Anakin's Jedi abilities. But for some time, he took no
notice. Anakin grew to become a wise and merciful father for his
family, living in the community of Ruan, far away from the stress and
turmoil of the Jedi wars and the planet of Coruscant. The Skywalker
family would rise to become powerful, and eventually train many more
Jedi, balanced in power as they are in balance with the nature of their
own hearts. This force would eventually seal the breach in galactic
society, and restore it back to health, ending centuries of strife
caused by the incessant battle for power by those forces of good and
evil.
-o-
Email feedback to the author at: caruso [at] efn.org
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| Re: Alternative Ending to "Revenge of the Sith" [message #188126 ] |
Mi, 21 Dezember 2005 17:15 |
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"Caruso" <DavidACaruso [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1135146416.918597.69410 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
I have always been interested in the idea of the "psychic warrior",
very similar to a Jedi, hence my interest in Star Wars. I was
disappointed in the portrayal of the Jedi in "Revenge of the Sith",
especially in the way they failed to defend the children --
constituting the darkest aspect of the film.
Dude.....Are you gay?
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| Re: Alternative Ending to "Revenge of the Sith" [message #188153 ] |
Do, 22 Dezember 2005 02:43 |
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You seem a little faggy, fag.
"Caruso" <DavidACaruso [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1135146416.918597.69410 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
I have always been interested in the idea of the "psychic warrior",
very similar to a Jedi, hence my interest in Star Wars. I was
disappointed in the portrayal of the Jedi in "Revenge of the Sith",
especially in the way they failed to defend the children --
constituting the darkest aspect of the film.
I wrote the following piece as part of my fantasy of how it might have
played out differently if a warrior BETTER than a traditional Jedi were
to have been involved. I hope it is enjoyable ...
============================================
Star Wars: Guardians of the Children
Being an alternative ending to "Revenge of the Sith"
by David A. Caruso
There was a lush, remote moon called Ruan. It was far away from the
galactic capital of Coruscant, where the Jedi warriors together with
the Galactic Senate were waging war against the army of droids. Ruan
was home to a lesser-known sect of the Jedi. These did not consider
themselves primarily to be warriors, but that only as a secondary
nature; instead they quested for knowledge of the peaceful arts and
mysteries of the higher, more subtle universe. As children, they had
been raised and trained as Jedi like the rest, but at a certain age had
been quietly chosen by Ruan elders for special training in a peaceful
and bright area of the galaxy near to its center. Most of the elders
lived on Ruan, but some lived on Coruscant, and kept council with the
other Jedi, but chose to avoid being involved in day-to-day campaigns.
The training of the Ruan Jedi differed from the warrior class in one
primary way: whereas the warrior Jedi became adepts of the material
world, focusing on telekinesis, sword tactics, and the art of war, Ruan
Jedi would enter into the subtle realm of the mind and of the
transcendent universe -- a pure, living world of consciousness alone.
It was known among the Ruan that this realm was much larger and was
perceived in a different light than the physical realm, and its ways
were more complex and mysterious and far more beautiful. But they
spoke not often of their knowledge, being of the understanding that it
was only suited for those who sought it purposefully, for such
knowledge without direct experience was prone to create delusions among
the weak or weary-minded who sought quick refuge from the stresses and
fears of physical existence.
On Ruan, there was a young Jedi called Van Amyly. He was a bright and
noble-minded youth, and he loved Ruan its community of elders and Jedi
apprentices. He had no desire to follow in the ways of the
worldly-minded warrior Jedi, and by and large dismissed any impulse to
get involved in their wars. He had recently been sent out alone by his
teachers on a six-month quest in the mountains, to sit in silent
concentration, and to partake of the ethereal waters that flowed from
the golden-white peaks of Ruan. But by the end of his sojourn there, a
subtle disturbance had crept into his heart. He felt a strange desire
to travel to Coruscant, the reason for which was beyond his direct
perception. He surmised his urging had probably come from his desire
to consult with the Ruan masters who stayed there, and to visit his
friends whom he had left, before he was invited to enter into the
bright, central area of the galaxy and take specialized Jedi training.
And so after having been given leave by his master, Van Amyly stepped
aboard a space vessel en route to Coruscant and departed there. His
master did not give any hint that he knew of the true purpose of his
pupil's desire to leave, or his inner seeing that in just twenty days
time the warrior Jedi would be faced with possible annihilation from
the power of the dark Sith Lord, who had made many plans and
preparations against them.
Soon Van Amyly arrived on Coruscant, and took up quarters near the Jedi
temple. All around him was the noise and the buzz of the urbanized
lifestyle of the warrior Jedi masters, political personages, diplomats,
business people, and many others beings from various areas of the
galaxy. Almost immediately, however, a disquiet fell over his heart,
like a great shadow. He felt an imminent, omnipresent danger. Not
wishing to underestimate the import of this intuition, Van Amyly took
time to sit in solitude and concentrate and find his way inward to the
center of the perceived darkness.
Much he sensed at this time, and much he knew was beyond his power to
change. But he also sensed something else which seemed to hold a
special role for him alone, and soon he realized the real reason behind
his urgings to come to Coruscant. For around the young child Jedi
apprentices he sensed an encircling shadow, a menacing shape, a dark
cloud of death. And yet he also perceived that the warrior Jedi
masters were blind to this specific threat to their young protégés,
being engrossed in the complex chess-game of politics and war, and also
having part of themselves assuaged into sleepiness by a larger more
powerful form of darkness. Van Amyly sensed that in the height of
their anxious fervor in war, the other Jedi would not be able to offer
him much aid, each being too engrossed in his own duties to take up the
uncertain quest of a visiting Ruan Jedi.
Now the Ruan were well-respected among the other Jedi, but also in some
ways subtly scorned and feared. Some Jedi thought the Ruan were
timid-hearted for their love of peace and their abstaining from war.
Others thought them fools for shunning warrior-training in favor of
what appeared to be only idle contemplation. Yet all held a secret and
subtle jealousy and resentment of the Ruan Jedi, because of the special
favor that had been shown for them from the benevolent and mysterious
Ruan elders who lived on Coruscant. Many simply had no time to look
into what they did not understand, their hearts spellbound by the glory
and honor of their worldly quests. And so by and large, Van Amyly was
left to his own devices.
As time drew on, the threat to the children loomed ever-more in Van
Amyly's mind. What he concentrated on primarily was the exact time
the threat would materialize. It would be pointless for him to warn
the other Jedi about this specific threat, because he felt an inner
directive not to get involved in their war, and secondly, he knew the
cloud would only be lifted from the children if that threat were
allowed to materialize openly and then confronted outright. Van Amyly
thus decided it would be wiser on his part not to openly declare his
quest, preferring to silently maneuver in the complex layers of shadow
he perceived in the collective mind, in order to remain hidden from the
awareness of the Dark Lord, whose deep shadow loomed greater over the
Jedi temple each passing day.
There was another reason for Van Amyly's stealth. The figure who
would materialize and who he predicted would try to destroy these
children was unknown to him. But he did sense in this figure very
peculiar traits. Namely, that he was a Jedi, and had been mishandled
in his training by the Jedi masters, that he had a severe wound of pain
and anguish that was festering in his heart and distorting his
thoughts. He sensed this figure was inwardly yearning for help and
comfort, but that in receiving no true understanding or solace, was
groping desperately for illusory solutions that yet seemed to be within
his grasp.
The only clue to this figure's identity Van Amyly perceived in the
Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. He ran into the warrior master one afternoon
while he was exploring and becoming familiar with the Jedi temple where
the children were trained. He sensed in Kenobi a dualistic nature,
intelligent and resourceful on the outside, but inwardly, being lulled
along to fulfill some fateful destiny, and that his mind was not aware
of the dark force that accompanied his heart. He sensed in this
darkness of the master a close connection to the figure who would
eventually emerge as a direct threat to the children. Master Kenobi
was friendly and affable with Van Amyly, having remembered him from
many years ago as a student. He invited Van Amyly to play a role in
the warrior Jedis' campaign, and did not understand Van Amyly's
refusal.
Day by day, Van Amyly crept in between the revolving corridors of
darkness and mirrors of the collective mind that had been created in
the immediate environment of the Jedi temple by the mental unrest that
dominated there. And as time drew on, Van Amyly moved closer into the
great shadow, all the while remaining secret and invisible to its
master's perception. The Dark Lord's mind traveled along certain
tracks that had been slowly formed, corridors of which the warrior Jedi
had become somewhat blind to. But there were corridors within
corridors, places of light that Dark Lord could not perceive, and it
was within these folds that Van Amyly hid his mind and his intent. And
day by day, the shadow of death ripened around the children, and soon
would emerge into open manifestation. By this time Van Amyly had
prepared his plans.
On the day of the appointed hour, Van Amyly began to make more open use
of the special skills he had learned on Ruan. Utilizing a period of a
half-hour for concentration, he cast a psychic cloak around himself
that would render his presence undetectable to other Jedi, camouflaging
him against the psychic background energy by mixing in with his own
energy compensating and opposite energetic effects, thereby effectively
cloaking his presence. And also, he created one protected room in the
temple, near a landing platform, by concentrating on and amplifying the
particular resonance of the room, so that anyone who entered that room
would suddenly become invisible to any other minds in the area. It
would be there he would eventually send the children.
Once cloaked, he moved cautiously towards the room where the children
had gathered in order to study the history of the Jedi republic and
later receive a lesson in telekinetic effects from one of the warrior
masters. He had acquired a light-saber, and looking at it and seeing
in it the essence of the warrior class, he smiled and thought to
himself, "Although I have not been trained to use it, I have. It
will not be a problem."
Upon entering the children's chamber, he found them studying quietly,
with the typical discipline of Jedi training. They had been left
alone, presumably for only a brief period, but Van Amyly knew their
guardian would later for some reason be unable to protect them,
probably captured and imprisoned by some other force and unable to
return.
"Good day, children," Van Amyly said, smiling at them warmly. The
children looked up, and, recognizing him as a Jedi, said in a gentle
clamor, "Hello, master Jedi!" Some were surprised, and a little
taken aback, because they did not have any sense of his presence, just
before he arrived, or even now. One child spoke up, "Master Jedi,
who are you? I can't feel you."
"My name is Van Amyly, and I am a Jedi who comes from the moon of
Ruan near the center cluster of the galaxy. On Ruan, we study to be
Jedi like you, however, our training is a little different. One of the
Jedi powers we learn on Ruan is how to make ourselves invisible to the
mind. But here, I will show you." With that, Van Amyly caused an
energetic wave that disrupted the psychic camouflage, and all the
children caught a inner glimpse of him. To them, he was shining bright
like many suns, yet cool and soothing, for suddenly they had felt in
their hearts the ethereal waters of Ruan.
The children appeared relieved and little amazed. They noticed that
Van Amyly carried a light saber, but did not have the traditional
clothing of the warrior Jedi. Instead, he was adorned in a white cloak
and deep yellow attire underneath. Instinctively, Van Amyly did not
like the idea of carrying a light-saber in front of the children. Even
though most of them would be wearing them later in life, he would have
rather been an example of Jedi who were confident with no physical
weapon. But under the circumstances, it was unavoidable.
Van Amyly approached the children. "Children, something has
happened. Soon, you must go to another room and there wait for your
teacher. It is very important." With that, Van Amyly in his mind
suddenly amplified the vibration of the dark force that was
approaching, and the children caught a glimpse of the import and
meaning of his words. The clarity of their feeling of this dark force
motivated them to obey the unusual Jedi. "Children, soon a man will
be coming from behind that door. Once he is there, you must
immediately go to holographic chamber room on Level Six. There you
must stay until a master comes and gets you. You will be safe as long
as you are in that room. Do you understand?"
The children silently nodded. "But what's happening?" one
asked. He had sensed that chaos that flitted just above the horizon of
his mental thought, and registered fear. "Do not be afraid," Van
Amyly comforted him. "Just do as I say, and everything will be all
right. Okay?" And with this, Van Amyly radiated a vibration of
calmness and security, and continued to emit it. The children nodded
in relief and put down their books.
Van Amyly then sensed a great force approaching the temple, lead by a
dark storm of fury, and hidden inside of it was a brutish force of
primitive but powerful violence. "Children, the time approaches. Be
ready." Van Amyly was forced to keep the children here for a given
time, in order to draw the dark Jedi out into the open, since they
would be sensed by this Jedi no matter where they went.
In his mind, Van Amyly went out to the corridors between the room and
the holographic chamber, and sensed the way would be clear for the next
several moments -- enough time for the children to move about. While
doing so, Van Amyly perceived the presence of a subtle being who
occupied the temple, whom he sensed was anxious but full of goodness.
He communicated to this being in his mind, requesting he move with the
children and help protect them, and alert him and any other Jedi in the
area if they should come into need. Also, he felt the subtle psychic
radiance of this benevolent being would unconsciously repel those
driven by darkness and gain some added time.
Just then, Van Amyly and the children sensed someone behind the door.
He motioned for the children to begin leaving. Immediately, they got
up and went to the back of the room. An intense swirl of fury and
hatred and blind vengeance lurked just behind the door, and then it
opened.
Anakin Skywalker stood there, and then looked across the room and saw
the last child depart. He then looked at Van Amyly in the eyes. Van
Amyly then let go of his psychic camouflage, and Anakin perceived that
he was a Jedi and was fully aware of his purpose, and his rage
intensified. "Master Skywalker," Van Amyly said, "You have come
here as someone else."
"Who are you?" Anakin said, not at first remembering their
childhood acquaintance, but then suddenly flashing in anger. "You
won't stop me." Anakin immediately drew his light saber and flew
forth in a blind rage. Van Amyly drew his light saber. He then
surrendered to the vast currents of super-consciousness, and gave up
conscious control of his body. Without effort, he continued to block
Anakin's blows and movements one by one with sparks and flashes of
light, and gradually, his mind detected a blind spot, a spot of light,
and he honed in on it. He sensed Anakin's desire to destroy him, but
he did not return that desire and thereby fuel his rage. Van Amyly
could never conscience the tactic of slicing through someone's limbs.
Such an act was of darkness alone, and only fit for Jedi who grew
desperate or who were blinded by obtuse rage. His aim instead was the
top of Anakin's light saber, and soon he found it.
When the subtle opening appeared in Van Amyly's mind, he drew his
saber forward and deftly cut Anakin's sword into two, destroying it.
There was a split second when Anakin's mind registered surprise and
shock and began to seek towards other tactics. Van Amyly quickly
exploited this lack of focus, and putting his hand up, he caused a
massive burst of nullifying life energy in Anakin's heart, which
immediately caused him to slump over into a state of unconsciousness.
Just at the moment Anakin collapsed, Van Amyly felt an eye turn towards
him in the inner darkness. The Sith Lord had suddenly become aware of
what had happened, and with horror Van Amyly realized that Anakin had
been ensnared by the Sith Lord himself. Demons circled around
Anakin's mind like hungry bats, slowly penetrating back into his
heart, upon which he would awaken with renewed furor and deeper
insanity in a violent response to his perceived helplessness. Van
Amyly also saw that soon many clone soldiers, who were obviously under
the control of the Sith Lord, would be descending upon the room.
Van Amyly then reached out in his mind to two companions who were of
the race of the Treekin. They were a noble and non-interfering people,
gifted in many strange psychic arts, but choosing to avoid totally the
politics and wars that plagued the galaxy, and avoided contact with the
warrior Jedi. They were a wise and peaceable people, and they made
ready friends with the Ruan Jedi, who in turn did not reveal much of
the Treekin ways. These two of Van Amyly's friends had waited in
their shuttle for his signal. Van Amyly then touched Anakin's body,
and it became light-weight. He pulled it quickly out of the room, and
then up a ladder, and then shot up a lift-tube to the roof of the Jedi
temple. There, his Treekin companions were waiting. They helped put
Anakin into an enclosed ray chamber, where he could not escape, and
beyond which his telekinetic power would not reach.
"Quickly, we must also bring the children to safety," Van Amyly
said. Soon, they flew out near to the holographic chamber where the
children waited anxiously. No masters or other adults had found them
yet. Van Amyly detected the peace-emitting presence of the subtle
being he had communicated with earlier, assuring him all was well. The
children quickly then came out the door, around a corner, and then to
the outside onto the landing platform. There the children filed into
the ship, and soon they were off. Just as they had cleared the area,
there was an explosion in the Jedi temple. Van Amyly looked towards
the temple and shook his head, feeling pity and sadness. 'Such is
the way of things,' he thought. 'And yet this darkness, too, shall
pass.'
Safe in the ship, the children were taken to a remote planet, a planet
full of forests and peaceful farmers. There, parents were contacted,
each in turn, and one by one, they came to collect their children. For
a while, their Jedi training would be interrupted -- until at least the
Jedi masters could stabilize their situation.
Van Amyly then took Anakin to the moon of Ruan. The elders examined
him, and with great sadness, perceived everything that had happened to
him. By the decree of the elders, Anakin's accumulated Jedi powers
were stripped from him. Though stubborn at first, he eventually
relented to cooperation and began to talk openly of his internal plight
and his conflict between the seeming inadequacy of his Jedi masters and
the solution apparently found in the dark Sith.
Finally, Anakin spoke of his beloved, Padmé, who was contacted and
sent for by the Ruan elders. When she arrived, their re-union was a
joyous one. Anakin gave up all hope of Jedi power, feeling that
because of his misdeeds, the elders in their power had taken his
forever, hearing no word otherwise from them. Anakin resigned himself
to a life under their auspices, whom he began to trust due to their
wise understanding of his inner nature. His fate was surrendered into
their hands, those who would become his healers.
One elder said to Van Amyly, "You must communicate with his former
teacher, the warrior Kenobi. He is not to be allowed to see Anakin, he
whose own blindness would be the cause of Anakin's danger, having
separated him from his mother too early, trained him in great powers
without the balancing effect of emotional or spiritual considerations,
and leaving Anakin's silent pleas and cries for deeper sympathy
unanswered. The young Jedi's fear since childhood had remained
unabated, and it would have led to a great catastrophe, which
thankfully has been avoided. Kenobi will understand that the young
Jedi will remain with us for a time. He will not interfere with our
work here."
In the interest of the health of her unborn children, Padmé gave up
her political career, and chose to remain with Anakin on Ruan. Less
than a year after their arrival, children were born. Anakin settled
into and learned the joys of being a husband and father, and eventually
would heal from the emotional rift left by his early separation from
his mother. Under the gentle and wise care of the elders of Ruan, he
forgot his desire for power, and healed the emotional fracture within
himself.
After some time, the elders saw the time was right, and they released
the block on Anakin's Jedi abilities. But for some time, he took no
notice. Anakin grew to become a wise and merciful father for his
family, living in the community of Ruan, far away from the stress and
turmoil of the Jedi wars and the planet of Coruscant. The Skywalker
family would rise to become powerful, and eventually train many more
Jedi, balanced in power as they are in balance with the nature of their
own hearts. This force would eventually seal the breach in galactic
society, and restore it back to health, ending centuries of strife
caused by the incessant battle for power by those forces of good and
evil.
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