Star Wars : Arise In The Future

Before Anakin could recover his balance, Obi-Wan took a running leap that became a graceful dive headlong off the crane deck. He hurtled down past level after level, and only a few tens of meters above the lava itself the Force called a dangling cable to his hand, turning his dive into a swing that carried him high and far, to the very limit of the cable.

And he let it go.

As though jumping from a swing in the Temple playrooms, his velocity sent him flying up and out over a catenary arc that shot him toward the river's shore. Toward. Not quite to.

But the Force had led him here, and again it had not betrayed him: below, humming along a few meters above the lava river, came a big, slow old repulsorlift platform, carrying droids and equipment out toward a collection plant that its programming was not sophisticated enough to realize was about to be destroyed.Obi-Wan flipped in the air and let the Force bring him to a catfooted landing.

An adder-quick stab of his lightsaber disabled the platform's guidance system, and Obi-Wan was able to direct it back toward the shore with a simple shift of his weight.

He turned to watch as the collection plant shrieked like the damned in a Corellian hell, crumbling over the brink of the falls until it vanished into invisible destruction.

...

Relaxing his stance, Obi-Wan gripped his weapon, gazing at the hateful eyes that his former apprentice shot towards him. And he found the courage to look at them once more, as well as the bitter truth that he had been denying for far too long.

"I have failed you Anakin...I have failed you"

And just like that, Obi-Wan's emotional battiers had fallen apart. The truth of those cruel words carried the memories of time he, as a his Master that he promised to Qui-Gon, failed him in more times than he could ever count. And he allowed a few tears to flow from his already anguished eyes, seeing his failure to become the mentor that Anakin needed the most.

No...master, Anakin emotionally struggled to register those words in his mind, seeing the pain that the man he had for an older brother had went through. I failed you. And all of you.

Those words never mattered to him, his anger towards him and the Jedi blinded him from seeing reason. "I should have known the Jedi are plotting to take over!" he spat at his lack of vision.

The Jedi came to realize the times that they had made mistakes on not just Anakin, but to other members who uphold their principles of all their lives came crashing before them. Dooku, Prosset Dibbs and Barriss Offee all had laid their life for the order, only for them to see the flaws that the order did nothing to change, which turned them away from the light and causing their own faith to be shattered.

Thinking whatever insanity that got through him, Obi-Wan persisted. "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!"

"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!", Anakin angrily shot back, uninterested to whatever lies that the Jedi would spew at him.

Yoda felt his own heart being shattered upon hearing those words that came from among the most faithful members of the Order he had lived for centuries.

For all their faith in the light, their compliance to whatever the Senate tells to do rather than what the Light tells them to do defined their narrow-mindedness to what the others had told them. Their inability to adapt or to change during the course of both the war as well as their arrogance and ignorance had made them unwitting tools of Sidious that gave him all the reasons why the Jedi are the enemies of the Republic.

The rest of the Masters who have fought alongside Anakin, never imagined how it would come to this. But it was clear to them, that it wasn't just Sidious who gave him and many the others the reasons why they are evil as they viewed, it was the Order itself. Their refusal to allow anyone to have any sort attachment outside their lives caused them to resent them for what they stood for, and even became what they feared the most; a Dark side user.

Realizing that he could no longer be convinced, Obi-Wan shouted back at him. "THEN YOU ARE LOST!"

And just like that, Obi-Wan suppressed a sob, seeing that he himself had given up any hope for his brother to come back to the light. He just wanted it to end already, he couldn't bear to see himself raise his blade over the child he befriended at Tatooine. Who had so much promise and potential as Qui-Gon had envisioned of him.

As for Anakin hearing those words caused his head to sink as he buried his face in despair on what he had become. Padme tried desperately to hide her grief for the two people who were brothers in all but blood.

As for the rest, it was disheartening to see the two bickering, yet formidable duo, to become sworn enemies for all they were. Yoda closed his eyes in regret, realizing the truth in Dooku's words about the Jedi.

The Sith Lord was unfazed at the harsh declaration. All that he wanted to do now, was to clear out one more obstacle in the way, that being Obi-Wan Kenobi. "This is the end of you, my master", he proclaimed, without hesitation.

Those words caused Anakin to crack down, desperately hoping that Obi-Wan could still fight on to take Padme out of harm's way.

Jumping off the worker droid, Anakin landed onto the floating platform, keeping his balance as he moved ahead and continued to trade blow for blow against the Master of Soresu.

"They are already at their limit", Shaak Ti pointed, seeing that they have been exhausted both physically and of the Force. The rest of the Jedi caught wind of this as well, realizing one will have to fall soon enough.

"Any mistake will mean the end of one them", Windu added, foreseeing the conclusion. "For all of Skywalker's raw power alone, Master Kenobi had to improvise on what he had if he wished to survive"

Obi-Wan tried to shake off Master Windu's words from his head.

Slowly but resolutely, both men struck the other against their respective sabers. However, neither could harness their full capacity from the start due to the limited free of movement on the platform they are standing. Obi-Wan turned his dive into a forward roll that left him barely teetering on the rim of a low cliff, just above the soft black sand of the riverbank.

The two were now in a standstill "It's over Anakin!", Obi-Wan proclaimed, trying to dissuade the fallen Jedi from fighting any further. "I have the high ground!"

Everyone who watched Ahsoka and Kenobi facing off against Maul and Grievous were immediately wide-eyed in alarm, especially when they knew how Anakin does not take kindly to mockery especially when in battle.

"Is he...luring Skywalker in a trap?", Master Fisto uneasily asked.

"You underestimate my power!", the fallen Jedi proclaimed with a glare to his former Master.

Mace Windu knew this mannerism too well. "His arrogance..."

"...will be his undoing", Master Bilaba finished, reluctantly.

And this was enough for many to grow frightened of what is to come for the fallen Jedi Knight. "Anakin, please that's enough!", Padme was already begging him not to continue on with this mad quest.

"You don't have to fight anymore!", Ahsoka shouted at him, no longer holding back her tears. "Just stop!"

"Don't try it!", Obi-Wan urged him not to, to no avail.

"Anakin...don't do it...", Obi-Wan incoherently begged him not to as the pressure and anxiety inside him was about to explode. "Anakin!"

Said Knight finally found his courage to speak up, he couldn't take it anymore. Padme needed help immediately, and he could care less of his own fallen future. "JUST DO IT OBI-WAN!", he shouted at him, wanting to see himself stopped at any cost.

The fallen Jedi leapt off the platform at Obi-Wan's back— Half a second too slow.

Obi-Wan's whirl to parry didn't meet Anakin's blade. It met his knee. Then his other knee.

And while Anakin was still in the air, burned-off lower legs only starting their topple down the cliff, Obi-Wan's recovery to guard brought his blade through Anakin's left arm above the elbow.

"AAAAARGHHH!"

He stepped back as Anakin fell.

Anakin dropped his lightsaber, clawing at the edge of the cliff with his mechanical hand, but his grip was too powerful for the lava bank and it crumbled, and he slid down onto the black sand, growling in pure agony as he tried to climb the surface with his one arm.

His severed legs and his severed arm rolled into the lava below him and burned to ash in sudden bursts of scarlet flame.

Silence and sheer terror overcame at the climax.

...

Hey guys I would really appreciate it if you could throw some power stones to help elevate the ranking.

...

if you want to read ahead of the public release, you can join my p atreon :

p atreon.com/Darkness013