"Always"-The Rage of Anakin Skywalker

[Lord_Xerxes]

"I hear...a voice say "Don't be so blind..." It's telling me all these things...that you would probably hide..."


He felt the cool feel of the lightsaber resting in his grip. He was sitting awake in the bed, sweat drenching his body. They had all rejected him for what he'd done. Was is that bad? He was only human... And now she was gone. He should have been there. He would have, if they hadn't done this to him. They'd thrown him out of the order for loving her, and marrying her. For pledging his life and soul to her. And then they tried to keep her from him. And the only thing they accomplished was her death. He could have saved her... But she now she was gone, the only thing that had mattered to him. More than his Jedi robes, his Jedi oathe, more perhaps than even his mother. The Seperatists had gotten to her. It was Dooku. He knew it was. And Obi-Wan had failed him.
Again.
Expeled from the Order, you are. No longer a Jedi will you be...

He remembered the words all to well. They stung at him. They tore through his core like a maelstrom and sundered him apart.

I tried Anakin...But it was too late. She was already dead when I'd arrived...

"Am I...you're one and only desire..?"

Take this, old friend. Give it to him when he's old enough. It's not mine to carry anymore...

Anakin Skywalker felt the betrayal of everything he'd been taught and known run through him. Anger boiled inside him, threatening to consume him. In times previous, he'd been taught to calm himself, and let these feelings fall away. But not this time...

They betrayed you, Anakin. It was only me who saw your potential. They took her from you...

"Always....Always...Always....Always.......I just can't live without you..."

Anakin rose to his feet, and he could feel the wind of the repulsor-craft flying past this rooftop. Across the way, he could make out the features of the Jedi Temple. He reached out with his senses in the Force. He could feel the presence of so many in the Force. A bright pulsar in the Force. The very feeling of it insulted him. Anakin glanced down at the lightsaber in his hand. It's black ribbed grip. It's black shroud. Nearly identical to his first lightsaber. But darker, just as he was now...

He stormed through the building, her voice ringing in his ears. I love you, Anakin... We'll be together always...No mater what happens from this point. The rage consumed him, screaming through his very veins and fueling him with it's power. The power that he'd once felt before on Tatooine. It swirled around him in a massive vortex of anger, hate, rage, and soon they were all aware of him in the Force. A great black stain within their halo of whiteness...

"I love you, I hate you...I can't get around you....I breathe you, I taste you, I can't live without you...."

"I just can't live anymore, this life of solitude...I guess that I'm out the door...now that I'm done with you..."

They were no match for him. He was the choosen one. He was more powerful than any of them, even Yoda. Without any hesitation, Anakin thumbed the activation panel on his lightsaber and instantly the crimson blade boiled out with a hiss. They pleaded with him. But he could not hear their pleas. He struck down any who stepped into his path with ruthless efficiency.

"I feel....like you don't want me around...I guess I'm back on my feet, I guess I'll see you around...It's all...been bottled up until now..."

The more experienced Knights and Mastered rushed to stop him. He laughed at their efforts. They tried to passively stop him. He could feel their pushes comming through the Force and brushed them aside, letting the energy diffuse into the area around him. When this failed, they rose up their azure and emerald blades to try and stop him by the last necessary means. But they did not want to kill them, and he had no qualms about killing them. They were wrong, all of them. They had failed her, and him. Anakin's crimson blade spun out from the shoulder position of Hasho, lashing out with such fury that the Twi'lekk Jedi was sent really back by the force of impact of Anakin's blade against his own. The second Master, a Rodian, jabbed out at Anakin's exposed left hip, but Anakin brough his blade back around, swatting the azure blade wide and slashing the Rodian across his sternum. He feel with a startled groan of agony.

"As I walk out your door...all I can hear is the sound, "Always...Always...Always...Always..."

The Darkside flowed through him in rifts now, propeling his every move. They whole Temple was alerted to him now. They rushed to stop him. The Darkness consumed him, and he ripped their existances out of this world one by one. Anakin's blade sung true time and time again, striking them down... No just the Masters, or the Knights. But the Padawans. Even the children. There would be nothing left of this Order...

"I just can't live without you...I love you, I hate you...I can't just get around you...I breath you, I taste you, I just can't live without you...I just can't take anymore this life of solitude..."

He took pleasure in brining their death's. He could feel their hearts weakening as he reached out with his hand in the Force and choked the life from them. Each gasp of shock, each groan of agony...Each death only fueled him with more Darkside energy. The fleed from him. He would find them. He would hunt them down. Even Obi-Wan couldn't escape his Vengance...

"Anakin! Why?" they cried. And he slashed them down without compassion, without remorse.

"I love you, I hate you, I can't live without you...I wrap my hand around your heart...Why would you tear my world apart..?"

The Temple was a ruin. Those that had managed to flee were rushed away in ships to try and preserve the Order. Even Yoda and Obi-Wan would not face his wrath. They feared him. He knew it. He knew it to be true. From their ruins Anakin would carve a new universe, a new Order of the Galaxy.

Together we will rule this Galaxy, Anakin. With the Jedi gone, no one can stop us now...

The heat of the place lashed at his flesh. Steam vents openned, billowing out geysers of hot gas that seared his body through his black tunic and pants. But he did not push that pain aside. Instead he fed from it, welcomed it, and let it empower him. He could feel the presence of his love's killer in the Force. He stood on a chunk of solidifed rock that bridge two pools of molten magma. Dooku waited for him, his lightsaber glowing a fierce crimson in the dark of night.

"You have come far, young Jedi. You know now the power that is at my command. But this will be the end for you, Anakin Skywalker."

"You killed her, Dooku. And now I shall kill you..."

"Always...Always...Always...Always...."

"A pity, my friend, that I must destroy you. If you and I were to join together, we could defeat the Emperor and rule all that can be seen above us. The Emperor betrayed me, Anakin. And he will betray you too. Join me, Anakin!"

"I see...the blood all over your hands...Does it make you feel...more like a man?"

"Only in death, Dooku..."

Anakin rushed impulsively at the Sith Lord, his own lightsaber screaming to life in mid motion. Dooku remained still, his saber rising up as he assumed a defensive stance. Both his feet rested a balanced distance apart. He had faced Anakin before, knew how impulsive the boy was. And he knew that it would be Anakin's undoing. As Anakin lashed out from the Jolan overhead strike, Dooku's saber made the tiniest of gestures, swatting the blade aside and instantly moving to counter with a strike of his own.

The battle raged on, as Anakin and Dooku traded blow for blow. Anakin's fury astounded Dooku. His dark presence continued to swell in the Force as the battle raged on. But Dooku's fighting style was unique. It forced Anakin to make the mistakes. It forced Anakin to continue to throw assault after assualt at Dooku, and make window's for Dooku to strike. The first time Dooku's blade touched Anakin's outter thigh, the pain screamed through him. But the boy had learned much. Instead of cringing from the pain, he drew power from it. Anakin's fierce strikes were causing Dooku to back track further and come closer and closer to the edge of the land-bridge.


Two more blade glances touched Anakin's flesh. He growled in anger, his blade screaming through the night in reponsive. Dooku's blade caught it in saberlock, and he grinned as he pressed the advantage of the unique design of his saber's design. Anakin pressed back, trying to fight the man's superior edge in this advantage.

"A pity it had to end this way..."

"Was it all...just a part of your plan? The pistol shaking in my hands, and all I hear is the sound...I love you, I hate you, I can't live without you...I breathe you, I taste you, I can't live without you..."

The two blade's locked together moved closer and closer to Anakin's chest. Dooku seemed so certain. But this would not be his end. Anakin reached down to the center of his rage. He remembered her face, the softness of her skin. How fiercely they'd loved each other. And how he'd taken all that away from him. The rage stormed through him, and suddenly the tide was turned. Anakin turned his wrist, and Dooku's blade went wide, with Anakin's blade twirling around it and slashing up at his exposed wrist. The hand and saber dropped into the oblivion of the magma.

"I just can't take anymore, this life of solitude, I pick myself off the floor, and now I'm done with you......."

"Anakin!"
It was his old Master's voice.

Anakin turned, and in that instant of lack of attention, Dooku acted. With his one remaining hand, he stretched his fingers out and summoned up the web of lightning that coursed over Anakin's body. Anakin was thrown back, and Obi-Wan watched in horror as his friend and apprentice writhed in agony on the ground.

Obi-Wan acted instantly, his azure blade screaming to life as he called out to the Force. His motion was a blur, rushing to Dooku's side while parrying the Sith Lightning aside with his saber. With no lightsaber left, Dooku had nothing left to block Obi-Wan's incomming strike. Dooku fell backwards, his chest disected at a downward angle from the rest of his torso. The top half plummeted backwards into the magma.

Anakin rose, the pain not yet ebbing, but his rage boiling.

"Anakin...You must stop this! You don't know what you've done! It's the Emperor, he's gotten inside your head..."

"You killed him..."

"It's over now, Anakin. Dooku is dead. Give up this...this...genocidal pact! Come back to the light, Anakin..."

"You killed him..."

"Always...Always...Always...Always..."

"Yes. It's over-"

"HE WAS MINE TO KILL!" the force of the statement sent Obi-Wan stumbling back a half-step. It was rife with venom and rage. "You took everything from me. My Knighthood. Padme...Now even the satisfaction of killing her killer..."

"Anakin..."

"Now you will die in his place......"





Lyrics from Saliva, "Always"
Written by Dameon Magus Garamond 10/17/02

(I like to do song-themed stories, so if this one is well recieved, I may do more, or post one's I've written in the past for a SW RP site.)

[Kelly Antilles]

That sounds like a very feasible scene from Ep. 3. I really like it. Very moving. Your writing style is wonderful. If only I could ever hope to write that well.

[Kuja]

VERY nice. Lots of emotion. Good vibrations.

[Mark S]

There is much to be learned here.

[Sothis]

Accurate about his anger, very powerful stuff. Not for the first time, makes me think most fan-fic outdoes the real thing.

[Kelly Antilles]

Accurate about his anger, very powerful stuff. Not for the first time, makes me think most fan-fic outdoes the real thing.

That is because WE the fans love it more than anyone. We have the most heart. We know exactly what we think is how it should be.

[Crown]

How dare you stop before Obi-Wan shows Anakin exactly who is the Master and who is the Student?!?!?!? That's just like cruel. Great stuff.

[Lord_Xerxes]

I'm glad you guys liked it. Crown, I may decide to further it with a second part. Not sure yet.

Or, I can write up some new song-themed fics, if you guys would like to see 'em?

[Crown]

I am always interested in reading more great work!