Star Wars : Arise In The Future

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.

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The intensity and pain of the confrontation ended in a cruel conclusion for those who had witnessed it. Master Kenobi had defeated and gravely wounded the fallen Jedi that was Anakin Skywalker, the same man he had fought alongside with for years.

Padme let out a large gasp that was followed by covering her mouth with both hands. She was already crying out of fear of what was going to happen to Anakin, and it only intensified when she saw what had happened to the man she loved. "Why...how did it come to this?"

Ahsoka Tano fell to her knees as she watch her Master's injuries, as her tears largen in complete helplessness and of terror. She should have been with him, but she didn't. And her fists balled in complete regret towards herself and for him. "Master...", she whimpered.

Rex felt his hear skip a beat upon seeing the General he served for years lay helpless in agony, feeling useless that he couldn't do anything for him. After watching his brothers turn against the Jedi they loyally served, General Skywalker's suffering was the last straw.

Obi-Wan's mouth was left open in sheer terror on what he had done, not realizing that he would go this far as to stop him. He had harmed him beyond what he could have imagined. How could he have told all of this to Luke when he couldn't bear to tell him the truth?

Anakin was struck silent, clutching both his legs and his remaining natural arm. He allowed himself to fall this far, and sacrificing everything he had ever known in the process. And for Sidious to poison his mind without knowing it.

As for the rest of the Jedi, all of them were shocked at the conclusion. Master Kenobi had indeed triumphed but at what cost? This wasn't a victory any means. Many of them have respected Anakin for his contributions and his charisma as a General for the Republic. They have seen his fall, and the subsequent crimes he had committed against the Jedi, and yet they could not find themselves to see his subsequent defeat as justice of any sort.

Master Yoda could only offer his sincere prayers on both Jedi for what had happened.

Deactivating his lightsaber, Obi-Wan heard the fallen Jedi's groans of agony as he looked up at him, pleadingly. Having mustered all emotions inside him, he called out to him.

"YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!", he shouted a blend of agony, despair and grief on what the fallen knight become. "IT WAS SAID THAT YOU WOULD DESTROY THE SITH! NOT JOIN THEM!"

Anakin sobbed as he realized everything that people thought of him, became a twisted nightmare despite Qui-Gon's vision for him.

"Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!", he finally finished, struggling to coming to terms as he slowly backex away. And he turned back to pick up his fallen apprentice's lightsaber.

The people inside the chamber were now disheartened to know that, Luke had inherited his father's lightsaber after he was bested by the man who thought highly of him.

Anakin looked up, his face distorting to that of an enraged animal. And he roared with all the strength his lungs could handle.

"I HATE YOU!"

Yoda's eyes closed in complete surrender, to see how far Anakin had fallen to the Dark, with Vader completely consuming him as a result.

Obi-Wan began to sob more frequently, his brother was truly gone. Even if this was the future, he could not bear the pain that lies ahead.

"Obi-Wan...don't leave him...please", Padme silently begged the Jedi Master. She refused to believe he was all gone, that there is still hope for him. Rex placed a hand onto Ahsoka's shoulder in as he tried to comfort her. Similarly, they had the same mindset as the Senator.

Obi-Wan looked back mournfully at himm "You were my brother, Anakin...", the Jedi painfully added, a tear leaving his eye. "I loved you..."

Hearing those words were already a message to everyone. Anakin wasn't just an apprentice nor a friend for Kenobi, he was a brother in all but blood. Yoda grieved the loss with all his heart, Padme wanted to say the same to him, and both Ahsoka and Rex felt the same way for him.

"Obi-Wan...Ahsoka...everyone...I'm sorry...", Anakin tearfully whimpered as he wiped his already red eyes from all the trauma he had faced. "I'm so sorry..."

Their minds flashed all the way from the first holotape, during Kenobi's final duel against Darth Vader. Those muffled words meant something. They were memories from a terrible past that both tried to hide within them, or even bury.

The fact that they have given a clue on who Vader was, is a disheartening revelation for them, when he was formerly the heroic Jedi Knight who always looked out for his friends.

Caleb saw him as a hero that he considered to be one of the greatest Jedi they ever had in the war, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto and Saesee Tiin saw him as a role model for the Jedi because of his bravery, Shaak Ti and Luminara admired his unending loyalty to his friends. And Yoda valued him as both a friend and a student, even if the two seldom spoke with one another.

But their train of thought abruptly ended. And what they saw next would leave a scar in their now shaken minds.

"AAAARGH!" Within moments, flames caused Anakin's clothing to ignite in in flames. And it didn't take long for it to engulf his entire body as he screamed in agony. All that he had left was beginning to turn to a charred husk.

To suffer a fate worse than death itself was enough for even the most serene of them to be horrified beyond measure. But to some, it had broken their spirit entirely.

"ANAKIN! NO!", Padme shouted with all her lungs could handle in terror, only to be held back by the Jedi Knight in the present in console her. He could only look at himself regretfully for all that he had done for the Sith and to everyone he had known. "Anakin...no...no...!", her muffled screams were heard even when she tried to embrace him.

"MASTER!/GENERAL!", Rex and Ahsoka shouted at the same time, both breaking down in tears as they embraced one another helplessly for their best friend. Both fell to their knees as they looked away from the screen.

The Togruta sobbed profusely on Rex's armor, her cries were heard by every Jedi inside the chamber, so much so that it even disheartened even the most detached members of the Order. Rex, for all his years as a soldier, gritted his teeth as he tried to stop himself from sobbing for the General he trusted life to.

Caleb Dume's eyes were covered by Depa, knowing this was too much for the Padawan to bear, seeing his role model going through suffering beyond of what he could imagine.

Masters Yoda, Kit Fisto, Luminara, and Shaak Ti looked away in regret, unable to bring themselves from seeing the horrifying spectacle before them.

Plo Koon, Saesee Tiin and Master Mundi were struck silent, unable to remove their eyes from the screen as the image had mentally scarred them.

To Windu, all that he felt for Skywalker was pity. Everything he had done for the Senator only cost him everything, even in both body and spirit. "You should have ended him there, Master Kenobi...", he commented in a low tone.

However, they knew that this was not laced with any hostility towards Skywalker. Even for a Sith Lord that destroyed everything they knew, Anakin did not have to go to everything he went through once he was defeated. A merciful, quick death was preferable to give as Jedi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi buried his face onto his knees as he profusely weeped from what he had done to his own brother. Several times, he uttered to himself how he had failed both Qui-Gon and Anakin as a Master. He couldn't believe that he too had lost Anakin, but by his own hand. He couldn't take it anymore. He only wanted to stop Sidious now to spare him from this cruel fate.

However, he felt a hand on his shoulder as he looked up to find Anakin's gaze, trying to tell him that everything was going to be alright. Embracing him, Obi-Wan welcomed the gesture, uttering apologies that Anakin didn't want to hear. "Anakin...forgive me...", he incoherently uttered.

"It's not your fault, Master...", Anakin assured him, trying to give him a sense of comfort. "It's not your fault..."

He was feeling calm, and clear, and he knew that to climb down to that black beach might cost him more time than he had. Another Sith Lord approached.In the end, there was only one choice. It was a choice he had made many years before, when he had passed his trials of Jedi Knighthood, and sworn himself to the Jedi forever.

In the end, he was still Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he was still a Jedi, and he would not murder a helpless man.He would leave it to the will of the Force. He turned and walked away. After a moment, he began to began to run because he realized, if he was fast enough, there was one thing he still could do for Anakin.

Honor to the memory of the man he had called his brother, and to the vanished Order they both had served.

At the landing deck, C-3PO stood on the skiff's landing ramp, waving frantically. "Master Kenobi! Please hurry!"

"Where's Padme?"

"Already inside, sir, but she is badly hurt." Obi-Wan ran up the ramp to the skiff's cockpit and fired the engines.

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