The Blind One

Past Compliments the Present

With night slowly coming, Anakin had to act fast to save his mother from the Tusken Raiders. The sand-speeder came to a stop right behind the camp of the Tuskens. Anakin stepped off, and used his stealth technique to avoid making noise throughout the camp.

"I hope she is still alive," Anakin whispered to himself.

The Tuskens were busy eating a meal that they had hunted down, as Anakin scurried his way into a nearby hut. Inside was Shmi tied to wooden poles. He tipped toed towards her and then began untying her hands from the wooden poles. Once Anakin had untied his mother, he gently placed her in his arms. Shmi's face was scared, her wrists were bleeding and the garbs she wore were torn from the Tuskens metal staffs. Tears of joy fell from Anakin's cheeks as he held his mother in his arms again.

"Mom..." Anakin whispered.

"Ani, Ani, is that you?" Shmi said softly.

"Yes mother it's me. I've come back to save you," Anakin choked back the tears.

Anakin held his mother in his arms, cradling her and rocking her back and forth. He told her of his Jedi status and Shmi admired how handsome Anakin looked now that he was all grown up.

"I'm so proud of you..." Shmi gasped for air.

"T-Thank you mom..." Anakin stuttered.

With that, Shmi slowly dies in his arms. The apprentice stroked his mother's face, crying and rocking her close to him; then suddenly everything clicked inside his head. Anakin laid his mother's body down, and walked outside of the hut; he was furious. The lightsaber came out, and the Tuskens armed themselves with everything they had, but it was too late for them. Before Anakin's very eyes, he had killed every last one of them. Men, Women and even their children lay dead at his very feet. Anakin, still furious about the death of his dear mother, screamed as loud as he could hoping the pain would go away, but it didn't help. His mother was truly dead.

"I need to bury her..." Anakin stated, as he went back into the hut to gather his dead mother's body.

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A Jedi starfighter landed on Geonosis. Obi-Wan jumped out of the pilot seat, and onto the earthy ground of the planet. He scanned the surroundings, hoping there wouldn't be a surprise attack. Surprisingly for the Jedi, there weren't any enemies to be seen for miles and miles.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Obi-Wan sighed to himself.

Obi-Wan gathered his belongings and set off. He informed his astromech droid to inform the council if something horrible would happen to him. The droid beeped and whistled in agreement to his master, and the Jedi was soon off to explore the area. Not knowing what the Jedi was getting himself into, Obi-Wan was on edge and always watching his back every now and then just in case.

As he walked, a strange building or rock-like structure could be seen in the distance. Obi-Wan took out his mini binoculars from his tunic and peered into them. The rock-like structure came into view; Obi-Wan didn't like what he saw at all. From the view of the binoculars, Obi-Wan could see droids and Geonosians marching in a battalion. The Jedi knew the Council needed to hear this immediately. So, he turned to head back to his starfighter, when he was instantly surrounded by both super battle droids and Geonosians.

"Take him to the master," the leading super battle droid ordered.

"Roger, roger," replied another super battle droid.

The Geonosians grabbed Obi-Wan by the arms, knocked him out and began dragging him towards the large opening of the rock structure in the distance. As they drew closer to the structure, two figures stood in the large doorway. A Geonosian, who was obviously the leader of the insect creatures and a Sith Lord, dressed in dark brown and black.