The Second Padawan

Chapter Twenty-Seven

A/N: Told you guys I'd be soon I didn't wanna leave you on a cliffhanger for too long 😁.

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I awoke,  strangely in the Jedi temple. Looking around, I couldn't see or hear anyone. I looked outside and it appeared to be around half a rotation, surely younglings would be wondering around during their free time, but there was no one.

I walked down the halls, still not finding a soul. The further I walked, the more I smelled smoke. Something was burning. I looked out a window and it was night, I was only here for but a few moments.

"Strange.." I muttered to myself. I continued walking until I heard screams. I sprinted into the direction. "Hello? Who's there?"

I approached the entrance and was shocked. Jedi, Padawans, and younglings were sprawled out, dead.

I rushed to the nearest one and shook them. "What happened? Who did this?" I panicked.

The youngling did nothing but point towards the very entrance, after you come up the vast amount of stairs. It was covered in fog, I couldn't see past it.

"What is it—" I was cut off by what sounded like a mix between wheezing and scratching wind.  The Younglings body fell limp in my hands. I squinted trying to see what ever was making the dreadful noise.

A moment later the noise dropped, followed by what sounded like exhausting air. A large figure began to emerge from the fog. I could barely see it. The "breathing" got louder and louder until I came face to face with the figure.

It dawned shiny black armored plates. It had broad shoulders and a long flowing cape. The helmet on its head, the source of the eerie breathing, looked like nothing I had ever seen before. This thing...it couldn't be human, or alien.. The being drew a crimson red lightsaber, I jumped back, ready to draw out mine. As I reached for my saber, it wasn't there.

Fear suddenly came over me. I got up from the ground and began backing up. "Who are you...what are you?" I spoke to the being.

They didn't respond, they just continued the raspy breathing, ended by the mechanical hiss. It began to step closer. I turned on my heel and ran further into the Jedi temple.

I opened a door, looking for anywhere to hide. When I opened it I was in a dark room. It was pitch black but I could hear something. It sounded like electricity.

I heard a woman's voice. "I won't leave you, not this time." She said.

"Who is that?" I turned around in circles, trying to find the source of the voice.

I turned around and the large menacing figure was behind me. He tried to strike me with his crimson blade, I dodged and ran into the opposite direction.

I kept running until I saw a white light. With no where to go, I ran through it. I was suddenly on some type of space station, it looked incredibly unfamiliar. It was neither Republic or Separatist.

I saw two figures. One was a cloaked individual standing at the start of some steel stairs. The second, was closer to me. He wore all black and had dark blonde hair.

I took cover behind a pillar with red lights on it. I wasn't sure if they could see me, but I wasn't going to take any chances. After that advanced killing machine was chasing me, I wasn't going to risk it.

The male closer to me, threw down a lightsaber. "I'll never turn to the dark side." He told the cloaked man. The man kept his hands clasped together, listening to what the young male had to say.

"You failed your highness." He said, walking closer to the cloaked man. "I am a Jedi, like my father before me."

'Who is this man?' I wondered. I decided I needed to get back to the temple, and warn any masters of what was happening. I exited quietly through a door leading me to a large corridor. The technology and layout was alien to me.

I still hadn't had my lightsaber. I reached into my shirt, I still had Master Herans— I mean my father's Kyber Crystal with me. I glanced at the glowing red crystal for s second. Who ever was chasing me earlier... they had fallen to the dark side...that means whoever that was, wasn't some type of machinery, but a person..

I turned around as soon as I heard the breathing once more. This time, they didn't have a lightsaber with them. He reached his hand out towards me.

I felt my throat began to close. I was being choked. I gasped for air, as I felt my feet lift off the ground. I had no where to go.

"Wake up." I heard.

I was struggling to gasp for breath as I kept hearing a familiar voice.

My eyes began to grow heavy as the air was being stripped from my lungs.

"Wake up!"

"Come one commander!"

I opened my eyes and was back on Grievous' spy station. I was laid down up against a wall, not the same one I was thrown to though.

"Commander, can you stand?" Rex was knelt down by my side. Only one other clone was with us.

"W..where's Ahsoka.." I could barely form the words. My head was pounding and my hand felt numb.

"She's engaging Grievous." Rex said.

"Alone?" I tried to sit up but fell back down.

"It was under her orders, she saved all of us, and the mission." He said.

"The bombs are in place, Commander. We are on our way to rendezvous with General Skywalker at the landing bay." The Clone accompanying Rex said.

"Here." Rex reached his hand out. "I'll carry you." He said as he picked me up.

With my injuries, I passed out once more. My mind was fixated on Ahsoka, I could sense she was still alive but I felt like, if I were more careful she wouldn't have had to face General Grievous alone.