"Tick, tock."
Padmé's coffin was seen,
"Up the clock."
Opening itself and revealing her decomposing body with the japor snippet he made for her.
"—down to the mockingbird,"
A dragon that came back from the dead,
"and away from the big bad lock."
A dark place, with shards of glass everywhere,
"This is the headful mind of the lord named darth."
His tall body, standing on a piece of glass, staring at the rest, he tightened his fists, his cape flowing with the breeze as he exhaled.
"Why have you come back?" Anakin said, not physically there, just his voice.
"I needed too." Vader replied.
"You freed me. Though i cannot control my body anymore, you have allowed me to stay. What do you need?"
Vader removed his saber from his belt and looked at it.
"To find who i am inside."
Vader threw his lightsaber down the endless abyss,
"Are you sure you don't already know that answer?"
"Yes, I'm sure." Vader replied,
"The clocks ticking you know."
Vader nodded, "I am aware."
"I need an answer, from someone i once knew,"
"You mean, me?"
Vader began to walk, "Yes."
"You've been fighting through sequences of your nightmares and thoughts. The temple is acting on your own emotions, like a cave that is influenced by dark side nature."
"And was anyone physically there?" Vader asked, knowing the answer but asking anyways.
"No. They're real to you, but to everyone else, no."
He stepped on the shards of glass that formed a long staircase,
"You can break through this. You have to stop giving in to the emotions, stop thinking of the past, just this once, think of the present."
Vader looked down, seeing his memory of cradling Padmé in the coruscant night,
"—No matter what the temple offers you."
Vader looked up, stepped forward and continued.
"I cannot say no more,"
Vader remained silent as he got onto the transparent floor, four cages on side, three on the other. Vader walked through, "You betrayed me!" Padmé yelled at him, he turned and looked at her, "you're nothing. Just a demon impersonating the one i love, turning her into a crazed lunatic." the demon slowly smiled as the flesh of padmé began to melt off, "you were unwise to do this to me," Vader turned his head back and saw his mother, right beside the demon, "you all are demons." Vader continued,
"We aren't just your sins, you should know that by now." Shimi said, he walked forward, seeing the doorway out of this place in his mind, "we are your multiple personalities. That slowly developed over time." Vader saw two young boys on opposite sides, one was him, as a little boy, the other was a boy who had red hair, a scar on his left eye and some burn marks on his arms and legs, "hello, vader." the red haired boy said, "you know me, right?"
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The Satiation of the Dark Lord
FanfictionDarth Vader is tasked by his master to find the first jedi temple on the planet Atch-To, as he discovers the temple, he'll soon find that his worst enemy is his mind. And must decide whether to live... or die.