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Hiroko01
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10/31/99 6:41pm
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"My Dear Padme"- Anakin's death
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I thought Nanai Akira's "letter-writing" technique was really cool and it stuck in my mind... then it collided with the Master's test that Lwyn'nya gave to Kithera. I'd feel kind of dopey having a Padawan without doing *something* to prove I deserved the Master title anyway. So here 'tis, chilluns: My Dear Padme.
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My dear Padme:
Obi-Wan stopped there and buried his face in his hands. It was a long time before he continued.
I wish that I did not have to bring yout this news, but the duty falls to me.
What do I say? How can I possibly tell her what I did?
Padme, your husband– my student– is dead.
After he ran away from the conference on Raitha, I set out to find him. I had little luck doing so until he sent a communique asking for me to meet him on Gehenn.
There was an empty lava tube that led into one of the mountains. Sensing a presence inside it, I followed.
Something attacked from a turn in the cave. After some moments of struggle, it lit a lightsaber– only then, in the light from it, did I recognize Anakin.
“Obi-Wan, you bast@rd!” Anakin flew at me, lightsaber driving straight my neck. I barely reached my saber in time to block him. In the pulsing red and blue shadows, he looked... wrong.
“She was my WIFE!”
I fled into the mountain. There was something hiding inside it, something that seemed to be sheltering the darkness there. I had hoped that perhaps I could find it there and put an end to it, that there was something holding thrall over him and I could take it away.
Padme, he seemed like a man possessed. You must know that he was not himself then– it was not Anakin who did this.
It was pitch-black inside the jagged cave walls– nevertheless I ran. Though our bond was severed, I knew. Anakin had called me here to kill me.
Nearing the last turn, I saw the red glow on the rock. Then, as I went around, it was if I had passed through a wall into an inferno. The air was blasting-hot and there was a deep rumble, hissing and pops beyond the cave mouth. This volcano was live.
I clung to the rock and stayed alongside it as I left the cave. Above me was somewhere to go– some boulders above the mouth of the cave. Below me spread the caldera, vast and seething like a lake of gilded blood.
My eyes stung from the fumes and squeezed shut. I could see nothing, but I could hear him screaming at me under the magma’s roar and feel him through sense and the soles of my boots as he came to meet me.
“Anakin! Stop and think for a second! What are you doing?” He threw a thrust at me, and I blocked it– that, and the following sweep I knew would come. “When you looked to the future, is this what you saw?”
“You’re the one who did this, Kenobi! Not me.” With that, Anakin quit speech.
Padme, I fought only to defend myself. You must believe that. I opened to the Force as Qui-Gon taught me–
Qui-Gon would have known what to do. Qui-Gon would not have lost the Chosen One to the Dark Side, Qui-Gon would not have killed him... but Qui-Gon was dead.
Master, where are you now?
Padme, I opened myself to the Force as Qui-Gon taught me and let it guide my actions. It was the only way I could have survived.
It was not my mind guiding me. I blocked the last strike and rolled my body– it forced him back, and I suddenly woke to see him falling down the rocks, screaming. He landed on his shoulder, his head slamming into a rock... then he slid from that rest, into the lava.
I never thought it would guide me to kill him.
[This message has been edited by Hiroko01 (edited 10-31-1999).]
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Old Juan
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10/31/99 6:56pm
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That was awesome
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The Jedi Princess
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That was well written.
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Jaro
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10/31/99 7:45pm
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Most excellent! Very, very good... I hope you're continuing!
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Hiroko01
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10/31/99 10:08pm
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Continuing!? Uh... No, this was just supposed to be Obi-Wan's letter to Padme telling her about the duel and some flashbacks. If anybody wants to run with it, though, I'd be interested to see what it looks like.
Happy Halloween, everybody!
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Master Peael
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10/31/99 11:21pm
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Finally that affair from the Luuuuve Triange surfaces... YippY!!!!
I wish there was more to this though.. you cant just write a letter like that and leave off!!!
Please Someone Pick up this story or Hiroko you must finish... I'm so lacking in writing skills....
I'm just going to run off and cry now... boo hoo hoo...
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castin
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10/31/99 11:42pm
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Woah! Cool. I'm not really sure you should continue, you should leave well enough alone. I think it stands great by itself.
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Hiroko01
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11/1/99 12:25am
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Good idea you guys, let's just stick it on the end of "Luuuuv Triangle."
Master Peael, don't worry about writing skills- they get better with practice. Really. I tried to write an "Obi-Wan Dies For Real" short not even a month ago... it SUCKED. And now that I'm doing all this writing for fanfic now, all my reaction short essays for English that I used to agonize over are popping out like baby bunnies. "Pleh! Five points, please."
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Nicckia
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11/1/99 2:24am
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That was great, I think everyone is right just leave it as is!
WELL DONE!
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Alderaan21
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11/1/99 9:17pm
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Really, that was pretty good. The letter format serves it well.
But the love triangle. Ick. I hate love triangles.
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Kit'
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11/2/99 2:30am
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Kit' reads her master's test then Hiroko's story then her master's test again.
OH FORCE!!!! I was lucky to get it now, Hiroko your so D@mn talented its not fair.
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Mara Jade, Emperor's Hand
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11/5/99 11:01pm
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Um, would anyone mind if I continued this story? I've got an idea for it, but this ain't my thread, so- whad'ya think? Do tell!
Mara Jade
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Master Peael
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11/6/99 2:03am
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YES SOMEONE PLEASE CONTINUE IT....
and as for sticking it on the end of the Luuuve Triangle... sure... but I have the perfect story to stick at the begining of the love triangle...
http://www.angelfire.com/co3/jedijunk http://www.angelfire.com/co3/jedijunk
that would be my story... it kinda needs a little help for me to get over a huge case of writers block... anyone for suggestions??
[This message has been edited by Master Peael (edited 11-06-1999).]
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Padawan Chiaru
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11/6/99 8:04pm
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Sniff sniff that was so beautiful.
absolutly stunning and most of all beautiful.
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Solraina
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11/6/99 8:26pm
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that was wonderful,brillant,stunning. words can not describe the greatness of that peice.
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Hiroko01
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11/7/99 1:29am
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Master Peael! Cool! That was much better than my own first fanfic, dear, don't worry about your writing skills. Go check your email.
Cool that this thing got resurrected. If someone wants to continue, go ahead. That part'll be your fic then, but this one's mine and I like it where it is.
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