Saga Star Wars Episode III: Prophecy Fulfilled

Hello everyone.

This is my first post here so I'm a tad nervous. Anyway, Prophecy Fulfilled is a what-if story. What-if...Anakin hadn't fallen to the Dark Side? My fanfic is an exploration of that question and the first chapter is quite possibly my best piece of writing ever. I'm extremely excited to hear your thoughts on it. Remember, a long, thought out review is this author's best friend! ;-)

And yes, I'll point out now that for this particular entry, I drew heavily upon Matthew Stover's novelization of Episode III. If this will bug you, I can assure you that it will only be for this chapter. Also, this fic starts out just after Anakin has told Mace Windeu about Chancellor Palpatine's true nature. I hope you like it.

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Revenge of the Sith: Prophecy Fulfilled
Chapter 1: Point of no Return
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Even sitting in the Jedi Council Chambers, with all the currents of the Force swirling around him, Anakin Skywalker could not find peace.

How could he when knew he had just condemned the love of his life to death?

His very soul twisted and contorted into such grotesque, agonizing shapes that Anakin was sure that he was going to die. The pain of his actions was more than his body could handle. His hands found his head and squeezed. The whole situation was infuriating! Palpatine was a Sith Lord, the very thing that Anakin had been taught his entire Jedi life were the very embodiment of evil! What was worse was that Palpatine was the Sith Lord who had orchestrated the Clone Wars! How many friends and allies had Anakin lost because of Palpatine? How many innocent people had been killed? Yet Palpatine had never been anything but a friend to Anakin. In fact, Palpatine had treated Anakin like family, like a nephew! What made things a thousand times worse was that Palpatine knew how to save Padme?s life! When Palpatine died, so would Padme!

?But Palpatine is a Sith Lord!? Anakin screamed inside his head, ?He?s got the blood of billions of innocent people on his hands! I had to turn him in!?

This thought did nothing to soothe the chaos inside his mind and Anakin practically threw himself out of his chair and walked over to the adjacent window. He gazed out over the Coruscanti horizon to where he knew 500 Republica to be. Somewhere on the top levels of that building, he knew Padme was waiting for him; carrying his unborn child. Anakin reached out with the Force and felt her. Felt the very truth of her. He felt the beat of her heart, the gentle rise and fall of her lungs as she breathed. Deeper still, Anakin could feel her love for him. Her true love for him. He felt that love pour into his own heart and fill him completely. It was warm, gentle, and powerful beyond any measure of the Force. It gently wrapped itself around Anakin and cradled him in a gentle embrace so like Padme had when he had awoken from his nightmare what felt like a lifetime ago. Anakin softly pressed his hand of flesh against the window and sent his love for Padme back to her through the Force. She may not be a Jedi, but she was Anakin?s wife, and right now he wanted nothing more than for her to feel the truth of his love for her the way he had felt hers. Anakin sent it all, every once of love he had ever felt for her. From the time he was a nine-year old slave boy on Tatooine to now. Moments later, Anakin felt a surprising ripple through the Force connection he had unwittingly forged between him and his wife.

She was unconsciously sending him her love back.

The realization that Padme had not only felt what Anakin had done, but was returning in kind (even if she was unaware of it), was incredible. The fact that she truly loved him that much was more than Anakin could handle. He slumped against the window and slid down to the floor, silent tears streaming down his face. He couldn?t let her die, he just couldn?t! But accepting Palpatine?s offer would mean abandoning the Jedi. What would Obi-Wan think? The magnitude of that thought threatened to send Anakin over the edge when suddenly, the chaos in his head, the chaos th

 

I like it.

pm me please when you update

 

Great story and looking forward for more

 

Very interesting, please add me to the pm list.

 

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't updated this in a while. RL came and dealt me a not so nice hand. However, things are going smoother and I will try to have this next chapter up by monday.

Please Read and Review

 

This sounds really good! hope to read more soon...

curious to see what Ani does?...

 

Awesome!!!

Please PM me when you update this!!

EG

 

Very good

I like how Anakin takes a more active role in destroying Sidious, and choses not to turn to the Dark Side. Also it shows Anakin confronting Palpatine's manipulation by risking the life of Padme by destroying him.

I wonder how the Jedi Order will react to Anakin breaking the Jedi Code

Please add me to the pm list for all future updates.

Milteck

 

Awesome start! It really did remind me of Matthew Stover, not that I mind. Can I please get a PM when you update?

 

Lol. I'll be sure to PM you all. I know I said I would update this story months ago, but RL has thrown a massive number of new things my way and I haven't been able to do much of anything. That said, I'm working on the next chapter as I "speak", and should have it done in a few hours. Also, Milteck, Sidious is far from dead. In an incredible amount of pain yes, but not dead. As for the council, well...you'll just have to wait and see.

 

the in depth personal choice that you wrote for Anakin was well done. Too bad he was too selfish to realize that Palpatine was the master of the war and conflicts and assasination attempts on Padme...

He may have been talented, but very short sighted.

 

Well the way I see it was that Anakin fell because he didn't have anyone else he trusted. If he'd trusted obi-wan enough to explain what was going on, things would have ended differently. This is essentially the theory that this fic is based off of.

 

I love this story. I hope you post more soon.

 

I too hope you post more soon, this story is absolutely amazing.