Walking here

Thou est little girl of Zion: How’d you do, how’s your spirit, how’s your joy?

 

When the handcuffs where locked in its place, around her handwrist, she felt so lost, so, so…

«Oh, my precious Amanda.» she heard a familiar voice say, «How I missed you, dearie.»

Amanda looked up to see the queen of darkness standing before her in the darkened cell, barerly lit with light,

«You know you can’t enter this world whitout me knowing it. Hahaha.»

Amanda frowned at her,

«I’m no longer your object! You can no longer use me!» she protested, only to get a frightening laugh in reply, that would cause any bird to fly away,

«Oh, precious dear,» her laugh echoed through the walls as she laid her long fingers around her chin, «You couldn’t be more wrong.»

 

 

Ahsoka gasped as she woke up. Opening her eyes wide before she looked around her.

Was she dead? It didn’t feel so.

«No need to thank me.» she heard from behind, and turned toward the voice, «It just happened to be flying past, and saw you falling from that hill. So I did what I always does; rescuing people.»

Ahsoka rose up, looking questingly at the guy dressed in a blue and red suit, with a red cape flying behind him, lifted by the wind,

«Who are you?»

The man gave her a weird look,

«You don’t know? Why? I’m superman of course.»

 

 

Zilla sank down to her knees in the forest. And it looked like she embraced the ground where the royal family where having a hike in the beatiful weather, as they entered summerland,

«Oh thou finest mud! How’d I’d missed ya! My very best friend!»

Anakin bent down beside her, with a worried look on his face as he laid his hand on her shoulder,

«Is everything allright, Zilla?»

The apprentice gripped hold of his long tunic,

«Oh your majesty!» she said in a dramatic tone, «How unfortunate that I should ruin your garment with my muddy hands!»

Anakin frowned before he sighed and shaked his head. But then he said,

«A little mud dosen’t hurt me, Zilla. The children play in it all the times.» looking at the royal twins Luke and Leia who stood close together, holding each others hands. And he slowly smiled.

«And they dosen’t have a care in the world.» The queen added, also smiling.

But all of a sudden, a forest kid came running in the direction where Zilla was having a reunion with the ground. He stopped in front of her, and as she looked up, he kicked his boot in her face,

«Get out of the way, silly!» he yelled, «I’m walking here!»

Zilla silently clutched her fists tight, untill they became almost white, and she bited her teeth together, slowly raising up,

«You got a problem, boy?»

«Yeah!»

A new beginning

«Zilla…?» King Anakin took off his crown, while his face turned miserable, «But where is Ahsoka then?»

Zilla looked down,

«I don’t know… your majesty.» doing a curtsey.

Anakin walked closer to her,

«I’m sorry. I’m the one who made the mistake here. It is because of me that she’s gone.»

Zilla looked confused at him,

«Beg your pardon?» rising one eyebrow.

«Zilla…» he sighed as he layed one hand on her shoulder, «I didn’t realise that when I got rid of you, I… I would also lose your sister…»

The padawan raised her head, loking straight at him,

«Well, what are you going to do about that?»

«I don’t deserve this position…» he tried. Sounding humble.

Zilla blinked,

«Well why don’t you just give it back to David then?»

Anakin gasped,

«What?»

«Yeah. You took winterland from him, I’m just saying.»

«You… want me to give it back?» setting the crown back upon his head as he looked shocked upon her.

«It your choice, your majesty.»

Anakin walked past her,

«No.» turning to face her again, «That’s some bad advice coming from you.»

 

 

Hagar sighed. Looking down at Isha, before she hurried away from her, like as if she had been burned. Rising quickly to her feet again,

«I’m sorry, sister. You may be royal, but I’m not. We don’t have the same mother.»

Isha also rose up,

«I’m sorry too. I shouldn’t had upset you…»

«That’s alright.» looking around, «Where’s Amanda?»

 

 

Ahsoka had come to the end of the flower-field, and then she jumped off the cliff, leaping into the air. Just like the shadow had said. But then she heard behind her,

«Not like that, your fool.»

And then she fell. Falling down, into nothing.

«Aaaaa…»

With her eyes closed shut, and with nothing with thin, empty air around her, she suddenly blacked out.

And down, down, she fell.

Not Ahsoka

Hagar, Isha and Amanda leapt through that open portal and rolling down that grassy field in Hasar-Adar. Leaving Hondo behind with Abid in the real world.

Hagar was ontop on Isha, grabbing her by the throat, punching her in the face,

«So you think you’re a princess, huh?»

«Yes! And so are you.»

«Nonsense!» putting up a knife, «We have always been pirates!»

Amanda stood with her axe in her hand, watching them, crying out,

«Stop it! Stop acting like villains! Sisters is supposed to support each other!»

Hagar turned her gaze at her, tears in her eyes,

«Stay out of this, you…»

 

Zilla stood on the castles balcony, looking out into the night, sighing.

King Anakin walked in on her, placing his hand on her shoulder,

«Something you want to tell me, Snips?»

«No, master.» not even looking at him.

Anakin took place by her side, also looking into the night,

«Ahsoka…» sighing, «Lately you have been acting so…»

Zilla turned her gaze at him,

«Acting so what?»

«You… I can tell you have not been yourself since you came back. Is anything bothering you.»

Zilla sighed heavily, before turning away from him with a burdened heart,

«It…»

«You can tell me everything, you know.»

«Yes… I.» she tried to look at him again, but couldn’t realy look him in the eyes, «I’m not sure that I can… I’m sorry.»

«Tell me, padawan.»

But Zilla walked back inside again. She turned and gazed back at him,

«You wouldn’t like to hear it…»

«But you have to get it off your chest! Now tell me and let us move on!»

Zilla looked down at the floor,

«I’m not who you think I am… I’m not Ahsoka.»

 

Zilla or Ahsoka

The shadow opened the door for her, and she saw a great flower-field.

«Now run!» it told her, «Run as fast as you can and don’t ever look back.» giving her a push through the door, «And when you reach the end off the cliff, you jump!»

«Jump unto what?» Ahsoka asked, confused.

«Run!» the shadow of Anakin shouted, «No questions! Just run! It will get you out of here. Run! Before it is to late. Before you get doomed to this place forever.»

Ahsoka started running, hearing the shadow shouting after her,

«And don’t look back!»

 

 

Zilla slowly approched the throne, seeing him sitting there.

King Anakin, with his little daughter Leia on his lap. The five year old little princess.

It was early in the morning. Anakin was telling his daughter a tale, while Zilla stopped in front off them, ready to reveal her pressence.

They haven’t even spotted her yet, or had they?

Zilla chose to speak up, saying the first thing that came to her mind,

«Its an extraordinary daughter you have there, your majesty.» doing a little bow before she stood upright on her feet.

But the king didn’t lift his gaze towards her, immediately,

«It seems we have a customer.» he said to Leia, «What do you say to go and play with Luke?»

«All he care about is his…»

«Or would you rather stay here and watch?»

«I don’t know. Maybe I go and wake him up…» looking towards the stranger beneath them, «If we got a customer, he don’t wanna miss it.» and so she went down from his lap and ran away.

Finaly the king raised his gaze towards Zilla. But he couldn’t see who she was, because she had her hood over her head, which covered the most of her face.

«Why hast thou cometh before thy king today?»

Anakin formally began.

Zilla throwed her hood back and raised her head to look upon him. A person different from the one she remembered. Or was he different? Or was it only a camouflage he covered himself with, whenever he sat on his throne?

But as they eyes met, the kings eyes widened, and he stood up on his feet, slowly,

«A-Ahsoka?» shocked, as if he had seen a ghost, he began walking down the stairs towards her, «Is that really you?

Zilla bit her tongue, feeling uncertain. Uncomfortable, with no idea of what to say.

The best thing was to be honest, even if… she so much didn’t want to hurt his feelings,

«No…» she let out, «No, sir… your majesty I mean.»

But Anakin gently grabbed her forearms as he reached her, as if handling a porcelain-doll that could easily break,

«Ahsoka…» he slowly embraced her before looking her in the eyes, «Ahsoka…» he repeated, «I…»

«Sir, no, sir…» Zilla tried, but she got interubted.

«Ahsoka.» he smiled. A warm smile that lightened up his whole face, «Words cannot describe how glad I am to see you again. After all those years, and you haven’t aged one bit.»

«It has only been three weeks, sir.» Zilla answeared, «But I must say that you look older.»

The King chuckled,

«The time is different in this world, Snips.»

Zilla immediately turned her gaze down, as she took some steps back from him. He had just called her Snips, which where the nickname he only used on Ahsoka. She laid her hand over her heart, breathing heavily. He would never call her that if he knew who she was. She felt his hand, softly touch her shoulder,

«What’s the matter, apprentice?» he wondered, «Care to join us for breakfast?»

To play someone else

He haven’t been able too save his mother. Nor could he save his padawan, Ahsoka Tano.

He had been too late for them both, and it haunted him every night.

Not even his wife or his children could fill the hole in his heart that the loss of them caused. No one could. Which was why he had to figure out a way to get them back.

As he laid there in the royal bed, wondering, and couldn’t sleep, he stood up to leave the room, in silence.

He took one glance at Padme who laid there, sleeping as an angel before he went out the door.

 

Zilla ran through the forest of winter-land untill she reached the castle.

Anakins castle.

She put the hood over her head, ready too be Ahsoka.

She took a deep breath as she walked to the front door, her heart beating worringly.

She really shouldn’t do this, but she had to, too spare her life.

Ventress wouldn’t get too her, as long as she was with Anakin.

As long he believed she was Ahsoka, everything would be fine, and she wouldn’t die.

What would Ahsoka do if she was her right now? Would she knock on the door? Or would she just barge into the palace like she owned the place?

Zilla chose the first option, and knocked, but no one came too open, so she tried the handle, and it went down. The door was open.

Zilla perked hear head inside, and saw a vonderous corridor, with crystall crown-light under the roof, guards on everyside off the wall.

And on the bottom of the corridor, she shaw a throne, where some steps led up to it.

Zilla walked inside and closed the door beside her. Then she stood there for a moment, watching the guards as they all looked at her.

She closed her eyes, trying to wipe her fear away. She was Ahsoka now, and she had too be convincing, her life depended on it.

It shouldn’t be so difficult though, since she was her twin. But Anakin was smart though, if he could tell them appart before, he sure could…

No… Zilla couldn’t let herself have such thought, of what could go wrong. She simply had to play her role.

Ventress had told her everything she needed to know. Every detail of when Anakin had last seen Ahsoka, and off their last conversation together, so it should go fine… she only hoped.

And for Anakin, it had been years since he saw his padawan last time, so maybe he wouldn’t remember the difference between them.

Leia and the wolf

Little princess Leia, four years old, had gotten herself lost into the dark forest of winter-land, where her father, Anakin had forbiden her to go,

«You must never go there.» he had said, but Leia was a curious little being, she just wanted to have a little peek at it, she had no plans to actually walk into it. But that’s was what had happened; She now found herself deep inside the forest, and had lost trail of where she was. But she had her Lise-doll tucked to her chest, and she closed her eyes as she sang to her toy,

«Sleep, little Lise-doll, sleep and be grown.»

She heard some movement behind her, and opened her eyes in fear, and then she saw a wolf-man.

He was half wolf, half human. Had a human body, with a tail, and wolf-ears. His skin was animalistic, like a wolf-skin, and on his fingers, he had claws.

Leia stared at him, with open mouth, as he stared back at her,

«Who are you?» she asked, tucking the Lise-doll tighter to her chest.

The wolf-man smiled. A smile that only turned out to be a wicked grin,

«I’m Titi-Suru. The friendliest wolf you ever meet.» he said in a humbly tone as he bowed.

But Leia just shaked her head,

«I don’t think so.» she replied, «I think you are wicket. I think you are gonna eat me for lunch.»

Titi-Suru laughed,

«What an horrific idea! I would never do anything like that!»

Leia took some steps back,

«Oh, I know you will. You’re a wolf, and its your instincts.» she turned around and started running, but Titu-Suru shouted after her,

«Then you better know to never run from a wolf!»

 

Meanwhile in another world:

 

Amanda had found the altar which the book was to be placed on. The book that she had in her shaky hands.

She turned around and saw Zilla coming in full speed towards her, shouting,

«Place the book on the altar!» Maul had gotten to angry with her, and was now trying to execute her,

«You’re gonna show that you’re worthy of being my apprentice!» he roared as he raced after her in rage.

«Amanda!» Zilla yelled.

«I don’t want to go back to that world.» Amanda hesitated, holding the book over the altar.

«You don’t have to! Just open up the portal so I can escape!»

«What… what do you espect me to do?»

«Just hold him off…»

«I can’t…»

«You have to try!»

Amanda slammed the book down at the altar, and a portal opened between the two pillars behind it.

Zilla slipped through, and when Maul tried to follow, Amanda threw her axe at him, making him stop for a little moment at the pain when the blade entered his arm. He tucked it out and throwed it away,

«Your little… that wont stop me!» pushing her back with the force before he dissappeared through the portal.

Chasing after fairy went wrong

Little Alexandra, the sister of Amanda, and daughter of Chassandra, had now grown into a seven year old girl.

But since the time where different in her world, than it was in the world that Amamda was in for the moment, the results where that Amanda hadn’t grown at all, and was still twelve years old, which where exactly what she was when she had left.

«My little doll.» Chassandra used to call her precious little, Alexandra, «You’re beaty as a doll.»

Alexandra was now chasing the fairy Abigail, through the forest of summerland,

«Come back!» she shouted, «Come back to me! Don’t go away.»

«I’m not for you to keep.» Abigail reminded her as she flew away.

«But you are!» Alexandra insisted, «You’re my fairy-doll.»

«I’m not a toy.» pointing her wand at her, «And if you’re going continue to chase me like that. Perhaps I’m gonna teach you a lesson?»

«Don’t be like that, little fairy.» Alexandra said calmly, «What about I build you a little house, and then you can live in it?»

«No.» Magic whent out from her wand, hitting Alexandra, resulting in her shrienking.

Alexandra shut her eyes closed, but in the next moment when she opened them, she had shrienked to fairy-size, the same size as Abigail.

She stared at her, shocked, eyes vide,

«Did you just make me little?»

«I figured I wanted to show you that I’m am not to be played with.» Abigail said, «And that I am just as equeal as you in worth.»

«Turn me big again.» Alexandra shouted.

«No.»

Deserted

Some time had passed in the world of Secrecy, where King Anakin lived with his Queen, Padme, in Hasar-Adar, where they’d ruled over winter-land.

But in their own world, where they was from, almost no time had passed at all, and no one there, had grown older.

Here are a little from his life in Hasar-Adar:

«Wonderous! Conquerous!» King Anakin, former Jedi-knight, exlaimed in front of the mirror where he stood in his chamber inside the now finished castle, «Oh how good and pleasant it is to be king! All power and glory belongs to me. Forever.»

The little twins, on four years old, princess Leia and prince Luke came running into the room,

«Daddy! Daddy!»

Anakin turned around and smiled,

«My wonderous beings. What brings you to thine king today?»

«Mother said you’ll tell us a story!»

Anakin bent down,

«Indeed I will!»

 

Meanwhile, in their own world:

Twelve year old Amanda gasped as she suddenly woke up from a little nap.

She stared around at the others, who also sat dozing off in their seat, an then at Hondo who were driving the ship through hyperspace.

She hurriedly sprinted to his side,

«You’ll have to turn around!» she shouted at him, «I don’t want to go to Dathomir any longer!»

But Hondo only made a mocking sound at her,

«Pfft!»

Zilla opened her eyes, yawned and got up from her seat, slowly approched them in her own special way,

«I didn’t know the pet of Ventress was afraid.» she teased.

«You’re the pet of Ventress!» Amanda protested, «I’m just…»

«Huh! You’re really as much her pet as I am.»

«No! Here. You can have the book, all I want is to go home, okay?» handing it to her.

Zilla narrowed her eyes at her,

«Dathomir was the deal, and to Dathomir we shall!»

 

Meanwhile on Coruscant:

The great light from the portal relized fourteen year old Ahsoka into the chamber of her Master, which kind of looked deserted right now.

Back in her own world, after a long journey through the tunel of light, she looked quickly around, before she rose to her feet and walked out the door,

«Zilla!» but the corridor looked deserted too, where was everyone? «Zilla! Anyone?» and she started running through, as her breath became more and more paniced.

Portal’n up’n go

Zilla started up the engines, while Amanda looked through the book in the seat behind her.

Fourteen year old Zilla turned her gaze at her,

«You know when we arrive at Dathomir, you give me that, right?»

Amanda, who where twelve, looked up at her with a silly smile,

«All right, mother.»

«Stop that!» Zilla barked, «As well as I’m in charge, I’m not…»

«You’re not in charge, silly!» Amanda mockingly replied, «None of us are. We are equals.»

«I’m in charge!» Zilla stated, «I’m a grown up!»

Amanda laughed at her,

«Who’s acting like a kid, now?»

«If you take that tone at me, I won’t drive anywhere.»

«Yes you will.» Amanda stated, «Remember our deal…» before she got to finish her sentence, some other Padawans came into the ship, accompanied with little Abid on five.

«We’re coming along.» Hagar began, as Isha walked to sit by Amanda.

Zilla looked surprised at them,

«No, you are not!»

«Yes, we are! Or we’ll tell Obi-Wan that you’re running back to Dathomir. You think he’ll allows it?»

Zilla sighed,

«Settle in then! Let’s get this ship up in the air.»

Hagar chuckled,

«You don’t know how to fly it, do you?»

«Of course I do!»

«Bonjour! Bonjour!» It suddenly came from the doorway, «Not whitout your uncle Hondo, you can not go!»

Zilla gasped, before looking shockingly, at Hagar, Isha and Abid,

«You telling me what that pirate is doing here?»

 

Meanwhile in Secrecy;

«No, Ahsoka!» Anakin shouted as he came running in the last minute, «Step away from that portal, it’s dangerous!»

Ventress rolled her eyes at him,

«You don’t have to listen to everything he tells you.» she told a worried Ahsoka who stared into the glooming light of the portal, «He’s wrong, you know?»

Ahsoka nodded into the portal,

«I’m allready made up my mind, to give it a try. So here I go.» stepping into the portal, «Sister, here I come.» was the last thing she said before the light enveloped her and she vanished.

«Ahsoka!» Anakin shouted, looking angrily at Ventress when he realiced he was to late, «What have you done?» stopping up.

Ventress chuckled evily,

«I got a present for you.» grabbing the Senator who where still lying on the floor, dragging her to his feet, «Behold; Your wife.»

Anakin widened his eyes,

«What?»

The Senator suddenly opened her eyes, looking confused up at him,

«Ani?»

Anakin slowly breathed out in relief before he took her hand to help her up,

«Padme.»

Guarantee

They stared at one another. As one Apprentice, to another.

«Okay.» Amanda finaly said, I’ll help you, on one condition.» lowering her axe.

«And what’s that?» Zilla wondered.

«Let me… look arround…» sighing, «I’ve heard of that place; Dhathomir, I wanna see it.»

«Okay.» holding out her hands, «We’ll show you. But then you give us the book, right?»

«Yeah. But only if you keep the deal.»

«Deal! Come on, let’s tell it to my master.»

«No!» Amanda shouted, «He’s not coming along on this journey. I don’t trust him.»

«But…»

«It has to be only between you and me, or I’ll gonna burn the book, and you never get it.»

 

Meanwhile in Secrecy:

«Anakin didn’t open a portal, Ahsoka.» Ventress mockingly laughed at her, «It was there all along. But it’s light only became brighter when he sent your sister through, before it dissappeared.»

Ahsoka stared shockingly in front of her,

«That’s why I saw it…»

«Yes.» chuckling evily, «How unfortunate that I can not help you.»

Ahsoka fixed her gaze at her,

«I believe you can. Is there any other portal left that I can go through?»

«No. And unless someone come in from our world, it wont come any.»

Just as she had said that, a bright light emerged out of nowhere, releasing out a human being, who rolled out to the floor, before laying still, eyes closed.

Ventress and Ahsoka studied her,

«Senator Amidala!» The Padawan shouted.

Ventress looked at the remaining portal,

«I think you can use this one, to get back to your sister, but I can’t guarantee it will be safe.»

«I’ll take my luck.»