inconceivable - anakin skywalker

Chapter Two

The trip to Mustafar was not as long as I had thought it would have been. Leaving Tatooine and into the bleak nothingness of space was an immediate temperature change inside the ship. That was until we broke through the atmosphere to Mustafar. If it was any consolation, at least it wasn't sandy like Jakku or Tatooine. Considering the entire planet was covered in lava, Mustafar was never cold. I had always been sed to the heat and how it was practically what I was made of. It consumed me; it was me.

That was what made my job so easy. The heat of the moment. The fight or flight response that was born and bred into me since I was eight years old. The quick moment that would determine if I were to live or die; that was how I had always been.

Looking throughout the front windows of the ship I had noticed Darth Maul approaching the platform to greet and accompany me inside. There was nothing I hated more than someone helping me in or on something I knew I could do by myself, which was everything. Letting out a sigh, I had turned to WA-7, "Welp. Guess we'll find out what's going to happen with me." I grabbed the dark brown robe I had set down behind my chair and started toward the ramp to be lowered onto the platform. I didn't have a clue as to why Lord Sidious wanted to speak with me, but I wasn't worried about it. Since I was 13, I was considered to be Darth Maul's and I quote "Favorite Little Assassin". Which was his "step-father like" term for his prodigy, the only appraisal I had ever known was confusing, but I let him. Considering this was the only life I was ever going to know, I may as well milk what I was able to for the time being.

As the ramp lowered, he was standing right in front waiting for me, or at least what I thought he would have been waiting for. The hood from his cape was off, exposing his thorns on all sides of his head, along with his glowing yellow and red eyes staring right at me. This was one of those unsettling times when he actually greeted me with a smile instead of nonchalance and started speaking. "You're not too late. That is good, everyone is here waiting for you to begin."

"Everyone?" I asked confused; as far as I'd known, it was to be a short meeting with Darth Maul and Lord Sidious. Pointing his finger toward the bag with the head, I immediately apologized while handing it over to him. "Sorry, Master.", I had managed to let out.

He turned and began to start towards the corner to the blast door that had been hidden inside one of the bigger rocks. Besides the platform, there was no telling of any life form here minus the droids hard at work in the rivers of lava. Only the force was able to move such a big bolder from in front of the blast door. Not super smart in terms of work, but it was effective.

With the sudden temperature change in the hall, I noticed in the communication room not only was Lord Sidious waiting for me but so were the Sith Lords and Ladies along with a few of the separatists. This was news to me. I couldn't fathom as to why this small meeting with Lord Sidious now required a vast majority of important Siths sitting in the same room, holograms or not. All sitting huddled around the holo table it seemed as if a meeting were about to take place. The majority of them were clad in black robes with their hoods donned. Viceroy Gunray and I stuck out the most, me wearing a dark brown Jedi robe, and him just being a Neimoidian.

At the end of the table sat Lord Sidious smiling at the sight of me. With his gleaming yellow and red eyes staring right down at me, he began to speak, "Ahh. Vela Enceladus." He paused for just a moment before continuing, "That is the name we must praise and cherish for the day." Raising a brow at the sight of all the room clapping for me, I had wondered why I was being looked up to. Confused as ever, I had begun to recognize their praise and removed my hood out of respect for Lord Sidious. I didn't question anything that was being said and let Lord Sidious continue to speak. "This! This is the assassin we must praise! She has allowed us to advance in the war between the republic and us Sith to finally restore the rightful owners' full power of force in the galaxy!"