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Twilight of the Apprentice

Ahsoka POV

"Ahsoka! Come on, hurry!" I hear Ezra shout as I collapse to the ground. I struggle to my knees, planning to flee with Kanan and Ezra.

"Ahsoka..." I hear a voice call from behind me. My eyes shot open. It wasn't Vader's normal mechanical voice, but was more... human. It sounded almost like his voice.

I turned to face the mechanical man. I heard his breathing even more strained, and when he faced me, my heart shattered.

"Ahsoka," he said again. It was undeniably him. His voice, the scar over his eye, everything was exactly how I remembered it, save his yellow and red eyes.

I was destroyed when I saw this. Deep down, I had known, I had always know, but I tried to burry it because I couldn't bare the thought to face what he had become. To know I could've stopped it had I not been so selfish and stayed. I left him when he needed me most. I was no better than the Council that abandoned me when I was in the same situation.

"Anakin..." I croaked out, still unable to fathom what I was witnessing. I rose to my feet and faced him, and he did the same.

"I won't leave you," I started, "Not this time."

Vader/Anakin started at me for a few moments. I could sense the conflict growing within him. I was hoping, praying that his eyes would return to normal, that I'd have my old Anakin back.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed. "Then you will die," I heard him speak. I died right then and there. My best friend, my master, who had sworn to never let anything happen to me, sworn to never let anyone hurt me, was now threatening to kill me. Anakin was gone, and there was nothing I could do now.

He activated his saber and started towards me. "Ahsoka!" I heard Ezra call out. I turned to see him running towards me, but I used the force to push him back towards the ship.

When I turned back around I saw Vader preparing to strike me. I barely had time to activated my white sabers and block his strike. I turned and swung at him, this time I was going to be on the offensive. I knew with my agility and smaller stature, I would be able to overwhelm him with quick side to side movements, so I did just that.

I would attack at one side, he would block and strike again. I would dodge to the other side and attack, he would block and throw a strike towards me, and I would dodge back to the other side. This went on for a bit before Vader finally had had enough. He picked me up with the force and threw me against the wall of the temple. 

While I was attempting to regain myself, he threw his saber at me. I moved to the side just in time to dodge, and his saber became lodged in the wall of the temple. He wasn't done though. He closed his hand, and his saber began to move along the wall towards my head. I barely had time to react and duck. 

As his saber returned to his hand, I sprung to my feet and jumped at him, hoping to beat his saber there and deal a devastating blow to him. Sadly, his saber beat me there and he blocked my strike, and I flipped off of him backwards and landed facing away from him.

He ran towards me and tried to hit me again. I kept dodging and blocking, but was slowly being pushed backwards into the opposite wall. I realized I had to do something quick, otherwise I would meet my unfortunate end.

"You are nothing compared to the power of the dark side. Surrender now and I may be merciful," Vader spoke.

"NEVER! My master taught me never to surrender," I shot back. I finally let my emotions get the best of me, and started attacking out of anger, pain, sadness, etc. My strikes became more powerful, yet increasingly clumsy and inaccurate. 

I couldn't see, but I could sense Vader smirking. This is what he wanted, and I knew I had fallen for it. At this point he was just toying with me, blocking my attacks with ease, waiting for me to tire myself out. Despite knowing this, I couldn't stop myself. All my suppressed emotions were coming out. All the pain from leaving the Order, from the execution of Order 66, from going into hiding, finding out what my master had become. It all became too much for me.

I thought she saw a weakness in Vader's technique, that he had let his guard down for just a second, so I lunged at him, trying to land the blow. However, he sidestepped the attack easily, and I was left completely defenseless. My life flashed before my eyes, as I knew this was the end.

I saw all the time spent together with Anakin from meeting him on Christophsis and our first real mission together rescuing Jabba's son, to getting stranded on Maridun, to her leaving the Order and eventually being reunited with Anakin before they parted again and never saw each other again.

I was pulled out of my memories as I felt the saber pierce my side. I collapsed to the floor in a heap, as I felt her blood pouring out of the wound. I was surprisingly content with this. I had done all I could to help fight the Empire, and with the knowledge of what Anakin had become, I had lost my will to live anyways. I just never thought my end would be at the hand of my former master.

"Anakin..." I croaked out. I saw the conflict within him again, but this time Anakin won. His eyes returned to their original blue color. He fell to his knees and cradled me in his arms.

"Snips... I-I'm so so so sorry. I-I-I..." He was a crying mess.

"Anakin it's *cough* okay. *cough, cough*"

"No it's not. I promised you that I'd never let anyone hurt you, and I failed you."

I placed my hand on his face. "I forgive you Skyguy." The temple began to collapse around us, and I knew he needed to leave before he died too. "Now you need to get out of here before you suffer the same fate as me."

"No Ahsoka... I won't leave you here. I've done so many bad things, it should be me not you." Tears were streaming down his face at this point.

"What is done is done. I am content with this Master, I have lived a good life, with few regrets."

He wiped the tears from his eyes. "You sound like Obi-Wan," he said with a chuckle. There was a silence for a second before he pulled me into a hug. I was shocked, but returned it. This was our first real hug ever, and I never wanted it to end.

"Thank you Ahsoka," he whispered into my lekku.

I smiled and pulled him in tighter as the temple collapsed around us. I was glad I got to spend my last few moments with the only family I ever really had.

Wow three updates in one day. I must really be bored.