Defiance of the Jedi
Asajj Ventress pressed her relentless lightsaber attacks against Anakin Skywalker in the pouring rain, atop the ancient Yavin temple. Anakin deflected the twin crimson blades with a lightsaber mastery that far exceeded his age and training. Anakin gave himself over to the force, allowing it to completely guide his actions. It was almost effortless for him.
Asajj however, was a true master of the blade. She could already perceive the weakness in the young padawan's form. He relied on his talent too much.he had great power in the force but he did not have the discipline of training that had forged Asajj into such a deadly weapon. Talent could only get one so far. Asajj intensified her violent slashing attacks. His arrogance was a weakness, like his entire corrupt order. She would defeat him....then make the young man pay for his overconfidence.
With a sudden unorthodox spinning attack, Asajj twisted her blade quickly and knocked Anakin's lightsaber out of his grip. Before he could recover his weapon, she closed the distance between them, crossing her red blades at his neck.
Anakin froze. The fight was over. She had him. Her blades were at his neck in a scissor like cross. He couldn't believe he had lost! How was this possible! At once he realized this was likely to be his end. The Sith woman would have no mercy.
Asajj considered killing him right then and there to complete her ascension. But something made her pause before decapitating her helpless foe. She would enjoy this victory....savor it. She would teach Anakin the price of arrogance here atop this temple.
Asajj smiled cruelly as she slowly slid her blades away from Anakin's neck. Suddenly she bashed him over the head with the curved hilt of one of her sabers. Anakin felt darkness close over his view as he fell unconscious.
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As he awoke, the pain throbbed in his head mercilessly. He struggled to focus his vision. Asajj Ventress stood in front of him, bathed in the red glow of the gas giant. They were still atop the Yavin temple, the warm smell of the jungle was all around him. He leaned his head up to meet her cruel gaze, groggily trying to regain his senses. He was sitting on a pile of stone debris left from their wild fight. His hands were tied behind him and his feet felt like they were bound as well. The only sound was the hot night air blowing across the stone base of the temple. He was at the mercy of a Sith.
Anakin's anger flooded back upon recognizing the mocking smile of the pale woman. He struggled against his bonds, trying desperately to break free.
"Don't bother." Asajj's voice came in a low hateful rasp. "I've tied you with vibro-cord tow cables from my ship. You're not going anywhere."
Anakin said nothing. His anger surged through him like a burning flame. Asajj slowly walked around him. From his position, sitting and completely tied to the debris, he felt her hateful gaze tearing into him as she slowly circled her helpless prey.....no doubt relishing the feeling of power at having a padawan at her mercy.
If he could summon the force....if he could just focus himself enough....Anakin closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on his bonds. He focus was quickly broken when Asajj ran her small white hand through his hair from behind, up the back of his head.
Walking back around to face her seated prey, Asajj considered her next move.
"I could present you to my new masters alive." She mused. "You would be quite a prize to be delivered intact."
Anakin said nothing. She had said "masters"...that meant she was not the second Sith Lord...rather one of their minions. He returned her gaze with defiance.
"You had better kill me." He announced to the bald creature. "Because if I get free I'm going to kill you."
Asajj said nothing...still pacing around him...appraising her prey like a cautious Tusken Raider. Her clothing had been shredded in the lightsaber battle. Her pure white shoulders stood in stark contrast to the red night of the Yavin jungle.
"First I need to teach you a lesson." She announced. "I think...I'm going to fuck you."
Anakin snorted. "Even if you weren't the most disgusting Sith bitch I'd ever met in my life, I'd have to decline on general principle."
Asajj reached into her pocket and pulled out Anakin's holo-emitter. He recognized the device as the one he kept with him at all times....the one that held the image of....
Asajj activated the emitter and Padme's face sprang up in the blue light.
"Afraid to be unfaithful to this little cunt?" Asajj mocked.
"That's my wife, you bald bitch."
Asajj's smile widened, reminding Anakin of that sleazy Watto winning a bet.
"Indeed." Asajj replied. "Then this is going to be even more of a betrayal than I'd hoped."
