Chapter 6

Achsah was jerked out of her sleep. She laid there for a couple minutes, trying to figure out what woke her up, then she felt it again. The jerking she felt was the ship being hit by something. Sitting up and looking around for her boots, once she had them on her feet, she got up and ran out of the room.

“ Oh sorry, Anakin. What is going on?” Achsah asked, as the ship shook, which of caused her to fall into Anakin’s arms.

“ It is ok. Am not sure, but I have a feeling that someone does not want us to be on the planet.” Anakin said, as the ship shook, but this time there was an explosion.

The explosion caused both Anakin and Achsah to fall to the floor, as debris flew all around them. Anakin got up, bent down to help Achsah off the floor and they began dusting themselves off and making sure their clothes were not singed by the sparks and flames. Anakin and Achsah moved to the lounge, when there was another hit. This explosion caused the ship to jerk to an almost stop and then, they felt it drop some.

“ Anakin, take Achsah and you both get into the escape pod” Obi-Wan said, as he came out of the cockpit.

“ Yes, Master. What is going on?” Anakin said, as the ship was hit again.

“ We are being attacked by pirates. Now, hurry and we will see you down on the planet. Now, go!” Obi-Wan yelled out ,as he made his way back to the cockpit.

“ Damn, come on. Let’s go!” Anakin said, as he grabbed Achsah’s hand and pulled her towards the hatch that goes down into the hull, to where the escape pods were.

“ No, I cannot leave my Master!” Achsah cried out, as she tried to get away from Anakin.

“ You heard Obi-Wan. I need to get you to the escape pod. Please, Achsah come with me?” Anakin pulled the very upset girl to him and held her to him.

Achsah looked up at Anakin and just nodded. Both Padawans hurried to the hull and climbed into one of the two escape pods. Once inside, Anakin hit the detach switch and the pod fell from the ship, before he could hit the small engine button, the pod shook.

“ We are hit. Now, what?” Achsah cried out, as the pod began to fall towards the planet.

“ The only thing we can do now, is try to make it to the planet that is below us.” Anakin said, as he did his best to steer the pod towards the planet.

“ Why are we falling? I thought this thing had engines?” Achsah said, as there was an explosion coming from the back section of the pod.

“ Damn, we just lost our engines. I may have a plan, but it will only work, once we get into the atmosphere.” Anakin said, as they made their way down towards the planet.

“ So, are you going to tell me your plan?” Achsah said, as she buckled herself into the seat next to Anakin.

“ Well, my plan is to use the landing thrusters to slow us down, once we make our entrance of the atmosphere. So, get ready, am about to turn us about.” Anakin said, as he started turning the pod in the landing position.

“ Ok, that sounds good to me.” Achsah said ,as she felt the pod begin to shake, as they enter the planet’s atmosphere.

Achsah looked out the window and saw a fireball streak across the sky, and that is when she realized that fireball was what was left of their ship.

“ Damn, the thrusters are gone. Now, we are going to have to use our Jedi powers.” Anakin said, as he realized they had no thrusters.

Achsah closed her eyes and concentrated on the Force. Both her and Anakin managed to slow the pod down and landed it with a bounce.

“ Man, now, I have a headache.” Achsah opened her eyes and then began rubbing her temples, as to rub the small pain away.

“ I know what you mean. Now, we have to figure out where we are.” Anakin said, but as he moved to sit back in his seat, he felt the pod began to shift and move.

“ Um, Anakin, I do not think we are on. . . ?” was all Achsah could say, before the pod began to tumble down the mountain side.

Anakin came to realize that they were laying down in a canyon. Moving his head to the right and looking over to Achsah, he could see was that she was slump over towards the broken window.

“ Achsah! Oh my. . . Achsah, wake up . . . come on, please be alive!” Anakin cried out, as he tried to get untangled from the tree limbs that had smashed through the window. He also had to try and move the metal, glass and wires that was also wrapped around him, so that way, he can check on the motionless Achsah.

Once he was free, he leaned over to Achsah and gently moved her back in her seat. He saw the huge gash, just above her left eye, but that was one half of her injuries. Anakin got out of his seat, but as he stood up, he felt a sharp pain run up his left leg. Looking down, he noticde that he had a long bloody gash in his leg. Anakin slowly moved to the back of the pod. He found the first aid kit, opened it up and took out some cleaning solution and cleaned the gash in his leg, before taking the Bacta bandage and wrapping up his leg. When Anakin got back to Achsah, he saw that she had come too and was trying to move out of her seat.

“ Anakin. . . help. . .me” Achsah moaned some and reached out to him.

“ Shh. . . Am here to help, but you have to sit still, while I will clean you up some.” Anakin said putting his hand on Achsah’s shoulder, as to make her stop moving round.

“ My head hurts and so does the rest of my body.” Achsah said.

“ I know. Let me take care of the gash on your head, then we need to get out of here. I will see about the rest of your cuts. Now, let me turn this way.” Anakin said, as he began cleaning the gash, before putting a salve of Bacta on it, before wrapping her head.

After bandaging her up, Anakin helped Achsah to get her out of the pod, just as a fire broke out. Achsah found a cut on her arm, which she bandaged up, but it was also broken in three places.

“ Well, there goes our shelter for the night. You think you can move?” Anakin looked at the pod, as there was a small explosion.

“ Yeah, there goes our shelter. Um. . . yeah, I can move. So, help me up and we can go.” Achsah said, as she stood up and grabbed one of the backpacks.

They both thought it would be best, if they followed the sun. Two hours later, they found a cave and entered it. Anakin lead Achsah to a huge rock and told her to sit down, while he looked around the small cave, just to make sure that they were the only ones inside the cave. Once Anakin found no other creatures inside the cave, Anakin went to look for some wood, so he could start a fire. After Anakin had the fire going, he sat down next to Achsah and began changing the Bacta bandage on Achsah’s head, before changing his own bandages.

“ This is all we have for dinner.” Achsah opened up the packet and gave it to Anakin.

“ Great. Well, at least it will keep our stomachs from growling.” Anakin said, as he took the packet, opened it up and began slurping the contents out of the packet. Off in a distance, there was a howl of some kind of animal that only comes out at night to hunt for its food.

“ That creature is getting closer.” Achsah said, as she slightly moved closer to Anakin.

“ It will be ok. Here, lets sleep in this bag. It is getting colder, and this way, we can keep each other warm.” Anakin said, as he picked the sleep bag.

Achsah climbed under the sleeping bag with Anakin. He put his arms around Achsah and pulled her close to him.

“ So, Anakin, have you ever thought what you would like for your birthday?” Achsah asked, as she moved her head, so she could look into his eyes.

“ Oh, man. I really haven’t thought about my birthday. Maybe, a quiet dinner with someone that I have feelings for.” Anakin said, as he looked into Achsah’s eyes and let her know, thru the Force that it was her that he is talking about.

“ Really? I have better idea, what if I could fix you dinner?” Achsah said, as she moved her hand across his chest.

“ I would really like that, but where can you do that at?” Anakin asked.

“ At my mother’s place. I know for a fact, that she will be on Naboo and we will have the whole place to ourselves.” Achsah said, just before Anakin leaned his head down and kissed her.

When Anakin pulled away, he looked down at Achsah and was afraid that he frightened her, but instead what he saw, mirrored his feelings.

“ Um. . . Anakin, that was wonderful, but I have something I want to give you. You can say an early present.” Achsah said, before she moved her head, so that way, she gently began kissing Anakin.

The kisses only got hotter and more passionate. The next thing they both realized, they had undressed each other.

“ Are you sure about this? You know, you will be my first person.” Anakin said, as he held Achsah on his lap.

“ I know, and you will be my first too. I know it will hurt at first, but I want you to know, am ready to do this. Anakin Skywalker, please make love to me.” Achsah said, as she pushed him back gently, sat down on him and they both lost their virginity to each other. After two more times of making love to each other, they finally fell asleep in each other’s arms.