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When it comes to Byss, I have a different image of it than how it may be in canon or legends. Instead of a city image, I have more of a nature view. Kind of like Kashyyyk or even Endor. I consider it to be a place where the Emperor likes to go to be isolated from the population.
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This is longer than usual btw at about 4000 words ♥️
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Anakin's POV
I finally landed on Byss; I could already feel him and luckily, I could feel her too, so I know she's alive. I have no doubt that he already knows I'm here, I wasn't exactly being subtle. It's finally time that I do what I was born to do, destroy the Sith and be the balance within the force. I wasn't afraid for my own life at this point, I accepted the fact that there is a high chance I'm going to die here today. I'm only worried about her, she's my number one priority and she has to survive this.

She deserves to have her happy ending, even if it's not with me.

I breathed out a nervous, heavy breath while I mentally prepared myself, "We'll be with you the whole time." Obi-Wan lifted his hand to place it on my shoulder and much to my surprise; I felt it.

"I won't leave you, not this time." Ahsoka placed her hand on my other shoulder; I felt her hand too.

I smiled as I took turns looking into both of their eyes, "Thank you." I held back a few tears while I silently reminisced on moments similar to this one while we were in the clone wars. We were a damn good trio; now I may soon join them in the afterlife.

They both smiled with a reassuring nod. Having their support, and feeling their energy within the force was giving me more confidence and strength to what I had to do.

I moved away from their ghostly touch and lowered the ramp down; the natural smells from the planet hit my nostrils instantly. Byss was always a beautiful planet, filled with flowers, trees, and so much beautiful life. It's such a shame that it inhabits the most vile being in the galaxy; it's not a very fitting place for him.

I gripped the handle of the  purple lightsaber instead of the red one and pulled it off of my belt to have it ready. I stepped cautiously towards the tall building and the dark side of the force was growing stronger with each step.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't afraid, but it's something I have to fight though, it's time to get my girl back.

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I was immediately met with over a dozen clone troopers who fired on me the moment I stepped through the doors. I ignited my purple blade and effortlessly deflected their shots back to them. Hitting some; missing others. Either way, their numbers were diminishing at a quick rate.

Both Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were walking by either side of me as I made my way down the hall to Palpatines 'throne room.' The place he liked to sit and do absolutely nothing while I ran this galaxy and the war myself. He just liked the idea of having it in the palm of his hands, he didn't actually care about it or anyone for that matter. He only lusted power, which is about to be the cause for his downfall.

The clones in the hall were taken care of easily enough. I entered the elevator and pressed the button for the floor where he was; I sighed as my chest tightened uncomfortably from my nerves, "Do you feel that?" Ahsoka asked both Obi-Wan and I; while I waited for the doors to open.

I shook my head as I looked to her curiously, "Feel what?"

"It's another force user, I can feel them." Her eyes were moving around while she stared off into deep thought, "Let me make sure he doesn't have any surprises waiting for you in there." She faded away quickly before I could say anything.

I focused on the force as well to try and get a sense of what she was talking about; then I finally felt it. It was very faint, but also strong, almost like it was far away, but close at the same time. I'm not sure how to explain the feeling, but it seemed oddly familiar.

"I feel it too." Obi-Wan whispered, but the doors to the elevator opened before anything more could be said between us.

There were more clones in the hallway and they were blocking the door that I needed to get through. I groaned in annoyance at the number of them, there were maybe about thirty. I didn't have time for this, I needed to get in there. I could feel how afraid she was and it was enraging me; thus making me considerably more impatient than before.

I could feel Obi-Wan's hand on my shoulder; feeling his force energy surge through me. Instead of using my lightsaber, I raised my hand and closed my fist; pulling each of their blasters from their hands. I then used the force to lift all of them up, the floor shook aggressively from the amount of power I was using. If it wasn't for Obi-Wan's force keeping me anchored, I probably would have caused this entire building to collapse.

"Get out of my way!" I shouted as I closed my fist once again; the lights in the hallway flickered and all of the clones flew in multiple directions; some slamming into the walls; others into the ground.

Obi-Wan removed his hand as I took a deep breath to control myself after acquiring that much power. I eyed the clones to make sure none of them stood up before making my way to the doors.

I used the force to aggressively shove the doors open; I barged in furiously with my lightsaber in hand to see Sidious sitting on his throne with no guards in sight.

(y/n) was to his left on the floor and Ahsoka was still in here, bending down next to her like she was checking her condition, "Anakin." My wife's scared eyes darted to mine when I entered the room.

"Don't worry baby I'll get you out of here." I told her before setting my eyes on Sidious once more.

"Good of you to join us my boy." He spoke in an almost cheerful tone, making me nauseous by the sound of it. I loathe this man with every fiber of my being.

"Let my wife go so we can settle this just you and me; none of this has anything to do with her." I tightened my grip on the lightsaber as I took a few steps closer. My gaze turned to hers once more and she was looking at me with fear in her eyes, but not fear for herself; fear for me.

Sidious cackled; gaining my attention once more, "Now that is where you are wrong Lord Vader, she is very valuable to me," I furrowed my brows in confusion; what could he possibly want with her? He stood up and used the force to bring her up to her feet, "Why don't you tell him the good news." He placed a hand on her shoulder and she flinched away from his touch.

"Don't touch her." I growled as I tried moving forward once more, but stopped when I saw the electricity firing around his finger tips from his other hand. He held it dangerously close to her face and I knew that was his way of telling me to stay where I was.

I swallowed nervously as I stood there helplessly watching as a tear fell from her eye. I couldn't advanced on him right now in any way, not with her this close, it's too big of a risk, "Tell him my dear."

Her watery eyes stayed on mine when she spoke her next words, "I'm pregnant." My breath hitched in my throat.

"Holy-"

"Shit." I finished Obi-Wan's statement with wide eye. I wanted to feel joy over this moment, but with what was happening right now, joy was impossible. But this explains why he kept her alive, he no longer had me under his wing. So now he planned to take my baby from me and raise them as his new apprentice in my place.

"Over my fucking dead body will I let you take that baby." I growled in rage, now I had to two that I needed to fight for.

He used the force to push (y/n) away from him and she landed in the floor with a thud. She caught herself with her hands and immediately looked at me while Sidious spoke, "That can be arranged." He shot his electricity out of his hand and it almost hit me, but I deflected it back towards him with my lightsaber. He instantly stopped his attack and quickly moved away to avoid being hit with his own energy, "Interesting color you have there." He scoffed while grabbing his own lightsaber, "You have been nothing but a disappointment; you don't deserve the title of Darth Vader."

He was getting ready to attack me, but unknowing to him, I didn't plan to use my lightsaber. I felt the force flow through me stronger than ever as I called to both sides, "Oh but I do." I smirked as I lifted my free hand and for the first time, lighting flowed through and he wasn't able to move out in time. It struck him and I tortured him the same way he tortured me for years, "I am Darth Vader." I growled as I moved closer to his figure that slumped to the floor while he yelled out from the pain he forced me to endure for years, "And I am Anakin Skywalker." I heightened the voltage and I watched as he began to shrivel. I removed my hand and the lightning stopped. He laid on the floor as he breathed heavily; glaring up at me with hate filled eyes, "It's not as much when you're on the receiving end now is it?" I asked rhetorically while I held the lightsaber to his neck.

He cackled, "You're an idiot if you think you're going to get the ending you desire." He waved his hand and the lightsaber flew out of my grasp; landing on the complete opposite side of the room. I prepared for him to attack me while I went straight for the back up lightsaber that I had on my belt, but that wasn't what he did.

He raised his hand and aimed it straight at (y/n).

Her eyes widened as she tried to move away, but even I knew she wouldn't get away in time. I launched myself forward to create a barrier between her and the lighting; causing it to hit me instead and I screamed as he slowly stood up and kept his torturous methods aimed on me, "Love is a weakness, you had so much more potential."

(y/n)'s POV
I watched in a panic as Anakin screamed from the pain, he jumped in front of the lightning to save me and our unborn child from it, "Stop!" I screamed for the old man to let him go, he completely ignored me. My heart dropped when I saw my husband slowly turn his head to look at me in my eyes; tears were in them while he kept enduring the unimaginable pain. I felt my stomach twist into a painful knot and I knew the baby was feeling everything that was going on. Anakin's eyes began to close and I felt dread take over my body at the thought of losing him. I can't lose him, I need him, we need him, "I said stop!" I shouted in a voice that didn't sound like my own.

It echoed in the room and a wave of energy shot out from me, the same kind from my cell earlier today, and it hit Sidious; causing him torcher to fly backwards and smack roughly against a metallic pillar.

I crawled over to Anakin and shook him, "Wake up, please wake up." I glanced up to see Sidious getting up, rage in his eyes. He tried shooting his lightning at me once again and I held up my hand in defense; it burned horribly, but the pain was only in my hand, not my whole body like expected.

I watched as the electricity went into my palm and created a ball of energy, Sidious's eyes widened, "Impossible." He whispered; I felt my stomach hurt once more and the energy shot from my hand, back to him. It hit him aggressively and he dropped to his knees while the electricity coarsed through his body. The veins in his neck popped out and turned purple as they crawled up to his face.

This baby is really gonna have my work cut out for me.

I took my eyes off of him and back to my unconscious husband, "Damn it Anakin you're not leaving us!" My voiced echoed in an unrecognizable tone once again as I hit him aggressively on the chest. A familiar yellow light flashed throughout his whole body, almost like the electricity did, but yellow instead of blue. Immediately, his blood shot eyes flew open and he groaned as he turned his head to the side to meet my gaze, "Oh thank the gods, I thought we lost you." I bent down and kissed him for only a moment before pulling away.

"Where is he?" He asked in a strained voice as he pushed himself up and glanced to where Sidious was breathing heavily on the floor, unfortunately still alive, "How the hell did he end up over there?"

"Let's just say that we have a lot to talk about." I helped him stand on his feet and he squeezed my shoulder before moving away from my grip; which was his way of letting me know that he was okay to move on his own.

Anakin's POV
I grabbed the red lightsaber from my belt and stepped over to the weak, groaning man on the floor. He looked worse than usual, and I didn't even think that was possible, "You lose Sidious, your reign and your manipulation ends here." I ignited the blade while he weakly looked up at me, defeat in his eyes, "You should have left me and my life alone."

"I'll come back-"

I cut him off; literally.

I swung the blade across his neck and his decapitated head rolled away from his body as it slumped down lifelessly, "I'd like to see you try without a head." I spat on his headless body before retracting the blade and putting it back on my belt; I smiled to myself, it's over, he's finally gone. I turned around and rushed straight to (y/n); pulling her into an embrace, "I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this, you deserve so much better." I squeezed her tight while a few tears fell from my eyes.

"You're worth everything." She whispered as she pulled away and brought her lips to mine. As she kissed me, I trailed my hands down and placed them on her stomach to feel the life inside of her. It felt so beautiful, we're finally going to have this chance again with no fear or worry about hiding them.

I broke away from our kiss and picked her up bridal style, since judging by the way she's been limping; something is broken, "Let's get out of here, I'm tearing this building down."

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I set her down gently on the ship and I healed her broken bones; as well as all of the cuts and bruises she endured from her time there, "I'm so sorry." I apologized for the hundredth time.

A grateful smiled spread across her cheeks, "It's okay, you're finally free Ani." She brought a hand up and caressed my cheek.

I nodded as I smiled back at her, full happiness filled my heart for the first time, I've never been free before. This was so new to me, I can finally do whatever I want, be whoever I want. But if I want to truly feel free, there's just one thing I have to do first, "Wait here for me." I instructed her before I turned and walked down the ramp to eye the building.

The very building where Sidious forced me to kill Obi-Wan.

The very building where he tortured me for hours upon hours and prayed for my life to end.

This place was his sanctuary.

And now I'm going to make it crumble.

"Mind if we help?"Ahsoka stood to my left with a smile, accompanied by Obi-Wan on my right.

I nodded, "I'd be honored." I raised my hand and they both placed their hands on my shoulders. I used the force surrounding the building to crush it, taking any life that may still be inside, and hoping that Sidious's body will stay buried in the rubble for the rest of eternity. The ground shook underneath us as the building began to collapse; a wave of fulfillment rushed through my body as the whole thing finally came down. Dirt and smoke flew in my direction and I closed my eyes while I turned my head to the side to avoid breathing it in or getting it in my eyes. I finally looked back and smiled at the destruction, the grips on my shoulders tightened before fading away, "Now I'm free." I whispered as a tear of joy escaped my eye.

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"(y/n)!" Ellie shouted with excitement; she ran towards us as soon as the ramp lowered and we came into view. She engulfed my wife into a tight embrace, "I'm so happy you're okay, I'm so so sorry that we weren't more careful." She squeezed her tighter and I was about to intervene, but (y/n) did it for me.

She chuckled, before gently pushing Ellie away, "Don't squeeze me too tight, you might hurt the baby." She spoke the news with a joyful smile on her face.

Ellie's jaw dropping, "No fucking way!" She squealed as she pulled her into another hug, but was much more gentle this time.

"So," Piett popped up next to me and I side-eyed him, "She's here and she's alive; are we forgiven?"

I turned my head away from him further to watch (y/n) as she spoke to Ellie. I could watch her for hours, she looks beautiful doing anything and everything, "Fuck off Piett." I held back a smile, I did forgive them. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy watching his reactions to my insults.

He snorted, "Fine, then I guess I won't tell you what I did for you then." He began walking away from me and I used the force to slide his feet back over to me, "Hey, you said you wouldn't use your juju crap on me." He complained in annoyance.

I rolled my eyes, "Shut up and tell me what you did."

He instantly smiled like everything that just happened prior had completely dropped from his innocent mind, "Well you should know that everyone is talking about the destruction of the Death Star," He began, "And as a survivor," He placed a hand on his chest with a cocky smirk, "I may have informed everyone that Darth Vader was aboard the station when it was destroyed."

I gave him a confused look, "And why would you do that?"

He gave me a 'seriously' look, "So everyone thinks you're dead, duh," He patted me on the shoulder, "No one will come after a dead man, you can live here with (y/n), completely safe and unbothered. I mean you'll have to wear a disguise when you go the markets and stuff for awhile but-"

I cut him off when I pulled him into a hug, I was incredibly thankful for this. One of my worries was that someone was going to come after me, like the rebels, or just anyone with a vengeance. But now, thanks to my best friend, I don't have to worry about that, "Thank you."

I heard him sigh with satisfaction as he leaned into the hug, "This is nice." He just had to say the words that make it weird.

"You're doing it again." I groaned with an eye roll.

He hugged me tighter when he felt me try to pull away, "Sorry."

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"You know you can always stay here with us," I informed Yoda who was preparing to go back to Dagobah, "You don't need to live in exile anymore."

He nodded with a small smile, "Home for me it has become. But return, I will." He glanced over to (y/n), "Meet the baby I must."

She smiled back, "I'm sure he or she will love to meet you."

"He," He hummed with a bigger smile before turning back to me. I felt (y/n) squeeze my arm from excitement at Yoda's revelation, "Fulfilled the prophecy has been. Sorry for for the way you were treated I am. Good person, you have always been. Your fault, nothing is." He shook his head with an apologetic look in his eyes.

I smiled as I held back tears, "Thank you Master Yoda, that's something I needed to here."

He nodded once more before turning to leave, "See you again soon I will."

I held onto (y/n)'s hip as we watched the ship lift up and leave towards the starry sky, "I kind of feel bad for screaming at him like he was troll the first time I met him, he's actually nice."

I chuckled as I turned to face her; placing both of my hands on her hips so I could hold her and feel the baby at the same time, "You screamed?"

She nodded sheepishly, "Yeah I even asked if he had dyslexia."

I laughed out loud as I pulled her closer to me, "You're too much." I pressed my forehead to hers and gazed into her eyes, "Im so in love with you." I smiled; tightening the hold I had on her.

"I'm so in with love you too Ani." She got on her toes and pressed her lips to mine.

From the moment I met this girl I knew there was something special about her, although I never could quite figure out what it was that drew me in in the first place.

Yeah I eventually fell in love with her smile, her laugh, her stupid little jokes, and the way her eyes twinkled whenever she looked at me.

But when I first met her, I was already done for, I was already under her beautiful spell.

It took me awhile to really figure it out, but standing here right now, happy and free, I finally know what it is.

And it was something that deep down I think I always knew, which is why I called her my beacon of light.

She is and she has always been, my Salvation.

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Omg I'm crying that it's over, but I am so unbelievably proud of myself. I never thought that I would finish one book and now look, I'm done with number two and I have so many to go.
I'll keep this Authors note short since we still have the Epilogue which I will post between now and Sunday ♥️
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I really hope I did this justice please let me know in your comments, I'm so nervous about it!♥️
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