She was just a scavenger one day, and then the next, she was thrust into a war that she didn't care to be apart of. Jakku had been her home for as long as she could remember, and though she was alone, she was free. Free from the worries of the war raging around her. Free of darkness, of despair, of pain. She welcomed the heat that blistered her skin every day from the two suns that her planet orbited. She welcomed the sand beneath her recycled boots that she had found hidden in one of the ships she scavenged. For her, it was paradise. It wasn't much, but it was the life she had known since a child, and a life she had grown accustomed to. That was, until she rescued a BB-8 unit that had thrust her life into complete unwelcomed chaos. Along her journey she had met Finn, and even met the famous Han Solo. Having left the planet of Jakku after being chased by members of the New Order, Rey found herself, alongside Han, Chewbacca, and Finn on the planet of Takodana. It was there that everything had changed for Rey. Sure, she hadn't enjoyed being chased around the galexy by some freak in a mask either, but this? It was all just too much.
Screams echoed from the long chamber of halls, pulling the brunette scavenger to follow theme. It was as if her body had for an instant separated from her mind, moving without thought towards the sound of a young girl screaming out. Moving slowly down the hallways, Rey followed the sound of the young girls scream, recognizing it somehow as she finally entered a darkened room. Shifting her gaze back over her shoulder, Rey then continued deeper into the confines of the darkened room, a soft hum vibrating through her body as she grew closer to the small case sitting at the very back of the chamber. Kneeling down, Rey would breath in slowly as she lifted the latch, moving both hands to either side of the box, before slowly opening it. A soft creaking sound engulfed the room as the contents were revealed to be...a lightsaber? Rey had never seen one of these weapons up close, only heard about them in the tales of travelers on Jakku. But it felt...like it was calling to her? Rey would bring her hand upwards, only to lower it and wrap her coursed fingers around the silver handle.
A loud saber igniting forced her to close the box quickly, jumping back in the process as she found herself in a long hallway, lit up with blue lights. Breaking into a slow job, Rey found the room spinning beneath her feet as she landed hard against a mound of dirt, her skin igniting by the flames that burned brightly to the left of her. Her green hues lifted only to see a male cloaked in black, lifting a robotic hand onto a droid. Lightning crashed around her, only to be consumed by the amount of rain that suddenly began to fall. Darkness crept around her aside from the blue flickers of lighting and sound of thunder that rumbled around her. Shifting her gaze back over her shoulder, she watched as a red saber slid through the back of another figure. Pushing to her feet, Rey blew the water from her lips, the rain continuing to pelt down around her figure as she stepped back from the figures in black that stood in front of her. Bodies littered the ground around her, nearly stumbling as she found herself back on Jakku. A scream catching her ear forcing her to turn, finding a young girl...her younger self...calling up to the sky. "Come back!" She yelled, forcing Rey to turn her head, as a ship flew upwards into the sky and out of sight. A forest soon surrounded her, once again encased in darkness. Run. Her body instinctively told her to run, and she did. Turning quickly, Rey had taken a few steps into her sprint before a red lightsaber and a figure appeared, a black helmet that she had seen only moments before. This figure forced her to halt, causing her to stumble back quickly before she found herself falling back into the long corridor she had started off in.
Her head turned quickly towards the entrance, in which Maz had slowly began to make her way down the spotlighted hall. "Wh-what was that?" Rey asked, breathing hard as she swallowed, obviously afraid of what she had just seen. Pushing upwards to her feet, Rey shook her head slowly as she spoke again, fighting back the tears from fear. "I shouldn't have gone in there.." "
That lightsaber was Lukes, and his father before him." Maz spoke, pointing towards the closed box in which Rey had just opened. "And now...it calls to you." The female pirates arms lifting upwards to signify that she was in fact talking to Rey.
"I have to get back to Jakku." She shook her head again, still trying to understand what in fact she had just seen. Maz's hand lifted out towards her own, Rey instantly placing her hand into the females, kneeling down in front of her.
"Dear child, I see your eyes. You already know the truth. Whoever you are waiting for in Jakku...they are never coming back." Hearing the words, Rey could only press her lips together, witnessing that hope slowly fade into truth, knowing that Maz was telling it. "But there's someone who still could." Rey's eyes came to a close, forcing back the tears that threatened to fall.
"Luke."
"The belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead."
Maz nodded her head as she spoke. "I'm no Jedi, but I know the Force, it moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes, feel it. The light." Rey watched as the pirate closed her eyes, only to slowly reopen them. "The saber..take it." Maz spoke, forcing Rey to push up to her feet quickly.
"I'm never touching that thing again. I don't want any part of this." Rey spoke, shaking her head as she hurried past Maz and from the corridor. She ran, ran until she stood outside the castle in which Maz had ran for thousands of years, pressing her hands into the trunk of a tree to keep herself steady. It was in that moment, that her whole life would change, only she wouldn't accept it, and in doing so, it would cost her.
Darkness had engulfed her suddenly, only to be blinked away as consciousness finally found her. Her green hues took moments to adjust to the dimly lit room aside from the light that spotlighted down onto the metal slab that her wrists were bound to. The last thing she could remember was firing a blaster towards the same man in a mask that she had seen in her vision, once, twice, a third time. Each blast only repealed by the red lightsaber the figure wielded. It was only when she fired the twelfth time that she felt herself being grabbed, her hand holding the blast forced behind her body, keeping her from firing, let alone running.
"The girl I've heard so much about." The figure spoke, her body straining to move as the figure in black moved towards her, passing by her to the left of her frame. "The droid, where is it?" Heavy breathing was cut short the moment the heat and light from his saber was felt hot against her cheek. It wasn't touching her skin, but she could feel it there, illuminating her tanned dirt covered skin. He soon stepped back, lifting his hand in front of her, pulling her mind apart to find what he was looking for. Rey's hues closed, her jaw clenching as she felt him digging into her head. It felt as if her skull was about to explode. "The map. You've seen it." Dropping his hand, allowing the pain from her mind to disappear, the figure moved around her to speak to the troopers that interrupted his interrogation. The last words she heard were him speaking from behind her. "Forget the droid, we have what we need." Then darkness.
Silence imbued within the darkened chambers. Until a deep inhale was taken, and Rey woke with a sudden start, her green hues glancing downwards at the restraints in which held her in place. Tugging gently at the shackles, it took another moment before her hues searched the darkness in front of her, seeing the dark outline of a figure sitting comfortable, watching her. The mask that had haunted her nights, and hunted her during the day finally coming to life before her. Her lips pressed together, swallowing hard as she finally spoke. "Where am I?" She asked, fear visible in her expression as she spoke across the room to the mask and dark silhouette that sat across from her, watching her.
"You're my guest." He would reply back, sarcasm evident from his voice that was akin to a demonic robot. He had the slightest bit of sympathy, allowing her to rest before conducting a harsher plot to retrieve the answers he desperately desired.
"Where are the others?" She inquired, her eyes blinking at the light that rested above her shackled frame. The images of Luke, Chewbacca, Maz, and even Finn flashed through her mind almost instantly, hoping that they had all made it out of Takodana alive.
"You mean the murders, traitors, and thieves you call friends?" He inquired, knowing easily that he could have told her that they had all been killed, and made this interrogation all the more easier. "You'll be relieved to hear that I have no idea."
Reys lips persed together, a glare being sent from her own green hues into the eyes of his mask.
"You still want to kill me?" He asked incredulously, as if amusement hid behind his words.
"That happens when you're being hunted by a creature in a mask." Rey replied, watching as he slowly but surely reached up to remove the helmet that separated his human self from the robotic facial structure of his persona. His features were chiseled to near perfection. His jaw was angled impeccably, with pale pink lips against white skin. His eyes like a pool of umbar, chocked full of pain and hatred. Darkened more so by the darkness in which he served. She caught herself looking at him longer then anticipated; in some ways, recognizing him. How was that possible? She never met the man behind the mask, or so she believed.
"Even when I can tell you so much about a past you wish to learn about?" He spoke, a slight smirk tugging at the left corner of his lips, as it taunting her with information he knew she craved, she desired. He knew who she was, where she come from? How was that possible? No one, not even Rey knew that information, that was why she was in search of Luke, to find answers. "You are so much more then a scavenger. Much...much more." He spoke, stepping towards her, lowering down beside her. His hot breath hitting her skin, forcing her head to turn away as he spoke. "I can give you the answers you seek, in return for the location of the droid...and Luke Skywalker."
DUN! DUN! DUN!
I know, it's a little rough.
And it's moreso the recollection of the movie, BUT, it will get better.
Because I have SO many ideas to put into this story.
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