Guardian of the First

The Finalizer was getting a new Crew member sent by Snoke, one who was to be the enforcer of Ren yet protector of General Hux after the last assassination attempt Ren nearly was too late to stop from the Rebels. Hux wasn't happy about having a shadow living with him constantly until they won but the alternative was dealing with Ren and another possible attempt on his person. He rather put up with the shadow. His protector walked down the ramp of the stealth infiltrator fighter. Captain Phasma was with him along with Kylo. The person descending was not very tall, a short but extremely slender five foot six.

She wore boots, pants and a strange turtleneck like tunic. Wearing bracers and a leather sash belt, she was death pale almost silver blue with dead rose colored lips and had exotic markings and extreme gold eyes with twin blue rings within red, hair black going blue then silver. Ears pointed. Hair tied up and back braided with leather, bangs streaked. Her hands were gloved, and she had a strange sheathe at her spine and twin holsters one on each thigh.

Looking at officers in a side glance as she walked, death troopers followed behind her in full black marching holding their riffles. Many non helmeted officers swallowed and Kylo finally recognized her straightening. Shadow Lezel Sunlael a half Valsion half Chiss. She was to be the protector of Hux. Coming up to them she was shorter but she kept the gaze without so much as a blink eyes on them as hands went behind her back.

"General Armitage Hux. Kylo Ren of the Knights of Ren." She said flatly with a soft spoken voice it was surprising.

Hux gave her his hand with proper greeting, she was far different in person than he had imagined. Hux admired her, her files, records, he had studied them extensively, and she was very young but nearly equal to him in rank in the order. One of the few to rise from nothing from battles. Her father was infamous…Admiral Thrawn. Of an affair with a woman who had saved his life a warrior named Silvara Sunlael.

Phasma had told him stories of the young Captain who had served under her first regiment at the time before Hux had taken her over. She had also confessed her fears of her, having seen her on the battlefield personally and not in a tie fighter. He gave her the tour personally dismissing his officers, Captain Phasma stayed behind them as did Kylo. He felt uncertain, he too knew the stories of her and even two of his own Knights had died by her hands under order of Snoke for failing their final tests.

Snoke called her Ealnuith the Valsion term for Reaper. Her call sign in the tie fighter squad was Reaper. After the tour she joined Hux and Kylo to go about their duties stepping onto the bridge watching the stars, hands clasped behind her back at the small of it at parade rest naturally. Closing her eyes she listened and seemed to gain a stillness most known for the dead.

She moved suddenly not at him but at an officer he moved knife parried she kept moving sparks went having pulled from her holster, a sort of baton like weapon, and she hit him hard striking him in the face blood hit his boots and Phasma's armor. Twisting around pulling from the spine sheathe a sword chimed unfolding she impaled the man making him look her in the eyes.

"You Rebels and your rebellious tactics shall fail." She made him drop his knife breaking the wrist slowly he cried out.

"We are the not the Empire, we are the First Order. We are the Galaxy; we are order in your chaos. You are nothing." She pulled it out letting it dance across the man jerked his head gone and bouncing to stop at Phasma's feet, the body swayed and dropped as she made blood come off her sword it folded and sheathed.

"We are the order of the Galaxy and all will fall in our way." She said suddenly, "We are all part of a system; every chain is a link, every officer from trooper to Admiral. One's failure is everyone's; every victory is a victory of the order. Every victory is a step of order in this Galaxy! Do not fear your superiors model them. You are this future!"

She turned on Kylo then he blinked, "and every superior shares that failure or victory because if one fails it is the failure of the superior. Their fault is your fault; one must become the teacher or remain the student. I am but a link in this Chain but I will not fail any under or above me, I will teach and I will learn because that is Order. One cannot be the Chaos or we are no better than Rebels." She said coldly more toward him.

"General, I believe it is time you retired for the night please." She looked at him sharply in that instant he watched her but complied handing over his datapad to an officer.

Other officers watched her go as the death troopers moved to get rid of the body and do a sweep of personnel in case of anymore Rebel spies. Hux walked with her to his quarters and felt a mix of fear and awe suppressing a physically shudder. The way she spoke to Kylo, how she killed another would be assassin, her conviction to the officers, to the Order. He felt pride in his officers and reaffirmed belief in the Order. She was not a force user or a Jedi or whatever Ren was. She was a woman and an officer who rose from nothing.

Captain Phasma had said when she was a field Captain a legionnaire of officers had heard her convictions and went into battle on the field with her voluntarily. Even against such impossible odds, not all of them made it in that battle but the Rebel faction they had faced had lost, greatly. She had collected every tag of every officer under her and contacted the families herself and seen to their burials before attending her own wounds and needs.

Taking punishment for the loss of those under her without backing down. She had been punished but also promoted after and many had entered the program from that world voluntarily asking to be under her regiment. For once he was actually glad to have her and his new shadow. She looked to him after checking his quarters allowing him inside, she took up the chair by the door after evening meal with him and went into a meditative state. Weapons across her lap, hands perched on her knees, eyes closed. Guardian.