Greetings! I welcome you all to the second installment in the Silver Blade Trilogy! I would like to thank the readers that followed me to my second Star Wars story, thank you so much!

Silver Blade II: Across A Tear-Streaked Sky

Lila follows Luke to Dagobah, but the Imperial Stardestroyer waiting in space makes sure she doesn't get there.

Chapter 1: Have You Seen This Jedi?

The wind howled across the frozen tundra of the icy planet Hoth. Lunalila Kenobi Skywalker reined in her tauntaun to a halt and surveyed the frozen landscape.

"Echo Three to Echoes Seven and Nine," buzzed a voice from the comlink on her wrist. "Han, Lila, do you read me?" It was Luke Skywalker.

"What else would I be reading?" asked Lila.

"Loud and clear, kid. What's up?" asked Han Solo.

"I just finished my circle. I don't see any life readings."

"There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser," retorted Han. "The sensors are placed, I'm heading back."

"Right, I'll see you shortly. There's a meteor that hit near here, I'm going to check it out. It shouldn't take long."

"Okay, Luke. See you at base." Lila put her goggles back on and shivered. After growing up on the desert planet of Tatooine for eighteen years, this was freezing.

"Alright, girl. Back to base," she muttered to her tauntaun. The animal turned around and galloped back to the ice structure that was the Rebel Base.

The snow lizard entered the hangar deck and slowly trotted to a halt. Lila slipped off its back and removed her helmet. On the far side of the hangar she could see the large structure of the Millennium Falcon, Han's prized ship that resembled a junk heap. Someone lead her tauntaun away.

Approaching the smuggler ship, she saw Chewbacca the Wookie making yet another repair job to the ship, which never seemed to perform its full functions. "Hey Chewie," said Lila, "What's wrong with it this time?" She remembered too late that she couldn't understand Wookie. The furry animal barked. Lucky for Lila, the most annoying robot in the galaxy was approaching. This was only lucky because the robot in question happened to be fluent in six million forms of communication.

"He says the central lifter is dysfunctional," stated C-3PO.

"Okay. Uh . . . thank you. Now go away." The golden robot left. "Good luck with that, Chewie." He growled.

She walked quickly to the command center, breathing into her hands to warm them. Lila sat down next to a dark-haired woman. "What have we got?"

"No Imperial probes yet," said Princess Leia Organa, "but all this meteor activity is going to make it hard to find them when they do come."

"Which they will eventually."

"That, Lila, is something I am sure of," said Leia tensely.

"Well, all we can do is hope for the best. Trust in the Force."

"Lila," began Leia, "you do realize that you, Luke, and I are pretty much the only ones who believe in the Force, right?"

"Your point, Leia?"

"My point, friend, is that if you go around saying stuff like that people will remember the Jedi massacre and say, look where the Force got them. So saying that isn't very encouraging to most of us."

"Yes, but I can say it around you, because you just said that you believe in the Force."

All further conversation was brought to a grinding halt as Han walked over. "Well, your Highness, I guess this is it."

"That's right," replied Leia coldly.

Seeing that no further comment was forthcoming, Han quickly strode off after saying, "Well, don't get too mushy on me or anything!"

"Would you take that sitting down?" Leia asked.

Lila snorted. "No. Are you going to?"

"No." Leia rushed off after Han. Lila shook her head and went in search of her room to meditate.

Twenty minutes later, she sensed Leia was suddenly feeling extremely worried. She swore and got up, promising to punch Han if he'd done anything.

"Hey. What's wrong?"

"Where's Luke?" demanded Leia.

"He went to check out a meteor. Why, isn't he back yet? He said it wouldn't take long."

"No, he is not back yet!" cried Leia. "He hasn't been back since this morning!"

Lila swore again and ran to the hangar. Han was already there, mounting a tauntaun. Lila quickly suited up and grabbed one of the snow lizards for herself.

"And just what do you think you're doing?" asked Han suspiciously.

"Coming with you. Did you seriously expect me to let you go alone? Anyway, I don't want to spend all night comforting Leia."

Han shrugged. An officer approached them. "Sir, the temperature is dropping too rapidly," he said to Han. Then he turned to Lila. "Ma'am, are you sure you want to go out there?"

"Pretty damn!"

"Your tauntauns will freeze before you reach the first marker!"

"Then I'll see you in hell!" retorted Han. He and Lila's tauntauns carried them out into the freezing blizzard.

Lila, though she didn't show it, was worried. See, Luke was her brother. She, Leia and Luke were triplets. And she was the only person who currently knew that. She couldn't let Luke die.

So there's chapter one for you. Enjoy?

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