Hi everyone, I am so happy and nervous to publish the introduction chapter of my first English written Star Wars fanfic! I have always loved Star Wars since childhood but have always felt that a certain type of character was missing so I let my crazy imagination process and here it comes! I don't want to change anything in the real story but as fanfictions writing is about releasing your imagination I hope you guys will enjoy this turn of the story. I will be looking forward to reading your comments and try to publish the next chapter quickly :)

What if the whole story was redefined and articulated around another character whose purpose was to create this much-desired balance in the Force … What if there was another one … Another one born from the union of the shadows and the light …

Facing the pain he recalled. Han remembered. His son wouldn't be lost, he won't be. He called silently in the darkness that started to surround him. In his last sigh, he printed his son's face in his mind and took it to the abyss of death. Kylo Ren stumbled and hold his tears. Han Solo was gone but his desperate call has been heard. Whereas angry gun fires swap around the hall and the fatherless Kylo Ren left, chasing after his opponents, an echo rang out deep in the Unknown Regions. A mysterious tiny dead-like planet came back to life. A silent unrest shook the very frozen heart of the dwarf and nameless planet. Suddenly the only life that ever existed there seemed to be back. An indistinct red light was melting the ice that composed the cryogenically prison cell. A pair of golden eyes opened and a dangerous tension rattled the Force and frightened everyone who remembered. She has finally woken up. Leia felt it too. Her head turned, painfully heavy and her heart broke. She could sense it deep inside her heart. Han was gone and their son seemed to be more lost than ever.

[ - ]

"-Traitor!"

Kylo Ren, injured, was waiting for the ancient Stormtrooper to approach so that he can get over with him. He knew that he hurt him during their lightsaber unfair battle and was about to get closer to finish him for real when a violent tremor loomed and stopped him in his steps. Rey took the opportunity to grab the lightsaber to fight against Kylo Ren. She wounded his face but a fissure ceased their fight. An indescribable and invisible string pulled her off and threw her violently on the ground next to Finn. She was slowly getting back to herself but the pain she was feeling in her chest made any move impossible. After the shake, she started to crawl in the direction of her friend to check his injury. Their surrounding turned even darker than the night. The only source of light was Kylo Ren's red lightsaber. Nobody knew what was happening and they started to act nervously. Kylo Ren started to move from left to right with his weapon firmly held. Finn stopped moaning and grabbed Rey's hand strongly. They knew the planet was started to implode but the feeling was beyond that, it was deep and unknown. A threatening smoke pulled apart to reveal a gloomy silhouette. Rey squinted to see a bit more clearly the shape of the immobile figure but she could only distinguished after the smoke vanished two hypnotizing golden eyes. Beautiful and terrifying. She hold her breath when the mysterious silhouette made a step forward. Kylo Ren was nervous but not afraid. He waited patiently for the figure to come closer but it didn't. It stopped after a step. A red light emerged in a laser sound. Rey started to cry. She understood. It's not a savior. The red light revealed that the golden eyes were surrounded by a black hood. "A Sith" Rey felt Finn trembling under her. The unclear silhouette turned its head toward them and Rey's heart skipped a beat as she saw the shape of a double-bladed red lightsaber. "It's over … It's a Sith" Her voice was shaking and cold tears felt on Finn's body. But the stranger didn't do anything to them. It turned back to Kylo Ren instead.

"- That's enough."

The voice was deep but Rey recognized a female voice. Unusually low and cold. She perceived hope and thought that maybe they had a chance to escape but Finn's physical condition brought her back into her despair. Kylo Ren was stunned and suspicious. What was that? What was it? He held his lightsaber harder, ready to attack at any other steps from the stranger. Another earthquake shook the ground but this time the reason was acknowledgeable. Kylo Ren yelled but couldn't move. It fixed him in place through a powerful understanding of the Force. While it rendered him useless, the intruder used its arm to break the parcel of the ground Rey and Finn were on. A distinct empty line was drawn between Kylo Ren and his enemies as the ground felt down into the depths. Rey felt the ground moving and it took only a few seconds for her to realize that she was far away from them. She heard its threatening voice inside her head. "Run … take him and run". She didn't wait any longer. She helped Finn to stand up and supported him to go as fast as possible away from this place without a glance to the person who just saved them.

Kylo Ren was furious and amazed at the same time. Once Rey and Finn were out of sight, the control on his body stopped. He was free to move again and rushed to her. Confused between anger and curiosity. He wanted to see who it was. What it looked like. Scarcely arrived at his opponent's position he perceived its instinctive move up its lightsaber to the height of its face ready to defend. A furious battle took place as the noise of the Falcon with Rey and Finn safe and sound as it flew away. Kylo Ren's hatred intensified when he realized that he failed to take the lightsaber of his grandfather back. His attacks were stronger and stronger but the shadow escaped to all of them without difficulties. Because of the injuries, he received from Chewbacca's shot Kylo Ren started to feel exhausted easier by the violence of his failed attempts to touch her with his lightsaber. He had never faced someone that clever and that strong in the Force. It was like the mysterious warrior could foresee his thoughts and actions. Despite the closeness of their faces due to the intensity of the battle, he could never see something else than her eyes. The hood hides perfectly every inch of its face and skin. It hurt his face and left a dark scar. At one moment the fight took a different angle as if it was too boring, its moves became way fiercer and Kylo Ren wasn't able to deal with such anger. In one move, without a touch, the masked figure expulsed him toward the nearest tree. The sound of the impact of his body on the tree explained his inability to stand up. He was lost. He felt the urge to surrender. His assumptions lead him to recall a darker species long gone. He had heard about the power of the Sith Lords and grew up admiring his grandfather. His current master taught him the power of the Dark Side but never has he ever faced such power, such mastery of the Force. Owing to the shock the blood in his head started to boil. His opponent adopted a static position. The atmosphere was heavy and tensed. Kylo Ren used the strengths he had left to push on his arms to face it, panting he asked.

"- Wh- who are you? But no answer came, so, furious, he reiterated. Show yourself! Stranger in the dark."

As if his words had awakened something in his competitor, it retracted its lightsaber and slowly removed its hood. Kylo stopped breathing at the moment he recognized this face, her face. He knew her from the description his master made from the one who raised Vader to his highest power and in the dark books he tried to use to understand the history of the great ancient dark lords. A sudden thought appeared in Kylo Ren's mind. She was dead. After his fall she disappeared and no one ever heard of her since then nor knew what happened to her. How could it possible. Her deep inspiration dragged him out of his reflections.

"Bring me to your master … Ben".

[ - ]

Finn and Rey finally came back to the Resistance base and were celebrating the explosion of the Starkiller base. But Rey couldn't enjoy the party. It was too hard. She saw Han's death and their mysterious savior left in her a bitter taste. She couldn't feel grateful at all. She felt something was wrong, very wrong. She knew what she had to do. She exhaled softly, kissed Finn's forehead and left the room where he was resting. After receiving the confirmation of his physical good state she felt the need to talk to Leia. She needed to talk about what happened and mourned the loss of Han. She packed her things, said goodbye to BB8 and left the base to walk in the direction of the spaceships. She passed by the joyful crowd and walked directly toward the General as soon as she saw her set back. Leia looked distant, her smiles to the cheering crowd were fake but her face enlightened when Rey came to her. They hugged for a minute. Leia knew that Rey took an important decision and she hoped that she will find what she was looking for.

"- General Organa I … I saw something back there. Rey hesitated for a second. I mean someone I think it was someone. Leia nodded to encourage her to pursue. I don't know what was it nor what it wanted …. But it saved us and it … stayed with your son.

- Yes. Leia's fears turned out to be true. She understood at that moment that Han's last wishes turned out to be toward a force she wasn't able to handle and will never be. Nevertheless, she couldn't deny the truth anymore. Yes, I know Rey.

- What was it? It seemed to be from somewhere else, not from this world."

Leia tried to smile and stroked Rey's cheek. It was a sign for Rey to understand she won't learn anything more. Rey smiled and closed her eyes to keep the warm feeling of the human contact. She has never felt it. A mother's touch. It felt good and safe. She finally stepped back to salute Leia, grabbed her bag, her staff and walked in the direction of her spaceship. She looked one last in the direction of her General who gently respond with a smile. "May the Force be with you Rey." Leia closed her eyes as the machine took off. She watched Rey's ship leaving until she couldn't see anything else in the vast blue sky. She on her way to find Luke. General Organa isolated herself and tried to focus, to remember how to do it. She called in her head many times but no response reached her mind. She kept trying and calling until she could see. Her breath froze and her heart stopped beating for a second. She could see her, after all these years, she could see her face. Her beautifully scary face. Her recipient was calm but she couldn't see her surrounding, she could only feel her state of mind until her eyes reached her brain and pierced her heart. She was suddenly in front of her, crystal clear but she seemed like an illusion. It seemed to be only her mind that teleported to here. For a minute both parties stared at each other but Leia wasn't ready. She just let the illusion disappeared and cried silently.

[ - ]

Kylo Ren remained silent in the automatic shuttle on the way back to the First Order Spaceship. He was sitting on a bench, unable to bear the pain any longer. He suddenly felt a burning sensation around his wounded belly. He wanted to scream as the pain was a torture but restraint himself when his eyes meet hers. The intrigue of the intensity of her look was stunning. He could feel the power she exerted over his injury. She blinked and turned back leaving him speechless and perplex. He brought his hand up to his wound and exhaled. She healed him. He stood up and walked towards her side. They moved closer to the fleet. Kylo Ren was nervous since he didn't how to face his failure to win over the prisoner and the venue of an outsider inside the realm of the First Order base. As the shuttle entered the shed of the main ship the mysterious women put her hood back to cover her face. The door opened noisily and Kylo Ren went out first, followed by his imposed guest. General Hux was there, of course, waiting to see if it was true that Kylo Ren has survived. His smile shade off at the glance of the hooded figure. As soon as she stepped out of the shuttle something unusual happened. Something neither General Hux nor Kylo Ren experienced before. In a single and synchronized movement, the whole bunch of new generation of Stormtroopers straighten up and saluted the newcomer, as if they have always known she would come.