Star Wars : The Last Jedi
Chapter Two
REY'S POV
Luke walks down the side of the stony mountain. He follows a path that I hadn't seen while climbing up here. Bits of green shoots sprout up from cracks along the path.
Grass.
I remember what they are called.
All that there was for scenery back on Jakku was sand. And sand is all I can remember.
I look around at all the green. Plants. Flowers. Bushes.
I must look fascinated because Luke looks back at me and gives an amused snort.
"So where are the others?" He asks. I'm startled out of my daze. He looks at me expectantly.
"Others?" I ask.
"I don't assume someone as young as you could have found the map all by themselves and then flown all the way here. Who else came?"
"Uh...a droid and a Wookie." I mutter.
"Hmpf. I would have expected more of a larger group. But I guess you did come none the less."
"Yes, well. Things have probably changed since you've left. And you'd probably rather not know." I say.
Trying not to think of Han.
Ren stabbing his own father with his lightsaber.
And then he fell, down into the abyss.
And the last thing he did?
Lovingly stroke the cheek of the son who'd just stabbed him.
How would I tell Luke that he was gone?
"Is that so?" Luke says. "Well I'd like to meet this droid and Wookie anyways."
"They should be still on the ship. I landed it on this sandy area about..." I looked down at the compass I had brought. "North-west of the island.
"Ah, I know where that is. Follow me."
He changes course and starts a faster pace, he expertly dodges trees and rocks and leaves me to try and keep up with him. I stumble on a few rocks and then eventually trip over a tree root that was sticking out of the ground. I land face-first onto the ground. I pick myself back up slowly and spit out dirt from my mouth. For an old man he sure is fast. I go back to jogging down the path, and Luke doesn't seem to even notice that I'm far behind him, I eventually start to catch up. But why was he rushing?
"What's the rush?" I call out. Now running a few meters behind him.
He continues he's fast pace and it's about a minute till he finally answers.
"You said you landed on a beach right?"
"Sure." I say, sandy area, beach. Same thing.
"Well when a person has lived on this planet for as long as I have, they begin to learn a few things, how the planet functions." He calls back to me. "And I've learned a few things, one of which is that the tide comes in at about sunset. And it comes in fast."
That's when I realize what he's saying. I wasn't thinking when I had landed and done it near the shore. If the tide came in, the ship could get whisked away out to the sea, or even, if the tide got as high as the ship, completely devour it, with Chewie and BB-8 inside.
I start running faster.
"How high does the tide get?" I ask now in panic.
"I've had it completely cover the beach, and then be about 5 feet deep, and depending where you landed, that could mean for a pretty messy situation waiting for us." He says.
"How close is it to sunset now?"
"About 10 minutes." He replies looking up at the sun.
It feels as if every step I take is taking longer than the last. Even though I'm in a full on sprint. I leap over rocks and other things in the way, as we rush down the mountain.
We finally arrive and the ship is still there, but the water has risen so high that it would be impossible to reach the ship in time to get the others out, let alone move the ship, which is pretty much the only way off of this planet.
I cry out and scramble down to the water and start trying to make my way over to the ship. I have to at least try. But then Luke calls out.
"Stop! It's too late. Get back over here before you get stuck too!"
I stop but I don't turn around. I have to get back to the ship. I have to. At least to tell Leia that her brother is okay, that I found him. Frustration comes crashing down on me and I can't stop crying.
But suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, the ship moves. My head snaps up to see that it starts to rise upwards. But how?I look over at Luke and gasp. His eyes are closed in concentration and his arm is stretched out towards the ship.
The Force.
He's using the Force.
The ship is in mid-air now. And is floating gently in the air. It goes right over me and heads towards a dry open platform on the side of the mountain, there would be no way for the water to rise up to there.
I suddenly realize that the water is now up to my waist, I have to get out of it.
I slowly slosh my way through the water. It's painfully slow. Jakku didn't have large bodies of water like this. It didn't have much water at all. I get a sinking feeling as I realize that I don't know how to swim, which means if the water got any higher I could be in serious trouble.
I don't know what to do, Luke was still concentrating on the ship. I couldn't think, panic sets in.
The water is up to my chest now and I thrash around in the water. I was so stupid, why did I ever jump into the water? Why did I even go on the mission to find Luke? Why did I ever leave Jakku. I kick my legs and try to keep myself above the waves. But all it does is drain my energy.
I'm to tired from struggling to continue. I stop and watch as the water gets higher. It rises up to my chin.
I take one last glance at Luke, he's still trying to get the ship to safety. It is a heavy thing and must take a lot of concentration to move. I turn around and look out to the horizon. The sun is setting now. The sky is painted with beautiful colours. And I cherish it, because it will be the last beautiful thing I see.
The water rises quicker and quicker.
I close my eyes and stop trying. And I feel the water as it fully submerges me.
I slowly drift down.
The water gets cooler as I go.
My lungs scream for air
And then.
It's over.
Sorry for the short chapter. I had more connected onto it but I'm going to save it for Chapter Three, and make this some sort of a cliff hanger.
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