Hey guys! Sorry i havent written much lately...ive hand surgery recently. I was hoping to be able to write in between but no hand movements. Down for almost two weeks! What the heck! But her it is! Chapter ten!
Chapter ten
Sandstorms
The days are hot, the air is sweltering even as night falls. Even so rey and ben continue training. She has mastered a bit of mind control, and a lot with her saber staff. She could compare it to before, with a little bit more danger swinging from the ends. The thrill is overly awakening her soul.
At first many did not accept ben as he was, a non threat. He wanted a welcoming, but knew it was to take time. What else could he really expect? These were the people he threatened. The men and woman he had help to break down, strike fear into. His mother still held her distance. As if she wasn't sure he was who he said he was.
Understandably so, he had brought down his father. Still, he would try to help her recognize the man he was now. They would accept him in time. Already three days later they had gotten a bit more comfortable with his presence.
There is something to be said about heat. Somehow it made him work harder, longer. Training his patience. He knew rey was proud of him. Poe watched him like a hawk, after the first meeting, poe would never trust him. He accepted that. Rey tried to bargain with him, but he didn't budge. Ben would not try, for he knew his days wreaking havoc through the galaxy were over. The doubt would always remain.
The bond grew stronger and stronger with everyday they had spent together. They had different sleeping chambers, per leia's request. Ben protested at first, rey silenced him with one hush. It was inappropriate for a lady, even though the deed had already been done.
Today ben left his hut, headed straight for the dining tent. Rey would be there. She always beat him to breakfast.
She stood in line, hair down reaching past her shoulders now. Short blue trousers hung from her hips, a grey tunic lay tight against her chest, wraps tied against her forearms expertly.She had a glow to her. He couldn't understand what the pull in the bond was, but something changed. He paid no attention as he swept across the floor and grabbed her shoulders, bringing his lips to hers in an intimate kiss. She responded sweetly caressing his chest. When they broke he whispered in her ear.
"Maybe we can sneak off before practice to my hut?"
Her face went rosy, and she rolled her eyes. "Last time we had nothing but time, now all we need is time. Ben I'm sorry but one day we will have each other wholly, then we can do as we please." She stammered back, before his lips caught hers again. Hungry and wanting, she could feel his need to be with her through the bond. Her thighs started to ache. The people behind them laughed loudly, alerting them they were not alone.
She giggled retorting horsily with an apology. As they made it to the front reys eyes grew wide, since they had been on this planet they had fresh food to eat. All sorts of fruit and meats laid before her. She filled her plate, eager to taste everything. She wanted something to miss when they departed from this planet.
Ben looked over in disbelief. She had quite the selection on her plate. He grabbed a few things, and followed suit.
After they sat down crosslegged in the corner, ben looked over at her. "Rey," he spoke."did you not get enough to eat last night?" She smiled at him.
"No, i did, i just want to taste everything!" Her beaming face so precious his heart melted. "I never know when we have to leave somewhere, so i try to take in as much of the place we are inhabiting." She continued munching on the granola and yogurt she had next to her sausage and eggs. It was true, she enjoyed this rare moment of peace they had managed.
Ben laughed, brushed his hand along her face, and wiped a bit of yogurt from her lip. He brought that finger to his lips and tasted it. A hint of honey lingered. "I promise, when this is over, we will eat meals as grand as this everyday." He declared.
Her smile widened, he was all she could ever ask for. "Ben, i love you." She kissed his cheek.
"I love you too rey."
It was overly exhausting rey to practice today. She couldn't seem to focus. The world buzzed around her and she couldn't get a grip on the force. Ben had tried to help her as best he could but something was different. Something in her force changed. Their bond was as strong as ever, was she getting weak? Could it be stress? He couldn't tell.
"Have you been sleeping alright he asked peeking an eye out from under his long black hair. They sat crosslegged in front of each other, both trying to focus, fingers in the sand. She had sweat on her forehead as she released bits of granules back to the surface.
"Yes, i have. Ive been eating regularly. I just feel different. Like something is going to happen." She sighed. The air seemed more Tense than usual.
"Can you pin point what is triggering this?" Ben asked.
"I cant pin point anything ben, but something is off." She coursed her eyebrows.
A large wave of wind knocked them to the sand, as a strom picked up around them. Ben pulled himself up and blocked the onslaught of dirt that swarmed around them.
"Sandstorm! Everyone inside their huts now!" Ben screached out above the wind, rey pulled herself from the ground and immediately raced towards the hut, picking up a small child and handing her into the arms of her mother. Behind her ben was helping a group of resistance pilots gather the fallen ship gaskets, pulling them into the bucket as fast they could then making their way into a hut, they continued like that for about 20 minutes, feeling with the force to help fallen bodies and wind bound children to safety.
The gusts built up faster and faster, rey located ben a few steps from her, he took her hand as the sand pounded into her flesh. Making their way into another hut after confirming all able bodies were safely away in huts. Closing the door, the winds stopped. Rey brushed sand off her face and out off her hair. Ben doing the same.
Rey steadied herself, a bit dizzy after the rush. Ben reached out and grabbed her elbow, letting her rest her weight on him for a moment, turning around she pulled herself into his arms.
"Are you alright?" Ben whispered into her hair, tightening his hold on her.
She rested her head against his chest. "Yes, a bit shaken, but i am very used to sandstorms. Jakku was famous for them." She giggled. In jakku they were more than deadly. Getting caught in a storm was a death sentence for those without survival skills. Many scavengers were lost to them. A few were friends she had made, all slaves sentenced to a life of ravaging the wreaks of the wastelands.
Jakkus storms were never less than a level seven on a wind scale. That maybe ranked a two. When visibility disappeared.
She leaned back in his arms, and glanced up at him. Eyes wide and full of love.
"I don't think ill ever get over your eyes." He spoke.
She was trying to focus on him, but he pulled her in closer lifting her up on her tippy toes. "Why whats wrong with my eyes?" She questioned into his chest.
"They are so beautiful." He caressed her back with his fingertips, gliding them up and down the curves above her hips.
"Well then." She whispered on his lips, tightening her hold on his shirt, kissing him tenderly. Feeling his lips part against hers. His tongue danced at her lips, gaining entrance.
He lifted her onto the bed, holding her close and peeling his layers off his chest. She readily found her tunic seams and unbound her wraps exposing herself to him. He was glorious, bound in nothing but his trousers. She wrapped her legs around his hips and continued kissing him deeply.
This was all they needed. The force coursed through them like water in a rapid. Beating against their chests begging to be released. The bond they shared linked their hearts. Force twins.
He slowly untied her tied, lifting her out of her pants in moments. She lay there bear of clothing, his erection pulsed at the thought of her warm folds.
Her beauty was unmasked. Unmatched. How had she this princess of light become his? He the dark murderous demon of night? She had unwound him. Purified him with her light. Given him reason again.
He pulled down his trousers and revealed his member, on his knees in front of her she stared at him, taking in the sight. As he pulled forward to gain entrance she pushed him back up. Questionably glancing at her she rose to her knees and took his member in hand.
He groaned. Loudly. A smile peaked her lips. In a swift movement, she took him in her mouth. At that point he was sure he could have came.
Coughing a bit from the size she placed her hand at the base and slid in in and out of her mouth expertly. Reading his wishes from his mind she expelled a moan as she pulled his cock out and licked the tip.
He was shaking now, almost unable to control his need. He wrapped his finger through her hair, pulling her back onto his cock.
Her mouth was small and somehow she kept her teeth from even grazing his dick.
"Rey...i cant...im going to." He grunted between gritted teeth.
She shoved his dick to the back of her throat as he called out his orgasm. Filling her throat with warm seed.
She could taste him, salty and sweet on her tongue.
He dropped to the bed beside her and she lay in his arms, one hand still wrapped him her hair.
She smiled up at him licking her lips. He kissed her gingerly.
Wide eyed she responded."ive never done that before." She giggled, "at first i wasnt sure, but somehow you guided me."
He laughed."i guess my thoughts just coursed, darling."
She lay there head on his chest breathing him in. He smelled like sweat and sand. Somehow, she could recall back when she was young. A voice?
"Ben i think we've talked before." She turned her head and focused on the wall.
"Of course we have," he responded holding back a laugh.
"No, i mean before this. Ive always wondered where i knew your voice. I think you spoke to me in my head when i was little." She closed her eyes trying to remember.
"Im not sure i can think of anything. There was always a presence in my mind commanding me then." He still struggled with memories from those times. "But it is possible. I used to trick jedi padawans into coming to the dark side. I would send messages through thoughts into the universe. Sometimes they would hear it and come to us without hesitation." He spoke as though the idea sickened him.
"I see." She wondered aloud. "I feel it was different. Then as to now. I think you've realized your full potential." She settled her head on top his heart. Listening to the beat. It sounded so soft...
"I owe that to you," he pulled her chin up to look him in the face. "You and your light rey." He kissed her again, more passionate this time. His hunger was insatiable.
They parted briefly. She smiled back up at him. He looked down at her unable to hold the smile back. She whispered. "Round two?"
Twilight had fallen and the sandstorm lightened up, unveiling a hot and humid sunset. The glorious colors beamed brightly on the horizon, as the moons in the sky eclipsed by the sun.
Rey was fixated on it. She could feel its powers reigning in her skin, tightening under her blood.
She could feel a force, unsure where it was coming from but different from that of any jedi she had ever felt. It was innocent, and weak, but the power it held was defiantly growing. She reached with her mind looking for where it was coming from. It faded in and out, she couldn't pin point the location. It had to be far away...
She had asked ben about it earlier, and he said he couldn't feel anything. Maybe she should ask leia? Or vos for that matter. As the sky faded purple, blue, pink and red hues danced among the stars. She sat their staring into the looming night, Counting rows of constellations.
This planet a reminder of jakku she couldn't shake. A reminder of abandonment and tormenting memories swarmed her thoughts. Try as she might she couldn't shake the feeling. A bright light shot through the air, a falling star?
It hovered. No. It was a ship. Whose ship? It looked like an old jedi fighter. She panicked as it darted towards her little village.
She jumped up racing towards the huts. "EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!" She screamed leia and ben turned around as the ship landed on the ground, vos darted out of his small hut and gathered with the others, leia, ben, and rey. Poe and finn ran to their sides all armed and ready to fight who ever it was that commandeered that vessel.
The small hatch opened and stretched out before them. Darkness swallowed what was left of the light, the moon and small torches that surrounded the village all that held any light.
A figure appeared and before they could identify the gracefully approaching shadow she spoke.
"Vos, i knew i felt your presence." Her voice raspy and yet still soft.
"Asajj." He was barely a whisper. "I could feel you from the utter rim of this planet."
"Well," she stepped into the light, revealing long blond hair and white skin. A scar stretched from one side of her face to the other. One eye was patched leaving only her right visible. Bandages ran up and down her arms, and the trousers she wore were tight to her skin. An neck cinching top held firm against her bosom, tight all the way to her hips where it cascaded down to her knees with slits up the sides that ran to her hip. "It seems we are at a standstill Quinlan."
"It seems so." He lit his light saber. Ready to protect the friends he had made. The jedi code.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Reys voice was harsh, she walked up to vos, but he put an arm out to stop her from lighting her saver staff.
"Well, im a bounty hunter. Little girl. It seems the first order is willing to pay three hundred thousand credits for each of your jedi heads,"She motioned to ben. "And a special fee of one million credits for that of kylo rens traitorous body." She let out a laugh that sounded like a hurdle of crying babies.
"You'll have to go through me to touch a hair on her head." Ben spit out through gritted teeth. Lightsaber flashed and crackled as it lit bright red.
She eyed him. "I plan to, and i plan to enjoy this." As she swung, dancing with two light sabers hand in hand, glowing purple and red. Ben reacted and vos counter struck, she darted out of the way blocking him, ben swung low and she leaped up into the air rolling off his back.
Rey had but a moment to assess her bounding towards her. Ben turned and vos tumbled low and bounced up in front of rey, their lightsabers meeting just in time to stop her from cutting into rey.
"You still use the same moves you taught me." He smiled. She glared at him, and twisted about, cutting the air right where his back was. She cut upwards and into vos's leg, nearly chopping it off, reys saberstaff knocked up into her hilt and twisted it from her hand. She kicked it up just as ben darted forwads, grasping it in his hand, and twirling about.
They charged as she backed up, meeting each strike with a counter, every low drop with another. They were matched. Reys force was pushing into her mind.
"Stop trying little girl your no mat-" in that moment rey felt something snap. A darkness flowed into her. They dropped to the ground. Everything started to shake. Ben tumbled backwards as the earth started to quake. Sand rose high above them rey stood hands raised above her. Rocks and bolder's started to fly through the air and dance across the earth.
Asajj held her head and screamed. Rey closed her eyes and pulled from her. Taking all her thoughts and memories in. A dark room, a young girl. Jedi fighting. She stayed in the corner, hidden behind a chair in fear. A woman lay across the floor, blood swarming around her. Tears dropped from her dirty face, gold eyes begging. Blonde hair drenched with sweat and blood.
"Momma.."
Another bound into her eyes. A young woman, blonde hair cut very short. Golden eyes smiling up into dark brown. A yellow tattoo crossed his young face.
"I love you asajj ventress. Marry me?" He asked leaning onto one knee.
She laughed, a young girlish laugh. "Yes quinlan vos, I will marry you." As they embraced she felt a force. Something dark inside her. Known only as darth sideous. A voice, conspiring.
As she broke from the connection the bolder's stopped. They had pinned the woman down. Arms and legs smashed under their weight. She cried out pain coursed through her body.
Reys head pounded. She wobbled and ben grabbed her before she fell. Her head snapped to vos, who stared on intently at her. Worry radiated off of him.
"She was your wife?!" Rey screamed. Her weakness no match for the anger that bored through her.
"Ex girlfriend. She left me before we could tie the knot." Vos's voice a whisper. As if whimpering the truth would make it hurt less.
Asajj screamed again under the weight of the bolder's her arms crushed beyond repair. She would be unable to walk for as long as she lived. "You fithy jedi and your damned power!" She screeched. "Just kill me!"
Vos's eyes shot to her. Tears flowing outwardly as he fell onto all fours. Grasping the dirt.
Rey turned to her. "Death is too good for you. All the evil you have committed. Not even repenting will save you now." Bens eyes flashed over her. Darkness swarmed her aura. This wasn't her, this was something of a sith.
"Rey! Look at me!" He held her, she couldnt break contact.
"Killing you would be merciful. Maybe i should." She raised her hand and a bolder rose high. Asajj closed her eyes and readied for the impact.
"Rey STOP!" He screamed, shaking her so her eyes would meet his.
The darkness dissipated, the bolder slid from her grasp onto the floor. Smashing asajj. Killing her instantly.
"What...what have i done?" Tears flowed down her cheeks. "What have i done?!"
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