Well here's my 2nd chapter for this mystery part of the story... There some creepy and wierd happenings in these chapters... So as a fair warning... Also, if you can, read these chapters in the dark to have a better mood setting. But without anymore unneccessary talk, it is time to continue once again!

Superfan44: Yes, there will be some magic and a sort of schizophrenic delusion between imagination and reality here.

AhsokaTano141516: Yeah, I knew I had to keep the romance continuing on a high since most of this story is more dramatic than romantic... If you want more romance than what I am already giving you, just say the word.

Bookreaderninja: Yes, I know what I have decided to do (wink wink), and thank you for your continued support... I wouldn't be updating nearly as fast if it weren't for you avid fans... Merci, Gracias, or as in the Onderonian language that I came up with, Asante!

Drecklyn: Yeah, I treat my stories as a fast-paced novel... I want the realism of detail that you would only gain from a book, yet have the easy-going pacing of a movie... So I hope I accomplished that... Because of your comment, I'll see if I can put in more romance than what I have already done, but truthfully this fic is going to be more dramatic than romantic. Pole! (Sorry)

Court Mallet: Yeah, Ahsoka would naturally be hesitant of going into something unknown... SO why is she behaving strangely, well just wait and see.

Lux's POV

Hands in togetherness, we continued to plunge into the abyss... I just... I just couldn't wrap my head around why Ahsoka was not acting hesitant at all about traveling into the cave blindly...

"'Soka, we should turn back. This isn't the 'quick look' that I had in mind." I let out some air of dismay. "Please, 'Soka, we need to turn around."

"We can't." she said firmly. I was driven insane. Why not?! What good is there in walking senselessly through a deep dank cave?! This was definitely puzzling... Ahsoka is never this naïve. I'm the naïve one out of us. Silly, I'm starting to act like Ahsoka and Ahsoka is starting to act like me as we were on Carlac.

"Just, don't ruin my plan, OK." Ahsoka said. Plan? What plan?

"What are you talking about, 'Soka? As far as I'm concerned, we've gotten here by chance..." Hang on, if Ahsoka could have never predicted where this mist was going, why would she have a plan in dealing with this at all...? Something's off. I just couldn't place my finger on it. We continued to walk aimlessly into nowhere.

Soon, we got into a deep part of the cave where there was no more starlit night that can be seen from where we stood. The only light we could navigate from was the mist that showed a clarified sign that it will never be stopping... I continued to walk, holding her hand, digging into it for all the comfort I could get from such a grip.

Ahsoka continued to move step-by-step, not in a flowing ever-moving motions but was throughly stilted in a robotic movement...

I knew the green spasmodic light could pave a trail traveling for miles on end, so I decided to shoot out a conversation..., "Hmmmmm," I started, more to myself than to Ahsoka, "Pekee. Sana pekee." I then spoke to my enigmatic attraction, "You'd think that a profitable fuel mine such as these would have, you know, droids actually working in them... I have seen no sign that droids have ever been here at all other than that storage facility right outside... There is no tools, no sign of excavating, and no pipelines... Why do you think the Separatists are not industrializing in here...?"

However, Ahsoka did not speak at all... She was proceeding at the same pace as ten minutes before.

"'Soka?" There is something wrong. Is Ahsoka sleep-walking right now? No, she can't be... Her modest, toasty-warm hand was still gripping my own very undeviantly strong... I could tell that she was awake; just ignoring me.

This cave did not look like a fuel mine whatsoever... It looked more like an articulate jewel cave without the jewels. Whatever light the green vapor was producing was not much, but it did show some stalagmites and stalactites and other intricate rock walls that went all over the place... But for some reason, there was no sign that droids, or anything for that matter, have been digging here... Something must have turned them away... This menacing thought was making me ever more fearful of pressing on... I decided to bring this up with Ahsoka.

"'Soka, droids aren't here nor do they show any sign that they have been here, and yet there is a large mining facility outside... You know, I've been thinking, what if the droids were chased out of here by someone or something. Doesn't that make you at all a little nervous?" Ahsoka had to feel some fear at these peculiarities.

"No." Ahsoka answered simply.

"You sure?" I asked incredulous, "Ahsoka, what's gotten into you? You're never this dismissive of an overhanging threat. Never... What's going on?"

But Ahsoka seemed to have enough with me for she suddenly stopped where I stood, turned around with the most furious glare, pointed a threatening finger, and practically screeched in the most horrifying tone of voice, "LOOK! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU DRAGGED ME ALONG HERE! YOU DECIDE THE DESTINATION, I DECIDE THE TERMS! AND MY TERMS AND MY PLAN IS TO FOLLOW THE MAGIC OF THIS PLANET THAT SHALL REWARD ME!" OK, I admit this is my fault, but why would Ahsoka want to continue traveling into an unknown darkness than to study all the facts about this place beforehand? This is not at all like her.

"Ahsoka, what are you trying to say?!" I interrupted, "I doubt this 'magic' will bring any rewards for us. Why are you putting faith in unfamiliar bewitchments than your own instincts? I thought Jedi..." I shortly paused, "I thought Jedi were suppose to rely on their instincts..."

Ahsoka calmed down, "I am putting reliability with my instincts. My instincts tell me to believe in this." she pointed to the vapor, "When will you learn that belief is not a matter of choice but of conviction? Like I said, a plan is only as good as those who see it through."

"And sometimes a failure in planning is a plan for failure." I countered.

"You don't believe me?! Well excuse me, but I believe in my instincts! What do you believe in?!" she scolded.

I opened my mouth to answer her retort, but nothing came out of it. I shooked my head and looked at the ground. She was right. I no longer have a perfect amount of faith in anything... My mind was as cynical as a droid's. Programmed and only calculating. I never really had faith in any one thing for a long time... I had faith in my parents before the war... After I lost their guidance, I thought the only that person I can rely on is myself... That is, until Ahsoka returned to my life... She was the only one who gave my wiseful guidance during my inner-war... But I knew that if I just were to follow her, I wouldn't accomplish any of my goals... My goals were constantly changing, constantly transitioning... Until very recently, I believed I needed to selflessly serve my people no matter what. But when Ahsoka, once again, returned to my life, my objective was mixed and mingled... Another part of me, including now was ordering me to serve the woman of my love: Ahsoka... She was there for me when nobody else was, I just didn't see it... Now I was questioning if Ahsoka was my true destiny in this dark tunnel where no light was shining at all but from this otherworldly mist... I had no faith...

"I don't know anymore." I didn't weep but I evidently showed anguish... I expected Ahsoka to, once again, be there for me... My yearnings were off-kilter, but I expected her to rush up to my wake, hug me in apology, and promise that everything will be fine...

But she did not... She did not show any comfort... I looked up and saw her continue to glare at me with her still beautifully oppressive eyes. "Hmpf!" she snorted, "That's what I thought." I almost cried there.

"Ahsoka," finally calling her by her first name, "don't say it like that... I'm sorry for everything I did to you. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you when I should have... I'm sorry I ever hurt you..." A tear strolled down my cheek and took refuge tucked away in the corner of my frown..., "I should have never hurt you."

I expected Ahsoka to show some sign of concern, but she still acted, almost sadistically, saying, "When will a gutless infidel like you make up your mind?" she dismissively spat.

I felt my heart drop into the pit of my stomach and become charred away in hurt. "Ahsoka, please listen to me... You're the light of my life. You show me so much when I feel so little... The truth is..., I I-I-I... nakupenda." I ended in my other language...

"What?" Ahsoka raised an eyebrow, her facial expression was no longer flaring but was heartening... I was really trying to tell that I loved her, but I just couldn't say it... I just couldn't...

But I had to tell her my feelings. I just had to...

"I-I I lo-" I never finished... Something else caught my attention...

The light of the mist flickered on-and-off quickly, and then as if it lost all of it's power, died completely... Darkness... Utter darkness. I couldn't be able to see past my nose... I didn't say anything... Well, this is a fine mess we gotten ourselves into...

Suddenly, I heard a 'whoosh', and was blinded again by a greenish-yellowish light... But it did not come from overhead... It came from Ahsoka's smaller of her two lightsabers, and hung it over her head like a glowrod, lighting the way.

"Well, it looks like this will have to do for now." she said and started to walk forward.

"Are you sure this is the wisest way to go. Why can't we just get out of this darkness by turning around?"

"The way forward is never back. Forward is always forward. You can't escape every hole by going back... Sometimes you need to dig ahead... Something is in here that I need to know."

She was right... And she was the only one who had the guiding light to follow. If I disagree with her and we move out separately, then I would just be forever lost in this maze. I had to put faith in Ahsoka's instincts... I had to follow her as a trail of faith... I would die otherwise because I needed her... I needed her guidance in the dark tunnel I was in... I still love her.

Hmmmmmmmmmm, Ahsoka is acting suddenly aggressive... What does that mean?

I also added in bunch of symbols in this chapter (the most obvious is Ahsoka's shoto).

So they are still going into the abyss without any sign of escaping. What next?

Try to guess what happens next. (Except Bookreaderninja. I already gave you the answer. Please don't tell anyone.) I know it's a long-shot if you get it right, but I am very curious what you guy's and gal's views of what should happen should be... So like I said, please review, comment, rate for this chapter and guess for the next and I'll love you back!

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