Chapter 16 : Disappearance
"She's possessing me, she's in my head... What can I do, Ben? What can I do?!" Rey was in Ben's arms, sobbing quietly. Ben had woken up the next day to find Rey very worried, standing in the entrance of his room. He hadn't even had the chance to ask her what had happened yesterday, that she had fallen in his arms, crying silently.
"The only thing you can do now is resist her, don't let her in your head" Ben smiled a bit, "We'll figure it out, I promise...". He didn't know if that was a promise he could fulfil but, he didn't want to worry her even more. He wrapped his arms around her head and smiled, "We'll do it together".
Rey smiled and wiped her tears, "I better go see Poe, I need to ask him something". She stood up and walked over to the door, but Ben called her and she turned around, "Rey, tell me if this happens again". Rey smiled, "Of course", she walked out of the room, giving one last look at Ben, "I won't hide anything from you anymore".
Rey walked out of the Falcon, taking a deep breath and stretching her arms, she walked over to one of the campsites, searching for Poe or Finn, or even Rose. Looking around for anybody, she entered inside a room. Rey had been right, they were inside that room, at least, Finn and Poe were.
Finn had his head in his hands and Poe appeared to be comforting him. Rey rushed over to his side and passed her arm on his shoulders, "What's wrong? What happened?". Finn raised his head and stared at her.
"It-It's Rose, she-" Finn started but Rey interrupted him, "Is she hurt? Is she sick? What does she have?". Poe stared at her with an annoyed look and Rey lowered her head, "I'm sorry... Continue please". Finn took a deep breath, "She-she disappeared... It's been two days... The first day, we didn't worry about anything, but today... We got worried; we searched everywhere in camp, and we searched in the forest too, she wasn't there".
Rey stared sadly at the floor, "Did you really search everywhere?", Finn nodded and stared blankly at the floor, "We really searched everywhere... She's nowhere, it's like she disappeared", he sighed and closed his eyes. Poe whispered comforting words, "She's surely somewhere, we'll find her, I promise".
Rey wasn't listening, she stood up and walked over to the door, "I'll be back later, I need to do something...". She walked out of the room, closed her eyes and let her instincts lead her, she had felt something strange and was going to check it out.
When she opened her eyes, she found herself at the edge of the forest, not knowing why. Rey took a deep breath and stepped in, she walked a few instants and stopped. It was suddenly dark and cold and she felt as if someone was watching her, she turned around and couldn't spot anyone. Rey breathed rapidly, she was scared, she didn't like being alone...
She heard a whisper behind her and turned around, grabbing her lightsaber and igniting it, "Who is it? Show yourself!". Rey turned on the spot, holding her saber, the whispers kept getting closer and closer and she started feeling dizzy. Not again... she thought to herself, and closed her eyes, trying to breath slowly and keep control of her mind.
"Why are you doing this? Stop controlling me!" she shouted and raised her lightsaber. She heard footsteps and turned around, a dark figure was walking in the shadows, walking towards her. Rey sighed and pointed her saber at the figure, walking slowly away from it.
When it got closer, it put its hand near its head and lifted its hood, Rey squinted and stepped closer, using the light of the lightsaber to see who it was. The person stepped forward and pulled out a saber. Rey gasped; she had just recognized who it was, she screamed and rushed towards the other person, raising her lightsaber.
"What have you done with Rose? Don't lie, I know you did something to her!" Rey took a step forward and pointed her saber at the person, "Lara, what are you doing here? To kill us all?".
Lara smiled and raised her hand towards Rey, sending waves of pain to her head, "I'll tell you something, your friend isn't dead yet, I hope that reassures you" She smiled her terrifying smile and clenched her fingers.
Rey closed her eyes in pain and tried to resist it, but Lara was too strong. She felt herself being lifting in the air and she managed to grab her lightsaber and try to hit Lara with it, but she was too high in the air.
Lara laughed and Force-grabbed Rey saber, still holding her in the air, "Your friend Rose is the first and she won't be the last". She lowered her hand and Rey fell to the ground.
Rey groaned and clenched her shoulder and leg; she had fallen badly on them. She lay there, on the ground, trying desperately to stand up and face Lara. "But... Why?" she panted, her shoulder and leg throbbing and shaking uncontrollably.
"Why what?" Lara Force-projected Rey against a tree and laughed, "Why am I out for revenge? Because of what Ben Solo did, that ruined my life, he must pay, and for that I will kill every one of you, till only he is left, being alone, that's something he never understood..."
"Then kill me, kill me, but leave all those innocent people alone" Rey stumbled over to Lara, her injured leg collapsing underneath her weight, she fell to knees on the ground. Clutching her shoulder, Rey looked up to Lara with a decisive look on her face, "Kill me if you want, I'm not scared of dying for innocent people..." She took a deep breath and forced herself to smile.
Lara smiled too and looked into Rey's eyes, "Oh, I would gladly kill you right now, but for the pleasure of it, I'll make you suffer too and kill you last". She sent Rey flying against another tree and laughed again, knocking Rey unconscious.
"Stop this right now! Leave her alone!" Lara turned around and looked in the shadows to see who had shouted. She put her hand on her pocket, where her lightsaber was, preparing to get it out. Lara walked closer to the trees; she had just seen something move between the bushes and trees.
"She doesn't need to suffer for your pleasure" Ben stepped out of the shadows and ignited his lightsaber, "This is the last time you hurt any of us" He frowned an instant, then charged towards Lara, his lightsaber ready.
Lara didn't even pull out her saber, she dodged Ben's attack and disappeared in the shadows, "You'll never kill me..." the voice rang around Ben and he turned around, his lightsaber in front of him.
Ben frowned, he looked around everywhere but couldn't see her anymore, she was gone. He breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to Rey's side, taking her head in his hands and whispering, "It'll be alright, I'll get you home right away..."
Sorry for the really long wait but I have been making my Instagram account by making some edits, jedi_fanfic. This might be the before last chapter, get ready for a big surprise in chapter 17...
