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Chapter Thirty-One: History
Kef Bir.
According to Poe, it was one of Endor's moons. Elle didn't know too much about it. She knew a lot more of the Battle of Endor itself. But it was where the Sith Wayfinder was located, and their next stop as they landed upon the green hilltops.
They crash landed onto the moon, ship head first into the dirt, skimming across the green lands.
On the way to Kef Bir, Poe explained to Elle what was going on, and what they were up against. Rey hadn't meant for Chewie to get kidnapped. She thought he'd died in an explosion that she caused by her own strange powers that had emitted from her hand. Lightning. Of all things, that struck Elle the most odd to her.
She didn't like it. Not one bit. It settled off in her heart. And so did this moon. Elle swallowed hard when they stopped at an edge of a cliff, overlooking the ocean's waves crashing against a large structure in front of her.
"What is that?" the cone droid asked.
"This is the Death Star," Rey explained. "This is a bad place, from the old war."
Chills swept over Elle, and she was sure everyone felt the same. She looked over at Poe, eyes dancing wildly upon his figure as a grave and grim look appeared on his tired expression, trying to fight his own inner turmoil of emotions within him.
"It's gonna take us years to find what we're looking for," Poe exclaimed.
"Oh dear!" Threepio cried alarmingly.
"Threepio, you used to tell me stories about your battles of history when I was younger," she said, sensing the droid's weary apprehension.
"Oh... I did?" He asked.
Elle smiled a little, and she nodded. She leaned into Rey.
"So, how long's he going to be like that?"
Rey gave her a look of uncertainty. Forever, more than likely. Threepio was never going to be the same.
Rey stopped, followed by the others, and pulled out the dagger. She peered through the curved edge that seemed to have holes in it.
Poe narrowed his eyes at the dagger, looking at its design. It was like the Death Star's broken up ship in front of them.
Elle chewed her bottom lip worriedly as the dark curls of her hair whipped around her face as the wind hit her, letting her taste the sea air.
She fiddled with the blade until it clicked, and pulled out further with more clues to read. She peered through and tried to read what it meant, while they watched her try to figure it out.
"The wayfinder's there," Rey pointed.
"Head's up!" Poe exclaimed, pulling out his weapons. Rey and Finn pulled out their own as well, whirling around to face the woman suddenly coming towards them on a horse with her comrades behind her. Elle's heart stilled, and looked around, as she had no weapon. She stepped behind Poe. Noticing this, Rey handed Elle the dagger for her to use as protection, for she no longer needed it to find the Wayfinder.
Elle grinned and gripped the hilt in her hand tight. Thank you Rey.
"Rough landing?" the woman asked, noticing the Falcon on it's side across the way from them.
"I've seen worse," Poe said.
"I've seen better," she duly noted. "Are you Resistance?"
She was merely eyeing Elle's outfit with suspicion and Elle looked down at the black dress she still had on before looking at her and chuckled nervously.
"Oh, don't let the outfit fool you"
She smirked at Elle. "Sure could have. So which is it?"
"Depends," Poe said, glancing between the two women with caution.
"We picked up a transmission from someone named Babu Frik," she said.
Poe lowered his weapon.
"Babu Frik?" Threepio asked. "Oh, he's one of my oldest friends!"
"He said you'd come," the woman continued. "He said you were the last hope," she said.
"We need to get out that wreck," Rey said. "There's something inside we need."
She looked thoughtful, mindful at Rey.
"I can take you there by water," she informed.
"You've seen the water?" Finn asked.
"Not now," she nodded in agreement. "It's too dangerous. We can get there at low tide. First light tomorrow."
Rey shook her head. "We can't wait that long. We don't have the time."
Elle gulped, knowing that Rey was probably right. How much time did they have? But then again, they really needed to fix the Falcon because it was their only way off this moon. They were in a tight position.
"Do we another choice?" Poe asked Rey. "Let's get that ship fixed. Do you have parts?"
"Some," she said with a nod of her head. "I'm Jannah."
"I'm Poe,"
Jannah looked over at Elle warily still, and Elle licked her lips curiously, especially when Poe looked at her too, motioning a quick nod over to Jannah. "I'm Elle," she said, retracting her blade and handing it back to Rey. "I'll help you."
Jannah looked at Elle warily, but nodded just the same for her to come along.
"I love your horses," Elle commented. Finn nodded as well, also in agreement.
"Thank you. They're called Orbaks actually," she said, as she and her people got off of them to help Poe and Elle out with the ship.
D-O zoomed up close to one of them, "Hello!'
The Orbak suddenly roared loudly at him, and thrusted his nose in the air with a little shake, making the cone droid recoil in fear. "No thank you. No thank you."
~*SW*~
Elle stood behind and watched Poe try to fix the control panel behind him with Threepio's help right beside him. Jannah helped Finn try to fix the tank underneath the ship that was broken.
"What a dreadful situation," Threepio noted. "Is every day like this for you people? Madness!"
"Did we ever find his volume control?" Poe asked.
Elle smirked at him. "I highly doubt there is one," she said. "Just a power down button, hone."
Poe paused slightly, and turned towards her. Elle stopped and narrowed her eyes at him. "What?"
He grinned a little. "You called me hone."
"Yeah, so," she shrugged. "Don't we always?"
"Yeah, it's just…I haven't heard you call me that in a year," Poe said. "It just…feels nice."
Elle suddenly found her lips curling into the biggest smile.
She chewed her bottom lip and leaned against the pilot's seat, crossing her arms.
"So who was she?" Elle asked.
Poe paused, nearly loosing his tools out of his fingers when she just straight out asked him. He sighed, hanging his head low. "Now? You're asking me now?"
Elle nodded. "Yeah. Got some time to kill."
Poe swallowed hard, and continued to work on the compartment. "She was just an old friend, that's all."
"Finn said it was more than that," Elle said.
"I…was a spice runner. I ran with a small crew on Kijimmii before I joined the Resistance. The crew leader had a name. Her name was Zorii Bliss. We just…we used to work really well together. Had a bit of a falling out, and then I just joined the Resistance."
Elle sighed and shook her head. "I guess I just always thought you'd join the Resistance."
"And, I guess you always just wanted to be a Jedi."
Elle looked down. "I didn't know what I wanted. All I wanted was just to be with someone, family, friends. I didn't want to be alone anymore. I was so afraid…so stuck in fear…afraid I couldn't pull myself out. That's when Ben stepped in, that's when things changed suddenly, and then he saved me and before I knew it, Snoke was leading us, training us for the Dark Side," she whispered shamefully.
"I thought I was too far gone."
Poe stopped working on the ship, and turned towards her, staring into her eyes. Elle stared into his, holding his gaze on her as memories swept over her of the two of them together when they were younger.
"When you left, it kind of just made sense to try something new for a change, I guess," Poe shrugged. "Maybe I just needed to see what else was out there you know?"
Elle nodded. "I get that."
"And I get why you wanted to go and be a Jedi with your brother, Ben, as I remember him, vaguely, anyway before…" he paused, the bitter memory that was on his mind, and everyone else's. He shook his head. "Anyway, at the time he was your brother, and family's everything, no matter what," Poe said. "That's why I knew when I first saw you in my cell that day, that there had to be some of the old Elle left in there somewhere. I had to try. And I'm glad I did."
Elle gave him a half smile and he held that within him. He turned around to get back to work and Elle looked down at the floor.
She cleared her throat. "So, um, do you still have feelings for her?"
"What?" he asked and then became a stumbling idiot, fighting for the right words to say. "C-can't we just say that I was a spice runner and you were a Dark Jedi knight in training or something like that?"
Elle narrowed her eyes at him. "I would've been called Reigna Ren thank you very much, and no no we cannot."
That was when BB-8 suddenly rolled in alerting Poe that something was wrong.
"What about Rey?" he asked concernedly.
BB-8 beeped in reply. He looked alarmed and looked at Elle.
"What?" she asked.
"She's gone," he said, and he ran back to the ship. Elle quickly followed him back to where Finn was.
"Rey's gone."
~*SW*~
