Entry two: Danny's Capture: A few months later

Part 1

Before I knew it, a few months later, the group of Jedi and I had become the best of friends. Rei and I were especially close. Whenever I thought of Max, he knew just how to comfort me. That's why I thought of him as...another brother, though he didn't know it. That's why we had adopted each other as brother and sister. So...in a way, I had a replacement for Max. In reality, but never in my heart or memory.
One day, I walked out into the Falls wearing a white, short sleeved summer dress, since the weather was much like summer. My hair was pulled back into a braid, sitting on my shoulder, and I wore my saber hanging from my belt around my waist. I looked around the falls, and saw Rei's sleeping figure by his favorite tree. I smiled, walking toward him, not knowing he was asleep.
"Hi, Rei," I said. I looked at him closer, and saw that he was asleep. "Woops..."
"Hi, Danny," He said. He wasn't actually asleep, just pretending he was.
"Hi," I said as I sat down in the grass. I put my arms behind my head and laid down, looking up at the clouds.
The two of us sat in silence for a few minutes, until I felt a new presence enter the Falls, and it wasn't one of the Jedi we knew.
Sitting up quickly, I turned toward the direction of the new presence to see about five storm troopers there. My eyes lit up, getting only a feeling as to what they wanted.
"Rei..." I said, standing up.
Rei looked up toward the troopers and quickly stood up, standing by my side. A ways behind the troopers was a shuttle.
I swallowed as the troopers neared us. I looked to one of them who was holding stun cuffs in his hands, which could only mean one thing. Rei didn't have any Sith after him as far as I knew, so why would he be in trouble? Then again, he WAS a Jedi, he was My friend, and he was MY protector, my body guard. Being those three things could get him into any kind of trouble.
Stay by me, Danny. I won't let them get you as long as I can help it. I heard Rei say to me through the Force. I nodded a little.
"Is there something we can help you with?" Rei asked the troopers.
"We have orders to take the Princess, Danielle Skywalker, into our custody. If you resist, you will be destroyed," One trooper said.
I swallowed, knowing I couldn't allow Rei to sacrifice his life for me. I turned, looking at him. I have to go with them, Rei...I said through the Force.
"I'll come for you. I promise. Don't get yourself killed, though," Rei said aloud to me.
"I won't, I promise..."I said to him.
Two troopers took me by the arms, pulling me back. They put the cuffs on my hands.
I swallowed again, my heart feeling as if it was going to break into 1,000 pieces. I knew Rei was trying to do his best to protect me. He was my bodyguard...and brother after all. He was also my friend.
I looked at him, then looked away as the troopers started bringing me toward the shuttles. There were tears in my eyes, but I wouldn't dare let them show. Whoever had ordered my capture would see that I was weak at that moment.
As I was forced to walk up the ramp, I stole a glance toward Rei. I saw him take his katana out of his sheath on his back, spin around, and put the blade through a tree nearby in anger. I looked away, entering the ship.
The small ship seemed to have some hallways with cells, and a cockpit, except for one room, which is where I was taken.
As I entered, I looked straight ahead to see a man wearing a black cape, the hood up, sitting on the throne. The troopers brought me toward him, and finally stopped when we were near, but they held onto my arms still.
"Ah, so this is the famous Danielle Skywalker, Jedi Princess. Welcome, Princess. I hope you...enjoy your stay here. Do you know why we've brought you here?" The man said in a deep voice. He had scaly, wrinkly white skin.
I kept myself from rolling my eyes, "Because I'm a Jedi Princess?" I answered.
"Partially. The other part is because I want you to turn to the dark side and be my Queen. Think of all the possibilities! You could rule the universe with me. You could even...Have your brother Max back..."He answered.
I looked at him, staring at him at the mention of Max. How could he know about my brother? "How...How do you know about my brother?" I asked, keeping myself from crying.
"Oh, I know many things. Many, many things, dear Princess...And so do you. I want you to tell me where the rest of your Jedi friends are, along with your cousins," The man said.
I shook my head. This was where my stubborn point was brought in. I knew I couldn't agree to marry him. I wasn't only too young, but...I'd betray my friends, my family. Max. But the thought of having Max back...could the Sith really bring him back?"I don't want power. I just want to be left alone by you Sith scum. I don't care what you do to me. I will not turn to the dark side," I said.
The man's eyes lit up angrily, an evil smirk on his face. "Do you have any idea who I am, Princess? I am Darth Zool, Sith Emperor. And you, my Princess, will marry me, even if I have to force you to do it! Take her away!"
The troopers pulled me back and took me away to a cell in the hall.

Part 2

The troopers pushed me into the cell they brought me to and the door closed behind me. I walked to the silver bench which was cold to the touch and sat down, thinking.
Now what? Would I be interrogated? Would Rei and the others come to get me? I didn't know. I knew what Rei's promise was. He WOULD come to get me. I just had to wait...
The troopers pushed me into the cell they brought me to and the door closed behind me. I walked to the silver bench which was cold to the touch and sat down, thinking.
About 30 minutes later, the silver door slid open, and two troopers walked in with Zool behind them. Two more troopers came in, and were pushing in a long silver table with straps on it. Sitting on the table was an iron mask with eye slits to see out of.
My eyes lit up. No...What could they possibly be...? I couldn't finish my thought. The first two troopers walked over to me and grabbed my arms. The door shut behind the ones who came in and they began to set up the table. I looked up at Zool. Could he really be...that evil?
"If you coorperate, Princess, you won't have to suffer...but if you don't...then we'll continue to interrogate and torture you until you give in...And I have quite a...pleasant surprise for you...I hope you'll enjoy it. I went to the trouble of getting it just for you," Zool said. He nodded to the troopers, who walked toward me and grabbed my arms, bringing me over to the table. They pushed me onto the table, making me lay down, and put the straps over my neck, waist with my arms by my sides, and ankles. I struggled under the straps to get lose, but they were too tight.
One of the other troopers who was holding the mask went toward me, standing on one side of me and waited for Zool to give him the order to put it on me. Zool nodded, and the other two troopers grabbed my head to hold it still.
I tried to shake my head, "No! Let me go!" I said.
The trooper with the mask slid the mask over me and picked my head up, locking it in the back to stay on. I could barely see anything and I could feel my breath go against my face.
"No! Let me out of this!" I yelled.
"Silence!" Zool turned and glared at me. I suddenly felt the table going upwards, and I looked around to see that I was being pushed up so that I could see something.
One of the troopers turned on some sort of holo projector and an image appeared on the wall of a grave yard that I recognized right away. It was night out, and I watched as three kids, two girls and a boy, and a black cat ran into the grave yard.
No...Could they really have stolen my memory somehow?

The boy was my brother, Max. He was 18 years old when he died. He had brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue CHAMPION sweatshirt. The girl was Alison, a girl with long brown hair wearing a brown sweater. The cat was Binx, the boy the witches had turned into a cat 300 years ago. After my foster parents had died on Earth, I lived with Binx and Alison for a while until I found out who I really was. The other girl was...me. I wore a red and black skirt because I had dressed up as a witch for Halloween. Heh, big mistake there.
I watched through the mask as I was put into a whole in the ground to protect myself from the witches. They couldn't go near the ground in the cemetary, especially if there was a circle of salt around it. I watched as Alison put the circle of sault around me through the mask as tears started coming to my eyes, knowing what would soon happen.
As the witch brought me up on her broom and into the sky after I had craweled out of the whole stupidly, she held onto me and took a bottle out of a cloak pocket which was full of the potion she wanted me to drink so she would suck up my life. I pushed against her so I would knock the bottle out of her hand. Max caught it before it hit the ground.

I watched as Max started drinking the potion and tears rolled down my cheeks.
"Max..."I thought.
After a few minutes, I saw Winnefred, the witch who had brought me up onto her broom, start to suck up Max's life high above the ground. I stayed by Alison and Binx, but Alison was holding me back. Soon, Winnefred had finally sucked up all of his life. Winnefred had come a little closer to the ground, and she dropped Max's limp body as the sun came up.
I looked away for a minute, tears rolling down my cheeks and only making it worse for me to see better. I could only imagine the grin on Zool's face as he watched my mental torture and my heart break at having to see Max's death all over again. By the time I looked back, I saw my eight year old scared, helpless self sitting by Max's body, head on his stomach, crying.
"Max...Wake up. Let's go home, Max. Please..."

After another minute of this, it finally stopped. Zool turned and looked at me from the corner he stood in and I turned my head to look at him.
"You're a monster. How could you have gotten this?" I asked him.
"Oh...I have my ways. Now, Princess, I'm sure you don't want to have to watch this over and over again...Quite frankly, I'm quite sick of watching it. And I'm sure you don't want to be in that mask for very long, so I suggest that you just give in now and become my queen. If you continue to refuse..." He started walking toward the door, "I'll just leave you in here, with the mask on."
I looked away. I hated having the mask on. But I couldn't betray my friends, family, or myself. I knew what it would do to me. "I won't turn and become your queen. I already told you that," I said defiantly.
Zool nodded, and the door opened. "Then you will sit there to suffer within that mask."
He and the troopers walked out, and the door slid shut behind them.
I sighed and tried to get the get the straps off of me, but it was no use. There was most likely Ysalamari around. Ysalamari are creatures that make Force users unable to use the Force when they were around. And I could only imagine what Zool had rigged the straps to do to me if I tried to use the Force to try to get free. So, I sighed and closed my eyes, letting the Force strongly flow through me.
About twenty minutes later, I heard the door slide open, and I heard TIP TAPS on the metal floor and looked up at a storm trooper who walked in. For some strange reason, I felt the Force strong within him.
The door shut behind him, and he removed his helmet, looking down at me. At first I couldn't recognize him, especially with the mask on.
"Danny? What have they done to you?" I heard Rei's voice ask.
Rei! "Rei...They put the mask on me...made me watch my brother's death..." I answered, my eyes red from crying.
He didn't need to know anymore. He put the helmet on the ground and immediately started unstrapping me. When he was done with that, I picked my head up and he unlocked the mask and lifted it from my face.
I looked around the cell, feeling as if I had been blind all along and I had finally been healed. I then looked up at him, toward his sweet and innocent blue eyes, then away.
He put a hand out for me, "Come on, let's get you out of here. The others are waiting in the ship."
I took his hand, and we ran out of the cell and down the hall as quietly as we could, running toward the docking bay where the ship and the others were.