Chapter 2

"I can't believe the Force is calling me into this well," Kram said as he crawled down the well wall, holding onto the sides. Fortunately it was a short well and as he neared the end he merely jumped down. There was nothing on the bottom of the well except for dirt and dust, and some bones. "This is very strange, but I still feel the call of the Force. But there is nothing here." He looked around one last time and then, still seeing nothing, he crawled back out. He reached the top of the well and jumped out and blinked in the bright sunlight.

"What's going on?" He said. "This well was inside before, now how did I get outside?" He looked around but all he saw was the sun and trees. However, the call from the Force had stopped. "Is this where the Force was telling me to go? Did it bring me here?" Kram wondered to himself, not knowing what to do. He took a deep breath. "I might as well explore this place a little. The Force must have brought me here for some reason." Making sure he knew where he started from, he started walking away from the wooden well. Kram noticed that, despite all the grass and trees, something about the place felt familiar, as if he had been there before.

"Something really strange is going on." He said. "What is this place?" Knowing he was not going to get an answer, Kram continued on. An eerie feeling began to settle over Kram, as if he was being watched. He continued his pace to not draw attention to himself, but brought his hand down to his lightsaber now concealed beneath his Jedi robes. He stretched out with the Force to see where the presence was coming from and ignited his lightsaber as something attacked him.

It look like a long brown snake, but it was giant, and it was flying. It opened its mouth, trying to devour Kram, but he slashed with his lightsaber and decapitated it. The corpse fell to the group, the body stinking.

"What alien is this?" Kram said looking at the body. He felt another presence coming and slashed again, this time at another snake like monster but this one had a giant humanoid head with horns coming out. Again Kram took the head off. He felt multiple presences around him and then noticed the swarm of the creatures. They all just seemed to appear at once from the horizon. There must have been hundreds of them and they were all coming for him.

Diving into the Force Kram slashed and jumped and dived as he fought the strange creatures. Some managed to do minor damage but no matter how many he killed more still came. He used the Force to push them away and then resumed slashing them before they could regroup. But still more came. One creature came up from behind and clamped down on his right shoulder. Kram yelled out in pain and then slashed the monster away. Blood poured from the open wound. Another two came at him but with a quick swipe both were dead. A third though came a wrapped itself around his legs, causing him to fall in midjump. He quickly dispatched the monster but was caught by surprise when another came flying at him, barely giving him enough time to jump away, and write into a mass of the monsters.

The caught him by his arms, making him drop his lightsaber. Another one circled around and came at him but using the Force and as much physical strength as he could, Kram pulled back and kicked the creature as it came by. He then used the Force the push the monsters holding his arms away and then used the Force to call his lightsaber back to his hand. He slashed as another came at him but he missed and it bit his leg. He slashed it away and grabbed his wound. He would have tried to gone into a healing trance if it was not for the swarm of creatures surrounding him. They were all circling around him. Then in one final lunge they all poured onto him.

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Bloodied and wounded, Kram pulled himself away from the monsters' bodies. The smell was beginning to get unbearable. His right arm and both legs were broken, and he was barely able to move. He was amazed that he was able to move at all. His body was took broken now for even a healing trance to work. Somehow he worked his way onto his back and looked up into the sky. He had not even realized that it was night now. He gazed up at the sky and soon the darkness around his eyes began to grow closer. The pain grew more intense for a moment and then there was nothing but painless darkness.