Chapter 1

There it was again. The feeling of someone disappearing, not dying, that was a different feeling. No, the feeling of someone simply vanishing to the force. It was the same feeling as when Aleena disappeared. Rey's meditation was interrupted by this sudden feeling, and it had caused her to fall a few feet to the floor. There was a loud crash as three of the six Muntuur Stones fell alongside her. It wasn't a deep meditation, but she had expected to be lifting at least four. Pushing this minor annoyance away she began to once again ponder the disturbance, after rising to her feet.

The room was completely empty apart from a floor mat and the six Muntuur Stones, Each one weighing several tonnes, circling the mat. Rey walked out of the circle and into the corridors of the Jedi Temple. It had been ten years since the defeat of The First Order, and during that time Rey, under the tutelage of Luke Skywalker had begun to rebuild the Jedi Order. In honour of her late master and in respect of the ancient Jedi she had rebuilt the Jedi Temple on Ahch-To, deciding that the order was too early in its infancy to return to the ruined temple on Coruscant. The Ahch-To temple had been expanded greatly, able to accommodate many Jedi trainees. With Luke's advice, Rey had managed to avoid many of the difficulties that he had when rebuilding the order. It had not been an easy journey, but Rey was happy with its progress and how the Jedi were beginning to be accepted back into the Galaxy.

The hallway was cool, a nice change from the stuffy room she was in. As she strode through the hall, she couldn't help but grin every time she passed a fellow Jedi and they greeted her. She would be long dead by the time the Order had the numbers it had before the Jedi purges, but to see multiple Jedi in one place was truly a sight to behold. Rey made her way to the Jedi Council room. The weekly meeting wasn't to begin for another thirty minutes or so, but Rey always liked to be the first into the room. To her surprise, she saw Finn sitting in his chair.

"Finn? You're never here this early. I thought you hated these meetings?" she teased. Finn's training had not been easy, he was not the most patient of men, neither was it easy for him to let go of the trauma he faced during his time working for the First Order, she suspected it would never truly leave him. Still, she was proud of him for overcoming his difficulties and become a wise Jedi Master. The council was only made up of five Jedi Masters right now, although Rey wanted their to be a few more, she did not yet believe any of her Knights were ready for the title. There was Rey, Finn, Master Ghohorna, Master Dashara and Master Adoug. Rey of course was the only Jedi with the title of "Grandmaster" or "Skywalker." Rey was not a Skywalker by blood, neither did she think she'd ever have children to pass the name onto. The name became a title, the leader of the Jedi Order was its Skywalker. Luke was not too thrilled with this idea that Rey had, but there was little he could do to change her mind, and she enjoyed teasing the old ghost.

"Rey, err, Master Skywalker. I have sensed a disturbance in the force. One similar to when Aleena Roye disappeared." Finn said with a grim look on his face. Finn had not taken Aleena's disappearance well. She was once his Padawan, the first one he trained in fact. It had been two months since her disappearance and Finn had spent most of that time trying to find her. Rey had been helping of course, but her role as the Skywalker kept her busy with other things most of the time.

"I felt it too, snapped me out of my meditation. Do you think another one of our Jedi will disappear?" Rey questioned. Finn had felt that it was Aleena who disappeared last time, due to their closeness. "And if so, who could it be?"

"I don't know. I felt it, but I'm not sure who it was this time." He looked out through the window at the seas of Ahch-To. "I will have to double my efforts to figure out what's happening."

"Patience. We will discuss with the rest of the council and see what insight they might have," she looked at him for a moment, still he wouldn't avert his gaze from the ocean. "Okay?" she added.

"Okay." And with that the two sat in silence for a time. Rey had never seen Finn like this. They had been friends for years now, but he had never been so distant from her before. She was worried about him, and hoped that whatever was going on would be quickly resolved so that she could have her friend back. When the time came Master Dashara, a blue skinned Twi'lek man, stepped into the room.

"Master Skywalker, Master Finn" he said in his flowery and nasal voice. He nodded to both of them and took his seat. Master Ghohorna, a Zabrak woman with light brown skin and horns circling her hair, and Master Adoug, a red skinned Devaronian man with two large horns protruding from his head, had to call in to the meeting due to them being off world currently.

"I call this meeting into session," Rey began "Now, most importantly, Master Finn and myself have felt a disturbance in the force. The same disturbance as when Aleena Roye disappeared. First, we must establish if another of our own has disappeared, and who it was." Rey looked round at each person. Master Ghohorna spoke.

"It was my Padawan who disappeared. I felt him vanish." She said simply, although Rey could sense the pain in her voice. "I sent him to Coruscant to speak to a woman named Callista Kovani, who claimed she knew something about Aleena."

"Very well, We will send a team to inve-"

"No," Finn interrupted. "I will go to Coruscant and investigate." Rey looked at Finn. This was completely unlike him. He never enjoyed these meetings but he would always be polite during them, this was the first time he had ever interrupted anyone. Half of her wanted to tell him no, that he was too emotionally invested, that he was too close to the case. The other half of her, the half that was Finn's friend rather than the Jedi Grandmaster knew that he would go anyway, and that so would she were she in his place.

"Very well, Master Finn will investigate at Coruscant."

The rest of the meeting went by as normal. More recruits being invited to join the order, standard political discussions, talks of re-integrating with the Republic. It was late in the evening when the meeting was adjourned and Rey found herself in her bedchamber. She fell face first onto here bed, trying to gather her thoughts.

"You seem frustrated Rey" a familiar voice spoke to her. She sat up to see the pale blue figure of Luke Skywalker sitting at her bedside. Luke, despite no longer being part of the mortal world would often come to advice the young Jedi on a great many things. Sometimes she would speak his name and he would appear, and sometimes he would appear whenever he felt that she needed his advice. Rey had learnt that only those who had known the ghost in life could see a force ghost. This is why she was never able to meet Master Kenobi, Master Yoda, Master Anakin or any other of the Jedi. Apart from that one moment on Exegol where she felt the most connected to the force she had ever felt, she had never heard from any of the other Jedi. Luke came to her most days, although sometimes when Luke was of no help Leia Organa would visit her. The thing that always bothered Rey was that Ben had never visited her. Ben, her mind wandered. Had he still been alive perhaps they would have started a family of their own by now. Continued the Skywalker lineage. She realised of course that this was impossible. Ben had been redeemed in her eyes, and the Force, but the galaxy would never forgive Kylo Ren for what he had done. Pushing the thought of him out of her mind she spoke to her Master.

"Its Finn, Master Skywalker. He's running off on his own to piece together a mystery that could be incredibly dangerous. He's too close to this to get through without doing something stupid." Luke smiled at her, stroking his scraggly beard.

"You sound like Master Yoda" he chuckled.

"Yes, but Master Yoda was right, wasn't he? Darth Vader cut your hand off and nearly killed you." She said teasingly.

"Yes, Yes I'm quite aware." The ghost laughed again. "Rey, you know that he wouldn't have waited a moment if it were you that had vanished. The force guides all thing, and it has guided Finn to Coruscant."

"I'm just worried Master. I couldn't bare it if he was killed or vanished himself." She lay down on her bed, letting out a long, exacerbated sigh. "What am I supposed to do?"

"Only you can answer that Rey" and with that the apparition was gone, leaving Rey once again alone in her room. What was she supposed to do? She turned her head to turn to the starry night sky of Ahch-To. The force would guide her, as it always had. She assured herself that when the time came, she would know what to do. She just hoped that whatever it was would end this whole mystery.