Author's Note: I am SO sorry for the mess that happened with this chapter. My chapter from another story got placed in and I was so CLOSE to removing this story altogether to try again, but I got it to work this time!

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It was muffled when I came to and I was sinking more and more into what was swallowing us. I didn't know which way was up or down, but I was still trying to move with my arms and legs in hopes that I would find something that was grounded. But I wasn't suffocating, nor was I falling too fast. It was slow, then having something beneath me fall out and I was hanging in the air from the waist down.

"Neyli! Hang on!" I hear muffled below me as I was coming through and hearing more sounds around me, A pair of hands were on my waist and legs, guiding me down as I was finally out of the mass that was around me. I was in the air, being guided down slowly and carefully by Poe as I saw we were in some kind of cavern underneath the sand. It was dark, we couldn't see anything as I was looking around and dusted off some of the dust and sand along with my clothes and hair. Poe looked shoveled too, but he was all intact. it was a good sign though I had no idea where we were.

"You good?" Poe asked me, searching my face to see if I got hurt.

"I think I'm okay," I replied, "You?"

"Confused, but fine." Poe admitted, "Where's anyone else?"

"I'm here, Master Solo!" I looked to see C-3PO walking over in a frenzy to me, "This is madness!"

"You'll be fine, 3PO," I reassured him There was muffling a bit away from us, someone else was sinking though as Poe walked over to help bring down Rey from the sinking ceiling. She landed on her feet with help with Poe.

"You alright?" Poe asked her.

"Yeah," Rey answered shortly, still a little dazed, "Where's Finn?"

"Where's Chewie?" Poe asked back to her. While he was helping with Rey, along with the others coming through the ceiling one by one, I was peering around to get some kind of idea where we were and where can we go. It seemed long abandoned, and the burned walkthrough and holes were big enough for us to walk through. Not only was it dark, but it was also cooler and the distinct feeling of humidity was evident.

"How do we get out of here," I said mostly to myself now as I could now hear Finn walked through a smaller walkway away from us.

"I'm good," He replied as he too was dusting himself off.

"Ah, Master Finn!" C-3PO said in relief.

"What is this place?" Finn asked all of us as we were meeting together.

"This isn't the afterlife, is it?" C-3PO said in worry.

"I thought we were goners," Poe explained in relief as the four of us were looking at each other.

"We could have been," I commented, Poe squeezing my arm in comfort.

"We could still be," C-3PO commented near Chewie. The others, I could tell, were thinking the same thing.

"Which way do we go?" Finn asked Rey, then over to me. I was thinking about it oo now as both Rey and I looked at each other. We almost had the same idea, both of us walk over to the edge of the smaller room we were in and taking out our sabers. Rey lit hers first, a blow of blue from my Uncle's lightsaber filled the room and the familiar humming hearing in the small area. I got my saber lit, the glowing yellow was melting with the blur in the room as we both held out our sabers to give some light and some.

Poe took out his flashlight, which looked dim compared to ours, and I could have sworn he had a grim look on his face as Rey looked over to a small opening right behind us. She was leading the way, with us behind me and me taking on the back in case something was there.

"We have to hurry," Rey explained. I gave Poe a knowing look, seeing him look down at his smaller flashlight. I tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

"I like your flashlight," I commented, seeing him give me a look as I smirked.

"Shut up," He replied, having me smirk as I squeezed his shoulder. He then walked over to be in front of me, following the group in a line.

"What were you going to tell me?" Rey asked Finn as we were following her throughout the passage.

"When?"

"When you were sinking in the sand, 'I never told you'…" Rey trailed off, Finn walking up to talk to her softly side by side.

"I'll tell you later," He reassured her with a hand on her shoulder, which Poe then walked in between them to break their comfortable moment between the both of them.

"You mean when Poe and Neyli aren't here?" he asked sarcastically, giving Finn a look as he walked on and I shook my head. But I followed, seeing more passageways in other directions and weaving underneath the sandy desert above us.

"Yeah, mmhm," Finn said back smoothly to keep up the banter.

"We're gonna die in the sand burrows and we're keeping secrets," Poe sarcastically joked as he was now leading the way with myself and Chewie right behind him.

"I'll tell you when you tell us all that shifty stuff you do!" Finn commented back to him as Chewie growled in agreement.

"Yeah, to be honest, Poe, I didn't think you knew how to do that kind of stuff anyway," I commented.

"Not you too, Neyli. I thought you were on my side," Poe said to me as I chuckled.

"There are no sides," I reminded him. Poe was looking around at the tunnels that were on either side of us now, having me do the same with my saber and see if something else was here with us.

"Don't want to know what made these tunnels," Poe said in a grimace.

"Judging by the circumference of the tunnel walls, there are—" C-3PO started to explain, but Poe whirled around and shut him off instantly.

'"I said 'I don't want know'…..Not." Poe reminded him shortly as we ere still walking along together hunched in a group. We were walking a few more feet before Poe stopped and aimed his flashlight right in front of him at something that looked buried against the wall.

"What's that?" I asked, seeing that it was big and made mostly of metal, covered in rust and dust.

"Is that a speeder?" Finn questioned.

"An old one," Rey commented. C-3PO once again spoke up.

"Perhaps we will find the driver!" The dried said in hope now as we were scanning the area all around. BB-8 chirped, having me nod in agreement.

"Yep, BB-8. I think 'dead' too," I agreed since it felt like death was already here. Since there was no one else

"Oh my! A Hex charm!" C-3PO said as he looked at the symbol on top of the hood of the speeder.

"A What?" Poe asked as we all over to the droid in front of the speeder.

"A common emblem of Sith loyalists," The droid explained, all of us looking at it with a seriousness on our face. Even Rey looked grim.

"Sith…" Ray trailed off.

"This was Ochi's?" Finn asked, pointing to the speeder.

"Luke sensed it: Ochi never left this place," Rey answered as she moved around to the other side of the speeder.

"And he ended up down here," I added, looking up and around now. Maybe there was something here from him that we could use.

"He headed for his ship," Poe commented as we were scanning the areas for another sign of Ochi, or anything from him, "The same thing happened to us, happened to him." I walked away from the group, feeling the smooth sand beauty my feet as I was walking more and more, not looking down. But I stepped on something brittle and hard, a crunch was heard and it made me freeze up. I looked down slowly and gulped.

"How did Ochi get out?" That was the infamous question as I finally found my voice and answered it.

"He didn't," I said as I saw something almost buried in the sand beneath my feet, I was about to crush it with my boot there. Underneath my boot, and in front of us, was a skeleton. The ribs looked broken off and his jawline was already shattered as the group walk up behind me to see the skeleton too. Poe grabbed both of my arms and gently pulled me back so that I wasn't going to crush the bones there with my feet, and my voice was caught in my throat from seeing live bones there.

"No he didn't," Finn said in agreement and almost disgust.

"Bones," Poe said behind me, almost hiding his face in my hair from seeing it, "I don't do bones." I knew I could stomach it, but it was just as bad seeing it in front of me.

"Bones. Never a good sign," C-3PO said in unison with the disgust. BB-8 then chirped, having Rey look over to where the droid was rolling and signaling something hidden within the sand and against the cave wall.

"Yeah I see it," She told BB-8, making her way over to where the droid was motioning to her. We watching from our spots, seeing Rey reach down into the sand and slowly grasp what looked like a handle, wrapping her fingers around it. Once she pulled it out, we saw that it was a dagger, almost the length of Rey's arm and it had precise edges. It almost looked like it was part of a bigger piece of metal.

"Horrible things…" Rey trailed off as she was looking at the blade up and down, "Has happened with this." She looked up at me, slowly handing it over to me. At first, I wondered why she would do this, but I could tell in the look she was giving me, the small glint there within her eyes.

She wanted me to read it. Use the Force on it.

I took the handle in my spare hand as I turned off my saber, closing my eyes and focusing my energy on the dagger. As soon as I did, giving it a few seconds and standing still, I could feel what Rey was feeling: pain. Continuous and mind consuming pain, over and over and the pain scorching through each part of this blade. It was almost unbearable as I breathed out shakily and opened my eyes to her. She gave me a grimaced look as I found my voice.

"Death surrounds it," I said in a hoarse tone. I was still focusing on the blade itself when Poe wrapped his fingers around my own with the blade in my hand, having me blink and look at him. He gave me a knowing look, taking the blade gently from my hands and looking at the weapon himself.

"There's writing on it." he examined.

"Perhaps I can translate," C-3PO suggested as he took the blade from Poe and held it up to his own eyes. Poe laced our fingers together, staying close to me as we were watching C-3PO. He must have sensed that I was feeling those emotions from the previous victims of the blade, something I wished I would never have to feel again.

"Oh, the location of the Wayfinder has been inscribed on this dagger," C-3PO explained to us, "iI's the clue Master Luke's been searching for!"

"And?" Poe asked, pressing him on.

"Where's the Wayfinder?" I asked right after, seeing 3PO lower and blade and turn to face us.

"I am afraid I cannot tell you," 3PO resounded back to us, Poe instantly looked agitated once more with the droid.

"24 gazillion languages and you can't read that?" he asked, sounding very short and almost borderline angry. But he wasn't the only one, I could feel that the other three of us, even Chewie for that matter, we're losing our patience with the droid.

"I have read it, sir. I know exactly where the Wayfinder is. Unfortunately, it's written in a runic language of the Sith." He answered. I raised my eyebrow at him and threw up my hands with the droid.

"So what?" I asked with a shrug of my shoulders.

"My program forbids me from translating it!" 3PO answered, which to me didn't make sense.

"So you're telling us, the one time we need you to talk, you can't?" Poe questioned.

"Irony sir," 3PO commented, walked around us and still facing us as we were all giving him tired and unpleasant looks, "I am mechanically unable to speak any translations of the Sith…" I wasn't looking at him anymore since something else was moving behind him very slowly, rising to be at his level. I instantly shot out my saber, clicking the blade back on as the others were now noticing what I saw behind 3PO. It rose higher and higher, having em stay still. Finn, Poe, Chewie, and Rey all got their weapons out too, hearing what looked to be a massive serpent or reptile.

"Serpent! Serpent!" 3PO said in horror as he shuffled behind Poe and me. We were all watching this massive being hiss at us with his massive fans and jet back eyes. I was frozen in my spot and not able to move since the spirant was watching us. The body was coiled tightly beneath its head, and with my saber right in front of me, I was ready for anything.

But it was Rey that moved.

She placed her hand on Poe's pistol and lowered it gently, then slowly handing her saber over to Finn after he placed his pistol in its holster. She slowly and carefully walked over to stand in front of us, being right in the middle and the serpent hissing at her. The focus was on Rey now with the serpent, and she carefully walked over a bit more in showing her hands, indicating she wasn't armed.

The serpent hissed her once, making her stop for a moment as Poe had his blaster out and ready. I stayed still, watching every move as I could tell Poe was hesitant.

"Finn..." Poe said in a warning.

"Shh," I said back to him, making sure he was quiet. Rey was once again moving, staying slow and sure. Once she was closer to him, she looked down briefly to see that the serpent was wounded. Three large slash wounds were in the skin of the being, looking a bit fresh and maybe painful. I singly felt the pain of that wound, as if I was wearing them and not the serpent. it was moving, another part of The Force that others wouldn't be able to understand. We would feel the other beings around us: sensing the emotions in the air of those around us and within us.

I felt Rey as she was moving within herself to help this serpent, kneeling down and slowly placing her hand on the wound of the serpent. At first, the serpent hissed but stayed still as Rey close her eyes and breathed slow and sure. I knew what she was doing, though I said nothing now as she was concentrating. For a moment, I could feel her breath within me as I was watching, my hand slowly placed on Poe's arm to have him be still.

The wound was disappearing and dissolving. And then, within a moment, it was gone.

The boys were amazed, but I had a small smirk on my face. Rey was showing her true powers with The Force.

She released her hand on the serpent's hand, the serpent no longer angry but almost peaceful. As if it was timed, the serpent uncoiled itself around Rey and slithered away, showing an opening out of the cave we were in. The opening was showing the bright light that shined in, the rest of the group sighing in relief. My eyes were on Rey though, seeing her still crouched down and rubbing her wrists after what she did with that very hand. Finn, myself and Poe moved to the opening as I saw Chewie reach down and grab the dagger, putting it in his bag that was over his shoulder. As the boys were going back out onto the sandy surface, I looked back at Rey, seeing her look at BB-8.

BB-8 rolled to her in concern as she smiled at him.

"I just transferred a bit of life: Forcer Energy from me to him," Rey explained, thinking about it to herself for a moment.

"You would have done the same,"

We finally found the ship, sitting on top of a formation of rocks in the middle of the desert. It was a bit of a way away from the sinking fields that we just escaped. so it was a relief that we were finally on the right track in what we were here for and what we wanted to find. We all followed one by one going up the rocks of the formation, with Chewie carrying BB-8 in his massive arms and having me take the end.

"We cannot possibly fly in that old wreck!" 3PO exclaimed.

"We have to keep moving, find someone who can translate that dagger, like a helpful droid," Poe explained as they were climbing the rock formation, grasping one rock sea dehiscing himself up with Finn right behind him.

"I suggest we return to the Millennium Falcon at once!" 3PO pleaded with a wave of his mechanical arms.

"They'll be waiting for us at the Falcon." I reminded him as I followed the group.

"Yeah they'll throw us in the pits of grick," Finn agreed, helping hoist Poe up to the top tier of rocks that was close to the vessel. That was when Rey stopped climbing with us and was slowly looking back at the last desert behind us, looking as if she knew something that

"And use you as a target droid." Poe comment.

"You both make excellent points…..at times" 3PO commented with a sigh, but I was still not moving as I was analyzing and watching Rey. Someone was determined with her, her thoughts were clouded with something as Finn walked over next to her.

"What is it?" He asked. She then turned to face him, handing him her staff and bag carefully without saying a word for a moment.

"I'll be right behind you. It's okay." Rey reassured him as she started to climb back down from where we were, all of us saying nothing now as we watched her. What she was up to, was a mystery. But then again, if she was sensing something, it had to be very important.

"Neyli, you coming?" Poe asked as I looked away from Rey and over to Poe. Everyone else was at the top, waiting to see what I was going to do now. I knew that we were at the ship and we were so close to finding what we needed, but then again something else could happen. It was too good to be true, and we had to be prepared for anything.

"I'll keep watch out here," I explained, seeing him stare at me carefully now as I took out my saber and held it tightly in my hand, "It's fine. You guys get the ship ready, I'll watch the ship and Rey."

"Come on, Poe," Finn said, clapping him on the shoulder as he went on. Poe gave me one more look, almost making sure that I was going to be okay. I nodded at him once, finally seeing him give in and turn away from me. No matter how many times we were on missions and helping the cause, Poe was always going to protective of me and make sure I was going to be okay. At times I loved him for that, and other times I was agitated since I knew I could take care of myself.

I was alone there out on the edge of the rock formation, peering around to make sure that we were safe and nothing else was going to come for us. But I felt what Rey was feeling, the Force was off and warning me about something. The ship was starting to rev up as I was watching Rey walk further and further out into the opening of the desert by herself, going in one particular direction and not slowing down just yet.

I shifted, saber ready to come out in hand as the shift was turning more and more in my stomach. I sensed it again, the dread that the Force was warning me about. I could feel it all over now as I was now getting into a ready stance and my hand was resting on the top of my saber.

Ben was near. Ben was coming.

A sound was heard behind me, having me look over for a brief second before I saw Chewie wandering away from the ship and down the formation into the sand.

"Chewie?" I called out, hearing nothing from him now. But another voice was heard, mostly inside my head as I froze up.

Neyli.

It was from Ben. I slammed my eyes shut and I controlled my breathing while he was still talking to me. This was not the best place and not the best time as he spoke again.

I can sense you're with her. You're with Rey…..it's not the best choice.

I won't let you kill her, Ben.

I'm not going to kill her….but I don't want you near her.

Why? What good is it for you? I felt a bit bolder now talking to him, almost like it was forbidden for me to do so within my head and the others not knowing what we were communicating.

A small faint sound of a solo TIE fighter was heard far off in the distance, having me open my eyes and look in horror as a faint small dot spread from behind a mass amount fo rocks far away. But it was in the same direction and line of sight of Rey, who was standing still in the middle of the desert sand facing the TIE fighter. It was going faster towards her, getting bigger and bigger but the second

I don't want you a part of this, Neyli. I never did.

A part of what? Murder? It's not you, Ben.

I'm not going to murder Rey. She's part of something far bigger than she knows, I want her to realize that.

Why would I trust you with Rey? After what you did all this time? Nothing was heard on his end now as the TIE fighter was coming faster at tremendous speed and getting closer to Rey. She stayed still, her saber coming to life now as I was feeling immense fear for her safety.

Ben, If you're my brother, and deep down I know you are, you won't hurt Rey. Please, don't hurt her.

A felt a warmth there within me after I said that, almost like the Force was giving me a sense of peace and almost familiarity that I haven't felt in a long time. Not since I was younger…not since I was with Ben.

She won't be harmed, and neither will you.

I gasped, not knowing if I heard that correctly before I heard some more shuffling and movement from where Chewie rang off to. I looked over, hearing more of the noise around the corner away from all the action with Rey and the TIE fighter. Moving around the corner and courting low, I ducked down behind a smaller boulder and I saw another vessel parked and the ramp open.

I looked with concern, seeing Chewie in shackles and a neck brace, his bag confiscated by a stormtrooper, but also three men dressed in dark black robes and masks. They looked worn, maybe they saw plenty of battles and wars, but I knew they weren't the friendly type. Their weapons were swords, long staffs with shaper end, all hadn't made, and all deadly.

There was one right behind me

I whirled around just in time, throwing up my hand to stop the blade to hit be with The Force. The blade was frozen, inches from my nose as the man grunted, trying to move and get me. I held it there for a moment, hearing the TIE fighter my brother was in coming louder and faster now. It made me lose focus barely, shuffling the blade to move it over to the side and launch it down. The blade fell to the rock, but before I could get in another move or shot, I was stunned.

I grunted, passing out cold.