Hey everyone, I just want to quickly say that I`ll be in Denver for a few days, so I won`t start on writing new chapters for a little amount of time.
I gathered what little courage I had and went down in that basement with BB-8, against my wishes, following me down.
As I slowly and carefully stepped down the steps, the screaming from the little girl and the wailing from the baby grew louder with each step. I prayed that I was losing my mind instead of finding children scared to death.
When I finally stepped off the last stair and onto the solid ground, I looked for the door out of multiple to find the screaming youths. I got close to one particular door that made me vibrate when I walked past it. I reached my shaking hand out and hesitantly turned the knob.
I moved into the dark, small, vaulted storage room. Old treasures line the floors and walls, but just a small box was interesting me, but was frightening me greatly. I moved to it, unsure, afraid, as if an energy from inside the box has been calling me here. I could hear BB-8 nervously following. I reached out slowly and unlocked the box.
When I pulled the hatch open, I found a fairly useable lightsaber! With hesitation, I reached towards it, in curiosity. As my hand makes contact with it, I heard a sound as if someone was lighting a huge match right against my ear!
I sharply moved my hand away from the saber and let out a small shriek in surprise. I looked around my surroundings; I was in complete darkness and soon began to hear loud but soft whispers!
"NO!" I heard the familiar little girl and baby howling.
I stood and look around, confused by all I see and hear. I turn and see, through a doorway. A way out! I run down the corridor as fast as I could, but it tilts and turns! I tried to keep my balance, but my strength gave out and I land on the wall. But, it impossibly turned to dry grass!
I looked up and saw an entire house caught on fire! I heard a small but loud beep echo out of my right ear and turned to the noise; I sat up and went on all fours. I stared at an R2 unit checking on a woman and a man. The woman stood while the man knelt down and had his hands gently rested on her stomach, which stood out; she was pregnant.
The R2 unit must have discovered my presence, since it started beeping in fear. The man ignored it at first, but turned and set a robotic hand on its head when the beeping became rapid. I tried to control my loud and quick breathing to prevent them from hearing. But, the soon to be mother saw me out of the corner of her eye and made a small noise to warn her husband. I tried to get onto my feet, but the blazed house disappeared as I found myself in the cold and bitter rain and heard a gut wrenching scream when everything vanished! I instantly looked up while standing up and saw a creature with a fiery red saber sticking out of his chest! When he fell to the ground I let out a small screech without thinking. The man that stabbed the creature and a few Stormtroopers turned sharply towards me, hearing my yelp. I let out a loud, ear piercing scream, frozen in fear.
I instantly saw the rain and darkness disappear and found myself on Jakuu, the recognizable planet.
"No! Come back!" I hear the now all too familiar screaming.
I pivoted around and sure enough, found the little girl I was searching for; she had a striking resemblance to Rey! I saw a meaty hand gripping her shoulder as she kept screaming; I heard equally loud wailing. I turned my head and found them coming from a basinet a few meters away from the child.
"Quiet girl!" I heard a fairly recognizable voice. I looked up and saw Unkar Plutt.
"Come back!" She only screamed louder and looked up at the sky.
I turned my body around and saw a ship flying towards the sun, as it was being eaten by darkness. My eyes widened as I felt my entire body becoming cold and found myself in a snow covered forest.
I was losing my mind, I had to be! I looked around at my surroundings with my entire body shaking in terror and in coldness. I heard the same sound of a match clashing behind me, which made me let out a small gasp and turn around. Nothing. I could see my own breaths spilling out of my mouth as I saw the same man in black that stabbed the creature emerge from behind trees! I panted heavily and let out another scream and fell back onto the ground, pulling my legs to my knees and lying there, praying for my rescue.
I felt the man put his hand onto my right cheek and pushed it down hard. "Rey! Rey! Rey, please!" I shouted for my sister, letting the tears roll as I tightly shut my eyes.
"Rachel! Rachel! Wake up!" I heard her scream!
I shot my eyes open and found myself in that room, lying on the ground with Rey`s hand on the same cheek and her other gripping my shoulder. I controlled my crying and stopped.
She pulled me into a tight hug and heard her whimper a little. She helped me up and pulled away.
"What happened?"
"I-I swear I don`t know! I just opened the box and then-then I saw a house on fire, and a pregnant woman; I saw someone all in black murdering hundreds! And then, and then, there was a little girl! She looked just like you Rey!" I started breaking down again.
She pulled me into a hug.
I sniffled and panted heavily at recounting what I just witnessed, while hugging Rey tightly.
"It was so scary," I managed to croak out.
"It's okay; I'll never let that happen to you again, never." She comforted me.
The lady and her husband loosing there house, hundreds of innocents losing their life, and the children which I assumed to be me and Rey. I just wanted to abandon it all.
I continued to whimper. "Rachel, look at me." Rey pulled away and knelt down to my height, while still gently holding my neck. "Everything`s going to be al-," She was interrupted midsentence when we heard someone tiptoe through the door.
It was Maz.
"I shouldn't have gone in here," I told everyone in the room, mostly myself.
"That lightsaber was Luke's. And his father's before him and now, it calls to you!" She looked at me.
Rey let me go and stood up. "We have to get back to Jakuu,"
"Rey," I whispered, she didn't seem to hear me.
"Han told me about you two," She extended her hand towards mine and took it.
"Dear child. I see your eyes. You already know the truth. Whomever you're waiting for on Jakku, they're never coming back. But... there's someone who still could."
"Luke," I said. I looked up to Rey; she already knew the truth long before me.
"The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead. I am no Jedi, but I know the Force. It moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes. Feel it. The light. It's always been there. It will guide you. The saber. Take it."
I stared at her for a few seconds, and was about to say-.
"She`s never touching that thing again, we don`t want any part of this." Rey already made my decision.
"Rey please, let me just-," She didn't let me answer and swiftly grabbed my wrist and tugged on it firmly until we were outside.
She dragged me into the woods, not knowing where else to go.
I was ready to argue with her that she never let me make my own choices, but heard a rumble. It seemed I was the only one to hear it since Rey didn't even flinch.
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She didn`t make us stop walking until I complained that my legs hurt, an obvious lie. She ignored me and walked a few steps, but then stopped too, complying with my fib.
The both of us caught a beep in our ear behind us. We turned around and saw BB-8 following us.
"What are you doing here?" Rey asked.
He beeped again.
"You have to go back," I walked towards him.
He rolled closer to us.
"BB-8. No, you can't, you have to go back, you're too important. They'll help you." Rey reassured him.
I heard another sound, but it was louder. There was no way Rey couldn't have heard that one. All three of us stared at the sky to see a fleet of First Order ships fly over our heads and towards the castle!
We quickly raced back to the castle to warn everyone in it, not even caring if anyone was falling behind.
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We hid in the tress near the castle to see it in anarchy! Many were dying right in front of us plus Stormtroopers fighting them! We saw two a reasonable distance away from us calling in others.
Rey quickly took the gun Han gave to her and fired; nothing came out!
"Safety!" She said to herself and quickly turned off the safety while they were firing at us, then shot both of them! She stared at it, never thinking she could shoot like that. I saw more approaching Stormtroopers!
"We have to get out of here!" I grabbed her shoulder and dragged on it for her to go, she did and pushed me forward as she shot more.
The three of us ran faster and faster each passing second until Rey stopped BB-8 and me.
"You have to keep going, stay out of sight," We both crouched down to his height.
"We`ll fight 'em off, just keep running." I added.
"We?" Rey asked sternly. "no, you`re going too."
"But I want to help!" I fought.
"Your help is being safe and staying with BB-8. Find Finn."
I shook my head rapidly, still not obeying.
"I`ll see you again, I promise." I hugged her tightly, then she pulled away and we both got up.
"Go, run!" She shouted as she ran in the opposite direction. I did too, BB-8 following.
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I kept running even when I thought I could no more. I eventually slowed down and fell on my knees to catch my breath. But, something wasn't right. Where was that annoying beeping coming from BB-8?
I swiftly turned my head around, he wasn't there! I got back onto my legs as my breathing increased and looked around. I almost shouted for him, but thought better than to attract attention.
I ran my hands through the scalp of my hair stressfully.
"You`re an idiot! You only had to do one thing, and you lost him!" I scolded myself in my head.
I couldn't calm myself no matter how many times I`ve tried; but something caught my ear. I heard something or someone`s heavy breathing. I hesitantly walked to the sound to figure out what it was.
The same exact sound of a match bore into my ears as I quickly backed up in fear of the noise. My heart sunk deeply when a familiar, almost twice my sized man dressed in black appeared behind the trees!
My brain triggered a fight or flight response, I chose flight as I ran away and attempted screaming to Rey three times while running up and down structures.
I turned around after the third call and threw my knife at him. He raised a hand and stopped it in midair! I tried to turn around, but he raised his other hand and stopped me right in my tracks! I gasped and thought it was some kind of trickery, but I still couldn't move.
There was a pause as he just stared at me, then spoke in a dark and bitter, no disturbing, voice "The girl I`ve heard so much about. Funny, I thought it`d be someone more grown." I didn't even care.
He walked around me and faced my back. It took everything for me to hold back my crying.
"The droid," he paused for a moment and sure enough a red lightsaber was close to burning my cheek "where is it?"
I didn't say anything.
"Where is it?" He became more aggressive.
"I lost him," I simply said, closing my eyes.
He didn't believe me; instead he pulled the saber away and walked back to my front. What he did was one of the single most disturbing things that I`ve ever experienced.
He reached his hand out and gently touched my face. My body strained in fear and was breathless. He moved his hand up from my face to my forehead as if he was looking for something. In a matter of slow minutes, he removed his hand to my great fullness.
"The map, you`ve seen it." He reached his hand out again to touch my face and searched for more. I couldn't take it anymore, I let the tears fall from my face and let him search through my mind. But as if someone was looking out for me, an explosion was heard in the distance and a few Stormtroopers ran up from behind trees. He dropped his hand from my face and looked at them.
"Sir, Resistance fighters! We need more troops." One said.
He walked behind me.
"Pull the division out. Forget the droid. We have what we need."
Everything went black. The only thing I could feel was someone catching me in their arms and lifting me up, before losing all senses.
