Notes: Yo this is a small chapter but eh
Though from the room they were in it sounded like it was coming from all four halls,echoing and fading. Most of it was coming from the hall we had our backs against. I poked my head out and it was a boy dressed in brown robes running towards them. It was a youngling from the temple, what's he doing here, Graf thought. The boy went past him and yelped for help, but why?. Now he knew when he looked backed into the hallway. It was a Jedi who had a very discreted face and his saber was on. There was no time to ask questions,
"Stop", I said but it only seemed to make him run faster.
Me and Osc both fired at once, our blasters were set to stun. He dodged to the side and his lifted his hand up and force pushed us back, sending us flying to the other end of the room. Osc hit the wall, I hit the floor. Hard. I looked to my side and the boy saw us down in defeat and kept running. Today was a weird day Oscar was not announced dead maybe but I wasn't and now I know that said I was a friend and he must be stopped I grab my pistol at my side and perched myself up against the wall with my elbow I didn't have time to check if it was set to kill. I fire twice and he blocks both shots sending them off around the room. I keep firing but he does the same, blocking them. Then he flings his lightsaber at me. I panicked and I didn't know what to do. I put my head back as fast as I can, throwing my whole body back. The lower half of my body still ached from the fall. I felt like I didn't reacted fast enough. The next I knew was this bright blue light and the sound of a hiss like metal being burned right off. The first thing that hit me was 'I'm dead'. Me, a republic soldier died from jedi, "a keeper of peace". Dying the most ironic death and i wouldn't have known why, but thats not how my story's gonna end because I was still alive.
I felt like throwing up, but not from the dizziness of that green ceiling but my heart was racing. I don't know how I was alive but I was, then I saw that blue light again. It was going back in the direction it was thrown. 'Maybe he thinks I'm dead'. I layed there silently pretending I was dead, maybe he thinks he got me. In that moment it felt like forever. Was he gonna stand over him and make sure I was dead. This was about the first time I have ever experienced real fear, death. On my old missions when I had a whole platoon behind me the tide of the battle was from us winning to us losing and retreating. We were taking heavy losses and when it was just me and another clone left surrounded with droids coming at us from all angles with the smallest bit of cover we had and reinforcements on their way from afar. Back to back we were, the guy was quiet and nervous, you could tell by his aim, but me, I was laughing hysterically and mocking the droids as I took em down. We made it out alive and good thing too because if they got any closer I was gonna have to use my secret weapon.
I laid there, waiting. Something was gonna happen next, I hope he doesn't check. If only he could see where I was hit, I must be, I couldn't feel it though. My prayers were answered, he began to leave. His footsteps were fading away into the hall, running. When the coast was clear I lifted my head up. He wasn't there, I bring myself up like a push up, very sloppy. First I check the hands, then my feet and I start rubbing my hands in all places of my body. Patting them around my chest, then those pats get even more joyful. 'Ha', I thought. Everything seems to be in place, though I wasn't sure. It sounded like the lightsaber hit something, but what. I used the wall to prop myself up. The wall was unscaved so…. 'Did he let me live'. He wouldn't not with that evil stare of his that he had. So what, I lifted myself up to a standing position. My ass hurt. Even more with this armor. When I did lift myself up I felt a little lighter. I put my hand on both my shoulders and realized something. The armor on my left shoulder was gone. Clean right off.
"That was a close one", I finally spoke.