Author's Note: This is where we get to know more about the Knights of Ren and how Reina (Rey) Ren fits in the whole scheme of things with them. Also, more secrets to be revealed here.
Earlier at Malcord V…
Rey, now called Reina Ren was escorted by her mother to a large Ren Knight troop cruiser, located beneath the castle on Malcord V. Walking along were other members of the Knights of Ren, wearing their dark overcoats and carrying exotic, blades of ancient medieval and unconventional design. Reina looked at her new clothing, feeling the power it emanates and giving her a sense of her true herself: a borne member of the dark side, walking next with her real mother and among her people. Reina was glad that she was free fro that old shell that was Rey, the pathetic scavenger on Jakku, always worrying about hunger. However, her life on Jakku was necessary to train and nourish the dark ego that is now Reina Ren. Reina felt more and more comfortable with the idea that she's at the right place at the right time, feeling not fear, but an unusual warmth…a connection to her roots. These frightening and armored-clad enemies are now her allies, friends she can trust for now on.
When she glanced at them, they looked back and gave a small nod as a manner of respect to her true identity, a sister amongst the Knights of Ren. For Reina is like a royalty to them, she is the daughter of a one of the most powerful members of the Knights of Ren, her mother, Lady Ren.
"After you, my daughter," Lady Ren said, opening the door and letting her daughter in first.
Reina stepped on board and replied back, "Thank you, Mother."
Lady Ren went on board along with other Ren Knights and escorted Reina to her quarters. Then, the troop cruiser took off through a secret underground entrance and went into outer space.
"Thank you my fellow Ren Knights," Reina's mother said.
"You're welcome, my Lady of Ren," said the Ren Knights as they went off to their duties.
"How do you feel, Reina?" Reina's mother asked.
"I feel…good…Mother. Like, I belong here. Everything here is familiar like I been here before," Reina replied.
"Of course you do, you're my daughter…the daughter of the dark side. As I said before, one day I'll come back for sweetheart. That I did by wakening you back to the fold."
"Yes, mother and for that I'm grateful," Reina said as she continued to walk side by side with her mother
Before entering a training hall, Reina asked, "Where is the ship taking us?"
"We'll be heading towards a secret facility where Supreme Leader Snoke resides. But for now, it's time for you to know the members of Kylo Ren's Seven," Reina's mother replied.
Kylo Ren…Ben…Reina thought to herself before immediately forgetting that man…that traitor.
As Reina walked, she looked inside her the sleeve of her original Jedi robe and checked to make sure her tracking device is still blinking. It is and Reina looked ahead as a door opened in front of her.
Inside the main training hall…
Lady Ren, Reina's mother, walked inside first and the six Knights of Ren in the middle of their training, stopped and turned around. They turned to their attention to Lady Ren and walked forward to form a single horizontal line in front of her.
Lady Ren looked at them as she turned her head to see her daughter following along. Reina Ren stood side by side with her mother as she looked at the faces of Kylo's Seven.
"Greetings my fellow Knights of Ren. I present to you, your new and returning sister, Reina Ren," said Lady Ren.
The 6 Knights all bowed and returned to their standing posture.
"Reina, these are the Seven. Your Seven. They used to serve Kylo Ren's before his defection and defeat. They now serve you," Lady Ren said.
"Greetings, my fellow Knights," Reina said as she bowed as well.
"Knights, present your names," Lady Ren ordered.
Reina Ren walked in front of each one and shook hands and bowed as each one spoke their names.
"Smud Ren," said a bigger, heavier built Ren Knight.
"Kovu Ren," said another Ren Knight.
"Zu…sorry, I meant, Kozu Ren."
"Asula Ren. You can call me, Jeina," said a female Ren Knight
"Malliek Ren."
"Niles Ren."
After making her greeting with Niles Ren, Reina was confused and asked, "Mother, where's the 7th? You said the Seven."
"That's right. There is. The seventh was Kylo Ren. Now, you…are the 7th. You are now…the Master of the Knights of Ren."
Reina, shocked and amazed on what she's hearing, felt a sense of gratitude and honor to serve side by side with her own private force for she is one of the Seven. Reina looked at each one carefully and caught the eye of Asula Ren. Reina thought to herself. She's pretty interesting. I should get to know her a bit more. I sense something familiar with her.
"Tonight, you all must rest. Tomorrow, all of you will train with Reina and teach her the duties as your Master of the Knights of Ren."
"Yes, Lady Ren!" all replied.
"Good. Now dismissed," Lady Ren ordered and everyone departed to their quarters.
"Come with me now, Reina. I'll bring you to your quarters," said Lady Ren, escorting her daughter out through main door and into the steps to a lower level and went inside Reina's quarters.
"This is your room," Lady Ren said.
Reina walked inside and noticed something quite odd. "Mother, is this actually yours?" Reina asked as she felt through the Force that this room was her mother's. Not only that, the room has some a table, a bed, some shelves containing books and holovids of various knowledge that Lady Ren would look up from time to time. Books and holovids, ranging from ancient techniques in combat, metallurgy, Sith magic, and knowledge of different Force abilities.
"It is, but I have my own through the door over there," Lady Ren replied.
As Lady Ren and Reina Ren both entered and saw the dark red and black aesthetics, Reina noticed the bed. The bed was large enough to fit a king and queen together, but instead it's meant for only one occupant: Lady Ren's daughter. Reina looked around before sitting down at the bottom side of the bed.
Reina watched her mother entering the door and into her mother's room. Lady Ren went inside, sat down by her bed, and took her robes off, revealing her dark leather-like Ren Knight armor. Reina walked inside to have a look of her mother's room and was even amazed by a collection of various items that makes up Lady Ren's life. A collection of manuscripts written in the ancient language of the Sith on Moraband, on spells and the dark side of the force, a wall filled with various melee weapons from medieval short swords to long swords to even light sabers, and then there's a cupboard filled with different design of clothes that Lady Ren wears from time to time.
"So Reina…you've decided to come on over," Lady Ren observed.
"Yes I was. You have all of these amazing items, mother. Enough of which would grant me more than 50 portions of food on Jakku, esp. with these weapons on the wall."
"Ahh…Jakku. The place where I left you to make you strong, brave, and filled with of anger and hate. And look at you now, stronger than before, even stronger than that traitorous Kylo Ren. I always knew he will betray us, but now he's finished…when you threw him into the lake."
Reina was held back by those words and felt an internal conflict of feelings towards Kylo Ren…or Ben Solo. Reina, snapped out of it and replied, "Yes, I did. He's a weak boy anyways. Always complaining. Always whining about everything esp. his grandfather's lightsaber."
Lady Ren laughed a bit. She always remembered how much that naïve boy loved Darth Vader that every time a picture of Darth Vader was taken away from him, Kylo Ren threw an angry fit and brandished his lightsaber to destroy more equipment.
"Are these yours, mother?" Reina quickly asked.
"Yes, they are and there is one I would like to show you," Lady Ren got up, walked on over, and grabbed a double-sided light saber.
Lady Ren walked over with the doubled-sided lightsaber and handed over to her daughter.
"This is for you, Reina," Lady Ren said.
"For me, mother?" Reina asked, shocked.
"That's right," Lady Ren replied and continued, "I made just for you long before you were born and I kept it for you in case the day you come back to your rightful place amongst the Knights of Ren."
"Thank you, Mother. It's...it's…beautiful."
Lady Ren looked at Reina's eyes of joy. The same joy amount Lady Ren expected from her daughter. One day she will make the finest Knight amongst the Knights of Ren and see her success flourish as she is my legacy, Lady Ren thought.
Lady Ren sat back on her bed and took off the top part of her body armor, revealing nothing more than a dark grey shirt and all the battle scars she had over the years. Reina Ren looked over and saw something at the top part her mother's left arm just few inches below the shoulder.
Reina saw an unusual configuration that looks like a pair wings attached to an animal's head. She took a few big steps forward and said, "Mother, is that a tattoo?"
"Oh, it's nothing, really," said Lady Ren trying to shake it off.
Then, Reina spotted something in the corner of her eye. There was a large cupboard with its door slightly opened. Reina ran over and opened the door and could not believe her eyes.
"Mother, what is this? That's a…"
Before Reina finished her sentence, Lady Ren walked over and told her who she really was….
Meanwhile…at the Holo-Extractor…
"Poe, are you sure this is really working? You said that you got data from your intelligence of every possible secret member of the First Order and the Knights of Ren and you cannot correlate who's who with the Republic's database?" asked Ben in a feat of rage as he slammed the bottom part of his fist on the table in front of him.
"Ben, it's a prototype. There are sorts of kinks in the armor," Poe replied.
"Yeah, kinks in an electronic armor that is! I can't believe how hard it is to do a composite image comparison in this machine. I can't even compare this imposter with multiple suspects!" Ben replied back.
Finn walked in, "Hey, everyone. How's everyone doing? And who is that?"
Finn looked up and saw a woman in robes and Ren Knight body armor.
"Supposedly, a 'no one' who took my…I mean…Rey away…That witch," said Ben in his usual snarky, sarcastic way.
"Uhh…quite actually, we're trying to find out if this is really Rey's mother," Poe clarified.
"Okay, right. She does kind of look like her by the way," Finn observed.
"No! She does not! Look…she could actually be one of those changelings or someone who knows how to use Force to alter their appearance," Ben shouted, "And the only way to pinpoint on that is to find one or series of features that this phony has that Rey doesn't!"
Ben recomposed himself and retained his calmness. He took a deep breath and exhaled before saying, "Sorry, I'm just…uhhh…getting really irritated every time I see this…face."
Finn said, "Hey, no worries. I feel you. People in the First Order are really those you don't want to mess with."
"Yeah, especially I suffered like forty stab wombs from those…Ren Knights. I regret teaching them to be so…extra brutal."
Ben and Poe ran through more images of various Republic citizens to get a match with this supposed Rey's mother. But, no luck.
Then, a man in a grey-white Mandalorian armor stepped into the room along with his assistant Kal Dronus.
"Salutations!" greeted Caterous Endo.
"Oh, hey, Caterous! Hey Kal! How you doing?" Finn approached them and greeted them.
"You got a strong grip, Finn. Been practicing with your lightsaber?" asked Caterous.
"I have. If you want to spar sometime, let me know."
"Sure…will do," Caterous replied before turning his attention to Poe and Ben.
"And, you must be Poe and Ben?" Caterous asked.
"Yep, that's us," Ben said as he got up and along with Poe shook hands with the two Knights of Mandalore.
Kal Dronus stepped forward and saw someone familiar, "Caterous, is that who I think she is?"
Caterous turned his attention to the holographic projection of the woman that Ben and Poe were analyzing.
"Wait a minute. It can't be," Caterous said.
Finn, Poe, and Ben all looked confused, wondering what's going on.
"So, uhhh…you know this person?" asked Poe.
"Kal hand me over the archives," Caterous said as Kal handed over a big book, bonded with the oldest animal hides found on Mandalore and a metallic locking device engraved across the right edge where the pages turned open, keeping it secured.
Caterous placed the book down on a nearby table. He pulled out some cables, opened the book, and connected the book to the machine.
Poe came in to help plug in the cables since he knows how to collaborate its functionality. After everything was said and done, Caterous activated the computer inside the book.
"Computer, password: Satine 66," Caterous said.
Then, an artificial voice was heard, speaking in Shillick, Caterous made a few commands, and a holographic image appeared inside the machine's projector.
"Whoa," Ben said as he, Poe, and Finn saw this gigantic web of different families over the many years of history of the Knights of Mandalore.
Caterous, told the book to run a scan of all the potential family members matching up with this supposed "Rey's mother." So, far after going through numerous rounds of cross-analysis, nothing turned up.
Caterous, hesitated for a moment, and took some deep breathes on what he had to do next. But, it was something that's troubling him.
"Computer, activate the secret archives. Pass code: 1515."
Then, the holographic projection turned to one area that is darkened out. Then a list of words appeared along with pictures.
"Computer, scan," Caterous ordered.
Then, within a few seconds, there was a match. An image appeared side by side: the memory image of what Ben saw on the day Rey turned to the dark side and this known member of the Knights of Mandalore.
Then, a named appeared…and shook everyone to the core.
Inanna Sabé Ishtari Satine Kenobi Kryze (Codename: IANNA 1515)
Back at the Ren Knight Troop Cruiser…
"That's Mandalorian armor and that's…" Reina asked. Before getting cut off, she looked closely at the symbol on the Mandalorian armor and her mother's arm. The symbol that showed two wings attached to the head of an animal with tusks coming from the mouths. Then, there was a thin triangular pillar on top of the head with the 6 pin pointed star across the midsection of the pillar.
"An old Jedi symbol combined with that of the Mandalorians. I was once a member of the Knights of Mandalore, an alliance of former Jedi and Mandalorians who swore to protect the innocent and fight the Dark side. I was their carer once before I joined Snoke and that makes you, my daughter…Rey…Reina…Anna…Part Jedi…Part Mando…Part Ren."
Author's note: that was a fun one to write. Like, I said before secrets will be revealed here and we finally got to know Rey/Reina's unique heritage for she is the best of three worlds: Jedi (Light), Ren (Dark), and Mandalorians (Neutral or Grey). In case anyone was wondering about Rey/Reina's mother's real name: Inanna Sabé Ishtari Satine Kenobi Kryze. Here's an explanation: Inanna comes from Sumerian name (Mesopotamia (located in modern day Iraq)) for the Goddess of love, fertility and warfare (which kind of fits Rey/Reina's mother in this story). Ishtari comes from Ishtar (another name for Inanna). Sabé is the name of one of Padmé Amidala's handmaiden. Satine and Kryze are the names of the Duchess of Mandalore (Satine Kryze) who is Obi-Wan Kenobi's lover in the TV Show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars.