Rey opened her eyes to find herself lying flat across a section of ice, floating steadily on the lake. She tried to ignore the throbbing in her head and instead shifted her body slightly to take a look at her surroundings. To her dismay she found herself isolated on the ice block, surrounded by the dark waters of the lake and drifting further from the other chunks of ice.

She lifted her head and stood up, causing her ice block to wobble and increase her already present wooziness. She could remember hearing Kylo Ren's voice in her unconsciousness. At first it had sounded cold-blooded, then it became almost soothing as he cooed to her. Impossible, she corrected herself, Kylo Ren is evil, the dark side does not allure to me.

However, she had to admit, his voice had a handsome thrum - his real voice, not the distorted crackle caused by his onyx helmet. She loathed the way it's distorted hiss pierced her ears. Realising the subject of her thoughts, Rey began cursing her heart for skipping over Kylo Ren's handsome, rich voice... "No! Evil voice, dark voice, VILE VOICE!"

Rey tried to steady her staggered breathing."There's no point in pondering why I heard him in my sleep. He was probably just trying to annoy me again." She thought as she picked up her staff. Gazing out towards the mountains, Rey surveyed her distance from the nearest shoreline.

To her luck, as she was passed out, she had floated further from the First Order prison and closer to the surrounding mountains.

Craving solid ground, Rey began drawing her staff through the water. She grasped it firmly and tried to pull the water harder, each stroke bringing herself and her sheet of ice closer to the water's edge.

She shivered as a slight breeze rolling of the lake nipped at her skin. It was already cold enough for her liking on this snow planet, but the sun was beginning to go down and she knew the temperature would drop further.

Rey had not considered much of the few loose garments she had donned before being made captive by the First Order. In her haste to escape from her captors, she had not been bothered by the extreme chill, but after many minutes of stillness her core temperature had begun to drop.

The urgency of arriving on the shore before the sun had fully-set became her first priority. The wind was blowing the loose tendrils of hair in her eyes and her paddling had increased. A staff was by no means a very good tool for navigating along the darkening surface of a black-ice lake.

"Closer now," she breathed, staring down the water's edge, "just a few more minutes."

A great gust caused her hair to whip around, blocking her vision completely. At the same time small waves were clashing with her ice raft, enough to cause it to rock and take Rey further from he shoreline. Trying not to panic, she focused on steadying herself as she pulled her hair away from her face.

A low rumble came from the watery depths and Rey noticed it was not only the breeze making it harder for her to gain momentum, there was something lurking beneath her, living in the ice lake.

A large force from below tipped the ice block, causing Rey to leap off it. Thankfully, she was now close enough to the other sheets of ice that she landed with a roll on one of them. She squirmed on the ice trying to use her staff to help herself stand up again, the loose snow scattered along the surface making it difficult.

"Force, this is all I need. I should have just stayed on Jakku, I never thought helping a droid would lead me certain death so often!"

Rey reached for her sabre at her thigh, feeling nothing but an empty holster. She jolted her head up, looking around for where it had fallen out. "It can't be..." she let her thought trail off, not wishing to conclude she had lost her master's sabre to the merciless lake.

The creature below finally escaped to the surface, bellowing into the quickening darkness. It had to be larger than an AT-AT, Rey thought. She didn't have long to ponder its magnitude as it came crashing down above her. She zipped from its collision path, landing painfully on her side.

A gasp escaped her lips at the agony in her ribs as she stumbled onto her knees again. The beast flicked its large tail about, carefully crawling along the thin ice's surface towards Rey. She was close enough now to the shore that with some help from the force, she could outrun the creature along the black ice.

However, the glint of her sabre's hilt caught her eye before she could implement that plan. It was about half-way between herself and the large, ebony animal before her.

"Force.' She cursed under her breath as she got into a running position. Locking eyes with the monster, the scavenger broke into a sprint.

"There is no emotion, there is peace." Nearing her sabre, Rey could feel her already exhausted lungs tearing between breaths. "There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no emotion, there is peace."

Skidding along the ice, Rey crouched and reached for the weapon, igniting it hastily and looking up to catch a glimpse of a large flipper coming down on her. "Thereisnoemotion, thereis- FORCE!"

Rey dived away from the heavy blow, managing to drag her sabre through the beast's limb. This caused it to let out an ear-slitting roar, the collision of its flipper already causing the thin ice to collapse beneath it. Rey quickly dashed to land another blow in it's slimy side which she hoped would inflict further pain upon the creature - but not enough to seriously maim it. However, the frustration she had already caused the dark beast had only served to rile it up even more, and it took another swing at Rey.

This time, it managed to knock her onto her back and she moaned at the intense pain from her spine smashing against the ice. She was sure to bruise in many-

"You cannot hide from me scavenger." Kylo Ren's voice cut through her agony, eliciting another groan from Rey.

"Why can't he leave me alone?" She had no time to reflect on his smooth, thundering voice, instead heaving herself to the left in order to avoid further impact with the lake monster's appendages.

Rey used her close proximity to swipe her lightsabre at her opponent. Delivering a swift blow to another one of it's limbs.

"Do not ignore me scavenger!" Frustrated by Kylo Ren's persistence in distracting Rey, she sucked in a deep breath and jumped onto the flipper, holding steady as she ran up onto it's shoulder. The beast screamed as Rey brought her weapon down upon its neck. It thrashed about in the water, making Rey slide along it's slimey back, drawing more cuts into its thick, wet skin.

It's thrashing caused the ice beneath them to break apart and finally the creature gave up. Rey launched herself from its dorsal muscles onto the still in-tact ice fragments as the beast sunk again into the chilled depths.

Rey release a sigh of relief and hopped along the few remaining ice blocks to the shore.

Refusing to continue running she sent out a thought to her enemy through the force. "Kylo Ren," she began.

This is my longest chapter so far! (By a few hundred words haha)

Badass Rey is really fun to write, also her frustration over Kylo Ren hahaha

Again, don't forget to let me know what you think!

Next time: What does Rey have to say to Kylo Ren? How does he react? (Kylo ren POV again)