Rey managed to get up so slightly as to fully face all of them. With the rain still pouring, her vision was terrible, yet she could still distinguish at least six of them. Luke had told her about them. Dark tall features, as if they had landed from a child's nightmare. The Knights of Ren.
And Kylo Ren was one of them. Thats why he left. but where is he?
Barely standing, beaten up, bruised and bloody, she looked up and observed their tall dark frames, dreading their next move. Her knees and ankles were shaking. Their formation reminded her of wild desert savages that used to hunt during the night. They would face the prey like this too, ready to kill.
As the man started charging towards her with a blade, one of them in the left slightly moved.
Rey could do nothing but stare in horror as this man was about to cut her open. She stiffened her muscles as much as she could, and prepared for the pain that was about to come, simultaneously using the Force to stop him and turning on her lightsaber.
But her immediate terror was interrupted by as the bright red, and then blood red shone through the rain. She stood breathless and stared as his anguishing body was slain with a single, gleaming red lightsaber, through the heart. She cried out. She felt a sudden, very powerful shake in the Force that kept everything still, including her. It was mere seconds, and the dead body was pushed away, close to her feet when she recognized the cross-guard bladed lightsaber. Kylo Ren. murderer. For the first time, although disgusted by the feeling, she was grateful for it. She took a deep breath, got fully up on her feet and stared at him for whatever seconds, that felt like a lifetime.
They stood, facing each other, not further than mere meters apart, she, trying to catch her breath, and him, standing quiet like a stone.
Her heart started beating, faster and faster in her ears, as she saw him heading towards her. She knew she couldn't take him, in the state that she was. She knew that not even The Force could help her right now. no.
As he marched towards her, she felt her ankles weaken, and her weight falling towards the ground. And, while she faced the pitch black sky and the pouring rain in her face, as soon as she realized he had put her to sleep, the last sight before it all went black, was his mask above her.