Ezra knew when he was drugged he had been drugged enough on the streets to know what it felt like. His mind felt clouded he could hear voices around him but his ears couldn't really understand anything. He just felt like he was floating in space nothing
tethering him down to earth. He didn't know how long he was in this high like state but part of him didn't care. He felt like he didn't have care in the world but this high like the state was quickly crushed when his body was flooded with freezing
cold sensation as his eye flew open in complete shock as he coughed as water got up his mouth and nose.
He quickly looked around to in panic as his eyes cleared from the freezing cold water that was dumped on his head. He hands tied to a pole in an open like field it was dark outside. He looked down to see that luckily he was still in his clothes the bastard
hadn't violated him not that he knew anyway. he tried to pull on his hands that were behind his back but the knots were tied to tight for him to really break free at the moment.
ssssooo… wwwht…..doo. yyu…wwnt…." Ezra's teeth were chattering as the night air was very cold the wind picked up a little bit moving his hair in the wind. His voice was weaker than he would like but when you been drugged for who knows how long it was
understandable.
oh, I thought we told you little Jedi why we took you way." The main gang member walked towards him. Ezra couldn't really get a good picture of the man because it was getting dark fast. " Yeah yeah yeah." Ezra mumbled out " you want to kill me and your
telling me you just let my family go unharmed. I doubt that" rolling his drugged eyes.
"Am hurt by that my friend." the man walk right up to his face " Am men of my word I don't lie. Your friends didn't really have my eye, not like you." As he grabbed the boys hair and slammed it back into the wooden post. Smiling when he heard the child
hiss in pain. "It will give me great pleasure when you're your master founds out that you have passed away in very sad death.
"Ezra narrowed his eyes " Well sorry to disappoint but it not going to be as easy to kill me." As he spits right in the men face " Fuck You Ezra said proudly which led his head to be slammed back into the pole this time Ezra didn't make sounded not letting
the men in front of him have any satisfaction."
" know your smart boy." he spoke softly in the child's ear if you want to live a little longer then I suggest when I untie you-you stay right on the ground ." as Ezra felt the knots being roughly untied as the men but a lot of pressure on his body
so he couldn't run when he was loose.
"He was pushed into the mud roughly when he got free as he could now see the rest of the gang starting to walk towards him. " Have some fun boys but remember I want him alive after this. Ezra tried to get his feet under him but his boot kept slipping
in the mud as he fell flat on his face as he the kicking and punching began.
"Ezra new how to fight he been in enough in Lothal to get himself. he was able to get the upper hand couple of times. But each time seemed to end with his face get submerged into the mud field. As they would hold him under the mud till he thought he would
pass out and they bring him back up again and he would cough and spit just when he thought he could get another good breath his head was back under the thick mud.
It smelled like human and animal shit. He tried desperately to call out to the force but he could never get really grip on it if he was honest with himself he really couldn't sense anything it was like someone had put the wall between him and force. He
couldn't even sense Kanan which made him feel sick to his stomach What if they the son of bitch was lying to him what if they did kill the whole crew that why he couldn't sense Kanan
he was brought out of his thoughts by someone punching him right in the stomach as he doubled over in pain. " come on Ezra stay in the moment as he dogged the person that had punched him but not before some else cut him off guard punching him the
back of the head as he lost his footing and fell once again to the muddy ground sliding couple of feet away.
He was slowly losing stamina at this point and seemed like the further he went in the mud pit the deeper it was becoming. At first, it only came below his knees now when he stood it was to his waist. It was getting harder and harder to move around. The
mud was freezing cold he had lost feeling in his feet and hands long ago. As he back up as the other gang member advances on him as he kept moving backward the mud slowly creeping up to his chest. As the ganging member snickering at him.
"You want to go for the little swim again they main gang member spoke to him as he stood above him on a dry spot of land. Ezra eyed his lightsaber that was clipped to the men's belt if he could just use the damn force and bring it to him he would be able
to take all these ass holes down.
The man seemed to understand " you want this precious weapon as he held it in his hand such a magnificent weapon. It shames that you will die by the hands of it as he began to laugh mercilessly. "Drag him to the deepest part this pit and submerge him
all the way and don't let him got till he stops moving!"
The men went to make a grab for him Ezra fought tooth and nail as he kicked bit clawed at the men scream at the top of his lungs for help. But in the end they men got the upper hand as they dragged him to the end of the pit as they pried his jaw open
as the would lay him on his back as just submerge his head keeping his mouth open as he gagged as the smell was so revolting.
The mud burned his eyes nose and throat as it went down. He screams and screamed. Bring his head back up and hold him up soo he could throw it up before doing the whole process over and over again. By the end of the 5th time or was it the 10th Ezra lost
all sense of time his body was frozen from the mud as he lay there limp in the mud. He could hear the words kill him before his whole body got submerged as he went deeper and deeper and deeper the pressure of the mud was unreal he couldn't move even
if he wanted to.
His body felt like it was being stabbed with a thousand needles. He was so deep in the mud that he slowly lost all sense of hearing he couldn't hear anything. As the mud slowly crept into his mouth as he made a gagging sound as he his body did little
jerk for oxygen but none never came to his lungs burned he could feel blood rushing in his ear he couldn't see it was just pitch black as his eye buried buy whatever was mix into the mud he wanted breath but he couldn't as he slowly lay there
as his eyes finally slipped closed as he knew no more.
His body felt so heavy he could see a soft light above him and he knew right then and there where he was. He wanted the pain to end so badly his body felt it was being ripped in half and he just wanted it to end. He reached out a hand to try and reach
the light he could feel it he was almost there. All of sudden he felt another force wrap around him like an iron guard pulling him away from the feeling of safety. He tried to fight the whatever was pulling him away. The force that wrapped around
him felt so familiar. But he wanted to go back to the light so badly he wanted the pain to end as tears fell from his face.
As soft force spoke in this strange place " Come back to us Ezra please come back to us." The voice sounds panicked and so urgent. He wanted to help whoever was feeling so sacred. Something told him he needed to go with the thing that was pulling him
away from the light. The force said it wasn't his time he needs to be with his family.
The words family rang in his ears over and over and over as images began to flash past him his whole life Journey flashing before his eyes his mom his dad being loved by them than watching them being taken. Living on the street begging for money doing
anything and everything just to live. It made his heart ache he didn't want to live that life anymore as he was about to go back up towards the another image flashed in front of him. The images past through his subconscious mind. It was the image
of the ghost crew and that when he realized where he needed to be.
He let go of the light that was trying to get him to leave he allowed his body to be dragged farther and farther away. Before he knew it his eyes shot open like he had been shocked back into his own body. He started to violently cough he was quickly turned
over to recovery position as he vomits up blood and mud and whatever else was in his system. "Good job kiddo you're doing great keep going.
A soft voice spoke in his ear. When he finally stop coughing he was rolled back over as his blurry eyes full of tears look into the eye of his mentor "K…kanan he slowly raised his shaky hand to touch his mentors face " Yes Ezra it me am right here
Kanan spoke in in breathless sort of tone " your going to be ok your going to be ok.
H….How…..I….Thought…..yyyu…..d…ied…" His voice was so very weak ever word spoken was like someone had dragged razors down his own vocal cords. His eye never leavening Kanan.
Kanan moved some of his wet muddy bangs out of his eyes. "All tell you when you're feeling a little bit better. But right now we need to get you onto the ghost." As Ezra body gave a violent shake under the shock blanket that was covering him.
"Kanan ….. I….feel…sooo…..cold….. his head rolled to the side he blacked out once again.