Chapter 2 – The Jedi Massacre pt. 2

I trusted Ben with my life. And if we were to pull this off he would have to trust me with his as well. It had been five months since Snoke gave us our orders, our first real mission as his dark side followers. Every day I feel myself hate the Resistance a little more. The annoying kids who pester me about saber swings, Skywalker talking about the fall of his father, Darth Vader.

One day before our attack. One day before we joined our supreme leader. He and Ben are all I need in life now. Yesterday I asked Organa where she and Solo found me. Again, they lied and said I was left alone. I know Snoke would never lie to me so I know he was telling the truth about them. As I yawn and stretch my arms outside my bed covers, I mentally decide that I will ask them one more time tonight. And if they do not give me a straight answer I will personally deliver the General's head to Snoke.

The smell of bacon reaches my room and forces me out of bed. I dress in all black, put on a matching head piece and exit my room. Ben's door is open so I pop my head in. He is sitting on the floor, knees and head tucked into his chest and the sound of tears hitting his leather pants. I wanted to comfort him but Snoke taught me that would be a sign of weakness. So I settle for a smart remark.

"What would Lord Vader think if he saw his pussy grandson crying like a little bitch?" I lean against the doorframe. I cross my arms and let a smirk appear on my face.

Ben pushes himself off the floor and has me in a force choke with his hand just barely touching my neck. He leaned in next to my ear and whispered, "I could crush your throat if I wanted to."

I breathed in as much air as I could muster and choke out, "If you're going to choke me at least pull my tentacles and call me Mommy." He releases my throat and scoffs.

"Tch, as if, squiddie. You're my sister."

"Yeah. Also I'm the only one who can and will put up with your emotional bullshit. Legends don't cry. Milk drinkers cry. Are you a milk drinker?"

Ben's nostrils flare. "No!" he half shouts. "I'm Kylo Ren and I will tear the Resistance apart!"

I blink a couple times. "Kylo Ren?"

"Yeah." He says shrugging. "I thought I'd need a new Dark Side name like Darth Vader had."

"Oh. Right." I shift back to serious mode. "You're Kylo Fucking Ren, and Kylo Fucking Ren doesn't cry!" He grunts a couple times to pump himself up then drops to the floor to do pushups. I kick his hand making him fall on his face then head downstairs. Before Han Solo can say eat something I grab toast and a couple pieces of bacon. I exit the house. Yesterday Skywalker asked me if I could help train the younglings in self-defense. These kids might as well have some way to defend themselves as I kill them so I agreed not wanting to look suspicious. As I near the training pen I hear a whisper.

-Halla-

It's coming from the woods. I almost make it to the edge of the forest when I hear someone call my name. Skywalker is motioning for me to come over. I brush him off and continue for the woods. Suddenly I'm being pulled backwards at warp speed only to land on my butt. The younglings laugh at me and I hear Skywalker chuckle slightly.

"No skipping out on training. Not today. I sense an unrest in the force so today is purely a defense training day. SO dust yourself off and get in the pen. Unless…"

I get up. "Unless I beat you in a duel. Yeah yeah. Inside, old man." I take my saber off my belt and power it up. The younglings scatter, some ducking under the fence. Our last duel was almost a year ago. He's offered duels many times since then but I never felt like wasting my new talents and abilities on an old man such as he. But today I felt different. I felt strange. Snoke has drowned me with the Dark Side and I have emerged powerful and strong. Only Ben has seen how powerful I have become. During normal training I suppress it but now, oh hoho, now I can go full out.

Skywalker raises his saber and waits for me to make my first move so I dash at him, avoiding his upward swing and jabbing at his hands. He kicks me in the ribs and sends me flying. I land on one of my head tentacles and yelp slightly. He leaps, swinging downwards as he lands. I roll out of the way, narrowly missing the saber. I hear some younglings scream. Other people have gathered to watch. I force pull my saber back to me and take a stance.

The duel goes on for another five minutes but it felt like an eternity. Me dodging, Skywalker swinging. For an old man he is still rather good. He nicks my thigh and I stumble. He stands over me. "Well," he breathes. "Looks like I won." He reaches down to help me up.

"Did you?" I hiss at him. I raise my hand and force pull him to his knees. Everyone gasps loudly. One of the younglings whispers a no. I get to my feet, keeping Skywalker on his knees. He tried to make me stop using his own force but I'm stronger than him. MY force powers are superior to anyone's. He attempts to hit me with his saber but I use my mind to force his arms out at his sides like a cross. All the while I feel myself grinning like a madwoman, my eyes so big in excitement and angst. Sweat falls down my face and from my arms. I feel my legs begin to quiver.

Skywalker manages to whisper, "You're not Taw'wave." I huff out a breath to laugh and I raise my saber. Adults start screaming and some rush towards me. Out of the corner of my eye I see Ben in the middle of the base clearing.

"TAW'WAVE!" He shouts. Everyone stops and looks at him. "Not yet." I feel him say. I look back at Skywalker and growl. I release him and he drops to his side. Ben heads for the forest anf I join him. Younglings and some women are crying but I don't care. I had just proved that their beloved Jedi Master could easily be defeated by a 14 year old girl. Nothing mattered. I felt powerful. I felt…weak.

I staggered and caught myself on Ben's arm. He put it around my waist and guided me to the clearing. As we arrived we were greeted by seven or eight cloaked figures. Two picked me up and set me on a cot. I look around: the clearing has been made larger, tents and a small ship cover the area. I tried to move my arms but they were as heavy as rock. One cloaked figure bandaged my thigh while another helped me drink water. I croaked out, "Ben."

"That's not my name anymore." He said, back turned to me.

I heaved in air and said in a mocking but croaky tone, "Lord Kylo fucking taun taun ball sack Ren, get your pretentious ass over here." I coughed and choked on the last part. A figure raised a hand to hit me but Ben-…but Kylo grabbed his wrist. He twisted it behind the figure's back.

"You hurt her, I will rip your arm off."

"And beat you with it." I coughed out. Kylo kneeled next to me. "Hey." I said. "Who are they?"

"These are the Knights of Ren."

"Why can't I move?"

"You exerted yourself during your match with Skywalker. Rest. You will stronger than you were before. Tomorrow we attack. I need you at your best." He rested his forehead to mine. "For the empire." He whispered and I said the same back to him. He kissed the side of my head and I fell asleep. I dreamed about giving the Supreme Leader Organa and Skywalker's heads. Then it was black. And I was falling.

People were whizzing by me, yelling for help. I reached out but could not touch them. Then I was floating but the people kept falling around me. They parted like a curtain and Supreme Leader Snoke stepped out from the black void. He stood higher than and AT-AT, maybe 20 feet tall. He reached out a hand and pointed to behind me. I turned around and the blackness swirled with colours. Suddenly there was a scene.

Two Twi'leks, looked like husband and wife, were looking into a crib. I got closer and looked in. There laid a baby Twi'lek with blueish-green skin and beautiful blue eyes. An obvious mix of her parents. I turn my head to Snoke behind me and ask, "Is that me?" He points again at the vision and it changes to another scene where the baby was trying to walk. The husband was helping her walk around, holding her hands above her head, and the wife was cleaning a blaster. I moved around the husband and saw he had a blaster pistol on his thigh. Suddenly there was yelling and the wife stood up with her blaster in hand. The husband picked up the baby just as three or four men ran in shooting at the Twi'lek family. The husband spun around to protect his baby and was shot in the back three times in the process. He fell to his knees, holding his daughter tightly then setting her down on the floor with a blanket. Blood dripped from his mouth and his nose. He took off his necklace, who's pendant had writing all over it, and wrapped it around the baby's wrist.

With his final breath he collapsed next to the baby, laying his arm around her, he said, "Stay alive, Taw'wave."

I screamed no and woke up doing the same thing, bolting to an upright position. Kylo was all of a sudden next to me with two Knights. Sun light hit my eyes. Birds escaped the nearby trees. He put a hand on my arm. "What? What happened? Did someone hurt you?" He asked, voice full of worry.

I could feel sweat pooling off my face and onto my lap. My hands were shaking with one on my saber, my thumb just a flex away from pushing the power up button. I shook off his hand and stood up. I swayed a little, seeing stars in the borders of my vision. Kylo asked again what happened. "I saw them, Ben. I saw my parents. They were being slaughtered by the Resistance." I pulled on my shoes, took a cloak from a Knight ("Hey! That's mine!" he complained) and set off for the base.

"We attack in one hour. You know what you have to do." Kylo shouted after me.

"I will carry out my mission. For the empire. Right after I ask the General where she and Solo found me."

Halfway to the base I was stopped by what felt like a barrier. I could feel it but not see it. The same comforting warm sensation overcame me and I heard the Supreme Leader in my mind.

"Halla. You are the powerful Sith Lord Halla."

The barrier fell and I could feel myself become stronger. All my fatigue from the day before was gone in an instant. I felt as if I was glowing with the force of the Dark Side. I levitated for a second before dropping to my feet. I ran the rest of the way to the base. Exiting the woods, based on the sun, it seemed to be midafternoon. I had slept for a whole day. Younglings were practicing defense with Skywalker. Chewbacca and Solo were helping repair fighter ships with a young curly haired boy. Ad I made my way to the Solo house a couple of younglings ran over and were asking me where I was. One grabbed my sleeve and said, "I want to use the force like you did yesterday."

My heart stopped for a second. I pushed myself past the kids and headed inside the house. The General was standing over a map with three of her Lieutenants. They were whispering and did not notice me come in. I cleared my throat and still no one noticed me. I slammed my fist on a tabled with force and broke it in half. All heads turned to me and I half shouted, "Where did you find me?" I could see Organa's face whiten.

One of her Lieutenants went to scold me for interrupting but Organa stopped him. She ushered them out and called Han to join us. He came into the kitchen cleaning his hands on a rag. He staggered when he saw the table.

"What happened to the table? I had to trade a pretty penny for this-"

"Han, Taw'wave wants to know where we…found her."

Solo's face fell. "Well…if you think she's ready to here this then ok." He joined Organa at the table and sat down. So did she. I sat across from them, hand on my saber. Han went to say something but ran his hand through his hair. He got up and looked out a window and heaved a heavy sigh. The General spoke first.

"Listen, whatever we tell you, we want you to know we love you as our own. You are our daughter."

I stood up quickly causing the chair to fly back. "Dammit!" I said smashing my hand on the table. "Just tell me the fucking truth! I'm not your kid!"

"We did find you." Hand said, turning around. He sat back down, now holding something shiny. "We just were a little too late…

"13 years ago we sent a group of spies to a neighboring systems. We had intercepted an information transfer about a rising Empire and how they had villages of followers. Our spies found one in the Mera system, on the planet Shorbun. As we scouted the area our soldiers were told to check in windows. Some houses had Empire banners and portraits of Sidious. One house, our spy saw a Twi'lek cleaning a blaster gun and another leaning over something. He couldn't tell what it was. He did not know it would be a who. He panicked and rushed in with three others."

I had to remind myself to breath. I wanted to cry but chose not to show weakness to these assholes. My grip on my saber tightened. "Then what happened?" I said through clenched teeth.

The General spoke this time. The whole village opened fire on us. We took down as many as we needed to diffuse the Empire support. We took about 20 prisoners. I did a sweep of the houses with Luke and found a baby. I found you. You were crying and you Twi'lek father was lying dead next to you. We knew you were special, mostly because you were the only baby in the village, but also because the prisoners kept asking if you were okay, if the baby was okay. We soon found out you were force sensitive."

Han slid the shiny thing across the table towards me. It was the necklace from my vision dream. I picked it up and ran my thumb over the writing. It was so shiny I could see my reflection in it. "We had one of the prisoners translate it for us, for you." My eyes began to burn. "It has your full name on it along with your parents' names." My eyes burned like fire. I wanted to claw them out with my bare hands. "It says 'Taw'wave Tirr, beloved daughter' and your parents were called Taw'nare and Frey'bore." I looked into the pendant. My eyes were no longer that beautiful blue but a fiery red. I could feel the anger inside me travel down my arms and to my fingertips.

"And you fucking killed them." I waved my hand and both of the Solos flew backwards. Han tried to get up but my saber met his neck. "Get up and I will carve you like a pumpkin, you insignificant trash collector." A single tear fell from my face. I strode out of the house and was flooded again with younglings around my waist. I could see Kylo and the Knights of Ren out on the forest's edge. He nodded and I put on the necklace.

With a wave of my saber three children fell down dead. Multiple adults, along with Skywalker, turned and ran at me weapons hot. The younglings tried to run away but I was too quick for them. Three more fell by my hand and Kylo emerged with the Knights. He yelled for them to attack. Chaos ensued as Resistance fighters were cut down by the Dark Side. Kylo reached me and we out our foreheads together. We separated and fought our way to Skywalker. I continued to kill as many children as possible but was intercepted by Chewbacca. He roared at me and fired at will.

Easily deflecting the shots I shouted at him, "You should go check on your friend, Solo." I motioned to the house which was on fire. He stopped shooting, paused, roared at me then dashed for the house. I could see Kylo and Skywalker fighting by the training pen. I busied myself with anyone who got in my way and headed for the ships. I took as many engines out as I could to prevent the Resistance pilots from following us. I saw Kylo fall to the ground and Skywalker went to gut him. I force shoved him away and ran over to my brother.

"Look at me saving your sorry ass." He shoved past me and dashed for the Jedi Master. Above the trees one ship the Knights had plus two more appeared. They fired at all the buildings then lowered ropes. The Knights of Ren started to repel themselves into the ships. Kylo pushed Skywalker into the pen fence and dashed for a rope. Just before I grabbed one Skywalker called after me.

"Taw'wave!"

I clenched my jaw and turned to him. I screamed back, "Taw'wave died today! This is Halla! Remember my name, old man!" I was pulled into a fighter ship and we set off for Torshata. The Knights were passing around water canteens. I grabbed one and sat next to Kylo. I nudged his arm endearingly. He brushed it away so I tried again.

"Hey. Just because were, like, 'evil' now doesn't mean we can't still act like siblings." I offered him my water canteen.

He took it and dumped some on my head. He laughed at my reaction. "That's right. You'll always be my little shit sister."