Ducem Mortis | The Mandalorian

VII

"So, what's your story?"

I turned my head towards the sound of Toro'a voice as he had spoken after not speaking for the past hour or so. I raised my eyebrows in confusion as I spoke, "My story?"

He turned away from where the ridge was and faced me, "Yeah, your story. What makes you, you?" I shook my head before I looked away from him and to the nearest star that was just finishing setting. The air was now a lot cooler with the heat not beating down on us.

"Come on I'll tell you mine." Toro edge on but I quickly shook my head, "I'd rather not like to here." Toro raised his hands up as he spoke, "Excuse me if I just wanted to make small talk.....I just wonder how someone like you ends up traveling with a guy like him." He said gesturing to the man that I was trying to figure out if he was actually sleep or play sleeping.

"He's a Mandalorian. Who wouldn't want to have training from him," I spoke nonchalantly. Toro almost snorted catching my attention. "I don't believe that for a second."

"Hmmm, no and why not?" I asked as I tried to read Toro. He gave a small smirk before he pointed at me, it wasn't until I really followed to what his fingers were pointing to that I realized he was pointing at my katana. "I realized earlier that your katana is the only weapon you carry. Meaning that you aren't a bounty hunter like he is."

"Maybe I am and just like to get up in personal with my kills." I said glaring at him only for him to shake his head as he was now very close to me, I could see the brown specks in his green eyes. "I don't doubt that you could kill someone if needed, but I also don't think you're giving me the full story." Toro continued as his eyes glanced down my face and back up to my eyes.

"Are you done?" Toro and I both looked to the side to see the Mandalorian. Just as a suspected, he wasn't sleep. "Waiting on you." I muttered as I looked away and up at the sky. The sky was clear giving off a picture perfect view of the stars.

"Get on your bike," the Mandalorian spoke towards Toro as he got up onto the one he was leaning back on. "We need to ride as fast as we can towards those rocks."  He continued before nodding towards me, signaling that he meant the same for me. Toro scoff at his words after thinking for a moment. That's when I noticed the flash charges the Mandalorian was foundling with.

"That's your plan? She'll snipe us right off the bikes." The Mandalorian toss some flash charges at Toro as he explained, "We alternate shots, it'll blind the scope temporarily. Combine that with our speed and we got a chance, he ended with as I got on the back of the bike behind him. For once I was thankful that I was behind him, as any shot that Fennec would deliver would hit the man in front of me before it got to me.

The bike jerked forward as the Mandalorian increased the speed causing me to place my hands around his waist. We jumped into the air before landing on the sand dunes. The Mandalorian let off the first charge which lit up the sky. However, Fennec being her was still able to make a shot near us causing us to swerve to the side. "Now!" The Mandalorian signaled towards Toro causing him to release one of his flash charges.

We were more than halfway across the terrain when Toro had set off another flash. However, this one didn't quite make it into the sky, not blinding Fennec. Fennec took this opportunity shooting at the bike the Mandalorian and I were on. The grip I had on him gave out causing me to tumble forward above the bike. The sky lit up again but this time it came up from behind me causing me to look back and see the Mandalorian having his flash charge still faced towards the sky.

I got up only to be tackled back to the ground by the Mandalorian. At first I was confused but immediately understood when I saw the smoke linger from the Mandalorian's armor.