Skywalker

Chapter 4: Trust

Alix finally regained consciousness and spit out any dirt or water that she caught in her mouth. Her whole body was soaked and covered in mud and swampy water. Turns out she had landed in a huge thing of a swap pool. She stepped out from the pool and saw Kylo Ren laying by the wet marshes unconscious. She went over to see if he was still alive and unfortunately he was, there wasn't any water in his lungs so that was good. 

She tried shaking him to wake him up, but that didn't work so she went with the easiest choice. She stuck her hand out and carefully concentrated on the water. Once she was fully aware of her surroundings a large bubble of water appeared and slowly hovered over toward them. She stood up to remain as far from the bubble and then once it was over his head she dropped it and he woke up gasping. 

He sat up clearing the mucky water from his face and then turned to see her standing just above him. At first he wasn't sure why she was here but then he remembered why he was here in the first place and then gave her an irritated look.

"Did you have to do that?" He growled.

"Yeah, you weren't waking up and dousing you in water was the easiest option."

"I'm surprised you didn't think to drown me."

"I was thinking of drowning you, but that's not the Jedi way." She removed her jacket and wrapped it around her waist and then started searching for any way to make it back out from the swamps. "Hey get up. Come on, we got to keep going."

"Go where?"

"Anywhere away from here," she said. 

"Two questions," he said.

"What?" She hissed.

"Why are you helping me? And how we getting off of Dagobah?"

"First of all," she turned to look at him. "I'm not helping you, you're helping me and secondly we might  not get off of Dagobah because we have no transportation to leave here. Now get up before we get eaten alive by some swamp creature."

"Swamp creatures don't eat you alive, they kill you and then they eat you alive," he said. She stopped walking and stared at him confused.

"How would you know that?" She asked.

"I've been here before. When I was training." She stepped down and walked up to him. 

"Do you know how to get around here?" She said.

"Maybe, maybe not." 

"How helpful," she said sarcastically. She looked up at the sky and noticed that it was starting to get dark which meant that they would need to build a new campsite soon. Alix turned her attention to the broken off clip and could see that the entire ledge didn't break off. She wondered if there was still some of her supplies that might've survived. 

"I'll be right back," she took off running and did a backflip off a tree and grabbed ahold of the ledge pulling herself up. She almost fell when bits of it broke off but she managed to scramble up before she plummeted to her death. 

She looked around and luckily her theory was right, at least half of her supplies had survived from the fall. She grabbed whatever she could carry and thank goodness her backpack didn't fall. She quickly rummaged to see if everything was still there but most importantly the crystal. She pulled it out and it started glowing it's red aura again, but suddenly she saw something dripping from it. She looked at her hand and noticed blood but she had no cuts. So where was the blood coming from? Grabbing a piece of cloth she wiped the crystal clean and placed it around her neck but shoved it under her shirt. 

Suddenly she felt that same surge of power she had felt when she first found the crystal in that cave on Tehar. There was this pain in her wrist, when she looked down she saw a tattoo on her wrist. But it was a symbol, a symbol she recognized. The symbol of the Sith. Now she was scared, when she tried taking off the crystal she couldn't. Whenever she pulled it up it would push back onto her neck.