Seventeen

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As the darkness shrank, the light burned. Charms eyes opened and she felt her hands where tied up. She looked around desperately for an escape but it took her a moment to realise she was in the air. If she was to escape she would fall to her death which wouldn't be pleasant.

"She's awake" one of the men laughed, charm looked over to see the men that had killed her parents. "Let me go please" she begged while moving around to try and escape but nothing seemed to work. She didn't know what to do but there was one thought that was going through her head every ten seconds or so.

This was it, this was the end.

She closed her eyes, maybe it was a dream? But every time she opened her eyes she was stuck in the same place. She wanted help but no one was there to help her. Suddenly someone started talking on the radio.

"Yes we have the girl" one of the men spoke, charm listened in "your name is Charmaine right?" One of the men asked. Charm was scared that If she denied it they would just kill her sooner. She would rather wait a bit.

"Yes" she whispered. "Yes we have Charmaine we are going to drop her soon" the man replied to the other one on the radio. Charmaine felt her heart drop. She was going to fall to her death.

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Paul squirmed around to try and escape, he was in another air craft. His mother was tied up in front of him. He looked at the men, they where Harkronnens. He didn't know where his Father was, he didn't know where charm was but that was about to be answered.

"Yes we have Charmaine we are going to drop her soon" A man on the radio spoke, Paul's eyes widened. "Good, we have Duke Leto's little family. They will be dropped soon" A man spoke into the radio before turning around and looking Paul dead in the eye.

His mother tried to get his attention, eventually she did. He looked over at her as she signer something to him with her hands. 

'Use the voice'

Paul has been trying to perfect the voice for a long time now, ever since he was told about it he wanted to posses this powerful skill. The voice could command anyone to do anything as long as Paul could manage to summon it. 

He took a deep breath and as he did doubt filled his brain. There was a very high chance that he would fail, and make a fool of himself. He coughed a bit, "get out the way" his voice came out Normal.

The men all looked at each other and began laughing at Paul. "Get out the way" he spoke again but the voice refused to come out. Paul took a deep breath again and sighed slowly. "Get out the way" suddenly the men got up and got out the way.

"Now release me and my mother" he spoke again, the voice had worked. Before Paul knew it he was sat in the drivers seat, he was using a radar to see where Charm was. The Harkronnen's soon snapped out their chance so Paul opened the floor up and the three of them fell down to their deaths.

Paul spotted the other helicopter on the radar, he spread the air craft up and it raced towards the other one. As the helicopter hovered next to the other helicopter, Paul got up "take the controls, I'll be back" Paul spoke as he walked towards the door.

The other helicopter was hovering so it was probably about to drop Charm. The pilots in the other helicopter thought that it was the usual pilots in the helicopter that Paul stood in, so they opened their door expecting to greet their friends.

When Paul stepped into the air craft they looked concerned and angry. "Kill him" the main pilot spoke, "stand down" Paul spoke with the voice.

Both soldiers stood down, Paul then rushed towards Charm. He helped her get out and then led her to the helicopter that hovered next to them. Paul shut the door behind them.

Charm was lucky that he had gotten there when he did.

Maybe she wouldn't be so lucky in the future 

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