When Light Meets Dark - A Reylo Romance

Kill or Be Killed

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  "Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions."
~Primo Levi  

Rey

"Faster! You're letting it get away!"

Kylo speeds up, cutting quickly through the jungle in large strides. I start falling behind and push forward feeling every muscle from my neck down stretch to it's limit. We reach a clearing surrounded by dense green bushes and Kylo stops abruptly.

"You let it get away!" I exclaim, stopping and struggling for breath. Kylo raises his had up for silence as his eyes focus on something in the bushes. Then his other hand shoots out and a large deer-like creature suddenly comes flying in our direction. He holds it in mid air and then I hear it's neck snap. It drops to the ground with a thud. He turns to me.

"You were saying?" he replies as an arrogant grin stretches across his face.

Try as I might I can't keep a straight face and eventually break into a smile as well. "Show off." I mutter, walking closer to examine our dead friend.

Suddenly I feel Kylo behind me. "What was that?" he mutters into my ear, his voice deep and raspy. I swallow hard and my whole body tenses. Then I feel his muscular arm snake around my waist as he pulls me closer to him.

"Show off." I manage to whisper, my legs weak. I sense a sly smile spreading across his lips. Then he drops his head to my neck and kisses me very softly, sending shivers through me. He kisses me again, harder, and I let out a soft moan.

Then I feel a pain in my side. At first it's just a jab, then it becomes harder and more persistent. My eyes snap open.

Beside me I see a storm trooper, looking down at me through his dark visor. He has his blaster a few inches from my side, which is what I assume he was using to poke me.

"The Supreme Leader has ordered that you be relocated."

Then it hits me where I am.

"What? Where?"

"A more secure cell." he replied, his voice mechanical and  hollow through the filters in his helmet.

"But why?" I asked, still slightly dizzy and at the same time flustered by the dream from which I had been so rudely awakened.

"No more questions." he replied coldly. Then he turned to the door, "She's awake."

Instantly, three other storm troopers marched into my chamber, filling it with unusual bursts of white. The four of them stood at each corner of the table and, in perfect synchronisation, switched my metal restraints with laser cuffs. Then they hauled me roughly off the table and led me out of my chamber.

The lights in the passage were blindingly bright and I squinted, struggling to take in my surroundings. Suddenly, thoughts started running wildly through my head. Why was Snoke moving me? Were we under attack? Did he want to torture me for more information about Kylo? I glanced left at the storm trooper who had my arm in a steely grip. If Snoke had trusted them to move me they were probably trained to resist Jedi mind tricks. Then suddenly I panicked. Where was my lightsaber? I couldn't do much damage without it. That lightsaber had been an essential part of me ever since I had discovered it,and it had begun to feel like an extension of my body. I couldn't part with it, even if Snoke was going to get me some fancy new one. Red wasn't really my colour anyway.

I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate, feeling around the ship for my saber.

"What is she doing?" I heard the guard to my right ask the one in front.

"Probably some jedi thing. Ignore her." They continued marching, dragging me along with them. Then I felt it, almost like a sharp tug. My lightsaber. But I had to act fast, I could already feel my hold on it dwindling.  Using all the strength I could muster I gave it a pull, switching it on at the same time. I guided the blazing blade through the room which it was in, out of the automatic doors and down the corridor towards me. It took a lot of concentration, but I remembered what I had learnt from my training with Kylo and persisted.

I brought it up from behind, and, without a second thought, drove it through the chest of the storm trooper behind me. The others turned, just in time to see his body fall to the ground, a smoking hole in the centre of his white chest plate.

Then everything happened so fast. I sliced off my own cuffs and before they could bring out their blasters a second trooper was already dead. One of them began shooting at me but I deflected his shots back at his head. Seems like my training had paid off after all. The last storm trooper didn't seem as courageous as the rest and started running down the corridor as quickly as he could. I chased after him and caught him soon enough, picking him up with the force. I was about to choke him but suddenly I felt a jab from my conscience and so slammed his body against the wall instead.

An alarm went off.

It seemed that there had been a panel there and I'd just alerted the entire vessel to my presence. Great.

I took off down the hallway, hastily trying to recall descriptions that Finn had given me about the inside of First Order ships, to find my way to the escape pods. But I took a wrong turn and came face to face with a group of storm troopers who immediately started shooting at me. It was kill or be killed. But I decided to run, and headed as quickly as I could in the opposite direction. I couldn't take any more lives that day.

To my immense joy I came across the escape pods and dived as quickly as I could into the nearest one. I needed to get out of there before Snoke himself showed up. Punching buttons in a frenzy I set the coordinates for the nearest planet, which was Atollon. The pod launched into space, seconds before a hoard of  storm troopers showed up, only to witness my daring escape.

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Finally away from Snoke and heading towards Atollon I was able to let out a breath. All I needed to do now was land the pod safely, and then find a way to contact The Resistance, or Kylo. I'd contact Kylo first. Then I heard  loud explosion behind me. Before I even had a chance to process the first one, another explosion, even louder this time shook the pod. Snoke had ordered them to shoot me down.

Severe engine damage.

Oh no no not now.

Severe engine damage.

I started pressing buttons again but it was not use.

Severe engine damage.

I curled up on my seat and braced myself as the pod was drawn into Attolon's atmosphere and began tearing up with heat.

Kylo, if you can hear me now, I really need your help.

Then the pod erupted into a ball of flames and everything went black.