Star Wars: Rebels of the Stars (COMPLETED/BEING EDITED)

Chapter Sixty: Explosion Of Light

Anoles set down the Rainstorm in a bustling square, where the citizens gathered around. I saw a familiar poof of cotton candy-like hair, before feeling Awaka tackle me. "Mira, Mira! Follow me! Ash is hurt!" She dragged me after her as Jaa quickly followed, Awaka and Ash like her kids, or at least family. Ash was next to husks of some stormtroopers, panting in exhaustion and pain as he held a blaster wound from one of the stormtrooper's blasters. He held a metal sword next to him, as Jaa knelt down to him to see the wound. "You ok?" She looked at it.

"They were going to hurt Awaka." I barely heard him whisper as he gritted his teeth together in pain. "I had to use the sword."

"It's ok." She gently put her own hand on the wound to try to stop the bleeding. "This will hurt." She warned him, as he nodded.
I looked at her hand as a faint glow was emitting from it and he held back tears of pain.

I heard the ship suddenly take off from behind us, as there were explosions above us and saw the Rainstorm firing and taking out the TIE fighters that were attempting to attack the planet, but there were too many, and I knew that whoever was piloting, that they couldn't take them all out themselves.

I looked around and saw Anoles racing on over to patch up Ash, despite looking annoyed that Wen took the ship.

Fighting was heard from the areas around us. Stormtrooper blasters, and the towns people fighting back with swords and other weapons. I powered on my lightsaber and went to assist the townspeople.

Z powered on his and held his blaster in his free hand as we attacked and took out the attackers.

"Mira! Three o' clock! Duck!" He shouted and dived behind a series of crates. I didn't have enough time to dive out of the way as he had, nor get the citizens who were around me away to safety, and I turned around and quickly made a shield out of the force and held it steady as a barrage of blasts from the light ion cannon attempted to destroy it. My arms shook as it kept at it, and became stronger as they switched to a higher powered weaponry, as Z ran over. He had not had much practice with the Force, definitely not as much as me, but he extended his hands to help. The townsfolk next to us talked in their native language, scared, before they nodded and turned bravely to extend their hands to help us, placing them onto our shoulders. They had no idea what the force was, let alone how to use it, yet somehow, I felt myself strengthen and while being able to extend it and push the TIE fighters into each other and explode. Once the ones that were around us were vanquished, I fell to my knees and breathed heavily.

I had never used that much strength in the force before. I felt drained.

Z helped me up, as the Star Phantoms ran in the direction of safety. "What was that?..." He asked.

"I don't know. But whatever they did, helped. Come on, we gotta go get help." I powered off my lightsaber and raced with him towards the troopers and citizens. Once we reached the center of the large groups of Star Phantoms.

I saw the holo projectors begin to glow and power on. Jaa appeared as the hologram glowed and glitched. She spoke to the people in Harmonian. Z and I watched as everyone over the age of twenty quickly joined hands and closed their eyes, as if focusing on something.

Awaka raced up and tugged on my arm repeatedly and firmly. "Close your eyes!" She screamed, hers shut tightly.

"What? Why?" Z shouted, firing towards a stormtrooper.

"Just do it!" She shouted, as we quickly did. We waited in the darkness, hearing screams and shouts overlapped with orders of the storm troopers and Jaa's Harmonian speech, before the darkness by our eyelids were overtaken with a blinding white light, making us stumble in surprise, but we kept our eyes closed firmly.

Awaka held our hands firmly, as the light slowly died, but we waited until we felt the little cotton candy haired girl squeeze our hands that it was ok.

I slowly opened my shamrock green eyes, to see that the Star Phantoms and the buildings around alright, spare a few caught in the crossfire of the ships that were once above.

I slowly blinked, looking at the small piles black ashes that were on the grounds, and the black particles that were slowly raining down upon the town as if it were snow. Out of the atmosphere, the Star Destroyer that Belsebeau had arrived on was escaping at a slow and steady pace as the general was screeching in anger, luckily having escaped before the explosion.

"Awaka? What just happened?" I asked her softly as both Z and I blinked rapidly to attempt to clear the whiteness from our eyes from what appeared to be a supernova sized explosion.

"That was the power of the Star Phantoms." She smiled happily.
"What do you mean the power of the Star Phantoms. Gah, I am blind." Z gently pressed against his eyes with his thumb and middle finger as he attempted to rub the blindness away.

"I only know a little, cause I am little." She giggled. "But it is a magic we all have!" She then turned and saw her brother and raced to him. He held her tightly, burying his face in her fluffy hair as he was relieved that she was alright.

I heard the hum of the Rainstorm landing and heard a shout for me, as my master raced out and hugged me tightly, relieved that I was alright.

I dropped my saber after a moment and hugged back, burying my face.

"My little padawan... All grown up and worthy to be a Master." He smiled proudly, tears falling.

I smiled softly. "It was not my doing. I did not stop the Empire."
"No. But you helped. And as did your friends." He patted my back and looked at the team as they came out of the ship.

They beamed, and relaxed slightly, glad to have saved Harmonia.