The Dark Side Of The Light

Chapter Thirteen

Rey's POV

After Ben left, I fell back into a dreamless sleep for a few hours, ignoring the dull pain where I had been stabbed.

A few hours later, however, I was awoken by the distinct smell of smoke. I immediately jumped out of the medical room bed and opened the door. The smoke was thick in the hallways and I could barely breathe as I crawled trying to make my way outside. The dark grey smoke filled the small hallways. I made it out of the academy coughing, already knowing what was happening. My nightmare was coming true. I get to my feet quickly and look back at the academy, crying.

"I warned you that this would happen," the voice said as I cried.

I sprinted away from the academy as fast as I could, heading towards the hangar, knowing that I had to get out of there. I got into an old x-wing and started it, taking off from the base and feeling incredibly guilty.

Ben's POV

I woke up to the smell of smoke, quickly, I grabbed the lightsaber from my lightsaber. I ran outside of my small stone hut and saw that the academy was on fire and almost every other student had been killed. I ran into the burning building. Rey was still in there. I pushed through the flames and the smoke until Uncle Luke pulled me back outside into the smoke filled air of the field. "

"What were you doing? You were going to get yourself killed!" Luke shouted at me.

"I don't care!" I replied. "Rey's in there!"

"Ben, it's too late." He replied quietly looking down.

I looked at him confused for a second until realizing what he meant. Rey was dead.