Princess of Darkness

Chapter 11

Lily decided she really, really, hated being proven right. Not that she'd ever admit it. But of course, she had to be right about this. The alarms going off only meant one thing-the Empire knew where they were. Which also meant she had to find her flight suit. Which meant having to know where her team was supposed to be. Which meant stress. 

Yay.

She put on the flight suit and ran to command to figure it out. 

"Lily! Good timing. Wolf squadron is assisting in protecting the fighters, and ground support. I want them in the single-man fighters. Got it?" Ava was in a frenzy.

"Yes." Lily ran to the hangar. 
*** 

All her fighters were in the air.

"Alright, Wolves one through three, you're with me on ground, the rest of you, guarding the transports. Everyone clear?" A stream of 'Copy, Wolf Leaders's came through. "Then go!" They broke off.

The battle was hectic. The Empire had sent a ridiculous amount of troops, and what must have been the new At-At's they had received news about. Which were obnoxiously hard to take down.

'Use the cables, it may be the only way to take these guys down!'  Luke said over the comm unit. 

"You heard him! Team up and trip 'em!" Lily told them. 
***

The battle had finally reached the point where the Rebellion was out of the system and gone, and all of the fighters had to land. 

"Luke!" Lily yelled. They needed to figure out what they were going to do.

"Lily! We should go." He said.

"Well, yeah, but where? With the Rebellion, or Dagobah?" 

"Dagobah. It seems right."

"It does. Let's go." They ran to their X-Wings and took off.

"R7, remove the preset coordinates." The droid beeped worriedly. "Its alright, there's just a few things Luke and I need to do." R7 made a noise that could have been a grumble. "Don't give me  that." Lily plugged in the coordinates for Dagobah. R7 asked a question. "Yeah, it's probably good if you take over. I need to sleep or something. I have a feeling I'll need it. Wake me when we get there, okay?" R7 acknowledged her request.   "Thanks, buddy."
***

Lily woke to a shrill series of beeps and whistles. 

"Okay, okay! I'm up! That is one green planet!" It was true, Dagobah had the coloring of a swamp, with no technology readings, cities, or anything of the like. However, it had such high life readings, you'd think it was Coruscant.

'Lily, you there?' Luke's voice came through the comm.

"Yeah, this planet is insane, huh?"

'These readings are crazy.' Luke vocalized. 

"We better get down there, and do whatever it is we need to do."

Luke agreed, and the duo flew down to the strange planet, much to their droids' protesting.
***

Luke managed to crash in a bog. Lily landed on the solid ground near it, and she shook her head. The pilot who shot an impossible shot into a tiny spot crashed because of fog. He was never living this down.

With much struggle later, including a lot of dissatisfied noises from R2, they managed to get to a slightly drier and open area across the slimy water. Luke and Lily got the tiny generators running for light and to give the droids a boost.

"Ready for some power?" Luke said as he plugged in the two droids while Lily tried to find the weird tasting rations.

"Found them!" Lily said with fake excitement. "It's... I'm not sure. Surprise flavor, as always." Luke smiled and shook his head. It was the same routine for three years, and if she wasn't there, Han would take over. They were going to eat, until feeling something weird. They turned to face each other before making signals with their hands in their own little language.

Feel something? Lily signed.

Yeah. Like a person. Or something else. Luke signed back. They shared a look. Lily tapped once on her arm to signal Now. They pulled out a blaster and spun around in one fluid motion.

"Away with your weapon, I mean you no harm." A small green creature said, covering its face. Luke and Lily complied, thinking that there was really no danger, and no lies in the words. "I am wondering, why are you here?"

"We're looking for someone." Luke replied. 

"Looking for someone? Found someone you have I would say!" The creature laughed. Lily repressed a smile.

"Yeah..." Lily said.

"Help you I can, yes. Hmmm." 

"I... don't think so." Lily said.

"We're looking for a great warrior." Luke added on.

"A great warrior, hmm? Wars not make one great." This creature was getting more confusing by the second. He hobbled over to the storage container and rummaged through the contents.

"He-hey!" Luke said. Lily groaned. He was now tossing things around the campsite. "Listen, friend, I didn't mean to land in that puddle, and if we could get my ship out, we would, but we can't, so why don't you just..." 

"Aww, can't get you're ship out?" He teased. He threw out another thing.

"Could you not?" Lily muttered.

"Hey, give me that!" Lily turned around to see Luke standing over the creature, who was holding a lamp.

"Mine! Or help you I will not." R2 and R7 grabbed the lamp and tried to take it. The creature then hit both droids repeatedly with his cane. "Mine! Mine!" 

"Fine!" Lily interrupted suddenly. "Take the lamp. R2, R7, let go." The droids obeyed. "Now please, we have things to do, so go do whatever it is you do here." 

"No, no! Stay and help you I will, to find your friend!" 

"We aren't looking for a friend, we're looking for a Jedi Master." Luke said impatiently. The creature's eyes widened in understanding.

"Ooh, Yoda. You seek Yoda!" 

"You know him?" Lily asked. The creature nodded.

"Take you to him I will." He laughed. "But, now, eat. Food. Good food. Come." They began to follow when the droids beeped in unhappiness. 

"Stay here and look after the camp." R7 beeped angrily. "Don't give me that."

 Lily shook her head in disbelief as they began walking.

When did my life get this weird?

A/N: Hey, a reasonably timed update! So, if you missed or didn't read my previous not-story update, I have decided to put this on fanfiction.net in the near future, and I'm doing a character and author Q&A on that part as well. I'm in a writing mood, and I'm starting school again in a few weeks, so I'm trying to get as much done as possible. This fanfic will be 30 some chapters, and I have the last 17 written. It will get very, very dark soon, so be warned. I will put more warnings as we get closer to that. 

Bye!