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

Chapter Sixty-Five: Break Out

Awaka lead me through the seemingly endless halls as we searched for a way around the sound barricade.

Every time that we seemed to get close to it, we didn't feel the effects of it until it was practically making our ears bleed.

Awaka whimpered, the four-year-old clinging to me as I raced around for it, not wanting to be captured by the stormtroopers who were most likely in pursuit.

Quickly sliding into a crack barely large enough for me to tuck into, I gently put her down so she was not squished against the wall. We held our breaths and waited as the troops stormed past us, before breathing out a sigh of relief. Awaka coughed from all the dust, as I powered on my lightsaber to see in the darkness.

"Mira," She tugged on my dress and pointed to a small tunnel that I could possibly fit into, if I crawled.

I nodded and went first, keeping one side of the blade of light on in order to see as I crawled down the dirt-floored tunnel, the old stone walls that appeared to be the walls of the ancient castle that the new castle had supposedly been built on top of. I stopped and gently put my hand on one of the walls, feeling the stone crumple as if it were sandstone, though they were made out of some type of volcanic remnant.

As the ashes fell through my fingers when I pulled my hand away, I wondered what they meant historically. Was there a volcano here? A great fire that engulfed the former castle? Did they have a war, and obliterate the other side? I sighed. I would have to find out later.

I followed Awaka as we came to a vent in the ground that peered down towards the room below. "Mira!" She whispered in a hushed voice and pointed down after crawling over it, telling me to look in.

I powered off the lightsaber and peered in, there being enough light for me to see what was down there. As I peered in, I saw a flurry of colors. The hairs and clothes of the captive Star Phantoms that the Empire had locked away in the prison cells of the castle. I looked around frantically in it, trying to see Jaa, Achi, my birth parents, or anyone else, but saw none. Affe must still have Achi hidden safely.

I crawled ahead to the next one that Awaka was peering in, and saw that Awaka's brother was there in solitary confinement. "Can you use your magic and get him up here with us?!" She silently begged. "He can help us!"

I looked at the boy and nodded. "I can. Does he look hurt or are there any guards? You can get a better look than me."

She looked and shook her head no. "He has a bandage on his arm and a bump on his head, but he looks ok. And none of those scary people with white armor."

I nodded. "I am going to lift you down there, and you tell him what I am going to do, then you give me a thumbs up, and I will lift you up with him, ok?"

"What's a thumbs up?" She tilted her head confused.

"It's like this." I clenched my fist and put my thumb up, before she squeaked and hid my hand with her tinier hands. "What? What's wrong?"

"We don't do that. That means bad things here."

"Oh, whoops... Sorry... Well, what do you do to say good job, or ready, then?" I bit my lip embarrassed. I had yet to learn the cultural meaning of certain things. It would take time but hopefully I will get it.

"We hold up three fingers, like this!" She held up her pinky, ring finger, and pointer finger, her thumb holding down her middle finger.

"Like this?" I did it as she showed, and she nodded. "Ok. Ready?"

"Ready!"

I moved the vent gently and gently used the force to lift her down into the cell.

"Ash!" She hugged her brother, before started talking in Harmonian, completely losing me in the conversation.