Belonging. Star Wars story. Episode 10 X. Sequal to TROS.

9. Temple

Rey couldn't sleep that night, so she ignited her lightsaber and trekked back to the wall at the valley.

Rey stood with her lightsaber close to the wall and looked at the markings again. There was some kind of pattern, but it was fluid.. really hard to catch on. She switched off the blade and walked back.

Rey stopped at the edge of the graveyard and looked at lightsaber in her hand. "All of these Jedi were ready to die for what they believed. And they did die.." Rey took another breath and walked through graveyard and up the slope.

Something was different here at night. It wasn't as hard and sharp as in the day. It felt like moonlight smoothened the edges around.

Rey ignited the lightsaber again and walked around all of the rocks, that they already had found. She felt that it was perfect place and time for some exercises, she couldn't sleep anyway.

Rey stood in defence stance and practised some of the combat moves with the saber. It was so different with Force. Without the Force, even with ignited lightsaber, she felt as anybody. Like she was scavenger back at Jakku. When she still had the Force, she felt as warrior, like she could protect and serve the Light. Now it was hard to stick to the Light, because there was nothing that guided her. Or maybe that was because she had lost something else...

Something shone in the night. Rey went closer to the place where she thought she'd seen something. She raised the lightsaber and there it was. The last marking on the valley wall. It wasn't a rock, it was marking on the rock, that shone in the light of her saber.

Rey looked around and there all around her were the rocks, they had found -and in the center she stood next to the last mark.

-"Tomorrow we enter the temple." At that moment Rey felt something change in the air and her life tracking device started to beep rapidly. She was out of time.

Switching off the saber Rey ran as fast as she could back to the Falcon, almost jumping up the ramp, she closed the ship and engaged protocol for atmosphere cleaning inside. She then went to med cabinet in captains quarters and used oxygen mask for ten minutes or so. Just to be sure her body got everything it needed.

"So now we know that cocktail portion lasts for a day down here."

In the morning, before the first light started to shone on the surface, Rey woke up Finn.

-"Lets take another cocktail and go down to work. Yesterday I went back to check out the place and found the last marking."

-"That's good! But maybe we can manage with the last dose of the cocktail?"

-"I tested it too, cocktails properties are gone."

-"How exactly did you tested that?"

-"You don't want to know! Drink this and lets go!"

They got ready and to be safe took the last portions of cocktail with them. Both friends went back to the surface, where they found the rocks.

When the first light of the day shone on the rock, where Rey had found the star marking, there appeared arrow that pointed to the sky.

-"I think it means that we have to lift the rock." Rey knew that it would be so much easier with the Force, but still it wasn't the time to open up yet.

-"Finn, I'll get the Falcon, you'll have to strap the rock to the ropes."

-"Yes, Captain!"

Reg laughed and went back to get the ship. When Falcon was hovering over the rock and Finn had strapped rock safely in the ropes, Rey started slow lift up.