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

11. Mist

Rey was left for studying the temple. Everything was pretty clear. Only thing Rey didn't told Finn, because she just couldn't, was that the last fight was called: Life for Life. And it was meant to be fight for her life, if she chooses to live it. Basically fight till death, for bringing back life. Because there always has to be Balance.

But the first thing she had to do was stand against the past. Without the Force, with nothing. Alone. The concept was that she had to be ready to face the challenges, that she already faced, but alone and with no Force. She had to show that she was something without the Force too. That she was worthy.

Rey took the first steps up to the temple and looked in the darkness of the entrance arch. Even without the Force, Rey felt that there was something.. around her. There was text written in ancient tongue, that Rey couldn't read.
You will find only what you bring in.

She took a deep breath and entered.
There was mist inside and spooky light around it. Everything was shapeless and unclear.

"Rey.. these are your first steps." There was quiet voice in the shapeless matter around. Rey tried to see, who spoke, but it wasn't possible to even distinguish, where was it coming from.

In the mist appeared a text, just in front of her it levitated in the air. By gold letters there was written:
There is no emotion,
there is peace.
There is no ignorance,
there is knowledge.
There is no passion,
there is serenity.
There is no chaos,
there is harmony.
There is no death,
there is the Force.

Rey knew the words, it was a Jedi code- she had read it in one of the Jedi texts.

The letters were flying away one by one until there was nothing left. The mist swirled and changed and became very, very light.. her eyes almost started to water.

There was Mazs voice from so long time ago: "It moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes... Feel it... The light... it's always been there. It will guide you."

-"Maz? Is that you? Maz!" Rey asked the mist.

The mist moved again and then there was another voice. "Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter."

-"Who are you?" Rey asked in the mist. There was no answer. "Is this... the past?" She thought.

Then mist reshaped itself and the light made a silhouette: "Confronting fear is destiny of a Jedi."
Rey knew him. "Luke", Rey thought.

The mist swirled and changed. "Good luck! You're gonna need it!" It was Han speaking, much younger but it couldn't be mistaken. It was Hans voice. Rey smiled remembering the smuggler.

"You get going, you pirate!" And that was Lando Calrissian, who just months ago was teaching her Sabacc.

There was the voice, she had already heard. "To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle or the night."

-"I know." Rey answered. "Thank you" she whispered for the light around her.

-"You understand the light, but you have to understand the darkness too, for there to be a Balance." There was voice around her and the silence for the moment.

The mist changed, the light dimmed and everything became dark grey..

There appeared another text in the air, written in black letters:
Peace is a lie,
there is only passion.
Through passion,
I gain strength.
Through strength,
I gain power.
Through power,
I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.