The Death of Me

Introduction- A City on Fire

The ground below you shook as the distant sound of blaster fire invaded your senses. You wondered how this could be happening, as small bits of debris fell from the ceiling. Cloud City, a place you once called home, being invaded by the First Order. The city had been under suspicion of harboring resistance fugitives, but that is no excuse for what the First Order is doing. You had never had a side when it came to the war, but you won't just stand around and watch as your home is reduced to ashes.

You watched from your window as blaster fire filled the night sky, fires burned around you and you felt trapped within the smoke. How could the First Order slaughter innocent people, what have any of us done to deserve this? Stormtroopers kicking at the door of your family's droid repair shop, this was it. Is this really how you die? Another nameless casualty of the First Order; no that wasn't how your story was going to end.

You have to do something and quick. You dash out of the room, leaving your parents alone as the stormtroopers burst into the shop. You have to find it, where was it? Suddenly a strange sensation fills your body, it was leading you somewhere. A box packed away, filled with your grandfathers' belongings; you saw it. His lightsaber, the legendary weapon of the Jedi, was it calling to you? You grabbed the saber and blackness filled your vision, what was happening.

"The force is strong with you Y/N," your grandfather called out to you, "don't be so rash, everything will come to you in due time."

"But I don't want to wait, I want it to work now." The voice of your younger self responded to the old man.

"You remind me of an old friend, Anakin, oh so impatient."

The darkness dispersed and you returned to your senses once more. Regaining your composer, you light the saber and made your way outside, it was your duty to protect Cloud City. Anger rushed through you as you took in the surroundings. Buildings crumpled to the ground, stormtroopers relentlessly gunning down those you've grown up with.

Fighting with a lightsaber came easy to you, it wasn't long before stormtroopers were aiming for you. The bright blue light from the weapon casting across your face, as you begin blocking blaster fire. Unknow to you that a greater foe was quickly approaching, and your gut told you to run. Flee as your grandfather had all those years ago; your family's great secret exposed with every slash of the saber. It was then that you felt his presence, the fierce leader Kylo Ren, it was him.

He watched you from a distance, taking in every movement your body made. He watched as your hair danced around you bouncing with every jab of your saber. He made no move to stop you, only following you with his stern gaze. He could feel the anger rolling off of you spilling into the ground below your feet. He took in the intensity of your force signature, your hatred jabbing into him.

His eyes flickered away from you for the first time, landing on the lightsaber. It appeared to be screaming out in pain, its blue tones becoming more diluted by the second. Hues of purple bleeding into the once blue saber. He was awestruck by what he was witnessing, were his eyes deceiving him?

Hate was rushing through you, waves of despair crashing into as you took in the scene before you. Tears poured from your eyes; as you watched your parents get shot before your eyes. Time appeared frozen as you watched your mother collapse on the group, red rapidly staining her once white dress. With your own vision blurring from teardrops, you began to lunge at the man responsible.

It was then you noticed the saber. Its once shining blue hue, the saber that your grandfather had wielded had also been stained red. Guilt consumed you as realized, your anger and hatred it had bled the kyber crystal within; destroying your grandfather's saber. You threw the saber away from you. Watching as it stuck the ground and the kyper crystal within breaks in two. The saber had landed between two black boots. Tearing pouring down your face you look up to see Kylo Ren, it is then you hear his voice for the first time.

"Seize her," his voice distorted by his mask.