Cophrigin: the untold version (part 4)

"Are you sure about this?" She asked looking into the mosaic glass pressed against the ocean.

         He simply nodded quietly extending his lightsaber. It easily sliced a hole through the glass wall sizzling as the rush of ocean water began to pour in. Standing back beside her they watch as a crack extend to the top in the shape of lightning. Making her way to the door she suddenly realized the pressure in the room.

"You distracted me!" She said horrified.

Running for the door handle she strains to open it but cannot. Turning around she see's him by her side.

"Hold on tightly," He said.

         The rush of the ocean pours in surrounding them instantly. Holding their breath they watch as a tree is uprooted and floats towards them with the rush. Using the force they move quickly away and towards the surface. She would have protested, but it was to late. As the ascend through the ocean in silence pushing faster. The force seemed to extend around them. He became worried that she wouldn't be able to hold her breath and fastened his pace. He had been trained most of his life to temper his body to his will. Although she wasn't trained she had no difficulty for the first ten minutes. He felt her last breath escape though her chest and held tighter. After ten more minutes they surfaced through the waves gasping. She had not prepared and burned within her lungs.
         Without hesitation he spotted a shoreline and grabbed her arm guiding her with him. His new body was his now and nothing was going to take that away from him. To feel his own muscles as he swam was his new found joy. She barely moaned as he gently lifted her from the shores onto the lime-green sands. He sat patiently waiting for her to catch her breath. They both laid unmoving side by side watching as the sun began to set. The shore becomes a glowing emerald green. Standing up she walks away from the beach into the wooded forest. I'm going back she says disappearing through the brush coughing. She shivers as the beam of his lightsaber grazes past her into a branch.

"No," He says, "I'm taking you back. We will need shelter for at least tonight."

         He takes the cleanly cut branch and walks back towards the shore. She silently sighs and walks back with him. Sitting still by the shores she watches the night fade in around her. He comes to her and sits with her. Quietly they converse with no words.
         Beyond the planet the stars did not move. They appeared as trapped streams of light slowly moving across the sky. Although displaced in time and space she allowed for the continuous care of starlight by rotating the planet towards it's earthstar by her will alone, instead of the planet following it's normal gravitational path. He could only watch and marvel at the stars like seeing them for the first time. Meditating somewhere between the frozen shooting star and the stilled cluster of a near by galaxies she fell asleep upon the sands. He picked her up in his arms and placed her within his shelter. He made a fire and watched the stars until he fell asleep.
         She woke up in the shelter. His nature conflicted with his treatment of her. She perfectly held the memories of his mind and knew this. She agreed with herself that he must believe that she held a part of him and he would treat himself as such. Shaking her head of the thought she looked around not seeing him. He quietly appeared kneeling beside her. He had found a way to move around her more quickly and quieter better than anytime in his life before. It was justly his finest art form.
         Somewhere in the night the planet had been pulled back into the light of day. She squinted up at him realizing it wasn't a dream. He offered his hand to help her stand which she in her usual fashion ignored standing on her own. Closing her eyes she focused. He watched her intensely wondering what would happen next. She started walking back in the forest towards her home. The chatter of the forest came alive as they both made their way following animal trails.

"How far are we from your home?" He asked.

She turned to him with a gloomy look. "You managed to send us up to the other side of the planet." She said.

         This is going to be a long walk, she said to herself. Past the forest they met a mountain. He cut sticks for them to use and they continued onwards. Her pace slowed
as they neared the top. She leapt upon an upper stone and watched as he followed with more grace. She stopped to look over the land inspecting for her next point of origin.

"That looks like the safest path." He said looking down the mountain.

"No, this way is better." She said correcting him.

"No, see there? It would be easier if you went this way." He said.

"Then go there." She snapped back and walked down her chosen path.

He hesitantly followed not approving. A stone slipped from beneath her footing falling deeply below. He grabbed her arm even though she wasn't falling.

"Let go." She said looking at him calmly upset.

         She was still upset he had dragged her from the bottom of the ocean and now this journey. He understood her and let her go. He was fixated on taking her into his arms and quickly taking her down the mountain. She was taking her time to slowly make her way down the mountain and this strangely irritated him. He wouldn't allow her though to see this. A crack echoed across the mountain. She shot a look at him. He looked back then around.

"Tell me that was you." She said.

"It wasn't." He said, "Come here I can do this faster."

"What do mean faster? You don't think I can do this better?" She said slightly more upset.

"I mean come here." He said taking her up into his arms.

         She protested, but was muted by the roar of a rockslide. He jumped across and down the mountain with great, precise leaps. She held on watching the chaos grow behind them. The rocks opened up below them swallowing them. Holding her in one arm he took his saber dividing the falling rocks away from them. In the pitch darkness he distanced the ground and eased their long fall with the force. The only light available came from his lightsaber laying near them. He lifted her up steadying her.

"Where are we?" She said holding her head.

"I think we fell." He said.

         Picking up his lightsaber he walked to a nearby wall. Thickened in ice encased over blue and green crystals it illuminated the area. It was a massive cavern they had fallen into. Giant blue crystals rose from the ground all around them. If they had fallen on just one both would have been impaled. She remained still looking around.

"We will find a way out." He said, "For now, we should rest."

         She did not fight his thoughts of rest and only nodded in agreement. Finding a broken crystal she sits leaning against it sighing deeply. The sound of the last rocks rolling down echoed mutely across the cavern room. The room was cold. The pile of broken rocks, ice and snow centered from their fall was quite possibly the worst fire to imagine from. She felt tired and closed her eyes. She felt a brush across her arm and
opened her eyes slowly falling onto her right side. She eeped to herself as he closely offered her a handful of water.

"I am not drinking that from your hands." She said.

         It floated up slowly from his hands and as he took hers cupping it let it flow into her hands. It was cool and refreshing. She shivered. She had not dressed for this. Taking his outerjacket her held it in offering to her. He looked at his clenched hand holding the jacket towards her.

"Why?" She said sincerely..

Placing it for her around her his eyes shifted sadly without words for her.

"My body." He said stopping to think deeply.

"Oh," She said looking down nestling in the jacket.

"I owe taking you back to your home for my body." He said walking away.

         The words echoing across the cave, hanging in the air. She woke up and found him sleeping by a shallow cold pool of water. Taking the jacket she places it over him. He startles her by grabbing her arm tightly. She measured his face in the dark and saw he was still sleeping. His reflexes were still adept. She struggled to loosen his grip but managed to. Getting up away from him she heard him whisper, thank you.
         She explored the edges of each icy wall not finding a way out. The large crystals acted as mirrors on some parts of the walls. It was impossible to find a way out. Suddenly the large blue crystals scattered across the cavern floor began to glow. She ran back to him waking him up with cold water. He stood with his lightsaber readied. A small steady sound beat in the distance. The melody sounded like bells and drums. A blue glow shimmered nearby through the crystals. They watched as an exit was revealed when glowing blue forms appeared.

"What are those?" He said sharply.

"It's a plant." She said.

"Plant?" He said looking back at her.

"They eat light," She said, "But can only survive underground. Turn off your lightsaber."

He kept his stance as the lightsaber was retracted.

"We must leave before they eat us." She said.

"Eat us? But, they only eat light." He said.

"Any form of light." She said walking towards where they were entering through, "Both of us are of a species that produces internal light."

         They quietly waited for the creatures too fill up the cavern swarming the crystals. Their blobish upright forms crept like snails with the form of wild blue mushrooms. Breaking the crystals with their heads they would then roll in the glowing remnants of the crystal. She slipped into the passage feeling along the walls with her hands. They followed the passage into an inner cave. The low glow of light seeped through a small opening. He leapt from behind her beating her to the rocks and began to pull them away. she stopped and let him work through it. They walked out and back into the daylight. The bottom of the mountain led over a prairie and towards a jungle. Looking onwards they kept moving through their journey.


The End of Part 4.