chapter 13: the bet

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"Alright Ben if you want to weild a saber again your going to have to become-" "a jedi I know" Ben retorted. Rey wanted to say of coarse but according to all the past force sensitives the jedi and sith must come to an end. "Actually no jedi aren't aloud to love or even have any feelings which is their weakness, but the sith wct ohly on their emotions such as anger or hate and that is their weakness. You must find balance in between the dark and light, in between hate and love. Okay with that said here's the plan. Bellan, Finn, Poe and Chewie are going to do target practice, and im going to start showing Ben the way of the grey. What are you waiting for go get to it!". Those 3 left to go find Chewie who they were not planning to tell about Ben because they didn't know how he'd react. I mean Chewie has known Ben since he was a baby, he must have been in so much pain when he went dark and when he killed his father or to Chewie his life long best friend. They found Chewie polishing his bow caster in the falcon and told him they were doing target practice. Chewie excitedly said yes he loved showing off his freshly cleaned bow caster, almost as much as he loved hanging out with his new best friends. Although when they walked outside Rey was no where to be found which was weird especially since Bellan was joining them.

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"Alright Ben, first lesson, constructing a light saber. You already know how to use the force to its many abilities, and we can't do any grey learning until you have a light saber. You will travel to that moun- Ben? BEN." "I'm listening okay I was just ummm looking at that beautiful mountain over there." Rey knew he was lying, "Good because that's where your going to find your crystal for your saber, you better get started it took Bellan almost 3 hours to climb that thing". Although she gave him a hard time she knew climbing a mountain would be no sweat for him. "Oh yeah I bet I can climb that mountain in 1 hour maybe even less". Rey found this very intresting, she focused and made a stopwatch come to her from Poe's hut. He used it for helping Bellans piloting skills, and target practice once in a while. "How about this if you don't make it to the top of the mountain in 1 hour exact, you have to travel around Tatooine wearing a shirt that says I love darth vader, punch me". "Fine but if I make it to the top before an hour you have to go to Jakko wearing a shirt that says I love Kylo Ren, punch me". They both at the same exact time declare it a deal. "THREE TWO ONE, GO" she said as she practically slapped the stopwatch. Ben raced off, grabbed his backpack and got in his rowboat, making his way toward the mountain. Just in time to, somebody was looking for Rey.

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"Raaaaaoor", it was chewie, Rey quickly moved in front of the rowboats path. "Hey chewie were you looking for me", she knew he was, it wasn't like her to miss target practice. Rey spoke a little wookie from her time on Jakko. "Oh i was just timing... you to see how gast you'd find me okay, c'mon let's go chewie" chewie had asked her why she was holding a stopwatch. They both quickly made their way up the hill to see the falcon and their friends. She looked over to see Ben docking the boat and hopping out so she panicked, but she calmed down when she saw what time it was. She was in the mood to give Ben a hard time so she used the force and focused really hard on the rowboat. The boat slowly started shifting back into the water, Rey knew he wouldn't be a fan of this, because if he lost his rowboat he'd either have to waste time getting it back or swim to the main island she was on.

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Ben was very proud of himself, he wasn't a professional rower but he thought he had done a great job. He didn't bother looking up at Rey once he had come upon land, he knew he couldn't waste any time, so he dropped his cloak and started his approach up the mountain but he felt something was wrong. He looked over to see his rowboat inching away, and he quickly held out his hand and tried tugging the boat back to him. The boat suddenly came to a hault, it swayed back and forth. Until finally after at least 3 minutes of fighting the boat had split in half like Luke's light saber, and they immediately released it. Rey started laughing her head off and Ben just tried to ignore the fact he'd be swimming home and started back up the mountain.

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Rey continued walking up the hill with chewie and saw her friends look curiously at her. "Rey can we speak with you, alone chewie" poe said gesturing for Rey to join them. Rey walked over after excusing herself from chewie. "Im sorry we couldnt keep him away from you wait, where is Ben" Finn whispered obviously concerned Chewie had discovered Ben. "Don't threat Ben is constructing a new saber, hopefully one that isn't red. Oh which reminds me I made a bet with him that he wouldn't be able to scale the mountain and reach the top within an hour. Then I split his boat in 2 so now he'll have to swim back here." Rey was laughing but Poe and Finn seemed angry. "So that's what we were protecting, while you two were betting we were trying to hold back a three hundred seventy pound wookiee. I'm so glad to see it was worth the hassle." Now all 3 of them were annoyed at each other but as soon as Rey told them what they were betting, the tension eased off a bit. Poe began to say "okay whoever loses hat will be hilarious to watch" Finn nodded his head along with Poe. Now Rey was the only one annoyed, "yea whatever I have... about 40 minutes to kill, how about we actually do target practice" she spoke looking at her stopwatch.

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After target practice there was only 3 minutes left on the watch Rey was watching him closely, but Ben was really close to the top, all he needed was a couple more steps and he'd be at the top. Ben slowly went to place his hand on a small rock that looked fairly stable. Now that he's at the top there is no room for mistakes, or he would fall off a cliff to his death... again. The rock he thought was stable rumbled off the side and took his hand with it. He was now only attached to the big rock by one hand and both his legs dangling off the side. He was now only inches away from the top but he felt his hand slipping. All of the sudden he fell quickly towards the ground. Only 200 feet away he was trying to lift himself up but he couldn't focus long enough and the terror kept falling back in his mind, he couldn't move anywhere besides down towards a sharp rock.
He was doomed.

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