Kylo Cyr

The traitor

Kylo's p.o.v
I awoke to sirens and loud noises filling the ship. I got up and dressed and left the room. I walked down the bunk hallway where I, my father and our personal troopers slept, to the main section of the ship. Troopers and people from the board of command were running around and people were yelling. 'What's going on?' I asked myself. I kept walking and reached the control station but no one was there. I turned around, looking for a familiar face but I couldn't spot trooper 349, my personal trooper anywhere. 

"Kylo!" a voice shouted behind me, I turned to see Hanna, the wife of someone who worked with my father, the king of the empire. 

"What's going on?" I asked her. She grabbed my hand and pulled me towards another part of the ship.

 "Your father's lightsaber, it's been stolen" she said as she pulled me down a hallway. I pulled away from her and stopped walking. My father's lightsaber, the only one that he could activate, the only one he could use to keep him safe. Someone had took it? But why, no one but my father could use it. It's powerless to anyone else. Hanna told me to move it and I continued to follow her. She turned the corner at the end of the hallway but we ran smack dead into some troopers.

 "Watch is asshole!" I yelled at the one I had ran into.

 "Sorry master Kylo, he said and then continued off. I hate those troopers sometimes. Always running about and never watching where they are going and when you run into their armour, it hurts. Hanna had gone into a meeting room and I followed her. 

"Sir, I have brought the prince" Hanna said. My father was sitting in a chair at the head of the table with his head in his hands.

 "Father-" I began to say but he cut me off, 

"Kylo. My lightsaber has been stolen, we are trying to lock all the doors so we can catch the person who did it, but it shows we are having no luck. A man rushed into the room. 

"The thief has escaped and we are sending troopers out to find him, sir" the man said. My father got up and ran out of the room and I followed him, leaving Hanna behind. We exited the ship and there were troopers on sky riders that were rushing off. My father got onto his own sky rider and I followed closely behind.

 "Kylo, stay here" he told me but I stayed put. My father knew I was stubborn. He knew that I wasn't moving. After some hesitation he started the sky rider and we flew off. 

"Do we have any idea who stole the lightsaber?" I asked. "One of my subjects. Not sure who but they are the only ones who have access to it" my father said.

 "A traitor" I whispered. We flew fast, catching up with the troopers. My father flew the sky rider over to a trooper and said something. The trooper responded, but I couldn't hear what he said.

 "We have caught him!" my father yelled. I looked straight ahead but I could only see troopers on their sky riders. We were reaching the edge of a cliff. I saw troopers jumping from their sky riders and drawing their guns. I looked down and saw that the ground was not that far from under me and I jumped from the skyrider and activated my lightsaber, mid air. When I hit the ground I ran forward. I ran fast, passing many troopers but they were stopping. I pushed past all of them, to the front to see a man dressed in all black with my father's lightsaber in his hand. It was not activated, of course it wouldn't be, only my father could activate it. Troopers had their guns pointed at the man, whose hood was up so I couldn't tell who he was. I heard the sound of a lightsaber being activated and I knew it couldn't be mine, and troopers didn't carry them. The man had activated the lightsaber in his hands! Impossible. 

"What are you going to do?" I heard him say. By now my father had made it to my side and had a troopers gun in his hands. 

"Emanuel, hand it over!" my father said. 'Emanuel, my father's left hand man' I thought to myself. Why would he want to steal my father lightsaber? Emanuel was like a brother to him. The man walked forward towards us, the lightsaber in his hands. The lightsaber was similar to mine, long with a cross bar but it glowed white, my father had made it himself after he gave me his own, which was red with a cross bar. I couldn't take it anymore, I ran towards the man, my lightsaber ready to strike. My father called after me and ordered the troopers to not shoot. I tried to strike Emanuel but he was obviously trained because he blocked my strike with one hand. I continued to attempt to strike him but he kept blocking me. Troopers held back fire so they didn't shoot me and my father stood helplessly. I swung my lightsaber low, trying to strike his abdomen but he swung high and I pulled back so I didn't get my face burned and ended up falling. Troopers now tried shooting the man but he ran off the edge of the cliff. My father came to my side and helped me up and I deactivated my lightsaber. 

"Let's head back!" my father yelled and I could tell he was upset. I had failed him.

Back at the ship, my father retreated to his meeting room to put a search party into action. I was on my way to the common area when trooper 349 stopped me. 

"That was amazing what you did Kylo" he said, it was difficult to hear the excitement in his voice because of his helmet. I grabbed a mango from the fruit basket that sat at the end of buffet and went to sit down.

 "It would have been better if we caught the guy" I said, pulling out my knife to cut the mango. Trooper 349 took off his helmet and sat down. I looked up and was met with his familiar friendly brown eyes. 

"Hey, you're the only one that took action" he said. I took a bite of the mango and tried to think.

 "How could Emanuel activate the lightsaber?" I asked trooper 349. He shrugged his shoulders.

"I have no clue but if he has that power, than we definitely have to get it back, that lightsaber is the most powerful one in the universe and if the enemy has it, bad things could happen" he said. I nodded. 'I have to get it back' I thought to myself. 

"Trooper 349, I'm going to go and find him, I need you to accompany me" I said, in a serious tone. He pulled back and shook his head.

 "No can do, and you can't leave the empire" he responded. I knew that of course, it wasn't safe for a royal to leave the empire but without his lightsaber, my father could be killed, it's his only line of personal defense.

 "I command you" I said. He still shook his head. 

"The rules go over your command master Kylo, I can't leave the empire without an order, and only the king can give me orders." I got up and walked out of the common area, throwing my mango out as I passed the trash. I didn't care what he said, or what the rules said. I am going to go after Emanuel, I am going to get the lightsaber back and kill him.

That night, I packed a bag with food, water, clothes and weapons, along with my lightsaber which was always at my side. I opened the door to my room to see trooper 349 asleep. I tiptoed over him and down the hall to the main sector. There were some people at the control station of the ship so I had to crouch down and crawl past them. It was late at night and I knew if I was caught I would be sent back to my room. Once I was past the control station I got up and quickly ran down the hallway. I peeked my head around the corner to make sure there were no troopers and luckily there wasn't. I turned right towards the main entrance of the ship and put my hand on the pad that would unlock the door. The door unlocked and I looked behind me before I headed out. The door shut behind me and I walked towards the shed that held all the sky riders but it was locked.

 "Fuck!" I yelled. I turned and walked away, 'Guess i'll have to do a lot of walking' I thought to myself. Our ship was currently grounded in the Asarian desert, my father was here trying to persuade the people here to sign the land over to him so he could protect them. Land was all my father really wanted though. Expanding his control was his main goal.

I walked out of the base and through the desert, towards the edge. I had been walking for almost 2 hours when I reached the cliff where Emanuel had jumped off. I looked over the edge to see a long drop. I swallowed hard, there was no way I could survive that jump. No matter how dangerous this was, I had to be successful. I turned back but then made a run for the cliff. When I reached the end, I jumped and closed my eyes. I felt myself falling and then I hit something. I hurt like hell. I continued falling, until I stopped. I was hanging from a tree. I looked around to find a way down. My bag had caught on the branch. I wiggled out of the straps and started to fall again until I hit the ground hard.