the sun had barley crossed the sandy horizon and the many moons had already began their climb into the sky.
paul sat with mili and his mother as she lied on a soft surface. "how are you?" mili asks jessica, worried. "better." she replies. "how's she?" paul asks looking at her slightly bulging stomach. "she was frightened but she's... she's okay." she replies.
jessica looks up at the two with stern eyes. "paul." she whispers.
"she talks to me." she continues.
paul looks at his mother, having nothing to say. "she believes in you, paul." she says her eyes growing more stern.
"paul?" mili asks noticing the tension.
"she says.. the kwisatz haderach, show us the way." jessica says sitting up.
she harshly grabs her sons wrist, sending a shooting pain through his whole arm. "you're so close! now. only one step remains and you will become the kwisatz haderach!!" she begins to yell as heads turn in their direction.
"only one step remains! you must do what i did! drink the water of life! for your mind.. to open! and you will see."
paul's eyes widen as his brows furrow. he has the look of horror painted on his face.
"you will see. the beauty and the horror!" she harshly speaks in fremen.
mili looks at paul, his eyes looking half heartbroken. although he hadn't actually lost his mother. he felt like he did. this was not her.
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"you want to fight with us? first thing you must learn.. is to be one with the desert." silagar says.
"so, here is a tent, and enough food." he says handing him a pack.
"i want you to cross that small desert surface, and come back." he says pointing to a flat surface not too far away.
"be back by night. you know how to use a small paracompass?" he asks. "yes. thanks to mili." paul smiles at the thought of her. "anything else i should know?" paul asks. "no." still far says before patting his shoulder
chani, shishakli and mili sat atop a dune, watching as paul sand walked off.
"he doesn't know how to cross. he's gonna get himself killed." chani laughs. mili just sits there watching her love interest sand walk.
"what is he trying to prove?" mili asks. "what do you think." shishakli says. "the prophet shall know the ways of the desert." she recites.
"it's for the best, mili." chani says looking at her sad face. she doesn't budge. "what's this? you found love with the outsider?" shishakli asks mili. mili just stares at paul. she grunts in response as she stands up and speed walks in paul's direction.
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paul traversed across the desert. one foot infront of the other, another swirling across the sand mimicking soft wind. no worms had attacked yet leaving paul to believe that he was doing well. the sun had just set leaving a darkness casted across the planet.
"you sandwalk like a drunk lizard." mili says.
she sat atop a dune, looking down at the boy. he smiles, "i think i'm going pretty well."
"yeah, well, you're not even in work territory yet, lover boy." she cockily says sliding down the dune in a rhythmic step to prove her point.
paul sighs and continues to sandwalk. mili observes. "you have to break up your rhythm." she says. paul looks at her beautiful white eyes before looking away.
"like this." she begins to demonstrates a real fremen sandwalk.
"now that's interesting because in the film books i studied at home-" he cuts himself off at her stern glare. "nevermind, please. keep going." he says
she continues to sandwalk, paul follows suit, him syncing with milis patterns.
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"you know everyone believes you won't make it till summer." mili giggles. paul looks at her with loving eyes. "but if you want to follow us into the desert you need to know how wind traps work." she says, looking up at the wind rap which was perched above them.
"so listen to me very carefully." she instructs. "this here is the-" paul couldn't even listen for no more than two seconds, he was just hypnotized by her undeniable beauty. her white eyes, H/C hair, gorgeous figure. she was an angel. no, scratch that, she was an entire goddess.
"what?" she giggles noticing his love struck stare. "stop looking at me like that." she smiles, working on the windtrap.
"i can't." he whispers lowly, inching forward.
"paul.." she says letting go of the trap. "y/n." he darkly says
as he leans in closer, he softly presses his lips against hers before pulling away, mili chasing his lips momentarily.
they just stare at eachother before mili hardly grabs his face and pushes it into her own, their lips smushing against eachother in a sloppy, lustful kiss. paul slowly lowers her down to the ground and straddles her as he licks her lips asking permission for entrance.
she immediately accepts, their tongues tangling in a heated kiss. they pull away after a moment. "you are everything to me, y/n l/n." paul says. "so are you, paul atreides." she whispers back.
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a desert mouse swiftly crawls against the sand, observing breathing tubes ticking out of the ground. the sun shines bright and a carryall slowly lowers a harkonnen spice crawler down onto the rich sand causing the mouse to scurry off into the desert.
the crawler lands only feet away from the underground hidden fremen, its front having spikes which stab the sand repeatedly. they do not budge though.
an harkonnen ornithopter swirls the crawler, protecting it from the fremen themselves.
the crawler inches closer and closer to them, but they wait until it is arms length away to jump out of the sand and attack the harkonnens.
paul grunts as he does a spin move, stabbing the harkonnen in the chest before slicing another's neck. mili twists one's head and breaks another's leg, killing then without giving them the honor to die to her knife.
"you okay?" paul swiftly asks. "yeah." mili replies grabbing a rather large gun.
the ornithopter starts shooting multiple bullets at a time toward the ground causing many fremen to fall in battle.
they run toward the crawler and slide under the small opening at the bottom. they crawl fast escaping the ornithopter bullets and stabbing spikes. they crawl out through the other side and paul grabs milis hand running to hide behind one of the crawlers legs.
mili grabs ammo as paul sees a harkonnen. he grabs the man by the shoulder and slams his head into his making him step backwards. he then stabs him, killing him.
"load!" mili tells as paul grabs ammo and shoves it into the gun. she aims it for the ornithopter and shoots but quickly realizes the thopter is shielded.
"reload!" she yells as paul does so, then, he notices another two hatkonnens approaching the two. he runs for them and knocks one down by slicing their ankle before stabbing him straight into the lung. the other one however continues its route to mili.
paul runs. he cannot lose her. "mili!" he yells desperately. mili turns around and immediately shoots him with the gun, sending him flying into the crawler. "reload!" she says
paul quickly does so. mili shoots again, but the shield blocks it, again. "ugh!" she yells.
"reload!" she yells again.
but the ornithopter begins to shoot at them. paul quickly jumps on top of mili, protecting her. "oh god!" "ugh!" they say. they look at one another atop of eachother but quickly realize they need to move when the crawlers leg starts to move.
"run!" paul says.
they run, staying in the shadow of the leg and settling down once it stops moving.
paul reloads her gun. "the shield! it only lowers when they fire!" he says reloading. "i know that that's what im trying to do!" she says back. "here, on my cue!" paul says getting ready on the other side of the crawler leg. mili looks at him, gun ready.
he gets ready to run and just as he runs for the next leg, it's begins to move away. "ah, shit!" he yells jumping for the leg. as the thopter shoots at him, mili raises her gun and shoots at the thopter causing it to explode. mili immediately looks over to paul, running for him, laughing.
as she runs and laughs into paul's arms, the thopter falls behind them, exploding.
then the fremen use their lasers to destroy the crawler and once again succeeding at slowing down spice production.
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