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CHAPTER SIXTEEN ✧･ﾟ: *✧
˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ ACT TWO ── destiny calls 🪐

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             BY THE TIME THEY WERE BACK FROM CROSSING THE DESERT DUNE, IT WAS NOW SUN DOWN WHICH HAD THE ENVIORMENT BECOMING A DARKER SHADOW THEN IT ONCE WAS. The wind increased up in speed also, grazing along the sand which picked it up in the gust and created howling sounds that could be mistaken as the cries from the desert demons.

            She was sandwalking in front of Paul since he wanted to keep his eyes on her closely, and he followed her from behind, watching her every step she made in the sand. It amazed him greatly seeing how graceful she was at the dance, almost like it was born into her brain to know it so well. He believed that was true.

           The bright red sun was dipping below the horizon, being covered by the dunes as it went down for the night to come alive. The coldness set in afterwards, which had (Y/N) wrapping the jabba coat around her figure more, and pulled up the material covering her mouth area for warmth.

          Her foot twisted over the other one in the sand, kicking back her left one around her figure as it picked up some of the sand in her movement, disappearing into the breeze like it was never there. She peeks back a bit to spot Paul, and saw him lagging behind a bit, staring at something on top of a dune.

         She grabbed his arm in the dark tightly, feeling his gloved hand over that hand she used as he pulled her closer to his side, and quietly motioned to the figure watching them closely, "Look up there." He whispered nudging her chin gently with his pointer.

         (E/C) eyes went wide in suspirse when she followed where her boyfriend made her look, and just barely saw the figure of Chani now watching her from above, being squat on the sand. At first she thought it was Jamis, but not even she heard the female's rough voice flow out of her mouth.

         "You sandwalk like a drunk lizard." Chani aimed her insult at the male whom was holding (Y/N) protectively beside him, and the Fremen's girls eyes drifted to the other, "Unlike her, you're terrible at it."

         Paul rolled his eyes annoyed, and sucked in some air in between his teeth looking away from Chani, "Well, I think we're doing pretty good so far." He grumbled making his girlfriend snicker quietly at their banter, not knowing it was mostly because of her.

          "Yeah well, you're not even in worm territory yet." Chani fired back just as irritated, raising her brows smugly at the male still sitting on the hill, and began to use the side of her hand to hit against the sand creating a thumping noise.

           (Y/N) tensed up a bit for their safety hearing and feeling the vibrations it sent, and quickly waved her hands a bit in front of her, "Since you know better then us at this, why don't you come down and teach us?" She asked in a nervous tone, gaining Chani's attention on her again causing her to gulp, "..Please?"

           Paul shuffled a bit awkwardly in his spot not liking how his girlfriend just invited the girl down with them, and he exhaled sharply through his nose to control his possessiveness. He wasn't blind nor oblivious to what was happening, and it didn't sit well with him. Not at all.

          Chani did eventually make her way down to where the couple was, (Y/N) letting go of Paul's hand for the time being to follow along Chani's movements along the sand, while her boyfriend was right behind her doing the same thing. He was still in arms length just in case.

          "You need to break up your rhythm." The Fremen girl point out, grabbing the girls arms arm to direct her in the right way causing Paul to scowl where they were connected, "Like this." She demonstrates still holding onto (Y/N)'s arm, who beams to her when she did it correctly, gaining a smile from Chani.

           Paul clears his throat a bit to turn the attention to him, that scowl still on his face as he stepped up to where his girlfriend was watching him innocently, "Now that's interesting, because in the film books I've studied-"

            (Y/N) gently whacked her palm against his chest to stop him from talking, and shot him a small look to indicate quiet when she saw the incredulous expression from Chani, seriously wondering why he was still yapping when she was Fremen, and knew how to do it properly.

           "...Nevermind. Keep going." He grumbled a bit in defeat, his face being a bit embarrassed as he glanced down to the side, making his girlfriend snicker a bit, and press a quick kiss to his cheek for reassurance that had him brightening up a bit.

           Chani nudged her head for them to follow along behind now after his stunt, and the couple both do so. Two steps to the side, then a twist with a feet around the sand, and two steps from side to side, repeating all that till they reached over the dune and back to camp where the other Fremen were already awake.

           Light was slowly streaming over the desert again, sitting a pinky aura around everything that was inside the environment. Chani had taken the two down to where the windtraps were, and started to show them how it worked, until she left (Y/N) in charge to do it herself with Paul watching.

           "You know, apparently Chani thinks you're not going to make it till summer." She speaks to her boyfriend incredulously, rubbing her sweaty palms over her pants as she squatted before the Fremen made machine, "Which I think is total bull. We're both going to make it."

            Paul hummed low in his throat glancing at her briefly, before down to the object in her hands from the windtrap she was putting together, "Oh, I know we will." He rasped out with a smirk, earning him a raised brow look, "When you have a talented and beautiful girlfriend with you, that is."

           She giggled a bit at his obvious flirting, feeling herself getting flushed as she bumped his shoulder with hers, "Aren't you a charming, huh?" She mused looking into his hazel eyes, before glancing back at the windtrap, "If anyone is lucky in our relationship, I am."

            No... he thought to himself inside his head watching her trying to place back the piece into the trap, eyes filled with love seeing her natural beauty from the light shining down on them, and fought the urge to tuck the lose pieces of hair behind her ears, I am...

           She began to explain to him slowly how the windtrap worked, her being the only one that listened to Chani's words from before. She points to the different parts on it, from the net at the back and the funnel at the front, telling him exactly how it would capture the wind and how he could use it.

            However Paul's eyes nor attention were on the windtrap, but instead on (Y/N). He watched her with nothing but adoration, a soft look over his face for the girl he loved more then anyone and anything. His lips were in a gentle smile always enjoying hearing her talk, as it was one of his favoure things.

            Her hair blew in the wind which made her face covered a bit, and he didn't fight the urge anymore to touch it. While she was still talking, he reached up his none gloved hand to softly tuck a piece of her locks behind her left ear, causing her to straight away stop her explaining.

           He nudged her chin towards him, and their eyes instantly met one another's. Her breath hitched at the loving expression he was staring at her with, and felt butterflies appear in her stomach at how gorgeous he currently looked before her.

           "Why are you looking at me like that..?" She gulped out in a struggle to contain herself, her fingers digging into her pants material as eyelashes fluttered when he teasingly rubbed his thumb over her bottom lip for a second, "Paul-"

           His eyes that were once soft turned into a darker stare watching her tongue flick out to lick her bottom lip, and he stifled the pleased noise wanting to escape his own throat. All he did was slide his fingers up to her cheek, cupping it in his palm as he sent her a soft smile, before leaning in close.

            A shaky exhale left her when she knew he was aiming to kiss her, and she moved her own face forward to met him in the middle. Their lips met each others in a loving, and desperate unison, one of her hands coming up to entangle in between his curly locks making his moan muffled by her lips, and he kept his hand cupping her cheek, thumb rubbing over her jaw slowly.

          Their mouths moved in sync for a few seconds, his tongue making its way forcefully into her mouth to claim what was rightfully his, as they're both intertwined now. Once they pulled apart from the kiss, they tried to catch their breath by leaning against each others foreheads as the sun was coming back up behind them also.

           "I love you so much." Paul exhaled onto her lips softly, haze eyes staring into her slightly watery ones, and nudged his gaze against hers as they pulled back a bit more, "I love you, (Y/N)."

             She closed her eyes for a few to calm herself down from all the emotions she was feeling, and opened them again feeling his lips on her forehead, "I love you, too." She breathed out rubbing her nose into his like a nuzzle, "I love you, Paul."

           His dimples appeared when she spoke those words back, him never getting use to her hearing say them as he fully pulls back now. He still gazed at her with a fond look, even when she went back to working on their windtrap under the raising sun where they shared their first kiss all those weeks ago.

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          THE PLAN TO TAKE DOWN ONE OF THE HARKONNEN'S AIRCRAFTS WAS IN MOTION WHEN THE SUN WAS FULLY UP ABOVE AKKARIS, AND THE FREMEN WERE CLOSE BY USING THE ENVIORMENT TO THEIR ADVANGE. The ship they were going to destroy had just landed on the sand, making a loud sound as they did so. They were going to harvest spice, seeing the second aircraft with a gun to aim at anything that was going to get in their way to do so.

            One of the soldiers inside the aircraft up in the air communicated through the comms, using his mother tongue to speak to the others. The machine started to dig up the spice at the command, the pieces on front of the machine opening up to begin to harvest the drug from the sand.

           A few Harkonnen's were walking along side the massive machine to keep it protected wearing their armor, as the ships in the air kept an eye on everything from above. They must of missed the sudden shift in the machine's harvesting direction, and the few pipes sticking up from the sand in front of them, not realising how close the Fremen was.

           When the metal machine got close enough to where the pipes were sticking up from under the sand, that's when the Fremen hiding below popped up to attack. All of them ran towards where the Harkonnen's was, cutting them or stabbing them with their knifes, and moved onto the next.

           Two of them went towards the enemies at the back to attack them, while a few others went for the Harkonnen's lingering off to the sides not knowing what was happening. However, a familiar quarterstaff was being carried in one of the masked Fremen attacking, followed by two other's behind that person who both stabbed the Harkonnen's coming after the one in front.

          (Y/N) was the one leading Paul and Chani on her either side, each taking out their own Harkonnen that came at them. Her quarterstaff dragged along the sand around it, which knocked back the enemies charging at her, and she kicked back a few more, using her so called powers to aid her in the fight.

           Her eyes caught onto the Harkonnen that was running up to her, knife raised and a heavy sigh escaped her lips. She felt a hand on her shoulder, turning to see Paul standing there most likely glaring at the ugly monster aiming to kill his girlfriend. She just snorted fondly at him, and tapped his chest to signal back down.

          Chani came up to them once she was finished killing some Harkonnen's, carrying the second weapon that would destroy the airships, as she was staring at the first one. She glanced to Paul for answers at what his girlfriend was doing, but he just ignored her for the time being.

           (Y/N) span the tip of her quarterstaff on her fingertips with a wide smirk, and dropped it so she caught it tightly in between her hand. She brought her arm back behind her, and sent the weapon flying fast towards the Harkonnen, stabbing him straight through the chest and into his heart in one fail swoop.

           Paul felt his emotions spike at how attractive she looked doing that, it becoming worse when she yanked the staff out of the male's chest back into her grasp. He shakes his head to get rid of his unholy thoughts and desires, knowing now wasn't the time and that there would be time later for that.

           "Are you two okay?" She shouted at them both once she was standing in front, her gloved hand cupping Paul's face for a moment to see if he was hurt, before glancing at Chani to see she was unharmed also, making her relax a bit.

          They just nodded their conformation to her, as he grabbed her arm in his hand to guide her away from the opening of the fight, causing Chani to follow right behind. The trio look up to hear and see the airships hovering around where they were, and started to aim their guns at them down below.

          "Oh, shi- Go!" Paul yelled in alarm quickly covering his girlfriends body with his own, just until the three all ran where a gap was in the massive machine still crawling around them. A few Fremen weren't so lucky when the bultes got them, but most of them had gotten away before that could happen.

         (Y/N) goes to crawl through the small gap under the machine, prior to the Paul and Chani pushing her to do. She hurriedly went on her knees to pull herself through the sand, being careful not to bump anything as it was a bit darker under the metal.

           As soon as she made it out to the light of the other side, she reached a hand out of Chani to take and helped her up beside her, and reached for Paul next, who thanked her with a tight hand squeeze. With her in the middle of the two, they all glanced out from the cover of the machine's wheels to see if the no enemies were around.

          Two of the Fremen who joined the trio signalled they would distract the incoming Harkonnen's, causing Chani to nod at them and grab onto (Y/N)'s arm, "Come on!" She yelled over the loud noises around them, tugging the girl up with Paul and they all began to run across the sand again.

          Her (E/C) eyes caught the Fremen fighting some of the enemies across from them, and it pushed her to run faster knowing they were putting their life's on the line for this operation.

          She skidded to a stop where one of the machine's larger claws were, and pressed her palm onto the metal to stable herself, while the other two skidded to a stop also joining where she was.

          Chani placed down the blaster that was hosted over her shoulder as she knelt on the ground, while Paul got out the ammo from the bag around his girlfriends shoulder. He was stood behind her lifting the satchel off, and his eyes widen spotting a Harkonnen aiming to stab (Y/N) with his sword.

          This caused Paul to act fast. He swiftly pulled her by the waist to stand back, making her trip a bit at the sudden tug and a yelp escape her catching her footing. She gaped in amazement as her boyfriend easily knocked down the Harkonnen, sending cuts and stabs to his body like it was natural to him.

           He kicked the now dead body to the side with a scowl, probably doing too much to kill him but the Harkonnen was going to hurt his girl, and he'd rather die himself then let that happen. He turned back to (Y/N) breathing heavily, making sure she was unharmed before he went to kneel down beside Chani.

          "Load up." Chani grunted her command to the male, her pushing aside her feelings for now as this mission came first before it, for now that is. She had the blaster over her shoulder, and waited for Paul to place ammo inside of it.

          (Y/N) carefully handed her boyfriend the small slots of ammo, and he opened the compartment where it went, quickly slipping them side to their selected places. She watched this happen from her standing position, before the hairs at the back of her neck suddenly stook up on edge.

          She span around behind her to see what was causing that feeling, and her stomach dropped a bit spotting three more Harkonnen's fully armed charging at them. She went to grip her quarterstaff more tightly in her hand, going to step forward to attack them but the sound of Chani's voice made her pause.

          "Don't! I need you here to hold the craft still!" She exclaimed in alarm loudly to be heard, her blue eyes staring into her panicked (E/C) ones, as she motioned to the male with her head, "Paul can handle it. Now, help me with this first."

           (Y/N) opened her mouth to protest against the idea watching Paul stand up, but he just cradled the side of her cheek in his gloved hand, "I'll be fine, sweetheart." He assured softly flashing a smile despite where they were, and dropped his hand on her face, "I'm doing this to protect you. I've got this."

         She knew she could trust him to be alright, and to win the fight against them alone, but it still didn't stop her stomach from churning watching him go after the three Harkonnen's to protect her and Chani, so they could focus on the aircraft.

          Paul ran at the enemies with his sword in hand, mind on the need to protect his beloved as he did so. He easily doged the one swinging at him, dropping to the sand as he sliced at the same one's foot, and it knocked him down. Quickly getting back up, Paul stabbed that one in the chest easily and moved onto the next one.

           However, he didn't realise one had gotten away to stomp on after the two girls, whom had their backs turned to the fight, too busy focused on the aircraft. Paul killed the other one which he shoved off of him, and felt his heart stop when he spotted the one going after the girls.

          He got up in one quick movement, not even caring about anything else as his one thought was to save his girlfriend from being killed, "(Y/N)! Chani!" He yelled their names in a panicked voice, not knowing if he would get there in time to kill the Harkonnen.

          Upon hearing their names called by the male in such a scared way, (Y/N) turned her head over her shoulder to see what was happening. Her eyes widened seeing the enemy just on them, and acted in pure instinct alone feeling a sudden spike in her power.

            Her head tilted down with a harsh look on the Harkonnen, before her chin snapped back up sharply to send his figure flying back against the metal of the ship, which instantly killed him and created a massive explosion. Not even realising what she did yet, the girl wiped off the blood dripping down a little from her nose, and turned back around to help Chani aim at the ship in the air.

           Despite her not even reacting to what she did, Paul and Chani both did. Chani's reaction was one of pure wonder, and excitement, already knowing who this girl was and what she would become very soon for the Fremen and Arrakis.

          Paul on the other hand, felt his heart clench in both pride and worryiness for his girl, but regardless still stared at her like she was the most magnificent thing he's ever seen. And she was to him, and would always be.

          The same aircraft was right above them hovering, which made Chani aim the blaster directly where it was, and pulled down on the trigger. It sent a bullet trying straight up to it, but couldn't do any damage since there was a shield covering the entire thing, which caused the trio to all groan.

          "Reload!" Chani ordered the male through an annoyed grunt, holding the holster over her shoulder to do so, but before any of them could, another around of shots was fired at them.

          Paul was quick to throw himself over (Y/N)'s body making her yelp when she landed against the sand, their chests touching as he protected her from the bullets raining down. Their eyes met each other, his arms caging her head in, noses brushes from how close they were, and it caused her to flush a bit in the cheeks.

            Before they could say something to one another, the spike arm they were taking cover behind started to move out of the way. He cursed loudly at that, quickly pulling her up by under the armpits, and dragged her along through the sand, Chani leading them over to another one while the aircraft was trying to get a good aim on them.

           The three skidded to a stop again on the sand, as Paul grabbed more ammo from the satchel while being knelt down beside his girlfriend in front of Chani, "The shield," He starts off, voice muffled from the mask cover his mouth as he loads the gun again, "only opens when it fires."

          "I know. What do you think I'm trying to do?" Chani sneered back with a scowl thrown at him, before glancing to (Y/N) who was staring at her boyfriend concerned having a hunch he was planning something, "Are you ready to stop the ship?"

           Her eyes flickered from Paul's reassuring face feeling his glove hand squeeze the top of hers, and released a heavy exhale through her nose, "Guess I have to be." She vented out looking at Chani with a nod, who gave a soft one back full of confidence and trust for her.

          "You hold that thing in the air, and I'll keep it busy." Paul told the love of his life gently, but his eyes were gazing into hers sternly to get his words across, "Alright?" He added grazing his thumb over her now ungloved hands, making her fingers twitch wanting to hold his.

         She bit on her bottom lip hesitantly not wanting him to put himself in harms way, but eventually agreed with his idea, "Okay, fine. But if anything goes wrong, I'm coming to get you." She grumbled to him, gaining a chuckle back before he stood up to run the other way to get the aircrafts attention.

             As he ran for cover while the ship fired at him, (Y/N) took Chani's signal for a go ahead, and lifted her left hand up into the air. She planted her staff in the sand beside her, glare focused on the aircraft before them as she channelled the energy around her, and flowed it back into her powers which caused the ship to freeze under her invisible grasp.

           Her fingers were shaking a bit from the force she had to push into it, already feeling her strength draining as she grits her teeth and holds the machine in place for Chani. It faught against her hold which had her growling under her breath, and slowly scrunching her fist, which made the forcefield around the ship weaken by the second.

            The wind picked up around her figure which made some of the sand twirl around her figure, and her hair started to blow behind her also, really adding to the desert look she had. Heavy pants escaped her trying to keep her mind from passing out, her telekinesis hold on the ship not breaking despite the blood dripping down her left nostril.

           Being so distracted by the girl actually holding his aircraft without even touching it, the Harkonnen didn't even notice that Chani had fired and it was penetrating the already weakened shield around his machine, until it was too late.

           A raw yell tore free from (Y/N)'s throat when she span the aircraft around with both hands now in the air, causing a massive explosion as she crushed it into two, just as the bullet went off which created an even bigger explosion. Both attacks completely destroyed the craft, and it left nothing but what it once was, but split into two demolished parts.

           Her eyelashes fluttered a bit from how much strength she used, her figure tripping back a bit which had Chani quickly catching her gently against her side. The Fremen girl cradled the back of her head, and helped her run along the sand and grabbed her staff, not giving Paul the chance to take (Y/N), as they all needed the flee the area before more enemies came.

          "I'm alright, I just drained myself-" (Y/N)'s voice came out a bit slurred, and softer then her usual tone, pushing herself out of Chani's hold as her kneels buckled a bit. Before she could fall again, Paul swooped it to grab her, one arm underneath her knees and the other around her upper back.

           Her head fell against his shoulder a bit limply, nose not bleeding anymore as she tried to close her eyes to restore her lost energy. Her arms were around his neck a bit loosely, blurry eyes catching the destroyed machines and felt a proud smile perk at her lips knowing they've won.

           "You're selfless, silly girl, sweetheart." Paul's raspy tone was heard by her ears, but this time it was a bit wobbly making her glance up from his shoulder to see the incredibly worried expression over his face while he carried her running, "Why would you strain yourself to much?"

            She just nuzzled her face into the spot between his neck and shoulder, and felt the vibrations of everyone around them through the sand subconsciously, as she didn't speak to him back straight away. Them both knowing the answer already.

            The crash of the aircraft exploded beside them in the sand, as they continued to run away from the mess they created. More Fremen appeared from out of the sand, to take down the massive spice harvest ship, which had them officially winning that fight for good.

❪ ✏️ ❫ 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳𝚂 : 4637
─►☆ AUTHOR'S NOTE :
i wish i was quicker at writing this but im not since i have so much to cover and add onto the story but im trying to update as fast as i can for you guys since i know it sucks to wait for so long and i do see your cries for updates so don't worry i will get them out 🤭 this chap is also a newish look at y/n's powers kinda in a way but i think that was clear in the first movie LMAO just wait though guys no one is gonna see
the plot twist cominggg

thank you for reading xxx and remember to not be a ghost/silent reader, all love comments help me with motivation and make me happy in general so mwah <33