Chapter Eleven

"No." Emily whispered. "You're a monster." Emily hissed at the emperor, he laughed.

"Careful, my child. You do not wish to upset me." He sneered at her.

"I hope I am the one to end your life today." Emily declared. With a swift motion the emperor moved his hand, throwing Emily back hard into a bridge. The impact was so hard that it caused it to collapse and fall upon Emily.

"NO!" Luke yelled attempting to go check on his love, but not before Vader held him back, the emperor laughed once more.

"There is no point of rescuing her now. She is very much dead, young Skywalker." The emperor said smiling a horribly wicked grin. Luke cleared his mind to focus upon Emily. There was nothing, no usual heartbeat, nothing. Emily truly was dead as he had declared. "The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more my servant. " Luke turned away from the emperor.

"No." he said thinking of what Emily would want him to do. He looked over to where her body lay under the rubble. Luke knew the emperor was right. There was no point of helping her, he knew she was dead. Yet somehow he didn't want to face that fact. He blocked out the emperor, attempting to block out the darkness the emperor was trying to set into his mind.

"It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father are now mine." He said with a wicked smile.

Luke continued to gaze out of the window looking as some of his friends were shot down by TIE fighters. "As you can see, my young apprentice your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully operational battle station." The emperor said. He pressed a button on his chair. "Fire at will, commander." He hissed. Luke looked back at the emperor and then to the Rebellion fleet. He could only watch in horror as a blast came from the Death Star and hit a Rebellion ship. Luke couldn't help but think the emperor was right all along. He began doubting Emily's words. She said everything would be alright, but nothing was alright. Nothing was alright, maybe Emily had just said that to calm him down. He looked over to the pile of rubble, hoping somehow she'd be alive.

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"Your fleet is lost and your friends on the Endor moon will not survive. There is no escape my young apprentice." The emperor said. Luke looked down at his lightsaber, then to his father and the rubble that Emily's body lay underneath. "The Alliance will die as will your friends." Luke took a glance at his lightsaber. "Good. I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!" the old man said with a hiss in his throat. Luke turned away from the emperor then quickly used the Force to pull the lightsaber into his hand. The only thing that was on his mind was to kill the monster behind Emily's death. Luke activated the lightsaber and attempted to strike the emperor down, but not before Vader activated his and stopped Luke's lightsaber from killing his master, the emperor let out a crackled laugh.

On Endor, the Rebels managed to overpower the emperor's fleet with the help from the Ewoks. Leia felt a disturbance within her. Something was wrong, very wrong. She suddenly saw flashes of Emily. Han looked over at Leia worried.

"What's wrong?" he questioned.

"It's Emily---she's---she's dead." Leia whispered. Han looked in disbelief at Leia, Chewbacca roared a low, mournful roar. Han then turned around and shot a scout trooper heading their way.

"I hope Luke's okay." Leia said coming over to Han's side.

"Doubt it, the kid was clingy to her." He said continuing to shot at the troops. Leia frowned and shot as well, she knew Luke wouldn't be the same.

Han couldn't concentrate on his aim, he just kept hearing the words echoing in his head.

"Emily's dead." the words were haunting, he lost a sister basically. He did once have a crush on here, but not since he met Leia. The kiss he gave to her when the first arrived on Endor was just a joke. A brotherly-sisterly kinda joke.

"Emily is dead." The words just kept echoing. "Emily is dead."