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Post by Cain on Apr 5, 2008 21:24:12 GMT -5
Alex's clone smiled slightly and ripped the blade back up out of the ground. With a quick swing it knocked Yukiro's clone's lightsaber aside and then his blade arm spun 360 degrees around in a manner that would be normally impossible to slice the clone and cause it to vanish.
Alex Clone: Remember, a clone is not bound by the same rules as you or I. Since they are only illusions made real through the force, their potential in combat is limited only by your imagination and your ability to think quickly on your feet.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Apr 8, 2008 0:57:17 GMT -5
Zilfer stood up looking around, he definatly wasn't in kansas anymore.
Zilfer: So this isn't reality..... and you must really be my darkside.... Tigaro: ah, he finally gets it. Took you long enough shadow head.
Tigaro used the force to push zilfer, however zilfer countered by pushing at the same time. Struggling against one another intill with tigaro's free hand he threw it forward casting lightning over the telekenetic duel, and zilfer barely had enough time to raise his hand and catch it, Zilfer let tigaro win the telekentic duel in order to send the lightning flying back at tigaro. Zilfer fly back hitting a dark claw like pillar behind him and watched as tigaro easily deflected the returned lightning into another claw pillar.
Tigaro: Your weak......
Tigaro started to make the surroundings freak out black holes appeared from all over and tigaro's emerged like crazy only to disappear or flash to a different location. All heading towards zilfer, who to himself, his own movements seemed sluggish. Zilfer couldn't tell which was the original tigaro becuase he had lost track, however zilfer got tigaro's plan, zilfer just didn't know how to counter this type of kakuremino...... Suddenly a blow from behind zilfer struck him in the back of the head sending him falling forward, he caught himself and tried to sweep the feet out from tigaro as all the other clones disappeared, however as he would have made contact with the feat, it seemed to burst for a short while as his leg passed through it into shadowy dust, and then reform to kick him, in the face. Zilfer rolled backwards becuase his head was already up from the kick to his face which he felt still at the moment as he came up putting his lightsaber parrellel with his arm and pointed up towards the sky in a diagonal formation while he stayed crouched low to the ground.
Tigaro: is this all you got zilfer? The pittyful power of a second rate kumori?
Tigaro seemed to multiply in a circle around zilfer, a few rushed forward only to disappear into smoke as they where about near enough to attack, feints to keep zilfer wondering if it was going to be a real attack, or another fake one. Also distracting him, in tigaro's weave of desception.
Zilfer: yeah..... well this second rate kumori knows a few tricks....
Zilfer used telekensis in a wave blasting everything outwards from him, and then he suddenly ran in 5 different dirrections splitting into clones however the clones seemed different somehow.... after a second tigaro realized they wheren't zilfer at all, however lightning seemed to sprout from nowhere infront of each of the clones and zilfer blasting him backwards. Zilfer wasn't getting anywhere with these shadow games..... tigaro was winning. Zilfer stood up and looked around..... the sence had changed..... he was now on the star forge, a figure stood before him.....
Revan: You are not ready zilfer..... and you will forever remain in my shadow.....
Zilfer was taken aback by just the voice, it was so authentic, it made him dout where he was, and who he was fighting.... but was he really fighting? The figure of revan turned around, and slowly an already activated lightsaber slashed at him while turnning around, zilfer jumpped backwards however the lightsaber's very tip managed to slash across his chest leaving a burn, which zilfer clutched in pain, as the figure in revan's robes removed his mask revealing tigaro smiling smugly.
Zilfer: you.... Tigaro: face it zilfer..... i know all your moves, and can do them all better. You cannot beat me, as you could never beat revan. I am truely revan's brother....... you are just MY shadow, and i will force you to let me free. Zilfer: I...... Tigaro: you are nothing! Let me show you how to really win a fight!
The essence glowing around him, suddenly zilfer realized they looked like thunderclouds, flashes going on as the clouds floating around go thicker.
Zilfer: is that.....? Tigaro: Black tiger......
As soon as tigaro spoke a tiger seemed to literaly leap from the dark essence clouds lightning crackling from it's whole body down to even it's feet sparking and cracking the floor with it's very footsteps as it charged zilfer straight and head on. Zilfer dodged aside as the large tiger slashed at him. The dark tiger claws at zilfer in mid air slashing at his side catching part of his torso' right side and leaving huge gashes in the side of his arm. The lightning literally numbed the whole arm, it was as if zilfer's arm was dead. Zilfer fell down to one knee as tigaro laughed at zilfer's feeble attempt to dodge.
Tigaro: This is the power you could weild..... but do you know why you are not stronger then me.....
Tigaro's tiger disappeared, as zilfer forced hiself to stand up onto his feet, his lightsaber had fallen to the floor however zilfer used the force to summon it to his other hand.
Tigaro: becuase you lack hate......
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Apr 10, 2008 23:01:31 GMT -5
Things where going badly for zilfer, and it seemed not to be getting any better, he could see why this trial was hard, tigaro seemed to know everything he could do, and everything that he was capable of. Sort of fightning a mirror image of himself, except he was better. Why was he better? He was just an image of my darkside.....?
Zilfer: Hate? If it is only hate that separtes us then you are a sad creature indeed.
Zilfer charged forward slashing, tigaro easily blocked up high and looked at zilfer grinning.
Tigaro: Please zilfer, your tiring out, it'd be better just to give in. Zilfer: you'd like that wouldn't you?
Zilfer kicked tigaro's heels out from under tigaro sending him down to the ground and then stabbed, however he dispursed into black mist before his lightsaber could reach, and formed behind zilfer, how blocked him from behind only a second to spare, and then jumped away.
Tigaro: Can't you see....? you've already lost..... I have already won.
Could the darkside be stronger? no.... it was just easier, and more perverted way of the force. It takes the darkness to be in balance, however it does as the light as well. Tigaro was no stronger then himself, after all he was a part of himself.
Zilfer: Then finish it fool, and stop babbling.
Tigaro's eyes turned deadly. Zilfer smiled confidently, this time, he knew he would get tigaro, he couldn't be a clone doing this move. Tigaro started to gather dark clouds again and spark, the tiger was released, however this time tigaro was serious, but zilfer wasn't afraid he used kakuremino, and an army seemed to unfold behind zilfer, and around him. Tigaro summoned the black tiger once again and this time 2 split out tearing through the ranks to the middle, suddenly as the middle one was hit, all the others seemed to disappear and zilfer seemed to be hit and coughed up blood before falling over. Tigaro grinned triumpantly intill a lightsaber protruded from his chest, and then zilfer kicked him off his lightsaber onto the floor and held his lightsaber to the floor.
Zilfer: you have no power over me, TIGARO! Your are part of me, not the other way around! Tigaro: I'll never yeild to you!
Tigaro slashed zilfers lightsaber aside and lunged at him wounded, but zilfer kicked his arm to the side and plunged his lightsaber into tigaro's chest again.
Zilfer: you will suffer me!
Zilfer ripped the lightsaber out straight up through his torso up past his head and he faded.... There was silence.... zilfer kept his guard up however... the landscape had changed once again.... it was all darkness.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Apr 12, 2008 2:31:04 GMT -5
A low deep laugh echoed through the landscape once as zilfer looked around, he couldn't see, or rather he could see endlessly it was as if he couldn't see. The laughed echoed again but this time louder, as if it was closer.
Tigaro: Did you think it would be sooo easy? fool.....
Zilfer turned around once more and saw a site he wouldn't have thought up of unless he was dreaming. A Giant tiger with a snake wrapping and twisting around the tiger only to possition itself up straight above the tiger's own head. Both where crackling making an almost deafening sound.
Zilfer: Is this your true form then? Tigaro: Hehehe, Wouldn't you like to know.....
Lightning flashed out from the tiger straight towards zilfer sending him flying back even though he blocked with his lightsaber it seemed to seep around the lightsaber and impact him. Zilfer was smoking a bit as he stood up repositioning his lightsaber infront of himself.
Zilfer: No matter your scale, or your technices Tigaro, you are a part of me, and you are only HALF of me. Tigaro: You overestimate yourself, zilfer of shadows, and now this is where you DIE!!!!
Zilfer finally, noticed it wasn't a snake, and it was a dragon, which finally rushed forward from the tiger, Zilfer rolled aside at the last second and ran his lightsaber through the dark energy and then came up to the tiger as it swiped low. Suddenly from zilfer's robes shot white wings flapping once mightily propeling himself high into the air away from the swipe. The Tiger reared it's ugly head and came forward to bite zilfer out of the air however he rushed forward straight into the mouth of the dark tiger. For a moment, nothing seemed to happen, and then around the dark tiger the sencery began to rapidly change as if someone was rewinding time intill it came to a lab where the glass was broken out of. The Dark tiger seemed to be imploding inwards, as if something was sucking it in, and then suddenly a form of a dark veiled man was there absorbing all the dark essence into himself, as if a layer of the void was upon himself that he had no apparent features except the darkness which enveloped him. Then all at once a echo of the force seemed to pulsate outwards making the walls seem to bend outwards and then inwards back to normal like a ripple through the force, as the darkness shattered like a mirror revealing a man with black hair, and black eyes grinning confidently.
Zilfer: I'm going to need some serious rest.....
Zilfer collapsed to his knees barely holding up himself with his hands, he would have never imagined he could have defeated tigaro like that, but of course weirder things had happened. Zilfer's wings where out and unfolded streaching from wall to wall almost. Zilfer deactivated his lightsaber folding his wings as he rolled onto his back with his arms out streached looking at the ceilling, he heard a noise and looked towards a doorway as things seemed to be fading into nothingness, and he saw a figure in the doorway....
Zilfer: Revan....?
Zilfer faded into uncouniousness......
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Post by Cain on Apr 12, 2008 16:44:35 GMT -5
As Zilfer faded into unconsciousness, from the darkness around him came the echoes of voices...
"I would not have believed it possible had I not watched it myself..."
"Do you think he's ready?"
"There's only one way to be certain... but for now we should let him rest. It's been a long day."
Releasing Zilfer from the darkness, Alex put him back in his bed within his hut. He then returned to the garden in front of the tower. The morning fog had lifted and given way to another blustery gray day. With his clone still training Yukiro and Zilfer resting, Alex himself headed off into the woods.
He walked until he came to a stream, on the banks of which stood three grave stones, two right next to each other and one separate. In front of them was piled wilted flowers and before these Alex sat and closed his eyes. He did not say a word, only listened to the sound of the water and the trees in the wind.
"You mustn't delay, my son." a voice called to Alex. From its sound it seemed as if it were miles away.
"Zilfer hasn't the strength yet to use the fifth art," Alex answered, his eyes still shut, "He needs his full power to wield it."
"What time you may have thought we had, is rapidly growing short. The old seals are breaking... darkness is creeping back into the galaxy. I fear even Zilfer will be powerless to stop what now festers in the depths of Malachor."
"Malachor... of all the places in the galaxy..." Alex uttered in response, his eyes slowly opening.
"There is something there we have failed to see. I have felt him... like drums beating in the dark. His force signature is even greater then Cain's was... we may be sending the boy to his death."
"But is there any other way?"
"No... Zilfer must confront him. Only then will his training be complete..."
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Apr 16, 2008 20:33:11 GMT -5
Zilfer woke up in the hut and looked up to the ceiling. He remembered what had happened within a few moments, and got up looking at the ground for a moment, and then stood walking over to the door way looking out of the hut towards, where yukiro was trainning with alex's clone. He smirked slightly, she was learning the basic's of shadow arts, and he remembered when he had been at that stage with revan, though zilfer had caught onto it faster, revan was able to manipulate an opponents mind easier with it. Zilfer walked over to the mantle in the middle of the kumori village, said to have been the very place where akari sealed away moujuu. The force was always strong on chinine, as he closed his eyes standing before the ancient monument. Zilfer senced something dark, and the sound of a heart beat as if a long distance away, however he had mistaken it for his own heart beat at first, but noticed the force seemed to be flowing a bit different as he reached out trying to feel the flow of the galaxy. A large colaberation of conflict, on a grand scale... he knew somewhere, the force was thick, and that perhaps the jedi, or a group of force users where having a massive battle and the force was trembling becuase of it.
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Post by Yuki Uramachi on Apr 16, 2008 23:19:12 GMT -5
*Yukiro made another clone and it ran up to his clone and and flipped behind himand tried to slice him in half*
Yukiro's Clone: Good to know......
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Post by Cain on Apr 20, 2008 12:59:40 GMT -5
Alex's clone's arm rotated back behind his back to block Yukiro's clone's strike and then spun around.
"Very good," the clone said, "you seem to have gotten used to the process of clone creation. Now let's see how well you've learned to use those clones..."
The clone then shoved Yukiro's back and slowly twirled its blade, beckoning her forward.
"Now, show me you're ready..."
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"You've felt it too?" Alex asked standing behind Zilfer. He looked up at the monument of Lucias holding the blade of light to the sky in triumph, then slowly closed his eyes.
"You will have to help the Jedi... they will need your power before the end. But as of now... you are still not ready." Alex opened his eyes again, slipping his book out of his robes once more.
"There is one more truth about the Shadow Arts which I have yet to teach to you... but before I do, tell me, what do you know about a Mitsukai named Samasu Kenshi?"
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Post by Moonfire on Apr 20, 2008 17:32:19 GMT -5
"Umm... Excuse me... Alex Drake?" came a very soft voice, timid almost, more unsure than weak. A soft flutter of wing beats as a woman glided gently to the ground. Silvery haired and pale skinned, with great wings she landed on the ground next to the two conversing men. She was unsure of who was Alex Drake, but assumed one of them had to be. Strapped to her side was a long bladed katana, in the case of a mistaken identity, she surely hoped she wouldn't have to use it.
"Can either of you show me Alex Drake?'
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Post by Cain on Apr 20, 2008 17:44:09 GMT -5
Alex raised an eyebrow to the new comer. All sorts of interesting characters seemed to be showing up these days. There was certainly something unique about this one, but Alex decided not to look too far into it.
"I'm Alex Drake," He finally said as he turned towards the woman. His dress was poor and probably not what she expected. "And what brings you here?"
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Post by Moonfire on Apr 20, 2008 18:07:04 GMT -5
"My name is Na'omi... I was told that you might be able to help me..." she looked at him, a rather sad kind of look upon her fair face. "A kind stranger, told me that the Kumori, you in particular Mr. Drake, might have some clue on... well... to be frank, who or what I am." she look.
"I know, I must sound, rather insane, but Its quite the conflict... aia'm not even sure if Na'omi's my name, I just found it engraved on this thing around my wrist, and assumed it was mine." she felt herself talking too much again, and felt almost embarassed.
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Post by Cain on Apr 20, 2008 18:17:00 GMT -5
"What you are?" Alex repeated back with almost a chuckle, "Well that appears to be the easy part. You miss are without a doubt one of the Mitsukai. Who you are... well that could take some time."
Alex looked her over noticing the clothing she wore and the worn out shape of her wings. It seemed that she was very old... but then again what Mitsukai wasn't? One thing that was strange however was the untamed way that the force radiated from her. All the Mitsukai Alex had run into before seemed to have a natural affinity for controlling the force, but Na'omi did not.
"Hmmm... can you tell me what you remember?"
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Apr 20, 2008 19:00:13 GMT -5
Zilfer looked over to alex for a moment, he was now talking to another newcomer.
Zilfer: yes i've senced it..... it's hard not to.
Zilfer looked up to the sky, and then back down to earth and the destoryed village around them.
Zilfer: What more could i not know about the shadow arts..... is there some deep meaning to the shadow arts?
Zilfer was very curious to find out what more alex had to share with him however, he figured might as well answer the other questoin.
Zilfer: Kenshi samasu.... As i know him was the founder of the kumori, and implemented the rules..... however he disappeared for some unknown reason long ago, before even you alex.
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Post by Moonfire on Apr 20, 2008 19:08:50 GMT -5
"Well, the earlist memory of mine, if somewhat fuzzy. I remember waking up in... I believe it was thorn bush of some kind? Not very pleasant at all, and I was alone, wearing rags, and this bangle.... I got up pulled the thorns from me, and well... it was a long time ago, I'm pretty sure I wandered into town after that, and my wings got alot of stares... soemone gave me some clothing, and I don't know, I just left.." she said as she struggled to remember the rest of the details. "Thats about all I can remember, anything before it, is lost to me."
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Post by Cain on Apr 20, 2008 20:13:05 GMT -5
Alex listened to Na'omi and Zilfer's responses. He was quiet for a moment before reopening his book and leafing through the pages back to the very beginning.
"It is true..." Alex began with his head still down, "that Samasu Kenshi founded the Kumori in the wake of the massacre on Tishi. But the assertion that he created the Shadow Arts is incorrect. The Shadow Arts were in fact created by the Elders of the Mitsukai. More specifically by a man that Kenshi admired greatly. His teacher and mentor... Atsuke. You see, Kenshi and Atsuke were both Elders themselves... and as you have guessed Zilfer, this book belonged to Samasu Kenshi."
Alex then began to read directly from the text.
"In the beginning there were seven of us. Jiro, Yuki, Naomi, Anzu, Okiba, Atsuke-sensei, and myself. Each of us chosen. Each labeled as genius' in the force. Together we created a force form unlike any used before. Atsuke-sensei came up with the name... Shadow Arts.
Having all mastered this power, there were a few among us who wished to take it further. Calling upon the power of their darker sides, these Mitsukai created a Black art... one of terrible and uncontrollable power. It consumed them, one by one. They began to conspire... whiser in the dark. After Atsuke-sensei was killed... I knew what I had to do.
It was only a matter of time before there new power corrupted them absolutely. The Blade could no longer be trusted with them. Atsuke knew this... and for this knowledge he died. In order to stop them I turned to human kind for help. It was here, for this purpose that the first of the Kumori were born. But I was too late. The Blade was indeed taken, but not by the Elders. No... someone far worse."
Alex closed the book and looked up at Zilfer.
"The power that you wield now is altogether a dark and twisted perversion of the Shadow Arts. It must be used at only the most desperate end of need. Even though you have defeated the darkness within you... it will never stop testing you. Never be free of its need to dominate. From now until the end of your days you shall always be in danger of falling to the dark side."
Alex then turned to Na'omi.
"You are an Intangible and your name is Naomi you say... well it may just be coincidence but it is a possibility we cannot ignore. I will do all in my power to help restore whatever it is you have lost."
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