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Post by Cain on Jan 25, 2009 22:41:10 GMT -5
Zilfer's Longsword exited hyperspace over the planet and made remained in stealth mode until landing in the forests outside one of the Neimoidian bridge cities. As the ramp lowered Hatori stepped down, tossing some black robes over his shoulders and lifting the hood over his head.
"Outside of the cities, Cato Neimoidia is sparsely populated. We shouldn't have much trouble until we enter the city," he said to Zilfer who was following close behind.
"The vaults are located atop the large rock arches and will be difficult to reach. They are guarded by B1 battle droids and more then likely our Jedi targets..."
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 25, 2009 22:49:33 GMT -5
Nanashi turned to the ship and then pressed a button upon his arm shutting the hatch behind them. He turned forward in the dirrection of the city. "We'll deal with it as it comes." said Nanashi as he started forward, throwing his hood up over his head to hide the mask that covered over half his face.
They walked towards the city and kept an eye open for witnesses. Luck was on their side for now, as they encountered no one. Nanashi held up a hand for a moment to tell Hatori to halt as he closed his eyes not 200 yards from the city. He let his sences go as he centered himself and reached out with the force.
Cassus and Barros back to back deflecting blaster fire, as they were surrounded by pirates, while several B1 battle droids were laid upon the floor near them.
Opening his eyes once more he turned to Hatori for a moment. "It seems we are in luck, they are currently busy."
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Post by Cain on Jan 25, 2009 22:58:27 GMT -5
Hatori nodded and stepped up to the base of the rock arch in which the vault was built on. Stray blaster bolts could be seen occasionally streaking away from the summit, but to make it to the top the two would have to scale about 300 feet of vertical rock face.
"It's quite a climb to the top," Hatori commented, his head craned upwards before slowly turning back to Zilfer, "I hope you're good with your Earth elemental..."
Hatori then turned back to the rock face and held up his hands. The thin veil of sand covering them began to shift around him and solidify until his hands were hard as diamond. Thrusting his hands into the rock and getting a solid grip, Hatori began his climb to the summit.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 25, 2009 23:10:59 GMT -5
"Hmpf, we shall see." said Nanashi as he watched Hatori begin to climb. Looking up to the top he summit, before crotching down towards the ground. He began to relieve air pressure on himself.
"Weightless...." he muttered as he drew the a kumori blade from it's sheath and then gave a force jump sailing a good ways up above Hatori before impaling his sword into the wall. Taking out a second blade he began to scale the wall. Eventually he reached the top seeing Hatori not far away. He nodded down to Hatori signalling he was going to do something.
Fading into the shadow of the wall he entered the void scaling over the top of the wall and onto solid ground. The darkness of the void made this place seem ominous. The sun's dark glow was the only thing that lit his way, as he came out of the void in the last location of Cassus and Barros he saw pirate bodies laid around with the B1 battle droids. Glancing at the safe he saw it had been broken into. No doubt the battle had moved into there.
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Post by Cain on Jan 25, 2009 23:41:26 GMT -5
Within the void slowly the earth began to rise around Zilfer and he was then flanked by two Hatori's. The third scaling the edge of the cliff and walking up behind them as he inspected the carnage of the battle. Most of the droids had blaster marks, but several of them seemed to have been sliced by a lightsaber...
"Keep your guard up," the Hatori to Zilfer's right said.
"There may be more Jedi then just Zen and Bree," the Hatori to the left added. The sediment that they were made up of then rapidly shifted and took on the form of two pirates.
"Let's go."
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 25, 2009 23:55:07 GMT -5
Nanashi nodded to Hatori before moving towards the vault enterance which hinges had been ripped off by some unseen some force. He moved forward down into the vault sheathing one of his blades and as they came to a consule near a corner Nanashi peeked around the corner to see more carnage, and in the distance firing and the occational explosion.
They were definately getting closer, he walked back to the consule and held his sword out giving it an eletrical charge. "Charge." said Nanashi as the consule began to drain power and all the electronics began to feed his blade. The lights began to flicker as the lightning began to swirl faster and flaster up Nanashi's arm and eventually to his whole body. "Time for a little EMP."
Dispursing the lightning in a pulsing wave, the lights went out through out the vault for a good was giving them the cover of darkness to move in. "This won't last long, so we'd better make use of it and find our targets." said Nanashi as he began to move into the darkness guided by the force as if he could see perfectly. He sheathed his sword and drew his lightsaber.....
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Post by Cain on Jan 26, 2009 0:34:54 GMT -5
Meanwhile, deep inside the vault, Cassus and Barros stand with their lightsabers ignited as the last B1 battle droid crumples to the floor. About 6 pirates are left standing, each wielding a blaster pistol and their leader also holding a blue lightsaber that hummed in his hand. He was dressed in full body armor and a mask that resembled that of the Mandalorians.
"This ends here!" Cassus called out, taking a step forward.
"Heh... you're over confidence blinds you Master Jedi," the Mandalorian said, "though that is not surprising. Through my many encounters with your kind you seem to all share this common flaw."
"We've searched too long to let you escape now," Barros added, "You'll pay for all the Neimoidians you've killed."
"Peace, Barry," Cassus interjected, "You will need your wits about you if we're going to prevail here..."
As Cassus spoke suddenly the lights began to flicker before finally shutting off with a crack. The glow of the lightsabers were now the only things illuminating the room.
"What's going on, Master?" Barros asked looking around nervously, "More pirates?"
"No..." Cassus answered, closing his eyes gently, "It's something else... what ever it is, death follows with it. We don't have much time..."
As Cassus spoke, unseen by the others in the room, two pirates emerged from the shadows, blending in behind the others.
"Well then what are we waiting for?" Barros shouted, "Let's finish this now!" Barros then rushed forward, deflecting blaster bolts as he cut down one of the pirates. The Mandalorian clashed blades with Cassus and Barros continued his run through the grunts until slicing through one that only seemed to flinch. Barros stared at it for a moment puzzled as slowly its top half turned to sand and poured away.
"What the..."
The sand slowly wrapped around Barros' feet and then suddenly shot up around his legs and solidified rapidly. Barros struggled but couldn't move. From the darkness in from of him a figure emerged. Hatori stepped forward, his face seeming to melt away as the sand veil poured off revealing his grotesque features. Barros was paralyzed by fear and in the heat of the battle Cassus then had become aware of the dark presence in the room and looked to Barros.
"Barry! Get out of there!" Cassus yelled as a green lightsaber blade ignited through Barros' abdomen and sliced out the side, spraying blood across the piles of gold and riches in the vault. As Barros slumped to the ground the sand rose up and formed another Hatori. The Mandalorian had stopped his battle with Cassus as the two stared wide eyed at what had just occured.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 26, 2009 0:47:16 GMT -5
Nanashi had veiled himself in shadows as he walked into the room. Hatori dispatched the padawan quickly, and it was him who would dispatch the witnesses. Using Paralyzer he stopped the nerves of the mandalorain within the suit and activated his lightsaber which took a second to slice all the way through but emerged on the other side. His cloak of shadow still was wrapped around his body making him hard to see in the dark.
As the Mandalorain fell down to the ground with a major wound through his chest his blue lightsaber rolled away from his hands along the ground, as Nanashi's black core red lightsaber gave an odd effect in the darkness. Using the force he brought the mandalorain's lightsaber straight up towards Cassus, without a word.
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Post by Cain on Jan 26, 2009 0:57:03 GMT -5
With his defensive Soresu lightsaber from, Cassus spun his lightsaber quickly in front of him and sliced the in coming lightsaber into pieces and quickly jumped back away from the assailants. As Nanashi had been dispatching the Mandalorian the remaining pirates were consumed by sand and crushed where they stood. The sand then formed into the third Hatori, all of which then turned their attention towards Cassus.
"Who are you?" Cassus asked, maintaining his calm in the face of the mysterious intruders, "who sent you here?"
There was no answer, instead the two Hatori clones faded into the shadows as the real Hatori stood with his lightsaber in hand. Cassus stood ready expecting an attack at any moment.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 26, 2009 1:05:32 GMT -5
Nanashi's lightsaber did not move, and the room seemed silent for the moment, and then their came a faint noise. The sound of wind before a hand coming down upon Cassus' shoulder.
"Blades of Anzu." came the voice as Razor winds began to form and cut straight Cassus to pieces. Nanashi in his cloak of shadow had left his lightsaber hanging in the air with telekensis to make it seem like he hadn't moved which he assumed was the main way Cassus was tracking his movements.
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Post by Cain on Jan 26, 2009 1:23:24 GMT -5
Cassus' connection to the force was strong, but even he could not pick up Nanashi's movements until he felt the hand on his shoulder. His eyes widening rapidly, Cassus spun and created an explosion of telekinesis, a violent force push used on himself to try and create as much distance between he and Nanashi as possible.
Even with this defense the slicing blades still ripped his flesh violently and Cassus slammed into the wall and then to the ground. His old body not being very adapt at taking such punishment he struggled to lift himself back up onto his knees.
"What manner of power is this?..." Cassus gasped to himself, "They undoubtedly carry the taint of the dark side but such a perversion of the force. I've not seen this since..."
Cassus tried to stand but his legs would not support him. He couldn't see it but the muscles in his calves had been almost completely severed. He began to concentrate on healing himself when suddenly two figures emerged from the shadows in front of him, flanking Hatori, his stare starved of emotion by his mangled features.
"Diamond saw..." he uttered coldly. Suddenly the two clones exploded into sand and began to spin rapidly around Hatori's hands, hardening into two diamond saw blades. Hatori lurched back and then swung his arms forward, sending the saw blades spinning wildly.
Cassus summoned his lightsaber to him quickly and ignited it to block the blades, but they both took a sharp turn in mid air, separating from one another and then flying back in at Cassus from either side. Cassus ducked under one but the other struck his shoulder and sawed through him as if he were butter.
The blades then returned to Hatori's hands as Cassus coughed up blood and collapsed. Still breathing weakly.
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Post by Zilfer Of Shadows... on Jan 26, 2009 1:56:24 GMT -5
Nanashi had been blasted back aways but had maintained his balance and planted a hand firmly against the wall to stop himself. His lightsaber drifted back to Nanashi as he came forward towards Cassus on the ground. His cloak of shadows dropped letting the skull mask be illuminated slightly by the faint red glow of his lightsaber. "The Jedi order has fallen, to the shadows. It is here that will be your tomb. Ironic that you should die in a place of Greed and power." said Nanashi as his arm held out at Cassus Zen. "You fate has been decided."
The voice opened up, as Kuragari hands held Cassus Zen's limbs in place as Nanashi began to reach out with the force. Towards Zen's lifeforce.
"Sin Harvest." came Nanashi's words as he began to rip the Jedi's soul from his body, and until at last Cassus had stopped breathing. Dead silence filled the air as Nanashi looked to Hatori. His lightsaber disengaged as Nanashi bent down and threw Cassus' body onto his shoulder. "Grab the other body for me." said Nanashi before disappearing into the void. He had programmed his ship with a tracking beacon and an autopilot for situations like this. Going outside the ship landed nearby, it's hatch opening up.
Nanashi walked into the ship and Hatori followed soon with Barros' body. He opened a freezing container that would fit Cassus and then putting him into the container he reached for the force. He had begun practicing his other Mitsukai arts that he was not as proficient with. Water was the most recent he had been restuding.
"Flash freeze." said Nanashi as Cassus' body began to freeze over solid, and the container slamed shut. He did the same with Barros' body before starting up the engines. "Anything else you can think of that we missed?" asked Nanashi.
Hatori's silence answered his question proficently enough. "I didn't think so...." Their ship soon piloted up into space and eventually into hyperspace.
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