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Post by Elifain on Feb 13, 2009 15:19:12 GMT -5
Elifain walked through the remains of kankage, on his way to the cave of trials. He looked around, and probed the area using his control of the force, but found nothing important in the area.
He had heard of this area from his Mentor, who told him only to go there when he was ready for a test, that would try his mind, and decide his fate in the galaxy. If he passed, he would become a full Kumori, with the title OF SHADOWS.
He walked into the cave, in only his robes, having left his armour at the CLAW OF MANDO with nothing in particular in his mind, other than wonder, on what he would run into.
He had barelly walked into the cave, and a few feet inside, when he heard a slight sound, ahead of him, and he pulled his Katana, and held it up, right next to his face, and looked around.
He looked around for a second, before walking farther into the cave, and his mind started racing.
He had walked only a dozen yards into the cave, before he was stopped, by one of the last things he expected to find in this cave...
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Post by Elifain on Feb 13, 2009 22:37:24 GMT -5
Elifain watched, through his own eyes, but with no control over his body, a mandalorian in his families armour, walked up out of the shadows, and aimed a blaster rifle at him, point blank.
His body, as he would do himself, pulled out a Lightsaber, which he recongized as carasuum, his silver outlined lightsaber.
The other man didn't back down at the obvious jedi weapon, even though it was in the hands of a mandalorian. Elifain stared into the mans visor, not blinking in the least, and the man stood there, staring back at him, despite being behind a helmets visor. For a second neither of them moved, and appeared not to breath, The mandalorain finally said, You should never have come back... you are not needed. The clan died because of your stupidity, and now we see you have joined the Jetise... pathetic... Elifain stared off blankly. He could not control anything about his body by this time, and was a little amazed when his saber lowered, in the face of an armed opponent, and his body said, I am not with the Jedi, and it wasn't for me that the clan had fallen... IT WAS THEIR OWN STUPIDITY! He thought back to the day that their clan had fallen. As far as he knew, it was due to the other clans fearing of their power, but if this vision told him otherwise, then it wasn't the past he was seeing, but the future.
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Post by Elifain on Feb 14, 2009 0:01:22 GMT -5
The figure took aim, and Elifain saw the persons finger tighten just a little on the trigger, with it still targetting Elifain right at his chest. Elifains grip on his sword tightened, and he shortened his stance, making it more likelly that he will be able to move out of the way, without getting hit easily. He looked at the Mandalorian, and said in a calm voice, If the drakain clan was destroyed, then who are you.... He doubted that this person was actually a member of his ex-clan, rather one of the soldiers who had attacked it and survived, but at the same time, he felt he recognized something about him. There came a slight laughing sound from inside over the armour, and the man said, Still as clueless as ever i see. you never were worth the blood flowing through your veigns... you were not worthy of the clan, when you were young, and I see the same goes for now...
The mandalorian looked around, and said, You were spared because of your mothers softness. nothing else. If it hadn't been for her, you and your brother would have fallen beside your clan, which is how it should have been. BUT INSTEAD YOU WERE LEAD AWAY! Your family died to cover your escape, and now you have the guts to think you are my better.... Boy, i have seen more than you will know... I have been here far longer...
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Post by Elifain on Feb 14, 2009 0:38:57 GMT -5
Suddenly, there was the sounds of boots hitting the ground, behind him, and Elifains body imediatelly looked around, to see another mandalorian run into the area, blood dripping from a spots on his armour, that had been blackened, and dented. The mandalorian had his helmet off, and Elifain, despite not knowing him in the present, felt that this boy was his brother. His own thoughts stumbled for a second, as it tried to catch up to what was going on, but the body kept on going, as if nothing new had changed. He looked back, to the first man, still in full armour, who looked back between the brothers, and started laughing again.
Roland asked, What is going on here Tracin'ya? he used Elifains mandalorian name, which caused the first mandalorian to laugh harder.
YOU ARE NOT MANDO! YOU ARE DAR'MANDA! The man reached up, and lifted off his helmet, revealing for the first time, his actual face, and Elifain almost instantly recognized him. He stared in horror as his father, the man who he had been fighting so hard to avenge, and the man whom he had learned the basics of fighting from, aiming a gun at him and roland, shouting like a madman.
YOU DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO LIVE! kad yelled at his sons before taking aim at elifain, and opening fire.
Elifain reacted fast enough to snap his lightsaber up, in the way of the fire, and deflected it away from himself, as roland ran towards cover. Elifain watched, unable to do anything with his own body, as kad threw a grenade back towards where roland had just run too, and as roland barelly got out of the cover, before it went off, the whole time, trying his hardest to block his fathers blaster bolts.
He finally started getting his saber up, to deflect all the shots away from him, while not hitting kad eather, and started to move back to the exit, as roland jumped behind the cover again, this time ready for the grenade he thought would be there. He was not met by a grenade, but still did not fire at their father.
instead Roland yelled, KAD STOP THIS MADNESS. WHAT REASON IS THERE TO ATTACKING YOUR SONS! YOU ARE NO FATHER! YOU ARE dar'buir
Roland finally stood up, a WESTMAR m5 blaster rifle in hand, and took a few shots at Kad, aiming for the chest, of the man whom had yet to take cover. He made 2 of the 3 shots before Kad redirected his aim, and shot roland, right through the chest, in a part of rolands armour that had been pierced earlier.
The bolt went completelly through Roland, leaving threw his back, and knocking him back a few feet, before he landed, bleeding to death. Elifain stared, in wide eyed horror as his brother hit the ground, and his father smirked, and said, Weakling... Now time for you... He turned his blaster over to aim at elifain, and prepaired to fire. Elifains reaction was as fast as the grief that had struck him. He drew his second blade, and charged forward, into his fathers fire, and barelly avoiding the fire, before he got right in his fathers face. He saw the fear in the mans eyes, as he removed the mans head from his shoulders.
As he did this, the image of the battle faded, and he was again, in the dark cave, but rather than standing where he had been a few moments earlier, he was now kneeling in the cave, in some area, with little light, other than to barelly see.
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Post by Elifain on Feb 14, 2009 0:55:11 GMT -5
He looked around, shakily, trying to get a grip on where he was. He felt like he was sick to his stomach, after what he had seen, and the pain, although an illusion, was still fresh in his mind, and affecting him phisically... He had no idea what had happened, that had caused the vision, but figured it had to be the force connection from the cave, affecting him.
He tried to stand up, but found his legs were too weak, and he ended up falling to his face, before he could react. He finally pushed himself up, on his feet, and started walking, as though he had been heavily wounded, in the direction his body had been moving already. He finally started feeling better, to the point where he was not leaning on the wall so badly, and had just found an area where the cave was starting to lighten up, just a little bit. it started by the gloom letting up, but before he could find out what he had found, he suddenly heard a sound behind him.
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Post by Elifain on Feb 14, 2009 1:12:33 GMT -5
He turned and drew his lightsaber, in case it was another threat, only to find the man, Garok, who he had been training, standing there, or rather, leaning on a wall, with a bunch of rocks floating around him, as if it was no problem. The man looked peaceful, but at the same time, ready for the worst to happen, while he practiced floating the rocks in multiple directions, before snapping them back towards him, only to send them out again.
He turned to the side, having heard another sound, and saw zilfer, one of the legendary kumori, and one whom elifain had run into on a few occations, standing around with an impassive look on his face. He saw Jor, the man who he had fought with against karen, and her infestation, in defense of a civilian fleet, outgunned, and overmatched.
He saw Kayen, a woman whom he had joined up on, in his earlier years, before an assult on a high ranking sith, and her attempted betrayal of zilfer, had made them enemies.
There was also shinra, the boy he had begun to train in the forest, beaming from ear to ear as he learned to heal wounds, and another person that Elifain didn't recognize, but was wearing mandalorian armour, and learning to use lightning. There was a few others, who he did not recognize at the moment, but all of them was standing around smiling, and doing their own thing, staring at him, and the whole time, he recieved a sense of purpose, and a sense of belonging with these people. He knew they were people who had touched his life, or would soon, and found that it comforted him from the horrible truth that he had found earler.
He quietly put his saber up, and with a chuckle, turned, as the illusions quietly slipped into the shadows, and disapeared.
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Post by Elifain on Feb 14, 2009 1:19:31 GMT -5
Elifain continued back towards the area where the light grew stronger, thinking over all that he had seen, and the thoughts that now rushed through his head.He quietly sorted through his feelings about the incident, and decided, if he could stop the vision from happening, he would try with all his might. He quietly stepped into the growing light, to find the exit to the cave, and noticed too, that although he had went into the cave at night, he was emerging from the cave as the sun rose.
He stared at the sun for a second, letting his eyes re-ajust to the light, before quietly turning, and moving back in the direction that he figured would lead him back to the village, and his ship. He quietly chuckled to himself, as he realized, that now he was a true kumori, whom was allowed the title, of shadows, to his name.
He quickly stepped up the pace, as fast as he could, despite being exhausted from his trial, and moved left the trial behind him.
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