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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Jan 5, 2010 19:12:23 GMT -5
Kayen wasn't very quick but he was still able to get his lightsaber up and block most of the attacks. The ones he couldn't block, he jumped behind Garok to avoid, barely. Kayen quickly extended one hand and used the force to launch a stone of about a foot wide from the ground at the back of Ryuu's head, trying to distract him. Kayen then spun around Garok and swung his own lightsaber straight at Ryuu's chest in a hard thrusting motion, hoping to catch him while he was distracted by the stone. "TRY TO RESTRAIN HIS WEAPON!!!" he yelled at the others, figuring they would have to work together.
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Post by Garok on Jan 5, 2010 19:38:41 GMT -5
Garok had been expecting Ryuu to attack swiftly, once it began. However, even then Ryuu's movements were fast and furious to the extreme. He had restrained Darksaber and almost instantly leaped to them, saber buzzing in a flurry of blue. Garok knew that even together that they had little chance of matching Ryuu in a straight up lightsaber to lightsaber fight. Luckily, his peers had grasped this as well. Garok used his skills in Makashi to deflect all of Ryuu's blows that he could; he had to be quick on his feet in order to slide around Kayen to dodge a blow. He and the Iridonian worked quite well as a team, it seemed, spinning around each other to dodge and attack their adversary. In such a way they seemed to be able to at least keep themselves alive for a moment. Garok wished to live quite a bit longer than a moment, however, and as he saw his fellow students begin to use the force on Ryuu, he did the same. However, he waited a few seconds after their attacks before creating a force blade above Ryuu and slamming it down on top of him.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 5, 2010 20:58:37 GMT -5
Kan saw the blast pierce the sound barrier as it came towards him. He knew that he couldn't deflect it and it was so fast it had to be difficult to dodge. Kan made an effort to dive backwards so it didn't hit him. As kan's body slid across the new-found rocky terrain the blastgrazed his chest up past the shoulder. The dark energy left a long burn that penetraited much of his skin layer. Kan quickly jumped up trying to ignore the pain that he felt.
He ran forward and threw his spear at the opponent hoping it would distract him long enough for kan to get in range to use the saber. "Ahhhhhh!!!!" he yelled while he was launching his weak strategy.
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Post by Cain on Jan 5, 2010 21:43:09 GMT -5
The illusion had grown powerful though Ash/Kale's attempts to disperse it were admirable it only played into Cain's hands. They were too distracted by the reality he had pulled over their eyes and the real danger lurked beneath the surface. The more power Kale tried to summon up the more Cain found to gorge himself on as he drained it through the connection between them.
Immediately after trying to crush the arm of Nik Cain had come up empty... shrewd, Cain was surprised he hadn't noticed it before. Hatori had taught him well. The force's signature led even farther away from temple, the real Nik had concealed himself and sent a doppelganger in his place. I wise strategy, but he was still not beyond Cain's grasp, "I see you..." Cain's voice whispered inside Nik's head. Using the connection Nik had opened to create a clone himself Cain began to drain the force from Nik as well, no longer paying any attention to the clone he'd created.
Kan was spirited, but simple. As he tossed his spear the clone of Cain gave the weapon a glance as it flew threw the air towards him. The spear stopped in mid flight, did an about face and then was shot back at Kan at incredible speed as he tried to charge.
Back on the Temple roof Ryuu leapt back away from Kayen and Garok himself as the Zabrak tried to slice him with his lightsaber. Ryuu then felt a shiver in his spine, a sense of danger coming from behind. Without a moments hesitation he rolled to the side, letting Ashley's lightning sphere pass by him and head straight at Garok and Kayen.
Garok had summoned another force blade from above this time. Just as before Ryuu concentrated the power of his veil towards the top so that Garok's attack would break against it and disperse harmlessly to either side of Ryuu.
"Hmph... amateurs..." Ryuu scoffed, mainly to himself. Holding his lightsaber off to the side he raised his hand up in front of his face and closed his eyes for a moment. From the shadows around Garok and Kayen five more blue lightsabers rose up and spun into a ready position, Ryuu did the same with his own saber.
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 5, 2010 22:00:31 GMT -5
Watching carefully from edge of the roof, a green Twi'lek woman stared on with curious brown eyes. Ryuu had brought her to Coruscant from Dromound Kaas, along with the items requested by Cain from Kaas and Korriban, what she hadn't been expecting though was the troves of students having come to the Temple for training, to become Sith.
A soft cackle and a snort escaped her thin lips, a sneer not too far behind. These were the apprentices that believed themselve to be worthy of Cain's teachings? Another indignant snort. These things didn't deserve the power of the Dark Side, their only use would be in death. Sitting back away from the fray, Ama watched with anxious eyes, following the group as they attempted to hold off Ryuu's flurry of attacks.
"Ama!" Wincing with the loud yell that only she could hear, the groaning metallic voice breaking her concentration on the battle, she turned towards the source of the voice. "Why are you sitting here you foolish girl? You sit here feeling superior, yet you sit by and let them live? Coward." Groaned the slow voice coming from the lightsaber hilt at her hip.
Feeling the blood rush to her face, Ama didn't dare reply to the lightsaber as it spoke, tauntingly. Standing, she ignited the blade, flicking it out into the Juyo stance, it spoke on. "Kill. They aren't worthy of the Emporer, show them your worth." It hissed as she looked out over the group attacking Ryuu. One spotted her eye, the one female amongst them, Ashley.
Diving behind her as she force pushed out at Ryuu, Ama did a Force Push of her own, knocking the woman to the ground. Carefully, the Twi'lek girl applied pressure down, holding the push mentally, pinning her against the roof.
"Ama is going to kill you now." She put simply, eyes glinting as the red saber began its descent towards Ashley's neck. Smiling she all but whispered "Go ahead, be afriad, Ama likes it that way."
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 5, 2010 22:08:29 GMT -5
Kan saw as the spear came back towards him at ten fold the speed he initially threw it. Kan dropped the lightsaber in the ground and put all of his arms forward. Kan then grasped the spear each hand gripping it at thelimits of this ebranites body. He was pushed back 5 feet just from the force it was thrown at him. Kan couldn't fully stop the spear for it had to much energy behind it. The spear was stopped when it pierced a centimeter into kan's forehead. Kan was getting very angeey and his berserk was kicking in. It was said to be an ebranite's curse to have such a stron temper. No matter, for kan couldn't stop it. He pulled the spear out of his forehead as the blood trickled down. Kan rushed his enemy at increasing speed. He picked up his lighsaber as he passed it and charged at his enemy ready to strike him head on.
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Post by Garok on Jan 5, 2010 22:45:03 GMT -5
Garok breathed for a few moments while he began to think. Ryuu had summoned sabers around the two of them, most likely shadows created in their minds. Unless, of course, he had quite a number of lightsabers simply lying on the roof in case he were to fight a handful of Cain's new trainees. Either way, they meant trouble, because he doubted that even if they were illusions that they would simply pass through them harmlessly. To further dampen the mood a random Twi'lek had pounced out of no where and pinned Ashely to the ground, apparently suffering anger management issues. Overall, things looked pretty bad. Garok wasn't quite sure how they were supposed to defeat opponents clearly stronger than themselves, but he was definitely going to give it his best shot.
Ryuu had so far effortlessly blocked his force blades, and Garok was no match for him with a blade. He threw up a force barrier around himself, making sure he was completely covered, but didn't completely strengthen it so that he could focus on something else. Garok focused on the lightsaber in Ryuu's hand. He began using a focused Force Crush on it, aiming at the center of the hilt. If Ryuu did not react in time the hilt would be instantly shattered. After he used the crush Garok immediately strengthened his force barriers, preparing himself for the attack that was to come.
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Post by jedgi on Jan 5, 2010 23:05:01 GMT -5
'Wha-What the hell!?' Nik thought, though he might as well have said it out loud, as Cain was inside his head, 'Get out of my head!' The voice Nik heard was different from the boy's, more mature, powerful, definitely dark. "What do you want!? Why are you guarding this place, can't you just let me through?" Nik seethed, no longer caring that he was screaming aloud with no one around. Nik, the real Nik, flicked his wrist and sent a silver light shooting out of the sheath once more.
Nik ran toward his clones and the boy, he halted as he arrived and looked up staring, hatred burning in his eyes. "Enough games, fight me, NOW!" Nik's tone took a much lower quality as he shouted his command. To prove his point that he wanted a fight Nik activated his other light saber, the dark green one, and stood in his standard "dual-saber" stance, ready to fight.
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Post by Zero on Jan 6, 2010 1:28:39 GMT -5
Ash and Kale that their attacks were failing horribly, so it was time for a change of pace. Instead of attacking head on now, they backed off, completly shuttning down their mind. Ash was in control of his body, as he forced Kale away. In moments, the only active parts of Ash's mind was the most basics of animal instints, but his now gray eyes still showed intellegence.
If playing on the offensive wasn't going to work, it was time to go neutral. Defensive were for when everything else failed. Ash's feet slowly touched the ground, and the electrical cocoon around him faded away. He felt Cain drain his life, but he remembered his first time in an illusion like this.
Cain whipped him with no effort. He charged strait in, and was shown the true meaning of the force. He knew that a full on phisical assault was useless, and a mental one was just as likely to fail, but it was worth a shot. Though Ash was by far weaker in the force than Cain, he could use other means to break through someone's capabilities. He traced Cain's force pressence until he found him, and then started a electrical assault on him, using Cain's own body against him and messed with the electrical signals that was his nervous system, and made them think that his body was on fire. It wasn't the force, as Ash was only using it to find Cain as he didn't see him, and the only way to stop the assault was to pull out of Ash. It would buy him a few moments of clear thinking before the next possible attack, and a few more moments of survival.
He looked at the other two hopefulls, taking offensive positions against Cain. He couldn't help but let out a small dark smile at what Cain could do to a offensive fighter. Ash closed his eyes now, focusing on ridding Cain from his mind and stop him from sucking his energy like a vampire. Ash may not be the strongest in the force, but when it came to raw energy, there wasn't anyone who had more that a Ki.
An ball of blue energy started to form in Ash's hand as electrically charged atoms formed a swirling ball of plasma-like energy. It took no thought to make it anymore, and it was just a new weapon for him to use against an opponent in phisical combat. [/sub]
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Jan 6, 2010 1:59:31 GMT -5
Kayen growled and rolled out of the way of Ashley's lightning ball just in time. As he stood up, he too focused on Ryuu's lightsaber hilt, in combination with Garok, using the force to squeeze and rip at the hilt, trying to tear it apart. He glanced at Ashley and the new arrival and he sneered "GOD DAMN IT!" He couldn't help her because he was focused on Ryuu, but he kept his eye on the Twi'Lek who seemed to be crazy.
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Post by DarkSaber on Jan 6, 2010 16:20:34 GMT -5
Ashley felt herself being knocked down by someone's Force-push and then she looked up and saw a green Twi'lek woman with brown eyes was the one who knocked her over and pin her against the roof. "What the---" She then grunted and she then built a massive Force bubble around her and she then created another ball of a Force push in her hand and then she added Force lightning and then she sent the massive Force sphere at Ama and freed herself from her grip and she landed safely on the ground and then she gathered the Force around her, forming blue light bubble (like Starkiller on The Force Unleashed) and then she shot a massive Force-push toward Ama and then she applied pressure to her Force hold.
"I'm not afraid of you," she spat at Ama as she ignited her blue saber against Ama's neck.
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Post by Cain on Jan 6, 2010 17:23:41 GMT -5
Ryuu was a bit surprised by the continued attempts by the students to use telekinesis on him in such simple ways. As Ryuu had noted earlier, the veil he'd raised was an elementary tactic in lightsaber combat, its main purpose to prevent an opponent from throwing off his balance or trying to mess with his lightsaber. Any force energy that these apprentices would try to mold around his lightsaber wouldn't even get close unless they could displace the veil Ryuu had put around himself... and neither had strength enough to do this.
"Hmm," Ryuu scoffed silently, straightening up as he faced Garok and Kayen. He'd recognized the commotion going on behind him as being caused by Ama, his new apprentice. Ryuu glanced over his shoulder only momentarily before turning back to his two opponents, "What's wrong with all of you? What happened to your emotion?" Ryuu asked, flipping his bangs from his eyes, "Through passion I gain strength," Ryuu said, echoing the words of the Sith code, "Am I to believe that Lord Cain has not even taught you this much?"
Cain was silent, his focus was divided at the moment between the duel on the temple's roof and the students on the stairs below. Cain's drain of Ash/Kale had began to wane as they shut themselves down, but curiously Ash opened the connection back up again, actually trying to send power to Cain. Inexplicable but Cain wasn't one to hesitate, he gladly continued to consume. The pain Ash was trying to inflict on him only provided him an exhilarated rush, the power of the dark side had begun to churn deep within him. Cain did not cut off his assault, he accepted the pain and used it to fuel his command of the dark side to all but completely consume Ash.
For the other two, the surge of power that Cain received caused their illusion to suddenly grow far more intense than even Cain had intended. Waves of dark energy began to flow to both Nik and Kan through their connection with Cain, a feeling of crippling illness and despair flowing with it. The scenery distorted and the images that were shown to the two became erratic.
For Kan there were flashes of his clansmen fleeing in terror from a faceless dark lord holding six arms aloft from which a dazzling storm of lightning cascaded down onto the helpless innocents below. Convulsing and dancing like marionettes on electrical strings before finally collapsing to the ground in chard mangled husks of flesh.
To Nik came a vision of Coruscant, the planet where he was now. The city was in flames and the ground below the feet of the countless billions of civilians was being ripped and sheered apart by a massive dark object in the sky. Beneath it was a man with large black wings, his face hidden in shadow all but for his glowing yellow eyes.
The screams of both of their victims, the pain and anguish each of them felt passed through Nik and Kan's subconsciousness, unrelenting.
Back on the roof top the electrical storm overhead had begun to grow worse. Ryuu narrowed his eyes, never directly acknowledging the heightened strength of the dark side all around him, "No more games..." Ryuu said, letting his outer robe drop off, "Come with the intent to kill or don't come at all."
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 6, 2010 17:49:05 GMT -5
"You should be." Ama said with a smile, as Ashley threw her ball of lightning, hissing and crackling as it shot past her, followed quickly by the massive Force Push. With a quick leap, Ama managed to evade the push, her blade Crimison egging her on all the more.
"Kill. Kill. Spill her blood." The droning metal screech continued, though only Ama's ears could hear its throaty whisper. Using the anger swelling within her, the thought of Ashley possibly beating her, of shaming her infront of Lord Cain, the fear... It whipped through the Twi'lek, fueling her thrist for blood all the more.
As the storm of emotions ran through her, outside she was unphased. A look of calm came over her as she twirled the saber, using the Force to boost her speed Ama rushed Ashley. Leaping up, she slashed down, slicing the blade rapidly at her foe.
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Post by DarkSaber on Jan 6, 2010 18:12:45 GMT -5
Ashley then dodged out of Ama's way when she tried to lash out at her. She could feel her hatred and she smirked. She then flipped into the air and clashed her saber against Ama's saber. "If you want to go to hell," she said as she Force-pushed Ama into the wall with her on top of her. "Welcome to your own living hell."
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Post by Kayen/Saul/Katarina on Jan 6, 2010 18:53:39 GMT -5
Kayen growled loudly as he glared at Ryuu and then he snarled "would you please shut the hell up? And call off your Twi'lek schutta... unless you don't think you can handle a few mere apprentices alone..." He smirked as he detached his lightsaber in the middle, so that he had two single bladed lightsabers, held together by a cortosis weave cord. He suddenly charged Ryuu, swinging one lightsaber at his head and the other low at his legs. If he missed both, Kayen would kick at Ryuu's chest, trying to back him towards the edge of the roof.
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