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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 6, 2010 19:37:38 GMT -5
While kan was rushing after the scarred man suddenly the whole area around him changed to his home planet. His mother, father, and two sisters ran past him in terror as they were being toasted by the lightning from this faceless man. The man had six arms and was very strong, kan could tell. Kan seeing his loved ones fall before his eyes triggered something far worse than the ebranites berserk. Kan had a gleaming red aura surging from his eyes. He finally let out a force screech that came directly at the six armed sith. Kans yell had much strength behind it. The innocent child kan that was there before evaporated and the kan there lost all ethics. His yell was continuous and out of control.
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Post by jedgi on Jan 6, 2010 21:31:42 GMT -5
'A-agh!' Nik looked around as the scenery seemed to completely morph around him. The sky turned darker and more pale, any grass nearby took on a sickly gray color. Nik looked at the boy and felt as if he was about the vomit. The only thing that didn't change was the boy, he still just stood there, watching Nik. Nik looked down to observe himself, but practically fell over as he looked down. His arms felt week, and he looked starved to the bone. "Uhhhh..." Nik shuddered in disgust. What had happened? Why did he suddenly feel like he had the flu or worse. Nik felt woozy and sat down and closed his eyes. He felt something penetrating his thoughts, something painful and dark, the same thing as before, it was the same feeling, the boy was inside his head once again.
"Get out of my head!" Nik growled, "This is another one of your pathetic tricks! Get the FUCK OUT!" Nik stood up and screamed his lungs out at the pale sky. 'Where did all this anger come from? This is much more intensified than any usual anger fit I could get,' Nik's inner voice contemplated as the actual Nik continued his scream that could probably shatter the sound barrier. The ridiculous anger Nik felt clouded his eyes and his judgment, all he wanted...; all he wanted right now was to kill, and the closest thing to him was the boy.
Amidst the fits and hallucinations Nik used the force to try and drag the boy down to his level off the roof. He jabbed his fist forward and pulled back, imitating the precise movement he wanted the force to emulate, doing his best to grab a hold of the boys leg and toss him to the ground.
But when Nik looked up again to see if it had worked, the boy was no longer there.
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Post by Garok on Jan 6, 2010 22:29:53 GMT -5
Garok knew that the key to power was in his emotions. However, he had grown up rather reserved and instinctively remained calm even in combat situations. In order to prevail he realized that he needed to channel his emotions into his attacks... something he had done rarely before, the only major time being his conflict with the force ghost on Tishi. Garok indeed felt fear, for his opponent was much stronger than he or his allies. Garok too felt anger, for Ryuu had so easily deflected their meaningless blows without breaking a sweat. Garok breathed for a moment, letting his emotions sink in. Rather than overthink his next move, he acted. Leaping into the air with the force, he jumped above Ryuu, forming a shadow clone of himself in mid air. He used the force propel himself downwards, towards Ryuu, swinging for his head as Kayen did. Garok's clone continued down toward the ground on the opposite side of Ryuu, making it appear that Garok had indeed continued his jump. As he fell Garok quickly imagined himself splitting off from his real body, and two more clones split off from him downwards onto either side of Ryuu. Garok realized the simplicity of creating a clone of oneself; as Cain had said, it was indeed easy to imagine oneself moving. Garok raised his saber as be began to reach Ryuu; he and his two clones swung down at Ryuu while his third clone landed on the ground and instantly vaporized into darkness.
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Post by Zero on Jan 7, 2010 1:06:31 GMT -5
Ash let his plasma ball disapate as he cut off the world, and started to shut down his body and mind again. He could feel the effects his feeding power to Cain was bringing, and while it was good against the other two, Ash was starting to feel the tax on his body.
Kale being locked away for a little while now, Ash's hair returned to being black. Slowly, Ash dug deep into his old practices and shut down his mind again, causing his body to slow way down. He stopped breathing, but what air he had could sustain him for more than 10 minutes, and his both hishearts stopped beating. All in all, he could only stay like this for 5 minutes tops before he passed out and died, but the very small link he still had to the outside world would alert him to any dangers, and pure musscle memory would stop any phisical damage.
The force was next to useless against Ash, at the distance Cain was, and this was a nice little trick. Now Ash began the waiting game, wanting Cain to let him into the temple, and willed that through the almost invisible connection he had to Cain, but wide enough to bairly feel Cain's intentions, and possibly a future mental attack.
Fighting fire with Fire wasn't working for Ash, but if he let it burned, it would consume him even more than now. What he was doing by shutting down his body and mind was to shield himself from a force attack, and survive this conflict. [/sub]
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Post by Cain on Jan 7, 2010 15:49:11 GMT -5
Kayen's taunts hardly even registered with Ryuu, instead they were only met with the blademaster's usual apathetic gaze. He could care less what Ama did so long as she wasn't in his way. Though the fact that each of the apprentices had reacted to her as they did showed she was skilled at achieving Dun Möch over her opponents. An ancient Sith combat tactic that was aimed at eroding the will of their enemies. Ryuu's fair appearance and docile demeanor made him unfit for this, but the Twi'lek girl's mix of animalistic movement and subtly obvious insanity instilled a great deal of unease in her opponents.
Ryuu switched his stance from Ataru to Juyo as his foes readied for attack. Both Garok and Kayen leaped forward with intense flurries of attack. Partially fueled by their growing anger these attacks were much more difficult to read and react to, all Ryuu could do was jump back quickly in retreat from their onslaught, landing hard on his feet and quickly reassuming his ready position. "Their anger is becoming strong," Ryuu thought to himself, "but mine is still stronger..."
Ryuu focused his thoughts on his father who was standing just twenty meters over to his side, memories of the pain and endless suffering he had endured at Cain's hands for little other purpose than to prolong the old man's miserable life. Ryuu's pain turned to anger. Anger at Cain who had inflicted the pain on him, anger at himself for being too weak to do anything about it. At first it was a small flame but quickly it grew into an inferno of hatred. Emotions that Ryuu held inside for as long as he could as he quietly paced around his opponents, maintaining his usual outer calm and apathy.
Ryuu held onto his emotions as long as he could bare until finally he could hold it back no longer. His hands griped the hilt of his lightsaber so tight that his knuckles became white. The power of the dark side ripped through his body like a torrent, up through his torso and down along his arms, finally realesing onto his lightsaber in twisting blue/violet arcs of electricity that roared even louder than the rumbles of thunder from the storm overhead. With the hatred now burning on the surface, Ryuu's face twisted from both the strain and his growing anger. With a long swooping arc he swung his lightning infused saber down in a hard vertical chop that triggered an explosion of energy upon impact with the roof below his feet. The blast sent a wave of electricity forking out in front of Ryuu towards his oppoents like a tidal wave of lightning, cresting and crashing down upon them.
Meanwhile Cain finally eased back from his connection to the three students down below. They had begun to unleash their anger and this was an important first step, for them to discover the power in these emotions. The darkness around Nik and Kan lifted and the doors to the Jedi Temple creaked open.
Ash however was nearly dead. Cain had absorbed a great deal of the Mandalorian's force power and could easily preform his coup de grace with a simple well placed telekinetic squeeze. Cain molded the force and wrapped it around Ash's neck, lifting his limp form from the ground. Though Ash's life signs had become faint and his mind was all but shut off, Cain still spoke through the force to him, not concerned with whether or not it would get through,
"Today I hold the power of life and death over you, Mandalorian. Perhaps someday you will hold that power over another. That is the honor of the Sith. But honor is a fool's prize when it comes at the cost of one's own life. The moment your pride or ego are challenged you throw yourself head long at death, and to what end? You fought valiantly, never once accepting the idea of defeat or weakness... and yet still here you are, held at my mercy. You ARE weak, Mandalorian. You would not seek me if you weren't. I have no use for apprentices who value honor over power. If you want power then shed all of what you once were and come to me as you truly are."
With that Cain released Ash and let him fall back onto the temple steps. The doors to the temple remained open...
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Post by jedgi on Jan 7, 2010 16:07:15 GMT -5
Nik opened his eyes once more and his vision returned to normal. Immediately he noticed the Jedi temple doors had opened and without so much as a second thought, he entered them. Nik didn't really know why he wanted entry so bad, but some strange force attracted him to what he thought he might find inside, power.
As Nik walked inside he looked around in wonder at the extravagance of the place around him, but he didn't take too long. The force that had drawn Nik to the temple was drawing him to the central set of stairs that seemed as if they would lead up to the roof. Nik, as if in a small trance, walked to the spiraling steps and began to ascend them, making his way to the roof.
Nik opened the door and walked out.
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 7, 2010 16:26:01 GMT -5
Pressed back against the wall of the spire, Ama held her saber up, the long blood red beam of light holding back against Ashley's blue. The clash of colors shimmered across both their faces as Ashley, so naive, welcomed Ama to hell. Her face remained stoney, sabers locked in a final moment of enduring strength. Then, the laughter began.
Soft, merely a husky giggle it grew, a hearty laughter erupting from the slender Twi'lek, tears beginning to stream from her eyes. "You think this is hell? Ama has taken down swamp wampas more fearsome than you." Her voice still full of mirth, she continued.
"Ama knows you, Ama can read your face. She knows you're just a little girl." Saber still holding back against Ashley, the woman's other hand began to slip down her side, pulling from it a long thin knife. Holding it carefully, just out sight, she continued.
"You are nothing, nothing but a little girl." In a flash of silver amongst the bright burning light of blue and red clashing, Ama stabbed her dagger into Ashley's chest, feeling it slip between her ribs, the blood flowing out about her hand from the wound. Gently, Ama released the knife, pulling her hand away from its cool metal handle.
"A stupid little girl at that." The laughter started again, Force Lightning zapping through her finger tips, rushing to the nearest conductor, Ama's blade now stabbed deep into Ashley's chest.
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Post by DarkSaber on Jan 7, 2010 18:51:05 GMT -5
Ashley growled and knocked Ama’s saber back away. “I’m not a little girl schutta,” she spat. Then next thing she knew was Ama stabbing her dagger into Ashley’s chest and she gasped in pain and dropped her saber as she crippled to the floor and put her hand on her ribs to stop the blood flow.
“You little bitch,” she spat.
Then she felt the blade stab deep into her chest. She closed her eyes and embraced the pain and she healed herself with the Force and when she did a blue light formed around her and lifted her off the ground. She remembered feeling this pain before when she fought with Elifain.
“The Force is a tool. Dark side or light side. Those are just ways to use the Force. Think of the pain these moves inflict upon the flesh. The chaos they unleash upon the battle field. Think of the despair and suffering you feel when you enter the void. That is the Dark side you feel, and until you truly embrace these feelings, they will stand in your way. The only way to save yourself from this death, is to use the powers of the dark side, the pain, the anger, use them, and call upon them, to bind your wounds. It is the only way you will live.” ~Elifain’s words he repeated from Zilfer.
Ashley She reached out deeper in the Force and began to slowly heal her wounds. She could feel her hatred and anger building up. A faint blue light formed around her body as she began to bind her wounds
She was using the dark side of the Force to feed off the pain and misfortunes of others not showing any emotions about it. She began to feel more pain and hatred and she began to absorb that energy to bind her wounds. The blue light that surrounded her began to turn red. She could feel the dark side’s power taking over her. The energy that surrounded her began to lift her up off the floor as she continued to heal herself with the Force.
Suddenly she was able to pull out the blade and she then The red glow continued to surround her and then she gasped for breath and then she continued to build up the red light and began to conduct Force lightning to go in different directions.
As the Force lightning traveled across the room the lightning did not out through her Force bubble and hurt her, instead the bubble absorbed it until she directed her aim and Force-pushed it toward Ama and then Ashley pinned Ama to the wall and stabbed the blade into Ama’s left side and then she quickly used her telekinesis inside her lungs, and sent it out, in two concentrated beams, through her lungs, and straight into her ribs. The result, would be two pierced lungs, and some internal bleeding, that would kill her pretty fast, if not treated quickly.
(OOC: Hope this ain't godmod if so let me know and Mooney forgive me <.>)
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 7, 2010 19:16:22 GMT -5
Ama laughed louder as Ashley began to attempt to heal herself with the blade still stabbed into her chest.
"A stupid little girl." Ama repeated her eyes following Ashley as she rose into the air, the lightsaber still in hand then swung out, slashing over her opponent, lopping off the arm still untouched by the Dark Side before sending another shock of Force Lightning through her body, frying her.
"Attempting to heal with the dagger still within you, laughable. Impossible. You are stupid. For that, Ama will kill you." Swinging the saber against, Ama lundged out, aiming this time to remove her head.
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Post by DarkSaber on Jan 7, 2010 19:42:29 GMT -5
Ashley ducked out of the way and she dropped her saber as she fell to her knees. “You rely too much on your power to be the best,” she managed to spat out. “You’re never going to be the best.”
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Post by Moonfire on Jan 7, 2010 21:21:39 GMT -5
Ama looked over the woman before her. Haggard, bleeding and worn out, she had faught hard, and yet there she was, kneeling before her, spitting out words, falsehoods. Brown eyes flickered for a moment before extending a hand out, lifting the battered woman up into the air once more. Suspending her there, another wild smile flashed across Ama's lips.
"You think Ama cares what you think? Who is the one here, at Ama's mercy? Tell her, why should she be merciful? You are weak. Stupid. You will die at Ama's hand, if not today, then tomorrow, and if not then it will be someday." The high, piercing laughter rolled across the rooftop, icy and vindictive.
Turning slowly, Ama approached the edge of the Temple Rooftop, holding Ashley out over the edge, the ground many feet below her. Standing there, the Twi'lek woman watched Ashley's useless struggling, the voice speaking to her again in its groaning metallic way.
"Drop her. Drop her to her death, girl. She is nothing. She is weak. Show the Master now who is the finest of his Acolytes." Crimson screeched in her ear as she flicked off the saber, attaching the hilt once more to her side. "Kill kill kill kill kill" It yelling making her head throb with its urgency.
With a final look at Ashley, the green woman stepped towards her staring into the eyes of her foe. Slowly she ran two fingers along her cheek, caressing it gently, lovingly. Smoothly the fingers travelled down to the chest of her victim, wrapping around the dagger still protruding sickly from her chest.
"Good bye"
With a sharp yank, the bloody dagger slipped away, Ama now turning her gaze away from Ashley before finally releasing the Force Grip around her, allowing the woman to fall to the ground.
Crouching low, bloodied dagger clenched in hand, Ama watched the body fall, before taking a long, slow lick over the blade, savoring the sharp, gruesome taste of victory.
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Post by Lord Xion on Jan 7, 2010 21:54:33 GMT -5
Kan immediatly fell to the ground after his Loud screeach. His eyes closed as the tears he produced mixes with the blood from the cut on his head. Kan felt a wierd presence around him. Kan looked up and opened his eyes. The area had changed back to the original scenery from before; and in front of them was the temple. The man from earlier went into the newly opened doors and Kan followed. As he ran in he started to follow the man Which led him to the top of the tower. At this point kan didn't know what to feel. He didn't know if his family were killed or if the scarred man from earlier led them into the temple as a trap. Kan also had a wierd feeling about the six armed sith from earlier. He felt as if he were familiar. All kan could do was go throught the door and hope for the best....
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Post by Garok on Jan 7, 2010 23:17:20 GMT -5
Garok hit the deck in exactly where Ryuu had been standing only fractions of a second before. The blademaster Sith had quickly dodged their rapid advances. Garok and his clones held their sabers at the ready, taking a few seconds to regroup before the next attack. However, before they could begin, Ryuu's expression darkened considerably. His body became extremely tense, clenching his fist and glaring at them. What had been a calm, smooth opponent had turned into a volcano of emotion, his anger welling up inside of him. Garok felt fear creep up the back of his spine as he saw these emotions erupt out of his opponent. Massive walls of lightning were sent crashing down on top of them, like a tidal wave in a flood of power. Garok instinctively ducked, creating a force barrier in front of him to weaken the attack. He used telekenisis to wrench the floor inbetween himself and Ryuu upwards, so that a wall of stone was shielding him. Combined with his barrer, it provided moderate protection.
As the lightning flew on, it hit the stone wall, going around it at first, bypassing Garok. He continued to strengthen his force barrier as much as he could in these few seconds. At last, the wall fell, unleashing the torrent of energy; his barrier at first held up, but the enormous power was simply too strong. His barrier shattered completely, Garok's clones vaporized into shadows as the lightning finally overtook them. Garok was sent flying backwards, the remaining lighting shocking through his body. As he felt the electricity course throughout himself, he too felt a deep frustration and rage flow through his veins. Cain had asked too much. Ryuu was too strong. They could never defeat him. Such thought plagued his mind, until his emotions grew stronger. His frustration soon turned into anger and hate, filling him with rage. Shaking, almost, he stood up, using the force to summon his saber to his hand, grasping the hilt very tightly. Raising his saber into the air, he formed two compact balls of energy in front of him. He swung his saber downwards for emphasis as he sent the two force cannons rocketing towards Ryuu; one aimed down at an angle, which would collide with the floor and send shards of stone towards Ryuu, hopefully throwing him and his force barrier off balance. The second cannon was sent directly for Ryuu; after the shrapnel hit, the cannon would hit harder.
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Post by Zero on Jan 7, 2010 23:31:10 GMT -5
Cain had managed to be fooled by Ash. As soon as he was grasped by Cain, Ash's body and mind started up again, and he was gaining strength rapidly, almost as if he was coming back from the brink of death. Ash spoke back to Cain through their connection.
Cain, I care not for honor or ego any longer. I left that back with the Mandalorians, and if you did absorb what would have been much force power from a human, but I still have so much more left, and I left you to believe I was on the brink of death. You hold your power over me like a master, but you were fooled just now. I hold no others close to me.
I am no longer a Mandalorian, or human, but a warrior Ki-So-Longe, and I need more strength. Give me all your learnings. I hold now the darkness in my hearts. I embrace it as my own, and I will use it as a weapon against the weak. I cut my ties, leaving zero to hold me back, and give you my Blade. [/i] When Ash was dropped by Cain, he landed softly on his feet, making no sounds. His eyes were a very deep crimson, almost black. Darkness seeped from Ash, a thick, sickening feeling radiating from him. Cain was fooled, it seemed, by Ash, which was all he needed to gain his entery. The other two students also gained their entery, as well, by releasing there anger in a phisical fight. Ash calmly walked into the temple, face, as it had been when he landed, showed nothing.[/center][/sub]
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Post by Cain on Jan 8, 2010 0:47:58 GMT -5
Cain was as much confused as he was astounded by the sheer ego... or stupidity depending on how you looked at it... of Ash Lightning. Even if Cain had been "fooled" Ash broke his cover while Cain still had him by throat, announcing directly to the dark lord that he had bested him while Cain still had a grip on the Mandalorian's neck. However, there was nothing to be fooled about. Cain was trying to show Ash how weak he was, but he wasn't getting it. Cain had wasted enough time and energy and with Ash's words he certainly wasn't about to drop him now. Using all of the power of the force that he had wrapped around his neck Cain slammed it down in a quick instant, the telekinesis would snap on Ash's neck and spine like a bear trap. But that wasn't all. The force gathered all around Ash, squeezing down on him from all sides to crush the Mandalorian and his gaudy armor. Cain had realesed his focus on the other two, all his power now was focused on Ash.
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