Zilfer's Training

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

Zilfer figured there may be a few newbies to the force in the room still and he decided to start off with what the force was. "The force has been claimed to not exist by those who do not feel it, while others who can feel it have claimed that it is a living being that leads us throughout life and has a grand plan for us. If you believe that everything was meant to happen for a reason then that would most likely be your view. Others have claimed that it's just an energy field created by life, and is passive. Whatever your view, whatever you decide to believe that the force is it's critical to know the difference between the darkside and the lightside," said Zilfer as he began to manipulate the force with his small speech.

The room began to make everyone feel light, almost a joyous feeling as the presence was soothing. Then suddenly it took on a new feeling as Zilfer began projecting darker emotions of suffering and pain, and the room grew physically darker before clearing up once again with a feeling of emptiness.

"I'm not to weave a web of illusions over any of you for there is one singular truth no matter what any Jedi, Sith, or anyone else says. A Jedi will tell you something but a Sith would conceal the fact from you, trying to obscure the fact," said Zilfer as he reflected on how specifically he wanted to word what he was going to say and then finally he spoke once he was sure he had found the right way to word it. "The lightside saves, and the darkside destroys. This simple fact while it may be seemingly obvious now can easily be distorted. Take that to heart and remember it even in the dark times, if someone is trying to convert you to the darkside, it is for their gain not yours. They will use your power at your expense and while you destroy yourself they are planning the next person they are going to use. It's a vicious cycle and in the end no one wins against the darkside."

Zilfer lifted his robes for a second showing up to his lower chest. A large scar that began at the middle of his stomach and arced outwards towards his side. "This is my scar, and represents my fall to the darkside. I used my pain to heal my wounds, drawing off the darkside energies that where being projected by my emotions, and Korriban's darkside."

Letting his robes fall back down to the floor near his feet. He then scratched his head slightly for a moment. "In lame man's terms, The darkside is the willingness to hurt others, while the lightside is defensive, and protective. As such I'll be teaching you all defensive techniques." said Zilfer thinking of which technique he should start them off with, and then he decided Force speed would be a good one to start them off with, for it couldn't be used purely offensively, and was more for keeping oneself from harm.

"Close your eyes, and try to feel your body. Try to feel all of your senses, picture that you are a statue and are perfectly still.... perfectly calm." said Zilfer doing the same, as he began to feel his body he could feel the slow breathing from his lungs, and his heartbeat. "No release the tension of your muscles, let them relax for a moment and try to feel them. If you can, then I want you to try and channel the force through them. You'll find that you can move faster, this is a technique many Jedi use to move faster then normally possible."

Zilfer was a blur as he gave a quick burst of speed across the room, before stopping. "The world around you seems to move slower with Force speed. There is a draw back however to using this technique. When you force your body to do something beyond it's normal limits it causes your metabolism to speed up as well, which can be dangerous if you do it for too long."

He figured it was time to let them try now, and he motioned for them to try. "Go ahead and try yourselves."

[Xuku]

Xuku closed his eyes, trying to connect to the force. He focused on the mental image Zilfer had spoken of, that of a statue; he emptied his mind of all thoughts, focusing on nothing but his own motionlessness. He could feel his heartbeat in slow motion, and his chest rose and fell at a rate far slower than usual. His body was very tense, frozen in position as he thought of nothing but his own body as a statue; then he released that tension, his body returning to normal breathing and circulating speeds. He felt what it was like to increase his body's functioning speed, and then focused his connection to the force on one thing: multiplying that effect. He felt his heartbeat rise, higher and higher, until it was beating at speeds that that caused his chest to vibrate slightly. He lifted his hand from his side with surprising speed, amazed. After watching Zilfer's demonstration he raced around the room, watching as the others appeared to move in slow motion as he passed them. After circling them twice, he returned to his spot, letting his blood flow at a normal rate, his adrenaline running after his sprint, and his breathing heavy.

[貪欲]

Closing his eyes in a slow breathe before envisioning the tension of his body leaving like vapors. As the tension and emotions left his body Ravenous felt not exactly lighter but less stressed on his body and mind. Like a warm blanket had been place over him, calming his mind he began to feel as if he was ready to allow the force to flow. Conceiting on one muscle at a time filling it with energy, finally ending on his left leg Ravenous opened his eyes upon his new technique for meditation in the force.

Opening and clenching his hands in amazement at the speed at which his heart, limbs and mind were pacing them selfs at that moment. Considering the fact of over using this could harm his body Ravenous slowed the flow of energy. So to calm his body from it's rapid movement, he spoke aloud "Master Zilfer what if someone was to over flow the energy into there bodies? What if they forced too much to build within themselves?" HIs face staring at his master in a curious expression.

[Kyllian]

Kyllian had already learned this technique from his father three millenia ago but he wanted to find out his limit. Letting his body calm down, closing his eyes, feeling every nerve ending in his body along with the slowing of his heart rate and the faint breathing of his lungs. Then, in his mind, he visualized his body, from every hair follicle in his scalp to his worn, callused feet and everywhere in between. As his breathing and heart rate slowed even more, he then pictured the force as a flowing fog around him. With each breath he took, his mind saw the force seep in through his pores, through his veins and into each and every organ. He felt his skin tingle with energy as the force was literally sucked into his body. Then, Kyllian started to increase his breathing. Bit by bit, his body sucked in the force more and more through each intake and the flow of energy increased in velocity. What Kyllian felt through his skin and blood system, also continued into his muscles. Energy shot through muscular tissue as Kyllian's breathing continued to increase faster and faster. Along with the continual increase in breathing came an increase in Kyllian's heart rate as well. As his blood was pumped faster and faster, the flow of the force sped up along with it to become a living river rapid.

Once his body had sucked up enough of the force, Kyllian started an exercise that his mother had taught him. Kyllian bent his legs and slid them across the floor at an incredibly fast speed. Once his legs were at positioned at 90 degrees, he launched both of his arms out so that they were parallel to the floor and then, twisting his abs so that his arms rotated in the air like the blades of a propeller, Kyllian continued the winding up of his body by bending his right leg towards his left and bringing his body down into a loaded spring position on the ground.

With a burst of speed and a release of all of the energy within himself, Kyllian unwound his body and let his arms angle out at different angles to the ground along with his hands tilted away from their normal form. As his body continued to unwind, Kyllian felt his feet lift up off the ground and spin in place. So fast was the tornado known as Kyllian that a slight breeze could be felt by everyone around him.

After a minute or so, Kyllian slowed down and then let his body fall to the floor. Crouching down as his feet absorbed the falling dissent, Kyllian brought himself back up to full height and then let the rest of the force energy be released from his system. As he examined his material form after the exercise, Kyllian noticed that his muscle tissue and overall bodily system was exhausted of all energy. Feeling a wave of stress coalesce over his skin, it took the will of Kyllian's mind in order to hold himself up. Kyllian then let his body cool off while standing in place since his limbs didn't allow him to move all that much.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"Good now that I know you all can use the force. I can try and show you a taste of what the enemy will throw at you. Prepare yourselves, I'm going to show you the nature of the darkside, and remember what I told you even in the darkest of moments...." said Zilfer as he closed his eyes and began to focus on the three open minds in front of him. The room's brightness darkened as the light was snuffed out so much that none of them could see each other. As Zilfer weaved his web of illusions they could come to see that each of them had to face their illusion alone.

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Ravenous found himself back in his room oh so long ago. The door unlocked and the figure of his father began to enter the room, and he looked at Ravenous with a bit of disgust.

"So you've wasted all this time not becoming stronger, I'm disappointed in you my son." said his father before he lifted his hand sending out a volley of force lightning to blast his son across the room and into a wall before stopping. "You've failed to be of anything of value since the day you were born."

Darth Rivan then came forward towards his son activating a red lightsaber. The low hum resonated from the blade as Darth Rivan lifted his son to his feet so he could face him on his feet. "This is my final experiment.... how long can a useless half breed survive."

And with the Darth Rivan attacked with his lightsaber leading the way in a skillful Makashi flourish....

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Xuku's vision was different, and he found himself in a peaceful yet ruined building. The ceiling was blown away and plants where growing everywhere in the room he was in. The sun shown brightly through the ceiling. A figure emerged from the shadows of the inner building however, and clouds began to cover the bright sun. A man in red armor and a metal jaw walked upon the grass towards Xuku who was standing alone in the meadow of grass.

Xuku might recognize the place as the Dantooine Jedi temple, that had been destroyed in the Jedi Civil War. As the figure came within five feet of Xuku he stopped and looked over the area. His bald head held two tattoo's on either side of his head, and then he looked back at Xuku.

"So your the last of the Jedi here hmm? I thought the orbital bombardment would take you all out. I assumed wrong it appears." said the metalic voice of Darth Malak as he activated a red lightsaber flipping it around in a quick maneuver before taking a stance. "Can you feel that presence? The death of all those close to you...? That's the power of the darkside....."

Malak used plague upon Xuku to make him feel sick to the stomach and nauseous to the point of almost feinting so he wouldn't be able to defend himself in a saber fight. "If you want to defeat me.... your going to have to hold an even greater darkness then me!" said Malak as his blade shot forward at Xuku intending to end it quickly....

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Kyllian found himself on an empty street with a body laying upon the ground. Closer examination of this body would reveal that it was his father, he looked as if he had been whipped and beaten to an inch of his life. Blood smeared the street and for a brief moment the body stirred before falling completely still. The sky began to grow dark, and lightning flashed above Kyllian as it began to rain. Zilfer had brought him back to one of Kyllian's most vulnerable moments, when his father had died.

A figure appeared out of the darkness behind Kyllian, in the form of Cain. He was calmly eying the scene before him. His pale skin, and yellow eyes not seeming to give off any hint of emotion at all.

"He died because you lacked the power to save him. You have anger, and hatred but you don't use them," said Lord Cain as his eyes shifted from the body to Kyllian. His stoic look never faltered for a moment as he spoke again. "Why are you weak.....? Because you lack hatred."

The area continued to grow darker and darker as Cain spoke. The clouds where becoming storm clouds very fast, and the rain began to rain harder. Cain himself seemed oblivious to the storm above, he just stood there watching Kyllian's reaction......

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Zilfer back in the real world had closed his eyes concentrating on each individual illusion and playing with their past, and feelings to tempt them to the darkside. Their test would begin, as to whether they would remember what he had told them or not. He was unsure if they would all past this test..... This would give Yuki time to practice force speed in the meantime if she chose.

[Kyllian]

"FATHER!"

Kyllian sprang towards his father and instantly sent his mind out in search of at least some life force present within Cahrill's body. Feeling a beat within his father's body, Kyllian immediately took to the task of trying to heal him. As he opened his eyes, Kyllian saw the whips and wounds that had been inflicted upon his father's body and felt an anguish and anger building within himself. Pushing more of the force into his father's body in order to keep Cahrill alive, Kyllian overestimated the required amount of energy needed and ended up finishing his father off right then and there.

Turning around and standing up in a flash, Kyllian screamed out to the world.

"WHY???!!!!!!!!! WHY CAN'T I HELP HIM?!"

A figure appeared out of the darkness behind Kyllian, in the form of Cain. He was calmly eying the scene before him. His pale skin, and yellow eyes not seeming to give off any hint of emotion at all.

"He died because you lacked the power to save him. You have anger, and hatred but you don't use them," said Lord Cain as his eyes shifted from the body to Kyllian. His stoic look never faltered for a moment as he spoke again. "Why are you weak.....? Because you lack hatred."

The area continued to grow darker and darker as Cain spoke. The clouds where becoming storm clouds very fast, and the rain began to rain harder. Cain himself seemed oblivious to the storm above, he just stood there watching Kyllian's reaction......

Feeling hatred for Cain boiling up within his very soul, Kyllian let out a blood curdling scream and, unsheathing his lightsaber, unleashed it upon the man that stood before him. Cain easily grabbed Kyllian's wrist, twisted his arm and then bent it towards the ground.

Pain seared up and down Kyllian's sword arm as the shoulder joint was pulled out of its socket. Fury growing even further, Kyllian, by use of the force, jumped towards Cain, bringing his left knee up into Cain's jaw, smashing his cheek in with his left arm and then scissor kicking him keeping himself in middle air by pushing himself off Cain with each blow.

Cain then grabbed both legs, spun around with impossible speed and flung Kyllian into the nearest building breaking both of his femurs in the process.

Gasping in pain, Kyllian rotated his body and repositioned himself in a sitting position with his legs sticking straight out ahead of him.

Cain, walking towards Kyllian with a noble gait that imposed his very presence before the young man, spoke in a calm indifferent voice that wreaked of indifference.

"You see what happens when you fight for the light? It end up leaving you behind just as it does everyone else. Your father? The light wouldn't save him. Can't you see that? You failed. Simple as that. Now look at yourself, a forsaken scrap of shit soaking in your own blood and what are you going to do about it? You can't really."

Cain then lifted his arm up with lightsaber alight in hand and brought it down upon Kyllian's head.

A flash of light exploded in Cain's eyes as his lightsaber hit a barrier built of blue light.

"The light has been there for me since I was born and will be here for me now!"

Kyllian, shot force energy through his legs, searching for the broken shards of his legs and sowing them back together, muscle sinew, skin, bone and all. Springing up upon his own legs, though aching from the sudden reattachment, Kyllian let the light barrier expand beyond his body, his mind also working to push back Cain's lightsaber. Once the lightsaber was a safe distance away from inflicting bodily harm, Kyllian closed his eyes, took a deep breath and calmly exhaled in order to clear out his anger, frustration, anguish and every other emotion that was clouding his mind.

Picturing the orb around his body, Kyllian broke a piece out of the side in front of Cain and allowed for it to bend outward encompassing the dark lord. Then, the young Jedi closed the hole and envisioned the ball shrinking with the dark lord within. The orb of light shrank at an amazing speed as Cain's bone structure was broken all over and the skin sliced open from the protruding bones. Smoke was then released from Cain's wounded body like air being let out of a balloon. Kyllian with one last grand effort, pushed all of his mental will upon the outer casing of the orb shrinking it down to the size of a marble and then dematerialized it.

Kyllian opened his eyes to find that a puff of smoke drifted and was washed away by the falling rain. He then looked over at the body of Cahrill which was now standing up!

"You have done well my son for you have now proven to everyone and yourself your true path. Follow light and utilize the force for the light does not follow its children. As long as you look for the light, you are strong. As long as you look for the light, you are benevolent. As long as you look for the light, the force will be at peace with your soul. So go my son, learn all that you may from the man you know as Zilfer of Shadows and let the light guide you to greatness."


OOC: Hay Zilfer, this is what my character does for your little test. I leave the rest to you.

[Xuku]

Xuku's vision was different, and he found himself in a peaceful yet ruined building. The ceiling was blown away and plants where growing everywhere in the room he was in. The sun shown brightly through the ceiling. A figure emerged from the shadows of the inner building however, and clouds began to cover the bright sun. A man in red armor and a metal jaw walked upon the grass towards Xuku who was standing alone in the meadow of grass.

Xuku might recognize the place as the Dantooine Jedi temple, that had been destroyed in the Jedi Civil War. As the figure came within five feet of Xuku he stopped and looked over the area. His bald head held two tattoo's on either side of his head, and then he looked back at Xuku.

"So your the last of the Jedi here hmm? I thought the orbital bombardment would take you all out. I assumed wrong it appears." said the metalic voice of Darth Malak as he activated a red lightsaber flipping it around in a quick maneuver before taking a stance. "Can you feel that presence? The death of all those close to you...? That's the power of the darkside....."

Malak used plague upon Xuku to make him feel sick to the stomach and nauseous to the point of almost feinting so he wouldn't be able to defend himself in a saber fight. "If you want to defeat me.... your going to have to hold an even greater darkness then me!" said Malak as his blade shot forward at Xuku intending to end it quickly....

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Xuku felt extremely nauseous and dizzy as Malak lunged at him; he had no idea how he was going to defeat a powerful Sith Lord, while he himself had not even had significant training in the force, much less while he was nauseated. He felt a sting of pain as Malak's blade made contact with his shoulder. He was not powerful enough to defeat, much less resist, this Sith Lord... but maybe the darkness Malak spoke of was. Xuku felt rage stir within him as the longed to kill this slayer of Jedi that stood before him. He felt strength flow through him as his thoughts turned towards fear and anger, but suddenly he stopped himself: what was he doing? Had not his father warned him against such things? The focus of the entire Jedi Order was to not give in to emotions... Zilfer had even mentioned moments before that even in the darkest of moments, one must not give in... there is no benefit in turning to the dark side, which will corrupt and destroy all who touch it. If he gave in, he would be failing his father, the Jedi, and Zilfer. No matter what the cost, Xuku would not give in to that which everyone he had ever loved had warned him against. He would not fail them.

[貪欲]

Forcing his body to obey his commands Ravenous remained standing as his father drew closer and closer to him saber raised on high. Anger building within him as the mere image of the man brought back horrid memories of that past life so long ago. Glaring at the man before him Ravenous saw the look of unwavering passion that Darth Rivan's eyes held. His mind flashing passed him he recalled all the minor moments of happiness from his mother or from reading in the jedi library feeding his hungry mind.

Attempting to breathe, he coughed repeatedly from which blood could be seen escaping his mouth and flowing from his eyes in pain. "So old man you came to finish off your kin, ehh? Terrible sorry father but I am not the boy that you called your own." Seconds seemed to long hours in his mind as the blade came done over his head in slow motion, calming himself.Reaching into his sash for the lightsaber he had received from Tycen Ravenous drew/ignited his own red lightsaber to clash against that of his fathers. The hum of the blades touching brought surprise to the man's face at his son's reaction to him.

Using his other hand Ravenous cocked it back into a tight fist before punching his father in the face drawing him back a few feet with a loud crack being heard. Finding inner strength as the man was thrown back Ravenous spoke aloud towards the man "You are nothing but an old relic from which I have found my strength from....begone until I call upon you for your assistance....Father." After this was all said and done Darth Rivan's saber was sheathed within it's hilt the consist hum disappearing at once.

The image of Rivan turned to a dark material melting onto the floor but before the face was completely gone Ravenous could see Rivan's face smiling at his son's new found strength. Once on the floor the darkness reformed into a shadow that which scurred ot Ravenous' own shadow becoming one. Deactivating his own saber and returning it to his sash Ravenous closed his eyes in remembrance of the sng that his father had taught him as a wee lad. The old Zelosian lullaby sung to the younger generation for comfort or support during hard times.

'I don't know
What words I can say
The wind has a way
To talk to me

Flowers sleep
A silent lullaby
I pray for reply
I'm ready

Quiet - day - calms me
Oh, serenity

Someone - please - tell - me
Ahh, mmm, what is it they say?
Maybe I'll know one day

I don't know
What words I can say
The wind has a way
To talk to me

Flowers sleep
A silent lullaby
I pray for reply

I'm ready'
Opening his eyes Ravenous returned his thoughts to his training with Zilfer in reality and why he had wished to gain inner peace with the Jedi.The world around him grew brighter and the past scene began more and more out of focus as his vision returned to that of the room at the Jedi Temple.

[Yuki Uramachi]

Yuki sat out for the force speed lesson since Zilfer already taught her the basics of the force, before he taught her the Shadow arts. Zilfer looked over at Yuki last and she nodded at him as if saying she was ready. Zilfer did the same thing for Yuki, she would now see an illusion.

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She opened her eyes and she was back at Chinine, only it was darker than usual, and the forest and the remaining buildings were on fire. Yuki gasped as she looked around, she missed it's demolition the first time, it made her sad. She looked at the village and saw that the hut she made to replace Zilfer's hut, that she made with the new Revan, was also on fire. She ran over to it and tried to put it out but the flames grew bigger and she fell backwards. Just as she thought that was the worst of her illusion, Zilfer walked up to her, but he was not Zilfer, his eyes were white and so was his hair, it was Lord Nanashi.

Yuki ran up to Lord Nanashi and tried to grab him to see if she could pull Zilfer back with a familiar face and a peaceful voice instead of Nanashi's and Cain's whispering in his ear, but Nanashi grabbed her arm and threw her to the ground. Yuki looked up at him surprised.

"Zilfer snap out of it!"

Nanashi laughed. He held out his hand and used force choke.

"Zilfer is dead this time, you let him fall back into my grasp, and you'll never get him back!"

Yuki held the invisible hands around her throat and tried to stop them from crushing her throat when Nanashi let go. Yuki got up and stood firm igniting her lightsaber.

"You made me lose focus, I almost really thought you were real... but I wont make that mistake again."

Nanashi laughed again as he flicked his wrist and threw her backwards into a tree.

"You forget what is real... your life is a fantasy, this is the reality. You could never save Zilfer from me..."

Nanashi pointed to figures next Yuki and light shined on the bodies of what looked like Kyo, Revan, Moonfire, Tycen, Jor, and Ragnavaldr.

"You just finally woke up. You are all still on Chinine and your friends died trying to save you when you passed out. Now you will die with them!"

Yuki stood and fell again from the pain. She managed to pull herself together and stand up and she limped over to the body of Revan and felt the pulse. There was no pulse, she checked the others and it was all the same. Nanashi pointed out one more body, it was a old wrinkled and crippled man, with a sword threw his heart and barbed wire tied around his hands, tying him to a gravestone. The man had black hair, newly chopped short with the chopped particles on the ground beside him, it looked as if it was done with a sword. On the grave was the name "Zilfer of Shadows" Yuki near believed all of this again. It was so easy to believe it, because it was not far fetched at all, in any way. Still, Yuki held onto the idea that they somehow defeated Lord Nanashi and are preparing to fight the Empire sometime soon. Yuki held onto that thought because she preferred to think that all her friends were alive. She stood again turned around looking at Nanashi.

"I don't care if you are real of fake, it all this is real or an illusion, I will defeat you, right here right now. I will defeat you again!"

Yuki ran at him with her ignited lightsaber and jumped into the air and flew up and them back down head straight for Nanashi, lightsaber aimed at his head. Before she was able to strike Lord Nanashi had grabbed her wrist and threw her down on the ground again, and stomped down on her stomach.

Yuki coughed up blood and that made Nanashi smile, Yuki growled and flapped her wings with all her might, pushing herself up and she rolled out from under his foot but he grabbed her wings and she was motionless. Yuki hoped to God that Nanashi wouldn't rip off her wings.

Lord Nanashi did not, he much rathered to slowly torture her. He grabbed her wings more firmly and threw her up in the air and flew up with her. He then stabbed her through her chest with his lightsaber and used force push to send her flying backward again, then he threw his hand down and she came crashing to the ground.

Yuki got up again and coughed, blood splattered on her hand and she wiped it on her clothes that were very dirty ant torn with bloody wounds, and her hair was matted. She was tired but willing to stand strong until the end. She looked and Nanashi and he flew down landing about ten feet away from her. Yuki decided it was time form a different approach.

Yuki closed her eyes and raised her hand in front of her, palm facing upward, and she slowly clenched it into a fist. As she did this the ground began to shake and crack under Lord Nanashi's feet, but just as Nanashi would have fell in the hole he started to fly upward again slowly as if making it a point that he had wings, then Yuki lifted her hand higher and magma rose from the ground out of the hole and reached up snagging Nanashi's leg and then Yuki brought her hand down and Nanashi was smacked into the ground. Yuki smiled and clenched her fist tighter as more magma started to engulf him up to his waist. The magma harden and turned to rock.

Yuki clapped her hands together and then touched her hands to the ground and the magma wrapped around her arms, it was extremely hot but she made it cool fast an it turned to diamond, she had diamond gauntlets. Yuki sent a diamond saw at Nanashi, he didn't even try to get free, all he did was laugh and Yuki realized what she was doing. she was about to kill someone. She was with the Jedi now, and Jedi don't kill anyone, even if they are evil. Yuki smashed her diamond gauntlet to the ground shattering the ground and the gauntlet. The earth cracked all the way to Nanashi's stone casing and cracked it.

"That is why you will always lose, because you lack the will to kill. Even your other Mitsukai Elders did not lack that. They did not falter once when they sentenced you to death. And when they killed Atsuke..."

Yuki fell to the ground but not from his words, more from pain and guilt and using up her energy. She covered her ears though, to escape him trying to mess with her emotions.

"SHUT UP!!! No one wants to hear you talk! You are just lucky I didn't kill you..."

Nanashi laughed and Yuki heard a cough from behind her, she looked and all the bodies were gone except the crippled body of Zilfer. Nanashi reached inside her mind and spoke.

"Fine, I don't have to speak out loud, I could cloud your mind from the inside..."

Yuki held her hands to her ears as she crawled over to Zifler's body.

"Get out of my head you freak!"

She came up to Zilfer then felt her body grow heavier as if she was being crushed and Lord Nanashi was crushing her to the ground. Yuki tried to reach out for Zilfer. The crippled man looked down at her with sad empty eyes and Yuki tried to grab the sword in his chest but Nanashi used the force to force her hand behind her back painfully. Zilfer's sad eyes let out a tear and Yuki tried to reach with her other hand but the same thing happened and her face was forced into the dirt.

"Don't bother with him, you can't save him, he will die soon anyway, whether you take that sword out or not, those wounds he has are fatal... now come back and fight me. Fight me so I can kill you!"

Yuki shook her head and with the strength of Yukiro to help she pushed herself up and she ignited her lightsaber again. She cut the barbed wire off Zilfer's hands and pulled the sword out of his chest and placed it in his hand. Lord Nanashi forced her to her knees again. Yuki reached out and touched Zilfer's face and tear trickled down her face. She had been in this illusion so long now she almost fully believed it was real now.

"Come on Zilfer! You can fight him. Do you remember me? Do you remember yourself? Lord Nanashi has no power over you if you don't let him."

Yuki felt her arm be pulled away from his face and behind her back again. Lord Nanashi grabbed her with the force and she flew backwards and landed at his feet.

"Didn't I say...." He reached down and grabbed her by her neck. "Don't bother with him?"

Nanashi held her throat and lifted her above his head. Yuki tried to look over at Zilfer but Nanashi wouldn't let her.

"He can't help you now!"

Yuki finally caught a glance behind her and Zilfer's body was gone with the rest of her friends dead bodies. Yuki became furious and she kicked Lord Nanashi in the crotch, reinforced and sped up by the force. Nanashi dropped her and she fell to the ground hard. She figured she would die soon. Yuki got up and Nanashi turned and looked at her, pretending it didn't hurt. Yuki walked up to him and grabbed his throat, crushing it but e just smiled, she assumed because he figured she couldn't kill him, and if she did kill him, she would be closer to falling to the darkside, but she didn't plan on killing him. Yuki threw him to the ground and he grabbed onto her throat and flipped her over so she was on the ground. Yuki then smiled as he had been. This made Nanashi curious but he ignored it.

"Obviously you long for your death. Why don't you give in now Yuki and join me... I could train you and you would be my apprentice. It would be like... well as you said... it would be like old times..."

Said Nanashi with more of Zilfer's tone in his voice but a malicious smile across his face. Yuki spit in his face.

"I would sooner die than join you! You are not Zilfer so you can't rick me with that. You aren't even real!"

Yuki's body faded into the ground and appeared behind him.

"It has been a while since I have been in the void, even if it is just an illusion here."

She said more to herself. Yuki grabbed Lord Nanashi's throat and raised him up and slammed him into a tree.

"Now... you don't have power over me, you are not real. Lord Nanashi is already dead. You can't hurt me!"

From behind the tree a figure appears and stabs a sword through the tree and Yuki felt the tip poke her chest and noticed the sword through Nanashi's stomach, then a lightsaber appeared through Lord Nanashi's chest. He gave one last smile that sent shivers down Yuki's spine.

Yuki let go of his throat and the lightsaber disappeared but then sword kept Nanashi pinned to the tree as he fell over dead bending over the blade in his torso. Yuki then walked around the tree to investigate but the figure was bleeding, without thinking and without seeing who it was she healed them and then pulled the hood off of their head. It was Zilfer, he had been hiding in void till he could strike. After he was healed, he looked like the normal Zilfer.

"Thank you..."

He said before passing out from the pain. Yuki held him trying to wake hm but as she did he began to fade away and so did the atmosphere of Chinine. Yuki stood up and she was surrounded by ice and she remembered she was in the new Jedi Temple on Ilum. She looked over at Zilfer and resisted the urge to run over and hug him and just smiled.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC wow, this is the first time i've gotten more then one person to post more then 3 paragraphs. XD time to read. XD

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

OOC well most of you did your own... <.< not quite what you'd be facing with Cain, and he probably wouldn't let you out of the illusion so easily but eh, I guess I'll start my post then.

Malak laughed aloud as he scored a hit against Xuku and proceeded to play with his opponent giving him nick's all over as his lightsaber skillfully avoided any death blows. "You seem unfocused.... perhaps pain will clearify things for you." said Malak as his hand raised in the air and suddenly a massive force began to crush Xuku's arms and legs with so much force that it would break his arms and legs.

"It seems you are no different then anyone else.... weak. You let pain hinder you where I do not. That is why you will never win." said Malak as he turned his lifted hand from a crushing telekinesis to a force storm, that shot out from his hand and blasted the whole area around them.

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As most of them started coming out of the illusion he began to question whether or not he had gone to easy on most of them. Cain's temptations where more then just messing with their past, and there would be no reward in his illusions, only pain. He looked over each of them, Yuki had done well enough for she hadn't directly killed her adversary and refused to give in even if her friends where dead, and if it meant her death. A jedi would go to death without hesitation if there was no other way besides the darkside.

Kyllian however had done well at first, but when he had switched his protective bubble to that of an offensive front to crush the image of Cain smaller and smaller. It wasn't jedi like at all. A jedi, zilfer reasoned, would have tried to save or subdue Cain before ever thinking about killing him.

Ravenous had thrown his father's memory where it should have been. In the past, however he was unsure Ravenous had gotten the message since his test had been one of the easiest. While consentrating his focus still on Xuku's illusion he decided to comment on each of them.

"Kyllian, You did well enough but remember a Jedi's goal is not to kill, that is a last resort. Ravenous, you did well having your strong emotions even for your father not cloud your judgment. Yuki you showed courage in facing your test even in the face of death did you not give up." said Zilfer before turning his attention back to Xuku who was still physically in the room, but trapped within his own mind. A large problem they where going to have with Cain's illusions and Zilfer's if he had really been using his full power, that they could not break free from the illusion, but they would come to that whenever they faced the sith.... they probably wouldn't even face Cain but it was always better to be prepared. He himself planned to take on Cain, for he knew Cain himself was just waiting for him to step upon Coruscant so they could have their showdown..... Master Vs Apprentice is how he would see it. Just like him and Jack.

[Xuku]

"You seem unfocused.... perhaps pain will clearify things for you."

Xuku felt like his whole body was one fire as Malak rapidly slashed him with his lightsaber, and then used force crush, smashing Xuku's limbs. Then Xuku really was on fire when Malak used force storm; Malak was playing with him, taking his time in killing him.

"It seems you are no different then anyone else.... weak. You let pain hinder you where I do not. That is why you will never win."

Xuku was physically incapable of fighting back, but he responded to Malak, even though speaking caused him great pain: "You are the one who has lost... you lost the moment you gave into the dark side, the moment you sold yourself as a slave to your anger. It is you who are weak, who must rely on your passion to fuel your power; the Jedi are above that, they do not see the galaxy through the twisted view of their own anger and pain."

Xuku's body was now useless to him, and he could not fight Malak with the force... he realized that there would be no way out of this, unless he gave in and wielded the "greater darkness" inside of him, giving into his own passion and anger to destroy Malak. But he resisted; giving into the dark side would save him from Malak, but in doing so he would destroy himself. He understood that even though he would suffer greatly, and in the end die, he would not destroy himself with the dark side. He was not strong enough to fight Malak with the force, and his body was all but destroyed. He also realized that getting Malak to realize the errors of his ways would be hard enough, even harder when he was standing over you, a defenseless opponent, with his lightsaber in hand.

"Do what you will, I will never fall as low as you," were Xuku's last words to Malak, now about to continue his brutal onslaught of attacks. But suddenly Malak and the world around Xuku began to tear; everything started to disappear, and Malak faded away in front of him. Xuku was now standing in the Jedi Temple on Ilum, with Zilfer and the other in front of him. At first he was confused and felt like he had just waken from a dream, but then he remembered that each of them had been given a vision by Zilfer to test them. He stood there patiently, waiting for Zilfer to speak.

[Zilfer Of Shadows...]

"Well done, you realized that even if the darkside can destroy your enemies, in the end you'll only be destroying yourself and everything you stand for." said Zilfer as he then looked at his now shaken group of trainee's. He wondered if Jor would have approved of his method of teaching, some how he doubted it but if the Jedi didn't want him training their hopefuls then they'd best assign someone to training duty already.

"I think we can move on to showing you how to get a better understanding and more knowledge of the force. Some more of the basic's like Telekinesis." said Zilfer as he lifted small pieces of crystals from his hands that he had been using to practice with in his own room. Each was little more then the size of a ping pong ball, and they floated before Xuku, Kyllian, and Ravenous. He already knew Yuki could use telekinesis quite well.

"I want you to move these crystals with the force. Focus upon what you what it to do, and remember the force is not a tool. You aren't forcing the object to do what you want, but rather letting the force flow through you."

[Xuku]

Xuku focused on the crystal before him. He closed his eyes, trying to feel the crystal with the force, and attempted to move it with the force, but was unable. He stopped focusing on the crystal, and instead focused on nothing else but making himself one with the force. He let it flow through him, letting it strengthen every aspect of his mind and body. He felt at peace while doing so; the force had a soothing effect. He focused on strengthening his connection to force, and once he had become one with it, he turned his thoughts towards the crystal, reaching out to it with the force. He could feel it, and mentally picked it up, and then pulled it towards his hand. He opened his eyes, and to his surprise the crystal now hovered just above his hand, and he reached out and grabbed it, feeling a sense of accomplishment from successfully moving an object, even though it was a small object, with the force.

[貪欲]

Grasping the small crystal within his gloved hand Ravenous looked at it with curiosity and wonder. 'If this is anything like reading minds then controlling this will be more difficult then the other trails....I wonder...' Thinking to himself he closed his eyes to view the crystal with his mind's eye. Gazing around he found that each and everything within the room was of different shapes and colors, although his sight wasn't as colorful as some it was easy enough to tell the living from the non living apart. Taking note to explore this more in depth later on he continued on with the practice with the crystal in hand.

Thinking of how to build and flow energy through the crystal by unforced means it dawned on Ravenous to attempt the same method as the speed technique. Collecting energy towards his left arm but refusing to allow his muscles to grow or accelerate their potential he held it here for a second or two to pool. Slowly applying the crystal with the flow of the force as it leaked out of his hand before gathering around the crystal it started to left off of his hand gently. Taking his time left the object ever more slowly so to not lose focus on the item now in the air Ravenous redirected energy flow to random locations to see the reactions that each produced. Taking mental notes of this he began to rotate it around his hand as if it were a satellite in orbit.

Reaching nearly five minutes he grew more courageous and attempted to move the crystal around the room without touching anything or anyone. Success beaming from his face as the crystal safely returned to his hand without any major problems minus a few close calls with the distance apart from the two. "This is quite entertaining to say the least..."