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A Duel in the Dark

Lanax walked the charred ground of Mustafar. Lava splashed around him, but never touched him as he walked the hollow grounds where the chosen one had truly chosen the dark side. These grounds were really just lava and more lava, but I guess this is why Lanax enjoyed it, It reminded him of war and destruction. He may not agree on everything the Emperor believed in, but the Emperor gave him war which was all he wanted. He could feel the presences of another and smiled at the thought of what was to come, but his smile was hidden under his mask.

[member="Silara Vantai"]
 
Silara sat cross-legged idly at a precipice that overlooked a flow of lava, her hands held together between her legs while she calmly meditated on the force and awaited the arrival of the person she could feel through it. While she meditated her mind wandered and she began to focus on the other figure that was some distance away, her force sense picking up on him quite quickly due to the emotions that he was feeling. A small smile played at the corner of the Vahla teen's lips as she reached out with the force and gave the man a gentle tug mentally, as if an invisible hand had given a slight pull on his shoulder to lead him to her location. "I can feel you, and I know you can sense me. Come to me." Silara whispered through telepathy, her lips still held loosely together.

[member="Lanax Blood"]
 
Lanax took a deep breath as he heard the message. The breath he took was one of someone smelling something pleasant like a flower or fresh cookies, but in Lanax's case it was the dark side. Lanax never claimed to be evil incarnated or fury in a body like some sith did. Lanax claimed to be human and came to the conclusion that the dark side was the body's natural alignment and so he did not deny his desires. He kept walking, in no hurry, to where the force was leading. As the giant of a man arrived he looked at the small, young woman and could not help a smirk. She was beautiful of course, but Lanax could feel the power surging from the young body and could feel she was a learner, but a gifted one. Unlike his own Acolyte, this woman was sure of herself and confident. Lanax stood only a few yards away from her, but did not prepare to fight because the distances have him ample time to draw his weapon. "Give me a reason I should not kill you for desturbing my meditation, little one." Lanax was not fat, but was a big man. He stood at 6'8" and 260 pounds of muscle plus wore armor that just added to his weight. This would make him appear slower then he actually was. Lanax liked people assuming he was slow, it made the kill so much sweeter.

[member="Silara Vantai"]
 
Her eyes opened, and immediately she smiled. A threat right off the bat, one which she expected, anticipated even, as she slowly rose up, allowing the black cloak that pooled around her to properly gather around her, and then turned to face the man she expected to be a Sith, a knight even. "The same reason I should not kill you for ogling me while I sat in meditation, old man." Silara replied with a sharp tone and a very cold, almost sarcastically fake, smile. Certainly the man she was now standing face to face was probably not very old at all, but to the fifteen year-old anyone who was more than double her age was old and this man fit that bill quite well. His presence was somewhat dim, one could even describe it as being dark like the force, but it was still but a shade of gray, lighter even than her master, [member="Darth Veles"]. In comparison between the two, [member="Lanax Blood"] was a near-bland shade of gray, while her master was at least a darker gray, and she knew her own force signature was dark by nature. "Look at me through the force, stranger, and then see me through your eyes. Do you see someone necessary of killing? Surely you are not a mindless machine, hell-bent on the slaughter of those whom give you no personal gain. Certainly you see the potential in a rival, and I can see myself as being yours in time." She continued, and then paused before continuing. "A rival would keep you in check, ensure constant growth. Duel with me. Assess our differences. Unless....You fear the outcome. Do you fear being less than a teenage girl?" Silara concluded, her smile resuming as she moved her hands from her hips to gesture with them both at the man.
 
Lanax sighed, a taunt, much was the Sith way. "I do not have a reason to oogle as you say, it serves no purpose, but your power is impressive." Lanax looked at the girl and knew what she was thinking, because he had done the same, she was seeing if he was light of dark. "Ask yourself Sith, why a light side or a grey would offer you death? I was once Sith like you, but I learned to control my rage and hatred and use it only when I needed to. I am darker then you can possibly understand at this time, but unlike your masters I do not need to focus on being dark all the time to be dark. A rival? We will see, you have potenual, but I doubt you have neared it under your teacher. Come let us see what you are capable of, if you die then you were never worth being a rival." Lanax held his hand out to the side and instantly his lightsaber came up to his hand and ignited. He took a deep breath and thoughts of killing his father filled his mind as his inner rage and fury began to come forth as he had promised. He was a sith with a purpose, a sith who knew control. "Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. Most of your masters stop at victory, I am a sith with broken chains, now young sith, Let's see your chains and test them."
[member="Silara Vantai"]
 
Opening Sequence
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trinU3VD1Zo[/media]​
Silara smiled widely, her gesturing hands opening as she pulled with the force on her two sabers, both flying to her hands as she took a half-step back, her right hand lowering while her left was held forwards, pointing at the Sith. "Unfortunately, you will find that I have no chains." Silara replied as she ignited her sabers. In her right hand rested a lighstaber shoto bearing a white blade that gave off a red glow from its purple outline, within it being a crystal that literally throbbed with the dark side of the force - a Lignan crystal, while in her left was a saber of standard length, yet it was an icy blue and bore an Opila crystal. "Shall we dance?" The Vahla-Hapan teen said with a smug grin, taking a page from her master's book and initiating the fight with Makashi footwork and a flourishing jab from her standard saber, while taking her own training with Niman to twist her body in such a way that her right leg hooked up to kick at the man's side and using the force with telekinetic properties with the intention to use force push with her kick, her body turning with the kick and slash as she moved.

[member="Lanax Blood"]
 
Lanax was impressed an acolyte knew Makashi, but it could also be mimicking a master as starting with a jab was good to start offensive, but pointless as it was not at a weak spot. Makashi was best used in defense like a patient lion waits for the perfect opportunity to strike. Lanax used his free hand and used a force power called Energy resistance, but an advanced version and used the force to catch the tip of the blade hovering in his fist. He then used his saber to slash at her leg. He put a lot of force into his strike knowing she would use her saber to block this slash, but this would put then in a lock. Then came a force push that hit Lanax, but he stood firm. "Come now, put a little power behind your attacks. Don't lead with Makashi unless you are skilled in it. Makashi is a noble form meant for patient users with control and a calm mind. Now kill me!" Lanax was clearly toying with her to get her to see her full power. He then took a deep breath and let out a force scream that was more of a bone chilling roar that would send her back if she did nothing. He would not give her time to recover. He fell in Juyo and unleashed a mixture of slashes and arcing slashes that were swung with power an not speed, but they weren't really slow as he did not want to give her ground. He wanted to back her into a corner.
[member="Silara Vantai"]
 
Silara grimaced as her blade was halted, and her shoto was immediately pushed out, not to block the strike but rather to remove the Sith's hand from his arm while enhancing all of her bodily movements at once with force speed to several magnitudes higher, followed by pushing back with her left leg to pivot her body away from the saber strike of the man in the instance that she wasn't able to strike fast enough to avoid a laceration - a burning sensation at her inner thigh told her that she'd been clipped by the tip of his blade. Her refusal to acknowledge the pain in her leg was made a rather moot point when the sith suddenly released a force scream, which halted her strike on him, and she immediately moved with the push from the blow to better counter against his rather slow, in comparison at the very least, slashes of the Juyo form. In was in this moment that she fell on the training she'd received from her master and began to move right back into the natural order of Makashi, her footwork almost like a ballet whilst her blades moved in blurred strokes and jabs, each counter strike gaining her further ground while she avoided blow after blow, her body moving with the strike with great flexibility to soften the blow of each strike, while she slowly began to put pressure of the man's grip on his weapon, striking out to the blade with her standard saber while her smaller, much more powerful, shoto blade was used for the purpose of countering. "Patience can be masked by an illusion of immaturity and impertinence." The Vahla teen replied to the earlier insult as she countered and struck back with the intention of lashing out at her opponent's wrist again, this time with a balanced strike, with her standard saber deflecting a strike from the Sith while her shoto shot forwards with a very small sweeping strike, her right knee bending forwards as she slid her foot towards him, releasing a push from the force to put him off balance, combing her elegance with Makashi with her natural talent of the force in Niman. "I think I'm starting to like you." Silara conceded as the fight went on with a smile.

[member="Lanax Blood"]
 
http://youtu.be/3BoNmpvkavo

Lanax was enjoying how resourceful this acolyte was, maybe he would have to kill her master and take her on as his own. Lanax continued his onslaught of attacks watching her use Makashi to counter his Juyo attacks. She was wise in using the stronger blade to counter, but that made it more likely she would stay in defense or at least slowly gain ground which was doing and Lanax received a nice slash to the wrist, but had moved his arm so it mostly got his armor and lest him with a burn scar. He used his free hand for a powerful force push to collide with here's and to great distance. "You are talented, but that is wasted on the one sith where you are only a number. You use Makashi better than any acolyte I have seen, but then you should also know Makashi is a great counter to Juyo with Vapaad only being better than. What you don't know is I have my own style that mixes Juyo and Makashi to make a yin yang style. Now let's have so real fun." Unlike before Lanax moved a lot faster then he had before and greatly contradicted his size. He came at her with his own dance, but his was more like a tribal war dance. It was an almost perfect balance of power attacks and speed. The difference between these power attacks was he was using momentum and not his upper body strength only. He moved with his whole body keeping it constantly moving and attacking with strikes and slashes. During his onslaught he would spin bring in a spinning attack and then once he saw an opening he sent a precision stab for her right shoulder. He would kill her if it came to it, but she was starting to grow on him.


[member="Silara Vantai"]
 
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGH0H4Vr6Y[/media]​

Silara smiled sheepishly at the compliment, as she'd never truly received a direct one in such a blunt manner before, though she continued to move with as much elegance as her Vahlan body could flexibly grant, and slowly began to realize that the Sith Knight was gaining momentum, something she could not allow a Juyo practitioner to do. The strike aimed for her shoulder, however, would find that the black cloak that she wore over her robes were made of cortosis weave, a material that was designed to completely short out a saber for a short period of time - something obtained at her master's behest from Akure. Closing her eyes as she allowed the force to flow through her, using its loving and dark embrace as her eyes, and immediately went on the offensive, much unlike her prior balance of Niman and Makashi to keep a steady stalemate to tire [member="Lanax Blood"]. Moving with such fluidity, Silara seemed to dance, not like her opponent, but much more gracefully, passionate, almost as if she were showing her absolute devotion to the dark side of the force, her love for its cold and yet heated embrace. Each step and back-step was coupled with a punishing display of both raw talent and great potential with the force made clear by the pushes from the force that blew forth from her fists and knees. "My master thinks of me as gifted, and I cannot see it. I see everything but myself; yet you say similar words as he, why is that? Am I truly prodigious, do I show potential?" Silara said softly, her tone laced with the same seductive tone that she often used when focused and using the force. "No, I show promise because I am a Sith, because my Master is [member="Darth Veles"], and because I do all I can, give it my all, to show him I am worthy of his teachings. If he is to acknowledge my skills, to see me as worthy, then my next step is for his acceptance. I wish to be a true Sith of old, and I need the One Sith for this." The teen continued as she whirled, unleashing a volley of strikes with her standard saber while her shoto was pushed out for a series of jabs, her voice shifting a bit as she found her hold

The Hapan-Vahla opened her eyes, exposing the bright green irises with a very obvious gleam of hazel-yellow that blended with its emerald sheen in a truly beautiful way. "Some Sith believe the way to the Dark Side is through power....hatred....and vengeance." Silara whispered through telepathy, moving away from the knight as she gathered the force within her to accelerate her bodily movements through force speed - increasing her already impressive agility and speed to the umpteenth degree, far more than her prior use had minimally increased them by. "But I? I believe that embracing the Dark Side of the force with passionate love and loyalty is the true way to seek out its power, and none love its cold embrace more than I." She added as her facial expression contorted to one of pleasure, clearly enjoying this duel as much as her connection with the force that flowed through her.
 
the vision is 0.37-0.50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkcolVxDy0

Lanax smiled under his mask as they clashed. It was a true dance of beauty and the beast. Lanax fought like a beast unleashed from his cage, but Silara fought with elegance and if he hinted right she fought with love and devotion to the dark side, but her words reviled her true passions, but the flaws in her master's teaching. Lanax stayed silent as she spoke and as she sped up so did he keeping her at bay, but not perusing the upper hand. This had quickly changed from a fight to kill each other to a dance to reveal the dark side. "You show your chains, you see no potentual because they want to hold you back. You want a true sith like old you will not find them among One Sith. One Sith is merely a guy who does bad things. There are many in his ranks who could kill the one sith and the sith teachings say the strong kill the weak. I was once a sith until I quickly killed my master for being weak. This was not seen highly and I left the sith because they are weak. The dark side is not truly harnessed through hatred, vengence and the seeking of power. Te dark side is you or it isn't and if it isn't then you will never be a true sith. You have potentual because you see and understand it. Now, witness the power of the dark side that could be yours." As they moved, Lanax's eyes began to glow and the dark side began to radiate from him, but wasn not visable. With a great deal of control, Lanax spiritually grabbed the dark side and harnessed it into his arm with his lightsaber and it began to manifest. Lanax wasn't being control by the dark side, he was controlling the dark side like it was a slave to his will and not the other way around. The dark side appeared like black smoke that danced along his body and the ground around him. Around his feet were was small amounts of black lightning that danced along the round. Lanax unleashed a new amount of power through his lightsaber making his dance much more deadly that if she made one flaw he would cut her down. Every stike he made made an addable clap like a sludgehammer hitting the ground. Once he was finished giving her a taste he unleashed a force push strong enough to separate them. "The dark side and I have an agreement. I am the embodiment of war and the dark side submits to me and I give the dark side what it truly wants which is this." Lanax used the force to show her visions that the force had shown him. Lanax did not have all of the dark side submitting to him because he was only a knight, but he was more of a sith then the current sith and truly wanted to give the force what it wanted because it was what he wanted; destruction. The vision he showed her was a planet burning and Lanax leading a large army with the dark side ever present.

[member="Silara Vantai"]

(Did you just use a Christian band to portray the dark side? Ironic, love flyleaf though)
 
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUcHKQ4G1vo[/media]​
The dark side that flowed through the teen surged, like the rage of a jealous lover, as she felt the steady growth of darkness within the Knight. It was not a mere exaggeration that she passionately sought after the dark side, that she loved its nature and power, or that she embraced it with a sense of equality. What she saw before her was something she could not stand, something that literally drove her up a wall with anger. It was not so much the man's recovery from his near-loss, or his re-activation of his saber after it was fazed out by her warden cloak, but it was his audacity in believing the force to be his tool, his servant, and not something greater - not as master, surely not, but as an equal, as something more than a saber. Once the knight had completed his attempted onslaught, which ended much in the same way as his last one, Silara was pushed far enough away to remain out of the Sith's reach with a saber. Her mind's reinforcement, after its invasion by a certain alien that read her mind and past, prevented her from seeing the visions that the Sith attempted to portray to her, and rather took this moment to unleash the full fury of someone as deluded and obsessed with the Dark Side as her. Her hands released their grip on her sabers, though they remained where they had been through the application of telekinesis, and Silara called upon the force in all of its splendor to her hands. "You don't understand me. You never will." Silara hissed with a distinct look of rage. Immediately she pushed her hands out to unleash a massive force push, one which seemed to embody her passionate hate for the knight - and what followed next could only be described as prodigious in nature.

Silara's sabers both flew back into her hands and she moved towards the Sith Knight with increased vigor and speed, her eyes and senses trained on the man. "I cannot see myself in judgement not because I am shackled, fool; it is because I already know that I will be greater than them all." The Sith apprentice remarked, her voice seething with the passion that she felt, that she was driven by. It was clear what the man thought of her, as though she were nothing but a pawn, a marionette to be pulled along by the strings. But she knew what he did not, and she was aware of the stark limits of his capabilities as he had began to hint toward before, limitations that she did not share. His physical strength and boisterous nature would be the end of him, his arrogance his undoing. It was not for naught that Silara had been commended as a prodigy in both the force and other areas, even in strategy, and it was not coincidence that the Acolyte had nearly amputated her master's hand in a sparring match. She recalled the words of her Master, of those whom are distracted, and her quick footwork, her application of Jar'Kai on a foe that had a single saber, would be her tools to victory. In a swift upward slash, Silara's standard saber was reaching towards the Sith's own to lock them together, something she knew would have been unwise if she had not both another saber and the force on her side. At the same moment as her left hand had reached out with its icy-blue saber, her right pushed out in a perfectly timed jab that was enhanced at an inverse disparity to that of her slash, accelerating while the slash seemed to be much more prominent and noticeable - a feint. This very strike was nearly identical to the forward jab that an Emperor in the past, roughly eight hundred and seventy years prior, had done in the slaying of Jedi assailants, although her speed was far beneath the likes of Palpatine. Her strike, nonetheless, was extremely aggressive and unpredictable, and in the last moments she pushed her right foot to the ground and slid her knee towards the knight, not only as a continuation of her Makashi footwork, but as an application of a force push that did not suffer the same merciful handicaps that her previous usage of Niman had.

[member="Lanax Blood"]
 
Darth Ares took a deep breath as if he smelled something beyond decadent; the dark side. This teenager was no normal teenager or acolyte. She needed improvement in the fighting department, but she understood the concepts like they were natural. It was the dark side in her that made her stand out. Mu st acolytes still had that last little bit of light which was always the hardest to snuff out. She didn't, she was as pure dark as a moonless night, now she on;y had to grow in it. Darth Ares decided it was best not to hold back. He swung his saber full force like a golf club aiming for her strike with enough force to catch the other saber, this put him in close range so he aimed a well place elbow for her face followed by a jumping round house kick from his right leg. He laughed as he felt the warm embrace of pain. He stab was blocked, but it still slashed his side. Darth Ares relished the pain and gave her a look of a man made for war who would not be above eating the heart of his victim while the victim still had enough life to watch.
[member="Silara Vantai"]
 

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