A Little Hands On

[Riamah]

Ra was never one to turn down the opportunity to learn new things, new approaches or just general knowlege. Being a part of the Dominion was something new for her and life is all about learning. However, going back to some roots is always nice. She had an afternoon free from duties and went to the small sparring and training set aside for such thing.

Small being relative, of course. In the grand scheme of the grounds, the area was small, but the area itself was quite large. Enough that many people could train at the same time. As Ra walked in, she saw a small circle of people gathered around one of the sparring pits, almost taking bets on who was going to win the battle going on.

She watched as the fight unfolded and went to observe the actions of the paticipants. All too soon, in her opinion. the fight ended when the younger of the two fell down and the victor stood. He reached down and helped the one on the ground to his feet. They climbed out of the pit.

Not sure of what exactly to do, watching as the people went back to thier training exercises, Ra decided to see how well she fared against somebody. Ra took off her cloak, folded it neatly and set it on one of the nearby stools. She also removed her weapons since this was the hand to section. Making sure her hair was secure in its braid, she jumped down into the pit the previous fights her had just left and waited to see if anybody would join her and put her skills to the test.

 

[Alyson Halle]

Alyson had been watching the combatants, they were foolish fighters, you could tell they had little to no experience with true swordsmanship. Very few seemed to show any prowess in an actual fight, she could probably beat them easily if she was given the chance. Now a new challenger approached, this one seemed atleast somewhat worthy. She wore her armor for this, it was good training to wear it during sparring, it would put her at a disadvantage however, but that was none the matter, she was more physically fit than most it should work. She hopped down into the pit, grabbing som training blades off of the racks nearby. They had little weight, as they were designed to simulate lightsabers, but they would do. They gave off small electro shocks when someone was hit so they would know they were hit, other than that they were just like normal blades.

She face her opponent. Before asking a question: "How do you want to do this?" she asked.

She knew this person from the training session earlier, now they faced each other off in the sparring ring, who would win? Who knows, all that she knew was that this was going to be an interesting fight.

[member="Ra'a'mah"]

 

[Riamah]

Not long after Ra jumped into the sparring right, the woman she had met earlier, the Empress joined her to spar. Watching as Alyson took a couple of the training blades off one of the racks, she did a mental groan. While she had been working to learn how to use a staff, she had had little luck and this was against a training ball. She was much better at hand to hand combat, but would give this a try. Fighting a zapping ball is totally different than a living being.

Ra took a look at the training swords and staffs, she picked one of staffs that was as close to the one she had been working with and spun it around a few times, testing its balance. Finding it adequate, Ra stepped near to the middle of the ring and faced [member="Alyson Halle"].

"I'm sure this won't be a fair fight, but it'll teach me a few things."

The look of willfulness was in Ra's eyes as she spoke. The look of knowing she's going to lose, but willing to try, take the beating and learn from it.

 

[Alyson Halle]

"Alright, i will do my best to show you how things are done, you can pick the next fight" She said with a hardy laugh.

She readied herself for combat, this would be an interesting fight and she hoped to at least to show this pertson some of the swordsmanship tactics of her people, she needed to pass them on to somebody, what as the use in having them if you refused to share them? She hoped to impart some knowledge onto the young Jedi, hopefully she could use them in the future should she need them.

Alyson bowed to her opponent as was respectful on her planet, now she was ready to begin fighting, however she wanted her opponent to attack first to get a feel for her fighting style, she readied her guard before speaking.

"You attack first." She said.

@Ra'a'mah

 

[Riamah]

Ra almost smiled at [member="Alyson Halle"] in return, but kept her face as neutral as she could, but her eyes showed the smile to her opponent.

She mimicked Alyson with a courtesy bow and stood facing her. Ra had never actually made an attempt at an attack in her practices with her training ball and was at a loss. Knowing she could attack with either side of the staff, Ra chose to start an approach from her lower right (Alyson's left) to aim her strike at her left rib cage.

This is all new to Ra and practice makes perfect, at least that's what she hopes for.

 

[Alyson Halle]

Alyson quickly prepared herself for the combat, she knew swordfighting rather well, and while these light blades were not her favorite thing to use, she preferred heavier two handed blades, but she could use these one handed sabers if she had to.

She quickly moved to deflect the attack on her ribcage away from her body. It was important when using light blades to not parry the opponent but to delfect their strikes away from your body, you would be wasting energy trying to force the blade away. She then forced her blade forward towards her neck sliding her blade against her opponents. Hopefully this would allow her to achieve victory quickly.

[member="Ra'a'mah"]

 

[Riamah]

With her hit deflected and [member="Alyson Halle"]'s blade moving up and closer to her neck, Ra attempted to straighten her staff to an upright position and prevent the what would be fatal attack under normal circumstances. She got her hands twisted up and backwards. Instead of the intended slice lopping her head off, it did quite nicely at hitting Ra's hands.

She pulled her stinging hand off the staff and waving it slightly to take the pain away.

 

[Alyson Halle]

Her opponent made a fatal mistake. She opened herself up to an attack, Allyson jumped on it, stabbing her in the chest with her blade, going through the opening. Alyson then lowered her blade, digging it into the dirt. They had much to learn about combat that was quite clear. This was far too easy, it was clear that this was not their preferred fighting style, she would give them a chance to test themselves in that too.

"You cannot open yourself like that! I can help instruct you later but this obviously is not your preferred fighting style, you pick the next fight, i will do my best in whatever you pick."

[member="Ra'a'mah"]

 

[Riamah]

Even with her hand stinging, Ra thought she had her guard up enough to block a strike from [member="Alyson Halle"]. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and her opponent sighted the weakness and exploited it, stabbing her in the chest.

Setting the staff down, Ra held her hand out to shake in a friendly manner. Once that was done, Ra looked at the other weapons around, found some dummy knives which she stuck up her sleeves. This was all done in sight of Alyson so she could prepare her own counter.

"I'm much better at hand to hand with an occasional knife."

Growing up on Coruscant had taught her this and she didn't have the luxury of getting a blaster. She would have to do that sometime and learn to shoot accurately.

She stood in the middle of the ring, waiting on Alyson to pick her weapons, if she chose to and prepared herself for the combat.

 

[Alyson Halle]

Alyson watched as the fight ended, she apparently decided to pick hand to hand combat. Alyson was not the best hand to hand fighter, she was more of a brawler than a martial artist when it came to hand to hand combat, she knew that she would probably lose this fight from the get go, but she would see the fight through anyway. Ra had picked up some knives, which Alyson did as well to counter. She like honorable combat when it came to duels, whenever she sparred she chose the same weapon set as her opponent, it would only be fair that way.

Alyson prepared herself for the fight that was to come mentally, she quickly met Ra in the middle, she would allow her to strike first again, if she so wished, it was not too big of a problem either way.

[member="Ra'a'mah"]

 

[Riamah]

When Ra saw [member="Alyson Halle"] was ready she bowed her head to her and got into position for fighting.

She stood with her hands and arms close to her body, her left foot facing forward and her right foot flat on the ground, but sideways to the rest of her body.

"You go first this time since I did last."

Now this was an area Ra was much more comfortable and confident in. Even if she lost, there would be a much great of a spar.

[member="Alyson Halle"]