G U I L D M A S T E R
HEAD OF THE SNAKE
ALLIES : None.
HOSTILES : Darth Ophidia | Darth Malum of House Marr | Adeline Noctua | Trayze Tesar | SITH WARLORDS & ASSOSCIATED DIGNITARIES
ENGAGING : Everything that moves.
LOCATION : Kal'Shebbol, Diplomatic Chamber
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Time. The one thing he'd had an abundance of, and now found himself to be starved of.
He had no time to react. No time to think.
Just instinct.
It seemed like barely a second had passed, and he'd unleashed the horrors of Hell. Horrors that, while terrifying, might've unnerved any other, might've broken something fundamentally mortal in them... something that Volo, raised on Dathomir and baptised in the fires of the Netherworld, had lost long ago.
Clenching the hilt of his Orar'kad, the black blade igniting with a crackle of static, he was just as quickly releasing it, hurling it at the table the bat-thing had thrown at him. Reaching out with one hand, he stilled the flying chunk of metal as it hurled itself at him, blocking some of the rubble that the bat soon-after threw down at him. As his blade, guided by his hand, sliced the table clean down the middle, he called it back to his hand.
Of course, the Force was the last thing expected of a Mandalorian. It was profound. It was unnatural. It was dishonourable. It was cheating. But Volo Dragr, the Dragon, was removed from the notions of honour and dishonour held by his brothers and sisters.
His strength with the Force, however, was far from unsurpassed. Even now, he felt himself struggling against the weight and force of the rubble, against gravity itself. All he had to defend himself with were two pieces of tables. Sliding the hilt of his blade back into it's holster, he strained upwards with both hands, holding the rubble from crushing him.
All this in a brief few seconds, a brief few seconds that occupied him, ensnared him. In keeping himself from being buried alive, he had no time to defend himself from the Triumvir. All he could do was roll with the punches.
Gripped and slammed into the wall, he lost his grip on the rubble. As his back hit the wall, he had about half a second before the rubble pummeled him, half a second where instinct alone activated the Protector Code. a bubble of fierce, tempestuous Netherworld Energy formed around him, just as the full force of the rubble pelted him, breaking through the wall, using him as a battering ram.
Hurling through the air, any onlooker who saw the Mandalorian's body hit the dirt and roll would say, without a doubt, that he was dead. Any living being that went through that sort of abuse should be dead, if it knew what was good for it. Volo, however, was stubborn. Pulling himself to his feet as he coughed, he found himself ever the more thankful for investing in his crushgaunts.
Hand gripping the hilt of his blade again, he drew it and ignited the midnight blade. Just as he did, the swirling bubble of Netherworld energy shimmered out, his crushgaunts running out of charge. For a moment he just stood there, breathing slowly and steadily to regain his breath.
Assuming his assailants pursued him, he made sure to return the favour the bat-monster had done him. Aiming his right fist at it's centre mass, a set of three red dots, arranged in a triangle, appeared on it's chest. Circling for not two seconds, Volo smirked as his helmet beeped at him, getting a good target lock. Clenching his fist, a satisfying click came from his gauntlet as a wrist rocket launched itself from his vambrace, speeding towards the bat's chest.
All this done as he slowly side-stepped, circling the hole in the building that he'd come from. Lowering his arm, only to raise the other as he aimed his left vambrace at the Triumvir once more, a similar burst of plasma hurling towards her. This time, though, it was a distraction from the true threat- A swarm of whistling birds launched from the very same, following the plasma towards her.
Raising his blade again, he kept both within his sight- his open, unprepared stance seeming to dare them to close the gap.
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