Prince of Nothing
Location: Palace Steps
Enemies: [member="Darth Junra"], [member="Sciath"], [member="Darth Nexus"], [member="Darth Odium"], [member="Quinn Vos"]
Allies: [member="Tracyn"]
For one moment, Ryan hung suspended in mid-leap. For one moment, time stood still. Then the air exploded. The cataclysmic roar drowned out all else, leaving a ringing in his ears. Bits of rubble rained down, cutting across his face and blinding his right eye with flecks of dust. He did not look at the palace, nor did he hear Daella's words amidst the white noise. He knew the palace was in ruins. He knew he'd failed. Again.
Failure was nothing new to him. He'd failed to protect his padawan friends upon Ossus, when a lone Sith had slaughtered them. He'd failed to be there for his father when he was taken ill. He'd failed to save the others enslaved by the Vong when he escaped. He'd failed to stop the Sith from blowing up the Temple. The list ran on, long and full of his shortcomings. Yet all the misery and regret in the galaxy would not undo those failures. He did not know how to prevent them in the future. He was weak. He was mortal. And he would fail again. The only thing that mattered now was that he kept fighting.
Marcello had stopped. Vulpesen had stopped. Aaralyn had stopped.
I am not them. I will not yield. Come on darkness and death, come sorrow and agony, my old friends. Come and take me, if you can.
A single grey eye watched as time resumed with rapidity, as if to make up for its brief excursion. His other eye was clenched tight against the pain of dust and the blood leaking from cuts on brow and cheek which dripped scarlet ichor. He only needed one eye to witness twin crimson blades shearing toward him, one for the leg and the other for his chest. Yes, one eye would be enough.
The thrust took him in the lamellar plates over his chest, made of synthmesh, while the slash at his leg battered into the durasteel greave. Both synthmesh and durasteel had one thing in common. Cortosis weave.
Sciath's blades would be simultaneously shorted out, unless they lacked dimetris circuits. The red-head's kick would catch the Fallen in the face. But the Jedi twisted in the air to turn one blow into two with lightning swiftness. He brought his blue lightsaber down in conjunction with the kick and straight toward the Sith's arm, which was outstretched in a thrust and thus vulnerable. Due to the speed and near weightlessness of the lightsaber that blow would land first, then the kick. This all happened in the blink of an eye. Unless the ability of this Sith Knight exceeded that of Ryan's by a great margin there would be no time to prepare a Force Push.
Bleeding, near-sightless, the failure of a Jedi still fought.
I am stone. Stones do not yield.
Enemies: [member="Darth Junra"], [member="Sciath"], [member="Darth Nexus"], [member="Darth Odium"], [member="Quinn Vos"]
Allies: [member="Tracyn"]
For one moment, Ryan hung suspended in mid-leap. For one moment, time stood still. Then the air exploded. The cataclysmic roar drowned out all else, leaving a ringing in his ears. Bits of rubble rained down, cutting across his face and blinding his right eye with flecks of dust. He did not look at the palace, nor did he hear Daella's words amidst the white noise. He knew the palace was in ruins. He knew he'd failed. Again.
Failure was nothing new to him. He'd failed to protect his padawan friends upon Ossus, when a lone Sith had slaughtered them. He'd failed to be there for his father when he was taken ill. He'd failed to save the others enslaved by the Vong when he escaped. He'd failed to stop the Sith from blowing up the Temple. The list ran on, long and full of his shortcomings. Yet all the misery and regret in the galaxy would not undo those failures. He did not know how to prevent them in the future. He was weak. He was mortal. And he would fail again. The only thing that mattered now was that he kept fighting.
Marcello had stopped. Vulpesen had stopped. Aaralyn had stopped.
I am not them. I will not yield. Come on darkness and death, come sorrow and agony, my old friends. Come and take me, if you can.
A single grey eye watched as time resumed with rapidity, as if to make up for its brief excursion. His other eye was clenched tight against the pain of dust and the blood leaking from cuts on brow and cheek which dripped scarlet ichor. He only needed one eye to witness twin crimson blades shearing toward him, one for the leg and the other for his chest. Yes, one eye would be enough.
The thrust took him in the lamellar plates over his chest, made of synthmesh, while the slash at his leg battered into the durasteel greave. Both synthmesh and durasteel had one thing in common. Cortosis weave.
Sciath's blades would be simultaneously shorted out, unless they lacked dimetris circuits. The red-head's kick would catch the Fallen in the face. But the Jedi twisted in the air to turn one blow into two with lightning swiftness. He brought his blue lightsaber down in conjunction with the kick and straight toward the Sith's arm, which was outstretched in a thrust and thus vulnerable. Due to the speed and near weightlessness of the lightsaber that blow would land first, then the kick. This all happened in the blink of an eye. Unless the ability of this Sith Knight exceeded that of Ryan's by a great margin there would be no time to prepare a Force Push.
Bleeding, near-sightless, the failure of a Jedi still fought.
I am stone. Stones do not yield.