Hack and Slash!

[Darth Veles]

Darth Veles, the greatest Mon Calamari Sith who ever lived, patiently awaited an Acolyte who had asked him for a friendly spar, as friendly as a duel between two Sith could be. Avreet would naturally do his best not to harm the Acolyte, at least not permanently. Force sensitives should not be wasted, definitely not when the Sith desperately needed more members and thus could not afford to weed out the weak by the traditional means. Whether this particular Acolyte was weak or strong remained to be seen, but she could always be made stronger. Or maybe she'd be skilled enough to defeat him? Whatever the case, this fight would only benefit the two combatants, as Sith should always use any opportunity to become stronger.

Kneeling on the floor of a room where the duel would be taking place, the Mon Calamari wore his usual apparel minus the cloak and armor. Both of those offered no protection against lightsaber and would only get in the way. This also meant Avreet's twin lightsabers could be seen hanging on his belt, his instruments of death. The amphibian's large eyes remained closed until he felt the Acolyte in the Force, her familiar presence coming closer. This produced a smile on the Mon Cal Knight's face, though the smirk disappeared almost immediately and Avreet's eyes slowly opened, revealing the amber orbs that darted around the room. By intentionally placing several chairs and tables in the dim lit area and scattering sand over the floor, he would teach the Acolyte more things than just simple dueling, provided she did not know them already.

When she appeared, he stood up from his kneeling position and one of the lightsabers on he belt flew into his right hand as he jumped backwards and landed on a table, standing at the far edge. "Attack me first, Acolyte." He ordered, pointing the lightsaber hilt towards the table and igniting it, giving birth to a crimson plasma blade. His free hand remained ready to block any Force attack she might throw at him or to telekinetically catch any object flying his way. Makashi in its finest, one hand holding the blade while the other remained free.

[member="Sabrina Kotass"]

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina took up a similar stance to her trainer, a very accomplished duelist named [member="Darth Veles"]. She stood about four meter`s away from him, as she took up her stance. Then she heard his words Attack me first acoylte. She put her curved handle, training saber in front her face, and turned it on, as salute to darth who going to give her a lesson.
She then steped forward into range, her leg`s not crossing, and standing side on. She then lunged at him, aiming for his hand, that carried his lightsaber.

 

[Darth Veles]

His bulbous eyes watched the Acolyte get closer, her blade ignited and ready to strike. The amphibian prepared himself and when his opponent attacked, going for his hand holding the weapon, Avreet's right wrist flicked up and their blades met, the Mon Cal's plasma blade hitting her own from beneath and stopping her strike from advancing. It was then that he took a step back, his booted foot connecting with nothing since he stood at the edge of the table. The Mon Cal fell and landed on his feet on the ground, withdrawing his blade from the lock as he did so. During his fall, the superheated blade of his weapon cut the table in half, painting seering orange line in the middle. The amphibian did not allow it to collapse though; his left hand shot up and telekinetically hurled both halves at [member="Sabrina Kotass"]. He was curious how would she deal with this.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina rolled away, from the first one, but as she got up. The other one smacked her, straight in side, it knocked the blade out her hand. She grabbed her wrist, where it struck, and winced a bit. She her master, realizing she about to be told to keep, a mindful eye on all her surrounding`s.
As she waited, for chastisement, she reached out, with the force, to retrieve her lightsaber. She new the table was a test, and she had failed it, but she also new. Failure, was good thing to learn from, as you know what you need to practice.
[member="Darth Veles"]

 

[Darth Veles]

Slightly surprised by actually hitting the Acolyte by one half of the table, the Mon Calamari watched her as she recuperated from the blow and retrieved her weapon. The Sith Knight did not lower his weapon as he spoke, quite the opposite, he raised the blade in his right hand and pointed the tip at the Acolyte. "You haven't been trained on Korriban, have you? No. No, you are a recent addition to our Order. That explains...much." The amphibious Sith stated, staring at his opponent. Korriban had a nice way of turning young Acolytes into strong and promising students if they wanted to survive the harshness of the planet. Avreet used to be one of those students, forced to overcome the heat of the sun and burning crimson sands. This experience made him much stronger, granting him the ability to survive in deserts without having to constantly sip water.

"You should have dodged that. You were too slow. Or you could have used the Force to change its trajectory and miss you," the Sith continued speaking, trying to cover more mistakes she could have made and explain it to the young woman, "Remember, Acolyte, jumping over the table would have made you vulnerable in the air. Also keep in mind that blocking an object flying towards you will not save you from being hit unless that object is of lightsaber resistant material. If you attempted to block the table with your blade, you would have cut it into more pieces that continued their flight through your defences." Avreet calmly explained.

"Your choice of action was a good one though; practice how to dodge faster. Now, let us see how you deal with this." Saying that, the Mon Calamari started bending light and sound around himself, becoming transparent until fully disappearing. The invisible lightsaber stopped humming as well, leaving no trace of the young Mon Calamari that used to stand there. To properly test the Acolyte's ability to use her surroundings, Avreet also cut his presence from the sea of the Force, suddenly disappearing from the Force as well. Slowly pacing towards the young woman, the Mon Calamari circled around her, his blade still pointed towards her torso, though he took no action to harm [member="Sabrina Kotass"]. How would she find him?

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina new this was a test, to see if could find the unseen. She first closed her eye`s and tried to look for him, using force vision. She been learning it, from fellow acolyte tiiona, it had no success. He had severed him self, from the force as well, or from her at least beyond her abilities.

She looked around the room, and saw bucket sand, kept their to put out fires. She smiled, she had an idea, she reached out with force. She went to grab the bucket, throw it towards her, she then fell to ground, and stopped the bucket, The sudden stoppage, made the sand fly out of the bucket. It covering the whole area, she turned around, while she was still om the floor. Then looked for glimpse of [member="Darth Veles"], so she could react with her training saber.

 

[Darth Veles]

Noticing the woman telekinetically manipulating something, his left eye swiveled around to see the object. It turned out to be a simple bucket filled with sand. He knew exactly what his opponent wanted to do, but he found it unnecessary since the floor was already covered in sand for this particular test. Just as the Acolyte fell and the bucket stopped, Avreet's left hand rose and sent a swirl of telekinetic energy towards the filled bucket, sending it away. It landed in the corner of the room, where it hit the wall with a loud racket and the sand spilled out. The Mon Cal used the time to bend the light around himself once again, but not to decloak himself. The humming of the lightsaber could be heard, indicating the amphibian was no longer bending sound, obviously to talk to the Acolyte. Once [member="Sabrina Kotass"] looked up to 'see' her opponent, found herself staring at her exact copy.

"Good thinking," the projection of Sabrina said in Avreet's voice, "Use the environment to your advantage. The execution you chose was not necessary though." The projection stepped back, revealing footsteps in the sand. "This alone reveals my position. Your plan would have worked, but only until the sand around me fell to the floor. If the sound you threw at me touched me, it'd get cloaked as well, rendering your tactic useless."

Because bending the light and maintaining it drained too much energy, Avreet completely stopped with his tricks, appearing in his real form. "Now, we will see your skill with a lightsaber. Attack," the Mon Calamari Sith commanded, pointing his blade at the woman and awaited her move. So far, he chose not to use his second lightsaber that remained hanging on his belt.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina, got up, this was going one those day`s, where she can`t do anything right. Her wrist still ached, form the table before, and know she was covered in sand. She brushed the sand off, with palm of hand. Then struck her combat pose again, she was readying her self, for a ballistic lunge at [member="Darth Veles"], she was going throw all her weight, into the one attack.

She poised her self with back leg bent, and front leg too, she was concertinaing. She focused on his rib cage, to side facing her, the bottom rib. She new he block the main thrust her attack, so she was angle her saber a few degree`s, to give a better chance of hitting him.

Then she pushed all strength down, into back leg, keeping the other leg bent. So could use it to stabilize her, when she reached her target. This way she would not become unbalanced, when she hit or missed. As her leg straightened, her right armed did too, she kept her aim true.

 

[Darth Veles]

The Knight carefully watched the Acolyte, studying her posture and the way she held the lightsaber. Her attack would he hard and powerful, but did she know of his cybernetically enhanced muscles that tripled his strength? Probably not, but she was going to find out soon. Placing his right foot forward while his left leg remained back, the Mon Calamari stood in a typical position when one could take a quick step and either get from the opponent's reach or go for a powerful jab. Darth Veles wouldn't do either though; he waited for the Acolyte to make her move and when she launched herself at him, he flicked his right wrist and swept his lightsaber from right to the left in a powerful blow to change [member="Sabrina Kotass"]'s lightsaber's trajectory. At the same time, he shifted his weight to his left leg and leaned back, kicking out his right leg towards the young woman's left side and sending a weak Force pull with his left hand as well, just to throw her off balance and ensure the powerful kick would hit her. If his plan worked as he intended, Avreet quickly placed his right foot back on the ground and regained his standing, positioning himself into the same stance as before.

 

[Darth Banshee]

OW, sabrina said, as she tried to land her blow, all she felt was his foot, in her rib cage. It sent her flying, across the room. She crashed landed, near the broken table, her left knee, on the floor. Though her right foot, remained flat on the ground, she had not let go her light saber this time.

She worked in her head, he used the force to pull her, towards the kick. Which gave it the extra power, and sent her flying. She stood up again, her rib`s hurt, she think he may have bruised one, with kick on her.

She waited for instruction, half her wanted see if she could flick his lightsaber off, and attack again. She new this was training however, if it was real she be dead already.
[member="Darth Veles"]

 

[Darth Veles]

The Sith Knight remained motionless, though his left eye followed the woman's flight through the room. Avreet must have caught her by surprise and it was entirely possible several of her ribs broke, especially considering the Mon Calamari was fully capable of decapitating people with his kick. Still, the woman stood up, proving that whatever damage she had sustained would not stop her. Avreet almost felt pride, despite not being her Master, it was the nature of the Sith; when they fell, they got up even more powerful than before. "Use the pain, Acolyte, memorize it and then call upon the memory in your time of need," the Mon Calamari kindly advised, he had used pain to empower himself several times, most notably when the Jedi burned out his right eye. Although just a young Acolyte, he had defeated a Jedi Knight that day and made his Master proud.

Rotating himself to face the young woman, Avreet spoke again, switching his piercing gaze and looking at the ceiling for no apparent reason. "If you are not sure you will overpower your opponent, do not use that much strength. Flexibility and speed is what matters most of the time." Without saying anything more, he jogged towards her with surprising elegance and speed, his lightsaber slightly raised and the weapons arm bent up in the elbow. While still being outside of her range, he fully extended his arm with the lightsaber and brought it down in an arch to deliver a light cut across [member="Sabrina Kotass"]'s weapon hand. If she attempted to attack his arm or go for his body, the Mon Cal would take a few jogs back to get completely out of her reach.

 

[Darth Banshee]

She listened to him speak, her ribs wear sore, her wrist was aching. She was unsure, how much she more, could take of this. Then he decide he, would attack her.
As he approached, she decide to try some thing unorthodox, against him. She concentrated on floor tile`s, and waited till he was, just in range. Then approached it, she reached out with the force, and bent the tile, in time to try and trip him up.
If he did fall over, she would try, and hit him as he fell. She was going to go for, the right hand side face, where jedi had injured him previously. As he be less likely to, see the attack, and give best chance of hitting him. Though she had training saber, so all it would do is make his skin warm.
[member="Darth Veles"]

 

[Darth Veles]

The floor underneath suddenly moved, something Avreet had not expected, causing him to stumble. In order to regain his balance, the Mon Calamari was forced to forego his attack and focus on getting on a tile behind him. His right foot found the solid ground almost immediately, whereas his left was still in the air when the woman's attack came. Avreet had to admit, she did good. Normally, he would have placed his weight on his left leg and rotated his body to the right, causing [member="Sabrina Kotass"]'s blade to miss, but that was out of option since he stood on his right leg with his left in the air! Before regaining his footing, the amphibian was forced to do another jump back, sending Force push at the Acolyte as he did. Her blade missed his face by mere inches, yet the expression remained neutral as he safely landed on another tile.

"I am pleased with your progress," the Mon Cal stated, lowering his weapon and pointing the blade at the floor. His other hand did not rest and the amphibian telekinetically grabbed a half of the broken table and proceeded to attack the young Acolyte with it. Instead of simply letting go of it and tossing it at Sabrina, Avreet telekinatically held the piece of table, continuously beating the Acolyte to see how would she deal with it.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina sighed as she missed her target, frustration was building up inside her. What did she have to do, to hit him, she running put idea`s. Then he started with table again, he flung it towards her. She did not think time, she just reacted, with the force. She concentrated on the table, and began to try and shove it back at him.
While she was doing this, trying get to find the other half, to slam into [member="Darth Veles"].

 

[Darth Veles]

Avreet could feel her resistance when his 'weapon' stopped moving. [member="Sabrina Kotass"]' frustration made her stronger, whether she realized it or not as she held it and attempted to throw it at her amphibious opponent. Overpowering the Acolyte wouldn't have been that hard, her connection to the Dark Side and overall experience still inferior to the Sith Knight's, so the amphibious Sith decided to make the fight a bit more interesting by simply releasing his telekinetic hold on the broken table. The lightsaber in his right hand turned off and returned to its place on his belt as he prepared himself, left eye watching the broken table the Acolyte had hurled at him from behind, the right eye glared at the other half. The Force flowed through him, enhancing his reflexes and speed.

The first attack came from the front, immediately followed by the one from behind. His cybernetic hand opened in a palm and rushed to meet the first object, which he grabbed and tossed away just as the second half of the table arrived. Parting with the floor as he jumped and allowed the impact to carry into his legs as he tried to propell himself against the table, partially negating the hit with his own strength. Both fell, he and the broken table, although the Mon Cal landed on his feet and remained standing. "Is this the best you can do? Do you think the Jedi will be intimidated by your abilities?" Avreet teased the young woman to provoke her in yet another test.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina started to anger, with taunt`s by [member="Darth Veles"], she was sore, bruised and possibly got broken wrist and ribs. She looked at him, her blue eye`s stared right at him. She was never going to be beat him, with a lightsaber yet. She remembered crushing the stone, in tattoine, then wonder would it work on his neck.
She first reached out, with palm of her hand, and then felt where his throat was, began to try, and put pressure on it.

 

[Darth Veles]

[member="Sabrina Kotass"]' gaze was met with Avreet's own, staring right back. Frowning at the Acolyte's blatant attempt to choke him as he felt an invisible Force pushing against his neck, the Mon Calamari raised both of his flippered hands and remembered his old apprentice. The boy was much more competent than this woman, yet he perished at the end of the war with the Republic. Such a potential and so many years of training wasted. The memory filled the Sith Knight with sadness and anger, bringing him closer to the Dark Side of the Force. Energy coursed through his body and he guided it into his arms where the harmful dark power awaited its release. Before Sabrina's power either suffocated him or crushed his neck, the Mon Calamari let crackling blue electricity-like stream of energy out of his fingertips. The Dark Side itself flew towards the Acolyte at rapid speed, pouring out of both Avreet's hands. The user fully realized it would burn his fingers a bit, but that was a small price for giving the Acolyte a lesson, letting her taste the power she might control one day. In some way, it was something to motivate the young female.

Not being particularly skilled with this power, the amphibian's lightning would not do much damage to the target, that was not its purpose anyway. Sabrina would most likely feel crippling pain which would put an end to her attempts of breaking the Knight's neck. "Your attacks are too straightforward!" Avreet stated and stopped channeling the Dark Side through his hands, "Attacks like those are easily defended against... use the Force to attack me while you strike with your lightsaber, throw objects at me to distract me then yank my legs from under me... do not go with one and obvious attack."

The clawed hand reached down to his waist and unclipped a medpac from the belt, then tossed it towards the Acolyte. "Ease your pain if necessary, then attack again...and do better." Avreet said calmly and exhaled, his hand moving down again and claiming one of the lightsabers and igniting it.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina let loose her grip on [member="Darth Veles"], as lighting bolt struck her, and blasted into a wall. She hit the wall aloud thud, then fell down the wall she hit, that she struck. she fell into a heap, on the floor, doubled over in pain. She had no idea what was expected off her, she thought, she was here to practice, with lightsaber. Not to be beat to a pulp, by some one, who was a sith knight.
She then rose up, and listened to him speak, about how her attack`s where too obvious. How she should attack, and not, she was being lectured. She mind being lectured, if he showed her how to do this, with out being the guinea pig. Se then realized, this was probably why, most sith killed their masters. As they built some much anger at them, by the training end`s, they feel the need to kill them.
He tossed her over a med pack, to her, and told to ease her pain, that he had caused her. She shook her head, she wanted to remember him, as some who just beat her. She rose back to her feet, and took her stance again, in pain sore from head to toe. Her lip had bled, she felt burning sensation form bolt lighting.
Then as he suggested, she attacked him, with what little she had left. First she picked up table and throw it at him. Then as that gained momentum, she leaped at him, while using the force, to create a sand storm in front her. She planed to hit him, across the knee`s, and landed soon that he expect behind the slight sand storm......

 

[Darth Veles]

Her hate and anger could be tasted in the Force and Avreet could only hope the Acolyte knew how to use it properly so she wouldn't burn herself out. Preparing himself and standing in a stance ready to either attack or retreat, the Mon Calamari intently wached the woman. It almost looked like she was going to make the same type of attack again as she picked up the table and tossed it at him. Avreet frowned upon seeing it, the woman already had the right mindset and knew what she had to do, why would she choose such a simple attack as this again?! The table was stopped mid-air before it could hit him and nonchalantly tossed to the left. Only then Avreet realized that large table had blocked his view for a brief second, but it was more than enough to give Sabrina time to create a small whirlwind that picked up the sand and start tossing it around, only to swallow it again...

"Excellent," the Knight exclaimed and closed his left eye to stop the sand from hitting it. The cybernetic eye, on the other hand, widely opened and stared into the sandstorm the Acolyte had created. Grains of sand bounced off the hardened glass that covered the delicate device allowing him to see... but right now, he saw nothing in the cloud that covered his enemy. With a barely noticeable twitch in the eye, the Mon Cal switched to thermal vision, only to see his opponent right in front of him with her weapon coming to meet his knee. He quickly retracted his right leg and narrowly avoided her seering blade, though his left knee was not so lucky and he soon felt the incredibly hot plasma making contact with its intended target. Flicking his lightsaber up and hitting her own blade, the Sith Knight stopped it from advancing and finally managed to pull the wounded leg back.

"Finally." He muttered towards [member="Sabrina Kotass"], "Do you understand now, Acolyte? I sense great potential in you. Now, take control of your emotions and use the anger to recover some energy. Never allow your emotions to take over you! They will serve you well...as long as you are their master and not their slave." With that, the amphibious Sith took a step forward and thrust his blade towards her left knee, slightly crouching as he did so.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Sabrina listened to [member="Darth Veles"], he actually complemented her, some thing she was not expecting. As he did sabrina, was getting her breath back, then all of a sudden he lunged at her, left leg almost instinctively.
She quickly parried it, then span on her left leg. So she could kick, his hand with right leg, to try disarm him.
If this was successful, she planed to use force throw away, from his lightsaber, get his lightsaber.