Heartbreak Hotel

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]Never seen anything like that in my time. [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]Syn said obviously shocked. Nikias could count the number of times he'd seen the spirit surprised on one hand and this was one of them. He hadn't seen such a tactic with the force either but as the boards shattered and splinters and wood went everywhere Nikias' rating of Haytham had went up from potentially dangerous to being completely dangerous. Though stopping a projectile flying at the speed of a missile and crushing it couldn't have been easy. Nik personally aimed to dodge them or use subtle pushes if the other user wasn't still controlling them instead of spending huge chunks of his energy to stop it outright. Not to mention Haytham had did it twice. All Hellyni had a naturally high disposition to the force and incredible potential in it and even Nik didn't employ such maneuvers.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Seeing Haytham's arm aimed at him again Nikias instinctively raised another barrier and this time the sound of a dresser moving and hitting it is what he got[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] and then Haytham became a blur moving across the room in an instant. Re-purposing the barrier he had created Nikias pushed out with it and shattered the dresser that leaned against it. Just as the headboard had been destroyed earlier long wickidly sharp splinters and chunks of wood was all that remained of the dresser. Raising his left hand and activating his shield this time a shield with a 3.58-meter diameter sprang to live[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] easily enough to cover Nikias' body from the overhanded blow but as the attack landed the kinetic force behind it caused Nikias' bones to shake. He's been eating his wookieo's Nikias thought but with no hesitation nor wasting time his right hand closed into a fist and all the splinters from the shattered dresser gathered and began assaulting the Sith in a similar way to how the glass had. The force behind this one gathered up the wind creating a whirlwind of shrapnel to catch Haytham in and fling him to the wall along with the splinters and chunks of wood that would tear at the Sith's flesh. [/SIZE]


[member="Haytham Kaze"]

 

[Haytham Kaze]

If not for the shield, Vanitas's right hand would've snaked outwards and grabbed the Dark Jedi's throat and crushed it there. Grunting when the shield came up, it was clear that the force of his strike had done something to the arm that carried the shield. Hmphing, Vanitas's Tsaisi would've slammed into the shield again, this time weaker of course just as the wooden splinters blew around him. He stepped backwards and aimed to lead up onto the bed as he used his right hand to cover the essentials, which was basically his face.

Before he could actually touch the bed, a moment of surprise that was almost akin to fear split through his body. Kind of like how when you sat on a chair and leaned back on it, but when you lost your hold on whatever that kept you balanced, there was a moment of surprise and then the fear of actually being hurt before you touched ground again and were back in touch with reality.

The same happened to Haytham as he was forced into the wall above the bed, where the headboard likely would've been.

He had made sure to stay loose when he had hit the wall however. When you tensed up, you risked being injured badly. Staying loose kept you limber and able to bounce off of the wall like he had.

Reaching down to grasp at a pillow with his right hand, he threw it at Nikias, if only to offer as a distraction before he slipped off the bed and threw another push of the Force at his hopefully open right side to shove him against the wall beside the bed.

[member="Nikias"]

 

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]Haytham's blow was nothing compared to Ragnarok's though that Sith was a big[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] bulky Valkyri that also enhanced his strength in the force. As when Nikias had faced the Valkyri he had ended up having the bones in his shield arm broken and had required surgery. Ironic how it was always his left arm that kept suffering the most damage but it was the one with the shield. While the bones had shaken and there would be a large bruise left behind. Enough for Nikias to be more cautious about taking full on blows the way he had[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] if it had been a lightsaber it wouldn't have been that much a problem most likely. But that weird blade Haytham had also had some decent weight behind it. Left hand opening and closing as feeling returned to it Nikias watched Haytham escape. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]With a nod of his head Nikias sent the pillow flying away from his face before throwing up another barrier. This time having a footing on the bed Nikias was able to stay still and the push dispersed against the barrier. He just had me in a corner. Why retreat now? Nikias thought watching Haytham make his escape. Up close Nikias was indeed at a disadvantage but once again the Sith had put distance between them. What is he planning. Nikias asked himself as his eyes narrowed and he did something one probably would never expect. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Nikias would create a telekinetic bubble[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] however not around himself this time. Around Haytham and as Nikias had been the one to create the bubble it was much easier for him to manipulate. Propelling the bubble against the wall Nikias would release it at the last second to slam Haytham through the wall and out over the Bespin streets. [/SIZE]

[member="Haytham Kaze"]

 

[Haytham Kaze]

First it had been his two guards that had been bisected, then it was Haytham thrown through a wall and into a random wall, through that wall and into the room beyond it.

I know I'm not paying for that.

Was his thought as he sensed the Force gathering around his person. Slipping his hand to a handle protruding from his belt, he watched as his setting changed drastically. One moment he had been inside a hotel room, the next he was outside, gliding in the air before he started to fall. When he had hit the glass, he had tucked into himself so that his arm could easily block the glass as it cut through the fabric of his jacket and robes and the first few layers of flesh. The Tsaisi in his left had been slipped back into his belt just before he actually started to fall.

Ripping his trusty grappling hook from out of his belt, he fired the shot two floors down from where he had been thrown, of course, when it hit the area below the window, his first thought had been to engage the trigger to pull him up, but he immediately determined that Nikias would already be at the window at that time, and if he had a long-range weapon of sorts, he would be able to likely shoot him off that wall. So he just swung down to a window, three floors down and went feet first into it as he ended up in a hallway rather than an actual room.

The layout is different on the various floors.

He hmphs as he straightens himself out, after looking at the glass of the window. Sticking his hand out the window to retrieve the grappling hook, he pressed the trigger and the fibercord returned to the gun and he sheathed it back in his belt. It was a tool that he had kept with him for as long as he could remember. It had been one of the first tools he had acquired when he had become a Jedi Padawan. He had had it on the Underground Spacestation in the Denarii asteroid belt, or whatever it was called when his at the time Master, Vassara Raxis had been slain, and he had had it on Ruusan when he had thrown himself into the Bahamut after locating a hole in it's hull. And many times before that as well. It was a useful tool, and he wasn't just going to leave it there.

Three floors down.

Haytham walked down the hallway and grabbed a chair as he dragged it with him and headed down the hallway to the lifts. He masked his potential in the Force, only to the point that it seemed apparent that he was neutral in the Force and had an untapped power. In the Force if he were to be sought out, he would be read as a regular everyday being with the ability to use the Force and not much else. He sat down in front of the lifts, a dozen or so metres away and just sat down. Of course, he kept an ear open in the case that Nikias came down the hallway behind him.

[member="Nikias"]

 

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]Standing at the edge of the hole in the wall Nikias looked down over the sheer drop and watched as the Sith was resourceful enough to bring along a grappling hook. Nikias thought the fight would've been over by this point after throwing Haytham out the window[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] but the Sith still persisted in fighting. At least he's not making it easy. Nikias thought looking at what floor Haytham had went onto. Many Sith or arrogant jedi would take the time of going to the lifts or even taking the stairs to go down and meet Haytham. Partially to make themselves seem bigger than they actually were[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] and the other part to not cause loads of collateral damage. Nikias didn't care less about either of those two things[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] he had the credits to pay for the damage he had done and more if need be.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Instead he activated his shield in the smallest setting and pressed it flat against the floor. Unlike a lightsaber it wouldn't cut out a huge chunk of the ceiling then fall making a loud sound. Nope the only sound would be the shield burning a hole in the floor and even that wasn't loud. Dropping down one floor[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] Nikias looked around noticing that he was in a different type of room. That made things much more interesting in what he could and could not use. Pressing the shield down again Nikias landed in another type of room[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] yet again empty. They were high up in one of the finest hotels on Bespin it was no shocker that not too many rooms were inhabited. Who could afford such luxury during times of war besides the truly wealthy. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Dropping through the last floor[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] Nikias landed in a crouch. This time he wasn't in a room but a long hallway glass crunching beneath his feet as he landed. Loud enough to alert Haytham[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] but Nikias had found the glass first and saw the Sith sitting in-front of the lift. Smirking Nikias deactivated his shield and drew three ball bearings from within his robes and threw all three of them at what appeared to be Haytham[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] but they would fly past him striking the panels of the lifts and destroying them so they couldn't be used to escape. Right hand at work Nikias gathered up the glass and kept them nearby ready to launch them. "Learned your lesson yet?" Nikias asked Haytham a smile on his face. [/SIZE]

[member="Haytham Kaze"]

 

[Haytham Kaze]

Haytham continued sitting in front of the lift even when he had heard Nikias drop down behind him. His danger sense alerted him to the hostile presence, but it hadn't alerted him to a direct danger heading his way, so when he saw that the lifts were disabled he slowly rose up to his feet and patted down his knees as he lifts the chair and carries it out of the way of what he figured was going to be another round. In that time, Haytham, or rather, Vanitas had had time to catch his breath from the combat that had occurred three floors above them.

Humming, he returned to the centre of the hallway and said, "Where do you even come from? You're definitely not from a Sith planet or organization despite your disgusting presence in the Force." Releasing the shroud that he had weaved around himself, his presence waved over the hallway again, allowing his existence in the Force to be known again. "I can't see an everyday person being as annoying as you are." He pauses, "Or arrogant. So, do enlighten me." He says with a twist of his head, loosening the Tsaisi in his belt again, and holding the hilt with his right hand as his left retrieved the first lightsabre he had drawn.

[member="Nikias"]

 

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]Nikias paid very close attention to the chair as it was moved away. Making sure that the Sith didn't have any plans with or for it. Something as simple as a chair could be a weapon in Nikias' hands and he expected no less of another. Even if one couldn't use the force they could still be a great threat. The force wasn't the end all be all[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] it was simply how people handled themselves in combat and how they utilize such things."I come from a world that you have never heard of and that only my people know the location to thanks to deleting its spot in the galactic database long ago. So that is none of your concern." Nikias said waving his hand as though casting a mind trick. Haytham hiding himself in the force had been pointless as Nikias didn't track people through the force due to his lack of sensing abilities. The entire thing had gone right over his head without him even noticing Haytham's presence in the force. It had more negatives than positives most of the time however.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]"Me arrogant and annoying? I take that as a pleasure to know that I'm a thorn in your side. But I don't plan on leaving till you're on a stretcher... Though considering your wounds who knows how long that will be." Nikias said smirking. While Haytham had been resting after their fight he hadn't healed the wounds from their encounter three floors up[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] when glass cut it cut deep and Haytham had been cut and stabbed by it and splinters numerous times. Even if they didn't go deep that was still blood and the numerous cuts would pile up. Still have so much faith in your sith? Nikias asked syn[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] but the dark presence was no longer there. She had done such a thing once before but only when she didn’t see the fight ending in a favorable way for her to change hosts. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt] “You’ll never go near Joza again. Promise it and we can end things here.” Shoving his right fist forward Nikias shot the broken glass forwards turning them all into projectiles aimed at Haytham, though they didn't all stay together. Opening his hand Nikias changed the direction of the glass to encircle Haytham before propelling them at him from all directions.[/SIZE]

[member="Haytham Kaze"]

 

[Haytham Kaze]

Haytham's tongue snaked out from his mouth and licked his lips. They were void of moisture, and he felt his heart thumping against his chest. It was the fight or flight process in effect within his body, adrenaline coursed through his body, nulling the pain that he would've otherwise felt. He had multiple wounds from splinters and glass, but like most shallow wounds they stung, but when they left your mind, the pain disappeared. He huffed, he wasn't getting tired, but he knew that soon enough when he crashed the pain would be too much.

He drew the Force into himself as Nikias spoke.

So his people had deleted his planet's location in the database? So it appeared that he'd have to actually have to go on a journey to find this place? He hummed softly to himself.

"Mind your own business."

This fight was taking too long and it was wasting too much time. From his core, the Force burst from him again in another wave of the Force throwing the glass away from him once more as he dashed towards the Dark Jedi, the Force pushing him into a black blur, the sapphire beam leapt out as if hungry to taste the air as he brought it up in an underhanded slash starting from Nikias's bottom right and threatened to cross to his upper left if he didn't stop him. Darth Vanitas only wanted to move faster than him now, that shield of his was just going to have to be dealt with later.

[member="Nikias"]

 

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]"Any friend of mine that a Sith attacks in my business." Nikias spat. The words dripped with rage and disgust at Haytham. Such an overconfident Sith[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] one that could certainly take blows and deal them back with the exact same magnitude if not more so. Everything about the man turned Nikias' stomach and made him want to vomit. How Joza ever loved a person such as him was beyond Nikias[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] and even when she had told him she had still seemed confused. It was mind boggling[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] Nikias was sure that the moment he returned back to Sanctum space Joza would be waiting to scold him. He would not hide what he had left for Bespin to do[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] Nik had even left a message for Joza on her datapad about what he was planning.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Haytham became nothing but a black blur as he raced to meet Nikias[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] startled by the speed he activated his shield in its largest setting. At 4.4 meters in diameter the sabers would meet a literal wall before Nikias[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] and wasting no time Nikias immediately recalled the ballbearings that he had thrown earlier. They were made out of pure phrik and Tungsten and suffice to say they hadn't even received a dent when they destroyed the lift controls. Flying out of them at an extreme speed and propelled by ballistakinesis they might as well have been shot from a slugthrower. All three were aimed directly at Haythams back and with a thought the directions of them changed with Nikias guiding them. The first ballbearing was aimed at the back of Haytham's knee[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] the second at the base of his spine[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] and the third shifted to strike at the Sith's ribs. Each one of them weighed far more than an average ballbearing thanks to the tungsten core so it was safe to say not only would they be painful penetrating the skin[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] the kinetic force along with them would be ten times worse. [/SIZE]

[member="Haytham Kaze"]

 

[Haytham Kaze]

"Don't think it works like that."

The blue plasma blade that Vanitas employed was met with the shield of Nikias. But that was to be expected. His right hand had been sent to the small of his back and he fired a trio of shots into the area of the ceiling above the Dark Jedi, but just a little bit behind the hole he had employed to get down to that floor. The sapphire beam disappeared into it's hilt, satisfied with the taste of the air it had received.

His danger sense tingled, and he leapt.

Not entirely past the shield and Nikias, but rather straight up.

Straight through the hole that Nikias had created with his shield. He had felt his back hit the top of the ceiling, but it only made a bigger hole. After all, he would've needed to use the Force to have reached that height with such speed. His upper body tucked into itself as he felt something tear through something near his knee joint. A ligament or something like that, he didn't have time to think on that when his hand caught the inside of the room above them and with pure upper body strength flipped the rest of his body up and into the next room. Similar to the room they had originally been in, Vanitas's form nearly crumpled against the nearby bed as he tried to walk away from the hole.

Replacing the blaster pistol in it's holster in the small of his back, Vanitas stode... More like struggled towards the window, as with a flick of his wrist it exploded outwards thanks to the Force. Reaching to the small of his back again, he retrieved his disruptor pistol again and he tapped at his holocommunicator in his pocket.

A ship. His ship was coming now if the pilot remained in the cockpit like he was meant to.

[member="Nikias"]

 

[Akhilleus]

[SIZE=10pt]The blaster pistol that was drawn had no effect on Nikias as he was still behind the Makrosian shield that provided a defense against it[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] but Haytham proved smarter and had outmaneuvered Nikias. He had instead made his escape in a way Nikias could never emulate. "NO!" Nikias bellowed. Haytham had escaped through the hole that only grew wider when Haytham went through it. Only one of his ballbearings had even made contact with Haytham[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] the Sith knight was escaping. So caught up with revenge that you forgot to ensure he couldn't escape. Nikias scolded himself. Not only could he not jump up and follow Haytham he couldn't even take the lifts because he had destroyed them to try and ensure something like this didn't happen. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]Poor little jedi... Your weakness shows,[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] not even strong enough to avenge your friends. You let him escape! You failed! [/SIZE][SIZE=10pt]Syn teased her pale form materializing an obvious grin on her face. While Nikias had not died and allowed her to take a new host she had enjoyed seeing him fail in his goal.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10pt]"I will not give up yet." Nikias swore. In reality it was too late[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] the sound of the wall above being blown out was heard and caused a slight disturbance in the atmosphere. The wall exploding was quickly followed by the sound of a ship on approach[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt],[/SIZE][SIZE=10pt] the sound of the shuttle louder than even the speeders that filled Cloud Cities sky. Curses. There was no longer a point in trying to chase down Haytham he had escaped and the sirens of the authorities approaching echoed throughout the city. With a heavy sigh Nikias turned to the stairs and pulled out his datapad readying credits to be transferred to the hotel for the damage he had caused. Oh boy Joza’s gonna hunt me down after this. [/SIZE]

[member="Haytham Kaze"]