Hello Darkness, My Old Friend...

[Nima Tann]

Her training has started after Sio pressed the button, which unleashed a lot of training remotes on her way. She took a deep breath and prepared herself for the start of their attack. She closed her eyes to sense the Force aura of the area, since the eyes could be deceiving and she trusted more her senses. Then, a sound came from one of the training remotes and with a reflex her hand went in the direction where it was coming from. The small blaster bolt clashed with her little Force barrier yet it wasn't her intention to reflect it but hold it there. It had a little pressure on the barrier, yet that would be because it was just a training remote. Then, it was the time of phase two. She focused on the energy and tried to dissolve it, only to collect it around herself and get it afterwards.

She focused, focused and focused... She felt the energy she focused on slowly fading away and the physical appearance of it slowly dissolving into nothingness. Then the blaster bolt faded away from the vision, mixing to the area. It lasted like only a second or so, even if it lasted more to explain. She felt like she gained some strength out of it as it continued to disappear. To be honest, it was impressive to do it correctly in the first try! But of course, they were only training remotes. Anyway, her job done with this bolt, she had like a thousand more to take care. A thousand, yep. She enhanced herself with the Force then started to take out the bolts one by one. But the bolts, indeed were laser and they were pretty fast.

One hit her belly. And OUCH! It hurt like hell since she was wearing a crop top! Then another hit her arm. Again, crop tops. Not very good for trainings like these. "Oww!" She said out of pain, but it was also a bit ticklish to be honest. But before another one hit her she collected herself together and countered the bolt, getting its energy. The training continued like that, after a timeskip later and after being hit with a lot of training remote blaster bolts, the bolts stopped coming. She was breathing very fast, and several places of her body were burning a little but nothing more. "Wow that hurt more than I expected!" She said awkwardly laughing!

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


"Pain is educational. It might mean less limbs lost in combat," Siobhan responded. No surprise she was a devoted Mistress of the Great Goddess Ardarvia. "Do you need some time to recover? Take a breath. The next step will be live blaster bolts," having said that she levitated a bottle of water towards the Twi'lek. Presumably Nima was feeling thirsty after all the excitement! Besides, things would get a lot hotter for her soon. For a change, this did not constitute an attempt to make lame innuendo.


"Tutaminis is easiest when you use your hand to catch a bolt, so to speak." Of course, that got difficult when you were being bombarded by a repeater cannon on full auto.

 

[Nima Tann]

"Absolutely. I don't have any more limbs to spare, already lost two." She laughed, but it was a bit pity laugh for herself. She was talking about her legs, of course. But by the help of the Force she could walk without a problem anyway, so it was not a big problem. She caught the bottle on the air and drank a bit, not so much, since she knew she would need more later. "Don't worry about me. I am fine. Just a bit ticklish." She winked, then another soft laugh followed. Training remotes would be too many, but they didn't tire her that much. So, taking another sip from the bottle, she put it to the ground, then proceeded to take her stance for the next step of their training. Live blaster bolts, this was going to be interesting!

"Use hands to catch the bolts. Alright, I think I am ready!" She said, extending her hand towards the lovely predator and collecting the Force around her to create a web of sorts as before, this time knowing what she was doing, her web was a bit stronger, at least stronger enough to oppose a live blaster bolt. Or she hoped it would. She took a deep breath and started to wait her pull the trigger.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Losing your legs was tremendously unpleasant. Siobhan could sympathise since one of her legs had been crushed by a collapsing roof once. That had hurt a lot. However, she didn't push the matter further because she didn't want to possibly bring up bad memories of Ziost.


Nima had grown a lot since that dark day. Regardless, Siobhan picked up a blaster pistol, slid in a power pack and then took aim. Hopefully Nima had received enough practice, otherwise she would have to go to hospital again and Siobhan would feel very guilty about hurting her. She squeezed the trigger and a red-hot kill bolt leapt out of the pistol and sailed towards the Twi'lek. Every Force-user had basic precognitive abilities and Nima's would probably be quite potent since she had an aptitude for mentalism, so that would give her a bit of a warning.

 

[Nima Tann]

As the silence continued before their training would start again and smiles were shared between two, both being a long time in the battlefields and knowing the feeling of the loss, that depressive moment did not last too long as Sio pulled the trigger and their training has started! As the blood red bolt moved very quickly towards her, she only had a little time to react before the bolt could reach to her. So, concentrating on the little force field she created that would be able to stop the bolt in midair and gain her a little time to suck up the energy, she waited the bolt to move towards her web. It wasn't that long that the bolt reached and locked on her web, it was indeed more difficult than some training remote bolt as it was hard to keep the bolt on the air and it hurt a bit. But of course, she managed to lock the bolt and phase 2 would begin! So, she concentrated on the bolt's energy and tried to dissolve it, only to take it for herself afterwards. The appearance of the bolt glitched a bit, as if it was reacting to her intrusion, and as she was dividing her concentration to two, it got more difficult to keep the bolt there. So, before she could fully suck the energy, a slightly weakened bolt freed itself from the web and with the same speed launched towards her.

It would hurt a lot if she was hit by it of course, even though how weakened it was. Call it a reflex, or the result of her trainings with Sio, she tried something else. Catch the bolt with your hand. So she immediately let go of the Force she collected around herself, and focused on the bolt fully. Then, extending her hand towards the exact place that the bolt was coming, she continued to concentrate and concentrate. The bolt was almost about to pierce her hand, was too close that her hand started burning, but the bolt stopped moving then and slowly dissolved into nothingness... And she felt a bit of the energy returning. Of course, it was a fail since her hand got a bit burned and was hurting a lot. Nothing Nima couldn't handle though, since she survived much harsher conditions. "Oww.... I suppose you didn't mean "Catch it with your hand." in a literal sense, huh?" She laughed in pain, then shook her hand a bit. Then she took a breathe to let the pain out, and added. "Let's try again."

Maybe it was the time for another training montage!

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


It was not quite a fail because Nima's hand had not been blown off! We rarely see this in the movies, but blaster shots are actually quite nasty. Getting roasted by a plasma bolt is not fun at all. Of course, Nima's hand was still hurting!


"Alright," Siobhan said. She felt a bit concerned, but then took aim and fired again. This time she fired two bolts in quick succession. Presumably at this point a training montage ensued. For the next couple minutes Nima would be bombarded by blood red bolts. All of them were on a lethal setting. Hopefully none of them would seriously hurt her.

 

[Nima Tann]

Training montage intensifies!

After a couple of fails, bloody wounds and lots of burning, the scene slowly returned to the normal speed. Yet of course, none of her limbs exploded, or stopped working. So that was a good sign and meant she was improving! Also, she was getting better at dissolving the energy and taking it for herself, this whole process lasted less and less time in each attempt. Breathing very quickly with the pain and the intense training that has happened in the background, she looked like she was about to fall down. One could say trainings with Sio were not like the ordinary ones, they were much more difficult, and most rewarding. As you tried to survive, you would learn quickly. Besides, being it a Force training, it also was a speed training as well, so she was improving both ways.

She started to laugh, as if to suppress the pain. Sio could see steam coming out of her and little blood dropping to the ground. "I feel... very energetic..." She said laughing. Yeah, sucking the energy jokes. Tears started to appear as an effect of the pain, but still she was alive and well so the pain would pass. As the lovely predator said, wounds in training would prevent losing your limbs in a real battle. "I... think I need to sit down a bit."

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]

Maybe one day young Nima would be able to pull a Satele Shan and do this. Actually, on second thought attempting to block a lightsabre with your bare hand and absorb several thousand degrees of hot plasma would probably result in a very serious or lethal sabre injury. Then again, once upon a time a Sith Lord had created a star and it was possible to use the White Current to cloak entire starships.


Either way, the training montage was completed and Nima sure looked like she needed a break. Drops of blood dripped down to the ground. Siobhan dropped her gun and quickly rushed towards Nima. Well, as fast as she could given the fact that she had a bad limp. "Are you ok? Do you need medical attention?" There was clear concern in Sio's voice and she quickly helped Nima to a seat.

 

[Nima Tann]

Now opposing a lightsaber with bare hands would be pretty cool. But of course that would take several years of training, and several training montages instead of one. So, the state that Nima was in wouldn't let the Jedi Master do any more of those training montages as she was clearly in very bad situation, bleeding, burning and all. So with the help of the lovely predator she sat and sighed. It was bad that she made Sio worried again, she had to stop doing that! "My back is killing me." She said, laughing softly afterwards. Not even talking about the open wounds and several places burning, since she had been in worse situations. "I am fine, Sio. Don't worry. Just a bit tired, that's all." She said, then added. "But I think I won't be able to train more for today. I already exceeded my limits." Using the Force to both enhance your legs and doing a lot of acrobatic stuff, and a very unforgiving duel beforehand would be pretty tiring, now to think about it.

"How about we finish the day in your hotel? I am in need of a good massage right now." Well, seeing the favorite hotel servants would be good again! And she wasn't joking when she said her back was killing her. But before two of them would react, training room's doors opened quickly and an old man, with their new favorite young Togruta at the back holding her head down and her cheeks appeared to be very red, entered the room. This had to be Master Krook, looking at both with not very Jedi like anger and his look seemed like it would burn the whole room. And their little Togruta friend seemed not to be trusted, but of course she wasn't the one that would quickly judge someone, they were going to hear about what really happened soon. After they dealt with this. "What's the meaning of this?!?" The old man's tone was like a snake spitting venom. Well well, now it was going to be interesting, and it was going to bring a lot of headache for Nima, to say the least. Nima looked at not the Master that was spitting words but the Togruta behind him. A very, very disappointed look.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

OOC: Use the NPC's as you like

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


It was such a sweet moment, but then Jedi burst into the room! Master Krook looked most unhappy. As a matter of fact, he looked like he'd chewed on a sour lemon. His tone was that of a serpent spitting acidic venom. "Training," Siobhan said dismissively, not liking the manling's tone. "Do you have anything relevant to say? I'm rather tied up at the moment."


"This is unacceptable behaviour. First you corrupt a kind Jedi Master, then you lead my Padawan astray and seduce her to sate your carnal urges and now you're using guns with live rounds in the training hall. The Assembly will hear of this. This is still the temple of a Jedi order dedicated to serving the Light and fighting evil."


Siobhan looked bored. The man conformed to her stereotypical image of the average Jedi master. Moreover, she saw men as beneath her. "Funny, your Padawan was very eager and, if I may so, she's an excellent linguist." Err, Siobhan, that was so not the thing to say. "By the way, if you're so eager to fight evil, may I ask how many Sith you've fought lately?"


"Don't speak about her like that. She was an innocent lamb before you sunk your talons into her. I have dedicated my entire life to removing the Scourge of the Dark Side. The Coalition made a grave error by abandoning the wisdom of our forefathers and allowing evildoers like you inside its borders. We might as well invite the Dark Lord if our new policy is to consort with war criminals..."


At this point Siobhan had enough. "Oh, shut the feth up. You're a narrow-minded, ignorant old fossile who cannot stomach the fact that his beloved Code is a failure and his time has past. I find it amusing that you completely fail at controlling your anger. Not very Jedi-like, is it?"


The old man's face was red with anger, but she was not finished. "I also find it incredibly patronising that you think all these women are like weak flowers who need to be shielded. I suppose it's due to your inherent inadequacy as a manling. No surprise so many Jedi turn traitor the moment you let them out of the Temple. Now get out of my sight."


"I will..."


"I said get the feth out!"

 

[Nima Tann]

Master Krook seemed like he didn't expect such a resistance as he entered the room, but of course he was very, very wrong. Even Tara held her head high and looked at the lovely predator. Sio, being the awesome person that she was, took the flame and reversed it towards the man immediately. Master Krook was shocked, his words stuck in his throat so that he coughed angrily. She felt his anger growing as the truth was spilled right in front of him, as Sio said, not very Jedi like. And his hand almost went towards his lightsaber, but he controlled himself. He wasn't going to get out of this fight easily, that stubborn old man. He had no idea. So he continued to speak, spit his so unneccessary 'Light Side' wisdom, in this scenario, if he left it would be better for him. "You are corrupting the Jedi. You are trying to destroy what those good people created. You darksiders should burn in hell. You are the real danger to this Temple, you wretched woman." Whoops, he definitely shouldn't have said that. There would be grave consequences, if she knew Sio that much. "Sio please." She said telephatically directly to her, since she knew what was about to happen. And she decided to join to the conversation.

"Master Krook. You are being very rude and breaking the rules of the 'Code' that you are trying to defend right now." She was always the negotiator, had no intention to show the wild Nima if the situation wasn't that dire. "You should apologize to Siobhan, this instant." It was a cold statement, almost commanding voice with all the seriousness. "Me? She should apologize for corrupting both of you! Look at yourself, you are defending her against me. You are no better than her! And you call yourself a Master in this Sanctum?" He continued. This made Nima sigh, but she was determined to stop this arguement before it could get out of hand. "You are not making sense, Master Krook. We are not corrupted. We have not become the Sith. We still fight them, and we still have the same purpose. We are just looking at the situation from a different perspective. Jedi say knowledge is power, right? So, if we knew about the Dark Side and tried to understand it instead of going blindly against our enemies, wouldn't it make us more prepared against them, and make us more efficient in our quest of protecting the weak and destroying the Sith? And if I was corrupted and as you said, a bad person, would I be speaking to you in this manner, even though you clearly continued to insult us from the moment you stepped in here?" Such a pacifist, Nima was. "So please, apologize to Siobhan, and get out of here. We were training, and we both need rest."

"I..."

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

OOC:

Spoiler

Leaving his answer to you

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Whatever Master Krook had wanted to say would forever remain a mystery, which was truly a shame. "I have had enough of your snide insinuations." Without any warning, Siobhan suddenly lunged forward and rammed her clenched fist into his face.


The old Jedi tumbled to the ground like a sack of potatoes. Siobhan had broken his nose. "I guess I just got darkside points. I just needed to get that out of my system, you know? I feel so much better now," she examined her nails critically. "Hmm, Nima, I believe my nails need doing. I'm thinking pink or purple. Let's go."


"You barbarian! I will inform the Council that you assaulted a Jedi. Master Tann, if you go with this fiend I will do everything in my power to get you expelled from the Silver Jedi Order!"


"Whatever," Siobhan said dismissively and simply limped out of the room, though not before giving Tara an outrageous wink.

 

[Nima Tann]

Well, of all her attempts to solve things peacefully... Things didn't work out so well, for the old man now on the ground, his nose bleeding. Well, she would say he deserved it to the end when he said those bad words towards them both, but of course this was going to bring so much of a pain for Nima. Anyway what's done was done now, there was nothing that she could change and she would lie if she said she didn't enjoy this little punch. So, as she was called by the lovely predator to escape the room, she started to move towards the exit as she was tired from all this drama as well. And then he had to speak and throw threats again. They didn't know when to stop, did they? "As a member of the Council, your concern is appreciated and noted, Master Krook." She said as her last words and turned her back again, there was nothing else to be said. Then, she walked past Tara, and of course turned to examine the girl for a second with a cold gaze. "Tara..." She said, still a disappointed voice. "Master Tann... I am sorry... Wasn't my fault... He read my mind..." She said, embarassment could be clearly read from her expression and she seemed not to be lying, but trust was such a weak thing, and it was broken now. "Go bring him to a medbay." The coldness in her voice continued. "Or tag along if you want." Still, she was pretty forgiving in such situations. Then she quickened her steps to catch up with Sio without waiting for her decision.

She caught up soon, and then started to talk. "It was a good punch." She said with a soft laugh. "You showed him his place. You should've seen his shock after you left." Yep, it was a very friendly reminder for all the readers to remember not to mess with Sio. Else you would have a very bad time. "Now that little distraction is out of the way, we can return to the fun things, hm?" She said, then took Sio's arm with a gentle squeeze. Of course, this little argument meant that a big headache was about to hit Nima very soon, but Sio was way more important than those distractions so she wasn't going to bring them up. And besides, she could imagine Sio being a little angry right now. And she felt a bit responsible for that, even though she maybe was the last one to feel responsible about all this, it was her personality to immediately criminalize herself. "I am sorry." She said afterwards with a sigh, feeling very bad.

Was Tara coming or not, find out in the next episode of Dra... Wait, this joke was already used by the writer! So yep, they were going to find out. But Nima was looking forward to the massage, because her whole body was aching.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Siobhan just shrugged and gave Nima's hand a squeeze. "Oh, it's fine. He's just another inferior, pathetic manling. Jedi hypocrisy never ceases to amuse me. Don't apologise fot the stupidity of an ignorant cretin. You did very well, so for heaven's sake stop blaming yourself. Only thing I want to do now is go back to the hotel and spend the rest of the day being pampered and ravishing you." The Countess clearly had her priorities figured out.

 

[Nima Tann]

"Well I am a bit guilty in this. But I got my lesson. Next time I am going to come to you instead of calling you here. We can do whatever we want without any distraction that way." She said, always trying to learn something from her mistakes. Even though she wasn't thinking clearly when she called her here, but that seemed so far now as she was feeling great now. There was no sign of Tara, but she could understand that. Nima would be very embarassed if she got in a situation like that as well. Probably she was crying or something right now. Maybe it wasn't her fault too, and she was telling the truth when she said he read her mind, but they couldn't know that, and all this was her theories out of this situation. The young Togruta made her remember her old self a lot, and that days seemed so far too.

So after she got lost in her thoughts and realized that, she shook her head, and then returned to the scene from her own thinking space. "That sounds like a plan to me, Mistress Kerrigan." She said with a wink. Whenever she used titles like that she would tell them in a playful and joking way, her way of telling that she was looking forward to the 'ravishing' part. A timeskip later, they would arrive to the hotel.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


"Excellent, my lovely little Twi'lek," Siobhan purred. Her moods were as tempestuous as the powers she called upon. Her earlier anger seemed to have melted away and been replaced by a strong feeling of lust.


She pulled Nima into a deep, loving kiss. Obviously she did not care who might be watching. "Come on, dear. Time for some fun..." And with that our ladies probably vanished into the land of massages, pedicures and fade to black scenes!

 

[Nima Tann]

After having such a violent argument with one of the Jedi, it was good to leave this place. She liked the Temple for its peace and quiet, and if there was no more, so she had no reason to stay, of course she would return back after a while since her home was still there but first she had to be "ravished" by the lovely predator.

Many,many black clouds of censorship later after they arrived to the hotel, it was almost about be next day afternoon. Nima was absolutely tired, probably ravishing was a bit too hard, double the pleasure ofcourse, knowing Sio. It was almost like the yesterday's events didn't happen, or she was too tired to think about that.

She slowly stood up and took her clothes, wearing them one by one. After she was done, she started to walk around trying to find Sio. Probably she was already up since Nima overslept.

Still yawning, she found Harmony instead. "Hey Harmony. Do you know where is Sio? About to head home so I wanted to say bye to her." She said with a weakish voice.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


"The Lady Mistress is in the lounge. Come with me. Did she wear you out? I know she's got a big appetite. Do you need some cold water to cool down? You look rather hot," Harmony asked trollishly, flashing Nima far too innocent smile.


She took the Twi'lek by the hand and led her through the luxurious interior. The suite had no less than three bedrooms, a lounge, a gourgeous entertainment area and a shrine for the Goddess Ardarvia. The entrance hall was probably bigger than the Jedi's entire room.


Nima would find Siobhan lazing around on a couch, attended by two attractive Eldorai, one male and one female. The buxom girl was feeding her grapes and stroking her firemane, while the muscular man was serving as a footrest. The Countess wore a long blue silk robe and it was pretty clear not much else.


She smiled brightly when she saw the two. "Ah, Nima, darlin'. Did you sleep well?" she purred and raised her foot with its perfectly pedicured toenails. Without a word of objection, Harmony bent down and took the foot in her hand, kissing it. Then she nodded towards Nima. It was probably a good thing that Siobhan took foot hygiene very seriously.

 

[Nima Tann]

And there their journey began, their quest would be to find Sio. She smiled as she heard Harmony's question. There would be a lot of voices to hear last night anyway, so that was pretty normal to ask, and so she answered. "It was a bit angrier than usual. You probably heard her breaking a Jedi Master's nose before coming here." She laughed. And if she was less tired she would flirt back at her trolling, but she took the question literally. "Water would be pretty nice right now, thanks." She continued to show a tired but sincere smile. She liked Harmony, her trollness was very cute. Before they would arrive at the lounge, she probably brought her a glass of water so she was feeling a bit better now. As she entered the room, another smile was placed on her lips, this one was bigger. Sio was being Sio, and there were two slaves pleasuring the woman, seeing her happy made her happier, but it didn't change the fact that she was still very tired as well.

"I slept very good and very much. That's a first!" She said laughing. She took a sip from her glass as her sentence finished, then she continued. "And I am still very sleepy. Like, I can sleep for 20 hours more." And a yawn and another awkward laugh followed. Sio probably understood why, since there were two people that she didn't know in the room, and she wasn't as relaxed as she was with them. "It's probably the time for me to go home now. Or else Ice will start to eat my furniture." Yep, leaving a horse sized mutated wolf hungry in a home would be a bad idea. Besides, maybe there would be more pirates to kill, who knew? It didn't sound fun, comparing it to the more quality time she could spend with her. She walked towards her and gently placed a kiss on her lips. At least she was relaxed enough to do that! "I'll miss you." She said with a sad smile. Who wouldn't miss Sio, actually? Credits scene was slowly appearing at the distance.

[member="Siobhan Kerrigan"]

 

[Siobhan Kerrigan]

[member="Nima Tann"]


Siobhan smiled sweetly. "Ok. Best hasten back then. Wouldn't want Ice to get hungry! Tell him hi from me. Come back soon," Siobhan spoke and returned the kiss. The horse sized mutant wolf was truly adorable. Anyone who disagreed had no heart.


However, we cannot end the thread without some Siobhan trolling, and so the Countess suddenly began to giggle like a schoolgirl. Why? Well, Harmony had still been massaging and kissing the woman's foot. She felt like it would be fun to troll her Mistress a bit. The best way to do this was by running her very nimble fingers along the bottom of Siobhan's foot because the matriarch was rather ticklish! "Hey, stop tickling!" Siobhan exclaimed.


Harmony looked as innocent and contrite as could be imagined. Inside though she was rolling on the floor laughing. The elf girl who'd been feeding Siobhan grapes suppressed the urge to laugh by covering her mouth. "Sorry, Mistress! I did not realise you were sensitive there. I'll make amends!"