Sawa Ike versus The Amalgam

[The Amalgam]

Canto Blight, Evening.

Arrived in: Corrupted Flesh: Vintage X-70B Phantom Class Yacht

Armed With: Skin Shears (Purple Double-Bladed Lightsaber)

First Degree Burn (Laser Pistol)

Wearing: Resistance Epidermis



Canto Blight.

If Mos Eisley was a wretched hive of scum and villainy, then Canto Blight was a classy hive of scum and villainy. The only real difference was the size of the pocket book and the quality of the tailors.

The Amalgam despised these people, in spite of understanding the necessary evil they served. They kept the well oiled chaos that everyone thrived on going. She didn't despise them because of their wealth...she had a yacht herself. Traveled in style, just like Uri. (Even The Amalgam could admit that as sexy as her ship was, it wasn't as sexy as The Silent Erika. There was just something those damned Naboo engineers had gotten right the first time with the space frame. Who ever had dreamt that up had earned their pay, and probably deserved more.)

The Amalgam was here on this rich world of blood merchants to stalk something that got its fill of blood in an entirely different manner.

That something was [member="Sawa Ike"].

She was nothing to sneeze at, this one. Had a good few millenia on The Shapeshifter.

But the Shi'ido was no pushover. She had scores of dead Jedi and other Sith to attest this.

Plus, as she descended into the atmosphere, having paid the docking fee by transmission from her revived shadow-account, she could hide her presence. The element of surprise had felled even the strongest Force Adept.

But she wasn't hiding herself right now. She wanted the vampire to get a hint of what she was dealing with as she descended through the atmosphere, her presence a seething pestilence in the Force that affected even her own ship with the residual traces of her darkness. She had crossed many lines gleefully to get her presence that corrupt.

All who touch Maple were to die, as The Unholy Spirit commanded.

As she landed on a pad overlooking the beach in the distance, spotting a white tower shaped almost like an Ionic Column...the hotel The Amalgam had checked into, knowing Sawa was located close by. It was surrounded by various restuarants and casinos, spotlights shining on it. She walked a long, leisurely pace towards it, carrying a duffle bag of spare clothing to wear to really blend in and wear over her suit.

The plan was to draw Sawa into a crowded, enclosed area, where much of her advantage was negated. The Amalgam was a master of killing in a crowd or confined spaces.

The Amalgam was angered by this one for some reason. No, that wasn't being honest.

The Amalgam was angered because Maple fled to the arms of one who the Shapeshifter assumed, at best, saw Uri as a pet, yet rejected The Amalgam for basically wanting to do what Sawa no doubt intended eventually: Corrupt Uri.

The Amalgam had but one thing to say about that, as she checked into the gold and white, eco-architecture themed lobby, whose arches and doors and stairs had a smooth, curving, swirling aesthetic:

She is MINE to train. MINE.

The Nautolan manning the check in desk had let his eye slide to her skintight combat suit with an intrigued glance because it was being worn by an exceptionally curvy woman with fair skin, black hair and deep purple eyes with a face that was designed to bewitch men and even some women into doing her bidding. He didn't summon security, because it looked so thin it really could have just been a body glove for all he knew. Plus, people got distracted by the curves.

As she finished check-in she saw various, oblivious rich people milling about the hotel. They would not be much trouble. She was quite wrong about this. She'd want to kill all of them by the end of tonight.

No one would be permitted to interfere with guiding Uri to the Darkness. And mailing Uri Sawa's head would be a good way of pushing her closer to the edge.

As she got off the turbolift, her lightsabers hidden in special cavities in her arms she admired the white and gold floral decor of the hotel passages, headed into her private suite and plopped on the king sized bed, the suite having the same white and gold floral pattern as the outside. She didn't notice any of the luxury. She was only thinking of Uri.

Specifically, of how to best cause her pain. It was all she could think about sometimes. Though he she had bothered to finally conceal her presence.

Uri's green gaze haunted her as she relaxed, staring into the ceiling, her beautiful surroundings utterly meaningless. There was only Uri, and the destiny she must be steered to.

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

Sawa hated the smell of Canto Bight, the taste of pomp and riches in the air, the sounds of casino's race tracks, humanity in all of its decadence. She knew full well what it was going to linger on her skin for days after this. THe experience of her life though had taught her how to deal with it, how to handle it as she looked into the mirror. Standing there with pale skin and hair. her hair plastered to her body with the sweat from activities. Her form rising up to stand tall when she turned around to look into the room beyond.. and beyond that there was the open window overlooking the planet itself. Oceans, casino's and a large open area that worked to give concerts.

The soft breathing of the person in the other room, someone from the casino that she had been in. Massive golden lines with white walls and in the night with all of its lights almost looks beautiful but in the light of day it looked more like an eye sore and her well. The shifting sounds of sheets when Sawa entered the room checking it all out. No real ID, the woman was unknown just someone random who had been picked up. Between Ni-Ne, Maple, Elise, Kurenai and Xi well she had been a little busy either training, protecting herself or letting herself enjoy enough of the moment to forgive old grudges. THe energy vampire herself had a great deal on her plate at times.

Stepping into the room though the woman she looked at laying there was very tall for a human woman. Nearly standing six foot two inches. She had midnight black hair in a closely cut crew cut, smooth, dusky skin with deep and intense brown eyes. Her body was in remarkable shape, with her exposed arms betwen the silk sheets showing forearms corded with muscles that flex powerfully with every slight movement she makes. She has a flat, hard stomach, and slender, powerful thighs that had propelled her forward with panther-like grace. Her single tattoo, a lone black wing on the left side of her neck just under her jaw stood out while Sawa grinning to herself.

She had rather enjoyed it and walking over towards the open doors to the balcony even with her hatred of the world and all it stood for... well not all of it. She wasn't opposed to decadence but these ones did it just for the sake of it. No real purpose except to show how and who was richer. She could taste and smell the salty air coming off of the ocean. See the stark white tower int he distance while she stretched out. Her vine silk robes taking a little of the chill from the ocean off of her skin. THe rest was when she was enclosed in the thick and muscled arms behind her. Feeling pressed against the chest that was warm as she drank it in.

"Morning." Sawa folded a litle, giving into the large form behind her as she relaxed into the other form. She grinned turning her head to the side and spoke. "Morning yourself, did you sleep well sweetling?" She asked it and the woman stood there though. her neck showing fang marks and the barest of puncture holes, her closely cut hair doing little to cover her face or head when she gave a lazy grin. "I am doing well my lady." Sawa looked at her and so easy to manipulate, to control. Maple was stronger... Ni-Ne was stronger... how she longed for their defiance... their passion to resist her finely tested skills at control.

She berated herself for well bringing her back here. It was true this wasn't the most secured location easily but it was also well more secured then some suspected. The top level with its four suites had been bought by a private owner so they would always have a place on the planet to stay. Remodels and improvements to the interior were then added and Sawa herself knew that it was actually connected by secret passages and chambers. The different suites had that went into the walls and concealed small alcoves, small rooms for privacy and reflection. The bedrooms, the private sections with a built in pool and spa.

Around her room itself the hijarna stone flooring and walls gave a black and polished display as it reflected down to a mirror finish everything around a person. Her own mirrors bordered with hypergems and aurodium. It was opulent and for some who looked into the gems maddening as their minds could not comprehend the gems. It ws a rare display and Sawa was more then happy to use it to her advantage as she was checking out the rest. Showering in the stand up booth that had wrap around hijarna stone with a crystasteel viewport to the bath tub that could comfortably seat up to ten wookiees and still leave space.

She finished and stood there dressed in the zoosha fabric dress with her midriff showing, long hair cascading down her back, heels short but at the same time showing they were kyber crystal cut and turned to something she could stand on easily. Aurodium string and scales around her belt as she secured it with a jade buckle. THe vine silk sash on the inside giving it a valuable look and her legs were exposed. Thighs and ankles with the barest covering but you couldnt' see anything unless she wanted you to. Her top leaving her shoulders bare, her arm and flat stomach before wrapping around into a thin string giving it almost no presence around her neck.

Sawa was walking down finally out of the lift with her escort, the amazon of a woman cleaned up quite nicely and she was loyal to her master. Service with a smile as it were as the sith lady herself tapped the desk with them calling for a speeder to take her out to the docks. her own provate yacht that could float around and see the ocean ws there and she'd be able to sunbathe as it were. Enjoy the moment before she was covering her silver eyes with a pair of solar shields to walk out of the hotel and casino. THe valets opening the doors for the two of them and Sawa sat down in her seat relaxing with a contented grin.

 

[The Amalgam]

The Amalgam examined the intel she had gathered on [member="Sawa Ike"]. This one had her claws in the Atrisian Royalty, always in the shadows, as was to be expected for a proper Sith.

A cold and vicious jealousy engulfed her as she stared at Sawa's photos, captured from far away after weeks of surveillance. She tried to force it away, but it was very difficult. She almost couldn't concentrate, so choked by hatred for this Sith that had interfered unexpectedly.

She knew it was irrational, for the most part. It would have been simpler to let Uri be seduced to the Darkness...everyone embraced it in their own way. She could have just stood back, let Sawa do the heavy lifting, and then make her pitch to a corrupted Uri who would have been far more receptive to her scheme at that point. And far more receptive to The Unholy Spirit.

But no...Sawa did not hold the Darkness in the same regard as The Amalgam did, the Shapeshifter was convinced. She would infect Uri with the same decadence that had long since consumed the blood drinker herself. The Amalgam was only in a place like this because Sawa was. With the sole exception of her own yacht, which had been gained through overthrowing her master, The Amalgam eschewed personal luxury. No. Sawa was not the one to guide her. She'd ruin her, spoil her.

For that alone she would die.

An old contact on Canto Blight had informed her where Ike would be staying, and the Amalgam had picked the perfect floor to survey her. She had paid extra for a telescope.

She had watched with a sneer on her lips as she saw Sawa walk onto the balcony. Decadent. And with someone. Temporary...Uri and that strange vampire had her attention mostly. No bodyguards...confident little nerfherder...than again so was The Amalgam.

There was a knock on the door and the Shi'ido went and headed to the entrance, drawing her laser pistol as she opened the door. A rodian member of the staff held out a duffle bag. She'd bribed him to ignore it being coated in reflec. She took it, passing him his credits. He left quickly. She wasn't going to kill him later. He was not a mark, in her eyes, just a man doing a quick and discrete service.

Bringing the bag, she set it on the blue and white floral patterned bed, going back to the telescope. Sawa had just gotten into the speeder she had ordered. Perfect time to pay the place she was staying a little visit...

As she blinked while staring through the scope, she saw a flash of Uri's green eyes and pulled back from the scope, hyperventilating.

The sleek, black, chrome starship descended through the clouds, the sun shining partially through them.

It touched down on the dark green grass. And out she stepped. Uri Udinia, The Golden Eye. Golden because her accuracy was nearly without compare.

Her green, wet eyes shined fiercely in the sunlight. She smiled in triumph, holding her staff, bruised as she stepped down from The Silent Erika...

Green, wet eyes that allowed her to wake...

The Amalgam snapped out of it. When had 'that' happened? That wasn't recent...not at all.

The Amalgam forced herself to get a grip, blinking purple eyes as she tried to recall when that memory had occured. That had never happened before.

She'd felt weird ever since she woke up...Udinia's gaze haunted her. Angered her...

Hurt her...

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

Sawa shook off the feeling that she was being watched, this world was always briging attetion and the more dressed up were either up or down... brought those eyes. So she dressed more to match the people as the large bodyguard like woman disappeared into the crowd. THe sith herself though was moving towards the speeder that would take her to one fo the casino's. A track wrapping around it and any number of bodies before she stood there. Wearing the zoosha dress over the well nothing. She looked provacative compared to some who were milling about and got looks but no one tried to linger their gaze upon her. ONce they saw her bodyaurds moving. The Onna were around in their armor gleaming silver and clear but at variable distances.

 

[The Amalgam]

The Amalgam was moving once [member="Sawa Ike"] was heading to the Speeder, still keeping her presence in The Force hidden as she went down the lobby with

The bag she was carrying, covered in Reflec contained a number of interesting things. Things that would make it very deadly for when Darth Shojo came back from wherever.

The Amalgam left the hotel, walking through a cool evening breeze, the lights of the local casinos and buildings being irritating, glittering blobs in the corner of her eye. She would have no trouble reaching Sawa's room. She had pinpointed the floor Sawa had been on. But the vampire was clever. She had left bodyguards. The silver armored Onna. Not exactly inconspicuous but as she entered the lobby, which, unlike the eco architecture of her own hotel, was in straight, angular patterns of wrought aurodium, she at least knew what to watch for. She headed to the nearest restroom, when a young bellhop with fair skin, dark, short hair in a red uniform stopped her and asked to see what she was carrying, she blinked pretty purple eyes, stroked his chin and asked him to follow her, lacing her voice with the Force. He did so of course, and obviously, when he entered the restroom with her, he experienced a death far too hideous to recount, but at least it was over quickly, and he would have been fired eventually anyway for stealing those little mints they put under the pillows in these sorts of places. (The Amalgam, though she would never tell anyone, also frequently stole those mints from other rooms for sport whenever she stayed in a hotel. This was a relatively new habit and she did not really understand why she did it, only that the mints were delicious.)

She came out of course, wearing his face and his body, and his uniform, carrying a cannister. It was coated in reflect also, and contained something lethal...a refined silver nitrate formula she had paid good money for from a group of vengefull Vampire hunters that had been wiped out nearly to a man on Atrisia. Two Onna were guarding the entry to Sawa's suite.

"Special delivery for the guest of this suite!" She called out perkily in the bellhop's stolen voice.

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

Sawa had gone out to mostly.... talk with people. Someone she knew well was here and she had him tracked. Lounging in her speeder as it left the hotel though she sensed something for a brief moment but thought better and little of it. THe prickling of her instincts went a long way to warning her but whatever it was it was far off and staying away instead of coming at her which aroused her suspicions more. Se had the Onna on guard only to observe if they started making a sort of scene and interrogating or going after everyone it wouldn't do much good and alert to it. Though her gaze slipped to the small hologram in her transport as the image of a woman appeared.

She was built like a housewife who indulged herself. She lived off of her husbands salary and was expected to by him run his household without leaving or having her own friends. So much like her daughter who had enjoyed Asano and hers attentions to find a thrill in their simple and dull lives this woman the wife of Senator Denning... well she got to enjoy her secret meetings. The thrill of it exciting to her as she felt like she was in a spy holo... finding dirt on the man who supposedly loved but neglect and only being taken to yearly trips like this... or let out of the house to buy this or that to feel better and be happy was a wonderful reason.

Meanwhile within the suit the Onna looked at the bellhop who had approached, they hadn't been alerted to a delivery but they weren't always told all of their masters plans as Kisenyagi removed her face mask looking at the bellhop. Right eye covered in a gash where she had lost her eye in a fight with some of the assassins. Mythos supporters on Atrisia were ordered to be wiped out and they seemed to reappear in greater number each time he came back to the planet. it was a very strange thing for it but the Onna were loyal to Sawa they served her and aside from orders to not harm her family only one person was designated protected from their blades.

"I see.' She looked at the bellhop but motioned them forward holding the blade, a katana was one thing but these were not just simple blades, they were designed as blastswords from the one world their master had visited. Doubling as jar'kai blades and able to give them range without lugging around heavy equipment. She stood to the side and motioned to a small table outside of the room. THe ones inside were quiet, they didn't need to open the door and had orders not to. Chujo was in there with the guest of their master while she ws getting to sleep and her voice came out. "Set it over there, our Master will be back later and pick it up."

Kisenyagi stood there when she waited to see what the bellhop would do but the other Onna who was standing with her motioned with his head. A small movement, nothing to be alarmed about but they were always going to be on guard for danger. She put her mask back on and sealed it with the heads up display activating and sending a message to their masters comlink that a package had arrived when she went back to her position there. Sawa was reading it and didn't respond but she also didn't make much worry. It could be a number of things aside from an assassin while she was standing there leaning against the transport.

 

[The Amalgam]

The 'Bellhop' did as Kisenyagi asked, setting it on the table and preparing to walk away when she suffered the first of many bad moments of luck.

As she walked away, she spotted two Canto Blight security officers who had just found the dead Bellhop whose face she had stolen...what was left of it, anyway, after she'd gotten through with him. She'd taken the nametag, but they had DNA scanners for the employees, because the guy she had murdered hadn't been the only employee stealing those little hotel mints. (They really WERE that delicious.)

When they spotted a man they knew for a fact to be dead, they didn't hesitate to their credit, and opened fire with wide ringed circular stun bolts that barely missed the Shi'ido, who broke into a run, which forced the Onna to draw their weapons and The Amalgam's hand outstretched, emitting extremely focused bolts of purple lightning that fried some of the Onna and stunned others, allowing her to break into a run, cursing her bad luck. There went that plan.

Whatever. She had a few others. In fact, being discovered early played into one of her back ups, though given the fact she had been given away mere seconds after completing her first objective could be considered somewhat embarrassing in another context, humiliating at its worst, The Amalgam was nothing if not adaptive. But in using the Dark Side, she had given away the extreme corruption of her presence to the savvy Sith.

She hit her transmitter, deciding to force [member="Sawa Ike"] to start moving. The vampire hunters she and Uri had ended up slaughtering on Atrisia had been given a lead on Sawa's location, and they had sent a couple of their own armed with flamethrowers, chosen specifically for their Force Deadness, to shadow Sawa once acquired. Now that they had been activated, they approached Sawa in civilian clothing, their long sleeved business suits hiding wrist flame throwers and silver edged knives.

The Amalgam cloaked her body with the Force to escape the remaining persuers, cursing herself for the plan having gone to hell so early. She would have to wing it now.

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

The Onna could see it and they were moving quickly, two of them going after her when the woman started to run away then was being chased. The captain herself was listening until she was ready to report it. She sent the message to Sawa and the energy vampire was there, she had moved witht he housewife into one fo the hotel suites. A private room and she sat there in the cahir while the woman danced for her. Enjoying the thrill of the danger in this... the excitement that was radiating off of her was practically intoxicating with some of the danger or watching what the sith lord could do. "Wonderful." A smile appearing when she sensed something coming.

SHe was watching the sight of it when they came, bursting into the room and Sawa moved quickly where she was going after them. She moved and needed to protect her investment but was doubtful they were here for the wife... no they were here for her when she saw it and moved letting Akano who was in the other room take care fo the screaming woman. She would protect her and get her calmed down for needs until the energy vampire grabbed one of the hunters looking at him. "Hmmm now what are you doing here?" SHe was curious before looking at some of the dangerous parts here. Sawa held him up ionto the air when a blade dug into her shoulder.

Sawa sneered watching them and she looked at another one of the people with her hand coming out to tear and rend flesh from the body. THe sith lord herself was moving and having to fight with them as she charged through one of the windows leaping out and shaping the fire itself. Jets of blue flame sending her up into the air as she focused the force and shaped air to make herself light and void. TO protect herself when she looked at the less dangerous hotels of Canto Bight. A grin appearing on her face when one followed and she dropped back onto him dragging and pulling him to splat on the ground with a gruesome display where she was roling off of them.

 

[The Amalgam]

Equipped with: Imperial Sonic Blaster (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_sonic_blaster)


After losing her pursuers in the hotel [member="Sawa Ike"] had been staying at, The Amalgam had gone from cloaking her body with the Force to cloaking her presence in it. She had pressed a hidden panel on her catsuit (Because c'mon, what else could it be called at this point?) and the stealth field system inside had kicked in, forcing her to move much slower, to a walk as she went through the vast pavilions between the various expensive hotels, knowing the Force Dead hunters would at least keep the vampire occupied while the shapeshifter retrieved a Reflec coated case hidden behind the bushes of her hotel's front entrance, her presence and body completely cloaked as she retrieved an old school weapon. Like her obsession, The Amalgam had an obsession with classics...

Her taste (which would be to the surprise of precisely none.) was Imperial.

And she had picked an exceptional weapon. One which she praised rather highly in the past for how it helped her kill Jedi.

She had picked an Imperial Sonic Blaster. One reason was because she was a sadist who wanted to see Sawa die up close. The other being its exceptional range for a sonic pistol, and wide area of effect, though it was deadly at close range and lost power the further you were from it. Best of all it could not be blocked with a lightsaber.

She listened for the sounds of battle, smiled as she saw jets of blue fire from a building and went to it. She hoped one of them had nicked her at least. And that it had hurt.

This vampire did not deserve to corrupt Uri!

She watched as the flying Sawa pulled a man off the building, one of her hunters and fall with him. The Amalgam kept a steady pace, sonic blaster gripped in her hand and at kill settings. She maintained that patience as she crept ever closer watching Sawa roll off the dead man. People were running, screaming as the mostly invisible Shi'ido, maintaining her hidden presence in the Force as well, to give the vampire as little of a chance to react as possible.

She held out the blaster in a center-axis relock position, pistol trained directly in her line of sight at the Vampire. She smirked, pulling the trigger, watching the wide, deadly bolt travel at Sawa's head...

...at least, that's how it would have played out ideally.

In reality just as she pulled the trigger, a panicked civilian fleeing the lethal scene accidentally smacked into her from the side, knocking her silly as she hit the ground, causing the deadly pistol to be flung out of her hands, and forcing her to quickly scramble for her saber staff, both purple blades activating and held out defensively in front of her as she prepared for the vampire's assault.

"Okay, I will admit...that was rather embarrassing..." the Shi'ido joked in a rather dry, bored manner.

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

She felt herself holding him and smashing for a women as something happened. SOmeone was hit and they seemed to careen down near her. It brought the hunting instincts full bore as she watched someone speaking and moving around. A small tilt to her head when she was unsure who they were. Interest more like a curious predator that had found a mouse who threw itself at them. Sawa rose up standing there as she watched. Her eyes glinting silver before she listened to her but didn't attack. she moved watching her as she moved around watching her then she smiled. Her fangs showing before she spoke. "Well it happens now I am good when it comes to my memory but I don't recall you.. have I threatened you before?" She was looking at her and motioning with her hand as the sight of an Onna coming was there but Sawa waved them off just letting the force wrap around herself.

 

[The Amalgam]

"You? Good with memory?" the Shi'ido taunted, giving her staff a few spins, feeling the Onna that had been preparing to surround her were called off.

"Not from what I heard...at least, after your darling, Lovely Nine got through with you. You seem to have really bad luck with girlfriends..." she rasped, empty purple eyes staring into predatory silver ones.

"First one you managed to end up pissing off so badly I'm guessing even she can't decide how she really feels. And the second one, well...you really should have picked some other ex-shadow for your pet and to go om nom nom on." The Amalgam hissed with what was clearly seething rage at the end. Uri liked this one...she could tell. It wasn't even that hard to understand why...

Sawa was gorgeous. Seductive. Even the Amalgam could admit it. If she didn't solely prefer men, (though she was not above emotionally manipulating a woman on that level) the Amalgam might have even considered basking in that incredible darkness she felt in [member="Sawa Ike"].

But...no. Sawa was dating Uri...

...and for some reason, it deeply, deeply upset the Amalgam to find Sawa cavorting with a mere weakling. Uri was ten times, no, a hundred times what that wench she had caught the vampire with was worth...yet Sawa was wasting time here on Canto Blight with some tattooed bed-warmer. It didn't matter to the Amalgam that Uri engaged in the same behavior, (despite the blatant hypocrisy of such a position, but she planned to kill everyone Uri loved anyway) only that Sawa didn't do the same because Uri clearly felt something...

Not pausing to consider how insane her reasoning was, nor what it actually said about her obsession with Uri, the Shapeshifter paced around the area while people continued to flee around them. The Canto Blight security was present but they were a savvy lot--they knew not to get involved.

She stopped hiding her hideous, rotting presence in the Force, letting Sawa get an idea of what she was dealing with as purple lightning arced between her fingertips.

What came out of the Amalgam's mouth next was clearly unhinged...and also clearly identified her as the woman Maple had been terrified of when she went to visit Atrisia to "bodyguard" her lover for a few days.

"Uri is mine to train. Mine to corrupt. You? You'd ruin her. Make her decadent. Spoiled...you do not deserve to corrupt such a skilled murderer of that caliber."

The Amalgam let loose a focused, narrow blast of purple lightning, strong enough to short out ordinary lightsaber crystals. Her lightning had always been very accurate...she could pick a can of a ledge at forty paces with a heavy lightning bolt. And that accurate lightning was heading right for the vampire's chest...

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

Sawa was looking at her and listening to her as she watched. Eyes tracking, glinting with the awareness of a cat watching the canary... she was moving around and watching the crackling of her fingers before the woman seemed to go even more unhinged. "Delicious." She said it under her voice and moved fast, quicker then most could see as the force was in her muscles and limbs but she was naturally faster as an energy vampire. Moving forward towards the lightning and she didn't bring out her lightsaber. Instead she could feel the force guiding her under it as the smell of ozone came where her hair was being burnt.

It was a small amount but the smell assaulted her nostrils and fueled her movement when she almost scrambled and crawled along the ground quickly. Hands touching the stone work when she popped up and came up with a section of the stone. SHaping to smash and let her move through the air as she swirled lightning and earth around herself. A maelstrom to try and surprise, to shock and smash at the woman as her voice came through the wind on a whisper but she was manipulating the air to carry it. "Oh so very strong but I will be the judge darling of what or who I am around deary." She trailed off sparring a thought for Maple but oh the delicious ideas that will be coming.

 

[The Amalgam]

[member="Sawa Ike"] was fast. She hadn't fought many Energy Vampires, but that speed issue had cropped up before. If it wasn't for the fact her alchemized body was made to have the fastest reflexes possible on a fairly consistent basis, The Amalgam might have actually had considerably more trouble tracking the deadly Sith.

But the Shi'ido began to reassess her situation when Sawa conjured a maelstrom of Rock and Lightning, and she had to force her arms up and back flip away from the heavy projectiles ripped from the pavement. The other civilians had long since cleared out, and Canto Blight security was just too savvy to get closer. Some of them were eating popcorn. It said a lot as to how common this situation was to the rest of the Galaxy, when calmly watching two adepts fight warranted nothing more than a consumption of junk food.

Amalgam had a bit of an issue now...Sawa was protected. She could try another heavier blast of lightning, or try something sneaky.

The Amalgam backed away from Sawa's storm of rock and electricity, dodging heavy projectiles and barely managing to grind the lightning that went her way by making an X with her purple blades, her petite curvy frame a whirlwind of muscle, until a hand shot out at Sawa and a spell was cast.

"The Darkness must consume all weakness..." The Amalgam chanted.

The Spell of Darkness worked thus: all light around an eight meter radius dulled to almost nothing. The Amalgam had pointed the Spell straight at Sawa, leaping forward with vicious slashes as the spell hopefully momentarily blinded her.

Her taunt had gotten under the Shi'ido's skin. Only the Amalgam was fit to decide Uri's future.

Uri is worth much...so much...you are not fit to draw her to the darkness... she telepathically rasped into the vampires skull as she attacked from all directions with total savagery.

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

She was watching, listening to her and then she fle tit that tingling of the force as she was uncertain. Her sight going darker but she used everything else. Instincts and the force when she was scenting the air. Moving her body quickly down and to the side of the attack using her flexibility and power to have speed as she crawled. She was moving away and around as the other woman spoke into her mind with such hate and it served to make her grin... to make her gleam with interest and power rising up as silver eyes looked upon her. "OH such interesting things." She had to admit this one knew a trick but playing mind games could be interesting.

SHe could play a few of her own games as she focused her field of influence. THe people around them weren't as important. The one here was and so she got the full weight of her gaze when Sawa rose up and moved again. Her eyes tracking, senses watching her and the force itself lashing out more like a whirlwind to enclose them and limit well her movment. Sawa knew how to shape the air and could move with it and make it into her own barrier to protect herself. She was watching and then a flash of lightning to crackle around her fingers before she was speaking. "So much anger, if you aren't careful... you'll burn yourself out and then be useful to no one."

 

[The Amalgam]

The vampire was like liquid in her defense, evading her strikes with the cunning of a serpent, taunting her all the while. They always talked. And talked. And talked.

The Amalgam felt the wind ripple, the Sith's power genuinely impressive as she sealed them both in a wind cage, with a barrier of it to protect herself.

'Why' do you like her anyway? Does she remind you of someone? Ni-Ne, perhaps? And you wonder why I say you will ruin her? After all...look what happened to poor widdle Ni-Ne, all tortured and mutated by your hand. Just 'imagine' what Maple will suffer the moment you displease her the way Ni-Ne did...or do you fear something else? Let's see shall we? The Amalgam taunted with her mind...and then she focused her will pouring all her corruption into a mental attack, viciously trying to conjure up the darkest layer of [member="Sawa Ike"], and exploit what she could, trying to make the vampire succumb to the effects of Force Horror.

Mental attacks were where she truly excelled. She'd seen full on lords succumb to the effects of her particular variation. She suspected her allegiance to The Brain Demon had dramatically increased the effectiveness of her attacks in this area of study. She wanted to see Sawa's mind break, and then violently rip out everything in her mind and leave a husk for Uri to cry over. She would take everything from Udinia. Everything for hurting her the way Uri had...whatever it was she had done to hurt The Amalgam.

She had no doubts it would do something, the psychic attack. But given Sawa's age and obvious strength, she just was not certain how effective this would be...but if it worked at disrupting her ability to maintain this wind bubble which blew her hair everywhere, (this actually hurt due to the fact her hair was actually tissue strands of her own skin mimicking the texture and consistancy of hair, that might actually give her a better opening to cut down this vampire.

Should have brought two pistols. Momentary lapse in judgment, unfortunately. Next time she'd bring a sonic disruptor to the fight...

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

She could feel her, she could feel the power of her mind as she was pushing at the mental barrier witht he force to try and break her. Sawa flashed to learning how to counter and protect herself under mental attacks. Sawa was watching her until they moved around more and more with her hand sending out a force wave. The air shaping, shifting to smack and lash. Her mind locking down into a fortress until she couldn't hear mental conversations locking herself behind a massive steel wall and tower mentally. Battlements, thick doors and spikes all over. She protected her thoughts about Maple working more to secure them when the sith came again.

Sawa was moving and using the shifting air around her to keep the shield as she let tendrils of darkside energy come to her fingers. red and blue, lightning and drain effects to make a loop. SHe had used it before and it was a way to really cause pain, lightning to shock and then drain off the damaghe before it becomes to great while sending it back out with a rebounding effect. Each time getting stronger and stronger as it was used to keep someone writhing around on the ground in pain and agony.... a fitting way she saw it to teaching someone their proper place before the sith sensed someone interfering with them. THe woman sneezing as she caused a security officer to come into the middle and take the brunt of her attack.

 

[The Amalgam]

Curse this woman! Curse her! She simply wouldn't break and die to stop sabotaging Uri's destiny. Her glorious destiny--

The Amalgam redoubled her mental attack, even as [member="Sawa Ike"] charged her own double whammy--lightning and drain...nasty combat choice, she'd done it herself but not without full concentration.

Meaning she'd have to cease trying to savage Sawa's mind and counteract with her own lightning/drain combo. She immediately began doing so, charging the darkness within, building up her assault just like Sawa was...

...And once again, an ordinary person managed to foul it up.

A woman had sneezed, bumping into a useless security guard by accident who had stayed too close to the duel like a fething idiot and he'd stumbled, running right into both their blasts. As he amusingly both fried and rotted from both their attacks, in some reflexive act before expiring, he drew his pistol and it accidentally went off, hitting another nearby security guard who fired his pistol by accident, hitting another civilian (and even more stupidly drinking wine from a paper bag of all things, clearly a frat boy.) that had been also stupidly too close...and the bolt just happened to hit his bottle.

The bottle of course ignited, sending shards of flaming glass everywhere as the now screaming, on fire frat boy ran around sending the remaining civilians and security in a panicked stampede.

One of the glass shards landed in a pile of fireworks prepared for a celebration later that evening setting off shrieking brightly colored rockets that went everywhere, setting fire as they landed out of control, some going through windows in the building Sawa had just epically crashed out of, immediately catching fire on the floors they went through. Another fireworks rocket went through the open window of an air speeder, damaging its controls and activating it, sending into a nearby electric lamp post, which toppled and crushed a team of heavily armed security, trying to reach both of them. Meanwhile the speeder spun out of control and slammed into the now on fire hotel...

"Holy chit..." The Amalgam breathed in amazement, though horribly amused at the same time at the utter chaos...she still kept her guard up in case Sawa had any ideas, but really, this was too amusing...

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

Sawa was looking at the actions and she moved quickly disengaging from the fight itself before she was looknig and letting the security teams move in. She slipped back and away watching and waiting until her attention went to one of the tunnels into a building and down int he wasteworks. She could move around quickly and had fed around here so it would come in handy. The smirk on her face though from engaging well this was invigorating. Maple was beautiful and thrilled but this one... she was dark and serious and wanted to fight. THey would have to really go at it and see who came out on top but that would require that she have all of her equipment. Mostly she had come here without her weapons or a need for them... leaving them in her ship as she came out in one of the bars and looked at the man who was there. A human with slicked backl hair, pale skin and he was smal but one of the best sources of information. "Willie, tell me who that was?"

 

[The Amalgam]

Willie, who had known [member="Sawa Ike"] had been on Canto Blight ever since she landed, had just finished watching the security feed of the disasterous fight.

"Lady Ike, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it..." the mousy, thin and pale man in red clothes answered.

"You just fought a fething ghost.. That woman...no one's seen her in twenty five years. She's called The Amalgam. Her real name is believed to Leejun Forrwiirmeni. She's a Shi'ido witch, with a specialty of deep cover infiltration of light-aligned groups, subverting or perverting them from within and then destroying them. But like I said, nobody has seen her for almost three decades. She went missing. What's she want with you--"

Before Willie could speak any more, a heavy purple lightning bolt hit his desk and he scrambled behind for cover as The Amalgam's rotting presence in the Force unveiled itself. Everyone was running, trying to get away and without hesitation her purple bladed staff ignited spinning and slashing through everyone as the purple-eyed woman gave free reign to her hatred as the wickedly spinning blades chewed through flesh, getting ever closer to Sawa in the cramped bar with frightening speed.

A telepathic message was sent from the savagely grinning woman, and it was clear she had not given up her persuit, merely hiding her presence until it was time to strike:

You didn't think you could lose me 'that' easily, did you?

The spinning blades aimed for Ike's midsection, trying to slice her in half...

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="The Amalgam"]

NO. SHe thought it and had been half listening. infiltrating lightside groups and corrupting them was something interesting but the energy vampire moved with her hands coming up as blue white flames washed over with tutaminis to snatched and swipe away the blade when it was coming at her. THe movement was there until she was going over to fight. THe grin on her face was more hungry and malicious though watching with silvery eyes that were lined with gold. Details coming to her faster and faster though when her saber came to her hand. The black and red metal, folded over and over with a sinister feeling to it. THe blade activated and it was silver with a black core to it. The sensation of the darkside bleeding out of it before she moved using the force to enhance her body.