Silver Blades [SJO]

[Eugen Aker]

Jyoti entered the room from the back entrance just as Josh was chewing out one of his students. It was interesting seeing him in teaching mode, not acting so glum like he had as of late.

"Ooh, looks like I showed up at a good time," she said as she came up next to him, arms crossed as she scanned the room.

She quickly picked out Charlie among the bunch, sparring off against one of the Yumi twins - far away, while the pair were in motion, it was hard to tell which. Her apprentice looked like she was holding her own against the junior Knight, which pleased the Echani. Charlie's former masters may have been too orthodox for her tastes, but they certainly hadn't skimped out teaching her to fight. That made her life as a Master all the easier as she was dealing with a well-educated Padawan with a strong foundation.

"Class seems to be going well. Form V?"

It was easy to tell, people engaging each other with the basic forms of Shien and Djem So.

[member="Garith Organa"] [member="Charlie"] [member=Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Toreka"] [member="Kyoko Ike"] [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] [member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Narcissa Tallhart"]

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

The pink-haired padawan finally let her eyes flick open, aqua eyes settling on Kyoko as she let a small smile tug the corners of her lips up. She span her blade around her body, the silver blade dancing, creating a lightshow in the space around her. “I guess we’re using Djem So, I didn’t really think to bring a blaster remote to training,” she admitted. “Might be a little harder with two defensive users going out at the same time.” Raising her hands the young woman settled her lightsaber in a high position, blade angled up behind her head, the sliver light throwing highlights across her hair as she slowly started to circle [member="Kyoko Ike"].

 

[Kyoko Ike]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

Kyoko looked at Asaraa and curcled with her turning in her position easily with more of a pivot but not giving up her fdefensive stance when she was speaking. "Yeah two defensive fighters testing the skills with no remote makes it kind of awkward sorry. I did try and spice things up." She said it with a wink and it had been a great counter attack... something no one would have seen coming while she prepared to defend and then counter attack. Asaraa understood though that... well training remotes were needed or a need to alternate the students. One should have been designated the attacker while the other defended using the form and then switch off.

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

Charlie was quite the adept duelist, is made Sukai wonder what her training regime was like, only having heard about the girls past life on Tython, but after all Jyoti had taken the smol girl as a student, that must have meant something. Perhaps a prodigy force user? it seemed to be around the time such would occur, one of those types that had untold power and training and quickly rose to the height of a knight, it would be interesting to see how things progressed.

The moment Charlie's hand made a path towards her knee Sukai more or less diverted attention away from that area of the duel, keeping a close gaze on the opponents saber. Riding the momentum of the blade strike Sukai let go of her hilt for a brief moment, grasping it once again in a reverse grip, pulling it up and in a method to block Charlie's blade, which she had decided to activate for some reason.

In that moment Chalire's metal hilt slammed into Sukai's abdomen, a small cough escaping her mouth as the force pushed her back, the Jin steadying herself in a defensive posture. "Well I guess that means you won the duel, was not expecting the use of Tràkata, I better be more wary in further fights with you Charlie-sama, do you wish to continue".

[member="Charlie"]

 

[Narcissa Tallhart]

Respectful, she liked this one. Narcissa shook his hand with respect, her grip as strong as any other, a firm handshake that portrayed her no nonense type of deal. “Nice to meet you, I thought that perhaps you may be willing to engage in a spar. Once again I am open for you to alter and change the rules and regulations before we begin. If it so suits you.” The Echani said, releasing his hand and allowing her own to rest by her side gently.

She took several steps back after they have finished fighting to cast her eyes over him. He’s definitely at her level or stronger, definitely more experienced. Just the type of fight that the Echani has been hoping for. Crossing her arms and relaxing her weight onto her right leg, she would eye him up as she awaited his response.

[member="Garith Organa"]

 

[Kurenai Yumi]

Kuernai was unsure if what [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] said about Charlie was true, the girl was the student of Jytoi, that must mean she was rather skilled in sword play. Looking over she could see her daughter had already engaged in combat with the smol girl, the two seeming to be on equal match. Though seeing Charlie land the first strike was rather interesting, that would be another sore spot for Sukai and her Samuri honor, but enough of that, it was time to concentrate on the current dilemma with Josh, that of being grasped around the waist and pulled in rather close it his well built frame, her pale face flustering up a little due to the close proximity.

Such an event suddenly came to a halt though upon hearing the man shout at the other student, her head flicking back like a birds to spot the commotion, mentally face palming at what two other student where getting up to. 'The Jedi sure are strange some times, if this is a training lesson I dread to know what happens in casual spars', then again that woman who yelled out was an Ike no? if so such made sense.

Continuing to follow the master her heart suddenly sank, seeing who the had walked up to, @Graith Organa and the Echani noble [member="Narcissa Tallhart"] quite literately the last person she wanted to see right now. 'Give my Kyrel Ren any day, at lest that person is mildly amusing to be around, even if he is trying to kill me with utmost prejudice', fortunately it seemed the Echani was already eager to begin with the Jedi master, a small sigh escaping her lips. She had a feeling that any further interaction with the noble would just irate them more, and having an entire noble house wanting her dead was not a situation Kurenai wanted to repeat, especially an Echani high born. "If Tallhart does not wish to spar with me I have no objection, and I shall take that last part about being young as a compliment Mr Dragonsflame", at least she suspected it was a compliment, or a tease, it was hart to know sometimes.

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

[member="Garith Organa"] and [member="Narcissa Tallhart"] had ignored them completely, and continued on without even sparing them a glance. Josh simply shrugged it off as he would look toward [member="Kurenai Yumi"]. "Well, this one's on me, Kurenai. It appears we are both invisible! Oh no, this isn't good, this just won't do at all! I appear to have made us both John Cena invisible! I should correct this, give me a moment Miss Yumi, it'll only take a second."

Josh would in that moment activate the White Current, which if they were actually invisible while he held onto her, they'd have likely reverted by now. But instead, they actually became invisible. "Oh my! Somehow we're even more invisible now! Oh no!" He would respond, absolutely totally not being sarcastic in the least. "Well, so I guess now we're invisible to them" He spoke as he would then revert them back. "Now we're only invisible to the nobility."

With that, he would shrug his shoulders again as he would release his hold on her, moving a bit toward where there was nobody fighting. "Well, Kurenai. I guess you have a sparring partner" He spoke casually, though looked over to regard [member="Jyoti Nooran"] with a warm smile when she arrived.

"You're early, actually" He would admit toward the former (Or was it still current? She took charge so much he couldn't tell. It was almost like she was the actual Grandmaster sometimes) Master Of The Order. "We've just started on Form V. I've got a second part of this exercise lined up for when everyone gets underway. Just taking a bit longer than planned, and some folks aren't wholly taking the exercise serious, but it's cool."

To be blunt, he could appreciate a good arse flying toward your face as much as the next guy. But the screaming was a distraction for the rest of the class.

"Was just about to spar with Miss Kurenai here since she doesn't have a partner. House rules."

 

[Garith Organa]

Once again Gar’ith’s sympathy had helped him to find trouble. During the course of shaking hands with [member="Narcissa Tallhart"] , [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] the class instructor hand come over. He was very cordial and his words were an offer of friendship.


Did Narcissa did not notice the class instructor? It did not eve register that Narcissa could have purposely ignored Josh.

“Apologies”, Gar’ith bowed to Narcissa remembering his strict up bringing with his father on Atrisia.

“I’m neither teacher here nor student”, standing upright now Gar’ith walked over to Josh.


“Master DragonsFlame”, Gar’ith gave a respectful bow according to Atrisian traditions. “Thank you for allowing me to be a guest in your Djo today. Your student gives your credit. She is egger to learn”, with a hand Gar’ith motioned to [member="Narcissa Tallhart"].



He then motioned to [member="Kurenai Yumi"] and then to [member="Narcissa Tallhart"]. “I am most egger to see your two students spar with each other”, he began to say. It would have just been easier if Garith just dueled Narcissa. However each person here comes from a unique culture. It was clear from an Artisian’s stand point. This was Josh’s class and from Gar’ith’s point of view there was certain protocol to show respect to his peer.


He did not mention any misunderstanding on purpose. To do so would be distasteful. From this point Josh could get this situation under hand and continue this training course.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Jyoti Nooran"]

"Seems to be." Matsu moved quickly... her practicing what she had learned from Lotahl and the wolves there was something to try out and moving to different places required some effort but she had been watching in the room and listening. THe jedi master interested in the duels at least in seeing how they handled it. Form V was not something for outright attacking and she saw some of them doing that... it was defense and counter attacking like what Charlie was doing. "Your padawan seems to understand the form." She could see Asaraa and Kyoko both standing still and ready to counter should the other attack. "Though there is difficulty in teaching like this, the students can become locked in a stalemate and there is less talk about how to break through such a form."

THe jedi madter remained there standing though with her smaller height but she wore the robes and cloak. her cloak over her shoulders and arms as it came off more like a cape. Her lightsabers were on her arms obscured but the twin blades radiated the lightside of the force same as her robes and the small inth metal crystal bells and adoration in her hair. One for each year she had studied the force abroad and one color for each different force perspective she had trained and studied within the galaxy. There were over forty bells when it came down to it and each were set to be on small strands of hair. Not heavy and when she wore her massive curtain of hair in its three thicker tails interwoven as a single braid and ponytail they jingled as she walked or bobbed her head.

"They seem to have something decent going on." She said it seeing Garith and Kurenai with a small bow of her head and she raised her eyebrows. "Oh training classes like this are always fun to watch." The jedi master said it and pulled her knees up to her chest while remaining at the same height as she sat and hovered on the air floating up to get a good view of the different groups but still offer commentation on what they were doing here. Or she could look over there while speaking. "So what aspects of Soresu did you tell them to use or Ateru to effectively move and counter? It is always fun to see the way a master puts their own spin on a form. Did you promote the reverse grip style or classical?" She had a grin on her face though wondering but looked at giddy as a school girl.

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

Noting the efforts of the small one, Charlie, Josh couldn't help but smile lightly. She was coming into her own and it was clear that Jyoti had been training her well. Part of him wanted to spar with Jyoti at some point, see if he could pick up a few things to train his own Padawans with... The Echani was clearly quite the warrior, and quite the teacher, and it showed in the form of Charlie.

But now it was time to get back to his own battle... Josh's lips twitched into a grin as excitement could be seen in his brimming brown eyes at the prospect of battle the moment that his lightsaber left his belt and was pulled into his hand through telekinesis. With a snap hiss, the blue blade would be ignited as Josh would bow toward [member="Kurenai Yumi"]. "Alright, let's get this going" Josh would remark as he would prepare to begin...

But he would be interrupted when [member="Garith Organa"] would come over. Josh was a bit surprised to find out that Garith was not actually here to participate, and that Narcissa had challenged him in error. "Huh. You're sure?" Josh would inquire as he would right himself, motioning toward Kurenai to stop a moment. "Well, that's alright" He spoke as he would take a hand off his saber to reach over and shake Organa's hand, indicating he was welcome to spectate the lesson as he liked.

"Hmm... This does bring a bit of a pickle. Clearly Narcissa doesn't want to spar with Kurenai, Kurenai doesn't seem to want to spar with Narcissa, and you're not participating..." He would muse aloud as he thought it over. "Ah! I know! Master Nooran?" Josh would inquire over toward [member="Jyoti Nooran"]. "If Garith is not participating, could you do me a favor and spar with Narcissa? The present sparring sessions are based on Form V, striking at openings and keeping a sharp defense until you can find one, making your own openings if need be. If you're not up for it, I can spar with them both to make up the numbers, of course."

 

[Narcissa Tallhart]

Narcissa would sag her shoulders slightly in disappointment, before nodding her understanding at the courteous denial that he had offered her. She thought nothing bad of Josh, she had met him previously where he had flattered her with an absolute bucket load of compliments. It made her feel a little awkward in all honesty. So she did not wish to interact with him so soon, despite him being quite a nice individual. However the Echani had to admit the idea had some merit, he was strong.

"I am more than willing to spar with Jyoti, we have a passing acquaintance with each other from before. Plus we have much the same base knowledge due to our martial upbringing I would hope. It would most certainly make for some good practice."

She would bow to Garith once more, before then turning her body to face Josh. Moving a little closer to him and offering her hand to shake, it would rude of her to not follow the normal customs, even if he was a complete and total flirt.

[member="Jyoti Nooran"] [member="Josh DragonsFlame"]

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

[member="Kyoko Ike"]

Asaraa inclined her head in a small salute, raising her lightsaber ever so slightly, the energy blade held up next to her face the silver energy highlighting her features for a moment before she lowered her blade into a guard position. “That you did, although in a real fight, if you’re not carfule you might find yourself getting skewered by a lightsaber or some other kinda blade, and I’m sure your family would be sad. Plus you know they’d probably wonder who taught you that bad habit and then they wouldn’t like me very much.”

 

[Kyoko Ike]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

Kyoko looked at her and she spoke with a smile on her face. "Hey ey hey now.... I don't go smacking this tight little rump shaker into the face of just anyone. Only the cute ones." She said it with a wink herself while looking at Asaraa. "Now come lets continue.. who knows my family might just like you enough to fashion you a beautiful lightsaber. Most of us are skiled artisan's and forgeworkers." Kyoko was letting the force flow around herself as she held her blades at the ready and she could feel the vibrations telling her they were activated. She didn't move forward but motioned with her fingers for her before she wanted to do it. "Come on Asaraa, what say... the first one on the floor has to get... no make the other dinner. No ration packs tonight." She winked but moved a little closer to let the force be in almost a bubble around them while whatever else was happening. She was only interested in one person here... the purple pink haired girl in front of herself.

 

[Kurenai Yumi]

Kurenai was expecting [member="Narcissa Tallhart"] to jump at the opportunity to teach her a lesson in some sort of manner, and in all honesty the Echani was probably more skilled then her in the specific area, in a one on one duel using restricted battle methods. As it seemed though the noble was still taking up the 'she does not exist' act towards herself similar to the party a few days ago, once again a better response then she had hoped for, but not one that could continue to be put forward forever.

For the moment she would just stand a little off to the side as the masters conversed, not exatly following the conversations that much, Matsu and Jyoti suddenly coming in to do, well something, or was one of the the 'special guest' that [member="Josh DragonsFlame"] had talked about? It was honesty a little hard to understand peoples positions and what they where good at, having not spent enough time around the Silver Jedi, but gathering from her timely arrival she assumed [member="Jyoti Nooran"] was this teacher, [member="Matsu Ike"] like [member="Garith Organa"] was probably just here to watch. The former giving a bow to Kurenai, herself returning a polite one, any Ike was a friend, even if they had not met yet.

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

The pink-haired padawan shook her head, stepping backwards as the other woman stepped forward, maintaining the space between them as she lowered her lightsaber down to a low guard. "I've heard about you before, half the things we use seem to have been made by one or the other of your family." The silver blade of her lightsaber danced in the space between them, the energy of its blade leaving a trail in the air, as her aqua eyes danced away glancing at the space around them, fitting the other fighters into her mental picture of the room. "Sadly for you, I don't really cook , that's why the cafeteria is great and..." she let her gave flick over to glance at [member="Josh DragonsFlame"]. "Besides, we've already been scolded one for not being serious," she pointed out with a small smile, "I'd really rather not get into trouble again." Stepping forward suddenly she slashed forward lightly, her blade lightly probing the other woman's defences, checking for any glaring weaknesses in her guard.

[member="Kyoko Ike"]

 

[Kyoko Ike]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

She was looking at her and moving, the motion of coming to test her defenses had the atrisian standing her ground for a moment and bringing up her blade to lock it within the slash. "My family are artisans Asaraa, we make things for the jedi order." She raised her eyebrow though while listening to the rest and pushed now with her blade to break the lock and bring the blade up while she went low with her second blade. "And if you can't cook, then ask me and I'll make you something. Rather enjoying this." Where she was looking though and motioning off to the side. Joshua was she could sense now with others which brought her attention around. "We only got in trouble because of me, I'll let you punish me later." She offered a smile though as she twisted on her boot to stay low and use her blades to create a vertical shield as it spun in her palm and the other was going for a slash to the ankle.

 

[Matsu Ike]

Matsu was watching them, some of the padawans and knights were all around and going at it but she remained still. Interested in seeing what they would be able to do as she clasped her hands behind her back. Seeing Kuurenai as she gave a bow of her head in respect. Kurenai was here, Garith was here and there were a few others until they could move around. "THis is going to get good." Maybe she didn't say the last but it seemed the lesson was mostly stagnating and stalling... one needed to be able to learn and practice before the jedi master was more then willing to help in the training class.

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

A mischevious sparkle danced in the girl's eyes as the two blades clashed together. "Well, then, if I get to punish you...how about you cook a nice home cooked meal for everyone here. Training always works up an appetite and we could make it a little pot luck thing. A nice way to relax after learning how to fight for all of us." As she spoke the young woman stepped backwards and to the side, moving away from Kyoko's strike as her lightsaber speared down at the woman's extended arm as she let her gaze dance up and down, examining Kyoko's options as she set herself for the inevitable counter attack.

[member="Kyoko Ike"]

 

[Kyoko Ike]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

"As you wish." Kyoko said it while she was moving with her blades to catch and stop her blade. Moving around with the counter strike while she came up and pushed to try and throw her blades up. Her body more like she was on a spring. Everythign that they were doing though had Kyoko thinking about it and. "But if you think punishing me by making everyone food.. then I have a book you might want to read." She said it with a wink before tucking in and standing at the ready though to defend. She was waiitng for something but watched Asaraa witha twinkle in her eyes. "You are trying to distract me aren't you? Want me to slip so that I can fall on my butt.... but then you wouldn't have a chance to look at it"

 

[Josh Dragovalor]

"Cool. If Jyoti's up for it, neat. If not, I'll get to you after a bit with Kurenai, since I wouldn't want to trouble Master Nooran any further than I already have" He spoke as he would turn back toward [member="Kurenai Yumi"] as he would get back into stance. He would motion for Kurenai to do the same, indicating that they would be moving forward with their end of the sparring as she had requested.

"And... Begin!"

The moment that Josh would ignite his blue lightsaber, he would hold up a hand and promptly snap his fingers. And that was where it all began. Josh had set up holographic turrets that would suddenly appear all around the room and begin homing in on anyone that had already been sparring. From [member="Kyoko Ike"] and [member="Asaraa Vaashe"] to [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] and [member="Charlie"] despite the fact the latter had freshly finished a round, but the increased heat on their bodies from the battle had still made them ripe for the sensors to pick them up. The turrets would begin firing holographic blaster bolts at the lot. While they wouldn't be harmed if the bolts hit them, as they were purely holographic, they could still be deflected and would behave as a bolt normally would when deflected by a lightsaber.

"Continue on!" Josh would command toward the sparrers as one of the turrets would automatically begin to open fire on him despite the fact that he hadn't started fighting yet. Unfortunately for Josh, his attunement to pyrokinesis from the years of extended use and level of mastery had caused his body heat to be naturally higher than it would normally be. While this made him the equivalent to an electric blanket for his son, it meant that the turret was going to target him regardless of whether he was in battle or not. It would fire on Kurenai as well, once their battle began. Josh would speak out to the class again as he would begin deflecting bolts, keeping an eye on the turret and another on Kurenai... "Remember the demonstration, and the nature of Form V! Defend and look for an opening, make an opening if you have to! Take down both your turret and your opponent!"