Sometimes Family Is Important

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna heard her master while keeping the pieces suspended in the air with her breathing while she continued to move. Letting the force guide her movements with the blade as she was focusing on absorbing the blaster shots. She kept the pieces suspended before releasing them with a force jerk to launch them at the remote firing upon herself. With a look and small grin to herself the jedi padawan was enjoying the training for this while she moved her saber with the force guiding to deflect another shot before the piece crashed into the training remote and her attention shifted to the sound of something striking the floor.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

As the remote drone hit the ground, Jade walked up to it to pick it up. Then she walked up to her padawan and with her other hand gently placed her hand on her shoulder to congratulate her on a job well done.

"Good Lorna. You did well. You have achieved much today. I am happy with your progress. However our bodies need rest, otherwise we'll burn ourselves out. It's time to get some rest for the evening."

The two began walking as Jade continued to speak.

"Of course you are free to do whatever you like for the rest of the evening and night Lorna. We will resume our training early tomorrow morning. Meet me by the lake on the far side of the temple tomorrow at 0800 hours. I have a long day planned ahead for you so my suggestion is that you get some rest as today's activities have been somewhat draining so you'll definitely need the rest."

With that the two parted ways for the evening. Jade would resume her padawan's training the following morning and then get some much needed rest herself.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna looked at her master as she was ready for anything, mostly to fall over as she wanted to rest and just crawl into her bed then fall asleep and relax... for a week or two. She saw her master heading off while she was walking with exhausted limbs slowly going through the temple while she breathed about a couple of things. "Yes master." The smile was there before her attention went to the real treat securing her saber on her hip until she was in her room of the temple. Stripping the boots off and falling on the bed with a plop to make her groan as all sections of her body ached. "I hurt in places I shouldn't hurt."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade very much did what she intended to do. That was rest and sleep. She wasn't super tired, but enough to become easily fatigued at a later time if she didn't rest. And she didn't want to be fatigued while training her padawan the next day.

The next morning as soon as Jade awoke, it was still an hour before 08:00, so she very much she took her time. The lake wasn't that far either. Around a 15 minute stroll from where she was residing. She ate something, sat down and read some news on the Holonet and then got dressed and washed up. She took the necessary equipment that she would need for the day's exercises and headed over for the lake where she would await her padawan. Hopefully she wouldn't be late or too late. She was after all extremely tired yesterday and probably would have zonked out the moment she hit the bed.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna hadn't moved after she had fallen on the bed, laying there and relaxing as most of her attention stayed on the bed and she didn't want to get up. INstead she rolled over when the alarm went off getting herself up while she spoke to the droid that was in there cleaning the room. "I think I pulled something in my butt, tell my master I am going to make a pillow fort and not be a grown up today please." The droid looked at her at the ball that made up its head just stayed there. "You're not going to tell her are you?" It beeper. "Going to make me go and do it myself?" THe droid went back to work as she huffed and started walking. "Fine I will but I need an ice pack." Lorna stopped by the kitchen and she still haad time getting a small pack of ice for nursing small pains that didn't need a medic. Lorns got a couple of looks but she arrived about five minutes late for her master and was holding the ice pack to her groin an rolling her shoulders to try and stretch them. "Morning master."

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade smiled back with a little "Hum" expression as she saw that her padawan was holding an ice pack to her groin. However she wasted no time with any pleasantries. Jade walk straight up to Lorna, knelt down in front of her and took the ice pack from her and placed it on the ground beside her. She then place both her hands on her padawan's groin and closed her eyes. Concentrating within the Force she began a healing technique. A small ball of light engulfed the area of the groin that hurt and around Jade's hands as she applied the technique. She then stopped after around a minute and stood up placing her left hand gently on Lorna's shoulder rubbing it a little.

"How does your groin feel now Lorna? It still wont be perfect, but it should be better than before. When in battle, unfortunately none of us have the luxury of simply stopping if we are injured, therefore if you want to survive, you must continue to fight. Thus why we must continue to train today despite your minor injuries."

As Jade finished speaking she then place her other hand on Lorna's right shoulder and eyed her directly and smiled as she spoke.

"However I don't want to worn you out either. Don't worry as with me, I'll take good care of you always my young padawan."

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

Lorna was standing there and looked at her master. "Feels better, I found muscles I didn't know I had trying to use the force like I did." SHe had been flexing and tense to strain and pull things. "I am ready just need to get used to working more the meditating." She had learned under AIka how to focus and look inward but there wasn't need for lots of physical activity compared to this. Really as Lorna was sitting there she wondered a number of different things like how she was going to feel in a week or a month if this was going to be the normal state of their training. She'd adapt and get used to it. "I just have to many sore muscles to try and cover but I'll get used to it."

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

"You'll get used to it Padawan, all in due time and after hard training."

Jade very much read her padawan's mind. A skill that Jade was good at was mind reading, however she tried not to make the fact too obvious given such talent and skill could be somewhat intimidating.

"Okay let's get started. We will continue from where we left yesterday before moving on to the more serious stuff."

Jade pulled out her little drone again and this time set it to the hardest level. On the ground she placed four rocks the size of small balls.

"Okay we'll get right into the thick of it. Drone's set to hardest level. Deflect the bolts with your sabre, but not back at the drone. Use your recently acquired skills at levitation to lift the stones and hurl them at the drone to disable it. I'm given you four stones in case you miss. You get four chances I guess to get it right. Since this exercise is more intense than yesterday's, this time you will do it without the blindfold to compensate. Sound easy enough to start off the morning?"

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Looking at her master with a nod of her head well there was a whole lot she could think about but getting used to the pain was something she didn't know about but she was all for not hurting all over. THe padawan was ready going back a little while she had her saber and looked at the drones as well as the things she was going to throw. "Alright I am ready." She said it with a smile on her face while backing up a little and feeling the saber in her hand as she gripped it ready to begin. The highest setting and a chance to show she could do it well that just meant she had to impress or at the very least not trip over her boots laces and really look like a fool.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade nodded at her padawan to acknowledge that she was about to begin. She keyed in a set of commands in her Comms pad and the drone suddenly came to life. It hovered in the air and it then began moving fast circling the padawan. Jade then keyed in another command for the drone to start firing at her padawan. Within seconds a flurry of laser bolts came raining at Lorna and in all directions. And it wasn't going to stop unless she disabled the drone, or the drone hit her enough times, which wouldn't be many to knock her down.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna was ready and prepared as she heard the drone shifting her saber to go from one hand and her hand rose up with the tora on it while she moved her fingers. The drone starting to shoot had her moving to catch them as she focused. Blue energy shimmering across her hand when she caught a laser blast moving to the side with her saber activating and catching another one. Slowly the padawan could feel the force energies before she was setting her gears in motion to fling the saber at the drone. She was guiding it while catching the laser blast to empower herself before she observed her master and was looking to see what else she had planned. The pain in her muscles wasn't there as the fresh flow of adrenaline came getting rid of the pain in her body.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade was impressed that her and padawan was able to block all incoming bolts with ease. She was even impressed at how she was able to fling her lightsabre at it and destroy the drone. Well sort of anyway.

"Lorna you did exceptionally well. Good improvising in throwing the sabre at the drone. That's great on how you thought of that on your own and were able to do it. However I do recall asking you to lift and throw that container at it."

Jade pointed at the container still at Lorna's feet and laughed

"But it's okay padawan. Improvising is an awesome Jedi trait. Except in this case you destroyed my drone which I was sort of planning to use later. Oh well never mind, I can always get someone to go fetch me another later on.

Jade patted Lorna on the shoulder before motioning her to follow her and go for walk. They walked about 2 kilometres until they reached a small abandoned warehouse that Jedi Knights and Masters would commonly bring their padawans to for training. They both walked in and Jade didn't waste too much time to get the show on the road.

"Okay Lorna, this will be the exercise where you get overwhelmed with attackers. You need to defeat all attackers, and once you do, the holographic door will then open for you to move to the next level."

Jade then gently touched her padawan softly under her chin and smiled.

"You'll need to improvise with this one. But you've already shown me you are capable of that. Remember feel the energies around you and the Force will come to you and then work for you and guide you."

Jade then left the room and would view the exercise from a hidden upper deck. The exercise would then begin. Lorna was suddenly surrounded by 20 holographic Imperial stormtroopers. The stormtroopers would vanish once defeated. If they shot her, their blasts wound sting and hurt, and possibly knock her down. Other than the stormtroopers, the warehouse was full of stacked containers everywhere. The exercise wound begin once Lorna initiated the first attack. Jade watched eagerly from her viewing deck in anticipation.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna listened to her master and sighed internally while she was letting the force energies brush against her skin. More attackers would mean she had to be careful with the force energies while expendign them and finding ways to absorb them. More then thatn the best technique would men she couldn't move from her position as the padawan prepared watching her master step out. "I am ready master." She was and gripping her saber in both hands while she was focusing to use the blade to disrupt and absorb the energy from them. She could push the force throughout it before readying herself to do the ultimate battle of wills.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

As Jade left the room she could feel the Force build up in her padawan. Her padawan's method of harnessing the Force was different to that of her own. Thus the way her padawan would tackle this exercise would undoubtedly be different to how she would. This would indeed be a point of interest to her, as she got to the viewpoint and watched her padawan ready herself to do battle with the enemy stormtroopers that stood before her. And then the battle would begin.......

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQA7sWZcUMY​

​

Lorna looked at her master go and with all of the ones there she started. Moving quickly as one came at her and fired with the saber rising to catch and absorb it. That gave her something while she was moving leaping up and kicking with the force to smack one away. She came down with the blade up spinning in her hand to smack one away and another into the blade to absorb it before she was rising up and slashing to disable another. She could feel the force better and feel the container she was supposed to use before while positioning herself on the opposite side of them so they were in the middle and she pulled at it to make a weapon while spionning. With the thud of it impacting and coming toward her the jedi padawan smacked it with her saber to send it towards another as she gauged it and brought the saber up to defend. No smile on her face as hurting things wasn't a good thing but training was for the purpose to hopefully not have to in the future.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade patiently and silently observed her padawan from the viewing deck above. She put up a good fight and an excellent show of force to go with it, as she defeated her Imperial attackers. Lorna's tactical use of the Force was now evident to Jade. Energy. The thicker she immersed herself into the battle, the more energy she had to fuel her own ability to harness the Force, and the easier it became for her to dispatch all of her opponents.

"Very good padawan, very good."

Jade returned and congratulated Lorna on a job well done.

"I'm impressed. Now that we know how to get you to use the Force in a way that it works, and works with immense power that is, it means you are almost ready. However one last test remains. Lightsabre dueling. This time you will fend off one on one with a hologram of the legendary Obiwan Kenobi. Being Obiwan, even if you do not defeat him, so long as you put up a reasonable and challenging fight, then you will pass that test."

Jade once again patted her padawan on the shoulder and left the room and headed for the viewing deck. Once she was there, she keyed a few commands in her comm unit for the hologram of Obiwan to appear and then signed for him to begin the duel with Lorna. Jade again would watch in anticipation, confident that something positive would come out of this.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Duel Obi-Wan Kenobi.... DUel a jedi master and from the golden age of combat who survived a purge and more..... Oh frak. LOrna was composed but scared. Even a program still had to have a number of the details. Maybe more so since it had a computers eye for seeing where she was messing up as the padawan held her blade and remained at the ready. Thoughts racing through her mid while she gulped a little resolved to do this and not disappoint her master heading up. Both hands covered in sweat and gripping the hilt of the blade with the program coming before she bobbed her head that she was ready to begin the pain and trail of it all.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade observed Lorna and could sense her slight nervousness. This was to be expected. After all she would be facing the legendary Obiwan Kenobi. Well not quite the real Obiwan of course, but a good enough representation or simulation. The fight would be hard, however as long as Lorna could put up a reasonable fight, then that would suffice in Jade's eyes. After all Jade herself had only ever beaten him once and lost a good 7 times to him. After this duel, depending on how it went of course, Jade would assess her padawan's progress. More than likely she would deem her ready to undertake an actual live mission with her. Something that Jade would really be looking forward to. Jade took in a deep breath and then signaled a command on her data pad for the simulation duel to begin, meaning the holo image of Obiwan Kenobi instantly appeared before her padawan and was ready for the duel.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]

 

[Lorna Halcyon]

[member="Cynna Jade Sunrider"]

Lorna saw it and was ready, her hands on her saber and her blade pointed to the side before she was focusing. Letting the world around her narrow into a small point of view and become something more with center of being. She had seen Corvus use it and the grandmaster had explained it but mastering it well that was something else... best she could hope for was this as the fight began and Lorna didn't move. Letting the hologrtam come in for the strike and she rotated her hilt spinning it up to twirl around and catch the blade. Pressure to reel it to the side as it had begun and Lorna moved to the right of him with her blade to avoid being sliced.

Her breathed remained steady and the pounding sound in her ears came from her pulse as she struck pushing the blade forward as he defended pushing her blade aside with a surge of force energy as she pulled at his lightsaber. To draw on the energy and the longer she could keep contact the more she could pull at the heat and energy of it. Making a look as she crouched down lower and kicked up slashing while she tucked her legs up working to get his saber to the side and kick down at his leg. In a normal being the breaking from kicking the knee in would have been there but a solid state hologram was not going to break a limb.

She kept her focus on him as a blade came in when she struck his leg and gravity caught her suspended body dropping her on her butt as the saber came down and black catching her shoulder with a slash getting a scream from her for the impact and pain of a trainig saber. The padawan was bringing her blade up and pulled back kicking her foot into his groin by instinct before she was pushing at his blade and kicking herself back as she rolled. Holding the blade with one hand instead of both feeling the pain in her shoulder as she surged forward slashing and getting almost thrown down when the hologram moved slashing her back while she ate floor.

 

[Cynna Jade Sunrider]

Jade observed her padawan. She was putting up a descent fight against a far superior adversary. However then she began to struggle. Her pain radiated outward as Jade could feel her padawan's pain. She let it continue for a minute longer but once her padawan was on the floor with the Jedi Master clearly having the upper-hand, Jade decided to put an end to the duel. She flicked a few switches on her comm unit and then suddenly the holo image of Obiwan would vanish.

Lorna remained on the floor even after the holo image had disappeared. Jade came in and slowly walked up to her. She bent down and slowly helped her padawan to her feet. At the same time Jade put her arms around her and held her in a tight and comforting hug. She could feel her pain and was trying to ease it by comforting her.

"It's okay Lorna, it's over now. You did extremely well given the circumstances. I'm so proud of you. You have come a long way."

Jade then moved her body away from Lorna's slightly, but still held her tightly with both arms as she smiled at her.

"Don't feel bad. Believe me, I've only ever beaten him once. Perhaps sometime we can fight him together. Two against one should even up the odds for us don't you think?"

Jade finished off with a laugh.

"Now let's get back. You need go rest up and I'll need to treat your minor burns. You have shown me you are more than capable of becoming a Jedi, thus I'm inviting you to accompy me on a mission. There is only so much you can learn in training padawan, but a world of knowledge and skills you can learn on the field. Will you come with me on a mission Lorna?"

Jade and her padawan would slowly return to base and Jade treat Lorna's burns. As they did that, Lorna would ask Jade more about the mission that her master had wanted her to participate with her in.

[member="Lorna Halcyon"]