Private Table Manners

[Maro Tane]

The broken chair hit both of their arms, sending the lightsabers they held dear flying across the room. With that, Maro swiftly rotated his body and connect his leg with her body. The blow was hard and true, but to his surprise, it didn't knock her down nor faze her that much. He hobbled heavily on his leg as he narrowed his eyes to the woman, a sly, crazy smirk spreading across his lips "A mistake? ohhhhhh I don't think so!" he spat back before was unceremoniously thrown back.

Maro stumbles back into the wall and grunts, a snarl aimed right at the confident Jedi "You've never faced or seen me before Jedi, soon you will be eating those words, along with your teeth!" he stated with fierce intent. On the other Maro could feel the intense force of energy coming from her, one that seemed to be dimming by the second. She was powerful right now, but the serum was still doing a fine job in wearing her down.

"You may feel strong now, but before long you won't have an ounce of energy left in your body!"

Throwing all the pain he felt into aggression he ran at the woman and threw a combination of strikes to her body and face. They were swift and precise, something that showed he had a good fighting background behind him. He wanted to really make Valery suffer to the point her mentality shattered and beating her into submission was one way of doing it. Their fists flew at each other, blows hitting all parts of their body equally in unison. Although, when Valery tried to respond with a kick he'd do his best to hold it and suddenly slam a powerful elbow into her knee, before leaning over to sink his teeth into her thigh to add insult to injury.

Valery Noble​

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Space
Appearance: Link
Outfit: Factory Link
Weapon: Double-Bladed Lightsaber
Ship: Link
Tag: Maro Tane

"You may feel strong now, but before long you won't have an ounce of energy left in your body!"

"I'll make sure you're down long before then," Valery quipped back before she raised her fists and waited for him to move closer. Between her speed and the augmentations to keep herself strengthened, she was able to either dodge or absorb most of the heavier impacts, but both were taking hits as the fight progressed. He clearly knew how to fight without a weapon and she did too, but she hoped to find her advantage in the way she was able to manipulate the Force in battle somehow.

She just had to make sure to exploit it soon, before the serum could actually bring her down.

A powerful kick was meant to open up his defenses for it, but in a quick response, he managed to catch the leg and planned to cripple her. The elbow came down, but hopefully to his surprise, the impact would feel like hitting a metal wall. The Force had pulsed into the bone and flesh around the knee, strengthening it so much that she barely felt a thing. It was, however, not capable of stopping what happened next — the man leaned in closer, and buried his teeth into her skin.

A yelp of pain escaped her lips, and with all her power, she pushed away and lowered her foot back to the ground, "What the..." she gritted her teeth and looked at him with fire in her eyes. He likely thought it was amusing or planned to make some kind of comment, but she wasn't going to give him any time for it. With incredible speed, she moved closer and barraged him with fire-infused punches, which she finished by again turning to the Force, this time to throw him head-first up into the ceiling.

There was no holding back at all anymore.

 

[Maro Tane]

The sharp as razors teeth of the sith sunk into the flesh of the Jedi, puncturing her skin and drawing blood. He was tempted to bite down even harder, but Valery managed to push away and gain some much needed space away from him. The man stumbled back and flashed his bloody teeth at her, his mouth opening to try and say something smart once more. Yet, within moments Valery rushed right back at him with fiery eyes and fists.

Maro grunted and raised his fists, blocking and avoiding some of the punches that were thrown his way. Just when he was about to counter, another fist slammed into his cheeks and forced the man to snap his head to the right. Spit flew out of his mouth as another fiery punch slammed into his stomach, almost lifting him off the floor. Maro gasped in agony, unable to keep up with such quick and precise attacks. The evil genius couldn't even recover for a second when she suddenly sent him flying head first into the metallic roof. A loud bang erupted throughout the shuttle, leaving him motionless as he fell chest first down to the floor.

A stream of blood flowed from an open wound at the top of his head, slowly dripping down to the metallic material below. Maro was hurt, very hurt. However, the maniac didn't know that himself. His lack of feeling for pain was unnatural, leaving him to push past limits that he didn't know he broke. Laying there his vision was blurry and in a spiral, while his body was scorched and reeling from the fire punches Valery had landed on him before. Even with that going on, the animal was only truly waking up.

Hearing her steps get closer, his head snapped up as well as his hand. Within an instant purple lighting shot with powerful velocity into her chest, enough force to send her flying back into the metallic wall. Maro staggered up to his feet and chuckled to himself with a stream of blood running down to his face.

It was time to go all out...

With a blood curdling yell, the man rushed the Jedi with intense speed and threw strike after strike at her midsection and face, each one forcing a grunt to escape his growling lips. The pain and anger inside of his body fuel the very means of his power, and now thanks to the Valery he was going to use it to his advantage. Maro only came to a stop when he tried to get behind her and wrap an arm around her throat, attempting to roughly pull her back down to the floor with him and choke her out in a tight sleeper hold. Unfortunately, this amount of strength could not last forever. He needed her weakened and fast before he got too tired himself.

Valery Noble​

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Space
Appearance: Link
Outfit: Factory Link
Weapon: Double-Bladed Lightsaber
Ship: Link
Tag: Maro Tane

The shift to an even more aggressive approach after he bit her leg further pushed the Sith to his breaking point, albeit one that wasn't going to affect him until he crossed that line. The pain and almost crippling injuries from her fiery blows hardly seemed to stop him, even though she knew they had done a lot of damage to his body. Soon, however, he wasn't going to be able to stand anymore, and all of this was finally over. But she also understood he wasn't going to let himself be brought down easily.

With a telekinetic attack, Valery had sent him Maro up against the ceiling with enough force to make him bleed. He seemed staggered, weakened and so she made her approach with the intent to finish it. But as she readied herself for a follow-up attack, she felt him tap into his anger from the entire clash, and a sudden, powerful surge of lightning was fired at her from his fingertips. The arcs connected with her body and sent her flying back into the wall.

The extreme heat and pain that had moved through her body left her stunned long enough for him to get back up, and he used that time to quickly close the distance as well. A barrage of attacks then came her way, some of which she blocked or dodged, but several connected with her stomach, sides and especially a powerful one against the jaw sent her stumbling away from the wall. This gave Maro the opportunity to slip behind her and within a second at most, she felt his arm wrap around her neck and throat, cutting off her air while he attempted to pull her down.

Instinctively, her hands came up in an attempt to remove his grip, but it was futile and soon black spots began to disrupt her visions. She had to remain calm and act fast, or she was going to black out completely.

When a plan struck her, Valery reached out with her hand and closed her eyes as she focused on the Force. Very abruptly, she summoned her double-bladed weapon back into her hand, and hit the activation switch after angling the weapon. It was too risky to aim for his head or torso, but his legs were much easier to target. Hoping for the plasma blade to explode through his right leg, Valery quickly offered a lot of resistance again to get out of his grip and back up to her feet.

 

[Maro Tane]

Maro flexed and pulled against the Jedi's throat with everything he had, his natural strength pulling her back from the wall in the hopes of taking her down. The man let out a snarl and seemingly lifted her feet off the floor a few inches to leave her feet dangling, only for the man to fall back first to the floor with her in tow. With a thump, he suddenly wrapped his legs around her waist and squeezed even more viciously. The noise of her chokes and heavy breathing was a good sign she was losing air fast.

"That's it Jedi... just give in now!" he growled as she tried to pull down on his arm to no avail. She was getting weak to the point where even her strength was betraying her, Valery was slowly but surely getting to the point of no return. Flashing a signature toothy smirk, he used the hatred inside to crush and constrict her windpipe further "Before you know it, you'll be sitting at the table with the rest of them..." he proclaimed in victory as he noticed that she had shut her eyes.

Not seeing her hand raise slightly he decided to go in for the final move of his plan, the dreaded paralyzing bite "Y-you fought hard Jedi, but now your fight ends here" he said with a sinister chuckle as he opened his mouth and flashed the razor sharp teeth. Getting closer, he to latch them to the side of her neck and send her dreaming, but as his teeth were about to touch her skin Maro saw a flash of a lightsaber and something crumpled to the ground.

Almost instantly, he knew something was wrong. The host didn't have time to look when Valery used a burst of energy to break out of his grasp. When she got up his gaze instantly shot to his legs, where he finally discovered the horrid truth. Just below his knee, the leg had been cut clean off, leaving it in a smoking mess on the floor. Maro's eyes opened wide in shock as he looked at the stump in an agonising scream. For the first time, he finally felt true pain.

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Maro seemingly went into a full state of panic, his hands reaching down to grasp it in pure shock. Desperately, he began to crawl away from the Jedi, trying to save what has left of his terrible life "P-please! no no... not like this! mercy!" he pleaded to Valery, his battered and bruised body trying to slowly drag itself back to the table.

"Fuck... fuck.... I don't want to die!"

Valery Noble ​

 

[Valery Noble]

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Location: Space
Appearance: Link
Outfit: Factory Link
Weapon: Double-Bladed Lightsaber
Ship: Link
Tag: Maro Tane

With the signature snap-hiss sound, her blade ignited and not only cut into his leg but severed it from the knee down. The pain and sudden loss of balance it created made it impossible for the Sith to maintain his grip, which meant Valery was finally released. Her windpipe had nearly been crushed in the choke hold, and she still felt the pain, but she was able to breathe again and gasped for air as she fell down to hands and knees, the hilt of her weapon still firmly in her hand.

To her right, she could feel Maro, and she heard his scream of agony, followed by his cries for mercy. But Sith like him didn't believe in such a concept — they tortured and killed anything in their way, perhaps even for pleasure in some cases. He only wanted to survive so he could live to cause the same kind of harm another day and for such a dark, corrupted being, there was only one answer in the mind of the former Jedi Shadow. Slowly and with a fire burning in her eyes, Valery moved back up to her feet and turned to face him.

Maro was still pleading for mercy, but his words no longer registered in her mind. She lifted a hand and allowed the invisible strings of the Force to wrap around his body, forcing him off the floor to levitate in front of her. Valery gritted her teeth and with a push forward, she sent him across the room and pinned his body against the wall so he could no longer move or resist.

"You won't be causing any more harm," Valery said with an emotionless tone as she walked over, the double-bladed weapon held in her right hand while the left kept him telekinetically pinned down. When she finally stood close enough, she looked him straight in the eyes, her own pain visible but above all, her determination to protect and fight against his kind of terror was burning bright within her soul. She gritted her teeth and lunged forward to drive the violet blade through his heart. Even now, her training as a Jedi opted for a swift end, but an end nonetheless. He would never be able to use his powers to oppress or hurt others again.

After his life had finally faded from his eyes, Valery let his body fall to the floor before she felt her own strength finally dissipating. The serum he had injected her with was weakening her, and the Force no longer sustained her through it now that the battle was over. She was certain her husband would know and come for her, but as she sank down to her knees, she looked in the direction of the Padawan one last time with a smile on her face to show him that everything was going to be alright.

It was over.