Through the doors of one of the many wide-open, gymnasium-like practice chambers, complete with padded floors and walls, walls lined with racks full of wooden sparring weapons, and even a few training lightsabers, were a few young, aspiring sith acolytes practicing the basics of Form I or some of their force abilities.
What stood out was one such apprentice, practicing near the corner of the chamber with a large weapon. It's hilt was about a foot and a half long by itself, the blade long and broad, longer than that of a normal one-handed weapon. The sith apprentice was Mullarus, the ambitious, dark haired, indigo-eyed apprentice to the very Sith Lord who founded this Academy he and the rest of these acolytes rested and trained within. This was not the first time Mullarus had practiced using this large, greatsword-like weapon. Previously, he had defeated his friend Dex in a spar with it in front of their masters. It was a good day. But it was also before the battle of Balmorra, before Mullarus had the fact thrown in his young face of how much he still had to learn.
Vaapad, he thought, as he held the large, but balanced weapon high, a part of Form VII. Juyo. The Ferocity Form.
Mullarus had already done some research on the form. Though, there was not much known of it in the Sith libraries and holocrons. The final of the seven universally-recognized lightsaber forms, it is the most dangerous of the seven.
To a jedi, maybe, Mullarus thought.
It was a form that acted like a lightsaber deflecting a blaster bolt, only the wielder was the blade and the foe's passion was the bolt. It fed off of it's opponent's dark side aura, and likewise, required immense focus from it's wielder. It is a form wielded by few jedi, as it is a dangerous gateway that scrapes the surface of the dark side. Many jedi who wield it are prone to succombing to the dark side's temptation.
Luckily for Mullarus, he did not have to worry about that.
Yet, the very jedi he had faced on Balmorra, a young woman, a padawan even, had used it against him. It broke him. He lost two fingers and his first lightsaber over it. He did not know how to fight it. That is why he was here, trying to put into practice what he had read of the form. However, he could not grasp it. He could not ask for help from his own master, as he had no knowledge of the form. Mullarus did not know of any with knowledge of Juyo or Vaapad.
So, once more, he put it upon himself. He would learn the form, master it if he could, so he could stand before that jedi once again and, this time, defeat her.
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