The First Trial: Trial of Skill

[Zara Lianna]

~ Trial of Skill~​

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Location: In the Temple​

Time: Unknown​

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Viktoria watched as Jakkor disappeared behind the door of where his trials would begin. His first trial would be of Skill. She worried about him. She hoped that he would make it through. As she sat on her knees, a vision all of a sudden took her to another dimension as she relived some of the horrors of her past.

She was eighteen once more and she stood by her master's side as they opened the Temple together. She experienced it as if she was in her eighteen year old self, making the same decisions she had. Once they were inside, Viktoria was fearfully left on the other side of the entrance of the Temple door, she had looked back to her master with a fearful look as he looked to her with the small comforting smile he had always given her. The look remained on her face as the door closed in front of the teenaged girl.

Turning around, she had seen multiple paths. There were five to be exact. She had gone down the one all the way to the left. Immediately a whole new horror happened. Three Sith stood in front of her. Ones of lore. Before her stood Darth Maul, The Grand Inquisitor and Darth Vader. It was a peculiar sight to the eighteen year old Viktoria, but she watched. She had her two lightsabers by this time and had ignited them. She fought them all and had received scars from all. Viktoria then relived the nightmare of being restrained on something cold and metal. She was being electrocuted and being marked up by many different lightsabers as well.

That was when the vision ended. It ended with Viktoria screaming and standing up. Now brought back to herself, her scream echoed and she looked for cover before backing into a wall. She slid down and put her head in her hands. These were the same visions that used to haunt and occasionally still haunt her. Her thoughts then went back to Jakkor as she wondered how far he had gotten yet. She just hoped he wouldn't have to deal with the same thing she had experienced in her vision that gave her the essence of burns and an aching pain throughout her body.

~ [member="Jakkor Kess"] ~​

 

[Jakkor Kess]

Location: Deep within the temple.
Time: Unknown


Jakkor had been wandering the dark cave system for quite sometime. He didn't know how long had it been since he had left the door to conduct his trials,hell he didn't even know what would happen. He had to admit he be lying if he didn't say he wasn't afraid. He wandered the pathways for what seemed like hours. The only source of light within the cave was the kyber crystals that the temple were filled with,they illuminated the darkness with small lights of green and blue. Jakkor found this comforting if only a little.

He decided to just let the force guide him,following the path carefully,and guided by his actions. His thoughts momentarily were of his wife,and what she must have been thinking but quickly snapped out of it focusing on the task at hand. He than found another cave that was completely covered in darkness. It was bristling with the force,and so felt that the force led him here despite getting a bad feeling about it. He entered it cautiously,the cave was pitch black and so he activated his lightsaber treading carefully not knowing what lied ahead.

[member="Viktoria Kess"]

 

[Zara Lianna]

It had quite the long time since Jakkor had disappeared behind the Temple door. She only wondered what he was going through. As Viktoria sat against the wall she backed herself into, she started wondering what it would be like once he was a knight. She always wondered if the masters were always this uneasy when it came to things like this. Her master seemed so calm and collected. She was the same until the door closed. Then the flip switched and started wondering what to do if she lost him in this..

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As Jakkor would find himself down a dark tunnel, his lightsaber, illuminated the perimeter around him. As he would continue, a cold soft breeze would pass the back of his neck as a large shadow was displayed upon the cave wall. It went as fast as it came though. Footprints along with the distant sounds of blaster shots could be heard along with a lightsaber igniting and a scream echoing through the caves as the blasts were quickly silenced.

A dead silence rang out, leaving an eerie feeling hanging in the air. After a few minutes of silence passed, the snap-hiss and scarlet colored blade of a lightsaber could be seen at what seemed to be the end of the hall.

"So we meet again.. Kess."

a deep dark sinister voice rang out and echoed among the walls of the cave, breaking the sound of silence.

~ [member="Jakkor Kess"] ~​

 

[Jakkor Kess]

[member="Viktoria Kess"]

Jakkor was wandering around for what seemed like forever. He had no sense of time,or any light for that matter. His lightsaber with it's emerald glow was the only illumination in the cave. He carefully along the path wherever that was,and hoped that he could pass whatever was beyond or in it at all. He felt a certain amount of fear well up inside of him like a violent storm,and as much as he tried to suppress it he knew he could feel it.

Then a cold bast of wind hit him. The wind was howling portentously as if it was trying to warn him of something,than a lightsaber ignited within the darkness. Jakkor could feel it plain as day. The cold,the anger,the fear. This was the dark side,and as Jakkor turned around he saw a dark figure. It was too dark for him to see the figure,but he did notice the scarlet blade that cut through the darkness. It said that it met Kess again,and he raised his saber in a defensive posture. Being mindful of his surroundings he asked the figure inquisitively. "Who are you? Stay back!"


[member="Viktoria Kess"]

 

[Zara Lianna]

The dark figure gave a sharp chuckle as he moved forward, ignoring Jakkor's protest for him to stay away. Darkness, fear, coldness, anger and hate swirled around the both. The fear didn't come from the old Inquisitor though. Bloodshine colored saber still in hand, he stepped into the light and revealed himself to have a tall, slender frame with the red-orange eyes of a Sith and with the thin evil smile to go with it.

"Ahh.. I see.. so now we're playing the game 'I don't know you'. I could play it too, but it wouldn't be as much fun without reminding you of the past!"

he said in his deep sinister voice. Jakkor would remember him as an old Inquisitor which he had run into many times before he fell into his 800 year nap. All of a sudden, after the Inquisitor would finish talking, he would outstretch a hand ever so slightly and force push Jakkor backwards, letting out another chuckle.

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Viktoria continued to sit and wait for Jakkor. She sensed something off, but was unsure of what it was. She guessed it was just her senses over reacting to the Temple, but she focused on the disturbance and it seemed to be coming from the Temple itself. This alone confused her and she grew more and more curious by the minute.

~ [member="Jakkor Kess"] ~​

 

[Jakkor Kess]

Jakkor stood his ground raising his saber in front of his face. He stared upon the inqusitor with a look of disdain,keeping his fear in check he said scornfully. "I was a mere boy than. I have faced worse than you,and have faced many more inquisitors since than. You will be the last so do pardon me if my memory is not quite what it used to be. You all look the same to me." He drew upon the force giving him strength and despite his fear and anger he knew there was something stronger than the both of them..the force. He remembered his training and found strength in what his old master taught him,and what Viktoria had taught him..

He stepped carefully eyeing his opponent and what he could pull before the battle began. He lunged forward engaging the dark sider. The dark cave illuminated with the clash of emerald and crimson sabers. Jakkor launched a barrage of attacks in the classic Djem So maneuvers he often was taught and practiced with. He was going for his head using the classic falling avalanche strike to land a decisive blow to his enemy. All the while Jakkor parried the Inquisitor's own attacks drawing upon the strength of the Light Side to give him an advantage.

[member="Viktoria Kess"]

 

[Zara Lianna]

The Inquisitor chuckled at Jakkor's declaration. Being an alive hologram of the boy's mind, he would be able to make any move and things would be able to generate at his will. He could do this.. but he'd rather test Jakkor's skills before anything came his way.

"Don't worry Kess.. I'll look different after we're finished."

He could sense Jakkor pulling on the force. The Inquisitor just focused on his anger and revenge. As Jakkor came running towards him, he readied quickly and met his blade and blocked the rest of his attacks, sending a few of his own in between strikes, that went from top down, going from the neck, shoulder, mid section and then legs. It was anything to distract him.

~ [member="Jakkor Kess"] ~​

 

[Jakkor Kess]

Jakkor kept up his attack arcing his blade to meet the Inquisitor's. Sparks filled the air. He kept pushing forward and forward using his own opponent's strength against him. He kept pushing him farther in farther into the cave meeting blow for blow when he had finally entered into a saberlock with him. He looked at him,and had a feeling of who he was. He was that inquisitor who he had beaten in the Unknown Regions before going into stasis. He glared at him angrily,and said with deadly calm. "I defeated you once i can do so again."

He attacked more aggressively slowly giving into his anger,but he realized the folly in this was. The inquisitor retaliated with counter attacks this time pushing Jakkor back. He realized this and known that anger was not the key to defeating him nor was it the right path. He exhaled avoiding each strike with ease. Gaining peace with the force he went into a Soresu stance,and started defending. Than he countered with his second lightsaber attempting to cleave his arm off. Once it was activated the green blade springing to life from the hilt.

[member="Viktoria Kess"]

 

[Zara Lianna]

The attack between the two continued. The Inquisitor could sense Jakkor's anger. If he wanted to pass this trial, anger was not the way. It was also his worst nightmare, because all he did was fuel the Inquisitor as he lashed out in anger. When the two clashed, he studied Jakkor's face and could tell that he was finally coming to realization of who he was. Once he finally got it, a toothy, evil grin came from him and he pushed back on the lightsaber.

"Goood.. Gooooood. Give into your anger.."

he said, giving an evil laugh. The Inquisitor continued his counter attacks until Jakkor finally realized what he was doing wrong. When he finally started using the lightside as a Jedi, the Inquisitor started making a little more realistic attacks.

~ [member="Jakkor Kess"] ~​