Jedi Academy Ruins
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Krag @
Joshua DragonsFlame @
Paega Anginous @
Diana Moridena
Mikhail was tired; tired like a boxer: winded, bruised, and suffering from a burn on the back of his knee, he panted heavily. He could feel his own breath, hot against his chin, in the closed spaces of his helm. That was why he hated wearing these things. He felt trapped inside helmets and they cut off his peripheral vision. The mud smears on the visor didn’t help either.
His back ached from where he had slammed into the wall and he felt weary from all the energy he had expended on the barrage of telekinetic punches.
Pale eyes searched for Diana. She had disappeared behind that rubble after the small explosions of her rocket boots. For all the aching muscles and burning lungs that Mikhail felt, she had to be ten times worse off. A broken rib or two - judging from that blood on her torso - a cut on her arm, severe back bruising, possible internal bleeding, and shrapnel embedded in her foot. The fact that she was still capable of lifting a blade showed her resilience.
He sensed her, a glowing light in the Force. But where- aha.
She came to him, leaping over rubble and throwing up another wave of water and mud. But Mikhail would only be fooled once, shame on you. Contemptuously, he slapped the wave aside with a swipe of telekinesis.
The Jedi warrioress jumped high, coming down on him with a devastating slash of her shimmering sword. Through the smeared visor, Mikhail could see little, so he drew in more of the Dark Side, letting its aphotic currents flow through him. He felt rather than saw the incoming blow and raised the stolen lightsaber to parry. It came in wickedly fast. He barely managed to stop the silvery blade before it reached his chest.
By the time he parried, she was already spinning to his side and - blast these helmets - he could barely see her strike in his periphery. The skull-cracking pommel blow smacked his helm with tremendous force. But phrik was nowhere near as fragile as human bone, nor as thin. His ears rang and he stumbled backward a step, heavy boots sloshing in the mud as rain continued to fall. Yet, the phrik had taken the blow and the shock-foam padding between the layer of phrik and his head - intended to prevent Hydra soldiers from receiving concussions or brain damage from grenades, enabled Mikhail to come off only a little worse for the wear. His head rang painfully. It felt as if he'd slammed his head into a counter top, or a shelf. It dazed him for less than a second, but a feeling of anger quickly overwhelmed the pain.
Adrenaline surged through him, revitalizing him for the moment as he drew on deep reserves of Force energy.
Pale eyes fastened on her. Reaching out in the Force, Mikhail crushed down on her, attempting to pin her arms to her side and squeeze her legs together. He utilized telekinesis like a giant hand that wrapped around the whole of her body, squeezing. What prevented Force users from getting chocked to death by Vader-esques was their Force auras, but it would not protect her here. This was a move meant to stop any movement on her part and transfix her in place.
He followed it up by trying to pick her up in the Force and smash her repeatedly against a a boulder a few feet beside them. And
that was meant to hurt.