Location: Zeltros Streets
Objective: Capture a Sith Lord
Allies: [member="Nagate Hei"]
Enemies: [member="Darth Layil"]
As let down his force on to hers, she returned and blocked his attack leaving them in a traditional saber lock. This was something he expected to happen, maybe this way he could talk her down. But alas, this wasn't going to be the case. With the glow of their sabers, their eyes locked and from that moment, he could feel her trying to pry into his mind. He continued his calm his own mind, but she was much for skilled than he was in this, she was able to tap into his mind and he could feel the darkness. From the deep buried memories entered the warrior's mind, being dug up to vivid visions.
He felt heavy, each breath long and exaggerated as though it might be his last. His saber dropped slowly from his hand only for his body to fall the same. The field was plagued with tall grass and bodies of the sith and republic alike. Jericho couldn't find the energy to pull himself up so he quit and laid there looking at the stars. He knew he was dying, but there were so many reasons he could think of that kept him from wanting to just survive. The feeling of not learning more for the sake of mastering himself overwhelmed him. The feeling of losing his master, overwhelmed him. The feeling of loneliness, overwhelmed him. The young jedi laid there, his mind filled with so much knowledge yet void of any true happy feelings and wsa dying at the age of young age of seventeen. His body covered with wounds from head to toe.
Water trickled over his face, his tears soon to be camouflaged by the rain. His heart was breaking and the heavens were acknowledging it. Lightning cracked through the skies and thunder began to engulf his ears. It was painful to say the least and all he could do was save his energy just to be able to breath. He watched the rain fall onto the dry soil and nourish the ground once more. "Shield my pain, my suffering. Shroud my existence in a dark veil and give my soul the peace it deserves." He said with the little energy he could muster upon himself. He could almost feel death's presence strike it's cruel stare upon his weakened form. A strong urge to cough emerged from her mouth and blood spewed out into the air. "Let my....soul escape....to force and to my master. Please just give me some peace amongst all this chaos." He cried out. The life was leaving he more rapid than he had expected, but he was still alive and feeling every painful breath. HE was never one to speak so much but he knew he was alone.
His eyes lightly shut hoping the lights will leave his pupils. The pain was too much for him to deal with, but the more he tried to pray for the end; the more the pain had worsened. The images of the battle and his master's grave plague his young mind. His emotions were ravaging his body as he started to feel nothing. It wasn't death's embrace, but the conflicting emotions he felt left him with nothing. "Let my existence be forgotten like it should have been. The earth shall hide the evidence, and the shadows will hide the truth." He said. He never thought he would speak those words, but now anything was possible. He could sit here for hours, maybe days to be tortured and ridiculed by death's gruesome touched. He energy quickly left him and he fainted once more, in hopes that it would be the last. Alone to be forgotten in the waves of ancient ruin.
A grunt was released from Jericho's lips, that was the first time he felt death's cold touch linger over him. Though it was not the fear of death that tormented him, it was dying without purpose, without gaining more knowledge, having the feeling of being unable to properly make friends, being unable to protect those people that day on the battlefield from the sith, unable to save his master and being so weak and wanting to give in so easily. So much regret, so much hate, so much loneliness, there was so much darkness within him it began to rumble within his person. So many overwhelming feelings.
His eyes darkened as he stared into the woman's eyes, it was impressive that she was able to rile him up like this, she was truly powerful in the dark side indeed. He would be lying to himself if he said he wasn't in a lot of pain; it was like old deep wounds were made a new on his body and mind. But Jericho was not truly a jedi nor was he a dark jedi or sith; he had a balance of both after years of training for sith hunting darkness and that memory was the beginning and finding his true self.
His calm nature and aura slowly began to fade and the darkside aura began to slowly take over. His body heat began to rise more than before, his robes began to singe with fire. As he kept her down with their saber lock, he raise his free and to create a dome of fire around them, that way no one else could be involved between the two. He knew not whether or not she was a shaper as well but if she wasn't he wondered just how long she would be able to with stand the heat. He wanted to just this tactic to weaken her physically and make her exhausted without really hurting her to capture her. But Jericho was never one to underestimate anyone, especially someone as powerful in the dark-side as her.
"Master Rosa...." He whispered to her as her mask shined in the fire while his dark masked gloomed. "I am sure Master [member="Thurion Heavenshield"] and the other masters miss you. I will take you back to the sanctum with me!" He said his voice grew from a whisper to a mighty roar. He broke the saber lock by increasing his speed and aiming a knee to her stomach hoping that would be enough to stop her mental attack on his mind.