The void and the Stone.

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

Lisa stood up and reached for her backplate where both green sabers rested. As her hands closed in around them she nodded, signalling sophie to square off.

"The form I know is called Vaapad. It's a lightside form, but I've adapted it to my tastes. It draws heavily off of Juyo which is an aggressive form. In Vapaad you strike from all angles, and with vengeance."

Lisa drew both black hilted sabers and squared off facing sophie. Both neon green beams erupted with thrummmm. The light of sabers reflected off the sterile white surfaces, bathing her in a glow of emerald. Lisa whirled both blades once, loosening up her wrists. She was rusty.

"Ok put up your guard and draw from the force, I'm going to show you a few basics."

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie was a bit taken back by the fact Lisa wanted to do it now, while in the middle of a flight. Still, as she figured, better than never. And there was still the rest of the weekend ahead of them to focus more. She stood and followed Lisa to the spot before seeing her activate her sabers. Two green ones. Sophie had recalled, from her studies with the Jedi, that each color reflected on the force user's abilities; most of the time at least. Green usually mean one was strong with the force overall. Sophie readied herself, taking a moment to breath and allow the force into her before standing at the ready and activating her saber. Whatever color it was she didn't care. She knew in time she would have her own to wield and what color it would be. She nodded to [member="Lisa Ticon"] as a signal she was ready.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

"Ok sense my movements before I strike, If I break your guard, I'll halt the saber, you wont lose an arm I promise."

Lisa became a blur of motion then. Both sabers spun in her hands one hand moving high and the other low. In the blink of an eye she launched three separate strikes. The first one came in high left, the second was a savage diagonal cut from the low right.

As she followed though she did not spin, but stepped closer, lessening the distance and reversed her right hand, bringing the saber back down in towards herself. She swung out parralell to Sophies chest...

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie nodded at her words before Lisa unleashed her attack. She held her breath as she came at her, seeing where she was going to strike. She needed to move fast, Sophie's blade came up ad dodged the first attack before moving around in time to block the next coming for her diagonally. Then came the strike for her chest. Sophie had only one option. She jumped back, the blade barley missing. Seeing this she sighed with relief before getting back in a defensive position, holding the blade up and in front of her.

[member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

"Looks good so far. Ok try this out for size!"

Lisa came on stronger now, drawing the force into her limbs. As the force flowed through her body she grimaced, unleashing a savage snarl and moved with astonishing speed. Her attacks came in like flurries, un-connected and unmatched on their strength. She launched at the girl, landing a right and left blow.

She leaped, somersaulting over Sophie and came to land behind her. Three more blows rained down upon her. They were savage overhead strikes, one two three, alternating hands. She would have to draw upon her true power to deflect these, and plunge back into that familiar pit.....of the Darkside.

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie could feel as Lisa had summoned the full force of the darkside in her attacks. She braced herself before being hit by the sudden intense wave of attacks. She held her saber up to block from the left and right blows before seeing Lisa leap over her. She held her blade again as three massive hits came at her. The first two she'd held but her strength slowly went with each of them. The third had managed to break her hold and Sophie felt her arm fall to her side before being open for a finish move. Obviously, as Lisa would demonstrate, she needed to find a way to draw from that power as well. Sophie would bee to put more of the darkside behind her attacks. After that round she recovered and readied for another round.

[member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

Lisa frowned as the girls defense fell. She was not fully ready to defend against such a sudden onslaught of blows. She was not fully tapped into her power.

"Open your toolkit and pull out those memories girl, use them!"

Lisa came on again, delivering an upwards and downwards attack. As each saber slashed she stepped to the left one foot and spun both blades, before launching another flurry of overhead strikes, left right and left, step left left right, step. She continued to press, slashing madly at the young girl, but mindful of where her blade went. The air grew thick with the tracers of her green blades as the savagery was unleashed.

As the attacks rained down Lisa stepped sideways once more and ran, propelling herself towards the wall and running clear up it. She flipped from the wall, sailing through the air and came down with her final strike, placing all her weight and malice behind it. A true Juyo strike.....

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie nodded before [member="Lisa Ticon"] unleashed her attacks again. She defended against some of the attacks while trying to pull emotions from her. She waited until blades locked, after rolling away from her Juyo strike and trying to attack. Sophie reached back into her mind and pulled out the things her master had taught her. Anger. Want of power. Fear. All of these things that fueled a sith.

When Sophie opened her eyes they seemed more aflame with anger. She was feeding on it. She could feel it seep into her body as she began to retaliate and attack. She tried overhanded sweeps towards Lisa before a volley of smaller strikes all around her; using her techniques against her.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

Lisa grinned as the girl counter attacked. Now she was getting it. The interesting thing about Vapaad forms was that is was fed off the darkside, to destroy the darkside. So as Sophies power grew, so did Lisa's. She tapped into the acolyte emotional waves that flowed through the small space. No doubt as Lisa's emotions escalated Sophie would tap hers as well.

They were locked into an intricate dance. As the strikes came in Lisa whirled one saber, connecting with the crimson blade, batting away two strikes. She shifted her footing, placing one foot out as the remainder rained in. Her first block slipped and her eyes went wide as she swept across her body with her second saber, delivering two upward swing to counter Sophies downwards strikes.

Lisa grunted, realizing that Sophie was quickly becoming more gifted than she with the blade...

In an attempt to place more pressure on her Lisa retaliated, sending both blades in a triple strike, each lashing out three times on her left and right sides simultaneously. Her arms became like tentacles, just as that of the Vapaad, a squid beast her form was named after.

The fluid strikes flowed in from both sides, in an attempt to hammer Sophies defences and force her back....

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Despite the flowing sense of anger, greed and the like in her Sophie could see that her advances were doing only so much against Lisa's form. She had more mastery over it than Sophie did after all. Still at least she was getting the hang of it. Before long, however, she was back on the defensive as she had to block every incoming assault from Lisa's advance on her. She dodged and blocked what she could but felt herself being forced backwards. Putting pressure on her. A good strategy. Sophie needed to think fast. part of her considered using the force but felt it wasn't meant for this training. She needed to use her skills alone. She waited until she'd managed to lock all three blades together, at which point she held as much strength she could while looking to [member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

Sophie was smart. Smarter than Lisa gave her credit for. As she locked up all three blades they were back to square one. She was reminded of the time she had forced the young girl to force push as hard as she could or risk dying. That had brought out the best in her. She was surely growing with power as the days passed.

Lisa grimaced, applying her full might against Sophies blades. As she pushed, drawing the force into her limbs to enhance her strength she began to call upon deeper memories. As the darkside swirled about the two in a chaotic mix she reached out, letting it flow through her, and empower her.

The saber lock began to push back towards Sophies way and a dangerous fire flashed in Lisa's eyes. She pulled back a bit, remembering she was not her to kill the girl, but to enhance her. To pass on what could not be passed to her by Sith teaching alone.

"This is the part where I'd launch a force attack and press the advantage!" She growled through the thrumming sound of sabers, as the blades grated against each other, sending sparks flying in every direction.

"Use what you've learned, knock my guard down!"

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie could feel herself waver as Lisa began tp push harder. Her hands trembled as she tried to keep her grip. The might from Lisa's own force strength was starting to grow more than Sophie could match. She felt the blades bare down on her own to where she felt herself kneeling down to keep from being cut into peices. Sophie was trying to push back but she couldn't muster enough of the force in her to retaliate. However, when Lisa had told het to use what she learned Sophie's mind sparked.

She colsed her eyes while keeping the blades locked again, and reached further back. More anger. More greed. More fear. Memories from before the Jedi and the Sith. The first time she knew real anger towards people, like the children who bullied her. That was always something that made her mad! She opened her eyes again and breathed hard through her nose as she summoned more of the darkside to her body.

She pushed against [member="Lisa Ticon"] harder to where she stood again, pushing the blade up with her as she did. Once she was on her feet she gave one heavry thrust up onto Lisa's sabers to force the up. In that instant she spun her body around to give a heavy swing to the right, trying to hit the blades again so they'd be knocked from her grip.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

As Sophie swung her blows reversed the tide. They Saber locked again and this time Lisa smiled as she found herself on the defensive. The young woman pushed her blades up and she laughed as a heavy strike came in whirling from the right. With very little time to react Lisa did the only thing she could.

Her hand dropped the saber and with her palm she came down and unleashed. A powerful blast of energy would slam towards Sophie, hopefully knocking her back. Even though her other blade was to far away to block the strike, she tried to manoeuvre it back down. Grunting she hopped to the left once, trying to put more distance between the strike and herself. She needed more time....

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Sophie hadn't expected this little session to turn into a full-on spar. That became more clear when Lisa had attacked with her force abilites. Sophie herself went flying before hitting the wall of the shuttle. At least, as she'd seen, her little attempt to bring more of her strength out had worked. But now that it was clear force powers were allowed in this match Sophie knew not to hold back.

When she stood Sophie snapped her fingers. From her shadow three crow familiars appeared. She directed them all towards [member="Lisa Ticon"] and watched as they flew about or pecked and cawed at her. That gave enough time for her to try and rush Lisa with a grand sweep as she zipped foward towards her with her saber at the ready.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

Lisa had never seen familiars before. They were something out illusion that was not her speciality. when the y flew across the room her eyes widened with shock and her face twisted into a grotesque scowl. Dark energy surged through her as her irritation t the girls trick move mounted. She held her hand up and dark black and purple energy danced on the tips.

As the familiars came hither Lisa released her vengeance, spearing a crackling cascade of dark force lightning towards them. She poured her malice and her will to destroy them into the attack, increasing the voltage, making the streams flare. Sophies sweeping blade broke her concentration however and she was cut short her focus disrupted.

Lisa met the sweeping attack with a flurry of blows, one parallel, to deflect her incoming blade. She reversed her wrist again, flicking out her empty hand and calling her other saber back to her palm. It lit with a snap hiss and she pushed forwards, striking again in mad fashion, hammering both from left and the right simultaneously...

 

[Zion Mirtis]

When the familiars were destoryed they were sweapt back into Sophie's shadow. They did what they needed. It kept Lisa ocupied enough for Sophie to strike. While it wasn't succesful it was still better than a head-on strike against an experienced Knight. When Lisa began to attack from the sides against Lisa kept batting her saber back and forth to block the oncoming blows. Eventually she she managed to lock the sabers again once she saw oppertunity.

While holding her she asked "Is this still part of the lesson? Or are you starting to get a little peeved at me?"

[member="Lisa Ticon"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

"Being a little peeved is part of any lesson Sophie. I'm nice, the Sith are not so."

Lisa gave the girls blade lock a little push, tipping towards her with her weight. She was starting to get tired and much preferred for this to come to a close. She had hot caf and conversation to attend to after all! She could only guess they had spent several hours battering each other. But Lisa was not quite yet satisfied.

"Finish me off, disarm my blades. Use your mind to visualize your attack, much like I attacked you. Make yourself like a many tentacled octopus. You strike from every direction, fluidly and smartly. Don't be sloppy!"

Lisa pushed the blade lock once more, shoving as hard as she could before stepping back and holding both Sabers over her head, diagonally, in her Vappad defensive stance.

 

[Zion Mirtis]

Understanding her objective Sophie nodded before feeling herself being pushed back and off of the saber lock. If thisw as to end now then so be it. She held her blade out again, as if ready for defense, but began to visualize what Lisa had been doing to her. As intructed she visualized the objective and let the force flow through her to help with her goal. She rushed foward and began to strike from all sides. As first she was slow, as if not understanding, but over one moment after another she began to increse. Both her speed and power built until she was striking wildly like [member="Lisa Ticon"] had with her. The bruning sensation in her eyes a clear indication she understood.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Sophie Gustav"]

At first the girls strikes were easy to deflect. Then the intensity picked up and Lisa had little room to spare. As the dealy dance picked up, pressing back into Lisa's position she began to become overwhelmed by the lightning attacks of the Acolyte. There was still the advantage of having two sabers however.

Each attack was blocked by alternating blades, giving Lisa precious seconds to devise her final moves. As Sophie struck again Lisa sprang her trap, crossing both sabers in a X formation and taking the blade in between hers.

She twisted hard, and kicked at the girls shin, aided by the force. With her balance in peril she would let go of the blade, or be knocked down...

 

[Zion Mirtis]

[member="Lisa Ticon"] had managed to deal her winning blow. Sophie had taken a blow to the shin and knock the blade from her hand. She looked up and saw as she was disarmed and out of ideas. The familiars could work but that would involve possibly killing her. She was done. Sophie stood and nodded, indicating she was done.

[member="Lisa Ticon"]