Battle of Courscant - Family First

[Cainhurst Crow]

The battle of Courscant raged heavily on the core world, ravaging the streets and setting ablaze all of the worlds splendor. For many, it was a horrifying sight, the realities and cruelties of war brought to the republics doorstep. Most had probably never even seen true warfare, not on this scale at the least, and one could almost hear the screams of the many over the sound of plasma fire, explosions, and vehicles clashing in the skies.

It was in the midsts of this chaos, in the Uscru distract where standing above the chaos below, stood the Galactic Opera House, a newer building of Courscant, with its dual archeway entrances and massive viewing area, that one sith had gathered her forces to set forth a special task. Gather as many of the republics citizenry to this place, and hold them here as prisoners. The sith, The Dark Vicar of the Sith, Iosefka "Tantibus" Volfe, stood among her followers as she forced a portly man onto his knees, the man crying and clenching his eyes as he shook with pure terror.

"Let Me Go, Please! I'll Give you Anything you Want! Credits, Information, anything!" The man shouted as a shadowy figured stepped in front of him, a hood pulled over her head and the shadows seeming to cling to her face, The Vicar herself stood before her prisoner at the very top of the stairs. Holding her saber in her hand, she looked down to the man as she spoke.

"You wish to be released? What a foolish thing to wish for. We are all free, within the power of the force..." She spoke in a dark hissing voice, as she ignitied the crimson blade of her lightsaber, "Tell me, human. What is it you desire, more then anything in the world?" She asked, looking towards the man as he looked up with her with pleading eyes.

"Please... I just want to leave, I promise that's all I'll do." He said, as the vicar looked to her men. She shook her head, and with one swift slash of her saber, sent the mans head off of his body and rolling down the stairs, where it joined a small pile of other heads below.

"Bring out the next one. Perhaps they will have a more inventive answer." She said as her men dragged away the decapitated body. This was the Vicar's method of settling things on this world, a game to sort who was worthy of life, and who was not. However, the Vicar had made a mistake. She had told her men to capture people who seemed like normal citizens, and so they had. She had no way of knowing that one of the people she captured, a woman named Elilyd, was one of the few people who had a powerful member of her family on this world. A powerful family member, who would stop at nothing to get her back.

 

[Fabian Retarma]

Fabian came to coruscant with one objective in mind to get his sister of the planet before anything can happen to her but as his ship begins to enter atmosphere his comlink activates unknown voices begins to speak from it "Tell me, human. What is it you desire, more than anything in the world?" "Please... I just want to leave, I promise that's all I'll do." "Bring out the next one. Perhaps they will have a more inv-" It suddenly cuts out into static, fabian minds rushes with many emotions anger, despair, worry to name a few. he shakes his head to refocus, he most not let his emotions clouds his judgement he thinks to himself. he turns to his GE3 Protocol Droid pilot "did you manage to track that com signal" "yes, but only to the Uscru district, I did not get an exact location but Republic chatter is talking about a group sith held up in the Galactic Opera House, executing civilians they do not have current forces to assault their position, master" "That's them alright, take me to the Galactic Opera House, when I leave the ship be ready to take off at a moment notice and you may have to leave without me if that happens you are to take orders from Elilyd but you most get away from coruscant no matter what she's say, understood?" "yes, master"

Fabian ship lands outside the Galactic Opera House, he steps off the ship observing the building for entry points but for the most part, the building was fairly intact when compared to rest the planet, no major structural has happened making it hard for him to enter the building unnoticed, but he spotted a smashed out window that appeared to be on the second floor. he jumps to the window entering the building, he sneaked to the foyer from this vantage point he could see the group of citizens all herded togeather in a big group and the guards around them, he scanned the crowd to see if his sister was still amongst them. as he searches his eye is drawn to the sith in charge and there she, Elilyd. she was sat on her knees facing towards the sith, they were talking though he couldn't hear what they were saying, fabian kept his position ready to strike for when he sees the opportunity too>

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

The vicar looked down towards the next person on the chopping block, a young woman it seemed. The sith stood as she approached the girl, clearing her throat as she spoke, "And it was said, long ago, that the path of the force was laid bare. Fear, leads to anger. Anger, leads to hate. Hate, leads to suffering. And Through suffering...one may find themselves reborn, and draw upon their emotions, their inner source of power, to achieve all their passion seeks..." As she spoke, her men stood attentive, but watched as she delivered this miniature sermon, her crimson saber igniting as she turned around to face her next victim.

"Tell me, child. You have fear, you have anger, and I'm sure you must have some form of hate...what is it you want, more then anything in the world?" She asked, leveling the blade so that it pointed to the young woman, pointed towards Elilyd, awaiting her response as the hum of the blade filled the air.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

Before Elilyd could answer, Fabian dropped from the balcony that was his vantage spot, landing on one of Tanibus's men pinning him to ground with his white blade before killing another by pulling them into his blade, he took a stance with his blade held on his right at head height with a two handed grip and his left foot forward "she has nothing to fear, nor do the other while I am here" he proclaims with stern face, while watching rest of her men keeping tabs on there positions as he waits for response from their leader

@Cainhurst Crow

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

The armored vicar turned to face the intruder, stepping away from the hostage she had taken as she tilted her head to the side. "And what is this we have here? A heretic come to spoil the ceremony?" She asked, her men moving into position and training their blasters on Fabian, ready to fire. They took a few steps closer, before the vicar raised her arm up, lightsaber still in her other hand as she motioned for them to stop.

"Do not waste your lives trying to confront this man. He's obviously not an ordinary man..." The vicar said, motioning her men with a flick of her wrist as they went to work grabbing the hostages and pulling them back, training their blasters on them, one of the men going and grabbing Elilyd and moving her back with the others as the vicar stepped between Fabian's line of sight, and that of his sisters, "You seem powerful, to make such a bold claim. Let's put your boast to the test then..." The vicar said as she shifted her stance, left hand moving towards her waist and her right hand held her saber, pointing it upwards as she angled her right side to face Fabian, adopting a traditional makashi opening stance.

"Face me in combat and beat me, and the sacrifices go free. Fail, or attempt to cheat in some way, and my men execute them here and now. Sound about fair?" The vicar asked, putting the lives of the people she assembled up at stake as if it were not even an afterthought.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

fabian still holding his stance he serves the situation looking at the guards and hostages, seeing Elilyd with a blaster against her head staring at her for a second. he sighs "You don't give me much of a choice." looks back at Sith staring her dead straight in the eye "I accept your terms but how will I know you'll keep your end of the bargain Sith" he accuses the sith Tantibus, while doing this he relax his stance pointing his blade to ground pressing a button which quickly extended his hilt another 4 feet behind him make it a single lightsaber pike, he grabs the bottom of the hilt with his left hand angle the pike downwards towards Tantibus in a guarded pose.

@Cainhurst Crow

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

"That answer is simple..." The vicar said as she stood still, letting the hum of her saber fill the air as she spoke next, "You don't."

And with that, she came forward, running with the metal of her boots clinking against the ground as she began to advance quickly. She closed the distance between herself and her foe but did not move to strike at the man, instead standing 5 feet away from him, staring into his eyes with her own black eyes, the blues of the iris the only color within the black void that made up her eyes.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

Fabian braced himself for an attack as the sith approached with haste which would never come. as he stared at her eyes, he was somewhat unsettled by how void they were any experssion. he moves a few step back as to give more space between him and her so he could gain more of advantage of his lightsaber pike. apon doing this fabian strikes first, his fall to the bottom of his pike to get the most distance he can while he swings it over his head not completing a rotation before sdoing an aimed strike around the neck/shoulder region.

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

The vicar walked forward as Fabian stepped back, matching him step for step as her eyes looked towards him with a piercing intensity. Her saber raised as the pike came down towards her, and the vicar lunged forward to catch the pike, slamming her shoulder into the pole end as fabian worked to slam it down on her, taking the hit with the shaft of the weapon which clanged against her shoulder pauldron. The vicar then growled out as she held her saber in the palm of her hand, fingers uncoiling as she threw the weapon towards Fabian's legs, the saber spinning as it went for its target, and the vicar watching to see if the man would break off his attack to save himself or not.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

Fabian upon seeing the saber begin to fly toward him, he jumps over the sith to avoid the attack pirouetting through the air, landing and roll behind the Sith six feet away and immediately bring up a defensive posture with blade point directly at her, with him steadying breathing waiting for her to make the next move

@Cainhurst Crow

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

The vicar turned, reaching with her left hand to retrieve her thrown saber as she reached down to her hip with her right, and drew her second blade. She brought it to level with fabian's own, ready as well as her discarded saber came back to her grasp. She now held two sabers, one in each grasp, as she looked towards the man with her slowly reddening eyes.

She took a step back, and suddenly, with a spring of her heel, she was flying forward towards Fabian, her sabers lashing out with speed as she swung both of them for his pike. She connected and shoved them aside, then used the momentum to continue the spin, closing the distance between herself and her target before she brought her sabers together to try and swing them for his midsection.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

as she pulled out the second lightsaber, remained stalwart, unphased by the second blade. then she jumped at him knocking aside his pike blade but as she attacked his midsection he used the momentum of his knocked pike to quickly position the hilt to block the combined attack. fabian returned immediately by kick her back as hard as possible.

@Cainhurst Crow

 

[Cainhurst Crow]

The kick sent the vicar tumbling backwards, catching herself to stop her stumble a few feet away now as she brought up her blades in a guarding stance, one held parallel to her chest while the other was held slightly downwards to cover her torso. She looked to fabian and growled, the metal armor keeping her mostly shielded from damage as she began to slow circle once more. She wasn't about to let herself be beaten, but perhaps she had been too excited to finish the job.

@Fabian Retarma

 

[Fabian Retarma]

upon kicking her back and see her tumble back, Fabian keeps defensive not pressing the advantage created by it. He circles with her in a guarded stance ready for the next attack, he was going to keep on the defensive let her wear herself down and wait for her to make another mistake before going on the offensive again but if an opportunity to end this quickly presents itself he will take it without doubt.

@Cainhurst Crow