By Right of Conquest

[Kalladrrl]

His eyes snapped opened from his meditation on his place within the Empire. The time had come and he was deliberate in his purpose. It was time for Kalladrrl to show the Empire and the galaxy at large the strength of his resolve and the progress he had made as a warrior and he would not be stopped by anyone. The Wookiee stood and began to gird himself for battle, the mortal and lethal kind. First, the legs: duraplast plates covered each entirely, his massive feet fitting snugly and assuredly within his boots. Next came the chest, bolted into place. Dueling gauntlets followed, one for each hand. After that, his belt. One lightsaber on each hip. No other armament was necessary and he would not let a master of the Dark Side of the Force have any advantage over him. Grenades were strictly out. They might do him more harm than good. Penultimately was a cloak draped over his shoulders, wide even for one of his people. And finally, the helmet, sealed against any attack. He was covered head to toe in armor and his spirit was strengthened by the Force. Kalladrrl raised the hood of the cloak from his shoulders.

He was ready.

His footfalls thundered with his momentous purpose as he made his way to the arena. Like much of Korriban, it too was suffused with the power of the Dark Side. It awaited challengers. It beckoned them, trying to seduce them into an early grave.

Or sweet victory. Kalladrrl would not accept loss. It did not enter his mind as he descended the rough stone steps one by one. The shadows clung to every surface despite the braziers that burned bright. Nothing could stop the darkness of Korriban.

The Wookiee made his way to the center of the arena and knew what he was to do. He gathered the power of the Force to him, awakened radically by Vex and called out as he planted his fists on his hips.

"Yn, Commandyrna Kalladrrl, harrnaankarrazo Rraannkanna Essia Contreras rrookrrfna kaan rranynyrrraan. Karrfa!

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[Essia Contaris]

She had wondered when someone would come to take her spot. She'd been itching for a fight, and now that a wookiee had come after her, well, that was just promising. Essia strode out into the arena to meet her challenger, wrapping the force around her as she went. Originally she'd come here to see about testing some new elite soldiers, but someone had obviously told this would-be Warlord where she was. That was fair, nothing was truly sacred here. Not when it came to this sort of thing. Essia had no intention of losing today. While it would be sad to see Jedi no longer quail in fear from a hairy beast, she would have no reservations about killing him today. That was the price you put up for this challenge.

The trappings of armor and cloak did not grace her form. Instead, she wore the simple, lithe clothing she always wore into combat. Her double-bladed lightsaber was clenched in her right hand. "I'm sorry," she said as Kalladrrl finished his rumbling announcement. "Could repeat that in Basic?" She grinned in an entirely not-sorry manner. It was her way of giving the wookiee his one and only warning and chance to stay alive. Essia stopped a dozen yards away from Kalladrrl. The front blade of her lightsaber ignited and hummed quietly. She settled onto the balls of her feet, one foot forward, the back primed to push her off in either direction.

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[Kalladrrl]

At her approach, Kalladrrl unhooked his lightsabers, igniting both the brilliant vermillion blade in his right and the blood-red blade in his left, keeping them elegantly pointed diagonally at the ground on either side, ready to defend as he drew his right leg back. His jaw set itself in defiance as the War Master made her way down and attempted to taunt him, her saberstaff igniting only one blade. That was well. Kalladrrl did not move from where he stood as laughter bayed from inside his helmet. Unbeknownst to her, Essia had just given up her own chance to yield with her speciest prattle. He would see her dead and her legacy erased from the annals of the Sith. Kalladrrl composed himself from his mirth to speak mockingly.

"Ynnakrallarrannakanna, ohkrallana? Nyraharrfa, nyroggo, ycnyrahwroog. Rrokarrayckarrfanyn." Kalladrrl maintained his hold on the gathered Force, punctuating his barbs with brief flashes of his contempt for this honorless cretin. His hatred empowered him and his reflexes felt ready to spring into action at the smallest notice, like a well-tuned machine that could go from peace to violence in no time.

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[Essia Contaris]

At least he found this amusing? His laughter sent a flash of anger across her face. Essia pinched the thumb and forefinger of her left hand together and cleaned some grit out from under her thumbnail while Kalladrrl gave his retort. His contempt for her was strong and sweet. It roiled through the dark side like nectar, clashing with her own negative emotions, and she drank from it. She drew the Dark Side in and a shiver of pleasure ran down her spine at its cold caress. If he thought he could overpower her through the force, then this dog was sorely mistaken. She could slaughter him in any number of ways through the force alone. When the wookiee finished talking, she replied instantly. "Hello? What are you saying?" she enunciated carefully, with a twitch at the corner of her lips.

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[Kalladrrl]

Her quick retort and the flash of anger on her face only redoubled his laughter into a strident basso howl that he let give the appearance of breaking his focus, his bays of joyous taunting echoing off the walls and floor of the arena. His chest shook and he grinned with true mirth under his helmet.

"Nyrradrrnynohnahpahn, rrooohnallrrfanapahnparrGamorrawroka!" Kalladrrl bent slightly at the waist as he snorted, eyes still fixed on her as he pointed with a finger of his left hand the creature before him like he was mocking her for an audience. Kalladrrl let his emotions echo out into the Force around them again, his laughs wheezing for effect. She thought her resolve was so strong but he could feel the lie and the rising tide of her hatred. The Force was with him, strong and fierce and it begged the Wookiee to unleash his fury on the War Master.

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[Essia Contaris]

Her grip on her lighstaber tightened ever so slightly as he pointed a finger at her, but no attack came. Essia's nostrils flared and her eyes glinted with contempt. Her eagerness had fully soured to disappointment in the situation, the yowling child in front of her, and the environment that had allowed Kalladrrl to think he had the right to "challenge" her. "I decline your challenge." Essia replied in a calm, icy voice. She flicked her fingers towards the entrance he came from in a shoo manner. And with that, she pivoted and walked away to her left, headed for a side-entrance. Her guard did not drop in the slightest, Essia kept the wookiee in her field of view, and her senses were abuzz for the next childish thing he might try.

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[Kalladrrl]

He moved to intercept her in a flash, growling as he took nine quick yard-length steps to close with her as she rebuked him.

"Rrooohnahnarrganarra? Rrooynkannrallakyr!"

Kalladrrl rotated both of his wrists in mirrored swirls, his left counterclockwise and his right clockwise until his right wrist pointed to the arena's ceiling, aiming to lock their lightsabers together from the underside of her blade with his left as he bent his knees, left leg back; his other saber swung horizontally with the other at her middle, employing a quick turn of his core muscles to generate power. He was conscious of the second blade that could be deployed. No, he was counting on it.

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[Essia Contaris]

Ah, and there was the reaction. So Kalladrrl was actually here to attack her instead of stamp his feet and shout at her. Essia was worried that he would just passively accept it. She made a half-turn towards him and kept her right leg slightly bent and poised to shove her off in any direction. Her lightsaber snapped forward to meet his two sabers, which spun inwards and up parallel to both of them. Kalladrrl's left lightsaber caught hers from below and pushed the crimson blade away, it's momentum would ultimately send the single red blade to point over and behind her shoulders. But that's all his left saber did.

As the opposite end of her lightsaber rose in response to the deflection, Essia's pinky pressed the button to ignite the second blade and it sprung forth with a hungry hiss in an upwards slash at Kalladrll's right forearm to sever it near the elbow, the innermost, closest, target thanks to that arm's motion. At the same time the blade ignited, she sank a few inches into a half-crouch so she could swing the back blade around if need be without beheading herself. With Kalladrrl's right lightsaber either now attached to a severed arm, or blocking the second blade, (both options rendering his original attack useless) and the left lightsaber out to the side to Essia's right, Kalladrll's body was entirely exposed.

Essia had built the force up for use, and now was the time she would use it. At the same time her second blade would be cutting through flesh, or impacting against lightsaber, a blast of lightning powerful enough to kill and throw the wookiee a dozen yards sprung from her left, free hand and would cross the short distance between the two fighters in a flash. Neither of his lightsabers was in a position to intercept the deadly energy. Kalladrrl had picked a fight with a singularly dangerous opponent.

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[Kalladrrl]

Kalladrrl was utterly focused on his objective and anticipated the activation of her saber and he grinned inside his helmet, even as lightning cascaded towards him.

He called upon the power of the Force and felt the universe rampage through him, all one hundred and some odd years of pain and struggle and hatred and murder surging through him enhancing both his strength and his speed as he sank his knees into a low crouch, wrenching arm back to avoid the blow to his arm as lightning connected, tendrils of electricity finding him and eliciting both pain and further rage at the reminder of nearly three times the War Master’s lifetime of torment of himself and countless numbers of his people. He felt the force of the impact of the lightning, causing him to backstep and brace himself against further movement from the attack; as he stepped back he rotated his wrist and raised his elbow to spin the saber and cut off the flow of lightning. His other saber was not idle, and at the same time as his backstep he swung his arm, bending his arm at the elbow to pivot his lightsaber towards the War Master. At the beginning of his swing, his thumb depressed the stud to activate the second phase of his lightsaber, doubling its length and aiming for the War Master’s body to cleave her and her lightsaber in twain, using the emitter of the higher lightsaber blade as a guide for his slash; if nothing else, his attack would sabotage her foolish choice of weaponry, but at best the War Master would be cloven with it. The power of the Force granted him strength and speed beyond even his normal Wookiee strength and she would be hard-pressed to overcome the cleave while spewing lightning at him.

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[Essia Contaris]

Kalladrrl avoided her lightsaber attack at the cost of taking part of the brunt of the lightning attack, which forced him back a step, furthering the distance between them, before he got his right saber in position to defend. The wookiee was tall, and had a lot of reach, especially with the enhanced blade-length. The blast of lighting that had hit him, however, was powerful in its own right and while Kalladrrl had managed to block it before it became lethal, the wound it left was probably severe and he would not be so lucky to have unrestricted movement in the time he was being blasted by the lightning.

She could jump to avoid the incoming strike, but that would be a mistake as Kalladrrl could easily stand up explosively and ruin that. Her lightsaber was unencumbered at either end, which was good news for her. She dipped the back end down and stuck it out to the right to intercept his blade, taking the front end away from Kalladrrl and almost straight up. Lightning ceased as she grabbed the hilt of her lightsaber with her left hand to give herself better leverage. She used his extended blade like a fulcrum, leveraging herself into a deep squat, almost like a dive, face so low to the ground that her braided hair scraped the surface. Kalladrrl may have sunk into a crouch, but at the end of the way he was still almost a full three feet taller than her. Essia could make herself tinier than he could. With her primed right leg and the force from the fulcrumed blades, she shoved off to her right, completely underneath his blade. Dust swirled in her wake as she spun to complete the move, her back blade would momentarily come off Kalladrl's, but her momentum of her turn combined with the turning of her lightsaber would bring the front back around to catch an attempted reversal of his swing. While a graceful move, it did not leave her with many options to immediately counter-attack him.

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[Kalladrrl]

Kalladrrl maintained his speed as the little vixen dropped, her right blade swinging and dropping to intercept his, leaving her left side undefended as her left blade rose as a result of her blades’ linkage. At the same time the flow of lightning stopped, Kalladrrl called on nearly a century of hatred, every day filled with the torment of electricity and despair and agony hanging over thousands of people like a vicious ghost, and extended the fingers of his right hand from his saber to release an expanding cone of lightning that would envelope her left side and fill her with the lethal energy of his malice made manifest, his thumb still gripping his lightsaber against his forefinger. The lightning would strike just as her hand was traveling to the hilt of her saber, arcs of electricity coursing with the strength of his willpower.

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[Kalladrrl]

Kalladrrl sneered as the lightning caressed his foe. He had her now. He continued to press the attack with his lightning, pushing himself further and flaring the torrent of lightning to aggressive heights as he flourished his extended saber upward and out, following the motion of her body with his attacking hand as the repulsive force of his electrical attack impelled her body to careen wildly against the arena floor, rolling end over end from the strength of his devastating attack. Neither flesh nor bone nor cloth could withstand the assault of such a lethal storm and Essia Contarias would be erased by the awesome power of Kalladrrl Danaankarr, his hatred filling her last moments.

@Clayton