Ekala Woci's training...

[Michael Vereaux]

Nodding, Sakiharu pulled out his lightsaber and held it in front of him with both hands, the lightsaber ignited and homming in the air, the blade of course shorter than her's. Pure from scratch with this one? Well...this was one odd Acolyte but an Acolyte he would teach none the less. "Very well. Ignite your lightsaber and let's get started..." Once she had done so, Sakiharu began teaching her the basics of Shii-Cho, first starting with the defensive stances and strike movements. Then he began teaching her the offensive stances and strike movements, making her practice them over and over again until she had a very good grasp of them. Once she had done so, he went on into more advance stances and movements, getting half way through the basic arts of Shii-Cho before stopping. Sakiharu was breathing through his nose to steady his breathing as he stood there, looking at Ekala with a steady eye, his lightsaber in his right hand, lowered to his right side. It was already well into the night and would be stopping for today in Sakiharu's opinion.

 

[david]

*Ekala focused hard on what she was being taught, focusing so hard she lost track of time and of day. She thought it should have been close to time to stop though she didn't know. She would stop when her master told her to. She held her saber down in front of her aimed at the ground, she released the switch allowing it to disable the blade as it was sucked into the metallic tube as if it were never there, blink and you will miss the blade even being there. She paused and smiled at her master.*

"Master?"*She asked unsure of what next to do, to wait on his next orders or promote and say somthing? She decided to await his orders.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Sakiharu nodded, at least telling her that he heard her before getting his datapad out with his left hand, pressing a few buttons with the same hand and watching the screen. 'Damn, already a quarter of the way into the night,' he thought to himself, a small laugh escaping his throat. Clipping the datapad back onto his belt, he turned off his lightsaber before clipping that also back onto his belt. Watching Ekala, he nodded again. "That's it for today but tomorrow, your trainning will continue. I've told you the basics and some advance basic stances and movements of Shii-Cho. Once all the basics, lower and higher are over with, you'll have to learn the rest by yourself through research." Once he finished talking, he closed his eyes for a moment, opening them again to look around the room silently, his mind still wrecked with thoughts as always.

 

[david]

*Ekala nodded slightly then bowed her body down to him deeply showing great respect. She rose and stood up realizing the task before her, she would have to research the rest of the forms and such. She was confident in her ability to do so.*

"Yes Master.."

*She said in a cold voice but respect torward him. She smiled and awaited what he wanted to do next.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Sakiharu looked over at Ekala again, wondering why she was still here. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he spoke to her in his calm voice. "Can't you hear? I said training is over today," he said rather venomiously, pointing out that unless she was wanting to train by herself in this room, she should have at least said something. It was already getting late into the night and they've been training since morning to make sure that her skills with the lightsaber are as perfect as they can be.

 

[david]

*She nodded and bowed once again quickly turning to get out of the room before his anger grew, she made her way through the various halls to her corridor which contained her sleeping quarters.*

"Room 27-B.."

*She said to herself punching in numbers into a keypad allowing the door to shoot open within a blink. She entered the room and dropped what gear she had, lightsaber and such. She fell straight down on her back looking up at the ceiling. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she began to slumber wondering what tommorow would be like.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Sakiharu remained in the room he was last in for the better part of another hour, staring at the wall with the hole in the middle from his use of Force Destruction a few days ago. Already now it seemed to be a distance memory, the repair crew not having enough time yet to fix it up. A sigh escaped his mouth before he placed his left hand's palm against his forehead, his head down slightly as if in thought. His eyes were half closed, almost in a daze as he wondered. 'Such destructive power and yet even among the Sith, they think we are ignorant. Some of us aren't even close to it,' he thought to himself, his eyes slowly looking back and forth along the floor.

'Even Lukor or even Lord Nexus may think I'm ignorant but I know I'm not. I just...think differently...' With that in mind, he lowered his hand to his side, raising his head to look at the wall more clearly, his eyes open, watching of it. '...think....differently....' he echoed those thoughts in his head, turning around and walking back to his quarters to rest for the night. He needed time to think, to plan what it was that he was thinking about doing. Rogal was his main problem now and thinking like a Sith wasn't going to help. Rogal knew how Sith acted and so, knew their way of thinking. Drawing a conclusion to himself, Sakiharu decided that to defeat someone who knows what a Sith will do, know what the enemy will do by thinking like them.

The night went on and by the time mid morning came about, Sakiharu was already back in the same training room, his eyes in a daze as they were looking at the hole in the wall, him waiting for Ekala to get back here so that they may begining training once again. Hopefully it would get faster this time. During the night before Sakiharu went to sleep, he made a few calls to a few...'friends' of his. Sakiharu had a counter plan for this mission he and Lukor would take and unless Rogal prepared himself for anything at all, it didn't matter if he was stronger than Sakiharu, he was going to die before that day was gone.

 

[david]

*Ekala rolled out of bed slipping on some robes she had been issued. She quickly put them on fixing her hair as she ran out of the door grabbing her lightsaber as she exited. She walked fast through the various halls and corriders until she finally came upon the training room. She noticed that her master had already been there for a bit alone. She felt ashamed and irresponsible for being late. She quickly ran up to him and bowed deeply showing great respect.*

"Master, I am sorry i am late."*She said with a slight tremble about her voice,though she had learned to not be afraid as so much. But she knew there was somthing about her master, an aura a power about him.*

*She stood back up from the bow and waited to begin.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

"For a girl your age..." he began saying, taking out his datapad and looking at the time of it. "You must have no sense of time." Holding the datapad up for her to see it at this distance, it showed that they were actually an entire hour earlier than normal. "Show up as early as you want, just expect me to be here an hour early." With that said and done, he clipped the datapad back onto his belt after turning it off, turning toward Ekala to see what her condition was. If she was in fact late, he would have thrown her across the room into walls the equal number of seconds that she was late.

Of course, he wouldn't tell her that until she actually was late. Then she'd actually learn the importance of being on time or early. Watching her intently, he blinked once before speaking, his voice calm as always. "Now, we will resume training as normal. Lightsaber," he said before his lightsaber flew to his right hand, ignited once held and he raised it in front of him, tip pointed toward Ekala's head. Now was the time to finish all of the basics of Shii-Cho. Afterward, then we'd get started with Force Powers.

 

[david]

*She nodded and unclipped her saber from her belt. She squeezed the cold metal hilt of assorted parts and wires. She clicked a little black button and the crimson red blade shot out of the hilt extending into the air as a controlled beam of light. She got into stance and crossed it with his prepared for training.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Once she crossed swords with him, he instantly began drawing with a semi-real duel just to test her a little bit. Not to easy but not so much to over power her just yet. After an hour or so, they began to send time on the rest of the basics and before long, the end of the day was nearing, Sakiharu sitting on the ground cross legged, breathing through his nose in slow breaths while Ekala was standing ahead of him, both of their lightsabers turned off.

 

[david]

*Ekala breathed heavily from her nose as she still held her lightsaber hilt tightly. She was proud of herself for what she has experianced and learned through out the day. She stood willingly to continue but she would do whatever her master said to.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Standing up, Sakiharu relaxed his shoulders before rolling them back and forth to expand the muscles for better use, at least those that he would use physically before raising his lightsaber up with his right hand, then lowering it to the right side in a Makashi stance. "Now with the basics covered, attack me as if I was an enemy," he declared to her, his eyes watching her intently. He wanted to make sure she at least knew them. Mastering them would be up to her.

 

[david]

*Ekala nodded and brung her saber around letting it spin torward his neck, the blade cut through the air swiftly and hummed as it came down on him. She didn't hold back sure he would block it considering his experience.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

If Ekala believed he would block it, she would be at least slightly surprised with Sakiharu's next action. Instead of blocking, he dropped down slightly, the blade passing by his head before dealing a succession of light stabs at Ekala, mostly aimed for the arms and shoulders. The speed in which he attacked was rather normal for her level of skill and so, should be able to block the attacks and maybe evade them as Sakiharu did.

 

[david]

*Ekala's eyes shot open widley as she became aware of him dropping low and sending stabs at her, she spun the blade down to the side bringing it across in front of her intercepting his light stabs. After deflecting the stabs she went to the left bringing her glowing blade down toward his left leg*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

She had a good start at least. She was able to block a few basic strikes of Makashi and now it was time to make it a bit harder. Still with his lightsaber in his right hand, he stepped back quickly, the tip of his blade catching her's as she swung her blade by moving it toward her own. He parried it with the slightlest of movements with ease before using Makashi stabs again but this time, a bit faster and the stabs were aimed toward the base of her lightsaber's blade.

If one thing Sakiharu learned about a sword or a lightsaber's functions, the basis of movements of a blade start at the base. If the base of the blade is held in place, no moves can be done with the blade or hilt and when a strike is forced against the blade's base, blocking would hinder movement because your forced to stay in place, not blocking would freely allow the attack through because with a longer blade, you have less force the farther up you use the blade with the base being the strongest no matter how much strength you push into it. So one would need to completely evade the attack in order to escape and make an attack back toward the enemy. If she figures this out, Sakiharu doubted it but that's what training is for.

 

[david]

*The strikes came again faster, she struggled to keep up though she tried her hardest. She brought her blade down to parry the attack. She swung it down for the blade to come across in front of her knocking his to the side. Another stab came at her and she strafed back quicklyto where it couldn't reach her, without thinking she quickly jumped back torward him not realizing another stab was coming she quickly moved to the side barley getting away it nicked her robes burning the very thread. She looked up at him and let in a deep gulp, she clinched her teeth and came at him with her very anger and frustration of this training. She was sick of it. she came swinging wildley though still focusing on what she was doing, she first swung down at his left shoulder then at his right.*

 

[Michael Vereaux]

Sakiharu was slightly impressed that she was able to last this long against his attacks but it wasn't going to last much longer. Most would make many more mistakes under this kind of stress, having your own strength cut off by your enemy's blade. After nicking her robe, he spun his lightsaber in his hand a few times around him, testing the air resistance against the blade but there wasn't much. Her could see the energy around her, naturally using Force Sight to see the anger, the frustration. He not only felt it but saw it as well.

"Yes, that's it!" He said before matching her blade with his own, stabbing and blocking the blade within its tracks first with the first strike she made before blocking with the base of his blade at her own blade's base, creating a saber lock. Without a moment more gone, he grabbed her hand with his free left one and swung his right leg under her feet. She began falling backwards, her lightsaber taken out of her hands while she flipped in the air. She didn't hit the ground though, still spinning and was upside down by then. During that split second after Sakiharu took her lightsaber, he spun to the left, gather movement, brought up his left leg and did a round-house kick to her stomach while she was upside down.

She was sent backwards, flying and hitting the wall before it cracked under the force of her mass and acceleration, creating a large creator. She dropped to the floor on her stomach, still very much awake but who knows how much pain she was in. Sakiharu didn't really notice how much. He was just teaching after all but still having fun at the same time. He walked over to her, stopping about a foot away from her with a smirk on his face. "When faced with an enemy that is more powerful than you, if you have no other options, use your anger and frustation just as you did now," he said to her with a normal voice, calm and collective. He sounded pleased!

"One word of advise though," he added before dropping down her now turned off lightsaber. He didn't sound as pleased now but it was still there. "Precision. Focus more on how precise your attacks are and how fast they are moving. Then worry about how much strength is in them. Because no matter how strong, if you can not hit your target, they might as well be nothing." Once this was said and done, Sakiharu walked back to the middle of the room and looked around them, seeing if the room was indeed empty of objects. It was before he turned his head toward her, his back still toward her. 'She's learning, at least,' he thought to himself. The next part of her training was still going to be physical but now they weren't going to be using lightsabers. Instead, he was going to teach her something else.

 

[david]

*As she came crashing the ground she clenched her stomach in aganizing pain. Her tight stomach grew tighter as she attempted to replace the air that was removed from her body. She looked up at him controlling her breathing as he spoke out. She nodded at him and could tell he was pleased with her actions. As he walked away she stood up and put her head down ignoring her pain. She raised it back looking at him wondering what he had planned for her next bit of torturing training....She enjoyed it.*