Turns Out They Were, In Fact, "Not Entertained"

[Darth Valravus]

Location: Tako-se, Cato Neimoidia
Time: Noon (A few days after their last victory)
Participants: @Logan @Darasuum
Theme: Berserkir ❅ Danheim
OOC: Dice
Intro: While the Sith had previously defeated an arena full of gladiators it seems that another example must be made. Rather than just let there be one victory and let it be thought of as a fluke the Sith will continue to display their prowess before the masses of Cato Neimoidia.

Well she was glad she had not been ordered to go do another fight right away after that night. Zan had ended up drinking a lot and even her stout constitution had been tested. Perhaps if she had only partaken in one vice it would not have been so bad but in the end she had been in a snort it if you got it attitude. Warriors of Deucalia were known to take drugs before combat. It added to their already violent mind allowing them to not be distracted by pain or feel the loss of their finite energy so they could fight on further.

In the end the Crusader had ended up lasting quite long but that was for the partying. A bit of recovering was still needed if she was going to be back at full strength. The bandages around her bicep and triceps' area had been changed but were still wrapped around her defined arms. The cuts from that four armed gladiator had not damaged her tattoos too severely which she was silently thankful for.

The sound of the crowd outside was loud and roaring. The pregame where the beasts fight the more common. Sounds of animals howling, weapons being swung and physical exertion from battle reached the braid framed ears of the Deucalian. Both of her fists tightened as her mind thought of the battle ahead. It was known she had defeated the last bout of warriors so chances were the facilitators of the coliseum expected the Sith to come and had more able bodied warriors. Perhaps they would be a greater threat and also even make this enjoyable.

While waiting in the shadows she looked towards her cohort. Aadya had struggled a bit last time in the arena. She hoped the smaller female did better this time. Maybe she had learned from her mistakes. "If you don't kill at least half as many as me then you'll owe me an ale." She said as a a half joking bet.

Without letting her disagree she moved out of the archway's shadow. This time there were far fewer gladiators. Instead there looked to be only two beings on the field and were squaring up to fight one another.❅ One was a large male with a vibrosword and vibro dagger. He only had the vibrosword out at the moment and was wearing very little armor. However, with a practiced eye Zan could tell that the way his left arm's armor was engraved and made meant it was probably of reputable strength, most likely phrik.

They both stopped from advancing on one another to see the new arrival that had hopped down. The second being was obviously female, most likely a cathar. Her white coat sticking out on the sands of the arena. The feline expression, while alien, seemed to show an emotional equivelant of annoyance. Clearly far lighter and armed with a pole arm Zan wondered which one she would have a better time fighting. Unsheathing her own Sith sword it glinted slightly in the mid-day sun.

 

[Aadya Drast]

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When the news had come that she and Zan would have to engage in another round of the arena Aadya was less than enthused. Even more so when she found out that Markov didn't have to participate, which moved her from mildly perturbed to simply annoyed. Hopefully Markov had been called back to Korriban for something horrible like his parents dying or something, at least then he'd have a real excuse for ditching her and Zan.

Aadya chuckled at Zan's offer of a bet, more than willing to accept its terms. "And if I kill more than you, you have to do whatever I ask for a whole day!" She shouted after, a sly grin creasing her lips as they both crossed the threshold and were met by their opponents.

The odds were better than last time with only two apparent gladiators versus the five there were before. Hopefully that meant Aadya wouldn't be getting her dick kicked in again and could show Zan that she wasn't as pathetic as she appeared to be. Eyeing them both, Aadya figured she'd have a better shot against the cat than the muscle bound hulkbro that stood next to her.

"You take muscles Malone, I'll take furball." She said, pulling out her lightsaber and igniting its crimson blade. In her other hand she pulled her blaster to it with the force, firing off a few quick shots towards the cat.

*Apparently, Aadya hadn't really cleaned her blaster in awhile. After only one shot the thing jammed up or short circuited or something, shocking her hand a bit and causing Aadya to drop it to the ground. The one blaster bolt did manage to hit its target though, slamming into Catwoman's thigh. Hopefully that would gimp her up a bit and give Aadya an easy time dispatching her.

Gripping her saber, Aadya began to close the distance between her and the furball, making sure to keep out of easy stabbing range of her enemy's superior reach weapon.

@Darasuum

 

[Darth Valravus]

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Zan had a feeling that Aadya had something in mind already for her wager. The Deucalian was not sure if she should be concerned or excited. Either way she was curious but knew that thanks to how things had gone thus far it would probably not be known since they each were facing one opponent.

Aadya fired her blaster though it visibly malfunctioned. She would have expected the woman to withhold the use of advanced weapons but then again it seemed that the Acolyte needed a little softening up of her target. All was fair in love and war.

"I'm glad I get to fight you and not her. She looks a little delicate." The gruff voice of the gladiator in front of her came from behind the muffling helmet. His eyes were barely visible inside the holes of the helmet. "I don't like fights ending too quickly." It was easy enough to tell he was smiling sadistically despite the obscured face.

Zan only smiled in response and rotated her grip on her sword slightly as she held it out to the side so he could see the length of her worn weapon. She crouched, placing her legs in a starting position of a track runner and only holding her large sword with one hand. The fire behind her eyes grew along with her smile. A moment later her pace increased and she was running towards the gladiator. He grunted, hyping himself up and preparing for the attack. His free hand held up along with his short vibro-sword. They would both relish this fight.

The Crusader's bandages tightened around her arms as her muscles bulged with the intensity of the intended strike. Her large weapon slashed out, causing sparks to fly as the large man blocked the slash. Not following through she kept her point of the blade within his guard and thrust forward towards his left arm. It scraped against the armor there cutting a few of the straps and lacerating the taught pectoral and a shallow cut along his inner arm. Zan blocked a counter attack, the amount of force behind it significant but expected for her opponent. It was an opportunistic attempt rather than a planned full fledged strike.

Taking a few steps back he waited with his sword held out before him expecting her to continue but she would stay where she was. Zan had given him a taste of her ferocity. The amount of resistance he would need to apply to block attacks, the speed at which she could manuever her weapon. If she had wanted to kill him outright she could have. It was not pride that had kept her from slaying the man. She did not like the fight to end too quickly either.

As blood dripped from the edge of Zan's sith sword the gladiator opposite her looked down at his injury. Even without his helmet he would not appear too worried about it. Bringing his blade up her used the edge to cut the straps that secured the armor from the elbow up. The armor slipped off and fell to the ground beside him in a clattered heap. "Not bad."

Spoiler: OOC

a few stabs and slashes from Zandrali against the hulkbro (rousing success)
@Logan

 

[Aadya Drast]

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Despite the conventional wisdom, Aadya was actually kind of annoyed that she'd been tasked with fighting Catwoman. If she were being honest, Aadya didn't really have that much experience in fighting with melee weapons. She could hold her own against things she knew, like other sabers or swords, but Aadya had never in her life attempted to go mano-a-mano against someone that had such an advantage in their reach.

Figuring that apprehension at this point would just get her hurt or killed, Aadya decided that despite her lack of knowledge in how to fight it, she was going to have to just bite the bullet and figure it out on the fly.

*Gripping her saber, Aadya lunged forward in an attempt to get inside the guard of Catwoman and away from the massive blade on the end of her spear. Catwoman was ready for it though it seemed, able to use some fleet footwork to reposition and give Aadya a nasty slash along her upper left arm.

The pain came quickly, a harsh stinging thing. Aadya's armor protected her from having her frucking arm chopped off, but she could still feel the warm sensation of blood running down her arm. Apparently she was going to need a better plan.

Normally she'd dart her eyes over to see how Zan was doing, but Aadya thought if she did that she might just end up getting impaled. Her focus was on her own problems for now, plus she knew Zan was more than capable of taking that stupid hulkbro out to the woodshed.

@Darasuum

 

[Darth Valravus]

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The woman barely registered the compliment that her opponent said. His posture and stance indicated he was going to be far more cautious now. The cheering of the crowd was roaring with the excitement. The two sword wielding fighters paced around one another, staring each other down while the tension built in the air. This also allowed Zan the chance to get a glance in at Aadya beyond the man. She seemed to be having difficulty but it was also giving the crowd more reason to be exciting.

This time the gladiator met her half way as thee fight resumed. Sparks flew from his blade while it contacted her sith sword. She could feel the effort behind it but was enough to handle. Zan let go of her two handed grip and grabbed his right arm hard. Her right hand holding her own blade brought it around disarming him.

With out a weapon she promptly brought her blade around, letting his wide eyed expression to show from the smale holes in his helmet. He knew he was a goner but was still trying to escape. The gladiator was able to break lose of the grip with his strength but it ended up making her attack easier with how large her sword was.

Zan jammed her sword into his bare chest. Blood immediatly began to gush down his muscular torso and his body spasmed at the pain death was bringing to him. The did not stop though. Her mouth was open, yelling in exertion as his body was bent over backwares until her sword's tip was touching the ground of the arena. Wrenching it back and free from the corpse the gladiator's body ceased all movement as the dirt around him absorbed his blood.

Spoiler: OOC

DEUCALIAN RAGE! Zan is going to do a super duper attack (success)
@Logan

 

[Aadya Drast]

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Catwoman apparently was content to simply sit behind her reach and just outlast Aadya. It was a valid tactic but it didn't really do shit in regards to actually pressing an advantage and taking your opponent out. Eventually, someone was going to get inside your guard. Eventually... someone was going to get close and kill you.

*Pulling the force into herself, Aadya charged forward towards Catwoman again. This time, though, when the cat attempted to thrust her spear Aadya used the force to push it wide to the side. Her plan mostly worked, Aadya able to get inside the damaging part of the spear, though she didn't quite push it wide enough to take no damage. The blade of the spear ran along her side, slicing through her armor and leaving her skin exposed and cut, though not too deeply. No matter - with a quick swing of her lightsaber, Aadya was able to catch Catwoman in the ribcage, the blade cutting into her flesh with ease and burying itself nearly halfway into her body.

The blow was a lethal one, though it came with its cost, Aadya was slashed and bleeding in multiple places now. At least this time she'd managed to actually kill someone. As soon as the Catwoman fell dead Aadya turned to see Zan had also killed her enemy. It was then that the crowd fell quiet, and the announcer came back over the PA system.

"Attention ladies and gents, its now time for the main attraction! I present to you these warrior's final test... our pregnant krynka queen, Lady Throatripper!"


A massive spider-like creature suddenly unburrowed from the ground beneath them, several meters away from where Zan and Aadya were standing. Aadya looked at it, her mouth slightly agape. "You've got to be kriffing kidding me.."

@Darasuum

 

[Darth Valravus]

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Watching Aadya do her best to fight her opponent she circled slowly, waiting to see if she needed to step in. But no such need came. The acolyte took some damage but was able to kill the feline female. Afterwards Zan looked around for any other contenders but stopped when a voice boomed around the stadium. The painted face of Zan looked up and listened before the rumbling began.

Looking around she tried to find the source of the disturbance only to realize a new shadow looming over her. Turning around the giant spider like creature stared at her with souless black eyes. Its mandibles clicked in what must have been a hungry smile.

The Deucalian in her adrenaline filled state dodged to thee side as a sudden downward stab came from one of the creatures pointed legs. The ground where Zan had been standing shuddered. The creature could have impaled her in one strike but thankfully the sith Crusader was not as easy as some prey.

Zansnarled and leapt backwards as another swipe came across her cutting into her arm's armor and part of her shoulder, tearing away some of the bandages from the last fight and reopening the cuts that had started to heal over. She winced and skidded to a crouched halt still facing the krykna queen. Her home world had plenty of monstrous creatures and some of them far stranger than this spider-thing but it did not make her any happier to see the ugly bug. It was too nasty and not even worth mounting on her ship.

Her eyes looked down at her arm where the visible blood trickled. Even though it was shallow the strong animal had managed to tear through the armor she had there. "Wait...did he say pregnant?"

Spoiler: OOC

Zan's gonna try to get out of range of the surprise spider queen (barely a success)
@Logan

 

[Aadya Drast]

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"Yes, I think he did!" Aadya shouted, jumping a meter or two further back from the creature as it honed in on Zan, attempting to impale her with its weird sharp legs. Mentioning the fact that the beast was pregnant seemed odd to Aadya too. She couldn't help but wonder why the announcer felt the need to make that distinction known.

Several courses of action came to mind for Aadya as her mind raced to figure out how to handle this creature. The simplest and most straightforward one was to keep at range and try to kill it, rendering it most of its natural weapons useless since the spider was built to melee. Glancing over, Aadya spotted Catwoman's spear lying on the ground. Seemed like it would work well enough.

*Reaching out with the force, Aadya gripped and lifted the spear, raising it up of the ground before giving it a mighty hurl with telekinesis. The spear rocked forward like it had been shot out of a canon and struck the krynka dead center in one of its eyes. Blood poured from the wound as the beast gave an otherworldly screech, clearly in pain and the spear had lodged itself deep enough that it seemed pretty stuck.

The beast tippytapped around on its feet for a few moments, disoriented and filled with rage. Hopefully Zan would be able to take advantage.

@Darasuum

 

[Darth Valravus]

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The creature was not the same as a sentient opponent. Zan could not approach it in the same manner. Some part of her was a little uneasy about the weirdness of the beast since it had so many legs, its dark eyes and the chittering clicking of its mandibles. It was not fear that was in her mind, just discomfort. She did not want to think too much about why the pregnancy had been mentioned. It made her skin crawl.

Ranged attacks would be ideal but Zan was not about to use her blaster. Little did she knew that it would not have any affect anyways even if she tried. Aadya had the right idea and hurled the dead feline's weapon as an improvised missile, injuring the spider-thing.

With an opening the Deucalian rushed forward. Her sword ready to cut into the creature as it reeled from the attack to its face. The legs slammed down, trying to find purchase and some semblance of stability. One nearly hit the Crusader by blind luck but the frantic nature of the movement was avoided. Swinging the worn sith sword Zan cleaved through the leg as high as she could reach taking away half of its length.

Twirling and stepping to the side she was able to continue her heavy weapon's momentum and did a similar cut on the other front leg of the krykna queen though not cutting of quite as much as the first. Both were no longer the sharp pointed legs but were reduced to pale blunt digit like appendages that spurted blood. It was starting to realize that the smaller beings before it were not easy prey.

Spoiler: OOC

Zan is going to try and sever the front two legs so the body is easier to strike (success)
@Logan

 

[Aadya Drast]

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Aadya watched as Zan carved up the spider's front legs, ruining its balance and hopefully meaning the end was near. Thinking that she could finish the beast off by thrusting the spear further into its face, Aadya reached out with the force to attempt to do just that.

Unfortunately, it seemed the spider had other plans. *As she reached out, it seemed Aadya wasn't able to push the spear in any further. For whatever reason, the spider seemed to sense that the spear had attempted to move which must have scared it... so much so, that it appeared it was going into labor early.

*All of a sudden, five smaller but similar looking spider things burst from the mother. They seemed ravenous, starving, and ready to kill as soon as they were born. The mother seemed to still be alive, though the trauma of birth rendered her as much less of a threat than before. Aadya was sure that wouldn't last, though, when she realized her children were going to be in danger. Zan and Aadya would be killing them all.

There was no way they were going to die here as food for kriffing spiders.

@Darasuum

 

[Darth Valravus]

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The krykna queen squealed in pain and continued to back away. Zan held her ground with her sword ready before her for any possible attack it had. Instead it spat out not one, not two, but five smaller versions of itself. Thrashing miniature versions of the spider creature quickly found their footing and saw the closest things that were not their mother.

They began scurrying towards Aadya and Zan eager to feed and attack the readily available prey. They had no idea nor did they care that the two sith were the beings that had wounded their mighty parent. Their long thing dagger like legs sped through the sand covered arena at an alarming speed for their size.

Letting go of her two handed grip the Crusader reached out with one hand. From her palms spanning outwards manifested turquoise flames. They seemed to build in front of Zan's pale hand for a moment and the small arachnids did their best to close the distance but they were not fast enough as jet of intense heat shot from the Deucalian. Three of the spiderlings were caught in the flames and made it a few extra centimeters before their exoskeletons became blackened and their insides boiled. Screeches came and pops as their bodies exploded as the excited liquids burst from inside them. A cone of heated sand with was visible for all the crowd to see.

<"I hate bugs"> she said in Deucalic. There were two left but she hoped that Aadya would be able to deal with at least two for a moment. While her emotions had fueled her she was still suddenly tired like she had fought half a dozen other gladiators. Manifesting the flames from nothing had been costly.

Spoiler: OOC

lets see if Zan can catch at least 2 in some force fire because KILL IT WITH FIRE
(rousing success)
@Logan

 

[Aadya Drast]

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It was a pleasurable sight watching Zan incinerate several of the spiders instantly. Their fight seemed to be all but over now with only two spiders and the decrepit and bleeding queen left to handle. Turning her attention to the two spiders still living, Aadya sought to finish them both off at the same time.

*Reaching out with the force, Aadya used telekinesis to pop both of the spiders up off the ground like they'd just jumped on a trampoline. Rushing forward, the spiders disoriented, Aadya sliced through them both with her lightsaber before either of them hit the ground. When they finally did fall, they fell in pieces, each chunk of their gross bodies making a moist slogging sound when they hit the ground.

The mother spider was still reeling, clearly starting to die due to massive blood loss from both her hind end and her face. Aadya approached the beast and plunged her lightsaber straight into its brain, finally ending its suffering and putting it at peace. Her eyes turned to the crowd, all of its members cheering raucously at the carnage, clearly entertained this time by the events that had transpired.

Walking over to Zan, Aadya jerked her head towards the exit. She was done spending any more time in this accursed arena and she made a mental note to beat the shit out of Markov whenever she saw him next.

//end thread

@Darasuum