Us Against The World

[Xivilli]

Xivilli was in the Academy, a room with a few practice circles and dummies. He held in his hand two wooden swords that were curved at the hilt to help facilitate an average lightsaber hilt for a curved variation.

He was beating a few practice dummies senseless, delivering quick jabs with his left sword at vital areas while swinging his right sword in a few, powerful sweeps at the dummy's sides. He was tired of inaminate objects that gave no fight. He wanted a real challenge...

Ever since Mercer died, his saber training had been neglected. The Pureblood was hoping to rectify this, but nothing here was sounding promising.

He felt like he was being watched...

 

[Xylonic]

Acolyte xylonic walks into the training room dressed in his dread guard themed robes and with his lightsaber on his hip. he had come to this room to train as well when he noticed a sith pureblood not training with a lightsaber nor a training saber but instead wooden swords that seemed to have a curved hilt. so xylonic figured this other acolyte must have been a practitioner of the makashi lightsaber form and he notced he was wielding two blades so maybe this acolyte was as well a practitioner of trakata which is a sub form of of the force using niman form which xylonic had a basic knowledge of. he stood on one side of the room watching the pureblood hit the practice dummy over and over with his odd training weapon.

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli turned, his black hair pulled back for his training. He saw another Sith, one with a lightsaber on his hip. Smiling, the Pureblood walked forward, putting down his practice swords and grabbing a towel which he used to clean the sweat off his blood red face.

"Hello, Sith. You seem interested in my practice, are you looking for something? The bathroom is that way." The Pureblood pointed out the door, a small smile appeared on his face for a moment before his eyes went serious, "Or perhaps, you're looking to train... How about it? One on one, no lightsabers or Force abilities."

Challenging a random Sith might seem idiotic to most, but Xivilli was calm inside. He had seen this one around and knew him to be an Acolyte as well, which means their levels of skill were close to each other.

The perfect sparring partner.

 

[Xylonic]

Xylonic smirked under his mask at the other acolyte after he tryed too tell him where the rest rooms were. but he then felt the feeling there was something more acolyte wanted than to just tell him where the bathrooms were and sure enough xylonic was right. for a brief moment xylonic thought about his decision if he wanted to face off against this pureblood acolyte or not but xylonic being the stubborn man he was agreed to the tearms that he thought were obsured after all whats the point of haveing a saber and the force if you cant use them.

" very well I agree I do not have any weaponry besides my vibroblade and lightsaber sodo you happen to have a spare on hnd for me to use in this duel" this wasnt xylonic first duel he has fought but it will be the first he will be fighting without the help of the force.

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli motioned with a wave of his hand to an array of sparring weapons on the wall, all tailored to different styles of combat and death.

Picking up his wooden swords again, he spun them around his fingers once before taking a tight grip on to each and bringing the tips to point straight for the ground.

Taking a deep breath, Xivilli stood at one end of the stone practice ring before taking his stance, light on his feet, his right sword forward, diagonally in front of him, with his left sword raised to his shoulder height, the tip pointing straight at his opponent's torso.

He was ready, and besides, this training match was meant to learn, not kill. Injuries would only slow them down, and he wished to feel the pain but still be functional for his next course.

The one before him was pale, cybernetic. He supposed that stirred fear in others, but not to him. The man was not to be feared, merely his skill. Judging by his metal parts, it appeared he would be either slower or faster than average humans without the Force, as the parts could augment him.

Xivilli was ready to dodge and counter if necessary, but he wished to gauge his opponent first.

 

[Xylonic]

Xylonic walked over to the weapon rack that the acolyte he agreed to fight pointed at and took from it a wooden sword that looked similar to a ancient sith sword. he then turned away from the rack and went to the opposite side of ring where to got into stance initialing the duel.

from that point xylonics cybernetics boosted his human speed by at least half of the the average speed for professional runners who were human. when he got up to his opponent he brought his sword up in a upward diagonal slash using again his cybernetic parts to strengthen the blow by 2 times the human of his size. had he been allowed to use the force the blow would have been at least two times the power it was when he struck at his opponent.

"just because i am a cyborg does not mean i am slow but instead my cybernetics make me far stronger than any human of my size and with the fforce it makes me just that stronger"

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli smiled, the upward slash came, but he predicted the cyborg would make the first move, and so quickly side-stepped, moving left, before lunging his left sword straight for the space just under the man's ribs. With the cyborg's explanation on his physical abilities, the Sith made a mental note not to take another high risk maneuver.

"Augmented physical prowess, noted." The Sith moved more to the cyborg's left, hoping to get behind him and jab at him again with his left, while holding his right up to help block any possible midsection or higher swings.

 

[Xylonic]

xylonic saw the other acolyte move to his side and steped towards him. he pivoted the heel of his right foot into the ground and spun around to meet his attackers blow and again deflect it to the side. he was able to do this with much ease as he was a main practitioner of form 3 also known as soresu which was the most defencive form of all of them. after deflecting the bladehe swung the blade up toward the midsection of his opponents body and then proceeded to switch the blade direction and aim for his opponents armpit. if this was a real saber to saber fight and his attack landed his opponent would have lost his arm in the exchange. xylonic also made mental notes in his head each time the two of hs opponents swords moved so he wouldnt be caught of guard somehow but there was always that chance.

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli's eyes widened and a grin split across his features as he tried to block the strike, but due to the physical augmentation of the cyborg, was only able to slow it down. He took the hit to his right armpit, knowing such a loss was unnacceptable, but as the strike came, Xivilli used the pivot of his opponent to his advantage.

He used his left to jab once again under the man's ribs, hoping to cause a staggering pain to buy a little time for a second attack.

 

[Xylonic]

xylonic felt a joy of triumph hit him as his blade made contact with his enemy. but xylonic knew the fight wasnt over he turned to the blade he had blocked just moments before landing his attack on his enemy and using again his knowledge of the soresu form he brought his blade in barely just enough time as his opponents training weapon had barely touched xylonics ribs but just enough to make xylonics ribs feel irritated, had that been a saber xylonic could have still surived and keptt fighting but he would suffer from burn marks. he then swung using again his amplified strength cause of the cybernetics and swung the blade in a downward in a diagonal slash.

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli saw the slash coming, jumping backwards out of the cyborg's reach. As the slash ended, he moved forward a step and did a simple X-scissor cut to the cyborg's wrists, hoping to cause some pain and show that the enemy would have been... disarmed.

(Buh-dum-tis)

The Pureblood, after the X cut, would make the motion to move backwards again, bringing his swords up to help block as he tried to get out of range. With the cyborg's strength augmentations, blocking full on attacks would fail him. However, dodging might still prove useful.

 

[Xylonic]

xylonic knocked the x-scizzor attack his opponent at him away with ease with his soresu form knowledge and moved with his after noticing him backing up with his cyber netic eye. as his opponent moved backwards obviously trying to get get away from the cybernetic monstrousity of xylonic, he swung his saber at the shoulder he had not hit earlier as if he hit that spot the duel might as well be over as his opponent would have not had any arms left to duel against xylonic with.

"ihave you now"

 

[Xivilli]

"Not yet."

Xivilli saw the slash, bringing up both his swords parallel to each other, deflecting the blow. The force of it, though deflected, caused him to spin on his heel at a very quick speed, which he used to his advantage.

The Pureblood brought both blades swinging for his opponent's right elbow, a force that might have been too much for an ordinary human to withstand, but since his opponent was a cyborg, he didn't expect him to have a broken bone.

The Sith then jumped into the air, his knees pulled up to his body and at the behemoth's eye level, as he brought both of his sword's straight down, aiming for the top of the cyborg's head.

 

[Xylonic]

xylonic had no time to react to this as it came so fast. xylonic felt as one of his cybernetics crack in one of his elbows and felt pain for a quick second before realiseing his enemy had jumped in the air and also knowing this sealed his fate.

xylonic pivoted on his foot and spun to the side then he proceeded to use his advanced speed while his enemy was in the air to put his sword inbetween the attackers two swords and his body. now xylonic had the perfect position he moved the blade above his knees and just bellow the shoulders and struck out at that spot. this would be his end if it were a real duel

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli was scared. Fear gripped him as he saw the opening that was created by the block, and did probably the stupidest thing he's ever done...

He kicked.

Xivilli flung his foot out from under him, bringing his swords down in front of his body. The foot caught the inside of the cyborg's elbow, softening the blow as it struck his wooden swords, before the blow connected with his ribs.

The Pureblood was hit, yes, and it hurt, but no where near what it was meant to. The Sith hit the ground, jumped back, and took a moment to catch his breath. His side hurt like hell, but nothing was broken, thankfully. He knew he would have been dead at this point if it were a real duel, and his anger spiked as he panted.

Damn cyborg was barely hurt, and he was in pain. Was he this weak? This pathetic?!

Xivilli stood up straight, taking his stance, this time his left diagonally in front of him, his right sword was behind him a little, the point facing 1 o'clock. "I am not done yet, cyborg. Still up for another round?"

 

[Xylonic]

xylonic felt the pain in his elbow yet again but his cybernetics stayed as cracked as they were before but the pain became more iratated he tried his best to ignore the pain to focus on his opponent who he had just beaten with his last strike. he had no more intention to fight anymore he had other things to go and attedm to but he surely enjoyed this fight with this acolyte he put up a good fight and xylonic hoped to one day fight him yet again or to be on a mission together and fight along side one another.

"you lost but you fought well you just need a little more training. but as of your question no i have to get going i have other training classes i need to go and attend to. may the darkside be with you fellow acolyte."

 

[Xivilli]

Xivilli bowed to the cyborg before walked over and putting his swords up.

"May the Dark Side favor you, as well."

With that, the Pureblood walked away and out of the sparring circle.