A duel between two dark knights (XD)

[Matreya]

KORRIBAN

Zaiden stretched his body lithely like a feline then strode from his apartment clad in his Demon Armor, both lightsabers on his hip, and his Shadow Dagger hidden against his lower spine. He tied his hair behind his head in a tail, and raised his hood. Stepping out into the night, he swept his eyes up and down the street.

He would appear to be traveling along the pavement at random, while in reality he had a plan. Finally after achieving knighthood, Zaiden felt himself ready to make his first steps in really testing his abilities. One day he would reach his goals..

But for now, Zaiden would settle with demolishing that whelp @[member="John Harrison"]. He had done everything he could to annoy and anger Zaiden, every chance he found. Zaiden knew it was immature to bear a grudge over so little, but the way he looked at it the man had earned what he was going to receive. Just earlier this afternoon, Zaiden had found what he sought. Harrison's address..

After a small trek, he arrived at his destination and began seeking any ways to enter undetected. The only choice he felt worked best would be through an air duct on the roof of the man's home.

Making quick time of the climb, Zaiden landed silently on the roof. Slowly climbing into the duct, and plummeted straight down. Just before making contact with the ducts floor, he used a minor Force Push to slow then nearly stop his dissent. He barely made an audible sound.

Moving slowly he climbed from the duct and dropped into a combat role to a crouch, where he cast his eyes around looking for his target. It was at times like this that he was so proud of his assassin mantle, for against a Sith Knight he needed the best stealth to get within killing reach

 

[John Harrison]

Clutching his skull, John moaned in pain as he felt another one of his headaches. Spending 800 years in carbonite freezing had given him a chronic case of migraines, leaving him in frequent states of extreme irritance. Then he felt another spike burn his mind. This was different, however. It was a pain brought on by the force. There was another within his presence... one he had met before.

Who? The force came easily during the headaches, his body surging with anger, and so he searched the force, sifted through the beings he sensed within his reach. An animal, a rodent, and an insect. Smiling as he came to his realisation, he opened his mouth, fully aware that Zaiden could hear him. "The force told me there was an insect here. I thought I recognised its presence." John hoped that this was Zaiden's attempt at a revenge for his comments in the past. That would allow him to exert revenge.

"I do apologise. It must be irritating for you, having the force trace of a worthless insect." His tone hardened suddenly. "Zaiden. In all seriousness, be careful. Are you sure you want to do this? A duel is a dangerous thing, and one you need to be sure you want to partake in. Especially with me."

"So; Are you ready for an infinite universe of pain?"

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden chose to grind his teeth together instead of allow himself to snap at the comment, slowly standing Zaiden summoned both of his lightsabers to his hands. Activating then both simultaneously, he glared at the man...

Then launched forward, first bringing down an overhead strike aimed at Johns clavical. With a simultaneous attack from his right side in a sweeping motion aimed at Johns legs. As he was doing this Zaiden willed a nearby lamp into the air, whipping it at Johns back.

 

[John Harrison]

"I warned you." Gritting his teeth as he felt another sharp pulse in his mind, he let out with an angry groan, the force surrounding him in a field of pure rage. "You failed to listen." His residence shook as he let out a furious force repulse, obliterating the nearest wall, exposing a great gorge, the sun shining through. Zaiden might have flown through the hole. He wasn't sure. Most of his residence was rubble now. He could be hiding within, waiting to strike.

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden landed nearly 20 feet away, blasted into a wall so hard it made an indent. Slowly rising, Zaiden wiped the trickle of blood dripping from his mouth against the back of his hand.

This will be interesting, Zaiden thought before calling out, "Neat trick. Bet you can't do it again!" And with that he charged the man, wielding only his cyan saber. As he neared John, he flung several well placed shots, all at vital organs.

 

[John Harrison]

His eyes wide with excitement as he dodged the first of Zaiden's attacks, he drew his saber, the stabs very nearly disemboweling him. Getting into a Soresu stance, he waved his saber gently in a gesture of warning. "Zaiden. How old are you? 11? 10? You don't look like you ever it puberty. You've got the baby-face, you know what I mean?" John would use Dun Moch to provoke Zaiden, then strike him hard.

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden growled, "Old enough to best rancor fodder like you!" Knocking the waving saber out of his face he called out for his other saber, willing it to ignite the moment it touched his hand.

Blocking and countering, Zaiden kept on the offensive. Not even bothering to use the specific stances taught by his master, Zaiden used any slash or block, stab or parry to keep ahead in this fight.

Swinging his cyan saber in a sideways feint, he used his crimson blade as the powerhitter, aimed at the mans knee. It wasn't until this attack was set in motion that he noticed his armor already had 3 dents along the gauntlets, from barely repelling the enemies attacks.
@[member="John Harrison"]

 

[John Harrison]

Slicing across to deflect the blades in a loose, clumsy motion, John took a deep breath, already exasperated. "Lightsaber combat is, in fact, the most crude of all the force abilities." Taking the opportunity now that he had an opening, John backflipped out of his residence, slamming onto the circular stone mesa below the house in a cloud of dust. It was suspended by a narrow pillar of stone, a circular battle arena fit for two combatants. "You should try something with more... finesse." Breathing in, he outstretched a hand slowly in an invitation to Zaiden. "Do you dare strike me down? You don't have the mettle, do you, boy."

 

[Matreya]

Standing near the ledge glaring down, Zaiden slowed his breathing. Stepping off, Zaiden used force push gently in an updraft like manner, softly floating to the ground his cape going crazy in the wind. Throwing a punch from where he stood, he used the force to mimic the blow. His father had worked with men capable of doing what he did, he called them Shadow Boxers. Capable of duking it out from nearly any distance.

"Isnt it sad, if im a mere boy, that I can hold my own?" Zaiden taunted back, throwing several more shadow punches at the man's face.
@[member="John Harrison"]

 

[John Harrison]

John smirked as he stepped forwards, holding both hands outwards as he deflected the punches with blasts of force push. "Sad? No. You are in your physical prime! You will never be as strong, as fast, as energetic. It is sad that you continue to fail to defeat an 864 year-old man." Stamping forwards on one foot, he lowered his profile, drawing all the energy he could from the force, his eyes closing and the force dominating his body, sparks rushing through his body and blasting out of his fingertips in spiralling forks of blue lightning.

It burned his flesh, but the force dulled the pain. Every last bit of anger he had within his heart as unleashed in one continuous stream of destructive icy-blue electricity. A maelstrom of pain, whirling round Zaiden. John's eyes turned a deep red, both pupils disappearing into the seas of blood. "Kneel." His voice was hoarse and forehead sweaty. Zaiden was unworthy. He was weak. He would feel the pain of his actions.

He would kneel like a dog lying before his master.

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden's eyes went wide, then slammed shut against the pain. The pain..it was so powerful that it was shutting down his thoughts. He could barely try to move.



Dropping onto one knee, Zaiden refused to cry out in anyway. His armor was doing it's job and taking the brunt of the blast, but it was still sizzling his mind and body. Forcing his mind to focus, Zaiden took as much energy as he could from the blast as well as the force around him. And let it loose in one powerful concussion at John.

He didn't know what to expect next, the man could very well bounce back like it was nothing. He was not as talented as this man. But he could still take him, he thought gasping for breath hoping the pain would subside..

Coughing up a small saliva mixed spurt of blood onto the ground, Zaiden decided to accept the pain. To work with it, as his master Eldoc does. Rising to his feet, getting more difficult each time, he looked at John ready to keep going.

 

[John Harrison]

Shooting back into the air with Zaiden's blast, his long coat billowing in the wind as he lifted off the ground. Slamming his heel down as he reached the end of the mesa, he windmilled his arms briefly to keep himself from falling. Grinding his teeth in anger as he saw Zaiden rise, he knew that the knight had more strength than he gave him credit for.

"We are both..." Breathing out hard, the last of his lightning crackled and fizzled around his fingertips, dissipating entirely. "...Men of power..." Taking in a deep breath again, he mustered his strength. "...So, boy. Will you defeat me like a man? Or have you resigned yourself to your inexperienced ways?" Shutting off his saber, he slid it back onto his belt. Raising both fists, he grinned, his sweat-ridden hair flopping over his eyes. "Bare knuckles." He gasped, his voice full of enthusiasm. "Nothing more."

"A trial of strength."

 

[Matreya]

Zaiden found himself slowly smiling as he caught hisbreath, and even disabling his saber. Walking closer, he got within 5 feet and put up his fists, "I'm known..to brawl with...Mandalorians when drunk...your mistake." Swinging three swift jabs from different high point angles towards Johns face, he spun and threw his elbow at the back of the man's head after placing his foot firmly behind the man's leg. If connected, the blow would knock the man down.

@[member="John Harrison"]

 

[John Harrison]

"Fighting Mandalorians when drunk? You must know about having your arse handed back to you on a silver platter." Blocking the first two jabs with his hands smugly, John's head was snapped backwards as the third crashed into his skull, the elbow to the back of his head in conjunction with the foot behind his leg sending him slamming onto the ground in a thin cloud of dust. Enraged at his embarrassment and clutching his skull, he rose to his feet, the dark side now coursing around him in a field of voracious rage that eat away at his soul. His eyes only grew a deeper red, jagged cracks appearing around his eyes, a glowing claret light emitted from within each of the scars.

Balling his fists, he continued to breathe heavily, stepping slowly towards Zaiden. Using the force to strengthen him, he numbed the pain, distanced himself from the agony. "The Mandalorians you fought must have been drunk to all hell." Stamping forwards, he slammed a knee upwards into Zaiden's groin and grasped his skull with both arms, channeling the remainder of the force he could afford to summon without collapsing with exhaustion into his hands, all of his anger and pain and disgust and fear all forced upon Zaiden's skull as he attempted to crush it. "You will suffer the agony of the endless ringing, the eternal drumming forever leaving your thoughts in ruin." He spat in the deepest despision.

"You will suffer as I have for 864 years."

 

[Matreya]

Roaring out in agony, he felt his skull being crushed. Struggling seemed in vain, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear. He could only hurt. It was worse then what he already believed to be the limits of pain. This man, this @[member="John Harrison"], he was above Zaiden's league...still. after all his training..This is it, he thought...

No.

Drawing on his last reserves of strength, he force pulled his reignited sabers at Johns back harder then he had ever willed anything. The blades came whistling at John, whom let him go to do whatever defense he could against two powerful sabers flying with that velocity.

"EAG...need retrieval..." Zaiden muttered into his face plate, glaring at John as he gasped for breath, "I...will...be back..."

Willing his body to accept the pain made it only slightly more bearable, for no matter how hard he tried he could but barely accept any of it. This level of pain was new. New to the universe. The beast he unleashed in John was of a new level. Little did John know that Zaiden to had a darkside.

When we meet again, I wont be caught off gaurd, Zaiden thought -the very act seeming to drain himself even more.. Everystep he took, he collapsed and was forced to regain is footing. At the 3rd step, a massive rumbling came roaring ever closer. Just as he nearly collapsed again, he felt gravity pulling him down and he just coildnt do anything about it..

And by the luck of the universe, he landed across the back of his bike as it rocketed through the rubble that but mere minutes ago had been an inhabited town square. Looking around now he barely could tell that the battle had been so recent, it looked so terribly destroyed that it seemed time had decayed everything...

The soft hum of his bike, the gentle bumps of the ride, the sight of the night sky overhead, it was to much. He found himself slowly lulled into unconsciousness. The last thought to go through his mind was:

I will be back...

(OOC: Lol yes I noticed I didn't mention him grabbing his sabers, it's because he clearly didn't have the strength to even stand anymore. Don't take them XD. Lol technically you can if you like but that would SUUCK)

 

[John Harrison]

Rolling away to dodge the sabers, John stared in dismay as Zaiden's bike shot past, taking Zaiden with it. Screaming out into the darkness above, he sank onto his knees, the red fading from his eyes and the cracks closing, leaving only faint lines. Dragging his nails through the dust, he swore upon every star in the night sky.

He would have his revenge.

Blood would be shed.