In the palace, away from the audience chamber, random corridor
Being a simple NCO and thus very low in the pecking order, Kaida had not attended the fascinating audience, though she would probably find a meeting of suspicious and conservative Eldorai arguing over shipping costs extremely boring. Undoubtedly Lady Kerrigan would like to invite her to a session about poetry...somehow reading post-classical Alderaanian poetry was done best without wearing any clothes. Something about the Alderaanian poets being in tune with nature and wanting to experience life unshackled.
Kaida never had much time for poetry and so she had been returning to her guard duties - there were always new Angelii to break in. Not that she would use hot rods of iron or anything like that because apparently that was no longer seen as progressive and modern. That was when the attack began, heralded by screams, explosions, gunfire, alarm sirens howled.
"Dashdae Eldorai have penetrated the outer defence ring. Destroy the heretics, defend your Queen!" it blared out of a loudspeaker as defeaning explosions roared, accompanied by the symphony of pained cries. Reacting immediately, instinctively as a soldier should, Kaida pulled her lightsabre into her hand and it ignited with a snap-hiss and the yellow blade dazzled into existence as she quickly raced towards what seemed like the place where the mayhem reigned, activating her comm link to contact her squad.
"Get to the gates now, hold the line at all cost," noticing one her fellow Angelii she motioned to her impatiently, "Irissa, come with me! We must...," she did not get any further because suddenly part of the wall exploded and, caught in the blast, though distant enough that it did not kill her, she was thrust into the air and thrown for several metres, landing face-first into the marble floor, blood dripping down her chin, with the elf rolling as debris was tossed towards her and a salvoe of blaster and flechette fire, razor sharp shards so favoured by the Dashdae Eldorai, came shooting her way. Her lightsabre, which had fallen out of her grip, flew back into her hand as she furiously slashed bolts out of the air, gritting her teeth as a blaster bolt grazed her face and a sharp flechette struck her leg, though it was blocked by her armour.
Thank the Goddess for small mercies, one might think. The open palm of her hand turned frosty, ice peals forming upon the glove, then as she thrust her hand forward it sent out a volley of cold, effectively amounting to a force-based cryoban grenade as the temperature dropped rapidly and she harnessed her Sciia, layers of ice sweeping towards the shooters in a wave, crystallising and freezing them, those that were not quick enough to dodge. Groaning she emerged upward and charged, lightsabre moving to slash at opponents as the first frozen enemy burst into pieces, but then she was suddenly seized by invisible hands and before she could react thrown into a wall. She had just about enough time to react to spin and grab a grenade from her belt, throwing it at her attacker before she made contact with the wall.
The rogue Angelii leapt very high as the grenade came flying her way, though she was equally thrown, giving Kaida time, though her opponent quickly ignited her sarix, the traditional energy blade of the guard. "The reign of human monkeighs and traitorous whores is at an end. Today we will liberate Kaeshana and put an end to all who defy the Goddess," she declared, as she brought her blade crashing down with the force of a hurricane, for it to be blocked as Kaida wielded her lightsabre, furiously pushing the attack back. The sarix was a powerful weapon, from a more elegant, more heroic time, but inferior to the lightsabre, much as that was a foreigner's weapon.
"I do not appreciate being called a traitor. Ironic how saving the planet must start by spilling Eldorai blood. Counterintuitive," Kaida said with grim humour as she pressed on, charging the Angelii, a furious dance developing. Kaida had grown strong in her Sciia but in bladework she was far from a prodigy, so she soon found herself on the defensive as the furious sweeps of the rogue Angelii drove her back, rage powering her. Biting down on her tongue as her opponent first feinted a stab towards her chest before slashing into her shoulder, Kaida leapt to evade a furious sweep to her legs before unleashing a salvoe of icicles that her opponent dodged, before falling over as Kaida's exerted her powers to turn the ground slippery, moist liquid spreading. She gathered it with her powers and sent it crashing towards her enemy as a wave that crystallised into hard ice, but the rogue was skilled in the art of fire and so fireballs dissipated the ice, the flames being dragged across the hall towards Kaida, scorching her and forcing her to roll on the ground as the burning heat threatened to engulf her before she managed to harness her Sciia to form an ice shield, managing to hold it up as she was battered.
Then, liquid streaming down her, armour scorched, she sent the shield pushing towards her opponent as a battering ram. Hot fire shot towards and burnt it, ice melting like before a supernova, the rogue smirking triumphantly and raising her blade, before she suddenly cried out and fell as Kaida's lightsabre chopped her leg off below the knee. "I don't like being called a traitor. Especially not by ignorant fools." With her armour burnt in places, revealing scorched clothes, Kaida was upon her, eyes cold as she thrust her blade forward to stab her.
