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Clash of Pygmies [Emperor's Hand Tournament Duel]

The Admiralty
Codex Judge
The Arena buzzed with anticipation for the coming duel, it was not often that such things happened in the Empire. At least not officially. Bets were placed in high hopes to earn a fortune, it was glorious. At least for some. Garoth on the other hand was slightly bored, when he had heard that the Emperor himself was hosting a Tournament to decide upon who would be his next Hand, he had decided to leave the Citadel on Korriban to participate in said Tournament.

But Garoth did not expect it to take this long, three hours already. For three hours he had been waiting until the horrendous ceremonies, which were held in honor of the Emperor, were finally over. Faintly he could hear the trumpets signing the call for the upcoming battle. It seemed as if the long procession was over, finally.

Without further ado, Garoth stood up and walked into the Arena. Taking the cheering in strides and then he heard the announcer: "Let's hear a loud applause for the King of Korriban, ladies and gentlemen. I present to you.. Garoth Do'Urden."

He could not suppress a smile at that and with a smile he bowed lightly at the cheering crowds. Then he faced his opponent @[member="Paega Anginous"] and yet again bowed in alignment with common courtesy.

"My lady, I wish you luck in the coming engagement. Let us try not to kill one another."
 
@[member="Garoth Do'Urden"]

After hours of somewhat needless 'celebration', the battle was about to begin, and the audience in the arena were starting to get excited. From what Paega knew, she would be competing against other Sith Knights to earn the spot as the Hand of her former master. The blonde Sith Knight was already prepared and waiting to begin the duel as she observed Lord Do'Urden enter the arena with much fanfare.

"My lady, I wish you luck in the coming engagement. Let us try not to kill one another."

"That sounds quite agreeable. I wish you luck as well, my lord." the young woman said with a smile, and a bow to the Lord of Korriban. Paega lowered the intesity of her lightsaber using her thumb, turning it down so that her lightsaber wouldn't be powerful enough to do any amputations.
 
The Admiralty
Codex Judge
Garoth literally beamed of happiness. For he did not often find himself with a Sith who shared his restraints towards needless killing, amputations or any other form of bloodshed. It was because of this that he decided to neglect his Sith Sword in favor of the old and trusty lightsaber. He too lowered its intensity, it would no longer be able to decapitate anyone. Only the occasional bruise and maybe a burn.

The Knight began to move to the woman's right trying to flank her, while drawing on the Force.

@[member="Paega Anginous"]
 
@[member="Garoth Do'Urden"]

And so their duel began.

Paega immediately noted that her opponent was starting to move to her right in an attempt to flank her. Activating her crimson lightsaber, she began to lightly swinging it around her, taking her time to warm up a bit. She began drawing on the Force as well, readying it to utilize at a moment's notice. The blonde elected to keep to defense for now, waiting for Garoth to make the first move.
 
The Admiralty
Codex Judge
@[member="Paega Anginous"]

Garoth was still moving to her right, while the girl started swinging her saber. With a quick movement Garoth activated his own saber of light and used to Force to sweep some sand in the general direction of the girl's head. He hoped that his sudden activation would bring about the expectation that he was going to attack with the sword first.

Without waiting to see if it landed he lunged for her side, for he had arrived at a angle where it would be just a little more difficult to properly ward it off.

While Garoth did not like needless blood shedding, he did not mind winning through deception and cunning. Using the environment to his advantage had always been one of his best ways to win a fight.

@[member="Paega Anginous"]
 
@[member="Garoth Do'Urden"]

It was admirable the way in which the Sith Knight had used the environment and the setting to his advantage. Or at least the way in which he had attempted to. Paega heard the activation of her opponent's lightsaber, and widened her stance to defend the incoming attacks.

The first was a whirl of sand that flew towards Paega. Without a second of hesitation, Paega extended her left arm, also utilizing the Force to avoid having the sand directly hit her and be in the way of her vision. Paega blocked the lunge-attack that immediately followed at her right side with relative ease, her opponent having given her the foreshadow of such attack by having moved constantly towards her side before attacking.

Paega had to admit, Garoth had landed at a rather strategic angle that made it a little awkward to defend, something that the blonde used to her advatnage. Using the Force, she redirected the sand that he had previously tried to hit her with, and redirected so that it would blow directly at her opponent's face. Garoth's angle in which he had come in would've made it hard for him to do anything, really, about the sand that flew at him.

Regardless of the result of her counter-sand attack, Paega would not attack. Yet. She simply waited for him to launch his attacks again. Going on the defense tended to save her energy, energy that she would later use against her opponent.
 
The Admiralty
Codex Judge
@[member="Paega Anginous"]​
Immersed in the Force Garoth could see the sand coming at him, but the only thing he did was redirect it a bit. So his eyes would be relatively free, his mouth on the other hand was full of it though. And that sucked. What did not suck was the fact that the Lady did not attempt any counter-attack and only blocked his first attack. What she also had not done was put any space between them, so Garoth was frighteningly close to her now. Admittedly he would not be able to use his saber at this point, because of the awkward position he was in.

What he could do was use the Force to slam it into her gut. Some of the sand still clung to his eyes, despite his best efforts. But that did not worry him that much, Force Sight was a hard power to use when in a war. But in an Arena with only two opponents? It was not that hard to distinguish Paega.

And so that was what he did, slamming the Force into Paega's stomach. Really she had only a few options left, because of the short distance. The most obvious option was to try and dodge it, she could also try to take the punch, but Garoth did not think that would be a good idea with the power he hid behind it and then there was option three.. he wondered if she would think opt for it in the heat of battle.
 
@[member="Garoth Do'Urden"]

Not extending the distance between Paega and her opponent had admittedly been not such a great idea. It gave certainly less options for both of them, and it also didn't really give advantage to one person in particular.

Keeping her lightsaber clashing against the other Sith Knight's, Pagea would notice as being close to her opponent as she was, the slight movement of Garoth's free hand to hammer the Force at her stomach. Paega took action the moment before her opponent's Force Push flew right at her. She let out a Force Push of her own, the pair's Force attacks clashing in mid-air and blasting possibly both of them back.

Paega lost her footing slightly from the Force Push and ended up flying into the air, executing a back-flip before steadily landing back on the ground, seveal feet away from her opponent. Speaking of which, would've most likely have been affected by the clash of Force Pushes as well. The blonde Sith Knight lightly began swinging her lightsaber around once more, the clash of their Force attacks having created a small dust-storm that made seeing rather difficult. So instead of relying on her minds, Paega utilized Force Sight to look around in her mind and locate her opponent.
 

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