Knights Kei Amadis v Nima Tann

[Coci Heavenshield]

As the combatants enter the arena, a silence falls over the audience of Jedi gathered to watch the tournament. They are guided to the raised platform in the center of the room, and each will turn toward the end of the room and bow their respects to Grand Master Thurion Heavenshield. ​

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They are reminded of the virtues of a fair fight, of honour, valour and respect. ​

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When this is completed, the sound of a gong echoes through the Dojo, a sign for the combatants to salute each other and take stance. ​

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[member="Kei Amadis"] v [member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Kei Amadis]

Kei was in his camouflaged forest temple robes, cut shorter to assist movement, thick black boots, hololocket in his pocket. Unity his saber had been turned down today by [member="Fyor Nayus"], so it would not cause any serious wounds, but would still sting his friend! He was a wizard that man, and would certainly have offered the same to Nima if she wanted it before she arrived.

He’d fought plenty of battles, and Epicanthix loved a duel, but since he’d become a Jedi he’d only faced Sith about four times one on one, he could hold his own but wasn’t a Master, or probably as good as [member="Taiden Keth"] was getting. Don’t let Nima or her student hear that! Epicanthix had their pride!

The stubbled face of her friend awaited [member="Nima Tann"] just off the arena floor, warming himself up as usual. Rolling his shoulders over, bending his hips, getting rid of the tension on his neck, which was always there! “You ready missy?” He said as she entered, yeah he was teasing her, and there was a broad grin across his face.

Walking to the raised platform he saluted her with his saber, and then the grandmaster. game face on, Djem So a two handed guard over his head, the weapon was angled down over his shoulder, and he braced his legs ready.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

She was pretty excited for the upcoming event, even she did all her preparations a day before, which was surprising because Nima was lazy, but she never admitted it. This was her first official duel, even though she met with Sith before things never got to fight, which was both lucky and unlucky at the same time. She trained a lot in saber combat but she never practised it, and now it was her chance to show people how great her Master and her teachings were, and she wanted to show her that her trainings didn't go to waste. Her master was watching her from the shadows, she could feel it. Since she practised in Ataru and Sokan, which required fast movement and the flexibility, she wore the most flexible clothes she could find, which was a crop-top and sports shorts, perfect. Now she was ready for action.

Leaving her home she continued along the Garden to the Combat Arena, she couldn't conceal her excitement. Her opponent was [member="Kei Amadis"], a good friend of hers, and a strong one indeed, and they became good friends in a little time, they had some similiarities with each other, that was why. Even though not knowing his past much, she knew that he was the better one, at least he didn't look like he fell to the dark side, like her before. But that times passed and now she was a Jedi, and she would let no one to change her destiny. As she arrived to the arena, her hearbeat continued to increase faster and faster, and now, he was just in front of her, ready and as brave as ever.

The arena master fixed her lightsaber, turned it into a training saber she could say. Well, she didn't really want to hurt her friend, but a little burning wasn't all so bad. She grinned. Besides, he was an Epicanthix, he could endure a little pain, right? She heard his words, he still had his joking side with him, which made Nima chuckle. "Oh, only way to find out." She winked, and then get into her combat stance, left leg front, right leg behind, lightsaber looking down and still not yet activated. Ready to jump and surprise him or put a defense to him if he attacked first. "Wanna try?" She teased him again, and tried her best to conceal her excitement. He probably would make fun of her if he realized.

 

[Kei Amadis]

Gleam in his eye, Kei was excited no doubt, and she was right to think he’d attack first, but for a while he stood there watching her, waiting. You knew the swing was going to happen, but you didn’t know when.

He couldn’t help but give his often broad grin at her, he liked her too much to not. Kei was trying to get her to blink, to move, to give him an opening. Wanna try… Wink given, he brought his leg up and stamped down, bringing unity into a strong two handed strike straight central to Nima, with a high forward lunge to follow. Little defense, mostly attack in the form, Djemo so often had to be both at once. While people had helped him find peace in the Jedi teachings, his lightsaber style still had a way to go to match it.

6ft 2 Kei wasn’t small, and kept himself in good physical shape, which sometimes compensated for his lack of the more subtle techniques Jedi used. He used his arms legs and shoulders in to push down hard. Side stepping, keeping facing her, the Epicanthix did a small circle of his outstretched weapon, and brought it tight to his stomach, pointing out ready to spring forward.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

Since she was ready for possible attacks, she managed to dodge them, but Kei was an opponent who you shouldn't be careless around, and he was an Epicanthix, almost no way to understand which way he was going to attack, she had to trust her instincts about this one. Ataru had the advantage of flexibility and it wasn't very suitable for defense, but it was going on so far.

Grinning back to Kei, she hinted where she would attack first, and since he was ready for another attack, he wouldn't expect for a counter attack. Taking strength from her right foot she lunged forward, holding her lightsaber for a swing, a little far from her body but managing to increase speed, aiming for his lightsaber, if she could break his stance a bit maybe she would find a vulnerability.

He was strong, she was fast. The odds said that strong one always won, but speed wasn't a trait to ignore. This duel was more like a friendly match, and she was happy that Kei was on their side. No one would want a strong Epicanthx like him as an enemy.

[member="Kei Amadis"]

 

[Kei Amadis]

Nima was quick, faster than he was, she caught his saber well knocking Kei back a step, having his hilt pulled tight down to his stomach, Djem So pushed his beam up the side of hers, giving them more room so he had time to get his bearings back. Krayt’s horn rose above his head, a two handed downward strike again ready, he changed his tact and started fanning the beam left to right. Out in front of him, walking forward, from high his saber unity cut inward, then back over, side to side fanning hits. Stepping in toward her they were constant, not as quick as her, but strong in the movements, pushing forward, and exerting a lot of energy.

“Not bad Miss Tann” Kei grinned again, messing with Nima a bit, getting into things, loving this if he was honest. The challenge and the familiarity he could share with his sparring partner.

Djem so was a form that encouraged aggression, and you needed to be of stable body and mind before attempting it, sure of yourself and your path. Kei was and had been through his challenges coming out the stronger for it, he wasn’t aiming to hurt her, but the nature of the form made it possible that she might get a bruise or a burn if she didn’t concentrate hard!

Abruptly the fanning attacking broke off, and Kei extended his foot out for a forward kick. Solid movements, nothing too fancy, that was Kei.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

"I am just starting, mister." She said, with a playful tone as she was getting ready for the phase two of her attack. She waited her friend to regain his balance, since it was more fun this way. And he attacked her, both strong swings, he was changing his fight style and now becoming much more aggresive, that made his attacks faster this way, as she understood from his attacks, he didn't aim for the fatal injuries but if one of the hits landed on her that would cause problems.

She jumped backwards to get away from his upcoming attacks, collecting her breath and preparing herself for a counter. A small grin could be seen on her face as she quickly started to run towards him, but...

When she realized the quickly extending foot it was too late to stop for her, since she got the momentum. There was nothing she could do. The kick landed right in the stomach, she lost her breathing for a second there, eyes blacking out, she found herself slowly falling to the ground. As she came back in her senses, she was on the ground, trying to breathe... This was a punishment for her for not being there a hundred percent.

A minute or so later, she finally got the strength to stand up, taking strength from her arms she made herself ascend from the ground, and quickly regaining her balance afterwards. "Well that hurts." She grinned to the man. Then re-activating her lightsaber, this time there was a fire in her eyes, but she wasn't angry, just... there was a "Round Two." waiting for him. She jumped immediately towards the man, her lightsaber ready this time to defense if he attacked. She was pretty fast this time, swinging her lightsaber between his shoulders to get him into defense, not giving him a time to take a breathe.

[member="Kei Amadis"]

 

[Kei Amadis]

Kei didn’t stop when she jumped backwards, which meant he was running head long into her with the kick, which landed solidly, if a bit over-hard. Epicanthix’s played rough, but Kei was a gentleman as well, and he extended his hand to help her up for round two, pulling back a step as he did so.

“Round two it is.” Saluting her with his saber, and falling into a strong low trailing guard, weapon resting down by his legs.

Naturally Kei did attack again because he knew she was fast, and wanted to be as sharp. Djem so needed you to push, only she was ready this time, as his heavy upward swing met her defense. Djem so was his favoured form but he still had a way to go to Master it, and he over swung upwards colliding with her attacking beam, twisting the larger man around awkwardly.

An overzealous impact not taking into account she wasn't as strong as him, but it also meant he was ready to backhand swing back the opposite way if she didn't move with it, which you could see starting to happen.

The Epicanthix gritted his teeth as he began to pull around, the impact opened him up for a counter if she was quick, not with her beam so much, that was probably flying off in the direction with his, but right now she had her speed, and position on the side of his body.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

The ending of the match was near, they were both pretty tired and both of them waited for an attack to fully finish the job there, but they were playing defense so for now they were both gaining time, the duel wasn't over yet.

She continued attacking Kei, getting tired but didn't stop her a second. Because he was strong, his attacks came to her with a strong force, if she didn't act quick it could injure her very much.Finally, she had an opening from him as he moved backwards a step or two, pretty much unbalanced. Grinning to the man, she moved even closer to him. Left foot in the back she extended her right foot towards his stomach, aiming for a low kick to make him lose his breath as he just did to her before and cut his defense, he was a gentleman of course but in duel he should have finished the job there, as he found her fully lying on the ground. But he didn't.

After sending a kick now she switched her lightsaber to her left hand and rushed towards him, shoulder on shoulder, the target was the right shoulder that he held the lightsaber. She was now on full attack, and left so many vulnerabilities. But strong offense was always a good defense, as he tried to catch up with her attacks and try to deflect that she would probably put a good defense on. But he was an ex military before so this attack could go badly too.

[member="Kei Amadis"]

 

[Kei Amadis]

Kei received her gut kick with a grunt, his saber meeting her block, and pushing away with his weight, back-peddleding a step, she had the larger man on the backfoot, which exposed Djem So’s weakness in that it was strong on attack, when you were forced to defend, it performed less than stellar.

Unbalanced, the Knight struggled to maintain his footing against the sudden burst of speed. Colliding strong, powerful blows against ultimately hits that pushed him back, back and back, taking a glancing hit to the shoulder that stung, and leaning upward as the final strike came.

When you are dueling he was learning not just to move back and forward, side to side was equally important, and so he side stepped for her final attack, brought his beam down over the top of hers and tried to lock their sabers together, using physical strength to try and overpower Nima. Whether he locked their weapons or not, he moved his guard downward, tightly following the angle of her weapon to keep her and it at bay.

If Nima was tiring, Kei was visibly sweating because Djem So required a full on exertion of energies, and it demanded a lot from you, thankfully she was putting a lot into this as well.

Unlike more martial opponents he didn’t know to go for a leg sweep, or a clever force assisted trip, and he was never going to be brutal with her for a headbutt in close, instead Kei disengaged his saber breaking contact suddenly, and shoulder charged forward, sending a force push after him. Powering unity up and hoping to send her flying, leveling a falling avalanche of his saber after her. One, two, three saber strikes, curled up and over his head, then down. Powerful extensions of his front foot and leg stamping his attacks down.

It was clear Kei was tiring too, and Nima may well see the movements as being more sluggish than before, her speed advantage was further magnified over his which left him vulnerable, but the power was still there, and might wear her down even more.

[member="Nima Tann"]​