Private One On One

[Aris Noble]

Culture had always been an important part of Aris's life. Even as the whispers of him being a divine started to spread across Niv Hani, he never once doubted his love for his people. Epicanthix were proud. Warriors and craftsman both, finding beauty in all things, even war. Combat was where his mind felt the clearest. The moment, fighting someone, learning their pattern while avoiding being figured out in turn. Figuring out how to win.

It was also a way to show his art. Every shift of his footwork, every throw of his fist, they were all part of it. Even here on Midvinter, out back in the empty yard, he'd made a sort of arena. A flat slab of stone he'd shaped with his hands, melting and working it until it was smooth. More than large enough for him to move around freely. More than large enough for him to fight another. He stretched an arm across his chest, smirking just a bit. For as cold as Midvinter was, he was dressed light. Cold didn't bother him.

"I won't hold back, so you don't either, alright?"

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Interacting with: Aris Noble

Zaiya gave a determined but cute expression as she faced off against her boyfriend, Aris.

She knew how important this was for him, especially as an Epicanthix. And when he said he wanted to spar with her, Zaiya jumped at the opportunity. Not only because she knew that it was a way to get closer to Aris, but also because it would help him clear his head from all the ick that had been bothering him ever since the day at the Forge that changed his silvery hair to a brilliant red that reminded her of Corseca gems. The rumors and whispers that he was a Divine being didn't pass her notice, and he was already uncomfortable of the Prince remarks to begin with.

Being called a God had a whole nother wave of complications and conundrums, Zaiya knew were weighing on Aris.

"Okay. I won't hold back!" She chirped out. She had tied her hair back in a thick braid, the colorful thick plait swinging at her back. She wore a close-fitting training outfit for this session, knowing well that the freedom of movement was going to be important.

Where Aris had an advantage over her was his strength and his ability to use his body as his weapon. As a Lovalla, that meant she had to use the Force to enhance her own body to take hits as much as to ensure she could move faster than him.

And while this was super serious.... There was no helping the mischievous, flirty way those opal blue eyes met the green of his to ask, "So... what are we betting this time?"

 

[Aris Noble]

"Dish duty." That was the first thought to come to mind. Midvinter proved to be much more humble machinery wise. The ship he used had more technology within it, and while he actually enjoyed the simpler life they could have here, chores were something he was more than willing to make a bet over. He held her gaze for a moment before little, much more flirty grin took over in turn.

It wasn't much, but it was there.

"And a massage."

His stance lowered as he spoke, hands held up and apart. Fists closed. The smirk remained, but his eyes had narrowed in the same focus he always had when he took a fight seriously. He only gave her a moment before he launched forward, already bringing a strike bearing down for her. Quick, but more importantly, heavy.

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Interacting with: Aris Noble

Dish duty? Honestly, that wasn't a bad deal. Zaiya gave a wide grin.

"Okay!" she sang in a light and teasing tone. The mottled spots and stripes along her cheekbones shimmered in ripples of cyan and teal with playful energy.

"And a massage… haha." The Lovalla stretched one last time, arms coming up over her her slender, willowy frame before she settled into a ready stance.

Aris came fast, but the moment he moved, Zaiya was already drawing on the Force. It surged through her limbs, heightening her reflexes and sharpening her senses. She turned with his attack, her stance adjusting midmotion to absorb the impact where her body could best take it, hardening and softening muscles instinctively through the rhythm of the Force.

Then, with a sudden twist, she used her speed to pivot inside his guard, aiming a light tap strike toward his shoulder, just enough to remind him she wasn't easy to pin down.

"Like a full body massage?" she asked, all innocence in tone, but the way the edges of her mottled spots flashed a golden teal, and how her grin broke wide over her face told a different story.

 

[Aris Noble]

Azurine Varek had been the first to actually keep up fighting with Aris. After years of having everyone else seem to avoid or even dread as Braze had brought a lot of joy for the boy warrior he had been. What had been a subtle, possibly flirty smirk had fully bloomed to an excited grin as he felt Zaiya's tap. There was no one in the whole galaxy he wanted to spar like this more than Zaiya.

She wouldn't break.

"I was thinking just a back massage, but you seem much more interested. You're welcome to massage as much as you'd like when you loose." His grin hadn't left, even as his eyes lit up with his own mirth and teasing. Both arms came down as he brought her further into his guard to capture her, and full on shoulder throw her if he was successful.

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Interacting with: Aris Noble

Zaiya gave a giddy laugh even as her boots slid across the floor to adjust her footing.

"Lose?" she echoed with mock offense, her bioluminescence shimmering down her cheeks, bare arms, and calves. "You must be mixing me up with someone else, Aris."

The moment he reached for her, she ducked low, twisting her body just under his arms. Her palm brushed his chest as she used his own momentum to spin away, fingers trailing off his tunic before she snapped back around with a quick, sharp strike aimed toward his ribs.

Their movements fell into a rhythm of attack, counter, breath, and pulse, until she felt the brush of his thoughts like warmth under her skin. Emotions humming with excitement that tangled with hers.

"You're supposed to hit, not hug, Aris!" she teased through a grin her voice lilting with laughter as she pivoted again as her colorful braid sweeping across her shoulder.

When their next clash brought them close enough for her to feel the heat of his breath and the faint echo of his heartbeat through the Force, Zaiya didn't pull away immediately. She met his gaze instead, those opal blue eyes and flushed pink face with their mesmerizing dancing flutter of joyful teals and mischievous cyans highlighting her rosy golden skin.

"Hehe…you know, you’re trying awfully hard to make defeat sound like a date."

 

[Aris Noble]

She was quick on her feet. Her training, she'd made leaps and bounds now. The memory of him casually catching that rude space monkey that had tried to steal from her when they first met, how out of breath she was trying to catch up. A ghost of a smile formed in such reminiscence, but it was overtaken by the thrill of the fight. He wasn't even bothering to hide his thrill now, despite the fact he normally would.

"This is already a date."

Aris spoke matter of factly, shifting with her blows. Rather than just take the punches, he was actively deflecting, evading. With how she was using the Force, he could tell he'd get hurt if he went about his usual habit of ignoring the blows sent his way. The punch towards his ribs he turned from, aiming to let her blow go by as he countered with a quick jab down for her cheek.

"The massage is just going to be a good bonus."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Outfit: x x x x x | Equipment: x x x x x x | Weapons: x x x | Companion: Domxite
Interacting with: Aris Noble

Zaiya's laugh was a bubbly infectious sound, her grin flashing as she ducked under his jab, then blocked another strike, her rosy golden skin already starting to show a slight sheen of sweat.

"A date, huh? You really know how to sweep a girl off her feet," she teased, twisting on her heel to circle him again. Opal blue iridescent eyes flicked up, catching his with a spark of challenge.

Their necklaces pulsed faintly with a shared thrum that matched the rhythm of their movements. The resonance between them hummed through the Force, growing warmer, as their excitement tangled together. The mottled spots shimmered brighter, cyan deepening into brilliant teal, as if her body couldn't help but answer his thrill with her own.

Watching him move, how his muscles rippled and flex with his motions, and how his red hair swayed and moved. He was honestly breathtaking.

It made her blush and get all kinds of tingly thinking of him. That slight distraction unfortunately, managed to allow Aris to get her to get knocked on the ribs, giving a slight omph as she barely managed to harden her body to take the hit. Otherwise that surely would have broken them.

Not to be outdone, she came right back with the attack, moving to try and get in close to try and sweep kick him behind the ankles.

 

[Aris Noble]

In his eyes, she was like fire. While the colors certainly didn't match a normal flame, watching how the colors shifted with her every movement over her skin, every strike she brought towards him and evaded his own. A wildfire of pinks, blues, oranges, and reds. Untamed and bright. It took him a moment to realize he'd stopped breathing.

He laughed, a bubbly bright kind of laugh as he brought another strike up, trying to capitalize on the strike that had landed. Instead, his laughter only grew as he felt weightlessness. She'd knocked him off his feet. He fell back, landing on a hand to then twist and lash out with a kick to keep her back. "I thought you said you were being swept off your feet?"

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Outfit: x x x x x | Equipment: x x x x x x | Weapons: x x x | Companion: Domxite
Interacting with: Aris Noble

Zaiya barely dodged the kick, the rush of air brushing against her ribs as she laughed outright.

"Well, I was...but it's so-o much better when I sweep you off your feet!" she shot back, laughing as she caught her footing again.

THe mottled spots over her cheeks and shoulders shimmered brighter, the hues along her arms and throat pulsing in rhythm with her heartbeat as well as his. There was no denying the energy buzzing between them as they both got into it and fed off each other's excitement.

"You started it," she teased in a singsong, before the playful glint in her opal blue eyes flared brightly. The Force surged through her limbs, gathering in her right arm. With a swift step forward, she twisted her body and slammed her fist down toward him in a controlled, Force empowered strike meant to be fast, precise, and totally meant to make him move.

"Consider that payback for making me blush, Mr. Date Expert!"

 

[Aris Noble]

Aris full twisted as the punch came his way. He wasn't about to take a blow from her directly. He grinned wide none the less, the buzzing sensation between them actually something he could notice. Something he enjoyed. Trading blows, one after another, trying to get the upper hand as best they could. It thrilled him to no end that he was able to fight this way to Zaiya.

"I'll make you more than just blush, Zaiya. Just you wait."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Aris Noble

Zaiya's laugh chuckled out breathless and utterly delighted as her skin came alive with color. The mottled stripes and spots that traced her arms and cheekbones flared with dazzling intensity, sending rippling waves of cyan and teal, bleeding into golds and corseca reds that shimmered like sunlight through water. Every movement sent the hues chasing one another across her skin, alive with the pulse of the fight and the thrill burning in her chest.

"Oh, more than blush? Reeaaa-ally?" she quipped, her grin wide in flirty teasing as she twisted aside, their shoulders brushing in passing. The spark of contact sent her colors surging brighter, her heartbeat syncing with his through the charged hum of the Force between them.

"Big words, Aris," she grinned over her shoulder, ponytail flashing in streaks of shimmering blue and pink as she circled him again. "You'd have to catch me first!"

Then she move with a surge of the Force in a fluid, fast, and blur of color and laughter. The Force thrummed through her as she ducked low, spinning into a sharp strike aimed at his side. Her hues flared again as those opal blue eyes flickered to meet his.

"Like what then?" she taunted, eyes gleaming with impish delight. "You planning to charm me into surrender, or just get distracted trying?"

 

[Aris Noble]

Distracted was a word for it. His eyes never left her, watching how she moved, how the colors shifted over her skin. The fact that both of them could dress as light as they did in the freezing cold without issue was a boon he hadn't even realized before. They weren't thoughts he usually entertained, and yet seeing flirty smile, the glint in her eye.

Aris twisted with her punch, feeling her knuckles graze just past his side. The wide grin, the thrill, had shifted as his gaze glinted with mischief, with an emotion he was still sorting out. "Charming you doesn't sound too bad at all." It was a passing thought, spoken aloud. Then he lunged. A quick punch, another kick. Blow after blow thrown seeming at random, but they were all to bait Zaiya's responses. Calculated as only he could do to get her to move just how he wanted.

All so he could trap her. The moment came, and he struck out. Rather than an actual blow, though, he sought to take her right to the ground. Quick and nimble as she was, he could remove that advantage.

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Interacting with: Aris Noble

Zaiya let out a startled yelp as Aris's move connected, her feet swept clean from under her before she even had time to counter. She hit the mat with a solid thud, breath rushing out of her lungs in a surprised laugh.

For a second the Lovalla just lay there, blinking up at him as her skin flared in a riot of shifting colors in vivid pinks bleeding into golds and electric blue that shimmered brighter the more flustered she became.

"Oh, so that's your plan," she teased between breaths over her flushed, sweaty face, the grin returning to her lips and then shot out with a tease. "You just wanted me flat on my back, huh?"

Not one to wait, she pivoted her body and then quickly moved to try and sweep kick behind his ankles to get him down too, with every intent to try and pin him down after if it worked.

 

[Aris Noble]

"Pinned on your back was more my ide-" There was a bit of a smugness in his tone, one that was cut off by an oof as he was suddenly not the one standing any longer. In truth he'd been distracted by her own bewilderment as she hit the ground. Hands on his hips, leaned over with a smug grin. He was enjoying the moment then.

And now was the one flat on his back, pinned under Zaiya. The competitive side of his mind wanted to roll further, pick her up, throw her off, all manner of different ideas that could work if he tried. None of those thoughts lasted long though. His heartbeat had drowned them out. He leaned up after a moment, still back on his hands to prop himself up. The smugness returned, even as the backs of his ears burned a bright red.

"On the other hand, I like seeing you on top like this too. Easily second best."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Aris Noble

Zaiya's breath came fast as her chest rose and fell quickly, and laughter bubbled out.

"Second best, huh?" the Lovalla Padawan shot back, grinning down at him as she kept her weight balanced across his hips. "Guess that means I'm winning something after all."

The Lovalla's skin gave an even brighter shimmer than before, the pretty mesmerizing colors rippling in soft, luminous waves of turquoise, rose, and brief flickers of red. This time, it wasn't just the spar that had her heart hammering in her chest, but also the resonance that pulsed through their necklaces, each beat of his heart feeding into hers, and hers back into his until it was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began.

"Though," she went on as she whispered with a conspiratory grin, "If you wanted me this close, you could've just said so! I wouldn't mind at all. I'd like that. Got several things I wouldn't mind doing at all!"

A playful spark danced in her opal-blue eyes as she leaned forward just enough that their foreheads almost brushed.

"Unless," she teased, her tone a low whisper now, "you're already having some yourself?"

Zaiya grinned down at Aris with a bubbly yet flustered grin that tickled all over at once.

 

[Aris Noble]

There was a moment of silence as Aris glanced between her eyes. Flirting, laughing, teasing. He enjoyed every moment, every shade of color that it all earned as he got to see new emotions rippling across her skin. It was her words though that had him fall in silence. Several things she wouldn't mind at all?

".. You say some dangerous things you know." The difference in their species was an ever burning presence in his mind. Feelings that he felt that he knew at least his own would feel in a moment like this, but he wasn't sure she did.

He leaned up as she almost had their forehead's touch. A hand had come up, brushing over her cheek. Without another word he stole a kiss. Gentle, if lingering, before he pulled back to smirk just a bit.

"You're going to have to tell me the things you want to do first, or I might end up doing something that'll upset Domxite."

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Outfit: x x x x x | Equipment: x x x x x x | Weapons: x x x | Companion: Domxite
Interacting with: Aris Noble

"Do I?" Zaiya beamed down at him, only to give a light giggle as Aris came up and stole a kiss. Her nose gave a little scrunch at the ticklish sensation and then a soft, pleased, joyful hum.

"Hmmm... we could have a sleepover?" She added, thinking of the times she wanted to cuddle up with him and have fun watching holo movies or just snuggling together. That thought sent a dazzling, mesmerizing wave of bioluminescence rippling over her skin.

"Cuddle and snuggle and kiss and spend the night together," she told him, even as she came back down to give him another little peck, giggling as she felt the soft, warm, thrilling rush resonate between them.

This was nice.

"And why would it upset Domxite?"

 

[Aris Noble]

Amusement spread across Aris's features as he watched her colors. A sleepover for snuggling and kissing, was it? He traced his thumb over her cheek, leaned up a bit into her peck before tilting his head. All at one what seemed like quite the suggestion from her wasn't at all where his mind had gone. Why would it upset Domxite?

"I suppose it won't, actually. Maybe miff them, but it's not like we'll end up doing anything too bad together." He was teasing, just a little. So long as it wasn't a red day, there was nothing to worry about at all. He clicked his tongue though. Had she had one before? When were those supposed to start? Would they?

Lots to figure out, just to be careful.

"Got a movie in mind you want to watch?"

Zaiya Ceti

 

[Zaiya Ceti]

Outfit: x x x x x | Equipment: x x x x x x | Weapons: x x x
Interacting with: Aris Noble


There was a flutter of amusement, affection, and then mild wonder and contemplation that seemed to radiate from Aris, which only fed into Zaiya's own avid curiosity that bubbled right after.

"What bad thing could we do?" she asked, avidly curious. Was there something bad about watching holofilms together? She did not think so. A ripple of kaleidoscopic color tones went dancing over her skin as she contemplated further.

"You're wondering about something," she told him, giving a slight cant of her head.

Deciding that she won, she lowered herself onto him like a Loth-cat claiming his body as her exclusive pillow and snuggled in, folding her palms flat over each other against his chest while she peered down at him.

If anyone caught them it would perhaps be quite the scandalous position, but Zaiya did not care. She was simply enjoying being close with Aris, and it felt nice to be this close to him. Really, the desire to get close and just snuggle and rub herself all over him had been increasing lately.

"Hmm... there are a few cute animated series, actually, that I think you'd find fun! It is called 'My Cosplay Crush!'"