Open Group: Paradise Lost: Saki vs Kei

[Saki]

Theme Song: Ga in Paradise Lost (if you want to hear it... look it up on youtube. The video for it is very Ga in)

Saki hadn't been challenged to a fight in awhile... well last time it was by Ashin with the sole intent to instigate. The master had walked out of the arena dropping the saber at the woman's feet because she didn't fight jedi or their friends to prove she was the best.

She did it to help them because she could take the hit and keep going. She thrived on it while she was moving into the arena and had insisted on it being open. A challenge with her tended to go on the heavy hitting side and she expected some very large strikes.

She cracked her knuckles while letting the sigil around her neck glow lightly, her saber and staff that were twin rods she set on her belt. No need for the hammer, chain and weight or her other equipment.

This was a friendly duel after all and while she wasn't one to pull punches she also wasn't one to smash the temple. The jedi here were less going to try and convince her what she had gone through fighting since being a snot nosed padawan was wrong.

Still it didn't mean the sixteen year old wasn't going to give it her all to try and present a fun challenge. The knight who had asked wasn't one to be taken lightly but she was looking more at what she could do with her hand running over her shaved head

[member="Kei Amadis"]

 

[Kei Amadis]

Kei had issued a challenge to the one Jedi he’d always wanted to work with back in the old days, just by her reputation, he’d never met her, but he’d heard plenty about Saki. Scuttlebutt in the army camps, she had more of a reputation than she might realise with the old pub troops, and especially the wildcards, often a rumor about what she was doing now.

“Been looking forward to this.” He admitted to Saki, “lot of respect for you, the troops especially.” That wasn’t lip service he meant it, the Epicanthix loved a challenge, and she would be one.

Kei rolled around his neck and shoulders, stretching is arms and physically warming up, removing the tension the large epicanthix often carried. Unity was taken off his forest temple robes, thick black boots as always, and black utility belt. If even half of what he’d heard about Saki was true, the large man who had five inches of height on her at 6ft 2, was in for a heck of a run.

The grin on his face said he was looking forward to it, saluting the saber to his forehead, he nodded to the grandmaster to their side, and got ready to begin. Falling into an overhead guard, typical Djem so, the beam was angled down to his left, his stance flexed with his knee bent ready to push off, and the gong soon sounded....

DONG

[member="Saki"]​

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

Theme Song: Apple by Ga in

Saki was looking at him and he was older then her, in some armor and had already drawn his blade while she stood there getting a little tight lipped smirk on her face. She crouched a little lower to the ground clenching her fists, she was letting the energy build while she held herself at the ready. Then the gong to begin and she was moving, the force speeding up her body while she could feel the beat of her heart.

Thump-thump as her boot dug into the ground and pushed her forward faster, the matukai techniques showing as her skin shined hardened from soft to solid. Natural armor with the skin that was helpful but served for another purpose. Her arm reeled back for a punch as Saki was swinging down. Not at Kei but at the ground, at the surface as she pushed the energy into the limbs with her fist connecting to the ground.

Thump-thump.... she took in a breath and felt the air fill her lungs, felt that inner fire as her fist was on the ground. Punching it to make a shockwave around her while her body used the momentum to twist with her other fist bringing a blast of distorted force energy into a blast. Her feet and boots making a kick she could catch on the ground propel herself back up into a stand position as she started striking.

Thump-thump the pulsing in her ears while she punched letting form seven show in its best example. Speed, just like the creature it was named after and for hand to hand it made her fists able to move and strike quickly. She tried for the different blows as one one went at Kei's shoulder, another his wrist, his saber hand, his chest, his gut, his face..... She was letting her fists move faster then a blink of the eye.

Thump-thump while she was pushing her energy out into rippling blasts and strikes. The distortion of the energy was coming off in waves. There was no darkside to touch with Kei and complete the loop she needed... That might be a good thing as she wouldn't want to use it anyways but she could still show why her skills were usually before she used a saber. Her foot going for a quick kick as she blasted a blast of shaped air.

The span of five heartbeats while the jedi master was using the force and wondering what he was planning to do. She had the energy rolling off of her in waves before she was keeping her own power in check. Her breathing taking in the air and pushing it to her limbs to make them stronger and faster. She let her lungs remain filled with air she was putting to use to create waves of energy coming off her limbs.

 

[Kei Amadis]

Kei was immediately unsettled by the display, struggling to get his footing back, the shockwave throwing his balance off. Her first blast only furthered it and the bigger man almost flew off his feet, his guard was broken. This was going to be tough, he already knew that, but this was something else! That's what you get for picking a Master Kei.

Good! He grinned wide.

Saki connected with the Jaw, another shot hit his chest, before he had his balance, but leaning back he parried her shot to the gut and face with strong forward sweeps in Djem So. His saber wasn’t set to kill far from it, turned down to sting or bruise like a punch might. The saber probably feeling like someone tapping aside her wrists sharply.

Twisting as she kicked, he stepped forward, trying to build his own momentum. Kei was still using the only form he’d studied well, Djem So, bringing it down across her leg trying to catch the kick, tight and not giving an inch. He found his own elbow moving to try and collide toward her jaw. The Epicanthx side stepped.... right into her blast of air. Taking the air like he would a gut punch, and rolling the saber over in his hand, it went up high in a strong two handed swing, aiming across her body, left to right.

That was a hell of an opening! He was definitely awake now!

[member="Saki"]​

Spoiler

Kei’s just in his camouflaged temple robes, he hates armor

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

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Theme:​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQAmR8e7b0​

Saki felt the contact at her wrists as she silently cursed to herself. She wasn't playing it smart while she was moving her arms with the strikes to keep the momentum as he was coming forward. She mirrored him somewhat pushing the momentum to commit her bodies movement. The kick was coming out fast as she felt the blade connect with her knee and was happy for the clothing.

Thick weaves the republic had given out for their jedi that were designed to protect. The clothing handed out for the ones helping fight in the battles at Metalorn and Ossus. It wouldn't keep her from losing a limb against a blade at high levels but it would work for defense while she felt that strike. His elbow in her jaw making her teeth rattle, her head snapped to the side as she pushed the force into the movement.

Going into a corkscrew while she spun with her boots coming around to try and grab his arm. Intertwine around it while her hands went to the ground and Saki slammed them down. To both make another shockwave but also repulse herself back up so she could be in the air for a moment before working to swing and try to flip Kei with his arm at an angle to hurt but not break.

A grunt of effort as she twisted to disarm and make him release the saber while she was pulling in the force. To contort and constrict while letting her weight keep the knight grounded and without the use of a blade. She knew she wasn't going to be breaking his arm compared to mot fights but giving his arm some pain so he couldn't use it to get the best grip or use of his saber. That was a way to start.

 

[Kei Amadis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1crBYLLaVI

Kei had never come across an opponent so martially gifted, perhaps only Taiden Keth, and unknown to known to him now his half brother [member="Kylath Amadis"]. The blur in front of him, as the Epicanthix tried to move the saber away, was beyond his ability to counter, but he did managed to get his shoulder and both arms forward, trying to grasp her.

Boom another shockwave from Saki hit the ground.

Not being skilled at Vaapad, and didn’t have the fighting mentality to go with the younger woman, he preferred standing his ground. So he ended up feeling a certain amount of pain as he was literally spun sideways by the arm, his saber forced to drop from his hand to the deck. She had him an armbar with her legs, so he moved forward atop her to grapple, kneeling.

Grappling and basic hand to hand, Kei new from his army days. He wasn’t just being thrown around, he was grabbing for her with his free hand, pulling himself forward, and pushing his knee up her back to make it uncomfortable for Saki. Locking and supporting his bicep with his hand, he drove his head forward to loosen her leg and rolled away, grabbing for his saber in the force.

That is if she didn’t stop him reaching it, either way he now had one sore arm! Standing up and reaching for the weapon as it flew forward...

[member="Saki"]​

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

She was feeling it, his knee in her back and then when she was ready to give he was rolling away and she rolled crouching low as her hands were on the ground. She looked up at him with her hand going for the saber while she pounced rising up and force kicking. Energy rippling off her feet at the saber to send it away from his hands for the moment. Her elbows coming at his shoulder and collarbone while she twisted herself just a bit. She was focusing herself to heal and keep pain under control as she didn't go after using her saber or staff yet. Those weren't needed at this time while Kei was proving resilient. "You're doing good."

 

[Kei Amadis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y8dtOiJ708

Saki caught his fallen saber, and that left Kei in unfamiliar territory!

"Thanks Master," Kei said with a grin, "even if your schooling me."

Her force kick came up, but this time he raised his knee and kicked back into her kick to stop it, taking a tap on his leg but not the same force he’d feel if she’d extended to hit his chest. He wasn’t a martial artist, just hand to hand spec ops training, keeping his elbows up and tight to his chest. Next she was moving in closer for below strikes, that or reaching forward with them.

Kei was more ready this time, military training kicking in, as her elbow came up he pushed his hand forward to catch her forearm, he tried to counter with his own elbow strike the opposite way, but the speed of a Master with her second twisting strike was too much for him, and she hit him, before he hit her.

Painfully!

Elbows tight and up to his sides, Kei staggered back a couple of steps, he bobbed and weaved, in reality what he was trying to do was get a chance to take his weapon back. The Epicanthix wasn’t going to last like this, this was her forte.

Jabbing out towards her chin with his right hand, he ducked low and tried an uppercut next with his left hand, sidestepping, the force moving into the muscles to enhance the speed of the attack, drawn on as he often did. Kei didn’t move with the force, his technique was to more call on it, like Saki’s when he needed a boost.

Shoving a heavy force push toward her to stomach to make room, the force acting as a punch of its own, he tried to call his saber out of her grip again… a tug of war between them to get it back!

[member="Saki"]​

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Spoiler

Wasn't sure if you pushed his saber or went to pull it, bunnied a bit hope that fits okay

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

The saber was out of play for now, her pull to move it more like a rip for it to go high and away from them both. She was moving, feeling his strike to her face as the soft to solid armor helped with impact but she felt his counter to her elbow in her teeth rattling and head snapping back. It hurt while she was letting the force energy control the pain and ground herself. She was rooted once her feet both touched the ground and it was a close quarters fight.

His uppercut coming at her and under her jaw as she brought her arm down like a hammer to meet his arm. She felt her head snap up and back again while she bit her tongue severing the synthflesh where she had bitten her her tongue many times from the fights. Saki stood there for the moment as he was preparing the force push to her gut and spit to the side the small chunk of synthflesh before jumping and letting his push strike her knees. She was a fighter and had practiced neutral stances, neither attacking or defending but waiting for the moment and it was right there for her.

Then she came around to use that force and momentum as a booster to slam down with her legs towards his shoulder and then lock them around his head. Her fists in a large club that could slam down on his head switching to a more aggressive stance while she tried to hook her feet under his armpits with toes points on his sternum to bury his face in her thighs and control the airflow to his head with pressure on his neck. Her hands going free to control where she could bat away his own.

 

[Kei Amadis]

Ordinarily a man caught between a woman’s thighs wouldn’t complain all that much, unless he was having his head twisted off, in which case it put a different slant on events, especially with his head being pummelled as it was. Saki had a lot of advantage on Kei here, position, speed, leverage and strength with her Mastery, not only that but she was restricting his airflow, it was almost game set and match.

She had control over his lower body, and his head. What she left him while she was hitting him painfully in the head to daze him, was some of his arms movement, his hips and length of his legs. She would bat aside his hand, and Kei felt his breath being taken, so next time she tried to bat his arms, he caught one of her wrists, and pulled in that direction, rolling his hips half way.

Kei's other hand was battered several times, until he feinted and then made it past her guard, going up and under, and pulling at her knee to get some room. Not fighting with his neck or head, that would only increase the pressure on his neck, but slipping one of his own leg down, then using his hips to roll. As Saki was not controlling his legs he used them to the fullest, shifting his hips around to push up and turn them around.

Still attached in her hold, Saki ended up on the bottom, with a bit of room for Kei to breath, pulling her knee as he was, taking a few shots from her free hand most likely, was beginning to make Kei dizzy. Amadis tried to pull her around to her free side, so she couldn’t punch with it, holding on to her other wrist still.

At this distance Kei had no choice but to cheat somewhat, and started a force stun on her legs, the nerve endings would begin to feel numb unless she let go, hopefully enough with the hand to pull her knee to give him room to get his neck free.. Really though with how unsteady he was, this was almost over.

[member="Saki"]​

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

She hadn't expected him to grab her wrist and Saki stopped struggling with that arm flexing just a little bit of the strength. Matukai training had made feats of strength something easy and her arm steeled showing a taste of what could happen. Her arm was more like coiled steel and she let it pass in the span of a moment she could break it and possibly tear the arm from the socket.

She had seen other matukai able to punch down heavy blast doors that sabers couldn't cut through and throw small enough starfighters. She had dialed it back and not gone full because she wasn't sure if he could take a full hit from her fist as she felt herself being moved and gave a little. Her legs being pried open by Kei before she was feeling the stun and sting of it...

Her knees gave way and snapped back to his head for one last heavy blow before she leaned back and released her feet from under his armpits and chest. while she rolled to the side to break the hold on her arm and strike at Kei's arm that was free, the one she had in the arm bar with another shockwave punch that had the benefit of either going off on his arm of the floor next to them.

She was going for another stunning blow or a disabling attack that could make his arm useless for awhile. She tried for the strike and brought her feet together to spin a bit and scrap his shoulder/chest area. She kept her focus on her body and was using what skills she had learned.... The initiates early abilities for having near infinite stamina and energy in their bodies.

 

[Kei Amadis]

Another heavy shot to the head and Kei’s dizziness was almost overtaking him, the arm she then released from, took a heavy stunning blow which would need attention as well, giving him one less arm, and having his balance offset further.

As she rolled around this time she’d be bouncing her feet against his chest area, because she’d hit a small force bubble that appeared around him, resisting and probably pushing her back, minus one arm and his saber he’d need whatever he had left, which wasn’t a lot. Kei's force barrier resisted some matter, but not all.

The force barrier aimed to hit her once, twice and three times each time a slam, and a shot of its own to try and push her back, and give him room to stand. He was readying it like a flat handed punch to hammer her with and walking forward again aiming to do just that, albeit a slow stagger, dazed as he was. His left hand his only good one, extending outward to focus the force technique. He'd used force barrier in a shoulder charge but never like a snapping force, he'd learned that from her more or less. It was more a question to see what she could do when some of her own type of technique was used against her, albeit in Kei's own flavor.

Whatever the answer to the Knight's final attack, Kei grinned his stubbled chin, it had been a good challenge, and he'd learned a technique or two of his own today because of her.

[member="Saki"]​

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

Saki felt the barrier at first and was pushed back, the knight was getting better maybe while she rolled digging her feet into the ground as she pounded her fists to dig in and stop herself. indents forming at the fingers as she made her own barrier on herself as he tried what she did... somewhat. She preferred blasts coming off herself rather then barriers as it gave more direction and pop.

Saki flared her own barrier as her hands were in the ground and she was pulling at it, lifting the ring they were in to send a shockwave through the ground and go after his footing as she spoke. "You're trying but you want to use such techniques to break their base." Saki remained crouched with her barrier up while she clenched her fists and brought them up for a moment briefly before pounding them Saki tried to trip him up more with mini shockwaves.

 

[Kei Amadis]

As he was educated one final time by the Master, the dazed form of Kei Amadis was done, even bracing as he was for another shockwave. Amadis tried to jump to avoid what was coming, but didn’t have enough endurance left in the tank. The Jedi was sent off his feet and heavily onto his back, his unsteady legs were no match for another round of shockwaves, though to be fair he’d never faced such a technique before, and had little counter to the stance attack. The Epicanthix laughed, he knew when he was beat.

Looking up sweating and thoroughly having him enjoyed himself, “this one’s yours,” the Jedi Knight called, “you’ll have to show me how to counter that,” Kei grinned, propping himself up with his hands, and catching a breath. No doubt someone such as [member="Raien Keth"] would have a counter, but the Epicanthix had only fought force users one on one maybe five or six times now, he was still learning the ropes around Masters.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead and face, Kei nodded, there’d be a few bruises tomorrow that was for sure. He picked himself up, and extended his hand to Saki. “Was a pleasure,” Kei said sincerely.

[member="Saki"]​

 

[Saki]

[member="Kei Amadis"]

Saki stood up as she rolled her shoulders and smirked looking at the knight. She took his hand and spoke. "Not so bad yourself." She wasn't going to say he was outmatched, she was imagining if he knew how to fly and avoid the ground he could have taken it or if he knew how to use matukai techniques... That would have made some of his attacks more effective for restraining her.

"The only real thing is try to keep yourself either grounded or moving. I fought strong telekinetics who could throw me around so needed to learn how to trip them up and hold myself in place. Which is why strength enhancement is important, then there is the small unfair advantage. Matukai's taught me, how to fight, how to throw speeders and how to not get tired when fighting while others do."