Before the fight...
The Chiss' appearance captured Kyric's attention through his meditation. He peered up at the woman with unmasked curiosity, his brow furrowed and eyes alight with untampered excitement. The closer they drew to the battle the hotter the fire burned within the Jedi Knight's chest. This was his opportunity to not only face the weight of his family's legacy, but an opportunity to face the fears rooted deeply in his heart following his brush with death on Coruscant years prior.
Every opponent he faced, win or lose, served to make him stronger. Their tactics would be the kiffar's to devour, their knowledge added to his ever-expanding repertoire.
Footage delivered direct would only make such things easier.
Kyric nodded at the Chiss and took the tiny datapad. He watched her depart, then tapped the little
play button with a smile. "
This'll come in handy, huh girl?"
The vornskr curled up in the shadow of the doorway flicked its ears in Kyric's direction and promptly went back to sleep.
Now...
Thirty minutes had changed quite a bit about the Kaggath. Between the ongoing bounties placed on it and its hosts and the backroom deals in preparation to collect said bounties, Kyric felt the tension like a swiftly approaching storm. As if literal death matches weren't enough, the thought of the added danger set the boy's hands a trembling.
"
Damn," the Jedi muttered and clenched them into fists. The pre-fight jitters hit him heavier than even the first bout, but he shifted his focus from stressors beyond his control. He took several deep breaths, his gaze locked on his opponent across the way standing amid the remnants of the Wroyshr tree.
A cursory glance revealed little more than a smaller-than-average woman armed with her fair share of weaponry and gear.
The contents of the holorecording Kyric viewed earlier cut through the illusion.
Phaelissia's body was so decked out with cybernetics and realty defying gear that the Jedi struggled to make sense of most of it at first. By the end of his study session, he suspected the cyborg boasted neurological enhancement to outpace the likes of Lily's Force-based empowerment. The way Phaelissia's chakram shifted trajectory early on suggested a form of remote control, likely connected to those very same neuro-enhancers, or perhaps a guiding mechanism constructed into her eyes. Her ability to ignore gravity and inertia to dodge uninhibited didn't bode well, either.
"
What would you do here, pops?" Kyric asked aloud while his opponent knelt down in prayer.
In answer, Razmir's voice sounded over the arena.
“Welcoooooome to ROUND TWO of the FIRST GALACTIC KAGGATH!”
“STANDING BEFORE YOU ONCE MORE, HERE TO PROVE HIMSELF AS WORTHY OF HIS LEGACY: KYRIIIC KARIIIIIS!”
“AND THE ONE WHO STANDS TO TEAR HIM DOWN: THE TECHNOLOGICAL CYBER-ANNIHILATRIX, PHAAAEEEELIIISIAAAA!”
“CHALLENGERS! BEGIN!”
Kyric vanished.
He did not move so incredibly fast as to appear like he vanished, nor did he turn invisible.
Empowered by the Force Nexus beneath his feet, Kyric flickered from his starting place on the arena to some three hundred meters above the battlefield. He lifted his hand to the sky above with little fanfare. Green lightning sparked with a greater intensity than his first match, crackling with unchecked power in anticipation to smite the Kainite; the Jedi's earlier hesitation to kill entirely vanished in the face of the heathen-worshipper of such fell powers.
Kyric knew exactly what Ryv Karis would do when faced with such a malignant parasite.
Lets see if you're faster than lightning.
A storm erupted from Kyric's outstretched hand with such force it stopped his descent entirely. The arching mass of emerald lightning spread out like a web before it coiled together into the form of a mighty dragon, forged in the likeness of his Master Inosuke Ashina's presence within the great empyrean. The dragon grew larger in size as the kiffar fed it with the Nexus's power until its snarling maw dwarfed the platform beneath Phaelissia's feet.
The storm descended to the beat of a great thunderclap.
Tags:
Phaelissia
Force Bonds:
Bernard
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Capris Halcyon
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Lord Creuat
Honorable Mentions:
Inosuke Ashina
Equipment:
"Aspis" Pattern Combat Shield |
Resolute |
Replica Jacket |
Ion Pistol |
Standard Blaster Pistol |
Vibroknife |
CryoBan Grenade x2 |
Thermal Detonators x2 |
Electromagnetic Pulse Grenades x1 |
Incendiary Grenade x2
