Stepping stones

[Hailey Sosis]

She was shot across the room, when he bolted her lighting. She landed hard against the wall, she then slumped to the ground. Her hair was frazzled by it, and she felt sore all over. B bu but that was meant to be compliment, pudding. Her eyes opened up, like oh feth I just calling him pudding again. I meant Knight Engal, she braced herself for the next hit. She knew it was coming, oh by force this was going to hurt.

[member="Arturious Engel"]

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious growled at hearing her call him pudding again jumping to his feet the armor hitting the floor the a loud thump and shooting more lightening at her continuing to do so until he was standing in front of her.

"Do I look like I need your compliments?" "Are we friends now or something just because you think we have some common ground?"

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

She could feel the lighting, passing through her. Each one of her nerve ending was on fire, she then screamed in pain ARGHHHH. She carried on screaming throughout his attack, until she passed out.

After a little while she came round, and saw him their almost waiting for her to come round. She then replied in weakish voice Sorry Knight Engal.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious stood there looking at her.

"You are not ready to learn that ability yet." "You must have some concept of how to use the force before you can apply it."

"Before you can learn that there are two lesson that will need to sink in if you want to live to see tomorrow."

"First is what you say is just as important if not more so than what you do." "Second is to respect the property of others as if your life depended on it."

Arturious turned moving over to the armor and picking it up putting it away. Closing the door to the locker Arturious turned back to Harley.

"Now get up and move to the center of the room." "You have wasted enough of my time trying to teach you how to act." "There is much to teach you and my time is precious."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

She gave him a slight bow, and moved to center of room. As she moved she staggered, her feet were still unsure of how to work. After being blasted by lightning, she was still sore and and felt scared from it. She then stood up straight as she could, and waited for him to in part some knowledge into her.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious waited for Harley to move having no patience for her current condition with his arms crossed.

"There are two ways to apply the force." "The first and most important way is to use the force to improve yourself." "To make yourself stronger, faster, to be able to take or shrug off injury, and even to heal yourself." "The second way is to use the force to effect others." "To harm them mentally, emotionally, or physically."

"Since you have no knowledge or training what so ever we are forced to start with the first way to apply the force."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

She gave a weak smile, and said I like the idea of that, yes the first way sounds good. She particularly liked the idea of healing herself, as at the moment she felt like she was death's door. This was a particular feeling she did not like.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious frowned.

"You say that like you have a choice in the matter."

Arturious sighed pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Using the force is a lot like breathing." "You were born knowing how to use it you just didn't realize it." "It is usually very subtle." "It is the cold chill that runs up your spine right before something bad happens." "It is way you seem to be able to react to things faster than those around you."

"With nobody around to point it out the first time exactly what it is and why you would live your whole life not knowing what it is."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

Are you mean like that time, I am ambushed the ambushers at the last moment. She was talking about one her first gang fights, another gang laid in wait for them. As they were approaching the ambush, she had bad feeling about it. Then told guys to take different route, she then spotted them and shot them up using a kick arse rocket launcher. That was fun day, for her crew. They took a whole rival gang out that day, she knew the man in front her, would have no interest in the this story. She then asked him How should I begin?

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious nods.

"That is an extreme example but yes." "The force in very dire situations will scream out at you similar to what most simply call a fight or flight reflex."

Arturious chuckles.

"The answer to that question is very boring and tedious." "In short you have to learn to speak to the force just like it speaks to you." "Not so much in a physical manner like they conversation you and I are having but in a mental one." "Meditation is the simplest way to do so." "You have to empty your mind, empty your thoughts, put yourself in a place of quiet contemplation."

"It is only then that you can truly hear and feel the force." "Then you can begin to manipulate it."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

So Knight Engal, how do you meditate. The idea of just sitting still in a room, seem a weird way calling on supreme power. Though part of her new that was the answer, she seen jedi do this a couple times. Though they were a weird set of people, no emotion yer right.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious laughed.

"It is simple you remove all distractions." "You remove all restrictions." "Specifically it helps to focus all on something that motivates you, your reason for being what and who you are."


Arturious kneeled down sitting on his knees his hands resting gently on his thighs and taking a deep breath.

"Everything around you doesn't exist, there are no walls, no floor, no ceiling, no sounds, no smells." "There is only the silent emptiness."

Arturious motioned with a hand for Harley to take a seat in front of him.

"You must remove the chaos from your mind and focus only on the task."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

She nodded to him, and took the seat and she tried to empty her head. Which was surprising hard to do, something kept on creeping in. It took roughly an hour, before she had finally stopped stray thoughts from entering. Like do I smell, is that why he said remove all smells, and do I sound bad is that why there should be no sound. She finally got their though, well more or less. She could feel thoughts of others, and what they were thinking. Those other acolytes sure had a one track mind, they just wanted power stupid people. They should not want power, they should grab power. Hay where did that thought come from, she asked herself.

 

[Arturious Engel]

Arturious sat there watching [member="Harley"] not saying a word not moving a muscle. Knowing that this first part was the hardest one of them all he wanted to test exactly how long she would sit there, how long she would keep at it before the boredom hit, before the fidgeting started.

Arturious wondered how long the little slice of insanity would be able to keep it up before she lashed out. Arturious knew it was under handed of him, knowing that when he was faced with the same task he was quick to give up.

 

[Hailey Sosis]

It got to much for her, she got up said Okay Knight Engal I am getting nothing, absolutely nothing okay! Her tone was in as much frustration, as it was in respect as she did not wanted to get bolted again. As she said it she waved her hands across the floor, unknown to her she actually made a small dust cloud as she did it. Her frustration bore anger and it fueled her a little, and made it possible for her to move things. Though this was by complete accident, and she did not know how she did it.

[member="Arturious Engel"]

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious looked up quickly at her outburst.

"SIT DOWN!"

Arturious took a deep breath waiting for her to resume her previous position before speaking again.

"I did not say you could quit." "Training takes years not hours." "You are not expected to pick it up today." "This is simply a foundation for you to work on not only while you are here with me but on your own time as well."

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

She sat down straight back down, when the knight told her too, just out fear. She did not like the idea of being blasted again, it hurt last time and she can still feel it. Though she guessed this was why jedi were weaker than sith, only the strongest became sith. She listened to him, and replied Yes p, Knight Engal. She almost said pudding again but stopped herself, at the she remembered that why she got blasted last time.

She then tried again, to empty her mind of everything, including that nagging voice in back of her head.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious took another deep breath and closed his eyes himself. He was finding himself to eager to react with anger and violence with the Acolytes. First with Malefic, oh how he wanted so much to watch her die a slow painful death so many times. Now Harley who had already been subjected to more than a little abuse still at times made he want to reach out and snatch the life from her at times.

Arturious took another deep breath. Maybe this whole teaching acolytes thing was not for him and he needed to just wipe his hands of them and go back to the battlefields he liked better anyway.

 

[Hailey Sosis]

[member="Arturious Engel"]

That nagging voice in her head began to fade, and she could feel something else calling to her. She kept quiet, it was like it was always there, but only know could she begin to hear it call. She could hear it, but could not understand what it was saying, like a muffled voice in distances, but getting louder and clearer. She then went into deeper trance, she could not remember what had happened or put it into words. Though now she knew what Knight Engal was on about. Her eyes opened, and looked at him and said Okay that was weird.

 

[Arturious Engel]

[member="Harley"]

Arturious watched Harley keeping a close eye on her but more importantly Arturious was feeling the changes in her force signature. Feeling how it started to level out and as a result became more pure and easier to read.

"Why did you stop?"