Private When a Padawan meets an Apprentice

[Nuff]

Nuff was nervous as she sat at the back of her personal shuttle traveling from her corvette, this was her first real assignment. She wanted to make her daddy proud and removing this bad man, would make him happy. Nuff like making her dad smile, and when he was happy, so was she. The young Nautolan looked down at her hands, clutching the lower part of her tunic before looking back up, locking eyes with one of her officers. The officer gave the young Nautolan girl a small smile, "don't be nervous, you're going to do great kid" he signed, making Nuff give him a quick but short nod. Turning around in her seat as she looked out of the window, seeing the vast and expansive city of possibilities. "ETA, two minutes" called the pilot over the comm, prompting the soldier, sitting side Nuff to poke her arm, getting her to look back.

"ETA, two minutes my lord" signed the officer to Nuff, who just nodded in return, waiting for the shuttle to land. It did so without issue and the landing ramp soon descended to the platform below the ship. Descending the ramp of the shuttle with the officer and the two Imperial troopers, Nuff stopped when her feet touched the landing pad and looked up at the officer. "Just stay here Kevan" she signed with a smile, which he just nodded and headed back inside of the shuttle, while the two soldiers flanked the ship's ramp.

While a person who never has visited Nar Shaddaa before, might get overwhelmed by all noise and sounds bombarding one's senses, but not Nuff. Being deaf did have some advantages, which she has gotten use two it by now and not hate it as when she was younger. However, all the many colourful signs did surprise her a bit as she looked around her surroundings. Getting out of the hangar bay and into the city was pretty straight forward and before she knew it, she stood in the middle of a busy road.

Only a few people gave her some looks, but most people ignored the young Nautolan, having kids running around alone wasn't really that uncommon, unfortunately. Holding her datapad, Nuff started to look over the route for her to get to the section, where her target would be. As she quickly found the right sector and place, she started to walk the same direction as everyone else, not that she knew where it would lead her, but she knew it was the correct way, so she just started to walk.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Cas was en route to Nar Shaddaa in his new starfighter and with a new BB unit, BB-11, the Padawan and astromech hadn't exactly hit it off yet due to the attachment he shared with the now destroyed BB-5 but that was the least of his problems right now. As he tapped away at the console inside his cockpit, preparing the starfighter to land as he entered the Smuggler Moon's orbit.

He gave his newly applied mechno-arm a lookover, still not fully used to it yet, before wrapping a leather glove around it to cover up his cybernetic enhancements. Then he recalled on what he was actually here for, to arrest some big-time crime lord that was causing problems not only Nar Shaddaa but also outside of the planet too.

Cas proceeded to dock in a hangar bay in Hutta Town. The Padawan wasn't given much information on where his target would be exactly, but, he knew all the low lives would be gathered at some cantina somewhere, he'd be able to start his search there. And so, he would begin making his way to the nearest cantina.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Getting around was surprisingly easy, it was finding the right transportation service that was the difficult part for Nuff, as she tried to hail taxi after taxi to stop by her. After the fifth attempt to hail a speeder, Nuff dropped trying and huffed a bit annoyed by her situation and decided to find her own way.

Walking along the main road, keeping an eye out for any speeders that would be going or parking. It didn't take long to find a sort of parking area in Hutta Town for those that would either arrive or depart public or private ships. Keeping to the shadows by a parked vehicle, she saw a couple of well-dressed individuals heading for the exact speeder, she was watching.

While the individuals were flanked by two armed guards, it only provided a smaller obstacle for her to overcome. "Ah, finally back to familiarity," said the man, leading the woman by his arm. "Couldn't agree more," agreed the woman maybe a bit tired looking. Both were around the mid-fifties and some few patches of grey hair started to merge with the raven-coloured hair. Unlocking the vehicle, all four entered, the pair in the back and the two guards in the front.

Quick and silently, Nuff jumped from her hiding spot and landed on the roof of the black vehicle. However, as soon as it sped away from the busy road, it all suddenly became really dangerous, as she hung on for dear life. With a tight grip on the roof's edges, she only just managed to hang on, speeding through the air. She was so happy that her lightsaber was securely clipped to her belt and she couldn't imagine losing it on Nar Shaddaa of all places.

When speeder got up to where everyone else was flying, the route in the air for speeders to follow in order to get the fastest to other areas, it got a little easier for Nuff. While it was still incredibly dangerous for her if she fell, but Nuff trusted in her own abilities and saw on the roof of the speeder. However, she certainly gained quite a bit of look from ongoing traffic, both those around the speeder and those going the opposite way. The many head-tails whipped and shook in the wind as she looked her datapad over for location of where she was supposed to be.

Nuff quickly found out that she actually missed her location as the speeder dashed by the parking lot. Ah man thought the Nautolan teenager and stood up on the roof, getting ready to jump skip speeder to speeder. Waiting for the right moment, she trusted her gut and capabilities and right as she leapt through the air, she hit a roof of a speeder going the other way. Reaching out with the force, giving her the heightened senses needed, and force jumped the rest of the way.

*I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it!... Too far, TOO FAR!" Thought Nuff, getting more and more panicky, seeing she jumped too far and was about to fall right towards a food stall. Suffice to say, she made it, but she also completely ruined a poor shopowner's set up and probably making the ware unsellable. The Twi'lek just stood and looked on the horror in front of him, seeing all of his food ruined and on the dirty ground of Nar Shaddaa. Seeing Nuff he went into a fit of rage, howling and calling her all manners of rude names. While Nuff couldn't hear what the Twi'lek was yelling about, she did have an excellent skill in reading facial expression and lip movements.

She felt so bad for the poor shop owner and tried to explain herself in sign language, however, that only made the man angrier, thinking she made fun of him. "ARE YOU KRIFFING WITH ME YOUR LITTLE SHIT OF A RUNT!" Roared the shop owner, shaking his fist over his head. Reading the Twi'lek's lips, calling the Hutt owned cops, was enough for Nuff to disappear and get out of her situation. That was SO embarrassing for her, what would her dad think of that little stunt?!

Finally away from the shopowner and the cops, she could relax a bit and pulled out her datapad with coordinates of the general area of this Crime Lord she had to take care of.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Entering the cantina, the first thing his senses would pick up was the overlapping voices and conversations from the cantina's patrons alongside the loud but relaxed vibe of music. Closing his eyes, he could feel the Force surround him and the energy radiating from everyone in the room, feeling like a warm and subtle vibration. Balling his fists, the Padawan made his way to the front bar, glaring at all the patrons he passed by that looked like they wanted to start trouble with him.

Cas stood at the bar and leaned on the counter, addressing the bartender "Hey." he greeted, the Rodian bartender returned the greeting in Rodese "<What'll you have?>" she asked. Leaning closer, Cas glanced to both sides of him for any potential eavesdroppers before continuing to speak "I need information. Information regarding a certain crime lord." he requested in a hushed tone. The Rodian proceeded to also lean in closer as she cleaned out a glass "<I might know, but that information'll cost ya.">" she stated arrogantly, already growing irritated, Cas placed his new lightsaber on the counter in front of him "I'd like to know, now." Cas demanded, a tone of threat in his voice.

Her face turned a pale green from fear, raising her hands in defeat, "<Alright, alright, Jedi. Word is, some Trandoshan named Ussk and his gang managed to actually scare the Hutts off of Nar Shaddaa.>" this earned a surprised look from Cas before the Rodian continued "<He practically owns Nar Shaddaa now, all the syndicates on this moon report to him and only him.> Cas glanced down slightly, this was hard to believe, how one person could garner so much influence in Hutt Space without the Hutt's retaliation. "Where can I find him?" he asked, looking back up at her. She would then give the Padawan the locations the Trandoshan would frequent, with that Cas was on his way but not before flicking a credit chip at her for her services.

Exiting the cantina, Cas' attention was immediately brought to a crashing sound he had heard nearby. He saw the commotion between a Nautolan girl and a Twi'lek, the latter was heated and cursing at the girl, he watched as she then ran off. Completely misinterpreting the situation, he assumed that she was some kind of thief or troublemaker that had ruined the Twi'lek's stall and because of this, he followed her in order to apprehend the Nautolan.

Finally finding her alone, he watched as she pulled out a datapad and seemingly lower her guard. The Padawan leapt over her, performing a somersault to garner her attention. He folded his arms over each other and glared at her "What was all that commotion about?" he questioned.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Not hearing a thing, as she stood with her head in the datapad, trying to pinpoint where to go. Nuff actually managed to walk directly into Cas, face first and everything. Feeling the impact she fell back and landed on her bum with a soft "thud" sound. With a frown on her facing, robbing her sore asscheek from the impact. Looking up, the young Nautolan girl saw a very intimidating man, folded arms and glaring at her. Nuff's frown turned into a surprising look when looking up at the man. However, it did get awkward as she just looked at him with a small tilt of her head, causing her head tails to fall from her shoulder.

While she was were good at reading people's lip movement, she still couldn't hear anything he said and had a feeling that this man was maybe some kind of cop or something. So instead of running, she just sat there and looked up at him, innocently, tilting her head like a curious dog. After a few minutes of just looking up at Cas like a lost little puppy, she noticed his lightsaber hanging by his belt and the innocent look dissipated.

Getting on her feet, Nuff looked up at Cas, having quite a bit of height difference, she folded her own arms and matched Cas's glared. However, she glared kind of turned adorable instead as she furrowed her eyebrows and puffed her lower lip forward. She felt the light emanating from him, making her happy that she shrouded her own affiliation to the force.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Was she ignoring him, the Nautolan didn't respond at all. Was she trying to annoy him or what? As she kept walking forward, she actually managed to bump into him and fall on her tuchus. He simply watched her come to her senses and look up at him which earned her a sarcastic wave at her with his gloved hand.

This encounter... was awkward to say the least - "You deaf? Or what?" he asked her, growing increasingly more irritated with this entire situation. The Padawan was completely unimpressed with her attempts at being cute, or innocent, Cas had been through too much bantha crap to buy into that right now.

When the girl stood up, she was noticeably shorter than him - she folded her arms and glared back at him. The Nautolan's glare switched, her eyebrows furrowed and her lower lip pushed forward, Cas would then scoff at this and relaxed his arms at his sides, this was getting ridiculous now. He had a mission to do and he didn't need to be wasting time on this, if anything, the authorities would handle this. "Whatever." Cas muttered, waving his arm in the air as he turned around to walk away - he had to investigate the areas Ussk would frequent.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Reading the man's lip movement, seeing she just won their little stare contest, she grin wide and turned around to walk the exact same way as Cas went. It was not even on purpose, but unknowingly to both, they had the same target. The grumpy man seemed more annoyed by her than angry and he wasn't a cop, so she wasn't very worried about him, even though he was twice her size.

Following after Cas with a distance, like a silent shadow, she looked down on her datapad again, while letting the force surround her. At the moment that stopped shrouding her affiliation to the dark side, it would without a doubt hit Cas. However, if he decided to turn around, he would see her leap from the ground, jumping a good 30 feet up to the roof of a building. Nuff would disappear as her black cape was the last thing visible.

A few people on the street expressed a surprise, seeing the Nautolan suddenly jump unbelievable heights without any equipment.

Walking along the rooftops, it didn't take long for her to sneak into the Crime Lord's base of operation, keeping herself to the shadows. Shrouding her affiliation to the force again and manipulated the light and sound waves to render her virtually invisible to the naked eye. With that in place, she at first, decided to pull her double-bladed staff, but then she remembered that her dad gave her some Jedi padawan's lightsaber to her. With a giddy smile, she grabbed the single-bladed hilt, attached to the lower back on her belt.

She was looking forward to testing her dad's gift, see how well it felt in her gasp. Slithering along with the shadows, she arrived above the entrance with four men standing guard. It also looked like two turrets was armed behind the guards, aiming at the doorway with a small red laser for targeting.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

As he exited whatever situation he got himself into, however, he would strategically and covertly look back every once in a while to check if she followed. Then he sensed it... the Dark side... turning around one last time, he would see the Nautolan girl perform a, what would be normally impossible single leap onto a building.

She was affiliated with the Dark side, now he had a reason to follow her. Channelling the Light side, he performed the same feat to the Nautolan and landed on the same building she did. Before stealthily following her to wherever she was going, he would hide his signature in the Force as to not alert her he was on her trail. What was she up to? Cas managed to trail the Nautolan into a building which was... conveniently one of the locations he was told Ussk was based at, did she work for Ussk?

He continued to tail her until she hid herself within the Force again - the Dark side that shrouded her was gone once more. Following his instincts and using the minor tracking skills taught to him by Sakadi, he intuitively made his way to where he hoped she would be. As he came up to a corner, he peeked his head round one of the walls to find four men guarding a door. He had to cause a distraction.

Closing his eyes, Cas remained hidden behind the wall and out of sight from the guards, he channelled the Light side of the Force and extended both his index and middle finger in the direction of one of the turrets. Telekinetically grasping at the turret with the Force, he flicked his two fingers and rotated the turret in the direction of the other which caused it to instinctively shoot at its counterpart effectively destroying it. The four guards, stunned and shocked, turned their backs to see what had just happened.

The Padawan would use this opportunity to ignite his new, yellow lightsaber and rush at the unsuspecting guards - lightsaber ready to defend himself from any incoming blaster fire.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Shrouded in the force, the young Sith stayed hidden above where Cas and the guards was, watching the event unfold. Keeping her assassin training in mind, she leapt from her hiding and stealth along the roof, landing by the door. While she was invisible to the naked eye on a distance, the sudden opening of the door on itself, made the guards extremely alert. As they were about to rush towards the door, the loud sound of a lightsaber igniting, made them snap around, and just opened fire on instinct at Cas.

The first two was too close within Cas's lightsaber to do much, but the two behind them, backpedalled while firing at the threat. The Kiffar would hear the words being said to a wrist comm by one of the guards behind the first two, "ALARM, ALARM. UNDER ATTACK!" He yelled, before returning fire behind the remaining and working turret.

Meanwhile, inside the base.

Nuff quickly made her way through the base, both hearing and seeing guards dashing for the entrance door, only to find it locked and the control panel destroyed. "Damnit, you! Find the slicer!" yelled one who probably was of higher ranking.

Moving around inside the base, wasn't the easiest, that much was clear and soon the young girl found herself sneaking through the, just big enough, ventilation shaft. Wasn't the most enjoyable experience, but she'll rather do this than face off a bunch of angry goons, ready to flay you alive.

The last thing Nuff heard, was one of the goons yelling, "I got the slicer, move so I can get the door open before the threat finds another way inside!" as he passed under Nuff, in the ventilation shaft. The base was big, so much was certain as she made her way deeper and deeper into the base. Feeling she was safe from being seen, she opened the ventilation shaft bar and landed silently in a corridor.

While she wasn't camouflaged in the force anymore, she still held the shroud of her affiliation to the force hidden, incase that mean and rude Jedi, managed to find his way inside. Moving along the corridor, taking a couple of turns, she had to mind trick a couple of guards, to get by. As she entered, what looked like a large factory of droids, Nuff quickly picked out a square building as her target's hiding place. Melting with the shadows, Nuff quickly ran silently through the large area, avoiding all the guards and landed on top of the square-shaped room in the open factory. It was situated, so that Ussk could look down upon everyone else, with only metal walkways to his office.

Kneeling on the roof, she had a complete view of her target in the window on the roof. Reaching into the force, Nuff camouflaged herself again and entered through the window in the roof, without a sound.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Not to his surprise, they opened fire as soon as they saw him. Shouldn't be a problem though, Cas simply deflected the blaster bolts away and closed the distance between them. Cas swiftly disarmed the first two in a single swipe before extending his arm and pushing them with a wave of telekinetic energy while simultaneously blocking the shots coming from the other two backpedalling away as well as the fully operational last turret.

In the past, Cas wouldn't have taken this seriously and would have been cracking wise the entire fight - but after what happened, he knew better now. The blaster fire became too overwhelming to the point, the Padawan had to retreat slightly, performing a series of back handsprings to create some distance. With more distance and better time to react to the blaster fire, Cas used one hand to deflect the shots and flicked hand in the direction of the turret to swivel it in the direction of the two guards. The turret took care of the remaining two and before it could swivel back around to return fire at him, Cas had used the Force to enhance his speed and close the gap between him and it.

In a downward stabbing motion, Cas dismantled the turret with his lightsaber creating a small explosion with smoke erupting from the turret's remnants. The Padawan took a moment to catch his breath, panting heavily, it'd been a while since had had to exert more than his minimum effort - but... it felt good. Meant that he still had it. It, being his skill.

Cas readied his lightsaber and prepared and made his way to the entrance to the main base. Midway, he realised that this had to be Ussk's base - deciding to ignore the Dark side acolyte for now. As he Cas reached the large blast door to the main base, he heard a variety of voices behind the door, sounded like a lot of guys back there and he probably couldn't handle them all. He'd have to think of something else.

"Aw, man..." he muttered to himself, scanning the area for anywhere he could get the drop on them. Tilting his head upward, Cas used the Force to enhance himself as he leapt to the top of the base's structure and watched as the door broke open and a flood of men armed with blasters poured out. He had one shot and one shot only at this, Cas engulfed himself in the Light side of the Force and summoned as much of the Living Force as he could unto himself before extending his arms below and in the direction of the men. Releasing a very powerful blast of telekinetic energy, the group of men were knocked onto the floor, hard, by a seemingly invisible force.

Hearing the men grunting on the floor, he knew he had dazed them from the combined push and impact of hitting the ground. The Padawan leapt to the surface below and sprinted passed their dazed bodies and trailed further inside the base. Inside the base, through simple deduction, Cas navigated the base and passed a few mind tricked guards while on the way. The girl must have been after Ussk as well. Now inside an area resembling a droid factory, he saw a guarded structure that he guessed Ussk was holed up, but to get to him, he'd have to get through the guards.

Begrudgingly, Cas ignited his yellow blade and readied himself.

Nuff

 

[Nezira Viresh]

//ups wrong character xD//

 

[Nuff]

"Boss, the Jedi has entered the factory!" alerted a guard, before returning with the other guards on the metal railing, blasting Cas with blaster fire. "So you think you can just come here and stop me Jedi?!" rambled the Crime Boss to himself inside his office. "I'll show him!" Said the Crime Boss with a wicket smile, pulling what resembles a rotary cannon, but this was much heavier. "Say hello to my little friend!" Yelled Ussk and pulled the trigger and he did not let go of it again.

The guards were taken completely by surprise by their own boss as the whole area was lit up with laser fire. Ussk's crazy firing at every direction destroying everything in its line of fire. Most of the guards got lit up by the rotary cannon's fire, while others had to jump to safety, by jumping over the railing and break their legs upon impact to the concrete floor.

Nuff was lucky enough to be deaf, cause the cannon's firing looked really loud with how everything shook around Ussk. Hanging on the ceiling, Nuff knew the Jedi most likely had managed to find his way in and the fact that the crime boss went mental as well not long after the guard spoke to Ussk. Nuff started to form a plan and that plan was simple, kill Ussk before the mean Jedi took her kill from her. So Nuff did what she did best, staying shrouded in the force, invisible to the naked eye and dropped down to hide behind the Crime Boss.

With her father's newest gift in hand, she held the padawan's lightsaber, not ignited yet. She waited as there only was one door into the office, making sure she would be able to kill her target before the Jedi. Was it rude? Yes. Was it funny? Oh yes very much. After a minute of just completely ruining his office with blaster holes and destroyed down, the rotary canon ran dry and stopped firing.

"Kriff!" cursed Ussk and tried to reload the rotary cannon, but loading such a big gun, took a lot of time for one man. Meanwhile, Nuff waited for the Jedi to enter, one way or another, ready to take the crime boss's life, before the Jedi would, it almost made the Nautolan release a silent giddiness.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

On ground level, Cas had taken down about three guards before his presence was alerted to the rest of the factory. Knowing he'd have to end this quickly, Cas, using the Force, leapt to one of the walkways leading to Ussk's office. Two of the guards, stunned by Cas' feat, made the mistake of not firing at him yet which gave the Padawan time to use the Force and hurl droid parts at them, knocking them off of the railings.

He knew the fall wouldn't kill them, but he had no quarrels with injuring these low-lives. Cas leapt to another walkway, the walkway that led directly to the office - Cas was ready to take on the two guards at his office entrance until he heard yelling come from inside the office, prompting Cas and the two thugs to turn their attention to see what's going on. Sensing a heavy disturbance, he instinctively performed a large backflip and avoided turret fire that erupted from Ussk's office, killing his two guards.

The Trandoshan had really lost it, mindlessly spraying the rotary turret around he factory and killing any of his men that unluckily got in its way. The Padawan, by leaping across several walkways, attempted to save as many as he could from being gunned down by Ussk's insanity. He used the Force to push them off the railing and avoid becoming blaster holes. One long minute passed and the firing stopped, mid-leap to one of the walkways, fatigue began to hit him, Cas landed hard on the metal walkway and rolled sideways a bit. Getting up to his knees, Cas took the time to catch his breath before returning to Ussk's office.

Back at the entrance to his office, Cas would use his lightaber to penetrate and destroy the locking mechanism and in-turn force the door open. Barging inside, Cas extended his right arm and used the Force to move the rotary turret out of his reach. "Dammit! Damn you, Jedi!" he cursed, however, through fatigued breath the Padawan aimed the blade of his lightsaber at the Trandoshan "Ussk. I'm taking you in." Cas commanded.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Feeling the Jedi quite clearly and then seeing him enter the office, completely disarming the Crime Boss in an instant. "Go ahead Jedi filth! But taking one step closer and I'll blow this place into oblivion!" threaten Ussk with an insane grin on his face, showcasing a detonator in his hand. "The moment the pressure of my thumb leaves this button, the whole place blows up!" Threaten Ussk, holding his detonator.

"Now, here's what you are going to do Jedi, you are going to turn around and leave like the good little Jedi you are" demanded Ussk, keeping a tight grip on the small handheld detonator. Suddenly all air left Ussk's lungs and with wide eyes, he looked down and saw a cyan blade protruding out of the crime boss's chest.

In the time that the Jedi and Ussk had talked, did Nuff keep her dark side hidden from Cas, giving her the chance to sneak up on Ussk without Cas noticing it.

The body of Ussk fell slap and got cut almost into two-piece fro chest to the top of his head since Nuff didn't remove her blade in time. The detonator fell out of Ussk's hand and landed with a heavy "thud" sound, which was followed by... nothing. It seemed the man had been bluffing.

Standing over the body of Ussk with a sweet smile on her lips, as she was happy to have completed her fathers mission for her. She still held her cyan coloured lightsaber ignited and finally looked up at Cas and poked her tongue out. "Ha, I got to him first, sucks to be you!" Signed the young Nautolan with a grin of triumph.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Still aiming his lightsaber at Ussk, he saw the Trandoshan pull something out of his pocket - a detonator. Cas' eyes widened in surprise for a moment but his resolve didn't falter, he could sense the fear in Ussk but it wasn't because he was about to kill all of them, it was fear of Cas himself. This led the Padawan to deduce the possibility that the detonator was a bluff... however, he couldn't risk it. Cas went over a variety of strategies in his head to quickly and efficiently the Trandoshan.

He wouldn't need to in the end, the snap-hiss of a lightsaber echoed through the room and a cyan blade ripped through Ussk's chest, killing him instantly. Cas reached his arm out and caught the detonator with the Force before it could hit the ground, except, unsurprisingly, it didn't blow up. Ussk really was talking bantha crap. Standing over the body was the Nautolan from earlier "Are you nuts?!" he yelled out "If he wasn't bluffing, he would have killed both of us!"

Ignoring her childish antique, his gaze trailed over to her hands - she was speaking sign language, was she deaf? Or mute? However, his thought process was quickly halted when he saw the lightsaber she was holding - a flush of anger and confusion would wash over him immediately. She had his lightsaber. His youthful face contorted into a fierce scowl - "Where did you get that?" his voice would echo in her mind as he established a mental connection between them. He was getting much better at telepathy. "That lightsaber is mine." his mental voice would snarl.

As memories of what had transpired on Lothal fuelled his rage, he raised his organic hand and clenched it into a fist in an attempt to summon his lightsaber into his hand. Cas had two theories right now - this Nautolan killed and stole his lightsaber from the Sith Lord that cut off his arm or worse, the Sith Lord and the Nautolan had some sort of relationship and it was gifted to her through him. If the latter were true, he'd want nothing more to hurt the Sith in the way he had hurt him - Jedi Code be damned.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Nuff just stood and poked her tongue out at Cas as she read his lip's movement. However, as anger fell over the Jedi, Nuff grabbed the hilt with both hands, ready for an attack of him. But, instead, she heard voices in her mind... voices, no no no! For a few seconds, a panic showered over the girl's face, placing her free hand on her head, contracting her face into what looked like pain.

But as quickly as it had washed over the girl, just as quickly was it gone and Cas could feel his telepathy actually got rejected, kicked out of the Nautolan's mind. A snarl of her own formed on the girl's face, she hated when she head voice in her mind and it freaked her out big time. If it hadn't been for the technique on how to keep people out of her mind, had Nuff gone into a break down of herself, trying to keep the voices out.

She was still learning to use it comfortably and she was incredibly thankful, that it worked this time. However, due to her almost having a panic attack from hearing Cas's voice in her mind, her grip on her newest lightsaber got ripe out of her hand. Surprised that she let the Jedi pull HER lightsaber from her grasp. She responded in kind, by reaching out her own hand, stopping the hilt midway in the air.

With her free hand, she signed, "it's mine! Let go of it!" while concentrating on overpowering the Jedi with the force. Just like her father does when fighting.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Cas' eyes widened in surprise, this was starting to become a pattern now with everyone but Sakadi. The Nautolan managed to block out his telepathy - great, now the girl'll have no idea that that lightsaber is his. It's not like he could sign it to her, yeah, he understood it a little but couldn't communicate using it.

To make matters even worse, she intercepted his Force pull with her own. She was... stronger than he anticipated, especially for someone who seemed so young. Still, he wasn't going to let her keep his lightsaber. Planting his feet firmly on the ground below and focusing hard on pulling the lightsaber to him against the Nautolan's own, during this however, from the corner of his eye he saw her signing something at him - from what he could tell, she was saying it was hers and to let go.

This prompted a condescending laugh directed at the girl, his arm was still extended as he was determined to have his lightsaber. Cas had an idea however, since she was so focused on pulling the lightsaber away from him, maybe he could telepathically communicate with her successfully this time. Cas diverted some of his attention to linking their minds again and spoke to her "Look, kid!" he addressed her "I built this lightsaber myself!" his voice would exclaim in her mind.

Clenching his fist even tighter, he would yell out loud "Get. Off!" and as his frustration and anger briefly consumed him - the Padawan accidentally focused too much of the Force's energy on pulling the lightsaber back to him and tore one half of the lightsaber off. The result of the blade's crystal breaking in half cause a miniature explosion, in turn knocking both the Padawan and the Apprentice a few metres back.

Cas would hit a wall before falling to one knee, and the broken half of the lightsaber that he pulled came flying in his direction - hitting him in the chest before collapsing to the floor. Reaching out to grab his lightsaber, he looked over it and sighed, clenching it tight in his grip Cas scowled at the Nautolan. The Sith were really the worst.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Nuff did not like this Jedi, he was rude tried to take her lightsaber! He was also really rude and on top of that, he invaded her mind, almost causing a panic attack for her. They seemed equally powerful in the force for her lightsaber was not moving more than an inch each way. She had to get the lightsaber back, losing her fathers gift was a horrifying thought to the Nautolan. The thought of facing her dad and tell him that she lost and had his gift destroyed almost made her teary.

The Jedi could NOT be allowed to take it from her and so she pulled all her focus on the hilt of the blade, which started to caused things around her to shake, glass, dust and small rubble started to levitate. However, by placing all her focus on overpowering the Jedi and pull the hilt back to her, she left her mind wards open.

The moment Cas's voice echoed throughout her mind, the panic attacks nearly came crushing, like a wave in a roaring ocean. Physical panic showered over the young girl's face as she silently shook her head, hitting her face with one hand to get the voices out of her head. Feeling the blade's crystal breaking in half, threw Nuff back, hitting the wall with a loud "thud". Landing on her bum beside the other half of the hilt, the Jedi Padawan might expect the Sith to get up and attack him, sadly no.

What he witnessed, was a girl having a pretty strong panic attack. Her whole body was shivering, with both hands to the side of her head, she shook it wildly in an attempt to get the Jedi's voices out of her head. Even though he wasn't speaking to her anymore mentally, her panic attacks kept ringing the echo of his voices through the attacks. Heavy watery tears started to stream down her cheeks as she slapped the side of her head again, harder than before. And the worse about it all, not a sound came from her, it was like watching a holomovie without sound.

There the Sith sat, a girl of only 16 years of age, and she looked like she was in an indescribable physical and mental pain, uncontrollable hyperventilating and a mess to look at. One would not expect her to be a ruthless killer, but a scared girl in great sorrow.

Cadere

 

[Cadere]

Cas' expression softened as he witnessed what was happening to the Nautolan. She was shaking, hyperventilating and had her hands on both sides of her head - he was sure she was having some kind of panic attack from his telepathy. To his surprise, the scorching anger he felt for her and the Sith quickly shifted into pity and compassion as he watched her... reminding him she was just a person, a kid.

Still, she was Sith after all. Their Order was self-serving and only threatened the safety of the galaxy. Shaking his head, clutching at the broken hilt of his former lightsaber Cas stood to his feet and made his way to exit the room. But once he heard her smack the side of her head, Cas threw his head back and groaned in defeat - he turned his head to look at her, noticing the tears streaming down her face. Cas' compassion completely took over "Kark..." he whispered to himself.

Using the Force, Cas removed the broken half of the cyan Kyber crystal from his broken hilt and placed it in one of the pouches on his utility belt and begrudgingly approached Nuff. He was unsure how he was going to even do this, considering the Nautolan was deaf - at least he had a feeling she was - stopping in front of her, Cas knelt in front of her but remained at a safe distance just in case she snapped out of it and attacked him. Placing his organic hand on her shoulder, he let out a deep sigh and attempted to rub her shoulder in a comforting manner.

"Look, kid. I'm sorry..." he apologised while avoiding eye contact, certain she wouldn't even know what he was saying "I didn't know it'd effect you like that." Cas continued maintaining his sympathetic tone of voice. Resting his gloved cybernetic arm on his knee, he gazed into the girl's large black eyes "I'm... gonna stay with you, alright?" he assured her, continuing to rub her shoulder. Cas wasn't sure how to do this, if he was even doing it right, but he had to try... to make things better for her.

Not forcing her to do anything she didn't want to do, Cas simply moved his gloved hand and placed it over Nuff's right hand in an attempt to calm her and to stop her from hurting herself. He hoped he wasn't making a mistake, but he knew he couldn't just leave her.

Nuff

 

[Nuff]

Upon looking at the girl's face, tears came in such a force down her cheeks that the Nautolan had no control over it. Whenever Cas talked to her, he received no response. Her body, still violently shaking right in front of him, Nuff was slapping herself harder and harder, almost enough to be consider punching with an open palm. One might even see it border the self-harming area with how hard she hit her own head. Nuff had even folded herself into a sitting fetal position and didn't even react to Cas's hand on her shoulder.

When Cas placed his hand on Nuff's own, he would feel a very strong and uncontrollably push against his hand. The padawan would have to actually put strength into holding the Nautolan's hands from getting back to hitting her head again. Her body was still shaking violently and the hyperventilating only seemed to get worse with every breath the girl took.

With a fanatically look in her black eyes, she started to wheeze violently for air, looking very much in a state of suffocation. Grabbing on to Cas's top part of his clothes, Nuff looked him directly into his eyes and voicelessly crying out, "can't breathe! I can't breathe!". Nuff even lost her balance and tipped over and would fell to the floor, if the Padawan wouldn't catch her.

Cadere