Devotion to the art...(Rish's Advanced training)

[Horizon]

The room rung with blades clinging together from blow to blow. The screams of pain was the mood of the sparring room. Many acolytes found that there was
no true hope in this room for their masters would eventually break them of their
individuality and replace it with a purpose of serving the Bogan. Rish was lucky
enough to have survived his training after his master made him sit out in the frozen wastes of the surface in nothing but his undergarments.

He shuddered at the memory and was thankful that it was over. Leaning against a wall near the entrance of the sparring room, Rish pulled out his journal and wrote a couple paragraphs concerning his new master and how his new training was going to begin today. After writing in it for a couple minutes, Rish closed the journal and tucked it away back inside his robes. He then thought of
his acolyte that had recently moved up to the rank of Crusader. He was proud
to have trained her and had come to like her. He smiled to himself at the thought and folded his arms and awaited his master to arrive...

 

[Keanu]

Pharus entered the room wearing one very nice and elegant umbaran cloak. Despite the Dark jedi garments that were provided to masters, crusaders and acolytes he never truly wore them as he felt more at ease and unrestricted in the clothing of his people. under the cloak he was wearing a belt which had 2 identical golden lightsabers attached to it.

When he entered the room he was sure his new apprentice could sense the strong force connection the umbaran had it was here where the training would excell aswell with lightsaber forms being thought at normal profeciency. He continued into the room and stood in the middle looking down at his apprentice which was a fair bit shorther then his height of 6 feet 7 inches.

"You must be Rish. As you might have guessed I am Pharus Mion your new Master and I will guide you to teach your specialization. This however does not make you a Dark master like I am in order to become a dark master you have to prove your worth to the bogan from your teachings and missions you might do in the future. Now please inform me of your past training and feel free to ask me any question you may have. Be it personal, professional or informative


ooc: 8 pages? is that correct? or is that acolyte to crusader?

 

[Horizon]

ooc: Not sure. I do not think there is a set number of pages for advanced training. I think it is your decision for when I am done in the training.

His master flaunted his background as a Umbaran. He was also fairly taller than himself which was some what unsettling. But Rish made up for the lack of height
with his wide body structure from training his body to the limit. Most of his muscles were swull from his daily training which kept his body in shape. Rish pushed away from the wall and stood straight up for a moment before bowing
to his new master. He did not bow out of fear but rather respect for the Umbaran. He was of higher rank and deserved his position which also deserved
the respect Rish gave him...

"I trained under the Crusader Ro-Tahn Chias. My training was brutal as other
acolyte's training was. I learned the Ferocity form or otherwise known as Juyo. And finished my training only to move on to train other acolytes. There
is nothing else."

Rish then knelt to the floor on one knee and planted his fist next to it.
He then lifted his head to his Umbaran master and spoke quietly...

"I would not wish to graduate to the rank of Dark Master just yet. For as you said I must prove my worth to the Bogan and I have not done yet, Master Pharus..."

His head then hung low once more, looking at the floor.

 

[Keanu]

"Good." Pharus nodded in approval of hearing his training and his modesty.

"Please get up when you talk to me. I appreciate your modesty, But I do not share the views of other instructors. I train my students to not fear but to hate me and use their rage to try and excel in their trainings. Fear is bad, fear is for weak minded individuals, fear holds people back while rage will fuel advancement fear accualy slows you down. Opinions are mixed on this among the dark masters but I use this method of training."

Pharus paused and grabbed his 2 identical golden lightsabers from his belt and ignited them
"I can teach you the lightsaber forms of Niman, Jar'Kai or Soresu. I can also help you incorporate jar'kai into your juyo so you can dual wield lightsabers and use this ferocious style. I must warn you however that in a battle against an experienced force user like myself you leave yourself open to force attacks be mindfull of this and use this knowledge to your advantage everytime you duel someone of equal or greater level."

Pharus unignited the lightsabers and put them back on his belt
"Before we continue I also wish to know how much you have learned about the force and its force powers. Also feel free to ask any questions you might have."

 

[Horizon]

Rish was in awe of his master's lightsabers. By the mere fact he could wield two
he thought his master a god. He was even going to teach him the form! Rish did
not care for the other forms for all he wished was to become a juggernaut within the realm of combat. But now his master posed the question of what he
knew of the Force...

"I know merely the basics. I can move objects with the Force and propel myself
to greater heights with the Force as well. I did learn one power which some what allows me to balance the fact I do not know much within the Force.

It drains my opponent's Force energy and feeds it directly into me. I use this usually to gain the upper hand. But this is the only Force ability I know outside
the basics I have been taught. It is my desire to learn more though. As I also
wish to learn the form Jar'Kai."

Rish then stood up and rolled his shoulders back to feel more relaxed.
The only reason he knelt before and did not rise when he said so was because Rish merely thought respect was necessary. But now he would no longer do such thing. He had the idea that his master was going to do as he said and "instill" rage into him. Rish did not know how he was going to do so
but he had a feeling it was not going to be pleasant.

 

[Keanu]

"I see" Pharus stated as he moved to a workbench which had a large amount of lightsaber parts and a few color crystals.
"Then the first thing I wish for you to do is to either create another lightsaber or build 2 identical lightsabers. I recommend building 2 identical ones so it is easier to adjust to holding them, no difference in weight and the blades will be of even length. Now as far as training the lightsaber form of jar'kai that is another thing it is by far the hardest form to learn and master it is a great technique to use against multiple enemys who use swords or lightsabers and it will also increase the amount of enemy blaster fire you can reflect or block. The downside of this technique is that it is harder to make powerfull blows and block powerfull blows. But if you keep training your physical strength and use the force to boost that further. I think I have talked enough now why dont you go construct your lightsabers."

 

[Horizon]

Rish nodded to his master's command and walked over to the bench and sat himself down upon a stool. He looked at the pieces for a moment and then pulled off his lightsaber from his utility belt and set it down on the opposite
side from the parts. Looking over his saber he had almost forgotten how to
create a lightsaber! Picking up a couple pieces he curiousloy pushed and prodded them together trying to find out how to to assemble the saber.

He then realized that he needed to start with the hilt! Screwing pieces together and tightening them together, Rish had assembled the hilt. He looked
curiuosly at it for a moment and noticed it was looking rather dull. He then took his necklace off and tied it to the end of his saber where it would usually
hang from his belt. The tooth now could dangle from the end of the saber and he could still clip it to his belt. It gave the saber a bit of sedimental value. He then finished assembling the saber over the periode of the next hour
and was finally finished. He was now finished but tasked with choosing a crystal. He peered over them and questioned himself what colour he truly wanted. He then picked up a crystal with a light purple shade as it's primary color. He inserted the crystal inside the designated chamber and sealed it. Now he was to add the final piece.

Picking up the lense to the saber, Rish held it near small torch to see the glimmer of light shine through. Rush then set the lense in it's designated position and sealed up the rest of the saber. Stepping down from the stool, Rish held the new saber in hand and prayed for it function correctly. Flipping the switch made an all too familiar hissing noise that revealed a purple blade with a white glow in the middle. Rish sighed for he was thankful nothing went wrong. He flipped it off and turned back to the bench and retrieved his other saber. With both of his weapons in hand, Rish stood before his Umbarian master awaiting his next instruction....

 

[Keanu]

"Good now before we even try and spar I want you to train on a training droid I have readied. He will use 2 jar'kai training blades. If you can destroy him using 2 lightsabers then we can continue on the next step but before we even go to that next step we will have to use the majority of the training to bring up your knowledge in the force. Things like mind control or suggestion, force lightning, force strength and speed which are both very usefull in combat and various others. Now lets focus on the task at hand."

Pharus aimed his hand at a deactivated droid in the corner and slid in parts it needed to activate. The droid stood up and moved up to Rish.

"Now the reason I am letting you spar against this droid is because he currently is better at using jar'kai then you are. Lets be honest here he is a melee combat droid that is trained to use 2 blades and not only that but he can do powerfull swings and powerfull blocks aswell. Your agressive attack style probably wont work. Good luck."

ooc: feel free to make it 1 or 2 posts long

 

[Horizon]

Take down a training droid? What could be easier? Rish had dealt with a couple a droids in his past but all it took was out smarting the programming usually.
Rish clicked on both of his lightsabers in complete synchronization. Rish assumed
the Juyo form for he was faithful in it to complete the task set before him. Rish walked to the center of a large training mat that dotted other areas of the endless room and awaited the droid. Once the droid met him in the center Rish wasted no time! Taking a swipe at the droid it responded by bringing up its own blade and blocking it. It then swung with its left blade at Rish. He quickly brought up his left saber and deflected the blow. Taking a step back, Rish pulled both of his arms back and used them both to strike both sides of the droid. Slinging the blades towards its mid section the droid deflected both blades and pushed them away in the process...

With a slash in the pattern of an X, Rish jumped back in fear for his life. Suddenly the droid jumped too! Bringing down its right blade ontop of Rish's head, Rish guarded himself by throwing up his left blade and holding the blade in position. The blades grinded against one another. Then the droid took its left blade an attempted to cut open Rish's stomach. But it was foiled by Rish blocking the blow and coming to an impasse. The droid could not get exhausted but merely keep fighting! Rish had to think fast. He remembered that his master said something about the Force. Of course! Rish used all of his strength in an attempt to break the lock. The droid pressed forward trying to use Rish's own blades to cut him down. But Rish pushed right back.

Pushing his blades in opposite directions, Rish broke free! Clicking off his left saber, Rish then threw it to the side and held onto to his right lightsaber and awaited the droid. Charging with all its might the droid came at full speed with its blades raised high. And within seconds it was bringing down his blades vertically on top of Rish. Blocking the blow with his saber in one hand, Rish beckoned the Force into his left hand and punched the droid right in its stomach!

Rish's fist pushed on through the metal and penetrated pieces of its circuitry. The droid froze all movement and began to twitch but unable to move any of its limbs. Rish then twisted around and used his left hand to send a blast of Force energy directly at the droid, sending it to smack right into a wall. The droid then began to move once more as it slid down to the floor. Rish had to finish things. Starting off into a sprint, Rish called upon the Force and snatched the lightsaber he had dropped earlier and summoned it back into his hand. Concentrating the Force beneath his feet, Rish leaped into the air and aimed his blades at the droid who was attempting to pick himself up off the floor. Rish slammed his blades into the droid, impaling it to the ground!

The droid sparked and twitched as it shut down permanently. Rish then clicked off his sabers and walked back to his master, winded and quite tired after the encounter...

 

[Keanu]

"Excellent. While I find myself in a hard position wether or not to duel you myself I think ill restrain my own blood rush feeling for now as you just had your own taste of Jar'Kai." He grinned as he said that.

Pharus Closed his eyes and focussed his hands towards Rish. His hands started to glow white and streams of force energy could be seen flowing into Rish. Which should revitalize him.

"That was an advanced and slightly changed form of Force heal combined with Force drain reversed. Now onto your fight performances. It was a good fight which almost caused you to die... Anyway a good strategy to use while fighting with Jar'Kai is to use 1 lightsaber to defend and 1 to attack. I use my left lightsaber to defend and my right to attack as that is my dominant hand capable of delivering stronger blows. Once you break the defence of your enemy you should bring in the left lightsaber to finish him off or hurt or damage him some more."

"Now I noticed you did use the force somewhat in that fight but had you used powers such as force speed or force strength to boost your body performance would have resulted in an easier fight. This brings me to the next part of your training. You guessed it: Force Training. Now the first thing I want you to do is to sit on the floor. Get in a meditation stance, close your eyes and use your mind to touch the objects in this room. Let them all levitate and take control over them. That is step one once you have done that I will step in and give you your next order."

 

[Horizon]

Rish had felt revitalized after his master performed some type of Force ability he had not seen before nor heard. Doing as his master told him, Rish sat down on the floor and crossed his legs. Placing his hands on his knee and shutting his eyes, Rish began to concentrate on the Force so that it might do what he beckoned it too. He could see the flow of the dark side energy within the room
like a raging storm over the ocean. The tides of were rough and large as it lashed out against everything within its path...

Rish focused on this energy and began to reach out to objects within the room.
Using the Force, Rish pulled off two blades off the racks and moved them through the air over to where Rish sat. The blades floated over Rish's shoulder
seamlessly as he concentrated that much harder to control their steady position. He was now breaking a sweat as he called a third blade over to him.
This blade floated above his lap but moved slowly back and fourth because of
Rish's lack of control...

"What now master?"

Grunted Rish as he tried to maintain control...

 

[Keanu]

Pharus noticed rish having trouble maintaining control over the 4 blades he summoned off the wallhimself this would be an easy training task. He examined rish and moved up towards him and took a position behind him.

"Try to maintain control, focus keep your eyes closed and your mind clear. Use emotions such as rage or hate to fuel your force power and focus. These 2 emotions are the primary drive for a Dark Jedi and should do fine. Now I want you to propel the 4 blades you are controlling into the wall infront of you with great speed. Take your time however focus your power as I can see doing this is very stressing on yourself." Pharus took a step back and awaited the move

"Oh and if you fail this task I will give you a jolt of lightning as punishment."

 

[Horizon]

Rish worried about failing this time around more than he did before. He had never been shocked by lightning and personally he wanted to keep that way.
As he focused on the blades they all turned over vertically with the point of
the blades aiming at the wall. Rish then moved his hands away from his knees
held them open at the wall and performed a quick jab with his right and sent
the blade that sat over his right shoulder, hurling directly at the wall. The blade
pierced the stone and sat in place with no movement. Rish repeated the same
process but with the left and had complete success!

Next was the blade that had caused him trouble before. This time he was used both of his hands but instead this time he reared them back before thrusting them out. He had to focus or else he would get a rather painful punishment. As soon as Rish threw out his hands he felt the fear. Failure was in reach and Rish had self doubt as he threw the blade at the wall. CLING!. The blade hit the wall but did not penetrate the stone. It merely knicked it and fell to the ground. Rish jumped up and faced his master and was unsure what to do! He was about to get struck by lightning! Of course Rish was large in body size and could fight with the best but anything coming from the Force could break even the strongest man...

 

[Keanu]

Having almost achieved his task but not completing it to his own wishes and desire he stepped up to Rish and laid his hand on his shoulder. He closed his eyes briefly and sent a short shock through his arm which would shortly numb his right arm and cause slight pain in the rest of his body it was weak however and had Rish failed the task entirely then the shock would have been much stronger.

"Just a very mild one this time considering you almost completed the task at hand. Any numbing feeling you have right now will wear off within a few minutes seeing as you are physically fit. Now what I want you to do is hone the skill you portrayed there by lifting heavy objects the same way you just did with those blades either lift many objects at the same time or lift a very heavy one for a long period of time. Either way once you feel strong enough do the test we just did again. Failure will result in stronger shocks."

 

[Horizon]

Rish stood up and rolled back his shoulder where the feeling of it had just left before. His master was definitely the type who were most unpleasant. He then walked over to the wall where he had impaled the swords into and pulled them out and cradled them in his arms as he walked back to where had sat down and sent the sword hurdling from before...

This time Rish stood instead stood up rather than sit and cross his legs. He concentrated on the Force and brought the swords back to their positions like he had them before when he was sitting them down. Tensing up all of his muscles in his arms, Rish beckoned the Force and slammed his foot down and followed up by shoving his right hand which sent the blade flying through the air only to penetrate the stone once more. His blood rushing from the anger he had from failing. He repeated the same process but with opposite limbs. The second sword struck by the blade who had just been placed there a moment ago and now Rish was preparing for the last one...

Taking both of his hands, Rish placed them centered around the hilt of the blade and steadily pushed the blade out in front of himself. He then brought the levitating blade to his right side and then pushed with both of his hands and sent the blade on towards the wall! The blade sat above the rest as and was stuck tight! Rish sighed for a moment for all the concentration and anger he had put into actual made him feel drained of energy. He then turned to his master and looked for his approval...

 

[Keanu]

"Good. Very good. The reason why you managed to do it this time around is because you used the anger of failing and perhaps a little bit of fear to get struck by lightning again.... Either way when you want to boost your force powers or general power use hate, rage and anger. Fear is an emotion only used by the weak and I can assure you if you try to use fear to become a Dark master that you will be resented by the other masters..

Now the next step in your training is to use a similar technique of force push or telekenisis which you just used. This time I want you to let out a wave of force energy to push the stone block off this table."

Pharus took a step backwards and aimed his hand at a table in the corner and a rather large stone block under it. He let them levitate past rish and landed them both infront of it. He levitated the rock onto the table and took a step to the side.

"Now either 2 things can happen the block will be pushed off the table or the Block will split in half. If it splits in half that means you did do a force push but that it was too small or weak to push the block away. Dont worry accomplishing either will be fine. If you do slice it in half then I want you to keep trying to push it off the table. I will demonstrate."

Pharus took another step to the side so that if he did force push the block that it would not hit rish. He focused his hand, moved it backwards charging up something that looked similar to a force ball and launched it toward the block. The ball collided with the block and the block was sent flying into the wall with great speeds. It accualy penetrated the wall.

"Oops bit too enthusiastic but no matter. Now as you can see my force wave was localised into a small ball yours however will most likely be uncontrolled and be a much larger wave. And yes before you ask I can make the wave bigger so it resembles an actual force push slash wave."

Pharus aimed his hand at the block again and pushed it out of the wall back onto the table.

"I will stand behind you so I dont get affected by your force wave."

 

[Horizon]

Rish focused on the brick and decided to bring that rage back. He had spent so long putting it away for the sake of someone he liked but now he was consumed by it. He pictured the brick to be a full size replica of the man that killed his father. Focusing the flow of the Force into his hands in equal proportions, Rish and slowly reared back his arms with his arms extended. The more he concentrated on the energy the more his body became exhausted but the hate for the man that killed his father kept him going! Finally, Rish shoved both of his arms in front of himself and sent a a tremendous wave of the Forceagainst the brick! The brick flipped off the table and smashed into the wall! The pieces fell to the floor as the dust settled...

"How was that?"

Remarked Rish as he panted full of anger and hate...

 

[Keanu]

"Good, Excellent even. If you keep using your emotions more to fuel you constantly rather then momentarily then we might just make an adequate force user out of you. Ok in order for you to catch your breath and teach you something different. Something focussed on willpower I want you to just sit on the ground. I will try to probe your head using the force technique of dominate mind and mind trick. And perhaps to make it harder on you I will even combine it with my umbaran mind techniques. Taking your physical strength into consideration I have a feeling I wont be able to effect you much but then again your limited force experience might give me an advantage. So sit down and make yourself comfortable. Try to close your mind to thoughts and outside interference once you have established that I will try to probe your mind perhaps plant images of what I have done or bring up your old forgotten memories who knows...."
Pharus knew that by doing this his pupil might try extra hard to block out his head to his probing because of privacy reasons....

 

[Horizon]

Rish stepped back a about two feet before resuming the position he had taken earlier on the floor. Rish blotted out everything around him. The sound. The presence of his master. And himself. There was nothing but his mind. And the energy of the Force that he funneled around his mind...

He protected only one a couple of memories. The only thing he wanted to keep away from his master. The thoughts and memories of his friend Kslias. A trandoshan female he had kidnapped from coruscant. A fallen padawan. It was shortly after Rish had done his share of slaughter at the Jedi Temple. He trained her within the very temple they sat in. But in their training, Rish gained a companion. After an event with a Krayt dragon, Rish lost his sight in his left eye. While Kslias lost half of her arm. But she would grow back the lost portion of her arm. Rish would not gain his sight back. Rish guarded these memories well and anything related to her. His master was free to take whatever else. But the memories of his friend was his own. And no one else's. Unless his master could break the iron grip around the selected memories that Rish had created with the Force.

 

[Keanu]

Pharus took a similar meditation stance and closed his eyes. He focussed the force around them and felt rish his body with the force. He moved up this invisible force to focus on his head and infiltrated it. He began to move through his mind finding out small informations about his past and current life. He found out that Rish was blind with one eye which he would bring up in the next training. He also found Rish-koor holding on to a few set of memories that were blocked very heavily by Rish he decided to focus his efforts to try and break the will he had over these. He focussed more of his force power on the lock and at the same time also spread images of several killings Pharus had done over the years as a Bogan and as a bounty hunter. These images were to distract him and to try and lower his guard. He however had one ace up his sleeve if this didnt work. He could use his Umbaran talents to boost this technique.