Open Ahch-To In Waves

[Darth Caelestis]

The Jedi was quick and his leap caught Artorigas by surprise. Cursing himself at the slow movement the Acolyte ignited his purple lightsaber and leapt up onto the floating X-Wing. The water was still rushing free from the carcass of the machine making it slippery underfoot. Blaster bolts flew either side of him as he landed, though the hail of fire lessened as the droids tried to avoid hitting their owner.

The snap of the first cable shifted the pair of saber wilders to one side. He needed to strike the Jedi down or at least make him retreat before he lost his prise. Spinning the blade in his hand he struck towards the Sith. A combination of blows, all strength and power no grace, aimed at pushing the Jedi back away from the cables and into the crashing waved beneath.

@Fantasy Liver

 

[Drow Venn]

Drow was able to keep his feet when the cable snapped, having been expecting since he'd been the one to snap it. However, the droid's continued barrage of blaster fire from below caused him to have to devote time to deflecting and dodging. As such, he very almost didn't see Artorigas' next blow coming. The purple lightsaber did give him pause; Sith tended to like the color red but other colors weren't unheard of.

Fortunately, his commitment to Soresu and Makashi and his lessons he'd been getting from Cin Drallig saved him and he was able to quickly pivot and deflect the younger man's saber away and towards the ground. Now that they were getting higher and higher, Drow wanted to take full advantage of the lull in blasterfire and backpedaled to take out the cable diagonally across from the one he'd just cut.

@Braden Drake

 

[Darth Caelestis]

The blaster fire had all but stopped, the angle to great for the droids to actively hit the Jedi. There were now about twenty feet up from the island they had jumped from a good fifty from the sea below. Artorigas could see the Jedi was good, he deflected his blows away with ease of someone much more skilled than he at saber combat.

But Artorigas did not need to defeat him just get him to move off the damn X-Wing. The alien backpedalled towards one of the cables, not giving the Jedi a moment to strike he lashed out with a flash of The Force a wave of pressure trying to unbalance him before charging in blade overhead, striking down between the creatures eyes.

@Fantasy Liver

 

[Drow Venn]

The young Sith was good, no doubt about that. But Drow was too. The Force Push knocked the Ishi Tib off of the X-Wing as intended but Drow was able to catch himself on the cable that the was about to cut. Jumping back onto the ship, he caught Artorigas' saber with his own and sent the redirected blade towards the cable, cutting it cleanly. The ship jolted with this sudden loss of support and Artorigas would be sent backwards from the sudden jolt towards the cockpit if he wasn't prepared for it.

"Give up kid. I've killed stronger Dark siders than you." Drow warned. Assuming Artorigas did indeed fall through the cockpit, Drow would hurriedly begin slicing the other cables.

@Braden Drake

 

[Darth Caelestis]

Artorigas swore under his breath as his saber cut throw the cable sending him tumbling backwards. His foot crashed through the top of the cockpit sending the rest of his body after, the transparisteel weathered after years under the sea shattered as his try to catch himself with his left arm. The material ripped through his skin sending shockwaves of pain through his body as the blood began to pour.

As he took a moment to gather himself, he spotted it. Well if anything he felt it more than saw it. Even though it sat before him a bright red triangle, if he had seen it anywhere else he would have just passed it by and went along his merry way. But that hum, that rhythm, beat within The Force which had guided him across three worlds, came from here. From this small item, this was it, not the X-Wing, this. Coiling The Force inside him he shot a wave of force outwards sending the remaining shards of canopy in a dozen directions giving him the space to yank the item free from the cockpit. Standing at the head of the fighter, lightsaber in one hand and the pyramid in the other, blood dripping down his hand onto the item he smiled at the Jedi, who was cutting through one of the last two wires.

"Take the ship Jedi, I don't need it." With that he flung his saber at the cord closest to him and leapt up towards the hovering 'Wyvern'. The adrenaline and pain from the cut allowing him greater control and power within The Force than ever before. "Open fire kill him." He shouted through the comm to the droids below who soon opened fire on the dangling ship and Jedi. "Cydric get us out of here, drop the fighter..." "But..." "Drop it now." He screamed before heading backwards along the ship towards the upper hatch. His prize well within his hands.

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Exit Thread.

 

[Drow Venn]

The Sith didn't want the ship after all? This was very confusing to Drow - why would the man expend so much effort towing a ship that he didn't care about? The Ishi Tib chalked it up to the Sith boasting to save face for the time being because he had other problems at the moment. Namely, the fact that the ground he was standing on was currently falling and the droids that were now firing again once he made it back to within their optical sensor range.

He was able to use his mastery of lightsaber combat to nimbly dodge and deflect the bolts back while staying on his feet for a time being but eventually, gravity caught up with him and he was sent flying once the ship impacted with the water. He was thrown into the cold water below as he watched the strange Sith make his escape. Satisfied for the time being that he'd managed to chase the Darksider off, Drow contemplated ordering a bombing run on the island but decided against it. It would certainly make things easier but there was something sacred about this place that Drow felt would be a bit shattered if a Y-Wing dropped some proton torpedoes. Besides, he could handle droids.

Drying off, he made his way back to the top of the island where he swiftly dealt with the remaining droids as one would expect a Jedi Master to against your basic security droids. However, he left one mostly intact as he felt that reprogramming it would be worth it once he got back to the Temple.

"Sparky, land the ship at this island. We have some repair work to do. " Drow ordered. Fixing the X-Wing and the security droid were out of the realm of his skills but with Sparky's assistance, he might be able to eke out something acceptable. He didn't know why he felt compelled to repair the damage done to this broken down husk of a starfighter but something in him told him it was right.

@Braden Drake

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