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He frowned and shook his head, speaking with dissapointment. "Thats too bad...I had crafted a beautiful saber for my apprentice if I ever took one in." He stood from his chair and walked to the door. He stopped to wait for it to slide open and looked back over his shoulder to Nini.

"Come, I'll show you where you may stay to sleep." He stepped through the door, his robes flowing behind him. His foot falls left no noice on the polished metal floor of the ship as he turned a right out the door and headed down a long hall, not seeing if Nini was following.

Aryx stood stone faced. His gaze was one of emptyness that pearced right through her own cold stare. A hollowness eminated form him, as though nothing at all stood before Nini. "I've been all over this galaxy, I've seen and done things that many will only ever fantasize about...or wake up screaming in the night to. But that dosn't make me somethign great." He stepped forward so that his chest was against Nini's, a sudden rush and an invisible wave of some kind knocked her to her hind end several feet away form Aryx.

He balled his fists, the tips of his fingers cracklign with a black electricity as he did. He strode forward and stood over her. "There is a line that must now be drawn. One between master and apprentice. I am your master, you ar emy apprentice...for the time being. Now, you can play your games, but somethign you will learn how to do under my totallage is how to weild and use a saber and hand-to-hand kombat. As well, you will never stand up to me in such a way again. Simply because your mind is a werling mass of chaos does not make you somethign great. I'll be teachign you humility as well."

He stepped over her and continued walking. The pleasent air about Aryx had vanished. Nini would find an aura of cold and darkness now surrounding him.

"Apprentice! Come!" He ordered form down the hall. He was in no hurry, but he was tired of being layed back. It felt good when out of the setting of his school. Here however, aboard the mobal academy he had to keep a certain profile about him. An dock officer had approuche dhim the moment he reached the bay doors. All Aryx had to do was look at the man and he backed off before he could open his lips to report to Master Aryx that his ship had been refuled and tuned up.

The bay doors slid open, he still did not check to see if Nini was following. It was her responcibility to keep up, not his to slow down. He borded his ship, leaving the loading ramp down to let her board as well. He moved over to the bunk and pulled out a small panel. Inside was what he was looking for. He slid it in his robes and turned heel to stride over and take a seat in the pilots chair.

He flicked his finger over somthign on the arm of his chair and the boarding ramp closed, bathing them in pitch black. Another flick and a small dim light that iminated form an unknown source lit the interior of the ship. His face was suddenly firghtiningly pale now. The scars that ran in the haphhazard criss cross down his left side were now fully accented. He stared back at her, his eye never leaving his. "Nini, I know you despise the jedi, but I am not a jedi...nor amy I sith, not any more atleast. WHat I am about to give you, think of it not as a tool of the jedi or the sith, but as somethign you can use to carv a swath through both ranks if necessary. Come, stand before me."

He stood to meet her. His eyes leveled with hers and that same peircing hollowness filled her. Suddenly a deep purple beam erupted inches form her right ear. Aryx held in his hand a beautifly ornate blade hilt. It was crafted of a purple metal, waves and curves carved directly into the serface. At the pummle was a petaled openeing, in the center was a red gem. "This saber is one of my better works. Its very appearence suggest once of elegence, yet chaotic furry."

He extinquished the blade and held out the hilt to her bit she did not take it. Her eyes were vacant now, glazed over. He looked at her with a queer expression. "Nini..." He said slowly but sternly. He turned his head slightly to try to see if the differing angle woudl help him see better int he dim light. Take off your robes. The voice came form her, but didn't entirly sound like her. "What?" He said, surprised and yet demanding at the same time. He took a slight step back and removed one side of his robes form his shoulder and then the other. He was curiouse as to what she wanted him to do this for.

He watched as she began to drool. Somethign was now not right about her...not righ tmore so then before. He took a few steps back, as if she were about to explode. He was about to turn to call for medical help when she rushed him. His eyes widned as her arms wraped aroudn hims. "Apprentice, what in the Makers name are you-" and his head shot back, mouth open in a silent scream. She had not caught him off guard. His mind was completly closed and fortified, but the waves that came to him he was unexpected for.

It blew past all his mental defences and flooded his mind. Horrific, chaotic, terrifying images flooded his mind. The likes of which he himself had never even had nightmares of. Maddening truths that he never wished to know where being spoken and shown to him. His arms shot aroudn Nini and held tight out of reflex and pain. His mind felt as though it were about to split in two, but he lived.

How ever, beneith the pain, beintih the madness and the howling of her mind, beneithe the oddly euphoric feeling he reacived fomr her embrace...ther was a mingling, as though his mind wa sno longer his own, his thoughts, his very beeing seemed to double, and then become one whole again, with a newness about it.

He did not know why, but the closeness of her being to his seemed odd in a way he enjoyed. Her lips were close to his neck, her whispers brushed his ear and he shuttered. He could feel her inside him, in his head. Their thoughts and conciousness becomign one. He ceased his strugglgin and aloud it all to be taken in. She was right, the pain was there, but lessened. He strangly found himself holding her tighter.