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Tython/ Ronyo's old Campsite

As the sun made its first appearance through the thick canopy of foliage Ronyo opened his eyes but his force ghosts remained. He had spread them out over the course of the night and found a good border in which they could remain with his concentration. He had felt his Padawan's anger and emotions build during her punching of the tree and felt her uncomfortable nature in the presence of his call of the wild ability. She had areas inside her he would need to bring out and hopefully expel or risk her falling down a path he had seen too often.

If she had performed the exercise correctly she should be fully energize and ready for the next step of training. The fact was Anya had only gone through a brief sample of Ronyo's work out from Tython it would take many more like that to mold her into a Jedi able to stand against a Sith Lord or worst a full Darth of the Sith Order. Unfortunately it would seem time was beginning to not be a luxury they could afford much longer. That was the good thing about Ronyo's training though it did not require just one place to train.

Looking to his Padawan he smiled and then stood up looking around him until he found a pair of long and durable sticks that he easily shaved off with his lightsaber to be smooth. He reached out and pulled several large leaves and some thin vines down and spent his time covering a portion of the sticks that would be handles. He gave a grunt to which Omega walked over and nudged Anya gently to give her awareness of the outside world.

"I trust you are ready to begin more training my young Padawan. Now you have seen a very small idea of what my normal routine was when I started training under Master Tey. Everything you did I did for days at a time, traded trees for rocks, and began carrying those rocks on my back as I ran across the trees. I did that for a little less than a month. Hopefully with time we may get to that with you but for now I wish you to see all that your training may entail. Please produce your vibrosword and stand across from me."

Ronyo stood up and produced another of the holocrons which he floated over to the rock with the force. With a wave it activated and a human Jedi came out and bowed to Ronyo with a small grin. It turned to Anya and looked her over then bowed in turn as well. Ronyo held his stick with the newly wrapped handles in his hands to fill the weight and he smiled looking at the hologram.

"This is Master Mukashi-Moto, he was a Weapons Master in his time and helped me push my lightsaber training to beyond anything that has been recorded. Through my training with Master Mukashi and all the other Masters I developed my own lightsaber form, that when you show yourself ready I may teach you. For now though we will see what you can do and both Master Mukashi and myself will study your technique and determine how best to instruct your skills to develop. Every Jedi is different in their fighting style and while the forms of a Jedi are all learned by the rank of Knight some choose a select few to become truly exceptional at and one day master. Even given you are my Padawan our styles will likely be different but we will also learn from each other. Now when you are ready you may attack."

Red Birth -- hyperspace.


Malo cursed as she felt the push against the door through both the force and the tremor in the ship. He was hitting it hard. Sparing a glare at the door she considered her options. The Sith had no weapons... but her medicines had apparently given him enough strength to assault an entire spaceship. He wouldn't need a saber if he came through those doors right now, or if he did he might take hers. It had been so long since she'd fought a Sith and the last one... a tremor of fear chilled her anger.

How long can you keep this up? She wondered. He hadn't eaten anything in days, kept alive only through fluid injections that she wasn't even sure she'd done right. One glass of water and the force could get him by for a sneak attack like the one in the medbay, but a duel? How long had he been laying on Harrin before she'd found him, anyways? She was a Knight, Lynn had seen her master Vaapad...

But she wasn't. Not anymore.

Malo abandoned the hallway then, sprinting for the engine room. She knew where to go, exactly which crystals to remove without electrocuting herself or exposing the ship to radiation, and it took only a moment to disable it all. Safety protocols would have prevented her from doing it in hyperspace, but this was her ship. She wasn't about to see it become a part of the empire. She might have been thrown across the room with the sudden, violent shaking that the ship groaned through while exiting hyperspace if she hadn't prepared herself for it.

Syncing her COM to the ship's overhead communications, she then spoke into it while on the move. "In case you were still wondering, that was my ship being forced out of hyperspace. Since we were both lucky enough not to stop in the middle of a planet or on the edge of a star, we won't be going anywhere anytime soon."

She sighed, slipping out of the engineering room and into another hallway. This was her ship. No one knew it better than she did. In the blink of an eye she erased her force signature. "Now would be a good time for you to rethink your strategy, Sith." Malo said into the COM, then clicked it off.

Anya was flowing through the Force when she felt a nudge and snapped back to reality, quickly leaping to her feet and drawing the vibrosword. She was disoriented at first and could not identify the source of the nudge. Then she recognized the large wolf that her Master had identified as Omega. She heaved a heavy breath and dropped to the ground. He was busy fashioning some kind of weapon. Anya idly glanced down at her hand and saw that, while the wounds had healed a great deal, her hands were still raw and pained. She dismissed the pain and nodded when her Master asked her to stand across from him. She watched him as he floated the holocron over towards the others. She was still a little disoriented from the reverie, but it was quickly coming back to her. He introduced a new hologram, this one of a Master Mukashi-Moto. She politely bowed to him when the hologram bowed to her and listened to him explain what they would be doing. "Master, do you expect me to fight you with this sword while you're only using a stick?" she asked, wariness present in her voice.

Anya gritted her teeth when her Master responded that if he got hurt it was through a fault of his own. Great, so I have to hold back, she thought to herself. She watched him shift his feet, then felt as he sent out a pulse in the Force. Instinctively, she retracted from the Force, protecting herself from the pulse. Instead, using the technique she was taught last night, she opened herself to the living Force. She identified her target, her Master, and dropped her right foot back. At the same time, she brought the vibrosword, held in her right hand, up to beside her head. She adapted a combat style akin to those taught in Form VI: Ataru. "En guard," she said and began to advance towards her Master. She avoided the rookie mistake of charging at him, in order to prevent her momentum being used against her.

Tython, Hangar

"" Cole said, dismissing the Mandalorian's remarks. ""

Cole locked stares with the Mandalorian captain.

"" Cole started to explain, pressing the urgency for their arrival here. ""

Red Birth

The ship seemed to decelerate, but Malo couldn't have been stupid to try to pilot her way out of this...

"In case you were still wondering, that was my ship being forced out of hyperspace," Malo's voice sounded over an intercom next to Sephis, startling him. "Since we were both lucky enough not to stop in the middle of a planet or on the edge of a star, we won't be going anywhere anytime soon."

She was that stupid?!

"Now would be a good time for you to rethink your strategy, Sith," Malo continued.

Like hell...

Now, Sephis knew that the hallway outside was clear... Assuming Malo was on this ship alone. It only now occurred to Sephis that he might have more to contend with than only her. Sephis hesitated before the doorway.

If there's someone waiting for me outside, I'm stuck in this room, anyway, Sephis thought recklessly.

Another stubbon Force Push pushed the door open enough for him to move through while crouching. It wobbled off of its track, bouncing back and forth from tension.

Where was the cockpit? If Sephis could find that, then he could trap Malo there. Assuming she was alone. Sephis felt a sudden dizzy spell coming on. He stood up two quickly. His vision went fuzzy and he slumped against the wall, leaning awkwardly against it, slowly moving forward as he waited for the blood to return to his face, return him to a fully functioning person.

Tython/ Ronyo's old campsite

The young Padawan was keeping herself calm so far and that was allowing her to react quickly and efficiently to Ronyo's attacks. The parry and dodge were well placed and the riposte coming in right for Ronyo's wrist. Still the Padawan's disadvantage besides experience and overall skill was the fact she was using one of Ronyo's most used styles. As of now Ronyo was dipping into the Ataru form himself with the high flying moves but being a master meant the ability to use them all.

Ronyo twisted his wrist as the blade came in and around enough to parry bounce the blade back, his second stick came in quick and fast while his first retracted allowing Ronyo to connect and carry the vibrosword up high. Ronyo first stick was out again catching the sword at the height of the arc and parrying it back the way it had come and push it through down and out the other side all the while his second stick had snaked its way back down and was now coming in to strike at Anya's exposed ribs.

Ronyo had purposely played and batted the Padawan's sword around to try and agitate the girl. He had felt her anger before and knew if she gave into it, without the right training and focus, would lead to mistakes and wild attacks. For this was not simply a test of the girls sword skill, for Ronyo could likely fall into his own personal form and bring a large amount of confusion to the girl. No this was also a test of pressure and the ability to keep a cool head under it.

Tython/ Ronyo's old campsite

Good insight, careful planning, and the ability to take a blow and retreat rather than counter in a rush. All were good qualities to have but now Ronyo would push her a bit more as he moved forward and to his left he went low and his sticks came out first and for a moment the Jedi appeared more like a predator coming after its prey than a Jedi. Ronyo brought more styles into his mixture of attacks and came on with a flurry of strikes and feints, not looking to score hits but to simply press the attack and go through routines and motions of attack.

The Jedi Master kept the Ataru as his primary for now, but the Makashi style was always present as well due to the duel wielding style. Bits of Shien came in as it was a great complement to Ataru and against defensive opponents. Ronyo would hold back two styles for sure though as he was not sure if Anya was ready to face such power. The Vapaad form was still a debated form and one the council had asked Ronyo to be careful with whenever he used it, and then there was his style Harmony a form that was meant for a duel wilder like Ronyo to create what some in the order called a dance of death.