Dual Amidst The Clouds

[Ayin Tsade]

[Ayin comes from "Tsade's Report" on Coruscant. www.knightsandlords.proboards56.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=temple&thread=108&page=1]

Ayin looked at the display on his fighter control board. A medium-sized, teal planet rotated on the visual terminal -- the planet Mindar, which Shadowight now hung in orbit over.

A week had passed since the sacking of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant: The Republic soon mobilized its space armadas and the Jedi Order reconciled its losses. Ayin meanwhile had spent his time scouring for information on the Sith Lord's location; mere hours before, Republic scanners indicated a small fleet of Sith cruisers in orbit around the planet Mindar. When Ayin learned of this through the Republic-Jedi information relays, he immediately demanded that the Republic not send resources to displace the Sith fleet, as he presumed it was a trap to lure Republic fleets away from more strategically valuable targets. Republic officers heeded his advice, and Ayin traveled to Mindar alone.

He had plenty of reasons for this decision, apart from the reason he told Republic High Command. Mindar was Ayin's homeworld; although he had not visited it in several standard years, Ayin knew the planet's topography well, and his birth town of Myrenne better than he knew the sky platforms of Coruscant. Ayin knew nearly all of the mercenary associations that based themselves on Mindar, and knew their practices. Ayin had suspicion that the Sith Lord himself awaited him planetside, and had likely recruited some of the mercenary groups to his cause while he waited. Knowing that landing on Mindar itself could lead him into a trap, Ayin prepared himself mentally for potential ambush from any street corner, from anybody.

Most of all, however, Ayin wanted to finish his battle with the Sith Lord. Their first encounter had been brief and inconclusive; Ayin wished to test the Force giant's power fully. His purpose for the battle was to best the Sith Lord and end the war prematurely, if at all possible. Ayin also considered that, should he find his opponent too potent to defeat, then he would have enough information to plan a winning strategy for their next battle. Ayin hoped to do so while revealing as few of his own powers as possible.

The sky burned around his fighter as Ayin entered Mindar's atmosphere. Soon, the bleak void of space dissipated, replaced by a cerulean horizon. Below, expanses of metal that joined loose conglomerations of buildings came into his view; Ayin guided his ship towards a fighter platform in the center region of the city. A metallic finger of a building scratched against the sky several blocks away.

[description of Ayin moving to the Shadow Fist building to be done later]

[Ayin Tsade]

Tiberian comes from (Sith + Shadowfist)
knightsandlords.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=myrenne&thread=80&page=1

[Description of reaching the top floor skipped for now. Also, more in-depth dialogue to come later. This is just to get things started.]

Ayin Tsade at last passed through the final set of doors. He stood in a vast, open room, with only a wooden desk and a chair for furniture. The room was illuminated entirely by natural light, which poured in through its many windows, which lined the walls; it even sported a large, circular sunroof. Behind the desk stood an intimidating figure. His blonde curls hung over the silver hemming of his black cape, which draped all the way to the floor and crumpled at his heels. The man’s hands clasped tightly behind his back, and he stood gazing outside at the teal Mindarian skyline.

“Welcome, Tsade. Please, make yourself comfortable, although I’m afraid I’ve no tea to offer you this time.”

The Sith Lord took his time turning around to face Ayin as he pivoted in place, keeping his arms behind his back in a reflective pose. He wore a subtle smile on the right side of his face.

“I appreciate the hospitality,” Ayin replied. He placed his hands in his jacket pockets and stepped forwards, to the middle of the room. “But I would be satisfied with a name?”

The sith lord outstretched his hand; it began to surge with bolts of lightning that laced around his fingertips.

“Tiberian Coale, the true ruler of the Sith”

“So you were Siphon's apprentice?” asked Ayin remembering what The Sith lord revealed to him at the jedi temple, Ayin could see a little resemblance between the two sith lords especially with their powerful force aura and their command of fire through the force.

“Long ago when I was young and foolish, I did address him as my master and mentor. But that was many years ago, he was a fool, his plans were destined to destined to destroy him. I only regret that I was not the one to lodge a saber into his flesh”

Ayin chuckled remembering his own last battle with Siphon, his reaction Ayin plunged his own saber into him. Ayin did recall feeling quite relieved but pleased with himself by the action.

“It seems that you enjoyed the kill, as I would have” Tiberian commented reading Ayin's reaction.

“This city is quite the wonder” Tiberian commented looking out at the expanding city of Mindar.

“Yes it is, but I am sure that you did not come here because it was recommended by the sith travel agency. I know why you are here. You looked up information on me with the information you took from the archives. I suppose I should be flattered.” Ayin rebutted,

Tiberiant let loose a chuckle as he turned back to face him. “Yes, it’s not very often I cross someone who is actually worthy of challenging me. I thought I would offer you a chance to see your home one last time… That, and I thought I could employ some new followers. But dont worry Ayin I dont intend to harm any of these people, only one”

Ayin rolled off the sith lord's blatant threat. “Wow a sith who doesnt want to kill the innocent? That is a bit of a surprise”

Tiberian smirked at his jedi counterpart's reaction, “as I said during our first meeting, the sith needed to change if we were to be successful. My master thankfully had to die before he was able to comprehend his many mistakes.”

“And yet you will not allow me to change the jedi's way, instead you insist that they simply all need to be eradicated” Ayin observed sensing a little bit of hypocrisy from Tiberian.

“As I said before, the Jedi will not change because they dont think they need to change. Unless you force them to change with force, and I am sure you will not do that Ayin” replied Tiberian.

“As tempted as I might be with a few of the jedi masters, no I will not.” Ayin replied as the cone shaped antagonist Baja haunted his mind.

Tiberian sighed, a disappointed head shake followed, “you will be remembered as a tragic hero and possibly as my only true foe”

“This war is not over yet” Ayin said.

[Ayin Tsade]

Lightning erupted from Tiberian’s fingertips. In the fraction of an instant that it took the bolts to cross the room, Ayin’s lightsaber flew off of his belt and into his hand. As his sapphire blade absorbed the burst of vermilion-tinted electricity, the Jedi leapt high into the air and threw his lightsaber in a wide arc towards Tiberian’s head. Tiberian summoned his silver flame lightsaber and extended it towards the scything motions of Ayin’s blue fire with the Force. The blades burned against one another.

As the Jedi descended, Tiberian opened both of his hands. A fiercer storm surged towards Ayin and engulfed the Jedi's body in a convulsion of sparks. But instead of dissolving into a pile of carbon, Ayin stood encased in teal. Absorbing the intense pressure of Tiberian's force powers with his outstretched hands, Ayin conjured the power as his own weapon and unleashed it back at his opponent. The conflicting storms filled the room with saffron and vermilion light, until the space between Ayin and Tiberian became a single dome of electrical fury. When the air around them could stand the pressure no more, the electricity showered in all directions with an explosive roar.

The smoke was so thick that neither fighter could see the other. The whirring of their blades reached Tiberian's ears -- suddenly, the pressure he felt clashing with his lightsaber was gone. The gray cloud gradually wafted through the broken windows. Tiberian saw the glass shards and splinters that peppered the floor. Finally, enough smoke cleared for Tiberian that he could see Ayin standing at the end of the room, one hand in his coat pocket, the other gripping his lightsaber handle. The Jedi's gaze remained steadfast and sharp. For some reason, the Sith Lord reacted with a chuckle.

"It appears that I will already need to redecorate my office, all thanks to you, Tsade."

"Sorry about your desk," Ayin replied. "We should move to where we have more elbow room." He stepped towards Tiberian and sprung into the air, backflipping as he jumped through the shattered sunroof. Ayin touched down gently through the Force, without even bending his knee. A moment later, Tiberian also landed on top of the building. He extended his dominant hand upwards, and the handle of his lightsaber snapped into his grip.

"A fine warm-up," Tiberian stated. "Now it is time to remove our restraints."

"Fine by me." Ayin remained in his casual stance, and did not move forward.

[lordocelot]

The sun shined brightly down towards the two powerful force figures, both stood on opposite sides of the shattered sun roof. Neither sith nor jedi ignited their sabers, instead they simple stared at each other perhaps feeling in the force for weaknesses or simply just admiring the others displays of power in the force.

“Upon first meeting you back in the Coruscant temple I knew that you were powerful jedi Tsade more so then any other jedi I have faced. But I was too confident in thinking that I could simply best you with my dominance of the force. Your speed however has proven to keep you alive as well as your ability with a lightsaber” commented Tiberian casually.

“Am I suppose to take that as a compliment?” quipped Ayin.

“Take it the way you want to Master Tsade but my intentions are to finish this, I have a galaxy to conquer and you will prove to be my last obstacle to accomplish my goal”

“Sorry to disappoint you lord Coale but I have no intention of going anywhere, I was able to deal with your master so I am sure that I am up to the task of dealing with you” replied the confident Jedi Master his body rocked gently back and forth waiting to stop talking and to start fighting.

“I am nothing like him! He was a fool, and I am glad that he is dead! No you will find me a much tougher foe Tsade” shouted Tiberian.

Ayin yawned “at the moment I am finding you a quite boring foe”
Tiberian smiled, “my apologies it is rude for a host to bore his guests, let’s have some fun Tsade” Tiberian raised his hands calling upon the force.

Ayin stood there patiently watching the sith lord raise his hands, but Ayin was unsure of the what the sith lord was actually doing but Ayin did not need to wonder long, as several shards of wood began to emerge through the broken sunroof, Ayin recognized the wood at once having it come from Tiberian’s desk.
Five pieces of these sharp shards were now rising feet in the air over the two figures and with a swoosh of the sith lord’s hands.

The shards obeyed their order and descended forward at a blurring speed towards the jedi master. Surprised at such an attack Ayin leapt in the air, grasping onto blue lightning, Ayin climbed through the sky to face the shards, slashing and cutting the fragments of wood fell harmlessly at Tiberian’s feet, Ayin landed gently back in the same spot that he started on.

“I almost got a splinter Lord Coale you sure are evil. Now if you are like me and are sick of limiting our powers, I suggest we begin a true duel of our power and skill” mocked Ayin.

“Patient Tsade isn’t that what you jedi constantly preach, I am still having fun” replied Tiberian with a snap of his fingers, a tornado of broken glass exploded out of the sun roof between the two figures as more shards of glass latched onto this tornado it grew and grew dwarfing both men.

The sun shining down through the glass temporality blinded Tsade who had to raise his arm over his head to shield his eyes, Ayin had never seen such a use of force intrigued by this showing. Tsade watched as the tops of the tornado bended down towards Ayin before spitting swarms of broken pieces of glass at the standing Jedi master who immediately ignited his saber. Relying on his superb reflexes and speed, Ayin blocked and dodged the glass shards melting off his blade or shattering at his feet, more and more came raining down upon the jedi master.

Ayin was enjoying the hissing that the glass made upon melting from his blade, Ayin decided that he should not have all the fun. Flipping out of the direct path of the glass rain, Ayin watched countless pieces smashed onto the floor. Looking up Ayin could see that the tornado was shifting its aim to where Ayin now stood and began unleashing another downpour, Ayin put his hands out over his head and calling upon the force Ayin was able to momentarily stopped the falling of glass, Ayin redirected it towards the still sith lord.

Tiberian was entertained while watching Tsade dance sporadically avoiding the downpour of glass. “Hmm” thought Tiberian unphased upon seeing his glass tornado now used it against him and soaring towards him, Tiberian extended his left arm and moved it across his body as the tornado itself disappeared. Hundreds of glass shards still were flying towards the sith lord controlled by the jedi master, extending his hands forward an explosion of a orange blinding blaze left his hands melting the glass shards in nano seconds.

Seeing that he had Tiberian distracted Ayin leapt over Tiberian’s powerful display of fire his leg extended Ayin launched himself at the sith lord. Looking up at the last minute Tiberian rolled out of the way as Ayin changed his air kick so that he could land feet away from Tiberian, he drew his blade in a flash and using it to swipe the ground where Tiberian had went.

Tiberian drew his own blade and blocked the Jedi’s advance. Seeing that the jedi master was in an awkward position, Tiberian extended his other hand to unleash a force wave which hit Ayin who flew backwards off of the building ceiling. However the jedi felt little pain besides a quick squirm in his stomach from the wave’s impact Ayin used the sith lord’s attack to carry him onto a tower of beams.

Looking around at the levels and levels of steel beams being used to construct a new building Ayin smiled, “This will do” he said.

Ayin’s beam began to rock looking up Ayin watched the sith lord free fall off of the roof and through the air landing on the same beam Ayin did feet apart his sabers were ignited. The duel was to begin and Ayin and Tiberian were anxious and excited to begin to see and experience the true power of their opponent.