Star Wars : The New Sith Crisis

Final Duel

Dark space . Stars glittering in the distance, and near, a huge glowing asteroid sat in space .

A massive flash of light burst the sky as a battered freighter dropped out of hyper space .Rorn looked behind his seat, where Ari still lay on the med-couch . " Typing in a few commands on his datapad, Rorn waited for the med-couch to respond . Ari began to wake as the couch's stimulant injected into her bloodstream . " Hi, doing better, are we ?" Rorn asked, keeping his intact left hand on his lightsaber . Ah shou'' thin' sow wa' no' bu' a merr sh'ack
“Ari said, she could feel the force it was almost time to be normal Rorn nodded warily, having no idea what Ari was talking about, but hoping it was a good thing ." Ok, is this going to be dangerous ?" "What?" Ari said, her voice sounding normal, but still rather high" Wow , I can understand you now !" Rorn said, amazed . " And why wouldn't you be able to understand me ? " Ari asked, looking puzzled and annoyed enough to deck Rorn . It's not like I'm some alien from a different plant." She said with a slight hint of sarcasm Rorn colored slightly under his tattoos and said , " Right, is that some sort of prejudice ? " "No, most jedi don't hold prejudices, young padawan" Ari answered Rorn was getting mad now ." YOUNG ! I'm not YOUNG ! I'm nineteen years old . ""Hold your temper young one, I meant no offense, by the way, I don't think I managed to catch your name" she said, with just a hint of smug ness. Rorn managed to calm himself, using the Force to quiet his anger and answered ." I'm Rorn Korbchek, soon to be Jedi Knight and Lieutenant of the iridonian Honor Guards ." "Impressive, I'm Alatariel of Dorthonion, Jedi master. And by the way, I'm 29 according to Dorthonions." She answered, smiling to herself. " And how old, according to normal people ?" Rorn challenged, the start of a smile on his face . He hadn't had a good argument in a long time. "I'm 18, but very much mature. Lots of people say that i'm mature beyond my age. Not to brag, or anything like that." This Rorn fellow was strange, although he looked very familiar, she didn't know were she'd seen him. " Rorn looked even more smug than Ari had in minutes past and said ," well, I am nineteen and your elder and say to knock it of with the oh so awesome Jedi Master Act . " Unless, you can explain why your eyes go red and you go around chopping off hands ." "Act! Young Padawan I'm very much your master in the force. You couldn't beat me in a fight even if you wanted to. Your naught but a padawan" She answered, slightly hurt by the smugness in his voice she shook her head. Padawans ”And what do you mean I go around with my eyes red chopping off hands, I've NEVER done such a thing!" Ari was a bit outraged at this last remark. Rorn raised his right hand or the remainder of it and said, "Oh yeah, its been known to happen. And it just so happens that my grandfather, Agen Kolar came to me in a vision and taught me to use the Force. I have all of his skills, but just not the experience to trust myself using them."
"Indeed, it's very good to dream of things, but lying is not a good quality," Ari said, crossing her arms. "He taught me all that he knew, in the space of three days and now I have the abilities of a Jedi Knight, but still only the ranking of a Padawan. I have not yet earned the rank of Master. If I am lying, then scan me in the Force and see who tells the truth." Rorn challenged. "Very well, but no tricks young one" Ari said, giving him a warning glance, she did a thorough force scan a didn't find him to be lying "is this some kind of joke?" she asked " Nope, I'm telling the truth . He taught it to me as I created my first lightsaber ." Rorn boasted . "very well, then, I apologise, I'm sorry I didn't beleive you. Although you have to admit, it's pretty far fetched." Ari answered calming herself. " Apology accepted ." Rorn answered," Now about that red eyed deal ." "That never happened and there is no way you can convince me it did!" Ari said, she could be very stubborn, and she was a bit ornairy, they'd been arguging for nearly half an hour now.
"You sure about that ? Sounds like your memories are weirded out . Whats up with that , anyway ? " Rorn asked, truely curious ."Nothing, I'm just as normal as you are!" She was begining to get defensive. " Uh, keep your hands off of your lightsaber ." Rorn said, raising his own ." I'm not taking any chances .
"Now why would I do that? I'm not a sith or anything." she replied, wondering if he was the one with the weirded out memory.
" Dunno, but I'm out a hand after the last time you touched your lightsaber, so please, keep it down ." Rorn said loudly, keeping his own hand on his borrowed lightsaber . Ari suddenly remembered everything, she could feel the dark side all around her. Her eyes started to get an odd redish tint, she tossed her head and stood up. She forgot everything but the jedi padawan. She couldn't remeber why she hasn't killed him yet. Rorn watched the red glaze come over Ari 's eyes . Uh oh , what did I say this time . He thought "Why aren't you dead?" She asked her voice not nearly as high as it had been. Rorn gaped, his mind not yet sure what had happened, and then . " Oh shavvit, what did I do to set you off this time ." he mumbled . This was easily picked up by the now evil looking Ari, who didn't look to happy . Rorn grabbed Saraan's lightsaber from the back of his belt where he had left it and activated its blue blade . Ari's own sky blue blade flew out and struck at Rorn, who ducked, not wanting to test his one-handed stance against her two-handed aggresive attacks . Ari had no idea what the padawan was talking about he'd fought much better the other day, what was his problem, well, he shouldn't be to hard to finish off, she took another swing and brought it down around and up nearly taking his hand competly off. Rorn glanced out the window as they fought, the crystal had never seemed more beautiful . Quickly, he tore his attention away from it and back to the fight, swinging up to block a savage chop from the strange acting Ari .
****************************************************************** Ari noticed somthing shining out the window, wonde rwhat that is she didn't think about it long, still concentraiting on killing the padawan, he was doing a better job than she'd thought he would.
***************************************************************** Rorn leaped back, throwing a door, between himself and the enraged... Jedi? Sith ? Reaching for the airlock controls, he cycled the door open even as he heard Ari's lightsaber cutting through the door .
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Idiot, did he really think a stupid door would stop her? Huh he odviously wasn't very smart.
***************************************************************** Rorn backed up, watching the glowing tip of Ari's lightsaber complete a full circle and then the cut out metal fell back , pulled from the out side by the crazed , Jedi/Sith/weirded out person . Rorn leaped to the side, past her mad charge and tripped her , almost making her fall on her weapon, but obviosly she was too smart for that, as she caught herself on her hands and did a hand-spring back to her feet .Rorn gulped at this display of athletic powers and tried to console him self, thinking, " well at least the fall won't hurt her ." and kicked her hard in the small of her back, throwing her out the open door and down ten feet
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The first thing Ari saw as she gasped for breath was crystal everywhere . She was in a huge crystal cavern . Crysil, Ah luv crysils! A part of her mind shouted happily . NO, Sith to not love crystals , another part of her mind argued . Ah'm noot uh Zitt, Ah'm Areh . Her mind argued back and the dark side left her mind, purged by the power of the Light Side in this Crystal asteroid .
****************************************************************Rorn chanced a glance out of the open door and saw Ari cavorting around the room happily, singing " Crysils, crysils, Ah luv crysils ." Rorn slid down the wall and leaned back, letting his breath out in one long noisy " Whew . Well, that went as well as can be expected ." he thought .
*****************************************************************Ari giggled and looked up at the ship. She smiled at Rorn with one of her impish grins and said "Coom o' dow' i's verah bi' crysil!!!!!! she grabbed the light saber next to her pressed the red button and the blue blade ignited she tried to cut into the crystal, she loved it already.
*****************************************************************Rorn cringed, watching her use a lightsaber on the crystal . Seeing her with a weapon was still scary .A sizable chunk of crystal fell from the wall into her waiting hands and she began to toss it uip and down in much the same manner as she had Saraan's crystal .Suddenly she had a thought, and dropping her own chunk to the floor, she cut another smaller crystal from the wall and put it carefully into a belt pouch . she shut the light saber off and looked at Rorn, one eyebrow raised, she wondered why he wasn't coming down. She shook her head and began singing "Ah Luv a'' shi''eh crysilss" completely off tune in her high voice.
****************************************************************Rorn cringed again, the high pitches wreaking havoc on his sensitive ears, but then decided, " What the heck ." and dropped down next to Ari and yelled out," I like crystals too ." she stopped suddenly turned around smiled took out her light saber and cut another chunk of crystal. She threw it at Rorn. Rorn grabbed it out of the air, inches before it struck his nose and smiled . Pulling his own saber he cut out a small formation resembling a nerf and tossed it to her ." Here's your cousin, Ari ." Ari stared at it ." Re'leh ?" and then looking at Rorn caught on to the joke . And laughed so hard she fell over backwards. "Areh is no' tha' shi''eh!" she laughed again. Rorn laughed also at Ari’s antics, even if he didn’t comletly understand what she’d said. Maybe, in a strange demented sort of way, she wasn’t that bad.