The next day you could feel the change all around. There were more people than I have ever seen in the temple. In my first class of lightsaber class there was another huge chance. The battlemaster was talking and finally got to the point of what he was saying.

“Due to the nature and timing of the threat coming we decided to start teaching soresu. It is going to be the bread and butter of all your fighting styles.”

We started learning the form of soresu movements and forms. We were drilling them and the battlemaster made corrections when he something wrong in one of us.

The next class was similar in force study. All we were doing for the past few weeks was talking. But today they taught us the force burst

you have acquired the skill “Force Burst”

- A close range skill that varying effects depending on the power and shape you give it.

see what I mean it’s crazy.

Later that day I was sparing with Barak and me were sparing as we traditionally do every day. I was getting better. He was aiming for my legs with a sweep when I jumped. He then used his hands to launch himself above doing a flip kick.

you have just acquired the skill “Echani”

- A technique that follows closely with the race of the echani

- A formal martial art used by the echani to know a person better by action instead of words

- There are three tiers to this martial art balance, attack, and defense (you always start at balance)

- Very effective close combat martial art.

- Because of prior practice you are at tier 1 :50%

Lightsaber Affinity has changed to “Combat Affinity”

- All forms of combat can now be effectively used together

- Combat affinity catalog

· Shii Cho

· Echani

After that the fights against Barak became a lot more bearable. When I got up I attacked first. The battle precog was working a bit better. He aims a kick trying to use my momentum against me. I go under it grab it and throw him on his face. he flips himself upright and smiles

“so you finally have the skill.”

I nod

“good this will be more fun now.”

We fight for what seems like hours. The fight was gathering a crowd. Most are players. We don’t mind it. this is the closest I’m to winning without tricks like pulling down his pants. From this fight alone the tier 1 of echani went up 15 percent. I even try to use some krav maga. He more than makes up for it with his superior percentage in skill. We can’t talk anymore as we are too tired. We are smiling though. This is so much fun. He tries for a kick near my waist. In a miracle I kick it away before it fully forms and he becomes open to attack. When I kicked his foot away he tried to jump away. I grabbed both his legs and slammed him down pro-wrestling style. He’s knocked out. I finally beat him without a trick. HAAA.

The crowd was applauding. I made a few bows in directions of pretty females and sat down in a corner to re-energize. When I saw a familiar face approaching me it was the show-off sentinel in front of the archives. He had an entourage of 7.

Barak was awake by know getting his wits together. The group walking towards me is getting a lot of attention. By the stares and actions of the other players they appeared to be quite famous. When finally got near me the show-off sentinel spoke first.

“you appear to be quite strong may I enter the circle and give it a try.” He said snobby like. he also did pull out his middle finger. I see what he was trying to do. I was tired from my last fight so now he thinks he has a chance.

I smile. It unnerves them. I enter the circle. I motion to them not to use their lightsaber. I also motion them all to come in the circle.

They get ticked off and agree to do it anyway. Idiots.

. I wasn’t worried because I had my bracers.

They all advance slowly towards me. I allow them too. When they get close I run towards the nearest one. He was using a guard. I hit him in the funny bone. a move that I learned from air gear. He makes that weird face everyone does when they hit their funny bone. Idiot one Dropped his guard to grab his arm. I quickly hit him in the chin. And idiot one goes down. I felt a blow coming from behind me. I duck and hit him with an elbow to the stomach. He landed on the ground and then threw-up. Idiot 2 down.

Immediately after that I get a running start to the third idiot. He is doing a guard that covers his face and body by going low. I jump and hit the top of his head with a drop kick. I grab the first three idiots and stack them up. I haven’t done this in a while. While I piled the last body I felt another attack behind me. he was about to punch me In the back of my head .I just stepped back and gave him a head butt and piled him with the rest of the bodies.

Three left. They tried to attack together but my battle precog showed me where they were going to hit before it happened so I just let them hit each other. My plan will make him draw out his lightsaber in the end. My goodness I am having so much fun. I knock out one the last two in a well placed kick in the neck and the other one was trying to punch me. I dodge and knee him in the chin. Finally Only one was left.

In order to understand what I do next you need to hear a story. I was a young boy just like everybody else. I was never bullied. There were just people who would take my stuff and make fun of me. I wouldn’t call it bullying would you? Of course not. Anyway my problem escalated as I grew older. When I was finally 5 I had enough. I beat the people up. But there’s always that special someone you want to make pay extra. As I said I was a kid. And do you know what all kids love given the chance. Pro-wrestling. So my idea was to pile up the groupies to make the extra one pay just a little more by giving me more height. And then I jump and perform an aerial technique. My first one was a flying neck breaker. To my knowledge that one worked only because he didn’t know what was coming. Neck breaker only works on idiots. Over the years I realized the poetry in using someone else’s goonies to do pro wrestling move on them. Over the years the ones that especially got on my nerves were eventually subject to me and my magnificent aerial technique. Over the years it has become a ritual. This guy made the list because he shows me faces I don’t like. It sounds stupid when I say it like that but they are usually the type to get in my in way.

Well know you know what I am about to do. I first hit the douche sentinel in the solar plexus dazing him. I start climbing the bodies. I slip a bit once but I get up there. He still dazed but looking at me. I do my pro wrestling pose. And turn around to jump I decided on the seated senton for my move mid-flight. What can I say I’m an artist. I land. Butt first on his face. He’s out. I win.

I exit the circle. And realize I lost a little control there. I could get in trouble here.

Barak sees that and eases my worries.

“that’s an echani circle if you enter a fight without good intentions it becomes a personal fight. He flipped you off before the fight so it’s ok.”

Thank god. I guess being cooped up here for a while is starting to make me edgy.

I haven’t let myself go in a while before this.

After staying a little longer to spar with Barak one more time

Later that night. I had another vision about darth anguish and wretches.

“master anguish I am not responsible in any weakness that allowed them to become aware of our attack.”

“I am aware as you are alive. It was a vision of a Padawan in their temple.”

She looked surprised at the accuracy of the knowledge. bearing in mind her surprise she asked him a question.

“do you think I could have done this alone? No we have a powerful ally.”

“who is it?”

“Seeing as we changed the schedule I don’t see any harm in telling you .also his apprentice is arriving soon. It’s darth Voth.”

He pauses for a moment to let his apprentice absorb the knowledge.

“Your friends with one of the dark assembly?”

“not friends just have an equal share of hate against Coruscant. He is sending his disciple to help us. That’s it… a there he is.”

It was Lucian.

IT WAS LUCIAN.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

there are 2 reasons this is a smaller chapter. first cause i want to see if you guys like this more descriptive writing style. second i am dumbfounded on the path to take him. should it be more of archeology type story progression or be more the traditional guardian and have crazy adventures. please leave your input. i plan on putting him on a path soon

as always if there are any grammar or lore errors please alert me and i will try to fix them. :blush: this was not proofread so there should be a few