A Wasteland of Hatred (Jedi Knight Leia Solo)

[Lady DeVille]

Eol Sha.

De'Ville disembarked from her Infiltrator My Vengence, and stood just outside it as she surveyed the landscape. In the distance she could see a multitude of geysers, steam rising from the super-heated plumes of acidic water.

It was the right place for the meeting that was to occur. She had sent a message on a general channel to the Bar and Grill on Dagobah. Only a matter of time now.

De'Ville stroked the lightsabers at her side with her fingers. Michael Cline's saber hung next to her own. It would be fitting to strike down the Jedi with one of their own blades.

The Sith Knight walked out toward the field of geysers.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**Shortly after receiving a message at Yoghurt's Bar and Grill, the Jedi Master found herself in her X-Wing Skylark heading for the planet of Eol Sha. After sometime the X-Wing gracefully landed in a clearing on the planet. The hatch opened up and Leia stood up, shaking her long brown hair free as she pulled her pilot's helmet off. She quickly gave the helmet a toss to the her pilots seat before gradually climbing down the ladder to disembark from her ship.**

**The petite Jedi Master stood motionless at first, as she searched her surroundings. She had noted the geysers, and treachous terrain. Leia could not help but think...What a god forsaken place DeVille chose for their meeting**

**Leia grabbed her lightsaber and unclipped it from her belt.But chose not to activiate it yet. She slowly and cautiously walked about, with every step of the way trying to home in on DeVille's force signature. **

[Lady DeVille]

She is here. De'Ville smiled, and stood near the middle of the geyser field, sensing Solo drawing nearer.

She lazily flipped the stolen saber in her hand, but clipped it to her belt beside her own lightsaber. She called out to Solo, making it obvious where she was. "Solo!" The Force echoed her voice off the odd rock formations, and the petite Jedi knight came into view. "I trust you received my message?"

It had been a short transmission. Leia Solo: come to Eol Sha. I will kill you for the death of my apprentice, Naga. If you do not come, I will bring the fight to you, and innocents will suffer for your mistake. De'Ville

Solo hadn't had a choice. The Jedi's sensitive nature ensured that she would come to the doomed system for a confrontation. De'Ville grinned as Solo neared.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**A sudden loud echo was heard by the Jedi Master...**

"SOLO...I trust you received my message?"

**Leia quickly picked up on where DeVille's voice was eminating from. Her eyes searched the landscape and quickly became fixed on Lady DeVille standing near the middle of the geyser field. Leia's eyes narrowed at first, at the sight of her.**

Yes..Lady DeVille. I most certainly have. Vengence...truly the way of the Sith. Sad but very true. Your apprentice had to be stopped DeVille. He was on the verge of killing millions in Coruscant. You know I could not allow that. It's ashame he did not give up his hateful ways. It was truly the cause of his downfall.

Now I stand before you. I will not allow you either to cause any atrocities. For what kind of Jedi would I be to allow hatred cause destruction. I am a Jedi and I follow and honor the code. It's ashame you are too corrupt to see how you are in the dark and blinded by the lies of the Sith. Tsk Tsk..DeVille.

Now..do you have something more to say DeVille. Or are you going to attempt to go about your evil intentions. Bare in mind, if I am force to I may have to very well kill you in self defense.

**Leia stared down DeVille while ever so cautiously watching her every move**

[Lady DeVille]

"Tsk, tsk. No one else needs to suffer for your actions, Solo. Which is why we meet on this forsaken lump of a planet." De'Ville gestured to Eol Sha, devoid of any apparent life. Solo followed her gesture with her eyes, and the Sith leaped forward, spanning the distance between them in a blurred second.

The Jedi was not so easily distracted, and De'Ville's first blow glanced off Solo's forearm as the Jedi protected her face. De'Ville had a height advantage, standing six inches taller than the diminutive Jedi.

Solo grabbed De'Ville's arm, her reflexes lightening fast, and hit the Sith square in the face with her other fist. De'Ville cursed, and snatched at the Jedi's head, gripped her hair and bent the woman over backwards. Her back arched painfully, Solo's hand went for her lightsaber, and De'Ville brought her knee wickedly up into her back.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**In a somewhat awkward position..Leia's faced flinched momentarily from the kneeing to her back. The Jedi Master quickly reacted bringing up her left leg and thrusting it forward, causing her left boot to connected with DeVille's jaw. The thrust caused DeVille to let go of Leia as her head jolted back as she semi lost her balance.**

**The Jedi Master found herself falling to the ground, she quickly grabbed DeVille's left leg and yanked it towards her. Causing DeVille to come down to the ground near her. Leia lunged forward towards DeVille..as Leia went to punch DeVille's face with her left fist..the sith quickly grabbed Leia's wrist with her own quick reflexes and twisted her hand. Simultanously, Leia brought around her right hand and smacked the hilt of her saber upward right into DeVille's injured jaw and in a continuation motion brought back her hand and rammed the saber hilt into DeVille's ribs.**

[Lady DeVille]

Her jaw ached, and De'Ville tasted blood in her mouth. The iron taste invigorated her, and she spat the blood on Solo's clothing as the woman hit her in the side with the hilt of her saber.

De'Ville kicked that arm in the elbow, hoping the Jedi would drop her saber, but the tiny woman did not. The Sith and the Jedi got to their feet, and De'Ville threw herself back on her hands, kicking Solo in the face. Completing the flip, she leaped into her slightly dazed foe, spinning and kicking her again, catching the hand that held the saber hilt with the full force of her booted foot.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**Leia stunned and suffering from a split lip, released her saber unintentionally as DeVille's leg connected with her forearm.**

**Shaking the cobwebs out of her head, Leia reacted with a leap that went into a force enhanced jacknife kick to DeVille's face..sending her stumbling backwards. The Jedi Master quickly summoned back her saber and activated it in one quick motion.**

**She quickly darted to DeVille, who was now regaining her stance**

[Lady DeVille]

De'Ville heard Solo igniting her saber, and she found her own in her hand before she could think about grabbing for it. She thumbed the switch and presented her side to the Jedi, making herself a smaller target.

And then Solo was upon her, not hacking at her with her saber like a padawan, but flowing into her strikes like a professional. De'Ville blocked her blows with practiced ease, but she knew they were just testing each other's strength. The real fighting was yet to come.

Solo's lightsaber crashed against De'Ville's jaded blade, and the Sith and Jedi found themselves face to face, energy blades humming between them. With her height advantage, De'Ville poured hate into her eyes, and then pushed as hard as she could, the locked sabers decending towards the Jedi.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

::Leia's eyes narrowed although staid very much focused on DeVille. DeVille with the 5 inches plus advantage on Leia was using it against the Jedi Master. Leia was never one to let that stop her.::

::She had the force by her side as she put put pressure back on to the two lightsabers, rolling them in an outward motion, as Leia bent down low to spin towards DeVille midsection. Once again..DeVille found herself looking down at the petite Jedi. With in a blink of an eye Leia... before DeVille had time to react... quickly brought up her fist forward and gave the sith an force enduced punch right into her gutt, knocking the wind somewhat out of her. ::

: DeVille quickly in a an reflex type of move, retaliated by thrusting her left leg out intending it to kick the Jedi in the face. But Leia quickly rolled right out of the kick's way and leapt back up to her feet. She darted back to Deville..while quickly pulling back her arm and moving her saber in an arching strike right for DeVille's right side

[Lady DeVille]

Her stomach hurt. Her face hurt. But the Jedi would hurt more when De'Ville was finished with her. Solo darted in again, saber aiming for the Sith's midsection. You wish, don't you. De'Ville blocked the swing, and thrust her saber towards the Jedi.

Solo's saber crashed against De'Ville's, and the Sith became aware of the odor of ozone in the air. Ozone and the sulfur from the very active geysers beneath their feet. They had maybe ten to fifteen minutes before the next erruption. Unless the decided to errupt early. You never could tell with theses doomed planetary systems. The moons and tides and geysers...well, they were very irregular at best.

The Jedi lunged forward, saber brushing De'Ville's blouse as the Sith parried, knocking the blade aside. De'Ville spun outside the Jedi's outstretched arm, moving blindingly fast down the length of her arm until she was behind the Jedi. With a savage cry the Sith poured the Force into her arms and slashed at Solo's unprotected back.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**Leia grunted from the scorching at her back. Damn DeVille for catching her slightly off guard. That will never happen again (Leia thought)**

**The Jedi Master bent forward after DeVille's strike landing herself on one knee in a crouching postion. In a continious motion, Leia spun around on her right knee while darting out her left leg ..tripping up the unexpected sith and sending her to the ground. The jedi leapt quickly to her feet, once again arching her saber back and bring down her blade towards the fallen DeVille**

**DeVille lying down, quickly brought up her blade to meet Leia's. Clashing of teal and magenta can be seen once more. As DeVille struggled to put pressure on the blades...Leia using the force to enhance her strength and veered both blades to the left...once again to breakout of the crossblade lock. **

**As Leia was completing the spin, DeVille managed to get to her feet, only to find the Jedi Master turning her spin into a roundhouse kick to DeVille's leftside of her ribcage ..sending her once more to the ground**

**The Jedi backed up slowly grabbing her back once more...now injured twiced by DeVille. Taking a brief moment to call upon the force to help her focus on the sith infront of her. She brought her saber infront of her in a defensive position. She now waits for DeVille to rise to her feet once again**

[Lady DeVille]

Jedi. Always they wait. In a similar position, De'Ville would not have hesitated to cut down a fallen opponent. But the Jedi were weak. The Sith got her hands underneath her, springing up to her feet and falling into a momentary defensive stance. Then she leapt at her enemy, her jaded amethyst blade burning the air in front of her.

Solo stepped up to block, and De'Ville allowed her momentum to carry her past the Jedi, sabers brushing each other as they passed. Her ribs hurt, but she forced the pain from her mind, and spun around, just inches from the lip of a geyser. Her feet carried her forward again, again facing the Jedi who had also turned to face her.

De'Ville blinked, and placed both hands firmly on her saber hilt, sweat mingled with blood dripping from her forehead. Solo moved forward, and De'Ville could tell she was feeling the cut on her back. Sabers clashed, and De'Ville kicked Solo in the kneecap with a booted foot, taking a hand off her saber to backhand the Jedi across the face at the same time.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

::Leia's head snapped to the left, as a trickle of blood seeped down from the corner of her mouth. She licked the blood from her lip as she bent over momentarily from the sharp pain to her left knee::

::Quickly the Jedi thrusted herself forward at DeVille's mid-section right for her already aching ribs, head first. The impact knocked the wind out of DeVille once again...as she struggled to regain her stance. DeVille found herself fighting to stay away from a geyser only inches away from her. All this happened in mere milli-seconds..DeVille lost her footing and was starting to fall, she quickly placed her right hand on the ground trying to avoid her body from falling on top of the geyser. She managed to due so, but during that same time, Leia was bring down her saber on to DeVille and seered her right arm that helped the sith from veering away from the geyser::

: DeVille in pain, retailated by darting out her left leg towards Leia's chest. The Jedi Master stumbled slightly backwards from the Sith's kick...she struggled momentarily to keep her footing, as she too almost stumbled towards a geyser only inches away from her::

[Lady DeVille]

The Sith looked behind her into the gaping hole where sulfur-rich water would come boiling out. But that wouldn't happen yet. They were safe for now. De'Ville, her side aching and cramping, threw herself forward, and smashed into Solo, knocking her down another hole.

De'Ville tumbled in behind her, head first, but cast her arms out, catching herself before she fell all the way. Legs and arms splayed, she stared down at Solo, who had also managed to stop her fall.

Fingers dug into the cracks, and a green algae which managed to survive, and even thrive in the super-heated enviroment, oozed around her nails. De'Ville felt a disturbance deep within the earth, and her eyes widened. Solo, three meters below her and looking up, also felt it.

De'Ville bent her elbows, and then pushed up, using the Force to propel herself out of the geyser moments before a wave of scalding water erupted behind her.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

OOC: SORRY!!! :( Back!!!!

IC:

::As DeVille propelled herself off..Leia sensing the impending danager leapt up in the nick of time too with the help of the force. Her leap sent the Jedi forward towards DeVille. As Leia was in mid air..she brought down her foot on DeVille's right shoulder blade. The sith stumbled slightly back as Leia came down and quickly spun around to swipe DeVille's feet from beneath her. Again..sending DeVille towards a geyser..missing it once more. ::

::Quickly Leia noticed a disturbance from a nearby geyser..it was getting ready to blow the Jedi chosed to flip back away from DeVille for mere safety reasons.::

::The Jedi Master landed from the flip on the ground once more, in a crouching position..attentively watching DeVille..while she held her magenta saber in a defensive position infront of her::

[Lady DeVille]

De'Ville ducked away as the entire of field of geysers errupted at once, filling the area with superheated water and steam. It was hot enough to cook a bantha to the bone in three minutes. Crouching, she drew the Force around her as a shield of anger, and darted out of the geysers.

Once outside of the field, she let the shield dissapate, and re-ignited her sabre. The geysers were still errupting, and would for several more minutes. De'Ville wondered if Solo would get out alive. A normal human would be dead already. But the Jedi were far from normal, and she had a feeling the woman was stalled, not stopped.

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

::Sensing the impending danger by two geysers near her..Leia summersaulted backwards out of harms way. But it was very apparent to her several more were going to momentarily errupt. Leia watched DeVille in the distance, knowing it was just the geysers between her and DeVille. But to prepare herself for any fallouts from the geysers that seperated the two enemies...Leia quickly closed her eyes...creating a force shield to protect her. But...::

AAAAAaaiiiiiyyyyyyyyeee!!

::The Jedi Master screamed as some steam had erupted and hit her arm as the shield was forming. Now protected by the shield..Leia grabbed her left arm in pain. Before glaring back at DeVille who seemingly chuckled at Leia's misfortune. Leia quickly shrugged it off and focused on the shield for it would be need for a little bit longer.::

[Lady DeVille]

De'Ville paced around the edge of the field of steaming hot geysers. Solo was strong, able to hold off the heat for such a long time with the Force. The Sith Knight spun her lightsaber in the air, tossing it from hand to hand as she waited for the geysers to end or for Solo to emerge from the field.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

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