the salesman of our blood (Challenge to Satine)

[Tempist Opps]

Tempist was waiting in the feild he used to train at. He had began to resume his training here again as of late, and figgured it would be as good a place as any for what he had in mind. Earlier that day, he had sent a message to the jedi HQ on all frequencies, addressed to Satine Capshen.

To Satine Capshen:

It is due time that we finished what we started so long ago. I challenge you to one more fight. I have removed Black Blade from my possesion, so you most likley will not lose as much blood this time. No blasters or ranged weapons. You and me, saber to saber. Alone.

Tempist

He thought it would be attiquite for his purposes. Tempist was a man of his word, and did good what he said he would. His throwers had been left in the hollow of the tree he had built a home in, for when he came here to train. He only had Infinity and his boot dagger with him, and he hoped he wouldn't have to use the later of the two.

[Alpha]

Soon enough, Satine appeared, wearing stiff leather armor under his sleeveless black trenchcoat, his hair pulled back into a ponytail fir the fight, so it wouldn't get in his way.

"So, we finish this? Let's hope you've gotten better..."

Tempist looked at Satine's weapons, and noticed that the shurikens Satine normally used were gone, and so was the blasters and throwing knives. He had a sword on his back, two sabres on his belt, and two daggers on the back of his belt in a cross-draw style set of sheathes. The Warrior Jedi Knight grabs one of the sabres, and ignites it, the pure black blade shooting out of the handle with a hiss.

"Let's begin, shall we?" Sartine asks, bringing his sabre into a guard position.

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"Lets"

With this one word, Tempist ignited Infinity and lept twards Satine. It appeared to be a foolish move, untill Satine realized that there were no visible holes in his defense, even in midair. Tempist had the intent of stabing into the jedi's shoulder.

[Alpha]

Satine rolls away, and comes back up into a standing position in time to block a slash from Tempist. They began to slash and parry furiously, the two combatents tryingt o find a hole in the defense.

"You're good..." Satine says through gritted teeth. "But not good enough!"

The Jedi Knight ducks under a slash, and uses a very un-jedi-like street fighting tactic and slams the Sith in the temple with his sabre butt, throwing him tothe ground.

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Tempist landed, and felt a massive surge of pain. Fuel. Feeding off of the pain, Tempist fliped on his hands, letting his foot kick Satine in the face on the way up, and landed on his feet. Wasting no time, he made a quick slash with Infinity to the jedi's torso.

[Alpha]

Satine twists, barely avoiding the sabre, and flips, landing on his feet. Blocking another slash, Satine head butts Tempist, knocking him backwards, and then axe kicks the Sith in the head.

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Ignoring the feeling in the side of his head for the time being, Tempist grabed Alpha's ankle as he was bringing it around, and gave a sharp twist. Alpha spun in the air, not wanting his ankle to be broken on the spot. Tempist let go of the leg, and steped back a few feet, switching fighting styles to fencing, which was much less traditional for sabers. Now it would be harder to defend against him.

[Alpha]

Satine quickly gets to his feet, and notices Tempist's change of stance.

Uh-oh, I think I know where this is going... The JEdi thinks, slipping into a defensive posture, the Sith charging.

Satine blocks a thrust, and dodges a stab, smiling at Tempist's shocked expression at the speed.

"I've gotten faster. Have you?" As he finishes the sentence, Satine blocks two more attacks, and counters with a quick slash.

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"I have no need to gain speed, you have never been enough to make me be my fastest." he said, as he deflected the slash with an upward hack and a twist-spin.

In an attempt to make his point, Tempist made a few more quick slashes, faster than before. Satine deflected them, but only barely. There had always been more to Tempist than met the eye... (no pun intended).

Without warning, Tempist unleashed a few quick vollies of slashes and stabs, and caught Satine off guard. Two slashes made it through before Satine adjusted to the speed, but the rest were deflected. Minor saber burns, nothing very deep.

"C'mon Satine, I'd expect better from you."

[Alpha]

"Then watch out!"

Ignoring the two burns, the JEdi Knight ducks under a slash, and uppercuts Tempist, knocking him backwards. As Tempists regains his balance, Satine lands a quick stab, burning a shallow hole into the Sith's left leg, smiling, and dancing out of reach, using agility more than strength...

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Tempist allowed a small grin. Satine always managed to be a better foe than most others that would fight him. The burn was shallow, and hurt quite a bit, but wasn't worth him worrying about right now. It was true, Satine was more agile than Tempist by quite a bit, but he needed to ballence his strenth and power for them to be effective in battle. Mixing the two, Tempist fliped backwards, and kicked off of a large boulder off to the side. Propelling himself into the air, he slashed at Alpha, missing him by only a few inches. He landed flat on his feet, and made several fast slashes and hacks at Satine, half while he was off guard, half while he was ready. It would buy a little time.

[Alpha]

Satine blocks the attacks fairly easily, and then snap kicks Tempist in the chest, throwing him back, enjoying the look of surprise form his opponent. As the Sith gets back into a fighting stance, the Warrior JEdi Knight leads with a stab...

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Tempist regained his ballence, and simply deflected the stab with a side to side sweep, while following through with an underhand slash.

ooc: sorry it took so long to get back here, i had forgotten about this fight

[Alpha]

{OOC:It's ok.}

Satine jumps backwards, and then picks off the tip of Temps weapon, knocking it to the side, and then going in, bringing his sabre up for a slash.

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Tempist deflected the slash, and parried with a few quick stabs, which were all blocked. He followed through with a sweep to the midsection.

[Alpha]

Satine jumps back. but not enough. The sabre cuts through just barely leaving a reallys shallow but long cut across his midsection. Hissing in pain, the Jedi Knight spin kicks, his foot impacting against Tempist's jaw, the force of it throwing the sith backwards.

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Tempist fell backwards slighlty, but caught himself on one hand, and fliped on it back to his feet. He made two quick steps forward, and attacked with a barage of slashes and stabs.

[Alpha]

Satine blocks most of them, taking those he can't on the outside of his arms as burns. Finally dropping to a knee, Satyine causes Tempist to overshoot, and overextend, and he takes advantage of it, kicking the Sith's knee, and throwing him back, and then following up with a stab of his sabre.

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Tempist quickly recovered from the kick, but didn't entirely avoid the slash when he blocked, and took a mild saber burn to his chest. It hurt alot, and would probably inhibit his ability to fight later. He countered with a furious onslaught of saber slashes and hacks, with a few stabs thrown in for good taste.

[Alpha]

Satine manages to block most of them, getting the occasional glancing blow. The JEdi Knight shunts the pain away, and smiles.

Oh, it was great to be in battle.

Satine sidesteps a slash, and then hook kicks Tempist, knocking him back. He follows up with a fireball aimed at the Sith's ribs, and a flying side kick...

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Tempist allowed his ballence to disapear, and he fell to the ground, as the fireball harmlessly passed over him. He fliped to his feet in time to have the kick inpact him, nad retealiated with another quick onslaught of saber attacks. This time, his guard was hightened, as was his speed, the later of the two through the force, feeding off of the dark energies within him.

[Alpha]

Satine likewise speeds up with the Force, blocking the attacks and countering when the opprotunity arose.

As the two break apart, Satine gives a little chuckle.

"You've gotten much better..."

[Tempist Opps]

"As have you, little one. It's good to see that you are still more of a challenge than your brethren."

The dark energies were still radating off from him, and he began to recollect them, and focus them into somthing special He had planned.

"But there is still one minor flaw in your technique...."

He moved forward, Infinity still in hand.

"You...."

He raised the longsaber, with an evil grin upon his face.

"...don't...."

Tempist was within striking distance, but instead gave a massive force push to Satine's back.

"...combine powers..."

Without any warning, Tempist lashed out with Infinity, whiping the blade twards Satine's path of decent from the push.

[Alpha]

On instinct, Satine forms a Force shield, causing him to bounce off the sabre, and to the side. He rolls and comes back up, a fireball formed in the air beside him, and ready to fly. He smiles, and points at the Sith, the fireball heading towards him. Tempist blocks with Infinity, the fireball shattering into a thousand different pieces. Running forward, Satine grins, slashing.

"Who you calling little?" he asks as the two collide, blades locked.

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"You" Tempist replied, staring down at Satine. In every physical aspect, Satine was smaller. Tempist was several hundred years his senior, and stood a commanding 8'9. He could easily call almost anyone little.

The two of them pushed back and forth, each trying to gain ground against the other. After a moment of this, Tempist simply jumped to the side, keeping his saber locked against Satine's, as not to get burnt. Satine went flying past Tempist, having nothign to push against. Tempist came around with Infinity, and stabed twards where the jedi's lung would be, but instead his back was there.

[Alpha]

Satine was going so fast that the sabre pierced barely into his back, the armor giving a slight resistance to the weapon. Tempist smiles as he hears his young combatent cry out in pain. A large hole in one's back is fairly hard to ignore, even for a Jedi Knight. Satine spins, and uses the Force to push Tempist back, falling to his knees as he does. Spitting out a small amount of blood, Satine gasps for breath, getting to his feet, and spinning his sabre to deflect a slash, kicking the sith in the gut and knocking him backwards.

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Tempist pushed off of the ground with his tail, and rebounded twards Satine. He was already focusing his pain into fuel, and increasing his speed drasticly. He made 3 vertical slashes, all with terribly fast speed. Lightning could have moved slower.

[Alpha]

He was right. Lightning moved slower. But lightning didn't have the Force at its disposal. Tapping into it, Satine boosted his speed, ducking under the slashes, and kicking out at Tempist's knee. He smiles as he locks the knee up and then pushes it a little further, causing the Sith some pain. Rolling backwards, Satien's armor flows over the wound in his back, injecting painkillers into his body. He gets to his feet, and slashes...

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Satine's blow to Tempist's knee hurt, and he decided to take a little weight off of it when the jedi Knight slashed, by making a backflipkick, letting his feet slam into Satine's hands as he came to slash. Tempist was nicked slightly, but not enough to hinder him too badly. He completed his flip, and followed through with a huge horizontal slash as he rose.

[Alpha]

The momentum of the slam had knocked Satine far enough that only a little hop was needed to dodge the sabre. He smiles, and then strikes back with a fast stab, and then two slashes.

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Satine's stab was met with Tempist's saber from the left, pushing it out of the way. The slashes were also blocked, in a similar, but vertical fashon. Tempist steped back, and threw his saber in the air, catching it again, backwards in his hand, ready for a true slashing technique. Tempist steped forwards again, and made two fast slashes, now having much more power.

[Alpha]

Satine shoulder rolls forward, avoiding the slashes, and going to the side of the Sith. He comes up on his feet, and spin kicks Tempist, knocking him to the side.

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Unwilling to fall to the ground, Tempist lands on his hand, and flips himself back to his feet with a one-handed cartwheel. He then looked at Satine with a look of pure anger, and a rock slammed into the back of Satine's shoulders.

[Alpha]

Satine hisses in pain, and falls to the ground, rolling back to his feet, avoiding the sabre attack from Tempist that embeds itself in the ground. Recalling his sabre, the Jedi Knight reignites it and slashes, which gets blocked. Following up with an axe kick, Satine disorients his opponent, and then stabs quickly...

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Satine's stab connected to Tempist's arm, just barely missing his lung. Completely enraged now, Tempist gave Satine a quick, powerfu, and unexpected punch in the face. Satine fell backwards, and Tempist let lose a roundhouse kick at Satine's chest.

[Alpha]

Satine hits the ground hard enough to crack a rib. He groans, and gets to his feet, growling.

"Not bad buddy...Try again..."

Satine waves Tempist on, motioning him to attack....

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"Sure why not!"

Taking advantage of his quick chance to regain energy, he gave Satine a force push, before running at him. He droped to the ground, and rolled head over heals, before kicking off the ground, and sending his claws (along with the rest of his body), straight twards Satine's chest, at a very high speed.

[Alpha]

Satine taps into the Force, and quickly jumps and flips over Tempist's flying figure. Hitting the ground rolling, Satine quickly gets to his feet, and charges his opponent as the Sith regains his footing. Stabbing, Satine grins as he makes contact on Tempist's arm, making a burn, before dancing away from a counter attack.

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Tempist's rage grew, and he focused it even more. He forced the energy on his muscles, and into speed once more. They could take no more it seemed. With speed that made him look non-existant, not even a blur, he lept at Satine, and stabed his saber into the Knight's shoulder. Without wasting a fraction of a second, he let lose with a powerful kick to the jedi's side, and a loud crack could be heard. He fliped back, as the remainder of the energy in his muscles discipated, and Tempist caught his breath.

[Alpha]

Satine cries out in pain as his ribs crack, and his vision begins to get black spots in it. Tapping into the Force, he grabs some more energy, and the spots go away. His body couldn't take much more, and he had an idea that neither could Tempist's.

Getting to his feet, he smiles, and chanels the Force into himself, an aura of white light beginning to grow around the Warrior Jedi Knight.

"Tell me Temps, what will happen when I bring your remains back to your home?"

He smiles, and dodges a blow from the angered sith, uppercutting the larger man, knocking him back. He jumps and lands a spin kick to Tempist's jaw, throwing him even further back. Unleashing the energy he had stored up, Satine sends a Force concussion bolt at Tempist as he begins to recover, the bolt hitting him in the chest, and throwing Tempist to the floor with an audible crack.

Satine breathes heavily, watching for any movement...

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There was a long moment of silence, and Tempist's body lay completely still. Then, the silence broke, with one word...

"......this!"

. Durng the span of time between the blast and Tempist's words, Tempist had been focusing on the pain. Always the pain, and anger. It brewed within him, and drew him closer to the darkside. When one has access to that much energy, the possibilities are unimaginable. Satine's saber was pulled from his hand through the force, and floated into the air. It fell straight down, as if aiming to impale the knight. Satine moved, just in time to see Infinity fly from Tempist's hand, and straight into his arm. It connected, leaving a large, horribly painful scar. The blade had been going too fast to seer the wound shut in it's wake, and it bled profusely.

[Alpha]

Satine growls, and summons a small flame to cautorize (sp?) the wound. He looks at his blood-dripping arm, and then looks at Tempist, pushing out with the Force, and recalling his sabre, at the same time, pushing the Sith back. Jumping at him, Satine rolls to avoid a stab, gritting his teeth at the pain, and then slashes at Tempist's legs. As the Sith jumps to avoid the attack, Satine pushes off, and quickly snap kicks him in the ribs, breaking one and sending Tempist backwards.

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Tempist fell to the ground again, but stood once more, shakey on his feet. Unwilling to fight much more, Tempist gave a powerful force push to Satine's neck, pushing the jedi back and hindering his breathing a bit. Tempist closed his eyes, and focused on his ribs, now a few of them being broken. They were drowning in pain by this point. He started converting the pain into power, and reached out with the force, as Satine recovered from the push. The knight ran twards Tempist, his saber in hand, ready to hack the shapeshifter in two. At the last possible moment, Tempist used the energy he had created to erect another force wall, directly infront of him. Satine slammed into it, and fell backwards. Tempist took a few steps back, and readied himself for another attack.

[Alpha]

Satine gets back to his feet again--slower this time. He was wounded, and didn't know how much more of this his body could take. But all he had to do was outlast Tempist.

How hard could that be? the Jedi thinks ruefully, tapping into the Force for a burst of energy.

He quickly forms a fireball, and sends it Tempist's way, then charges...

[Tempist Opps]

Anger was all he needed. As long as a Sith had anger, then that Sith was capable of things unimaginable... with the right training. Tempist's training was, compaired to what was needed for that landscape, very limited.

Tempist simply sidesteped the fireball, and brought Infinity around for another defensive against Satine.

Interesting, no? It appears our skills are equal, or atleast close enough where it dosn't matter. Now, lets see... who's body do you think is stronger?

[Alpha]

"Gee, I don't know...The shapeshifting freak, or an ordinary 14 year old's?" Satine says, gritting his teeth, and then stepping back, overbalancing his opponent. Smiling, Satine quickly slashes...

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"Age before beauty, little one." Tempist said, hinting at the irony of his own age and Satine's comparison.

Tempist fell backwards to avoid the slash, and lunged back up with a push from his tail, as he had before, only now he extended his saber for a stab, whilst still keeping his guard up.

[Alpha]

Satine sees the stab coming, and moves to the side, the sabre grazing his arm, leaving a burned swath of skin. He hisses in pain, and then jumps back to avoid a slash, then blocking another attack on his sabre.

"You wanna just call this a draw?"

[Tempist Opps]

Tempist steped back about 2 feet, and disengaged Infinity. His guard was still up, but unseen to Satine.

"Deal, this is getting tiring (sp?) anyway. Good match Satine, I look forward to our next match."