Crafting the Tools: A Spar Between...Friends?

[Lilaena De'Ville]

De'Ville popped her back as she stretched in the sparring room, a non-furnished, windowless room within the depths of Bast. Here there were no holocams, no prying eyes. No witnesses.

She wondered briefly if Silus would show up, but decided that he was not one to back down from a challenge. Lilaena took a seat in the middle of the floor, and closed her eyes.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus popped his neck and stretched his arms as he made his way down the hallway towards the sparring room. Lilaena wasnt too hard to find, as her force signature was well read....And the fact that there was only one open door in the hallway didnt hurt either.

The whole way there, Silus was pumping himself up, a luxory he didnt get with most fights. The stretching and occasional hopping served well to get him warmed up...

As he walked into the room, he found Lilaena sitting on the floor. She looked to be meditating. This was a useless practice for Silus. He was more focused then clear headed, which if one were to see his warming up in the hallway, they would see this in action.

Without saying a word, Silus walked over to the corner and removed his coat, his lightsabers were clipped on his belt, behind his back.....He was ready whenever she was.....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

She sat quietly in the middle of the room, and then stood to her feet, eyes still closed. Lilaena faced him as he removed his coat, her own cloak draped on a hook imbedded in the wall near the doorway. "Let us not waste time on formalities." That said, she held out her hand towards him, and Silus felt himself shoved backwards, his back smacking painfully against the very solid wall.

De'Ville spread her feet apart, adopting a strong defensive stance, her saber still clipped to her belt. Eyes shut, she awaited his response as he fell forward off the wall across the room from her.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus bounded off the wall, falling forward onto his hands and knees. As he looked forward he noticed her stance, and her unopened eyes. It was obviously a trick of some sort, as she didnt even have her saber readied. Rather than running in and falling for whatever trick she had up her sleeve, Silus decided to use a bit of his own knowledge of the force. He pictured himself running at her, a saber draw and ignited in each hand. He pictured him self leaping at her, bringing both sabers toward her in a scissor-like motion.

The thought was sent to Lilaena through the force, as Silus slowly stood upright, calmly removing one saber from his belt...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Her mind was impervious to mental illusions, her lack of control with her at times wildly powerful mentality having caused her to learn to block everything inside her own mind. It was for her own well being, but nothing could escape, and nothing could enter. He could have been telling her to frell off mentally, but she would never know the difference.

There was an annoying buzzing sensation, and she frowned, but remained steady in her stance, feeling Silus through the Force. He was still across the room.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus was a tad confused at first. He'd been expecting her to freak out and start swinging wildly at nothing. He smirked a little. there was more to her than he originally thought...

Now he was a bit stuck. He didnt like the idea of throwing the first punch. Plus she was unarmed. The last thing he wanted was to kill her. He sighed a little and put his saber back on his belt. He walked up, standing a few feet from her, just out of swinging range, and far enough that he could dodge a saber strike, should she decide to draw and attack...

I didnt know it was nap time....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

He was just out of arms reach, but as his smart alecky remark slid off his tongue, he suddenly wished he hadn't opened his mouth. Of course, it was shut quickly for him, when De'Ville pivoted on her left leg and kicked him solidly in the face. He stumbled backwards, and she grinned, returning to her defensive stance, hands in front of her as if she were holding a lightsaber, even though it remained on her belt.

[Silus Xilarian]

Cute.....

Thankfully for Silus, he had an tough jaw, something he'd developed in the boxing ring.

Silus rubbed his jaw for a moment then stepped forward again, bring his arms up in a somewhat boxing stance. He kept his left side a bit more forward than his right, and kept his left hand slightly lower.

She wouldnt get another freebie....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

She opened her eyes finally, the impish smile on her face making her look her age, rather than older. Lilaena stepped towards him, and feinted with her right fist before dancing away on the balls of her feet. Xilarian circled towards her as she continued to move around him, their stalemate getting them no where.

De'Ville moved in once more, and kicked again, but this time she kicked low, into the side of his knee. She turned the move around, and swept him off his feet from the other direction.

[Silus Xilarian]

As Lilaena kicked low towards Silus' knee, he turned into it and brought his left leg up, hoping to block the kick with the top of his booted foot. To his surprise however, she quickly turned the attack and swept his right leg out from under him. Instinctively, both hands flailed out and both his knees bent as he fell, to absorb the fall with more of his body. The thud of Silus' large frame made the bump sound worse than it really was.

Silus let out an "oof" as he hit the solid floor. A slight pain shot up his back, but nothing major. As quickly as he hit, Silus' right arm flew out, grasping Lilaena by the back of her ankle. With a quick tug, Silus yanked her foot out from under her.

Silus nipped to his feet as Lilaena's turn to fall came...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

She fell forwards, tucked into a ball, and rolled to her knees. He was already on his feet, and she threw her hands in front of her, initiating a pressure wave that knocked him back down off his feet when it hit him. De'Ville stood to her feet, refraining still from touching her saber.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus lept to his feet once again. Lilaena was using a hit and run style on him, not giving him much room for a counter attack. It was becoming clear that he was gonna have to take the fight to her.

Silus quickly stepped toward Lilaena, wasting no time in closing the gap between them. As he did, he pushed her back with the force, not hard enough to knock her down, but enough to make her stumble. As she stumbled back, Silus feinted a swing with his right hand, and brought his left arm in....His left fist en route to connecting with her ribs....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Her arms were wide to balance her after the shove with the Force, and she didn't have time to block the rib punch fully. De'Ville grunted with the impact, and at the same time her left foot connected solidly with the floor, balancing her body.

Reflexes tuned by the Force, she snapped her arms around and grabbed his fist as he pulled back, gasping with sudden pain from the punch. Using his arm as leverage, she jumped up, kicking at his right arm and neck with quick, short strikes from both feet.

[Silus Xilarian]

The kicks to his arm and neck served well to knock Silus back. This was actually a blessing in disguise. As he fell back, his right hand clenched around her wrist. Silus pulled hard as he fell back. Lilaena landed on her feet, standing over Silus, however, her forward moment, coupled with Silus' pulling, was adequate enough to bring her sprawling forward.

As he freed his arm, Silus got back to his feet, backstepping a little to put some distance between Lilaena and himself...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

De'Ville flipped over his head, and awkwardly landed on her back, her breath momentarily knocked out of her. He put some distance between them, and she painfully rolled to her feet, using the Force to dampen her pain receptors.

Destruction was far too powerful for use in a spar, even a small amount, if not dealt with, could leave the man crispier than a piece of fried chicken. Her saber flew to her hand, and she ignited it with a snap-hiss. "Wargrave has trained you well."

[Silus Xilarian]

It was almost instantanious. The "snap-hiss" from Lilaena's saber was immediately followed by the "snap-hiss" from one of Silus' sabers....

Actually, I just made that up...

Silus slowly paced a half circle around Lilaena, lazily letting the tip of his crimson blade pop and snap and it scorched the floor....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

She laughed at that, and let him trace a circle around her with his saber. De'Ville wondered a moment if he had had any training in the Sith magicks, and then decided that Wargrave wasn't the type.

De'Ville stutter-stepped and feinted with her amethyst blade, drawing his saber tip from the ground to block her pretended blow. As he lifted it up, she reversed and swiped low, at his knees.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus brought his saber up horizontally to block Lilaena's strike. He soon found he was blocking at air as she switched at came in low...Rather than bringing his blade in low, Silus jumped over the blade. It was close, as the blade slightly singed the bottom of his boot. He came back down with his saber pointed down, just in case she decided to swing back and clip his knees again.

As Silus hit the ground he made a clear landing, so he immediatly brought his saber in an upward slash toward Lilaena's midsection...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

De'Ville's saber was to the side, and not much use against a vertical attack. She leapt into the air, and backwards, turning a back flip artfully, yet not extending too much in case he got ideas about trying to chop off extremeties.

As she landed she put out her hand, levitating his coat and flinging it at his head, where it landed quite happily.

ooc: I'm tired! :crack /ic:

[Silus Xilarian]

As soon as the jacket flew onto his head, Silus quickly started backstepping. He immediately threw the jacket back off and tossed it aside again. Without wasting any time, Silus came back at her again. With a two handed grip on his saber, he came in high, bringing his blade down vertically again towards her...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Lilaena brought her saber up to block his downwards strike, their sabers locking for a moment. The elegant weapons crackled with energy as they burned against each other. She leant her weight into the attack, aided with the Force, and shoved Xilarian off, bringing her saber around trying to cut him off at the knees.

[Silus Xilarian]

Silus turned as he was pushed off of her. As he swung around, he brought his saber in low. As he did, his left arm went behind his back. Using his turning momentum to power the one handed block, Silus deflected Lilaena's strike. As this was happening, a sharp "snap-hiss" was heard, as another red blade ignited in Silus' left hand. The completion of the turn was enough to force Lilaena's saber back, as Silus' left saber came down diagonally toward Lilaena...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Her saber was rebuffed as Silus spun around, another saber materializing in his left hand and striking down at her. She swept her saber forwards and up, managing to catch his blade before it sliced through her shoulders.

With a grunt she moved away from the lightsaber as the blades slid against each other until they were both free. Silus' momentum turned his back towards her and she kicked up and hit him squarely in the back, sending him stumbling forward, off balance, as she brought her saber around for a finishing blow.

[Silus Xilarian]

As Silus stumbled forward, he knew it was coming. The setup was too perfect. He'd had his hands full the whole fight, and he'd done his best to hide it. But now he had to throw his whole strategy out the window, at least for the moment, to ensure that he would leave Bast Castle in a fashion other than being thrown somewhere with the rest of the bodies...

Nothing flashy.

As he stumbled forward, he let is left knee buckle. He fell sideways slightly. As he fell he turned his body to the right, with the fall.

He disengaged his left saber, to avoid falling on the blade, as his right blade came around, barely managing to deflect Lilaena's strike. He completed his fall as he hoped...on his back, facing Lilaena. That was as far as quick thinking could take him however, as Lilaena was right there, with nothing but air and opportunity between herself and Silus....

[Lilaena De'Ville]

There was a sudden silence as her lightsaber disengaged, and Xilarian felt a tap of something slightly warm and rounded at the base of his neck. De'Ville stepped back and clipped her saber pommel to her belt.

"Very good." She nodded to him, not appearing to be out of breath, but she had gotten quite a workout. "Wargrave either is a better teacher than I gave him credit for, or you are just a better student."