Instructional Irony (Avoim Oeymo)

The rather young master chuckled as he entered the room, he’d heard of this specific Knight when looking for Jedi knowledgeable in the use of the second Lightsaber form, Makashi, and what he’d heard about her seemed correct. “Your reputation precedes you, able to sense my presence even when I am attempting to conceal it, though my skills at that are not that grand.”

The young master then put on a friendly and joking smile, trying to ease the tension that might have been in the room at the time and then he continued “Well Jedi Knight Rin, I know that you must be rather confused as to why I, a Jedi Master, asked you to help me train when usually it would be the other way around. Well I’ve heard that you are rather gifted with the Lightsaber form known as Makashi and was hoping you could teach me to use it as well.”

Nicholas had heard a great deal about her in his training, well not a great deal he couldn’t get access to her mission reports and the like, but he’d heard rumors that one of her arms had been broken severely which had prompted her to learn the style and that with her rather unique height amongst females in the galaxy, six foot without the height added by the Montrals she was a rather formidable opponent in combat.

The master listened to her as she removed her wool cloak, he too removed his dual cloaks that he wore and threw it onto a nearby bench, his usual black VibroSword had not been with him but his normal single blade Lightsaber had been there with him. It was a standard Lightsaber and not curved like hers was, but it had not been built for this style and so who was he to complain about that.

Nicholas then removed his Lightsaber from his belt, which was a cloth modified with a flexible metal in it so it would hold up and still maintain its appearance. The only visible anomaly was the small metal clip that was used for the Lightsaber to clip onto the belt he then activated it with a snap-hiss and proceeded to perform the same movements that she did.

He did the small Makashi salute, which was not hard at all, then the little flourish that she had preformed and then said “I thank you for assisting me in this training Jedi Rin now shall we proceed with the training?” the question was asked in a cool and even tone of voice not snarky or sarcastic, just a normal question so that he could start the training properly.

Nicholas watched as she performed a basic thrust at nothing in particular and then returned to the guard stance that was similar to the salute of the form. She then told Nicholas to thrust into her direction and that she’ll demonstrate how to parry with the form.

Nicholas then, with his Lightsaber in its training setting, thrust towards Rin’s midsection at a good speed, performing the action sequence similar to hers and thought that these actions were not too hard, but then again these were the beginning stages of the stance and that his mastery of Shii-cho and Soresu are going to make the first two or so stages of training easier than normal.

At the same pace as Rin, Nicholas parried the blow, sweeping his blade in a sparking collision over to the right side, he then twirled his blade with the flick of his wrist sending her blade up into the air, leaving her open for a counter maneuver. Nicholas smirked inwardly at this, but not outwardly so as not to appear cocky.

“How was that Jedi Rin? Was that proper?” he said as he returned to the salute stance of Makashi and awaited her answer. Nicholas was starting to consider asking for a full on spar, but decided that it might not be best as of yet with his limited amount of knowledge in this particular form yet, so he decided to not request the spar just yet.

Nicholas listened patiently as she explained the next part of the training and how it would involve him imagining himself in the middle of a circle about as long as a Lightsaber is. He then began to imagine his Lightsaber as a straight line directly under his feet and created a circle from tip to tip of said imaginary Lightsaber. He then took up the Makashi Salute again and looked right at her.

He then spun his Lightsaber in a perfect circle in front of him and said “So my circle should be about this large, same as my Lightsaber as I spin it?” Nicholas continued to spin his Lightsaber as he looked at the young Togruta Jedi Knight that was aiding him in learning the form at this point in time.

Nodding, Nicholas extended his awareness through the force to encompass the two of them so he can best understand what she wants him to learn this time. Then through the use of the basic Shii-cho stance, Nicholas began to strike out at her, not with the intent to harm her but enough that he’d use in the normal training spars he would do.

Nicholas then looked at her both with his eyes and the awareness gifted to him through the force and used both to mainly focus on her footwork, but not neglecting any part of her that was used in the Makashi Lightsaber form that she was teaching him to use.

(sorry for the shortness of late, I just have no clue how to do this best...)

When Rin moved out of his line of attack he nearly lost his balance and then fell onto his face from the sudden shock of the training setting Lightsaber, he quickly stood back up and listened to her as she spoke to him about the nuances of the form.

He already had a decent understanding of what she had been saying, about how simple movement can throw opponents off balance and how too linear a movement could get you trapped. It made sense especially if you thought of it as Dejarik; wait for the opponent to make a move and use their own strategy against them. A simple thought he’d used in his own combat technique many times prior.

With a snap-hiss the viridian Lightsaber of the master deactivated. Nicholas gave the young Jedi a slight bow and said “Thank you for the assistance, if I need help I will not hesitate to seek you out Knight Rin.” And with that Nicholas would sit in the exact center of the training room, he’d had plenty of time for the silence needed to meditate and think and even practice on his own since no one else was scheduled for the use of the room for a while.

But it was still open to any Jedi that needed it so he might have had hours or seconds who was to know, but he expanded his force presence to encompasses a good amount of the area, including the room and several steps outside of it. After a few seconds his Lightsaber had lifted from the ground and began to float around Nick in an orbit like pattern, if left alone long enough a good amount of items; Datapads, chairs, his coat whatever was around, would be floating around the room and himself floating in the center of it.

"Master, before I do so, I request your name, so I may know with whom I train." After he allowed sufficient time for the man to answer, and with a twirl of the hilt and a resounding snap-hiss, the master’s green Lightsaber sparked to life, the blade itself still tuned to training mode. He considered for a minute using Soresu and letting his fellow master take the first attack, but he figured that wouldn’t be best and he preformed the Makashi salute before making a graceful slash at the man.

Nicholas preformed a variety of high-low slashes, keeping his moves as elegant as he could, but as fast and useful as he could. As Nicholas attacked he would push forward, in an effort to keep the master held at bay to see his own efforts in Makashi, but should the master be able to push back Nicholas would be prepared to drop into Soresu and defend through the onslaught that would come from the strong form known as Djem So.