The new student(Kharr and Kozeph)

[Reven]

Reven could be seen sitting near one of the many rivers of Naboo with his eyes closed in deep meditation. The sky above him was as clear as the water in front of him and everything around him seemed to be in total peace and harmony which was the ideal location to meditate. Reven figured that he should get an early start on his meditation and left Kharr and Takumi at the lodge they were all staying at while they were asleep. After all, today was the day Kharr was going to begin her training and Reven figured that he needed to prepare himself if Derriphan took over Kharr again and he couldn't afford to be afraid.

However, ever since Derriphan revealed herself, Reven has had trouble sleeping due to the hellish nightmares he has been getting about Derriphan slaughtering everybody around her including him and Takumi with a creepy smile on her face that would scare anybody. Sure one could argue that these were just dreams created by Reven's fear of Derriphan, but some of his dreams had the tendency of coming true, a fact that he hasn't revealed to Takumi. He of course never told Takumi that he has been having trouble sleeping since he really didn't want to worry anybody, though his body now started to show these signs of sleep deprivation by having his eyes become red and small dark circles around his eyes

As Reven became completely relaxed from his mediation, his upper body slumped down as his face hit the ground due to the fact that the relaxed state caused his body to fall asleep. A few seconds after he fell asleep, a light snore could be heard as he started to drool creating a small puddle.

[kozeph]

(Sorry for the delay, I made the post a few days ago and lost it so I got angry at loosing it and couldn't bring myself to post hehe)

The hairy and sleeping man began to groan in his dreams, he had blacked out. Last night Takumi had drink enough to barely make it to his room and somehow stumble to his bed. The former Jedi didn't drink because he really loved the intoxicating effect of alcohol, he did like it but the real reason for Takumi's drinking habit was that it helped him not think, thinking always meant that the former Jedi would remember and remembering always did harm to Takumi.

The sleeping and half dressed large man rolled out of bed and with a loud thud fell to the floor. The former Jedi woke up from that and noticed that he was only wearing his pants and boots, the rest of his clothing was scattered across the room. Takumi sat and rested his back against the bed and began looking around, his head was hurting and he felt like throwing up. Takumi was suffering from a hang over, a very bad one at that.

The former Jedi after a couple of minutes and after regaining his some of his will, walked out of his room, shirtless he couldn't find his robe or shirt. He only clipped his belt with the two lightsabers, his and the one from his master, the third lightsaber Taku had given it to Reven for self defense and training purposes.

Strolling around, showing his powerful and very hairy chest the former Jedi eventually spotted Reven, in a very odd position...
As the large human walked closer he could barely keep his deep and powerful laughter from escaping his mouth.

"Now this is something Kharr should see" The large human said to himself with a big smile in his mouth

[Derriphan]

The little lodge they were staying in wasn't far from the river Reven had decided to mediate at. Their lodge was on the far end, and it was only a one bedroom with one bath room. Something that managed to afford for a few days. It was raked up money between the three of them for doing odd jobs. Now they didn't have to worry about sleeping on the ship or sleeping no where. It was a comfortable place, and she had been sleeping on the couch the last few days while Reven and Takumi had occupied the twin beds that were located in the room. Kharr with her sensitive ears heard a thud hit the floor, she groaned in protest of getting up and turned around.

Her blanket was covering her body suggestively. Tonight she had slipped into a pair of boxers and a white t-shirt that was too big for her and went almost down to her knees. After hearing Takumi get up and strap a few thins on she groaned again and turned over. Rubbing her hands gently at her eyes as she let her eyes adjust to the brightness of the sun that was coming into the room. God... she didn't want to get up.. She'd love to just lay here all day like the lazy cat she had become and do nothing of mentioning. Glancing at the door she watched the man go out shirtless and she quickly sat up to see him through the window as he walked away from the lodge.

Groaning again in protest she let her body stretch out. The tips of her toes curling right along with her fingers as she lightly scratched the couch with her claws before she got up finally. Giving a jump as she touched the ceiling and then stretched the rest of her body out. Getting all the kinks of a good night sleep out of her muscles. Kharr had finally been putting on some weight, her body was starting to fill out and you could only slightly see the edges of her ribs. Now that she was actually putting some meat on her bones. She slipped into the refresher and relieved herself. Slipping on this thing Takumi told her she should wear for training.

It was supposed to keep her breasts from smacking her in the face. At least that's what he had said with a loud laugh as she usually did. Putting the thing on she then slipped the white shirt back over her body and tied it behind her back. Slipping on a pair of pants that they had also gave her, to allow her to move flexibly with what they were going to do. She ran barefoot out of the bathroom, across the room they rented and right out the door. Running straight in the direction of Takumi and soon she seen him in the distance and started to slow down. Coming right beside him as Takumi let out a bellow of a laugh and said she should see this. Kharr's eyes looked up to see Reven.. sound asleep face on the ground and a puddle of drool leaking from his mouth.

Walking a few feet forward she extended her big toe and started poking Reven in the side with it.

"He looks... dead..."

She said, looking back to Takumi with a light smile on her face. Ears twitching in the wind as she kept poking him with her big toe, trying to prod him awake.

[Reven]

"Just a few more minutes" said Reven with his eyes still closed and his mind half asleep as Kharr poked him with her big toe. But the poking only continued which made his mind more alert and aware and eventually he realized where he was and what exactly he was waiting for. The young hapan would then open his eyes and suddenly got up with his eyes wide open and a bit of drool on the side of his cheek.

"Sorry about that, I must have dosed off while waiting for you" said Reven feeling a bit embarrassed that he did this on Kharr's first day of training. He would then wipe off the drool that was on the side of his cheek with his sleeve and asked "So. I'm assuming that your going to teach Kharr on how to use a lightsaber to open herself up to the Force like you did with me, right?" said Reven remembering how Takumi started training him. Though this time, he had the distinct feeling that he was going to spar Kharr instead of having Kharr spar Takumi himself so that both students will get something out of this.

[kozeph]

"Top of the morning girly" He said once Kharr came close enough and started poking Reven in the face with one of her toes. He finally laughed a bit as he watched the boy lazily attempted to get five more minutes of sleep"This" Takumi said opening his arms into an embrace position "Is something you should etched into yer soul" He laughed hard as always and gave a lively slap to Kharr's back, but then his head started hurting really bad so the former Jedi hissed due to the pain while Reven got up.

The former Jedi wanted to keep laughing, specially after looking at Reven embarrassed face but the spike in pain in his head stopped him short of making Reven feel more embarrassed. Takumi began rubbing his forehead with one hand in a futile attempt to calm his headache, but like he expected didn't make him feel any better. Reven was speaking about some training thing, that at first didn't really clicked in the Taku's head, but after a couple more seconds his mind reacted with a big "Ooooh" Takumi had completely forgotten that he had promised two days ago to start Kharr's training today. "Ohh boy, how am I gonna get out of this one" Takumi wasn't at his best this morning, he rarely was and well the hang over didn't really gave him a the patience to teach someone, what the former Jedi really wanted was to take another long nap and preferably hurl before taking said nap.

"No, no today" He smirked mostly at the plan that he had somehow formulate in a span of a couple more seconds.

"Today, Am gonna have you teach Kharr while I... eh... overseer the process..." He stuttered and his eyes shifted away from Reven and to river behind the boy.

"But first!" He said loudly before his rather weak plan could be exposed. Kids today where to clever for their own good...

"Your getting a promotion me boy" Takumi hand went for his belt and took one of the lightsabers, the one that belonged to Takumi's original master, the one Taku had personally slayed in battle. It was also the saber that Takumi had noticed Reven particularly liked, the boy was partial to blues it seemed.

"Since you now know how not to stab yer self with a lightsaber in the foot, am givin the honor of wielding this here little thing" He said carefully handing the boy the lightsaber the hapan liked soo much. "You will no be wielding this saber, this unlike the one I gave you before has a feature called dual phase... which I will be explaining to ye in a moment" He said turning around to look at Kharr.

"You will be using Reven's saber from today" He gave a warm smile, despite the discomfort of his headache. He also leaned in closer to Kharr and whispered into her ear, the smell of booze was obvious "Ye wearing the bra we gave you right girly?" He waited for a reply and leaned back out, he stepped away from the two and sat in the floor.

"So.. any ya got questions before yo...eh... we start today's session?" He honestly forgot about telling what a dual phase saber was.

[Derriphan]

She kept watching him sleep and mutter as she continued to poke him. It only took a minute or so of poking to get his attention before his eyes opened wide and he sat up with drool leaking off his cheek. He apologized for falling asleep but she just withdrew her big toe from his body and stood there yawning lightly. Her face went from Reven to Takumi as he mentioned light saber training and she was vaguely familiar with them because of her old master. Takumi then said that Reven was going to teach her the light saber today and her ears twitched and lightly curled in confusion. Wasn't Takumi the master? This oddly confused her as she looked from Reven to Takumi.

She got a little startled when Takumi spoke again and then said that he was getting a promotion as she watched him reach for a belt and pull a light saber off. Speaking for a brief moment before he handed the light saber to Reven. Then she watched Takumi turn to her and he said that she would be using Reven's light saber from now on. She leaned back a little bit when Takumi leaned into whisper into her ear. As he asked about the bra thing.. "Oh yeah.. that's what its called.." She nodded her head briskly as she watched him sit down. Then he wanted to know if they had any questions and she could think of at least one.

"Ummm.. Takumi... Are we going to practice any force techniques today. I've been practicing my force push and pull, and I'm moving those blocks you gave me kinda, but I still don't think I am getting the fundamentals... I feel like I am missing something.... like something is holding me back..."

It was a good possibility that her dark side was holding her back from her potential. There was no other explanation or maybe it was cause she had gone so long without proper training. When she was first explained the instructions she couldn't quite grasp it. Takumi and explained that you don't need to believe you can do it, you just need to do it. That helped a little bit, and she had been able to move the blocks a few inches either way at best but she still wasn't grasping the concept and she also helped that would be a part of today's training... Maybe this other training would help her with her force training, since a light saber was a weapon for a force sensitive maybe it'd bring her closer to her potential?

[kozeph]

(SORRY I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT I HAD POSTED XD)

"Well, Kharr today ye be learning how to channel the force better, you showed that you can use it.. but remember that time you tried to use force speed?" Taku crossed his arms and gave one look at Reven, who seemed to be thinking about something... actually he was looking a bit more pale than usual. Takumi then returned to adress Kharr's question

"So today we gonna have you learn to get used to use the force girly" Taku put his hand on Reven shoulders and leaned a bit closer.

"You alright?" He asked concerned seeing that the boy was sweating, the boy simply mumbled something like he was fine, but that weak bluff was not enough to fool the former Jedi, who ended up putting his hand on Reven forehead... he was burning hot.

"You got a fever me boy, you better rest up for today" He said sternly taking the lightsaber Reven used for practice and tossed it at Kharr without taking his eye from the Hapan boy.

"Please rest up boy"

The Hapan kid seemed to listen to his master, he apologized to Kharr and lazily made his way back to the room the group had rented.

"Looks like I actually have to work today" He said with a wary grim, hopefully it was just a fever what Reven had and nothing more serious. He turned to adress the probably confused Kharr.

"Let him rest for today, his probably been pushing himself to hard" Takumi tried to sound casual, but for some reason he didn't sound to sure of his words.

"Anyway, has Reven explained the basic mechanics of the lightsaber to you?"

[Derriphan]

(its okay)

She nodded and she did remember vaguely the time she tried to learn the force. Kharr was watching Takumi and he then looked over to Reven who had grown a bit pale all of a sudden. Takumi spoke again and she said today she was going to learn how to use the force more. Nodding once again she watched Takumi and Reven as Takumi placed a hand on Revens head. Then sent him back to the cabin, she grabed the light saber right out of the air. Holding it in her hand she looked at it closely. This thing was a work of art, she had been examining it several times in the past couple days. Takumi asked her if she understood the mechanics of it yet, if Reven had explained it to him. She nodded a little bit and looked up at him.

"I don't remember everything he told me, but for the summary I think he said. Pretty much a beam of light is shot through a crystal and it focuses it into this beam..."

And when she said that she fingered the button and the lightsaber hummed to life. It was a work of art, a most beautiful thing. Waving it right in the air as it cut it, she brought it down and ran it along the dirt beside her as it cut right through. Leaving a scorch mark in the ground. Kharr fingered the button again and it shut off. Looking back up to Takumi she had a smile on her face, this blade felt oddly familiar in her hand.

"Takumi.... This blade feels very familiar. The way it hums in my hand.. I... think I might of handled one before... Or at least... Derriphan has..."

Pressing the button again she held it in her hand and held it out from her. Making little circles in the air as she let her wrist do all the work. It felt to good, this feeling of power that she had in her hand. She couldn't wait to learn more about how to use this weapon, and more about the force in general.

[kozeph]

"A rookie mistake me girl, is that people think that a lightsaber is a stick of light, is not actually a lightsaber is a concentrated beam of good old plasma". If anything Takumi did know the mechanics of a lightsaber, he had trained as a guardian after all.

The former jedi reaised his eyebrow at the way the Cathar girl looked at lightsaber, he started to suspect something and by a long shot he was not wrong after Kharr told him that she remembered holding a lightsaber. It was not as surprising, if this alter persona had a Sith name, then it was possible that at one point or another the girl could have wielded a lightsaber.

Takumi said nothing to that, it was best not to encorague dear old Derriphan to pop in this training session, less it be willing to risk Kharr loosing an arm.

"Alright so we got step one without doing anything," Taku said, his voice dripping with humour. "That saves us a bit of time".

"Right then, A lightsaber is as much as a weapon as a sort of channel for the force, Jedi used it as a tool for meditation. Wielding a lightsaber is nothing like wielding a sword, it is why the Jedi created several forms to properly use a lightsaber, today you will learn the basics of the first form, people call it Shii-Cho".

He smiled, such a simply yet effective form.

"Reven learned the basics pretty quick, we'll see how you fare. You want me to explain the concept, or do you want to learn it first hand Hmm?" Taku asked, shortly after he yawned.

[Derriphan]

"Plasma?

She said questionably, then merely nodded her head as she kind of understood what he meant. Continuing to make little circles with it she swung it around in her hand, it was so light. Maybe five pounds at most, but she knew it was much lighter than that. Her eyes looked up to him as he said they had one step out of the way and she gave an approving thumbs up with her free hand. Kharr listened excitedly to Takumi's story, like a kid getting read one at bed time. Once he said the words "Shii-Cho" she mouthed those words and let it roll around on her tongue. His question was straight and to the point and she smiled devilishly.

"Can you do both at the same time?"

She smiled coyly as she held the lightsaber out in front of her, pointing it right at him. Putting her other hand on the lightsaber she held it with both hands, and then spread her legs an equal distance apart. This excited her to no extent, she had goose bumps in what skin could be seen.

"Takumi.. This feels good. It feels right.. I feel odd, but its a good odd..."

She wasn't sure how to explain it, it felt like she was more in tune with what ever was flowing through her. It felt good, it was almost intoxicating, and she was moving her wrists around, which hummed the lightsaber through the air, as she was eager to get the teaching going.

[kozeph]

"Sure" Taku smiled "Then you have the making of a warrior me girl, with time you can surparse me... in a hundred years or so, BWHAHAHHH" Takumi's thunderuse laughter lighten up, his headake was ignored. The thrill of combat could make the former Jedi forget about his pains, fighting and drinking were drugs to Takumi.

Takumi turned on his lightsaber, but took no position. First he wanted to judge Kharr's stance, she looked eager and ready, her stance was good. Taku could get started, he took a similar stance but his

"You got the stance, let's go on to the basics... of the basic" The human made a wide grim "Shii-Cho is best used agains't many, especially if they are using blasters, Shii Cho will keep you alive through a melee fight but not for a long time... the good point of Shii Cho is that it will make learning the other forms a lot better"

Takumi stepped forward, his lightsaber arching from above.
"This form is simple, it uses semi circular moves, use it like if you were using a broadsword"

[Derriphan]

She listened to him eagerly and didn't flinch when he did his laugh. Expecting him to attack at that moment her muscles contracted then started to relax again as she waited for the training to begin. Hearing his hum of his lightsaber as it lit up and he soon moved into a similar stance. Her ears twitched on her hand as she absorbed the information. Telling her what Shii-Cho was mostly used more and it was the starting form to learn the other forms. He took a step forward and his lightsaber arched from above. She held her lightsaber right out in front of her, and moved it in a semi-circle to the right and met his in the air as they hissed when they met together.

She moved it just a few inches from his so they wouldn't clash anymore. A smile was on her face as her ears extended as far as they would go and her face made a small twitch. She made a semi-circle opposite to the one she just did and then attempted to give him a lit jab to the mid section. She recalled that this was a training lightsaber so she assumed that there was something to it to make it that way. One, it pry couldn't really kill someone, and two it was pry much different from an actual lightsaber.

"What else do I need to know Kozeph? I need to know more!"

She was eager to learn Shii-cho and she was eager to know more history. Anything that could help her in battle. Her hairs were raising she was still on edge, and she felt like she could fight and get lectured at the same time with ease.

[kozeph]

(Ok first off, like really sorry for the delay)

Takumi smiled at his eager student, Kharr was far far more impulsive and probably as inpatient as Reven was when it came to learning.

"Fist off girl, these are real lightsaber so be sure not to touch the glowing beam of plasma, Of course Reven's saber has it's intesity droped a nuch, but still a solid hit from these babies and it'll leave a nasty burn, Bwaha".

Takumi stepped again and his right arm swinged the lightsaber in a horizontal pattern, he then brought back his arm and quickly aimed a stab at Kharr's large chest, which made for a notisable target.

"In Shii-Cho, there are six areas of contact, in order these are".

Takumi aimed his lightsaber at Kharr's head, but made no thrust or swing.

"First is the head, next is the right part of your chest and arm, the third area is the left part of your upper body and well yet slimsy left arm".

Taku's lightsaber then aimed at Kharr's right and left portions of her upper body.

"Then ya get the legs, fourth area is the right leg and the fifth would be your other leg, then for last we got yer back"

Takumi then stepped back a couple of steps and continued talking.

"Lightsaber dueling tends to be a deadly bussiness, one mistake, one slip up and you'll lose a limb or yer life in a flash. Now Shii-Cho is not a particulary offensive or defensive form unlike the others, which you'll learn later, unless you want the short version now?".

Takumi tilted his head and kept in the ideal Shii-cho opening stance.

[Derriphan]

She nodded when he spoke and she watched his swinging arm with evasive movements as she blocked the first attack that was aimed for her chest. Her light saber came up to meet the attack that was aimed at hard but there was no contact as he was telling her the six areas of contact, head, chest, arm, and the rest of them. Nodding her head over and over again to his words as she watched him take a couple steps back. Listening to him speak some more and she smiled as she watched him.

"Do as you like Master. Although I'd rather prefer you'd tell me now."

He was in the stance that she had some what knew, and now she took a few steps toward him before stopping, and moving her wrists as she first came to his head, then she swung her light sabers at the other areas of contact, but she made no effort to hit him, only to show him that she understood where the six areas of contact were just as he had did, although she was itching to learn more and fight.

(I'll apologize for not posting now, looking for another job, kinda forgot about the site @_@ apologies)