Murae vs Roth Practice Duel

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Murae sits at the table of what seems to be a busy diner. She wears basically just a simple Zeltron styled green bikini. (Normal for Zeltrons cause lol they wear reavealing cause thats just what they wear. Sorry but gotta fit into the crowd ya know? Hide in plain sight hehe.) 

While what she wears is revealing, on her side she has a lightsaber clipped. (Can't really see it cause shes sitting at a table) She seems to be waiting for someone but doesn't seem too anxious. More calm if anything. She reads what seems to be a journal of someones while drinking. 


(Her lightsaber)

OOC: Sorry if it isn't the most detailed intro to a duel in the world. Just came up with it as I wrote. The Gray Sith

[The Gray Sith]

The hot sun burned into Roth's dark robes, being absorbed into them, and straight into his body. He was sweating, but he didn't mind that whatsoever, he even enjoyed it in fact. He had gotten used to it from so many years of living on Tatooine, and then training here, on Korriban. 

He approached a building which seemed quite loud, a lot of voices could be heard even from the outside. It was a diner of sort, or at least it said that it was on a sign next to the building. Roth put his hands on his sabers, expecting he'll be needing them. As he came closer to the place, he looked briefly through the window, under his hood. He couldn't see his target, since he walked over to the window on the other side, but yet again, he didn't seem to fix his look on a certain someone. 

Roth slowly and quietly walked in through the open door (or a hole, it could have just been a hole in the wall), and as he planned, he drew no attention at all.Strange, for a six-feet tall red Zabrak with black robes and a hood over his head to not draw attention, but since most of the people in here were drunk or hungry, there was no confusion in Roth's head.

Never, and completely and 100%-ly never, Roth would've guessed that a girl in the green bikini was his target. He knew he was after a quite skilled sith, since Roth lost track of him, or well her, quite fast. The only thing that showed Roth it was the person he was after, besides the radiation of the Dark Side, since almost everyone on Koriban radiated from it, was the lightsaber she had next to her.

You know, you must be a very smart little girl, being able to evade me all the way from the training grounds.

He said, as he sat next to her, with a calm look in his red eyes, not seeming like his intentions were even close to bad. He pulled off his hood, showing his horns to everyone watching, and looked at the Zeltron girl now with a smile.

If you didn't want to fight me, why stop here, and why ready your saber?

He stopped talking, which meant it was the end for the peacefulness of his, as his smile fell into a smirk, and into a raged face. His eyes, though, were still calm, still so calm, and not without a worry in them.

In a quick move, he pulled one lightsaber with his right arm, and took it with both hands, not showing off his other one even for a bit. So, with his thick robes still covering his armor plates and the scar on his chest, he prepared for a fight, and in that moment, half of the diner stood up in shock, fear or anger, and the ones that kept sitting, were too amused by what was about to happen to get up and try and stop it. Those people, they were mostly sith, surely knights, and even maybe lords. 

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Murae doesn't even seem phased She raises her brow looking at the crowd watching motioning them to go back to what they are doing and pay no attention to the conflict. She doesn't even get up before saying.

"You are right I am a smart girl. Though I evaded you to talk. Couldn't do it at the Sith temple where it would attract attention, so why not here?."

She shrugs taking a sip of her wine.

"Put your saber away, come back and sit. I did not ready my saber clearly because we aren't here to fight. I understand I am a target, but I want to talk just about that. About why I am a target? Why are we fighting each other when the fight is out there against the Jedi?"

She continues to show no hostility then sighs to add

"Heres a deal for you, you sit down and talk. Give me some answers, because clearly what is going on now makes no sense what so ever right now. Once we are finished talking about the situation, if you feel obligated to fight me still. Then go ahead I have not one care." 

She sips of her wine once again and raises her hand for a hand shake

"That a deal? A Sith to Sith deal? A red skin to red skin deal? A Man to Woman deal? Can't get any stronger than that." 

She jokes while holding her hand up for a shake.


The Gray Sith

[The Gray Sith]

Roth smiled and sheathed his weapon slowly and carefully. He looks at her, with a careful, but still confused stare in his eyes. Roth sits back down and takes a drink.

"You're a Sith, not many Sith ask questions before shooting." Roth puts his hood back on, as he is still looking towards Murae.

-This could be a trap- he thinks, but still, he stays down sitting.

"Words are not the best of me, but I'll listen." He says, now with a bit more relaxing tone, maybe since he had his first glass of liquor, or just because he is starting to trust her. It had to be the first one..

Roth shakes hands with her, and even though it may be a friendly shake, he still doesn't remove the piece of his robe covering his other saber. -Just in case, an element of surprise is always good- The thoughts fly through his mind quickly.

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"I may be a Sith but like you said. I am a smart little girl."

Smiling when he sits down "Now, do you know why I am an assigned target? All I know was I was training and you swooped out of nowhere and tried to kill me."

She kicks her bare legs up on the table and takes the last sip of the wine ordering another bottle for him and her. While they wait she inspects the tribal necklace she wears

"You know the difference between me and you? I will always be that native girl. I may have had my tribe slaughtered by pirates and took me aboard as a slave to sell so they could get a good price, or also be exposed to this new way of life where people clean themselves in showers instead of ponds, but I will always be that native girl. Those pirates are how I got my scar, when I killed them all on their ship I was thrown into machinery and it put this gash on my face. "

The wine arrives and she pours him a glass of it and then herself taking sip from her glass

"What about you, what is different about you? Zabrak male, hm, were you a Nightbrother? Youre one of those people I never understood."

[The Gray Sith]

Roth looks upon the Zeltron girl, with no special expressions, just plainly looks at her. Then, his lips turn into a small smile, which then turns into a bigger one, which then turns into a laugh. Roth laughs, for the first time in months, and like he just had realized what he was doing, he quit and put back on his serious face.

"I am but a pawn in the game of Sith, I was ordered something with no explanation given. You want info, go to the Inner Sanctum, they are the only ones that know what is happening all the time."

He says, as his laughter returns. Roth looks through the open door, as if he was expecting someone to come in there. Soon after, his eyes return to the girl, a pretty attractive girl, as he hasn't yet noticed. But his thoughts return on the plan, he had his orders, and he had the time to complete them.

"Quite a story, you know." He said, playing with the glass of wine with his gloves over his fingers. "It could use a Jedi or a Hutt in it, to be exactly the same as any other initiate's. You know, I've been here for four years, not one person in this Academy had a happy childhood."

"And if you wanna know, I heard that my father's father was a Nightbrother" Roth smiled, as he got up from the chair, leaving the glass on the dirty table, and looking out the window. "A deal is made of words, and words can be lies. Don't trust a Sith with a hood, Zeltron, or you may regret it."

His final words came out, as he slowly turned around towards the girl with half her body exposed. Roth raised one of his hands, firing a quick wave of dark energy, and if it hit, he would have in his hands, quite literally, since it was the Force choke he was preparing for.

( Marcie's ℳℰℳℰS Duel = fight Fight = Loss Loss = Death Death = The Force the Force = FREEDOM )

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There's no possible way to detect a force choke. Murae surprised was thinking of doing the same before he did but while choking she doesn't seem to lose focus, she holds her right arm out to force lift the bottle of wine throw it to smash over his head.

If successful she would jump out of the seat onto her feet and draw her saber.

"Very impressed you did exactly what I planned before myself. Most people can be distracted for a while... But you... You're special. I like it." She grins holding her saber up ready to fight.

[The Gray Sith]

In a part of a second, Roth found himself canceling his own Force choke, since he wasn't even close to actually skilled enough to fight with a lightsaber in one hand, and choke with the other. His right hand quickly flew to the lightsaber on the right side of his body, as he pulled it out, in the very last second before a bottle of wine would've hit him in the head. (Superior agility hun )

"Too.. much.." He said barely, as the previous ability has drained him, he shouldn't have drank even one glass, it's not good for a Zabrak to have any liquor in his system if he want to fight. "Too many words, let's talk with sabers" 

Roth didn't hesitate one bit to start a fight, even with all those previous faces looking at him once again, as he pulled his hood back off, showing his horns once more to the people that now looked terrified since it was probably the first time they would see a Zabrak up close, or was it just the Force choke that scared them.

He rushed towards the girl, not leaving her much time to think or act, and jumping of one table up into the air, starting a devastating slash that moved in the direction of the Zeltron. If the target was still and without good defense, the strike would've been lethal, but Roth knew she wouldn't go down easy. 

(OOC: Just to make things clear, this is all for the duel, no impact on the general plot, since I actually don't want them to be enemies IC   Marcie's ℳℰℳℰS )

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OOC: Of course bby, we actually should be good allies IC.

Murae was already thinking as she jumped out of her seat with her saber drawn. As a Zeltron, their race carries an extra liver, being which she is not affected by the alcohol.(Look it up if you don't believe me lel)

Right as the Zabrak charges with his saber, she hops to the side out of the way almost falling into one of the members in the crowd. She swings at his side violently, but clearly with skill and focus.


The Gray Sith

[The Gray Sith]

Not surprised with the Zeltron's reaction even one bit, Roth keeps on charging in on her, as the fight slowly rages on, as he is still only using one of his sabers. After the one jump, he had not showed any of his actual abilities, and instead just kept on testing her while using normal moves with a single blade and no fancy hops or mid-air strikes.

Though the time for testing was long gone, and the girl had passed all the tests, Roth kept pushing himself into more not considered combat that could only bring him danger, without any chances of winning like that. He didn't care, he couldn't, it was getting harder and harder for him to think, and every few seconds, his thoughts would drift of somewhere completely different than the actual fight.

He had no more choices, he had to give himself some good will for fighting, as he remembered every order he was given among the Sith, every punishment for disobeying or failing them, and what would happen if he was to fail again. No. He wasn't going to fail. The girl had just started getting more confidence in fighting Roth, as every few seconds, he would drop his guard, but it was done. He held until the liquor effect was gone, and now, the real deal could begin.

He ran towards the bar he was sitting at earlier, briefly touching his other saber, and readying his left arm for a new kind of strike. He jumped on the bar, and quickly of it, giving himself some more space to do the crazy Ataru flips and spins he didn't learn. As he was about to strike the Zeltron with his saber, now maybe harder than anytime yet, he pulled out his other saber from his right side, and spun in the air enabling him to attack her once with one saber, and right after that, with another.

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Murae was more focused on the fight than ever. She knew that if she won this one battle, the Order would forgive her of her failure to take down her master and claim her masters place. Her mind set nowhere else she continued to swing her saber blocking his moves as he does hers.

She had noticed the alcohol was effecting his ability to fight but she wouldn't make that mistake. Not again, not after she made that mistake when trying to take her masters life by order of the Inner Sanctum. She just continued to think about how she could not fail, how she NEEDED to win this battle. She needed to prove that her commitment is undeniable. For her life. For her tribe. For the Order....

When the Zabrak jumps ion the bar and makes his heavy attack to fall on her she swipes one saber away and to her surprise there is another. Thinking quickly because she knows she just left herself open on that swipe, she rolls desperately as a life saving attempt but hits a table knocking it over.

Murae grunts loudly at her mistake laying against the table holding her side that which nailed a table with great force. She laughs with a smirk looking at him,

"Come, claim your prize. I showed my allegiance to the Sith order by betraying my master by the Inner Sanctum's command. I failed in taking her life thus why I am on the run. They want all evidence destroyed."

She grunts again holding her side trying to stop the bleeding,

"You said you were a pawn in their affairs. So was I. So make the order proud now but they won't be satisfied with you later. You'll end up as trash just as I did."

The Gray Sith

[The Gray Sith]

Roth watched as the Zeltron smiled at him, talking to him like she was in a position to do so. He didn't even smile, as he pulled his hood back over his head once again, and it seemed like it was the final time now. The Zabrak walked towards her, with his lightsabers still in his hands, ready to strike.

"I said, too many words.. Because words can be lies. Betrayal isn't obedience. Don't follow orders blindly, follow them quietly." 

He moved his sabers in the air, like he was going to end it, right there, at that very moment. But he didn't. He smiled, briefly, but still smiled. And looked down to the girl he now respected, and felt kind of bad for, but his thoughts cleared in that moment, and he went back onto his mission. 

Roth made his move in swiping the sabers downwards, but instead of cutting her down, he sheathed the weapons, and turned around, leaving his guard down. 

"This is end. I could have killed you now, so give up. As I said, words can be lies, so don't trust them. My orders.. were never to kill you." He was walking towards the door, as half the diner stared at him, and the other half, the Sith half, just kept their own business. "They were to test you."Roth turned around for these words, and kept walking out after them.

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Murae would grunt loudly standing up and hobbling over to him and places a hand his shoulder to turn him around,

"Wait."

She holds her hand out to shake one last time but out of respect.

"They always told me they would test me and I wouldn't know when. The names Murae, Thank you. This brings a valuable lesson and that is something I care about most. Why I stay here and continue on. It's for that knowledge and power. You have helped me greatly today, even if the fight was a loss."

The Gray Sith

[The Gray Sith]

Roth had completed his mission, walking away, already thinking about the next thing he was ordered to do, so he wouldn't have to go back to the temple to ask about it again. But it appeared the fight wasn't over, or at least he thought so, when the Zeltron touched his shoulder and told him to wait. He was on the verge of pulling his saber and killing her, as he realized she wasn't going to fight him. Roth could already feel the brightness of the Sun on Korriban, and he could already feel the sweat over his body, but there weren't any yet.

He slowly turned around, looking at the girl, now even kind of confused, but still relaxed, and keeping the high grounds, just in case it was a deception. He smiled, and laughed sarcastically as she talked to him, then, suddenly he was serious once again. Roth completely turned his body towards her, while she held a hand out to shake his.

"Names Roth. One thing, don't thank me for following my orders." Roth smiled once again in the same fashion, as he, without shaking her hand, turned back around and kept on walking like he was a moment ago. Now he was out. In the hotness and brightness of a day on Korriban. As usual, he didn't mind the Sun, or any of it's aspects. He didn't let the girl out of his mind, not for a long time that day, as he walked on towards the training grounds and caves of old Sith Darths and others.

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She'd sigh when he'd walk out. The pain on her side still throbbing she hobbled out of the tavern looking up at the hot sky. And head to her quarters to rest up for the next day.

OOC: Sorry if that's short but it's the end of the duel so lol. Thanks for the great first duel Gray.