Encounters in the Emperor's Palace (closed)

[Marekis Mudane]

Mare, tookin by surprise backed a step back and staired down at the new mans blade. Sweat dripped down his forhead. He was nervous, but he couldn't show it in front of them. he cocked a brow and stared him down with a wide grin, but still awkwardly from his nerves.

"Oh what you going to kill me? Fine go for it I can't stand the site of you two alive anymore, its disgusting."

He took a look back at Skeang.

"You got lucky flesh bag, but don't expect to get of that easy...I'll see to it you die...whether I'm dead or alive ....you will die...."

[Eth Erzin]

"How can you so confidently assure his death when you yourself are staring it in the face?" Lents was confused by this Firrereo. Was he insane? Or he could be playing the overconfidence-in-spite-of-sure-destruction game. Lents wouldn't let the Firrereo's attitude faze him. Lents maneuvered his lightsaber through the air so that it covered the Firrereo's back while Skeang blocked his front. Surely he wouldn't be able to escape.

[Skeang]

Skeang suddenly began to sense fear in the air he gripped his sabers tightly and punched the ground with both fists

"many have tried many have failed" he found himself growling "many have cut me slashed me beat me" he lunged forward and screamed "all have died trying"

he slashed forward in a large X tightening his fingers into sharp nails as he slashed

[Darth Jeluvitas]

Jeluvitas felt the danger his apprentice was in. he decided, rather than helping him, to let him help himself. he spoke through the force so that only his apprentice could hear his words

"Marekis, you are outmatched here. if you fight, you die. however, there is an alternative to fighting. one of the ones you fight is an extreme jedi. use his beliefs to your advantage. convince him that it is the wrong thing to do for you to be murdered. convince him the right thing to do is to allow you to redeem yourself, and act as if you are ready to forsake the sith way, only until you can escape. use their idealism to your advantage."

[Marekis Mudane]

Marekis heard his masters words speak to him, guiding his actions. Marekis disliked the idea, but seeing the situation was hopeless it was worth a try. As he heard the words he snapped back to his view seeing the beast come at him he ducked down just out of sight of the X and dropped down to a pleading stance.

"STOP!!!....Please....don't kill me! Are you really going to strike me down here, while I'm like this?! Your a jedi right?! Your supposed to be the ones with the morals!!. I-I'm sorry, let me make it up. I'll throw my sith ways away if you just let me LIVE!!!"

Marekis stopped down there on the ground cringeing waiting for them to strike him down anyway.

[Eth Erzin]

Lents stopped. The sith's action was very sudden, and not entirely rife with sincerity. It seemed like a shallow plea for his life, and an appeal to the Jedi code. Lents made no move to kill the sith, but kept his lightsaber up and out. He looked towards Skeang for a decision.

[Skeang]

Skeang heard the words they pierced his anger like a knife but he did not allow this momentary lapse in his concentration show. He broke his stance still holding a stern angry face he twirled his lightsaber playfully jabbing in marekis's direction while saying.

"its not my style to show mercy to anyone whos been cocky during a fight but since im attempting to turn myself around letting you live seems like a fair idea."

He thought for a second or 2

"Kid don't say i never did anything for you. Cause I've got an idea. That will let this little guy keep his head and neuter him as a threat for the time being."

He slashed forward at the arm that marekis used for his saber with a blow that would easily break the bone and cause serious yet purely temporary damage.

[Marekis Mudane]

Marekis thought to himself on what to do. Chances were if he tried to stop him, they would kill him anyway, but if he took this blow he wouldn't be able to fight them later anyway. Life without taking a life is no life for Marekis Mudane. Yet he feared what his master would do if he left him be. If Marekis had no arm to fight he would be of no use to his master. But if he fought back he would surely die. Without any time to think Marekis took to blow. He screamed out in pain and fell to the floor grasping his arm looking up at the jedis.

"That....that was as corrupt as any Sith I've seen here....what are you teaching your student?!"

[Eth Erzin]

Lents looked away, tturning a blind eye to Skeang's action. "I don't necessarily condone it, but that's not even a Jedi you're working with. I will follow the Jedi code, but the gen'dai is a wild sabacc card." He turned away. "Let's go Skeang, we don't have anything to stick around for. If he's sincere he'll seek the Jedi out." Lents turned back to the sith. "The Jedi can forgive your past actions, and know that that was just a precaution." Lents backed away then started to leave. This whole incident had been a disaster. He didn't know what the firrereo's deal was, but the rest of the adventure had been a mistake caused by his own rashness. Pain continued to throb through his hand as a friendly reminder of it.

[Skeang]

Skeang lifted his captive apprentice over his shoulder and indicated Hurrikaine to follow saying.

"a wild sabacc card? i like to think that I'm smart with my actions... as rash as they may be. Lets get going."

*im trying to get a hold of hurrikaine*

[Odottaa]

Odottaa began circling the temple waiting for Lents to contact him. He tried sending a few short and subtle transmissions to him, but he had yet to hear from him. He decided to strike up a conversation with his current passenger.

"So how do you know this kid Lents?

[Darth Jeluvitas]

Jeluvitas sent another thought message to his apprentice.

"Let this be a lesson in the weakness of the jedi. they are easy to take advantage of, and can be manipulated into doing your will. your arm is no great loss. you can easily repair it, and fight with the other arm if necessary. now is your next lesson: patience. you need to wait until the perfect moment to strike, when they are at their weakest. you must not ignore all strategy and subtlety because you have incredible power in the force. wait for the proper moment, when their back is turned, and they are preocupied. then you may strike. for now, focus on healing your arm so that it may have even some use when the time comes. simply focus the force into the damaged area, and feel it come back together."

[Rayn Ares]

"I actually met him by chance. He helped me to find- " Rayn hesitated a moment wondering whether or not he knew about the jedi. "- someone I needed help from. It really helped me out, so I guess I owe him. But to be honest, I've never really had the chance to make many freinds before. In fact there are few people in this galaxy that I know at all... I guess I just don't want one of those few people to die."

Rayn decided to change the subject. " So how about you? How much do you know about Lents exactly?"

[Odottaa]

"I know he is a jedi, and i know that he is an idealist. Honestly i could care less about the galaxy, and the only person I care about is myself. This is just a matter of convenience, and while I don't care about much, i do care about being honorable. I told him i would help him, so i will."

[Marekis Mudane]

Marekis grunted from the pain in his arm as the large one picked him up. All he could send to his master mentally wasn't of great interest.

"What was that I couldn't hear you over the PAIN in my ARM..."

[Rayn Ares]

Rayn relaxed a bit on hearing that he already knew about the jedi situation, then he allowed himself to smile a bit," Well, regardless, this guy seem to attract some interesting people."

[Eth Erzin]

Lents tapped a message back to Odottaa when he noticed that his comlink had been flashing. He hadn't realized in the midst of the tense situation.

Yeah, I'm on my way. Skeang and Hurrikaine and I are out of here.

Well, things certainly went less than desirable... he thought. "Come on Skeang," he motioned down the hallway, "Let's go. Before more Sith show up."
The entire time he thought about the Chiss. So that sith wanted to kill the emperor, too? One sith wa sjust as bad as another when they were in power, but Lents was forced to acknowledge that the chiss was much more lenient to Jedi than expected. Maybe it'd be good for him to let the Chiss rise to power. Then the jedi could have time to overthrow him... but that's awfully close to deception and betrayal, tools of the dark side... Lents shook his head, trying to find the answer to a seemingly insolvable moral dilemma.

[Skeang]

Skeang continued down the hall with his captove on his back he had an increasingly bad taste in his mouth. It went against his morals to save someone he had never met without any idea of gain not to mention putting his friends in damger. Another pain he had was with the young sith he wanted to kill him but knew that would set him years back with the jedj. He felt bad with all this but remembering his use as "torture dummie" during his sith training and couldnt help to feel good for saving another young one from being cut down.

[Marekis Mudane]

As marekis lay limply on the shoulder of the beastly man many thoughts ran through his head. One of which was the same one several times over. Why am I doing this? Honestly this was possibley the last thing Mare would ever be caught doing in any other condition. But seeing the situation, and the order of his master, nothing could be done. After awhile the silence ate at Marekis. Might as well strike a conversation, see if he can get any info he could use later on possibley...

"So...where in the hell are we going.....?"

[Skeang]

*lmao i did mean him but ill work around it*

Skeang smiled letting out a half hearted giggle as he said.

"well since you and the person you were fighting both seem to be indisposed your going just about anywhere we want you to go which is currently based entirely on how long the dopes that run this place chase us once we escape."