Anyone up for a good ol' spar???

[Jedi Knight Leia Solo]

**Leia gave a slight chuckle off as she jumped back onto her feet**

I remember teaching you that move!

**Leia smirked**

**Before Warren can even blink...Leia force sped to Warren bringing her saber back into a full swing arch coming right towards his head. Warren instinctively ducked only to find Leia bring her saber hand back down in a full motion smacking him hard in the back of the head with the hilt causing his head to jolt forward while she simultaneously brought up her knee to meet his face..causing Warren's head to jolt back violently from both strikes. For extra insurance Leia motioned quickly with her left hand for a force push..sending the bewildered Warren plummeting into a tree behind him before sliding to the ground.

**Leia kept her distance waiting for Warren's counterattack**

[JediBeldarine]

**She pushed herself off the ground. Pain skittered across the void she held, but it was ethereal to her. Bel almost laughed, her Master was so powerful. Could she ever hope to come half near his power and control of the Force? She had a few scrapes up and down her arms, but nothing too serious. Mostly injuries that would hinder her tomorrow, but now, sunk in her emotionless void, she could not feel. To give up would indicate weakness, and one of the weak she was definantly not. Fight until you cannot fight any longer -- her mother, Chimeia, had taught her that. If she could still stand on her two legs, then she was able to keep on fighting.

**She had lost the two sabers in her tumble, but quickly used the Force to call them back to her hands. She ignites her Master's saber, but leaves her alone. Cocking back her arm, she throws her saber past Sage. It rockets by his face, but he does not turn to watch it. Knowing it obviously was a diversionary technique, he instead crouches lower to the ground. She was a fair distance away from him, but distance mattered not to those who wield the Force. With a quick burst of speed, she closed in. She dove into a roll that brought her a few feet in front of her Jedi Master.

**Springing up a slight distance in front of him, she throws her body into a backflip. Before Sage can back up, her forward momentum brought the heel of her soft leather boots in contact with his chin. The lit saber she had in her hand slashed out, knicking Sage slightly on his upper arm. Her heels touched the ground as the saber she threw completed its arc that it was sent on. It had not been a diversionary throw after all, rather it was thrown like a boomerang and with the Force, it was completing the circle. Using the Force, she ignited the flying saber. Its spinning blade of energy burned a shallow slash on her Master's back as he fell backwards from the blow to the chin.

**In a flash, the saber finally completed the route and sped into her hand. She was sweating, and the cuts made from her fall oozed blood down her arms. She hoped her master would not hold back anymore, she could take it. Could take any amount of punishment, it would make her stronger for it. She knew the Sith would not hold back in their battles. She was sparring with Sage for experience, in those battles she would be fighting for her life. Her one experience with a Sith had left her hurt, fighting for her life. That was something she'd prefer not let happen again.

**Her expression grim, she again lowered her body into a crouch, the duel sabers crossed in an X in front of her.. waiting for her Jedi Master, Sage Hazzard to rise.

[Sage Hazzard]

Sage smiled. His Padawan was improving by the second.

"For what I am about to do, I am deeply sorry."

Sage rose from the ground, wiping a drop of blood from his lip. His eyes focused on Bel's windows to the soul, pearing into her essence. His eyes glowed a hot white as the flame emerged. The cloth around her waste began to sizzle. A flame broke out on her clothing. She began distinguising it with her new found weather alteration ability. But the flame only grew stronger as she sapped the energy from the molecules. What was happening. Sage was using Alter Mind. He tricked Beldarine into believing she was being burnt, when in fact she was being frozen. With both Jedi's working at the same task, it looked horrific. Beldarine finnally snapped out of her mind alteration. Her limps were stiff, her body was moveless. She was unable to move under this frost to her body! Her entire body had become frozen. Slowly her mind began to fade from the coldness, breaking her grip with the Force. Sage put his hand to the Cube of ice that began to surround the Padawan as Sage refused to stop.

"I am sorry, but I must do this, for you. Only through challenges can I see the true power of your body.... and spirit."

[JediBeldarine]

**She strained against her freezing muscles. There had to be a way. She grasped the Force with all her strength, pulling and pushing. Heaving she tried to move, but her mind suddenly became as cold as her earthly body. Her muscles turned to lead, straining against the inevitable was pointless. Beldarine tried to hold on the the Force, but soon the coldness reached her mind. The ice crystals seeped into her soul, freezing it, numbing her sense of the Force. It vanished, and her precious void fled with it. Her brain howled, trying to figure out what to do. She forcibly calmed herself, repeating the Jedi Code over and over again. Anger was such an easy thing to give in to, it would be so easy. But it would also be the weak way out of her situation. Once she turned once in anger, forever would it dominate her path. Beldarine knew she was stronger than that. She felt the peace deep inside, the Force calling to her. Telling her what to do. She relaxed inside her ice tomb, letting herself go limp. Reaching out, she embraced the void again. All of her emotions were fed into the fire, and again, Bel was at peace.

**She floated in a sea of total calm -- ethereal, fluid motion. She could not touch the Force directly to melt the ice, but there was another way. Her thoughts became tranquil, she knew she had accomplished the feat before. Back.. back when she was extremely new, she had disconnected her soul from her body in order to create a breeze. Called astral projection by some, Force projection by others, Bel realized she had the equipment to free herself. Her master was not trying to destroy his padawan, he was merely trying to see if she had mastered all that he taught her.

He will find that I'm a good learner after this spar. I do not forget a lesson once it has been taught.

**Calmly, she disconnected her soul from her frozen material body. It floated silently in the air, hovering over the battlefield. Beldarine watched Leia and Warren fight for a few seconds, then slowly her gaze fell to her Jedi Master. The block was still growing larger, she knew it needed to stop. She observed where her sabers had fallen, disengaging once they hit the soft ground. She drew in the Force. It felt like a beacon shining through a dark night -- a beacon of light, of hope, of peace. Instead of thawing it from the outside, which she knew was futile (her master would simply create more ice to recover what was lost to the thermodynamics), she began to work on her body first. She sped up the energy located in the atoms that had frozen Bel's cell's together. Her soul was powerful, even more powerful than her concious mind. The possibilities were overwhelming. She worked quickly, speeding up the atoms, returning them to their natural state. At the same time, she also melted the ice closest to her skin. Her muscles began to relax, and the ice began to creep away from her centimeter by precious centimeter. Her soul worked harder on the block of ice surrounding the body, increasing the energy going into those molecules. Once the ice was an inch away from her body, she began heating the air surrounding the ice as well. Soon, not only was the ice warming itself, but the heated air surrounding it sped the process even faster. It was melting much faster than Sage could build it. In the temperature outside, ice automatically wanted to revert to its natural state, water. Sage's job was much harder than hers, for her ice gave up its crystalline structure almost gladly for the liquid state.

**Her Jedi Master never faultered, however. Inside her growing hollow ice cube, Bel finally snapped out of statis. The astral projection of her soul made her flex her muscles, hoping they were not damaged too much so she could not continue the spar. They seemed to be ok, if slightly stiff from the ice. Her soul snapped back into her body, coming once more in tune with her concious mind. It felt like a rubber band snapping back into place. The ice was thin enough that she could punch through it, but she had something different. Closing her eyes, she began to build up the pressure in the small ice tomb. She was not strong enough yet, but she was sure the pressure she created would make a wind enough to shatter the enclosure. Releasing the Force built pressure, wind pressed out from all sides. The ice entombment exploded in a dazzling display of shards and icicles.

**Beldarine collapsed to her knees, but stood shakily. The effort she expended building up that much pressure in such a tiny space exhausted her. But she would not show it. She pushed her pain back into the void, and stood. She was soaking wet, the water from the melted ice had soaked into every pore on her body. Quite frankly, she looked like a drowned rat. A very determined drowned rat, but a drowned rat all the same. She ignored the water dripping from her, ignored her very surroundings. There was only her, Sage, and the Force. The blessed Force. With a quick jerk of her mind, the sabers she had dropped when she had become entombed were back in her hands. A dual snap-hiss was heard as they sprung to life. The humming filled her ears, calming her even more. Her legs were slightly unsteady, it had taken all she had to battle her master to get out of her iceblock.

**She crouched low, sabers extended. She would wait. Counter his attack and gain strength, waiting for her next advantage.

[Sage Hazzard]

Sage bent in and spoke in a wisper.

"You must fight harder now then ever before. Only through pushing one's limits to we increase our ability. Ignore your pain, ignore your cold, fight as if nothing existed, not even your body."

Sage extended his hand, chanting as he did.

"You must use the Force now more then ever. Your muscles will fail you. But the Force will never betray you!"

Sage, through his rythmatic chanting, raised Beldarine's arms. They hung in the air, almost lifting her off the ground. Sage was strong in the Force.

"Can you get out of this? Do no use other means then countering me. Use what I am doing against me. Use no means other then Force Pushing, and do not use it on my body. You know what to do... I used the same method only seconds ago."

[JediBeldarine]

**Amazement passed across her face as she hung suspended, feet barely touching the forest floor. She sunk her soul far into the Force, meshing herself with the universal light. She felt the echo of the Force coming from all the surroundings -- from the slightest blade of grass, to the large oak trees in the distance. To her eyes, Sage was awash in a light as pure as the brightest star. He was strong in the Force, glowing brighter and brighter by the moment as he continued to use it against her body. She relaxed all her muscles, allowing herself to go slack against the restraints he had put on her. She felt him pushing against her, and tried to understand what was happening.

**An idea occurred to her, instead of going against her Master's use of the Force.. Bel would push with him. Using the Force, she pushed her arms up higher. His connection broke as she thrust up with all her might, sending herself flying up into the air. Somersaulting in the air, and used the Force to break her landing. Her knees only bent slightly as she landed upright. She had expended a large amount of energy breaking free from her Master's grasp, so Bel simply crouched down to wait for Sage to come at her.

[Sage Hazzard]

Sage smiled as the Padawan did the only thing she could do considering his requirements. And she did it with absolute accuracy.

Sage never stopped his assualt. Only through exaustion did onen uncover their true talents. Sage pressed on. He would have to simulate a Sith's attacking style to give the Padawan a adequate challenge.

He slid her across the ground. She went skidding, however slowly. She bumped softly into the wall.

Sage jumped down on her, his sabre's tip pointed at her throat.

"Ackward postition, get out of it."

Sage smiled, knowing his Padawan's resourcefulness.

[JediBeldarine]

OOC: What wall, Sage?? I thought we were in a clearing, lol... I'll just say my back hit a tree... kies?


IC:
**Consternation passed across her face. She had gone from wielding both weapons to hers scattered somewhere in the field, and his at her throat. It emitted no heat, but she could feel the beam of energy just inches from her skin.

**She knew a Jedi was never defenseless, because they wielded the force. Her eyes locked onto her Jedi Master's as she quickly thought of a way to get his saber away from her throat. If her arm even moved the slightest amount, she would be unconcious. She felt the cool touch of the bark against her back as the opponents locked eyes. His hand never swayed on the lightsaber hilt, and her mind searched the ground. Only seconds had passed when a large heavy branch came flying towards the back of Sage's skull.

**Sensing the object, Sage sent a quick force push towards the branch, and sent it skidding to the ground a few feet away from them. The saber was stil pointed at her, but his stance had shifted only slightly -- giving her the opening she needed. Quickly acting through the Force, she propelled herself over Sage. Her muscles felt tired from all the onslaught, but with the Force, she was strong as anyone. In her jump, the saber had knicked her across the collarbone, the wound was deep but it was cauterized by the energy of the blade.

**Searching the glade, she located her saber and called it back to her hand. A plan formed in her mind. Keeping a wary eye on Hazzard, she flowed with the Force up into the clouds. Reaching out all around her, she pulled the water vapor in the air together.. and the sky suddenly started to become very dark. A small breeze began to blow in, softly at first. The sky almost blackened, an ominous warning sign of what Bel was working on.

**She gasped her air, trying to breathe in. She did not have much energy to spare, hopefully what she was formulating would work.

[Sage Hazzard]

OOC - Man, I'm losing it. We are in a clearing. lol

IC -

Sage leaned against the tree. He watched his Padawan, never moving. He was eager to see what she would do.

[JediBeldarine]

OOC: It's ok man.. take two pills and lie down.. It'll all look better in the morning

IC:
**The wind began to pick up, blowing leaves and other light debris along with it. Using the Force, she pushed a large updraft of the warm air high into the sky. Twisting the updraft, filled with the moist, warm air, she rotated the air faster and faster. In the heights of the clouds, the swirling became intense, forming a supercell. Thunder echoed across the sky as she kept the Force centered on the swirling winds.

**Up in the sky, a tendril of cloud started to guide it's way down, rotating in a circular fashion. It was extremely small, and it had taken everything the young woman had. The funnel continued to spiral down as she went to her knees in pain. The force burned through her veins, sapping away her energy. The powerful vortex extended down to the ground, and she focused the remaining part of her will on the direction the swirling winds would take. It was small in width, but still a destructive force.

**Mechanicly, she raised her hand and pointed towards Sage. The swirling winds lurched in his direction. She was barely breathing, trying to keep the tornado under her control with the Force.

[Sage Hazzard]

Sage did not falter in the eye of adversity. He ran for the giant swirl of wind, he dove headlong into it.

His body began to spiral in the emmense turmoil of nature that was a Tornado. He felt as hif his limbs were being torn from his chest, and that they were, as well as the rest of his extremities. Finally, riding the force of the wind, he reached the top. He span out of it, free from the strength of it. His body hit the ground and went into a tumble. He caught himself and looked back at the Tornado, it was headed where he should have been. He pushed the wind surrounding it, pushing it farther. It hit the bulk of the Forest greenary and continued on it's way. Try as she might the Tornado would not detour from it's new path. Sage was much stronger in the Force and could handle the strain of continued usage better then she. The trees broke the wind, little by little. It dispersed. A few trees, as expected, lay in it's midst. But it was over.

Sage, now standing, turned to Beldarine.

"Try harder."

He smiled, knowing full well she would. He enjoyed seeing her potential. He pushed her abilities. Although at times he seemed harsh, he had the best intentions.