Jedi Enclave

[SK]

He chuckles at the thought of him still having friends within the Order.

"Skywalker, you and your petty claims will do nothing for you. I have no friends in the order, in fact, most of the Jedi have already shunned my existence. They would rather see me die for my so called "crimes". The Jedi are nothing more than liars, and hipocrites."

He then dipped his head a bit, as he had to think about his friends in the order for a second, but then shook his head at the thought, and looked back up to Luke.

"You know Luke, the difference between the Jedi and the Sith are pretty much the same, but in different points of views. The Jedi feel that they need to protect life, and follow the force as a means to fulfill thier roles as defenders of the galaxy, while the Sith, they have to take what they want, because they only rely on brute force, and fear. We all want the same thing, you and I, but in different means. I want peace in the galaxy, just as much as you do, but I am willing to fight for it, while you Jedi, you rely on others to fight the battles for you. So enough of your Jedi propaganda, I have heard it all before..."

He then sees that Mara is coming more towards his right side, as if she were trying to flank him.

"Mara, you of all people in the order should know the pain that I feel. You lost your family at a young age, and you lost your master when you were at your peak. You can still have a glorious life of power, wealth, and peace, if you join me?"

He then brought his lightsaber up towards his body, and spread his legs into an open stance, and crouched down into an Ataru form, with his lightsaber up and over his head, with the blade pointing down at Luke.

"I am not going back to the Jedi, nor shall I answer for my so called "crimes". If you want me to be stopped, then you will ust have to kill me, because my pain will never stop..."

He started to generate more of the dark side within him, to where the council chambers started to shake violently, and the rubble on the floor started to rise in the air.

"YOU WILL NEVER KNOW PAIN!! FOR MY PAIN IS GREATER THAN YOURS!!!!"

The shaking then stopped, and as soon as the rubble fell, he quickly dashed at Mara, with the speed of the Ataru form, he comes right at her, and spins in the air clockwise, only to land within a few feet of her, and used a powerful force push directed for her chest, in order to try and push her back against the wall as hard as possible, while with his lightsaber, he then threw it straight at Luke, without using the force to guide it, hoping to spear Luke in the chest, while he then activated his double edged lightsaber, as two red blades were seen coming from the opposite ends of the hilt, and stood in a defensive Shien stance.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke sees the green lightsaber coming toward him. He reaches out with the Force and stops it mid-air right in front of him. He shuts the shoto down and places it on his belt. With SK's lightsaber still firmly in his grasp within the Force, he brings it to his left hand. Luke now had two lightsabers. With a windmill action, he brings the lightsaber in his left hand up and over his head and swings it downward towards SK's right shoulder. With the saber in his right hand, he also brings it up over his head and brings it down towards SK's left shoulder.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

"Awfully tempting offer," Mara responds sarcastically. "But I have everything I want, and it's far more than I need."

She stands and waits for him to end his tirade, when he comes at her with a burst of speed, landing a few feet away. Mara feels his Force push on her chest and uses its momentum to launch into a backwards somersault. The instant she lands, her blue-bladed lightsaber springs to life and she charges forward, directing a slash as Starkiller's right thigh.

[SK]

He brings his double-edged lightsaber up to block both of Luke's strikes to his shoulders, and keeps the sabers locked. He then sees that Mara was not at all knocked out like he had hoped she would, and using her own momentum against her, he lifted his body into the air, while the sabers are still locked, and uses both of his feet to try and dropkick Luke into the chest, and using Luke's body as a springboard, as he backflips right over Mara's slash to his thigh, and attempts a slash to her chest with the right side of his blade as he was coming down from his flip.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke staggers back a couple of steps from the impact of SK's boots on his chest. He centers himself in the Force and moves forward. He immediately goes after him with his right saber striking from behind, going from right shoulder to left hip and the left saber then sweeping from the bend of the left leg to the bend of the right leg.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

Mara stumbles slightly when her blade does not come in contact with Starkiller's leg or his lightsaber. Seconds before it's too late, she brings her blade up vertically to block Starkiller's mid-air strike to her chest.

She pushes off from the point where the lightsabers meet, spinning around on her right foot to come face to face with Starkiller. While Luke is busy attack Starkiller's flank, Mara goes for his chest, striking diagonally from his left shoulder to his right hip.

[SK]

He then sees that his saber did not cut clean through Mara, and then also saw that Luke was coming at him from his backside, so he had to make a decidion quickly. He then brought his double bladed lightsaber up, and turned to face Luke, and with both of his blades, he blocks both strikes by Luke, and as he spins to meet Mara's attack, with his right foot, he attempts to kick Luke in the chest with a roundhouse kick. But, he was too slow to meet Mara's attack, as his right blade tried to meet her saber, and just got barely enough of it to stop some of the momentum, but her saber still came through and sliced his across the chest.

Angered, he used a powerful force push right at Mara's chest with his right hand, as he again tried to push her towards the wall, while he backed up a few steps, and places his hand on his chest, as he kneels down to one knee, breathing heavily and looking up to see if there will be another attack by either of the SKywalkers.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke takes the kick to the chest and flies backwards, hitting then sliding across the floor. He has landed on the far side of the room away from the doors. Luke scrambles to his feat and assumes a defensive position. There is nothing between SK and the exit.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

Momentarily distracted by her satisfaction at injuring the Sith, Mara doesn't react in time to Starkiller's Force push. She is sent soaring into a nearby wall, and she lets out a small groan as the back of her head impacts with the wall.

Shaking away the cobwebs as she stands, Mara realizes that she dropped her lightsaber during her flight. She quickly calls it back to her hand with the Force and reignites it, waiting for an attack.

"Blast it," she mutters, breathing heavily, when she saw that Starkiller had a clear path out of the Council Chambers.

[SK]

He then looked at both Skywalkers, as they seem to have been inured a bit, but he too was defenseless as the inury across his chest was causing him to breathe heavily, and a lot of his strength was fading. He saw the open pathway, and knew that if he ran for it cleanly, there was a chance he could be cut off by them. So, he gathered up enough of the force into his body to be able to stand up. As he stood up, he looked to Luke.

"Skywalker, this is not the last that you will hear from me. There is a terrible threat coming to this galaxy, and I would not want to be in your shoes when they get here. We will meet again, and like I said, you will feel my pain soon enough."

He then looks over at Mara, and gives her a sly wink, and with his right hand, he calls for the ceiling to collapse on her, as he makes his escape towards the exit, hopefully ending Mara once and for all, and having Luke feel the pain of losing someone.

[Luke Skywalker]

As pieces of the ceiling begin to fall, Luke watches SK make good his escape. He centers himself in the Force and reaches out and grabs the bits of ceiling and sweeps them aside to a corner of the Chambers. Looking at the door, he realizes that SK has too large of a head start. He runs over to Mara, "Red, are you alright?"

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

Mara deactivates her lightsaber as Luke runs over. "Yeah," she answers him, coughing from the dust that the ceiling stirred up. "I'm fine. A couple new bruises, a bump on the head, I'll survive." She glares out the chamber doors Starkiller fled through. "That cut on his chest will only delay whatever it is he has planned, though. Are you all right?"

[SK]

As he leaves the Enclave, he then gets into his ship and gets into his pilot's seat and while injured, he places his hand on his chest, to stop the bleeding, and takes his ship and heads towards orbit.

[Luke Skywalker]

"Yeah, I'm fine," disappointed that they didn't stop SK. "What say we get out of here, get back to Yavin IV. Any idea what he was talking about, 'a terrible threat'?" Luke looks around at the Chambers, curious as to what SK was looking for here.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

"Scare words, is my guess. If we're concerned about a threat to the whole galaxy, we'll concentrate less on him." Mara attaches her lightsaber back to her belt. "Let's go home, farmboy. Inform the other Jedi what has happened."