[21:22] Rockhound10000: Lord Daeryl slipped out from the building's shadow, his clawed hands flexing in and out of their sheathes, craving the blood he would need to complete his ritual. All the pieces were in place, the spells drawn, the power harvested from this diverse ecosystem that the Vong had so generously supplied him with, but he still needed that final piece to tap into the limitless well that was the Jedi Temple: A touch of Force-Sensitive blood that was still, in some way, harboring a scent of light.

So now, he was on the hunt, seeking the one who had drawn him here with its Force-aura radiating the Light Side of the Force in every step. With his quarry in sight, the Shi'ido Sith drew a single, bloodred lightsaber from a sheathe at its side, held it inactive, and began to close the distance between itself and its prey with the deadly speed that only the Force could provide.

[21:25] necrosis1193: Xinn merely stood, staring out a glass wall at the altered cityscape that had many times over been the pride of various empires. As he did so though, he felt a dark presence drawing close, and turned, awaiting its arrival, an unactivated lightsaber in both hands, staring out the doorway of the large auditorium he stood in.

[21:28] Rockhound10000: In the form of a massive, clawed, furry, snarling monster, the Shi'ido Sith exploded through the doorway with a dark snarl of the Force to announce his arrival. The massive hilt in his hand activated with a flick of his thumb, extending out into a massive, two-meter blade that fit perfectly with the proportions of the rest of the creature that the Sith chose to imitate.

"Jedi," It panted from vocal cords not meant to ever bear Galactic Basic, "I come for your blood."

[21:32] necrosis1193: Standing unhpased, Xinn merely stared metaphorical daggers into the warrior before him. " 'Jedi'? Please don't affiliate me with either your group or your enemies, I grew tired of these squabbles years ago."

"Now then." Xinn adopted a simplistic stance, igniting his own blade, which also began glowing crimson. "I do not enjoy murder, so I will give you once chance. Leave immediately," A finger on the saber hilt twitched, activating a second blade. "Or face your end."

[21:37] Rockhound10000: Lord Daeryl's harsh laughter grated across the massive room. "You think I wish you to care about what I call you? Fool. I call you Jedi because you still hold a single spark of light in your blood. And murder is an instrument of life, fool. To deny it is to deny power itself."

His own massive 'saber's hum was seconded by a crackling sound as the Shi'ido Sith drew out, in his left hand, a dark weapon, something from far back when Kresh had been in power, although it had been popularized by Lumiya, whom this Sith had drawn his knowledge from. Grinning now, he thumbed the activation switch and a glowing lightwhip thrummed to life, sizzling as it coiled at his feet in preparation for the coming battle.

[21:39] necrosis1193: "If you wish to die tonight, then so be it. Come at me when you wish and make piece with whatever being you worship if any."

[21:42] Rockhound10000: "Worship? I worship only myself and my designs, for those shall prevail. I have forseen it and know it to be true, and the Dark Side does not lie." The Sith retorted smugly.

He roared and lunged, Vaapad, his chosen form, flowing out to embrace the Force of his opponent and feed off it to return to the host. The Lightwhip snaked out to lash at the Force-Sensative's lightsaber hand even while the massive blade came flying through the air at his midsection, the Sith sitting back smugly to see how his opponent would respond.

[09:57] necrosis1193: Xinn, realizing his opponent's size had him at a disadvantage due to the size of the room, rather than attempt to block or move to a different part of the room, threw himself through the thin glass wall he had been staring out of moments ago, shattering it, hiding his face from the glass with his arm and landing on a platform a few yards from the window. "If you honestly want my life that bad, come and get it."

[10:01] Rockhound10000: The Sith showed his teeth in something that was definitely not a smile, and he changed. His skin rippled, the muscles beneath flared and thrashed, the bones melted and ran like water as the hundred-and-thirty-year-old Shi'ido invoked his birthright, changing himself into the form of a human male, his massive lightsaber having been left where it laid on the ground in favor of a pair of smaller, more maneuverable ones which had appeared from inside himself.

Lord Daeryl stalked forwards, twirling first one lightsaber and then the other until he had reached a space a few meters away from the Force-Sensitive. Then, he opened his mouth and hurled out a full-power Force Scream.

[10:02] necrosis1193: Xinn brought up a simple shield with the force to protect himself from the scream, then held up an outstretched hand, throwing a strong force push at his opponent in an attempt to send him spiraling to the lower levels.

[10:05] Rockhound10000: Lord Daeryl dropped one lightsaber to the ground as he thrust out his own palm to catch the Force Push and hold it from himself with a mental effort. He breathed out and released a piece of his rage, his malice, into the now-captured attack and hurled it back, now crackling with lightning and ready to explode when it reached near the Jedi.

[10:07] necrosis1193: Glancing around for something to absorb the attack, Xinn shrugged, then pressed a button on the hilt of is saber-splitting the double-ended weapon into two separate weapons, then cut a circle beneath himself in the platform, sending him falling below and the attack into a wall. As he fell he stabbed both blades into the side of a building, slowing his descent, until he reached another building with a glass wall, kicking it in and jumping inside it.

[10:11] Rockhound10000: The Sith growled in frustration that he would not be able to finish this battle so easily. He whirled reached out a hand and caught the piece of metal that the Jedi had sliced through as it fell into his mental grasp, and drew it back up to himself. The Sith stepped out onto it and, with the Force as his guide, slid off the ledge and floated down to where the Jedi had vanished. He roared, thrust out a hand, and launched a massive wave of the Force in an attempt to dislodge the Jedi from his hiding place and shatter all the glass on the level, making it much more difficult terrain to fight in. Which was just what the Shi'ido wanted.

[10:13] necrosis1193: Xinn once more projected a simplistic wall of force energy before himself as protection from the barrage, lowering it once it subsided. "You can't keep this up forever. Do you actually intend to use that lightsaber of yours or are you like so many who just hold onto it so as to be able to intimidate commoners?"

[10:18] Rockhound10000: "Fool!" The Sith cried. "I am a Sith Lord! You cannot hope to defeat me with anything. The Force would be a much less painful end for you, but I can carve you to pieces if that is what you wish."

Contrary to his word, though, the Sith lunged through the window and lashed out with a crackling Storm of Force energy, lacing the area with intense bolts of rage and hate.

[10:21] necrosis1193: For a third time Xinn held out an open hand and projected a wall before him blocking his opponent's attack. "I've been a Sith Lord multiple times in the past, at least once I have a good feeling I was your superior, do you honestly think that's supposed to intimidate me?"

[10:24] Rockhound10000: "Superior?" Lord Dearyl snorted. "I've been inferior to none. Not even that pretender, Krayt, could command me. You still have that spark of light in you. You have never been fully Sith."

He whirled in a circle, drawing up the glass shards near him and hurling them in a wave at the Jedi. Behind the Jedi, too, was the same wave a second time, flowing to cut off all escape. The Sith was confident that he could at least draw blood with this attack, if not end this farce with the lacerations that this could possibly bring.

[10:26] necrosis1193: Upon the chards being thrown at him, Xinn stabbed his lightsaber into the ground, then crouched next to it, bringing up a dome-shaped shield around himself and the saber instead of the usual wall. "If throwing debris is all you can think of, please, drop your weapon and let me carve your heart out already, save us both some trouble."

[10:30] Rockhound10000: The Sith snorted in disdain. "And what have you done but cower behind your little shield and whine?"

He launched another volley of Force-Lightning, now aiming to overload the shield gauge this Jedi's Force-Ability rather than just destroy him. After all, he had all night for that. It's not like he had anything better to do.

[10:32] necrosis1193: Xinn lowered the shield where the lightning was coming from, holding out a hand and catching the attack. "Because as I said I don't enjoy murder. If you want to die though, then be my guest!" With that, he sent the attack back at his opponent, adding in his own lightning to give the attack twofold the power.

[10:37] Rockhound10000: Now it was the Sith's turn to react instinctively, throwing up his own red-orange shield quickly enough to allow the lightning to dissipate against the Force-hammered surface rather than against the Shi'ido's body. "Then come and die, Jedi. I will tear you apart."

Unknown to the Jedi, though, the Sith had been taking all the rest of the glass around them and standing it up on end so that it would, when the Jedi advanced, cut into his feet. That would remove any speed and agility advantage that the Jedi had, if he chose to advance as the Sith expected.

Deep below the dueling pair, a large, hungry presence began slowly rising up the sides of the structure, drawn by the sound of the clash. Yuuzhan Vong terraforming wasn't just about changing the planet. It also went after the creatures, the plants, the inhabitants and changed them forever. Left them ravenous.

[10:41] necrosis1193: Xinn rejoined the two blades into one, then jumped high above his opponent at a speed aided by the force, coming down on his opponent at a similar speed, the lightsaber acting like a spinning, glowing, arc-wave guillotine.

[10:46] Rockhound10000: The Shi'ido invoked the teaching of his master, one of the earliest of the Dark Jedi, something from far within the original Holocron.

His vision clouded with red as Lord Daeryl unleashed his full fury, the pent-up rage he had kept boiling inside himself for so long. He could feel his reflexes increasing, his speed multiplying, and his power soaring.

Now, he was easily able to combat anything that this Jedi threw at him, and he met the descending enemy with one blade slanted to redirect the descending enemy's attack power while following up with the other in a blinding strike of liquid purpose, aiming to slice into the Jedi.