Cryos blocked Yamna's lightsaber with his leech tree staff. To her shock and amazement, the simple wooden staff held.
"Why won't it wont cut?" She demanded as she pushed as hard as she could.
"I'm just full of surprises." Cryos responded as he whipped his tail at her face.
Yamna did a back flip to escape and looked up just in time to see Cryos swing his staff right at her face. She jumped back as Cryos went on the offensive.
"I will not let you destroy this Universe!" He roared, swinging his staff at her. The swings that hit the floor shattered the ground.
Yamna grew tired of dodging and grabbed his staff with both hands. The two wrestled over it for a moment but neither could pull it from the other's grasp. Yamna tried twisting it to break it, but the staff didn't bend so much as an atom's width.
"My staff has quite a few interesting abilities." Cryos told her. "For example, the harder you try to break it the stronger it becomes."
She shoved him back and then vanished with a sudden burst of speed. Cryos kept his cool and waited. He didn't have to wait long.
The ground beneath his feet exploded and Yamna attacked viciously with her lightsaber.
Cryos easily blocked every swing and then lightly tapped her on the head with his staff. "You're sloppy when you're angry. Your mother is the same way."
"Don't compare me to HER!" Yamna roared and punched him. Cryos blocked but the blow was so hard that he was sent flying backwards. He regained his balance just in time to dodge another attack.
The two stopped and waited a moment. Yamna pulled another lightsaber from her belt and ignited it. Cryos checked his staff but found no damage.
"Aren't you going to attack me?" Yamna asked him.
"In good time." He replied. "This fight is far from over."
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Kentra awoke again. This time she was alone.
She struggled to her feet and gasped as she put weight on her left foot. It was either broken or very badly sprained. She tried to fly, but the pain was interfering with her concentration.
She hopped over to the wall where a chair sat in front of some kind of computer console. The chair was simple wood, and easily smashed into a splint.
As she wrapped up her leg she saw an indicator light on the computer blinking. She turned it on and saw Yamna fighting Cryos.
"No…" She murmured.
Kentra knew that look she saw in Cryos's eyes. She had only seen that look a bare handful of times. He was fighting completely seriously with the intent to kill.
She looked at Yamna and saw a perversion of the same look. She looked so much like her father, but her face was twisted in a mask of haltered.
"I have to stop this." She said as she wrapped up her leg with two long pieces of the chair. With her leg bound and using another piece as a crutch she set off down the hallway.
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Cryos expertly spun his staff, blocking every slash of Yamna's twin lightsabers. He still wasn't attacking, and his calm ease was infuriating Yamna all the more.
"Fight me!" She screamed and threw her lightsaber at him.
Cryos easily smacked it away. "Are you serious?"
He sensed danger at the last second. From the corner of each eye he caught a glimpse of movement. The lightsaber was flying! No, Yamna was controlling it through the Force!
And now that she no longer had his full attention, Yamna ran to attack him with her remaining lightsaber.
Cryos knew he couldn't block them both. They were going to hit him at the same time and not even he was that fast.
Making a quick decision he threw his staff like a javelin at The flying lightsaber. It flew exactly how he planned and hit the handle of the lightsaber, shattering the focusing crystal inside and reducing the weapon to a useless chunk of metal.
But now he had to deal with Yamna.
He pulled off his courora gem shirt and when she stabbed at him he spun and wrapped the blade up in the shirt. It sparkled wildly under the assault of light, but held.
Yamna deactivated the lightsaber for just a split second, letting the shirt fall to the floor. The she reactivated and slashed again.
Cryos jumped and started to do a back flip Yamna dove forward but to her surprise Cryos landed on his hands and didn't finish the flip, leaving her too close to properly swing her blade and him upside down.
He whipped his tail around her wrists, further impairing her movement. She managed to move the blade just enough to hit his now exposed stomach.
In desperation, he grabbed the blade with his foot. He grimaced as the blade burned the skin right off his toes, but he didn't let go. Yamna struggled but couldn't free her blade and with the angle she couldn't reach the switch anymore.
Cryos twisted his back and managed to get another loop of tail around her hands. He squeezed and crushed this lightsaber as well.
He breathed a sigh of relief as the skin on his toes started growing back and Yamna roared in frustration.
She spun around and broke his grip. She moved her hands to make sure they weren't broken, but found nothing wrong. "That was a cheap trick." She said.
Cryos snorted. "You're one to talk."
Yamna smiled. "But now we're both unarmed."
"Perhaps. But I learned long ago to not depend on weapons in a fight."
Yamna held up a ball of energy in her hand. It was a powerful little energy bomb on its own, but it sparkled with dark Force energy.
Cryos eyed it wearily, this fight had just gone up a notch.
She flew at him, intending to hit him directly with it. He knew he could dodge, but she would just chase him down till she got him with it. Cryos couldn't afford to let that bomb hit him directly, he already knew what dark Force energy could do to him.
He held out his hand and concentrated all his life force into it. He could attempt to block with that, but it would hurt, a lot. Instead he held out his hand at where his staff had landed across the room.
The Leech Tree wood was attracted to the life force in his hand and flew to him. He caught it and instantly felt the staff draining huge amounts of life force from him. Normally it only could only take low amounts, but with it already concentrated in his hand it could take as much is it wanted.
Cryos slammed the staff into the floor between himself and Yamna. He could already feel the staff starting to change. He was only going to have one chance at this and had to time it perfectly, he started force feeding the staff. Pumping even more life force into it than it was already taking.
Yamna hit the staff before she realized what was happening. The simple wooden staff expanded around her hand, absorbing and snuffing out the energy bomb in her hand. The dark Force energy in the bomb was insignificant compared to how much life Cryos had given the staff.
She struggled but it continued to expand around her.
In less than a second, Yamna was firmly imbedded in a fully grown Leech Tree.
The tree stood only ten feet tall, with a swollen trunk full of holes that normally served as homes for the Lalz on their native planet.
Yamna's head and shoulders were all that was visible sticking out of the tree. She tried to fight, but it was no use. Any energy she summoned up was siphoned away by the tree.
"You said you learned to fight without weapons!" She accused.
"And I did." He assured her. "But when you have weapons, why go without?"
She growled in anger and frustration.
"Ok, I admit it. Now THAT was a dirty trick."