He taught them for hours, teaching them push, pull, speed, sense, and even a basic mind trick. They went to bed exhausted. They woke up the next morning perfectly fine. They were starting to believe Kelden. They really did have a special connection to the Force. They ate breakfast and reported to the training room. They found there only a note.
Training course. Was all it said. They reported to the course and found no one there. Sar'ri heard something. She whipped around, Kordav was only a beat behind her. They soon found two sabers, one blue, one purple, flying at them. They countered in unison. The sabers came on again, this time with Kelden behind them. Kyle Katarn followed with his single blue lightsaber. Kelden confronted Sar'ri. His sabers whipped back and forth in a flurry of light and sound. Sar'ri blocked the best she could. She was sure that, if he wanted to, Kelden could hit her at any time he wanted. She waited patiently and when Kelden backed off just a little, Sar'ri pressed the attack. Her small saber dove for Kelden's side, her large one aiming at his head. Kelden blocked them effortlessly. Her dagger whipped in reverse, going out away from Kelden and joining her other saber. She forced Kelden's saber down and in, maneuvering it to shunt Kelden's second saber down. Kelden jumped back just in time to avoid the nasty hit he would have taken from Sar'ri's backhanded saber strike.
Kordav fought cautiously. His saber worked relentlessly to fend of the just-as-relentless Kyle. That blue saber nearly took his head off several times, yet he always seemed to get his saber around with a wrist rotation, sidestep, or backpedal. As he gained momentum, he pressed Kyle. Taking ground step by step, his black saber hummed and whistled. Kyle was losing, he realized, and almost pressed into a corner.
"NOW!" Kelden yelled, and the two Jedi masters jumped over the slightly startled and completely bewildered students and ran in different directions. Kordav chased Kyle, Sar'ri Kelden.
Sar'ri whipped around a corner and nearly ran face-first into Kelden. She jumped back and readied her sabers, but Kelden didn't attack. He raised his hand and used the Force to pile bricks in front of the door. Sar'ri cut at them with her sabers, but it was no use, for the blocks were corotosis coated in durasteel. Sar'ri concentrated, raised her hand, and pushed with all the Force she could muster. The bricks flew back at blinding speeds, slamming into, and cracking, the opposite wall, ten feet away. I'm starting to believe Kelden, she thought, maybe we arespecial. She entered another arena and quickly lit her sabers. Kelden was nowhere to be seen. Sar'ri concentrated again. She sensed something high and at her back. She turned, whipping her dagger at Kelden in the same motion. It was smacked harmlessly wide and Kelden disappeared again over the wall. Sar'ri recalled her dagger and continued, to find the door locked. She looked around and found a lever behind a grate. She tried cutting the bars, but, alas, more corotosis. She concentrated, finding that the Force was easier to connect with each time she did it, and pulled the lever. She entered a hallway only to find the door closing. She hit the panel and ran, but was to slow, the hallway was too long. She walked back, used the panel to open the door, and tried again. Again, she was to slow. She concentrated, finding she didn't have to even close her eyes to find the Force, hit the panel and ran. The door seemed to move as if through honey. She dove into a roll and barely made it through. She thought the whole thing too easy as she Force jumped up to a circular platform. Kelden was waiting for her. She whipped her dagger at him and charged. The reckless move startled Kelden for a split second before he smacked the dagger out of the way. It went a foot before it reversed direction to return to the charging Sar'ri's hand. Her sabers worked furiously, driving even the experienced Master back. Kelden waited for his chance. A foot before he would have fallen off the edge of the platform, he found it. He jumped high, right over Sar'ri's head. He expected the flying dagger as he landed, but didn't expect Sar'ri's other saber coming at him as well. He crossed his sabers in front of him and whipped them out to the side, smacking both sabers aside. In the moment it took him to realize the ploy for what it was; Sar'ri had gathered all the Force she could and shoved the Jedi Master off the platform, exploiting his split second of vulnerability.