yes i know the character is similar to night crawler, that's where i got the idea but whatever he's cool. please give me some advice, this is mt first one. and yes i know it's long but i had some time on my hands so i wrote it and made it really long for one chapter, i'll put some more up though i'm not sure if i'll add it to this one.
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Legend of Shada Montrim: the shadow killer
'Tomorrow is my eighteenth year oddly enough I'm not over flowing with joy. At least I'll get a day off of that moronic job, but it has its perks, Lord tells me he'll give me a saber for the anniversary of my birth. Yeah that's after I pass through the fiery gates to the forest of control, it'll be easy enough but still those shinra fliers are a pain.'
'He sees me as a pawn that will stand by and do nothing and so far I have but as soon as he gives me the sith blade he promised me I'll be on my own whether he lets me or not.'
As Shada entered through the gates to the forested that his lord controlled through sheer will power, he felt a chill run down his spine and into his spade tipped tail. He was being watched, but that didn't shock him. Many a time he had viewed the "arena" as his mind-controlling lord called, simply kill most, only the remarkable survived. Shada had only seen a couple force users escape and even then they were "killed" as soon as they escaped and were turned into his lords mindless slaves. Drained of force and given tainted bits by their captor they slowly became the mindless pawns in his war against the Jedi.
'I won't become one of them' Shada said to himself 'my will is my own'. Finding himself a small crevice near the a ledge close to where he started he sat down in a meditative pose, he started to pay attention to all the "life" around him searching for the droids he knew were here. Finding one he started to throw his "static field" through it as if it were right in front of him, even though he new he wouldn't see it with his eyes. Suddenly the waves of static stopped and the droid carried on as if nothing happened, but the programming that alowed the droid to relay and record all that it saw was gone. And so he moved onto the next and the next until all that were in his range were had similar fates.
After setting up himself a meager base camp in the height of the trees shada proceeded on to the end gate having only his Straka Sith blade, that he received for his tenth. 'Too bad I can't just port there' shada mused to himself 'oh well he would notice my force signature would change way too much, at least he can't see me anymore'. As he walked along the "path" or at least what appeared to be a path. Shada actively scanned the area around him making sure there were no more droids that could tell on him, or worse one of the many demon creatures that "lived" in this unusual habitat.
Suddenly the animals started to converge on him before he could realize unnatural behavior. Shada gripped his poison blade in both of his three fingered hands preparing for the charge. And as if on direction they came two in front and one in the back. Leaping in to the air just above the three shinra boars, slicing one across the back and bring his sword around slicing the one at his behind across it's hair covered belly. The third one managed to get a five-millimeter gash across his arm with it's razor tusks, the two that had been sliced landed and collapsed into a convulsing spasm due to his sword that would end in nothingness. Shada ignored the screaming sensation in his arm after all it's just pain not like he should shy from it, just get the message it told him. "That's all it's good for" he told himself out loud. He realized that behind him that two shinra fliers were now aware of prey and were swooping in with their large mouths that could easily eat one of the boars he just killed.
Jumping onto one of their wide backs he drove his meter blade into the back of the beast. And as the beast crashed to the ground he pulled the blade from its back and jumped to the back of the other flier. He harnessed the large horns on the back of its head and to steer it away from the cold corpses that would soon be a feast for the tainted creatures of the forest.
He jumped off the fliers' back and into some of the trees nearby the podium that held the prize he had been waiting for, his saber a classic hilt of a sith with a red and black died durasteel hilt. And along side it was another Straka sword and sheath colored all black to be used with his velvet fur color. He added the sword along side the other one he had sheathed and retrieved and picked up the saber hilt and pressed the activator button on the side waiting to hear the snap hiss of the blade, which would be his freedom from this curse of a planet. But none came and he looked for what should be a blade, there was none, to his disappointment he opened up the hatch on the hilt and realized that it was his job to find his own crystal.
The ground started to rumble beneath his feet and he realized he had been being watched from afar and now he had to escape. Clipping the hilt to his belt he started to run down the vast stair that ran up each side of the vast temple. Cursing himself for being so foolish, Shada lowered himself onto his hands started to gallop down the stone path that. "The beasts are going to come after me for disturbing their homes" Shada thought out loud "time to get back to camp and fin…" right in mid-sentence he felt the creatures of the forest rally against him. His instincts kicked in, he now knew that his only option was to get out by collecting his crystal and escape.
For the next two, Shada raced through the forest, dodging fliers, small snakes, boars, forest cats, and all kinds of demon creatures. The creatures seemed relentless in their, it almost appeared as if they were herding Shada to his goal. Finally they stopped their relentless hounding and before him stood the mouth of a cave, literally a mouth the stalagmites formed teeth and threatened to chew anyone who entered the cavern. "Alright I'll just slip inside and get myself a little rest before I continue any further" Shada decided, and at that he slipped inside and fell into a rather deep sleep.
Hours later he awoke still groggy from his fitful sleep, though with a new vigor than before. He focused his attention out side and "saw the animals were still out there waiting for him to come and prove his victory. 'Well I guess I have to find a new way out' Shada said to himself, he strode down the neck of the cave his tail twitching in anticipation almost screaming 'I have a bad feeling about this'.
After walking a kilometer or so of hallway, it opened up into a little bit larger room than at the beginning filled with water focusing on the water and following it to where ever it went. He sensed nothing overly dangerous in the water but couldn't sense where it ended "that's odd" he said. Being able to sense a kilometer or so away, at all times had always been a useful advantage for him, now it was as if a cloud obstructed his view.
'Looks like I'm gonna get wet' Shada said with a chuckle, as he dove into the water. He had always been able to hold his breath for almost two hours the scientist hypothesized it was some pure oxygen gel in his lungs letting him go for such long times without air. The cold didn't bother him either he had been released into space and lasted long enough to make it back to the safety of a local satellite, though he almost died he was alive. As he swam he thought back to his training
'Parry, thrust, block, switch to tail, trust thrust, back flip' " good work you have shown your ability to fight well against my other assassins" 'Lord congratulated me as though it was the best I could do, no I have many more tricks up my sleeve'. 'Eventually he will receive what he deserves whether from me or not, I will not make his mistake I will not underestimate him or anyone' he swore to himself.
That's when he entered it, a massive cavern filled with black light and in the center was a massive dragon approximately ten meters in length. "Krayt Dragon" Shada silently whispered "I thought they were only on Tatooine" its scales seemed to shimmer of black death. It stirred suddenly, "What do you want" it seemed to scream at him. "You can talk" Shada asked unintentionally avoiding the question, "yes and no" the voice boomed back "what do you want"? "I'm in search of a crystal for my light saber" he replied not wanting to anger the beast with anymore questions, "I know of crystals, but not ones suitable for your weapon they are near my feeding ground". "How is it you can speak to me" Shada finally asked, "I am not speaking, you are only hearing" it boomed back. "So you are unable to help me" Shada questioned "not the way you would like" the creature voiced. "And what would that be" Shada persisted "For you to become one with the forceand feed me" and with that it let loose with a spray of lightning from it's horns.
Shada instantly started to put forth force static into the air around him putting up a wall of static. The lightning quickly was dissipated against the "wall" Shada jumped into the air over the creatures' head and onto its back slashing as it went but hardly doing any damage through it's tough scales. The beasts' forked tail immediately attacked with speed rivaling a Jedi master, switching one blade to his tail he proceeded to parry the tail while driving his second poison blade into the beasts' back. His spade tipped appendage not being able to hold out against the greater strength of it's opponent lost its weapon. Shada was thrown against one of the cave walls, and would have passed out accept for the extra oxygen in his system. Both he and the dragon knew that the beast was going to yield to the nothingness, in one last effort the dragon let forth lightning to fry Shada. Shada not being able to raise a shield for himself opened a portal and fell into it in an instant; he was transported to the other side of the cave as the dragon finally succumbed to the poison and breathed it's last. After being transported through space and having no more energy stay awake passed into unconsciousness.
As Shada woke up, a storm raged outside, the wind howled as if to rip the trees from their roots. But he had other things on his mind as if calling to him from him from the belly of the dead beast; he pulled out his sword from the creature and collects his other from the floor of the cavern. Listening to the "call" from the beasts belly he locates the source and plunges his clean sword into the beast and cuts a slice in it's belly and lets the dark ichor drain from the body. He reaches into the belly of the beast and gropes around for the sack. He finds it and rips the fleshy organ out of it prison of a body. Cutting a slice in the sack, he pours the contents on the floor of the cavern. Three perfectly round pearls black as deep space it self, fall to the floor. Picking them up he takes them over to the nearby pool and washes them free from their old self and places one inside the hilt of his light saber. Turning on his blade there it is the snap hiss, but it doesn't last it goes silently to nothing no hum, no nothing that makes it sound like a saber of the sith or jedi. The blade too, it is pitch black, as black as the crystal inside. With his new saber, his two crystals, and his new improved dark swords, he sets off to free himself.
'Hmm this must have been the dragons' hunting ground' Shada pondered as he left the lair 'that explains why there is none of those demon beasts around'. Then sprang from the bush came the deformed form of what once was a skilled jedi and it's apprentice. With flesh rotting on what should have been a corpse only, and a vile mold covering half of the firsts face. It spoke with gurgle of a deep voice "We have been… caaww cawww (coughing)… to collect your corpse from the layer of the beast, Master thought you dead". "You can assure him I am not" Shada reported, "Ahh but you will be, you're body was to be brought back, as lifeless and cold as the frozen lakes to the north".
"I assure you that won't be happening" Shada stated lighting his weapon and drawing a sword. The jedi took saber and flashing a purple blade, straight at him, blocking with his black saber a clash of sparks ignited into the air. The apprentice having almost bare bone on his arm quickly drew a vibrosword and slashed at Shada, bringing his sword up Shada halted the blade. Having two blades pressed to him, he felt a tingle in the hand carrying the sword and then as if by command a flash of electricity erupted from his blade and traveled into the vibrating metal edge of the sword. The apprentice recoiled backward as he was hit with an electrical shock that set his rotting hand a blaze with fire. Throwing a dark wall between him and the jedi, Shada hopped out of the path of the blade that went arcing wildly to the ground. The apprentice left with only a stump of a limb had switched his blade to the other hand and took on a more duel like stance. Shada recognized his challenge and brought his sword forward, shutting off his silent blade. The storm raging over head sent a loud crash of thunder through the air, as the water dripped down the edge of the blade he waited. With a yell the fleshless arm came charging forward and with a flash of electricity from Shada's blade. As steam rose from the discharge path, the apprentice slumped forward with a burn mark on the temple. Suddenly the violet blade ignited and sent back to it's master as though thrown returned to his hand.
Shada "retreated" back to the cave where the darkness gave him the advantage, that and lord would not be able to see what he would have to do the minion. He blended in with the darkness so perfectly it was tuff to see him even with light enhances. Sheathing his blade he got his light saber ready, and reached into himself and put forth static that he knew would blind the underling to his presence. Shada quickly climbed the wall effortlessly seeing the purple glow through the static field; he flipped off the wall and behind the deformed jedi making barely audible sound under the crackling of the field. Pointing the hilt toward the entity standing before him and ignited the blade he crumbled without a sound and the blade dropped to the floor disengaging the purple glow. Picking up the hilt he opened up the canister and replacing the crystal inside with one of his own, he turned on the blade of his new one and made an exact duplicate of his first. "Two is better than one" Shada thought out loud, clipping the hilt to the inside of his coat and shifting the blades to his back so that they made an "X" shape.
The ground shook as Shada walked outside; the rumbling increased quickly he felt the felt all around him. "Looks like the mold man had some tricks up his sleeve" Shada said referring to the dead jedi. The jungle was alive as creatures and small birds were running out of the way of the massive stampede of shinra Orrasists; large horned quadrupeds with stunning spurs on their backs. The first one came; using his two-toed feet Shada stepped on the head of the first one. Launching himself into the air Shada on the horns of one four rows behind the first, jumping again he headed towards the outside edge of the herd. This time taking his blade and stabbing it into the ground and balancing on the hilt. Pushing off the hilt he landed just out side the last of the Orrasist.
At last Shada finally reached the gate the beginning of his freedom was at hand. All he had to do was make to his Modified Tie Defender and escape the planets' defenses, and then it would be smooth sailing in hyperspace. Passing through the gate Shada had his two light sabers in hand waiting for what he knew would happen next. Surrounded by minions with blasters and swords of all types surrounding, all with disfigurements of there own. To his right a man with bony spikes protruding from his body, to his left a man with his skin rotting away, and before him stood the "general". A beast like himself, amputations made him have parts of animals from wings to claws to scaly hide that protected him from most blaster shots.
"It's good to see you made it back" he greeted "I was starting to think that you wouldn't make it back". "Yeah, because I never complete a mission" Shada retorted "So what has your master sent you to do". "Nothing, just to make sure you make to his thrown, in pieces" the general explained. "You realize it'll take more than just a couple of peons to stop me" "yeah, I know that's, why the army of our Lord is standing between you and your hanger" the General warned. "He is not my lord" Shada stated, "No, but you are, no were his servant and now you will be his slave". "I am no man's puppet" Shada said stalling for time. "I'll enjoy watching you fall to the masses set before you" the general laughed at him, "you haven't seen half the things I can do" Shada retorted.
And with that the two deformed warriors attacked, both wielding vibroswords. Shada blocked both and slashed the one with no skin and "punched" the other with his tail sending him spinning. This let him cleave the skinned one in half, as he sliced through it he felt his skin crawl. Immediately his tail pulled out a sword and let loose a blast of electricity at the spiked creature, though obviously not as powerful as the last it stunned the monster and his tail cleaved off it's head.
And that's the way it went attacking deformed monsters as he went down the red and black corridors and hallways. 'Parry, lunge, slash, block… oh shit you've got to be kidding me' Shada following the path to the throne had reached the massive doors. Upon looking at the doors they were embroidered in gold metal contrasting the black and red of the corridor. Streaming in front of the door was a steady flow of "corpses", as he now called them, lined up waiting for him to come at them. Thirty or so and their numbers were rising, stepping back to release himself from what he was about to do. 'It's time, not once have I needed to do this until now' Shada told himself. He ran forward the thirty or so meters clearing his mind as he went letting the primal self he always controlled take over. Then it happened, his pure yellow eyes gained blood red pupils. His almost black skin and fur turned red as the blood vessels under them were infused with oxygen. Directed by the task at hand his new self would curse all that opposed him. Now about fifty stood in his path.
Coming at them with almost a blood lust in his heart he sprang with his light sabers and blade. Landing on two crushing their spine and paralyzing them, swing his blade at a group of five cut them to pieces as he went. Bashing their heads on walls or other heads, tripping and stabbing, gore and the smell of cauterized blood filled the air as he slashed apart the pieces that had fallen looking to attach themselves back together. The whole corridor was red with the blood of the monsters. It was over no more oxygen to keep this avatar state up the blood drained from his eyes and the crisscrossing lines faded back to black. He breathed in and took it in as if for the first, taking no time to stare and gawk at the damage he had caused. Proceeding to the door stepping over body after body and ignited his silent blade, started to cut a circle through the door.
Finally stepping through and taking in the place he once called home, looking towards the throne feeling the presence he was searching for. Sitting there as if not viewing him a threat, the dark being sat on his throne of gold starring down on him waiting for him to speak. "I want my freedom granted to me" Shada put it bluntly knowing that the devil on the throne wouldn't care. "I know, all you have to do is take it" the voice taunted him, "Very well". At that Shada jumped up unto the plat form that held the pompous devil coming at him with a saber at his back, a sword in his left, and a saber in his right. Landing on the podium threatening to thrust his blade into its chest, the Demon Lord let forth a blast of lightning at him. Bringing up his sword, it absorbs the lightning into it and recharges its power ten fold. "Now that's odd I've seen you destroy light sabers with that" Shada goaded. Paying attention now the demon decides it can't face off against him with sheer power, pushing Shada off the platform he pulls a saber of his own out and ignites it. Landing gracefully Shada waits for him to come at him, leaping down from the seat of power. Landing just as graceful as Shada brings its blade up as to a challenge.
Starring into the yellowed whites of the beings three eyes, Shada knew saw the intelligence in them. 'This will not be fought with sword' Shada predicted, 'I will not make the others mistakes, his power is not physical'. Waiting for the inevitable to come he slowly let the force guide him in his actions preparing for what was next. The red blade rose in the air and came slicing down quickly, though not fast enough, rolling out of Shada dodged the blade and kicked his arm. Almost loosing his blade from the kick, the three-eyed demon showed his obvious disdain. "You'll have to try something better, than just sheer strength and anger" Shada said smugly, "I taught you everything you know, but not all I know" the Sith Lord declared. "I know more than you think," Shada retorted, "We will see" the Demon responded. Lunging at him, Shada parried and slashed with his other blade. Hopping back, the black blade came centimeters from his face. Reaching into to the walls the three-eyed monster pulled a hunk of metal and flung it at Shada, forced to dive and head for cover, he pulled out his tainted sword and fired a blast of electricity. Pulling his light saber around to intercept the electricity, the blade flashes brightly as the shot is absorbed. Pulling more chunks of metal from the wall he directs them to converge on Shada, jumping right on top of the pile of metal. "You'll have to do better than…" Shada was interrupted by the rumbling in the palace the roof began to shake. Bringing the roof down he had him or so he thought, with a flash of light Shada was transported through time and space, and with a plume of smoke he reappeared in front of his late master. "As I said, you'll have to do better than that if you want to win", Shada said pushing back with his attacks. Hacking, slicing, thrusting, lunging, forcing the being to retreat until he was against a wall, desperation now set in for the Lord. As a final attack the Lord fired his blade at Shada, while picking up the pieces of metal behind Shada. Caught off guard by the use the only defense of the three-eyed fiend, Shada barely dodged and caught the blade with his two sabers. Directing more focus outward searching for the minions, who would be coming for him feeling the boulders of metal flying towards him, he dropped the trapped blade. He waited, as the large shrapnel was about to make contact, he disappeared in a plume of smoke and reappeared twenty meters to the left of where he was with a flash of light. The metal crashed into the wall and the one against it, one after another eight pieces in all including the large roof collided into the beast that was once, in front of him. Picking up the dead blade he proudly declared "I take my freedom".
Walking down the hallway Shada was forced to take off his red and black trench coat as he walked to make sure the fluids of the minions he stepped over didn't seep into the valuable coat. Mentally he commanded his Modified Tie Defender to start it's warm up sequence and get the proper hyperspace coordinates. Given to him on his twelfth birthday along with his fighter, surgically inserted into his brain the implant let him control his fighter as if he were inside it, provided he is within range. As he walked into the hanger he heard the General calling him "You'll pay for this Shada, I will find you where ever you go", "Whatever I'm leaving" Shada said to himself. Porting into his craft without using the door, he accessed the bay controls and speed out of the bay. Exiting the planets atmosphere in his red and black Modified Tie Defender, equipped with Six standard laser canons, three ion canons, two missile tubes able to store ten standard missiles, improved deflector shields, a tractor beam, a rear mine deployment system armed with net mines and single ones and rear space for light packages. Looking a back at the planet he called home he knew that he wouldn't forget it, but not miss it. As the lines streaked back, Shada took the siths' blade opening it he replaced the red crystal with his own black one. Setting the blade down he fell asleep in the cockpit restoring himself for the next chapter of his life.
uhhh yeah the whole porting thing i don't think sounds good but if you have another suggestion for it please tell me. i know the fighting isn't that good but i'm going to work on it. it is my first, i'm working on better writing okay good.