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Her normal saber was now held in an inverted grip with it pointing towards the ground, and a small, curved dagger-like blade in her left hand. It was about 1 foot in length, a matching pink to her other blade, and was held in an inverted grip also. I smirked as I realized that it was the weapon she'd told me about back on Tatooine.

"Déshawn, stay here and protect the ambassador; I'll clear us a way out of here." Raena told me confidently, her trademark devilish grin playing around her lips.

I nodded, as they all began to rush in on the three of us. "Ambassador," I said as I twirled my light saber to get a 1 handed feel for it before I began. "I must ask you not to pull out your weapon unless I'm in no condition to fight."

"Like now?" Nora eyed my left arm.

"Or unless I tell you," I finished.

Then Raena broke into action and I very nearly dropped my jaw seeing this new mode of battle she'd somehow developed. Her movement were quick, decisive, and had a new ferocity that made me shiver to think how I would combat that. She used the light dagger to hook the first electrospear away from her middle, then her light saber followed up by going through the attacker's throat. She pushed it further, catching the man behind her off guard and impaling the shorter Kashill in the head. She ducked, deactivated the light saber, and sliced the next attacker's arm with the light dagger. Her light saber snapped back out after she'd freed it of the two victims and blocked several bullets from the blaster. I felt a flash of heat behind me as they seem to decide I'd be an easier target. I lifted my blade behind my head deflecting the bullet back along it's original course and I too leapt into work. I quickly learned to compensate for my arm by sidestepping back and forth rather than switch hands to get the attack angle I wanted. I ducked and spun away from an enemy letting him pass by me. I spun back the opposite direction cutting the Kashill behind me, and the one in front of me, in one smooth motion. Then I deftly leapt away from an overhead swing of an electrospear and redirected another blaster bullet into the Kashill that had swund the electrospear at me. I finished him by cutting his body in half and letting a wave of Force push him and several of his partners backwards. I turned from that group and quickly returned to the ambassador's side.

"There's too many Déshawn," I heard Raena's voice behind me.

"What happened to my path?" I said. "Don't worry about us, it's under control."

Raena glanced at my shoulder and cringed before she took off to fulfill her promise. I heard several screams of pain as I circled the ambassador killing anyone that got too close for comfort. Suddenly, a wave of pain overcame me, and I dropped to one knee holding back vomit. I realized that it was coming from Shomari, and I wondered what was happening for him to feel this tortured, as I was getting a toned down feel for what he was going through. I heard a scream and I leaped back to my feet, fighting off the horrible feeling of dread for Shomari, and decapitated the group of Kashill I'd let pass me. I felt a wave from the Force push me towards where Raena had left and I grabbed the ambassadors hand. I pulled her through the row of dead Kashill both of us sprinting. The Kashill continued to close relentlessly, and I began to compare the size of the group to the Federation army. It almost seemed that the townspeople didn't just support the Kashill; they were the Kashill. I pushed the ambassador with a boost of Force and I stopped ignoring her shouts for me to come on. I extended the other side of my light saber and spun it on my one hand.

"Don't worry about me," I said.

"You don't have to do this!" Nora shouted at me.

"Shomari's in pain. He needs my help," I explained simply.

Raena took over, grabbing the ambassador assuring her I'd be fine, and they left. I began to cut through Kashill relentlessly as I let out my frustrations without any of the restraint I had to show during training. The building began to vibrate, but I was to focused to slow down, I simply took note of it as I fought my way back to Shomari's side. The slats on the building were closing, blocking out light, and any more Kashill from entereing. As soon as the last slat closed I flipped under the light that the debate had taken place under, and shoved my blade into it. This left the dying sparks as the only light left in the room as I deactivated my light saber. If one could put a listening device in the room, without it getting destroyed, the next few things they would hear would simply be yelps of surprise, pain, and the heavy breathing of fear and a single wrathful being. The Kashill continued to attack where I'd last been at, but I had long since left. And now the Force was my only weapon. I let it rush through my body like a rollercoaster, and it gave me the power to do whatever I wished with a single wave of my hand. I was sure I'd reached a level of sensitivity to the Force beyond what anyone has been, as I could literally see everything in the room through the Force. I saw the Force in the Kashill, it was a faint light, sort of outlining their shapes, like a heat signature. I saw there each one had stepped, as they left a small imprint of themselves as a residue of the Force. I could quickly recognize and distinguish each unique signature. Finally, everything stopped, and I thought the remaning Kashill had been defeated. But I looked around and quickly saw that I was wrong.

"Everyone out of the room!" I heard a powerful voice command.

I looked towards this newcomer, and I saw him with the same Force outline as everyone else, but at his core I saw a ball of power and I knew that this must be Johan's new apprentice. The Kashill quickly left the room, and he wasted no time engaging me. Several bolts of lightning flew from his hand before the Kashill had completely left, and I was hit dead on. I felt the electricity coursing through my body much like I had felt the Force flowing through me earlier. I realized, through the agony, that he was making the electricity track my power as a sort of sick way of punishing my strengths. He threw me against the wall and I hit it at ferocious velocities and slid to the ground, my head bouncing off of the steel floor violently as I felt darkness creep up on the edges of my vision. Blood dripped from the side of my head and corner of my mouth. I pushed myself up shakily, on both arms, and squared my shoulders with him. I didn't have the strength to fight back as he lifted me into the air again. Then, more streaks of lightning coursed into my body and my body jolted in response. But this time I had a plan in my head as I knew how his attacks worked. I pushed a wave of Force back at my opponent and the lightning followed obediently. His eyes grew in shock as he was pushed away and began to electrocute himself. It took him several moments before he could refocus enough to stop before he killed himself. A smirk curled onto my face as I held back a laugh at the sight. He threw more lightning at me, and I let off several tendrils of Force that made the lightning head for it instead, like a false heat signature fooling a heat seeking missile. I whipped the tendrils of Force to grab him and his own lightning once again followed and he was thrown across the room while he electrocuted himself again. He got up shakily and looked at me with pure hatred. I held his stare with one of peace, I had reached a point where the pain no longer bothered me, and I simply accepted it as a consequence of my own mistakes. As a result I used the pain to remain focused to avoid having to endure anymore. Then something happened that put me in a new situation which I had never before been in or heard of in my life. The trap door behind me was slammed open as Shomari came flying through it, and I saw his mangled form slam into the ground. I reacted quickly flipping in front of him protectively fighting off Johan's vicious attempts to try and finish him off. He struck trying to distract me in every way possible so that he could get even a second to the kill Shomari, but I kept my feet planted and stood firm. His apprentice joined him and I stepped the battle up in intensity and speed. I fought hard, fast, and decisively with both arms, ignoring the pain and keeping my mind on what I was fighting for. I spun both sides of the blade, defending my little brother in whatever way I could.