Star Wars

The Revenge of Qymaen jai Sheelal

Chapter 6: The General's Trophies

Grievous stared down the three Jedi for a moment. He had been trained by Count Dooku in the ways of lightsaber combat, he had speed and precision that only a machine was possibly capable of, his body was stronger than their flesh, and he had hate, hate enough for an entire star system, and then some, for these Jedi. He was their superior, and he would prove that now. He did not need the Force, and he would insure that all three of them would soon join it. He eyed them all, one at a time with his hate-filled golden eyes, each one had a bit of fear in their eyes, good, that was all he needed. He rolled his shoulders back very subtly, his cloak being pushed back and revealing his skeletal frame of duranium. In a quick movement he took both of his lightsabers and ignited them, as the two other Jedi Knights did the same. They also looked surprised, no one had ever seen a droid that was able to use lightsabers, this was just another one of his advantages.

Grievous laughed at the vain efforts of the Jedi to defend themselves, all they were doing was giving him information on their styles of fighting, nothing more. "You must realize, Jedi, that if you live here, you will only be prolonging the inevitable. I have mastered your weapon and combined that skill with abilities beyond your own. You lost before you even begun, know that." he said coldly. He made the first move, making a sudden move, but not actually attempting to strike them. They had fallen into his trap.

All three of their lightsabers came down at once, but the crafty droid had already been one step ahead of them, crossing his lightsabers to intercept theirs. He chuckled while he spoke, "Typical Jedi, you flinch at every move, how foolish of you."

The three Jedi grimaced, and Grievous took advantage of his current position, pushing their lightsabers back and beginning his slashes, each one with incredible force behind it. The two human Jedi took a quick advantage of the General, running off the walls to get behind him. He was now fighting on two fronts. It wasn't that difficult however, he had been trained too well to have such a simple scenario left out. He began to juggle between the strikes and blocks, eventually being forced to use his more unorthodox forms of attack. He began to turn his wrists 360 degrees rapidly, using the buzz saw like affect to defend himself from the many blows, as well as knock the Jedi off balance. All the while Grievous laughed, "You cannot hope to possibly win! I have abilities that not even the Masters of the Jedi Order are capable of! Do you really think that mere Jedi Knights such as yourselves could hope to possibly defeat I, General Grievous?" he taunted his in harsh mechanical voice. It was a technique known as Dun Möch, a tradition of the Sith to battle the opponent physically, as well as mentally by prying at the mind, using distraction and doubt on the opponent. He himself was no Sith, but in combat any advantage was open to use.

The technique was taking it's affect as the abilities of the Jedi were obviously falling, slowly, but steadily. He made several scenarios within his mind and knew how to take a major advantage in the battle, but he would need something first. He blocked the incoming lightsabers, then began several new blows, weakening the Jedi defense until he was able to trust his foot onto the chest of one of the humans, then turning quickly to toss him into the Cerean. Both of them dropped their lightsabers, and before either of them could retrieve them, Grievous had already placed both of his feet over them. The last standing Jedi rushed towards Grievous, yelling, "You monster!"

Grievous simply laughed at the Jedi, catching his blade in both of his, and then revealing his most deadly ability. He disconnected his arms lengthwise, giving him four arms, each of which had three fingers, two index fingers, and a thumb. He held the lightsaber in place, and threw the other two lightsabers, one by one, into each of his new hands. He laughed harshly at the Jedi, who was now staring in fear of his opponent 'gift', "Yes Jedi...I am a monster!" he yelled, impaling the Jedi with his comrades lightsabers. He fell to the ground, dead, and the General proceeded to very calmly take his lightsaber.

He turned to his other two opponents, now defenseless. They looked to each other for a moment and ran down the hallway, using speed given to them by the Force to run quickly. Grievous laughed to himself, he only had to kill one Jedi, yet he gained three new trophies, which he proceeded to place into the holsters of his cloak. He reattached his arms to each other, looking them over for a moment before rolling his shoulders, and letting his cloak take it's normal position, covering his body. He stilled needed to find the crew, or the clone troopers that had to be aboard this starship, but he proposed to find the crew, and to do so, he would need to find the turbolifts that lead to the bridge.

He walked calmly down the halls, searching for the lift that would take him to the bridge. He eventually spotted the turbolifts, and moved to enter one. He pressed the button to call the lift and waited for a moment, nothing happened. He did it again, and waited, again nothing happened. He finally punched in the panel, and the doors opened, but there was no turbolift, just the shaft leading up. He grunted slightly and leapt into the shaft, grasping the wall with his claws and running up the side, moving calmly, albeit quickly, up the shaft. He stared into the darkness for some time before he was able to see roof of the shaft, looked at the top door for a moment. He quickly removed two lightsabers from their holsters and began to cut through the door, making a large circle in the doorway. When the circle was completely he pushed one of his legs through the opening and moved quickly into bridge.

There were around a dozen clone troopers aiming at him now, but he stared at what he believed to be the captain, "Where is your hospitality?" he laughed slightly.

"Where is your honor? Attacking a peaceful planet..."

"A necessity, I assure you, but I have a message for you to give to your precious Republic. That this will be the fate off all fleets that attempt to attack the Confederacy of Independent Systems." he growled to the captain.

"And what makes you believe that I will be leaving?" he asked the droid.

"Look around you captain, you have no fleet, and this ship could be destroyed in an instant. And if you intend to try to kill me, you will be sorely disappointed."

"We will see..." With that the captain gave the order for the troopers to fire at Grievous, who was prepared for such a predicament. He whirled his blades, knocking back every blaster bolt that came towards him back to the clone from which it was fired from. After that small display of swordsmanship, he replaced his lightsabers into his cloak and simply glared at the captain. "Did you honestly think that that petty attack would succeed? You are beaten...I suggest you take my more than generous offer, and go back to your little Republic..." he jeered at the captain. He had no choice at the moment. "Fine." he finally said, knowing that he had been beaten by a 'mere' droid.

Grievous said no good byes or witty comments, there was no need. He simply ran towards the nearest of the large viewports and shattered the transparisteel window and moved out into space, a durasteel shade covering the broken window. He floated in space for a moment, completely contempt at the moment to float in space. He looked for the hanger area and found it quickly, launching a cable from his wrist and coming down quickly onto the top of the Venator. He proceeded to cut his way into the hanger from the outside, and moving back to the Soulless One. He moved into the cockpit and sealed it off, firing a proton bomb into the door that had sealed him into the hanger, and flying back to the Invisible Hand . He was still contemplating on what to do with Senator Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, or at least to what to barter them reasonably for...

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