CHAPTER 7: Training Day One
Alyria was wandering around the Ghost trying to find something to do before her training session with Ezra. Today was the first day she would be teaching Ezra in the ways of the force. Since kanan was off with Hera, Zeb, and Sabine to do something that they didn't tell her much about, just that they wouldn't be back for a while.
It took her a while to find Ezra, seeing as he was practically trying to hide from her. Once she was able to find him, hiding on the top of the Ghost, she wasn't a fan of having to talk to him while he was seemingly upset about something, but she didn't really have much of a choice. Alyria jumped to the top of the Ghost in a single bound, Ezra didn't expect this and stumbled back a bit. Alyria chuckled and said with a sarcastic tone, "Keeping on your toes as usual aren't you?"
Ezra scoffed and said "Very funny. No, you caught me, I wasn't on my toes, are you going to turn me into Kanan now?"
"Why should I?" replied Alyria, "If you're always on your toes, you'll never see the smaller, and more beautiful things in life. One of the things that everyone should know, is when to stand tall, and get the largest view, and when to kneel down, you see the details of true beauty and skill."
"Ha, you sound more like a philosopher than a jedi."
"Jedi are philosophers Ezra, but we have a fairly different view of the world than most philosophers, as well as having the force, and fighting skills. Either way, come on, we need to get to training. I have something fun for today's lesson."
"Oh yeah? what is it?"
"You'll see." Alyria lead Ezra off of the Ghost and to a nearby field. There was a briefcase already there that Alyria opened up. "What is that?" asked Ezra.
Alyria got up and was holding a lightsaber that seemed to be a double-bladed lightsaber, "Is that a double bladed lightsaber?" asked Ezra.
"Indeed it is Ezra, but this one can break" She pulled the lightsaber apart, and it seemed to have changed to two single-bladed lightsabers, "without truly breaking." she put the sabers back into the double-bladed lightsaber that it was before. "I'm going to show you, that there can be challenges too big for you to face, and that you must find different ways to gain an advantage over your opponent."
"How so?" asked Ezra.
"I was never a jedi Ezra, but nor was I a sith. I don't follow the same code as the jedi, or the sith. I follow a code that believes that without the sith code, there can be no jedi code, and without the jedi code, there can be no sith code. I believe that there is a balance between the two sides, and that it is more powerful than one side alone. I found that balance, I have the strength, will, power, and knowledge of both sides, and I am better for it."
"But won't the dark side begin to corrupt you?" asked Ezra.
"Not with the light side keeping it under check. The purity of the light side, keeps the power, and strength of the dark side under control. Many jedi say that with time, the light side will show true power, greater than the dark side, and that's a lie. The sith say that the light side of the foce is weak, pathetic, and slow, that's a lie too. If you can find the same balance as I have, you can be unstoppable Ezra."
"I'm not sure."
"You don't need to be sure right now Ezra, give it time to think about, for now I will show you the weaknesses of the Inquisitor's lightsaber, and when Kanan comes back from the mission, both of you will fight me, I will use my double-bladed lightsaber to simulate the Inquisitor's fighting techniques."
"Alright then." replied Ezra. After that Alyria began to show a replica of the Inquisitor's lightsaber to Ezra, pointing out weaknesses, and tactics that can be used against it's spinning blade.
After a long wait for the others they soon arrived back at the ship. Kanan split from the group and came over to Ezra, and alyria, and asked, "So what's going on over here?"
"Basics on how to deal with the inquisitor's double-bladed lightsaber. How was the job Kanan?" asked alyria.
"Not successful, but none of us got hurt, so that's good. have any other techings for today?"
"Indeed I do Kanan. I wish for both you, and Ezra to engage me in combat, I will use a replica of the Inquisitor's saber as well as the same techniques. I want to see you and Ezra work together to defeat me, Ezra has an advantage as to knowing the blade's weakness, Kanan has the skill of combat experience, you both must communicate in battle in a way that won't immediately tell me what you two will do. Got it?" Ezra and Kanan looked at each other and nodded to Alyria. "Good. get ready, she walked away a couple yards, and ignited her blade. Ezra, and Kanan did the same, bracing themselves for the battle to ensue. Alyria walked slowly towards them, only one blade ignited, waiting for one of them to strike. When she was only about two yards from them, Kanan charged in to attack. His attack was easily deflected and she sliced the blade towards his neck, but stopped extremely close to his neck, and said "Dead." he was paralyzed, not metaphorically, but literally incapable of moving his body, he was still alive but seemed to be in a sort of force based stun. She continued towards Ezra who got closer to slicing the long blade in two, but Alyria dodged the slice and sliced close to Ezra's thigh, he couldn't move his right leg well without feeling extreme pain. She continued to slice towards Ezra's chest, but before she reached it, she said, "Dead." he fell to the ground, in the same position as Kanan. Alyria turned to the both of them and said, "We are going to be here a while." she grinned, and snapped her fingers, freeing them from the paralysis like trance.
Hours went by on end, Ezra, and Kanan kept going, trying to beat Alyria, often times remarking, "Even the Inquisitor isn't this difficult." to which Alyria would reply, "Never under estimate your opponent. If you can beat me, then the Inquisitor won't be a problem." It was a while after sunset when they were finally able to get something productive done. Ezra and Kanan charged in unison at Alyria, attacking together, instead of separately. Alyria had to use the double-bladed form of combat in order to compensate for the constant onslaught. Alyria got a hit on Kanan's leg, and went for the kill, but Ezra made a slice at her back, not actually hitting her, but sending her into the same paralysis that she put into Kanan and Ezra. "Well done you two." She said, she got up and grinned. "Hopefully you will only need one try when it comes to the real deal."
"Yeah, hopefully." said Ezra.
"I truly can't wait for your next lesson Alyria." Kanan said sarcastically.
"I hope you enjoy it Kanan, I think we can call it off now. I can't wait to defeat you two tomorrow again." She grinned and left for the ship. Kanan and Ezra stayed and talked for a bit, but Alyria was gone when they started.
"You don't know what to do with her, do you Kanan?" asked Ezra.
"She is a strange one I give her that.' replied Kanan, "Has she told you anything Ezra, something that can tell help me learn whether or not she's a threat?"
Ezra couldn't hide what he learned from Kanan, knowing he would sense his lies if he said no. "She said that she doesn't follow the light or dark side of the force, that she is more of a middle ground, using both sides to keep eachother in check basically. Light side keeping the corruption of the dark side at bay, and the dark side to empower the weaknesses that the light side has."
"Hmmmm, that sounds a little dangerous, you can't trust the dark side Ezra, you can't balance the scale in a way to prevent the dark side from corrupting you without completely eliminating it."
"We can't say that just yet, we should go through with her mission before we make any rash decisions." Kanan nodded to Ezra's words. They continued to talk for a bit before returning to the Ghost for some well deserved rest.
(Alright guys, Deathsmaster here. Sorry 'bout the unexpectedly long wait for this chapter, schools been bitchin, parents been bitchin, I've been bitchin, basically everythings been bitchin, like the fact that more people have read chapter five than chapter four *facedesk* either way though, please review guys, the more reviews and support I get the more i'll work to get the next chapters out, they are gonna be longer, since they depict longer periods of time, but I may include one or two Collector chapter to show off what he's doing, (but not fully explain ;) ). Anyways guys, love yall, and please review, I love feedback and help.)