Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: In search of a Master
(hopefully I'm making this in the right spot)
Shadow stood infront of the gigantic Jedi Temple, it had a blueish tint, and reached almost as high as the clouds. Suddenly the doors began to open, and what seemed to be a gust wind burst out of the doors. "This.. is.. amazing.." Shadow said as enter the temple. The place was amazing. Statues of past Jedi Masters stood in the huge lobby of this place. The lobby had a whiteish color to the walls and floor, but was draped with a blue carpet, with the Jedi symbol on them. There were a few Jedi standing around reading, some turned and smile at him. Began to walk down the stairs of the Lobby, hoping to find someone who could point him to right place.
The chamber stared to suddenly echo with the sound of metal footsteps. Some Jedi that where standing around saw who was coming and quickly start to move away from the area.
Suddenly a red HK unit carrying a huge Mandalorian heavy repeater walked over to the youngling. The droid looked at the individual up and down as if measuring him. He then began to speak.
"Statement: HK 2947 is my name and I am here to pick up all younglings who want to become Padawans for the master. Query: Young meatbag are you not a youngling Statement: If you are follow me." _________________ Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Shadow was a bit shocked that a droid belonging to the Jedi called him a meatbag, but knew it was his only chance to get a master. Shadow didn't think he was a 'youngling' because of his age but didn't think the droid would notice. "Yeah, I'm a youngling." Shadow said with a smirk. "Take me to the master please."
Meatbag, huh easy there chrome dome Cam thinks to himself. Cam follows them all to find their new masters. _________________ The sith must be stopped or else all is lost.
The two young Padawan's followed closely behind the rusty red colored assassin droid as he lead them over multiple areas of the Lyceum. Up and down stairs, in and out of passages, and it seemed like they had been through at least one hundred different rooms.
The droid none the less continued to march on his path without showing a bit of caring towards them. Only occasional did he turn his head backwards to insult the "meatbags" that where following him.
After well over four hours of this endless march the assassin droid finally opened a huge golden door.
As the door opened smoke began to billow out of the room as if a huge fire was inside. The droid though move forward as if it was no big deal. When neither Padawan followed the droid turned around. Only his glowing red eyes now visible in the haze.
"Statement: If you two meatbags still desire to see my Master you must move forward.
Statement: If you refuse to move you can either die in stagnation or wait in hope for a passing Jedi to bring you to the entrance so you can leave. I personally am not wasting anymore time on insignificant meatbags like you.
Statement: If you can not pass such a simple test you two water balloons are unworthy of even laying eyes on my master."
After the droid said that last syllable of the final word, the smoke began to grow around them at a even faster pace. Soon the smoke engulfed them to the point where they couldn't see or smell anything.. It filled their lungs and their eyes burned in pain as they tried to keep them open. What would they do? Surrender? Stay in the same spot waiting for rescue? Try to move forward? Or was there another option? _________________ Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Shadow followed the droid on its endless path, through so many different rooms, wondering why they had to go through all these different rooms. He started to get tired, but he kept going because he wanted a master and to begin his training so bad. At one point Shadow pulled out a cantine with water in it and drank some to keep him hydrated. Eventually they get to a room with huge golden doors. Smoke was coming out of the room from what seemed to be a huge fire. "What the..?" Shadow said to himself silently as he looked in, but didn't enter.
"Statement: If you two meatbags still desire to see my Master you must move forward.
Statement: If you refuse to move you can either die in stagnation or wait in hope for a passing Jedi to bring you to the entrance so you can leave. I personally am not wasting anymore time on insignificant meatbags like you.
Statement: If you can not pass such a simple test you two water balloons are unworthy of even laying eyes on my master." The rusty red droid said to the two Jedi hopefuls.
Shadow wasn't that surprised by what the droid had said to him due to the fact that the droid harassed them numerous times on their walk. Suddenly the smoke began to engulf him and the other Jedi hopeful. Shadow began to cough, and almost threw up as the smoke burned his eyes and entered his lungs. Ugh... what am I to do?! Shadow thought to himself. Think, Shadow, think! Aha! I got it! He thought to himself. He suddenly threw his arms out to the side, and used a small force push, as thats all he could do at his level, hoping to push the smoke away from him so he could breath and continue on to meet the Jedi Master.
Krill kept up with the assasin driod and Shadow. His lungs are burning as well, he keeps coughing up and his eyes are watering and red with pain. Krill looks at Shadow seeing the difficulty he's having Come on Shadow this is only a test we can make it through this. We just have to keep pushing each other to get out of here and ignore the pain. Krill reaches out and takes Shadows arm. Let me lead you close your eyes then we will switch off and you lead me. Are you ready. _________________ The sith must be stopped or else all is lost.
Suddenly it seemed as if both men could no longer move. The smoke then began to fill their lungs and gouge their eyes again. They both tried desperately to move, but their muscles refused to respond. Both soon could hardly breath, as both their eyes completely shut themselves involuntary of their desires. The room around them suddenly started to close in on them. Finally they no longer could feel the presence of each other or any other being around them, they where completely alone. Suddenly both stopped struggling in their minds as if they had accepted what was to come next.
Then the voice of a powerful man entered both of their minds at the same time stating the same message. "Surely two strapping boys like yourselves aren't already ready to give up your very lives are you? You can't move, can't see, can't hear, and can barely breath. Your bodies have completely failed you. All those push ups, sit ups, and all that running you did to train your muscles is useless now."
The boys both then heard a match being lit. The voice in their head then started laughing a bit as this small sound of the outside world seemed to excite them. "Is this all you are boys? A few muscles and few grey cells that lies in some ooze in your skull? Are you nothing more then then a mixture of water and other materials? Or are you something more. Does something exist in you that can no be measured by science?"
There was then silence again the boy's both became somewhat depressed as no progress seemed to be made. They waited for what seemed like hours for the voice to return as their bodies began shutting down further. Slowly they began to lose control even of their involuntarily functions. Suddenly the voice came back though.
"Do you know how much time just passed there? Five hours? A day? A week? Maybe longer? No, three seconds. Do you see how fast stagnation can take over not only just our mind and bodies but our very beings?"
Slowly each of the boy's began to breath normally again and even see. Each looked around them and the thick layer of smoke still surrounded them it seemed impossible to understand what was going on. Suddenly though their thoughts where interrupted again by the voice.
"Cameron Krill you refused to leave Shadow behind. You grabbed him and forced him to follow you. A good solider never leaves a man behind they say and this is true, but did your action truly amount to anything good? No. Not because the principle you followed, but because although the main idea was right your practiced it at the wrong time. You acted instinctively like a scared rabbit you didn't look at the situation and try to figure out what truly happened. You simply reacted like a wild beast."
Shadow seemed a bit pleased by these remarks. Perhaps expecting that he did something more practical, but soon the voice chastised him as well.
"Shadow Eclipse you not only didn't think of Cameron you also didn't follow your own advice."
Suddenly Shadow's voice echoed through both of their heads. "Think, Shadow, think!"
"Here you had the right idea but didn't follow through with it. Do you feel any heat anywhere? No, you didn't yet you automatically assumed it was a fire. Perhaps it could be a huge fire somewhere else in the near facility that no body had detected correct? And yet if that was true why is their no Jedi coming this way to help? How could a area completely surrounded by some of the most powerful force users in the galaxy be unable to detect something as natural as a fire? Surely they could sense it in the environment so close to where they are, especially the large group that is currently meditating only a few feet from where you stand."
The voice disappeared then and what seemed like hours passed by again. Both of them felt like screaming for help, but neither one was able to. Days seemed to pass and yet no word from their guiding voice. Suddenly though the voice reappeared.
"What of this droid who lead you? Sure he may have insulted your every movement (perhaps correctly), but think for a moment. Who is his master and why would he come and get you? Obviously his master is the man who is going to be YOUR teacher. Or else why would you follow him? Do you two honestly believe that your master's droid would be under orders to stand by and watch as you both where destroyed?"
That theme seemed to radiate through them a bit as the silence came about once again. Again it seemed as if nothing but a thick fog of smoke was around them and neither where able to speak or move. Yet despite what appeared to be hours and days going by neither felt the pain and fear that they had earlier.
"Boy's every time you two have felt those hours and days passing by in your life in truth only a few seconds have. Perhaps it is time to show you the true power of the force."
With that said the smoke disappeared the feeling in their muscles returned to them as did their voice, hearing, and all other functions they had loosed. Standing in front of them only about ten feet away was a huge white human male dressed in magnificent white robes, the red droid they had been following standing right next to them. They both looked around and realized that they weren't in another room, but where merely a few feet into the entrance of the Lyceum . Some of the other Jedi's where staring at the boys, well others seemed to be laughing a bit at them.
The man before them was about five foot, ten inches tall. His muscular physic was obvious as his cloths seemingly were almost unable to contain the huge layers of flesh that laid beneath them. The most obvious thing to notice was s long briar pipe came barreling out of his mouth as smoke came billowing out of it. The man then took his right hand brought it to his pipe and pulled the billiard away from his lips. He then walked closer to the boys and exhaled the smoke hitting both of the boys in the face.
"You sensing the smell of this smoke was all I or any other well trained force user needed boys to place you in such a trance. Boys what you two just experienced was nothing more then a illusion." As the man spoke it became obvious that the strong, deep, and powerful voice that the boys had been hearing was coming from this man. "My name is Talon Ordo. I am the man who reestablished the Jedi Order after it feel into non-existence because of the Jeeno attack on the galaxy only a few years ago, and yes I am the Grand Master of this Order."
The boys each turned their heads looking at each other in great surprise they then turned back towards Talon who quickly began lecturing them again.
"The very moment you two entered my Lyceum you began to be manipulated. Neither one of you took the time to begin to think and understand what was around you. You took things at face value for the truth and never questioned for a moment what was going on. Even when HK-2947 seemingly took you two on a nonsensical journey through hundreds of rooms and up and down dozens of stairs neither one of you took the time to investigate the areas you where in. Neither one of you allowed yourselves to think things through. You simply followed commands without thinking where they lead you. Neither of you choose to follow because you thought it was correct you both simply obeyed."
Talon walked back and forth in front of them as he spoke. The droid walked behind both of them, but then didn't make a move seemingly staring at the back of each individuals head.
"A Jedi chooses a Sith and Grey obeys. What separates us from them boys? Is it our power? Our precious supposed light side? No. A Jedi thinks a Sith and Grey obeys. We do not believe that just because someone is of a higher rank then us that they are automatically right. A higher rank may show that the organization believes them to be wiser, but unlike the rest we do not believe that the higher ranks are Gods. The higher the rank the tendency is that that individual has more power, and this tends to be true. That said though we Jedi do not believe that those in power are infallible God's who are to be obeyed blindly." Talon then stopped and pointed to his head. "We think boys we think. Though our understanding of existence we are able to choose. When you are done here you will be able to understand and sense when you are following under another mind trap again. When you are done it will be difficult for even the most powerful of force wielders to put you under their spell, and even when they due I will teach you ways to get out of it. First things first though."
Talon then shock his head towards HK-2947. The assassin droid then took his Mandalorian heavy blaster and smashed it against the backs of both boys sending them crashing to the floor.
"Neither of you are Jedi yet. You are Padawan. You are being trained in our arts and from this moment until I decide you are ready I am your teacher. You will do as I say and you will learn. You can question, but you must follow every command you are given. If you survive my training you both will have a greater understanding of the Force and the ideals of our new Order. You will be able to stand when the rest of the universe ask you to kneel. But until that day you will follow my commands. Do you boys understand that?"
"Yes Master!" They both hollered as they laid flat on their stomachs before him.
"You will both do one thousand push ups that HK-2947 will count. Only the push ups that he decides are allowed will be counted. As you both due them you will tell me the first lesson I presented you. You will not paraphrase what I said, you will not directly quote me, but you will tell me the first lesson in your own and original words. If you fail to do this both of you will be kicked out of the Lyceum and the Jedi Order. Now BEGIN!"
As Talon stood above them looking down at them as he started smoking his pipe again. HK-2947 quickly then began to bark out commands.
"Command: Alright you useless meatbags you will follow your orders and on the double! If it was up to me both of you would be out on the streets collecting cans for a living. I see nothing, but two useless water balloons who aren't even worthy to wipe my master feet. Now kiss that tilled floor!" _________________ Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
As Krill was doing the push ups, he thought of everything he was told. Well the first lesson you told us was that never assume any command is correct, it is ok to question orders rather than follow them blindly, so we don't walk into another "illusion" like the one we was in which could've costed our lives. Krill said will pushing the entire time. _________________ The sith must be stopped or else all is lost.
"That is part of it Cameron, but that won't be until you are a Jedi. You are thinking small. Remember what I said learn it live it now tell me it in your own words."
HK-2947 then proceeded to kick Cameron in the side of the ribs.
"Command: You will follow the Master's Orders!" _________________ Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Shadow began to do push ups, and started thinking hard on the Master Talon's previous words. Cameron began to talk, but wasn't completely right and got kicked in the ribs. Sweat was puring down Shadow's face and body as he finally came up with something to say. "Master.. Talon" Shadow said breathless as he still did push ups. "You told us.. to not take orders, but to decide on the right actions.. You also told us that the darkside and the... 'Greys?' follow orders, but us Jedi make our own smart decisions. You also told us that you will train us as Jedi so we can't be easily tricked, and that eventually we might even be able to overcome the tricks and break free." Shadow said, trying his hardest not to fall down.
Talon didn't look that impressed with either of his Padawan's answers. The Grand Master though simply inhaled some more smoke from his pipe and then let it slowly escape into the air. He then paced in front of the boys as if deciding what to do with them. As he did his assassin droid began to speak obviously in a more annoyed mood then its master.
"Query: Do you want me to dispose of them my master?" The aristocratic voice said with a bit of excitement. His right hand turned a nob on his heavy blaster as the internal device inside began humming as if to warn all those around of its users sinister plans. "Boastful Statement: They will be dead quite quickly neither of them have the skills to escape me as you already know.
Talon lifted his right hand palm first towards his droid, but didn't say a word. His eyes slowly looked down at both of the boys as they continued to due push ups in front of him. "Uneducated, but no doubt they have drive." The Mandalorian Jedi thought to himself as the smoke swirled around his dyed white hair.
Talon quickly then stopped pacing back and forth and turned towards HK-2947. "Take both of them to the training area and start with training model one. I will be there in a bit I have a few things to deal with on my own though first."
"Objections: Master I believe you are making a considerable mistake! Neither one of these meatbags has been able to answer your question with a correctly. Further more neither individual seems to process a strain of reasoning in them. Surely it would be better use of our time if you simply allowed me to take them outside and shot them in the head?"
Talon smirked and laughed lightly at his droid's morbid request, but simply shook his head in amusement. "No, you will follow my order HK. They need lots of work no doubt, but killing them wouldn't help anybody."
"Objections: Well surely sir I could make their execution a combat training task for all those who have proved themselves worthy of your time. I could dress them up in black robes, give them a red lightsaber, and tell the other Jedi that some Sith where on the Planet that needed to be killed. Our we could use them as target practice for the local militia units that are set up in the areas. And of course many of the creatures we hold would enjoy something new for dinner!"
Talon acted like his was actually considering these options which seemed to surprise both of his young Padawan. "Well if you put it like that they could be of some use to us...."
The Madalorian stopped mid sentence with a huge smirk on his face. "No, I think it would still be better to train them. Take them to the training area like I told you earlier. That is final HK I will be there in a bit."
"Reserved Statement: Very well master if you insist. Really though I think we should use better judgment in the future. If we keep accept weaklings like this the Order will surely suffer." He then kicked both Padawan's in the sides with his heavy feet.
"Command: Alright rotting flesh rise to your feet and move as quickly as you water balloons can to the Training Area as my most merciful Master has ordered. Uhg... how I hate saying that..."
Talon just laughed lightly under his breath as he turned away from the boys and his droid. His huge cape cutting through the air like a knife threw butter as he did. The Jedi then walked away heading for an unknown destination.
(OOC: Make a new thread under the Training Area. You can have some liberties their until "Talon" comes to see you. Show off your roleplaying a bit.)
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