Kas’sparr Becomes An Apprentice

{ Apprentice claiming post }

IC - Knight Terrogate / Kas’sparr Bathori

Terrogate stands by the edge of the running stream close to his home on the forest world of Batorine. It was early in the season, indeed only the first few days of spring but the Cathar already could sense the new life of the forest awakening around him. The air was cool and fresh in his nostrils and the coolness of the water that ran through his feet as he walked barefoot along the bank.

He sees two sets of fresh tracks and immediately squats low in total silence, his inner hunter taking over, his body going into autopilot as a result of his father teaching him for so many years as a youth..

Smelling the air & feeling the dirt he could already sense that the prey were still close by. He crept slowly, his feline feet not making a sound he picked up another sent. Fish. Freshly killed.. As he approaches slowly through the brush the Cathar follows the tracks and peaks over the low broad palm plants in front of him..

As he peaks over the leafy bush he sees two male Feragriffs eating their freshly caught meal. One was older, larger and carried several scars. The other, smaller, it's skin and fur was still lightly coloured and no visible damage on it. The father had been teaching his son to hunt for food. How to survive.

A little carelessly as Terrogate watches with two male predators with interest he breathes out a little too loudly and both Feragriffs stop eating and look up at him, dig their front feet into the dirt and then snarl at him. Terrogate remembers his fathers lessons and instantly raises to his near 7 foot height and lits both arms up making himself look as large as possible.

The two beasts soon turn and run off into the forest. Terrogate thinks carefully and gets onto his com and calls through to his custom security droid SH1-3LA.

”Sheila, I want you to go to the sacred stones and wait. Set you're tracker and once Kas’sparr arrives, bring him to my location.”

He then calls Kas’sparr’s personal comlink and delivers another message. ”Kas’sparr, please listen, I need you to go to the sacred circle stones and meet Sheila. She will give you further instructions.”

Terrogate then pulls out a Parang knife from the cross sheath on his lower back turns and begins to walk further into the Batorine forest… To wait for his son.

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Kas'sparr Bathori

The young horned Chiss made his way through the woods. He had received a message from his stepfather to meet his security droid at the stone circle. He knew exactly where he had to go, he could still remember the day his mother took him to see her Apprentice Sedenna Salabrox sparring with Nimue. The sun shone onto his blue skin as neared the circle.

He had only just arrived on Batorine, after having spoken to his Stepfather a few days prior. It had been months nearly a year since Kas’sparr had been home. He had left in a row with his mother, who was against his plan to join a smugglers crew. “You are no mother! You weren’t there for first twelve years of my life!! You even send me away again for three years! You can’t tell me what to do, you won’t stop me!” Was the last thing he yelled at his mother, before he left.

It was Terrogate, who he bumped into at Turtle Cove Cantina, that had convinced him to go home and see his mother. He was glad he did, because he wanted to go home for a long time but felt to ashamed to face his mother. But Mab was overjoyed to see him, she wasn’t angry she was just happy to have him home again.

“Sh..sssheila?” he softly said as he stepped into the clearing. Sheila was a custom made security droid, a beast even his mother didn’t like to be near it. “eh.... Sssssheila?” he repeated a little louder. The ground trembled and he saw the giant approach “Kas'Sparr. I am to take you to your father” the droid said with a sternly sounding female voice. “ooh.. ok. Lead the way Sheila" the boy said. “It would be faster if you climbed on mg back" the droid lowered herself to allow him to get on.. A little unsure he approached, and carefully climbed on the droid. As soon as he sat down the droid rose up “hold on tight" she said and started moving, speeding up, rushing through the trees..

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Terrogate

Sheila moves at speed on all fours through the dense forest of Batorine, the ground rumbling under her weight as she darted in and out of the trees, yet she was still agile enough to evade running into any of them and causing damage to the native flora. Further and further into the wild she takes Kas’sparr until they arrive at clearing of sorts..

In front of them was a massive oak, it was so large that the breadth of its own canopy had stopped any other trees from growing around it creating the opened space.

SH3-1LA comes to an abrupt stop as they arrive at the foot of the large oak tree and lowers herself as so to make it easier for the young male to descend from her back. “Master Terrogate, we have arrived” said the hulking droid in robotic but feminine voice sending the message over her internal com.

“OK great. Send him up Sheila.” says Terrogate back over the comlink.

If Kas’sparr were to look up could possibly see his stepfather Terrogate perched on a large branch about half way up the oak with a knife in his hand.

“Young Master Kas’sparr” said Sheila, “Master Terrogate would like you to join him. Would you allow me to lift you up to the first branches?” the custom security droid said as she raised her enormous hands off the ground and opened them with her palms facing upward. Sheila stood just over 4 meters tall upright and with her long reach would easily be able to lift the young man to the more solid branches for him to start climbing.

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Kas'sparr Bathori

The boy held on tight as the giant droid rushed through the forest. The ground rumbled under her feet, it was a surprise to the young blue skinned how agile the droid was.

It didn’t take long for them to arrive at their destination..SH1-3LA stopped abruptly on a clearing surrounding a massive oak, if Kas’Sparr hadn’t been holding on tightly he would have flown off. The droid lowers herself allowing him to get of. As he climbs down SH1-3LA he hears his Stepfather over the com, asking to send him up. Kas’sparr looked up, high between the branches he could see Terrogate perched down. “Young Master Kas’sparr, Master Terrogate would like you to join him. Would you allow me to lift you up to the first branches?” he heard the droid ask.

A little nervous he nodded and stepped closer. “very well" he said and allowed the droid to lift him up. With ease Sheila picked him up and lifted Kas’sparr up. Holding on tightly he looked down at the droid who lowered down again. Slowly but carefully he started to make his way up the tree. He thought back on his childhood, he used to climb a lot when he as young, and thinking about it brought a smile on his face.

He pulled himself up on a branch at the same height at the Catharian but in the other side of the branch. “I’m here Terrogate.. what are we doing?” he asked unsure about the purpose of this meeting.

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Terrogate, Artifex of Tollere

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Terrogate waits patiently with blade in hand as Kas’sparr climbs up the tree branches of the giant oak. He was faster at climbing than Terrogate had expected, the young horned Chiss boy even looked to be enjoying it with a small smile visible on his face. Finally he gets to the branch the same level as Terrogate and pulls himself up so the two are on an equal level and able to talk freely, the large trunk of the tree the only thing between them. The branches here were quite large and wide, and they could move around without too much risk of falling off. “Hello Kas’sparr”, said the boy’s stepfather. “You might want to know why I asked you here?” he said, not waiting to listen to the boys reply before continuing. “I wanted to show you something.. look here.” Terrogate turns his head to the trunk of the tree between them. Etched into the Tree trunk was a long series of writings in Galactic basic, and some words in the Cathar language which consisted of a series of key symbols more than structured words. Names, Tales of battle, of conquest, of joy and of loss. The name Deke visible and repetitive on every new section of stories, followed by words like, Elder, Warrior, Protector, General, Hunter, Father, Son.. and each story with the words.. “A warriors heart” The family motto.

He would be able to see in the lower parts under the name Jaja Deke was his father’s story about the end of Cathar and his escape, the fall of the empire among others but there was also his mother’s name, and the words Sith as well as others. There was still a lot of space under that part for additional stories.

It was clear that Terrogate had been here many times before, the writings stretched upwards for many meters and Kas’sparr would be able to see that the very top of the etching had begun to age slightly with the sap of the tree already dried and been worn away by the weather, the etchings now more visible than the fresh ones.

Terrogate, looking up at the etchings on the tree trunk between them he still speaks softly to Kas’sparr in his low growling voice. “These are the stories of my family Kas’sparr.. In Cathar, we lived together in giant trees called tree city’s, even much larger than this one..” Terrogate explains without looking at the Chiss boy. “At the center of the tree, on the main trunk the males of each family would write our stories... Generation after generation would be able to track their family history. Each father, passing down his experience, his knowledge and skills to his son. And so on, and so on, down through history the same as my father did to me, and his before him.

Terrogate now looks down to the Kas’sparr.. and points his blade at the section of trunk between them. There, freshly carved into the bark of the enormous oak, still bleeding fresh sap was a new name. ‘Kas’sparr Bathori.’ “The time has come for you Kas’sparr to forge your own story.” The broad and muscular warrior says now looking into the eyes of the young man he had become stepfather too. “Tell me Kas’sparr” continues Terrogate. “I know you have the force in you, I have sensed it in you some time ago as had you mother. It was her everlasting gift to you as she brought you into this galaxy.” Terrogate’s voice turns more stern and serious now. “I am aware I am not your birth father. But we are family and I would be honoured if you would allow me to continue my people’s tradition, to help train you in your abilities and prepare you for your own journey of becoming a man. So that your stories will one day also be of victory, and success and the force willing... of the love and pride in also knowing what it’s like to have a son and a family of your own.”

Terrogate smiles slightly at the memory that floods his mind, of Mab, and the kids when they were younger. Before they were sent away with Jovian to safety, and before the chaos that had followed.

The Cathar now waits for what he has asked to sink in to the young horned Chiss. And he remains silent for Kas’sparr to respond.

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Kas'sparr Bathori

The young horned Chiss looked closely at the big trunk of the oak tree, only now he noticed the etchings. Some in galactic Basic others in a language he didn’t know. His eyes widened in curiosity as he scanned the trunk. There were some words and names that jumped out, it was obvious this was his step father’s work. Quietly he listend to t Catharian speak, intrigued by the story about his people.

When Terrogate points his blade at the trunk Kas'sparr's eyes widen even more. How own name it was freshly carved into the tree “The time has come for you Kas’sparr to forge your own story” Terrogate continues as he looks into the boys eyes. “My story?” he softly asks as the Catharian speaks. The boy suddenly was overwhelmed with thoughts and feelings, he didn’t have a heroic tale to tell and he doubted his smuggler adventures would be worthy to be written down.

Kas’sparr stared at the trunk, at his name etched into it, the fresh sap trickled down. He didn’t know what to say, the words of his stepfather meant a lot to him. For a long time he felt like the black sheep, that he didn’t belong, only now, for the first time, he felt he was part of something bigger, part of a family. His eyes moved up, meeting the feline’s. With a nod and a smile he said “I means alot to me... I would be honoured to get trained by you.

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Terrogate, Artifex of Tollere

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Terrogate smiled wide and let out a chuckle at the horned Chiss boys acceptance of his offer. ”Hhahaa, excellent. Well then lad, how about we start now with a small unofficial lesson?” says the Catharian in a more jovial tone. Terrogate immediately then closes his eyes and opened his palm, in less than a second a blinding flash of energy emanated from his hand, manifesting as a flash of light as Force Blinding that overloaded Kas’sparrs vision, causing a temporary blindness to the young man. ”A good rule of life my son, no matter where you are in your own journey.. Always remember how you got their... ”After a brief pause he adds ”I’ll see you at home.” and with that Terrogate jumps off the branch in a backwards spinning somersault and using telekinesis lowers himself safely to the ground.

Walking past SH3-1LA Terrogate says to the droid. ”If he falls, catch him. And make sure he gets home safely.”, ”Yes Master Terrogate.” replies Sheila acknowledging the instruction.

Terrogate then walks off back into the Batorine forest making his way back to the villa.

Soon, they will start the real training.

Force Blinding 1

Telekinesis 3

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Kas'sparr Bathori

Blinded by the flash Kas’sparr held on tightly to the tree. He heard his Stepfather jump down and speak to the massive droid down below.

When his vision cleared the young horned Chiss starts making his way down. Lowering himself from one branch to the other until he reached the last one. It was still quite high off the ground, as he looked down he saw SH3-1LA waiting for him. “Do you need assistance young master Kas'sparr?” The droid asked as she looked up at him. He shook his head “no I’m fine, you can go" he said. Truth was he could use assistance but he wanted to proof himself. Kas’sparr lowered himself, he was hanging from the lowest branch, wishing he had practiced with the force as he could use some levitation skills right now. He looked down and took a deep breath. The boy let go, and used augmentation to attempt landing safely.

It still hurt when his feet touched the soft mossy ground and he fell backwards on his ass. “kriff!!” he yelled frustrated. Sheila was still standing next to him “are you alright?” she asked him with her cold robotic voice. “Do I look alright?” he snarled and quickly got up, wiping his clothes clean.

He might have been away from Batorine for a long time but he still had his sense of direction. He started walked, the droid followed “you could climb on my back" she said. “No Sheila, that was not the task. I will walk and find my way back".. 'it might take a little longer', he thought to himself as he followed the trail the giant droid left..

Abilities used: Augmentation 1

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