Glory to Mandalore

[Darth Hades]

Rusade continued to walk around but still did not find who he was looking for. Finally he decided to ask someone. A quick glance around, Rusade saw a young women beside him cleaning her armor on the ramp of her ship. He approached her, seeing her as harmless but her blaster he had on her side told a different story. "Excuse me Miss. Name's Zuko Rusade. Do you know may I find a man named Roland?"

[Sir Lord Ash]

Akira wore a slight smile as the man finally decided to approach her. She sensed him near, and kept her senses trained on her the entire time he was nearby. She was timing the amount of time it took for him to talk, or walk away. When he did, she turned her head to look him over.

Roland? He's a Drakain, right? Last I've heard, they are all off planet. Quite a few men are off right now. Best to sit and wait out the time, or try to find Mandalore.

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[Darth Hades]

Zuko sighed "Just my luck. Always getting lost and being left out the fights." Then he noticed the faint smile the women had on her face as she continued to clean her armor. He wondered if she expected him to come to her. Rusade shook the thought out of his head and said "That's a niced ship. Its a real beauty." Trying to make small talk since it appeared that both of them had a lot of spare time on thier hands.

[Sir Lord Ash]

Akira set down her piece of now cleaned armor and looked up at her gray, slightly battle scared ship. A smile crossed her lips as she remembered becomming the unofficial, the official, owner of the corvette.

Yup, she's been through quite a bit. Its let me survive many missions before it fell under my ownership and then me falling in with the Mandalorians. You could say this was a gift from an old friend. I would go into more detail about her, but I dont think you would care very much.

Akira smiled and laughed slightly, sitting back, arms behind her head. She took a moment to motion Zuko to sit down. It seemed like they both had plenty of time to spare for the time being, though she may grow bored and spy on the core worlds.

[Darth Hades]

Rusade sat down beside her. "Sounds like a good story to me." Rusade said with a smile. But before he pressed more about how she obtained the ship, Zuko saw that she had other things on her mind. "Your eyes seek adventure." Zuko said, it was on her face, he could sense it too through the force. "Forgive me but I did not catch your name." Zuko said as his young boyish face glimmered.

[Sir Lord Ash]

Adventure calls, and its up to us to answer it or not. Sometimes we need to seek it out. I'm Akira Rumo, of the clan Lightning. What May I call you?

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Akira sat up, adjusting the lightsaber on her hip as it hit a piece of armor. She picked up a new piece to whipe off with a rag while she listen to what this new had to say.[/center]

[Darth Hades]

"I'm Zuko Rusade, recently joined the Drakain. Call me whatever you like. Anything but Zuzu." Before Zuko could continue something began to beep in his pocket. It was his commincator. He listened to it. It was orders from Elifain. He turned to Akira as it finished. "Well, it seems I've found adventure on Ilum. Care to answer it with me?"

[Sir Lord Ash]

Well, I'm up to head on over and see what old Eli wants. You have a ride of your own, or do you wanna hitch one with me, Zuzu.

Akira grinned. It was Zuko's own fault for not wanting to be called Zuzu, so she had to call him that at least once. She stood up, stretching out her arms, before gathering up the pieces of her armor. The olive-green was just the external armor plates of her armor, which was a modified version that was given to her. She released the plans so that others could use it, but so far, the armor was hard to come by.

[Darth Hades]

Zuko wanted to yell at her for calling him Zuzu but he didn't have a ship of his own so he was at her mercy. "I don't have a ship so we'll take yours." He sighed as he shallowed his pride of the pet name. "Let's see what this baby can do."

[Sir Lord Ash]

Don't worry. I doubt I will call you that again, but your face and force pressure were priceless.

Akira laughed slightly, which redused to a sweet smile that could reduse any man to mush, and walked up the ramp, led the way to the small armory, where she set down the armor on a bench next to a large black suit of power armor, her Ki-So-Longe assault armor MKII, named fir the species which the creater, and clan leader, a Ki named Ash Lightning. From there, she proceeded to the bridge, which wasn't fully activated, and the crew was lounging around.

Some had on mandalorian armor, due to them becomming a mandalorian. Some looked at Akira as she and Zuko walked in.

Alright. Time to head out. Course, Ilum. We have some friends to visit. Zuko, welcome to the Intrepid. Feel free to wander around. ETA to Ilum: not very long. There's some spare cold weather gear in the armory. Don't mind the security around there and some other important places. Cant be too careful.

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With joy at being able to get off and get going, the crew began the start-up proceedure, the first being the bridge activating its holographic 360 degree view. Within minutes, the engines were humming with life, and Intrepid lifted off, exited the atmosphere, and blasted off into hyperspace[/center]

[Yuki Uramachi]

Lana had finished up on Nar Shaddaa and then she and her fleet she was put in charge of went back to Mandalore.

"Alright, guys let's move out. We need to get back to Mandalore pronto!"

Lana led the fleets from the front, back home and they entered hyperspace. When they exited hyperspace they were in the Outer Rim, and they all landed on Mandalore. They were late getting back and all the assignments were already given out. Lana was told to train with some of the other students. She and the other student's needed the training for the upcoming war. Lana would train everyday with the others, as more honorable Mandalorians would come and go from missions getting even more honor. She hoped that one day she could be very honorable and go on more battle missions for Mandalore. One day after training Lana walked around town on Mandalore and a group of kids came up to her.

"You're a Mandalorian, right?" One of them asked and Lana nodded smiling. "Tell us what it's like!""Yes please, tell us! And about your missions!""Tell, tell! And how you became a Mandalorian! PLEEEAASE!?!" Lana smiled and told them of lower city Taris and how she use to race swoop bikes and was part of the new Hidden Bek swoop gang. She told them of how she lost her last race and was sold into slavery to a wealthy family on upper city Taris. She told them how they grew to love her like a daughter, taught her how to use a blaster and a light whip and they paid her to clean their house. One day they set her free and she had enough to buy a ship to get off Taris. She then told them of coming to Mandalore and asking Mandalore to join and training with Bermfad, and going to a strange planet and having to fight off angry Zabraks then of meeting The Emperor and helping out on Nar Shaddaa.

"WOW! I want to be a Mandalorian when I grow up! I'll be the best warrior in the galaxy!" "No I will, and I will become Mandalore someday!" "Nuh uh I will!" "No me!" The children argued and Lana laughed and and walked back over to the armor shop and bought some custom armor for herself. After this errand she went back to the Mandalorian base to train some more. A mandalorian student by the name of Quin Lon was who she was to train with today. Lana was still learning how to improve her fighting skills. When she got back Quin was waiting for her, Quin was an Epicanthix that had joined the Mandalorians to become a better warrior. Epicanthix looked like they were just Asian Humans, because they had light tan skin, dark hair, dark eyes and an epicanthic fold on their eyes. Quin had long black hair and dark brown eyes, she was very pretty, and also very fit for the fact that Epicanthix are naturally muscular.

"Ready to duel Lon?" Lana asked and Quin grinned. "What took you so long?" Quin asked playfully. "Some kids were asking me about stories about my time of being a Mandalorian..."

The girls went into one of the rings, they were doing a hand-to-hand duel with no armor. "Alright." Lana said and as they were both ready Lana launched for the first attack, she kicked at Quin Lon's hip with full force.

{OOC: I request that Elifain or Zilfer NPC Quin Lon for the fight}

[Elifain]

ooc: gladly.
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Quin Lon had based herself in a standard fighters stance, hands up open, near her, body, while her knee's were bent. When Lana's kick was launched, Quin ducked down a little, putting her center of mass lower, and placing her mid arm in the kicks path. As she took the hit, Quin reacted throwing her hand straight out, straight, in an uper hit on the lower solar plexus.

[Yuki Uramachi]

Lana smirked and retracted her leg as her kick was blocked. Then immediately afterward she did a back-flip to get out of the way of Quin's punch. As Lana flipped, she tried to kick Quin in the jaw before she landed on her hands and quickly returned to her feet. This fight had just started and already it wasn't the least bit boring; Lana loved a good fight with a worthy opponent. She smiled in wait for Quin's next move.

[Elifain]

As lana began her backflip that would bring her foot to kick Quin in the chin, Quin lon launched her body backwards, after noticing the shift. She, however, wasn't about to wait, and give Lana the initiative, so as soon as Lana's foot went by, Quin Lon jumped forward again, bringing her left fist up in an upercut, that would find itself planted on either the upper side, or the armpit area of lana.

[Yuki Uramachi]

Quin Lon punched Lana on the left side but it just made her flip have more momentum and made Lana land faster. Because the punch went along with the flow of the backflip, therefore Lana was barely affected by the punch. She landed on her her hands and quickly returned to her feet. This fight had just started and already it wasn't the least bit boring; Lana loved a good fight with a worthy opponent. She smiled in wait for Quin's next move.