xii. Dueling

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Kalna walked onboard and then she was shutting her eyes, before she walked into a wall by mistake. "Dank farrik!" She spat out in pain and she rubbed her forehead.

"Mandalorian expression?" Yord guessed and she grumbled, nodding carefully. "Next time, don't walk with your eyes closed." He said.

"Oh, you know what?..." She shoved him in annoyance and Yord was laughing quietly at the push. "Shove off!" Kalna said and Yord was shaking his head, smiling until she was starting to laugh as well.

"There it is." Yord said and Kalna glared at him, before she was shaking her head and she walked into her room. "Oh, come on Kalna." He said and then, she was shutting the door in his face. "Fair enough." He said and he was waiting outside of the door.

It only took a few minutes for the door to open again and Yord glanced at her. "I am sorry for laughing at you." He offered and she was looking at him, before she was shaking her head.

"I overreacted. We both know that." Kalna freely admitted and she shrugged. "Are you up for a fight?" She asked and he was holding up his lightsaber, before it was igniting with a familiar hum.

Kalna's eyes flashed, before she ignited her shoto and Yord sighed. "It is a training battle and you still won't draw your main weapon?" He asked and before he could react, she swiftly caught onto his wrist and twisted it, catching the ignited lightsaber in her free hand after deactivating her shoto blade and putting it away.

The yellow lightsaber was swiftly now leveled at Yord's throat and he was looking at her before he chuckled and then, she was lifting her eyebrows. "Do I need to?" Kalna wondered out loud and Yord was lifting up his open hands in surrender, before she was deactivating the lightsaber and she gave it back to him. "Looks like I'm still faster." She said.

"Come on, Kal." Yord said and she sighed before she took her lightsaber off of her belt and she ignited it. The blade glowed white and Yord stepped back in surprise. "I could have sworn that your lightsaber was blue."

"Yeah, well... I accidentally lost that one when Krilponnia had to subdue me, during a nightmare." She said and he looked at her with lifted eyebrows. "I found an old Sith lightsaber, in an abandoned cave on Eriadu and I purified it." She said and he was looking at her with surprise in his eyes, before he was swiftly igniting his yellow lightsaber.

"Ooh, a duel!" Jecki called out and then she stood at the end of the hall. "Could I, please participate?" She asked and at the polite request, Kalna chuckled.

"Sure thing, Jecki." Kalna stated. "And just maybe with your dueling help, Yord might actually beat me for once without cheating." She said as they were making their way towards the bigger space.

"I cheated once, when we were Padawans and I've never done it since." Yord protested and Kalna lifted her eyebrows at him. "Okay maybe three times. At most!"

"Sure... You have a purified white lightsaber crystal, made from an old Sith lightsaber you found?!" Jecki spoke up in astonishment and she was staring at the white glowing blade.

"All right, enough about my lightsaber. Are we dueling, or not?" Kalna asked as she was holding her lightsaber straight up in the air, a sort of salute.

Yord held up his lightsaber and Jecki was igniting hers, which glowed green and then briefly Kalna glanced over at her, before she held out her shoto.

"You're a Padawan. I'm sure that you don't need it, but I need to know for myself before we head into any given fight, that you can hold your own." She said and Jecki took the shoto, which ignited in a blaze of green.

"Thank you." Jecki said and Kalna was laughing.

"Don't thank me yet, Jecki. That shoto will be back in my hands by the end of this fight, I can guarantee it." She said and Yord charged, swinging his lightsaber at her quickly. Kalna's blade blocked it quickly as Jecki circled her.

Kalna and Yord battled back and forth until Jecki cut in, literally as the Padawan and the knight attacked Kalna at the same time.

The two of them attacked her fiercely and Kalna's eyes flicked back and forth between the two of them as she was blocking so fast, that she seemed almost like a blur.

Kalna disarmed Jecki, shoving her backwards with the Force and she was summing her shoto back to her hand, in time to block the strike from Yord's lightsaber again.

The two Jedi Knights swiftly fought back and forth, with lightsabers and the Force as they were each determined to beat the other. Kalna's shoto blade was pointing at Jecki, who held up her hands in surrender as with the Force, Kalna was simply holding it there.

Kalna knocked Yord's lightsaber out of his hand and then, she was pointing both of the sabers at his throat. "Do you yield?" She asked and Yord nodded.

"I yield." He said.

"As do I." Jecki stated and Kalna tossed Yord's lightsaber back to him, as her shoto blade fell to the floor and rolled back over to her. "For somebody who doesn't use her weapon all that often... You are surprisingly fast." Jecki stated and then Kalna glanced at her, before she shrugged.

"I made my own style of lightsaber combat and I like to think, that I'm good at it." Kalna said and she was putting away her lightsabers. "Let me know when we get to Coruscant, please." She said and then Jecki nodded, before Kalna walked back into her room and closed the door.

"Did you let her win?" Jecki asked.

"What?" Yord asked. "No, Padawan. No, of course I didn't." He said, insulted that it was even a valid consideration. "Why would you ask me that?" Yord asked.

"Because I can see that you two are more than just fellow knights of the Order, Yord. It is clear to those of us who look, you are not just..." Yord was shaking his head at the words.

"You don't even remotely know, what you are talking about." Yord said coolly.

"So, nothing? Nothing ever really happened between the two of you? Ever?" Jecki asked as she was watching him.

"As Padawans, yes but... It doesn't matter anymore." Yord said coldly and Jecki looked at him with triumph anymore. "It doesn't matter anymore and as far as I'm concerned with it... It never happened." Yord snapped.

Something fell to the floor with a clatter as the two of them looked down the hallway to see Kalna silently watching them. Kalna picked up the cup off of the ground, putting the cup back in its proper place and she was walking into her room again.

"Kal... Hey Kalna, hold up." But the door slammed before he could go in and he was looking at the door, which also tightly was locking. "Kal? Could you please open up?"

Kalna was staring at the door, before she was lying down on her back and staring up at the ceiling and then, the knocking continued on her door.


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