And so we survived

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

"I cannot speculate how long the race has strived, or how long it has survived, but I know one thing. . . We're still here." ~ Cyris Darkbroode

Her knuckles were white, all ten of her slender fingers clutched the railing to the balcony. How many of them, just how many of these bastards are still in space hovering around the planet?"

She wouldn't get replied, but off in the distance she saw the ships of Mandalorians landing. Her doors wretch open and the room was filled with the sound of foot steps. Devlen and two others came to a halt.

"Deva," began Devlen, "with or without your order I will be going into battle with the Lue'Zhan. Stay off the field until I am through."

She spun around, her brow was arched and felt her face redden a bit with rage. The feint sound of a heartbeat increased in velocity and volume. "I didn't give you a damn-"

"Order," he finished her with a smooth look on his face and a smile to kill, "I'm not going to wait for an order to rid of insurgents on my home world. If you want to order me around, then do it when our race isn't threatened."

She was going to reply... But one of the Lue'Zhan warriors behind Devlen spoke...

[Kale Shadowsong]

"My Lady..." Kale had taken a step forward, putting himself directly at Devlen's side. His voice was calm and contained, but held the wisdom of his journeys within it. "Please, forgive my intrusion, but i must see to it that we do in fact do something about these Mandalorians. We're too few in numbers as it is. If we allow them to take control of this planet, what chance would we have for a future?" He took his step back now, placing himself behind Devlen, still remaining calm, but took some worry at what would happen for his actions.

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

"Doesn't matter, we're leaving," Devlen said before Deva could respond. He pushed the doors open and exited.

Deva looked Kale in the yes for a moment then nodded.

Devlen and the other two Lue'Zhan stood at the edge of town, before them stood a battalion about 400 large. They obviously knew of the uncanny swordsman ship and wished to test their own blades against the Dematri. Even so they would be fast on the trigger if the other side would draw a projectile weapon.

But instead they laughed. Three men stood before 400, what could Devlen possibly be thinking? "Ready?"

[Kale Shadowsong]

Kale's eyes lit up with the fire of pre-battle meditation. He reached around, grabbing the hilt of his lightsaber with a firm grip, then pulled it from his belt. His expression read that of confidence. He didn't care how many there were. He'd take every last one of them down with pride and honor. "As ready as i'll ever be, M'lord. This should be delightful as afternoon entertainment, hahaha." He ignited his lightsaber, then stood ready.

He would make these Mandalorians fear the Dematri and all they were capable of...

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

Devlen drew out his Katana, he snickered heavily, "They want to fight us on our own terms? Pathetic."

From the left and right Dematri warriors came forth, they stood at about 20 against 400. And they found Devlen laughing. "Ib'tuur jatne tuur ash'ad kyr'amur," he yelled out to them in their own native language. Simply he told them that it was a good day for someone to die, and they knew who that someone was.

Without an order of charging Devlen broke off from his men, in ten seconds he had cleared half the field, over four hundred yards. The Mandalorians all moved in sync, it would definitely be a grand day to die...

[Kale Shadowsong]

He charged forward, bringing his saber up to chest level holding it behind him to make sure the first Mandalorian that stood in his way would feel the full force of the mighty weapon and its wielder. It was all but instantaneous the moment the battle started. It seemed to go in slow motion to Kale, and he surveyed all that had been around him. Finding his target, a lowly Mandalorian that had strayed into just the right position would be the first to die by his blade this day.

Bringing his saber down in a mighty arc, the red glow pulsed through the air as it slid through the soldier's body with ease, cutting him right in two. But this was no time to celebrate. Kale moved on to the next one, quickly cutting and hacking all in his way.

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

By the time the first Dematri had a kill, Devlen had twenty. By the time the Mandalorians had their blades over their heads he had his digging in their bowels ripping at their spleens, tearing out the very bloody valves that held them together.

His blade ran up into the air and crashed on the helm of a Mandalorian, their dome plate shattered with the force of the attack. He knelt down on one knee and cut the legs out of five attackers, before they hit the ground he had stepped up once again and his sword lanced through them again dropping them.

[Kale Shadowsong]

All these attacks the Mandalorians threw at them, they were as if a feather trying to break stone. Kale dodged all the attacks thrown at him with ease, and it just got easier. Tapping into the Force, he called upon his powers to simply toy with these soldiers. He thrust his palms outward, everything around him getting shoved back. Taking this opening, Kale detached his lightsaber's hilt, then flung it out, and began to spin the deadly blade around, his whip being revealed.

This would definitely be something new to the Mandalorians, and he wanted to see how they'd deal with it. They regained themselves and launched back at Kale, but only in vein. Kale, raising his whip up and around him, began to swing the saber blindingly fast. The edge cutting through Mandalorian after Mandalorian before they even figured out what had hit them. This was almost like a walk in the park now...

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

Devlen had just finished off another set of warriors when the ground shook. Basilisk war droids landed on the surface. 10 meters in length, the droids were armed with laser cannons, they each had a rider and could ravage cities. There was four in all, the closest was right in front of Devlen, its cannons aimed right at him, his smile grew... The war droid sunk downward and fired its cannon hitting the Mandalorians around them.

Deva had moments before had her hands straight out, now they were toward the ground, and the closest Basilisk had just murdered about forty people. She watched from afar as Devlen lept onto the droid and sent his blade into the armored body then began using his force energy to speed up his slashes as he cut away at its armor. He began crushing it through the force, causing it to implode in itself.

Deva watched from afar... Like usual...

[Kale Shadowsong]

Kale took notice to the new arrivals. These Basilisk droids would fall like any other. Spinning himself on his heel, his whip saber cut through all around him, granting him the opening needed to take out one of the bigger targets. Pushing through the rest of the soldiers, he brought his whip around and thrust it forward, using precise skill and precision to wrap the blade around the Basilisk's middle, cutting into it.

Pushing forward with the Force, he jumped up and on top of the Basilisk droid, taking his whip back and thrusting it forward again, aiming for the Mandalorian controlling the blasted machine. The blade wrapped around his target, slicing him clear in half, his dismembered parts flying out and to the ground below. Bringing his whip around again, he jumped into the air and shifted his arm down, the saber shifting with the motions and digging deep into the droid's armor, cutting it to pieces before it even had a chance.

As it hit the ground with a loud thud, Kale landed gracefully, taking his whip down to his side, waiting for the next Mandalorian scum to take him on.

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

Devlen moved so quickly that the next Basilisk didn't have a chance to maneuver around at him. It fired its laser cannons and cut through the crowd when Devlen's feet planted on the side of its chassie. His sword cut through it and into its pilot falling the great beast.

Now more then ever did the Mandalorians know what they were facing. They may be falling Dematri warriors, but Devlen looked like he could of taken on their entire fleet alone. With Kale, Deva, and Loki at his side, the battle was already decided...

[Kale Shadowsong]

He would waste no more time. These Mandalorians were falling and the Dematri hadn't ever brandished a scratch. Kale took his whip back into his hilt, his saber returning to its normal form. But rather then cutting these foes down, he deactivated the blade, then put it back in his holster. The soldiers around him were completely baffled and rushed right away to the opening, trying to take advantage of Kale's open status...where would this get them?

Kale pulled out a shard from his utility belt and quickly set it into a slot on his wrist. The shard began to glow as Kale had an energy shield put up around him. Every attack the soldiers threw at him was parried, sent back and left them struggling to hurt him. With a smirk, Kale jumped into the air, reaching into his utility belt again at breakneck speed, and pulled out a tiny grenade.

His smile grew in that short time as he chucked the grenade down where he just stood. The Mandalorians didn't have time to react as a large explosion signaled Kale had finally pulled out his toys. A large area around where the grenade went off was completely decimated in radiating plasma. Kale, taking a back flip for the fun of it, landed just inside the radius, and the shield was destroyed as Kale escaped the plasma's wrath. He took a smile at his work, then readied for the next set if they would so willingly challenge him or his comrades.

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

The Mandalorians seemed to see the fall, they turned to their weapons finally. Blasters came forth. Loud gun shots came off six times quickly. Deva came from her jump and drew her saber, she had killed eight with six shots and was now cutting through people left and right. She was back to back with Devlen now.

He was cutting them down, she was reflecting blaster bolts away from him with her saber and killing them long range. Of course Devlen didn't care much, he would of given them 400 Basilisk droids just to make it even.

[Kale Shadowsong]

"Hey Devlen! What would you say if i pulled out the big one?!" Kale asked, now feeling the fun of battle coursing through his veins. These Mandalorians were tiresome, and to rip them to shreds in a miraculous blast of simple ingenuity and engineering perfection...oh...that would truly make this battle go down in the history books as one of the Dematri's lunch breaks. "The pretty colors might spark your interest, M'lord! Hahahahah!"

[¤Deva Darkbroode¤]

"Allow me to do so as well," he said pulling his sword up, his hair went from brown straight to silver, his eyes began glowing orange, "let's go!"

He stepped forward and the Mandalorians (including Deva) fell from a pressure that shot out around them. Lightning shot from his palm into the crowd around him, Deva was only safe because of her saber drawing the lightning from her body to it. After a brief second Devlen stopped and gave off a rather evil laugh, 50 fell. And Now it was Kale's time to shine down.