Killing Strangers (Leave Me Alone) [Star Wars Rebels Fanfic]

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The low thrum of the energy blades hummed in the air as they faced off, eying each other warily. With no warning, they rushed towards each other and their lightsabers clashed with a loud vrrr! The two quickly jumped back before they were on each other again. He was more precise while her moves were wilder, but the styles seemed suited to them and seemed to be matched evenly against each other.

They swung again and again at each other, but she was straining a bit more now. He was stronger physically, bigger, and had more experience in fighting than her. But she was more experienced in lightsaber duels and the Force, and she took advantage of that.

Using the Force, Ezra used it to fuel her body and swung at Kallus' head. Then she quickly let go with one of her hands, which she used to Force push him onto his back, where she then quickly took the advantage and swiped her blade against his neck and stopped him from moving back up.

"I yield," he said in resignation.

"Don't be so disappointed," Ezra grumbled. "You are ridiculously good at this, and there are times –times that are steadily growing –where I either draw or lose to you."

They heard clapping and saw Jix. "Totally right! He is ridiculously good at this crap. Did I ever tell you how I met him? At the fueling port, he was on the way back to your ship, when a group of guys confronted him, and he beat them all barehanded and without any help!"

Ezra made a noise of interest and came closer, and she listened eagerly while Jix continued excitedly talking about it. Kallus' eye twitched and he made to ignore them, inwardly grumbling to himself and tossing a glare at them as he picked up a towel and wiped the sweat off his face and neck. When he rejoined them inside the house, Obi-Wan was with them.

"How'd it go?" the older Jedi asked Ezra.

"Not bad," she sighed, glancing at Kallus. "He is definitely not going to be an easy opponent with the lightsaber soon enough. I'd almost bet money that he could go up against Kanan and beat him. Kanan's good, but not the best at this either. He's more on the mental and energy side of the Force kind of guy, and his lightsaber skills weren't the best starting out with me. He's gotten way better though, through practice and teaching me, since he's got a reason to use his Jedi skills more and someone to spar and learn with. Kallus, though, is just a freaking monster at fighting," she teased. "He's a natural."

"I see your styles differ also," Obi-Wan noted. "You're more of a Vaapad user," he told Ezra, "which relies a lot more on emotion. He's more of Shii Cho type, which is the basic and most predictable form and one all Jedi are required to learn, and also more logical and less emotion-focused. His mastery of it and ability to use the predictable form and moves of the style in an unpredictable way, matches the natural unpredictability of your style.

"Funny enough, while there have been users of both styles before –though Vaapad is a rarer form and there were not that many practitioners of it because of the use of emotions without losing control and instead being able to control and focus them –and have teamed up plenty of times, there has only been one pair that had been matched up and were actually Master and Padawan for a time. Lucien Draay and Zayne Carrick were quite the pair, though because their styles clashed and were opposites, it made it hard for Master Lucien to teach Zayne."

He laughed. "To be honest, you two are doing a much better job at it than they had." He also smirked then. "I also believe that you two have a tendency to mix in a bit of Soresu into your natural lightsaber styles –Kanan's preferred form, yes?"

At Ezra's blush and Kallus' confused look, Obi-Wan elaborated. "It's only natural to take on some of the characteristics of your Master from training with him. He, like his Master before him, learned and favored and also were naturally inclined towards Form III, to which he then taught you. Though you were more inclined towards another style, because he focused and taught you mostly through Soresu, it's been ingrained in you, and so you have then passed it on to Kallus."