The Sentinel is seen entering the Training room once the students have all gone to bed. Looking to the training Droids and entering the command prompt for all basic forms short of Juyo. Starting on Easy mode and slowly progressing through to hard. Taking a step back as the training droid moves to the center of the room, noting a guard moved into position enough to spot her training in case anything went wrong. She took a breath and nodded to herself, looking to the droid and spoke calmly “Begin Sentinel Training level one.”
The droid activated with training sabers, tuned very low so as to not actually harm students. Taking the neutral stance she ignited her own training saberstaff, the settings already lowered so as to not damage the droid. Then it came in. Starting slow at first, simple jabs, strikes, things she could easily parry and deflect with little more then Shii-Cho. Returning the strikes of her own to have it parry and block hers as well. Slowly, very slowly did it begin to up the challenge rating. Soon it was moving faster, forcing her to adapt to its speed, swapping to Makashi to move into feints, using the dancing as a way to evade the attacks that came faster.
So again did it ramp up its speed, the attacks coming faster, harder, while the blades themselves were turned down, they were already getting to the point receiving a blow could actually be fairly painful. Yet she did not hold back. Instead taking on the attack as she moved into Soresu, forcing the droid back as she struck with quick hard strikes, then suddenly shifting again as she suspected the programming would make it harder to keep up with her as she moved into Ataru, breaking the rhythm of forms she had been using, conserving her energy where possible she began chipping away at the droid, striking hard and fast, then moving from the range of the droids saber.
Sweat was beading down her face under the mask, the droid was getting faster, stronger, easily matching that of most Sith apprentices she had fought in the past. Making her keep her focus and strikes, taking a stinging blow to the side she grunted before coming back in using Jar’kai, far more skilled in this form she began pushing the droid back even further, forcing it onto the defensive. Her resolve firm as the droid again advanced, though this time into hard mode. The strongest she was allowed to take as an initiate. The droid moved with the speed of a very experienced Sith apprentice, struck just as hard. Swapping into Niman to allow her to be more fluid with her forms she continued the dance with the droid. Taking blows, delivering blows, this went on for more then an hour. The painful cracks when the training saber landed on her followed by a grunt would be heard many times, though the resounding ding came again and again of her striking back and landing blows. Though eventually the wounds became too much as she simply force leaped back and called out End program!
The droid instantly shut down and reset to the very easy default setting, her program once again gone as she deactivated the saberstaff, breathing hard she leaned on the wall for several moments to get her breath back. She could feel her body soaked in sweat, and no doubt covered in more then a dozen painful black and blue bruises. Taking one final breath she forced herself upright again and bowed her head in gratitude to the guard for keeping watch before making her way to the medical chambers, after all, nothing a soak in a kolto tank wouldn’t help. She would be fine and fit for duty by morning.
