Respect for Eldon Ax, also known by her birth name Cinzia Xandret, apprentice to Darth Chratis and later Darth Howl, active during the Old Republic.

Description

Eldon Ax is a seventeen year old Human female Sith Apprentice who has red hair that she wore in dreadlocks. She wears all black and keeps her lightsaber hanging at her belt.

Accolades(?)

Eldon Ax is described by Darth Howl, a member of the Dark Council, to be a true servant of the dark side.

She braced herself to receive the punishment she deserved.

Instead he said, "I approve."

The invisible hand gripping Ax from head to foot relaxed. "My lord?"

"You have demonstrated to me that you are a true servant of the dark side, Eldon Ax."

Source: Fatal Alliance

Up until her first confrontation with the Mandalorian Dao Stryver, her record for solo missions had been perfect, and she had been awarded highly by the Sith Academy.

It didn't matter that her record on solo missions had been perfect up to this one. It didn't matter how highly she had been awarded by the Sith Academy.

Source: Fatal Alliance

While fighting the Jedi Knight Shigar Konshi, he notes that she is strong and the dark side flows powerfully through her.

His opponent was small, but she was strong, and her eyes full of hate. The dark side flowed through her in powerful waves.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She is described as a wild animal, barely held in check.

Her wild-haired head was held high, and she took each step as though fighting the urge to spin and fight. She was like a wild animal, held barely in check.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Darth Howl praises Eldon's efforts after the events of Sebaddon.

"So you survived where you Master did not, and you returned with valuable intel. You are strong and determined, like your mother. You deserve nothing but admiration, and a close eye."

Source: Fatal Alliance

Force Powers/Abilities

After plunging her lightsaber through a ferrocrete wall, she uses the force to heat up the wall, thus melting it, and then proceeded to make a protective bubble of Force energy.

The crawl space was broad enough for her to squat, and she did so, holding her lightsaber pommel before her. Closing her eyes, she ignited it and raised the blade slowly into the ceiling above her. Ferrocrete bubbled and hissed; stinging flecks struck her skin. When the hilt was flush with the ceiling itself, she stopped.

The power of the dark side flowed through her, raising the temperature of the ferrocrete to scalding. She breathed lightly through her nose, not caring if she was scalded. A red glow surrounded her, radiating from the surface above. She maintained her concentration, forming a self-protective bubble about her as the ferrocrete became molten and began to drip.

The bubble rose gently through the lava, delivering her without further effort to the space under the base of the vault.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Eldon uses the dark side to fuel herself after experiencing the effects of a sonic disruptor, which sent powerful shock waves through her body.

Twice, he narrowly missed her, and even the fringes of the beam sent powerful shock waves through her flesh. Only her rage kept her going. She used the pain to fuel the dark side.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She knows and utilizes Force jump.

The truncated scream of one of the handlers followed Ax as she Force-leapt across the enclosure in pursuit of her quarry.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She possibly utilizes Force Hearing, tuning out all the sounds around her to locate the distinct sound of a certain jetpack.

She closed her eyes and tuned out the screams, the settling debris, the occasional blaster shot. She was looking for one particular sound out of the multitude surrounding her. It would be feint, but it would definitely be there.

The whine of Stryver's jetpack.

There.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Force Sense/Empathy

Eldon senses that her Master is sorting through information on a data terminal with one location in mind.

Menus and diagrams came and went in the giant screen. Ax found it difficult to follow, but she sensed that her Master was leading her though the vast and convoluted structure that was Imperial records to one location in particular.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She feels her Master's fear when they are addressing the Dark Council.

She felt her Master's fear for the first time, and it thrilled her.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She uses the Force to feel if anything big will come into contact with her wile she's in a tight crawl-space.

A subsonic boom came through masonry surrounding her, followed quickly by another. She held her breath as the palace shook, and pressed outward with the Force, just in case something heavy shifted into her.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She senses Dao Stryver entering the room without even looking in his direction.

When the door burst in behind her, she didn't need to look to see who was there. She felt his presence as keenly as a dagger in her back.

Dao Stryver.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She senses her Master's impatience.

Their progress was painfully slow. Ax could feel her Master's impatience growing----redoubled because he knew he could say nothing, threaten no one.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She senses that a tank holding holding her clone was what had brought her, through the crashed ship, to the tank itself.

Master Satele approached the tank, but Ax hung back. She sensed that this was what had drawn her here, but now that she was standing in front of it, she was nervous.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Mind Trick/Telepathy

She tricks a security guard with a mind trick to easily slip away from her tour group.

Ax made it her business to be elsewhere. Confusing her Houk escort with a well-placed mind trick, she slipped away from the group and vanished into the shadows.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She casts a mental scan through a chamber and senses that a Jedi had been there previously.

Before rising, she cast a quick mental look through the circular security air lock outside the antechamber.

Her face twisted into an immediate scowl. Jedi! She would recognize that humorless and inhibited mental stench anywhere.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Telekinesis

Eldon Ax uses the Force to telekinetically close a door while fighting Shigar Konshi.

She drove him back to the room's inner door and, with a telekinetic sweep, slammed it shut behind him.

Source: Fatal Alliance

While in a saberlock with Shigar Konshi, and with her right leg in an awkward angle behind her, she uses the Force to wrap his cloak around his face.

He was stronger, but she was more cunning. Whirling his cloak around his face and throat took barely more telekinetic energy than it did to think of it, and the move had the effect she needed.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She uses the Force to call her lightsaber to her hand.

She ran backward, Force-pulling her fallen hilt to her even though she knew it couldn't possibly arrive in time.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She uses the Force to throw broken glass at Dao Stryver.

So she kept moving around her enemy, practically running on the walls of the battle-blackened security air lock, goading him on by hurling broken glass at his joint seals.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She throws debris out of her way with the Force.

The rough-and-tumble finally eased off, and she was able to make her way through the debris, using the Force to help shove aside rocks and gravel, cutting through larger obstacles with her lightsaber if she had to.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She uses the Force to pin Envoy Vii to a wall.

The squawking of the envoy finally penetrated her consciousness. On the brink of entering the shuttle, she stopped and reached out one half-gripped hand.

He swept out of the guards' hands and smashed into the air lock wall.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Force Shield/Force Barrier

*After every ". . . ." is a different example of Eldon using a barrier.*

Eldon creates a shield to protect her from glass shards.

Ax heard the sound of glass tinkling from behind her and ducked barely in time. Hundreds of tiny shards rushed at her, ripped out of the chandelier by the power of the Jedi's mind and hurled at the exact spot she had been standing. A second stream followed her as she rolled and flipped away, pushing off with her hands and landing on her feet halfway across the room. Recovering her poise, she wrapped a kinetic shield about her and flung the shards away. Only a handful got through, one cutting her arm and another putting a bloody gash over her left eye.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She creates another shield to protect her from fourteen streams of energy blasted from the Hexes on Hutta. What makes it more impressive is that she had previously been knocked unconscious and was still recovering from her wounds.

The girl was on her feet now. The moment her lightsaber activated, the hexes noticed her. Fourteen streams of energy pulses converged and Ula had time enough to feel sorry for her before she vanished into a glowing sphere of light.

...

Ula was staring at the Sith girl. Amazingly, she hadn't died in the concentrated attack. Even more amazingly, she was still standing, and looking angrier than ever.

. . . .

Ax raised herself to her knees, and from there, with a supreme effort of will, to her feet. The world swayed around her, but the scream was intact, and growing. The dark side swelled inside her.

The creatures from the vault saw her, and instantly turned their blue pulses onto her.

She set the scream free.

A Force barrier surrounded her, bare millimeters from her skin. It shimmered and flickered as wave after wave of energy crashed against it, but it held. It held as long as she screamed, as long as she didn't want to die.

. . . .

Ax felt like she was being swallowed whole by a space slug. Even through the Force barrier she threw around herself as protection from the tumbling surf of rock, every sharp edge and crushing pressure squeezed the breath utterly from her.

. . . .

Its black sense organs tracked her every movement. But every blue pulse it fired at her was reflected by the Force barrier, and every wild slash of its razor-sharp limbs was deflected harmlessly.

. . . .

Two more floors. Three. She threw up a barrier to prevent the heat of the jetpack from flaying away her skin.

. . . .

Her Force shield repelled all but the most concentrated fire...

Source: Fatal Alliance

She throws up a barrier to protect her at the last instance from a shot from a blaster, point-blank.

Then his left hand lunged out to catch her around the throat while his right brought up the assault cannon and fired into her stomach.

At point-blank range, the shot was like being hit by an aircar in full flight. Had she not put a Force barrier in place, her entire midsection would have been instantly vaporized.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Force Lightning

Eldon Ax uses lightning on Shigar Konshi the minute he becomes distracted during their fight.

He was distracted, too. His eyes flicked to the sealed inner door.

In that instant she struck.

Her ability to produce Sith lightning wasn't fully developed yet, and she didn't dare hope that it could overwhelm anyone with Jedi training, but she used it anyway, blasting her opponent with everything she had. He caught it badly, as though he wasn't used to facing such attacks----and it occurred to her then that he was an apprentice like herself. Like her, this could be the first time that he had faced his enemy alone. Unlike her, he wouldn't live to learn from the experience.

He staggered away, flesh tortured and smoking.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Force Choke

Eldon Force choke's a man.

"Again, not good enough." She wrapped the Force around the man's throat and squeezed until he gasped. "Tell him that I have important work to oversee, and I will not be distracted."

"Yes . . . sir!" the red-faced soldier managed.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Intelligence

Eldon Ax is a very tactical thinker.

Instead, while carefully memorizing the route, she kept her eyes open for tactical information: how many guards stood at each intersection, which areas were covered by security cams, where blast doors were located, concealed or not.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Taking the opportunity to inspect the interior of the vault in more detail, she memorized sensor emplacements, estimated the strength of the walls, and measured the distance of each object from the door, just in case she had to perform in the dark. It would be much better, of course, to take the prize once it was out of the vault and away from all these impediments, but she would be prepared for anything.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She had tuned out the sound of alarms and the distant aftershocks of her sabotage, but she remained alert for everything in her environment, just in case her sparring partner tried something new.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Speed/Agility

Eldon Ax swings her blade like a propeller.

She came at him in a storm of blows, feet moving lightly across the floor, almost dancing, blade swinging like a propeller.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She "runs on walls" to evade sonic disruptor shots.

If Stryver kept firing and missing, the weapon would soon be useless. So she kept moving around her enemy, practically running on the walls of the battle-blackened security air lock, goading him on by hurling broken glass at his joint seals.

Source: Fatal Alliance

From laying on the ground after getting the wind knocked out of her, she gets up in the blink of an eye.

It couldn't end here.

She wouldn't let it.

She was on her feet in a single eyeblink.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She activates her lightsaber in an instant.

Kneeling down and touching the ground, she could feel the heat even through her gloves. All around the Ci complex was lava, so that made sense, she supposed.

Something dropped soundlessly behind her.

She was up with lightsaber lit in an instant.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Strength

Although being physically weaker than her opponent, Eldon's lightsaber strikes are described as "hammer blows."

She came at him in a storm of blows, feet moving lightly across the floor, almost dancing, blade swinging like a propeller. Their weapons clashed with a furious electric sound. He matched her move for move, but doing so sorely tested him. Every block jarred through him like a hammer blow.

Source: Fatal Alliance

She gains the upper hand in a physical bout against Dao Stryver.

The Mandalorian was reeling back on his feet from her attack.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Lightsaber and Fighting Skill/Dun Moch

Eldon utilizes Dun Moch while fighting Jedi Padawan Shigar Konshi, then engages him in battle, going throughout most of the duel with the upper hand, until the Mandalorian Dao Stryver came and interrupted their fight.

"You don't look like a Jedi, but you sure smell like one." With a tinkling smash, a skinny girl dressed all in black dropped out of the chandelier. Her hair flailed in thick red dreadlocks like the tentacles of a living thing. "You stink of repression. Let's see what we can do to change that!"

The girl activated a brilliant crimson lightsaber.

Shigar didn't return her bloodthirsty grin. He kept his heartbeat steady, raised his lightsaber in return, and adopted a stance of readiness.

She came at him in a storm of blows, feet moving lightly across the floor, almost dancing, blade swinging like a propeller. Their weapons clashed with a furious electric sound. He matched her move for move, but doing so sorely tested him. Every block jarred through him like a hammer blow. His opponent was small, but she was strong, and her eyes full of hate. The dark side flowed through her in powerful waves.

She drove him back to the room's inner door and, with a telekinetic sweep, slammed it shut behind him.

"Nowhere to run now, Jedi," she gloated. "Why don't you stop fighting defensively and show me what you've got? I'm going to kill you either way, but let's at least make some sport of it."

...

Ax heard the sound of glass tinkling from behind her and ducked barely in time. Hundreds of tiny shards rushed at her, ripped out of the chandelier by the power of the Jedi's mind and hurled at the exact spot she had been standing. A second stream followed her as she rolled and flipped away, pushing off with her hands and landing on her feet halfway across the room. Recovering her poise, she wrapped a kinetic shield about her and flung the shards away. Only a handful got through, one cutting her arm and another putting a bloody gash over her left eye. She blinked blood away, relishing the sharpness of the pain.

The tall, skinny Jedi was coming for her, green blade foreshortened by a strong, stabbing blow aimed for her midriff. She swept it aside, only to find that the move was a feint. He aimed a kick at her right knee and brought the blade sweeping around for her head. With a grunt, she took the kick on her shin and saved herself from decapitation only by reducing the hold on her hilt to one hand. Their lightsabers met just centimeters from her skin.

They locked there for a moment, his blade pressing down toward her face, her left leg twisted behind her, in a difficult position to use her weight against him. He was physically stronger than she, and wasn't above taking advantage of that fact. One solid push and his blade would be burning more than air.

He was stronger, but she was more cunning. Whirling his cloak around his face and throat took barely more telekinetic energy than it did to think of it, and the move had the effect she needed. Taken by surprise, he reeled backward, clutching at the flapping fabric. She retreated only long enough to regain her footing and balance before moving in again, while he was blinded.

...

They fought back and forth across the room, slashing and blocking and leaping and running, using walls, floor, ceiling as launching pads for each new attack. Glass crunched beneath their feet and swirled around them in distracting, potentially blinding streamers. He was good----she had to grudgingly admit that----but she was good, too, and she fought to the very edge of her abilities. Her mission wasn't going to end here, skewered on a Jedi's lightsaber. If Darth Chratis was going to stand before the Dark Council and admit that he had failed, then she was going to be there to see it.

The end came unexpectedly for both of them. ...

Source: Fatal Alliance

Eldon Ax engages Dao Stryver in combat, forcing him to retreat with his jetpack.

On Stryver's other side, the Sith burst from the flames, lightsaber upraised and hatred blazing in her eyes. Her leap took her over the flamethrower's deadly jet and was timed to deliver a spearing thrust to the Mandalorian's domed helmet. He ducked with startling speed for one so big and thrust the shockstave up at her. She cut it in half, kicked him off-balance, and returned for another slash.

. . .

The third time he fired in their little dance----the fifth shot overall----she barely felt its aftereffects. The weapon's charge was dying. Grinning with triumph, she turned her circling run into a headlong launch. Time to bring the fight back to him.

He met her attack with a vibroblade aimed at the throat. She screamed, trying to drive her blade through his armor with all the strength of her muscles and willpower combined. His buzzing blade was so close it brushed her skin, raising a fine spray of blood, but still she didn't let up. The Mandalorian was reeling back on his feet from her attack. This was the best shot she'd ever had.

His jetpack activated with a whine. Suddenly they were moving, jerking upward as though lifted by a giant puppeteer. Taken by surprise, Ax lost her grip and fell away.

Source: Fatal Alliance

While traversing stairs with unstable footing, she blocks all shots fired at her without breaking a stride.

Baring her teeth in anticipation, she set off after him. Each leap took her one step higher on the long ad-hoc staircase. The surfaces she landed on were unreliable. Sometimes they crumbled beneath her; sometimes they slipped, still molten from the heat of the cannon. Sometimes people fired at her, made trigger-happy by the Mandalorian's violent passage. Ax kept her footing and deflected every shot. She didn't stop for anything or anyone.

Source: Fatal Alliance

Although it's not outright stated, she defeats a dozen or so guards, because they are never mentioned again and she still continues her search after she engaged them.

She was on her feet in a single eyeblink. The dozen or so guards converging on her across the roof weren't going to be a problem at all.

Source: Fatal Alliance

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