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"Come now padawan," Dooku said, putting a bit more about strength into a series of blows than he would have otherwise, forcing Harry to backpedal. "I know you can do better than that with your Force powers, I did say this was a full spar did I not?"
Harry grunted then allowed one of Dooku's attacks to make him skid backwards slightly along the ground, before throwing up a full body Force Shield. The shield deflected the next two attacks as he knelt down, slamming his free hand down onto the ground. Instead of the pillar of stone or rock thing up out of the training area that had taken Luminara aback that first day the ground rippled, forming into a series of spikes. Each of them shot out towards Dooku leaving gouges in the ground of the training area.
Dooku nodded approvingly, his lightsaber flashing and arcing, destroying each spear as it came at him. "Excellent!" Then Dooku was nearly thrown off his feet by a Force Blow which felt much more like a blast of air then actual Force power.
"I'm just getting warmed up Master Dooku!" Harry exclaimed gesturing upwards. Spears of water appeared in the air, shooting towards Dooku. They sizzled as Dooku intersected them with his lightsaber, and Dooku felt his eyes widen in surprise at the strange Force powers Harry used. He had seen such like that before, but not to this extent.
His Force Precognition warning Dooku leaped into the air for the first time in the battle. His leap took him up at least 15 feet, somersaulting through the air over Harry's head as Harry sent a Bombarda towards where he had been standing. The ground underneath where Dooku had been exploded, but Harry was forced to turn quickly, grabbing all of the pieces of the ground from that explosion and whirling them through the air towards Dooku, trying to tag him.
But Dooku was one step ahead of the projectiles. He touched down dodging between and through the assault closing rapidly with Harry who was forced to quickly fall back onto his lightsaber, falling reluctantly into Soresu in an attempt to tire his opponent out. Dooku's assault was relentless this time. Harry still managed to get off a few more Force attacks as he apparated away, his Force Precognition working overdrive, always placing a Force Shield or his lightsaber between his body and Dooku's assaults, who always seemed just a step behind him.
On the other side of the spar Dooku's own Force Precognition was up to the task of keeping him from being surprised by Harry's bag of tricks, and since Lily had forbidden him from using true attack spells other than Bombardas and wind assaults Harry was unable to match Dooku. Indeed, he wondered if at close range he would have been able to at all even with all his restrictions removed. Dooku's Force Precognition was simply that much better than Harry's own. Dooku had also already learned a bit of Harry's bag of tricks, making these matches even better in the long term for Harry's combat skills, but in the short term rather bad for his ego.
Eventually Dooku won through, his lightsabers scoring a hit along the Harry's shoulder, causing him to hiss in pain. He dropped his lightsaber from that hand, but Force Grabbed it pulling it into his other hand, intent on keeping up the fight.
Dooku bobbed his head in a nod at the youth's willingness to continue but still stood back. "You're not ambidextrous Padawan, though I appreciate the effort. That was quite good, your Force Precognition is growing by leaps and bounds, and your personal style is already taking shape. What can you tell me about it?"
Across from him Harry waited until Dooku, lips quirking, deactivated his lightsaber. There had been a few exercises where Dooku had pointed out that the fight wasn't over until everyone's weapons were turned off, and to not always assume the battle was over.
Once seeing Master Dooku's lightsaber back on his belt, Harry deactivated his own, falling to his knees for a moment and gasping in air at the exertion. Dooku too was sweating, his chest heaving, but his style was very much more conservative than Harry's. Makashi was much less tiring than even Soresu, especially if you added the unnecessary movements Harry committed, and the exertion of using his Force powers into the equation. So it was a few moments before Harry could reply to Dooku's question.
When he did his tone was rather rueful. "I think I need to come up with two different styles Master at least in terms of lightsaber combat. My instinct is to be extremely aggressive, but when I am aggressive, my lightsaber is secondary to my Force assaults. On the other hand, when I am on the defensive, my lightsaber and Force shield become my primary defense as I look for a way to use my Force powers on the offensive."
"Indeed," Dooku said with a nod, a small uptick at the corner of his mouth signifying he was pleased with Harry's perspicacity. "And what does that tell you about the styles you should take up?"
"Djem So for offensive I think." Harry said quickly, and Dooku nodded.
"Yes, your ability to use the Force to heighten your endurance and strength is quite decent, Master fay taught you well there, as is your ability to keep your emotions from hindering you in a fight. You use them, but only to your advantage, there is no waist in that as there is in your Force projections or actual lightsaber moves." Dooku waited for Harry to nod his head acknowledging the critique before going on. "I'd almost think you would be a natural for Master Windu's Vaapad, but once locked into lightsaber combat, he only makes the rare use of Force attacks such as his Force Crush, and even then only rarely does he use that against his actual opponent."
"From what you've said about that style Master Dooku I'm not certain I would want to use it," Harry said with a shrug. "As you say I am a bit more emotional than the normal Jedi, and Vaapad seems rely too heavily on perfect emotional control, becoming a mirror to your opponent's anger and flipping it back I suppose you could say."
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