There was an odd, easy synergy to the battle that came almost immediately; as Johte leapt into the midst of the swarming rakghouls and threw the first of them at the walls, Procion followed up by pinning them, plucking them up with the Force like ragdolls, and throwing them further, sending one barreling into its kin not unlike a bowling ball. Purple lightning arced through the darkness of the cavern, and for a split second, the Jedi might have thought himself betrayed, but then instead of his back, it connected with the crouched form of a rakghoul just to his left that had been waiting to pounce, sending it into violent convulsions. The Sith's dark shape blurred into its surroundings as he spun, empty hand slashing through the air like a blade; another ghoul, one that had somehow managed to creep past their combined defensive barrier at the cave mouth, shot through the air like a cannonball, ending up impaled on a stalagtite.<br/><br/>"Not right now!" the Sith snapped back as he completed his spin, turning to look at his unlikely companion for just a split second; the howling around them, both audible and metaphysical, had him on edge, and he still hadn't quite recovered from the blow of his earlier miscalculation.<br/><br/>Perhaps that was why the exact fraction of time it took for him to answer - or rather, refuse to answer - was what one of the rakghouls selected as its chance. It was a huge, mottled black-and-grey beast, but an oddly quiet one, leaping from behind its kin and slashing at the side of Procion's face, tearing through the fabric of the mask. A last moment dodge cost the ghoul both the kill and, the next instant, its life, as an explosion of white and purple sent it flying the entire length of the cavern; but the Sith's scream wasn't one of pure rage, there was pain weaved in the mix, just as there was in the red flash in his aura, a near tangible throb. Blood welled in the wounds and ran down his neck as he snarled, tearing off his gloves and unleashing a torrent of Force at the wall of rakghouls still facing them. Streaks of electricity danced along his arms as he expended everything he had at the beasts, for a moment lighting up the entire cavern as if it was midday.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>