Sword Fight
There were only two Cardinal’s Guards left now. Lorna looked around her. There was a Guard on either side wearing their unmistakable crimson tabards with a gold cross in the centre. Lorna smiled. She was wearing a black mask that concealed her face. They had no idea who they were fighting.
Without warning she attacked the figure on her right. He parried her blade, while the Guard on her left moved behind her. She unexpectedly swung the blade behind her, dragging it across the chest of her would-be attacker. He yelled out and dropped to the ground. She then attacked the man in front. He parried her attack and disarmed her with his main gauche. Jumping up to the chandelier, she swung on it, her legs connecting with his chest. He fell backwards over a stone table. She jumped to the ground, retrieved her blade, and ran out the door…
Joanne Fisher
This was written with the photo prompt provided by Crimson’s Creative Challenge #59.
Seat plea done! 🙂
©2019 Joanne Fisher
Echoes of the Three Musketeers? It’s that Cardinal does it. And I must ask if you’re into fencing as a sport, or merely read so many novels that the moves come easily to you 🙂
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It’s on Dumas’s works. I quite like watching swashbuckling movies. I also wanted to learn fencing, but never have. I’m glad it came across as authentic 🙂
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I have the same thing about archery. And it’s just so expensive.
BTW, I’ve a feeling the *buckling* part of swashbuckling is derived from the small shield used in fencing, called the buckler.
And you read K.J.Parker’s The Fencers Trilogy? Which title I may have slightly wrong.
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*based on, I meant
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When I originally saw the photograph, I immediately thought of someone swinging on the chandelier.
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I stood under those chandeliers. Sorry to blow your bubble, but no way could someone have reach them just by jumping. Stand on the pews, yea, then you could.
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Lorna’s quite athletic you know 😉
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Needs to be. Best we allow her to jump on a pew. 🙂
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woohoo! She was swingin’ from the Chandelier! Nice! 🙂
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That was wonderful – and though not anything Musketeer-like, kind of serendipitous as I watched Kill Bill last night with lots of sword fighting 😉
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