Talents of the Talented
Chapter 2: A day at school
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI knew that aggressive fighting wasn't going to help me beat him. So I decided to let him attack first. That wasn't very smart, because after he saw me not attacking he rushed me with two strikes from right and left and beat against my sword . That broke my defence and he thrust his sword into my chest.
He took one point from me and then he held his defence . I needed to be more aggressive , wich I hadn't intended to be , but I needed to do something . He wasn't planning to attack but I decided to trick him with a fake attack. I stamped my foot hard to make him think I was going to attack . Then I leaned forward to make my trick. But instead of fooling him, he just landed a fast hit on my shoulder.
Now the score was 2_0 . Nothing seemed to work . I shouldn't have let him take the first point in the first place. I could only use fast attacks and look for a great time to rush at him. I thrust my sword at him twice but he just stepped back and ignored both attacks.
I thought it might be a great time to rush while he wa's going backward. I strode heavily towards him, But he brought his sword up and took a half step back and just when my sword connected to his. He brought it back down and turned it fast and landed another hit on my arm.
"The sun is going down too soon today! " he said.
That just made me more irritated . I wanted to hit him in that moment. I just wanted to score one hit! It wasn't about beating him at that point; it was about being the one who finally landed a hit on him.
There wasn’t much time left and he had the lead, so I just rushed at him again with fast strikes but he just dodged them like they was nothing. I decided to thrust to his face mask , but suddenly he sat down and thrust me in the chest from underneath .
"Time's up" one of the members said .
I was very angry in that moment and also ashamed of loosing my title of champion. I had to admit that he seemed to be an expert fencer. After that I didn’t see him till the lunchtime.
I was sitting with the girls and talking about him, "So, I heard someone beat you in fencing, Sunset ," Raibow Dash said.
"Yeah ,and guess who?"
They seemed to be curious .
"Ooh, me ! Me! I know! It was Flaming star and you couldn’t even hit him once! "
"How do you know that ,pinkie pie?"
She shrugged " I just guessed."
"Wait, Flaming star is a fencer, too? ! " Applejack said , but I didn't know why she was very shocked.
"What do you mean ' too '?" I asked .
"He's also in the archery club ! And guess what ? Ah saw him hit three targets with one shot !"
"WHAAAAAAAT?!" Pinkie pie shouted .
"OK!" I said to Applejack, " I know you're all about honesty so I can't doubt you , but that's just wierd! How did he pull
That off.?"
"We were supposed to aim and shoot three targets , one after the other, as fast as possible, but instead he just notched three arrows on his bowstring , held the bow horizontal and then shot and hit all three targets at once!"
I put my head in my hands. " I hear you, Applejack, but I don't want to believe you. Is there anything else he can do?"
"Well," Twilight said , I haven't heard anything about Flaming star , but steely Armor joined the chemistry club and he said he was going out for chess club, too."
"And he said he will be in the parade drill group," Raibow added.
"Don't we have a song to rehearse hearse?" I asked.
"Ooooooh, sounds like someone's jealous. "
" No, Rarity, I'm not jealous. He.. ... they're starting to. ....remind me of someone. "
"Sunset's right, " Fluttershy said as she stood and picker up her tray. "We need to get to the music before the Rocks Jocks Glee club kicks us out again."
"Let'em try!" Raibow Dash said.
I wish I could say that I felt better after that, but I didn't . And you probably figured out that Flaming star and Steely Armor reminded me of ,well, me. The old me . The girl who stool princess's crown and....Well, you know what I did. And you probably also remember how that girl hated to loose.