“Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!”
Mike Tyson*
#quote
Today I went
over to my Grandma's house and played Scrabble with her. Much fun was
had and it got me thinking about Words With Friends. I wonder if it's
made by the same the people or how the makers of the program had to
do things to make it “legally distinct” as a game. Maybe I'll
look it up some time. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Knight
And The Bouncer
“I will get
into that ball,” the Sir Ronald. His armor didn't fit his title of
knight. He bought it at the cheapest places possible. Sure he managed
to get through all the training and advance from being a squire, but
really he didn't have the money to be a knight. He only managed to
get into the discipline because his teacher saw potential in him. To
make his life as a knight even more impossible when he went to a
wizard to get a prediction to whom he was destined to serve he was
pointed in the direction of Princess Alion, one of the royals of the
highest orders. With the papers given to him by the wizard he could
present them to the princess and get his job, but the problem
presented itself of getting to her.
A dragon
prevented passage into the castle where she was.
“I don't care
what papers you have,” The dragon kicked the ground with large
thumps coming from each feet, as large as Sir Ronald. “If you
aren't on the list you aren't getting in.” The dragon's rust
colored scales looked very similar to Ronald's shoddy armor.
Ronald pulled
out his sword, the only decent piece of equipment he had. It shone
with an intimidating shine. “Get out of my way, my destiny awaits.”
His master gave him the sword, so at least he didn't have to buy a
terrible weapon.
The dragon
swung his massive tail and bashed Sir Ronald in the side, his
pathetic armor crumpling inward with the force of the swing. The
dragon snorted. “Leave.”
There went his
arm and his savings. Fortunately the dragon hit him on his right side
and he held the blade in his dominate left hand. But still, if the
dragon could manage that so easily, how could he possibly get in?
He ran at the
dragons neck, with his sword primed for a fatal blow and he made sure
the dragon saw. The dragon dodged. Sir Ronald managed to get through
the training to become a knight despite his low status, and could
have tried for another blow at the dragon. After the dodge it still
seemed exposed. But he kept running into the castle. He kept his eye
on the real prize, working for Princess Alion and avoided the fire
breath that scorched the ground behind him.
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