Saber training
"like this?"
"No you are leaving your entire left side open"
"how about this?"
"almost-no, no now you're all wrong"
Two weeks after their confrontation with the imperial mandalorians. Sabine thought that it would be high time to learn how to defend herself with her family heirloom.
The dark saber.
And who would be a better teacher than Ezra. Well other than kanan but for obvious reasons he would not be the first choice for a teacher when using a deadly weapon.
So when Sabine came to Ezra's room a week ago in the dead of night with a plan, a finger to her lips, and a mischievous glint in her eyes. Only a handful of people could say no to her, and Ezra was not one of them. Although he did not show his feelings for Sabine on his sleeve anymore, especially nowadays, he still had that giddy feeling when she walked into a room, and still stared at the wall when she would walk into a different room wishing to the force that it would disappear so he could stare at her a little longer.
"hold your blade higher"
The whistle and clash of a lightsaber on the dark saber echoed in the dark caverns of Atollon.
"just above your head"
Sabine complied "no here let me show you"
Ezra stood next to her in the same bent leg stance. He raised his blade above his head.
"watch me and follow my actions"
Sabine mirrored his movement and posture. "close" he said gently moving her arm high. "just like that. Now to the next stance." Ezra moved so the lightsaber was running diagonally across his face from above his hip then moved it to the previous stance above his head running parallel to the ground. Sabine tried to follow but choked on the transition. "here let me help" Ezra deactivated his saber and moved around to sabines back and wrapped his arms around her.
"what are you doing?" sabine said as her face flushed red. Thank the force Ezra couldn't see her face.
"Don't worry" he said as he helped guide her hands in the formation necessary to complete the block.
"just like that. Don't even think about what you are doing just move." Sabine adjusted her footing accidentally bumping into Ezra causing him to stumble. His arms flailed looking for something to hold onto and finding sabines shoulder but instead of pulling himself up he pulled sabine down. She fell onto his chest. Their faces inches from each other. For a moment they just laid there. Stunned. Ezra's face started to turn red. But before sabine could say anything he said.
"could you show me the block."
"oh ya"
She got up off him, helped him up and showed him the move.
"like this?" "ya that's good" he said as he moved around to face her.
"try a couple more times"
Sabine practiced the move five more times until-
"hey" exclaimed sabine The clash and whistle of a lightsaber meeting the dark saber echoed the tunnels.
"that's not fair i wasn't ready"
Ezra had a large grin on his face that expressed his need for some excitement.
"All's fair in love and War." he said with a sly smile and with that statement Sabine was all to happy to comply to his need by charging at him with the blade.
Sabine's first move was to swing for his feet. He stepped back flicking his wrist to deflect the blade all to calmly. He had a smile glued to his face that only made sabine want to beat him. She brought her saber above her head and she thrust it towards Ezra's left side. He easily parried her attack and watched her stumble.
"Come on sabine" he taunted " I thought your mandalorian heritage would have prepared you for this fighting style." she Glared hard at him but still had that playful smile. She jumped up high and then activated her jetpack allowing her to soar above Ezra's head she landed behind him ready to strike when Ezra swiveled around and began to actually spar with her instead of toy with her. They exchanged blocks and parries and lunges for the better part of 3 hours then finally Sabine managed to overpower Ezra by using her flame thrower on her wrist, kicking the green lightsaber out of his hand and then placing the glowing blade of the dark saber against his throat. " hey" he said out of breath but still smiling. By the force Sabine loved that smile and was glad to see it for it was a rare sight since Malachor .
"That's not fair" he mocked Sabine's earlier statement. Then regretted it after seeing Sabine's eyes glint with mischief.
She leaned in and kissed him quickly. Ezra was shocked for a split second then just as it ended he wanted more.
Sabine started to walk away And Ezra tried to follow but found that he was tied up with Sabine's grappling hook from her wrist. Sabine turned to look at him from the mouth of the tunnel and smiled sweetly then hooked her saber to her belt and tossed his lightsaber at his feet. Just out of reach.
"All's fair in love and War Dear."