House of monsters
season1 episode14: the power of the shadows

a week had pasted as ej was cleaning and sharping his new sword but unlike rolant who had trained with his weapon ej didn't have the first clue in using a real sword. He then thought that maybe rolant could teach him a few pointers in using a sword so jack went to find rolant and he found him reading some of slender book form the library.

"hey rolant" said ej.

"yes jack is there anything I can do for you" said rolant as he he was still reading.

"you know how to use a sword right" said jack as he wanted to get it right that rolant could be a teacher to him.

Rolant closed his book and looked to ej as he knew what jack really wanted " you want to learn how to fight with a sword am I right" said rolant.

Ej was amazed by that how rolant was able to know what he wanted so he nodded to that and rolant stood up.

"very well then meet me outside we'll see what you can do and work on how we can improve it" said rolant as he walked pasted ej.

Jack followed rolant outside there jack was told to swing at the tree like he was fighting a real person. Jack held the sword like a baseball bat and swing's it hard enough to leave a mark in the tree rolant looked to the mark and back to ej.

"good you have power but it wouldn't be enough in fight with someone who knows how to use a sword as well" said rolant.

"then what should I do I've never used a sword before" said ej

"alright then I'll teach you but you must do as I say understand" said rolant in teacher mode.

*sigh* "fine what do you want me to do first" said ej annoyed.

"first you must relax you body if you tense up you will be cut down" said rolant.

Jack had to relax his body so that he could ready for the next step from rolant.

"now the next step is to balance you body doing this will help your strikes in a battle do you understand" asked rolant.

"yeah I got it what's the next step" said jack.

"the next step is for you to remain calm doing this you can make better decision's in the fight that way you can gain a victory" said rolant.

Ej per paired himself and he thought where he could strike the tree as a few seconds of thinking he strikes the upper of the tree and down the middle of the tree trunk.

"good, very good now you next step is to find the flow of the battle and control it this step you'll have to fight me one on one style" said rolant as he left to get a sword.

After a few second of waiting rolant had his sword and per paired himself for the fight. Jack then got into a fighting stance he sword at the ready waiting on rolant to say go rolant had made the first strike so jack reacted by blocking the strike. In the cashed jack had to find a way to break it and return fire so putting his strength into it and pushed rolant back then ej swung sideways but rolant jumped backwards as jack missed his target. Ej then trusted forward's and tried to stab at rolant's shoulder but rolant swung his sword up and knocked jack blade up making him lose his balance and fall on to his stomach ej picked himself up and looked to rolant.

"you got sloppy jack try again" said rolant as he got into his stance.

Ej was enraged as he charged at rolant with both hand's on the hilt lifted over his head he swung down with powerful strikes at rolant's sword who was blocking. Rolant felt the power of jack's strikes and had to think of a way out of this attack once ej had lifted his sowrd up to strike again rolant in one fast move was behind jack and sliced his back with his sword. Ej fell to his knees as he dropped his sword to the ground he went to grab it only to have rolant stop him by slamming his foot to the ground on jack's hand when rolant removed his foot he had stopped the lesson and gave jack a hand up.

"not bad jack, not bad at all but you last you temper that you shouldn't do" said rolant.

Jack picked up his sword and held it in his left hand as his right hand was hurting form rolant stepping on it.

"tomorrow we'll continue the lesson until then get some rest you'll need it" said rolant as he walked away.

Ej then lifted his right hand up and the pain form it was starting to heal from the training. Later jack was looking over his new sword as she wondered what made him it's new master as he slowly and carefully slides his hand across the blade with out trying to cut himself he jumped as someone knocked on his door to his room. As he jumped he was then cut form the blade and some of his black colored blood had fell on to the sword.

"ow son of a..." said ej as he held he bleeding hand.

"jack are you in there" said the voice of the slender man.

"yeah what is it" said ej as he closed his hand to prevent his blood from dropping on his floor.

"it's dinner time you should come get some food" said slender man.

"I'll be there in a minute" said jack as he started to heal his cut.

Slender man understood as he left the door to get dinner ready with jack he looked to his sword and saw it was glowing purple energy then it's black smoke start to enter through jack's eyeless socket's and his mouth once it had entered ej felt strange. As he left the room he felt a little woozy as every step his took was like walking on a tightrope on some steps he nearly fell down but he managed catch himself and kept on walking. He reached the dinning room and everyone was eating they're food as jack got his food and seat down. As he was eating the shadow's in the room started to move a little as ej looked out of the corner of his sight he saw the shadow was moving a bit but when he looked to it it stopped moving. Doing this Jeff looked to where jack was looking at and saw nothing then looked back to jack.

"hey jack what wrong was something there" said Jeff.

Jack snapped out of it and looked to Jeff.

"not it's nothing" said ej as he went back to eating his food.

As dinner ended he was in his room wondering what was going on the shadow's in his room were moving with out the light from the lamp being moved at all.

"what the fuck is going on" said ej to himself.

"hey jack what's going on here the shadow's are moving around on they're own" said the entity.

"i don't know I cut my hand in my new sword and then some black smoke entered my body next thing I know the shadows started to move on they're own" said ej as he wanted it to stop.

Then suddenly the shadow had came to a stop and returned to where they were suppose to be when there was light in the room.

"we should keep this our little secret agree" said the entity.

"agreed" said ej as he felt tried and slipped into sleep as his body fell to the ground.