Leaf and Jack walked down the hall side by side and stopped at the doors to the training room.

"Let's listen to see if Spark is really training." Leaf said and pressed her ear to the door.

She could hear the sound of swords clashing but nothing else.

"Sounds like he's having a good workout." Leaf laughed.

She reached for the door knob but drew her hand back when she heard Spark yell.

"Neese just run get King Kashue!" He yelled.

"No you need help." Neese yelled.

Jack heard the yelling and kicked open the door with his rifle at his shoulder. The room was empty except for Spark and Neese. Spark was bleeding from several cuts and Neese was against the wall with a small dagger in her hand. Neese looked over at the door when it was forced open and saw Leaf.

"Leaf their dark elves." Neese yelled. "Their invisible."

"Jack stay here you can't handle Dark Elves when their invisible." Leaf yelled as she rushed into the room sword in hand.

 Jack looked on trying to figure out what she was talking about until Spark was thrown against the wall by an unknown force.

"Well they can hide from the necked eye but let's see them hide from Inferred." He said as he pulled a pair of goggles from his pack. "It's gonna be kind of hard to see because its so hot but I'll still be able to get them."

He put the goggles on the flipped the switch. The room went red and he saw several heat signatures.

"Leaf, Neese, Spark get behind me." He yelled as he readied to fire at the other objects.

Leaf did as she was told helping Neese drag spark with them. The 4 other figures stood still making them easy targets. Jack took aim on the nearest one and fired. The Dark Elf fell backwards uncloaking from the invisibility spell. The others looked at their fallen comrade then rushed Jack thinking he was just lucky. Jack fired 3 more times then stood up.

"That's all of them." He said setting his rifle back on "Safe".

"What was that?" Neese asked.

"It's his weapon." Leaf said. "But it's only good for a short time."

"That's a shame it seems to be powerful." Neese said looking at spark. "Spark." She said sweetly.

Spark was unconscious and didn't respond.

"Spark." Neese said again.

Jack set his rifle down and looked at Spark.

"Looks like a concussion but he'll be fine." He said taking a bandage from his pack and wrapping it around Sparks head.  

Jack reached back into his pack and pulled out a small box with a wet cross on it. He opened the box and took out a small vile and cracked it open and waved it under Sparks nose. Spark slowly started to shake his head side to side then opened his eyes and sat up.

"Easy, easy." Jack said. "Your fine."

"Neese?" Spark asked.
"I'm here." Neese said. "I'm fine."

Spark looked at Neese and smiled. He struggled a bit but with Jack and Leaf's help he managed to stand up. He looked into the room and saw the dead elves.

"Leaf did you do this?" Spark asked.

"No, He did." Leaf said looking at Jack.

"You must be a great warrior to kill all 4 of them." Spark commented.

"No actually I used inferred goggles." Jack said. "It allows me to see the head their bodies let off."

"I didn't understand anything you just said." Spark said. "But whatever you said you did it worked."

"He's not from around here." Leaf said. "He is from another world. He was brought here when the dark wizard tried to merge our world with his."  

"I'm in the United States Army." Jack said. "Nut I'm stuck here so I have to learn to live here."

"Which is why we came here." Leaf said. "King Kashue wishes you to train him on how to use a sword."

"I don't think I can right now." Spark said.

"Well we're gonna set out on trying to stop the Dark Elves that are running wild in the morning." Leaf said.

"That won't work." Jack said.

"What? Why?" Leaf asked.

"Well he shouldn't go to sleep for at least 4 hours for one." Jack said.
"But I'm tired." Spark said.

"If you go to sleep you may not wake up." Jack said.
"What do you mean?" Spark asked.

"With a concussion if you go to sleep within 4 hours you may die in your sleep." Jack said.

"I'll keep him up." Neese said winking at Spark.

"Have fun." Leaf said.

"We will." Neese said seductively.

Neese took Spark by the hand and led him down the hall and disappeared.

"Well now what are we gonna do?" Leaf asked.

"Well I still want to learn how to use a sword." Jack said.

Leaf looked at him and smiled.

"Well then let's go." Leaf said as she walked into the training room and turned to face Jack pulling her sword.

Jack looked at Leaf who had a sweet smile then walked into the room and drew his sword.

"First thing is your grip." Leaf said. "Loosen your grip so the sword feels like it might slip out of your hands."

Jack did as he was told and looked at Leaf for approval.

"That's good." Leaf said. "Now your stance is up to you really. Place your feet to where they are comfortable then have the sword somewhere in front of you."

Jack adjusted his stance and looked at Leaf.

"Ok now I'm gonna come at you slowly so you can see how to defend yourself." Leaf said and started to move.

She swung her sword above her head and brought it down. Jack countered the swing by raising his sword and batting the sword away.

"Not bad." Leaf said. "A little sloppy but you'll learn." 

Leaf took several steps back and took her stance.

"Ok now attack me full force." Leaf said.

"What?" Jack asked.

"I'll be fine don't worry." Leaf said and gave Jack a reassuring smile.

Jack shrugged his shoulders and did as Leaf asked. He rushed her and swung with all the strength he had. Leaf steped back and blocked the blow and countered by pushing Jacks sword back and swinging at him. In mid swing Leaf turned her sword around so she wouldn't cut him but the blow never connected. Jack instantly blocked the sword with skill that he shouldn't have and retaliated. They traded blows without connecting until Jack batted a blow from Leaf away and placed his sword to her neck and stopped. He stepped forward until he was only 3 inches away from Leaf's face.

"Wow where did that come from?" Leaf asked.

"I don't know." Jack said.

There was a long silence between them. Jack still had his sword to Leaf's neck and Leaf turned red as she noticed Jack's lips were only inches away from hers.

'I got to.' She thought.

Jack Looked into her eyes and was lost in the beauty.

'God I'm right here.' He thought. 'Do it.'

Leaf leaned forward and closed her eyes. Jack saw Leaf leaning forward and leaned in as well. Their lips lightly brushed a few times before the firmly pressed their lips together. Leaf was lightly holding her sword and let it fall to the floor with a clang. She raised her hand and paced it on Jacks cheek. Jack lowered one of his hands leaving the sword where it was and put his now free hand around her waist. They continued to kiss until someone at the door cleared his thought. They quickly separated and looked towards the door. King Kashue was standing at the door with his armor on.

"Sorry to interrupt." King Kashue said. "But I thought I'd come and see how Young Jack was doing learning how to use his sword but instead he's learning the flavor of your lips." 

"Sorry your majesty." Leaf said.

"Nothing to be sorry about." King Kashue said. "But has he figured out how to use the sword yet?"

"Yes I have." Jack said.

"Show me." King Kashue said drawing his sword.

The sparing contest was over before it even began. King Kashue hit jacks sword at the hilt and the sword flew through the air and crashed to the floor. King Kashue was still moving to push Jack to the floor when Jack grabbed his wrist and threw him over his shoulder and followed him down. King Kashue crashed to the floor and Jack had his arm in his hand and flipped him on his stomach and pulled his other arm behind his back and reached for his pocket and pulled out 2 thick plastic zip ties. Jack secured King Kashue's arms behind his back then stood up and lifted him to his feet.

"That was great." King Kashue said. "I have never been beaten that fast before. Now do you mind letting me go?"

Jack led King Kashue to the door and lightly pushed him out and cut the zip ties off and closed the door.

"I hate being interrupted." He said and put his arms around Leaf and pulled her into another kiss.

(Sorry it took me so long to update. I'm working on getting my diploma then going into the Army. And I work 6 days a week. But I'm gonna be on my finals soon and I'll be finished. I'll be quitting my job on August 1st and I ship out on September 1st so I'll have a month to work on all my stories.)