House of monsters
season1 episode16: burying the hatchet
two day's later jack was practicing with rolant on sword fighting and as rolant was about to landed a strike on ej, jack blocked the shot with shadow blade and pushed rolant back but as ej went to strike rolant his master was able to recover quickly and both men's swords were inches away from a kill shot making this match a draw.
"good job jack your getting better every day you should be proud of that" said rolant as he backed away a bit.
"thanks rolant you been a hell of a teacher" said jack.
"that will be all for today, tomorrow we will continue your training" said rolant as he walked pasted jack.
Ej followed rolant to the house as they were getting the chance to talk.
"so rolant how did you meet lady nightmare" asked ej.
"well I was the royal family's personal guard when king nightmare was in charge of under realm" said rolant.
"alright then who were those guy from the the ruin in under realm" asked ej as he never got an answer to that question.
"those men were all loyal soldier's to king nightmare and once lady has taken back the throne they will answer to her" said rolant as he was leading them.
"wow so that makes them her army to use" said jack.
"yes but right now we are few in number's so we have to wait until we have a advantage against zalgo" said rolant.
As both men returned to the house rolant had to check on lady so ej went off on his own to see what the deal was with the shadow's around him. As jack was behind the shed that was in the slender mansion's back yard he was staring at the a shadow that the tree was making ej used his new found power to move them around. Ej created a small stick figure to dance around, how he was able to create thing's from the shadows was incredible it felt like he was once of those super hero's from a comic book but unlike those character jack would kill a criminal instead of having him placed under arrest by police. As jack was watching his little creation playing he heard foot step's coming towards him he got rid of the it and turned to who ever it was standing there was jane she had a blank look on her face she needed me to come along with her. Jack and jane were both in slender office as slender man was reading one of his many book's he shut the book and placed in on his desk.
"now that both of you are here we can get down to business" said slender as he looked to both of them.
"what do you want from us slender" said jane as she didn't want to be disturb from her personal time.
"as you know we now have the soon to be queen of under realm we now have an edge against zalgo but we are still far from a victory" said slender man.
"so what's our next plan of attacked" asked ej crossing his arm.
"we need to see what zalgo is planning he wouldn't just stay in under realm forever he wants to rule both under realm and over realm but his power can only remains in under realm making him limited here in over realm" said slender.
"so we draw him here and kill his ass" said jack.
"it's that simple jack he knows he's limited here in over realm so he won't come here at all" said slender man.
"so we we get his attention show we are a threat to his rule" said jane.
"something like that we need to show him that he is no king of under realm or any realm that's why you two are going to leave a calling card for him" said slender man.
He slides a card to jack as he pick's it both him and jane looked and saw a circle with and x through. They both looked to slender questionable wanting to know why he was showing this to them.
"all you have to do is make a large version of this symbol in under realm, zalgo will know" said slender man.
As both of them headed outside jane turned to jack.
"ok let get one thing straight pal, I'm not your friend or you buddy we do this mission and get back here as soon as it's done got me" said jane.
"yeah I got it but there just one thing before we do this job" said ej.
"fine what is it then" asked Jane not really caring.
"how come you haven't forgiven for the fight I understand that what I did was a dick move and completely understand if you want to break my noise but for god shake can't just let it go" said jack as he wanted to know why she still held a grudge against him.
"do you know how many times Jeff, or laughing jack, or any of those who don't have a care in the world tried to kill me a day" asked jane with an angry look.
Jack srugged his shoulder not really seeing that from any of one he had met in the mansion.
"every time I let my guard down those ass holes try to stick a knife in my back even that smiling fuck Jeff the so called killer he the soul reason why I look like this" said jane as she walked off in front of jack angrily.
As the two reached one of the well's to under realm jane was the first to enter then jack followed a few seconds had pasted as jane was the first to reach the other realm before jack. As jack finally was out of the well he spotted jane thinking of where to place the slender mark as ej wanted to help jane told him to wait over by a tree until she found the right spot then he could set it up. That was the last straw jack told jane that if she wanted his help she need to cut the attitude and give him a break he make be friends with Jeff but that don't mean she get to treat him like the dirt on the ground. Jack walked off in to the forest alone not wanting to face jane until he had cooled off from his rage as he found a quiet spot ej used the shadow powers he had to created a dog out of shadow's it hopped on to his leap and jack started to pet the small creation to clam down.
"i get this life isn't easy but not everyone is a jerk she should really need to lighten up" said jack to no one in the area.
The small dog made form shadow's barked at jack with it's tongue hanging out in a happy tone.
"at least you like me but make you so I guess it don't count" said jack as he felt depressed from the argument.
From the tree's in the forest the sounds of movement could be heard coming towards jack he stood up with the small dog landing on the ground he pulled out shadow blade ready for a fight as it came into view it was a very tall creature that walked on all four leg's it stared at jack then it roared at him. With that both jack and the small dog started to run for it as the strange creature chased after them both as jack was running the dog was able to stay beside him as it shared the same speed as it's creator. With jane she had found the right spot as she was about to place down the gas to create the slender mark but from the tree's she heard running as jack and a small black dog ran pasted her.
"jane run like hell now" yelled jack as he didn't stop.
"why" asked jane but form behind she looked to see the thing chasing after them she as well bolted form safely as they were being chased by a strider and it was hunger for flesh.
The two were running as fast as they could until jane caught her foot on a roof that stuck out of the ground as she looked to the strider it lifted one of it long leg about to crush her like a bug as she closed her eye's waiting for her death a breeze was felt and when she looked jack was using his strength to hold it's leg form crushing her.
"move" yelled jack as he pushed the leg back making the strider fell to the ground.
Jane got up and the small dog had lead her to a safe area she wanted to help but the dog refused to let her as it was stood in front of her. The strider got up and looked to jack pissed off from him blocking it's meal the strider lunged it large mouth towards jack jumped over the bite and slammed a foot onto it's head making it hit the ground. The strider then knocked ej off of it and as jack was picking himself up the strider bite down on his waist and lifted him up in to the air. As jack held his word he aimed the tip of the blade to the strider's eye then in one quick trust he drives the sword into the eye blinding the creature making it let go of jack but he lost his grip on his sword as it remained inside the strider's eye. As jack hit the ground he saw that the strider was in pain as the it tried to get the sword out of it's eye ball so jack had to finish it off he looked to one of the tree's shadows and used his new found powers to bring them to him once he had enough he tighten his fist and with all of his will power he summoned a giant fist made out of darkness landing a hard right hook to it's face where the sword was planted. The strider fell to the ground dead as jack looked to his hand then back to the dead body of the strider.
"holy shit that was hell of a punch" said ej as he walked up the the strider's body.
Jane and the small shadow made dog came out from the safe area jane was in shock as she just saw this guy save her and at the small time kill a strider no one in under realm was able to kill those thing's but he did. With jack he searched where the sword was planted and noticed that when he landed that punch he sent his sword deeper into the strider's head and stabbed the brain which means he had to get it out. Ej inhaled then he reached into the strider's head after a few seconds he grabbed his sword and ripped it right out of the strider's head ej swings the sword down and all the blood on the blade was thrown to the ground.
"come on we still have a job to do" said ej as he turned his head to look over his shoulder.
Both of them placed down the gas and lite a match setting it on fire once they were done they headed off back to the mansion but as they were walking jane couldn't help but to see a different side of jack the part that showed that the human was still alive inside.