Shadows in the Dark: Rise of Three

Chapter XIII

Jake and I walk into the training room and Katherine is standing there surrounded by about 50-60 people.

"This enough?" She asks.

"That's perfect! Thank you so much!" I reply.

"Anytime."

"Are they all werewolves?"

"No. There are about 10 warlocks, 20 vampires, and the rest are werewolves from several packs in England."

"Wow. That's awesome! Thank you!"

"Anytime. Let's get started!" She says.

"Sounds good."

Jennifer and Zach walk in followed by Isabelle and a younger boy I've never seen before. Jake's mother walking in a few minutes later followed by about 10 other Nightwalkers.

Jake and I start training with Katherine and some of her friends from her pack. We start with simple hand to hand combat just to see where they are at. Jake teaches us a few more moves and then we break off into smaller groups to practice fighting.

After about and hour of practice battles we start with weapons. I take half our group to the archery corner and teach them how to shoot. Then Jake and I switch and he teaches them different sword fighting tactics and I teach how to shoot a bow.

After another hours of weapons we start practice battles with weapons of our choice. I start the battles with Jake. I choose the bow with no arrows and he picks out a long dull Nightblade.

We bow to each other then Katherine signals to us to start. He charges at me and I teleport behind him and hit him in the back with my bow. He falls over turns around and pushes him self off the ground and lands on his feet. He start swinging at me with his sword and I block with my bow.

I blur around him and hit him in the back with my bow. He falls to the ground and I hold him down. Katherine counts to ten then announces that I won. I get off Jake and I help him up after me.

"You ok?" I ask.

"Ya. My neck is a little sore though." I chuckle a little then take his hand and ask who's next.

Several more pairs get up and fight. Some use weapons and some don't. They fight well, I'm actually shocked at how well they fight each other.

"Do they fight each other often?" I whisper to Katherine.

"Ya. It's how we train. We fight each other and kick each other's asses and there's no sore feelings left behind. It's just practice." She whispers back. I nod and watch the two werewolves beat up each other. Jennifer walks over and asks how we are doing.

"Great! The werewolves get really into this."

"That's because they fight each other on a daily basis."

"Ya. Katherine just told me. How your group?"

"Good. Zach is having trouble picking up on some things. I was thinking about sending him over here. Your group seems to pick it up quickly." She nods to the werewolves as one of uses one of the block positions we taught him.

"Ya. Sure. Send him over." I tell Jennifer. "Jake."

"Ya?"

"Can you go over what we just taught everyone else with Zach. Jennifer is sending him over to our group."

"Sure. Why?"

"He's having a little trouble picking up on everything. Can you help him out please?"

"Why don't you? You kicked my ass in that fight earlier."

"Fine, but you've been doing this longer."