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Author's Note: I truly apologize for this chapter being so late;
RL has been one annoyingly devious bitch. I hope you like this
chapter, and as always, feedback is very welcome. In fact, the
more I get, the more I write. 



                Shadow Knight Chronicles
                                     By Gambit


                                  Chapter Seven


Ethan Remfield sat at the desk in the cabin's study completely
engrossed in the book he was reading. Not even the soft, feminine
snores of Tosh, who was napping on the sofa, could distract him
from this particular book. Anyone else in his position would be
engrossed in this book as well.

He was the Son of Dakrin.

This book in his hands was his legacy. It was the Shadow Knight
Chronicles.

He read the book almost every chance he got in-between training
sessions and he was still only half way through it. The young
Shadow Knight was just now getting to the part where his father
was writing about a race of people that were sort of like the
Shadow Knights. Only these people had no need for shades and they
all had light, light gray eyes, along with very pale skin. These
people were called the Children of the Moon, and they were led by
a man named Kalib.

Another thing that truly amazed Ethan was how many laws his
father made. When Jesse had told him that his people rebelled
against his father because they were tired of his laws, Ethan
imagined that the man much have made dozens upon dozens of laws.
However, that just wasn't the case. In fact, his father had only
written ten laws, but they were good enough laws that he didn't
need more.

As Ethan read, he came to the conclusion that Dakrin was a very
thoughtful, meticulous and caring man. All he wanted was for his
people to live in peace and harmony with the Normals. That was
his dream and he died for it. He died because the Knights in New
Mexico became greedy.

If Ethan had his way, though, he was going to make them regret
that mistake.

Ever since he and his party had arrived at the cabin he had been
nothing but vigilant when it came to his training. They had only
arrived at the cabin about a week earlier and Ethan had already
learned most of the social customs concerning his race, the
Shadow Knights. His sword skills were progressing nicely and he
was already a master at martial arts, in Normal standards at
least. He was actually learning at such an accelerated rate that
it awed Jesse somewhat; nobody should learn that fast.

It was ten o'clock in the morning when Jesse slipped into the
study. She was quick to note that Ethan didn't even notice that
she had entered the room at all that was unusual in itself he was
usually very aware of his surroundings to an almost paranoid
degree. It was just one more thing to add to the reason she was
going to make Tosh and him take tomorrow off, even if they didn't
want to. Tosh already pushed herself to the point that she had to
take naps in the daytime, after morning practice. They are no
good to the cause if they run themselves down, she thought with a
mental frown.

However, she knew they would have to learn today's session. That
was a must.

Jesse gently cleared her throat and watched, with great amusement
as Ethan's right hand shot towards the sword that was on his
back. "Is that a sword in your hand or are ya just glad to see
me?"

"Funny, Jess. Really funny," Ethan replied with a semi-sheepish
look, letting go of the handle of the sword. "What would you have
done if I threw a dagger?" he added with a smirk.

Jesse just shrugged. "Caught it," she replied as she walked over
and sat in a recliner. "Today's the day you and Tosh learn about
Kinetics. I'll teach you and Kait will teach Tosh." Jesse watched
as Ethan carefully schooled his features. He didn't want to look
like a kid in a candy store. She knew he had been waiting all
week for this. He was dying to learn how to move like Kait did in
the parking lot of the pizza place.

Ethan couldn't hold it any longer; he let a genuine smile cross
his face. Jesse had told him that it was because of kinetics that
she and Kait were able to move almost faster than human sight
could follow. It was because of kinetics that they were able to
do things that were almost super-human.

With one fluid motion, Ethan stood up and closed the book that
was on the desk. "Well, ready when you are, Boss Lady." His eyes
twinkled behind his mirror plated shades as he spoke.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?"

"What?" he asked innocently. "I think you make a great boss
lady... You're just missing the whip and you'd be dead sexy."

She was mortified when she felt a blush rise to her cheeks, but
she rallied quite well. "I never knew you had fantasies like
that."

"I... Bu... You..."

"Shut up while you're ahead, honey." Jesse's jaw snapped shut
when she heard the endearment leave her mouth. Now the little
bastard is smirking at me! "Oh shut up and let's go to the
training yard," she barked out as she blushed.

"Whatever you say," he replied with mock seriousness and a nod.
Then, motioning towards the slumbering Tosh, "Should we wake up
sleeping beauty?"

"Nah. Kait said she really put her through the ringer this
morning with endurance training. We'll let her sleep another hour
and then I'll have Kait wake her up. Your sister definitely won't
want to miss today's lesson."

"No kiddin'. She'd skin both of us alive if we let her sleep
through a kinetics lesson," Ethan replied as the two of them
walked out of the study, into the living room and out the front
door. They did so in a quiet manner so as not to awake Tosh.


                                *************************

The training yard was called "training yard" as sort of a joke
between Shadow Knights. In all reality it was just a big back
yard that had various items in it to help train new shadow
knights, or for older Shadow Knights to brush up on their skills.


Some of the items in the yard included a bucket of acorns, rocks
that were anywhere from boulder size to hand held; wooden and
steel dummies to practice blocks and strikes on and two target
boards to practice knife throwing on. It was nothing fancy, but
it suited Jesse's training purposes quite well. Kait was going to
use a completely different area and method (Blade Runner
Training) to train Tosh; her and Jesse had decided that when Kait
agreed to train the girl.

Ethan looked at the girl in front of him like she was losing her
mind. The female Shadow Knight was just standing there with a
bucket of acorns by her feet and one held loosely in her hand.
"Let me get this straight. You're gonna throw that at me, and all
I have to do is stop it. This is supposed to be hard, how?"

Jesse just gave him a patient look. "You're not allowed to use
your hands, only you mind. Specifically your kinetics." She could
tell this wasn't what he had in mind. She also couldn't help the
smirk on her lips.

"Alright. I'll bite. How am I supposed to do that?"

Jesse let out a sigh. This was always hard to explain. That's why
she really wasn't a professional instructor in the Art of Shadow.
"Look, just imagine that you have a third arm. You have to focus
all your mental energy on that arm and the acorn. Then just stop
it," she replied simply.

"Just like that? Easy as pie?"

"Just like that," she confirmed.

I can't believe I'm standing out in the middle of nowhere,
letting a pretty blond Shadow Knight chuck acorns at me. Who else
can say this about their life? he thought humorously. "Ready when
you are, Master Yoda."

The female Shadow Knight smirked at the Star Wars comment and
then proceeded to get even by throwing the acorn at her student's
head, knowing full well she should have started out with a
lighter throw. She was very pleased with the sound it made.
However, Ethan wasn't.

"Ow." The sound came out of Ethan's mouth before he could stop
it. "I thought you said you were gonna start out easy?" he added,
fully aware that he was starting to sound like a little kid.

That comment elicited a chuckle from the beautiful blonde.
"What's the matter, young Skywalker? Is the pace to quick?"

"Yeah, yeah. I get the point no more smartass comments." This was
said as he continued to rub the sore spot. I can't believe she
actually did that. Then he proceeded to collect himself and
become serious. "Ok, give me another shot. Same speed."

Jesse gave him a nod and then proceeded to use her Kinetics to
make another acorn float up from the bucket, landing it gently in
her palm. "You ready?" At his nod she threw the small nut as fast
as the last one.

The small acorn flew threw the air at a fairly decent speed and
Jesse was prepared to wince in sympathy, except... Except for the
fact that she didn't have to. When the small acorn was no more
than two inches away from Ethan's forehead, it just stopped and
hovered, like it was a sentient being awaiting command.

"Ok. That's great! Now I want you to float it slowly towards me,
until it lands in my hand." Jesse's voice was full of pride. She
had figured that it would have taken at least to dozen tries to
learn this. Although, she should have known better, considering
how fast the younger Knight was taking to martial arts.

With very rapt concentration, Ethan did as he was told. "Can you
tell me why we're doing this with acorns, Darlin'?" He was
concentrating so hard on the acorn that he didn't even notice the
endearment. 

Jesse's face flushed at the word 'Darlin'. "Since they're so
small it'll help teach you how to be very precise with your
kinetics," she stated as she held out her hand for the acorn to
land.

"I guess that would help with 'precise' aspect of it," he agreed
as the small nut landed in Jesse's hand gently.

"I'm so glad you approve." This was said with playful sarcasm.
"Now, if you can do that again, two more times in a row, we'll
move onto something else." She repeated the throw again and got
the same results. "Ok, one more time. This one will be at full
speed. Ya ready?"

This time however, Ethan had something else he wanted to try.
I'll have to make a different extension, though. Maybe...When the
acorn was no more than a foot from Jesse's hand, it just exploded
into nothing more than dust.

"Jesus!" was Jesse's exclamation when she witnessed that. Novices
are not supposed to do that! She thought wildly. "Um."

"How was that, boss lady?" Ethan asked with a smirk.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't get too cocky on me you still got a lot to
learn." She ran her fingers through her errant blond hair as she
tried to shake off how easily he caught on. "For the next lesson
all you have to do is sit on the porch."

"Just sit?" he asked in a confused voice.

"Yep. It involves meditation. So you better clear you mind," she
replied as she led him to the porch of the cabin.

Ethan sat down on the porch with an explosive sigh, looking up at
Jesse as she continued to stand. "Aren't you gonna have a seat?"

"Nope. You're on your own for this one, kiddo. I'm going to go
inside and have a cold soda while I start dinner. Now listen up,
young Skywalker, this is what I want you to do," she started with
a grin. "The kinetics you use is all around you. They flow
through everything and anything. What you have to do is focus on
the Kinetics the best you can. I know this next part sounds corny
but it's the truth you have to become one with the Kinetics.
There really isn't a much better way to explain it. Just imagine
the kinetics flowing through you. You are going to have to find
your own method to do this. All rookie Knights do."

"Become one with the Kinetics?" His voice was a little
skeptical.

"Pretty much. You basically bind yourself to them. You can do it.
Just try your best and you'll do fine. And remember, nobody gets
it on their first try."

Ethan watched as the beautiful Shadow Knight walked away from him
and back into the cabin. "Do your best. You'll do fine." Easy for
her to say, he grumbled a bit. He then shook his head a little in
an attempt to clear his head. "Ok, Ethan, you can do this. Just
focus," he told himself as he crossed his legs, leaned back on
the palm of his hands and took a deep breath then another.

The young Shadow Knight lost track of how many times he repeated
the breathing exercise, and was starting to get frustrated. But
then... But then it finally happened. If he were to be asked what
it was like, he would have been hard pressed to explain the
feeling. It was close to the adrenalin rush you get right before
a vicious fight and the afterglow of sex combined. It was almost
an indescribable euphoria. 

He could feel the trees all around him. Oh, and his senses it
felt like his senses were on fire. He could smell everything
within a hundred yards of him. His hearing; well, that was almost
uncomfortable. He could here a squirrel chewing on a nut about
forty yards from him. It was like being bound to Kinetics
intensified everything tenfold. Ethan knew for a fact that if he
took off his shades that he would be blinded.

Even though it was close to euphoria, the teenager didn't know if
he liked it. It was like a blind man being suddenly able to see.
Or a deaf man being suddenly able to hear, but isn't for sure if
he likes all the high pitched sound maybe he's even a little
frightened of it. It was a lot to take in at once.

Ethan suddenly couldn't take sitting anymore; he had to stand.
His heart felt like it was racing at about one hundred and twenty
beats a minute and he had more energy than he knew what to do
with. Ok, let's see what you can do with this, his thoughts told
him. Let's see how fast I can move. When his foot stepped from
the porch to the ground, the boy hardly even felt it. It was so
hard to describe the energy that flowed threw his muscles at that
moment.

Ok, let's try speed first. With a glance to the mustang that was
parked about thirty yards away, he decided to see how quickly he
could get there. One. Two. Three. 

No sooner than the breath was released from his lips after three,
he was just there, standing right before the mustang. Now, with
most teenagers, they would be thrilled at this kind of power. He
wasn't thrilled, but he wasn't scared, either. At the moment,
anyway. The best possible word that a person could use to
describe what Ethan felt like was... Leery. He was very leery of
this power. He knew he would need it in the coming days, however.
Furthermore, since he knew that it was his power, no matter what,
he just accepted it for the edge it would give him in the coming
battle. Although, he would be lying if he said that he didn't
take a little bit of pride in the power he now possessed.

Ethan looked down at his clothes and his eyebrows rode up into
his hairline. His shirt and jeans were ripped in various places
because of the speed he had traveled. Ethan just shook his head
without humor at the sight. I should have thought about that.

Basically, he was doing fine right up until the time he figured
out that he couldn't turn it off. That scared the hell out of
him.

                               *************************


Jesse was chopping up vegetables for the stew that she was making
for dinner when she brought her Kinetics up for the soul reason
that she wanted to know when Ethan finally figured out how to
bring his own up. He finally achieved his goal; she couldn't help
but smile and feel a little awed. Never in her life had she ever
felt Kinetics that was as powerful as Ethan's was. Not in New
Mexico, or her brother's base. However, her brother's kinetics
did come close.

The female Shadow Knight idly looked around the kitchen and her
view into the living room. The place was absolutely spotless and
she hadn't cleaned one bit. Neither had Tosh or Kait, who where
currently somewhere in the middle of the woods. No, it was all
Kasey, who was currently upstairs dusting the bedrooms. Ethan
hadn't wanted to make the girl do manual labor, at first. 

However, Ethan found out that for some reason, Kasey was happiest
when she was performing for her "her Lord". Whether it was
sexually or doing chores, it didn't matter. So, he gave her a
list of chores to perform everyday and he "thanked" her every
night. Jesse sometimes wished that half the Knights in The Zone
in New Mexico would treat there Followers with half the respect
that Ethan does his without even much effort.

Then again, I don't think there are many people that are like
Ethan, her amused thoughts said. Then, in the blink of an eye,
she was jerked out of her thoughts by a door slamming so hard
that it broke off its hinges.

When her head snapped around to look into the living room, she
saw Ethan looking at the door that was currently lying on the
ground with an astonished look on his face. He would look at the
door, then at his hand, then at the door again. He had such a
shocked look on his face that Jesse couldn't help it she busted
up laughing.

"It ain't funny," he barked out. However, he soon noticed that
the harsh voice did nothing to sway the lovely Shadow Knight's
humor. After he thought about it, he decided he probably did look
like an idiot standing there, so he cracked a strained smile. He
really wasn't in the mood to smile. "Alright, maybe it was a
little funny."

"Heh. You looked like a kid that just broke one of his toys."

"Ha-ha," he replied with sarcasm as he walked into the kitchen
and sat down at the dinner table with an explosive sigh. "So how
do you turn this kinetics thing off?"

"What do you mean? You just quit concentrating on it and it goes
away."

Ethan scowled at her, but there was also confusion in his eyes.
"I've tried that. Hell, I've tried concentrating on making it go
away, even. I've tried everything I could think of and nothing
works! Why the hell won't it go away?"

Jesse was shocked for her part. She had never heard of anything
like that. Kinetics always went away on their own once the person
wanted them to, at least to her knowledge. Hell, most Shadow
Knights have problems keeping there Kinetics up for more than
three hours. "Have you tried thinking of something entirely
different and pushing the Kinetics completely out of your thought
pattern?"

Ethan gave her a murderous look.

The look shocked and scared her for a moment. However, when she
looked behind it, she saw something that she didn't like at all.
Fear and sadness. Since his shades were lowered just the
slightest bit, she could see those emotions stand out starkly.
For the first time, she finally realized just how young Ethan
Remfield was, no matter how many terrible experiences he had to
learn from.

Even though he was giving her a flat out dangerous look, she knew
that he would never willingly try to do her harm. So, with that
knowledge, she walked over and sat in his lap, pulling his head
to her chest and hugging him with gentle care while she stroked
his hair. "It'll be ok. You're not alone, Ethan. I'll always be
here," she whispered softly.  

It was in those loving arms that Ethan Remfield, the Son of
Dakrin, wept.


                    _____________________________________


Author's Note: After this chapter all new chapters will be in one
place for two days time before they are posted anywhere else. So,
if you want to see them before they hit the newsgroup you better
go to ewp.org. And it's not just my stories that are there. There
are many great authors, such as Net Wolf, Ice Phoenix and Night
Wolf.  :)




 
























 





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