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Chapter Seventeen: Egoistic Jacob

"C'mon Sage! You can do better than that!" Marcus shouts trying to push me to work harder as we sword fight. He keeps on side-stepping me as I swing my sword, each time he does that I get more and more mad. In the weapon room, there is another door that is little work out place. It has a big mat with some cushion on it, there is a punching bag in the corner. Then a humongous big target that you can practice with that's hanging on the wall.

Swing my sword again, Marcus side steps me and swings his leg underneath me causing me to fall onto the ground. Groaning in pain, they soon turn into growls of anger, Marcus chuckles.

"That's all for today." He states, while walking away. Taking this as a chance I swing my leg underneath him exactly like he did to me. He shouts in surprise and falls onto his back, standing up quickly my sword hovers over his throat. Marcus gulps while looking at me with wide eyes, standing above my eyes dare him to make a move.

The sound of clapping occurs from the doorway, we both look over to find Jacob standing there with a huge grin.

"I knew you were at your breaking point." Jacob states, confused on what he means my eyebrows knit together. He chuckles while shaking his head side to side, grabbing the sword out of my hand he examines it.

"Great choice, this one is the best out of them all. Not to heavy and sharp enough to cut through anything." Jacob says while staring at the weapon, to be honest I just liked the way it looks. The blade is long and silver, as the grip is silver and black. Looking down at Marcus I give him a helping hand. His large clammy hand wraps around mine as I pull him up into a standing position. Jacob hands the sword back to me.

"That's all the training today shorty." Jacob states while ruffling my hair, shoving his hand away I shake my head.

"You want to train more?" He asks me confused, nodding my head I walk out of the small room to put the sword back. Grasping some black fighting gloves I wrap them around my hands. Walking back into the little room Jacob and Marcus are talking quietly in a hushed tone. Once they feel my presence they both stop talking and look at me.

"Well if you want to train more you can. Marcus and I will leave you alone." Jacob states while walking out of the small training room, Marcus gives me a soft smile as they leave. Once the door to the armory closes, I take a deep breathe. To be honest, I just wanted some alone time.

Walking over to the punching bag, I first start off by lightly punching the big thick bag. My legs spread apart has my shoulders are pulled back, the bag swings back and forth as I punch it. Then my drifts off to other places, wondering what Jasper's up to my mind questions everything. Is he okay? What has he been doing while I'm away? Will I ever go back home to see him? Slowly my punches hit the bag harder and harder. Is he going back to his old ways? Are his inner demons winning? Is he laying on the old couch as a alcoholic? Or is it off at some girls house?

Punching harder and harder my fists don't stop hitting the bag. Getting angrier with the questions, my mind asks more. Will Micheal hurt Jasper? Does Micheal even know who Jasper is? Does Micheal have a plan to hurt Jasper if I don't obliged to him? What if Micheal hurts Jasper to get to me? Is Micheal that sadistic and evil?

A spark of rage soon turns into a wild fire, know I'm kicking the bag and punching it harder, I imagine Micheal as the punching bag.

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I've been training for hours, I've worked on my bow and arrow skills after punching the living daylights out of the bag. Now I'm throwing knifes, not knowing what time of day it is my body wants to relax as my muscles beg for me to stop. But I don't, I don't give into the pain. I've been giving up for my whole life, maybe it would be a nice change to not give in. Drops of sweat roll down my body as I keep pushing myself, my breathing is hard but I don't care at the moment.

"Sage?" I voice asks, the sound of my knife slicing into the wall is the only thing I hear after. Looking over towards the doorway I find Jordan looking at me with his eyebrows knitted.

"How long have you been training?" He asks me, shrugging my shoulder I look back at the wall and grab another throwing knife. Chucking it at the target that's shaped into a human silhouette it lands right in the chest. Good hand and eye coordination, I guess.

"You need to take a break." Jordan states while slowly walking over towards me. Shaking my head side to side, I aim another throwing knife at the wall. The knife slices into the wall like before, the target now has a throwing knife on its left shoulder.

"You've been in here since the afternoon. It's almost midnight, you need your rest." Jordan exclaims, stopping myself from throwing another knife I look at him.

"I've been in here for that long?" I question, Jordan chuckles and answers. "Yes, now off to bed. Your going to be sore in the morning." Jordan grabs the rest of the throwing knifes out of my hand and drags me out of the training room and into the hallway. Sometimes I think he's a Mom.

Jordan's iron grip is still wrapped around my arm as he drags me the opposite way of my room.

"Jordan, I think you're going the wrong way." I state, Jordan chuckles again before shaking his head.

"Remember silly, Jacob asked for you to sleep in his room for now on. So nothing like that ever happens again." Jordan says, hinting of what happened with Micheal. Rolling my eyes, I don't want to sleep in the same room as egoistic Jacob. To be honest, I'd rather stay is Dale's room. I know he wouldn't mind, and he's like a brother to me. Telling Jordan about my opinion, he just groans. Stopping in his tracks, he looks at me with narrowed eyes.

"Fine, I'll go talk to Jacob." He states with a sigh. Smiling really big, my arms wrap around Jordan as I thank him. Definitely don't want to deal with Jacob tonight.

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