Jayde and the Seven Shards [1]

7: Training✔️

MUSIC: (Sonic Colours) Planet Wisp - Act 2

After a few hours, the chameleon and hedgehog were in their invisible state. Espio had shown a set of challenges for the grey female to practice, including scaring Vector and Charmy. But what the chameleon quickly picked up on was that Jayde's attention span was short, which often led her to becoming visible again.

"Jayde, remember you will only get better if you pay attention to your powers, laughing or thinking of too many other things at the time of invisibility will cause you to become visible again. In a bad situation this could be catastrophic for you. You must clear your head." Espio spoke, hanging from a tree branch by his tail as he watched the grey female practice.

"Right. I can do this." Jayde sighed in annoyance at herself.

"The power of invisibility has its advantages and disadvantages. A negative for you would be your attention span, so I have come up with an idea to put all your concentration into your invisibility." The purple chameleon spoke, letting the branch go and falling to his feet.

"Hit me." Jayde spoke, flicking out her hands and bouncing in her place. She loved to learn new things, especially if it was challenging herself.

Espio walked to the hedgehog, standing at a similar height to her, "An advantage of invisibility is that you can walk through things, which is why Silver's hand went through you when you were invisible back then."

"That was creepy." She shivered.

Espio nodded in agreement, "It takes some getting used to, but when you do finally put all your focus in your power, you can sneak into top secret bases."

The ebony and blue hedgehog ran from Tails' workshop and out to where Jayde and Espio where talking, "How's it going?" Sonic asked, leaning against the tree.

"Awesome! Espio is a great teacher and is helping me to focus on my powers to walk through walls and stuff." Jayde grinned, hyped up on her abilities.

Shadow stepped forward, pointing towards her, "You know, an ability like that would make you a great GUN agent. You'd be able to collect data from secret areas for us."

"GUN, huh?" she thought.

Shadow nodded, "GUN is a worldwide military and law enforcement organization that seeks to protect this planet from Dr Eggman and other threats."

The blue blur crossed his arms, "And yet you still work alongside Egghead a lot of the time." The Ultimate Lifeform was about to speak but Sonic spoke up again, "You know, Espio, you've been teaching her for a while, now I want to teach her something cool."

"Really?" Jayde asked, turning to face the Hero of Mobius.

"First of," Sonic started, "You hardly need any training for your fighting skills because you are already great at that, and plus you're a hedgehog. I think it's time for you to learn how to spin dash!"

Jayde jumped up, "Cool!"

The ebony hedgehog and chameleon stepped back, Espio climbing to hang from the tree again. Sonic curled into a ball, "Okay, first, sharpen your quills."

Jayde copied the hedgehog's movements, placing her hands over her head as her quills sharpened, "Then, think about moving really fast. Roll with it and then-" the grey hedgehog looked up as Sonic spun around quickly in his position before shooting off, zooming around the tree.

"Whoa." Jayde's eyes were bright and wide as she watched the blue hedgehog unroll, his fur messed up. The female curled into a ball again before her body rolled in a fast moving ball and the ground moved under her. She could feel the wind in her quills, the dirt under her fur; spin dashing in circles around the three males.

"Watch out!" she heard the call of the red and black hedgehog before she collided with a tree trunk, immediately unrolling from her ball.

"Ow." She mumbled, her feet dangling above her, resting against the bark.

Sonic chuckled, standing over her. He put a thumb up, "Not bad for a first try. Keep practicing and you'll get better!"

The grey hedgehog flipped up, shaking the dirt from her messy quills. Espio spoke up, "If you are able to focus your ability while in a spin dash, it could prove as a very powerful attack against an enemy." Jayde grinned at the three before clambering up the tree branch, her shoes sticking to the bark, enabling her to hold on for longer.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?" the blue speedster asked, looking up at the female dangling from the tree beside the chameleon.

Jayde swung her feet around, "These shoes have an amazing amount of grip on them. They were specially designed for me by my... brother." Her ears flattened before quickly shooting back to standing, not giving anyone time to realize.

"Wow. He made some cool shoes." Sonic grinned.

"Yeah, they took him awhile because he had to make them individually." Jayde spoke, picking some dirt from the bottom of her soles.

The two-tailed fox ran out his workshop, quickly running over to the hedgehogs and chameleon, "Guys, I've found a lead on another Shard!"