"We are going to start with the force field," Damian said.
"Why, I thought I already did that," Keith asked.
"Okay, if you did it make a force field again, right now," Damian said, "Come on, get to it,"
"Okay," Keith said as he walked to the centre of the room, spread his legs a bit apart, squatted a little, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Damain could hear faint grunting sounds coming from Keith and couldn't help but snicker a little, hearing this Keith brought his arms up and crossed them over his face as he had done before but nothing happened, frustrated he separated his arms outward the same way he had when the force field exploded outwards and repeated this process over and over.
"Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you there, I'm getting second hand embarrassment from this," Damian said, "you look like a constipated cheerleader."
"Okay fine I can't do it," Keith said disappointed walking back to Damian.
"Listen kid, what you did last night was more of an adrenaline filled reflex, you can't rely on those all the time, I need to teach you the techniques to do these things on command, and then train you to use them faster, in battle, in combos, okay,"
"Sure, so what's the 'technique' for making a force field," Keith said with an attitude still a bit frustrated from not being able to do it himself.
"Hey, kid, focus, you don't need any of that moodiness, it's okay to fail," Damian said, "now I want you to get down on the ground and sit cross-legged."
"You want me to, what!" Keith said surprised by ehat he had just heard.
"You heard me, get down on the ground and sit cross-legged," Damian insisted.
Why the heck do I have to sit in this dirty warehouse floor, Keith thought.
"Well, I need you to sit because you need to meditate, we didn't have to do this here on the dirty floor we could have done it anywhere but you are the one who suggested the warehouse as a training place and old abandoned warehouses are usually pretty dirty." Damian answered sarcastically.
Keith just sighed, he still wasn't used to this whole shared mind thing, and sat down on the floor.
" Okay, what now? "Keith asked feeling abit uncomfortable on the cold, hard, dirty floor.
" Oh don't worry, you'll have to get used to it we are gonna be doing a lot of meditating. from now on, "
" Why? " Keith said.
Damian's form morphed into what looked to be a smaller version of Keith, and it sat cross-legged while floating.
"Wait, wait, wait, you could do that the whole time? " Keith asked.
"Yeah, I just chose not to," Damian said, "why, do you want me to stay like this? "
"It would be helpful if you plan on showing me moves and techniques," Keith said sarcastically.
"Awww, I'm finally rubbing off on you," Damian said, "Okay fine I'll keep this form,"
"So what now?"
"I want you to close your eyes, and visualize yourself, your form, your energy," Damian said. As he said this. Keith did as he was told and tried visualizing himself, he could see himself, it was like a dark 3D figure sitting cross-legged too, but a second later he saw the figure fill up with a yellow light.
"You see that, that's your energy, flowing through you right now," Damian said.
"Now, I want you to focus on that energy, and channel it towards your hands,"
Keith focused even more and felt the energy flow towards his hands as he did this, he saw the energy in the figure flow too. His hands started to glow bright yellow as the energy collected.
"Now flow that energy outwards, and visualize it forming a sphere." The energy from Keith's hands flowed out forming a sphere.
"You can open your eyes now." Damian said.
As Keith opened his eyes he could see a the force field encompassing him, "I did it, I DID IT," He said beaming with excitement.
"Calm down ranger, this is the easiest power to master, the rest won't be so easy,"
"Yeah but I still did it," Keith said.
"Yeah, you did, now the energy in your force field is still your own so you can control it, focus on that energy and concentrate it and push it outwards,"
Keith closed his eyes and concentrated on the force field as he did so it could be seen becoming a dark orange and he pushed it outward, causing the force field to explode outwards.
" Good job, now that you have learnt how to channel your energy to make a force field, it should come easier," Damian said.
Keith got up, closed his eyes for a a few seconds and created another force field, "Okay but what if I want to remove it without, having it explode around me," he asked.
"Just focus the energy back into your body, it should be absorbed right back," Damian said.
Keith focused on the force field and it could be seen dissolving back inward into his body.
"Wow that was awesome," Keith said excited, "So when am I gonna learn the more powerful and offensive stuff,"
"Again, calm down, besides this force field is plenty offensive, if you're creative enough,"
"How so?" Keith asked.
Damian expanded to the size of a screen and on it there stood a man who looked exactly like Keith, "If you learn how to use it fast and well enough you can do this," Damian said, the man created a line of small force fields in front of him leading upwards, he did all this without having to first concentrate, Keith was amazed. He jumped onto the first one and started climbing them like a staircase, he jumped down and a wall appeared in front of him, he created a small force field in his hand and placed it on the wall, it exploded the wall and he ran forward creating two force fields, one in each hand, and dummies appeared in front of him as he punched a dummy the force field on that hand exploded and another one formed and took its place, after the man was done, Damian reverted back to his humanoid form, "That is a fraction of what you can do, you just need to use your creativity,"
"That was so cool, so I just have to train and I'll be able to do all that, wow!" Keith said, "wait! Do I get super strength too,"
"You already have that, along with more speed, stronger resistance to attacks and heightened senses," Damian said.
"Okay, I gotta check that out," Keith said walking out of the warehouse, in the distance there was a large old forklift, he started running towards it and could feel himself getting faster and faster, he reached there in about thirty seconds, when ordinarily it would have taken him about two minutes. He felt like he had only walked a short distance, he walked up to the forklift and held it by the tire, "Please work, please work," Keith said to himself as he lifted the forklift slowly but it wasn't exerting any pressure on him it felt like lifting a pillow, with newfound confidence in his powers he lifted the forklift, held it up with one hand and threw it for into the distance.
" Woah! I'm so fast and strong," Keith said looking at his biceps.
"Yeha and you can fly too," Damian said.
"Really, I've always wanted to try that," Keith said excitedly, he jumped with his right hand in a fist pointing upwards, "It didn't work," he said, "maybe I should just try harder," he jumped again and again, Damian just floated there trying to contain his laughter, "Okay, okay, stop, you can't fly, the most you can do is jump really high," he said.
"Seriously," Keith said annoyed by the trick, he knelt down on one knee and compressed the muscles in his legs and jumped up reaching about 100 feet high, he looked at the view of the whole city, it was beautiful, he thought. He started falling back down, and landed in a thud creating a small depression in the ground , "Owww," Keith said,"I guess I gotta learn how to stick the landing," he said looking up to Damian.
I'm really doing this, he thought, "I promise I'm gonna get stronger and defeat Antitor," he said.
Damian just smiled and said, "Then get up, we still have a lot of training to do. "