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Sonic stared right at the ring pond, steadying himself as he watched the surface begin to lightly ripple.
The second a small ring shot out of the water, Sonic launched himself across, grabbing the ring before landing perfectly on the other side.
“Yes! That’s another ring for us!”
“Heh, not bad, kid. Good form.”
Sonic chuckled a bit as Scourge appeared out of nowhere and patted him on the head. “Dude, how do you always just appear?”
“Call it a talent of mine. Anyways,” A familiar green emerald appeared as Scourge spun it on his finger. “It’s your turn for some practice with Super forms.”
“YES!” Sonic jumped around a little bit before grabbing on to the Master Emerald too, turning gold at the same time as his brother.
Shining Scourge smirked as Super Sonic took off into the sky, whooping as he made his way through the clouds and going as high as he could imagine.
Once Super Sonic got some of the enthusiasm out of his system, he flew back down to his brother for the lesson.
“Alright, we’re going to work on what is essentially our most powerful move, Chaos Control. This move can take thoughts and turn them into reality.”
“Like what you did with those arrows and fixing the house?”
“Exactly, it’s an all in one move, depending entirely on your thoughts.”
Shining Scourge demonstrated by aiming at some flowers and casting a ball of Chaos Energy at them, transforming them into giant flowers the size of trees.
Super Sonic was so invested as Shining Scourge stepped aside. “Your turn, kid. Just try to get them back to normal size.”
Pfft, this will be easy. Just got to make a big thing tiny!
With all the cockiness in the world, Super Sonic focuses on the flowers as a golden ball of Chaos Energy forms in his hands.
“Chaos Control!”
The giant flowers are covered in the golden light again… and shrink down to the size of the tiniest of pebbles.
“... whoops?”
“Hey, classic mistake. Brush it off and try again.”
Taking a bit of a shakier breath, Super Sonic refocuses and fires another ball of Chaos Control. This time the height is right, but now the flowers are splatters of colors instead of little yellow petals.
“You’re getting there, don’t worry.” Shining Scourge places his hands on his younger brother’s shoulders to steady him. “Here, try closing your eyes.”
Super Sonic does after taking a deep breath.
“Good, now picture the flowers as they were before, down to the exact details. Every little bit matters so think hard.”
He could practically feel them in his mind. The exact shade of yellow, the way that the leaves would curl, how many petals were on each flower. Every. Single. Little. Thing.
“Now make it real.”
“Chaos Control.”
This time when he opened his eyes, the flowers were exactly as they were when they had started practicing.
Shining Scourge chuckles as he and Super Sonic let go of their forms. “Not so easy, huh?”
Sonic shakes his head as the green hedgehog crouches down. “The mind is our greatest tool while in these forms. Since you’re still learning, you’ve got to be exact with what you want these powers to do. As you get older and more used to using them, you can ease up a bit but right now it takes constant focus and detailing. Think you can do that?”
“I can and I will!”
“That’s what I like to hear.”