Note: I do not own anything to Power Rangers Samurai.
For Jayden every morning had the same goal: it was getting better to defeat Master Xandred.
The early wakes up each day was just a part of his simple but hard life and the infinitive hours training by himself was a discipline. With the world's fate on his shoulders, he must to be the best in the battlefield when the moment arrives and he needed to put the example to the new ones who at some day would come to join him to start the expected war. And for to keep the condition of a true samurai ranger, Jayden needed to train hard every day.
The red samurai was outside in the early morning as usual, swinging his sword of training. The dummy had had enough hits to take it down but Jayden refused to leave it that way. He hit it once, twice, trice and when the dummy's helmet fell, he let out a smirk.
"That's the third one" Ji, his mentor, said from the door.
"It's still not enough" Jayden answered "A nighlok won't give up so easy"
"Yes, but remember you'll have a team watching you back. That's going to help a lot, don't you think?"
Jayden shrugged his shoulder and turned around to see his Mentor. "Ji, is really necessary calling them?"
"There's no other way, Jayden" Mentor said firmly "These guys have been preparing since years, just as you, and this is really their duty, too. You can't do anything to stop it; we have had this conversation before"
"I know, I know but…it's just…I don't feel like to lead a team. They barely will know me and as soon as I show up they'll have to put their lives in danger, isn't that weird?"
"No. Listen Jayden, this is something that eventually needs to happen. We don't know when or where the first nighlok will appear but you need to be ready. Your father didn't choose you because you were the last option but because he trusted you could come out of it. There's more than one person who needs you"
"Yes" Jayden pouted "But…isn't going to be awkward a guy they never have seen before come and order them? How about if…something happens? Something really bad"
"They know the risks" Ji said "You only need to care about getting better and giving your best. You'll choose whatever the best on the mission is and there's nothing else you can do than that. Focus. And things will happen as they need to happen"
Ji walked to the middle of the ground, and lifted the dummy's helmet. He gave a look a Jayden that meant to go inside. "Go inside. Twenty minutes of combat will be enough. I'll prepare breakfast, then"
The red ranger scratched the back of his head and gestured but did what he was told. Since at the end of the day, he must to follow the plan he had been told.