Wodime was enjoying a silent walk home with his sister. The main reason was, he could think about future actions without mixing them with several other plans. He finally showed his sister their little base and introduced her to his powers. He also appreciated the information about her powers. While Kirschtaria suspected the idea behind her ability to control bugs, he was pleasantly surprised by the sheer potential of it. Essentially, she was a perfect assassin and tracker that was able to kill her targets on the other end of the city without even moving a finger.

While a rather small radius was a problem in direct confrontation, it really didn't matter all that much. Ideally, she will fight without even appearing on the battlefield. Taylor also had an excellent capability as an information gatherer. After all, bugs are not something unusual and can be found practically everywhere in the world.

Kirschtaria believed that with some training and experience Taylor could be potentially much more dangerous than he currently is. Her drawbacks and weakness are easily fixable by creating even a simple strategy and training. He could even try to experiment with her bugs if they were even a bit more durable than the normal bugs he could try to use some Alteration and Strengthening. It would be hard to explain from where he gained this skill, but now he could simply say that it part of his self-empowering. It could probably work as an explanation.

However, he suspected that she already started to put pieces of the puzzle together. She by all means wasn't stupid and he didn't really try to hide things too much. After all, before this week, he was planning to just disappear and discard his identity as Lio Hebert. Even if she had some idea that he had powers, it really would have not given his future opponents any advantage.

Simply knowing and speculating that he had powers will not help anyone to create counter measurements or a strategy against him. And, no, Wodime did not consider nuking him from the distance or killing him in sleep a strategy specifically against him. Not that the last will really work. Bounded fields were the basics of magecraft and creating a simple alarm is something even the youngest student in Clock Tower is capable of doing.

His general plan was to give Taylor something around a month to completely recover from the loss and then start to slowly build the team. Two of them were already quite a powerful team, but they lacked someone who is a direct fighter. Taylor is great at everything but it and Wodime himself while quite versatile lacked the necessary speed and strength to win a direct confrontation by himself. The opponent that is too fast could simply kill him before the fight could start and if he caught unprepared, he would be wide open. Magecraft is all about planning and preparation. There a reason why no one wants to fight Mage in his workshop. Even a middle-class mage could fight and even kill a Servant if a fight would take place in mage's workshop. Thanks to going through the simulation of Singularities, he himself saw an example of such fight.

There also those who could endure everything he could throw until he ran out of magical energy. His advantage was a practical immunity to Trump's thanks to his powers having a completely different origin. The problem is an actual percentage of those gifted with Trump-type abilities. Brutes were the most common, while Masters and Trumps wherein the very end of the list.

It made some sense, if one remembers, a popular theory of how one's powers connected to the situation where powers showed itself the first time. Trumps if to believe is born from the influence of other Capes and their powers. The actual amount of parahumans compares to ordinary people is very uneven.

Wodime knew better than trust a single source of information. For this reason while the Parahumans Online was, the most popular site that discussed and collected info about capes, Kirschtaria simply decided to check other less popular and less legal forums. While the number of obvious lies was indeed higher, there was a lot of rather interesting information and details that either was not found on PHO or outright could get you banned here.

Some of the conspiracy theories gave Crypter a few nice ideas and general feel of humanity there was a tad bit more truthful.

However, there was one thing that concerned Kirschtaria Wodime rather a lot. The old revelation that was given to him by the stars. The one that foretold a natural disaster connected either to water or to the appearance of Leviathan.

His thought about Endbringers was rather complicated. He lacked the needed amount of information, but from what he managed to dig out, they more or less were Beasts with some form of Divine Authorities. Leviathan sounded like a Beast counterfeit of Poseidon. Nearly absolute control over water and impossibly strong body. The thing that concerned Wodime was the fact that if Endbringers indeed were the Beasts how humanity was supposed to win against them? After all, Beasts of Disaster were an evil born of mankind's actions to be destroyed by said mankind. The origins of Endbringers are unknown, and he had some doubt that at the current time humans of this world even with the use of abilities could create something like them.

He overall had two plans, how to deal with the arrival of Leviathan. Just leave Brockton Bay and use the gained time to better prepare or to start slowly transform an entire city into his workshop and using field advantage to defend against an Endbringer. The first theory had the merit of losing the advantage of knowing a possible attacker, and the second had a high chance of dying for his family.

He has several years to put spells and magical circles all around the city. Then he simply will connect them to the stars and use them as batteries for magical energy. In theory, if he would be allowed to transform all of the city into a giant magical battery and create a spell using all the space in a city, he could try and simply throw Leviathan into another dimension or send him to space. For some reason, he felt that it would only draw the teeth off the Endbringer for the time being.

He had no means of simply sealing one of them into the Dimension of Imaginary Numbers like Sumerian Gods done to Tiamat. His best bet was either teleporting them far enough from Earth or somehow do permanent damage to them. The problem is after pulling such a stunt he would be beyond fried by energy. He could do all those things without using himself as a keystone, but the amount of needed time for such preparation was unavailable to him. The possibility of using Taylor wasn't even humored in his mind.

He had time to think about his choice in the matter for now.

While her brother was thinking about how not to die against impossible odds, Taylor was simply doing what any teenager would do when they were bored. She was reflecting on her theories and overall feelings.

While it was awesome that there was somebody with whom she could talk about her powers and probably even train, what was truly hard for her was deciding about telling or not telling her father. Father was stressed beyond normal and adding to his worries the fact that his daughter is risking her life to be a hero was not a good idea in Taylor's mind. She threw a quick glance at her brother.

He was walking rather relaxed, but a bit stiff. His eyes were closed, but his lip was bitten. Indicating that he was very deep in thoughts and about something rather complex.

No use asking him now about his opinion on the subject. She respected the privacy of the mind and knew better then disturb her brother's inner peace. While her father would be rather fascinated by her being a parahuman, he would not allow her to run around the city in some cheap costume risking her life.

She couldn't really fault him for that. But she understood that she could do some good for the world. She always dreamed of becoming a hero, even if the reality tested her belief in them rather a lot. Her powers were in no way as good as Alexandria's own, neither she was as versatile as Eidolon nor she had the charisma and conviction of Legend.

Still, she took her brother's words to heart. Her powers were useful, her powers will help her save people and defeat villains, if not in the most grandiose and "cool" way. She felt an unbelievable amount of proudness in her powers after Lio's praise. The main reason was that the one who commended was another parahuman whose powers she found much cooler. Better physique and the ability to control four elements? That was an awesome power in Taylor's eyes. There so much that could be done with it, but she didn't know about its weaknesses at all. Before she could have asked a bit more in-depth there little sharing of secrets was abruptly ended by a phone call.

She started to slowly hate these things. They bring only grieve and suffering these days.

Nevertheless, Taylor is a rather positive person who simply changed the subject of her thoughts. She was honestly excited about making her own costume and creating a team. Alternatively, even entering one. She was honestly disappointed by her brother's uncaring attitude when it came to creating a team name. So she decided to brainstorm it while they walk home.

So, the name needed to be simple and laconic. Nothing too boring, but nothing too extraordinary. Her brother's opinion on the subject is apparently non-existent, so his opinion is unneeded. A bit egoistic, but that was his punishment.

The rules that Taylor used for choosing a name were rather simple. No more than one or two words, nothing too hard to pronounce, and the words are English.

First, Taylor took into account their respective powers. She was able to control bugs and spiders, while her brother seemingly the world itself. Her powers had no distance restriction, and his allowed him to utilize everything around him as a weapon. In some sense, they were the representations of nature or her representatives. Therefore, essentially they were the Avatars of Nature. Or the Forces of Nature.

Sounded too "epic" for two teenagers with nothing special except for their powers.

So, she simply discarded the name and decided to use other things to go from.

Their respective interests. Taylor rather liked reading and even writing from time to time. It was connected to her mother being an English teacher who wanted her kids to love reading. Her brother despite being rather distant before couldn't hide his interest in myths and legends from all over the world. She too picked up this interest in fairy tales and old legends. Her brother was also rather interested in occult stuff and astrology. To her list of interests recently were added biology and entomology. After all, her powers required this knowledge to be used effectively.

Bugs were used as symbols or as figures of worship rather often in the past. So, using some advanced logical leaps and overloading her brain she decided on the name of Celestials. It sounded nice, had a cool ring to it, and fit the theme of their power and personal characteristics.

Before she could have asked her brother, what he was thinking of a name she chose they finally were standing before their house. The light inside was illuminating the street thanks to the darkness that surrounded the street in the evening.

"How did she-," Lio interrupted.

"Father probably told her about spare keys under the carpet…" Taylor listened to her brother and simply nodded.

He placed his hand on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her. She appreciated the gesture and after a few seconds of hesitation opened the door.

A bright light blinded her for a second and the first meeting with Gram has begun.