Disclaimer: This is just a fanfiction, Neither the Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari or Worm web Novel Serial are mine.
Author notes: Another chapter is here, I am making then short so that I can bring them more per week.
I notice that I not using much 'I' on the point of views of the characters.
Well, not much more to tell, for now, here we start the power training and see a little more of the Taylor family. I am putting her as 12 years old, from what I believe was her age when her mother die. If I am wrought please put on the review with a citation, many thanks ^^.
In this chapter show Taylor trusts much more than canon since she have not broken completely and she had not trigger yet, some people said that she trigger once before the begin of the canon, from her mother death, so if that is the case, here Naofumi has appeared before that.
Also, the parents will need to make some damage control at some time to avoid to have a child-soldier (since she will want to be a hero). If that still going to happen, is more a chibi Taylor vs her parents vs the world situation.
The scene with the sound training was not like I wish to put here. But I cannot see Taylor knowing that alcohol can loosen vocal chords making snoring worse (her parents could know… especially Danny).
I will try to make the Hebert make stupid decisions or at least stupid plans, especially since now they are very desperate and thinking that the Naofumi will steal or force Taylor to fight endbringers, since Taylor have talked to them about the giant turtle and the fight that happened while Naofumi was fallen from the stratosphere (that probably will appear on my main story at some point). I would like to put here that would be perfectly natural. To assume that a strange would not have the best interest of someone dear to us, no matter what that person show to prove in the first moment. So they will start to making bad decisions or having a bad situation worse.
I will now use the timeline from a site called 'timeglider' so while I do not follow Canon anymore, since Taylor mom is alive, I will try to follow what happened before and what will happen still, since the 'butterfly effect' still not too big (for now). I will change some stuff.
Danny and Annette are freaking out in different way, she is trying to analyses and overthinking (here on worms there is not such a overthink), and him be brooding then acting in an overprotective way and infantilizing her daughter (or not, love from parents is a very powerful thing).
Taylor will try to munchkin and try to make art all the time, so if someone has a good music, especially from some cartoon, to Taylor sing the theme while spending her day I would greatly appreciate. I would put 'gargoyles' but not only is really difficult to sing that but the year is 2007 so I don't have much idea which theme songs she would use in her day. When she get a little older this will be easier since I can use Maycon Jackson's music or other songs.
I not succeeding at making a believed 12 years old. I can use as an excuse that she have in her blood (in the soul) 'machines' to help the mind process (that is what Naofumi put in her) but that would be a bad excuse. But well that will probably be the flavor of the heroine of this story (a smart female lead... at last I will try to do that), ideas and tips are welcome. Oh! I will say that, when she trigger, Skitter can be more like canon one (or not). Only with a thought process more like Naofumi (that is can fight and be distracted thinking about something else). Let's see how shard vs souls machines + magic will turn like ^^. My bet is a lot of trouble.
Chapter 4: How I threw web? Part 1
July 1, 2007.
Taylor
She woke up at two AM, just four hours since getting to bed. After all the talking with her mother, that naturally had freaked her mom out, talking with her dad, that also freak him out. Her parents and She have passed the day together and also test her memory to see if she had powers like the cape has said, now she know that she could read books and bring the knowledge to her mind with the information going directly (like she just reading a phrase a moment ago and try to remember it but…. with the entire page at same time), she also could put the page of the book on her mind, and remember all the detail on it, like color, smell, font, all the letters and the sense of touch, she could also remember all that she taste after getting the 'Magen' now.
In another test, she just looks at all the pages of the book, unfortunately, she could not bring the knowledge of the book this way since she had not read it yet. But she could read the book on her memories and then know what was inside the book. Also now she is reading faster than before (and on her mind is even faster) and, from the math book, she appears to be able to solve problems faster, what had taken in past 20 minutes to solve a page from the book now is taking 12 minutes. Maybe the last ability was just because she was very happy and was very focus on the work, but since mum point that when asked she could remember all formulas and all questions (not at same time) and bring 'ahead at her mind' so fast that take only a moment means that the more she works on some knowledge the easier will get to do that, which was the normal way to everyone, but since she is not forgetting means that any work will be only easier with time and no matter how many years takes for her to use it again that formula or see that problem she will not forget.
Also, she could focus her attention more or split her attention in a lot of ways, both her advantages and disadvantages, if she focuses on only one thing time seem to slow down, maybe that was the 'better reflex' mean by the hero of the shield? Well the problem all this power and situation is still very new for her, so when she focus really hard she also ignore everything around her, Her dad got to draw whiskers on her face when she was focusing on the physical science from an old book (very old) from my dad high school, that was extremely odd action to my father, but I think that he was trying to distract me, and that works… also, he called me the entire night 'owl-cat'. But I will have my revenge since I shall remember all his funny mistakes from now and will tell him in the new year when we gather to remember what we have done this year, I could also try to remember the actions of my parents to be better at reading people, but that sound very wrought, later I will ask mom to see what she think (since she can read him like a book, the one that you have at least five times). The second problem is similar to the first one she only could 'hyper-focus' at one thing at the time (she could not do it to an area…yet), and takes some seconds to have the best effect and to ignore all other things (thanks for that dad fail to make owl eyes around mine).
When she split her attention the problems were that well that she could not give her entire attention to one of the problems and she could only split her attention in a small number of times. This was the normal way that we humans do that, but tasks like focus my attention on the TV and the same time making the homework now work (that was awesome) way better now with both tasks being well done (so she can have her fun and work). Oh! now she also could splint too much of her attention but she still remains somewhat aware (so no owl eyes).
So I was still enjoying that I was a cape now, and putting on the back of my head that the cape,'Progress', called himself a god.
I sit on my bed and try to training and discovering my new capes powers, I try to focus my mind on my hearing, I doing this since I don't want to disturb my parents because yesterday was really a long day.
I can listen to my parent's breath and the snores of my mother, the later I always could do, but today they were especially loud, that what usually happen at Christmas eve and at new year for a bizarre reason. So I can be doing a mistake I thinking that I am listening better, but I also can hear my own breath which was more difficult to do in the past when I tried to focus on my hearing. If I focus on my memory I can sort of focus more since I can isolate a sound and with that make louder or learn more about it. The problem is that I cannot focus on my memory to isolate something and paying attention to my surrounding (which was when my father gave the damn owl eyes in this afternoon).
I already know that I can hyper-focus on my vision (since the owl eyes incident), I try now for my other senses starting with my tact. Yeah! I can do that, I can also split or hyper-focus on my memory… hey waits a minute. I try to remember the moments that dad drew on my face, and I can remember it even considering that I was not aware it that moment. When the cape had said 'perfect memory' he means it.
Most of the time that my father was drawing my face I was with my eyes closed (thinking what I had seen). But I still have some memories with my eyes open… And now I can confirm that he was trying to distract… just that was my mother that he was trying, I try to put the memory of the sad face of her on the back of my mind… and I succeed. I could not do the same to my feelings I don't know if was because it doesn't work like that or that the hero block some functions of the 'magen' to avoid me become a villain (some cartoons start like that… with an ordinary person becoming void of feelings he start to do evil stuff). Maybe is to the best.
Mom can be sad because I now a cape, sort of, but I will do my best to improve, the way that the hero said that I could 'grown my soul' or make it 'stronger' makes me think that it is how he do his bullshit. He did say that 'as long I have the power my words are Law' I could literally fill the capital letter. And he did deliver what he said that he could do. So I going to get stronger and stronger, until my parents are safe from all villains and endbringer and become a true cape… I still putting at the back of my head that I can probably become a goddess if he was right. Would I need to discover my own 'true name' would that make as alien as him? as certain of myself as he was? would allow me to do the impossible like he did? I could not put the fear or the sense of humble that it makes me. This will be a long road.
I try to sleep again, failing that, I start to read the book from the romance that my mother show me before, yesterday, the hero did say that 'everything count' had he not?... well he said every knowledge and art, and books are art are they not? Can I grow my soul be making art? Can I make draws or use modeling clay? can I find a way to always try making art? and I can sing or beat with my fist a song. Yeah, I can remember some song from cartoons.
So as I try to hum the 'baa-baa black sheep' song as best I could (which was not that well) I try to see the scenarios from this romance the faces from each character, try to understand who want what and how they would act with each other. I still didn't have the clearest image in my head. But now that I could remember everything I could focus on a character appearance and when I focus on a scene with he/she, his/her form will perfectly like I think that it should be, so now I only need to focus on the personages, the location and them how they would move (and feel) to have a good picture of what I was thinking in my head.
I close my eyes many times while focused on the book. So it's was a surprise when the light hit me because the Sun has risen already. Wow, I can focus for that long? My parents will be so proud of me when my grades come out. Will I need to downplay what I can do? My power is not like most of the capes, can someone find me with that? How they test people with some weak power to see if they are capes or only really smart?
I will need to ask my parents. So I raise from my bed and start to hum another music, a simple song, I make my bed and go out of my room.
I will go down to make some breakfast and drink milk, while I wait for my parents to wake. Then I will pass my eyes on all my books and then I will prepare myself while waiting for the bus to go the school.
Will I need to guard my power against Emma? She practically my sister so she can keep this secret or not? I...
The cartoons from our Earth and even on Aleph makes the capes having secret identities, and When the Hero return we will need good ones until he training me to be his successor and what he will do after that? Fight the endbringers, help Scion to kill them. The last one I can only hope that his bullshit is bigger that their bullshit. He didn't seem to like Scion very much (why he called him Zion?) maybe the two of them are Gods. Wow, that would be so nice, that means that powers really comes from Scion…. Wait, so this means that I can't get powers like the rest of the people? Well, I need to train more anyway.
After going down the stairs I find my parents awake already, strange, my mother only have class in the afternoon, so she the last one to go up and my father usually wakes up after 7 am.
June 30, 2007
Danny
Spooning my rose, I try to find some solutions for our new problem. Obviously, this was better than have his beloved dead and her sweet girl broken from despair (from what she had told). But his wife was probably correct in thinking that this new hero will come and try to take his daughter if he didn't take her away already (and that was an awful idea). So since he can manipulate time but he still not here means that so-called 'God' is not all powerful, no matter how glade I am or how great his sacrifice was, if what he was told my child is true, this cape could be just a time manipulator that see our daughter trigger and is trying to seduce her to his gang or group, I will hold judgment for now since if he truly destroy his own life to bring his owl to the past, that will make a really a big debt his family and he have to this cape.
So I cannot go to the authorities since they could discover that her daughter was a cape. Since there is no way that they will not move heaven and earth to have a cape that can reverse time and give thinkers powers to others (and doing so they will find his family and discover his daughter powers). The healing can be explained with being reverse time, the 'memory transferring' can be the same tinker bullshit that gives her daughter powers. But if this cape has more powers, like the power to copy himself or to send people to others Earth. Then this cape can help make this planet safe. Giving warning about level S threats or sending people to safe places (since he can 'summon'). Hell, he probably can access others Earth others than Aleph since trees don't pierce the heavens like the one that her girl has saws.
"Dear are you awake?" my love asks me.
"Yes, sweet?" I respond and hug her tighter.
"We will need to teach our owl to be discrete, none other than us can know that she is a cape".
"Honey, she is not a cape", I say to her.
"Dan, she have a perfect memory, also she is smarter than before, can manipulate her own senses, and we still don't know what she got from the physical side of the equation" she points to me.
"To everyone that will be enough, especially if her blood can give more power, tomorrow will need to test that", she said.
"What? Why we should drink our daughter blood?" I still have shiver from that part of the story.
"Because we need to know if she is the only one that can give powers like that or if everyone that had drink can or… if that cape made a mistake" she said.
"Why? We definitely will not share this information so no one will try to take our daughter "I ask again already thinking what terrible things can happen.
"Lung can make her a slave or making her a whore and will use her blood, the merchants can drug her and use her blood, and the Empire will probably use her blood as an excuse to become the 'superior race' , and the 'heroes'" she said with a distaste "Will just take her blood".
"She would need to be protect from they or would more like be caged for the rest of her life if she is the only one with this power, until the cape returns, or if the blood taken from her gives a better 'magen' than the other people, but this is not the worse part" she said.
"What more?" I ask trying to think something worse than that.
"slaughterhouse 9, since Jack is there, or the former sphere since he appears to hate tinkers and this blood can count as tinker tech or that sick bonesaw could find this 'interesting' and seek her to play with our daughter" Yeah! I will probably not sleep today.
"The Simurgh also like to destroy our hope… in this case would be kind literally" ... Maybe I should stop listen to my wife now before I cannot sleep today … and for the rest of my life.
"or-" she starts.
"Sweet, I know, this world is fucked, but either will hide this from everyone or we hide until that cape return, try to build time until the endbringers kill him and return to our normal life".
"That will not happen". She said.
"Wife, I know that you agree with me so why not". I ask.
"I see the memories of our daughter from a mere touch"
"He can reverse time, and summon a person using the same ball, twice if we believe him, so we only have our sweet because he truly didn't wish to fight her be separating us from her… or that he made a copy already". I will not sleep well tonight.
"I am certain that he believe that she is his heir," she said.
"And he can manipulate feeling with his mere presence… or not even need to be there since I didn't freak out when I see my own body in the morgue so can master from distance" ….will I ever sleep after this?
"And his blood can give power, so he is at very least a powerful cape". She finishes her thinking.
"I agree, and he will not harm our daughter". I begrudge say.
"That is not it," she said.
"If our daughter gets more powers or only with what she have right now, she will try to use it," she said.
"We will not allow," I said with certain.
"She is a teenager, also the school, the TV and everything else glorifies the capes, don't you remember how you rebel against your father or how I try to fight this society?"
"If we chain her too much she will become a child-soldier," My wife says with a defeated tone to her voice.
"We need to gain time until she is more mature, which this 'magen' will definite help with".
"What you mean?" I ask.
"With a perfect memory and with more intelligence, our daughter will grow faster… and she will see the ugly side of this rotting world clearer than before" …that is true.
"So we need her to seek us, to use us an example to her cape life, to have her continuous to follow us, and if everything fails she need to agree to go to the wards," I said the last part with distaste. Fucking government and this fucking the wards program, why they don't simply make a school for the little capes? Everyone know that power can change the mind but they will not seek fights just to fight will they? They do usually go for the life in the streets and the gangs… or at last, I think that is what happens.
"My love, if we use our owl blood can we use the library from your work and your access to the database from the internet, you told me that got from being a professor that give you privileges access to cutting-edge research?" I try to make a plan. Step one gets more information to understands my enemies. Dirt capes trying to take my daughter from me, only over my dead body that my little girl with leave me!
My wife looks at me and blinks, start to move her body until is pointing to mine, I think that I see the gears of her mind turning faster and faster.
Then she makes a strange jump and holds me to the bed smashing our pelvis together, with our clothes in the way that was not very nice... also she hit a little too strong... ouch.
"This is the best idea that I ever hear," she said smiling now ears to ears.
"With this, we can learn about capes, powers, triggers, their psychology, the limit of their power,…" yeah, yeah I am awesome "culture, art, and all kinds of knowledge" wait, what?
"What?" I intelligently ask.
"We will discover in some weeks with the last ones if our daughter gets more powers or not, with the growing her soul" "if, that is true she will be more protect from capes since her words can become 'law' like the cape said that his are" I think that my love has gone a little crazy here "if not we will be able to hold our daughter for years, more than enough time to her to mature and be safe" ….or not, I marry a woman that is as smart as she is beautiful, and to me she is the most beautiful woman in this world (since our daughter is still my baby girl and WILL continuous to be my baby girl so she is the most beautiful girl in the world).
"Yeah, and I can teach her how to do management, trying to sell to her as how to best spend time to have a double live, also I can teach her how to make finances, I can allow her to go with the boys to learn all kind of stuff, like how to build, to talk tough, fix things, fix cars… or how to defend herself like the association protect our area with security guards... and lots of angry boys". I say with a smile.
"Dear I like this idea, but training to fight?" my better half ask.
"Yeah sounds bad, but hear me. The boys like to training because no one will call them to move stuff or to fix things if they see fat people… at last, if don't see many strong fat men around here".
"And since we don't have much money to spend, of course, we could not make a deal with a gym, but here the thing".
"the boys usually training working or beating the crap from trespassers or…" she looks me strangely at last part but what I have say is the truth, every year the number of people, from teens or capes, that want to make a 'base' on the 'perfect abandoned' place grows... and more that one occasion the building was from the association… is not our fault that we don't have money to make our workplace pretty!
"…. Or guarding the place against the gangs since they don't use firearms against us neither we use on them, for obvious reasons".
"But since there is less work, and the boys cannot fight every day to work a sweat because they would be too much hurt to work and they need time to work to get their salaries. So".
"Well, we use a building with gyms equipment inside of it to train ". I start.
"But, you said that is no money for a gym," my rose said.
"True, but many gyms have failed and bankrupted (like everything else), so was not that hard get a lot of stuff for almost free, or free depending on the situation".
"Many of the boys know how to training, and... well some of them know how to it right, but since many owe me favors, for the jobs that I find, for the contacts with a doctor and especially nurses that I -" I said.
"You have contacts with the medical industry?" my wife look to me like is the first time that she discovers this.
"Love, you know that" I start.
"No, I don't".
"Why do you think that every time that I go to a university party with you, we find on our table, future doctors and nurses?… you are an English teacher, not a medical one, hell how many times had some of them come to a bar that we were in or in other events?" I try to understand why she don't know this.
"They were not making a pass on you?" she asks.
"What?"
"Those cows from medicine, nursing school, or whatever were not making a pass on you?".
"… I am skinny and on my forties and most of they just start adult life so, what you think?"
"I think that there was some students try to make some network…. And cows and some dudes totally trying to bed you to get your help, but why they would jump at your bone like that?" she asks.
"I think that I understand now the problem, sweet which part of the boys beating the crap of a lot of people you didn't understand? If the boys win they can still need medical attention and we can't go to that new cape girl, Panacea, because is not a terminal disease neither is a fatal injury (most of the times), since the public hospital here are a joke, then we will need to send the boys to have medical attention from the private sector, and we can't waste much money, so trainees from private clinics, medical schools, retire works, unlicensed works or even some crazy people or some dudes that have their license destroyed. So all these people come to me or some other person in the managing… also the people they beat the crap out usually need more medical situation, and most of the times are in no condition to call for help, so we send to a private clinic and they pay from the own pocket the medical bill... we try do send they to some expensive ones if we can, hehe".
"I-I have no idea," my wife said.
"N-n-next just go to sleep, but later in this week we will send Taylor to training and to see the trainees working ok?" my wife ask.
"Ok" I agree we move a little and again I hug me wife to my chest.
"To think that all the letters and phones that I had make disappear" I barely listen my wife saying something.
"Dear, had you said something?" now that we have a plan the rest of my energy has left me, this have being a long day.
"No dear, I only think how my rivals and cheat…. I mean how we will cheat to hid the reason to training our child" I barely understand what my wife is saying since I almost I the dream realm… which will probably have nightmares with bonesaws and The Simurgh competing to see which of them can fuck more or twist my…. Them I close my eyes I go to sleep.
July 1, 2007.
Taylor.
My parents were on the table, with the breakfast already made to us to eat.
"There is something wrought?" I ask.
"None, sweetheart, we just could not sleep well, and we need to tell you about the cape life". My mother said.
"But first let's eat. Then will talk, don't worry sweetheart." She said with a smile that didn't go to her eyes.
I eat trying to focus on my taste sense. Tomorrow I will try with my sense of touch and see that I can bring the memory from what I am eating now to what…. Hey, let's try something, I drink my tea and use my memory to never forget this taste, then I eat my bread, once while focusing on the tea taste. And, yeah, I get bread with the taste of tea. I clean my mouth eat the bread now saving the taste of the bread (for some reason I can remember a 'warm taste'), I drink my tea…. With a bread taste on it, this was a very bizarre experience. This means that I can taste chocolate every time that I eat vegetables? If yes this ability has just got to the top of my favorites gifts so far (perfect memory, better senses, better focus, etc.).
Had finished the breakfast I wait my parents to talk. Is probably about not going to fight, or not join some cape group. Which I totally agree since I have just lost my mother and got her back, so I have a good idea what my parents would feel every time that I would go to fight. I don't know what will happen when the hero return, but he kind of told me to have a 'good life', and he will probably want me to wait for him to return, while I don't know how long that will take I can wait and training.
"I will not join a cape group yet," I said in a firm tone…. For a 12 years old.
"Sweet! You will not-"my father start. He then blinks.
"You agree with us?" he tries again.
"Yeah, I remember how it's broken us when mother…." I stop talking, my mother sits at my side and squeeze my shoulder.
"So if I go I will go as prepared as I can or will try to have a support role in the wards, but that still is a long time from now". I said.
"Little owl, capes also have superior strength and can survive small bullets thanks for their brute 0 powers" I forgot that.
"So, we also need to test that, because you could have triggered and that cape could not have told you that" I frown looking to my father.
"Progress has not lied to me, he sacrifices his own soul to bring me back," I said.
My father looks to me.
"I hope that was that happened, but what he had mastered you, or is using tinker tech on you? Would we know the difference, which is the reason that we need to test, if we can pierce your skin as easily as ours and you still just as strong as yesterday and not twice as strong we will be more certain that you had not triggered".
I open my mouth to say that I extremely glad to have my mom back, but the last words get my attention.
"Trigger?" I ask.
"The schools don't teach, the capes don't tell, and the media hide this information, but to get powers a person need to have an extra piece of their brain, I don't remember the name for that part... yet we will do some reading... and you will help when you return from the shool... and only then ok? " my mother tells me. I nod.
"And the trigger happens in what can be described as you worse day, you trigger and get another piece in your brain that gives you powers" She finished her explanation.
I shiver, yesterday definite counts as my worse day. With a small voice, I ask.
"Can we test that here?"
"Yeah, no problem but before that you mother needs to give you more information," my father said, my mom looks at him and nod.
"Some years ago, I work for a cape, before she got mad and go to the cage" I open my eyes wide looking at my mom.
"I never had to tell you that, because with fewer people knowing that. We would more safe, I did tell Dan, but that was more because he kind of found out, I also try my best to hide who I was, but I probably still on a govern list, just because I was associated with a cape. So" She stop breath gathering air and start again.
"You, should guard the information of your power, and only share the info with us, if you share with Emma, bad people can torture her to get to you, or to get a clear idea of you or what you could do with your powers, you don't need to try down play in the school, since you are already a good student and we can tell that your better grades are because you studying more. If you want I can spread that you finally start to study at home so that is the reason for doing better."
Seeing my mother corpse in my mind again, I nod.
"Yes, I will only tell you two about my powers, I will not act cocky on the school, and I will totally raid the library and study all the time to hide the fact that I have power". I said.
My father smiles, nod to me and say.
"Owl, we can start to train you already, we will put the internet here, but you will only download books, you will not surf the pages of books, because if you do so someone can become interested with your speed of reading. I can be wrought that our govern watch us to this degree but is better doing this to be sure" he said.
"The boys tell all the time about a forum of capes, there is all kind of information about capes, personal information of capes, types of power and more." I… and mom? Look to my father with surprise.
"….Dad, I already know about parahumans online…. I am 12." I also hear my mother talk with a small voice "there was a site…. All this time?".
"You can go with the boys to train, that is if you don't have a brute 0 power, and I can ask for the boys to teach you lots of things, we can kind of tell them that is because you wish to follow my steps and protect the association that will make us from the 'old guard' very happy and they will give you more time. Also, they will probably like the free of charge or almost it, since I work there making this work far easier". My father said.
"Also, you can go to university with me at nights," my mom said. And I see my father shake his head, my mom kind of look to him and they seem to have a silence conversation.
"For that, to work you will be always on my side there and we will return soon to go home, at most we stay until 7 pm ok?" my father nod. So yeah!
"With can also use the database from university and cutting-edge research using my access, because as a teacher we get that, so you can study all the things that you want, and study art here, or we can go to library from my work."
"Also, if you wish we can go to my work on weekends so that you can look at the books to read later, here." My mom said.
"Mom, dad, I would love to that, I still not sure what the hero wish from me when he said to me grown my soul, but if this doesn't work I will only read and prepared to his return." Both my parent's eyes kind become darker with that information.
"So how we test the brute 0 rank?" I ask.
End notes: I am finishing here because this chapter was becoming too big. I will revise a little and then upload. Hope that you like this chapter^^. And again if someone wishes to become my beta, I would love some help. So until the next chapter^^. Nice Easter to everyone.