บท 6: Chapter 6: Interests in the Mists.
"This is the place?" Janece asked Dustin as they were in front of the home address Seer Lisha gave Dustin on a note, "What were you expecting, Jan?" Tal asked his sister after he heard shock, "Something richer, the stories I read said he didn't use a variety of superpowers, I guess I imagined that if he didn't then he must've had gadgets to replace them, right?" Janece replied with a curious tone.
Dustin rung the doorbell but the two remained speaking as they waited for someone to answer.
"This might or might not be his home, either way, he was what you kids would call, the low key type or something. He didn't join any super teams or needed help from the A.H.P.D besides locking the bad guys up. He solved crimes and left the cops to arresting the perps. He was a brutal gumshoe more than a fighter or superhero, except the night he stopped Enotocin's cult and a journalist wrote about the true, horrific events. There'd be little to no use for expensive gadgetry." Tal told his sister.
"The legend of Enotocin being true but the majority of folks refuse to believe it is scary." Janece told her brother before an older woman with a kid next to her opened the door. The siblings straightened up to look professional.
"Are you the wonderful Mrs.Wiley?" Dustin asked with his most formal and friendliest tone.
The woman slammed the door on the colorful and uncanny investigators as hard as she could leaving them confused and lost.
"I'm sorry, I know who you kids are and since you know why you're here and who sent you, I'm sure you've figured out why I did that but letting go of my feelings, welcome, let's talk." Derek's Grandma, Lidia Wiley, as she had Derek's youngest brother Nicholas Wiley by her side but told him to go find Derek.
Nick found Derek and told him to go downstairs, he did and what he saw amazed him and shook his curiosity.
"Why are there cosplayers here?" Henry asked when he followed Derek and Nick, Tal squinted his eyes at him, "Take your funny little jokes upstairs, kid." He replied to his joke about their appearance.
"Tal, be nice." Janece responded to his attitude. Tal stared at Henry as Henry gave him a similar attitude to his own and a deadly glare in return.
Dustin was five-teen, athletic build as expected from someone that does parkour and fight, Amaranth red hair and a formal shirt with the same shade with a blue undershirt. He was naturally the more passionate investigator out of the four but he wasn't the best. He wore a single royal blue gauntlet that had a variety of uses for him. He had Scarlett colored eyes but Derek received a comforting vibe from him despite a professional expression.
Derek turned his view towards Tal Presence, he looked the unfriendliest with a constant tortured, and irritable face expression. Slimmer build than his brothers. Tal's hair was stone blue, like his eyes, a long sleeve formal shirt with pockets, Grey pants with pockets and a belt with pouches.
He turned his view to the woman, he found her beautiful, while she looked young, he assumed she was older and focused on what she had on her. Her hair was different than her brothers, she had a wide violent steak with the rest a different of orchid. She carried her jacket around her waist with a brown bag.
Out of the rest of the characters in front of him, this brute of a man, the tallest standing at six four, has him the most curious. He hasn't said a word and stood with the same slight smile but his long hair was the color of amber with a black streak and it was messy, he had on a grey trenchcoat with orange gloves and a matching pair of orange and gray boots that he recognized helped with stealth in mind.
"Right, ma'am, Derek will be under our guidance for only a few hours a day while the 10th grade school year remains, when the summer arrives, we need to train him constantly." Dustin was finishing a conversation with his Grandma from earlier, "Hold on, we can't force him, it isn't right. He'll decide if he wants to or not." Said Grandma Lidia, who believes it's necessary for the mentee to agree to the mentorship from past experience.
Derek looked around the room, before he could ask, Dustin jumped with an answer.
"We were sent here to train you, kid." Said Dustin as he wrapped his arm around Derek, "You can consider it on behalf of your Grandfather and a friend of his from way back, if you're not better than him by eighteen, we've failed you, we've the wor--" Dustin caught himself from finishing, Derek didn't think much of it but Dustin's siblings and Lidia was staring at him.
"Do... You trust them, Gram?" Derek asked after hearing Dustin's promise and giving it a fair moment of cogitation himself, Grandma Lidia nodded her head approvingly and without any hesitation. Derek's frown transitioned into a slight grin followed with his own nod at Dustin.
"Great choice kid, don't be late, meet us at 44th Slake street at four past morning tomorrow." Said Tal with the most delighted tone he could musket, but it still sounded strange to Derek. He went back up to his room that he shares with Henry.
Derek and Henry were prepping for bed, it was eight o'clock, Henry kept wondering what was up with his older brother until he finally was fed up with watching Derek stare at their ceiling bundle with the fact he couldn't sleep himself.
"The world isn't very fair, Hen." Derek answered softly and a brooding tone.
"You forget that Gramps says something like that?" Henry said in reply, "Huh?" He noised.
"Life's not fair, repay the favor by kicking it in the rear? Something like that I think?" Henry told him, something Derek liked and completely forgot about despite him saying it a ton, "You make me jealous with how percipient and wise you are at eleven." Derek replied with the same soft tone.
Derek repeated that simple saying his Grandpa says to Henry and Nick mostly as he tried to get some sleep. Henry stayed up, having too much energy for bed, he played a videogame.
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