Humans always consider themselves the smartest mamal in the world. That is correct, however, 'world' isn't exactly correct. For there are things that their cute little minds barely grasp such as: are they the only living being in the world? No! Of course not. But, with their technology, do you really think humans are capable of figuring out if the people with them are actually human or an entity? Again, no.
There are some entities that does not bother to hide themselves, in their eyes, humans are naive because the only thing similarities they have is that they are capable of acquiring 'anomalies' or what you call 'powers'.
"Please stop talking."
A man sipped a cup of cold coffee, usually he wouldn't drink coffee, but today might be a rough day.
The people around him are messy, it's only 6 am and yet, they have a way to be energetic. Nero, a man who couldn't care less about modern society decided to room with people like... Them...
"Come now Nero, it's just a little morning fun!"
Nero sighed, his face blank, obviously giving up. This happens every single day until all seven of them came.
"Yo, Ner, you coming to the mall with us today? Chun is paying."
Someone asks, a brown eyed boy, named Timothy. Nero looked up at them and blatantly says
"No."
Then he sipped his coffee. You might think that they might be disappointed with this. But no, they always love it when Nero doesn't come with them.
"Hell yes!"
Timothy shouts, not exactly ashamed of his reaction. In fact, he's proud.
"We are having fun today bitches!"
Nero smiled softly, that blond boy sure knows how to be happy, and the others too. Having fun with each other, after all, they're kids that the government forced to live together for some stupid reason.
"Why won't Nero come? I wanna go with him!"
Ah, Hemera, Nero's dearest child. Not exactly his by blood, he just met the boy. But the white haired man swore go himself that he'll protect this child all his life, same with the others. But they would rather barf than know that. Nero went down on his chair and kneeled infront of the little boy.
"No. You guys have fun, I'll be here, doing my own boring things, like meditating."
This time, his tone had a hint of emotion, putting some stress on 'boring' but only Hemera can notice it.
"Now off you guys go."
Nero shooed them, even doing the hands signal, causing the others to roll their eyes on him.
It was a very fun day for Hemera, Chun got him something called 'Icecream' and it was delicious. No wonder why his big brother Nero likes it, it's sweet, cold and perfect for the warm weather. He grabbed the finger of one of his friends, his little hand barely grasping the whole single finger.
"Chun, why do you guys not like to be with Nero?"
A large man with a body of a builder looked down, he looked mean, and he is.
"Because he's a kill joy. Now don't think about him, we're supposed to have fun today."
POP
There was a noise and a commotion, a man for shot and all seven of them was there. Two ran with Hemera, not wanting to let a child see something disgusting. The man was obviously dead, but yet there was that annoying ticking noise nearby. The security guards of the man went near, paramedics came in. Chun could recognize the man, corrupt politician who has a huge bounty over his head.
The ticking noise stopped, then a loud bang. No one but the body was hurt, because it exploded, brain oozing out, half of his face gone and others no words can describe. This was disgusting, Chun knows it. And get somehow, police did not want to come, no medics want to check and only the morgue came. They had the decency to cover the politician with white cloth, but it almost didn't matter, the blood was passing through, and all four of them can still smell the stench of blood and gunpowder.
Everyone came home early, looking for a place to barf on, in fact, none of them even had time to go to the bathroom, they already
Vomited on Nero's plant, rugs, even on electronics.
Nero daw the scene and came down the stairs concerned.
"What happened?"
He asked, most of the things inside the living room were his, but he couldn't care less right now. His friends are sick.
"News-"
Chun answered, Nero opened his phone and the news was already spread about the obvious assassination. He looked at them, smiling slightly.
"You poor things, do you wanna eat dinner or go straight to bed?"
They all agreed that they should go to bed early. It didn't matter, Nero's cooking is good but their stomachs couldn't handle much.
That night, Nero was fixing some documents on the living room, not until he saw a small figure reflecting on the Television.
"Hemera."
The child flinched, but didn't hide, he was just shocked how Nero found out quickly. He walked towards Nero and sat down on the space between his lap.
"I'm hungry."
He was taken aback, Nero noticed that Hemera was the only one who didn't throw up earlier. So he smiled softly.
"What do you wanna eat? I'll make it for you."
Hemer thought hard, before a lightbulb appeared on top of his head.
"A pancake!"
Nero was confused, but he laughed.
"A pancake? Why would you want that in the middle of the night?"
"Because I don't want the others to get one before me."
Nero will admit that it was smart, but quite unhealthy as dinner, but he decided to just add some fruits on it too.
"Alright, it might take half an hour."
"I don't know time."
Right, Nero forgot, Hemera was around 6 years old who barely went to school.
"Uhm... Here, I'll set a timer, and when it rings, it's thirty minutes, okay?"
"Okay."
Nero sighed, such a sweet kid. He should make a huge breakfast for the others tomorrow since they protected him.
Thirty minutes later, the food was ready, two pancakes stacked to each other, not too sweet and a small but enough amount of syrup are in there, he even balanced it with fruits, like strawberries, blueberries and grapes.
As hemera ate, Nero pats his head,the smell of lavender is everywhere the house. It's always this time, and there was a small tune too, it wasn't loud nor tiny, but it was calming. A lullaby for everyone in the house, but a different tune is heard by each person.
Nero personally couldn't hear it, but he could smell the lavender, he just knows that theres a small sound for everyone in order for them to sleep properly.
"Chun got me icecream today."
"That's good to hear, dear. Did it taste good?"
The child was bubbly, cute and cuddly as he was practically bouncing off the walls just to tell Nero a story.
"Yeah! It was so cold and sweet! Oh! There were chunks of fruits there too! You should get one! It tastes so nice!"
He laughed, giving the kid another head pat.
"I'm sure it did."
"What about your day? How was it?"
Nero paused. His day?...
"My day was boring, usual. Hm, do you wanna know about the documents I was doing?"
Hemera covered his ears, not wanting to hear it at all.
"Bla bla Bla! I don't wanna! Stupid taxes!"
Nero bursts out laughing, of course he won't actually say what the documents are, it really was boring.
"Well, the documents I did today was-"
"BLA BLA BLA! I DONT WANNA HEAR IT!"
Heneral ran up the stairs to hide against Nero's words. Nero chuckled again.
"Don't forget to brush your teeth."
"Okay!"
He sighed, hearing the sound of the bathroom sink opening and noticing the lights upstairs are on. He stood up, and washed the dishes Hemera left.
His day wasn't exactly what he could call 'normal' but it was his type of normal anyways. After all, he used to live in a temple that his family owned for generations, so what does he know about the standard of 'normal' in human terms?
Ehem, where was I before I was rudely interrupted by the story. Right. Anomalies. Anomalies are some sort of... Uh... Powers that humans have, entities have them as well but they do not have limits to how much power they can give out. Some decides to hide in plain sight, and others don't show their faces at all. Entities on earth usually shape their form as either an animal or a human. But their true forms are much taller, prettier (or scarier) and powerful. They are above humans, and animals. You wanna know a fun fact? Animals can sense if the person they're interacting is actually a human or not, another proof as to why animals are better... But that's just my own personal opinion.