Mark turned his head towards the front door to see that the noise was coming from there, put down his knife and fork, got up and went to see who might be banging on the door at this time on a Saturday.
"Mark, go and see who it is," said his mother, stopping to eat as well.
Mark didn't turn around but simply continued his run towards the front door, raising his hand to tell his mother he'd heard right.
"Coming!"
"Who could that be at this hour?" thought Mark as he passed the wall clock to read that it was still 8:35 in the morning. Mark put his hand on the door handle, lowered it and started to open the door, but before he could open it fully, a hand jumped out and opened it for him.
"whoaa!?" Mark jumped up and took a step back to see that it was...
Cecile
"Hi kid, are you having a good Saturday?" Cecil looked at Mark with amusement even if he didn't show it on his face, he looked around the living room as well as the staircase before breaking into the house without authorization.
"Hey kid! You won't know where your dad is, I'd like to have a word with him" Cecil looked at Mark, who stood in the doorway looking at him, but before he could continue a hand came to rest on his shoulder.
"What do you want, Cecil" Nolan's deep, authoritative voice stopped Cecil in his tracks and he quickly turned back to Omniman. With a small frown imperceptible to the human eye, Cecil straightened up and arranged his suit a little bent by Nolan's grip.
"Cecil cast a sidelong glance at Omniman, who turned his head to the left and then back to Cecil, who then took on a serious expression. Cecil looked at Mark before turning his attention back to Omniman.
"I need to talk to you in private about a serious matter" Cecil looked at Nolan while nodding. Nolan repeated the same movement, then turned and headed for the garden.
Mark stood there, unsure of what to do, and headed back to the kitchen to begin his breakfast. All three headed in the same direction, passing through the kitchen, and spotting a new person at the table eating his food with care.
All three said in unison in their minds the new person who had just appeared.
Thoya
But each with a different thought in mind
"Thoya got out of bed? maybe he was in the bathroom." thought Mark as he made his way to the dining table.
"3.3 seconds, he's catching up with his father in leaps and bounds, new adjustments should be made." thought Cecil Stedman as he glanced at Thoya and then at Omniman's back, the strongest man on the planet who might be overtaken by his own offspring.
"A little while longer, a little while longer", thought Nolan, not looking at anyone but instead opening the bay window to the garden and stepping inside.
"Bonne appétit small family, vous m'laissent une part j'espère ? (you give me a part no ?)" No one paid any attention to Cecil's remark, too accustomed to his childish antics but showing that he'd rubbed shoulders with this family on numerous occasions.
*clack*
The sound of the door closing left only the three people at the table, Debbie, Mark and Thoya.
"So, huh, would you like to go out with me and William and buy a new comic book tome? I saw they were coming out in limited editions, we could get one before I go to work, couldn't we?" Mark scratched his head, then looked at his brother with expectation in his eyes.
"Hmm?" Thoya lifted his head from his plate to look at Mark, his eyes, deep black, not really looking at his brother or anything else for that matter like a blind man in a bright room.
"Sorry brother, I'll be busy today, maybe tomorrow, is that okay with you?" Thoya refocused on his food, then cut a slice from his pancakes, the same way he cut that octopus.
"It's okay honey, your brother's been busy lately, you should also focus more on your studies, college is hard-"
"I know mom, I was just asking Thoya." Before his mother continued her sermon, Mark cut her off, took one last bite of her food and then rose from the table. He looked at his brother with suspicion in his eyes and hurried off in the direction of his room.
Debbie watched her son leave, then moved on to Mark's plate, she could see that Mark had hardly touched his food, she looked at her other son to see him finishing his last bite of his dish, all smiling, she said.
"Thoya yours, your brother hasn't finished his dish, would you like his share?"
Thoya nodded, then moved his hands closer to the plate his mother held out to him.
"Thanks Mom, and your pancakes are delicious as usual" gonna said Thoya, thought Debbie as she looked at her son, still saying the same sentence he usually says when she passes him a plate of pancakes.
"Thanks Mom," Thoya said in a soft voice before eating his brother's slice. After all, his build and musculature are practically double those of his twin brother, so you'd think he was the big brother.
Hmm? Debbie looked worriedly at her son, who was beginning more and more to lose interest in his surroundings and start dreaming all the times, he even stop seeing his...
"That all for today, Cecil, if you need something else, call me and don't need to come yourself" The voice of Nolan spread around the house at he look at the chief of the bigest agency of super hero.
"That ok, Earth need to be protect and not destroy its our job after all" Cecil smiled as he said this, then looked at the two remaining people in the kitchen, pressed his watch and teleported away, leaving only a blue light before disappearing.
"Nolan? Did something happen?" asked Debbie as a worried expression once again surfaced, she rose from her seat and moved closer to her husband and embraced him.
"It's nothing important that can hurt you, we're just talking about work with Cecil, you know him he always comes up in moments you don't expect." replied Nolan, also embracing his wife, the one who showed him the way to hero and how to fit into this world.
"Yes, you're right" Debbie laid her head on Nolan's chest and squeezed him a little tighter, as if to reassure herself that all would be well, after all, he's the "strongest man" on the planet.
Neither of them, however, paid any more attention to Thoya, unaware that he flinched at Cecil's words...
PROTECT and DESTROY...
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and that all for today,
anyone can give picture or maybe model of charachter of Thoya ? i will take in consideration any idea...
see you soon :3