(POV Emma)
My face twitched a bit at the fact my son wanted to be a hero, even more so when he picked Superman as his ideal...
'No son of mine is going to be a crazy heroic bastard. Your Uncle Ben, with his shapeshifter abilities, is bad enough... We don't need another hero in the family. Grandpa Max with his plumber business was another story altogether.' I thought while I looked at my son's smiling without a care in the world.
'Seems me and your father need to wipe that heroic bone out of our baby boy's body.' I thought as I reflected on how much we needed to teach our child.
I got up to sit back down at my old spot by the TV to continue my lesson after comfoting my son. He looked at me for a bit, but nodded as it had seemed he was now more comfortable than before.
"Sweetie, while you have great potential, you don't have any real experience or power to help anyone or save even yourself, for that matter. Just focus on our next lesson and take your training seriously this week." I said while hoping my boy wouldn't become a self-sacrificing freak who would value the life of a stranger more than themselves or his family.
"Ok Mom, but just watch me, I am going to become the strongest, you'll see." Lucas said as he sat back down on the couch.
I paused for a while, before asking my baby boy if he was hungry or thirsty, before continuing.
. . .
"Sweetie, as you already know, this world is full of almost every type of creature under the sun. Our previous lecture talked about different abilities within the family, but now I will talk about the different abilities seen around the world." I said as I summed a book from my ring.
'Mom didn't talk about her parents or anyone on dad's side of the family. Maybe she will talk about this later on' He thought before looking at the gray book, as he felt black was the better color.
I paused my lesson a little longer to give my baby boy some time to reflect on all that I just told him before continuing my lesson.
"In this world, there exist many beings, sweetie; Many of them follow completely different rules in how they use or gain power. I will mostly be explaining what I know, so please hold your questions till the end, and use the notebook I gave you to write down anything you want, like your questions, for example." I said while showing him the pictures in my book to help him remember
'Guess Mom's signature lecture is going to start. Finally, it's about something seemingly more interesting than math, history, English, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, or the other languages she forced me to learn.' He thought.
"Sweetie, as your mother, I will be teaching you everything I know, but we have to start with the basics first to understand what kind of powers exist. With some basic history with a secret history behind these powers." I said as I pulled up a paging showing the basics of magic and the other powers in the world.
'Secret History about special abilities….., maybe I can pay attention to history for once if it involves these subjects.' He thought as he started to focus even more.
"Be aware that I don't know everything. There probably are some other classifications and power systems out there, I have no idea about sweetie." I said as a classification so my son won't take my word as law in this kind of field.
'Huh, never thought mom wouldn't know something like this. I've tested her knowledge in the past and anything I can think of was already known by her. From the random facts in the books, I read to all the problems I have at school. Her only flaw was her and Dad's refusal to use the internet for an extended time.' He thought as his shocked expression was visible to anyone who saw it.
'So most things online are unknown to her and Dad, we didn't even have a TV, pc, or internet till I was eight, I had to beg them for it.' He frowned for a second remembering his dark boring past.
"As your father told you yesterday, I am a witch, and he is a hunter. I use magic, and he uses cursed energy. These are two widespread power systems throughout the world.
Japan has the highest number of cursed energy users or as they call them jujutsu sorcerers. Magic and witches can be seen everywhere, but generally, they gather around places of magic." I said while trying to remind my son about everything that happened as a little test.
'Did she seriously forget she had already told me this like 20 minutes ago? Wait, why do I remember her conversations so clearly now.' He said before he paused as he had finally got it.
'I see, that the awakening they mentioned last night also improved my memory, Mom & Dad would usually have to repeat themselves for the information to stick back in the day.' His mind went into a daze as his mind felt more clear than ever.
Emma kept talking for a bit before noticing her son wasn't paying attention.
"Sweetie, are you paying attention?" I asked as she left her spot by the TV to go to her son.
Before long, she was in front of her son before she noticed that even standing in front of him didn't make him notice his mother. She shook him a bit with her arms, but even that didn't wake him up.
After standing there for a few seconds she bent down to kiss her son's forehead to snap him out of that and give him a hug too.
"MOM, I told you not to kiss me anymore. I'm not a kid anymore, I'm already 13 ok." My son said as he tried to push me away and I kept hugging him.
"Sweetie, if you don't want to be treated as a child, then pay attention like an adult." I said jokingly as I released him from hold. Shortly, after I got up to go back to my old spot to sit down.
The white spider went unnoticed as it sat on the 85-inch flat-screen TV. It almost seemed like it was listening as well with interest.
"Unlike your father's gifts, you completely inherited my witch talents, you even surpassed my potential." I said as I smirked at my son still reacting to my previous surprise hug & kiss.
'It really seems my grandmother's talents skipped me alone, but Gwen and my father were given the full package. That was probably the reason why she favored Dad and Gwen more than me growing up.' I thought just before I stopped reflecting before continuing my lesson.