Chap 30. In Their Own Little World

And just like that, Tommy vowed deep inside his heart to never touch alcohol ever again.

That near death experience slightly changed Tommy, although it wouldn't be that evident now it would show clearly in the future.

As they conversed, Callum slowly woke up to reality, his groans resounded in the apartment as he slowly but surely got up and stretched.

"Ahhh.." He yawned out as he scanned his surroundings, when he saw the 3 of them sitting on the bed looking like they've been through hell he only said, "Good Morning everyone.."

And then he went to have some water because his throat was parched, the three of them responded with their own greeting.

"Why are y'all sitting on the bed? And why do you look dead Tommy?" Callum questioned as he slowly sipped on some water.

"Near death experience.." Tommy commented with a distant look, Callum froze in his steps.

"..."

"I saved him, I deserve the credit." Astro informed as he waved his hand like he was the most important person in the room.

Theo could seriously see his ego rising so he decided to deflate it a bit, "With my help of course." Astro hummed but responded with, "I gave the instructions, therefore, I am the savour."

Theo rolled his eyes. Although the two of them were in their own little world, Callum was looking at them with a confused expression, "Back to the 'near death experience' please" Callum said trying to pull them back to the previous topic.

Tommy shook his head at the two of them and turned to Callum, "I was having a seizure whilst unconscious, I ended up swallowing my tongue but these two saved my life." He retold what Astro had told him.

Callum had raised his hand to his mouth with his eyes wide open, small tears started to form in his eyes.

He then ran to Tommy as tiny streams of water fell from his eyes, he embraced Tommy with a strong grip, "Ahh, I don't know what would happen if I didn't have you in my life!" He cried out.

Astro and Theo stopped their conversation and turned their attention to the two crybabies who had tears and snot running down their face, Theo frowned and whispered into Astro's ear, "Ew, do they normally have snot running down their face when they cry?"

Astro smiled slightly and said, "Yep, you definitely don't want to see them once they've drunk alot at the bar, their like two inseparable brothers as they cried and laughed at the same time."

Theo silently vowed to never see them at a bar, that would be too chaotic.

Astro and Theo decided to leave the room after a little bit, the two brothers were clearly immersed in their own world and they didn't think it would be right to interrupt.

Astro and Theo walked back into the shop, they looked at all the unbelievably beautiful antics, some looked ancient whilst others.. still looked ancient..

There were weapons, clocks, amours, pills, beautiful sculptures, it was like heaven in one shop!

There were different symbol tattoos that had things written underneath them, Theo was confused on why there were tattoos and decided to ask the only person he knew would know.

"Hey Astro, what are these tattoos for? They look important but I'm not sure what they would be for.." Astro had heard about tattoos that are from the ancient times so he thought Theo would be talking about those.

"Although it is said that abilities can't be enhanced, that isn't entirely true." He started off with a mysterious voice, that got Theo's entire attention.

"These tattoos that you talk about can enhance some types of abilities, because abilities have been here for eons, some abilities have been experimented on. They managed to find ways to enhance physical abilities entirely but other abilities that include the 4 elements or lower/higher elements have different ways to be enhanced." Astro informed, he decided to talk about all the different abilities and how they can be enhanced first.

"Elemental abilities require one to learn about their ability more, they need to stay in an environment where their element is everywhere and train themselves constantly to further their control." He started off with the elements before continuing with the other types of abilities.

"Physical enhancements can be further enhanced by these tattoos, or tireless training such as using ur full strength for longer than it is said to be held for. The tattoo way is more safe but some still train continuously." Next, he talked about physical enhancements, and last but least, he mentioned mutations.

"Mutations are different though, some mutations can be both physical and elemental, some may say that mutations are the strongest because they have a bit of both but there is always a downside." Astro stated, he said the last part with pure confidence.

"Mutations are the hardest and most terrible to enhance, they require years upon years of effort and tireless training, but, some mutations are simply useless. Like having wolf ears but enhanced hearing, it is both physical and a mutation, one would need to get used to straining their ears to hear further, it is useless because you have to put in more effort than a person with just advanced hearing." He gave an example and told a simple way to enhance it, but it may sound simple but was harsh.

"Ohh, so it is true that one can enhance abilities.. not even some noble families know that, it must be a well kept secret." Theo commented, he felt enlightened about abilities and wondered about his own ability.

Yet, he would have to wait until he gets his ability to think about ways to enhance it so he decided to ask for a way Astro could enhance his own ability.

"How much has your ability grown?" Theo questioned as he gave his full attention to Astro, Astro only smiled.

"Continuous predicting. I use all my senses on a daily so everyday I'm using my ability, my ability has actually gotten way stronger than when I first had it. But, my other power isn't as strong, it takes way longer to enhance that power since I can only use it a little bit and it already drains all my energy." Although Astro said that, he had guessed that it took longer since he also has two abilities, so the gods probably decided to make it more fair.

He didn't mind though, his fine with his powers and didn't hate either of them.

The two kept talking about enhancements, Astro was practically recalling his memories pretty well, he had always been good at remembering things so it wasn't that surprising.

Theo on the otherhand was swallowing all the information pretty well, his eyes were sparkling everytime he learnt something new so Astro kept feeding him information.

Astro also kept answering his own questions like he had already known what he would ask and how to answer, the two were in their own little world so they didn't see the mysterious person who warped through the store shutters.

The mysterious person walked a few steps without making noise but heaven was against them.