Eccentric Neurosis and Hereditary Anthropological Neuro–Cell Evolution.

By the time the news of the confrontation had gotten beyond the walls of Mortain High, it had been distorted to state that an electrical failure had caused the column of fire after an explosion. Jennifer had also mustered enough willpower to flee from the scene before anybody could hold either her or Dwayne responsible for the chaos as they were the only conscious people at the time.

Having observed him for weeks from a place not too far from Magnolia Crescent, she knew exactly where the Daniels Household was located. Soon she entered the residence and was briefly startled by its exquisiteness prior to resting the unconscious boy on the reclining couch. Jennifer concentrated deeply and engendered the ochre effulgence once more.

"What do you have to say for yourself, Jennifer?" the disembodied voice sounded disappointed.

"I was caught out by the Daeo. . .and I defended myself then fled with the subject." Jennifer's tone was blameless and was filled with its own kind of disappointment.

"Defended? You blew a hole in the roof and you call that your defence against a low class Daeo? Unacceptable Jennifer, unacceptable." the disembodied voice lowered in decibels to convey seriousness.

"With all due respect. . .San — she grit her teeth and stopped herself — I didn't mean to cause a scene, but seeing as I'm never competent enough for you I won't bother explaining what happened. I'll be there as soon as possible so you can stop barking at me like some dog!" her face flushed red with anger as she clenched her fists tightly into fists.

"Tuh, Umeus was right. We shouldn't have chosen one of you Thermal Agnii. If you aren't moping around, you're throwing childish tantrums at even the sma-" the light dimmed and disappeared as Jennifer broke the connection. She decided it best to rest in order to reduce the amount of anger she that boiled within her. She sat on the sofa beside Dwayne and dosed off.

Sophie had heard about the electrical failure as well as Dwayne's disappearance. She drove slow and cautiously as she did not wish to cause an accident due to speeding in her current state. Her vehicle indicators went off as she turned it into a shortcut past a boulevard and numerous snaking turns. She arrived at the gate and noticed it was left wide open. This unnerved her greatly as she looked at the flickering time on the dashboard, 21:56. The moon was out and stars littered the night sky that Dwayne claimed not to be pitch black. She exited the car, not bothering to lock it as the gate closed. She burst through the doors and was met by the ice cold tip of a blade that stopped her progression.

"What business do you have here?" Jennifer's tone was cold and irritated even after a long rest. She glared into the eyes of Sophie with murderous intent.

Sophie became momentarily speechless and swallowed her saliva. "I am Dwayne's g-gaurdian." her eyes were both tired and rimmed with tears of worry.

"Oh," Jennifer drew her blade and it disappeared in a flash of yellow. "My bad, please come in ma'am, there is a lot I wish to tell you."

Sophie reluctantly entered the house and put her keys in their holder. She saw Dwayne's unconscious body and thought the worse. Jennifer saw this and smiled slight.

"No no, relax yourself. He is alive ma'am, although he won't be waking up for some time." she then proceeded to tell Sophie what had been going on, her orders to retrieve Dwayne and everything else in between. Sophie was kind enough to prepare Jennifer some ice tea while she prepared herself an extra caffeinated cappuccino.

"So that's what's going on?" Sophie asked with anxiety masked by a sip of warm cappuccino. Naturally, she was exhausted from the day's activities thus having Dwayne associated with a supernatural was just an overkill to her poor brain. "What if that pill you gave him isn't compatible with his body, will h-"

"I assure you ma'am that if he were incapable of handling the capsule, he would have been unconscious from when that counterfeit teacher revealed her true form," Jennifer said with much admiration and confidence as she lifted the cup brimming with clear ice tea.

"Although, what is going to happen now is that the components of his persona are going to vie for rights over his entire cerebral system." she closed her eyes as she drew in some of the ice tea through puckered lips and was delighted by the balanced sweet and cold aspects of the drink. "Mmmm!"

"Components of his persona, how so if none of them are actual physical beings?" Sophie's head throbbed thus prompting her to bring a hand to her temple.

Jennifer sighed silently as she took another long sip of ice tea and wiped off any remnants of the liquid from her top lip with her tongue. "Ahh, that hit the sweet spot!" she declared with a wide smile and rosy cheeks that made her look six years younger than she was.

"Coming back to this conversation, I think it would be beneficial to both of us if I started this explanation from the very beginning, no?"

From the way she spoke, Jennifer occured to Sophie as an adult but seeing her puerile smile received her. "I'll be sure to refill your cup after we're done here, so please continue."

Sophie put down her beverage and did all she could to fixate on what was about to be said by Jennifer.

"I would appreciate that very much ma'am, so here it goes. Roughly two aeons ago there existed six pairs of twins whose place of origin is unclear. These were entities who could complete any task with merely thought and emotions as a medium. One of them, the god Ten-Noka was rather fond of creating things with his twin sister Hel-Ihel, a task completed with massive amounts of kaimei, which closely but inaccurately ranslates to unravelance or exertion in the Phaykeruthan tongue of Japanese." she paused to get her thoughts in order and for Sophie to absorb what she had just said.

"One day, Ten-Noka created something without his sister as an experiment that went far too well to be ignored by even the rest of the deities: The human race. Everybody was fascinated by these puny entities that so effortlessly came close to resembling their divinity. All except for Hel-Ihel. Decades burnt away as she disconnected herself from her brother and the other deities until she finally conjoured an idea to eradicate these puny beings. Why she wanted to do so was unclear, but she wrought from her hateful thoughts these things in their respective order: Seven Deadly Sins, Plague and as a byproduct but the most devastating of them all, death."

"Wait just a minute, I think I've read about this before," Sophie said as she recalled her highschool days and obsession with historical fiction. "Only, the Goddess was named Hel and dubbed herself as death, chaos and mischief."

"I was getting there ma'am, but yes, after some time, Hel-Ihel dropped the second syllable of her name to make it known to the other deities that she was no longer like them. The plague she set upon the humans eradicated a majority of the population at the time along with savagery commited by her most favourite creations, Ihel, the World Serpent — Jennifer's brow furrowed at the mention of this word but smoothened out once more — or as things have been altered through history, Ladon Draconis who is rumoured to have had one hundred heads that grew back instantaneously when hacked off as well as being able to indefinitely grow in size, once being capable of encompassing the entire Earth. "

"The other was unknown until later on into the tale, on the verge of being sealed away by a hero that Ten-Noka had blessed with godlike prowess, Hel transferred her spirit into a bovine monstrosity which proved more powerful than Ladon Draconis. Anyway, the plague kept spreading, evolving from benign to virulent in merely a year or two. The humans, however, eventually evolved along with the virus, developing natural immunity and prehistoric medical procedures that treated persons with the virus. It was then thwarted but what they didn't know was that the virus, although neutralized, kept being passed down from one generation to the next through copulation and repopulation."

"Okay okay, I know this now but what does it have to do with what Dwayne is going through as we speak and your abilities?" Sophie was beginning to become a little agitated and grumpy with fatigue.

"My apologies ma'am, I'll just get straight to it. So in the former half of the second aeon , a new strand of the virus was diagnosed in Patient 3825 who had infected his immediate family consisting of a wife, thirty five years of age and two girls on the brink of adolescence. Patient 3825 was in his late forties and died after a fortnight from the virus. His children slew their mother upon her mortifying transformation that turned her into a creature resembling Lehi, the bovine monstrosity of Hel. How they did it? They claimed to have used the earth and ice elements which surprised even themselves."

"Naturally, they were banned by the residents of their community as they misused their powers and were split from one another. Over the years, more studies on the virus finally gave it a proper name, Eccentric Neurosis and Hereditary Anthropological Neuro-Cell Evolution, ENHANCE for short. It was inferred that this virus affected different age groups in different ways." she stopped as she heard Dwayne cough in his sleep then sighed.

"The first age group ranging from infantry to the end of adolescence. People of this group are called Agno whether they contracted or were born with the virus. It enhances their intellectual quotas and allows them to manipulate their bodies in a variety of ways. The most crucial is their ability to manipulate nature in sync with their own emotion. For example, my inate emotion is the anger I've amalgamated over the course of my childhood, the anger was so intense, it won control of my cerebral system and granted me a thermal prowess, or more specifically, fire manipulation. My brother is emotionless, is always phlegmatic and is basically a complete asshole, but this granted him a terrestrial prowess, earth manipulation. We Agnii can also manipulate things such as our appearance, voices, we can self heal after some time and even stop ageing. Peop-" she stopped as she heard Sophie's low, rhythmic snores.

"Now I know what it feels like to be a lecturer at school." she giggled and stood up on her healed ankle. Jennifer stretched to he tension out of her muscles and crept toward the door, opened it then exited the Daniels's home. She sat cross legged on the porch and clasped her hands as if in prayer. "I know you're there, you can come out now."

Movement rustled the nearby bush subsequent to barely audible hisses and spiteful laughter that crescendoed as its source slowly moved from out of the shadows. "We meet again, you frail little bitch."