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(A/N: Damn bruh I really can't believe I'm making my first authors note. Anyways I decided to push back the first events to 3-4 years later I haven't decided though.)
1 DAY LATER
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"Cruz?" Wayne spoke as he walked into Cruz's room. The yellow wallpaper with animals decorating it had long been replaced with posters of RnB albums lined across the wall. RnB had been one of Cruz's favorite genres because even without parents he still felt connected to his heritage through it. It just felt cool to see a lot of people that looked like him perform these soulful funs with unparalleled agility, or someone who could hold a high note for so long their breathe control was at inhuman levels. People who were acknowledged as some of the best singers and each one of them had the same hair, the same features, and what he could assume to be the same features as what he imagined his mom and dad to look like. Which speaking of looks, Cruz had looked exactly like he did in his previous life from what he could remember with the few school pictures he had in his last life. Which he wasn't complaining in the slightest.
Cruz woke up with swift blinks. "mmmm" He groggily groaned. Natural sun light shined into the room. "Yes" He said in a tired voice.
"Its time to get up buddy. Me and Mommy have a surprise for you." Wayne said excitement laced in his voice.
"Really?!" That immediately woke up Cruz. He hadn't gotten many surprises before and the majority of them that did happen were usually unpleasant.
Jolting awake he turned towards his father. "What is it?"
"You'll see!" His father smiled approaching the bed lifting Cruz out of it.
"Ok now close your eyes" Wayne spoke to which Cruz obeyed immediately. He felt his father walk out the room and then he felt him taking a right towards the living room and then past there into an empty space near the front of their house. Well usually this space was empty however something sat in it.
Wayne walked over and placed Cruz on the ground.
"Is he closing his eyes?" Celeste walked in with a questioning gaze.
"Of course Mommy!" Cruz let out in a high pitched voice.
"Ok short stack open your eyes in 3.." Celeste said.
"..2"
"..1"
With that Cruz opened his eyes and what greeted him in his sight was a piano. The word "Qilin" Engraved upon the back of the music desk. Cruz recognized this it was his fathers companies signature engraving.
"Me and Mom know how you're interested in music and we know how we dont allow you to play our pianos do we thought we would get you your very own!" Wayne said with a wide grin.
"Really?! Does this also mean you'll teach me more than intervals and chords to and I wont have to learn from those boring thick books?!" Cruz exclaimed curiously.
"That brings us to our next point. Sweetie you are so so smart and honestly it wouldn't be an understatement to call you a genius. You know we love you very much and love how smart and amazing you are. However our relatives might not think the same. Remember when that little boy pushed you off the slide because he was jealous and wanted to go first? Well our family members and other people might be the same." Celeste explained.
"Okkk?" Cruz said in a long drawn out tone.
"Because of that daddy and I have decided to teach you only by ourselves that way we can ensure you stay safe and nobody out there will want to take advantage of you."
"That makes sense." Cruz thought out loud. He himself knew that this would be somewhat of a problem. Ever since he came into this world his intelligence and maturity had been the maximum amount his child brain's capacity could hold.
What he didn't know was that since the body was an ever adapting mechanism by having his memories and experience being transferred to this small vessel he was further expanding the limits that this vessel could hold.
With that new expansion came higher levels of intelligence and creativity however with his creativity levels being at an already high level this led him to be able to manifest his powers at earlier age and enhancing. You could say that his powers were being powered by his creativity. Meaning if he has chosen a different power he probably wouldnt have been able to use his powers from this young an age.
'This is good for my powers too' Cruz thought in exhilaration. After playing with those musical toys when he was a toddler he noticed that his powers grew. That was why he was able to start playing cords from being able to just play a single note for a second. But the effect had quickly stagnated after all they were just toys and weren't enough to stimulate his brain anymore.
He hadn't been able to do anything besides play these notes though. He couldn't protect attack or heal at all he had tried one time when he scraped his knee at the playground but this didn't bother him in the least. After all what would be the point if he didn't have to work for his powers.
"So what do you think buddy?" His dad asked.
"I can't wait to learn music with you and mommy!" Cruz exclaimed in excitement drawing his thoughts away from his powers to now being able to play on an actual piano and not just a toy one.
"Can we have our first lesson today?!" Cruz asked jittery energy being expelled from him.
"Sure buddy." Wayne said as he sat down at the bench.
"Ok so you asked me about scales last night which will be our first lesson." Wayne spoke
"But first lets see how much you really understood from that book." Celeste interjected.
"Ok!" Cruz squeaked.
"What type of scale counting the black ones has 12 keys." Celeste asked sitting down putting Cruz in between both her and Wayne.
"Chromatic!" Cruz exclaimed.
"Ok. I see you. Very good." Wayne said in a tone of surprise.
"You remember intervals so tell me what is the interval pattern for a major scale?" Wayne asked.
"Ummm. Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half." Cruz said after a quick recall from his memories.
"Good." Wayne said.
"Ok. Now that you understand the major scale can you play a C major scale?" Celeste asked.
"Umm sure." Cruz said.
He quickly found middle c and then counted the major scale pattern from there. After that he played the notes in a semi quick succession. This was a surprise to both of his parents.
"D major scale." His mother said.
Cruz then did the same for the D key to the right of the C key.
"E major." His father said.
Cruz repeated the process.
"F major…G major…A major…B major"
"Good, now start from the bottom of the piano and play the major scale for each of the white keys until I'm satisfied. We will move on to the black keys tomorrow. We usually refer to the black keys as accidentals. Accidentals being sharps and flats." Celeste said in a strict teacher like voice.
"Ok!" Cruz then found the bottom key and started to play the major scale for that.
Cruz was extremely excited. After playing the scales for each key he felt the familiar warm feeling of his powers growing. He knew he was getting closer to being able to fully realize the base level potential of his powers.
Cruz started at a slow pace and then he picked up the speed.
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4 HOURS LATER
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"Ok baby I said that was good 2 hours ago. You wanna do something else?" Celeste asked.
"No. This is fun." Cruz said.
He had now picked up speed he could play the major scale from the bottom of the piano to the top at a moderate tempo where 1/4 of the time no mistakes happen. His powers had grown considerably and if he picked up the pace along with his parents lessons as supplement he would be able to unlock his base level powers.
"Ok but dont feel as if you need to continue just to please daddy and I. Ok?" Celeste said getting up from the bench.
"Ok!" Cruz said focusing his attention back on the piano.
Hours passed and Cruz had picked up the pace a considerable amount however he was lacking in experience and his tiny 4 year old hands held him back a considerable amount. He could still go faster however the development of muscle memory and his hand muscles wasn't all to great. His father came in to tell him it was his bed time so he bathed and quickly went to sleep. He used his powers to play some scales with them not forgetting to conceal it to the outside after he realized he could control the volume and his parents were being kept up.