[Encanto] C: 3 Exploiting my Gift and Room

[A/N: For the next two or three chapter, it will be a mix of slow and fast pace until our first jump, mostly will sound like its more of a notebook or journal]

Time marched onward as my duties began to bear fruit.

The Kids under my tutelage learned how to read and write, and how to do basic mathematics, and I even taught them science and engineering, with a project of ours ending up being the creation of a small windmill for the village to generate a small bit of power.

I've also been letting them read various things from my Library and taught them the joys of reading and the wonder of imagination.

As for my other duty...well, I didn't really inform my family of my intentions, but I have been slowly attempting to break through each of their shells.

Which, was much harder than you would think. Everyone in our family, excluding my In-laws had their problems and they hardly trusted me due to my age.

So, I mainly focused on my mom, Pepa, who has a Gift that gives her the ability to control the weather based on her emotions...but...she's an emotional wreck, with little to no control over her emotions and easily loses control. I started with her because she honestly trusted me more, and I honestly wanted to help her.

For example, she has sudden bouts of anger, sadness, loneliness, and every other range of motion every day, causing most days in our Village to be a mix of sunny, rainy, stormy, and foggy.

Luckily for our Family, my Dad, and her husband, Felix a great man, and an even better husband was the perfect counter to her negative bouts of emotions. The two are a match made in heaven, or in this case, Disney.

For example, Dad knew just what to say and do to break my mother out of her thoughts and gave her plenty of happy memories to focus on when she needed them most, the two were madly in love, which was another blessing.

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Six months went by as I slowly got my mom to tell me more about her day and why she felt the way she did when she had an emotional outburst. And from what I could tell, it's mostly been from stress or misunderstandings, though don't trust my words, I am definitely not a qualified therapist, I am just trying to help.

As for where I was currently, I was inside my room with a few candles floating around me in orbit around my body.

I have been training and doing lots of testing with my gift, and so far, have found that it was a lot easier to control and use my gift in my own room rather than outside of it.

Outside I could hardly lift up a few pebbles without feeling like I was sprinting. Yet here I had much greater control and could use my power much easier.

From my training in these seven months, since I got my Gift and room, I have learned a lot about how to use my power and how to train it.

For example, I could lessen or strengthen the hold gravity held my person, making it feel as if I could eventually be as light as a feather, or feel like I was carrying the world on my back.

And with difficulty, I could also manipulate the gravity that affects someone or something else.

After all this time training, I could now even use gravity to grab onto an object or person and lift them up, causing them to seem to float.

I could even do it to myself possibly, but would have to train my control and strength to the point I could actually lift myself up.

I have even been trying to focus on multiple things at once, in an attempt to be able to lessen the hold gravity has on me and try to float myself up to make flying or floating easier for me.

But so far, I haven't been able to accomplish manipulate gravity in two different ways on a singular object.

Sure I could make a couple of candles float in the air at the same time around me, resembling a solar system with my body as a Sun, but I was not able to manipulate the gravity in and around an object in two different ways yet.

With time, I could lift heavier objects around me, lift even more objects in the area at the same time depending on how much weight I could hold, increase and lighten the weight gravity has on me, and so much more.

I needed only to continue to train.

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Many more months passed in the blink of an eye as I quickly turned six, then seven, eight...and nine.

Not long after my birthday, I began noticing signs that I have been on the lookout for.

My mom...was pregnant.

Meaning, whenever my baby brother is born, I'd have only five years until the events of the movie, not that I remember much of it anymore after so much time.

After so much time I'd grown quite a bit, not only with my gift but also with the efforts that I put into the village and helping my family with its internal problems.

For example, I've helped my mom quite a bit, she had much greater control over her emotions now, and could even now use her powers to help the farmers and the village in the winter by keeping the sky clear or when it's in the summer and it becomes very hot, she could summon forth rain clouds to revitalize the land and clouds to block off most of the heat.

We were even working on finding out how she could make it slightly windy or not windy, hopefully, to greatly help keep things cooler or warmer in our valley.

She wasn't the only one I made progress with either, I also was able to greatly help my cousins, Mirabel and Isabela.

I helped evolve Isabela's gift and showed her a couple of books in my library that showed a wide variety of flora that she has used to broaden the range of plant life we have in our valley, from countless different flowers to even a great many different trees.

I couldn't really help her with her 'being perfect' problem and her obsession with obtaining Abuela's approval, so I've mostly been focusing on helping her feel better.

I've even been trying to see if she could splice two plants to make a new one, such as a Rose and Sun Flower, which after a lot of trial and error she actually managed to do, creating a giant rose that resembled the Sunflower in size.

And Mirabel? I have been teaching her everything I knew, and she was now an incredible and kind teacher, I was even having her help me when it comes to our family's troubles, allowing her to see that not everyone is perfect and that we are only human. Her relationship with our family rose in leaps in bounds, and I don't think she felt as ignored or belittled as much anymore. She's long since taken over my duties as a teacher, though we do a lot of co-teaching.

Lately, I have begun teaching the kids about Chemistry and Space and Earth Science, having them learn about the stars in the sky and the galaxy at large.

Apparently, our lessons even became popularized by our students and a great many parents also began attending our lectures whenever they finished their work, so we ended up having Evening lectures for the parents to catch up to their kids.

Now? Most of the people in the village could read and write, as well as do basic math and even basic biology.

When my Mother gave birth, I along with some of the other Mothers in the village helped deliver the baby.

It was gross, and I only helped, making sure nothing would go wrong and totally was not helping my dad by lessening the grip my mom had on his hand, and he also totally did not send a nod of gratitude to me during the birth.

Not long after, I now had a younger brother, which my parents named Antonio.

Based on the movie, from what I remember, my brother Antonio would get a gift centered around talking to animals, so you bet I would be teaching him everything I could about animals when he was old enough.

Other than that, I have also noticed something, or theorized it anyway, I think Aunt Julieta, who had the gift of healing food, had another side effect other than healing injuries and diseases...

I think her food also revitalized the cells in our bodies, why did I think this?

Based on the appearances of my family, who did NOT have beauty products available other than basic soap.

You see...my Abuela, who was 70 years old...did not even look 50...

And my aunts and uncles who were in their mid-forties did not even look a day past 30...

If my Aunt's gift really helped slow a person's age down...if anyone learned of it...I don't doubt our Encanto would be wiped off the face of the Earth.

And so...I asked Casita, and...well...it gave me what it represented a nod to be when I asked if my Aunt's gift slowed a person's aging.

I told Casita my fears, and I could only guess it was now as concerned as me when it came to my Aunt's gift.

And with that fear, came a grim determination.

I would do whatever was necessary to protect my family and those in our Encanto.