Contains dark themes.
"I'm sorry. But without a quirk I can't promise that you can be a hero."
Hot tears streamed down her face.
The sky was a beautiful sea of azure. It was speckled with bright clouds lazily drifting across the horizon and over the hills. The wind calmly hymned in the air, creating a gentle breeze. On the ground, pedestrians walked to and from their destinations. Each with their own life to live out.
Izuku Midoriya could feel the cold metal of the chain link fence behind her. Her hair fluttered about from the wind as she stared upon the ground.
They were so small from up here.
People continued walking. Ignoring, or perhaps not noticing, the girl on the roof with her legs dangling off the edge.
Izuku breathed in the crisp air. From up on top, it felt just so fresh, so new.
She clenched her fists. The metallic chain fence dig into her fingers.
Useless.
Izuku felt her blood start pumping. It was exhilarating to be on top of the world. She felt like she could do absolutely anything.
She looked around, the building she was on had to be taller than any other by at least twenty stories.
Hopeless.
She looked directly downwards, towards the ground and concrete. It was so far. So far. The ground was so far away.
Birds chirped and flew nearby. She was high enough that she was at the elevation they casually soared through the sky at.
Was this how it was to be a bird? Were they always looking at the ground from this high up?
Did they always feel the rushing sense of freedom from being on top of the world?
Quirkless.
Izuku smiled. She had nothing at all. From the moment she was born to present day. Fourteen years of nothing.
But here. On top of the largest skyscraper in the city, she felt like she had everything in the world.
She would never be able to go back to nothing.
You should just...
What would it feel like…
Jump off a building!
To fly?
Maybe then you'll…
To jump off and feel that rushing sense of power.
Finally stop being a burden to everyone.
To jump…
Jump…
One foot was already dangling off the edge…
Just one foot…
Izuku leaned forward. Her hands clenching the chain fence with everything she had. It bulged forward in an attempt to hold her weight.
Her smile was big, bigger than her face.
If she just let go.
Let go…
LET GO
So she did.
Izuku Midoriya let go.
She flew through the air.
Laughing, she spun and flipped. It was so exhilarating, so powerful. Adrenaline had flooded her body and her mind raced.
The air screamed, she couldn't hear anything else but the loud rush of free fall. She laughed again.
Glancing downward, she saw the ground. It was approaching so slow and she was so fast. Faster than anyone, faster than All Might at top speed.
Izuku flapped her arms. A bird, she was like a bird. Flying through the air and nose diving downwards to attain a top speed.
Her eyes watered from the wind pressure, but she didn't care. Like this, in free fall, she was powerful. Even if she was quirkless she could beat anyone. Because why not? Who cares if society thinks she's a burden. She would prove them wrong.
Like this. She was unstoppable.
Like this. She was unbeatable.
Like this. She could take on the world. Because the world held everything.
And when she did, she would tell her mother. Her mother who had been there for her when no one else had. Her mother who believed in her. Her mother who-
Izuku Midoriya's body hit the ground with a sickening crunch.
The green haired girl blinked from atop the skyscraper. Her heart was deathly still and her face was beyond pale.
She clenched her hand tight, taking note at how the metal dug into her hand pain pain pain and how she felt liquid blood it hurts run down her arm.
Izuku looked downwards. The ground was so far away. It lit her body up with adrenaline and stop power enough.
The rattling of the chain link fence caught her attention. It was moving, shaking. By something, someone. Her. She looked towards the center of the vibrations. It was located directly on her hands. She was trembling, she noticed.
She didn't understand. Why did she feel like she lost something. Something she could never get back, and felt like something tagged along with her. Something that wasn't there before.
She had…
She had… died?
Did she… come back to life? Or did it never happen in the first place. She was here, on top of the building again, instead of on the ground. Splattered against the pavement in an assortment of broken bones and organs.
She had felt everything, it was so real. The feeling of free falling through the air. The flips and spins. The happiness and power she felt while in the air.
The feeling of wanting everything.
She remembered it. She remembered the fence, the leg dangling, the letting go.
She remembered the rush of wind in her ears. Deafening her to anything else.
She remembered the feeling of being unbeatable, being unstoppable, the feeling of wanting to grasp the world for herself.
Birds chirping brought her out of her thoughts. She remembered those birds too.
Those birds that flew high and free.
They were…
They were…
She couldn't remember. What was she thinking about?
Think Izuku think.
What was she…
She wanted to… grasp the world for herself…
No. Those weren't her thoughts. She would never… but she did. She did want it.
She wanted power. Power to change society. Power to let her fly through the sky.
But why? She had never wanted those before. But now it was a thought that gripped her with force. That couldn't happen though. She was quirkless. And people who were quirkless, they couldn't do…
Couldn't do anything… but they could.
She remembered the feeling of power. Even if she was quirkless. That didn't mean she had to roll over and be content.
But where did she remember that feeling from?
She scanned her memories. Nothing had ever caused her to feel like she was truly powerful. The bullies, the teachers, the scornful gazes and the physical punishment.
Nothing. It was as if someone had planted feelings, or perhaps a memory and then took it away, into her and left her without saying anything.
But that… that wasn't possible. Because up here she was alone.
She had double and triple checked. Nobody used the top five floors of this building and the key to the roof was something only a handful of people had. She had stolen and made a copy borrowed the key before coming up.
Up here was her safe haven. Nobody would be there but her.
Izuku Midoriya was alone.
Her memories of the past hour may have been a blur, but two feelings shone brighter than the rest.
Two that she hadn't felt before.
Izuku Midoriya wanted everything the world had to offer.
And that she knew how it felt to die.
Start: April 21st. 2018.
End: April 24th. 2018.
Words: 1174
The story will loosely follow canon.
This is… similar to another story I have. Dream Within a Dream. The narrative styles are close, but not the same. Whereas DwaD aims to replicate the experience of recalling a dream, this one is a more normal narration, but still maintaining the distant feel
No romance. Pairings are fine and dandy for this story I prefer not to have any.
As always, if you notice any mistakes, please send me a pm or notify me in a review.
Thanks.
-FN.