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Okay guys, after getting so much motivation from some users I decided to do it.
At first this was going to be a Dabi x OC fic, but since lots of you seemed to want a Dabi x Reader fic more, I changed it AND this is like an intro I suppose? Getting to know you and stuff.
Still there're a few things I'll like you to know before you read:
It's gonna be a multi-chapter fic, I really wanna get into it.
It's set in the Forest Training Camp Arc and it goes on from there.
The reader does have a specific quirk and backstory. We'll get into the backstory in the fic itself but here's the Quirk description:
Quirk: Chaos Magic
Which includes: -Psionic Energy Manipulation, Telekinesis, Mental manipulation and pretty much everything you can do with the mind. The character is inspired in Scarlet Witch, by the way, so if you're interested in more details you can go check on her on MCU's wiki.
Weaknesses: really prone to headaches, big ones. Simple stuff like strong scents/really loud noises can give you one and it can get so bad to the point of being unable to activate your quirk or fainting because of the throbbing pain. You normally carry a small container of painkillers with you.
Quirk visual description: purple blasts/waves/streams that normally comes out of your hands.
Oh! Also: You're from class 1-B
I think that's all! I hope you can get into this fic and feel like you're really part of it, it's my first time doing a reader fic after all!
Enjoy!

Chapter 1.

You were so not looking forward to this.

Your empty bag on your bed was proof that you, unlike your classmates, were so, so not looking forward to this.

Still, there was absolutely no avoiding it, not if you really wanted to become a hero, that is.

The Training Camp was an important part in the UA journey, an important step in the journey of becoming a hero, too. And you had nothing against the camp itself. You were actually excited about training-till-you-want-to-die.

There were other things you weren't so excited about, though.

Brushing your thoughts aside, you quickly filled in your duffel bag with the first items you could find; still making sure that you packed enough bottles of painkillers with you.

Dusting off your uniform one last time, you headed towards the school.

Once there, two buses were already parked outside and lots of students chatting right in front of them.

Instantly heading towards the one that was in front of most of Class 1-B students, you quickly placed your duffel bag in the luggage compartment of the bus, while listening how Monoma was already mocking the students of Class 1-A that were there.

A "Hey" that was quickly followed by your name made you turn. A small smile formed on your lips.

"Hi, Kendo" you said as you walked a few steps towards her.

It wasn't really a surprise who was addressing you. She was the only one that talked to you on a regular basis after all, even if it was just some random, short small talk.

And no, the rest of your classmates didn't hate you (at least that's what you believed) they just didn't want to get in your way per say: they didn't want to bother you, they didn't want to irritate you, they didn't want to upset you, they didn't want to anger you.

Not that you blamed them, you'll probably act the exact same way if you were them.

Still, it was a decent type of relationship the one you had with your classmates. Acquaintances-like. You cared for them and you knew they cared for you as well… in a way.

You were used to them already, and they were used to you.

Other people though…

"Excited?" Kendo asked walking with you to lean against the school's wall while you waited for Kan-sensei.

You could already feel the curious eyes of Class 1-A on you.

"Of course" You said, purposely turning your back on them.

"Me too, it's a shame they had to change the location, though. It's definitely not gonna be the same as the stories I've heard from students of other grades" Kendo sighed.

"Yeah" You agreed. It was really kind of a shame that you wouldn't be able to go to the usual place most pro-heroes went in their UA years. "But it could be better" you smiled, and Kendo did the same.

"EVEN IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WAY BETTER THAN CLASS B?" Monoma's loud moking voice made you two wince.

"Excuse me for a second" Kendo said and went straight to smack Monoma in the head, as usual.

Soon after that, you were getting inside the bus with your classmates, heading off towards the camp.

The introduction of Ragdoll and Tiger was a bit awkward because of all the poses and the fact that most of the students were sore from the trip. The least fun part, though, was definitely when Tiger started to knock out each student off of the cliff and straight into the woods, only to then be greeted by earth-like monsters while Ragdoll explained from above that everyone had to get to the facility before noon or else no lunch.

After some of your classmates got a few hits from the first beast that appeared, everyone realized that you either had to work together to make it to the facility or pretty much stay in the woods for the night without resources.

It took you quite some time. It was around 7 p.m. that you and your classmates finally made it, only to be told by Kan-sensei that Class 1-A managed to arrive at 5:20 p.m. So of course, this put your classmates on edge, Monoma for starters.

Still, instead of focusing on the bad stuff, you couldn't help but smile slightly. You took a fair share of earth-monsters yourself, and despite the blood-chilling screams of some of your classmates, you managed to walk out of the woods headache-free.

The night went on uneventful. After having dinner, everyone was too tired to do anything other than sleep. So after a bath to take all off all the dirt the woods left, everyone dosed off.

It was already the third day and it was not getting any easier for you.

Yesterday you spent the whole day 'extending' your quirks and it hasn't been easy. The entire time consisted on you manipulating objects, making power-blasts and multitasking as long as you could without desperately running to the Girl's room for a handful of painkillers. The cherry on top was that to all that suffering you needed to add the constant whispers of Class 1-A right behind you.

And here you were, yet again, doing the exact same thing as yesterday, with the exact same whispers right behind your back that were only fueling your already pounding headache.

You opted for the most secluded place you can find that was also near the mountain side. From your spot you could see Kendo hitting the rocky surface with her hands and two girls from class 1-A also using the rocky mountain surface to train.

Around you, several giant rocks were levitating as you were also directing energy blasts towards the rocky wall trying to hit it as hard as you could. It was certainly a lot more difficult than yesterday since your muscles were sore from yesterday's training and a small headache was already present; but you were pretty damn proud of your progress.

"Good control" a male voice behind you said, making you instantly stop your blast attacks and also making your levitated rocks falter a bit at the sudden interruption. Once you checked that everything was still up in the air, you turned to the person who addressed you.

You blinked several times in surprise once you saw Eraserhead behind you.

"Thank you, Aizawa-sensei" You said bowing your head a little, still surprised, as you lowered down to the ground everything that was levitating.

It was weird, really. Considering you remembered he barely even spoke a word to anyone in your class.

He looked down at you with bored eyes.

"How come a quirk like this didn't make it to the first round in the Sports Festival?" He asked after a few seconds, raising one of his eyebrows.

"I guess I wasn't that string enough back then" You instantly lied.

"Really? It seemed like you weren't even trying" He said.

"I… also remember not feeling okay that day" You lied again, and he just hummed in response.

"(Y/LN) (Y/N), is it?" He asked.

'Great, here we go again' you instantly thought. You shouldn't be surprised, really. You had the exact same conversation with the principal and every single one of your teachers at least a dozen times.

"Yes" You simply said.

"Your father" He said, and paused.

You barely stopped yourself from flinching.

"His quirk was Mind Manipulation, right?" He asked and you nodded. "He could induce hallucinations and read minds" He casually added. "Do you have any of that?" He asked again.

"Yeah" You said, almost whispering, clearly uncomfortable. "But it's not the exact same, I have to touch someone's temple in order to make it work" You explained.

"Have you practiced any of that yet?" Aizawa asked and you shook your head.

"I need a guinea pig for that"

"Okay, you'll start that tomorrow then and I'll look for someone to help you" He said and you nodded. "Now, Vlad told me about the headaches. Do you have one now?"

"Just a small one" You answered and he nodded.

"What normally give you headaches besides overusing your quirk?"

"Loud noises… Strong scents" You said shrugging and he nodded again.

"Good. Then I'll tell Bakugo to move his training session over here. The noise of his explosions and the smoke will push you even more" He said.

'Great, as if that kid's explosions weren't loud enough already'

"Yes, sir" You simply said. He'll probably do it anyway even if you refused.

When Aizawa said that Bakugo's explosions were going to push you even more he wasn't freaking lying. With his already loud explosions and clouds of smoke his even louder curses were a nightmare. You were actually surprised that no one else seemed to be pissed off by this. Still, you managed to survive the training and you were actually thankful for the angry boy and Aizawa in the end since you could feel it was really helping, even if there was still a long way to go.

After the training finished, everyone went straight to wash themselves since you needed to cook afterwards.

The cooking part of the day went a bit more smoothly than yesterday, everyone could tell by the taste of the food. When you were done eating, everyone took care of their own dishes and went straight to a clearing where a test of courage was going to take place, at least that's what Pixie-Bob said earlier.

You weren't required to wear your training uniforms for this, so you decided to wait a sporty pair of shorts, a plain t-shirt and a sweatshirt was tied to your waist, since you knew that, even if you were in summer, it could get pretty chilly between so many tall trees, especially at night.

The rules seemed simple enough. You were supposed to follow a route inside the forest on pairs, get tags with your names in it and return. All that while being scared shitless by the other class. The class that scares the other one more, wins. The only 'don't' was don't touch anyone directly. You were allowed to use your quirk to scare others. Your class was the first one to be doing the scaring and Class 1-A was the first to enter the route.

It was more about creativity than anything, and your classmates seemed to understand so too, because...

"(Y/N), you should be the last one scaring!" Tetsutetsu exclaimed, competitive mode in full display. "You can easily move objects so it's way easier for you to scare anyone! The best for the last!"

You were glad Monoma was not here.

"I agree, we need to make sure we scare them so we need to leave the best for the last" Tokage said "Plus you won't need much help, people with quirks like Fukidashi are kinda useless if we can't touch them" she pointed out.

"I can go with you if you want" Kendo offered and you smiled reassuringly.

"It's okay, I can do it" You said. After all, they kinda have a point. If you wanted to run a scary house you could easily make a lot of money with your quirk now that you think of it.

"Awesome! Let's go!" Tetsutetsu said, and each of you started to follow down the forest route with Ragdoll accompanying you.

Ragdoll and you were the last ones left; she stopped right in the middle of the route and told you to keep going till you found a place of your liking.

You kept walking a bit more, finally stopping in a spot filled with tall, slim trees, unlike the big, fat ones that were at the beginning of the route. The grass was also dryer over here, considerably so that you got worried about being heard if you moved for a moment. Still, you decided to stay, considering the fact that you wouldn't move as much since you'll make objects move instead with your quirk.

It was going to take a little while for the first pair of Class 1-A to get where you were, so you settled for picking a nice spot where you were sure you wouldn't be seen while also selecting some stuff you could find in the woods to use for your scaring.

Screams didn't take long to be heard.

Already in your hiding spot, you kept your eyes on the route and your hearing sharp, waiting for the first pair to appear, but…

20 minutes in and no one was showing up.

'What the hell is taking so long?'

You also noted that the screams seemed to be less frequent, almost nonexistent now.

'Maybe there was another path? Or they got lost in the woods?'

Still, you did heard screams at the beginning, so why weren't you hearing anything now? At least the people that should be starting up the route now should be screaming.

'Maybe I should go towards where Ragdoll is to see what's taking so long'

You got up and dusted yourself off, but just when you were about to step into the path you noted something.

'What's that smell?' You thought and sniffed in. 'Smoke?' Your eyes widened in realization.

You started to turn into every direction trying to determine from where it was coming from while your mind rushed with billions of possibilities of what could've happened.

The most likely reason you could think of was that it was caused by someone's quirk, as an accident of course.

Even if you didn't know most of Class 1-A's students you did remember the guy with Half-Cold Half-Hot quirk from the Sports Festival.

You also remembered he was paired with Bakugo for this, since he was threatening most of his classmates to switch before the activity started.

Both of them had incendiary quirks.

'Maybe they got so scared they accidentally activated their quirks?'

Still, there was no use of staying here just analyzing possibilities and doing nothing. Something was burning down, and people could need help.

You blasted the ground with your quirk so it could get you high enough to see were the fire was located.

It was located in the woods between your hiding spot and Ragdoll's location. Where the trees were slim and the grass was drier than the rest of the woods… and the fire was huge enough already.

'Fucking great. That'll only spread the fire even quicker'

The really odd part was that the fire was blue.

Still, you had no time to think of details. The clearing where Mandalay and the other pros where was further away than the fire and you could make some sort of force field with your quirk to get people out of the flames.

Unknotting your sweatshirt off your waist you quickly tied it up as safe as you could over your mouth and nose. The smoke was going to be a problem and you were stupid enough to not bring any painkillers with you.

'A hero should always be ready for anything!' You chastised yourself, and you sprinted towards the burning woods right after.

Once you got as far as the path could take you to the fire, you started to make your way through the woods and leaving the path behind.

You pushed away the billion branches and bushes that where in your way as you could, helplessly feeling how some of them were scraping your legs.

The smoke was getting thicker and even if it was stinging your eyes your sweatshirt was still making a good job preventing you from inhaling anything.

Finally, the fierce, blue flames showed up.

You sharpened your hearing trying to make out any other noises from the burning forest, but you couldn't hear anything other than that. You were tempted to scream but for some reason you didn't and first settled for searching for students yourself.

Until you heard something.

It was… chattering, which was confusing since you couldn't believe someone wouldn't be screaming their heads off in a situation like that.

'Maybe they got smoke in their lungs so they couldn't scream?'

You made your way towards the voices, careful enough not to get near the raging flames.

You spotted two guys.

You were about to scream to them, make your presence known so you could help them get out but you stopped in your tracks.

Something was off.

The first thing you noted was that somehow, where they were standing didn't caught up any flames. They were inside of a two meter radius circle that was free of any type of fire, and it seemed that the flames refused to get there as well.

The second thing was that, even if you barely knew any of Class 1-A, you could tell that these two were not students.

The first proof was the clear age difference. One looked to be in his late 20's and the other in his early ones.

Their appearances were the second proof.

Dark full-body suit, obviously not a civilian/casual outfit, and dark coat with severely scarred skin.

Out of instinct, you hid from view.

"You got owned! You a damn small fry!? Shit, you're weak!" The one in the full-body suit said.

"Damn… I am weak" The other one said in an almost bored tone of voice.

"What you say!?" Said the other one again, using a different tone of voice than before. "You idiot! Don't jump to conclusions, you're strong! You just need to keep in mind the pros are as strong as you'd think!"

You nearly gasped at that.

'The pros?'

"Make another one of me, Twice. We need to tie down the pros" He said with the same bored tone that he used before. "We need to make sure Compress gets Target One without much trouble"

You were trembling now.

'They're villains'

The realization came crashing down almost leaving you without air.

You were supposed to be safe here.

They chose this location to make sure everyone was safe.

'They're villains and they're after someone' You thought again, shutting your stinging eyes as hard as you could, as if would all go away when you opened them once again.

This was no nightmare though. It was reality and there was a Target One. You needed to tell everyone.

'And most importantly I need to get the heck out of here'

You chastised yourself once you realized that in your panic you didn't heard the rest of the conversation, but once you turned you could see both of them walking towards the opposite direction.

Once they were completely out of sight and out of hearing range you sprinted towards the path.

You heart was pounding loudly in your ears as the noises your running feet were making was painfully loud. You tried not to think about the possibility of being heard as you tried not to get out of breath but it was impossible.

You were terrified of the thought of them following you.

You turned your head towards the direction where they were before once you knew the path was steps away. You didn't stop running.

But turning was a mistake… and the realization of that came as you collapsed with someone while you weren't looking.

You fell but to the floor, confusion and startlement filling your senses at the sudden strike.

When you looked up though, there was nothing to feel but utter terror.

Long dark coat, severly scarred skin.

The guy from before was looking down at you, clearly a bit surprised at the sudden hit –even if it seemed like it didn't even move him an inch- as well.

Your breath hitched in your throat as aquamarine eyes roamed all over you.

After a moment, his heavy lidded eyes narrowed at you and you could clearly see something in them.

Recognition.

"Well, hello there… Target Two" he said, tilting his head a bit while smirking.

Notes:

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-Silvana.