Yeah, four chapters in a week. Yay, my tendency to post several chapters! I'm so tired now.
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Izuku stood outside U.A.'s gate as a feeling of joy flooded over him. He was finally here. He walked up the pathway as a few second years talked and meet up with each other. Izuku looked at the student ID he was given as well as his school schedule. 'Alright, class 1-A is my homeroom.'
As soon as he hit the building he almost raced for his homeroom. Even so, he made sure to take in the sites along the way. Finally, after a few minutes, he was standing in front of the rather large doors, likely put there for students with mutation Quirks that made them huge or giantification, marked 1-A. Izuku opened the door to a new class and a new start. "Get your feet off the desk!"
"Make me extra!" He was meet with the tall boy with glasses from before, and Katsuki who was also here. The universe loved messing with him it seemed. Speaking of his raw luck Katsuki turned his head over and as soon as be laid eyes on him Izuku just knew this year was going to be hell. "Deku?! How the fuck did they let you in?!"
He looked ready to attack him. His face was already filled with anger. Great his year was going to be just as bad as before. The tall guy from before walked up to him. "Your name is Izuku Midoriya correct?" The guy gave him an apologetic bow. "My apologies for how I acted you understood the hidden meaning of the test."
It took Izuku a full second to make sure this was real. Someone was actually apologizing to him for once. Izuku had no way to respond to this development. "N-no worries." He started to rub the back of his head nervously.
"No it was unprofessional of me," He rose up from the bow hand held his hand out. "Allow me to start over, my name is Tenya Iida."
This was actually happening. Izuku who was used to being picked on and bullied was surprised by someone wanting to start over. "S-sure nice to meet you Iida."
He took the time to look at the other students in the class. One of them was staring at him with narrowed eyes. It was the one who head was shaped like a raven. A bit of panic came over him as his mind raced There was no way he knew what he was right? 'Yeah, there's no way I'm just being paranoid.'
"No way, we're in the same class." He turned around as he was greeted with Ochako. Immediately a blush formed on his face. However, something was caught out the corner of his eyes.
"Is that a giant caterpillar?!" The giant caterpillar turned over revealing a human face. Izuku continued to freak out. "A giant caterpillar with a human face!"
Ochako, however, was questioning the thing in the 'caterpillar's' hands. "Is that a juice box?"
Shota was somewhat impressed that he had noticed him. He was disappointed however at how long it had taken him to get over his shock. Plus the fact he was terrified at the idea of a giant caterpillar. "It took you eight seconds to calm down." He stood up from his sleeping bag and pulled it down. "A villain wouldn't give you half that time to get over your shock."
Never once did his gaze leave Izuku as he said those things. Naturally, the green haired teen felt singled out. As he looked at his eyes a chill ran through his spin. Something told him that this man had reasons to pay close attention to him. The three of them and the rest of the class took their seats as Shota looked at them. "Listen up I'm Shota Aizawa I'm your homeroom teacher." He looked at the kids as he had their attention, "Now go get your gym close and meet me in the training field."
The students were confused by this but one after another they sat up and left to get changed. When Izuku passed by Shota spoke up getting his attention. "You stop right there I would like to talk to you." Izuku turned to him as silence pasted for a few moments with just the two of them. "So what are you?"
"W-w-what?" Izuku was starting to feel his fangs poke out of his mouth.
The man crossed his arms as he stared Izuku in the eyes "I know about it, the masquerade, monsters and all so what are you?"
Izuku mind froze for a second as he stared back at him. Someone at U.A. knew what he was. 'Oh, god I'm going to be expelled!' Izuku couldn't believe it he ran into the one hero who knew about everything on his first day at school.
"I'm not going to expel you for that if that's what you're worried about." Shota rolled his eyes at this. He had expected more of a backbone from him. "Not my place to deal with the rules you monsters created so I ask again, what are you really?"
The panic Izuku had subsidized just a bit. He wasn't going to be expelled because he was a monster. At least that was a good thing. "I-I'm a Vampire." He answered as quickly as he could.
Vampires, from what Shota knew they were one of the races in charge of the monster society. From the bits of old folklore, they were stronger than humans and said to be hard to kill. Reasons for it varied from them being literal undead to the possibility of them having an advanced healing factor. At least he could say that the sunlight weakness was a lot of bullcrap. "So your 'Quirk's' something of a vampire ability then?"
"It's my bloodline's ability yeah," Izuku answered back the feeling of nervousness leaving him.
Shota had something else to file for later. "Alright, head off with the rest of them I've kept you waiting long enough." With that Izuku gave him a bow and raced out of the room. Shota looked out the window debating something. A part of him figured he should inform the teachers about this development, though another part knew they weren't likely to believe him. After all claiming one of the first years was not a boy with a Quirk but a monster from the old myths and legends? Yeah, he wouldn't put it past them to call him crazy. 'I guess I'm the other one who knows the truth then.'
The class stood outside lined up together in the training field each wearing the U.A. issued gym outfit. Their homeroom teacher soon joined them with a ball in hand. The conversation from before was still fresh on both his and Izuku's minds. Shota looked out at his students. "Alright class, we're going to be practicing your Quirks." His gaze turned to Izuku for a second after saying this.
Iida raised his hand with a questioning look on his face. "Sir, shouldn't we be at orientation with everyone else?"
Shota turned to him with an eye roll. The truth was he was always chewed out for not having his class mingle with everyone else. Yet, it's not like it wasn't technically allowed. They were just concerned about his class not meeting anyone. "U.A. teachers have a lot more freedom on what they are allowed to do and how they want to teach." Shota stared at each of the students, "Because of this instead of orientation you all will instead be taking a Quirk Apprehension Test." This got the class talking to each other. "The teaching system is illogical when comes to Quirks the system has you not use them helps standardizes the tests." He looked a Katsuki and tossed him the ball. "Here you toss the ball."
Katsuki caught it with an annoyed look on his face. "Fine is there anything else you want?"
"Use your Quirk while doing so." Shota's reply was short but Katsuki face almost lit up in a smile of joy at this.
Katsuki had a grin at this. He held his arm back and with the strongest throw he could muster yelled out one word as he activated his Quirk. "Die!"
Naturally, most of the class save for Izuku were taken back by his words. Izuku just knew it was who he was. Which made it really unsettling when he tends to just let it slide. When the ball landed Shota showed his phone to Katsuki with the distance on it. "Seven hundred and five point eight meters."
Katsuki looked at the readout feeling rather smug with himself. That blows his middle school record straight out of the water. The rest of the students started to get excited about practicing their Quirks. However, their excitement was soon broken as Shota spoke up, "We're be doing five events and the one who gets in last place will be expelled."
Everyone's excitement disappeared soon after this. They had looks of disbelief at this. One of the students a pink haired and skinned girl with small antenna like horns coming from her head yelled out. "No far we had already passed the exam! You can't just do this!"
"Did you not just hear me?" Shota looked at her with a small glare. "I said that U.A. teachers have a lot of freedom if I don't feel like you will cut it then I can expel any of you." Out the corner of his eye Izuku could swear he saw Katsuki giving him a smug smirk.
If there was one silver lining in all of this he didn't have to hold back his natural Vampiric strength and abilities. The first event was a hundred meter dash. Seeing how Quirks were allowed almost everyone used their Quirks to cut off time assuming they could Izuku himself mostly relied on his natural ability managing to save one and a half seconds from his middle school record. Of course Tenya dominated that event thanks to his Quirk Engine, which literally had Engines in his legs.
The next event was weight lifting which Izuku used a bit over his 'Overdrive' managing to score third place just behind two others. The first was a muscular student named Rikido Sato who had used a bit of sugar for his Quirk, Sugar Rush. The last and number one was Mezo Shoji who mutant Quirk, Dupli-Arms which made several arms.
The last three events the long jump, wall crawl, and the side jumps were Izuku had scored rather poorly. Each one owing to the fact he wasn't used to either, and because his vampiric abilities weren't as great with them as he had hoped. Finally, the last event was the ball throw. Katsuki was exempted from it after having done so himself beforehand.
One by one the class tossed the ball with all their might. No one being able to overcome Katsuki's distance toss. At least until Ochako's turn. When she tossed the ball into the air it just kept going. After a full minute, it was clear the ball was never going to come down and had probably left the atmosphere. Ochako had an embarrassed look on her face as she turned to their teacher. "Sorry."
"Its ok I brought an extra with me." Shota was going to have a lot of paperwork when it came to this. That was U.A. property he had just basically lost in his attempt to test his students. "I'm just putting infinity."
The class just stared in awe at stunned by this. Izuku knew that her Quirk did allow her to cancel gravity so of course, she was likely to win this. Still, infinity was just overwhelming to the rest of them. "Alright last one up Izuku Midoriya."
Izuku took his turn as Shota tossed the extra ball to him. Izuku looked at the ball as he thought about his performance up to this point. As it stood he wasn't likely to be at the bottom of the ladder so he was safe from being expelled. Though looking at his teacher a part of him had the feeling he was testing him somehow. 'Regardless if this is just a test I have to give it my all.' A glow surrounded him as he charged up his aura to its fullest. Pulling his arm back he tossed putting all his might amplified by his aura into the ball.
A few moments later the ball landed off in the distance as Shota looked at the result. "Four hundred and eighty-six point seven meters." Shota didn't know if this was the max the monster kid could due but he could see room for improvement. "Alright, that's everyone now line up as I inform you of your scores!"
The top student of the test was Momo Yaoyorozu at first followed by Shoto Todoroki at second place. Katsuki was third something that brought him great annoyance. In fact, he voiced his disapproval of it and pretty much made most of the class dislike him. Tenya was fourth and didn't complain about it, Ochako was in tenth and Izuku found himself sitting at fourteenth. The person in last place was Minoru Mineta who did not take this well, "No I can't be expelled not with so many hot girls in class!"
His outbursts caused off of the girls and a few of the boy to look at him with disgust. Katsuki especially who was thinking of literally blowing the little pervert up for that. Despite his over-inflated ego, and his tendency to bully Izuku even he didn't like perverts. Shota had a smirk on his face, "Yeah, I lied about expelling one of you."
This caused everyone to looked at him with confusion on there faces. Tenya decided to speak up and question their teacher's decision. "Sir sorry for questioning you but why would you lie to us about expelling the one who scored last?"
"I did it so you were be motivated to give it your all," Shota answered as a smile seemed o form on his face. "It was a logical ruse." His expression returned to normal as he looked at his watch. "Anyway that's it for today I want you all to remember that just because this was a test doesn't mean you can just lounge around your here to become heroes after all."
Shota turned and walked away from the class as he was lost in his thoughts. He actually was close to expelling at least the two with the lowest scores. The things saving them was both that he could see some potential for them and because after last yeah Nezu had made it clear he wasn't allowed to expel anyone else without his permission. His little incident almost caused a media stare. 'I still think we should get the media out of heroing.'
Izuku was about to leave the locker room when he was stopped by the person with the raven head, Fumikage Tokoyami if he remembered. The two stared at each other for a few seconds. Fumikage finally broke the silence, "I had a friend growing up," An awkward moment came over the two of them, "He was a werewolf."
Izuku got what he was talking about. He knew about the world of monsters. "How did you find out?"
Fumikage had a smile on his face. "My Quirk, Dark Shadow seems to have something of an what you call aura sense to it." It's as best he could describe it for them to understand. "So, what exactly are you?"
Great not even one day and already it seems the school was finding out what he was. Izuku let out a sigh having already done this once already, "I'm a vampire and as you can guess Overdrive is actually my ability."
Fumikage was surprised to hear that he was a Vampire. Then again his only understanding of the monsters came from a werewolf. "I see so it's not my place to question why you're here, but you do know about the masquerade correct?"
"Yeah I know but my dad figured it was enviable that we can't stay hidden forever," That was something Fumikage had to agree with. His old friend had let it slip by accident and had moved to their neighborhood because they had nearly broken it twice before. Such a thing was difficult to keep in check and it took a lot of effort to hide. "Plus its been my dream ever since I was a little kid to become a hero, one that people could look up too."
Fumikage gave him a nod of understanding. "Very well, I'll keep this to myself." He turned to leave when he stopped and turned back to Izuku, "I do hope you succeed for both your and my friend's sake."
As the school day came to a close Izuku walked out of the path on his way home. After today's events he was feeling surprisingly calm all things people as U.A. knew what he was and despite this nothing bad was going to happen. "Hey, Deku!" Strange that wasn't Katsuki yelling at him.
Turning around he was meet with both Ochaku and Tenya walked up to him. He just realized that it was Ochako who called him Deku. This, of course, confused him as he didn't since any of the usual malice behind it. "Wait did you just call me Deku?"
She gave him a nod with a warm smile on her face. "Isn't that what Bakugo calls you right?"
"Yeah, he does that more as an insult." Izuku looked away from them as he remembered the day Katsuki started to do so. It was a little after the revelation he was Quirkless had gotten out. It was a bit bitter given that he had seen him as a friend beforehand. "It's basically one way to read my name Deku, the one who can't achieve or do anything."
Having only meet Katsuki for a day the two of them and most of the class pretty much didn't like him. Tenya personally wondered why he was even trying to be a hero. "So it's an insult he gave you then? Why would he do that?"
"Because I was diagnosed as Quirkless when we were in kindergarten," Izuku explained caused both of them to look at him surprised. After all, they had seen him use his 'Quirk' with there own eyes. Izuku could see the questioning look on both of their faces. "I was apparently a late bloomer but by the time I got mine I just went with it."
Hearing that made them both feel sorry for him and also lowered their opinion of Katsuki evermore. The later of which was already low, to begin with as it was. "You know I kind of like Deku," Ochako words caused both boys to look at her with curiously, "If you ask me it sounds inspiring like you can never give up."
That was actually another way to look at it. To be honest, Izuku had actually grown immune to the insult over the years. The idea of it being something besides an insult was something he had never thought about. Izuku had a slight blush on his face as he spoke, "Y-you can c-call me Deku if y-you want."
"Are you sure?" Ochako asked wondering if he really was alright with her calling him that.
Izuku broke eye contact as he couldn't believe what he was doing. "S-sure, I mean I don't r-r-really mind."
Izuku's train had been delayed due to a brief issue with a villain attack a half an hour ago. With this bit of news, he texted his mother to explain he would be late. Hopefully, she wouldn't panic too much about him. As he walked into the waiting area he saw a girl around his age sitting on a bench all to herself.
She turned her head too him as her crimson eyes meet his. The two could instantly tell the other wasn't all they could feel another vampire staring at each other. Izuku looked around finding no other free bench but the one she was sitting on. Without a word he sat next to her and pulled out his phone. "Are you from here?"
The soft feminine voice sounding with a slight accent to it caught his attention. Izuku turned to its source the vampire girl sitting next to him. "Yeah, I am." He noticed her dress which reminded him of the Chinese outfits he saw in stores, "I take it you're not from here yourself?"
"No I'm from China," She answered before she looked up for a second in thought. "Well, my dad was, my mother was from Europe and I was born in Hong Kong."
That explained the dress and maybe even the slight accent. Yet there was something about her that struck him with a familiarity that he couldn't quite place it. 'Come on I haven't seen her before in my life.'
She looked at the humans all around him a frown on her face. "Why do we put up living like this?" She motioned to the humans who were all blissfully unaware of what was sitting in the same area as them. "We've been forced to hide from these humans all because of this stupid thing called Quirks."
"Well, technically we've been in hiding before that." Izuku didn't expect to have this conversation. He never thought much about this whole thing. After all his mother was human and despite having grown into being a vampire he still saw a part of himself as human. "My dad said it was for our protection at the time."
The girl didn't respond to him for a few moments before turning her head to him. "My mother says the opposite that we only do it because we misplaced our fear." She looked at the humans with a glare on her face. "She says that if we had acted at when humans had gotten uppidy we could have prevented all of this," She turned her eyes to him with a sad look on her face. "The masquerade wouldn't be needed and we would be ruling the world."
Izuku didn't know how to respond to this. He never took the time to ask about how monsters felt about this. He knew his father saw the masquerade as failing but this, 'I don't agree with this.'
"Sorry, I know not every monster feels like we do about this subject." She could see his expression and apologize. "Personally I would much rather be able to just let it out that I was a monster you know, but the stupid masquerade." She clenched her fists in annoyance at the dumb rules that the council put in place.
That was something Izuku could agree with. Having to hide what he was didn't do him any wonders as he grew up. Especially with Katsuki always bullying him. He felt like telling her about his dream to be a hero and to bring monsters and humans together. Before he could she stood up from the bench with a sigh and a smile. "It was nice talking to you but my mom should be here right now."
She left in a hurry as Izuku watched in silence. He started to think about her words. About hiding who he a made him wonder if he should tell his class about it. He was pretty terrified of doing that. Though one of them already had an idea that he wasn't human. However, he had no idea how the others will react. 'Well, they could all act like Tokoyami, except for…' Yeah he could just picture Katsuki being mad at him for keeping this a secret for years.
Ochako let out a sigh as she sat in her small apartment building. It was where she was living in order to go to school at U.A. The landlord of course was all too happy to let her stay rent free as thanks to her parents for helping build the place. She placed her bag on the small sofa as she looked at a picture of her parents.
A lot of people told her that she looked an awful lot like her mother. They were close in that regard but there were some things she didn't have. Namely wings and a tail that was hidden under a disguise. Ochako could still remember when her mother told her having a Quirk meant. She wasn't going to become like her and at the time it was kind of disheartening. Her younger self was saddened at the idea of growing up as everyone else.
Then as she grew up she learned the negative side of this. She was told about all the rules she'll have to follow. 'I don't think U.A. would have allowed me in if I was a Succubus.' Now that she thought about potential what ifs, something about Izuku felt off. Call it a leftover of her heritage but she felt like he wasn't like everyone else. 'Come on Ochako there's no way Deku's a monster.' So why was it that she wasn't so sure about them?
Yeah, so I figured that besides Aizawa at least one or two others would know about the monster society. Originally when I was planning this chapter I didn't know if I should but I decided to have Ochako know about it. Just to clarify yes her mother is a Succubus but she isn't. How long before this comes to light? I don't know read and see.
Succubus/Incubus: One of the Big Five the species is probably one with the greatest misunderstanding mostly caused on their part. Closely related to Vampires (and may even share a common ancestor) they share similarities in weaknesses and have a bloodline based power set. However, the weakness to heat is swapped for a weakness to cold as Succubi actually get stronger in hotter weather. Like with vampires there is an eighty percent chance a child without a Quirk will develop into either a Succubus or Incubus depending on there gender. There is also reports of strange dormant mutation among them. None have been confirmed.
And now for... wait we don't have questions. Well if you have any I'll answer them in the next chapter.
Anyway cya all next time. :)
