Feral Scream
Chapter 9
The police force and the heroes had arrived at the local where the serial killer and Izuku were supposed to be. They were in the high alert since they wanted to caught the killer by surprise.
"It's too quiet…" Aizawa thought " Even if we're dealing one individual, it is too quiet for my taste."
Aizawa was not the only one with the same thoughts; Detective Tsukauchi, Asui, Chief Tsuragamae and Kotori had the same thoughts. Kotori was nervous. She knew her cousin's Q.I was very high and she knew Phillipe would be prepare for an ambush since that video came out. She was pretty sure he was not the one to upload the video since the past murders he did not such a thing. Someone else did it.
She snapped out from her thoughts when she head a body collapsing to the floor.
"OZORA!" an officer cried out.
Everyone were shocked to see the police officer Ozora had a bullet hole in his forehead.
"Sniper!" Chief Tsuragamae cried out.
Before they could do anything they were attacked by a shower of bullets, this time it was a machine gun. The things were so fast. Many police officers were falling into the floor dead. Kotori was fast enough to drag Chief Tsuragamae and Detective Tsukauchi inside of an abandoned building. Aizawa id the same with Asui. They were saved but not without being injured. Chief Tsuragamae and Aizawa suffered bullets wounds,
"Aizawa-sensei!" Asui cried as she kneed beside him.
"I am ok, Froppy." he says even feeling a big pain in his leg. A bullet had hit his left thigh" This is nothing if we compare with the incident at USJ. How is Tsuragamae ?" he asks
But Chief Tsuragamae was not lucky. They could see three bullet wounds in his abdomen. He was covered in blood.
"Shit, Shit, SHIT!" Kotori cursed.
Kotori used her quirk on Chief Tsuragamae to cauterize his wounds. The police chief cried out in pure agony as Kotori was burning his skin. Kotori only sobbed, apologizing the police chief when she finished sealing the wounds. Chief Tsuragamae faints from the pain.
"He will be ok? Detective Tsukauchi asks.
"Yes, but he will need to see a doctor as soon we finish here." Kotori says as he lays the police chief on the floor.
" BLUE BIRD!" cries a powerful voice. Kotori recognizes the voice. " VENEZ COMBATTRE AVEC MOI, BLUE BIRD!"
"What is he saying?" Asks Asui nervously
"He is saying to I fight with him." answers Kotori, frowning when Phillipe calls her using her hero name back on france.
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Meanwhile this, Izuku was still lying on the mattress, motionless, due to the drug that Phillipe had given him before leaving. But he still could hear everything, even the sound of the machine guns being used. Izuku was afraid many were killed because of this.
"This is all my fault." Izuku sobs. " If I had not lowered my guard, none of this would be happening."
Izuku could not scream because the drug made sure he would not use his voice either. He cursed. He refused to do nothing while whoever had come to his rescue were dealing with a psycho who did not think like the other villains.
"Think Izuku, think!" Izuku snapped at himself, closing deeply his eyes. "What can i do in this situation?"
Then, he remembered days before the attack of the giant noumu, Kotori had taught him something important to him. She told him once she was kidnapped and the kidnappers used a powerful drug to make her emotionless, but the drug left her being aware of her surroundings.
"I was lucky my mind was still working, so I focused using my quirk to burn the toxins from my body. That caught those villains by surprised since they did not expected I could that. I am lucky my quirk is an energy type." Kotori tells her experience to Izuku.
Izuku's eyes widen in realization when an idea came to his mind.
"Wait a minute… if One for All can grants the user momentary superhuman strength, increasing agility, increased hearing, and superhuman speed, maybe… maybe it can ... speed up my metabolism, burning out the drug inside of my body!"
With this idea in his mind, Izuku closes his eyes and starts to focus on his quirk. He begged for all the past users of One for All to help him. Then, his veins starts to glow.
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Back to the outside, Kotori ordered to Detective Tsukauchi and Asui to look for Izuku while she would be fighting against Phillipe. Detective Tsukauchi was against the idea.
"Are you crazy? You can not fight against him alone!" Snapped Detective Tsukauchi
"Listen here, officer; I know him more than anyone else here." She growled at him. "I did warn everyone here he is not an average villain like you used to deal with. He does not rely his quirk. Using those machine guns were the proof What he really is capable of. Beside, we're here to get Midoriya out!" she snapped
"She is right." Aizawa interrupted. " Our focus is to rescue Midoriya. You two are the only ones who were unharmed."
Detective Tsukauchi did not like any of this. Asui put her hand on his shoulder, shocking her head. How much he disliked it, the detective knew they were right; He and Asui were the only ones who were unharmed from the shooting.
"Just be careful, Kotori-chan." he says.
With this, he and Asui moved to another direction. Kotori took two small tubes from her boots. With a quick move, the tubes became a pair of tonfas.
"Stay here, Eraserhead. I will try to make this as quick as possible." Kotori says to Aizawa.
"Just be careful, Blue Bird. He may be your relative but he is villain." he warns him.
"I know." she whispers before leaving.
As she walked out from the shelter, she went to the middle of the war zone. She focused on to not look on the bodies of the dead officers scattered on the floor. Then, she finally finds her cousin in the middle of the plaza. He was still human but she could see Phillipe had his feline eyes on.
"It's been a while, cousin." Phillipe says, smiling. " Tu m'as vraiment manqué ( I really missed you so much)."
"J'aurais ressenti la même chose si tu n'étais pas devenu un tueur en série(I would have felt the same if you had not become a serial killer)". Kotori replays in french, frowning at him.
Phillipe could not help but smile even more. He was happy his cousin did not forget how to speak in french.
"I am happy you did not forget your second language, cousin." Then, his expression changed in scorn. "I am really sorry for father disowning you after my kidnapping. He had no right."
After Phillipe's kidnapping by Les trois Bêtes, Phillipe's father blamed Kotori for his son's condition and he made very clear to her he did not want anything from her anymore. Since Kotori was already an adult, he left the Sagara house and started to live by her own.
"He was angry. He had every right to be since it was my fault you were kidnapped in the first place." she says.
Kotori was sweating in fear. She knew her cousin was dangerous and she could not let her guard down any moment.
"My kidnapping was not your fault at all, Kotori. We had no idea Ursula and Megalodon would come for me to revenge Aquila's fall through me. But it was thanks to this I learned something very important: All humans, especially the ones with animal quirks are monsters. I just had my awakening."
"Humans choose to be monsters Phillipe, no matter if they are animal quirk users or not." Kotori says "You choose to be a monster after the events of your kidnapping. What happened to you, it does not justify your actions. You killed those people in cold blood."
Phillipe could not help but to chuck.
"Funny thing that garçon, Midoriya, said the same thing to me after I told him my past. He even cried for me." he smiled softly. "Il est un garçon spécial. I am glad I´ve taken him. He's a premium after all."
Kotori notices Phillipe used the single present. That means Izuku is still alive.
"He is so special that you decided to upload that video on the web? You did not that with your past victims." Kotori comments.
This time Kotori saw Phillipe glaring at her. " Heh, I did not do such a thing. He is special, that's true, but I did not upload that video on the web. I am not stupid." He says, frowning at her "I knew Seigneur Shigaraki would do this. "
Kotori was astonished when he mentioned Shigaraki. The profiler knew who that person was; it was the leader of the League of Villains. Was he with them all this time? No, she knew Phillipe preferred working alone, unless he needed services from outsiders. Phillipe looked at his cousin and he knew what she were her thoughts.
"No, I am not with the League. I just needed their services since my meal is from U.A. The League already made U.A of fools several times. I have been with them for a few weeks and as a psychologist, I already figured out Seigneur Shigaraki is childish and immature man. I knew he would upload the video I´ve sent to him since he asked me to sent a proof I was really going to eat the boy. Why do you think I had those machine guns?" he asks " I knew soon of later the police and the heroes would come to find me. Unlike those villains and heroes around us, 95% do not use fire guns or no quick combats at all. They totally rely on their quirks. And look at the results for not relying on my quirk." He says, showing the trail of bodies around them.
"You know I have to stop you, right?" She asks, making an defense pose.
"You can try, baby cousin. You used your firebird quirk yesterday. I can smell you're still weak from the events of the giant noumu. But since you used the full potential of your quirk." Then, he removed his clothes as he became a wereleopard beast. " Let me do the same for you, Kotori."
Then, the blood battle has begun. Kotori blocked Phillipe attacks with his claws as she blocks them with her tonfas. Kotori cursed, she knew her cousin was strong in his leopard form, but she did not expected he was that strong. She had no idea if she can take him down alone. If she did not used her quirk in full potential, she would be using a part of it to face him without risks of overheating herself.
Kotori cried out in pain as Phillipe slashed the right side of her face. Using this opportunity to throw her against a pile of rubble. A sickening wet squelch filled the air, along with a sound was caused by an inch-wide steel pipe from the right side of Kotori stomach.
Kotori's eyes fell to the piece of metal and she could only stare, uncomprehendingly, at the crimson liquid flowing down its length and soaking into her clothes. His lips trembled as blood filled his mouth and spilled out from the corners. "…ahh…"
The wereleopard's expression changed into sadness. He only stared at her fallen cousin.
"It may not look like, but I do love you, Kotori. You're a sister to me" he says as tears came rolling down from his eyes. "I do not blame you for the beast I've become. In the name of our blood bonds I'll give you a painless death. That's all I can do at least for you, Kotori." he says softly.
"Phi...Phillipe…." Kotori whispered with her mouth full of blood.
When he was about to cut her throat, something interrupted him.
"25% Manhattan Smash!"
It was a phenomenal punch that sent the beast man flying into the wall. Phillipe recovered from the unexpected pain but he was completely shocked when he saw Izuku, using Detective Tsukauchi shirt to cover his nude body. Kotori were also shocked by the turn of the events.
"I will not you kill anyone else, you son of a bitch!" Izuku cried out in pure anger.
"How!" Phillipe cried out in pure astonishment as he got up. "It's impossible! You should not be able to move!"
"Lucky me I have I have a very high metabolism." Izuku glared at him.
There is no way for Izuku to tell him he used his quick to speed up his metabolism to burn the toxins inside of his body. Detective Tsukauchi Knees beside of Kotori. He is horrified on the woman's conditions as he uses his handkerchief to press against her wound.
"Heh, even if it's true, I can still smell some of my drug inside you." Phillipe says, growing at the boy as he removes the blood from his lips. " You can not still move well and I've amputated your arm. You can not fight in this condition."
"I know." Izuku frowns at him, not taking his eyes from the villain. "If you were a great hunter like you said you were, you should've watching your back as well."
Phillipe's eyes widen realization as he turned around. He could see Asui behind him. She used her tongue to attack him. Phillie moved away at the same time Izuku rushed towards him. The villain felt a sharp pain on his shoulder. He french-japanese man's widen in shock when he saw a syringe on his shoulder.
"Fils de pute! You used my drug against me?!"
"It's now your turn to taste your own medicine." Izuku growled back.
Phillipe's vision started to get blurry as he fall in his knees. Slowly he was returning to his human form. He managed to scratch Izuku's chest before falling to the floor, losing completely his conscious.
Izuku was panting. The drugs was not completely out of his system. He was about to fall as well when Asui caught him with her arms. He gave to Asui a weak smile.
"You know, I think it's a good idea to take us to a doctor now…"
Asui could not help but to sob as she held Izuku closer to her chest. Finally everything was over.
End of the chapter.
Belletiger_BT: I hope you guys liked the chapter as much as I did.
Next chapter you will see some characters dealing with the aftermath of the fight.
