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Chapter 11: Shocking Event
'I never imagined seeing something.. this amazing..'
Izuku thought in awe as he was admiring the Elemental mother's work occuring in his very arms. The white furred feline having just been pulled away from death's door when Animus had brought life back into its body. The cat now looking unscathed and as good as new when the goddess was finished with it. The sparkling aura that was around the green haired teen had slowly faded away into nothing to signify the healing process's conclusion.
"It is done. Thank goodness.. I feared we would have been too late." The mother Elemental uttered in relief before she was heard sighing with the same emotion.
The Elemental children could be heard sighing in relief as well after their mother before Ember had spoke up to Animus. "You're as awesome as ever, Mom!" The fire Elemental said in a chipper tone as the sound of clapping could be heard for a couple seconds.
"That was far too close.." Said the worried voice of the light Elemental child after her sister of fire had finished speaking.
Animus hummed softly in content at her daughter of fire's compliment before she replied while also acknowledging her daughter of light's comment. "Thank you my child. Indeed, that was rather too close for comfort." She then cleared her throat before she began to speak to their astonished guardian once more in an apologetic tone. "I deeply apologize for my behaviour towards you earlier young Midoriya. I was just awfully anxious at the time... Young Midoriya?"
Izuku was pulled out of his stupor when he had heard the mother Elemental call out to him. The green haired boy's eyes blinking rapidly a few times before he shook his head to get himself completely back to reality. Then looking down to the medallion before he responded to her. "Huh? O-Oh, it's no problem at all Animus, so please don't apologize." He replied with a anxious chuckle escaping him while awkwardly smiling before he continued on. "If anyone... It's really me that should be the one apologizing to you all." His voice than lowered in volume and sounded dispirited with his next words as his awkward smile curved into a slight frown. "I'm the one that turned my back on her while you all desperately wanted to help. So I don't deserve those words. Heh, that was not very guardian like of me, was it?"
Upon hearing Izuku's downcast response, their was a pregnant silence between the Elementals and their guardian, all nine of them feeling an emotional pain in their beings when hearing his words along with his tone. Animus then broke the silence once more. "Please, do not punish yourself for that, my child. You do have every quality of a guardian. I am the one at fault for not informing you of my own power's capabilities. I do not doubt that if you did know about them, you would not have hesitated to save the feline's life. So yes, it is I that is at fault and should be apologizing to you for my ignorance. I hope you can forgive me."
Izuku sighed while he shook his head and hummed in denial after she had finished speaking, smiling smally when he had stopped his head motion. "Well, I'm just as guilty there Animus. It's not like I asked about your powers either, which are amazing by the way. So, as long as you forgive me, I'll forgive you?" He asked with a chuckle and a slight grin as he then looked down to the furry creature he was still cradling in his arms, the snow white cat was now breathing normally and showed no more signs of pain as it slept comfortably in the green haired guardian's arms.
After a brief silence when Izuku had finished speaking to the Elemental mother, a soft chuckle was heard coming from Animus before she responded to him. "I assume you are not gonna back down from taking any blame for this, are you?" She asked in a humorous tone, which made Izuku scoff as he held in a laugh and his grin momentarily extended more upwards.
"You better believe it." He responded confidentally as he then began stand back up from where he was kneeling on the ground in the alley.
After hearing a sigh come from the celestial mother, she replied once again. "Very well than, I guess you got yourself a deal." She giggled softly before she carried on. "You are forgiven."
"Then you are forgiven too." He immediately responded with a smirk, then bringing up the important subject of a certain feline that was currently in their presence as he looked to the creature with a concerned expression. "So, what do we do about this little gu.. er.. girl?" He scoffed nervously at the verbal mistake he nearly made. "I mean, I honestly don't think I would be able to leave it out here like this after we had pretty much just brought it back to life. I'm gonna go ahead and assume that she doesn't have an owner since she doesn't have a collar on her and was out here in such a bad condition in the first place. So, my only conclusion is that.. she's a stray.." He said as he then looked to his chest with a curiously lifted brow, waiting paitently for Animus to say something on the matter after his last question. "You uh.. got any ideas?"
Animus softly hummed in a thoughtful manner for a couple seconds before speaking. "Well, why don't you just ta-" The mother of the Elementals was not able to finish her response when suddenly her daughter of fire had blurted out a response of her own to their guardian's question.
"Ooh, ooh! I know what we can do!" Izuku slightly flinched when hearing the loud volume of the fire Elemental's voice, but chuckled as he then responded as it sounded to him like she was waiting for him to give her permission to speak, almost like she was student waiting for her teacher to let her answer a math, or whatever subject really, question with a high level of enthusiasm.
"Uuh.. Okay Ember, what do you got?" Immediately after ackowledging the ecstatic fire goddess. She was heard humming in glee before she replied in an excited tone of voice.
"Let's keep her!" A couple claps were then heard after Ember had spoke, as Aurora had spoke out her immediate thoughts on her fire sister's suggestion.
"That sounds like a grand idea! Please Master, can we keep her?" The light Elemental cutely pleaded as Izuku could only picture her pouting with that request.
"I think I would appreciate having her around as a pet to keep us company. It has been a long time since we had one after all." Said the air Elemental as she added in her two cents on the matter.
"How could you not appreciate her?! I mean, just look at the little cutie patootie! Who can possibly say no to her!?" The cheery voice of Glacis uttered after her sister of air had finished talking.
"I think it would have been better if it was a black cat.." Shayde could then be heard mumbling for a brief moment before Animus had spoke up to silence her children.
When noticing her Elemental daughters sounding.. incredibly insistent on the suggestion, The mother Elemental was quick to speak up and suppress her children's enthusiasm as to not let them overwhelm their guardian. "That is quite enough, my children." She said firmly, which was a success on silencing her young ones. She softly sighed before carried on, sounding more calm this time around. "I was just about to suggest the same thing. But ultimately, it is up to young Midoriya to decide whether or not he will take the creature in as a pet or not. So we must not force him to take on the burden if he does not wish to." After she had finished speaking to her children, Animus then spoke up to Izuku again with a question. "Well young Midoriya? What will it be? Remember, you are not being forced to do it. Our response was merely a suggestion. Nothing more."
After hearing that, Izuku's face began to lightly sweat as he anxiously bit at one end of his lower lip. A worried expression appearing on his face as their was just one, or maybe two, big problem in the way of that decision if he were to accept the suggestion, and he knew that what he was about to say next was sure to upset the Elementals. He deeply sighed before speaking up. "I don't think I would be able to do it even if I did wanted to take her in... Don't take this the wrong way everyone. It's not like.." He went silent for a short amount of time as he looked to the cat with a depressed expression, evident that he was also not looking forward to what he was about to say. "It's not like I want to turn her away. I would love to take her in if it was possible... but it's my apartment, it has a strict 'no pets allowed' policy to it. So I can't just go and take it in so casually, like there's no consequences behind that decision. If it were to be found out that she was living there, I would be forced to give her up and take her to a animal shelter or something.. and.. I would prefer if it did not have to come to that.."
After hearing the guardian, there was a pregnant silence between them all after Ember was hearding letting out a downcast "Oh.." The atmosphere then turned depressing and awkward as none of them had any clue of what to say to combat his statement. And it did not take much more than that response from the fire goddess for Izuku to figure out that the Elementals were upset with what he had said, just as he had predicted they would be.
Then suddenly, what sounded like one of the Elementals snapping their fingers was heard before Aurora was the one to break the awkward silence as it seemed she had solution to that issue when speaking to her mother. "Why don't we just do what we did with Silver, mother?" After the light Elemental had said that, the Elemental daughters were quick to be heard supporting that proposal.
"Oh yeaaahh, That's right! Let's do that! please mother!" Ember was then heard begging to their mother about whatever it was they were hoping to happen. Izuku looking to his chest with his eyes narrowed in confusion as he had no hope of deciphering what it was they were even talking about.
"I honestly had forgot that we did that after so long. I suppose I am not opposed to doing that again either since this one is a much smaller and more gentle creature than Silver was." Atmos said in a more composed tone of voice than the rest of her sisters.
"Yes, yes, yes! That would be awesome! What do you say mom? Can we do it again?" Glacis questioned their mother in excitement as Izuku could picture the ice Elemental jumping in glee as she asked. The mentioned Elemental guardian still looking down to his chest with a more bewildered look as he became more baffled by each second that had passed when he did not get the specifics of their current suggestion.
Animus was heard sighing before a gentle chuckle had escaped her and she gave a response that immediately earned happy cheers from her more expressive daughters. "I don't see any reason why not, it certainly worked with Silver."
"Yes!" The ice and fire Elemental said in unison with a light hiss. "You're the best, mom!" Ember cheered.
"Oh thank you Mother!" Said Aurora as she could be heard clapping her hands together chipperly for a moment.
"Thank goodness.." Atmos could be heard whispering as she let out a quiet sigh of relief.
Izuku chuckled nervously as he took his turn to speak up to question what they were suggesting. The green haired teen was awfully eager for an explanation at this point as the confusion was beginning to give him a weak headache. "U-Uh, I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand what is going on here so.. any one of you mind filling me in?" The guardian asked with quiet scoff as he awkwardly grinned. Animus being the one to answer his question immediately after he finished.
The Elemental of life then cleared her throat before acknowledging their guardian's question. "Well, we do have an idea that may aid you on making your decision a little bit more easier." That response immediately had Izuku lifting a brow curiously as he blinked a few times in surprise.
"Okay than. Let's hear it." He said softly with a shrug as he looked to white furred cat with a weak smile. "If it means that it will allow me to keep her. I'll do anything." He said softly in confidence as his his left thumb came down to gently rub up and down along the cat's head. The animal then began to pur in its surprisingly deep sleep when feeling his caring touch. The reaction causing Izuku to grin as he admired the adorable nature behind it.
"See? What did I tell ya, master. Like I said, she's a cutie patootie!" Glacis commented with a gentle chuckle.
Izuku chuckled as he nodded in agreement to the ice/snow Elemental's statement. "Yeah, I know she is." Back to the important subject, Izuku looked to his chest at the hidden medallion under his shirt to give Animus his attention. "A-Anyway, go on Animus."
"Thank you. Well, what we were thinking we could do is that we co-" For the second time in the last few minutes, much to her slight frustration, the mother Elemental was interrupted from speaking when someone else had spoken up before she could finish presenting their idea. but what surprised Izuku, and even the family of Element gods, was that it was not any one of them that had interrupted her, but rather it was an unfamiliar voice that belonged to what sounded like a teenage girl, and the mentioned teenage girl's voice was heard coming from directly behind the green haired guardian as he felt a few light taps strike at his shoulder.
"Um.. Excuse me, are you okay?"
Quickly after feeling the taps and hearing the girl's voice call out to him, He, along with the Elementals as they did not even sense this person approach the boy, yelped as he held the cat firmly to his chest before he jumped back a couple feet while spinning around to face the sudden intruder of their conversation and out of instinct, stuck out his left open hand towards her.
"Woah, woah, woah! H-Hold on there!" The unexpected girl exclaimed as her body immediately went immensily tense while holding her hands up by her shoulders. Now looking anxious as she quietly gulped and she expressed her desire to cause no harm to the green haired boy.
When getting a good look at the girl that was now in front of him, It was definitive that she appeared to be around Izuku's own age. His eyes widened as he softly gasped when seeing that it was a rather attractive girl at that. She had fair skin, large teal colored eyes and long orange hair that was tied into a ponytail by the left side of her head and went down to the middle of her back. She wore a dark blue short sleeved blouse, navy jeans and black converse with white laces on them.
'In the Elemental World'
The gods and goddesses of the elements were currently gazing into the aura window that overlooked their guardian in front of them in absolute shock. Their white eyes comically widened as their jaws were dropped by what they were seeing. It was not the orange haired girl's sudden arrival that had them so surprised anymore as that was only very short... but rather it was now what was going on with Izuku's outstretched hand.
"Please tell me that... I-I'm not the only one seeing this.." Ember uttered in a stunned manner.
"M-Mother..? Are you seeing this..?" Hydran asked in a similar tone to his sister of fire to the Elemental mother, none of them daring to take their eyes off the aura window.
"H-How is this even possible..?" Galva commented to himself in a baffled whisper, the lightning emitting from his body beginning to spark erratically for some unknown reason even to him as he always had it under control.
"I.. I am, my son." Animus replied, her now being the first one to break away from her mesmerized state as she blinked a few times and steadily shook her head, then she looked over towards her son of lightning as she began to ask him a question that related to the sight that had them all comically stunned. "Galva, did he... call to you?"
With his mother having broken the Elemental of lightning out of his stupor, he looked down to his sparking way more than usual body as he gasped in surprise and could be seen trembling. "W-What the.." He uttered anxiously as he observed the mysterious display he was giving unintentionally.
"My son, did he call to you?" Animus asked again, this time in a slightly more demanding tone as her eyes narrowed at him.
Hearing his mother's tone, Galva looked to Animus as he then shook his head in denial before answering her question in a frantic tone. "N-No mother, I swear he didn't."
There were two reason why the Elemental of life was asking her son of lightning this certain question. One of those reasons was that she, and evidentally the rest of her children, did not hear their guardian call out to Galva, and the second.. well that is to be explained if one were to see what they were looking at through the aura window.
Animus brought a hand up to her chin as she looked down in thought for a brief moment as she mumbled to herself. "If he did not call to you... than that could only mean.." Her voice trailed off as her eyes slowly widened once more and she let go of her chin before looking to the mentioned aura window in utter shock once again. "It can't be.. This has never happened before.." Then a delighted grin slowly began to creep its way onto her lips before she continued. "Just.. how are you doing this, young Midoriya?"
'Back with Izuku'
"A-Alright now, there's no need to start using our q-quirks for no reason. I-I'm not trying to start a fight. I swear I didn't mean to startle you. So let's just.." The orange haired girl gulped as she lightly sweated while biting down lightly on her lower lip shortly. "let's just calm down, alright?" She requested nervously as her hands were gesturing for him to ease up while they remained close by her shoulders in surrender.
Izuku felt his heart stop for a short moment when the realization had finally hit him and his sights steered down away from the girl and to his extended outwards hand. His pupils dialated as he let out a trembled gasp of amazement by what he had apparently did on his own.
Flowing out from his fingertips and palm, and also up between his fingers rapidly, was lightning that had formed a ball made out of the said element an inch in the front of his hand, the ball ready and waiting for him to send whatever attack it was he desired to send out. But there was a specific detail that was.. different about the lightning he was giving off then when he did during his first duty as a vigilante hero. Instead of the element being in a violet color, it was now being emitted in a bright green color this time around.
When getting over his stunned state of mind, Izuku huffed as he then quickly clenched his fist in hopes of stopping the lightning from coming out any longer, which the action did successfully as the emerald electricity had dissipated with a final crackle of the element heard when his fingers went down into his palm and the alley fell silent.
When seeing that her life was not at risk anymore, the orange haired girl let out a deep sigh of relief as her face also expressed it. Her arms lowering to briefly fall limp by her sides as she momentarily slouched. "Oh, thank god.." She whispered to herself as it felt like the huge, painful weight of the whole ordeal had been lifted off her shoulders.
Holding his left hand close by his gut over the cat in his right arm, his fingers slowly opened up so he can look into his palm with a startled gaze. Due to the overwhelming shock of what he had just done a few seconds ago, his breathing was going at a slightly fast rate as his body was even shaking a little. He gulped quietly as he began to telepathically? question the Elemental of life in a anxious voice as he was very sure he did not call to the lightning god in order to summon his power. His body just.. acted on impulse.
'Animus.. what.. what just happened..?'
Man, I'm a loser for doing such cliffhangers, huh? XD Don't worry, I plan to update it again real soon. I promise. So I hope y'all at least somewhat enjoyed the chapter. I like how I ended it off, I enjoy leaving certain chapters off with a mystery. lol And the next chapter will kind of? reveal a plan I have going for a certain aspect of this fic. So I look forward to that! Haha, Alrighty! All I got to say! Thanks for reading!
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