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"Wow... your world sounds like a setting for a web action adventure show." Kendo said as she sat down.
"And yours is something out of a comic book, the support gear, the powers, the lack of Grimm. To me this was just as much a fantasy as my world would be to you." I countered.
"A world without superheroes... seems insane to us." Kendo smiled at me. "But one I would like to see."
Chapter 43: Camp Part 4
I pulled against Azaiwa's scarf as he gave me a stink eye. "You just had to tell more people."
"I can't keep the lie up forever." I couldn't escape using my semblance as he cancelled my powers with his quirk, my feet dug into the dirt as the two classes refused to help me.
"Pyrrha, why aren't you training the fire power you have?" Tenya asked.
"It shortens what life I have left, I know I should of told you guys this sooner, but there isn't a easy way to bring up the fact my soul is burning up." She held a fist to her chest.
"Your dying?" Izuku asked.
"Well technically I'm already dead, remember, my body is made of ashes and coals." She sighed. "6 months is what I have left."
That got Aizawa to release me. "Six months... what then?" He asked.
"Then the power moves onto Ruby, then she'll return home to reclaim the rest of the Fall Maiden's power before coming back here to train." Pyrrha explained. "We have to save our world, and as it stands Ruby is the best chance we have."
"So you have just accepted your death?" Kendo asked as she crushed Monamo's head in her massive hand to keep him from talking out loud.
"The original deal was two years, but I had to use the power twice in Hosu, the first one was what cut it down so much." She explained.
"You're just doing what you think is right." Mandalay said. The Pussycats were filled in. "But there has to be another option."
"The only other option is to burn up my soul to give Ruby the power, you can't just cheat a god out of a deal." She shrugged. "I gave up my life once, I can do it again."
"It won't be a immediate end to her, from what I read in my mother's notes, there is a three month period where the previous maiden's mind is still intact to train the next one in the power." I said as I sat down.
"That isn't fair." Shoji said from a mouth from one of his arms.
"That isn't fair should be the slogan for Remnant." I shook my head.
"Could you bring your people over? I mean Earth isn't perfect, but our government's could help them." Shiozaki suggested as she twirled her vine hair.
"You think I hadn't thought of it? There are people from Remnant that would take one look at mutation type quirks and demand that they are put in cages. Atlas won't like going from world super power to a charity case. And there's just no way to get everyone. While there are four main kingdoms, going to every village? Impossible." I shook my head. "That and Earth is reaching max capacity, and a world nearly empty?"
"People will flood over, unprepared for the dangers of your world." 1-B's home room teacher, Vlad-King said with grunt. "It's a lose-lose situation."
"Remnant has a saying, 'To bait a Beowulf is to invite a Manticore.' Things will go wrong." Pyrrha said as she ate her curry.
"So... what will you do?" Tiger asked.
"Unfortunately I have kill Cinder to reclaim the rest of the Fall Maiden's power, come back, train, return and send Salem to hell, don't really have much of a choice in how this goes. The rules of the Maiden's power's are clear, the power is passed on by old age or death, and I cant wait for her wrinkles to grow." I said between bites.
"Cinder was able to steel part of the power while the previous maiden was still alive." Pyrrha said.
"Do you know how she did it? Because that would be great to know... wait that's right Ozpin kept us all in the dark. My mother's notes mention past lives, and relics but a lot of it is encrypted in ancient Valerian, which I can read, but codes written in it are nearly unbreakable." I ran a hand over my face.
"I thought ancient Valerian died out centuries ago?" Pyrrha asked.
"Not many speak it now, Yang and dad can't, mom taught me when I was little." I shrugged.
"So that's what you constantly slip into." Kiri said as he finished his plate.
"Yeah, it's curse words are... colorful." I thought out loud.
"Well now that everyone is done time to clean up and head to bed." Ragdoll said with a smile. "Maybe someone else will share their dark secrets tomorrow."
I sat out side having just showered. the cool night air prickled my skin. "You should be in bed." Tiger said as he sat next to me.
"Do you ever wonder if it's worth it?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Being a hero? Is it worth the stress of making choices that could end someone's life?" The silver moon darkened as a cloud passed in front of it.
"For girl who has death set in her path, I wouldn't expect that kind of question from you, but I would say that it's worth it. Because when you save people you inspire others." he said as he placed a over sized paw on my shoulder.
"Those around me keep getting hurt, or worse... is resorting to those same methods really the answer... I know I said it like it would be so easy... but that's what scares me, what if killing is as easy as saying it? It sounds so simple... but..." I couldn't for the words to express how I felt. "And the fact that I hate Cinder so much... I don't know how I would act when I see her, what if it comes down to it and I fail... again."
"You're scared?"
"Yes... but what if I run into my team... I have a duty to them... if their trying to stop Cinder I'll have to join them even if I'm not ready." I gulped down what felt like a stone in my throat.
"Then don't go alone. You already unlocked the Aura of one here... a support team of four at your back, that should be enough, not enough to catch the attention of your enemies until it's too late. You already have one, Kirishima. You choose the next three." He stood back up. "Sleep on it."
"Thank you Tiger."
"No I mean, get to bed or you'll be joining the extra lessons."
I couldn't sleep so I wrote this.