"Now you're going to pay!!" The villain leader mourned childishly, as he dashed toward us.
Sensei's hair lifted up another time, indicating his quirk's activation, as he made a counter run against our enemy.
"So you're the boss here. Sorry to tell you that but, you won't touch a single hair of my student, let alone make her pay." He said, sending his scarf to the villain's direction.
"23 seconds" The hands-all-over guy started, catching sensei's scraf with ease. "22 seconds, 21 seconds, 20 seconds..."
'Counting...? But what is he counting time for?'
I looked at sensei again, waiting for the best opportunity to support his combo. He has lowered his body during his dash, to take the villain "boss" down with a hit with his elbow from beneath him.
"17 seconds..." He muttered as sensei pulled the scarf he was holding with his hand, only to be elbowed right in the gut.
That's when it hit me.
"Sensei get away from him, now!!" I screamed, but it was too late. Aizawa sensei was in his grasp, his hair down and elbow disintegrating slowly.
The skin cracked and fell to the ground like if it was some old dried leaves, exposing the flesh beneath it.
"You keep jumping around so it's hard to tell, but there are moments when your hair falls over your eyes." He mused.
'Damn it...!'
I took his distraction as a chance to counter attack. I launched my ice at him to freeze him in his place while his hands were away from his body. I froze him whole avoiding his face, his palms, and of course sensei too.
Ereserhead took this chance to retreat back to my side.
"Good thinking! Now..." He started, however was interrupted by a menacing chuckle.
"You cheaters believe I am the last boss? Think again~" He sing-songed in an annoying childish tone. His eyes curved in an unnerving smile as he mumbled in a commanding tone: "Nomu."
Just as he finished saying this word, the ice on the monster I previously froze cracked once, then twice, then it crashed to the ground, revealing the ugliest deformed face I have seen in my short life until now.
'Shit, this is bad...!'
That thing freed it's leader. Then, in a split second, became behind us, it's hand hovering over sensei's head dangerously close.
'He's going to him! He's going to KILL HIM!! No no NO NO NO!!'
My head spiralled a mile per second. I had to do something, but there was no time to think.
Everything then happened so fast. One moment a huge torturing power burst through my veins, the other that Nomu's head was on the ground, completely severed from it's body, and in it's place was a spear of blackened ice that sprouted from my left hand. It's body collapsed to the ground, it's hands and legs punching and kicking thin air.
"No!! My lovely Nomu!!! You litlle...!" The disintegrating villain mourned like a five years old who just had his toy broken.
Sensei looked at me, pure shock written all over his face.
Not that I was not.
Then, then came pain. An unbearable, throbbing pain all over my body. It was like if I was being stabbed by millions of knives from the inside. To top things up, the burning, much more intense than any time I have felt before, exploded all over me.
I knelt on the ground, my eyes widened in suppressed pain, grunts escaping my lips.
"Todoroki!" Sensei screamed, but I only heard muffled words, like if I was diving in water .
'Pain... everything feels painful...'
My eyes were twitching on their own from the intensity of it. I almost like they were going to jolt out of their lids. My vision weakened and the only things I could see were blurry images.
' "My power... take my power... use it." '
But that was the least problem. The Nomu, it was right behind me.
"Nejire! You're back!" I called out, uneasiness boiling in my gut.
She got down to earth by progressively shutting down her quirk. When she reached the ground, I saw the fear written all over her face.
'Why is she...'
"Morio! We should call for help and quick!! They are being attacked! 1-A students are under attack I am sure!!!" She said panting.
What on earth...?'
"H-how? The intruder sensors did not work..." Tamaki questioned.
"I am not sure, I only got glimpses of what was happening down there because of the lack range of sight and hearing. But I could tell that there were intruders in the U.S.J...!"
"And the students did not evacuate yet?" I asked impatient.
"Their way is blocked by another villain and No.13 sensei is down!!!" She explained
My eyes widened. Then I frowned.
"Listen, Nejire take Tamaki with you and try to help them evacuate, I will call for help since I have better manoeuvrability." I coached, and they both nodded.
Tamaki got on Nejire's back as she propelled herself up with her quirk, meanwhile I got through the building's walls looking for any teachers, for any heroes.
"Todoroki!!" I heard someone calling me, but I was dizzy and could not focus from the pain. My senses were numb.
'Who's calling me... Owww... Help... Help... me...'
Suddenly, I felt something tower over me, and a huge hand filled my line of sight.
The next moment, I saw someone shield me with himself; then I heard a snap accompanied by a very pained scream.
The shock and fear cleared my vision for a moment.
I saw Aizawa sensei with a snapped and twisted right arm, the same arm that took the blow aimed at me in the first place.
I felt my stomach drop.
"Ugh...!! T-Todoroki run already!! Go!!" He yelled at me, trying to get me away from danger.
'No...
this...
this can't be true...
He... he got hurt...
He got hurt because of me...!
I caused him this...!!
I am the monster who causes this...!!!
"Take my power and use it." '
I felt numbed as the darkness slowly dissipated through me.
'No!! No I can't... I won't!'
I shook my head, trying my best to resist against that demonic voice, to conceal the darkness inside.
"Nomu. Finish him." The villain ordered his monster of a pet.
' "Take my power and use it." '
I...
I...'
aI held my head as a powerdul shock of pain bombarded it. Something inside of me violently blew. I felt an overwhelming rage take control of me. As a reaction, I condensed a huge blast of my new acquiered energy at an alarming speed in my left hand, then blew in the form of a blackened icicle pinned with spears all over. I stabbed that icicle inside the Nomu again, again and again, ripping the arm he attacked sensei with before the monster could make any move, all while screaming and yelling at it.
Sensei, with his healthy arm, grabbed my waist and jumped back and away from the villainous pair to give ourselves an opportunity to breath.
"Todoroki get a hold on yourself and act rationally!" He scolded, making a loud scowl as his right hand moved roughly in the momentum of his jump.
I was panting, my head spinning and throbbing. I could not think clearly.
' "Take my power and use it." '
"Nomu! Kill them!" The villain ordered the regenerated monster to attack us again, who obeyed and rushed in our direction.
"Stop right there!" The mist like villain, Kurogiri, said loudly, stopping the Nomu in it's place.
"Why did you do that!! This is my game to play not yours" He yelled like a spoiled child.
"Shikaragi Tomura, this is an important thing belonging to the supreme in here, something that cannot be wasted." He explained.
The so called Shikaragi screamed in frustration.
"Why?! Why did it have to be my fun?!" He complained loudly. "Now tell me at least that No.13 is dead."
"I have incapacitated her" I looked sadly surprised at my sensei, who grit his teeth in contained anger. "But I am afraid that some of the students I could not scatter have gotten a little help from the outside and impeded me... and therefore there was one who was able to get out." He explained.
My eyes widened.
'Someone got the signal, which means... help is soon here...!'
The only problem now is that we have to survive until it really became here. I got used a little bit to the headache and my senses were clearing; my ability to think was gradually getting back. And I had all the time as that Shikaragi threw a tantrum over the news of his "escape gate".
'The only way to keep things at bay would be to make sure that the Nomu stays at least incapacitated until other heroes get here.
The problem here is that if this sorry of a leader here and the misty wraper tags along with their "pet".'
I eyed Aizawa sensei with worry. He was trying his best to hide his trembling and hitched breath.
'The pain must be insane on him...
but the only way to pull this off is by his help.'
I retreated closer to his side, as the wrapper or "Black mist" got scolded by Shikaragi or whatever.
"Sensei, can you still move around...?" I asked whispering.
He flinched a bit before whispering back: "yes."
"Can you erase the wrapper's quirk?" I asked him again.
He nodded, having understood what I was planning. He wasn't happy with it, but he knew it was the only way.
His hair lifted up as he stared at Kurogiri with his red eyes.
But something was wrong.
"...We will retreat." Shikaragi ordered.
'Retreat...?
After all of this! They will just retreat?!
It doesn't make sense!'
I shoved more power into my left side to make a string ice attack enough to freeze the three in place, but was interrupted by the man-child: "actually before we do, why do 't we take this chance..." he looked at the river, and in a blink of an eye became in front of it.
"Why don't we take away the symbol of peace's pride down to the notch!"
He said, hovering in front of...
Midoriya, Asui and Mineta.
At the same time, the Nomu was wrapped behind sensei, who was switching his line of sight toward Shikaragi, it's hand just above his head.
Everything went in slow motion. I had to choose, it was either my beloved sensei, or my dear friends.
"Tch..."
'These villains are luckily underestimating us. They sent those small pawns to finish us here. They ridiculously couldn't hold themselves together in face of my ice.'
But that did not matter much, what matters is to search for Hikoori starting with the central plaza, and sooner than later.
I have been feeling repetitive, strong shocks of pain in my heart.
'Imoto... something is happening to her... I sincerely wish she did not lose control on "dark blood"...'
This in itself should be an oddity. Ten years ago, when she awakened this... passive quirk, she was given a very spacial psychological treatment to be able to "put it at bay". She never lost control ever since. But ever since we got into U.A, things have become very different.
She was losing control over herself more often, and the nightmares were coming back, more intensely than before.
"What is happening to her...?" I asked myself aloud, as I beat another close to nothing villain out of my way.
Another, much stronger pain stabbed through my heart. I clenched at it's spot, taking a deep breath.
'I have to find her, and quick.'
'Please...
They can't die...
I can't...
I can't see them die...
It's all because of me...
I didn't understand the nightmares...
It's all because of me...
because of me...
because of...
me...'
"Take my power... use it..."
I became empty. Void filled my soul, and I surrendered myself to the dark voice inside my head, I did not resist anymore.
The surge of power filled my whole body, to the point that I felt my own flesh was going to rip. The temperature of my whole corpus dropped dramatically low, that it started to freeze.
Time was gone back to it's original pace in my eyes.
Losing the ability to suppress myself anymore, black ice burst out of me pinning the Nomu and Shikaragi to the ground.
At that moment, I couldn't feel anything other than the desire to finish them right on the spot. My awareness faded away, and darkness filled the whole place around me.
Then, a sweet familiar lullaby filled my ears.
With a swing of Hikoori's hand, the ice on the Nomu sharpened and derived itself more and more; woods of connected icicles formed continuously, ripping inside the monster mercilessly. The sounds of snapping and ripping filled the area around us.
The Nomu could not move anymore, not without it chopping itself to small pieces of meat.
Shikaragi, outraged tried to attack her.
She just stood tall with her 176 cm motionless, her left eye grey and right eye blue empty of any sign of life.
Ice swirled around her, making a storm, her neck length split in half red and white hair flew with the momentum it created.
Black ice spears attacked Shikaragi all the meanwhile, aiming to stab him in more spots than one, vital and not, but the black mist contained those and protected the pathetic leader.
'She's acting totally different...
The empathic, sweet child I saw eleven years ago; the warm yet analytical student... is gone...
She is losing herself...
Damn...'
She did not react, and tried again more intensely, as the storm grew bigger and stronger each moment, fogging my sight further.
' Shit... my vision is blocked by the ice, I can't erase her quirk...
If this continued any further, she may...'
I did not want to think about what may happen to my student.
She got closer and closer, each step leaving blackened ice stamp sticking out of the ground.
"Midoriya! Asui! Mineta! Get away from here, now!" I ordered them, anticipating what the outcome may be.
They woke up from their shock, and obeyed immediately. Midoriya stood in his place for a moment, staring at his friend, a mixture of disbelief and worry written all over him.
"I said go!!" I pushed further, to which he nodded and jogged away.
'Now, I have to find an opening...'
I thought, but was however thunderstruck by a frightening sight.
'What the fuck... how...?!'
Hey there all!
I know I did tell you I want more time, but I was so excited to write and publish this chapter that I couldn't wait.
I don't know if you liked it or not, but I feel like its is not much, you know...?
Well, what matters is that you enjoy, and you I hope you did dear readers!Thanks for everyone's support on this!If you have any remark or suggestions for improvement please tell me!
I should also thank the guest who reviewed and pointed a (awkward) mistake in the first chapter!Sorry if you did not like Hikoori's personality, dear guest but I am trying my best to make her as much as realistic and acceptable as possible. I will work hard to improve!
Regards.
Author-chan.
