I laid on the doctors table as Torchwick walked back and forth. "You said you could handle it, that you could kill them and be done with it, now we have lost money, more then a few of the quirk destroying bullets, and a safehouse."
"One more time, I can do it." I tried to sit up, but my ribs were wrapped tightly, more then a few broken.
"I had trusted you and you had failed. We are an the brink of our grand plan. I had Shigaraki wrapped around my finger, he had complete faith in our powers and you go and lose." He tapped his cane on the floor.
"Roman, I just need to get stronger." I pushed myself up.
"And you will be." We looked at the bald doctor, a large glass box filled with a vile black sludge. "What kinds of Quirks will be you need?"
Chapter 47: Extra Lessons
I awoke to a loud pounding on the door to my room. "GET UP PRINCESS!" Katsuki called through to me.
"Okay." I got up went to shower with a towel and change of clothes in my arms. As I passed my angry Prince I pecked him on the cheek. "We sparing this early?" I asked. "I don't know, it's all happening so fast."
"Oh you know what this is about, we are going to see my parents." he groaned. "The old hag won't let this down. But after that is done, we can do some sparing."
"Not quite you two." We turned to our teacher. "You both have extra lessons for the provisional license."
"I'm sorry, but I'm not part of the group retaking the exam." I said.
"Your actions in letting Ilia advance sparked a debate for the staff, eventually they agreed to let you retake the exam." He pulled out a juice box after taking a long sip. "We can drop you two off on the way back from the exam, but you have to be here before dark."
I nodded and went to get showered and grabbed my gear from my room running after the two boys. When we got to the bus it wasn't Aizawa standing there, rather Present Mic and All Might were the ones waiting for us. "You are HERE! All aboard students." The number one hero waved.
"YEAH! Let's get this show on the road." The smaller blonde man cheered.
I stood in the wooded battle center with Glyn. "Okay so a deep breath and force it out?" I asked as I ran a hand over my icy scales that ran along my arm.
"Yeah, it came naturally to me, I don't understand why you are having so much trouble with breathing fire." She said as she sat by a small fire with a few sausages on sticks.
I turned away from her and took in a deep breath, I pulled my head back and tried to breath fire, but nothing happened. I fumed as I threw myself to the ground. "Why won't it work?" I pulled and my new horns in frustration.
"Maybe... you don't breath fire." Glyn said with a cheesy sausage in her mouth. "You know how you blow on hot ramen to cool it down, try that." I raised eyebrow at her, but I stood up and took in a deep breath, and this time I pictured ice in my head, and the air in front of me turned icy cold as white flames erupted from my mouth, freezing everything in front of me, trees encased in ice, snow blowing around my feet icicles hung low from branches. "It worked!"
My eyes fell on the snow and I couldn't help it, I scoped up a ball and turned to Glyn. "Hey catch." I smiled as I threw it at her face, the cold ball hit her center of her forehead. she fell back laughing.
"Oh now you've done it." She stood up laughing, she scooped up a handful.
We had more fun then training.
I sat across from Mirio, a white aura flowed over him as he meditated, we sat atop the roof of the third year dorm. He had made leaps and bounds in his aura reserves, in fact they had larger then my own in the short time we had been training, but he couldn't find his semblance. He didn't seem bothered by that, happy that he had some sort of power, as limited as just having Aura was. "Okay, that is enough for today." I said I stood up.
"Thank you training me." He said as he stood up. "You make a great teacher."
"It runs in the family, my dad is a teacher, my uncle teaches, my step-mom helped teach here apparently." I laughed. "But for hunters, there are few greater missions then teaching the next generation of fighters." I slid to the edge of the slanted roof before jumping off, my boyfriend soon followed.
"Fair enough, but I've been wondering, what happened to your mother?" he asked.
"She is a bandit chief. And the Spring Maiden. Just as many villains as heroes in my family, All for One, my mom, Salem, and who knows how many more." I sighed. "You hungry?" I asked.
"Oh you bet, I'm amazed just how much meditating can empty you." He smiled as I laced my arm through his. As we made our way to the cafeteria we passed Blake and Ilia, who were coming out of the pool, towels wrapped around them. Blake looking a lot less happy then Ilia.
"Hey you two. Never took you as one to go swimming Blake." I said.
"I'm not, but it's part of our work out that we started while we lived on base." She said. "The water was fine, but Kaminari had gotten spooked by Hagakure who decided it would be a good idea to scare him under water without her swim suit. The whole pool got electrocuted and we had to save both Hagakure and Kaminari."
"It wasn't so bad." Ilia said.
"You were sunning yourself at the time." Blake squinted at her. "I was in the water." The chameleon stuck her tongue out at her with a happy smile. The first year charging port walked out being steered by Kyoka, a stupidly dumb look etched on his face, with two thumbs ups, the girl couldn't control her laughter.
"Oh yeah, didn't you say that Dupli was send military to help defend the school?" Mirio asked.
"Yeah, they should be arriving sometime this week." Ilia said.
I sat cross legged on the stump outside Menzro's cabin, silver and purple magic swirling around me. "Impressive, combining the creation and destruction powers inside you." His massive spiderlike body moved around me. "But you are only using about ten percent of it's total potential power, why?"
"If I use to much I cross into another world, and I can't control where I end up." I said as I let the powers fade.
"I see. Perhapes if you did something similar to your friend Izuku, flowing the power through your whole body instead of focusing it solely in your eyes you may have greater control and be able to use it higher levels. Go ask him how exactly he dose that." He moved to his cabin, "If you would excuse me, I have some lesson plans to go over."
"Lesson plans?" I asked.
"The school has hired me as a new art teacher for the support and Hero course students." He smiled, his ebony skin wrinkling in joy. "I believe my days as a warrior are at an end, Corinthia doesn't need me as a defender like she used to. But I still have my duty to her, and extension to you Lady Rose."
"Are you sure? The world could always use more heroes." I said as I stood up.
"I know, why do you think UA exists? That is duty for the next generation, not a old grimm like me. I may live for a long time, forever if I'm lucky, but the sands of time has had a effect on me." He said.
"You sure? You are by far the most powerful grimm I have ever seen, we didn't even beat you and that was with All Might." I said remembering the day I fell into his lair, it seemed like it was forever ago, but it had only been a few weeks.
"Why yes, but I have lost my desire to fight. What good is a hero who's heart isn't in it? No, I wish to change the world in a smaller way, but no less important." I bowed as I left.
I looked down at Adam, his body mutated by the quirks that had been added to him, his skin had a metallic gleam to it, his muscles were more refined, his eye replaced, mouth full of fangs. his horns longer. "The quirk therapy is done." I looked to the doctor as he handed me a list of quirks.
Super strength, super speed, thermal vision, poisonous bite, titanium skin, denser bones, instant instincts and time acceleration, which is one I had request for this. Anything living he touched will rapidly age, becoming frail shadow of it's self, still alive, no matter how old it got, the poor thing that it is used one will still live the same amount of time it would have, but senile and unable to function. "One last step." I said to the doctor.
"Yes." He said as he opened up the glass case containing the grimm sludge, slowly wheeled the unconscious faunas over and lowered him into the case and sealed it.
"I expect him to be under my direct control." I said as I left.
"Of course."
And sorry for the delay on this chapter.
