That time I was reborn as a warrior princess

Chapter 12- the wrath of the dragon part 2

Everything was chaotic that evening. Everyone from the Best Jeanist's agency was killed. The scene looked like a scene from some horror gore movie. The bodies of the sidekicks were brutally quartered, covering the floors, walls and ceiling with blood. Best Jeanist was miraculously still alive but in a very critical condition.

Lucina was quiet since what happened. She saw Grima and she was unable to do anything at all. And the worse, her mother, Inko, looked like she was on his side. Lucina could not remove the images from her mind , images of Inko showing signs of being a manakete and descending into degeneration. Descending into madness.

"This is bad! So bad!" she thought to herself.

Lucina was in Tensei's office with Iida trying to calm her down. He had no idea what made the brave girl to be like that but he knew the situation was very bad. Enigma knelt in front of her, offering some tea to calm the girl's nerves down. Then, Tensei, without his helmet, entered the office. He had a grim expression on his face.

"I need to talk to Marth." He says "Alone."

Enigma nodded and she left the office. Iida did not. Tensei once again ordered his brother to leave but the young Iida refused it. He would not leave Lucina on the stage she was at the moment. Tensei sighed in frustration but he allowed him to stay since he had no time to discuss with his young brother. He closed the door before kneeling in the front of Lucina.

"Hey Marth, who was that six eyed man? He called you Tiny One. You know him, don´t you?" Tensei asked, gently. "Who is he?"

Lucina raised her face and she looked at him with dead eyes. " That man was Grima."

Iida gasped horrified when he heard the name. "Grima? You mean that Grima?! The one you always talk about?! The one who destroyed your world?!"

Tensei was now confused; why did his brother know about the six eyed villain? Tensei demented to tell him everything about this guy. Iida bit his lips as he looked at Lucina.

"Lucina, we should tell him." Iida says, very serious.

Lucina sighed. She really wished to not involve Tensei into her problems but the problem became bigger when she saw Inko in the office and both of them kidnapped Bakugou.

"Tell me what? What the hell is going on?"

"I will tell you everything you need to know but first we need to go somewhere else." Lucina says in a very serious voice. "I will explain everything on the way.

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Katsuki was being hanged by his clamped wrists as Inko hitted him once more with a metal whip. The blond boy cried out in pain with the impact of the whip. His torso was covered with bleeding slashed wounds. Katsuki cried in pain as Inko sprayed on him some type of stinging disinfectant.

"I will resume your punishment in a few hours." Inko says coundly before leaving the room.

When the room is locked, Byleth appears in front of Katsuki. She is horrified by the sight of his wounds. She could do nothing to help him. If she had her own body, she would use her healing magic to heal his wounds.

"Katsuki please, you have to fight back." Byleth cried

Katsuki looked at her with dead eyes on his face.

"Why should I?" he asks " This is all my fault. I killed Izuku. I killed her son and I turned her into a monster. She has every right to serve justice."

Byleth did not know what to say. Katsuki looked like he lost his will to live. For a moment she did not see Katsuki hanging from the ceiling, instead she saw Dimitri in his time when he was a broken and mad man.

Manami was starting at Katsuk a bit confused. Since she could not see or hear Byleth, she thought he was going crazy and sincerely, she could not blame him. She still wondered how she did not lose her sanity yet.

"Eer.. Excuse me? Bakugou-san?" Katsuki turned his head, finally acknowledging her presence. "Listen, I know what happened between you and that woman. She told me everything. I was even forced to watch her using her quirk to rip those guys' hearts out from their chests."

That's right. Katsuki for a moment did forget they were surrendered by hanging corpses. The smell of decomposition was already leaking out. Namami admitted she helped Inko in her quest of revenge. Inko threatened her with death if she did not help her to localize all the 3rd year students and the teacher from Aldera Middle School .

"And honestly, I am afraid she will kill me as soon as she finishes you off." Namami says, chuckling emotionlessly. "Before the torture remuses, tell me Bakugou-san, why did you tell to Midoriya Izuku to jump off from the roof?"

Katsuki was surprised when Namami asked this. To be honest, ever since he found Izuku's shattered body on that fateful day, he had asked this very same question several times to himself. Why did he? The only answer that came to his mind was…

"Because I was.. and... I am still an arrogant fool." He says in a broken voice. " Ever since I was a brat, everyone always praised me for my quirk and how powerful it was. They always told me I was going to be a great hero with my quirk, Izuku was among them. He always had admired me and believed me I could do everything and I could be a great hero just like All Might. Then, one day, he was just trying to help me to get me up from the water puddle, but in my arrogant mind, I thought he was looking down at me instead of helping me. I blindly started to bully him since that day, when we were seven years old."

Namami was quiet, just staring at Katsuki without interrupting it.

"When he died, I lost everything. I lost my mother's love, I lost my father's respect, I lost my home, I lost human contact, I lost Auntie Inko's love and worse, I lost my best friend. The best friend I never knew I had before losing him. You know, for a while I wanted to kill myself too. I even went to the same roof where he jumped. But in the end I didn't jump."

"Why didn't you do it?" she asks, curious.

Then, Katsuki took a brief look at Byleth before smiling softly.

"My guardian angel stopped me. She told me that I was being an idiot and death is not the answer for me. She also told me I should become a hero not for myself but for Izuku too. My guardian angel gave me a reason to live again."

Byleth could not believe what she was hearing. She knew she was able to stop Katsuki from killing himself that day but she never thought the boy would view her as his guardian angel.

Manami was surprised too. After Inko had told her everything about Katsuki, at first, she thought he was just a spoiled bully brat. She even had the same thoughts after watching his matches in UA's Sports Festival. But she realized the boy was not what she thought he was. He may have been a brat, a bully in the past, but now in the present, he was not none of those things and he was trying to live for the one he bullied in his whole life. She frowned; Gentle would not want to give her up either. He would want her to live her life. Suddenly she started to bite her bindings.

"What the fuck are you doing, Shorty?

"Don't call me that!" she snaps "Listen here you brat and listen well; your past is not your present! You made a lot of big shitty mistakes but I can see you're trying to change not for yourself but for that deceased kid. You did not give up and I will not either! I will not let that insane monster lady kill me. Not without fighting back first! I have to live for Gentle and you, you have to live for your friend!"

Manami returns to bite her bindings while Katsuki looks at her like she was crazy. He hates to admit but Shorty is right. Inko may have gone insane but he still needs to live for Deku, to live for Izuku.

Having his will restored, Katsuki finally starts to examine his heavy clamps on his arms are stopping him from using his quirk to free himself. He needs to free himself from the bindings without harming himself.

"Byleth, do you have any plans?" he asks.

Manani looked at him confused; who the hell is Byleth?

"I may have one but I will need to possess your body again, Katsuki."

XXX

Lucina, Iida and Tensei were on the way to an apartment complex. While running, Lucina explained everything to Tensei. Her home world, Grima, Falchion, Naga, time travel, everything ( except the fact she is the reincarnation of a boy from their world). Tensei could not believe what he was hearing.

"Ok, let me see if I got all this right; you're a princess from another world and Grima is a dark giant dragon. A good dragon goddess named Naga sent you and your friends to the past to stop this dark dragon from destroying your future. But Grima found out your plans and he went to the past as well. Your father was able to do a holy ceremony to make his magic sword stronger to stop him once for all. You guys almost managed to defeat him but the bastard opened a dimensional gate to escape and now you, your friends and the dark dragon himself are all here in our world? Am I missing something?"

"I think you got everything right, brother. I am surprised you're taking this well." Iida comments

"Are you kidding me?! I am freaking out here!" Tensei snapps at his brother. " I admit I love rpg fantasy games and novels but this is too much! We got a freaking dark giant dragon in our world! He made a big carnage scene at Best Jeanist's agency along with that woman! He will destroy everything when he becomes a giant dragon!"

"Sir Tensei, the problem is not Grima becoming a giant dragon to destroy your world. The biggest problem is him getting allies for it." Lucina says " Especially if those allies have manakete's blood in their veins."

"Wait, Mana what? What the heck is this?" Tensei was having a headache.

Lucina did not respond to him but Iida tried to explain as much as possible about the manakete and the dragon folk ( he had to thank Laurent for the information about Ylisse and their culture). Needless to say Tensei was having a very shitty night. They finally arrived at the apartment. Iida asked why they were there. Lucina explained the woman who was with Grima was Midoriya Inko and they needed to get information about her.

"Ok, but how do you know she lives here?" Iida asks, confused

Lucina ignores him, focusing on a plant vase beside the door. Then she lifts one of the pebbles of the vase and she finds the extra key. Lucina is thankful that some things never changed since Izuku's death. Iida was freaking out, exclaiming they can't enter the apartment without permission or a mandate. Lucina ignores him and she opens the door. She gasps in shockwhen she sees the living room and the kitchen are filled with empty bottles.

Iida picks one of the bottles to examine it. He comments the woman had signs of alcoholism. Lucina can not believe it; she never had imagined her death, Izuku's death, could lead her mother to alcoholism.

"Guys?" Tensei calls to get their attention

Lucina and Iida gasped in shock when they saw the wall of the living room had several photos of Katsuki and other kids from Aldera middle school. They all had darts on them and some were written 'heartless' and 'go to the pits of hell'. On the biggest photo of Katsuki was written 'murder'. Some photos were even ripped off.

"That woman has some big grudge on Bakugou and those kids. But why?" Tensei asks, confused.

Lucina knew the reason why. She never thought her mother, Inko, would become a vengeful creature. Then, she felt Falchion pulsing. Lucina drew it out and the sword shone a bright light. Suddenly holographic images appeared in the room. They saw Inko, drinking some alcohol from a cup while throwing a bottle against the wall with fury. Grima appeared behind her.

"What pitiful image we have here." Grima says.

Inko turns around and glares at the unknown man.

"Who are you? How did you get in here?" she asks

"Entering this house is an easy task for me. Tell me madam, why is such a beautiful creature like you in such pain?"

Inko really did not care about the consequences of her actions for telling her thoughts to a creepy man who just entered her home without her permission. She told Grima everything; Izuku's suicide, the bullings he suffered and how she found out Bakugou, who she looked at him as one of her own children, had turned to be the one of his worse bullies and the one who killed him. She had found out about this when she accidentally overheard one of their classmates had mentioned Bakugou telling Izuku to jump off from a roof and praying to have a quirk in his next made Inko enraged.

"And you know what is worse? I can not do anything at all! That damned school took some legal actions against me, putting me a gag order! They wanted that son of bitch going to UA academy at any cost. They even covered all his shitty actions for this! They don't care about if Bakugou was responsible for my baby's death! They only cared about looking good!"

Tensei and Iida could not believe what he was hearing. What Aldera school did was illegal, very illegal. UA had zero tolerance to bullying and the school would have stopped Bakugou from even taking the entrance exam if the staff knew about his past actions. No wonder this woman was mad.

"So, why don't you take revenge on those pitiful insects with your own hands?" Grima asks, smirking. "You may not believe but I am a very powerful ancient dragon."

"A powerful ancient dragon?" Inko repeats in wonder

"Yes and so you are. I can feel it. You have the blood of the divine dragons in your veins. I can give some of my blood to awake your dragon blood. As a divine dragon, not only you will become a powerful being but also you can avenge your son, giving those who wronged you both the divine punishment they deserved. What do you say, little dragon? Would you like me to help you?"

Inko chucks darkly; she has nothing to lose. If she needs to be a villain… no, better yet, to become a monster to get justice so be it.

"I accept your offer, my lord."

And the holographic images disappear. Lucina is angry. She is angry with herself and angry with Aldera middle school. She never had imagined her death, Izuku's death, could lead to so many terrible consequences.

"Lucina?" Iida called, getting her attention. "I know you're mad at Grima for using that woman's grudge for his plans but we still need to rescue Bakugou."

"When we save Bakugou, we will make sure he will go to judgment for his actions. That way, we can give Midoriya-san the justice she is looking for." Tensei added

But Lucina just chuckled without any emotion.

"It's too late for that woman." Lucina says, emotionless. "Even if we manage to save Bakugou, death is waiting for her."

"What do you mean?" Tensei asks.

Lucina then explains the dark fate of all the dragons share when their powers are not sealed in dragon stones or when dark emotions take over their minds.

"When they degenerate they fall into madness. The Manakete become nothing but feral, insane and destructive giant beasts. That's the reason why Naga forged this sword with one of her own fangs; to put the dragons out of their misery and to give humanity a way to protect themselves. When I saw Midoriya Inko back at Best Jeanist agency, she was already showing signs of madness."

Iida could not believe what is hearing

"Wait! Does that mean Kirishima will have the same fate?!" He asked. He knew Kirishima had dragon blood in his veins since his accidental transformation at the Sports festival.

"I dunno know." Lucina says with sincerity. " One of my friends back in Ylisse is a half manakete. One of her main concerns is ending up being a feral dragon. Tiki, a full divine dragon, told us she does not know the answer because Nah's existence was something new to her. We never had hybrids like Nah before. Tiki told us Nah may not degenerate like most of the dragons thanks to her human blood but she told us that Nah may live much longer than us. I am afraid the same goes to Kirishima; he may live much longer than an average person thanks to Tiki's dragon stone for awaking his dragon blood at the Sports Festival but not degenerate thanks to his human blood."

"So why is Midoriya Inko different?" Tensei asks "Why is she degenerating if she has human blood as well?"

"Must have to do with Grima's blood. You saw him offering his blood to awaken her dragon blood. I think with his blood and Midoriya Inko's desire for revenge is making her degeneration going at a very alarming speed. We have to find her and kill her before she fully degenerates and becomes a feral dragon." She says in a very serious way.

"K-Kill her?" Iida was horrified. Lucina refused to look at him. "You can't do this! She is a victim of injustice and that guy is manipulating her! It is not her fault!"

"Do you think I want to kill her?!" Lucina snapped. Her voice was filled with rage "You were not there when Grima attacked my realm! You were not there when Nowi, Nah's mother, was degenerating because of the risen's influence. She begged me to kill her as a way to save herself from her own madness and to protect her daughter. Believe me Iida, I do not enjoy killing people with my blade! Sometimes heroes need to kill for the greater good! And sometimes death is the kindest thing that someone can do for the orders!"

The Iida brothers were , Tensei could ot blame her. In all his career, Tensei always focused on saving people as quickly as possible. But he knew sometimes heroes need to kill when there was no alternative. He even had heard about All Might killing a villain once. In need, he was not ready to take his first blood and much less Tennya. His young brother was not ready yet to face the dark side of heroism.

"Tenya, go back home."

"Brother?" iida looked at him confused

"You're upset and that's understandable. You're not ready yet to see death. If Lucina is right, it is too late to save that woman. She is right when she said sometimes death is the kindest thing someone can do for others." Tensya says softly to his brother

"But…" Iida starts but Tense holds his hand as a sign to silent him.

"You are not ready yet to take your first blood, baby brother. There was this lesson I wanted to teach you when you were in your third year at the academy, when you've become mature enough for this, but I guess I have to teach you now; sometimes heroes can't save everyone. There were so many situations I was unable to save people because my quirk is not suited for the situation or I was not fast enough to save people. And sometimes a hero has to choose who to save and who to die. Do you remember the fire in the luxury condominium last year?" Iida noods to his brother. He remembers very well the events of that fire. His brother was one of the rescue teams. " The condominium was covered in flames and there was this mother with her child. The mother was trapped under rubble and the flames were getting closer to the gas pipes. She begged me to take her child out since there was no time for me to rescue both of them. With a heavy heart, I took the child out and I left the mother behind to die."

Iida was silent; Tensei never told him about the events of the fire. He knew it was a very sensitive subject, a lot of civilians, heroes and firefighters had died in that terrible fire. Tensei once again begged him to go home. Iida removed his helmet, looking at his brother in tears. He hugged his brother, making him promise to be careful. Iida left the apartment with a heavy and broken heart.

"I am sorry…" Lucina whispers softly

"Don't be." Tensei says as he removes his helmet. His face expressed sadness and angst just like his brother. "Tenya is not ready yet for the dark side of heroism. I don't want him facing this yet or splitting blood."

"You may have made some difficult choices in the past, Sir Ingenium, but you never killed before. You're aware I have to kill Midoria Inko not for the safety of everyone here but also her own sake too. Are you ready for this?"

Tensei honestly answers he is not but he knows it was a necessary evil to do. He does not want a rampaging dragon destroying everything around. However they need to rescue Bakugou first before dealing with Inko. For this they need to find their whereabouts.

Then, Falchion pulsed once more and Lucina inspected it. On the hilt Tensei and Lucina could see an abandoned facility and then saw a very wounded bakugou and a red haired girl. Looked like they found their whereabouts.

"Amazing! Your sword is like the Sword of Omens!" Tensei exclaimed, excited.

"The sword of what?" she looked at him and blinked, very confused. What the hell is he talking about?

Tensei blushed in embarrassment. "Never mind. Let's just go to this place and save Bakugou and the girl with him."

Lucina nods, They need to save Bakugou before dealing with Inko.

End of the chapter

A/n: And here is the new chapter.

Lucina reveals everything to Tensei; her origins, Grima and the dark fate of the manakete.

Inko's fate was sealed once she started showing signs of degeneration. Lucina will have no choice but to kill her. Will she do it? You have to wait for the next chapter.

And what do you think of Tensei's reaction on all of this? I hope I made him in character as much as I could. Tensei was so little explored in the main series. I had to read Vigilantes spin off to make sure I am writing his personality right.

Let me know your thoughts. ^^

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