Chapter 2: The Cards

Kold's POV

I look towards the sky and can probably tell that it is already past 4 pm. That means, mom's gonna freak if there are any more mishaps on my way back home, and I had to open my big mouth.

A huge explosion is heard from the Tatooine Shopping District, this is where my mother shops for food most of the time. 'She is going to be mad if this is shown in the news tonight' I thought in horror for the reason that I don't want to witness mom be all angry, she is going to nag all night, and if I get lucky it will only last after dinner.

I decided to stay and watch the scene unfold because my mother is still going to nag if I get back in time or not for supper, because of this. "It's a monster!" someone yelled from within the district and it made me laugh for some reason. 'A monster… most of the people have quirks, doesn't it mean that we are technically are?' that thought came to mind, in my opinion, it was somewhat true.

Quirks are what made us different from one another, it make us different not only in personality and character but also in appearance. So, basing the looks of most people who have a mutation quirk, then they are technically monsters… and that is where I stopped my thought from getting further, I don't want to think badly at everyone who has a mutation quirk and all quirk for that matter.

"How dare you prey on a child!" Death arms, one of the heroes from this place screamed in anger. In addition, it made me curious as to who it got to prey on, me being the curious person I am decided to move in front of the crowd to witness who is the hostage in this crime.

Death Arms landed a solid hit in the villain's way but it didn't have any impact because of the villain's body, which I am guessing as slime and may also be his quirk too. However, when my eyes landed on the hostage taken, it made me freeze on my spot. It was Bakuguo, who is also making explosions left and right that is causing a fire in his surroundings.

However, what made me freak is our conversation earlier… specifically what he said about me.

"I don't want to hear it from someone who's just sitting in the side doing nothing!"

"Someone who's just sitting in the side doing nothing!"

That sentence really made me shudder, if I can't act now then how will I prove that I learned my lesson in just sitting it out and let others do what they do, and I do what I do or just letting things unfold on their own, even if I know I can do something about it.

I look at the scene unfolding in my eyes, and here I am standing and doing nothing but what can I do… I am only a junior high student who has a quirk that really doesn't know what is. Our doctor told me that I definitely had a quirk, but the only problem is that he doesn't know what kind. That is why; I have been living my life not caring about anybody because in our new society, quirk is everything and when you don't have any you are labeled as weird instead of the other way around. If someone asked me what kind of quirk I have… I would immediately dodge the question or just plain ignore it because it is not something I want to explain and share over and over again.

A sudden pain hit my head, and I clutched the part where it hurt and felt something smooth. I inspected the edges and it seems to be something in a rectangular shape, with no other thoughts of inspecting it. I brought it to my eyes to see what it was, and what I see made me smile a bit. 'This is going to change my life, and I will change my life… here and now!' I thought excitedly.

I don't know what came over me but a sudden urge to say something came over me "Call! Dragonic Overlord!" I said in a burst of power, I threw the card I am holding towards the sky where it is facing the direction of where the villain and heroes were, and I am hoping he has the ability to eliminate the fire and help Bakuguo escape using only his raw power.

As I threw the card upward, it started to light and creates a portal huge enough to fit a building. After some time had passed a maroon mixed with a red dragon standing on two dragon feet and holding a sword emerged from the portal as it flew towards the sky wherein no building is hindering it from his descent.

"AARR!" an exploding roar is what we heard from that dragon and it made me somewhat proud of what I had accomplished, but that victory didn't last long because I started to feel sluggish like my legs are overcooked noodles. My vision started to get blurry and I fell down on the pavement trying to hold my consciousness a little bit longer.

I blinked my eyes once and noticed that the fire around the place started to disappear and moved towards Dragonic Overlord's way, it was like he was eating the flames and I am grateful for that, now the heroes can focus on saving Bakuguo than the putting out the fire.

The heroes present could not do anything about the hostage; instead, they were just crackling their brains for any kind of solution. However, another surprise occurred in the villain attack in the corner of my eye I saw Midoriya running towards the villain. 'What the hell is he doing?!' I thought worriedly, he might get himself killed for his recklessness. Well… who am I to say he is reckless when I too used my newly discovered quirk without any license or any of the sorts.

As Midoriya was running, the villain threw a slime whip at him but Midoriya dodged it at the last minute and flung his backpack towards the villain, and one of his things poked the villain's eyes distracting him for a second. With the new opportunity, Midoriya clawed the goo near Bakuguo, trying to help him. '… I always thought you were kind Midoriya… but not this kind'

After all the fire had vanished, I too started to feel another round of sleepiness and tire reoccurring, with no strength left at all to fight it, I embraced darkness and I felt the presence of Dragonic Overlord has disappeared too.

My eyes started to flutter open, and I felt my clothes sticking to my body like a leech sucking my blood. It was plain uncomfortable, 'I hate being wet when wearing clothes…' I tiredly stood up and pulling my wet clothes away from my body, I am also shy of my body… I have baby fats all over it and it was not pleasant to see, in my opinion.

I noticed that my surrounding is burned to a crisp and two pro heroes scolding Midoriya for being reckless and looking up I notice Mt. Lady, the new debuted hero facing me and tending if I have any wounds, but luckily I only got tired from using my quirk without proper training. "I'm fine Mt. Lady, just got tired from using my quirk. That's all" I said, preventing her from having to inspect my body any further since it started to feel uncomfortable with her gaze all over my body.

"Yeah… I'm sorry about that…" Midoriya apologized to the two heroes.

I look to the other side of the pavement and notice Bakuguo sitting on the street with a dead look in his eyes. 'Is he all right? He looks shaken up… or is there something I forgot that happened…' I wonder but what I heard is once again made me upset.

"Wow… you're a tough one kid and that quirk is really something else!" one of the pros praised him with the news writer keeping tabs on it. 'How come they didn't praise Midoriya for distracting the villain for some time? He did have a decent idea on how to take away the hostage' I thought angrily at the unfair treatment.

"How come Bakuguo is treated like some kind of a brave young student, when in fact he got held as a hostage in the first place. Besides, it was Midoriya who was the brave one, he confronted a villain only using his backpack to fight, and he did a good job too, even without a quirk…" I mumbled out to myself and no one except Mt. Lady heard me mumble.

"I get that you are upset by the treatment kid… but we heroes are made to be the only ones fighting villains not students" she replied looking at me seriously. 'Looks like I hit their pride…'

"Are you paid to witness a villain trying to suffocate a student?" I spat back angrily "Besides… why aren't you lecturing him, that using his quirk in public places is illegal?!" I asked pointing towards Bakuguo, and now the attention is all on me.

I quickly turned away from the camera trying to get video me on tape, and I am not having that thing in my face, my mother will cut off my head if she knows I have been in a dangerous incident involving a villain attack.

"We were supposed to get to that part, if you hadn't interrupted" the Mt. Lady replied with her hands in her hips, trying to look cool in the face of the masses. "Also you were on the same boat as him, hypocrite..."

That made me shut my mouth, she does have a point. I also used my quirk without thinking of the consequence, but I just hope that my quirk use won't be in the news at all. 'Let's just hope for the best...' I thought dejectedly that I was being a hypocrite for fighting against Bakuguo when clearly I was also in the wrong here.

"Yeah… you really were planning on it…" I said and grabbed my bag to get away from this place. All this talk about bravery and recklessness is getting on my nerves, they should have been rational on who to scold and who to praise.

Stomping my way back home, it was already past 5 pm and I know mother will be grumbling at me again, about how should I be on time and be responsible. "Mom… I'm home, and wet because of a sudden change of weather on my way to school!" I yelled and hurriedly ran to my room and locking it in the process to prevent my mother from coming at me with an ax in her hands.

Well… let's face it, my mother is scary but I love her nonetheless. A sudden series of knock is heard from my door and I know the angry beast of a mom is there to give me a lecture on how to be responsible and keep things in order.

"I know you're right there Kold so open this door!" she yelled from across the door and I can't just let her in.

"Not now mom! I am changing right now; don't really want you to see me naked!" I yelled back and ignored her rambling from across the door and proceeded to wash my already wet body.

Scrubbing right here and there, and I forgot that it is already past dinner time. She is going to nag again about not eating at the right time. I changed into comfortable clothes, meaning sweatpants and a sweatshirt that is too huge for me, and had gone back down to see if there is dinner left for me.

"Nice of you to come down at this time to eat…" I heard a woman's voice from behind me and I am guessing it is from my mother that is ready to pounce on me like some kind of cheetah that will skin and eat me alive like some kind of helpless prey.

"I know mom… I just got held up on the way that's all" I tried to reason out, but she didn't listen to me so I just plain ignored her rambling because that is the only solution to any mother who likes to nag her son.

I look through the kitchen, then to the dining table, and noticed that a plate of food is ready for me to eat, I really appreciate my mother for leaving some food for me. I put my hands on the plate and noticed that it was still semi-hot, which I am guessing that she reheated the food when I got back and was showering in my room. I prayed a silent prayer and eating the food that is in front of me.

"Be sure to wash the plates when you finish and do brush your teeth before bed. I hate for you to have a toothache or rather a cavity at this young age" she said in a hush and sweet tone, which I am guessing is that she is asking me for a favor.

"Okay… anything for you mom" I replied, not really wanting her to give me any more chores this day. I had a bad day on the way back from school and I don't need any more chores to accomplish now.

"You're the best honey!" she said hugging the daylights out of me, and it is starting to hurt because she is squeezing me tightly that no oxygen can be breathed into my system.

"Mom… you're choking me…" I said trying to pry her off me, and I successfully did.

"Sorry, sweetie and don't forget to do your assignments and sleep early. You don't want to be late for school" she reminded and had gone back to her room.

If you were wondering where my dad was… he is busy with things I don't really know. Heck I don't even know his face they both kept it a secret from me, and I didn't really bother digging up the truth because I think someday they will tell it to me… in due time… I guess.

I finished eating and visited the sink where I should start washing the dishes, but what greeted me is a surprise. A whole day of piled-up unwashed dishes is present to greet me! 'Mother…' I tried to contain my anger, she always does this when I get late or something good happened at school and I don't know why and how she did it. It was like she has clairvoyance or a future reading for a quirk to help her aid in punishing me at the right time and the right day of the year.

Without much to do other than holding in anger, I quickly washed all the dishes she made and it took me a lot of time to do it, 30 minutes to be exact and I still need to do my assignments for the day. 'Lucky for Mom that I love her…' I thought wiping my hands with a dry cloth and then left the kitchen while closing the lights on my way to my room.

I jumped into bed facing the ceiling and just trying to let off steam for a bit, then proceed to answer the assigned tasks from school.

When enough is enough I grabbed my bag and let out the books I needed to answer my tasks at school, however, what I noticed something odd inside my bag is that something is in there. I grabbed the unknown thing wrapped in blue and noticed that it has a rectangular shape. With all the commotion happening in the district, I forgot one detail and that was the card I threw.

Realization struck me, "I discovered my QUIRK!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, ignoring my mother who is yelling for me to shut up. I opened the rectangular box and I see a card folded neatly at the front and upon inspecting it, I noticed that it was not the card that is present but a deck of cards too… "A deck…" I traced my fingers towards the writing that is engraved with the word VANGUARD.

'Are these cards supposed to be my quirk…?' I asked myself, but how did it end up in my bag… did someone put it in? That was the question running around my mind for the entire evening completely forgetting to answer my assignments and just rummaging through my thoughts for an answer.

However, all that disappeared when a knock on my door interrupted. "What did I hear about a quirk!?"

'Shoot! This is going to be a surprise for both of my parents and me!'