Hello everyone! Welcome to this story, before we get into it though, to new readers welcome. I hope you enjoy the story. To returning readers welcome back, I hope you enjoy this rewrite of the original. Now as you may or may not know I'm going through a process of redoing all my fanfictions because simply put they were all rushed and fucking trash compared to how they could've been if I took my time to actually write them properly.

So here is my re-write of "Of Heroes and Monsters", I hope you guys like it as I spent a lot of time rereading everything making sure it wasn't a cringe piece of burning garbage with grammar that could be considered worse than a first graders. Anyway with that out of the way onto the fic!

I do not own My Hero Academia or Monster hunter, they belong to their respective owners. If I did twice wouldn't have died and khezu would've been replaced by gigginox.

"talking" "All Might talking/Angry talking"

'thinking' 'All Might thinking/Angry thinking'

(Authors notes) Setting change/other

Chapter 1 – a monstrous power

In the in-between

In a blank white room with little furnishing sat a man wearing strange clothing. He wore a black shirt with a brown bandoleer and a dark brown hooded trench coat over it that currently had the hood down, dark blue jeans and some dark grey boots, a light grey belt with the the roman numeral for two on the belt buckle was strapped to his waist. Attached to his face with no visible strap was a light grey mask with black marking, dark purple highlights around the eyes and had two bright purple, almost pink, gems embedded into the forehead of it. Framing the mask was light blue hair that reached his shoulder. A singular silver and purple eye shined from his right mask socket looking down intensely at what he was holding.

He was sitting on a couch hunched over while holding a device, soft clicking and clacking of buttons and joysticks could be heard. Running on said device was a video game which the being playing it was apparently having a hard time with. The intense gaming session continues on for a bit before he freezes and the death screen pops us on the device screen.

He stays frozen for a bit before he screams in anger and throws the devices across the room. "AAARGH! GODDAMN LEVEL 140 MOTHER FUCKING GARUGA! THIS IS BULLSHIT!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. While the being continues to scream, rant and beat on his poor couch the device sails across the room before hitting a wall and falling onto a table next to a figurine of a green haired boy wearing a hero style costume standing in a pose. Eventually he calmed down and slumped onto the now almost destroyed couch, a cloud of depression hanging over him. "...maybe I should just ask some of the other watchers for help me instead of doing it solo..." he questioned himself in a defeated voice.

Still slumped over he looks over to where his device landed and stares at it while it sits there next to the figure. After a few second a small light bulb goes off in his head and he sit up straight and looks at the figurine and the game screen for a minute before he starts laughing to himself "oh that's a fucking great idea!" he says before hurriedly getting up, his previous depression completely gone. He swipes his hand through the air and a giant screen appears glitching for a second before showing a loading bar that slowly fills up, "Oh this is gonna be fun. Hahaha!" he says, laughing giddily, as the bar finished loading he speaks once more "And let the show begin" before snapping his fingers. The room flashes white.

Musutafu, Japan

A teenage boy could be seen running down the side walk, a small amount excitement flashing in his deep green eyes. Arriving at his destination he quickly nudged his way through the crowd that had gathered there and upon reaching the front he saw what he had come for. Behind the police barricade there was a giant villain standing on the train tracks and facing him was the pro hero Kamui Woods. The boy watched in mild interest, a small smile appearing on his face. Absentmindedly he, somehow, materialises a book and pen from somewhere and starts taking down notes of the fight as they were going on.

The boy was on his way to high school when he heard there was a fight going on and just couldn't resist coming over to take a look. He was 186cm talland though his outfit hid it his body was decently muscular. On top his head there was long shoulder length wild black hair with streaks of very dark purple that bordered on black throughout, he also wore a slightly modified black high school uniform. his eyes were a deep green and just under them were black scales, over his left eye were 3 claw mark scars, a reminder of when he was first adjusting to his quirk. In his mouth sharp teeth could be made out and on his forehead were two black horns that curved towards the back of his head close to his skull before curving up a bit.

On his arms there were black scales that ran from his elbows down to his fingers which ended in dark brown claws, it was the same with his legs as black scales ran from knee to toes ending in those same dark brown claws...which could maybe explain why he wasn't wearing any shoes. A black scaly tail sprouted from the base of his spine and at around his shoulder blades were a pair of black wings that ended in another pair of clawed hands, which were currently folded and latching onto his shoulders. The black wing membranes were flowing behind him like a cape with the underside of the wings having an almost unnoticeable glowing blue with a pink tint, the edges of the wing occasionally producing hair like particles that flaked off.

This was Izuku Midoriya...well more accurately Midoriya in his draconian Gore Magala neutral form.

The black haired boy was quickly and quietly sketching and writing down notes of the fight, he was writing so fast some might think it was his quirk. As he took down notes Midoriya muttered softly at a tone that was barely audible, a childhood habit that he hadn't been quite able to break. As the fight drew to its conclusion kamui woods prepared his ultimate attack...only for him to be interrupted by another hero drop kicking the villain, the interrupting hero turned out to be a gigantic woman in a spandex that left very little to the imagination. The new heroine stood up, looked behind her and said something about "ass-quaintance" before sticking her rear outwards, he didn't really get what she said as his mind blanked at the sight before him. Midoriya stared for a few seconds with a blank face before a tiny trail of blood leaked from his nose. He quickly shook his head wiped the blood away before starting on a new page for the new hero that had just appeared.

With renewed vigour he turned to another page and taking more notes at a seemingly even faster speed than before, looking back on it he could've swore he noticed bits of smoke rising from the pages. Next to him a short man with three tri-pointed hornsnoticed and questioned him, "Say kid, you wouldn't happen to want to become a hero would you?" he asked curiously seeing as he looked so focused on the fight.

Midoriya, noticing him for the first time, stopped and looked at him before registering the question. He gave a small chuckle "Yep. I'm aiming to be the number 1 hero" he responded flashing a toothy grin.

"Haha, thought so. Well I bid you good luck kid" the man said ending the conversation before walking away as did most of the crowd.

Midoriya turned his attention back at the fight and noticed it was all rapped up. Putting his notes away he looked at the time on his phone...and saw he had five minutes to get to class. "FUCK!" he exclaimed as he hurried into a run before unfurling his wings and taking off into the sky, flying towards the school. As he left he heard someone yelling something about illegal quirk use but he didn't really care as he flew as fast as he could to make it on time. Midoriya was able to get through the door a minute before the deadline and made it to his seat all while his classmates just stared at him and whispered things like "villain" or "freak", he was used to the comments but that didn't make it any less annoying. 'What part of enhanced senses don't these morons get?' he thought as his ears naturally focused on the noises around him.

After almost being late for the first class the rest of the school day went mostly as it did normally for the black haired boy, that being studying through classes in which he already knew everything they were teaching, he didn't even know why he was still here to be honest. He had gotten the option to graduate early because of his perfect grades but he had decided to graduate normally, he was very tempted to punch himself for that decision during occasions like this. Eventually though it came to the last class for the day, as the teacher was talking Midoriya was going through his notes from this mornings fight so he wasn't really paying attention, not that there was much he was missing out on anyway.

"Alright then class, since your all third years its about time you thought seriously about your futures. I would be passing out these fill in sheets for your future plan right now, but..." the teacher paused before he grabbed the papers and threw them into the air while students all activated their quirks, "your all planning on becoming hero's anyways right?" said with a smile and an amused tone.

The students cheered out in excitement "yes yes, I know your all excited but using powers at school is prohibited so calm down all of you." the teacher said in reply to the class.

As the class kept cheering and ignoring the teacher another voice called out "Hey teach!", everybody stopped cheering and looked back to see an ash-blond haired boy leaning back in his chair with his feat on the table. This was Katsuki Bakugo, resident school bully and ex-childhood friend of Izuku Midoriya.

Back when he and Midoriya were younger they were the best of friends, they did almost everything together and were practically inseparable. Though that all changed when Katsuki got his quirk, "Nitroglycerine Sweat"was his quirk and what a powerful one it was. Able to create explosions at will due to his unique sweat he was praised by everyone around him from teachers to classmates leading to his ego getting boosted to ungodly level, it made him think he was better than everybody and developed a complex around himself, thinking he was the most important person to ever walk the earth and that everyone else were just extra's in his way. This attitude had eventually lead him to start bullying people he considered inferior, meaning everyone, to continue fuelling his fragile ego and his best friend just happened to be in his crosshairs, you see Midoriya is part of a rare group of people who has had their quirk since they were born and with his quirk making him look the way he did Bakugo started to bully him by calling him a villain or saying his quirk was villainous. Of course Midoriya being who he was wouldn't stand for that and soon their almost brotherly bond was shattered, turning it into hatred of each other.

Back to the present Bakugo looked up and continued talking, "Don't lump me in with these extras. I'm going to be the no. 1 hero unlike these guy's, they'll probably be stuck as a bunch of C-list sidekick at best". As soon as he was finished talking he was immediately met with annoyance and anger from his classmates.

"That was uncalled for katsuki!" most of them yelled out simultaneously and began arguing his claim, all while this was happening Midoriya looked up from his notes and just scoffed, 'idiots' he thought before going back to editing his notes.

As they were going back and forth the teacher interrupted again. "Oh that's right, if I remember correctly you're aiming for UA isn't that correct Katsuki?" and with that the class had stopped arguing and whispers broke out about how the school was incredibly hard to get into and the fact that it was one of the best hero schools in the world.

"And that's why you guys are always just gonna be a bunch of extras! I aced the mock test so I'm definitely getting in. Unlike you lot who're destined for the bottom of the barrel!" Bakugo said standing up on his desk with an almost manic grin.

Just as he was about to continue his rant he was cut off by the teacher, "Oh yeah, Midoriya applied to UA as well right?" the teacher mused not knowing he had said it aloud. The entire class suddenly became quite and all as one turned to look at the black haired boy before whispering to each other. The boy in question caught the mood change and looked up from his notebook before he realised what had been said and groaned in annoyance. He closed his notebook and put it away already knowing the reactions that were about to be shown.

All the students were whispering to each other, questioning if UA would ever actually accepted him with his villainous quirk much to Midoriya's displeasure as he could still here them, he could honestly say he hated comments like those with a burning passion. He'd been on the receiving end of them for most of his life and almost every time he'd heard one of those comments he'd want to march over beat the crap out of anyone who said anything like that...but he didn't, "because heroes don't beat the crap out of people for no actual reason" he told himself though his quirk didn't make it any easier, it brought out his more baser and animalistic instincts. They were different for every form as some made him more passive and laid back while others made him incredibly aggressive and easy to piss off. Unfortunately most of them made comments like these sound intolerable to him. There was always a tiny voice in the back of his mind raging at him to teach these lessers he was better and make them regret talking about him like that.

But he kept himself together and restrained himself, if there was anything he had built up over the years it was restraint. And while he could shift to a different form to get away from those "villain" insults he had decided to keep up appearances of having a semi-ordinary quirk, after all the best players keep their hands close and if anyone were to find out his full hand before he was ready the fallout could be...disastrous to say the least. He'd rather not have the government abducting him to be experimented on or to be contained because he was a "possible threat", thank you very much.

Before the whispers went any further a loud yell rang out through the classroom that made Midoriya scowl, "DEKU!". The ravenette growled in annoyance and looked over at the caller who was, of course, Bakugo. "If you think your gonna get into U.A. then your more of a goddamn moron than I thought! Your below even these fucking rejects so don't even try to apply!" he said slamming his hand into the black-purple haired boy's table igniting an explosion and damaging it.

That got him slight reaction, Midoriya stared for a split-second, in his head going through all the pros and cons of retaliating against the explosive bully before deciding he didn't fucking care right at this moment. He stood up and looked down at Bakugo letting out an aggressive and audible deep growl that made the class, bar Bakugo, back away from the two in slight fear. Midoriya was normally very restrained and shied away from confrontations so not many had actually seen him get angry enough to growl, let alone start a fight. But those that had spread the stories around making everyone wary of him.

"Oh yeah?" he leaned down towards the shorter blond boy, as black mist started emanate from his wings underside, which were starting to turn from their normal faded blue to a lighter more noticeable blue "Just watch me do it in you sad fucken excuse for an oversized firecracker." he snarled at the "bully" as the tips of his horns glowed a soft pinkish-purple.

While the other students and teacher started to get nervous Bakugo apparently didn't get the message to stand down, not that his pride would let him though. He wouldn't back down and instead foolishly held his ground "And what are you gonna do about it you overgrown lizard?" Bakugo bit back as his hands began to smoke and small pops emitted from his palms challenging him. That had, obviously, been a bad idea as it only provoked Midoriya further. Now the underside of his wings were fully blue and the edges were slowly turning a purple colour, the tips of his horns were completely glowing pinkish-purple and from the scales under his eyes started to glow pink through the cracks of the scales. As this happened the class began to edge away as even more before a subtle pressure started to weigh down on the class making everyone sweat nervously, including Bakugo who just pushed through the feeling, a feat that Midoriya, much to his displeasure, had to admit was impressive.

Before an actual fight could break out the teacher decided to stick his hand into the metaphorical, and quite possibly literal, fire and intervene, "A-alright you two. There'll be no fighting in class unless you both want to be take a trip to the principles office and spend the week in detention." he said. The two teenagers looked towards him causing him to pale a little, more so because of Midoriya than Bakugo, before said blond scoffed and walked back to his table with a scowl, making the teacher and other students sigh in relief. Midoriya also sat back down with a frown permanently on his face for the rest of the class.

Eventually the class finished and the bell rung, as the students got ready to leave and teacher walked out of the classroom Midoriya was kept back a little packing his belongings away before he got up and started to walk to the door as well...that is until he was intercepted by the explosive bully himself, only this time he was flanked by his lackeys to give him some extra confidence.

"Where do you think your going freak" he said with a wild and smug grin while his two goons stood behind him following his example and also smugly grinning.

'Goddamn idiots!' the draconian boy thought with a sneer. "What the hell do you want this time Katsuki?" Midoriya growled out using Bakugo's first name, a warning that he was getting fed up with this.

Though again he didn't get the hint and continued on, "Oh I'm just here to give you a warning. Stay out of my way!" he said stalked closer towards Midoriya "The only one who's going to get into U.A. is me! So don't even bother trying to apply you deku." he continued as he got into Midoriya's face, small explosions igniting in his hands. Every word was testing more and more of the black haired boys patience. "You probably wont even make it as a hero anyway with that villainous quirk of yours."

Midoriya closed his eyes and took a deep breathe, 'Calm down. Don't do anything rash, this is beneath you. Don't be goaded into responding to his stupid fucking taunts.' the taller teenager thought as he clenched his fists and slowed his breathing to try and relax, though that was proving to be harder than normal. Today he was in a particularly bad mood and was at the very edge of his patience snapping. He'd heard Bakugo's taunts almost all his life and wouldn't be affected by them, these comments didn't bother him and he wouldn't react in any wa-

"I mean you already crippled your mother" the blond boy said with a particularly nasty smirk.

Midoriya froze, That however did cause him to react. his mother was a sore subject for him to talk about, especially her injury. You see, back when Midoriya was born his mother had some troubles during the "birthing operation", when all was said and done she was extremely tired but at the time she just thought it was normal for someone who just gave birth and didn't give it any notice. A week later however, when she almost collapsed from exhaustion she did. Apparently Midoriya being born with his quirk active combined with what his quirk did caused unseen and unknown complications during the birth severely weakening Inko's body. This had lead her to not being able to use her quirk nearly as much as before and made her body frail and get tired easier. To this day Midoriya felt guilty for causing his mother such pain, though she would just wave it off saying she'd do anything for her baby boy and that if this was the price for bringing him into the world she would happily bare it. She honestly was to pure for this world in his opinion.

Back to the present though, as soon as the grinning blond finished his sentence a weight seemed to slam into trio making them stumble a bit, then the feeling of dread and fear came. The 3 boy's began sweating profusely at the unknown wave that assaulted their being. What they didn't know was that Midoriya was directing his killing intent towards them, though this was just a unconscious side effect of how pissed he was. Before the bully's could even do anything, in what seemed like a split second the draconic teen's hand reached out and grabbed Bakugo by the face lifting him up to eye level, the action snapped his to goons out of their fear induced state but they never had the chance to act as his wings unfolded and lashed out grabbing each of the boys by the head and slamming them into the wall, one on each side of the classroom door. Slowly each of the wings-claws applied pressure, not enough to actually crush their bones or anything but enough that is would still hurt. Black mist flowed from Midoriya as his horns flipped upwards fully glowing pinkish-purple, the scales under his eyes also began to glow the same colour.

His hair shadowed his eyes but Bakugo still was able to spot a small glowing purple dot where one of his eyes would have been. Even as a simple glowing dot the gaze radiated to much pure hate it almost made Bakugo pass out, "Listen here you little piece of shit. I'm going to UA whether you like it or not. So shut the fuck up, take your superiority complex bullshit somewhere else and stay the fuck away from me. And if you say anything like that shit again...I'll make sure you won't be able to walk let alone take the UA exam in 10 months. Got it?" Midoriya said emphasising some words with a hard squeeze and in a deathly calm voice filled with cold rage and fury as he brought explosive boy closer to his face.

The bullies for their part were terrified, no one had actually seen Midoriya this angry before before, sure he'd gotten annoyed and sometimes yelled at one of their schoolmates, and on very rare occasions would beat down some who tried to start shit with him, but he had usually kept to himself and tried to stayed out of fights. So for the three to be looking at this demon in front of them, shadows covering his face, features glowing a pinkish-purple and black mist that was now filling the floor of the room? They thought they were going to die. Midoriya then dropped the two lackeys to the floor, both sporting small cuts where his claws dug in, and threw Katsuki to the side before reverting back to normal self. His horns flipped down resting on top of his head, both wings gripping his shoulders, the black mist slowly dispersed and his scales, wings and horns stopped glowing anymore than normal. He clicked his tongue in annoyance and walked out of the classroom, leaving them there not caring about them anymore.

Midoriya walked home, and yes while he could've flown back home like he normally does getting there quicker while also breaking more quirk restriction laws, he was still pissed off and wanted to sort through it on his way home so his mother doesn't have to see him like this. She works hard enough as a nurse to support the two of them after his father left, she doesn't need to worry about him like this as well. Taking a long route home he occasionally muttered a line of curses almost the entire way back. Midoriya continued to walk not really paying attention to where he was going or the current time seeing as the sky was orange and the sun was close to setting, he eventually made it to a walkway under a bridge where he stopped and suddenly punched the wall leaving a large crater surrounding an imprint of his fist. He stood there, hand buried in the wall, for a few seconds and breathed in and out slowly. Once he was calm enough he pulled his arm back and stepped away closing his eyes and breathed out a long sigh. "Alright...I'm good" he said to himself before feeling something wet under his foot.

Looking down he noticed he had stepped in some sort of green slime, and not wearing any shoes just made it feel even more disgusting. "Ugh...what the fu-" was as far as he got before the slime shot up and almost completely enveloped him.

"Hahahahaha, well well. Looky here. What a prime sized skin suit, oh and such a nice looking mutation quirk as well. You wouldn't mind if I took your body right?" the green slime, which had now forms two eyes and some yellow teeth, said. "Don't worry, the pain'll only last about 45 seconds." he said laughing again.

'SHIT! What the hell is this?! A villain?! Agh, I can't fucking breathe. Dammit, fuck! What do I do?!' he thought as his brain went into overdrive trying to figure out how to get out of this life or death situation. 'Uuuggghh...wait! The fuckers body's made of slime, so should also conduct electricity!' he though all within a few second. He started to struggle as the villain slowly completely covered him, after a few seconds white steam started seeping through parts of the sludge and Midoriya started to struggle even harder.

"Hhrrrrg, c'mon kid, stop struggling! Your making this a lot harder than it has to be!" the slime villain said completely oblivious to the steam in his attempts at trying to choke Midoriya, "Just stop moving, this'll be a lot faster for the both of u-AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!" he suddenly screamed out as blue electricity surged from within the slime villains body. The electricity continued to dance around his body electrocuting him for a full 10 seconds before it stopped, leaving the now dark and charred slime to slowly slip off of the teenager and onto the ground, smoke wafting from the liquid villain.

"Disgusting filth." Midoriya said haughtily with a canine growl, now also looking different. His wild black hair was now white and slightly straighter, the scales around his eyes turned into a turquoise colour, on his forehead his two curved black horns were now two golden horns that jutted straight out and on the sides of his chin were two small horn similar to the larger ones that jutted out along his chin, one on each side. His hands were covered in the same turquoise scales mixed with a yellow shell-like carapace and continued to his elbow, also going along his arm scales was white fur the same as his hair, his legs were also covered in turquoise scales and yellow carapace from knee to toe with his fingers and toes were tipped with black claws, his tail also changed to a long, semi-flat tail that was covered the same blue scales, white fur and yellow carapace that formed into spikes along the edge of his tail. His wings disappeared to make way for golden spikes that pointed downwards and went from his shoulder down to his lower back, the process having also ripped his shirt as well.

This was Midoriya's Zinogre neutral form.

The now white haired boy looked around at the fried ooze and relaxed before a sewer grate nearby burst open immediately causing him to become focused and ready for another fight. He got ready to charge up another electrical attack, thinking it was another villain, before a voice rang out immediately stopping that train of thought.

"NEVER FEAR! BECAUSE I AM...here?" once the figure came into view Midoriya could immediately tell who it was "Ah...it appears this issue has already been handled"...All Might just appeared from the sewer.

It took a few seconds for his brain to reboot, "...Holy shit. Your All Might!" Midoriya said not believing that the no.1 hero was currently standing in front of him, as calm and calculating as Midoriya may be he was still a hero fan so meeting the no.1 hero was still going to excite him even if he didn't show it externally. After rebooting he registered All Mights question, "oh u-uh yeah, I handled the slime villain. Were you chasing after him?" he questioned before immediately punching himself mentally realising the obvious answer.

"Haha, yes I was. I was chasing him earlier but got lost in the sewer system, I'm not quite as familiar with this area's sewer network." the pro hero said making Midoriya question why he'd need to be familiar with the layout of the sewer systems,"Now then young man, if you wouldn't mind could you tell me your name and what exactly happened here?" he said bringing out two empty bottles out to contain the slime villain with, which the white haired boy quickly offered to help after asking for an autograph.

As the two gathered all the slime and contained it in the bottles Midoriya recapped on how the villain had jumped out at him and how he "zap the shit out of him". After he had finished his explanation All Might became very interested in the teenagers's form and quirk, as most normal people would. "So your quirk is production of electricity? Does it have anything to do with how you look? Uh, no offence." he asked the boy.

"Oh, uh none taken. And...yeah? I mean that is kinda my power? Its a little complicated...I-I haven't actually explained my quirk to anyone before..." he said hesitantly scratching his cheek, and it was true, only he and his mother knew the full extent of his quirk, not even the quirk doctors knew the extent of his quirks' power, they'd only ever written down that his quirk made him look draconic. All Might just responded with a quirked eyebrow and a curious hum. "I...just hang on a second, It'll be easier if I show you"

With that Midoriya began to emit steam that fully covered him for a few seconds before black wings flapped and the steam blew away revealing him in his Gore Magala neutral form. "My quirk's called Monsterization, it allows me to switch between different "monster" forms which all have their own set of powers. For example that form that you just saw me use before lets use electricity while another could let be breathe fire or turn invisible or give me really tough skin." he explained with a simplified description, and it really was a simplified description, of his quirk surprising All Might. "I have a load of different forms I can switch to, though I do have a pre-set amount of forms, I can't just make new ones up and I can only switch forms about 10 times a day before burning out and staying stuck in that form for about 25 hours." he finished explaining leaving his full transformations out of his description.

All Might stared blankly for a split second before he shook his head and his trademark smile returned to his face"My word young Midoriya, that's an amazing and incredibly powerful quirk. I'm sure you'd make a fine hero with it." All Might said grinning even wider to the point Midoriya almost had to squint at the shine of his smile.

"Really?" Midoriya asked with slight happiness and hope in his voice, besides his mother no one "close" to him had ever really told him that he could become a hero before. So to have the no. 1 hero himself say it? He was ecstatic about it even if he didn't show it.

"Of course, I believe you could become a great hero." he said "Now then I better get this guy down to the station," All Might put the two bottles away in his pants' pockets, not realising his pockets weren't deep enough to securely hold the bottles, "It was nice meeting you young Midoriya!" All Might said before he leapt into the sky, Midoriya kept following him with his eyes for a while. Though as he went to continue making his way home he spotted one of the slime filled bottles on the ground rolling to a stop.

The force of All Might's leap had knocked the bottle out of his pocket's already weak hold of them. "...fuck. That's not good" Midoriya said to himself before quickly picking up the container, unfolded his clawed wings and began to fly in the direction he saw All Might leap towards.

With All Might

The no. 1 hero finally landed on a roof top to catch his breath, 'Made it. Almost ran out of time there.' he thought letting out a sigh of relief. Steam started circling around his form as he was about shrink back into his de-powered state when something, or in this case someone, landed behind him. Looking back he saw the boy he had been talking to earlier 'Shit!'

"Y-young midoriya! What are you doing here?" he asked with a strained smile as slowly more steam started to form off his skin 'Dammit, I'm at my limit!'

"Hey All Might, sorry for bothering you like this but you dropped one of the bottles back at the underpass," Midoriya said gesturing with the bottle that was still in his hand, that caused All Might to widen his eyes before he quickly pat where he had placed the bottles only to find there was only one still with him all the while steam ever so slowly continued to form around him. He was about to say something before he remembered his time limit and only got out a quick surprised groan. Hearing that and just now noticing steam reminiscent of his own transformations Midoriya's eyebrow shot upwards and he spoke "Hey All Might, you alrig-" only to be cut off when All Might was suddenly engulfed by a cloud of steam. A few seconds later the steam cleared away revealing in All Mights place was a small and skinny blond haired man...that also happened to be wearing the same clothes as him.

Midoriya blinked once...twice...and then spoke again. "...All Might?" he asked calmly if a little confused, but internally was also panicking half to hell.

The man coughed a few times into his fist, "y-yeah, kid. Its me." the skeletal man now revealed to be All Might replied is a slower and less energetic voice.

There was silence after that confirmation before Midoriya's mind had processed enough to say something again "...what the fuck just happened?" he said genuinely confused "i-is that your quirk? Is it a transformation type or something? But then how the hell do you have super strength as well?" he questioned on.

All Might sighed at the stream of questions, though they were not uncalled for "All right kid, I'll explain...this to you." he said grimly as he gestured to himself, "Just promise me you won't tell anybody else anything I'm about to tell you OK?" he said seriously. Receiving a nod he continued, he sat down and lifted his shirt up to show a large wound on his stomach that actually made the draconic boy flinch "See this? This is an injury I received from a fight with a villain around 5 years ago. The attack destroyed half of my respiratory organs and I lost my whole stomach, and now because of the numerous surgeries I went through to keep me alive my body has become this emaciated looking skeleton and my powers been drained, right now I can only use my quirk for 3 hours a day, which I used for hero work obviously."

"Damn," he whispered as he also sat down taking in the full scale of All Mights injuries before he remembered a fight that matched the time he got his injury "Wait, toxic chainsaw did this to you?" he said said confused since from what he remembered the villain didn't have this kind of power.

"Haha, your well informed." chuckled at how knowledgeable the kid was.

"Y-yeah, I like to keep track any hero I find interesting." responded a little embarrassed, when he was younger he was absolutely fanatical about heroes. Looking back on it Midoriya was kind of worried about how into heroes and analysing them he was. He'd tone it down by now but still, the memories were there.

"Well anyway, to answer your question no. It wasn't Toxic Chainsaw that did this to me, that punk wouldn't be able to beat me in million years. No this...particular fight wasn't made public." All Might clarified with a bit of hesitance at the end. The two shared a moment of silence, All Might gauging Midoriya's reaction and Midoriya taking in the information he was just given.

The black haired boy ran his through his hair before he cupped his face and sighed tiredly, "Damn. that's...that's a lot to take in..." before his eyes slightly lit up connecting a few dots in his mind "But I guess it does answer a few questions like why your always so quick to leave the scene after your done helping out or why you've been seen in public less over the years..." Midoriya stated scratching his neck mildly shocking the pro hero with how calm he was being and with that he had said. "Oh yeah! Fuck, I almost forgot the reason I came up here anyway," He stood back up and held out the bottle of slime he still gripped in his hands "here you go, you dropped him when you leapt away from the underpass. Luckily, the slimy fucker's still knocked out so he didn't hear anything." he said with a small grin.

All Might blinked and stared at the bottles in surprise before quickly remembering the conversation before he powered down "ah yes, I almost forgot about him as well, thank you young Midoriya. I don't know how I missed that." he said with a sheepish smile much to Midoriya's amusement. He took the bottle and pocketed them making sure neither would fall out again.

Midoriya look at the time on his phone and whistled "Well now that that's done I really need to go now, my mom's gonna kill me if I don't get home soon," the green haired boy said nervously as he walked to the edge of the building "See you around...maybe? I um...I don't really know what to say here so uh...bye!" he said giving a big smile and a two finger salute before stepping backwards off the building and flying away. All Might's eyes lingered on him for a bit before sighing, his face formed a tired frown. As he walked towards the stairway though his frown turned into a small smile, he had the distinct feeling this wasn't the last time he'd be seeing that boy.

Back with Midoriya

Midoriya flew as fast as his current form could allow trying to get home before his mother worried too much, of course he thought he was old enough and could protect himself should he encounter any type of danger danger while out late, like today, but his mother was a worrier and was absolutely terrifying when she wanted to be. So just to be safe he always tried to come back home as early as possible. Finally landing in front of their apartment building he ran towards his and his mother's apartment, getting to the door he only just realised the sky was dark and faint stars were shinning in the sky now which caused him to check his phone revealing the time. His face paled a bit and he grimaced "fuck, its already 9:03?".

He sighed as he resigned himself to his fate before entering his home and walked inwards before he heard some clutter in the kitchen and was hit with a delicious smell that made him drool for a few second. He snapped out of it however and head over to the sounds and smells. Standing there in the kitchen cooking something was a tall and slim but also frail looking woman with bright green eyes and long upper back length green hair done up in a style giving her long bangs framing her face. She had a calm and content smile adorning her face. She wore her her usual outfit consisting of white button up shirt and pink sweater, dark blue skirt and an beige apron since she was currently cooking, this was his mother Inko Midoriya. "Hey mom, I'm home."

His greeting made her jump before she turned around with a worried face "Oh my goodness, Izuku! Are you okay?" she made her way over and started checking him for any wounds he might have "Did anything happen? I was so worried when you didn't come home after school!" she said getting progressively more worried as she continued to check him for injuries.

Midoriya laughed softly "I'm okay mom, nothing really dangerous happened, just a villain attack that I went to watched." he said semi-lying in the process. while the it was true there was a villain attack he'd never tell his mother that he was the one being attacked, no way. She'd probably actually have a heart attack. "Sorry, I guess I just lost track of time today".

With that said Inko sighed in relief and hugged her son for a few seconds before letting go, meanwhile Midoriya was thinking that he had gotten away without receiving any punishment from his mother...before the temperature in the room dropped by 10 degree and he immediately knew that he had, in fact, not and was now incredibly fucked. He saw that his mother had a close eyed smile on her face but emanating from her was a pressure that made even him sweat and take a nervous step back.

Before he could even react she had grabbed him by the ear in a painful pinch forcing him to his knees, "Ah shit!" he exclaimed absentmindedly before immediately regretting it as that caused her to only pinch harder.

"No. Swearing. In. The. House." Inko said with the same kind smile.

Midoriya could only nod meekly as to not say something else that would get him into more trouble. "good." his mother said before she let him go and crossed her arms over her chest, her face now more semi-serious pout of worry "Now I know you like watching hero and villain fights but that's no excuse to be this late". She said with a slight frown while he just rubbed his ear.

"Yeah I know, sorry...Oh! I almost forgot, I ran into All Might today. Even got an autograph, uh t-thats also part of why I was late." Midoriya said with a nervous smirk as he rummaged through his bag to pull out his signed notebook. While he did this Inko just smiled fondly at his antics before remembering she was cooking something.

"Alright then. Why don't you go have a shower while I finish up cooking dinner, its your favourite tonight. Katsudon." she said walking back over to stove.

Midoriya perked up at that as he drooled and his tail wagging a little, a habit shared between all of his tailed forms, but shook his head before he got any further, "Do you need any help with dinner?" he asked not wanting his mother to strain herself.

"No, it's fine sweetie. I'm almost finished anyways, you just go have a shower and dinner will be ready when you come back." she replied before waving him away forcing him to relent and head towards the bathroom, meanwhile however Inko was reminiscing to herself about Midoriya's life until this point. Admittedly she was a tiny bit worried when he was born and subsequently when his quirk was diagnosed, she herself was fine with his power and how it made him look for he would always be her son. But that didn't stop her from worrying about how others would view him and how that would effect him. She wasn't blind, Inko knew how the world viewed quirks like his just because his quirk made him look villainous, she just couldn't help but worry over the years.

That's not to mentions the other aspects of his quirk they discovered either, from the other forms to the full transformations, she could only imagine how people would react when they found out how powerful his quirk really was, and they would eventually. He wanted to be a hero after all, a career path she didn't discourage, so he would need to reveal it sooner or later but people will always hold some level of fear towards things perceived a possible threat to them.

But at the end of the day, for now everything had worked out. Midoriya pushed through all the stares and comments, brushing them off and not caring what others thought. Though there was one point where he was down for a while after he had his falling out with Bakugo. It was a shame really as she and Mitsuki were, and still are, great friends so it saddened them that their kids did not feel the same about each other. He had gotten over it eventually though and continued on being the ever chipper and kind, albeit blunt, boy he was. It was also around this time that he decided to stay in his first form in public even after he found out he could switch forms into something less villain-looking, he said it was to "Keep his real powers a secret until he finally became a hero". Inko laughed to herself a little reminiscing on the much younger Midoriya saying that with such seriousness before finishing up with preparing dinner.

After a quick shower, a nice meal with his mother and forcing her to relax while he did the dishes Midoriya said good night to her and went to his bedroom, the room itself could be accurately described as orderly chaos, posters and other hero paraphernalia were scattered throughout the room in random places, there was some gym equipment he used to keep himself in shape near one side of the room and then there was his bed, it was a little worn out with the pillows, sheets and blanket sporting small holes and cuts. With all the sharp points on his body in most of his forms he tends to get snagged on a lot of spots in his bed when he's sleeping which then tear when he moves around, he and his mother eventually stopped trying to replace them unless they were massively torn as it would cost a small fortune with the amount he would go through in just a week. And while his "father" did still pay a small amount of child support they still didn't have enough money all the time to spend it so carelessly.

In a corner of the room was a desk that had a laptop on it and also several piles of notebooks on or in some cases laying around the table. Some that were labelled "Hero and Quirk Analysis" had extensive notes and extremely detailed sketches of different pro heroes, though most of the books were labelled "Monster Field Guide" and held sketches of many monstrous creatures with notes detailing their characteristics, useful information about them, their preferred habitat and weaknesses. Midoriya was currently sitting at his desk going over his notes from the day cleaning them up and adding them to his other notebooks.

After a while he finally finished with his notes on All Might and closed his book, while it might've been more than a little dangerous and/or irresponsible to write down information regarding All Might's condition, Midoriya's notebooks were written in a language he made up for which only he knows ho to read called wyverian, if anyone else tried to read the books they would've just seen a mess of letters forming nonsense words so he was confident nobody would ever find any dangerous info from his books. He stood up from his desk stretching his arms and cracking his neck and shoulders with a pleased growl. He looked at the time on his clock, 10:47pm. He sighed "Forgot to have my workout today as well..." he muttered to himself as he started turning off his lights and getting ready for bed. He was only dressed in a pair of grey long sleeved sleeping pants revealing his toned, muscular body that was littered with scars shaped in claw and bite marks or in a few spots burns.

Finally he turned out his light and made his way to the beat up bed, all the while thinking on the up coming UA exam in 10 months. 'The exams in 10 months, so that gives me some time to plan at least. Pretty confident I'll pass it anyways so I'll use the time to test Safi'jiiva, only got him a week ago and I can already tell its up there near the black dragons level' he chuckled at his thoughts 'its a good thing that land mom owns regenerates over time, made a fucking mess of it last time I was there testing Safi...' he laid down and closed his eyes remembering the strange piece of land his mother had inherited from her grandfather, the Guiding Lands he called it. It was a mish-mash of many different biomes all stuck together and was absolutely perfect for him to test out his quirk. Where else would he find a glacier/tundra so close to a desert but also a jungle/forest and volcanic crag? Apparently that area was a result of a large battle between some powerful villains which ended up super charging the area with "bio-energy" or something like that. He didn't really know all the details and he also didn't really care about it that much.

But that was for later, now it was time for sleep, his second favourite time of the day. As he drifted off he thought of the future, the next few months would be busy for sure and soon...soon he wouldn't have to hide his full power anymore and he would be one step closer to becoming what he wanted to be, a hero.

Chapter 1 – END

And that's a wrap, I hope you all enjoyed this new and hopefully improved version of "Of Heroes and Monsters". To be honest reading through the first version it wasn't that bad, sure there were spelling and grammar mistakes here and there but it was a decent read. It just didn't quite capture my...vision I guess you could call it. All I really did was fix the grammar, remove that unneeded part in the beginning and reworded a few sections.

To the new readers what do you think of this story? Please leave a review on what you think about it or if you have any suggestions, that goes to you returning readers as well. Just don't go out of your way to flame me please, I'm not the best at writing and I only really do this as a hobby.

Now for those who are curios what Izuku's full transformations are, it literally just that. He transforms fully into the monster instead of his human-but-with-animal-parts form. Also fun fact, that opening scene with the raging about lvl 140 Garuga? Yeah that actually happened...well not exactly, I didn't throw my 3DS but I very nearly did. That was how I got inspiration for this story. Was just doing a solo hunt, died, got pissed, then looked to a BNHA fanfic I had opened and got hit with this little idea.

Anyhow, remember to follow, favourite and review. This is NightW0lfGaming signing off. Till next time.