The Fifth Cardinal Hero: The Beast Hero
Warning: This fiction will be subjected to Vore related themes, although not too heavily. So those who don't know what vore is or dislike any vore related material please leave now.
I don't own any thing.
Some Honourable mentions to those who gave life to this idea (and my confidence):
Shield Ninja by Fluffball13
Some Gift for the Shield Hero by RobinRounds
Shield Wizard by sakurademonalchemist
Some references from material from other fictions:
Mob Psycho 100 I/II
Naruto/Naruto Shippuden
Marvel Cinematic Universe
INfamous 1, 2, Second Son and First Light
My Hero Academia
Speech References:
"speaking"
'Thinking'
"Screaming! /Demonic or\and Pissed Voice"
'Beast Ability Acquired/ Activating ability or spell!'
Be warned this is my first fanfiction
Out in a forest near a village (well not near just the closest), a large group of Orange balloons had gathered around a single tree. The very reason these monsters were in a group is that they act like piranhas, they gather near there prey and once they get close they all attack in a usual fatal frenzy that can possibly kill a person if they not strong enough.
And right now their current prey was a creature that at first glance would look like a seven-year-old child. But if one were to look closer they notice that the child looks a lot more related to a kobold than a human. With the kobold's Azura scales with black markings covering its entire body, it is also had a not hard to notice a silver gem placed where one would assume is the creature's belly button.
"F*** me, why the hell does is this s*** always happens to me," said the kobold in a child's voice though having a very aggressive tone. "Hey, you f*****s want to go bite some other poor bastard" 'Please'. As soon as the kobold finished its sentence, a single balloon bounced high into the air almost reaching the kobold's tail by a hair which said kobold instantly reacted by holding their tail much further away from the edge, that is to say not much being in a tree and all that.
'Ok note to self don't piss off the balloons, it'll only make them more determined to kill you' the kobold thought as they tried to think of a way to get them out of the situation. After a few minutes, they eventually gave up and decided to try to wait for the balloons to lose interest while they collected their thought on what happened.
My name is Reginald N. Wyvern and I'm a 25-year-old 'Pro-Hero'. Now I know that may not sound too impressive but I don't really care about titles too much or at all, all I care about is my ability to help both people good and bad and myself. You see people tend to call me the world's greatest hero because of many things I tend to ignore.
You see I have multiple powers that are usually considered by my peers as 'too many and too powerful'. Heres a small of know and easy powers to understand.
True Psychics: the ability to use the psychic energy for anything the mind can conceive and make as long as one has the energy and will to do so. This ability allows me to use any powers that are considered psychic in nature and I can't use this power on things that go against my morals.
Rapid Regen: the power to heal from any form of injury no matter how fatal or impossible. This quirk also helps me recover from any physical or mental trauma, but the greater the damage on my body the more stamina and nutrition I use up to heal.
Full Shadow: A ability that allows me to control, absorb and weaponize shadows at my discretion. This ability lets me stop the negative effects of 'Rapid Regen' but has the downside that I can run out of shadows so I have to be near shadows to restore this power. Compete darkness doesn't work for some weird reason.
One For All: Otherwise called Electrostatic Burst this power was given to me by the number one 'Deku'. This quirk has been given me as it has the ability to stockpile power and pass it on to the next person stronger from perfected use and is always stronger with every new user. I am the tenth user of this power and thanks to my quirk 'Rapid Regen' my body can easily take care of the whiplash from using this quirk. Note, My first time using this quirk caused me to destroy an entire city block also my right arm from the shoulder down was missing, as in this very powerful quirk had destroyed a part of my body in the process.
Now as you know as a pro-hero it is my job to help people to the best of my abilities and today I thought I should go to the library for some light reading and probably reform some would be villains on the way and back should I find any. It should be mentioned that I seem to be gifted/cursed as I always seem to run into a situation of conflicting interests aka villain attacks usually. And I happen to stumble upon a very interesting fight.
Scene: Park, near a playground (not good at the details)
"LEAVE HIM JOHN, YOUR HURTING HIM!" said a child to an another that is now known as John that seems to be doing nothing wrong. But this would incorrect as he has accidentally used his power to summon spirits to show his friends that he has powers, unfortunately, his call to the spirits had summoned the really bad kind and had attempted to possed his friend leaving them unconscious.
"But, But I don't know what's happening this hasn't happened before" the kid John said as tears started to show. But thankfully for these kids, an expert of these type of event had just shown up and had surprised them with his sudden appearance.
"Hey you kids alright over there," said a tall but scrawny man as he casually walked towards the kid to inspect what was going on. Both kids look at the man seeing his dull blue eyes and common black hair, looking as normal as a person could possibly look despite there been another kid been totally unconscious. He was just way too suspicious and way too normal looking not to be a villain in disguise (I'll give you a guess which one of the two got that idea).
"STOP YOU VILLAIN, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT DID THIS TO EMILY, DIDN'T YOU" said the kid whose name is yet to be known accused the man who didn't to take offense to the accusation. In fact, he didn't seem to even to acknowledge the boy's rant at all and simply kept walking to assist the unconscious child. "HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME VILLAIN"
"no, not really, I'm more concerned about your friend" the man said as he kneels down to check the kid, now know as Emily. "Hey you," he said to John "what's your quirk? I can't help if I don't know what happened."
"I was trying to show them my quirk but nothing happened then a few minutes later, she passed right in front of us," said John through tears as he tried to explain his side of the story.
"John! Don't tell him anything, just look at him, he's way too calm to be a normal person. Therefore he has to be a villain." The kid said with a normal tone instead of an f****** car horn.
"ben don't say that, for all you know he could be a doctor or even a…" It was at this point both children notice something fairly important that they missed this entire time since the man appeared and that their friend had already regained consciousness.
Immediately the two boys were already putting two and two together and recognized the man as the number one pro hero Sin-seer or known by his peers Reginald N. Wyvern.
"Well that should do it, and you Ben right," Reggie said pointing at the loudmouth known as Ben. "You shouldn't immediately judge people by the way they act at first glance, they have might be trying to be as calm as possible or they might have a quirk that stops their emotions from showing"
"I'm so sorry sir it won't happen again," Ben said obviously embarrass at accusing him and his friend's favorite hero of being a villain.
"Don't sweat it, kid, I did more stupid than that at your age, speaking of Emily you should be able to move now and John we should talk about quirk for a moment," Reggie said as Emily got up instantly and went over to Ben and asked how did the hero know her name which Ben replied with they said her name out loud.
"I'm so sorry sir this hasn't happened before, even if it did I didn't know where to stop this from happening, then that's I can't be a hero but if that's the then..." As John explanation turned into a rant as Reggie sigh as he had already figured out a solution to his power problem.
"Kid! Take a breath already I already found a solution to your spirit problem" Reggie said as he handed a necklace to John and started to explain how it worked. "This necklace has to be charged with ESP and as such, it can dispel spirits from possessed people or plain spirits in general and it has unlimited charges so no need about running out of power."
As Reggie finished the three kids thanked him and all of them went their separate as finished his walk to the library.
'Well that was nice, my good deed today and a quiet walk this day is just getting better and better' Reggie thought as he started looking for he had yet to read which was almost zero at this point. 'Damn it, it seems that no new books have come in lately well at least I can reread an old book until something new comes out.
As soon as he starts to pull out a book from the high shelf more half a dozen books started to fall from the shelf. "Damn, who the hell shelved these books. Man, me and my luck. What this?" Reggie said as he saw a book he didn't recognize.
The book was red and on the front said 'The Legend of the Four Cardinal Hero.' 'Well this is new where did this book come from and what's this Aura I'm feeling. It feels peaceful but it also seems to be drawing me to it.' As Reggie looked at the book he thought he should at least put the other books away before making a choice. 'OK, I'll bite, better me then someone else if this turns out to be a trap.'
As Reggie started to read through the book he made sure to keep a close eye to the details of the book. 'Let's see the four are heroes that each possesses a single legendary weapon that is the following a Sword, Bow, Spear, and Shield. Well yeah, a shield can be a weapon we've all seen Captain America and the other weapons seem perfectly balanced if used correctly. Wow, this princess seems like the trouble they should keep an eye on her.' Reggie commented as I the middle of the book the Aura had dissipated some time ago.
"Well, it was a decent book very creative I should keep an eye out for other's like this." As put the book away in space on the shelf at eye level, he started to walk away never to encounter the book or any other of its kind again. Or so it seemed.
Suddenly an intense amount of energy could be felt where the red book once was, Reggie turned around to see what had happened to the book and in its place a pure black book had taken its place and this book seemed to do the exact opposite of what its predecessor was such as have a sinister Aura and repelling its potential by any means.
"OK now you got my attention," Reggie said to no one in particular and start to walk towards the book. Only to meet head with a barrier. "Tch you think this will stop me" as he said that shadows started to cover his eating away at the barrier effectively destroying.
As that was happening lightning was now being fired from the book but all it seemed to do is "would stop damn it, your pissing me off!" Reggie shouted as pushed on getting closer and closer the book.
At point his fingers were just milometers for the book before a concussive wave of force hit him in an attempt to push him, it had failed as he grabbed the book and the forces trying to stop him ended.
"So it was a test of some kind (nope)" Reggie said as started to read the black book's front as it read 'The Legacy of the Beast of Devastation'. 'Holy crap did things take a sharp turn'. Reggie thought in shock at the now sudden turn of events.
The book starts out simple reading;
As there were four cardinal heroes to wield the four legendary weapons there was a fifth hero when the heroes first appeared and all seemed to be going well for the five cardinal heroes.
But as the four cardinal heroes passed on in glory the fifth hero's very power caused distrust among the people as the hero had the ability to turn into monsters after eating them.
It was then after the hero passed away like the rest that the other beast heroes had to face the world in a much more crueler light than the other heroes.
That, in turn, made each fifth hero harness and feed their darkest natures turning them into true monsters.
After countless generations of hero, it was finally decided that the beast hero was to be sealed away until a hero with a great enough will is able to harness this cruel power.
After reading that Reggie was starting to feel tears flowing from both eyes. 'That's just too cruel'
'That's too cruel to judge someone based on their powers alone' Reggie thought as he made a decision that would put him in a world of pain.
Empathy
As soon as his emotions hit their highest point all of Reggie's power starts to leak out to be used as they need to. And right his only need right was "I need to read through this book and then show them not to judge people based on appearance".
Yes, a simple idea but as he read through the book his power went about trying to break the seal. Because what book was unable to say was that the seal was sabotaged to never break and even then make to sure no one even got close to the book by all means, even if it meant forcing the emotional pain of all the heroes before him.
So in essence not only did he possessed the will to use the power but he also used this to fuel his psychic powers to their limit. Unfortunately, as soon as Reggie finished the book his power had broken the seal sending him to the other world with a surprise.
"what the hell?!" Reggie yelled as he crashed hard into the soft grass making him bouncing on impact and landing in a small area of flowers, which he had hay fever (Ow) "Achoo, Damn it, not doing that again".
Looking around Reggie had quickly assumed correctly that he was in a forest, just that said forest had giant trees instead of the normal variety. "Well, crap, where the hell did I land this time?" as Reggie looked around trying to find any sign of recently used paths. Oh boy, he did find something in the form of sound, he heard the sound of a ball bouncing but not just one, no, a lot of them as in a hundred or more.
"Arg, What now!" Reggie grunted looking where the sounds were coming prepared to fight, only to pale at the sheer amount of monsters that looked ready to kill him. 'Um, it's probably ok just have to use my full power that's all' he thought as he pulled back his arm for full power.
'One For All: P.S.E (Psychic, Shadow, and Energy) Attack' This is one of Reggie's moves where his attack is spread across an area leaving countless enemy down for the count, except. "Oh S***, it didn't work, it didn't work, WHERE THE F*** DID MY POWER GO!". This was the first time in his short time as a hero that his power was completely absent from his body. And it was at this moment he knew, he'd F***** up as he didn't notice his complete change in his physical appearance. As in he was a small lizard (that's why the trees were so big😊) and oh boy things were not going his way as he had just found his status magic and got his stats, health, and level all figured out.
Beast Hero/Level 1
Reginald Nul'leon Wyvern
HP 150/150 MP 49/49 SP 45/45 PP30/30 SR?/?
(Health Points) (Mana Points) (Soul Points) (Psychic Points) (Shadow Reserves)
ATK 7 3
DEF 5 3
DEX 30
INV A/N
Abilities
One for All: Locked
True Psychics: 0.11% power output
Pyrokinesis (Novice) (3PP/s) (Minor flame)
Cryokinesis (Novice) (3PP/s) (Frost)
Electrokinesis (Novice) (5PP/s) (Static Shock)
Telepathy (Novice) (Passive) 2 Party members can be linked at the novice level
Telekinesis (Novice) (5PP/s) (5-pound lift)
Biokinesis (Novice) (2PP/s) (Minor Plant Control/Growth)
Full Shadow: Locked
Rapid Regen: 1% max health/Min
Element Affinity: Unknown
'Well, that's good, at least I have a fighting chance' Reggie thought as he saw their stats.
Orange Balloon RL (Recommended Level): Level 1
HP 10/10
ATK 7 DEF 2
"Oh, well then, I DON'T STAND A F****** CHANCE AGAINST THEM!" Reggie screamed as he quickly did the maths and figured out that even if he still had Rapid Regen (though a lot weaker than before) the monsters greatly outnumbered him and his health points might be 150 but if these monsters were a hundred or more they could easily deal damage equal that to 200 points. So in essence, if he were to fight now he would die a horrible death (but a really funny and sad one*Deadpool* (Insert S*** eating grin here)).
'Ok Reggie calm down, you can think a way out of this, see they're pretty slow so no need panic or worry about them catching up for now, oh S***!' Reggie thinks as he looked around to see himself surrounded by the terrifying land piranhas now counting up to 500 Orange Balloons (yeah, bye Reggie).
'Oh F*** now I'm panicking where hell do I go now!' Reggie thought as he looks for a way to escape from these monsters, it was then Reggie notice that not only were these monsters were slowish but they could only bounce so high that it would probably be impossible for them to get into the trees. Therefore he only had one option, Up.
"Bugger, their real persistent aren't they," Reggie said to himself as we come back to the present hours after trying to figure a way to escape his current prison that is the tree, as night starts to descend and the cold starts to numb poor Reggie. "Damn it, hours later not being able to produce a solid plan and no way to stop hyperthermia at this point, because of lack power and resources," Reggie said looking down as the monsters seemed to be getting angrier instead of drowsier. "At this rate, I'll be dead by midnight if this cold keeps up, in 3 days by dehydration," Reggie thought as he came up with a high-risk plan like all the others, it is ironically the lowest risk with a survival chance of 35%.
"Ah, screw it at least it's better than staying here doing nothing all night," Reggie said as he used his psychic powers to control the growth of a nearby branch to grow it into a long poled net. 'Damn that took nearly all my psychic energy, well time to break it off and grab some monsters, assuming they're not smart enough to pull the net and me with it.'
After getting his nerve, Reggie started trying to catch the evasive little bastards with his net but apparently despite being bloody ball-shaped they can easily evade nets. It took him 5 full minutes to catch a single balloon, but it would do for now.
"Ha, ha, ha, not so tough without your friends now are ya," Reggie taunted while poking at the balloon using his other hand to keep the net close, poking was a bad idea. "OW! LET GO OF ME, YOU FAT ORANGE BASTARD!" Reggie yelled as the balloon had tried to eat his right poking arm and was bashing the balloon against the tree, of course, the balloon popped after the second hit and the balloon had failed to damage the net but did definitely damage Reggie as his health was now (HP 150/148)and his psychic power was (PP 30/12).
"Ok, again note to self, pop the bastards don't poke them" Reggie deadpanned as he searched the net for whatever the monster left behind when it died. Two pieces of whatever the f*** it was made of were at the bottom of the net, as he sniffed one of the pieces now in his hand while the other was holding the net he said, "I hope their edible" Reggie extremely doubted they would be.
But as predicted although they could be edible they tasted like a leather boot, so yeah not very good at all instead really bad. But like the stubborn guy, he forcefully swallows like its a damn big pill choking on it a few times before getting the damn thing down. "Gross, I can't believe I'm saying this but Master Kacchan was right, mother nature really can be a sadist," Regie said after devouring the monster part, hating one of the many mentors he had while training even though he is even more pissed about the fact of the said monster part. "These bastard have no nutritional value at all!"
The reason Reggie can tell this because of the side effects of 'Rapid Regen' he is able to tell if said foods are vital to his survival, that way he can tell if the foods have enough vitamin D, protein or even if its poisonous, that said he can only tell after he's eaten said food meaning he has to puke it back up again. Like he said 'mother nature can be a sadist' as the evolution of his quirk has made him this way, that and his INV system show him an Monster part, so in safe to say all that effort was for nothing.
"So, I guess I'm f***** after all, hey," Reggie said depressed that he probably wasn't going to make it by sunrise. That is till he saw it, another tree but not just any tree, an apple tree. Oh and FYI Reggie loves apples ironically so if he could get to it his mood would definitely improve from a few hours ago. But (there's always a but) the tree he was in and frankly any trees nearby branches wouldn't be able to hold his weight if he tried to jump from branch to branch (so doing a Naruto branch jump is out of the option without 'One for All' or at all).
"Your F****** kidding me, you've got to be f****** kidding, if only I've chosen that tree I've could've last these bastards till dawn, F***" Reggie yelled out in frustration trying to now think of a new plan. As this was happening the balloons started to get (somehow!) even more agitated as they started to hop on one another in order to get to their current prey forming a pyramid… or they went rabid crazy and are trying to use the other as steps, either way, they were doing horrible at working together. "Well, ok then, you have to admire their determination even if it's close to" suddenly a memory flashed in Reggie's mind, then a sinister grin appeared on his face as a new state of mind changed over, a being only known as "Prankster Reggie" "Now, now, now, how should I deal with these little land piranhas eh" 'Reggie' said as he observed the house of balloon nearby and thought of an idea so crazy, so stupid, that no one in their right would ever attempt. And of course, went with the plan f****** jumped it and by jumped it I mean as in he uses the balloon pyramid as a damn bouncy castle you know the one, and of course, a half-arsed made plan would end in complete failure, almost he only had to run through the sea of f****** orange rubber, of course, he made it to tree literally kicking and screaming and choking (those little manics have no sense of survival what so ever).
At the point of choking the "Real Reggie" popped back only to realize three things, One: He was at the bottom branch of the new apple tree probable cause by one of his "Fragmented Personality", Two his vision in the top left corner had just said "Level Up" and his current Health was 10 instead of 148, and three He was choking on one of those damn balloons, I'll let you guess which response came first. 'WHAT THE F*** WHY IS THERE A F****** BALLOON IN MY MOUTH, F***!' Reggie thought in panic as he tried to pull the balloon out to no avail, that was until natural reflex had seemly betrayed him. *Gulp* 'WHAT THE F*** IS HAPPENING, IS THIS BASTARD DOING SOME SORT SUICIDAL MOVE OR SOMETHING!' Reggie thought as the balloon seemed to go deeper down his throat blocking any chances of breathing, it was now the Reggie started to try and punch it in hopes of popping it but it was in vain as his skin (scales) seem to absorb all damage he did to himself. With the lack of oxygen going to his brain, he fell back laying on the tree while trying not to fall off to the orange sea of doom, 'this is how I die then eh, well it been enjoyable while it lasted' Reggie thought as deep in his mind has been searching a way to survive, ironically it found a way but it would force him to face a dilemma that he had been avoiding for at least 8 years.
*Gulp* *GASP* "Oh crap, damn it, why did I do that, why the hell did I do that." Reggie said intensely embarrassed about what he just did and to make things even worse for Reggie's dignity his new body usual flat stomach was bloated out with the monster and the damn thing was still alive!. 'God damn it this can not possibly get any worse' oh how very wrong he was as there was a *POP* that gone off in his stomach making him burp loud enough to put a grown rooster to sham, feeling it be unnecessary pleasant and the final kicker to ruin was 'Orange Balloon Form I Acquired'."you've got to be kidding me".