The eerie tone of the heartbeat monitor filled the nearly empty, sealed off, hospital room. The only occupant in the room was a young boy, who appeared to be sleeping, he was no older than five, with messy poison green hair, skin in a deathly gray green color, and his body was hooked up to medical machines.
Outside of his room three adults stood outside of his door. Two female, and one male, a married couple and a female doctor. "Well good news is he's expected to make a full recovery," the doctor informed the parents of the child. She had brown hair and brown eyes, and was in a hazmat suit, with the top half off
"And the bad news doctor?" Asked the boy's mother, who's being held in her husband arms for support. She has blond hair and blue eyes, and was wearing a café apron with her name tag in it Higa Sumiteru.
"He'll need to be quarantine off till we know if his quirk can't go airborne" the Doctor said with a sad smile. "That also means you can not visit him with out a hazmat suit on."
"Can you give us an estimated time of when he'll be able to leave?" Asked Mr. Sumiteru he has green balding hair and blue eyes, and he's wearing a suit. "I don't want him missing too much of school fall behind."
At that his wife gave him a nasty glare, "Robun! Our son nearly died and worry about his education!" She put her firsts on her hips and yelled at her husband Robun, who had his hands up in surrender, "we should be worried that we may not be able to even touch Dokusei ever again!" She turns around and puts a hand on her face, letting herself calm down after her outburst.
Robun sighed and put a comforting hand on her shoulder, "Higa, I'm worried about that as well, but I'm worrying to make sure he still has a future," he turned his head to the doctor, "he will be able to come out right?"
The Doctor nodded, "Oh most certainly," the Doctor pulled out a clipboard, "from what we can tell, his quirk is mostly liquid base. I've estimated that he'll be here for about two weeks, one week for recovery and another week for quarantine." She flipped a few pages of the clipboard, "I don't believe that when your quirks awoken it didn't have you a reaction like this, correct?" The couple shook their heads no, the two never had a reaction to their quirk awakening, just finding out that they could use their quirks now
Robun and his wife took the seats outside of Dokusei's room. The worried farther rubbed the back of his neck, clearly a nerves habit, and turned to the doctor. "If it you wouldn't mind, could you please explain what happened to Dokusei's quirk again, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it."
"Oh most certainly, it's called Toxigenesis. He's able to produce versus toxins, when his quirk awakened a slew of deadly toxins flooded his system and he's body was pretty much braking down. If it wasn't for the fact that his liver is three times larger than a normal person's his age, he would most certainly be dead." She looked through her notes for more information, "it seems that almost all of his body's liquids were turned into very toxic forms of themselves."
"Do you know which liquids are not toxic?" Higa chimed in.
"From what we have tested his sweat and urine show no signs. Unfortunately do to his age we don't know if his repetitive fluids are toxic or not, well have to find out when he becomes of age."
"Is there anything else we need to know about his quirk?"
"The toxins in his body had change him appearance wise, his skin is forever changed, the whites of his eyes are now black, and he grew venomous claws on his hands, much like yours Mrs. Sumiteru, but he's unable to fully retract them and don't have need of a venom sack, like you."
Higa looked in the window, seeing her sleeping son, "Do you know when he'll wake up?"
"His body is stable, could be now or tomorrow. If it's the day after that then we have to start worrying. However I'm optimistic, he should be up..." She looks to the slumbering boy and can see that he is stirring awake, "now apparently." She put the top half of her hazmat suit back on and went in the room.
Dokusei's eyes were blurry, his body felt heavy and weak. As he tried to sit up, a gentle hand was placed on his shoulder and pushed him back down. "Whao there big guy, take it easy." The Doctor smiled at him, moving the bed to a sit up positioning.
Dokusei raised his hands to rub his eyes, his arms flopped around his chest a few times and his hands finally reached his face. After a good rub of his eyes he could see much more clearly. A small amount of shock was on his face, the heartbeat monitor was increasing in sound slightly, he stared at his hands, the deathly gray green pigment and his new found claws. "W-What happened?" Dokusei's voice came out quiet and hoarse.
"You're quirk awakened, and you body had a bad reaction to it." She handed him her phone, with the camera app opened, his picture stared back at him. The white of his eyes now black with bright blue irises shining through. "Count yourself lucky you didn't die, you gave your folks quote the scar." She rested her hand on his back.
"W-Where are mommy and daddy?" He asked as crystal green tears build up in his eyes.
The Doctor took back her phone, "They are right out side dear, I'll be right back with them." She gave him a box a tissues and gotten up to leave. Dokusei nodded has she left, as soon as the door closed he let the tears fall. The poisonous tears numbed his cheeks, he used the tissues to wipe away most of the tears that he could, with out gouging out his eyes with his claws.
He was left to his thoughts for about five minutes, thoughts ranged from of how long was he out, to could he even leave? He wasn't left alone much longer, when 3 people walked into his room, all three wearing strange suits. He could see the faces of his parents and the return of the doctor.
His mother came and hugged him. "Hey sweetie, how are you feeling?"
"What's going on? Why are you wearing those strange suits?" He asked, green tears threatening again to spillover again.
A sad, soft smile, escape her features. Grabbing the tissues she dabbed away the tears. "Your quirk is dangerous to us at the moment, and the doctor doesn't want us getting sick." The Doctor came up with a biohazard trash can and helped Higa clean up all the used tissues. "As for what's going on," she looks to the doctor, the other women gave her a nod, "your quirk hurt your body, and made you sick, you've only beed asleep for 3 hours. The doctor said you'll have to stay here for a few weeks till we know everything about your quirk."
"What is my quick?" He looked at his hands as he asked. He knows it was very rare for one's quirk in to change one's appearance like his.
The Doctor stepped in to explain. "You're quirk is the ability to produce poisons and venoms of raging degrees. When you're quirk awakened foreign toxins flooded your body, changing your appearance, and your claws grew in. It appears you quirk is a combination of both your parent's quirks, just a much stronger."
He was a little bit afraid to ask his next question, fear was obvious on his face. "C-Can... Can I be a hero with this quirk?" He closed his eyes in fear of a rejection.
The Doctor looked towards the boy's parents, and shrugged her shoulder lightly. The back ar Dokusei, "That not my decision to make. Do you believe you can be a hero with your quirk?"
Dokusei clenched the blankets in his fists, "no..." it was so quiet, his mother could barely hear it
The Doctor sighed, "well you still got 11 years to truly make up your mind. Being a hero is not for everyone it takes a special kind of person to lay their life on the line like that, however you won't know if you're the kind of person if you don't do it in the first place." She puts a hand on his head, and gave a gentle rub. "At least think on it." Dokusei looked up at her a gave a small nod. She removed her hand and turned to his parents. "Alright, now let's discuss the recovering and quarantine plan."
The family and the doctor discussed about how Dokusei will be staying in the hospital for two weeks, how the staff will monitor his health, and will notify the family if anything changes. All the while Dokusei himself was having a debate in his head of if he could be a hero or not with such a villainous quirk. The only thing he can hope now is that no one in school will treat him differently.
